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WoW users 'not ready' for Firelands! Big Fu#*ing L-O-L. Remove all the all the patches and all the expansions, revert back to Vanilla W.o.W and I guarantee you this slew of new players couldn't level past 35.
I'm done with Warcraft politics and the game. Today me and my guild decided to quit the game, forever. It was a hard decision but we decided it was better to quit now and preserve the spirit of the game. We deleted all our toons and canceled memberships. I felt an immense sadness, come over me. Divorce is never pretty.
Let's face it, the game is now designed for the masses. Gone are the days of strategy and using your brain for advancement. If you Google 'Cataclysm disappointment' you will find countless articles on how players from Vanilla W.o.W. to current have seen the game downgrade.
Not all is lost... for those who like a challenge Final Fantasy XIV has released a major patch and the game is awesome! It's of course not for players that want to power level and farm. There is a LOT of content and player progression. The graphics are immaculate. I wouldn't recommend FFXIV to most W.O.W. players because the learning curve is a little high. Most wouldn't know how to get started but this can be a testament to Blizzard constructing their MMO's to hold a players 10 year olds hand thorough out the entire game. Best part is it's now available for PS3.


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Well, I guess we really shouldn't be all that surprised -- but have you seen just how perfect Kate Middleton looks in Prince George's official baby photos?
She's absolutely glowing. Her complexion is flawless. She doesn't have one hair out of place. Her dress is simply stunning. And considering her father was the one who took the pictures, it's not like she had a whole team of people there to make her look camera ready (other than a hairdresser), which makes her post-baby appearance even more enviable. And speaking of her hair -- doesn't it have more shine and volume than ever? It always looks good, but man, it's ridiculously gorgeous in this pic.
But before we delve even further into how much better she looks than your average new mom, it's important to point out that the dress she's wearing in the pics is a maternity frock, believe it or not.
It's made by Seraphine and retails for $79, which is actually pretty inexpensive considering she's royalty and all. But even though the dress is made to fit a woman's post-pregnancy body, it appears as though Kate has shed most, if not all of her baby weight in a few short weeks.
(Excuse me while I pause to go get a brownie to console myself with before continuing on with this post.)
Again, it's really not surprising that Kate is already thin again, since she didn't really gain a lot of weight during her pregnancy. But still -- it's hard not to be just a little bit jealous, as most of us spend months and months trying to get back to our pre-baby size to no avail.
Ok, back to the glow she has going on. Isn't there something so ... motherly about Kate in the new photos? She just looks so calm, relaxed, and blissfully happy -- which makes her even more beautiful than she already is. (And if George isn't sleeping through the night, you'd never guess. Kate looks well rested, don't you think?) Being a mom certainly agrees with her, and seeing her in that role makes us love her even more.
What do you think of Kate's post-baby look?
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She is stunning. She enhances what a beautiful family they are. I don't believe for one minute that she is so self centered that she would take away from her handsome little man or her husband. If you've got it...flawnt it, and she's go it!!
Rhiannon....you don't read much do you??? According to everything out there, William even changed the "nappy" while still at the hospital. They also do not have "tons of people that are paid" to help with their beautiful baby boy. Will, Kate and George have been staying with her PARENTS and taking care of him themselves.
Kate is a very beautiful young woman and I think that you are just jealous of that fact. Get a life!
yeah ONE ...to pretend... and pose for the cameras? lol like we believe he does that every day. suuuure

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Allie Beckstrom's lover, Zayvion Jones, is a Guardian of the Gate, imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don't mix. But Zayvion lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death's realm. And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world.
"The action-packed fifth Allie Beckstrom novel (after 2009's Magic in the Shadows) amps up the magical mayhem. Just as Allie joins the Authority, a secret group of magical enforcers, internal warfare threatens the organization. Also in danger is Zayvion Jones, Allie's Soul Complement. To save him, she must travel through the gates of Death to retrieve his soul at the cost of her own magic. Unlike most magic users, Allie carries magic within her and doesn't have to draw on the city wells--but technology created by her malevolent father may have made magic portable for everyone, including the Veiled, evil ghosts who think the infinitely reusable magic disks are their route to immortality in the world of the living. Allie's adventures are gripping and engrossing, with an even, clever mix of humor, love, and brutality. (Nov.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright PWyxz LLC)
Allie Beckstrom's lover, Zayvion Jones, lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death's realm. When Allie discovers the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world. Original.
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Devon Monk has one husband, two sons, and a dog named Mojo. She lives in Oregon and is surrounded by colorful and numerous family members who mostly live within dinner-calling distance of each other. She has sold over fifty short stories to fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, and young adult magazines and anthologies. Her stories have been published in five countries and included in a Year's Best Fantasy collection. When not writing, Devon is either knitting, remodeling the house-that-was-once-a-barn, or hosting a family celebration.
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The Man Behind All the Drama
A chat with Smash's Jack Davenport
Being a straight man on Broadway can be an anomaly. Just ask Jack Davenport, who plays a character who certainly uses this to his advantage. As director Derrick Wills on NBC's Smash, he has girls swooning over him in literally every episode.
"He has a pulse, so he does what comes naturally," the thirty-nine-year old actor says about his character, who guides real-life talents playing doe-eyed starlets in Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, and Jennifer Hudson. "I basically just have to sit there and watch them be amazing and then occasionally shout at them. So yes, I've had tougher job assignments in my life," Davenport admits.
The British native has fulfilled a lifelong dream by living in New York, with filming in Times Square and taking his son to Prospect Park as part of a typical day. Although for him, a trip to the park can turn into an event immediately discussed in the Brooklyn blogosphere. "That strikes me as one of the most un-newsworthy stories I've ever heard," he said. "I guess it was a slow news day, what can I say?"
How does Derrick's character develop this season?
Don't worry, he'll still be screaming and shouting at various tearful young women at inopportune moments. But he may also be slightly called to account for some of those things. The thing about people is they don't change that much. I think Derrick's somewhat questionable attitude towards interpersonal relationships does come back to haunt him in fairly profound ways as the season develops. That's been very interesting to play because part of a director's job is to give the appearance of invulnerability.
Events transpire this year that make the director quite vulnerable. And that's been really fun to mess around with, because you get a chance to explore aspects of the character you didn't think you'd necessarily get to.
What's it like to play—I guess you would say—a womanizer?
Well in the show, yeah. [Laughs] What's it like? Occasionally makes you feel slightly dizzy. That's the character. He's a single straight guy living in a world in which a lot of really attractive young women are, in some ways, trying to impress him all the time.
Do people stop you to talk about the show?
Oh sure, absolutely. I get my fair share of either people just coming up to say they like it, or occasionally just women shouting at me. I guess that means I'm doing my job properly.
The show is filmed on location quite often.
When we started the show, I remember being like, "Wow, here we are filming in Times Square!" After a while, I guess that's what being unimpressed with things is—you're becoming a New Yorker. "Oh Times Square again!" [Laughs] This is one of those shows where the city of New York is a character. You can't separate the concept of Broadway with the concept of the city of New York. We shoot all over the City a lot of the time.
What are your favorite places in New York City?
Prospect Park. I'm either there with my son—apparently being blogged about—or there because I find Prospect Park to have all the best things of Central Park—minus the tourists. I've always loved The Odeon in Tribeca. I've been going there for 20 years.
Do you miss England?
Not much. As a kid, I was just obsessed with America—the literature, the movies, the music. I always wanted to be here, so now I am. It would seem a bit churlish to immediately start saying, "Oh, I wish I was in England." I lived in New York when I was much, much younger.
Who would you like to see as a guest on Smash?
We get so many good ones that I think it would be, frankly, greedy to ask for more. This year we've got Jennifer Hudson, Liza Minelli, Sean Hayes, Bernadette Peters, Jesse Martin. I don't know, won't that do?
You come from an acting family. When did you know you would be an actor?
Well you don't really know until someone gives you a job. My parents did the right thing when I was a kid and actually discouraged me. It has its own challenges—the life of an actor. The truth is that I was an only child and I was surrounded by a lot of actors much of the time. If you're a kid, actors are kind of great, cause to be an actor your job – to a degree – is to be playful. I loved this odd tribe of people who didn't patronize me or exclude me or talk down to me. They were kind of a bit crazy and fun. I think on some kind of molecular level when I was pretty small, I just knew I wanted to be part of that tribe. That remains the truth to this day.
Would you ever want to do a Broadway show?
Sure. If somebody asked me, absolutely; I'd love to. I've done a lot of theater in the UK, and theater's the same the world over.
That would mean you would have to be in Times Square again.
Not exactly. Well there's one or two of them there. I guess I would. [Laughs]
What are your future plans?
I don't know. Make another cup of coffee. Take the dog for a walk.
And take your son to the park.
Yeah, there you go.
Watch Jack on Smash Tuesday nights on NBC.
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This place is famous for this, they make 80 Kg (175 lb.) every day.
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As they walked around the museum at Herb Brooks Arena, the athletes saw awards, medals and mementos lining the shelves. Mikulis reminded them, however, that those are just the physical rewards of winning.
When Jill Durbin, Jake Reynolds and the other Special Olympians compete in PyeongChang, they will seek victory but will be defined by much more.
"It's a great big family — you got to love those athletes, they're something else," said Jill Durbin's father, John, a Team USA basketball coach. "They're the ones who got it right; we're the ones who got it wrong.
"When they compete, they try to win, but they don't win, [and] they're not jealous of the winner; they're happy for them. It's not like us, you know, 'I should have won.' "
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Happy Birthday to Choreographer Agnes de Mille!
A pioneer of musical theatre dance, de Mille's choreographic style legitimized narrative dance as an accepted convention of the book musical. De Mille's character-based choreographic style redefined the role of dance in musical theatre. Her technically and emotionally demanding choreography elevated the standards for Broadway dancers, usurping the mindless showgirl and introducing the dancer-actor. Her far-reaching influence fostered new approaches to developing dances for the musical stage. She is the first individual credited as both director and choreographer of a single Broadway production with her work on Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro. In addition to her pioneer work in musical theatre, de Mille is a founder of the burgeoning genre of American ballet. Her introduction of American styles and concepts into traditional European ballet revolutionized the art form, inciting shock and awe in audiences and critics alike. Her work as an arts advocate, labor organizer, dance historian, and prolific author greatly enriched the American cultural landscape.
Agnes de Mille was born on September 18, 1905 in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City. Her father, William de Mille was a famous Broadway playwright and screenwriter in the early days of silent film. Her mother Anna George was the daughter of single-tax advocate, Henry George. When Agnes was nine, the family moved to Hollywood to join William's brother Cecil B. de Mille, a famous film director. As a child, de Mille found creative outlets by studying piano and staging amateur dramatic performances in which she also performed. At age 10, Agnes had a rare opportunity to perform on film in The Ragamuffin, directed by her father. Her early aspirations as an actress were soon squelched after being told she wasn't "pretty enough."
De Mille's fervent interest in dance began at an early age, much to her parents' dismay. After seeing Anna Pavlova perform in 1918, de Mille's desire to study dance intensified. Her parents did everything to dissuade her from what they viewed as an unsuitable activity for a young lady. Agnes finally received permission to dance when an orthopedic doctor prescribed ballet lessons to Agnes' sister Margaret to correct her fallen arches. De Mille experienced difficulty in her early ballet training for she did not possess the lean sylph-like physique of a classical dancer. De Mille worked tirelessly to overcome her physical challenges in addition to her late start as a dancer.
Responding to pressure from her father, Agnes gave up dancing and attended the University of California Los Angeles as an English major, graduating with honors in 1926. Around this time, her father and mother divorced. De Mille then moved to New York with her mother and sister. Unable to find employment opportunities as a dancer, she choreographed and performed in a series of solo recitals—also arranging the music and designing the costumes. In 1932, de Mille was hired to choreograph Flying Colors, a Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz revue, her inexperience led to many errors and ultimately to her termination from the project.
After the failure of Flying Colors, de Mille moved to London. Financial security eluded her as she struggled to make a living as a dancer and choreographer in the darkest days of The Depression. Throughout the 1930s, de Mille devoted herself to strengthening her dance technique and choreographic abilities. She trained with Marie Rambert at the Ballet Club where she met emerging choreographers Frederick Ashton and Anthony Tudor. In 1933, she choreographed the dances for Charles B. Cochran's production of Nymph Errant starring Gertrude Lawrence.
De Mille returned from London in 1938, at the eve of World War II. At age 32, de Mille was penniless and unemployed. A change of fortune occurred when de Mille was offered a position as a charter member of Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre) in 1940, where she shocked the dance world with Black Ritual (1940). Although the ballet was not a commercial success, it marked the first appearance of black dancers in a major ballet company. Further establishing herself on the American concert stage, de Mille restaged her 1934 ballet entitled, Three Virgins and a Devil at Ballet Theatre. De Mille solidified her reputation as a burgeoning American choreographer with Rodeo (1942) produced by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and boasting a score by composer Aaron Copeland. The movement vocabulary of Rodeo exemplifies de Mille's signature Americana style, built upon the riding and roping techniques of cowboys of the Old West. At age 37, de Mille danced the leading role in the original production at the Metropolitan Opera House, receiving over twenty curtain calls.
The prodigious success of Rodeo led to an invitation to collaborate with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II on Oklahoma! (1943). In the production, de Mille employed an approach to choreography as costuming, developing a movement vocabulary inextricably linked to time and place. With the creation of dances that served as crucial elements of plot, character, and theme, de Mille elevated the role of dance in the American musical. The dream ballet "Laurie Makes Up Her Mind" is one such example, and holds a preeminent position in the musical theatre dance canon.
Following the monumental successes of Rodeo and Oklahoma!, de Mille reigned as the best-known Broadway choreographer of the 1940s and 1950s. She went on to create narrative, integrated dances in hit musicals such as Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus (1943), Bloomer Girl (1944) in which her moving "Civil War Ballet" garnered great critical acclaim, Carousel (1945), and Brigadoon (1947). De Mille became the first individual credited as a director-choreographer with an ambitious production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro (1947). The creative team was bitterly disappointed by the final product although the production ran for 315 performances.
Working consistently throughout the 1950s with Lerner & Loewe's Paint Your Wagon, The Girl in Pink Tights (1954), Goldilocks (1958), and Juno (1959), de Mille continued to hone her craft of using dance as text. In 1954, Agnes de Mille choreographed the film version of Oklahoma!. Several musicals originally choreographed by de Mille were adapted into films; however, Oklahoma! marks the sole occurrence in which de Mille choreographed the film adaptation of a musical she originally choreographed for the Broadway stage.
In addition to her accomplishments as a dancer, choreographer, and director on the Broadway stage, de Mille was an eloquent speaker and accomplished writer. Her interest in preserving the American dance heritage and her desire to work with young people led to the establishment of the Heritage Dance Theatre at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her numerous awards include the New York City Handel Medallion (1976), and the Kennedy Center Honor (1980).
In 1975 she suffered a stroke but continued to write and publish books. She restaged Oklahoma (1979) on Broadway, and her lecture series Conversations about the Dance aired on PBS. She remained active as an arts advocate throughout her life. At the time of her death in October 1993, Agnes de Mille was still an influential and productive cultural leader.
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Ellis, Roger. "Choreographing America: The Narrative Style of Agnes De Mille." Teaching the Theatre Dance Repertory: A Study in Style. San Diego: Montezuma, 2012. 31-34. Print.


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The music of Gemini Club relies heavily on science and technology, but it's human chemistry that has sent the Chicago-based electronic trio into orbit. Ever since Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli got their heads together three years ago, they have synthesized songs that are equal parts rock 'n' roll mettle, disco delirium and compositional genius. Beyond their songcraft, though, the trio has forged a bond with its footloose following in live performances that push the boundaries of dance music convention. Using specially designed gear — the band's own "Gemini Capsule" is in development — Gemini Club actually points its rigs toward the audience and plays its instruments rather than hides behind laptops and pre-programmed tracks. "We want to appeal to a rock crowd and to a DJ crowd," Brunelle says. "It's about expanding the palette of what a musical project can be, and not from behind a curtain like a lot of electronic performers. Eventually people are going to get sick of how detached they are from the audience. So we want electronic music to be something you can rock out to, to create a raw experience with a not-so raw instrument."
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Dangers of tweeting: Homeland Security butchering the Queen's English.
The British couple, shown below in a photo via ABC, got in trouble for a slangy use of the word "destroy" in a Tweet. The ABC account says:"Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America," one of the tweets read. Bryan told The Sun [in England] that in this context "destroy" just meant party.
"The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist. I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me 'You've really f***ed up with that tweet, boy'," Bryan told The Sun.
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BREAKING: Bradley Manning WILL be sent to a military tribunal for a court martial
The commander of the Military District of Washington has ordered a court-martial for Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington made the decision Friday after reviewing testimony and arguments from a preliminary hearing at Fort Meade in December, officials said.
There was no word on whether the as-yet-unscheduled court-martial would also be held at Fort Meade, one of three installations within the military district equipped to host such a proceeding.
Manning, 24, is charged with aiding the enemy and violating the Espionage Act. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
During his detention, his case became a cause celebre among anti-war activists, who say the footage of the 2007 Apache helicopter attack that he is alleged to have released appears to show evidence of a war crime.
The attack in Baghdad left 12 dead, including a Reuters journalist and his driver. In the video, released by WikiLeaks as "Collateral Murder," the American helicopter crew can be heard laughing and referring to Iraqis as "dead bastards."
Manning's supporters say whoever released the footage is a hero who should be protected as a whistle-blower.
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More than 100 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country.
Hundreds more were killed in shelling of the city, according to the the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which cited witnesses.
"At least 105 people were killed in a massacre in the Khalidya district of Homs, including women and children," said Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the campaign group.
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Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday 31st March 2012
With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy' the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists.
The only way is to hit them where it truly hurts.
Their profit margins.
March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.
Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy, Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.
Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies' profits for the 1st quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes.
This action can give a statement of intent:
"We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legistation which will censor the internet." Regarding Black March: If you want to do something that makes a statement, consider shifting your money not only away from corporate media but to independent media. Buy comics published by someone other than DC and Marvel. Buy books from small and independent presses. Support independent production companies who fight to stay independent and fan-focused. Better yet, buy things directly from creators and artisans. Support independent retailers. Don't just blanket punish media producers and distributors—refocus those resources into supporting the ones who espouse and depend on free exchange of information and ideas. Because those are the people preserving intellectual freedom. Those are the people creating work of substance. And those are the people struggling to make a living, because they aren't bankrolled by the Corporate Elite lobbying for SOPA and PIPA.
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by AoT, Jan 31, 2012, via @Lisa_Lockwood
I just got word from a friend of a friend about the conditions that arrestees from the actions. It isn't pretty, in fact it's disgusting."Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland Commune were being denied medications (some had seizures) while the guards said they didnt care if they died. Some people were brutally beaten. The put tear gas in the vents of my cell twice. They were keeping people without restrooms forcing them to shit and piss themselves or puke all over and stay in the same area…."
There's at least one Kossack who was arrested, allie123 is her nick here I believe, and she had spoken about being denied medicine the last time she was sent to Santa Rita Jail. Just to be clear, the Jail is run by the Alameda County Sheriffs Department, not the OPD, so this is yet another law enforcement agency abusing protesters and it is absolutely disgusting.
Sorry for the short diary, but I don't have much more info right now. I'll update as I hear more.


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The Arizona State men's golf team is in the hunt heading into the final round of the Itani Quality Homes Collegiate at the par-70, 7,247-yard Palouse Ridge Golf Club in Pullman, Wash. Through 36 holes, the Sun Devils are tied for fourth with Cal at 10�under 550.
Sun Devil soccer junior forward Cali Farquharson (Offensive) and senior midfielder Brianna Gonzalez (Defensive) both earned Pac-12 Women's Soccer Player of the Week honors, according to an announcement by the league office on Monday.
The Arizona State University Sun Devil football program looks to rebound on the road this week as the squad heads to Los Angeles to take on the No. 16/20 USC Trojans on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 4:30 p.m. PT at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in another key Pac-12 South battle.
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TEMPE, Ariz.�For defending her title at the Roy Griak Invite, Arizona State cross country's senior Shelby Houlihan was named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Athlete of the Week, the organization announced on Monday.
Senior Noemi Jimenez leads the Arizona State women's golf team as it heads into the final round at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate. The Sun Devils shot a 10-over 298 in the second round on the par-72, 6,247-yard Watson Course at Reunion Resort in Orlando, Fla.
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Senior Noemi Jimenez and sophomore Monica Vaughn lead the Arizona State women's golf team after the first round of play at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate. The Sun Devils are currently tied for eighth place with last year's NCAA Champion Duke after shooting a 5-over 293 at the par-72, 6,247-yard Watson Course at Reunion Resort in Orlando, Fla.
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CHESTERTON | Jim Bonfield, director of transportation for the Duneland School Corp., spoke to the School Board on Monday about allowing bus drivers the ability to discern use of electronics like cellphones and tablets.
Bonfield said he had submitted a letter to the board citing "numerous problems" with the policy.
"We're not running a country club on those buses," he said. "We are trying to get them from Point A to Point B and we need a tool for the drivers to say no phones on the bus."
"If it is a rule, it is a rule," Sandra Hudson, a bus driver since 1984, said. "If it is up to the discretion of the driver, then we are the ones we have to deal with the parents who say that one driver allows cellphones and another doesn't. My job is to drive those children to and from school safely."
School Board Member John Marshal said the wording about discretion was put into policy for the long-term trips and so he proposed a change in wording.
Superintendent Dirk Baer suggested a "power off policy" and the board approved revisiting the wording of the policy, and Baer noted the discernment was a way to respect the authority of the transportation employees.
In other business, Chesterton High School Principal Jim Goetz reported that since the use of Breathalyzers at prom and senior banquet was conducted as a pilot program, he will report back to the board in June on its success.
He said June would be too late to note that policy change in the student handbook, so he would have students sign an addendum acknowledging use of the Breathalyzer at the start of the school year, if the board wanted to continue with the policy.
MS4 Operator Jennifer Gadzala, and Therese Davis, executive director of the Recycling and Waste Reduction District of Porter County, honored the Chesterton High School art program for winning the first annual rain barrel decorating competition and presented them with an award whose frame was made out of a recycled computer's mother board.
Davis said a total of 18 schools submitted 25 barrels to the contest and the public voted for the winner at their recent Earth Day celebration.
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Well, if you're a die-hard MMO player, there's no interest for you in the CCG. However, if you're a CCG player (like myself) or even a CCG player who plays WoW (also like myself), the game's really good.
The engine is solid, easy to pick up but with enough depth and complexity to not be boring. The card effects do a very good job of representing effects from the MMO and are very flavorful.
If CCGs aren't your thing, you won't be into this game. However, I really like it and enjoy throwing around some cards every week or two down at the local game store. And I love pulling a scratch-off loot card because I can ebay that sucker to crazy MMO players who must have everything and then get money to buy more cards ;-)


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Are These Oil & Gas Giants Worth the Risk?
Bill is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
I have a very sober view of oil and gas companies. They operate in price competitive markets where supply gluts can destroy profitability, and these firms can sometimes become the centers of environmental disasters and other horrible news.
Investors should take these concerns to heart and demand low valuations before investing in oil and gas stocks. We will consider which, if any, big energy companies are attractively priced.
Tanker Glances San Francisco Bay Bridge
Headlines are very real and unpredictable. On Jan. 8, a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Overseas Reymar collided with a tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The tanker suffered damage above the waterline but there was no breach of the hull, thus no oil was released, while the Bay Bridge's "fendering system," which consists of timbers and steel backing designed to cushion impacts from such hits, saw damage.
Fortunately, an inspection team from the State Transportation Department found neither structural nor foundational damage to the bridge. All lanes on the bridge remained open to vehicular traffic. San Francisco Bar Pilots port agent Captain Peter McIsaac said the collision was "not a direct hit, more of a glancing blow, from looking at the damage."
Overseas Reymar had previously unloaded about 350,000 barrels of crude oil at Royal Dutch Shell's refinery in Martinez and was en route to Esmeraldas, Ecuador when the incident happened. The tanker, which was chartered by ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) in April to ship crude from South and Central America, is now moored west of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Berkeley. The Coast Guard is investigating the collision.
In 2007, container ship Cosco Busan spilled 53,000 gallons of oil when the pilot, who was under the influence of various prescription drugs, slammed the ship into the bridge under heavy fog.
Valuation Considerations
Sane investors need to demand incredibly low valuations to be lured into oil and gas investments. Many of these firms are trading at attractive multiples:
These stocks were ordered by price-to-sales to allow for comparison between firms that are not currently profitable. They were not ordered according to their price-to-book ratios because exploration costs are often capitalized to the balance sheet, and the value of their oil and gas properties may be inflated with the costs of failed drilling projects. Hence, I am skeptical of this price multiple for ranking purposes.
Investors should consider Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) as buy candidates based on their low price-to-earnings multiples. Chesapeake (NYSE: CHK) is more based on its price-to-sales ratio but is still cheap. It also trades at a low price-to-book multiple, which is worthy of further investigation.
Why is Chesapeake trading at low price ratios? Because it has suffered corporate governance scandals. Investors should be interested in this story because of activist investor Carl Icahn and because the company appears to be making changes.
There have been many governance changes at the firm. Eventually, ConocoPhillips Chairman Archie Dunham replaced McClendon as board chairman. In addition, the majority of the directors were replaced and director compensation was cut by 20%. There is a plan to stop McClendon's well-investment program by 2014. There were also more symbolic changes, including how McClendon agreed to reimburse the company $250,000 per year for his personal use of the company's aircraft.
Chesapeake Energy's board withheld CEO Aubrey McClendon's annual bonus in response to investors' criticism of his performance. The board of directors reduced perks, substantially cut incentive compensation, favoring the development of long-term compensation plans tied to executive performance.
Aside from losing $1.07 billion during the first nine months last year, Chesapeake's net debt increased by 56% during that period to $16.1 billion. The company's directors are also investigating if any of McClendon's personal financial transactions are in conflict with his duties after reports surfaced that the CEO used company-owned wells as collateral for private borrowing.
The board reforms were initiated by the company's largest shareholders led by Carl Icahn, Southeastern Asset Management and New York City Pension Funds represented by New York City Comptroller John Liu. In a telephone interview, activist investor Carl Icahn said, "We promised that we were going to work hard to achieve positive change, and I think these are positive changes. And I hope that there will be more positive changes."
Shareholders want the company to have positive cash flow, which it had only twice in the past twenty one years. Chesapeake also launched a cost-cutting program and plans to significantly cut its contributions to charitable institutions, trade associations and political spending by strictly monitoring those payments. Despite reduced margins, the company has maintained its 8.75 cents per share quarterly dividend.
Exxon, Chevron, and Chesapeake trade at significant discounts to their energy peers and to the broader market. Exxon and Chevron are traditional value buy candidates. Chesapeake is a different buy candidate altogether and is more of a play on investor activism.
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RINGGOLD, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA. (WRCB)-- After a long rain delay, folks in Ringgold finally heard Josh Turner perform Thursday night at Davis Cattle Company.
The country music star played a benefit show for Ringgold High School's band and athletics teams.
The school was heavily damaged by the April 27th storm.
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The Federal Register this week published corrections to the final rule on flight-crew rest and duty times. Clarifications include that flight-crew members may not accept a trip that forces them to exceed 100 flight hours in any 672-consecutive-hour period, nor more than 1,000 hours in a given 365-day period.
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In a decision that could have wide-ranging implications, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that helicopter pilots for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are not "professional employees" under the Fair Labor Standards Act and are therefore entitled to mandatory overtime pay. The ruling re-affirmed a lower court's decision that the pilots are "highly trained technicians" and not professional employees.
Pilatus Aircraft is shortening working hours for 350 of its employees from September 1 in response to order cancellations for its PC-12 NG single-engine turboprop. According to the Swiss manufacturer, the move will reduce the overall number of annual paid hours by about 15 percent and the company does not plan to lay off staff.
Late in May, Eurocopter signed a new agreement with four of five unions represented at the company in France. The main goal of the work time agreement is to adapt to higher production rates, while simultaneously making provisions for possible ramp-downs. Due to different arrangements in the previous agreement, there are only four-and-a-half hours per day when all production employees are working on the line.
Are the new Department of Labor (DOL) "Fair Pay Rules," which became effective August 23 and changed the overtime pay rules for workers earning less than $23,660 per year, or $455 per week, in danger of extinction? By a vote of 223 to 193 last month, the House tacked an amendment on to the $142.5 billion measure funding education, worker training and health programs that would block the DOL rules.
Metalworkers at Embraer's assembly plant in São Jose dos Campos, Brazil, ended their threats of a strike last month when they agreed to accept a 17.35-percent wage hike retroactive to November 1. In late November roughly 4,000 morning-shift workers voted to enter strike mode after rejecting an offer of a 16.15-percent increase. At the time the workers demanded a 20-percent raise and a reduction in working hours from 43 to 40 hours per week.


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Emerson Los Angeles
ELA Open House Events March 10-15, 2014
Please join us as Emerson College Los Angeles (ELA) opens its doors to our Emerson Community of alumni, parents, and friends. Experience firsthand the College's spectacular new West Coast presence through a special week of events, architectural tours, screenings, and social gatherings–just for you!
Schedule of Events
Monday, March 10-Saturday, March 15: Building Tours
Get your exclusive look at the incredible ELA center, during a walking tour highlighting both the building's state-of-the-art design and enhancements to the LA program.
Tour dates and times:
- Monday through Friday–12:00 pm, 5:30 pm, and 6:30 pm
- Saturday–10:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm, and 6:00 pm
Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 pm: Thom Mayne: Emerson LA from Concept to Completion
Hear from the Pritzker Prize-winning architect how every aspect of the new center was shaped and built to reflect Emerson's distinctive vision for our revitalized presence in LA.
Location: Assembly Room
Wednesday, March 12, Screenings at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm: Fast, Cheap and Determined to Make It: Short Films
Join us for a lineup of films made by talented young alumni filmmakers and then stay for a special Q&A to get their perspectives on how you can make quick, modest budget short films that can have a big impact on your own careers. Films include:
- All's Fair, Todd Strauss-Schulson '03 and Ken Franchi '02
- Born Yesterday, Nate Larkin-Connolly '07, Ari Costa '07, and John Weselcouch '07
- Alone With People, Drew Van Steenbergen '11, Maytal Zchut '13, and Quinn Marcus '13
Location: Bright Family Screening Room West
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 pm: The Business of Being Funny: Emersonians Talk Comedy
Don't miss out on this incredible panel of comedy writers, execs, agents, stand up comics, twitter stars, and comedic actors offering up their takes on the world of creating and brokering comedy. Including:
- Kevin Bright '76, moderator
- Tess Rafferty '97, writer, @Midnight on Comedy Central; author, Recipes for Disaster: A Memoir
- Noah Garfinkel '06, writer, Workoholics, Kroll Show, on Comedy Central
- Dan Levy '02, comedian, The Dan Levy Show; writer, Mulaney, on Fox
- Adam Ginivisian '07, agent, ICM
- Chris "Romanski" Romano, Creator, Blue Mountain State on Spike TV, and actor, How I Met Your Mother
- Eric Falconer, Co-Executive Producer, How I Met Your Mother
Location: Assembly Room
Friday, March 14, 7:30 pm: Academy Award Winning Filmmaker Screens 4K Microdocumentaries: Record Collection
See Emerson's 4K* state-of-the-art screening room as we screen Record Collection, an ongoing series of microdocumentaries that were shot and edited in 4k about the ordinary things people do. During the program we will screen each microdoc in the series, and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Consiglio will be available for Q&A after. Join us for a brief explanation of the 4K format including how and why it looks and is better than previous formats like HD. It's more than just the resolution.
Location: Bright Family Screening Room West
Saturday, March 15, 11:00 am: Evolution of TV In A Digital World: The Third Golden Age?
Step inside the minds of studio executives, talent and decision makers that are creating nex-gen content through a lively debate and panel discussion. Discover how the TV industry has reached an inflection point driven new technologies, changing viewing habits and new modes of production, and how creators and producers must arm themselves with an understanding of the business of show business. Learn how pitching a script, selling a format, or auditioning for a pilot requires comprehension of the new genres, production modes and distribution paths of the "third golden age" of television.
Panelists include:
- Dan Cohen, executive vice president, pay TV and digital, Disney ABC Television Group
- Alex Carloss, head of entertainment; YouTube
- Erik Flannigan, EVP, multi-platform strategy and development, Viacom Entertainment Group
- Sean Carey, VP, content acquisitions; Netflix
- Michael Thornton, chief revenue officer; Starz
- Chris Williams, chief audience officer, Maker Studios
- Chris Jericho, WWE superstar, podcaster, web series star
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Battle Royale 3D (2000)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
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Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 6
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
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A long-unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still-controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe. In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of its nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be
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Shuya Nanahara
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Noriko Nakagawa
Taro Yamamoto
Shougo Kawada
Masanobu Ando
Kou Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma
Chiaki Kuriyama
Takeshi Kitano
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Shiori Kitano
Sousuke Takaoka
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Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.
Before The Hunger Games there was Battle Royale. The bloody spectacle of Japanese schoolchildren being forced into a sadistic game of "last man standing" packs an emotional wallop.
A gloriously entertaining ride, provided you have a taste for dark material and don't mind the occasional poke in the ribs.
Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.
Battle Royale's dystopia reflects a hyper-tech Japan still deeply concerned with social cohesion and the value-gaps between the generations. It's the disturbingly dark social frame, not its bloody canvas, that makes this a battle worth watching.
Fukasaku's set pieces are dynamic, composed and edited with a neatness that is missing from the shaky-camera esthetic of the movie's successor, 'The Hunger Games.'
Battle Royale is a masterpiece of mayhem, violence and unfettered teen melodrama.
Battle Royale is The Hunger Games not diluted for young audiences.
Pitched with the insatiable verve of a TV game show and the vacant regret of a Grand Theft Auto videogame.
It gets no points for subtlety, but this confronting, devastating, hilarious and extremely fun film is a masterpiece all in its own right.
Although the film can be seen as a satire on everything from the Japanese education system to reality TV, ultimately its absurdism resists easy interpretation.
A disturbing film to say the least, and definitely one that could never have been made in the United States.
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First off: the elephant in the room. The Hunger Games isn't a complete rip off of this. Yeah, it's similar, but as I said in my review for that one, it's just another variation on a theme. The biggest difference between this and that is that one has more world building (and is slightly better in that regard), but this one has a lot more guts, and was thankfully not compromised when it comes to the dark and gritty subject matter. Not only that, but this film is a lot easier to tell what's going on too, as the camera isn't shaking every few seconds.
The satire (and yes, it is clearly a darkly comedic satire) is fairly broad, but it gets the point across. Japan is getting frustrated with youthful rebellion so they come up with an extreme way to deal with it: randomly select entire classes of 9th graders and force them to battle to the death on an island. Awesome. It's a pretty pointed look at the competitiveness of the educational system, and really does a good job with the broad strokes. Plus, the bloodshed is a lot more effective and shocking since the kids all know each other very well, unlike THG where the kids don't really know one another very much.
The film is quite shocking, and it amazed me how many times I noticed that my jaw had dropped. This is gruesome, but there's definitely a sense of tongue-in-cheek to this, namely with the instructional video, and the way the adults regard the situation. I kinda felt bad for enjoying this at times, and the fact that the film is really tonally ambiguous is somewhat problematic, but overall, this film is quite amazing and compelling.
There's some character development, but just enough to keep most of the characters from being complete fodder. In a movie like this, its expected that some characters will get priority over the others, and that's fine. Those characters get the most development, and it's done decently. I just wish that it was possible to have more development for more of the players. The performances are decent though, for the most part. Occasionally some of the acting sticks out as rather melodramatic, but not enough to wreck things.
Now, the violence. Damn! Like I said, I got pretty shocked at times. This film is brutal, inventive, and the rough stuff is executed quite well. Some of these set pieces were just dynamite, and I loved the creativity they put into some of these kills.
The film does somewhat fall apart a bit towards the end, but it ended satisfactorily enough for me I suppose.
All in all, this is definitely a must-see. Obviously it's not for the squeamish, but come to it with an open mind and I think you might find something good to take away from it.
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- Mitsuko Souma: Why not kill? Everyone has their issues.
- Kitano: Life is a game. So fight for survival...and find out if you're worth it.
- Kitano: If you hate someone, you take the consequences.
- Kitano: The last one... Cookies sure were good.
- Mitsuko Souma: [in her head] I just don't want to be a loser anymore.
- Shuya Nanahara: NOBU! [Nobu's head explodes]
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