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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With centrists becoming few and far between, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe cited the increasingly polarized climate of Washington in abandoning the U.S. Senate after three terms, giving Democrats new hope of winning the longtime GOP-held seat.
Sometimes criticized as a RINO — short for Republican in Name Only — Snowe continued to express her desire for the national parties to find middle ground to get things accomplished, saying she was frustrated by "'my way or the highway' ideologies."
Her announcement Tuesday came as shock to both parties, leaving an empty seat, throwing the Senate race into disarray in Maine and dealing an immediate blow to Republicans hoping to take control of the Senate in November.
"It makes this seat one of the top Democratic targets in the country, from not being a Democratic target at all," said Sandy Maisel, director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College.
While earning a reputation as an independent voice during her 33 years in public service, Snowe became frustrated by the sharp partisanship and gridlock that has come to characterize the upper chamber recently. She was the only Republican who voted for a version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, joining Democrats and casting a vote for the plan in the Senate Finance Committee.
She said she wanted the bill to go the Senate floor, where it could be changed, before she ultimately voted against it. But she came under intense criticism from conservatives.
"As I have long said, what motivates me is producing results for those who have entrusted me to be their voice and their champion, and I am filled with that same sense of responsibility today as I was on my first day in the Maine House of Representatives," Snowe said in a statement. "I do find it frustrating, however, that an atmosphere of polarization and 'my way or the highway' ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions."
Her frustrations with partisanship and polarization aren't new.
Discussing being one of a shrinking number of Republicans in the Senate in an April 2009 interview with The Associated Press, Snowe declared, "It's not healthy for the country to have parties with polar opposite views without that bridge that you need to build consensus."
"Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle," she said later that same month when U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania defected to the Democratic party.
Obama said her career shows what can be done when both parties work together.
"From her unwavering support for our troops, to her efforts to reform Wall Street, to fighting for Maine's small businesses, Senator Snowe's career demonstrates how much can be accomplished when leaders from both parties come together to do the right thing for the American people," Obama said in a statement.
Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, both of Massachusetts, praised her for reaching across the aisle.
"She comes from a line of moderate Republicans from John Chafee to John Heinz that made really working across the aisle a virtue," Kerry said. "It's been really sad to see that virtue derided in so many Republican primaries the last couple years."
Said Brown, who is facing a fierce re-election challenge: "We all are going to miss her independence and her ability to build bridges on some of the toughest issues."
Snowe, 65, is in good health and for months had been laying the groundwork for a strong re-election effort, putting together a campaign team, keeping a busy schedule of events in the state and raising campaign money. She had more than $3.3 million in her campaign account at the end of last year, her last campaign finance report showed.
She spent more than a year working to beat back a tea party challenge, shifting her positions to the right in some cases and spending considerable time allaying the concerns of conservatives in Maine.
Her exit could boost Democrats, who are facing tough odds this election cycle. Senate Democrats hold a 51-47 majority with two independents who caucus with them.
Already there were four Democrats running for Snowe's seat, but the vacancy changes everything. Maine Democratic officials were speaking privately with the state's two Democratic members of Congress, U.S. Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree. Michaud and Pingree both said they're considering a run.
Candidates have only until March 15 to collect the 2,000 signatures necessary to qualify for the November ballot.
Snowe was facing her first primary fight after cruising to a third term in 2006 with 74 percent of the vote. She was viewed by some as vulnerable because of her moderate position at a time when the tea party was gaining influence in Maine. But she remained popular with both Republicans and Democrats. Maisel described her as virtually unbeatable.
Snowe is married to former Maine Gov. John McKernan. She was widowed at 26 when her first husband, state Rep. Peter Snowe, died in a car crash. She won a 1973 election to fill his vacant seat. Five years later, she was elected to the U.S. House, where she served for 16 years before winning her Senate seat.
She said she was confident she would have won re-election but saw a "vital need for the political center in order for our democracy to flourish and to find solutions that unite rather than divide us." She said she sees opportunities to build support for that change from outside the Senate, though she didn't elaborate.
"To this day, I remain deeply passionate about public service, and I cherish the opportunity I have been given for nearly four decades to help improve the lives of my fellow Mainers," she said.
Last week, one of her GOP challengers dropped out of the primary race, choosing to run as an independent, leaving Scott D'Amboise as the only other GOP candidate in the race unless other Republicans decide to toss their hats into the ring. Maine Senate President Kevin Raye, already a candidate for Congress, said he was considering running for the open seat.
Snowe's decision makes her the third U.S. senator from Maine in the past two decades to voluntarily relinquish a seat to which they could have won re-election. Democratic Sen. George Mitchell chose not to run in 1994, and Republican Sen. William Cohen did the same in 1996.
Mitchell, who praised Snowe's public service and friendship, joked that he was once advised not to overstay his welcome. "A guy from Maine told me this: It's better to leave when we want you to stay, rather than after we want you go to," he said.
Associated Press writers Steve Peoples, Donna Cassata and Andrew Miga in Washington, Clarke Canfield in Portland, Maine, and Steve LeBlanc in Boston contributed to this report.
Maine GOP Sen. Snowe won't seek re-election
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With centrists becoming few and far between, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe cited the increasingly polarized climate of Washington in abandoning the U.S. Senate after three terms, giving Democrats new hope of winning the longtime GOP-held seat.


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Hulk Hogan pulled a Miley Cyrus!
No, the 60-year-old wrestler didn't just stick his tongue out--he stripped down and rode a wrecking ball! Mr. Hogan didn't get completely naked a la the 20-year-old Queen of Twerk, but he did wear a man thong, smack his own butt and um, tantalize, the viewer.
Why, exactly? Press, baby! The Hulk puts his own spin on Miley's "Wrecking Ball" music video moves in an ad for Hostamania, his new website hosting company. But instead of shedding a tear and licking a sledgehammer, he kicks a pesky dude in the face and proceeds to ride his wrecking ball in a slightly less ladylike manner than Ms. Cyrus.
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He's not naked (he's got on the man thong, a tank top and yellow boots), but he does wear a colorful feather boa for good measure. He also gets in some solid fist pumps, spins to give us a 360 view of his behind and takes the opportunity to spank himself.
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JGrecu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Gasber & Grecu Financial Advisors, LLC
We are a full-service comprehensive financial planning and wealth management firm. By creating and implementing a prudently crafted, comprehensive financial strategy, we enable our client to devote more time and attention to what truly matters in life - their family, friends, personal interests, etc...
We are located in Folsom, CA. It's in the FOOTHILLS of the Sierra Mountains. The American River runs through Folsom also. And there is the American River Canyon. Perhaps google can pull up photos if someone wants to go with a mountain/foothills, or canyon/river look.
Also of interest would be something that reflects our unique investment philosophy. We believe in something called "Modern Portfolio Theory" and "Efficient Markets." Both of those can be wikipedia'd. Our philosophy is based on Nobel Prize winning economists research...most of them from the University of Chicago Business School (The Booth School). It's very much based on ACADEMIC research done at major universities and not research of wall street firms.
We work with all groups of people. Retirees, business owners/executives, widows, corporations, families of all ages. And compete in the San Francisco Bay Area too which is why a smart logo design is needed to compete on branding with better funded companies.
Be as creative as you want!! Some thoughts: play on our company name using the whole GG thing. I think designs can be divided into two distinct groupings. Those that focus on our location (foothills/mountains, bridge, oak trees, etc..) and those that focus on what we do, the services we provide, our investment philosophy. I've attached images. Sample images of Folsom bridge and Sierra foothills attached.
Very interested in logo that reflects our unique investment philosophy of academic and nobel prize winning research. I've attached a 22 page PDF from another company. Page 9 has a illustration that is often used by our company. It's four quadrants with an arrow pointing Northeast. I also had a lightbulb/globe idea to represent global investing and innovative research (light bulb).
Hopefully those are enough ideas...but please be as creative and bold as you want. The PMS of my old logo was 390C and 7469C and I like green colors like in restoration hardware catalog/store.
Lastly, our company slogan is "creating wealth and well-being." I don't know if that "fits" with the logos I'm asking for but if you think it does, go for it.
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I have to write a ChessMind for an assignment. It's for a ChessWorld where minds can run each other and take each others pieces.
I need help on how to actually start it. I know if I can get one piece to work I can figure the rest out..
Here's the skeleton for it..
import org.w2mind.net.*; public class Skeleton Mind implements Mind { public void endrun() throws RunError { } public void newrun() throws RunError { } public Action getaction(State s) throws RunError { // always try to move the same pawn, causing an invalid move forfeit quickly String fen = s.toString(); return new Action("12,28"); } }
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Ryan Bombard necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 104 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Ryan Bombard Entertainment
I am a solo-op wedding DJ. I have no other DJs that work for me as far weddings are concerned. I currently live and operate in the Binghamton-Elmira-Ithaca portion of upstate NY. I am planning on expanding my marketing to all of upstate NY. I want brides that look at me as the Lexus or Mac (Apple), or Wynn of wedding DJs. I want to appear upscale yet trendy and chic. I specialize in telling a couple's love story at their reception. I also offer decor lighting, photo booths, and slide shows. I am not your average, cheesy, "chicken dance" DJ. I refer to myself as a wedding entertainer and MC (Master of Ceremonies) as well.
I am looking to appeal to upscale brides-to-be from all over upstate New York. The demographic is women 18 to 35. I want to attract brides that want the wedding they have been dreaming about since they were little girls. I would like to attract brides with open minds to creativity, ones that would be excited about new ideas that will make their weddings and receptions unique.
I am looking for a logo to represent my wedding entertainment (DJ) business.
I don't want any cartoons, stock pictures, or clipart.
Another DJ I know recently used this site for his new logo and I love the what he came up with!
Here are some others that I like:
I want it to be upscale and high-end, yet sleek, trendy, and chic.
Because I try to position myself as more than just music, I don't want the focus to be on music. (i.e. no music note designs or anything like that.)
Here some examples of what I don't want:
I am open to all color schemes as long as it fits the image I am looking for.
I am not incredibly familiar with file types. I plan on using this in all of my marketing, both simple things I will design myself as well as professionally produced materials. It will also be used in my website and blog. If you can accommodate those needs, it would be greatly appreciated.
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the best we can gather at this point, is chima threatened or actually did put hotsauce in something or on something, and the red dye in it michelle is allergic to. That would be the reason we are thinking that she would have been thrown out; however other sites are reporting she just quit so who knows and who cares she is gone One other thing though is that chima threw her mic into the hottub last night so
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (PRWEB) April 23, 2013
CivicPlus, the leading provider of government websites and digital community engagement platforms, launched its GoCitizen Pro mobile app today. The app integrates seamlessly with CivicPlus websites - built using the CivicPlus Government Content Management System (GCMS®) - and is available on both iOS and Android operating systems.
Set to enhance the communication and engagement between CivicPlus' government clients and the citizens they serve, the GoCitizen Pro mobile app creates a convenient and trusted mobile process for citizens to interact with their government directly from their smartphones, and is an important engagement tool in addition to their organizational websites. Extending beyond communication, the app incorporates mobile payment ability integrated from the website, to better suit the busy lifestyles of many citizens.
"A mobile app should be more than just including what is already available on a website," said Ward Morgan, CEO of CivicPlus. "It should include functionality that is specific to the user and should easily equip people with the information they need with a simple finger tap, and that is what have accomplished with the GoCitizen Pro mobile app."
CivicPlus' GoCitizen Pro mobile app is customizable to match the design and branding of each government website. Modules and functionality included are:
- Calendar
- News Flash
- ePay
- Alert Center
- Forms Center
- Resource Directory
- Search
- Staff Directory
"We designed the mobile app to deliver an additional level of engagement between citizens and their government by providing them the tools that make connecting with their government easy and accessible no matter where they are," Morgan said.
The app is directly integrated with the CivicPlus GCMS® so that citizens can receive the highest possible level of engagement and information.
About CivicPlus
Based in Manhattan, Kan., CivicPlus has designed more than 1,300 local government websites serving over 50 million citizens throughout North America. A recipient of the Center for Digital Government's Best Fit Integrator Award for delivering extraordinary digital solutions to public IT projects, CivicPlus transforms municipal websites into powerful two-way communication platforms that let citizens talk to and participate in local government. Find out where your community falls on the digital community engagement scale developed by CivicPlus eGov experts. In 2013, CivicPlus will invest nearly $2.5 million in products, research and development. The innovative CivicPlus Government Content Management System (GCMS®) now offers more than 60 applications including Citizen Request Tracker, MuniMobile, Facebook and economic development tools. Founded in 2001, CivicPlus was selected by Inc. Magazine as "One of the Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies in the U.S." in 2011 and 2012. For more information visit http://www.civicplus.com.


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Flu continues early assault on Iowa
More and more Iowa flu cases have been reported, and officials say the seasonal outbreak could get even worse now that children are back in school.
The Iowa Department of Public Health says at least 151 people were hospitalized for flu complications in Iowa during the last week of December.
Officials also said during the last week of December 2011, public health officials didn't record any flu hospitalizations.
Department medical director Patricia Quinlisk said Monday that she doubts the tide of illnesses will ebb soon.
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1WeddingSource necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 184 diseños de 55 diseñadores freelance.
We are hosting the first Internet Marketing Conference in August of 2009, and will begin our website design shortly (look for the contest soon). Before we build the house, we need the foundation "Our Logo"
Wedding IMC - which stands for Internet Marketing Conference
Basically we are looking for something very classy and elegent. Something very professional and business minded. Our market is Wedding Professionals. Our strategy is to make them aware of all the useful ways to market their wedding products and services using the internet. We have some of the top names in Internet marketing and SEO that will be speaking at this event.
- The logo must say Wedding IMC
- Might want to say Internet Marketing Conference in small letters - unless you can communicate the overall meaning of IMC in the logo itself (now that would be be an advantage over other designers)
- Something that can be BRANDED effectively.
- Must look good on T-Shirts, Business Cards, Hats, Magazines, Billboards, etc...
- Nothing Cheesy
- Feel free to be creative as I don't really have a choice of color, font, etc...
- Would be nice to do something with the letters - to match our overall strategy in a subliminal way
- Maybe something that POPs out of the page - almost 3D - Just an idea.....doesn't have to be this way if you can design a kick butt logo without the 3D effect.
- Nothing to busy
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THE NYPD IS AMBUSHED BY A DEADLY GROUP OF PROFESSIONAL KIDNAPPERS WHO MURDER A MEMBER OF THE TEAM AND ONE OF THE CSI's LIVES HANGS IN THE BALANCE, ON A REBROADCAST OF THE FIFTH SEASON FINALE OF "CSI: NY," WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16
Emmy Award Winner Craig T. Nelson ("Coach") Guest Stars as Robert Dunbrook, a Publishing Tycoon and Mac's Nemesis
Thad Luckinbill ("The Young and The Restless") Guest Stars as Connor Dunbrook, Robert Dunbrook's Son
Recording Artist Nelly Guest Stars as Terrence Davis, an Informant
"Pay Up" - When transferring Robert Dunbrook's son from prison to court, the NYPD is ambushed by a group of professional kidnappers who kill a member of the team and one of the CSI's lives hangs in the balance, on a rebroadcast of the fifth season finale of CSI: NY, Wednesday, Sept. 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. (Originally broadcast 5/14/09)
Det. Mac Taylor: Gary Sinise
Det. Stella Bonasera: Melina Kanakaredes
Danny Messer: Carmine Giovinazzo
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Hill Harper
Det. Don Flack: Eddie Cahill
Lindsay Monroe: Anna Belknap
Adam Ross: AJ Buckley
Dr. Sid Hammerback: Robert Joy
Det Jessica Angell: Emmanuelle Vaugier
Robert Dunbrook: Craig T. Nelson
Connor Dunbrook: Thad Luckinbill
Terrence: Davis Nelly
ER Doctor: Erika Ringor
Sniper: Jonathan Kowalsky
Simon Cade: Glenn Herman
Cliff Angell: James Martin Kelly
Crazy Tony Tardalla: Andy Davoli
Written by: Zachary Reiter & John Dove
STORY BY: Executive Producer Peter M. Lenkov
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Ecologists start new Antarctic season with paper comparing animals' handling of adversity
Montana State University ecologists who are about to return to Antarctica for another season had to adapt to dramatic changes in the sea ice last year.
Now they have published a paper that says the Weddell seals they monitor had to deal with some dramatic changes in ice in recent years, too. In fact, the seals handled the adverse conditions well and suffered less than the Emperor penguins in that region.
The paper was published Sept. 26 in the international journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Lead author was Thierry Chambert, a doctoral student supervised by co-authors Bob Garrott and Jay Rotella in the MSU ecology department. Rotella and Garrott have just received a National Science Foundation grant for $867,272 that will extend their long-term study by five more years.
Last year, the researchers encountered unusually thin ice that was three feet thick instead of the usual 12 to 16 feet, Garrott said. Large cracks and active breaks threatened snowmobile travel. As a result, the faculty members and students moved their base camp to a safer spot and set up emergency camps around their study area. When they couldn't cross the ice on snowmobiles, they flew by helicopter.
In the course of their work, Rotella said the researchers saw how the Weddell seals faced their own challenges from massive icebergs that broke off and dramatically changed sea-ice conditions in a number of recent years.
Using data from 29 years, the team was able to compare seal numbers, as well as rates of pup production and adult survival, from before, during, and after the iceberg event, to learn how the seals fared. The number of seals they observed and the number of pups that were born during the peak of the iceberg event were down to unprecedented low numbers, but monitoring showed that, "the seals, in fact, handled the event quite well," Rotella said.
He explained that the seals were able to maintain high survival rates by lowering their breeding efforts during the years of iceberg presence. They tended to avoid breeding colonies when sea-ice conditions were particularly unfavorable.
The Emperor penguins, however, continued their normal activities during the worst of the iceberg event. The result was dramatic with dying penguins, as well as breeding failures, Rotella said. He noted that moving ice crushed eggs and even some adults at the peak of the iceberg event. Exhaustion and starvation might also have been an issue for penguins that walked across the ice from open water to their nesting colonies.
"These results reveal that, depending on their ecology, different species can suffer different impacts from an extreme environmental disturbance," said Rotella, the new leader of the Weddell seal study.
"The results also reveal the importance of having long-term data to evaluate possible effects," Rotella continued. "Without the data, we couldn't have known whether this extreme environmental event had extreme consequences for the seals or not. Fortunately for the seals, it did not. We learned that the seals were quite capable of riding out the massive changes in ice conditions as long as they didn't persist too long."
Rotella said the relationship between thinner ice and icebergs is outside of his field of expertise, but he said that ice provides protection from predators like orcas and leopard seals. It also serves as a platform for Weddell seals in the first few weeks of their lives when they have little fat for staying warm in the water and can't swim well yet. When the ice is thinner, predators have better access to the breeding areas used by penguins and Weddell seals for rearing their young. It is also easier for storms to shatter the ice sheets and for the area to have open water.
No one knows what this season will bring for sea-ice conditions, but the MSU researchers said they hope it isn't a repeat of last year.
"That was very challenging," Garrott said. "We really don't know what the ice conditions are like this year until we get down there."
This year's field season will run from about Oct. 10 to mid-December, with Rotella going down for the first half of the season and Garrott for the second half. Mary Lynn Price, a video journalist who has joined the group for the past two seasons, will be there for three weeks in the middle, with her stay overlapping Rotella's and Garrott's.
Price will again produce a variety of videos and other materials that will be available to the public. For more information, go to the video blog at http://inmotion.typepad.com/weddell_seal_science and the YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/WeddellSealScience.
This will be the 45th season for the study that Garrott and Rotella took over around 2001 from Don Siniff at the University of Minnesota. Initiated by Siniff, the study is one of the longer running animal population studies and the longest marine mammal study in the southern hemisphere. It not only focuses on changes in the Weddell seal population, but it yields broader information about the workings of the marine environment. The study incorporates information on sea ice, fish, ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and even the Antarctic toothfish, which is marketed in U.S. restaurants as Chilean sea bass.
The MSU study concentrates on pups and adult breeding females that live in the Ross Sea, which is the most pristine ocean left in the world and the only marine system whose top predators – including the Weddell seal – still flourish.
The researchers start the season by weighing and tagging every pup when it's about two days old. Later in the season, they visit every colony in their study, collecting genetic samples and recording every tag they find. Weddell seals are relatively gentle for being a top predator in the ecosystem, but they can weigh over 1,000 pounds and have a set of teeth like a bear's, Garrott has said in the past.
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Dir/scr : David Perrault. France. 2013. 100mins
An atmospheric widescreen visual treat evocatively rendered in black & white, writer-director David Perrault's feature film debut Our Heroes Died Tonight (Nos Héros sons morts ce soir) has a lot going for it beyond being stylised within an inch of its life. While the film is set in the world of rigged wrestling in early 1960s Paris, potential viewers uninterested in muscular men in form-fitting skull masks tossing each other around a smoke-hazed ring shouldn't be scared off - there is ample action but the heart of the matter is personal identity, explored here with earnest, often imaginative strokes.
Smart retro production design - record players, pinball machines, café furniture - is richly convincing, while the often eerie score is an excellent fit.
Unafraid to plunge into the poetic potential of truly cinematic imagery - dream sequences, long takes in longing-inducing settings etc -this well-cast period drama boasts plenty of film buff nods and winks that enrich the narrative even for those who can't quite put their finger on the iconography.
Additional festival berths seem assured following the film's premiere in International Critics Week at Cannes. Art house distributors beyond France may well be won over by the picture's snappy dialogue and snappier visuals, although this is an odd hybrid with a hauntingly melancholy vibe.
Burly Denis Menochet (the French farmer so memorably grilled by Christoph Waltz at the start of Inglorious Basterds) is excellent as Victor, an ex-member of the French Foreign Legion who looks like a tough customer but is a bit of a softie. His good buddy Simon (Jean-Pierre Martins), possessed of a muscular build and a handsome profile, secures him a gig as a wrestler. If they were wearing cowboy hats instead of clingy masks, Simon's assigned ring persona would don the white one and Victor would wear black, but when the two friends conspire to switch roles, the fight ends up thrown in an unexpected direction. Bad things ensue.
Artifice, showmanship, male friendship and what constitutes virility are explored en route to the conclusion that depending on what makes you tick, you probably can't have your beefcake and eat it, too.
As a mob enforcer, jovially creepy Pascal Demolon purveys a superb flair for menace built on timing and verbal flourishes. With his arresting sunken eye socket, character actor Yann Collette is terrific as a sadistic dandy whom one would be ill-advised to cross. Philippe Nahon is tops as crusty wrestling coach, Ferdinand.
This is a man's world, but Constance Dolle and Alice Barnole make strong impressions as, respectively, a bistro owner with a literary bent and Simon's girlfriend who is hip to Serge Gainsbourg's music ahead of the curve. Smart retro production design - record players, pinball machines, café furniture - is richly convincing, while the often eerie score is an excellent fit.
Production company : Mille et une productions
International sales : SND Groupe M6, www.sndm6group.com
Producer : Farès Ladjimi
Cinematography : Christophe Duchange
Editor : Maxime Pozzi-Garcia
Production designer : Florian Sanson
Music : Julien Gester, Olivier Gonord
Main cast : Denis Menochet, Jean-Pierre Martins, Constance Dolle, Philippe Nahon, Pascal Demolon, Alice Barnole, Yann Collette


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The Seattle Sounders' win last weekend at D.C. United came at a cost that will linger through their match Saturday at Vancouver.
Starting midfielders Osvaldo Alonso and Gonzalo Pineda each picked up yellow cards that pushed them over Major League Soccer's five-card accumulation limit. They will serve one-game suspensions this weekend when Seattle returns to league play against its Cascadia Cup rival to the north.
"The battle at midfield is always important because possession is always a big part of the team," coach Sigi Schmid said. "And (the Whitecaps) are a team that likes to counter, likes to play balls over the top, so you want to make sure that you sort of restrict their ability to do that. … Ozzie and Pineda can't play, so we're going to have to make some changes and adjustments. We're talking through those things right now, but we'll figure it out."
Whatever Schmid had in mind about replacing half of his starting midfield, he was not willing to say. However, the return of U.S. national team members Clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin does not seem to figure into the equation. Both were reportedly on their way back from the World Cup in Brazil on Wednesday. Schmid has said he plans to give them some time off to physically and mentally recover from the national team training camp and the Americans' four-game run to the tournament's round of 16.
So, alongside probable returning starters Lamar Neagle and Marco Pappa, Schmid could pick from midfield reserves such as Micheal Azira, Fabio Pereira and rookie Aaron Kovar, who made his MLS debut at D.C.
"It was exciting," Kovar said. "Obviously it's great to be part of it anytime the team wins. I think that was the biggest thing: getting on and helping close out a game. I was happy we got the three points. No. 1 team in the league, we've got a little cushion at the top. It was an awesome experience."
Kovar signed a homegrown player contract in January. The former Garfield High School standout, who in 2011 was named the Gatorade Washington prep player of the year, played in the Sounders Academy and with the Pierce County-based Sounders U-23, and he starred for two seasons at Stanford.
However, the only game experience during Kovar's first professional season had come in the MLS Reserve League and the U.S. Open Cup until Schmid sent him on for the final 18 minutes against United.
"He's one of the first ones out (at practice) and one of the last ones to leave, so the kid deserves it," said Neagle, of Federal Way. "And he's been doing a great job in reserve league and Open Cup games. …
"It's great for other academy kids to see that and have a hope for playing in MLS."
Other midfield options against Vancouver could include forward/midfielder Tristan Bowen and forward/midfielder/defender David Estrada.
Schmid also could return Brad Evans to midfield, which was his regular position before shifting to the back line in Yedlin's absence.
Moving Evans one line forward would call for a corresponding defensive move on the back line. That might involve moving Jalil Anibaba back outside after he played central defense last week or using veteran Zach Scott in either central defense or outside.


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Popularity Matters a lot on 'Nach Baliye' Says Telly Actor Ritvik
Published: 28th January 2014 03:34 PM | Last Updated: 28th January 2014 03:36 PM | A+A A-
"Nach Baliye" might have talented contestants performing elaborate dance sequences but their popularity does have a heavy impact, says TV actor Ritvik Dhanjani who, along with his girlfriend Asha Negi, is a strong contender for the upcoming finale.
The actor, who was previously seen in shows like "Bandini", "Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani", is currently seen in "Pavitra Rishta". He says that it is the "love of the audience" which has helped them reach so far in "Nach Baliye 6".
"Popularity matters a lot as at the end of the day the love of your audiences can make you win," Ritvik told IANS in an email interaction.
The actor is approaching the finale, which will be aired Saturday, and said that the couple has "given everything to the show".
"At times we have given up sleep but made sure we gave our best to our performances. Keeping all that in mind, I think we have done the best we could and I really believe in our fans. I believe they are willing to be with us and can make us win," he said.
Not only did the season witness great performances from the couple but they also shared an emotional moment on screen when Ritvik proposed to Asha on the show.
The actor feels that display of such emotions on screen is very important as they wanted to share the special moment with their fans.
"It took a little more time than the performance but that doesn't mean that it overshadowed the performance. It was a special moment for us, our fans as well as for the channel," he said.
Despite being a star on the small screen, adapting to the criticism doled out by the judges - actress Shilpa Shetty, choreographer Terence Lewis and filmmaker Sajid Khan- was easy for Ritvik.
"It wasn't really tough and its something one has to adapt to. Judges have their own point of view and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions," he said.


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The Dutch proved their long-track speed skating dominance again Sunday in the women's 3000m, as Ireen Wust claimed another gold medal eight years after winning her first in Turin.
The silver went to 2010 gold medalist Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic — but while the top spots on the podium went to earlier Olympic champions, Russia's own Olga Graf took the bronze in what may have marked the event's biggest surprise.
Graf, 30, a former karate expert turned speed skater, secured the Winter Games' host country its first Olympic medal yet when she sailed into the lead well into the competition's pairs skates.
She also set the pace for the Olympic champions who followed her, finishing in 4:03.47 — a time not even the world's most decorated Olympic speed skater, Germany's 41-year-old Claudia Pechstein, managed to top. (Pechstein came in fourth after facing in her final laps.)
Defending gold medalist Sablikova surpassed that time skating just afterward, skating the race in 4:01.95. After her, Wust skated in a time of 4:00.34 — making for a repeat of the the feat she accomplished in Turin at just 19 years old.
The king and queen of the Netherlands were again in the crowd, just as they were the day before when Sven Kramer took gold in the men's 5,000. The royal couple saw another winning performance by their speedskating-mad nation.
The Dutch have now captured 29 Olympic golds, pulling even with the United States for the most victories in the sport.
Wust kept holding up three fingers — the nails painted red, white and blue to symbolize the Dutch flag — after taking the third gold medal of her Olympic career. She even went sliding on her rear to celebrate, the only time she stumbled all day.
The 27-year-old Wust has won gold at three straight Olympics, also capturing the 1,500 at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
"This is three in a row," she said. "This is great."
Wust came into Sochi as the skater to beat after taking the European allround title last month. She lived up to the billing, becoming the most decorated Dutch female Winter Olympian with three golds and a silver.
The other two medalists also celebrated wildly. Sablikova, who won gold in both the 3,000 and 5,000 at the Vancouver Games, didn't seem to mind giving back one of her titles to Wust. The Dutch skater took gold in the 3,000 at the 2006 Turin Games, Sablikova claimed the victory four years ago, and now it's Wust on top again.
"Wust was simply very fast today and nobody could fight her," Sablikova said.
No one was more thrilled than Graf, who glided around the rink on one skate like she was flying and nearly had an embarrassing moment when she began unzipping her skin-tight suit in the ecstasy of the moment — then zipped it back up quickly when she realized there was nothing on underneath.
Pechstein looked like a skater approaching her 42nd birthday, unable to channel her anger over missing the Vancouver Games into a medal-winning performance. She was suspended over abnormal blood levels, even though she had never failed a doping test and steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
She'll have another chance for that 10th medal in the 5,000.
"Finishing fourth at 41, that isn't that bad," Pechstein said. "The ice quality was tough but it was the same for everyone. I didn't feel as old as I am. I'm feeling good about the 5k. I can still get my medal there."
Jilleanne Rookard of Woodhaven, Mich., who skated in the pairing with Graf, was the highest-finishing American. She took 10th out of 28 skaters in 4:10.02. Anna Ringsred of Duluth, Minn., was 27th.


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A traffic stop last week in Hubbard County yielded a significant quantity of meth and the arrest of a White Earth man wanted for another crime.
A quick-thinking drug officer spotted Steven Ray Greenfeather, 28, driving south of Park Rapid.
The officer was aware of an outstanding felony warrant issued from Backer County for the suspect, who was driving a car with South Dakota plates.
Greenfeather was pursued up County Road 6 and was apprehended when he pulled into the Walmart parking lot and was blocked by a police vehicle.
A subsequent search of the vehicle yielded 107.2 grams of methamphetamine.
"It's the most meth I've seen since I took office," Hubbard County Attorney Don Dearstyne said. He took office in 2007.
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Wise Americans Take Revenge On Anti-Family Jennifer Aniston
Poor, family-hating Jennifer Aniston stunk up the box office this weekend, while a bunch of grumpy old MEN once again grabbed the top spot. Vampires took a stake in the heart, hilariously, and piranhas raged.
1) The Expendables — $16.5M
Does this film's second weekend success spell a sequel? Will we soon see The Expendables 2 The Grave? I can just picture it, our ragged heroes returning to fight another battle, wounds bleeding high-iron, Geritol-infused blood, the tennis balls on their walkers soaked with viscera. Sly Stallone levels his gaze and his gun on a hated villain. "Get outta my easy chair!" And then a beautiful slo-mo-esque, but not actually slo-mo, fight sequence in which Dolph Lundgren strangles a guy with his glasses chain. Of course the action slows and the mood turns somber when everyone attends Arnold Schwarzenegger's funeral, which of course is interrupted by the film's main baddie, an AK-wielding Shirley MacLaine. (It's why it's funny when she's firing at Bruce Willis and yells "Damn you, McClane!!") The Expendables II: Life Alert. That works. (Do you get the jokes here? It is because the cast is old. Isn't that funny?)
2) Vampires Suck — $12.2M
If you enjoy that kind of humor you will love Vampires Suck, a movie that manages to make fun of Twilight, the Black Eyed Peas, and gay people, almost at the same time. Plus it features the acting talents of this guy. And once you've been in The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream, then you are really skating with the big boys. Plus he's got such proven comedic chops from 90210. The way he stares hunkily at things sometimes, and then dreamily at others. High comedy! I bet he kept all the teen boys laughing this weekend, cackling their greasy butts off at this stupid gay, girly vampire craze, enjoying the moment until they had to go back home and their sisters had friends over, girls who liked those books, and the boys pressed their ears to their sisters' doors and listened to the sweet dulcet tones of girls named Ingrid laughing, and they thought that maybe if Ingrid would go with them, maybe then they'd see a real Twilight movie, maybe they'd get it then, there in the dark with sweet, sweet, got-her-boobs-last-summer Ingrid. But since that won't happen, since the Ingrids barely know the boys exist beyond being their friends' dopey, smelly brothers, the boys will just chuckle to themselves about Vampires Suck. Because they do. They just suck so bad.
6) Piranha 3D — $10M
Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss stars with Oscar-nominee Elisabeth Shue and Golden Globe Award-giver-awayer-to-Jack-Lemmoner Ving Rhames in this complex environmental thriller about changes in ecosystems and the vast and unpredictable disasters it can bring. In this particular case, Dreyfuss is once again dealing with murderous fish. Poor Richard Dreyfuss is always having to deal with fish that want to eat people. On his tombstone it will say "He needed a bigger boat." At least he wasn't involved in Jaws 3D, that movie where Dennis Quaid and the mom from My So-Called Life team up with Louis Gossett Jr. to save Sea World. Really! The whole movie is an ad for Sea World, basically. "Sea World: Get Eaten By Our Fish". Lea Thompson's in it too. But no Richard Dreyfuss! He managed to escape that one. But I guess in the end the water sucked him back in, as it always does. Piranhas are like a Jaws monster broken up into a million gnashing pieces. Which is kinda worse, actually! So maybe you should have gone to Sea World all them years ago, Richard. Maybe you should have. Or you could have done Jaws: The Revenge, which had Michael Caine and Mario van Peebles. You had choices, is what I'm saying. Choices that led both toward and away from Piranha 3D.
8) The Switch — $8.1M
O'Reilly wins! O'Reilly wins! Jennifer Lonelyston's "comedy" about ruining traditional families didn't have a terribly auspicious opening. This is a victory for people who believe in a proper and ideal two-parent household, not some freakish Frankenstein experiment where women try to subvert the patriarchy and go against their biological imperative to get Christian married. This disgusting movie ranks up there with The Kids Are [Not!!!] All Right, that "queer" fantasy in which lesbian "marrieds" have two kids, and somehow Suzy isn't shaving her head and riding motorcycles and little Johnny isn't prancing around in high heels. That's a fantasy only Hollywood could produce. It's a shame there aren't more pro-family films these days. Sure there's that Tyler Perry person, but we're not going to see his movies because, well... you know. Ah well. Even if there aren't more positive films to remind us what works in this country, at least these negative detriments to society aren't performing as well as their loosey-goosey, wastoid La-La Land makers expected they would. Hollywood is out of touch, obviously.
10) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — $5M
"Pack up the hoodies. Wrap the vinyl and the random tchotchkes in plastic, carefully! Make sure you unplug the Hair Rumpler™ before you leave. Because, yes, we are leaving and never coming back. We are getting into our hilariously dated or dumpy car and putting on that wistful boy/girl collaboration album that's good for occasions like these, and we are leaving this picturesquely drab town. We've bundled up all our stammering insecurity and nice-guy Snoopiness and there's nothing more to it. Goodbye, gleaming world! We thought we had a place here. But we were wrong. We were so, so wrong."


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Matt D'Arrigo Of A Reason To Survive Discusses Working With Inocente And Other Underprivileged Local Teens
Earlier this year, people all over the world found out about Matt D'Arrigo's arts organization, A Reason to Survive (ARTS).
"Inocente," a film based on a local homeless ARTS participant, won an Academy Award for best documentary short.
But D'Arrigo, 41, didn't start the organization for the glitz and glamour. He wanted to give kids facing adversity a place to feel safe and he's been doing that since 2001.
ARTS recently moved into a new building in National City, where the program's been based for just over a year.
D'Arrigo, who came to San Diego from Boston in 1997, explains why he feels art can save lives.
Q: What is A Reason to Survive?
A: ARTS is dedicated to changing the life trajectory of youth facing adversity through the arts and creativity. We offer therapeutic arts programs, formal arts education, and college/career preparation in the arts and creative industries. We're a one-stop shop bringing youth from crisis to college or career using the arts and creativity. Our mission is to provide, support, and advocate for arts programs that heal, inspire, and empower youth facing adversity.
Q: Why did you decide to found it?
A: I came up with the whole idea when I was 19 years old facing my own difficulties. I was studying art in college when my mom and sister were both diagnosed with cancer. I took a year off and stayed home, but would escape to my bedroom everyday to paint and listen to music. It was extremely therapeutic and transformational for me and helped me through that very difficult time. I knew if it worked for me, it would work for other kids facing their own challenges.
Q: ARTS recently got a lot of attention thanks to the Oscar-winning short documentary "Inocente." How does her story reflect the organization?
A: Inocente's story is the story of ARTS and exemplifies why we exist. She is the exact reason why I started the organization. Inocente was homeless, abused and bullied, but a true artist was inside waiting to get out. She relied on art as a coping mechanism and a vehicle to turn her life around. She's one of our many success stories.
Q: Has the success of the documentary helped ARTS?
A: It has helped in a number of areas. First, it's validated our program in a very real way. Second, it has given us national recognition, awareness and a platform to advocate about the importance of the arts and arts education for youth. We are taking a leadership role in creating a movement around the importance of arts education and youth arts programming. It has also opened doors and allowed us to build relationships that will help strengthen the organization both financially and programmatically so we can have an even greater impact.
Q: Tell us about the new space in National City and what you hope to do there.
A: It's incredible — 20,000 square feet of creative space for kids! We have two buildings, a main building that houses our resource library, our administrative space and our visual arts, music, industrial arts and media arts departments. The second building houses our dance and theater departments. It's like a mini campus! Our goal is to continue to deepen and grow our programs to serve more kids, especially in National City and South Bay.
Q: Why is having a work space important to the kids you work with?
A: Having a third space — not school or home — is critical to our model. One of our students recently said it very well: "School and home is where you have to keep secrets, ARTS is where you can let them all out." We believe having a safe, nurturing, inspirational environment for kids to escape their daily struggles can be transformational in itself. Then when you fill that space with positive adult mentors and role models, that's when magic begins to happen.
Q: What is one thing people would be surprised to find out about you?
A: I walked from Oregon to San Diego when I moved here. It took me two months, I only spent $300, and I lost 30 pounds. I think I need to take a walk again and shed some LBs.
Q: Please describe your ideal San Diego weekend.
A: My work weeks are pretty intense and busy, so my ideal weekend is having no commitments or obligations — just freedom to be spontaneous or not. I enjoy being outside, spending time with my wife and kids — going to my kids sporting events. Cookout with friends and neighbors. Maybe hit the beach or local parks … or just lounge around and read.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Marathon has offered refunds to those who paid to run in the 2012 race, which was canceled due to the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
The storm made landfall on October 29, six days before the race, killing about 43 people in New York City and devastating several neighborhoods.
Runners have the option of forgoing a refund in exchange for guaranteed entry in the 2013, 2014 or 2015 races, race director Mary Wittenberg said in a statement. Demand to run in the race typically outstrips the number of spots available.
A third option is guaranteed entry into the 2013 half marathon set for March 17.
Entry fees for the 2012 race were $216 for members of the New York Road Runners, $256 for other U.S. runners, and $347 for international runners.
International runners who gained entry to the 2012 marathon as part of a travel package will be contacted directly to review their options, organizers said.
The marathon is also offering full refunds for tickets purchased for race-week events such as the marathon eve dinner or reserved grandstand seating.
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Too Hot to Handle, Too Cold to Hold
I love the movie Ghostbusters. And I'm not talking about the kind of love you have for your favorite hair product, ok? I'm talking about a card-carrying, movie-quoting, geek-crushing on Venkman, Ray AND Spengler kind of love. Don't judge me too harshly, now: at least I'm not going all Twilight on you.
(Down, vampire-fans, down! I'm waiting to read the book before seeing the movie, ok?)
ANYway, so, when reader Corrie G. told me she had ordered a Ghostbusters cake, complete with the famous "no-ghost" symbol, I was psyched. And then I saw this:
Now, this beautifully executed Wreck worries me for one reason and one reason only: it means this decorator has not seen Ghostbusters. Oh, the humanity!! The misguided tragedy!! The horror - the ABSOLUTE HORROR!!
Sure, I know lots of you are about to write in saying *you've* never seen Ghostbusters, either. [shudder] Consider this my "encouragement" for you to remedy that situation. It's not like I'm asking you to memorize the entire Bobby Brown rap from Ghostbusters 2 or anything - er, cuz' I'm told you'd have to be just crazy to do something like that... [cough, cough]


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Décision : CONF 010 XI.(b).55
[Uniquement en anglais] Booklet on How to Prepare World Heritage List Nominations
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In this connection, the delegate of France pointed out that there was also need to develop tools for alleviating the workload involved in the processing and technical review of nominations by the Secretariat of UNESCO, ICOMOS and IUCN. The Secretariat informed the Committee that forms to simplify the correspondence necessary to complete the nominations and relevant documentation were already used and others would be worked out.
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TODAY's Matt Lauer speaks with Al-Arabiya's Washington bureau chief Hisham Melhem on what has made conditions in the Middle East so ripe for violence, and whether there's a deeper anger that feeds the current outrage against the United States.
WASHINGTON -- An American Coptic Christian activist whose California TV facility was used to make an anti-Islam film that touched off protests across the Muslim world said he was deceived by the film's producer about its inflammatory content.
In a statement posted on the blog of a prominent American anti-Islamic activist, Joseph Nassralla, founder of a Duarte, California-based group called Media for Christ, said he was a victim of "disinformation and smear" and the film's principal producer had altered its content without his knowledge.
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Protests ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad spread throughout Muslim world.
Media for Christ operates a Christian satellite TV station called The Way TV, according to its website and tax return.
Nassralla said he was contacted last year by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, whom he described as the film's producer, with a plan to make a film about the persecution of Christians in Egypt.
Nakoula, who has a criminal record for bank fraud and drug offenses, was briefly questioned last weekend by federal authorities about possible probation violations. He was later released and has gone into hiding.
Nassralla said in his statement that in explaining his film project, Nakoula had said the film would be called "Desert Warrior" and would "examine the culture of the desert and how it is related to what is going on right now."
The statement was posted on the website Atlasshrugs2000, which is run by Pamela Geller, an activist who has organized anti-Islamic protests and events, including demonstrations opposing construction of an Islamic center near the site of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
Egypt issues arrest warrants for Terry Jones, Coptic Christians over anti-Islam video
There was no way to independently confirm Nassralla's account.
An attorney representing Nakoula in the investigation by probation officials declined to comment on Nassralla's statement, saying he was aware of the blog post but had not had a chance to discuss it with his client. He said Nakoula or his representatives may issue a statement in the future.
Actors: 'We were grossly misled'
Nassralla, who spoke at two rallies in 2010 and 2011 organized by Geller, said Nakoula "needed a place to film. So I let him use my facility."
"That is all I did, and is the full extent of my involvement with this project. Nakoula used my facility for ten days. Media for Christ employees were given a vacation during that time, because Nakoula was using the facility and so there was no work for them. There was only one Media for Christ employee who remained, to answer phones for the ministry," Nassralla said.
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel spoke with former Arab League chief and former Egyptian foreign minister, Amr Moussa, to ask why there has been so much anti-American violence despite America's support of Arab Spring.
Hezbollah chief makes rare appearance, leads calls for protests over video
There was no sign of activity at the small studios of Media for Christ, located in a nondescript office park behind a Walmart store in suburban Duarte, during two visits last week by a Reuters reporter.
On both occasions the doors were found locked and knocks went unanswered. A woman who worked at an office next door said she had not seen any employees there in recent days.
Nassralla said he later discovered that Nakoula, using the name "Sam Bacile," had used Media for Christ's name without his permission to obtain an official permit for making the film.
'We were shocked'
After accounts of the film began circulating in Egypt and other Muslim majority countries, the amateurish production -- which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and a fool -- set off a chain of violent protests and attacks on U.S. and other Western embassies in the Middle East and North Africa.
In his statement, Nassralla said Nakoula had "filmed his movie not only at my ministry location, but in Nakoula's own home (which reporters located by getting the address from the actors), and in another facility for outside scenes that was included in the permit, Blue Canyon."
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Nassralla also said that behind his back, Nakoula had "altered the film without anyone's knowledge, changing its entire focus and dubbing in new dialogue. He edited it."
"The final product, 'Innocence of Muslims,' bore no resemblance to the film I thought he was making, or the film the actors thought they were creating. We were shocked," Nassralla said.
In an introduction to Nassralla's statement, Geller said that she had last seen him at an event in June in California, and that now he was being "hunted like an animal for speaking critically about Islam."
Nassralla "is currently in hiding after multiple death threats from Muslims because of his purported role in producing this video," she said.
In an exchange of emails with Reuters last weekend, Geller suggested that if Nakoula was arrested, that would represent an attempt to impose strict Islamic Sharia law in the United States.
"He will not be in prison for fraud or some probation violation, but for blasphemy. This is Shariah enforcement in America," she said.
In a later email, however, Geller expressed disappointment over Nassralla's account of his dealings with Nakoula. But she added, "That would not make (Nakoula) any less a political prisoner."
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Pakistan analysts see no hope doctor that helped CIA track bin Laden will go free
The Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency find Osama bin Laden is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, irrespective of whether charges of manslaughter filed against him last week stick or not, security officials and analysts say.
The 51-year-old doctor, Shakil Afridi, has been imprisoned by Pakistani authorities since May 2011 for his role in a fictitious polio immunization program that the CIA hoped would collect definitive proof that bin Laden was hiding out with his family in a high-walled compound in the town of Abbotabad, 60 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
The ruse failed to collect the evidence the CIA was hoping for, but Afridi was imprisoned anyway. Repeated U.S. entreaties that he be released – most recently in October, when Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the White House – have been rejected.
That's likely to continue, analysts here say, because the country's powerful army has made it clear it views Afridi as a traitor for working for the CIA, even though bin Laden had ordered terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Pakistani troops and civilians. The army was hugely embarrassed by the May 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden less than a mile from the country's top military academy.
Afridi was charged Wednesday by authorities administering Pakistan's northwest tribal areas bordering Afghanistan with being responsible for the 2006 death of an eight-year-old boy whom he had operated on for appendicitis, said his lawyer, Samiullah Afridi.
The manslaughter charges, filed seven years ago by the boy's mother, allege Afridi, a physician, was not qualified or authorized to carry out the surgery at his clinic in the Khyber tribal area, the lawyer said.
The charges come as Afridi awaits a fresh hearing of charges that accuse him of "conspiring against the state" with Mangal Bagh Afridi, the Pakistan Taliban insurgent commander for the Khyber trial area. A lower court in the tribal areas had convicted Afridi in May 2012 and sentenced him to 33 years' imprisonment on those charges.
The Khyber tribal area is home to the famous Khyber pass that connects Kabul and northern areas of landlocked Afghanistan to Pakistan's ports on the Indian Ocean, and is the major overland supply route for supplies to U.S.-led NATO forces based in Afghanistan.
Afridi's conviction was struck down in August 2012 by a higher tribal court, which ruled the convicting magistrate had exceeded his legal authority in passing the excessive sentence against Afridi, and ordered a retrial.
But a month later, the director general of the military's Inter Services Intelligence directorate had told Pakistani analysts and journalists that Afridi would not be allowed to go free.
"The Americans should forget about Afridi," the ISI chief, Gen. Zaheerul Islam, said in remarks made on the sidelines of an army celebration of Pakistan's annual defense day in Rawalpindi, a city of five million people adjacent to Islamabad that houses the army's headquarters.
Nothing has changed since, a ranking ISI operative said Saturday, speaking to McClatchy on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to go on record.
"Afridi will spend the rest of his natural life in prison," he said.
The seven-year-old manslaughter charge had not been acted upon by Pakistani administrators in the tribal areas until last week. However, the retrial, as well as the fresh manslaughter charge, would also be heard by administrators in the tribal areas, who in practice take their orders from the army, which has deployed 150,000 troops there to fight the insurgent militants.
Pakistani analysts said the army's uncompromising stance on Afridi reflected the red lines of its security cooperation with the United States.
"Simply, the Pakistani security establishment is saying it has zero tolerance for third-country covert intelligence operations on its soil," said Mohammed Imran, a security analyst based in Islamabad.
Such intolerance does not extend to U.S. drone strikes against Taliban targets in Pakistan's tribal areas, although the government publicly condemns them, the analysts said.
"Let's be clear: when a drone kills a Pakistan Taliban leader, it is because the security establishment has asked the Americans to do it," said Najam Sethi, an influential political analyst, in his popular television program aired Saturday on Geo News, the country's leading cable channel.


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Annet van Heusden played Annet on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street, from 1976 to 1977.
Kindergarten teacher Annet was responsible for scenes with children. Along with Sien Diels and Piet Hendriks, she was a part of the original Sesamstraat cast from the first season.
The concept did not work, because the kids could not act spontaneously in the TV studio. Annet's Sesamstraat career ended in the second season. Later on in the series, the producers would try a different approach with actors Joyce Clemens, Rudy Kühn and Gerard Kuster.
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Olga Felip, co-founder of Catalonia-based practice Arquitecturia, has won the prestigious AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year award
The 32-year-old, who set up the studio with Josep Camps eight years ago, topped the award category open to architects and architectural designers under the age of 40.
Architect Maria Smith, the co-founder of up-and-coming London based practice Studio Weave received the commendation. See the full shortlist here.
Award judge Zaha Hadid described Felip's work as 'sharp, edgy and elegant'. Fellow jury member Rafael Viñoly added: 'The fact that she's been able to produce this body of work with this level of consistency… I'm extremely happy for her to be recognised.'
Judge Paul Monaghan of AHMM agreed: 'With this incredibly skillful and elegant portfolio for someone so young, goodness knows in 20 years time the scale and quality of the work she'll be producing'.
Felip is studying a PhD at Barcelona's School of Architecture and is a director of Architects for Architecture, an organisation promoting architecture as an instrument of progress. The architect, who will represent Catalonia at the next Venice Architecture Biennale, is the second winner of the AJ's Emerging Woman Architect of the Year award. Last year the accolade was scooped by John McAslan + Partners director Hannah Lawson (see AJ 20.04.2012).
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Why did you become an architect? As a child I spent many hours playing with templates of letters, furniture, huge rolls of tracing paper, Rotring pens, and compasses. That was my world and I never considered being anything else but an architect.
What is your design ethos? Respect for the material forerunners; social commitment and respect for people; use of materials from the existing structure and materials of earth and fire, loaded with meaning and memory; textures which over time take on a patina of age; an ability to experiment and innovate focused on the relationship between material and people without intermediaries; voluntary restraint in formal approaches and economy of resources.
Which women architects inspire you? Not an architect, but a designer and businesswoman, Nani Marquina wanted to design rugs and made it a reality by putting into practice values such as observation, innovative endeavour, communication, emotion and knowing how to contemporise traditional craftsmanship. Today Nani Marquina is one of the leading rug manufacturing firms. There is so much to learn from her success and it is not so different from our task as architects.
What is your advice to aspiring female architects? As my final project tutor told me: 'be prudent but fearless'.
Why do women leave the profession? They leave when they get married and have children. But we need to change that, as it is possible to handle both family and a career.
Place of study ETSAB - the Barcelona Higher Technical School of Architecture
Current projects The Law Courts of Balaguer, currently under construction; preliminary studies for Barcelona's Sant Pau Square; a plan for recovering the four rivers of Girona; an industrialised system of houses for Sifera
Clients The Catalan Government; the Town Halls of Tortosa, Girona, Caldes de Malavella, l'Escala and Ascó; private clients
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"We work on the different aspects of each project simultaneously: the site, the programme, and the material. Each project is on several desks, and for those who are new to our studio, the process might seem unconnected and disconcerting... But we gradually weave it all together and tie up the loose ends. This way of advancing on all fronts at the same time in a non-linear fashion, right up to the deadline, inevitably implies very hard work at the last minute. The different processes fit together in the end, after research and parallel work on each of the parts. It's a method that gives everyone in the studio a role and a graphic representation system that is coherent with both the method and the results" said by Olga Felip & Josep Camps at their recent scalae ebook monography: http://bit.ly/100aFHK Congrats AJ and Olga!
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The Supreme Court sent a major affirmative action case back to a lower court for reconsideration on Monday, leaving many local college officials relieved that race-conscious admissions policies were not overturned, but anxious about how to meet the new, higher standard the justices set for their use.
In reviewing a challenge to affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas, the justices did not lay out exactly how to meet that tougher standard, ensuring that university presidents, attorneys, and admissions officials will be puzzling over whether they are truly in compliance with the court's standard.
Laurie Pohl, vice president for enrollment and student affairs at Boston University, said she was "somewhat relieved they didn't do anything terribly damaging, but frustrated that we still know that there is a lot of work to do to continue to comply with" the law.
The case stems from a lawsuit that Abigail Fisher, who is white, filed against the University of Texas at Austin after her application to join the freshman class was rejected in 2008. She argued that the university's consideration of race violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Writing for the 7-1 majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy found that the appeals court that rejected Fisher's argument failed to meet the legal requirement that it apply "strict scrutiny" of not only the university's goals but the means it used to attain diversity.
Courts "must ultimately be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity," Kennedy wrote, ordering that the appeals court consider the case more carefully in light of the stricter guidelines.
The ruling means that, at least for the moment, colleges can continue to consider race as one factor in admissions decisions, as the majority of selective public and private universities do in Massachusetts and across the country. Another case could change that approach; Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas indicated in concurring opinions that if they were asked to do so, they would have overturned the 2003 precedent that guides colleges' use of affirmative action.
Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas, called the decision encouraging and said it will have no immediate impact on the university's admissions policies. He and other university presidents reiterated Monday their belief that diversity is important to the education they provide.
Harvard's president, Drew Faust, said in a statement that she was heartened that the Supreme Court "has affirmed the vital interest of universities in bringing together students from many different backgrounds and points of view."
Many college officials believe that there is no viable way to build a diverse class without considering race, but some said they were unsure how to definitively prove that case. Focusing on socioeconomic diversity instead of race has helped some schools, including the University of California system, maintain a diverse class after voters banned affirmative action. But maintaining that diversity has been far more difficult and expensive.
Colleges "are essentially being asked to prove a negative," said Andrew Flagel, senior vice president for students and enrollment at Brandeis. "That does present an interesting challenge: how to prove there isn't something else out there that would be more effective."
Flagel said he expected the courts would come up with a rational way for colleges to make their case — and that Brandeis would not have to make major changes in its process. But "I suspect we will be parsing [the decision] for some time," he said.
Because Kennedy set a higher bar for colleges and also faulted the lower court for deciding the case on summary judgment — without a full trial — colleges are likely to face more lawsuits and more complex, lengthy litigation, according to Robert Toone, an attorney at Foley Hoag who is preparing a seminar for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts to help officials understand what the ruling means for them.
"They spent so much time saying . . . we're not going to defer to university administrators anymore," said Toone, who helped write an amicus brief last summer supporting the University of Texas on behalf of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. "The message to colleges and universities is that you need to take these issues seriously, you need to get your policies in order and make sure that you are meeting constitutional standards."
But supporters of affirmative action say the University of Texas took those concerns about as seriously as possible, compiling a report when it resumed race-conscious admissions in 2004 that documented, for example, the scarcity of minority students in small classes. In the lone dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that the university had done enough to follow the law and that the Texas policy should be upheld. (Justice Elena Kagan, who was involved in the case as solicitor general, recused herself.)
"It's hard to know how anybody could have gone about it more carefully," said Renee M. Landers, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, who specializes in health and constitutional law and gave a talk last fall on the potential impact on diversity among health care workers if affirmative action were curtailed in medical and nursing schools. "There's enough in this case that any responsible university would . . . make sure it could articulate that whatever it was doing was narrowly tailored to achieve its goal."
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Production of the new environmentally-friendly Reach delivery van has started to migrate from the Utilimaster Corp. plant in Wakarusa, Ind., to the Spartan Motors Inc. campus in Charlotte, Mich., according to a report by the Elkhart Truth.
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