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TheButcher wrote:COLLIDER MARCH 21, 2017:
A Major 'Terminator' Franchise Announcement Is Coming in 2017, Says Skydance's David Ellison
Ellison spoke briefly about the "bright future" of the 'Terminator' franchise.
Eriq Gardner wrote:In James Cameron's sci fi classic, The Terminator, a cyborg is sent back in time to assassinate. Something similar is playing out in Hollywood at the moment thanks to a mid-1970s change to copyright law that allows authors or their heirs to terminate a copyright grant. And like the film, there's resistance.
When Congress decided to extend the copyright term in 1976, it chose to recognize those who had created works at the early stage of their careers but handed their rights over without much bargaining power. By allowing authors to serve notices of termination to publishers or studios, those authors were allowed to enjoy the benefits of the latter stages of a copyright term. Authors just had to wait at least 35 years for another bite at the apple. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "I'll be back."
The time is now for many authors, and what first created hassles in the music industry has slowly crept into the purview of filmmaking just as major studios are in the midst of reboot mania. Even The Terminator itself appears be the subject of a termination battle judging by an only partly-informed Deadline story reporting a "copyright reversion" 35 years after the release of the 1984 film. Sources close to Cameron refuse to discuss what's happening, citing ongoing negotiations.
Studios will, of course, fight back.
Mike Fleming Jr wrote:EXCLUSIVE: He'll be back! James Cameron, who regains certain rights to his prized creation The Terminator in 2019, is godfathering a new iteration of the film that might finally get it right in drawing a close in the battle between humans and Skynet. Sources said that Cameron, whose copyright reversion happens 35 years after the release of the 1984 classic, is in early talks with Deadpool director and VFX wiz Tim Miller to direct a reboot and conclusion of one of cinema's great science fiction tales.
David Ellison, whose Skydance co-financed Terminator Genisys, is bankrolling an exploratory effort that includes engaging some top-flight science fiction authors to find the movie creatively. Ellison still holds many Terminator rights, after his 2013 acquisition from sister and Annapurna principal Megan Ellison. She bought them in 2011 at Cannes for $20 million.
This is the latest development in an ongoing saga. Indeed, The Terminator might have endured the craziest road of any billion-dollar movie franchise, going back to when Cameron — who only had Piranha 2 under his belt as director — sold rights to his scripted project for $1 to producer Gale Anne Hurd, with the stipulation he could not be fired as director. The result was a 1984 sci-fi classic that launched his star and that of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cameron came back and topped himself to write and direct he blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but he washed his hands of the property after that. He mentioned to producers Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna his plans to buy the rights back from Carolco bankruptcy. They beat him to the punch, figuring he would still participate, but Cameron responded by walking away. He didn't participate in the three films that followed, or the TV show The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The rights ended up with Pacificor, which paid $29.5 million, and Megan Ellison bought them after that company floundered.
Peven wrote:is there any way to salvage this franchise aside from putting it on the shelf for a couple decades before rebooting it? they really made a mess of it with the last two movies, screwing canon all to hell and watering down the identity of what made the first movie so visceral and engaging. just like Pitch Black, sometimes the best science fiction movies are the ones that are "small" and intimate, they draw the viewer in more because it is about the people in the story, not the technology, the tech stuff is just the back-drop.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Enough with these repetitive films already. It's like some gentleman painting over a Picasso with his own puke trying to replicate the original.
It's DONE. Move on. You movie makers are aware of a thing called a brain and it's creative capability of coming up with something new but just as good as the first Terminator films?
Peven wrote:is there any way to salvage this franchise aside from putting it on the shelf for a couple decades before rebooting it? they really made a mess of it with the last two movies, screwing canon all to hell and watering down the identity of what made the first movie so visceral and engaging. just like Pitch Black, sometimes the best science fiction movies are the ones that are "small" and intimate, they draw the viewer in more because it is about the people in the story, not the technology, the tech stuff is just the back-drop.
Via Screen Daily:
Speaking to Screen in Cannes, [...] Schwarzenegger confirmed that he will star in a new Terminator film produced by James Cameron.
"It is back," commented Schwarzenegger, who revealed that he had met Cameron recently and discussed the project. "It is moving forward. He [Cameron] has some good ideas of how to continue with the franchise," the actor added, "I will be in the movie."
"The question is — has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up? So I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise and the rights in the US market revert to me under US copyright law in a year and a half, so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it."
Borys Kit wrote:With James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, it's a reunion more than 25 years in the making.
After waving hasta la vista, baby, more than 25 years ago, Linda Hamilton is returning to the world of Terminator, reuniting with James Cameron, the creator of the sci-fi franchise, for the new installment being made by Skydance and Paramount.
Cameron made the announcement at a private event celebrating the storied franchise, saying, "As meaningful as she was to gender and action stars everywhere back then, it's going to make a huge statement to have that seasoned warrior that she's become return."
With Hamilton's return, Cameron hopes to once again make a statement on gender roles in action movies.
"There are 50-year-old, 60-year-old guys out there killing bad guys," he said, referring to aging male actors still anchoring movies, "but there isn't an example of that for women."
Tim Miller, the filmmaker who made his breakout feature debut with Deadpool, is directing the sequel, which is returning to its roots by having the involvement of Cameron for the first time since 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Cameron is producing along with Skydance. And the new film, which will be distributed by Paramount with Fox handling it internationally, is based on a story crafted by Cameron. Cameron and Miller created a writers room to hammer out what is planned to be a trilogy that can stand as single movies or form an overarching story. David Goyer, whose credits include the Blade and Christopher Nolan's Batman movies, Charles Eglee, who created Dark Angel with Cameron, and Josh Friedman, who created the Terminator TV spinoff, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, were part of that room.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has starred as both a bad guy and good guy portraying the cool killer robot sent from the future, is already set to return and with Cameron and now Hamilton on board, the new Terminator film will once again have its original creative team.
Hamilton starred in the first film, The Terminator, released in 1984 as a low-budget genre play, playing one of the silver screen's strongest female heroines, Sarah Connor. Conner was a waitress who is being hunted down by an unstoppable killing machine, played by Schwarzenegger, sent from the future. Connor learned that in the future, machines have taken over and that she is the mother of the human resistance leader.
The actress returned to the character in Cameron's 1991 sequel, which was a summer blockbuster that pushed the visual effects envelope and set box office records for that time. This time Connor, buffed and in prime fighting form, was a hard-edged, take-no-prisoners warrior who fought like a bear to protect her son.
Both Hamilton and Cameron, who were married to each other in the later 1990s, sat out the installments that followed in 2003, 2009, and 2015.
Story details are, of course, being kept on a secure hard drive at Cyberdyne Systems, but Cameron and Miller are treating the new movie as a direct sequel to Cameron's Judgment Day. And the themes of the potential evils of technology will once again be at the fore.
But the new movie will also be seen as a passing of the baton to a new generation of characters.
"We're starting a search for an 18-something woman to be the new centerpiece of the new story," Cameron said. "We still fold time. We will have characters from the future and the present. There will be mostly new characters but we'll have Arnold and Linda's characters to anchor it."
Graeme McMillan wrote:History and two earlier failed reboots are against Arnold Schwarzenegger's robot making a successful return.
The most fondly remembered line from the original Terminator — a movie that, let's be honest, few people think of as having particularly memorable dialogue, a couple of future catchphrases aside — is "I'll be back." Even reading it now, chances are it provokes a smile because you're thinking of the flat delivery, and the fact that it's a setup to an especially fun, destructive punchline.
Nevertheless, it's a phrase that has come to personify the Terminator franchise. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unstoppable robot — or a variation that just so happens to look like a younger, cheaper actor — has been back on a number of occasions, to increasingly diminishing returns, since that first 1984 movie. Sure, 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day was the highpoint of the series — both critically and in terms of box office — but since then, things have been on a downward spiral. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) appeared to bring the series to a close, but it didn't stick; the franchise has been rebooted no less than twice in the past 14 years with little success, and now apparently has its third reboot en route. Can this fourth go-round work where the others have failed?
It's true that the newest attempt to revive the franchise has forces going for it that the others haven't; the newly revealed involvement of Linda Hamilton, in addition to James Cameron — who is acting as, essentially, a showrunner for a projected new trilogy of features, working with a writers room and producing the series — offers both a heavy dose of happy nostalgia to long-term fans as well as the potential for a return to the indefinable qualities that made the earlier movies "work" in a way the latter installments apparently didn't.
Despite whatever goodwill might come with the involvement of the series principals of old, any new series of Terminator movies will have to contend with the simple fact that, according to the series' own mythology, The Terminator is a story that has essentially ended by now. Judgment Day — the tipping point where machines achieved sentience and took over the world — happened in 1997, according to 1991's T2, with that date postponed until 2004 in 2003's T3.
Telling a story about preventing an apocalypse is one thing when it's a future event; even taking into account the high concept of changing the past that the series is hooked around, the story dynamics are different when your audience has to consider the fateful moment as something more than a decade earlier.
And speaking of having to undo past events: T3 stated that Sarah Connor was already dead, leaving it an open question just who Hamilton will be playing in the new movie; of course, time is malleable in this series, so anything and everything is up for grabs. And that, in many ways, is the problem.
If Cameron and crew choose to follow the route of The Force Awakens — and with the movie reportedly focusing on a new cast with Hamilton and Schwarzenegger as anchors, that seems to be the case — then it should be borne in mind that the Star Wars reboot made a point of paying respect to everything that came before, an approach that was applauded by fandom at large. Terminator will have problems doing that, though; even beyond the "Sarah should be dead" aspect, it's a series that's actually predicated on the idea of rewriting the past and actively disrespecting continuity.
(With two separate reboots to deal with, there's also the question of, which continuity would the new movie respect, anyway?)
With this kind of baggage to contend with, any new Terminator project feels as doomed to failure as standing up against robotic overlords in a machine-led dystopia. But even if the new trilogy fails, history has taught us one thing: Someone else will ensure that the franchise will return, sooner or later. No matter what, the Terminator will always, always be back.
Gavin wrote:Speaking recently at 'An Experience with Arnold Schwarzenegger' in Birmingham, UK the action movie legend revealed a wealth of information about the forthcoming movie which will see creator James Cameron return as the screenwriter, creative consultant, and executive producer to the next Terminator movie, which is to be directed by Deadpool director Tim Miller.
While revealing that his former co-star Linda Hamilton is currently in training for her return to the iconic role of Sarah Connor, Arnold Schwarzenegger also revealed that the movie, which was believed to be reboot of the troubled franchise will instead be a direct sequel to the last movie of which Cameron was directly involved with; 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold reiterated the movie's place in the chronology saying that it would not be called Terminator 6 and would ignore that Terminator: Genisys ever happened. Arnold also mentioned that Robert Patrick, who has expressed interest in returning to the franchise, will not be returning. Finally, Arnold stated that the movie will begin filming in March and that creator Cameron is expected to complete the movie's script in as soon as a fortnight's time.
Hamiltons return would suggest that in addition to Genisys this new movie will also be ignoring Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation, as in the former Hamilton's character had been killed off, and in the latter, Jurassic World's Bryce Dallas Howard starred as the grown-up Kate Brewster, played by Claire Danes (Homeland) in Terminator 3. This bold move will doubtlessly be praised by the majority of fans and general audiences but as I have stated repeatedly Terminator 3, while being a poorly executed movie did maintain the timeline of events, thus fixing the discrepancies in the timeline created by the first two movies.
Hamilton's return also suggests that her scenes will be set during the Future War of which fans have been eager to see realized on the big screen beyond a brief five-minute montage. And while we are starting to get an idea of who will and won't be returning we have yet to see who Cameron and Miller will cast in the movies most important role of John Connor, as it is unlikely that Edward Furlong will reprise his role.
With development well underway on the new Terminator movie, we are hopeful that Cameron has paid attention to the timelines of his movies and realized that his next movie will have to answer two questions...
The first being the true date of Judgment Day which I have already answered in a previous article, which is between 2000 and 2005. The second question, however, is more intriguing - In the original timeline, Sarah Connor would not have given birth to 'the' John Connor that Skynet viewed as a threat, as that John Connor had foreknowledge of the Terminators and had Kyle Reese as his father. So in the original timeline why did Skynet view Sarah Connor as a target?
TheButcher wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Film Triplets After Terminator 6
caruso_stalker217 wrote:TheButcher wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Film Triplets After Terminator 6
I've always thought this idea sounded like a gag from LAST ACTION HERO or something. An idea so fucking terrible that I must see it realized on screen. Except instead of DeVito playing his character from TWINS he should just play Frank from It's Always Sunny In etc.
Matthew Belloni & Borys Kit wrote:Cameron and Deadpool director Tim Miller sit down with THR to talk for the first time about how they will reboot a storied but troubled franchise for the new era of Amazon drones and AI anxiety: "People ask me, 'Will the machines ever win against humanity?' I say, 'Look at people on their phones. The machines have already won.'"
By all objective measures, The Terminator represents the most feared cautionary tale of modern Hollywood: a broken franchise. Thirty-three years after Arnold Schwarzenegger became an international star playing a killer robot sent from the future to kill the mother of the leader of a postapocalyptic rebellion, there have been four sequels (and one TV series), and the three films without the involvement of creator James Cameron have turned off fans and led the property to bounce from studio to studio and reboot to reboot. Terminator: Genisys, a 2015 installment made by financier David Ellison's Skydance Media (Ellison bought rights from his sister, Megan Ellison, who acquired them in a 2011 auction for $20 million), seemingly, uh, terminated the prospect of future films.
But this is Hollywood 2017, and no major franchise is truly dead. Ellison, along with distributor Paramount (Fox has international rights), has persuaded Cameron, who on Sept. 25 began filming four Avatar sequels, to shepherd a new Terminator for the era of Amazon drones, Facebook news bots and artificial intelligence-fueled anxiety. Calling it "a return to form that I believe fans of the franchise have been wanting since Terminator 2: Judgment Day," Ellison, 34, has for the past year worked secretly with Cameron and Deadpool's Tim Miller, who will direct the untitled sequel for a July 26, 2019, release. They assembled a writers room with scribes David Goyer, Charles Eglee, Josh Friedman and Justin Rhodes as well as Ellison, a lifelong Terminator fan (Cameron himself shows up once a week), and have crafted what they want to be a trilogy with Schwarzenegger, 70, and original star Linda Hamilton, 62, passing the torch to a young female lead.
The team hopes it's launching the equivalent of the new Star Wars trilogy — but with the most successful filmmaker of all time pulling the strings. To unveil their plans and explain why the Terminator franchise is still relevant amid 21st century fears, Cameron, 63, and Miller, 47, joined The Hollywood Reporter's editorial director Matthew Belloni for a discussion Sept. 19 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. An edited transcript follows, and a separate Q&A with Cameron on Avatar, Trump and his recent Wonder Woman critiques is here.
Jim, why do you want to do this? You can do anything. These are movies you made a long time ago.
TIM MILLER I've got some pictures on him that he doesn't want published. (Laughs.)
JAMES CAMERON There's a pride of authorship in anything that you do, and when David and I started talking about this, it made sense for me to see if there was a way to bring it into this century and to relevance. I look at what's happening now with the emergence of artificial general intelligence equal to or greater than humans', and you've got Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and others saying that this could be really bad for the survival of the human race. What was science fiction in the '80s is now imminent. It's coming over the horizon at us. And there's been a resurgence of fear and concern about nuclear weapons and so on. So all of these apocalyptic elements are out there. The first two Terminator films that I did dealt with the angst around that and how we reconcile it for ourselves in a fantasy context. So I got excited about the idea of finding a story that made sense for now.
So what does a James Cameron-produced Terminator movie look like in 2017?
CAMERON This is a continuation of the story from Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. And we're pretending the other films were a bad dream. Or an alternate timeline, which is permissible in our multi-verse. This was really driven more by [Tim] than anybody, surprisingly, because I came in pretty agnostic about where we took it. The only thing I insisted on was that we somehow revamp it and reinvent it for the 21st century.
MILLER The [first] films are more relevant today than they were when he made them. A lot of it seems like prognostication because it's coming to be — the world we live in right now.
The conflict between technology and humanity is a theme in a lot of Jim's movies. Does technology scare you?
CAMERON Technology has always scared me, and it's always seduced me. People ask me: "Will the machines ever win against humanity?" I say: "Look around in any airport or restaurant and see how many people are on their phones. The machines have already won." It's just [that] they've won in a different way. We are co-evolving with our technology. We're merging. The technology is becoming a mirror to us as we start to build humanoid robots and as we start to seriously build AGI — general intelligence — that's our equal. Some of the top scientists in artificial intelligence say that's 10 to 30 years from now. We need to get the damn movies done before that actually happens! And when you talk to these guys, they remind me a lot of that excited optimism that nuclear scientists had in the '30s and '40s when they were thinking about how they could power the world. And taking zero responsibility for the idea that it would instantly be weaponized. The first manifestation of nuclear power on our planet was the destruction of two cities and hundreds of thousands of people. So the idea that it can't happen now is not the case. It can happen, and it may even happen.
MILLER Jim is a more positive guy [than I am] in the present and more cynical about the future. I know Hawking and Musk think we can put some roadblocks in there. I'm not so sure we can. I can't imagine what a truly artificial intelligence will make of us. Jim's brought some experts in to talk to us, and it's really interesting to hear their perspective. Generally, they're scared as shit, which makes me scared.
CAMERON One of the scientists we just met with recently, she said: "I used to be really, really optimistic, but now I'm just scared." Her position on it is probably that we can't control this. It has more to do with human nature. Putin recently said that the nation that perfects AI will dominate or conquer the world. So that pretty much sets the stage for "We wouldn't have done it, but now those guys are doing it, so now we have to do it and beat them to the punch." So now everybody's got the justification to essentially weaponize AI. I think you can draw your own conclusions from that.
MILLER When it happens, I don't think AI's agenda will be to kill us. That seems like a goal that's beneath whatever enlightened being that they're going to become because they can evolve in a day what we've done in millions of years. And I don't think that they have the built-in deficits that we have, because we're still dealing with the same kind of urges that made us climb down from the trees and kill everybody else. I choose to believe that they'll be better than us.
CAMERON At the very least, they will reflect our best and worst nature because we make them and we program them. But it's going to take a lot of money. So who's got the money to do it and the will to do it? It could be business, so the Googles and the other big tech companies. And if you're doing it for business, you're doing it to improve your market share or whatever your business goals are. So you're essentially taking a machine smarter than a human and teaching it greed. Or it's for defense, in which case you're taking a machine smarter than a human and teaching it to kill. Neither one of those has a good outcome in my mind.
Will there be a day, as in Terminator, where people will look back and say, "This is the day that machines became aware"?
CAMERON It probably won't be that dramatic and will probably happen off-camera to us, and we'll suddenly be living in a world where that has happened.
MILLER I'm a little more worried about programs gone wrong. For instance, if you invented a program where the goal was to search out and destroy cancer — if you're not careful, humans are a source of cancer, so [programs could] wipe humanity out. That's not an AI gone wrong. That's a program gone wrong.
Jim, has your opinion on this subject changed since you had the original idea for the Terminator story 35 years ago?
CAMERON I'll be honest. At the time, I was just trying to get a plot mechanism where somebody could be an enemy from the future so that I could shoot in the streets of L.A.
Arnold and Linda Hamilton are coming back. What was your conversation like with them?
CAMERON Well, Arnold just expected to come back. So that was easy. I approached Linda to see if she'd even be interested. And …
MILLER Jim was fucking terrified.
CAMERON I was. It took me a week just to get up the nerve. No, that's not true. Linda and I have a great relationship. We've stayed friends through the thick and thin of it all. And she is the mother of my eldest daughter. [They were married from 1997 to 1999.] So I called her up, and I said: "Look, we could rest on our laurels. It's ours to lose, in a sense. We created this thing several decades ago. But, here's what can be really cool. You can come back and show everybody how it's done." Because in my mind, it hasn't been done a whole lot since the way she did it back in '91.
MILLER As strong a character as she was, as meaningful as she was to gender and to action stars everywhere, I think it's going to make a huge fucking statement to have her be the really seasoned warrior that she's become.
CAMERON There are certainly plenty of 50-, 60-, 70-something guys out there that just keep cranking along doing action movies and killing bad guys left and right. But there isn't an example of that for women, and I think there should be.
MILLER Which is why we're bringing Liam Neeson in as the bad guy. And she is going to kick his ass. (Laughs.)
CAMERON She fucks him up.
He retired recently. He said he's done with action movies.
MILLER Did he? That's 'cause he was afraid Sarah Connor was going to kick his ass.
Tim, you had a lot of heat coming off of Deadpool, and instead of doing something that is not based on pre-existing material, you decided to do this. Why this?
MILLER: To some degree, all the stories that I love are based on pre-existing materials as either a book I love or a movie I love. And I don't make a whole lot of distinction between those two things. Story is story. I mean, I wanted to make Deadpool 2. I was going to do that, until I wasn't. So, there was that, which took up about seven months of my time. But even then, David and I were talking, like afterDeadpool 2, it was going to be this [Terminator].
So, we can thank Ryan Reynolds for you doing this?
CAMERON: Thank you, Ryan.
MILLER: Yeah, if you want. I felt like there was more stories to tell there, but I'm happy that somebody else is telling them. And I've got to tell you, there was a sense of relief in that I get to do something new versus Deadpool 2. I think it would've been a great movie, but it was also going to be a continuation of what we had done. This really is gave me a chance to do something new.
Are you planning to introduce new stars for future movies, like the Star Wars model?
CAMERON Absolutely, yeah. A lot of this is handing off the baton to a new generation of characters. We're starting a search for an 18-something young woman to essentially be the new centerpiece of these stories. And then a number of other characters around her and characters from the future. We still fold time in the story in intriguing ways. But we have Arnold's character and Linda's character to anchor it. Somewhere across there, and I won't say where, the baton gets passed, so to speak.
This summer was not a good one for the box office. Why do you think people aren't going to theaters? What's the solution?
CAMERON Look, I don't know what the answer is for the industry at large. I don't think the industry at large is hurting that much. A lot of the good writing is now in television, and I think that feature films could benefit from better writing and better character work in general and a little less spectacle. Not that I don't like spectacle, but I like it at the right moment. You just have to make good movies. Pretty simple.
MILLER There weren't a whole lot of movies that I wanted to go see this year. The Big Sick was, I think, one of the best movies I saw this summer, and it's not my kind of movie even.
Tim, you've made one movie. Do you feel intimidated working with Jim?
MILLER Every minute of the day. But I also feel honored. If Jim didn't think I could do it, I wouldn't be there. And that gives me confidence. He could fire me later and decide: "Why did I believe in this guy? He's a tool."
They do that these days. If it was a Star Wars movie, it could happen.
CAMERON Yeah, no kidding.
MILLER Touche, touche.
CAMERON Don't let that revolving door hit you on the back of the head.
MILLER And you know what? It's a similar situation there. Somebody does a good film, then they think: "Well, he must be a great director." So, it could totally be true in my case. But I don't think that's the case.
Now an uncomfortable question. Arnold is going to be 71 years old when this shoots. How do you get around that fact?
CAMERON: You don't have to get around it. The beauty of it is: He's a cyborg. And so, the org part is on the outside, meaning organism. And Reese says it in the first film: "They sweat. They have bad breath." Because they were supposed to be infiltration units, so there's this idea that flesh sort of sheaths over a metal endo-skeleton. So that would age normally. So, obviously he's one that's been in action and operation for a long time. And that's all I want to say about the actual story part of it.
MILLER: I haven't talked to Arnold about this so I could get in trouble. But because he's been in all the other movies — unlike Linda — I do think there needs to be a reason to be different here. I like my sci-fi grounded. I like my characters grounded. And what Jim said about the exterior aging while the interior remains the same — well, not the interior, as in the brain, as emotionally and intellectually he will have evolved. They're learning machines. But that's a way to make it different than it was. Even in Genisys, he looked — I should stop — he was a slightly gussied-up version of the old Terminator. I think we should embrace his age. And that's what's going to make it interesting and fresh for the fans.
Jim, you're handing over the keys to your baby to someone who doesn't have much experience.
CAMERON Look, we're both taking a risk. That's the nature of the director-producer relationship. But I feel really confident. We're already about seven or eight months into the creative process, and we haven't killed each other yet. There's been some fur flying, but it's always been for the right reason. I feel Tim's commitment. I feel David's commitment. They feel my commitment. That's it. We're brothers-in-arms at this point.
Fievel wrote:I'm always hopeful for a decent Terminator film.
Fievel wrote:I'm always hopeful for a decent Terminator film. I think it's a cool image and Hamilton looks badass.
Clinton wishes she looked a fraction of Hamilton's badassedness.
Wolfpack wrote:I still can't believe Linda Hamilton isn't Steven Tyler.
Ribbons wrote:I'm a little bit biased because I've long said that the Terminator franchise needs to end
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 22-year-old passenger in a crash on Interstate 295 early Monday morning has died.
Ronnie Powell had been critically injured in the single-vehicle crash, which happened on his birthday. He died Thursday after being taken off life support.
Powell was one of four people in a Nissan Pathfinder that overturned on I-295 at San Jose Boulevard about 4:30 a.m.
Powell's mother, Kelly McCracken Bauer, is reaching out to tell her son's story and how his life is helping others through organ donation.
"Christmastime is the time of giving, and I think my son gave the ultimate gift of life, and I want other people to realize how important that is," Bauer said. "To think that your son laying there, his heart still beating, you can hear his heart beating, and for them to tell you that you have to turn that plug off."
Bauer said Powell was her firstborn, and telling him goodbye Thursday seemed unreal.
"It was the toughest decision of my life as a mother, having brought him into the world, to really have to take him out, but in my mind, he passed away on that road," Bauer said.
She said her son lives on, not just through the 2-year-old son he leaves behind, but through being an organ donor.
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"Please become an organ donor, because part of my son lives on, and that means so much to me," Bauer said.
She said because Powell was 22 and healthy, nearly all of his organs are able to be donated, saving and helping so many.
"I've been in a state of shock and devastation, but the fact that he was able to keep other people alive and his generosity, that's the kind of person he was," Bauer said.
Powell briefly went to Sandalwood High School but graduated from a high school in Hawaii. He played soccer, baseball and football, and graduated with honors, then joined the Army after graduation.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver of the SUV, 22-year-old Jacob Thomas Lin-Justiniano, lost control of the SUV, which struck a guardrail and overturned. Troopers said the crash was alcohol related.
Lin-Justiniano, Powell's best friend, was also critically injured. Passengers Fiona Ann Castor, 21, and Qiante Jackson, 23, were both hospitalized with serious injuries and have since been released.
Troopers said none of the occupants were wearing seat belts.
Two of the three southbound lanes of Interstate 295 near San Jose Boulevard were blocked for nearly four hours after an ice cream truck avoiding the crash overturned (View images).

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The 26.2-mile race that would have wound its way through each borough in the city on Sunday has been canceled, Mayor Bloomberg said, because it has become "the source of controversy and division." NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
NEW YORK – The New York Marathon will not be held Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday, backtracking just a few hours after he defended the decision to hold it despite heavy criticism as the city struggles back from Superstorm Sandy.
"While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division," he said in a statement Friday evening shortly after NBC 4 New York and a few other media outlets reported the cancellation.
"We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it," Bloomberg added. "We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event -- even one as meaningful as this -- to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track."
Related: NBCNewYork.com coverage of Marathon's cancellation
A few hours earlier, Bloomberg told a press conference that holding the marathon would be a morale and money boost for the city.
"If you think back to 9/11, I think Rudy [Giuliani] made the right decision to run the marathon," Bloomberg said of his predecessor after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "It pulled people together and we have to find some ways to express ourselves and show solidarity to each other."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defends his decision to keep the New York Marathon on schedule in the wake of Sandy, recalling how the marathon "pulled people together after 911."
The New York City marathon is the world largest, with tens of thousands of participants. In a typical year, New Yorkers line the route's 26 miles, turning the city into a giant party.
The race winds through all five boroughs, but it starts in hard-hit Staten Island, parts of which look like a disaster zone.
New York City Councilman James Oddo, who represents sections of Staten Island and Brooklyn, had been leading the charge against the marathon.
"If they take one first responder from Staten Island to cover this marathon, I will scream. We have people with no homes and no hope right now," he posted on Twitter earlier in the week.
At least 19 of New York's 41 deaths occurred in the oft-forgotten borough, home to 500,000. Officials are still searching homes for survivors.
Jonathan Sanger / NBC News
Runners and workers prepare for the New York City Marathon near Central Park in New York, N.Y. where generators were set up on Friday, November 2, 2012 to power a media tent.
The death toll in the U.S. from Superstorm Sandy neared 100 victims on Friday, as New York City reported one more death and Bloomberg warned: "There could be more fatalities."
"The prudent course of action here — postpone the marathon, come back a different day," Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer told TODAY's Savannah Guthrie. "Our first priority, let's help people who lost their homes, who are missing loved ones."
Stringer said downtown Manhattan, the city's financial hub, "looks like a wasteland" and is not close to being ready for the race, which goes through each of New York's five boroughs.
Bloomberg had vowed the marathon would not divert any resources from victims, and expected power to be restored to downtown Manhattan by race day.
In defending his decision to go forward, the mayor cited the thousands of out-of-town visitors who come for the marathon.
Richard Drew / AP
Workers assemble the finish line for the New York City Marathon in New York's Central Park, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The crane atop a high rise that collapsed during Superstorm Sandy is visible at background left.
Those visitors need hotel rooms, but many of them already are occupied by New Yorkers displaced from their homes. Richard Nicotra, who owns the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island, has refused to throw out evacuees to honor reservations for marathon runners, according to NY1.
With power scarce, the three generators set up Friday to provide electricity to the marathon's media tent in Central Park along the Upper West Side drew some attention.
The two active generators crank out 800 kilowatts of electricity, which would be enough to power 400 homes, the New York Post reported. The third unit, a backup, sits idle, in case one of others fails, the paper said.
Paul McCarthy, 43, who lives nearby, was walking his dog down Central Park West on Friday as marathon workers and runners whizzed by him.
"I woke up this morning and a lot of people on my Facebook page were saying they should shut it down, but my neighbor just reminded me that a third of the runners come from overseas. So logistically, they wouldn't be able to reschedule it, I don't think," he said. "Maybe it would be a good thing for the city just to get something positive going."
Vote: Do you think the New York City Marathon should be cancelled?
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer tells TODAY's Savannah Guthrie he believes Mayor Bloomberg should postpone the New York City marathon as congressman Michael Grimm from Staten Island says he's "angry" over plans to continue with the race
His overall assessment of holding the marathon on Sunday: "Slightly net positive."
Alberto Eguiguren, 48, a runner from Chile, arrived Thursday night with his two brothers, also marathon runners.
"It shows how the American people are always fighting to have a better country. Even though there was a disaster over the weekend, the people are ready -- not only for the local people but the international, too. We're here because we really like the States, we really like New York. We really feel it's one of the best places to run a marathon.... There are a lot of people with damages, but the stores are open, the streets are working. It's amazing."
But others are less approving of Bloomberg's decision.
A Facebook page called "Cancel the 2012 NYC Marathon" had more than 27,000 likes and growing on Friday morning. Claiming to be started by a New York City resident, the page says, "The last thing NYC needs at this time is an extra 100,000 people or so flooding our already devastated streets. Things are not back to normal. Our city is working hard enough to recover please do not complicate things with a race."
David Friedman / NBC News
Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
One commenter suggested Bloomberg should "postpone [the race] for a month or so and then use the race as a perfect platform to showcase how ALL 5 BOROUGHS have recovered. That shows resilience, and RESPECT for the citizens who have suffered, without foregoing the economic benefits of the race."
Another commenter asked, "Who would ever want to go to a war zone to run a marathon?"
The New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon, said the event will bring $340 million to the city. The club also announced on Thursday that it would donate at least $1 million, or $26.20 for each of the more than 40,000 runners expected to participate, to aid New Yorkers affected by Sandy.
The Rudin Family, one of the founding members of the marathon, said it would donate $1.1 million and the ING Foundation said it would give $500,000.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Nineteen bodies have been found in Staten Island following Hurricane Sandy and many fear the number will rise. A growing number of Staten Islanders are outraged by what they describe as the slow response from relief organizations. NBC News' Ann Curry reports.
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A Vintage Wedding in Glen Echo, MD
Carrie and Jon had been dating for a year when Jon decided to propose. He had originally planned to take advantage of a work trip to Venice and pop the question there, a couple of weeks before Christmas. But it was cold and Venice was experiencing their worst floods in 20 years. "Not a good situation for a romantic gondola ride," says Carrie. The Bride Carrie Hale, 32, a homemaker The Groom Jonathan (Jon) Carr, 32, an engineer The Date April 4 So instead, John asked Carrie to be his wife at the site of their second date—under the Community Bridge Mural in Frederick, Maryland. Shortly after, Jon was offered a job in Puerto Rico, so the couple only had three months to plan their vintage, amusement park-themed celebration.


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The latest from EWG's staff of experts >>
Utah Hunters Warned of Mercury in Duck
Friday, September 30, 2005
Just before hunting season opens in Utah, state officials are warning hunters not to eat two types of ducks that feed on Great Salt Lake marhes because tests on the animals show dangerous levels of mercury in their flesh. One of the seven species sampled had levels ranging from two to 39 times the EPA's safe level, which is the same for ducks as that used for fish.
The Salt Lake Tribune has more, and EWG's work on mercury in seafood is here.
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Before I'd ever been to Tokyo, I had the idea that it'd look like the most futuristic city, like something out of a Sci-fi movie, or Astroboy. My first impression was a huge letdown.
What I saw were drab, ugly apartment blocks that lacked any creative imagination whatsoever. And looking out from the train window it looked like it was repeated over and over as far as the eye could see.
One of the most interesting architectural ideas to come out of Japan was called Metabolism.
It has the idea of a building being a living thing that could grow and adapt like organisms. The most well-known example of this in Tokyo is the Nakagin Capsule Tower and Shizuoka Newspaper building in Shinbashi.
Today I went to see Metabolism : The City of the Future exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi.
It was really fascinating. There were examples of works that still exist today, as well as ideas that sadly never reached fruition. It's definitely the largest exhibition that I've seen since I've been here.
They showed lots of videos, as well as many scale models. What blew my mind was that these ideas were thought of in the 70's and yet, still today they would still be ahead of our time now.
If you go there I recommend to check out the Tokyo City View observation floor. As an additional charge to your ticket, you can see a great view of Tokyo. While there we had an overpriced "slime" nikuman, but it looked so cute, it had to be done. We just made sure to eat the face last. Unfortunately because of rain, the outdoor Sky Deck on the roof was closed.
The exhibition is on till the 15th of January so if you're in Tokyo, it's one not to miss. On Roppongi-dori there is one of the Nakagin capsules on display outside, so if you're passing through keep a look out for that.
Not many chances to see what the "future" looks like.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Back To The Future
Before I'd ever been to Tokyo, I had the idea that it'd look like the most futuristic city, like something out of a Sci-fi movie, or Astroboy. My first impression was a huge letdown.
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Potatoes and stuffing
- 3 large unpeeled russet potatoes (each about 16 ounces), scrubbed
- 1 cup (packed) coarsely grated Monterey Jack cheese (about 4 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 green onion, finely chopped
- 1 serrano chile, seeded, minced
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- Coarse kosher salt
Yogurt-spice paste
- 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
- 2 teaspoons chopped peeled fresh ginger
- 2 teaspoons sweet or hot paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 cup plain whole-milk Greek-style yogurt*
- 4 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup sesame seeds (about 2.6 ounces)
Recipe Preparation
Potatoes and stuffing:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 400°F. Place potatoes directly on oven rack and bake until tender when pierced with fork, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Transfer to platter and let stand until cool enough to handle. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
Cut potatoes horizontally in half. Using spoon, scoop out pulp, leaving 1/3-inch-thick shell. Transfer potato pulp to medium bowl and mash; mix in cheese, melted butter, cilantro, green onion, chile, and sesame seeds. Season potato mixture generously with salt and pepper; divide among potato shells. DO AHEAD Can be made 6 hours ahead. Cover and chill.
Yogurt-spice paste:
Combine first 6 ingredients in processor. Using on/off turns, blend until mixture is finely chopped. Add yogurt, oil, and lemon juice and process until smooth puree forms. Transfer to small bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Can be made 6 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
Remove top rack from grill. Place disposable aluminum baking pan in center of bottom rack (if using 2-burner gas grill, place pan on 1 side of burner). Add enough water to pan to reach depth of 1 inch.
Prepare barbecue (medium heat). If using charcoal grill, light briquettes in chimney and pour half onto rack on each side of disposable pan. If using 3-burner gas grill, light burners on left and right, leaving center burner off. If using 2-burner gas grill, light burner on side opposite disposable pan. Return top rack to grill. Place sheet of foil on grill rack above unlit burner; brush with vegetable oil.
Place sesame seeds on small plate. Place half of yogurt-spice paste in shallow bowl and reserve. Spread remaining yogurt-spice paste over top of potato filling in each potato half. Sprinkle with half of sesame seeds. Dip bottom of each potato half into reserved spice paste, then dip into remaining sesame seeds. Place potatoes atop foil on grill rack above disposable pan. Cover barbecue and grill until potatoes are heated through and bubbling in center, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer potatoes to platter and serve.


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|Place of Origin:
|Brand Name:
|Hansel walking toy animals
|Model Number:
|HS68 walking toy animals
|Minimum Order Quantity:
|3 pieces
|USD350 - USD380 per unit
|Packaging Details:
|carton:119*66*89cm /32KGS
|Delivery Time:
|10 work days
|Payment Terms:
|T/T, Western Union, MoneyGram
|Supply Ability:
|500 pieces per month
|Inside Metal , Outside Plush
|Various Animal Designs
|Adult And Kids
|Amusement Park, Shopping Mall, Game Center, Etc
Hansel coin operated animal rides electric indoor ride on walking toy animals
Welcome to Hansel website for plush riding animals (*_*)
Hansel company offer plush animal toys electric mountable for sales. These rides are with various animal designs and colors . There are coin operated and non coin operated type . It is very easy to operate for our animals .Over 4 years-old kids can ride alone .Our animals are low investment with fast profits ,it is profitable business . It is suitable for shopping mall ,amusement park ,street ,plaza , game center , tourist attraction , rent for family parties ,events etc
Please check the details below :-)
|Material: The material of our animals are black paint steel tube frame (external diameter: 25mm,thickness:2mm ) and fireproof animal design plush cover.
|Control box: We have time ,coins , volume ,music control and 1-9 coins to play 1-19 minutes .
|Coin Counter: We have LED display, it can not be cleared till 100000 .
|Diameter range of token is 18-30mm.
|Thickness range of token is 1.2-2.5mm.
|Battery: IT IS chargeable, 12v/20A , usually it charges 4-6 hours to play 6-8 hours
|Charger: It is 12V/1.5A charger and one charger for one machine
|Music: It can change music by yourself in SD card.
|Speed: It is 30-60m/min for each machine, the speed is related to the ground and weight of players. The more smooth of the ground, the faster of the rides.
|Bearing Capacity is 150kgs (Parents can ride with kids)
|Player: The players are available for 1-88 years, fun for all people.
|Available place: They can be put shopping mall, amusement park, supermarket, indoor playground, game center, parties, events, show,school playground,family yard, etc
|Certificate: We have CE,ASTM
|Main market :Hansel plush ride on animal toy are sold to over 100 countries. They are most popular in European and South American countries such as USA, Spain, France, UK, Colombia,Russian Federation, Chile, Venezuela, Netherlands, etc.
Why choose to buy our animal family kiddie rides?
According to feedback from our customers ,Our animals are high quality with fast profits . It is popular for kids and adults to ride .
Hansel new designs of paw patrol
Stock and delivery of animal family kiddie rides
We are reliable factory of kids zippy toy rides on animal , we have 5new animal designs .In order to shorten the delivery time, we have more than 400 pieces metal frame and 300 pieces animal cover in stock each month.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1.How to know that the goods have arrived at the port ?
When goods arrive there, the shipping agent will contact with you for customs process and help you for local transportation . If you have your own custom broker.Then your custom broker will do the local service for you .Thanks
2.I want to customized animal plush cover,is there MOQ ?
Yes, The MOQ is 10 pieces for each type.
3.How many pieces animal can you fit into a container??
For 40pcs /20GP; For 80pcs/40GP; For 90pcs/40HQ
4.Please provide enough details about the process of importing this motorized animal to my countries.
Firstly please advise the quantity you need and sea port, we will make the proforma invoice for you to confirm, then you can arrange payment and choose models, secondly we arrange production and shipment, finally when goods arrive at your seaport, you ( or your custom agent) take the custom files to clear custom and pick up the goods.
5.What about the maintenance of happy rides on animal?
When business of the day is over, check the machine to make sure it works properly the next day
1.Motor system -clean chain and put some oil the chain .
2.Gear and screws : keep tightening the gears or screws
3.plush cover -wash by hand or wash machine ,only suggest use
low -alkaline soap ,shampoo ans other detergent to avoid fade too much
6.How many hours the motorized animals can be used ? Is it easy to charge ?
The battery is 12v, 24ah, normally charge 4-6 hours to use 6-8 hours. when the speed slow down, the battery should be charged. Usually our customers charge the battery during night to keep it can work well in daytime.
Delivery of animal family kiddie rides
If our explanation get your interest, just contact with us for inquiry . Thank you :-)


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TmoNews just got leaked info about T-Mobile's new pay as you go plans and it confirms the new $60 'unlimited' plan (up to 2GB of data). That's okay. What's more exciting is the daily pay as you go plan and the new $30 unlimited web and text plan.
The daily plans are especially good for travelers who come to the US. It's $1/day for unlimited text, $2/day for unlimited talk, text and 2G data and $3/day for unlimited talk, text and data. I signed up for a plan very similar to this when I travelled to Australia and it's completely painless. Just tell 'em how many days you're going to be here and they'll hook you up with a plan that'll cover you for the duration of your trip and not tied to a contract. No stressing out, no worrying. I imagine it'll be just as easy for people traveling to the US too. If you're a foreigner, start with T-Mobile if you want a pay as you go plan.
What's also super interesting is this new Wal-Mart tied $30 unlimited web and text plan that's set to launch on October 16th. It only comes with 100 voice minutes but for those who don't really talk on the phone much, this is the dream of a data only plan realized. The plans are all expected to become available on T-Mobile on October 16th. [TmoNews]


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Trelleborg announces that the second stop in Europe on its 2016 Road Show for agricultural tyres will be at the exhibition Nova Agricoltura in Bologna, Italy, on July 21. Field demonstrations will be held during the day to showcase the importance of selecting the optimal tyre inflation pressure for specific farming operations, as recommended using the Trelleborg Load Calculator (TLC).
To do so, a New Holland T8.410 Auto Command tractor, fitted with Trelleborg IF 650/60R34 TM1000 High Power front tyres and IF 900/60R42 TM1000 High Power rear tyres will run over two 200 meter tracks, with different inflation pressures. The tractor will be equipped with transparent cylinders showing the vehicle's fuel consumption throughout the trial. The two tracks will be monitored by a digital chronometer that will measure the time gap between the two tracks and a computer application will calculate the efficiency savings. In addition, the tyres footprint and soil compaction will be measured.
Lorenzo Ciferri, Marketing Director Agricultural and Forestry Tyres at Trelleborg Wheel Systems, points out that tyre pressure is not merely a matter of efficiency but is also about productivity over the long term. "It's important to avoid damage in the first place," he explains. "Soil compaction from tractor tyres can reduce the yield in subsequent years. Each tyre mark can mean less crops. Compaction affects the soil's porosity and thus the infiltration rate, allowing rainwater to run off the surface, taking nutrients and pesticides with it."
Test results have demonstrated that by applying the lowest possible pressure as recommended by the Trelleborg Load Calculator app, soil compaction is significantly reduced. This is expected to be clearly shown by the water infiltration test during the exhibition. In addition, farming professionals can reduce operating time by up to 17 percent and lower farming costs by up to 25 percent. "This is a win-win situation," Ciferri says. "Alongside the financial benefits, the real saving is in improving the soil structure."
Previous trials have proved that lowering tyre pressure can bring substantial benefits, but with the stipulation that only higher-specification tyres, such as the TM1000 High Power range can perform well both on and off the fields. "The Trelleborg tyres on show let you drive over the field at low pressure while still driving at speed on the road," concludes Ciferri.
Kicking off in Germany in June and continuing until late 2016, the roadshow will visit farm shows and special customer events in as many as seven European countries, in China and South Africa to showcase the latest generation of Trelleborg tyres and complete wheels.
To register your attendance at Trelleborg field demonstrations or for more information on Trelleborg's 2016 Road Show, visit www.trelleborg-roadshow.com.
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Greco-Roman Wrestling
The Greco-Roman wrestling program at Northern Michigan University was established in 1999.
There are typically 40-45 resident athletes on the team each year. Athletes work on perfecting their technique in the wrestling gym on the second floor of Northern Michigan University's Superior Dome.
Most of the current Greco-Roman wrestlers are ranked nationally, and several have represented the United States in world championship competition at the Junior, University and Senior levels.
With the possible exception of track and field (athletics), wrestling is the most ancient sport known to have been continuously practiced competitively. When the modern Olympic Games resumed in Athens in 1896, organizers considered wrestling so historically significant that it became a focus of the Games.
Popularly referred to simply as 'Greco,' this style of wrestling forbids attacks below the waist. A wrestler may not attack his opponent's legs, nor use his own legs to trip, lift or execute any other moves. As a result, throws are encouraged as the opponent cannot avoid being thrown by simply hooking or grabbing his opponent's leg.
Greco-Roman wrestling varies vastly from "folkstyle" wrestling which is popular in American schools and universities. Not only are the techniques different, but also the scoring, match procedures, and the strategies.
Where in folkstyle control is everything, in Greco there is very little emphasis on control. In a Greco-Roman match if there is no scoring after 15 seconds on the mat the wrestlers are brought back to their feet. Since control is not important, the bottom wrestler isn't expected to escape or reverse his opponent, but just to defend the attack.
Another difference related to control is the ability in Greco to score points without having control of your opponent. Some techniques such as tilts and front headlocks while under attack can score continuously without ever gaining control.
The match starts with the wrestlers standing on their feet. The wrestlers attempt to take their opponents down to the mat to score points. Wrestling also occurs down on the mat, known as "par terre". If no points are scored after 15 seconds, the referee will stop the match and bring both wrestlers back to their feet.
In Greco-Roman wrestling each of the three two-minute periods are broken up into three mini-periods. The first segment wrestled is on the feet. After one minute the period is stopped. The referee tosses a coin to determine the position for the two wrestlers in the par terre position on the mat.
With one wrestler on his hands and knees, the top wrestler secures a reverse body lock position and awaits the referee's blow of the whistle to resume wrestling. The top wrestler has 30 seconds to score in this position with a lift and throw or by exposing his opponent's back to the mat. After 30 seconds has elapsed, the wrestlers switch positions.
The main objective in wrestling is to pin your opponent. This is achieved by holding the opponent's shoulder blades to the mat for about one-half of a second. The pin automatically ends the match. A pin is also known as a fall.
Points are awarded for performing techniques or moves within the rules. One point is awarded for a takedown when the opponent goes from their feet to the mat without exposing their back. If an opponent goes directly to their back from the standing position, three-points are scored.
A five-point takedown can be scored for a "grand amplitude" throw. This maneuver will end the period of a match. Greco-Roman wrestling is know for powerful lifts and exciting throws.
Tactics and strategies are an integral part of the sport.
If legs are used as a part of the attack by an aggressor, no points are scored and the wrestlers are returned to the standing position. Only one official needs to see the leg usage for the move to be nullified.
If legs are used to prevent a move, the attacker receives whatever points are gained, a caution point or points, and choice of position. If a throw from the standing position is blocked, the attacker receives two-points plus the position choice. If a move on the mat is prevented, the attacker receives one-point plus choice. In either case, the offender receives a single caution.
When wrestling in the par terre position, if an opponent has their back exposed to the mat at an angle less than 45 degrees, two-points are awarded. If the wrestler who has control can hold their opponent on their back for a least five seconds without scoring a fall, one-point is scored.
In the exceptional case where the period ends with a 0-0 tie, a clinch will be ordered at the end of regulation time. The referee will proceed with a coin toss to determine the wrestler who must clinch first. In the clinch, both wrestlers are standing, chest to chest, feet in the center circle. The wrestler who wins the coin toss, takes the grip first, an "under-over" body-lock. The clinch will last a maximum of 20 seconds. Whoever scores first from the clinch wins the period. If after 20 seconds, the wrestler who was selected to clinch first did not execute a scoring technique, his opponent will be awarded one-point and will win the period.
The duration of the match is divided into three periods of two minutes each with a break of 30 seconds given between each period. The wrestler who wins two periods is declared the winner of the match. If the victory can be declared after two periods, the period is suppressed. A fall automatically ends the match regardless of the period in which it occurs.
At the end of each bout, the arm of the winning wrestler is raised. The wrestlers shake hands with the referee and with their opponent, then with the judge and mat chairman.
Wrestling is contested on a mat, with a nine-meter circular competition area. There is also a one-meter protective border on all international mats.
There is a band, a one-meter passivity "zone" on the outside edge of the mat circle. This is the mat edge, an area where wrestlers start being encouraged by officials to stay in the competition area. The mat official will indicate using the team "zone", plus the color of the offending wrestler to move towards the center of the mat.
If a wrestler unintentionally steps out-of-bounds, or is pushed out of the zone off the competition circle, one-point is awarded.
There are three officials for every international style wrestling match, a referee (on the mat) plus a chairman and a judge. The judge sits directly across from the chairman, and indicates by a scoring paddle how they interpret each scoring move.
The official awards points on a majority vote. At least two of the three officials must agree on technical points and falls. It is the chairs decision on a score only when the referee and judge differ in their calls. The chair may, however, request a conference when there is a question on the score.
For a fall to be scored there must be an agreement between two of the three officials. The confirming official does not need to see the call, only agree that the referee was in the correct position to see the fall.
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In the month or so since Penn State fired Joe Paterno and launched its first search for a head coach since 1965, names ranging from Chris Petersen to Dan Mullen to Al Golden to Greg Schiano have been spit out of the rumor mill as potential replacements.
Apparently, another name has surfaced even as his current school is simultaneously shooting down the speculation.
It was rumored earlier in the week that Navy's Ken Niumatalolo had been contacted by the Nittany Lions regarding the job. In an email to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Navy spokesperson denied that either the coach or the academy has been contacted by PSU or its representatives.
"Just talked to coach Niumatalolo and he said it wasn't true," athletic director for sports information Scott Strasemeier wrote to the Inquirer in an email. "I also talked to our athletic director, Chet Gladchuk, and he said when we signed coach Niumatalolo to a long-term contract on April 21 that he said he wanted to coach at the Naval Academy for the rest of his life and there is no reason to believe that has changed.
"I can also confirm that Penn State has not contacted Navy."
The April extension, believed to be at least seven years in length and worth at least $1.5 million annually, prompted Niumatalolo to say that "the Naval Academy has made a big-time commitment to me and I've made a big-time commitment to the academy [and] I could definitely see myself coaching here for a long, long time."
Niumatalolo's agent, Evan Beard, also shot down the rumors, telling HometownAnnpolis.com in an email, "the report on Penn State's interest in Kenny is scurrilous. Neither side has had conversations."
Penn State's search, which is being handled by a six-member committee headed by athletic director David Joyner, is expected to wind to a conclusion sometime around the first week of the year at the latest. Joyner said last week that the committee is working with a 30-day window to name a coach.
Thus far, the only confirmed interviews for the position have been interim head coach Tom Bradley and quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno, although those were believed to be nothing more than courtesy interviews as neither is viewed as a realistic replacement.


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Ejaculation occurs when a man reaches sexual climax and semen is ejected from his penis. Premature ejaculation is:
- Ejaculation too quickly to sexually satisfy his partner
Many men experience premature ejaculation at one time or another. For example, some men experience it after not having had sex for a long period of time. Premature ejaculation is only a problem when it becomes a persistent condition.
Ejaculation occurs automatically after a certain degree of sexual stimulation. Persistent premature ejaculation usually results from a man's inability to recognize that he is about to ejaculate. This inability prevents him from taking steps to delay the process.
Psychological factors may contribute to premature ejaculation. This may include difficulty in the relationship with a partner, guilt about sex, or fears related to sex.
In rare cases, premature ejaculation can be caused by:
- Prostate problems, such as prostatitis
- A problem with the nerves
- Medications that increase sexual stimulation
- Certain medical conditions (such as thyroid problems)
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Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of premature ejaculation include:
- Lack of sexual experience
- Lack of knowledge of male and female sexual responses
Fear of:
- Causing pregnancy
- Contracting a sexually transmitted disease
- Poor sexual performance
- Guilt about sex
- Interpersonal problems between sexual partners
- Early sexual experiences that precondition a man to rapid ejaculation, usually from fear of being caught
Most men experiencing premature ejaculation will notice the condition themselves. The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
The doctor may search for an underlying medical cause if:
- You suddenly developed persistent premature ejaculation and have never experienced it before
- You have other neurological symptoms
- You are taking medication that may cause premature ejaculation
- The condition is getting much worse or causing severe problems for you
Treatments may include:
Behavior Therapy
This aims to improve your ability to:
- Recognize when you are about to ejaculate
- Take steps to delay it
It may include:
- Biofeedback—electrical feedback that helps you learn to control the muscles that cause ejaculation
- Start and stop method—stopping sexual stimulation for 30 seconds when nearing climax, then resuming
- Squeeze method—same as start and stop method, but includes gently squeezing the base of penis before the 30-second stop period
- Sexual positions—trying different sexual positions that may allow greater control over the muscles that cause ejaculation
Psychological Counseling
Counseling may be offered for an individual or for a couple. It is aimed at identifying and treating:
- Fears or guilt
- Interpersonal problems with your partner that may contribute to the condition
In some cases, a doctor may prescribe a desensitizing cream. It can be applied to the penis to lessen sexual stimulation.
In other cases, a doctor may prescribe an antidepressant. Some antidepressants have been found to prolong the interval from intromission to ejaculation. However, these drugs do not cure the underlying cause of premature ejaculation.
To help reduce your chances of premature ejaculation:
- Learn how male and female sexual responses work
- Improve communication with your partner before engaging in sexual activity
- Have sex in situations that are private and relaxed
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Premature ejaculation. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115092/Premature-ejaculation . Updated July 3, 2017. Accessed September 7, 2017.
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What is premature ejaculation? Urology Care Foundation website. Available at: http://www.urologyhealth.org/urologic-conditions/premature-ejaculation?article=122. Accessed September 7, 2017.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Adrienne Carmack, MD
- Review Date: 09/2018
- Update Date: 09/30/2013


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Updated 1:24 p.m. - August has seen the presidential contest devolve into a protracted type of trench warfare between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, as each campaign trades countervailing – and increasingly negative – blows with the other.
The high-minded aspirations associated with Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's addition to the Republican ticket have all but vanished in the handful of days since Romney named him as running mate. Daily sniping and low blows have now pervaded the 2012 campaign.
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Mitt Romney arrives at his headquarters, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, in Boston.
"If the other guy's throwing punches, you've got to throw punches right back," said Craig T. Smith, a former White House political director for Bill Clinton, who likened the millions spent on ads by both campaigns to a Cold War arms race.
A Republican official familiar with the party's general election strategy offered a similar assessment: "If we weren't throwing punch for punch, then the story would be whether we're up for the task."
The past week alone has seen the president of the United States joke about an instance in which Romney strapped the family dog to the roof of his car during a road trip. And Vice President Joe Biden told a mixed-race audience that Republicans, along with Wall Street, would "put y'all back in chains."
Romney responded by accusing the president of "division and attack and hatred." The presumptive Republican nominee's allies at the Republican National Committee released a video taking the president to task for abandoning the mantle of hope-and-change on which he ran in 2008.
Moreover, the two campaigns have tangled lately over Romney's charge that Obama has gutted welfare's work requirement, and a pro-Obama super PAC's ad essentially tying Romney to a woman's death from cancer. And this morning, each campaign's manager traded open letters as stagecraft, demanding that Romney release more tax returns.
Summertime during presidential campaigns doesn't have a particularly proud tradition of being constructive, but this year's negativity nonetheless reflects some emerging political realities.
"Neither side is going to say that out loud, but the idea is to keep independent-minded people from turning out because they're just so disgusted about the process," said David Mark, the editor of the website Politix, who wrote a book on the purpose and effectiveness of negative campaigning. "Both sides seemed to reach a conclusion that there aren't that many more independent voters, so they're focused on turning out their base."
That helps explain why Romney's selection of Ryan has done little to shift the polls or the arc of the campaign. The pick was directed more toward exciting conservatives than it was about winning over independents.
"Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory and the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson join a conversation on how the tone of the 2012 presidential campaign has shifted to more personal attacks and how both parties have spent $500M in campaign ad spending.
It did add a new element to the campaign, though, by putting the most controversial elements of the Wisconsin congressman's budgets – particularly the Medicare reforms – into the center of the election. But even still, discussion of the imperiled entitlement program this past week has focused more on each campaign attacking the other's position than offering up any affirmative solution.
Republican pollster Whit Ayres disagrees that the election will become one in which each side must focus on turning out its own supporters; the perception that the race is competitive, and that the stakes are high, will drive these prized voters to the polls.
But, he argued, enthusiasm is on the Republicans' side, and that was only bolstered by Romney's selection of Ryan.
"It didn't take a stunningly insightful person and look at Mitt Romney standing in front of the USS Wisconsin and seeing he was relaxed and more confident," Ayres said of last weekend's introductory event. "Those are intangibles that can be important in an election this close."
Mark McKinnon, a former strategist to President George W. Bush, argued that turnout would go down as a result of the negativity, which "could hurt Obama more."
But Democrats argue that Republicans' more aggressive engagement may well come too late, given all the efforts by the Obama campaign to define their opponent.
"They should have had this posture in May. Now they're trying to unring a bell," said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons.
David Gregory, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," speaks with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie about the ongoing inquisition into Mitt Romney's financials and whether or not his running mate, Paul Ryan, has helped the GOP ticket.
But they're also excited that Ryan's joining of the Republican ticket has added Medicare, an issue on which Democrats traditionally enjoy an advantage, to the national campaign.
"The Republican argument that the Democratic president is trying to harm Medicare would be like Democrats arguing that a Republican president is trying to harm the military," said Simmons. "To be able to convince people of that, you have to be wielding a pretty convincing dagger."
Past Augusts have not been kind to Obama, who saw his popularity flirt with record lows during the debt ceiling debate last summer, and during the vocal 2009 protests against his health care reform proposals.
August is also a month that has seen candidates like John McCain and John Kerry struggle to hit their stride. To that end, Romney has weathered months of tough criticism this summer, most of which was driven by the Obama campaign.
Neither Obama nor Romney have any interest in suffering the dog days of summer, and have sought to seize control of the month's news cycle. And that's why both have fought intensely — and more negatively — in recent weeks.
"We're in the part of the campaign where we need to make sure we're getting the reality out there," said the Republican official. "From our perspective, we're pointing out the tactics the president has been using. "
The goal, for both sides, may be to simply survive. This thinking dictates that if a candidate can make it to their convention without suffering critical blows, they will be in position to reposture themselves before the heat of the fall campaign.
But, said Smith, "At the rate they're going, the question is how many swing voters are left at the end. "


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Adding niacin (Niaspan) to statin therapy increased HDL cholesterol levels, but it didn't improve the functionality of this so-called "good" cholesterol, researchers found.
That may explain the drug's failure to improve clinical outcomes in recent large clinical trials, they suggested.
Combining niacin and simvastatin increased HDL cholesterol levels from 46 to 57 mg/dL (P=0.001) over 6 months, but it had no effect on HDL function as assessed by cholesterol efflux capacity or by a surrogate measure of the lipid particle's antioxidant function, according to Daniel Rader, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues.
The results, reported online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, "[provide] one potential mechanistic hypothesis for the disappointing results in recent clinical trials," they wrote.
The study is helpful in that it "suggests that niacin may simply serve as window dressing on a low HDL level," according to Michael Blaha, MD, MPH, director of clinical research at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins University.
"It is indeed hard to understand how an HDL-raising drug might improve clinical outcomes if it doesn't improve the beneficial functions of HDL," he commented in an email.
Although higher HDL cholesterol levels have been associated with a lower risk of heart disease, the use of HDL-raising drugs has not been shown to be effective at reducing cardiovascular risk. The addition of niacin to statin therapy has been evaluated in two large trials -- AIM-HIGH and HPS2-THRIVE -- and both showed that niacin did not have any added benefit.
To evaluate whether niacin induced positive changes in the functionality of HDL cholesterol, Rader and colleagues evaluated data from a completed, randomized, controlled trial that compared the effects on plaque characteristics of LDL cholesterol reduction with simvastatin with those of a combination of LDL cholesterol reduction plus HDL cholesterol raising in patients with carotid atherosclerosis.
The current analysis included 39 patients who had data available at baseline and after 6 months of treatment with either simvastatin plus niacin or simvastatin alone. The mean age of the patients was 71 and about two-thirds were taking a statin at baseline.
HDL cholesterol functionality was assessed using cholesterol efflux capacity and the HDL inflammatory index, which is a surrogate for antioxidant effects.
Both measures varied widely among the patients. The average normalized cholesterol efflux capacity was 0.95, ranging from 0.57 to 1.54, and the average HDL inflammatory index value was 1.15, ranging from 0.70 to 2.81.
During the treatment period, there were no significant changes, on average, for either cholesterol efflux capacity (-1%, 95% CI -11-10%) or HDL inflammatory index (+9%, 95% CI -6 to +24%).
The authors acknowledged that the study was limited by its small size and by the use of HDL-specific assays that would not have detected a benefit from niacin on levels of LDL cholesterol or lipoprotein(a).
"Scientists have long touted niacin's ability to further lower LDL, triglycerides, and lipoprotein(a)," Blaha noted in his email, adding that the drug is commonly used for those purposes.
"This study does not explain why these other effects of niacin fail to translate into a net benefit for the patient," Blaha said. "It could be statins have altered and stabilized the atherosclerotic plaque in such a way that it is difficult to show further improvement with additional lipid-lowering therapies."
The study was supported by investigator-initiated grants from Merck Pharmaceuticals and KOS Pharmaceuticals, now Abbott Pharmaceuticals.
The authors did not report any additional conflicts of interest.
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Source Reference: Khera A, et al "The addition of niacin to statin therapy improves high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels but not metrics of functionality" J Am Coll Cardiol 2013; DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(13)61390-X.


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