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Shakira's Fundación Pies Descalzos has teamed up with her beau Gerard Pique's futbol team FC Barcelona to pool their resources in an effort to help underprivileged kids in Latin America.
With the aim of creating two educational centers, one in Colombia and one in the United States, Shakira and FC Barcelona are hoping that they will be able to accomplish much more as a unified force. The centers will focus on using sports to teach and pass along integral values such as solidarity, hard work, loyalty, translations, friendship, sacrifice and tolerance. The character building will be combined with a focus on educational excellence.
Shakira will be the face of the new partnership, which has been in the works since 2010. As she accepted her award as Artist of the Year from the Harvard Foundation she told the students gathered to hear her speak: What I am is a small woman with a big voice. A woman who has been blessed with a great platform to give voice to those who do not have one. As a child of the developing world, it is my< duty to use this voice in every way possible to promote the message of the power of education to change lives.
Shaki, you may be a small woman but you never cease to amaze us with the size of your heart.


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Can we start complaining about Let Me In yet?
The question is prompted by the release of the first trailer for Matt Reeves's remake of Let the Right One In. The Swedish vampire movie, made in 2008, but released here last year, proved very popular with the Screenwriter community. …
The question is prompted by the release of the first trailer for Matt Reeves's remake of Let the Right One In. The Swedish vampire movie, made in 2008, but released here last year, proved very popular with the Screenwriter community. Readers voted it the second best film of 2009. Your correspondent put it at the top of his list. Inevitably, news of the American remake was greeted with weary groans. What to make of the promo?
Well, first things first. I don't know who is responsible for the ghastly gloom-rock tune that thunders over the action, but it lends exactly the wrong class of high-school, door-slamming petulance. One of the worst aspects of early-noughties mainstream horror was its reliance on a particularly unlovely school of sulk metal. There is nothing less frightening than an under-educated, mid-western lout shouting about Satan while wearing his mother's mascara. Secondly, the editing is depressingly dizzying and — again — reminds one of the hyper-active aesthetic that ruined so many horror films in the first few years of the new millennium.
So, in short, I don't like the trailer, but I'm not sure the film itself looks too awful. There is, of course, every chance the picture will be edited with more caution and that the annoying song will appear nowhere in the finished article. I wasn't all that keen on Kick Ass, but Chloe Moretz, young star of that film and of Let Me In, is a very talented juvenile actor. Kodi Smit-McPhee was great in The Road and he looks promising as the kid who gets lured into blood-letting by Chloe's undead waif. The smashing Richard Jenkins is there also.
Reeves, director of the entertaining Cloverfield, looks to have composed the shots with the same restraint showed by Tomas Alfredson in the original. So, there is a chance — just a chance, mind — that Let Me In could turn out to be a reasonably respectable facsimile of the original. I shun no opportunity to whinge about the current obsession with faithfulness to source material, but a respectful copy of the Swedish film might be the most we could hope for from this particular project.
Anyway, it hardly needs to be said that, if you haven't already seen Let the Right One In, you need to have a glance before the American version arrives on our shores. Let Me In is scheduled for release at Halloween.
Oh and one more thing about the trailer. Yes, you read that right. Let Me In is, indeed, a Hammer film. The great British horror studio has recently been reconstituted. Sadly, the example of Ealing films makes it hard to exhibit unqualified enthusiasm. That comedy enterprise also rose from the grave about 10 years ago. Since then — remember I Want Candy and St Trinian's — they have produced little else but garbage. We hope for better from Hammer.

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Caching pages on Apache
I don't use any blogging software for my site. I just hand-wired it some years ago. When doing this, one of the biggest problems was caching.
Consider each blog entry page. Each page has the same template, but different content. Both the template and content could be changed. So ideally, blog pages should be served dynamically. That is, every time someone requests the page, I should look up the content, look up the template, and put them together.
I did that, and within a few days outgrew my hosting service's CPU usage limit. Running such a program for every page hit is too heavy on the CPU.
One way around this is to create the pages beforehand and serve it as regular HTML. But every time the template changes, you need to re-generate every single page. I had over 2,500 pages. That would kill the CPU usage if I changed the template often.
At that point, I did a piece of analysis. Do I really need to regenerate all 2000 blog entries? Wouldn't the 80-20 rule apply? The Apache log confirmed that 20% of the URLs were accounting for 76% of the hits. So I'd be wasting my time regenerating all the pages every time I changed the template.
So based on this, I decided to dynamically cache the pages. When a page is requested for the first time, I create the page and save it in a cache. The next time, I'd just serve it from the cache. If the template changes, I just need to delete the cache. This way, I only generate pages that are requested, and they're only generated once.
OK, so that's the background. Now let me get to how I did it.
I wrote a Perl script,
blog.pl, that would generate a page in the
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# Redirect to cache first RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ html/$1.html # If not found, run program to create page RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^html/([^/]*)\.html$ blog.pl?t=$1
The first block redirects Apache to the cache. The second block checks if the file exists in the cache. If it doesn't, the Apache redirects to the program. The program creates the page in the cache and displays it. Thereafter, Apache will just serve the file from the cache.
This Apache trick can be used in another way. I keep files organised in different folders to simplify my work. But to visitors of this site, that organisation is irrelevant. So I effectively merge these folders into one. For example, I have a folder called a in which I keep my static content. I also have this piece of code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ a/$1
If any file is not found in the main folder, just check in the
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I did receive a fellowship from the EU years ago.
SCARY (not that I am ungrateful, though)
As a matter of fact, I am not conscious of having received a formal notification from the EU on having received the fellowship (but I did get the money).
Obviously, all the procedures were strictly confidential and information was scant....
However, I did have to fill in quite a few forms.
It looks each day more like the Soviet Union's Party: PAPER PAPER PAPER PAPER. If you are powerful, you can feed the monster with enough PAPER to make it happy (which is what MS seems to have been doing for years) and go on "living" (as MS seems to be doing, btw: have they really **paid** any money for the "fines"?).
However, if you are a poor mortal, you are DONE.
Yes, this seems just giving MS more publicity FOR FREE.
There is a legislative power in the EU, but where is the executive when it comes to a US multinational?
I did receive a fellowship from the EU years ago.
Obviously, all the procedures were strictly confidential and information was scant....
However, I did have to fill in quite a few forms.
Don't worry, legislation in America itself is actually much worse.
Material gathered by means of spying on US citizens by the CIA - without a warrant or anything of the kind - can now be brought up against them in court as evidence.
That's Patriot Act. And that's not even the most dangerous part of it.
The president of the US can now also personally order any foreigner in the US to disappear and be 'disposed of' when it is "in the interest of national security". He doesn't have to explain to anyone, relatives, lawyers, whoever, why he thought that was "needed."
Microsoft's little empire is peanuts compared to all that. Not that it shouldn't be fought by energetic competition - and good, market regulatory, practice.
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News is breaking of a reported explosion in NYC tonight in Chelsea. This comes after earlier news today of a bomb exploding near a Marine Corps race in New Jersey.
Reports are coming in that the NYC explosion was a bomb placed in a trash can. Awaiting official confirmation. #NYCExplosion
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Police have the area around 6th Avenue and 23rd sealed off.
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PIX 11 reports: Multiple people were injured during an outdoor explosion in Chelsea Saturday night. The explosion happened at 135 23rd St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
It was not immediately clear how many people were injured or the severity of their injuries. Preliminary reports indicate at least 14 minor injuries.
The FDNY is on the scene with the NYPD Counterterrorism Unit.
People are urged to avoid the area.
The NYPD has stopped all southbound traffic on Seventh Avenue at 34th Street.
The FDNY says there is no impact on subways and trains in and out of Penn Station at this time.
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North-central Wisconsin offers a lot of places to eat. But which ones are the best?
A few weeks ago I asked this question on my Facebook page: "What is the best local restaurant? Tell me what it is, where it's located, and the best dish or item there. (Chain restaurants don't count.)"
After receiving dozens of ideas, I tried some of those suggestions in search of the best places where the locals eat.
Our first recommendation took me to downtown Stevens Point to the Wooden Chair, a place Linda Landowski told me was excellent.
The restaurant, on Main Street, was just wrapping up business for the day when I got there. It's open from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m., every day. Inside, the restaurant is filled with—what else?—wooden chairs, and a lot of food.
"It's very unique," said Carrie Kawski, owner of the Wooden Chair along with her husband. "It's homemade, home baked, every day."
She says her restaurant's food is special.
"Basically we cut fresh every day, so, you know, there are no deep fryers," said Kawski. "We're on the healthier end of it."
There's a lot to choose from at the Wooden Chair, but I heard the Crabby Guy is excellent. I decided to try that.
"It's an open-face sandwich on an English muffin which has our combination of crab, tomatoes, cheese," said Kawski.
It was excellent! Customers at the restaurant told me the food is delicious. That's why they say many of them said they come back again and again.
"We're not a franchise where you may see somebody once or twice a year," said Kawski. "Our repeat customers are once or twice a week."
The Wooden Chair—a place where the locals eat.
Next, I headed to Wisconsin Rapids at the recommendation of Jere Michalsen who said I had to visit The Branding Iron. It's a place he described as "very quaint...great atmosphere...great drinks and food!"
"We're just down home, good old Wisconsin cuisine," said Jeff Powell. He and his wife own The Branding Iron. It's been in Powell's family for decades.
"I will have been here almost 40 years in July, so a long time," said Powell.
He not only owns the place, he cooks, too.
"I started dish washing when I was 11, and started cooking when I was 15," said Powell. "I've been cooking ever since."
The Branding Iron is a traditional supper club with a lot on the menu.
"Steaks, seafood, chicken, chops," said Powell. "Mozzarella sticks, cheese curds--Wisconsin cheese curds go well."
While at The Branding Iron, I tried one of several soups available there. One of them, invented by Jeff Powell's wife, included potatoes, ham, and sauerkraut. It was delicious.
Like other small-town restaurants, The Branding Iron relies on repeat customers.
"It's probably 60 percent, 70 percent regulars," said Powell. "Summer would be more travelers and stuff."
The Branding Iron—family-owned, and a place where the locals eat.
Finally, we visit Pinewood Supper Club in Mosinee, a restaurant the owner and chef says definitely fills a niche.
"We're certainly a destination place," said Steve Allen. "You don't just drive by and see us. You have to know where you're going."
The restaurant, sitting on Half Moon Lake, has been in Steve Allen's family since 1974. Six nights a week he cooks up steak, seafood, chicken, and other items.
The Allen's rely on word-of-mouth advertising to let people know about it.
"We have a great core of regulars that come in, a great customer base, and we also get a lot of travelers," said Allen. "We also get a lot of skiers from Rib Mountain area."
One unique item on the menu—gator balls. Elizabeth Szekeress said I had to try them.
"It's ground gator tail rolled into meatballs, basically," said Allen. "We fry them, and they're served with a stone ground mustard sauce and pico de gallo."
Allen says this is a popular appetizer. And judging by the big birthday party that was going on next to us, the rest of the menu is pretty popular as well.
Pinewood Supper Club—another place where the locals eat.
If there's a restaurant you'd like to recommend to others, visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Daniel-Woodruff/132124136861814?fref=ts and join the conversation.
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Located in the quiet residential area of Montesilvano city center, allows to reach with a pleasant walk the beach (about 700 m). The property is also well served by public transports, is just 100 meters far from the bus and train station, 15 minutes from Pescara Airport and 5 minutes from the highway entrance. In the lovely garden surrounding the B&B you can taste the delicious breakfast buffet that is served every morning, or relax after a day spent at the beach. The breakfast-room has an open fireplace that makes the place cozy even during the winter. A fully equipped kitchen, which has free entrance, can meet every need.
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Note - no, I don't add water, and if you use frozen veggies the soup sticks to the sides less. Also, if you don't want it to stick to the pot, you can exchange the broccoli cheese soup for another cream of soup, the cheese is the agent that sticks to the pot.Submitted by RPFHG904
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I created this dish for dinner one day when I was pressed for time with ingredients I had on hand and it was an instant hit! A low-carb delight as is, but you can serve over wide, whole-wheat noodles or brown rice if you are not watching carbs. Submitted by BETHPROVERBS31
This is a spicey food lovers dream soup. this is great just in a bowl or over a serving of tortila chips. A tbsp of sour cream if you wish... Or for the very brave add hot sauce. For this recipe I used my Crockpot, if you do not have a crock pot thiat is fine just use a soup pan. ( Better in crockpot though.)
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David S. Goyer's name gets tossed around a lot these days. Most fanboys now know him as the guy who wrote the Dark Knight Trilogy alongside Chris and Jonathan Nolan – and more recently, the Superman reboot Man of Steel. But hardcore fans (or just older ones) know that Goyer's comic book movie resume goes WAY deeper than that: He wrote the Blade movie trilogy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the superhero-themed Jumper, and even directed Blade 3, the spinoff TV series, as well as the 1998 Marvel TV movie Nick Fury: Agent of Shield with David Hasselhoff – just to name a few.
With a filmography like that, it's surprising that it's taken this long for Goyer to find a prominent place within the order of big business comic book movie-making; however, a recent report suggested that Warner Bros. could be advancing Goyer up the ladder of creative oversight – and today brings further conformation that that is indeed the case.
Last month Goyer signed a first-look deal with WB to help bolster him to the studio. As stated, the man is known for keeping a full plate of work in front of him – and that hasn't changed. The upcoming Batman vs. Superman and Sandman movies – as well as a possible Constantine TV show – are just some of the geek-friendly projects Goyer currently has in the works. However, even while trying to expand the DC/WB brand on both the big and small screens, Goyer and Co. are also up against another challenge: trying to appease a rabid and impatient fanbase with Marvel-style expectations of a shared universe.
There's been recent debate about whether the Arrow TV show will be part of the Justice League movie continuity – and subsequently, whether the version of The Flash that show introduces will be incorporated into films, as well. Such rumoring has rekindled the fiery debate about DC's lack of cohesiveness when compared to its biggest competitor, Marvel, which has its fully-established Avengers movie universe in place, and has clearly tied to that movie world to its Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV experiment. Man of Steel was supposed to be the big beginning of the DC shared universe – but so far, beyond the promise of Batman and Superman in one movie, there's been little evidence (actual evidence, not rumor) of a DC Universe to speak of.
As Bleeding Cool now tells it, Warner Bros. and DC Comics seem to be getting their ducks in a row by handing down the mandate that any DC movie project needs to go through Goyer. As reported by the website:
I understand that people looking at making films based on the likes of Suicide Squad, Booster Gold, Deathstroke and even Team 7 have been told that they have to partner or work with Goyer as producer.
The website goes on to explain that not everyone at WB is happy about that mandate, which could be why Goyer's Sandman movie might be coming sooner rather than later. There are also those former rumors of Goyer being involved either writing and directing (or both) the Justice League movie – though with his questionable directorial track, and guys like Zack Snyder and Ben Affleck fully connected to the WB/DC brand, we're betting (read: hoping) that Goyer's efforts stay on the writing/producing side – which will already be too much for some fans.
Look, love or hate Goyer (sentiment seems to change by the project; the discrepancies in opinion between The Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel still baffle me…) there's no denying that, these days, this is how the franchise universe game is played. In my own guidelines for how to build a good DC movie universe, I pointed out that DC/WB having a master architect – like Marvel does at both the creative level (Joss Whedon) and producer level (Kevin Feige) – is the only way to go.
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What did we all learn from DC/WB in the last five years? During all the back and forth about Nolan's standalone Batman continuity or how Green Lantern and Man of Steel fit into the picture? Well, I for one learned that having too many cooks in one kitchen – especially when they have differing meal plans in mind – does not a good shared universe make. Now that some growing pains are out of the way, and projects like Man of Steel and Arrow are showing good returns, it's time to take the right step forward. But is Goyer the man fans want at the helm?
There will be endless debate, but personally speaking, I've enjoyed the darker and more serious attempts to realize Batman and Superman on the big screen – and even though Nolan's influence is often attributed to those projects' success, Goyer has had just as much to do with it. DC and WB have also been sitting on a possible treasure-trove of non-traditional superhero projects – films that could radically differentiate the studio from the Marvel brand – and if there's someone with enough variation in experience to make projects like Booster Gold, Suicide Squad or Team 7 into realities (while still keeping loyal to their respective sources AND fitting with the demands of a shared universe), it's probably Goyer more so than Nolan.
Meanwhile: While we've heard about the Booster Gold and Suicide Squad movies before, mention of possible Deathstroke and Team 7 movies are interesting footnotes to this story.
Deathstroke & Team 7
In many ways, Deathstroke the Terminator is DC's version of The Punisher; the character has achieved a level of mainstream fame in recent years, thanks to his inclusion in the Arrow TV series.
A future film centered around him wouldn't be out of the cards – nor would Arrow star Manu Bennett taking his role to the big screen – especially since he'll already be there this holiday season in motion-capture form, playing Azog the pale orc in WB's The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug and the third Hobbit film to follow next year.
Team 7 was originally a prequel series to the popular '90s comic book, Wildcats. It centered on the character of Cole Cash (a.k.a. Deadeye/Grifter) and a special-ops team given superhero powers. During DC's "New 52" reboot, Team 7 was re-imagined as a government-run deterrent to superhuman threats. The new team roster included characters like Slade Wilson (Deathstroke), Black Canary, Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor – characters whose ties extend into the larger DC universe (potentially on both the TV and movie sides) in some key ways….
Batman vs. Superman will be in theaters on July 17, 2015. We'll keep you up to date on any additional DC/WB movies – and who may be shaping them.
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Fringe groups are the newest terror threat
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The investigations into last week's serial blasts in Mumbai, that have claimed 20 lives so far, have shown that the emergence of smaller terror modules cannot be ignored.
Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok on Wednesday recommended a ban on an outfit called the Karnataka Forum for Dignity on the ground that 'it was turning into a notorious organisation and could be involved in incidents pertaining to terror.'
On Tuesday, the agencies which are investigating the blasts said that the incident could have been the handiwork of smaller groups and the operation was carried out by six to 10 persons.
The question that needs to be asked is: If this has marked the end of bigger terror outfits in India, will fringe operations such as these be carried out by self-motivated groups?
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Image: A man moves debris during a clean-up operation near the Opera House, one of the sites of Wednesday's triple explosions
Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters
Orchestrating terror attacks extremely easy for fringe groups
It seems assembling a bomb, planning the attack and executing it have become extremely easy for these groups.
The bigger outfits are easier to curtail when compared to these smaller groups, sources in the Intelligence Bureau point out.
Bigger outfits execute operations on a larger scale and there is always a lot of planning that goes into such an operation. The Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is very meticulous in its planning, stood completely exposed post the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai and this was largely because several intercepts were picked up thanks to the operatives communicating over phone and also sharing emails.
Moreover, such outfits, apart from causing a great deal of damage, also have particular messages to send out. The messages are always on a large scale and would deal largely with the ties between two countries.
Hence, at some level they would want to announce responsibility for a particular attack. The case of the Indian Mujahideen was the same and after each attack they raised volatile issues such as the 2002 Gujarat riots or the Babri masjid demolition.
Image: A damaged car at Dadar, one the sites of triple blasts in Mumbai
Photographs: Reuters
No political or ideological agenda in their attacks
This is, however, not the case with smaller groups. They believe in a quick fire operation. All they look for is some destruction to satisfy personal grouses. There is always a set of disgruntled youth who want to take revenge on the police for some arrests made.
There is no larger political or ideological agenda in their attacks. Apart from seeking revenge they also want to expose the vulnerability of the security apparatus which in turn causes a great deal of embarrassment for the police.
Smaller groups are also aware that they are not on the intelligence radar and hence their movements are not restricted.
There is no previous record on these men which only makes the job easier for them. They have easy access to the material and hence preparing a bomb too becomes very easy for them.
Image: A blast victim's brother cries at a funeral in Mumbai
Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters
'This is a growing risk'
This is a growing risk, security experts say.
"What can anyone possibly do if a group of five persons plan an attack in their house and then plant the bomb? They have not used mobile phones or emails which again makes it next to impossible to track them. These people are not even taking orders from anyone and such operations are planned without the approval of any large force," an expert says.
Experts also say this is the main reason why the police continue to grope in the dark. It could be a small group which subscribes to the ideology of the Indian Mujahideen or another group from the second rung of the underworld trying to put terror groups out of business.
It is very hard to tell in the absence of any record or dossier on such persons, and this without a doubt is becoming a major security threat, they say.
Intelligence alone will not help solve this problem since it is difficult to pick up intercepts on such operations. Constant monitoring of crowded places and proper security measures such as better policing and more CCTVs will provide a solution in dealing with such fringe groups who carry out strikes at will, they add.
Image: An owner closes his jewellery shop at Zaveri Bazaar
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Peace Fire
Edited by: Ethan Casey, Paul Hilder
Events in the Middle East have rushed forward so dizzyingly since mid-2000 that even close observers could be pardoned for losing track, not to mention hope. In this innovative book, the contributors offer individual perspectives on the deepening crisis in Israel-Palestine, thereby providing for the first time a ground-level understanding, from every angle, of the collapse of peace. Peace Fire aligns the chronology of recent history with thoughtful analyses, some of which are passionate, others disinterested, and several of which have already been proven wrong. In the process it weaves together the intemperate opinions, anger, hatred and confusion of the crisis. It spreads out from personal experiences of tragedy, conflict and hope at the epicenter to touch on the alarming global ripple effects, with contributors ranging from those on both sides directly affected to expert observers from around the world. This book is a collective diary of the Israel-Palestine conflict in its greatest crisis for 35 years. The recent maelstrom on the West Bank has dominated the world's newspapers but left people feeling powerless. This book shows what is driving the present crisis and whether there is a way out of the abyss.
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Discussion in 'NFL Draft' started by gran54, Apr 20, 2012.
Can't tell if serious...
I dont get why anyone would want Poe or Brockers
Poe has bust written all over him, combine warrior. None of that athleticsim showed up on the field and his ONLY sack last year came against AUSTIN PEAY.
Brockers athleticism is limited and he isnt explosive. He has no burst or pass rush moves to the point where he was taken off the field in pass rushing and dime package downs.
I DO think we need to take a DT. DTs make everyone better, from the LBs to the DEs to the CBs... You get to the quarterback early and often you dont have to have top corners. A DT that can collapse the pocket makes average DEs look better then they are (see KVB).
ProFootballFocus does
They mentioned McCourty as one of the biggest steals in his draft. Also said that he's better than his twin brother who gets a ton of publicity.
I believe I also read on USA Today that we have two of the most underrated CBs in the league, and would be silly to go CB 1st.
Totally agree with the Poe/Brockers comment.
1st - Kirkpatrick
2nd - Mychal Kendricks/Zach Brown
3rd - Mike Martin
and call it a draft.
Thank you!
I'd take Barron over Gilmore or Kirkpatrick, gladly. Just saying I'm not really a fan of any of the DE's in round 1 and I feel like that's the position we are looking at.
Personally I'd rather us not take a CB in the 1st. I'm hoping that Floyd or DeCastro falls to us.
If they're gone then I'd take Barron, Kirkpatrick, Perry, Brockers or Poe in that order.
Gilmore did practice against a sweet azz WR, in Alshon.
But, I wouldn't be too impressed if we selected him with our 1st. It's going to take a while for him to get the wheels rolling. One thing I can recall about Gilmore is that he is a very good deep covering CB, but he needs major work on short routes.
Really Happy:
Trade #20 to the Raiders for their 2013 first round pick straight up.
Dre Kirkpatrick
Dont'a Hightower
Stephen Hill
Fletcher Cox
Luke Kuechly
Coby Fleener
David DeCastro (as a center)
Nick Perry
Mark Barron
Stephen Gilmore
Michael Floyd
Jerel Worthy
Whithey Mercilus
Courtney Upshaw
Chandler Jones
Vinny Curry
Dontari Poe
Michael Brockers
Alshon Jeffery
Devon Still
Janoris Jenkins
Stephen Hill would make you happy :sad2:


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Activists Launch New Phase of Action Against Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline
More than 100 protesters stormed the Houston, Texas offices of the TransCanada Corporation on Monday kicking off a new phase of action for the movement to stop the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. That pipeline is designed to transport tarsands oil from Western Canada to US Gulf Coast refineries in the South East. Also on Monday, more than 70 environmental groups sent an open letter to President Obama demanding that he put an end to the pipeline project as well as set new pollution standards for aging power plants.
Their fears have been confirmed time and again by studies. A new study just published in the journal, "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" has found that extraction of tar sands oil is even more toxic than previously thought. By analyzing lake sediment near extraction sites dating back 50 years scientists found that deposits of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), one of the top 10 most hazardous substances in the world, are being found in lakes at levels two and half to 23 times higher than when extraction first began in 1978.
While the Keystone XL pipeline slated to transport tarsands oil from Alberta Canada had been rerouted this past year, the new route still crosses through the crucial Ogallala Aquifer in Nebraska – one of the largest bodies of groundwater in the world, which supports about 30% of US agricultural irrigation needs. Despite the very likely possibility of hot pressurized tar sands oil leaking into underground water supplies, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has decided the project would pose "minimal" risk to the environment. Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman now has 30 days to make a decision.
While President Obama put a temporary hold on the 1,100 mile Keystone pipeline last year before his re-election campaign, environmental activists are now awaiting a final decision from him in the next few weeks on the fate of a project which NASA scientist James Hansen has said would release "twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history."
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Change is in the air at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, and so is a bigger, bolder fireworks and laser light show.
The theme park announced changes for the upcoming season on Tuesday, and a revamped fireworks show was at the top of the list.
The show, called the Lone Star Spectacular, will get a new storyline and a supercharged feel thanks to technical enhancements, officials said.
"The show was cutting edge when it first opened in 1992, and with today's technological advancements, we can create an even bigger, bolder production tht will still pay homage to our great state of Texas," said Six Flags Fiesta President Martin Bozer.
The park also will offer a new production at its Zaragoza Theatre next year and will bring new country music stars to perform as part of the Starburst Summer Concert Series.
The new season begins March 5.


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"Great Good Places" by John Tebeau at Fort Defiance
Celebrate the end of the Great Good Places show of limited edition prints by Brooklyn artist John Tebeau at Fort Defiance. The prints feature the exteriors of popular bars throughout Brooklyn. Closing party is on Monday January 13 from 6-9 pm at Fort Defiance in Red Hook at 365 Van Brunt Street.


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Earlier tonight, Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick decided to participate in his second Google+ Hangout with writers from around the Notre Dame Blogosphere. Five Notre Dame bloggers (which I was lucky enough to be one of the five selections — representing the Leprechaun Legion on campus) got to ask Swarbrick any question they wanted, which he was not briefed on beforehand. Check it out below:
The five bloggers are listed below:
- Ryan Ritter "NDTex" — HerLoyalSons
- Mike Coffey "El Kabong" — ND Nation
- Josh Vowles — Subway Domer
- Pat Mistch – Blue-Gray Sky
- Tyler Moorehead – Leprechaun Legion
Here is the transcript for the questions that I asked Jack — I will add the links here to the posts that all of the other participants write once they are up:
Tyler Moorehead: Jack, last Google Hangout you said that, relevant to Notre Dame, we do not have much of a home-field advantage. The Leprechaun Legion is a student body organization that really prides itself on 1) optimizing the stadium experience for both students and fans alike, and 2) increasing the home-field advantage by really making the atmosphere more intimidating. One of the big pushes that we have been working on is the music in the football stadium, which has gotten great publicity, and we've been really pleased with the results. Now, knowing the overwhelming student support for this initiative, we were kind of surprised to see the music in the stadium take a step backwards per se versus Michigan. Is that something that is going to continue in the future, or how do you work with both what the current students want in the stadium, versus what may be popular in the eyes of many alumni?
Jack Swarbrick: In what sense did it take a step backwards?
Tyler Moorehead: I guess the music was just less prominent. We reduced the amount of times it was played on third downs and TV timeouts were now given to the band, which had been the place of actual music over the last several games.
Jack Swarbrick: Thanks. First of all I want to congratulate the Legion, because it has been a huge difference-maker for us. That environment was spectacular against Michigan. We were so pleased — I can't tell you the number of people, even those who had been critical prior to this, came up to me and said that this was the best environment that they can ever remember in the stadium. So thanks to the Legion for making that possible in so many ways.
One of the differences in this game was that the band was mic'd, so the band was able to play a different role than it had [in past games] at critical times, so that was one element that may have been why there was less recorded music. The other was that I didn't particularly care for the music so it was my choice here, during the timeouts. I think the music really energizes the crowd, and during a timeout it felt awkward, having music and the crowd not react to it. So those were the only two differences that I can think of. I had a number of people come to me and say this was the first time, they had been critical of it before, but they appreciated it this time because it blended in with the crowd noise. It didn't sit apart from it — it energized it and raised the entire level of the stadium, and I just think it was a spectacular environment.
Tyler Moorehead: Do you see that there may be a difference in how much music is played in a night game versus Michigan compared to a day game versus Wake Forest? And I know that the music goes hand-in-hand with a lot of other very positive initiatives, such as the Take a StaND initiative that was launched. Do you plan on continuing to beef up the home-field advantage, and do you have any idea of what those future plans may be?
Jack Swarbrick: I don't know that I can cite any particular plans, but we evaluate it every week. After each week we sit down and you guys (the Leprechaun Legion) give us input, and we work with our promotions staff, Josh and his team (Josh Berlo, Assistant AD), and the football people and week talk about it — what works, what didn't work, and what can we do better. So I'm so pleased with the progress, so pleased with the environment we've created. You've heard a lot of our guests commenting about it, tweeting about it after the game, so I couldn't be more pleased with where we are headed.
Tyler Moorehead: You also mentioned in your last Google Hangout that Notre Dame would never have its own network in the sense of the ESPN Longhorn Network, but you really wanted to continue to expand the digital media rights, and kind of expand a digital network. Now with the move to the ACC, do you have to work with them and their media rights, or how will that digital network, or those goals, be affected by the move?
Jack Swarbrick: The structure is very similar, relative to the television rights with the ACC and the BIG EAST. That is to say, there is a tiering of the rights, their network partners get first choice, the ACC digital network has a secondary choice, and then if things haven't been picked up by those methods, the school has a choice. So we'll still have a lot of inventory to develop and work with, and in that sense there's no significant difference between that structure within the Big East. So we don't think it will impact us adversely at all, and in fact, given the depth and breadth of the Olympic sports, it probably gives us some really high-quality inventory to work with in the years ahead.
Check back tomorrow for my thoughts and analysis on Jack's answers.


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Winning means nothing, beauty is everything
History is written, or at the very least it is influenced heavily, by the winners. The Romans are remembered as Empire building heroes – bringing roads, wine and civilisation to the barbarians. Whereas the Gauls, Celts and Numidiums were merely people whose place in history was merely to submit to the mighty rule of the peninsula. Little is said of the Gallic wealth that was plundered, nor the Greek intelligence that was treated with suspicion.
In football the accusation is frequently made, ad nauseum that it's pointless playing beautiful football if you don't win anything. The usual protagonist here is none other than Arsene Wenger. The criticism was thrown at him again from certain quarters following Arsenal's humbling defeat to Birmingham in the League Cup final.
It is a point which was briefly touched upon by, Spanish Football journalist, Sid Lowe in a recent interview with Beyond the Pitch as well. Lowe spoke of the contrast in views between Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho, both of whom are men that are incredibly driven. The Barcelona coach's comments speak of building a legacy, one that will be remembered beyond any results. Mourinho on the other hand makes his feelings on the matter very clear, for the Portuguese coach results and trophies are the bottom line.
I put it to you, that this simply isn't the case.
Many sides have based their legacies by winning trophies. But there are also those who have broken records and made innovations in the game, but fallen short winning trophies and titles. Those sides that have fallen by the wayside haven't all been forgotten, great losers have littered the archives for decades.
Tactical wizardry
The Mighty Magyars were a side were heavily tipped to take home the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954, and yet they went home empty handed. The Hungarians went on a 36 game unbeaten run between 1950 and 1954, they won Olympic gold in 1952 and they humiliated England, twice. They boasted a forward line including Ferenc Puskas and Nandor Hidegkuti that plundered 27 goals in 5 games at the 1954 World Cup.
Arguably, the most important contribution this side gave us was the withdrawn centre forward. Used to devastating effect against England at Wembley, to suggest that they have been forgotten would be utterly laughable.
Occasionally you get a team of great individuals who fail to play as a team, or a team of average players that combined are greater than the sum of their parts. In the early 1970s Rinus Michels took charge of the Netherlands after a magical spell at Ajax.
The Netherlands football team that took part in games in and around the 1974 World Cup were a side made up of stars and played as a team. A lot of their interplay should be attributed to the fact that a majority of the players were team mates at Ajax and Feyenoord.
Michels' side announced themselves internationally with performances that were full of speed, vigour and an incredibly intensity. Their pressing was something that had never been seen at International level, you could be forgiven for feeling sorry for the opposition as they were hounded and lynched by oncoming orange shirts.
This intensity changed football forever. The gentlemanly stroll that had been seen in Mexico City 4 years previous was gone, and it was being replaced by a fast paced game that demanded that players work more as a team.
Fairy tales
The two sides mentioned above are memorable for the way they changed the sport. Foggia in the early 1990s were being managed by Czech coach Zdenek Zeman, he took the Puglian side from the Italian lower leagues into Serie A on a tiny budget and discovered some stars of the game.
Foggia brought through such names as Beppe Signori, Ciccio Baiano, Gigi Di Biagio and Dan Petrescu. The side finished 9th in the league in 1991-92, a miracle, and their best players were sold to the circling vultures in Italy and abroad.
Instead of spending the money bringing in other experienced Serie A performers Zeman chose to scout relative unknowns from Serie B and C. He was able to instil his philosophy into these players, his tactics remained unchanged – as they do to this day – and he got them to play with a high tempo and squeezed every bit of work rate out of his players while he chain smoked on the sidelines. This was a contemporary fairy tale that lacked a happy ending.
Foggia was eventually relegated but the excitement Zeman created has not been forgotten, owing to the frenzy when he returned to coach the Southern Italian side in July.
Reasons to remember
We are constantly reminded by the world of finance that past performance isn't an indicator of future outcomes. Though it seems unthinkable to imagine a future where only the winners are remembered.
When we look back at sides from yesteryear, we have to rely heavily on secondary sources. For those who didn't live through those times we are left at the mercy of hearsay and witness accounts from those that were there. We have to scrape around for newspaper reports or perhaps have a few poor quality newsreels to consult from decades gone by.
Today there is so much more material available if anyone wanted to revisit an entire game or see a few highlights. Certain kind folk are now even uploading pre and post match press conferences to YouTube so that we don't have to take the papers take as gospel. Games are now written about from all angles and archived by the interweb.
As well as video there is also an endless stream of statistics now available. Chalkboards and average position charts for the majority of games in the top European leagues already exist and more will no doubt be added.
The archives will grow and grow and the list of non-winners above will remain in them – as well as Mid-90s Newcastle, Roma in the mid 00s under Spalletti, Ghana in 2010 and 1982 Brazil, the best loser of the lot. Even the current Arsenal era, if Wenger were to leave without winning anything, will be incorporated into the ill-famed roll of honour. They will be a side remembered for their youthful and thrifty approach in a time of gluttonous spending.
From this point, and indeed earlier, onwards football's history is not just a list of classified results. Indeed it can be looked back on and re-imagined, the Zeitgeist will be captured through multimedia. Our losers will not be forgotten.
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were held September 13–15, 2010, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, at the Energy & Environmental Research Center. The event attracted over 100 attendees
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Hillary Clinton condemns 'horrific' lewd comments by rival Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton has described a video of US presidential rival Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005 as horrific.
Republican Mr Trump issued an apology after the video emerged of him making the sexually-charged comments, calling it "locker room banter".
But Democratic candidate Mrs Clinton said on Twitter: "This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president.
Mrs Clinton has said that Mr Trump has shown a lack of respect for women, noting during the first presidential debate that he insulted a former Miss Universe. She has said it is a reason why he's unfit to be president.
Mr Trump said "I apologise if anyone was offended" after the Washington Post revealed the video of him caught on a hot microphone while talking with Billy Bush of Access Hollywood.
He is heard saying he "did try and f*** her", referring to an unknown woman. He also used graphic terms to describe the woman's body and said he frequently tried to kiss beautiful women.
He boasted that "when you're a star they let you do it", adding: "You can do anything."
Mr Trump has a long history of making crude comments about women.
Meanwhile Mr Trump has claimed that border officials have been told to allow immigrants into the US illegally so they can vote in the presidential election.
He offered no evidence to support his latest claim that presidential voting may be tainted by fraud, but claimed: "That's a massive story. They are letting people pour into the country so they can go ahead and vote."
He was speaking after a meeting with Art Del Cueto, a vice president for the National Border Patrol Council, who told him officials are being directed to ignore criminal histories of immigrants and speed up citizenship applications.
Union spokesman Shawn Moran, who was with Mr Del Cueto for the meeting in New York, said later in a telephone interview that several issues were conflated during the round-table discussion.
Border Patrol agents have seen an increase in attempts to cross the border from Mexico illegally, Mr Moran said, but he did not say any border agents had been ordered to let those immigrants in so they could vote in November.
The two issues are sometimes linked in a misleading fashion, and the brief exchange between Mr Del Cueto and Mr Trump underscored that.
Neither man offered evidence to back up the idea immigration officials are taking action to allow people who have recently crossed the border to cast ballots on election day. Newly admitted immigrants are not permitted to vote, a right that is reserved for citizens.
The process of achieving citizenship takes years. Applications are handled by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, not the Border Patrol.
There is no evidence that USCIS officials have been directed to quickly approve citizenship applications, although some lawmakers have asked the agency to address such reports.
Mr Trump has repeatedly said he fears the election will be rigged and has made a hardline stance on immigration a centrepiece of his campaign.
His latest provocative claim comes as he and Mrs Clinton prepare for their second debate, a town-hall style confrontation on Sunday night. It is a critical moment for Mr Trump who, after a rough performance in last week's debate, is tasked with showing he can stick to his campaign message and steer clear of comments likely to alienate moderate voters.
Both candidates have been treading lightly on the campaign trail in recent days, as Hurricane Matthew barrelled down on swing state Florida.
Later Mr Trump said it was "outrageous" that the original suspects in one of New York's most notorious crimes were exonerated - even though someone else confessed to the attack.
Five black teenagers were charged in 1989 with brutally beating and raping a young woman jogging through Central Park. The suspects were known as 'The Central Park Five'.
They were convicted in a racially charged case based on confessions they said were coerced.
But in 2002, another man confessed and DNA evidence matched him to the crime scene. The original suspects were released and paid 41 million dollars (£32.9m) by New York State
Mr Trump told CNN that he condemned the settlement, declaring "they admitted they were guilty".
After the attack, Mr Trump took out a full-page ad with the headline: "Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police!"
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OK All new front oil seals replaced 2 of which crumbled when being removed. New harmonic balancer new water pump, new timing belt new mid timing cover was cracked on bolt holes from over tightening. I am almost done re assembling the engine. My question is: As long as all 3 timing marks are set to 0 degrees with dual overhead cams can engine be 180 degrees out? Do I need to pull cam covers and plug #1 to verify top dead center? I am not certain about bottom crank it may have been rotated without movement of the cams while the timing belt was off. I have included pics of the timing marks they show that they are a hair off but they all are at 0 when rotated.
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119 Upper Street
Tel: 020 7424 5153
Date of Last Visit: Sunday, June 15
The Victim: Me
The Damage: £9
The Background: If you haven't noticed, I have no problems dining alone. So it was that I found myself wandering up Upper Street the other Sunday and stopping in front of Isarn just as my stomach was starting to talk. I've been intrigued by Isarn for quite some time, but for some reason or another, I've never stopped in. Isarn is owned by Alan Yau's sister, Alan of Hakkasan and Yauatcha, his sister of I don't know where.
The Entrance: I kinda dig Isarn's decor. I alternatively hate and love the chairs, which are covered with some sort of mottled cow. The service is prompt enough and sweet enough.
The Food:They've got a lunch special, so I stick with that–a green chicken curry with some sort of fish cakes and a slice of fruit. The fish cakes are rubbery and awful, frankly. The green curry is nice, but there's just not enough of it. (Although for the price–£5.90–perhaps there was just enough of it.) The slice of watermelon is a nice touch.
What I liked most was my lychee tea, not a bargain at £2.50 but very prettily presented, unique and interesting.
The Verdict: I prefer the food at the Thai place up the street. But I do like the feel of Isarn.