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This is outstanding work reporting DISC1 genetically...
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This is outstanding work reporting DISC1 genetically engineered mice.
Thus far, one type of DISC1 mutant mouse has been reported, by Gogos and colleagues
(Koike et al., 2006).
There are two remarkable points in this work. First, of most importance, John Roder and Steve Clapcote have been very successful in using mice with ENU-induced mutations for their questions. Due to the complexity of the DISC1 gene and isoforms, several groups, including ours, have tried but not succeeded in generating knockout mice. However, Roder and Clapcote found alternative mice that could be used in testing our main hypothesis. I believe that the majority of the success in this work is on this particular point. Indeed, to explore animal models for other susceptibility genes for major mental illnesses, this approach should be considered.
Second, it is very interesting that different mutations in the same gene display different types of phenotypes. I appreciate the excellence in the extensive behavioral assays in this work.
Although we need to wait for any molecular and mechanistic analyses of these mice in the future, this work provides us outstanding methodologies in studying major mental conditions. I anticipate that four to five papers will come out in this year that report various types of DISC1 genetically engineered mice. Neutral comparison of all the DISC1 mice from different groups will provide important insights for DISC1 and its role in major mental conditions.
This paper demonstrates that mutations in DISC1 can alter...
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This paper demonstrates that mutations in DISC1 can alter mouse behavior, brain structure, and biochemistry, consistent with the idea that DISC1 is related to major psychiatric disorders. This is already an important result. But more strikingly, the authors' interpretation is that one mutation (L100P) causes a phenotype similar to schizophrenia, while the other mutation (Q31L) results in a phenotype similar to affective disorder.
There are a number of caveats that need to be considered. No patients with equivalent mutations have been identified. The behavioral tests have only a hypothesized or empiric relevance to behavior in the human illnesses. DISC1 itself, while a very strong candidate gene, is still not fully validated, and the best evidence for its role in schizophrenia still arises from the single large pedigree in Scotland.
Despite these caveats, I believe this paper is potentially a major advance. The authors' interpretations are provocative, and could have far-reaching implications for understanding of the biological bases of psychiatric diseases. The models provide strong support for further study of DISC1. DISC1 has numerous very interesting interacting proteins and thus may provide an entry into pathogenic pathways for psychiatric diseases. We have suggested that interactors at the centrosome, involved with neuronal development, may be especially relevant to schizophrenia, while interactors at the synapse, or related to signal transduction, may be especially relevant to affective disorder (Ross et al., 2006). The beginnings of an allelic series of DISC1 mutations will presage more detailed genotype-phenotype studies in a variety of mouse models, with potential relevance to both schizophrenia and affective disorder.
Mutant Mice Bring Further Excitement to the DISC1-PDE4...
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Mutant Mice Bring Further Excitement to the DISC1-PDE4 Arena
DISC1 continues to ride a wave of optimism as we look for real breakthroughs in the molecular events underlying major psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar, and depression. In 2005, its fortunes became entwined with those of the phosphodiesterase PDE4B as they were shown to functionally and physically interact (Millar et al., 2005). Evidence linking PDE4B to depression has been known for some time, but in the wake of the DISC1 finding, its link to schizophrenia has hardened (Siuciak et al., 2007; Menniti et al., 2006; Pickard et al., 2007).
The Roder and Porteous labs have come together to produce a fantastic paper describing two ENU mutant mice lines with specific mutations in the N-terminus of DISC1. Luck was on their side as the mutations seem to have a direct impact on the interaction with the PDE4B. Furthermore, the two lines look to have distinct phenotypes—one a little schizophrenic, the other depressive. It is known from the clinical and genetic data that DISC1 is associated with schizophrenia, bipolar, and MDD, so this mouse dichotomy is very intriguing.
The mutant line Q31L is claimed to have a "depressive-like" phenotype. This comes from behavioral experiments including a range of assays looking at depressive-like behaviors where this strain had severe deficits, treatable with the dual serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) bupropion, commonly prescribed for depression. Together these findings could just as easily be linked to the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Furthermore, Q31L also shows modest deficits in two sensory processing paradigms (latent inhibition and pre-pulse inhibition), for which antipsychotics had no impact, and a working memory deficit, so this strain has characteristics of all the three key domains of schizophrenia. The pharmacology gets more interesting when these animals are dosed with rolipram (PDE4 inhibitor, raises cAMP levels) and look to be resistant to its effects. At the protein level, while it effects no changes in absolute levels of DISC1 and PDE4B, it leads to a 50 percent reduction in PDE4 activity. This information connects together nicely with the rolipram resistance, and thus the authors suggest that elevated cAMP might explain the behaviors observed, but they unfortunately do not show any cAMP levels in these animals. The paper also reports a decreased binding of the mutant form of DISC1 with PDE4B in overexpressed systems; coupled with the decreased PDE activity, this is in slight contradiction to the original Millar paper (Millar et al., 2005), but as the authors explain, the complexity of the DISC1-PDE4 molecular partnership could easily explain this. From my perspective, the lack of data to date on DISC1-PDE4 brain complexes is a major weak point of this story—this needs to be addressed as we move forward. This will also allow us to understand better the role of different DISC1 isoforms.
L100P is the "schizophrenic" brother of Q31P and has severe deficits in two sensory processing paradigms (latent inhibition and pre-pulse inhibition) which is reversed by typical and atypical antipsychotic and rolipram. Rolipram is able to modulate the behavior as PDE4 activity levels are at a wild-type level. Again, it shows decreased levels of DISC1-PDE4 binding.
Together, these two lines, along with the Gogos mice and a further bank of DISC1 mice which we should expect to see in the next year, puts the field in a position where we are now able to start to dissect out the clearly complex biological functions of DISC1. But as I indicated earlier, we need more information on relevant DISC1 isoforms. We know from the DISC1 interactome that there are many exciting partnerships to develop, but we may not have the fortune of an ENU screen to pull out mice with specific effects on an interaction. The differences in the behavior and pharmacology of these two strains is striking. In combination with the impact on PDE4-DISC1 binding and PDE4 activity, it highlights how much still needs to be understood for this interaction alone. More immediately, the mice show clearly that specific DISC1 mutations may give rise to specific clinical end-points and open up DISC1 pharmacogenomics as a real possibility.
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Premise: the LHC is obviously mapping unseen territory in high energies, and therefore it's always possible to imagine far out results.
Excluding completely unexpected outcomes - is the LHC performing any experiment that could help with string theory or m-theory? For example:
- direct super-strings or m-theory predictions to be tested or confuted
but also
- measurements that would help "shape" string/m-theory into something more concretely testable or practical than the current blurry incarnation?

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Published October 25, 2013
British participant Kenneth Nowicki (R) drags a truck during the annual Chinese Hercules Open in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China.
A trader carries sweeping brooms for sale along the streets of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo.
A German police car passes a mural painting featuring the emblematic U.S. eagle with a badge that reads "National Security Agency Worldwide" at the at the Ehrenfeld railway embankment in Cologne, western Germany.
Cast member Nicola Peltz acts during the filming of a scene for the movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" in Hong Kong. The shooting continued after the police arrested a suspected triad member following an attempt to extort money from the crew. It was the second attempt in five days to blackmail the Paramount Pictures crew, local media reported.
"Resortito", a clown, rallies for peace during the 18th Latin American clown convention or "Fair of Laughter" in Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 23, 2013.
A helicopter drops water on a bush fire in Faulcombridge, 85 kilometers (53 miles) west of Sydney, Australia. More than 100 wildfires have killed one resident and destroyed more than 200 homes in New South Wales state this month.
Rebel fighters hold a position on the front line in the Syrian northeastern city of Deir Ezzor.
Palestinian school children play with tires on a Gaza beach on in Deir al-Balah.
Workers clean a glass wall at a hotel in Beijing, China.
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Cake artist Sarah King displays her eyeball cakes at the 'Feed the Beast Extreme cake shop' in London. The Halloween themed cake shop will have a 6-ft long devil horse cake dripping blood, and the giant rotting maggot riddled section of a Kraken eye.
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Did you know that in spite of the fact that many beautiful buildings were built throughout history that the profession of Architect (for buildings) didn't really exist until 1857? Up until that time architects were either artists or really advanced builders or perhaps even project managers. Today there are a group of folks who are building a professional organization to help foster the role of Software Architect and we are privileged to have Paul Preiss the president of IASA to tell us all about it.
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How To Drill Through Glass (Video Tutorial!!)
Making lighting is one of my FAVORITE DIYs ever. Especially when it involves making something amazing out of something totally unexpected. The one project Kelsey requested in her Epic Room Makeover was hanging bedside lights. Aaaaaand because those are one design choice that I think everyone should make in their Master Bedroom I happily obliged.
Using vases and drilling though glass is nothing new to me (my first project was my Anthro Inspired Teacup Lamp 2 years ago) and I have gotten more questions about the specifics of that tutorial than anything else on my site. (People are scared to drill through glass!) So guess what?! I made a video and show you EXACTLY how to do it without breaking your glass.
I found my vases for $16.99 at Homegoods. If you are looking for glass to drill Homegoods is such a great place to find it! Glass elsewhere can be super pricey (even at places like Target) the glass from Homegoods is WAY cheaper and much more unique.
Make sure to check out the other posts in the Epic Room Makeover 2012 Series:
How To Build A Simple Sliding Barn Door
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Greater Brockton Greater Brockton
Directly Affected: 10,300
Indirectly Affected: 2,200
Total: 12,500
% of Wage Earners: 25%
Greater Taunton
Directly Affected: 10,300
Indirectly Affected: 2,200
Total: 12,500
% of Wage Earners: 25%
Greater Taunton
Directly Affected: 10,400
Indirectly Affected: 2,800
Total: 13,200
% of Wage Earners: 24%
Greater Plymouth
Directly Affected: 9,600
Indirectly Affected: 2,800
Total: 12,400
% of Wage Earners: 16%
Southeastern Norfolk (Braintree, Randolph)
Directly Affected: 8,700
Indirectly Affected: 3,200
Total: 11,900
% of Wage Earners: 19%
Easton, Bridgewater, Western Plymouth
Directly Affected: 10,200
Indirectly Affected: 2,700
Total: 12,900
% of Wage Earners: 17%
BROCKTON – When the state's new minimum wage increase goes into effect, some areas of Massachusetts may experience bigger economic impacts than others. In Greater Brockton, 25 percent of the labor force would likely see increased wages under the new minimum wage, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center says.
"The largest impact will be in areas where there are more low-wage workers, but there are lower-wage workers in most cities and towns in the commonwealth," said Noah Berger, executive director of the nonprofit Budget and Policy Center.
State lawmakers voted last month to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $11 an hour by Jan. 1, 2017.
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in Brockton released its analysis projecting how many workers will be directly and indirectly affected. Urban centers in the South Coast, Central Cape and Western Massachusetts will see some of the largest economic impacts, as they have high concentrations of low-wage workers, according to the analysis.
The Greater Brockton region, the Budget and Policy Center said, has an estimated 10,300 workers earning less than $11 per hour, and 2,200 earning slightly above the new minimum wage. Those 2,200 "indirectly affected" workers are also likely to see raises as employers adjust their wage scales, Berger said.
In total, the Boston-based center said, 25 percent of the labor force in Brockton and surrounding communities would likely see increased wages under the new minimum wage law. Statewide, an estimated 605,000 workers, or 20 percent of the Massachusetts labor force, can expect to see their wages rise, the center said.
The study shows there are 473,000 workers in the state currently earning less than $11 per hour, and an additional 132,000 workers who fall into the "indirectly affected" category.
Higher wages will lead to increased consumer activity and more cash entering the local economy, Berger said.
Some, however, say the minimum wage hike could have unintended negative consequences.
Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, opposed the $11 minimum wage, saying it could hurt small businesses and potentially lead to layoffs.
"If your costs are going up and sales are not, and you can't afford to raise prices because of competition, you have no alternative but to reduce employment, move your business or go out of business," he said.
Hurst said he would have supported a more modest wage hike, perhaps to the $10.10 mark President Barack Obama called for at the federal level.
He added that he's disappointed Massachusetts didn't do away with mandatory time-and-a-half Sunday pay for retail workers or adopt a separate, lower minimum wage for teens.
He expects to see fewer jobs for teens and greater challenges for small retailers.
"My concern there is that on a Sunday, the minimum wage for retail stores is not going to be $11. It's going to be $16.50," he said. "We are very concerned about the future of our main streets. I have real concerns on whether a small store can even operate on Sundays on that type of wage scale."
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We assume that the vast majority of you reading this are familiar with the Internet's obsession with fan fiction, where regular people write new adventures involving their favorite characters. And we further assume that you already know that most of these stories involve characters from one series having all kinds of depraved sex with characters from another.
So let us once again take a look at some of the most mind-boggling pairings the minds of fan fiction writers have come up with ...
#5. Professor Snape from Harry Potter Diddles the Teletubbies
The Scenario:
The Harry Potter universe is apparently a favorite setting for writers of erotic fan fiction: We've already told you about the steamy stories where Ron Weasley's brothers hook up with Lance Bass from N*Sync and Indiana Jones molests Lord Voldemort. Even then, nothing, absolutely nothing, can prepare you for the time when Professor Severus Snape met the Teletubbies ... and had sex with them.
Spoiler: SNAPE FUCKS TINKY WINKY.
In the story, Professor Snape (and we assume from here on out that you're imagining Alan Rickman, who played him in the movies) is suffering from existential despair, despite having a sweet teaching job in a smelly dungeon and enviably greasy hair. He brings his troubles to his superior, Dumbledore, who orders Snape to take a vacation in the sunny land of the Teletubbies. Snape does just that.
"Jesus, I meant stay home and watch TV, what's wrong with you?"
Now that the writer has properly established a plausible scenario for the characters to meet, let the fucking begin.
Where It Gets Really Creepy:
It turns out the Teletubbies are slightly curious about sex, and who better to teach them about it than a potions professor at a magic school? Snape demonstrates how it's done with female Teletubbie Laa-Laa:
"Teletubbies, lay her with me, I'll teach you how to be a man. Oh, but you Poo, aren't ready yet. You are too young baby. Stay here in the corner and play with you small hose."
So Laa-Laa is ripe for fucking, but Po is out of the question, because that would be weird.
Later, Professor Snape teaches Dipsy how to turn Tinky Winky's butt into an instrument of pleasure:
"Oh Dispy, he don't have crotch mouth. But behind him, you will find a pork's eye. Don't be afraid, it's dirty, but after a while you will like the fine flavor of melted chocolate covering your lips."
Who let this man work with children?
But it doesn't stop with poop. Snape's fascination with bodily fluids continues as the lesson descends into an all-out orgy featuring boogers, vomit and bathing in fountains of breast milk. It's just a single-minded medley of every conceivable excretion, but the scariest part is that we can't shake the feeling that Snape is in his element here.
We are so very, very sorry. -Cracked Image Department
Think about it: Snape has spent decades living in a wizard's basement studying odd chemicals, has almost no friends, is most likely a virgin and is still obsessed with a girl he knew as a boy. Smearing poop on Teletubbies sounds exactly like what he must imagine sex to be like. But our favorite line in the whole story might be this:
His nut sack was very white and hairy and exhalled a snake oil parfum essence.
Him and his wheezing nut sack.
#4. Professor X Has a Three-Way With Magneto and Hannibal Lecter
The Scenario:
Charles Xavier, the man who will one day lead the X-Men as Professor X, is sitting in a cafe near Oxford when his mutant powers detect a disturbed mind sitting near him; not just any type of disturbed, but "That guy's esophagus would taste exquisite with some Dom Perignon" disturbed. Charles quickly leaves the cafe, but the man follows him home and invites himself in. His name, we find out, is Hannibal Lecter.
Yep, that one.
This story combines the settings from the movies X-Men: First Class and Hannibal Rising (a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs), meaning that both characters are still in their 20s and you can stop picturing Patrick Stewart and Anthony Hopkins making out now (if you can). After a bumpy introduction, Charles and Hannibal start getting along better. Way better.
Does anyone else hear wedding bells?
Where It Gets Really Creepy:
When he raised his head to see, Hannibal's mouth was already closing around his cock, and-
Hannibal's mouth-
Charles whimpered and clutched at the sheets.
OK, stop right there. So, Charles knows that Lecter is a cannibal. He's been inside his head, he knows he's eaten at least one other person so far ... and he still lets the guy put his mouth around his penis? Do we really need to explain how that could go very, very wrong? It seems to us like this is exactly the type of perilous situation that Charles' mental powers are designed to prevent.
"Look, guys, he asked for the handjob."
After a few nights of passion, Hannibal goes away, but Charles remains fascinated by the man and his magic lips. Months later, Hannibal returns with a friend -- a young Erik Lehnsherr, aka the future Magneto. Yep, apparently the comic neglected to mention that the two mutant frenemies were first introduced by Hannibal the Cannibal, although considering that this was followed by several sex scenes and a menage a trois, it's obvious why they wouldn't want to bring it up again in front of the kids.
The threesome is more realistic when you imagine the actual Michael Fassbender taking Magneto's place.
Hannibal had gotten lube somewhere, proper lube. He's never fucked you, has he? he asked.
"Oh," Charles said, turned on as fuck. "No. We've never."
It is time that he did. The door slammed shut, and in the next second Hannibal was there, groin grazing against Charles' ass, pressing Charles' own erection against Erik's.
He still can't sit right.
After the three are done playing Human Centipede, Hannibal and Erik leave for good the next morning to continue tracking down and killing the Nazis that tortured them when they were children. Because, yep, that's what they were doing together -- this could have been Magneto and Lecter: Nazi Hunters, but the author decided that a whole bunch of fucking sounded way more interesting.
#3. The Tetris/Death Note Erotic Fan Fiction
The Scenario:
Death Note is about a crazy kid who kills unworthy people by writing their names in a magic notebook, like Dexter but with more Japan. Tetris is about falling blocks. The only thing these two properties have in common, literally, is that someone wrote a fan fiction story where the universes intersect and sex ensues. Somehow.
The sexual tension here is unbearable.
The story stars one of the main characters of Death Note, Mello, a teenage detective trying to capture the Death Note killer (or "Kira"). One day, Mello finds himself trapped inside a game of Tetris:
His first thought was, Shit I've been drugged.
His second thought was, "Kira wouldn't need to drug me, he'd just write down that I'd have bizarre hallucinations and then die at the end, after he'd had his laugh."
We didn't know a death note could make you trip balls, but there you go.
Where It Gets Really Creepy:
And his third thought was, "I didn't expect tetris blocks would have such an odd texture."
Here we go. Mello begins groping the giant Tetris blocks and is surprised to find out that they are "soft, firm and oddly slippery all at once," like featureless square-shaped people.
What? That's not how everyone always imagined them?
Things really get going when a block lands on top of Mello and begins thrusting itself on him in a rather inappropriate manner ...
As if the block had understood but disapproved, it only became much more vigorous in its efforts, grinding against Mello in the most annoying way.
... somehow causing his clothes to disappear:
He kicked again with both legs at once, and abruptly realized his boots were now missing as his bare feet connected with the softly glowing, strangely slippery blue block. A split-second later, he realized that it wasn't just his boots. All his clothing had somehow dissolved or poofed out of existence.
This is the writer's clever way of getting around the fact that Tetris blocks can't take someone's clothes off, because they don't have hands. It's almost as if whoever invented Tetris hadn't anticipated the eventuality that they would be used in porn.
You're welcome, geometry-fetishist anime fans.
Mello felt the slippery soft-yet-firm texture gently penetrating him from behind, tentative and exquisite, almost like a pair of lips and a tongue. It was spreading him, rubbing and rocking, beginning to almost lick him deep inside.
Wait, is Mello fitting the entire block into his ass, or do Tetris blocks have penises? Everyone, take a second and think about this. Also, why exactly did this have to be a character from Death Note, again? At this point, it makes no difference who the other person is. It's still sex with Tetris blocks.
Is it supposed to be revenge for all those chocolate blocks he ate?
Eventually, however, Mello wakes up from his bizarre dream, and we find out that he had been in an orgy with a bunch of couch cushions. Yeah, OK, we've all been there.


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Mr. and Mrs. Dale Simon of Westphalia, announce the engagement of their daughter, Joelle Yvonne Simon, to David Richard Letts, son of Marilyn Letts of Pewamo, and the late Lawrence Letts.
The bride-elect graduated from Michigan State University. She is an analyst for the State of Michigan. The future groom graduated from Lansing Community College, and is employed as an engineer technician for Dart Container Corporation.
The November 2013 ceremony will take place at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pewamo, before Rev. Charlon O. Mason.
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Why does Bane talk about giving Gotham to the people if he intends to blow it all up. Why doesn't he just detonate the bomb right away?
He explains this best when he first imprisons Bruce as an homage to the prison where he came from.
He explains to Bruce that he wants him to watch the city struggle on while being held under Bane's martial law. Suffering, hoping that Batman will come to save them or anyone, for that matter.
All the while, he imagines Bruce just laying in his prison, suffering from his injury, watching the city die, until it finally exploded from the core, decimating Bruce's soul. At this point, Bane plans on having Bruce killed, knowing he failed 12 million people all while he just lay in a prison cell, not being able to do anything to stop it.
Of course, as we learn towards the end of the movie, the whole point of the bomb is actually Talia's doing, in order to make Bruce suffer and garner her vengeance for the murder of her father.
He doesn't detonate the bomb for two reasons. First, Bane explains that true torture comes from hope. This is the function of the hole they can climb to try to escape in the prison. When there is no hope, total despair overcomes people and nothing more can torture them when they have given up completely. If there is a perpetual reminder of escape, then hope keeps people suffering. Bane wanted to truly torture Gotham, with the hope that they might survive. Second, Bane wanted to punish Bruce for betraying Ra's and the League by making him watch Gotham's suffering. This was to break Bruce by showing him how he failed the entire city he betrayed the League for.
Bane has a dim view of humanity, especially the people of Gotham. He thinks people, under significant stress and hardship, will turn into maggots, not dissimilar to the way the Joker felt. He wants to screw with their minds. His 'revolution' is a way for him to exploit anti-authoritarian sentiment amongst the people : he positions himself as a liberator, as someone who's on the side of the weak, those who've been crushed by the 'system' - the poor, people who don't like the police.
Put simply : he enjoys watching people squirm, because he and Talia are sadistic bastards whose childhood pain has distorted their view of humanity so much that they cannot see the world as anything but a cruel place. They want to accomplish the opposite of what Wayne does : just like the Joker, they want to encourage people to 'eat each other' ... 'to stay in the sun'.
Why did they leave it so long? They thought they couldn't fail. They were arrogant and reckless, but more importantly : they had a mole inside the 'resistance' who was able to forecast every single move Gordon, Blake et al would make - the mole, of course, being Talia. And one more for one more reason that is obvious but not always apparent : they are fuc*ing crazy. They're not factoring in self-preservation or anything logical : they're trying to create hell on Earth - and enjoying it.


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Release date:
March 29, 2013
Studio: Open Road Films
Director: Andrew Niccol
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sensuality and violence)
Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Frances Fisher
Official website: TheHostthefilm.com| Facebook
Plot Summary:
What if everything you love was taken from you in the blink of an eye? "The Host" is the next epic love story from the creator of the "Twilight Saga," worldwide bestselling author, Stephenie Meyer. When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about - Jared (Max Irons), Ian (Jake Abel), her brother Jamie (Chandler Canterbury) and her Uncle Jeb (William Hurt), proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.


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I've started following this weight lifting routine and have adjusted my intake of protein to suit. Should I also be eating more calories in general or do I only need to think about cardio for this?
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Weight lifting is great for building muscle. Having more muscle mass has been said as a means of increasing your basal metabolism; therefore burning calories:
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/256854-calories-burned-through-strength-training/#ixzz1xgfFH1id
In terms of your other questions about calorie intake and nutritional needs. It really depends on your fitness goals. I'll go ahead and make some broad general assumptions.
If you're just starting off and you're looking to lose weight there are zounds approaches and philosophies: limiting caloric/carbohydrate intake, changing the frequency and spacing of meals, etc.
Also, i would recommend reviewing some threads here on this Fitness.SE:
Weight lifting is work. Work requires calories.
Think of it this way: just being alive burns calories.
Being alive and lifting heavy things will burn more calories, because you're doing more work.
Whether or not you should be eating more calories depends on what you're trying to do.
If you're trying to maintain weight, and you've increased your caloric expenditure, you would need to increase your caloric intake to keep pace. If you're trying to lose or gain weight, you'd need to adjust your caloric intake to match your targeted loss/gain pace.


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Q: Which commands can I supply back to LaTeX when it pauses on a line of code during compilation and is waiting for me to give it more information before proceeding?
E.g., in the post How do I use \show? (to which this question is a follow-up) I found that with
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OSABA, Elva Marie Lloyd, 64, of Weirton, passed away Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at the Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, OH.
Born on April 26, 1948, in Steubenville, OH, Elva was a daughter of the late Edward Vernon and Helen Louise Hill Lloyd.
Elva was a homemaker who was devoted to her family and church parish, St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, Weirton. She worked for her brother Ed in his print shop, Ed's Quick Print Shop, and retired as manager after 20 years of service. In her free time, Elva enjoyed cheering on her two favorite football teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Madonna Blue Dons.
Elva is survived by her loving husband, Thomas Osaba; two sons, Dave (Darla) Osaba and Marc Osaba, all of Weirton; daughter Erin (Jason) Short of Chonburi, Thailand; three brothers, Jim (Margie) Cunningham, Chuck Cunningham, and Ed (Louise) Lloyd, all of Steubenville, OH; three sisters, Mary Jean (Ken) Aspenleiter of Weirton, Mary Lou (Bernard) Zascavage and Joyce Bell, both of Steubenville, OH; three grandsons, Marc Osaba and Camden and Cooper Short; and many nieces and nephews.
There will be no visitation, but friends are invited to join in a celebration of Elva's life at the St. Paul Roman Catholic Church where a Funeral Liturgy with Mass has been scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, at noon. The Reverend Father Larry Dorsch will officiate.
Burial will be private and at the convenience of her family.
Memorial contributions in Elva's memory may be made to the St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 140 Walnut Street, Weirton, WV 26062.
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There is a LESS plug-in for PhpStorm
*.less files are indeed recognized, in that a little "LESS" icon appears next to the
*.less files, but it appears that the "support" ends there. Code completion does not work for me as it does for
*.css files. I assume it's supposed to right? What could be the possible source of this problem?
I'm using PhpStorm on Windows 7.
Edit: After spending a good amount of time on this question, I've found no solution, and posted it as a "bug" on YouTrack. Please also vote it up there, if you can't find an answer, and would like a fix to be implemented.


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Student Rights and Responsibilities
Student Rights and Responsibilities promotes and upholds concepts of integrity, civility, and accountability through a lens of community education and individual development.
Know Your Rights. Know Your Responsibilities.
As part of the Davenport University community, every student has rights and responsibilities. Once you have been admitted to Davenport, you are accountable for knowing and abiding by the Student Code of Conduct and other policies as outlined in the Student Catalog.
If You Violate the Student Code of Conduct
If your behavior is inconsistent with Davenport policy, whether the event occurs in or out of the classroom or on or off campus, the judicial process is initiated.
- You will be notified through your Davenport email that a violation has been filed.
- You will be invited to attend a hearing (with an individual judicial officer or a hearing council).
- At the hearing, you will be able to discuss the charges and a determination will be made.
- If you are found in violation, sanctions may be imposed on you.
What are Sanctions?
Sanctions are steps taken to ensure that no additional violations occur. Sanctions range from a formal warning or probation to suspension or dismissal, based on the severity of the violation. Specific, discretionary sanctions may be imposed (i.e. restoration following an act of vandalism) related to the violation.
What if I Disagree with a Determination?
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The court encourages parties to conduct their own records search through the court's Public Access system.
If court staff is asked to complete a records search and the search takes more than 10 minutes, a fee of $15.00 will be assessed pursuant to Government Code section 70627(c) for each search conducted.
The fee for copies is $.50 per page and if certification is requested, an additional $25.00 per document will be assessed.
Requests for records searches, copies, or certification may be made in person or by mail. If the request is made by mail, complete the Request for Records Search and/or Copies form and submit a check payable to the 'Riverside Superior Court.' DO NOT SEND CASH. If the total amount owing is unknown, indicate under the amount line 'not to exceed $40.00.' The correct amount will be filled in and a receipt will be forwarded along with the requested copies. All checks must be preprinted from the banking institution with the maker's name. Copy orders are filled within 7-10 working days.
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Let $u,v$ be arbitrary elements of a function space $X$ defined on $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Define
$$ (u,v)_2 = \int_\Omega \partial_x u \, \partial_x v + \partial_y u \, \partial_y v \:dx $$
Now, my question is what should $X$ be so that $(\cdot,\cdot)_2$ defines an inner product?
It is clear that $(\cdot,\cdot)_2$ is symmetric and linear but the problem seems to be positive-definitiveness.


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I'd like my script to output to stdout unless it gets a filename as an argument. An obvious way is like so:
if [ -e "$1" ]; then
command_with_output >$1
It's pretty ugly and has repetition, so I'd like a more consice way to do it.
I tried the following, but it doesn't work.
[ -e "$1" ] && outfile=$1 || outfile='&1'
command_with_output >$outfile
This doesn't change the relevancy of the answers, but I realized after I made the question that
touch "$1" && outfile=$1 is really what I need instead of
[ -e "$1" ] && outfile=$1 since the file may not already exist, and I want to make sure I can write to it or create it, not just that it exists. I'm not changing the question because it would put the answers out of sync.


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TAUNTON — A 27-year-old Taunton woman was busted for dealing oxycodone in the parking lot of BJ's Wholesale Club, and her New Hampshire customer was charged with possession, after police said plainclothes detectives caught them in the act late Wednesday morning.
Melanie Medeiros, 235 Tremont St., was charged with distribution of a Class B controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute the prescription painkiller oxycodone.
Police also charged John P. Plunkett, 34, 60 Glasgow Circle, Hudson, N.H., with simple possession of a Class B substance.
Cops said the two met up in the Bay Street parking lot across the street from the entrance to Myles Standish Industrial Park. Police said the large parking area in the plaza recently has been the scene of drug-related arrests.
Medeiros allegedly became argumentative and uncooperative after police swooped in and told her she was under arrest. They also said she made furtive movements indicating she might be shoving something down the front of her pants before they were able to handcuff her.
Police said they checked the back seat of the cruiser into which she was placed to make sure there was nothing there. But by the time they arrived at police headquarters, they said they found a baggie on the floor containing 42 and a half oxycodone pills with a street value of nearly $1,500.
Police also said they confiscated $4,510 in cash from Medeiros.
When they asked why she had come to BJ's, Medeiros allegedly told police she bought baby formula for a friend from Colorado. She then, they said, claimed she simply met Plunkett in order to give him a hug.
Plunkett's 1999 Jeep Cherokee was towed from the scene by R&F Motors.
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My friend and I have created a walking network. We created a network without a hierarchy evaluation and the routing worked fine, but when we added a hierarchy to the equation many routes won't solve. We created a hierarchy class and attributed each of our walk types with a hierarchy of 1, 2, or 3. We thought that the cause of the routes not working was when a route would jump from a hierarchy of 3 to 1, or 1 to 3, skipping 2. But routes do work in some of those situations.
Does anyone know why it breaks, or if there is a way to fix it? (We know that all of our paths are snapped together)


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Welcome to M.Ed (Special) Admit Card 2014 Section. All candidates can download here Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Master of Education (Special) (M.Ed (Special)) Entrance Examination Admit Card/Hall Ticket online.
. The Admit Card will be e-mailed to the candidate at the email addresses provided by the candidate in the application form around 7-10 May 2014. SMS alert regarding issue of Admit Card on the mobile phone registered by the candidate will also be sent. Therefore the candidates are advised to give correct e-mail addresses/ mobile phone numbers for correspondence while filling up the online application form. Alternatively, Candidates can download the ADMIT CARD from the BHU Entrance Test Portal (bhuonline.in) on or after 07th May 2014 by providing the unique code allotted to them at the time of online submission of application form. If a candidate is unable to download the Admit Card till a week before the date of the Test, he/she should contact the Office of the Controller of Examinations, BHU, Varanasi on Phone No. 0542-2368418.
. Paste passport size photograph (same passport size photograph which has been used for online submission) in the space provided on the printout of the Admit Card and self-attest it.
1) Candidates to note that there will be no postal dispatch of Admit Card, which can only be downloaded and printed from the candidate's e-mail account or downloaded from the BHU's entrance test portal by giving the unique code allotted at the time of online form submission.
2) The candidate should carefully examine the Admit Card received by him/her for all the entries made therein. In case of any discrepancy the candidate should inform the Controller of Examinations immediately.
. The Tests, shall be held during 24th May to 3rd June 2014 (detail programme is given at Sl.No. 22). Schedule of Tests has been given at the end of the Information Bulletin and Venue details will be given on the Admit Card.
. No candidate shall be allowed to appear in the Test without a valid Admit Card
. The candidate is required to retain the Admit Card in safe custody after the Test for presenting it before the Admission Committee, if called for counseling.
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I wanted to ask a summary of known results and references about the homotopy type of the mapping space $\mathrm{Map}(BG,BK)$ (and specially the connected components) between the classifying spaces when G and K are general topological groups. Thank you.
The Sullivan conjecture, a beautiful theorem proved by Haynes Miller (The Sullivan conjecture on maps from classifying spaces) has striking consequences about maps between classifying spaces when the target is completed at a prime $p$. Some references are Dwyer and Zabrodsky (Maps between classifying spaces), Jackowski, McClure, and Oliver Homotopy classification of self-maps of $BG$ via $G$-actions. I, II; Self-homotopy equivalences of classifying spaces of compact connected Lie groups); Notbohm (Maps between classifying spaces).
The classical work of J.F. Adams on this topic is also well worth remembering: Maps between classifying spaces (I), II, III and Maps between $p$-completed classifying spaces.
As Neil Strickland points our, this is too difficult to have a good answer in general. In this post, I am only considering discrete groups. A very special case is the following
Examples of superpositions include retractions, maps between oriented manifolds of non-zero degree, maps whose homotopy fibre is a finite complex with non-zero Euler characteristic. In the application below, one needs a much weaker condition which might be checked by hand for particular maps. The following result can be proved:
This is (a special case of) a consequence of results in [Daniel H. Gottlieb. Covering transformations and universal fibrations. Illinois J. Math., 13:432–437, 1969., Daniel H. Gottlieb. Self coincidence numbers and the fundamental group. J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2 (2007), no. 1, 73–83.] and was proved in [Thomas Schick and Andreas Thom. On a conjecture of Gottlieb. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 7 (2007), 779–784.]


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For Seniors: Manage Contacts with iPad 2
iPad helps you manage contact info such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and so on. Sure, you can use an address book to keep contacts, but why should you, when the iPad makes it so much fun?
For example, once a friend's address is loaded into Contacts, you can use the iPad's Maps application to grab directions to your friend's house. If your friend has a blog or other website, you can load it up in a jiffy on your iPad.
Tap the Contacts app icon on the Home screen.
The Contacts app opens. If you haven't entered any contacts yet, you see a blank address book.
Tap the Add button, the button with the small plus sign (+) on it.
A blank Info page opens and the onscreen keyboard is displayed.
Enter any contact information you want.
Only a first name in the First field is required. To scroll down the contact page and see more fields, flick up on the page with your finger.
To add a mailing or street address, tap Add New Address.
This opens additional entry fields for the address.
To add an information field, tap Add Field.
The Add Field dialog appears.
Choose a field to add.
You may have to flick the page up with your finger to view all the fields. Once you tap a field, it's added to the Info dialog box. Type the information you want to save into the new field.
If your contact has a name that's difficult for you to pronounce, consider adding the Phonetic First Name or Phonetic Last Name field, or both, to that person's record.
Tap the Done button when you finish making entries.
The new contact appears in your address book.


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The 6 Most Badass Airline Pilots To Ever Stare Down Death
#3. American Airlines Flight 96
In 1972, American Airlines Flight 96 was on its way from Detroit to Buffalo. Just after taking off, there was the sound of a massive crash. Pilot Bryce McCormick, known for having the most piloty name in history, thought he'd just been in a mid-air collision.
Or it was just a really tall baggage handler.
One of the engines went down. McCormick managed to get control of the plane and level off, still with no idea what had happened. He decided to turn around and go back to Detroit -- which, to be honest, is probably the only good reason to ever go back to Detroit.
Then, in the passenger area of the plane, a fog suddenly formed. Just as the crew was realizing this meant sudden decompression, the floor of the cabin started to collapse into the cargo hold. What the shit?
"Um, can we start over? I feel like way too much shit is going wrong."
It turned out someone had forgotten to seal the cargo door, and the force of the takeoff had ripped it straight off and tossed it into the tail of the plane, disrupting the engine and the flaps in the back. And because the aircraft wasn't sealed, the inside began breaking up due to the sudden decrease in pressure. Passengers were told to brace themselves for an emergency landing, and to put their yellow oxygen masks on. Oh, wait, the oxygen bags didn't drop because they're only deployed when the plane is above 14,000 feet, and they were a few thousand feet under that window.
"So we're in agreement. 13,000 feet is for pussies and food trays should crush your sternum
whenever the person in front lies back. Brilliant work."
With shit officially getting real and the plane breaking up from the inside out, McCormick attempted a landing. They were coming in too hard and too fast, the sluggish controls putting the plane on a collision course with the hard surface of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. McCormick fought to level out the plane, and got the wheels to the pavement, only to see the plane go skidding wildly off the runway.
He wrestled the big bastard back under control, the plane finally coming to a rest with two of the three landing gear sitting in the grass off the side of the pavement. The result: a few minor injuries. Amazing, considering an identical cargo door accident outside Paris resulted in the deaths of everybody on board. Either McCormick and his crew are damned good, or they're so lucky they shit rainbows.
Via VibraciaX
We're not engineers, but we don't think this is a cooling vent.
#2. United Airlines Flight 232
We'll warn you ahead of time, this one doesn't have as happy an ending as the rest.
In 1989, United Flight 232 took off from Denver for Chicago. About an hour into the flight, an engine's fan disk failed. If that sounds like a fairly important part of a jet engine, you're right -- the result was the engine blew out, damaging the tail fins and sending shrapnel into the plane's hydraulic lines.
That last bit is also important -- the hydraulics maneuver the flaps, rudder, stabilizer and pretty much every critical control of the aircraft, so this would be sort of like your bicycle partially exploding mid-pedal and taking off most of your right foot.
Via Wikipedia
Detailed on this technical thing.
Since hydraulic fluid was now leaking at a pretty serious pace, the controls of the plane became weaker and weaker. Pilot Alfred Haynes began to pull the throttle to idle, but there was another problem -- the damage to the plane had the throttle stuck on full power. So now you're on an out of control bicycle, footless and hurtling downhill with no brakes.
The crew was finally able to cut off some fuel to the engine to get it to slow down, at which point they discovered that the yoke wasn't working either. In short, they now had no control of the plane whatsoever. Improvising, Haynes and crew had to manually rev the remaining engines up and down to try to manipulate the rudderless aircraft and get it back to something close to level.
Via Wikipedia
We assume they did everything short of flapping their arms really hard.
An emergency landing alert was quickly issued to the plane at the Sioux City airport in Iowa. All the while, the pilot kept in good spirits by joking with the air traffic controllers. Hey, did we mention that at the time, no plane that lost all hydraulics ever landed safely? And that, in fact, no one had ever survived that situation?
As they came in to land, the crew managed to get the landing gear down and announced to the passengers that they should brace for impact. With no hydraulics, they were unable to control the speed at which the plane could land. A normal landing is at 140 knots, Flight 232 was coming in at 240 knots, which is less like landing and more like crashing at an angle.
Totally under control.
The wing of the plane hit first and burst into flames. The plane bounced violently and the tail section snapped off. After skidding further, the other wing came off and the plane ground to a halt, with fire and emergency crews rushing to the scene.
A third of the passengers lost their lives (many weren't because of the crash, but from inhaling the smoke that filled the cabin) but the efforts of Haynes, co-pilot William Records and engineer Dudley Dvorak, saved the lives of 200 people.
#1. Miracle on the Hudson
In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, just after takeoff from New York, hit a flock of Canadian geese. The birds obscured the windshield, which would be bad on its own. But they also clogged up both engines, and the plane lost all power.
Nature has finally learnt kamikaze.
What makes this case different from any on the list is that there would be no limping back to the airport for a hard landing on the runway. They weren't going to have the power to get back to an airport. Captain "Sully" Sullenburger radioed traffic control and told them as much.
Via dailyplanetdispatch.com
Presumably ending the call with "Yippie-kiy-yay, motherfucker."
He was going to have to set the plane down, which meant finding something other than a runway. In this case, all they had was the Hudson River.
If landing an airliner on a river already sounds like trying to float a boat through an iceberg, well, the situation was actually worse than that. Right ahead of the plane was a little obstacle called the George Washington Bridge. It happens to span the Hudson River right across the spot where Sullenburger's plane was going to make its descent. No one was more surprised than Sullenburger, by the way, who in all the excitement had forgotten the bridge was there (which is understandable because his windshield was covered in dead goose).
"Outta my way, asshole!"
At this point, his instruments started screeching warnings about how he was about to crash into something huge and bridge-shaped.
Amazingly, the plane cleared the bridge by less than 900 feet, which had to be a nice wake-up call to the drivers on the bridge who looked up to see this hulking plane suddenly blotting out the sun.
"Great, I'm given a full fat latte and now this. I hate New York."
Sullenburger guided the plane down. Finally it slammed into the river at about 150 miles per hour, crashing into the waves with an impact that inside the plane must have sounded like the goddamned world was ending. But the plane held together, and everyone survived.
Rescue boats rushed to the scene and pulled everyone out of the freezing water. Sullenburger was the last one off.
After his mustache.
For more on the world of piloting, check out 6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument and 7 Planes Perfectly Designed (To Kill The People Flying Them).


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Quest for savings Connecticut residents treasure home rule, or at least they say they do — yet they keep electing legislators who are quick to impose unfunded mandates that effectively trump the home-rule principle. That's one reason among many that leaders of neighboring municipalities shouldn't hesitate to enter into collaborative efforts that have potential to save vast sums, while leaving intact their remaining vestiges of local control. A case in point is the plan by education leaders in Plymouth, Thomaston and Wolcott to enter into an agreement with a single company to provide busing services. The three school systems' business managers already have gone over their respective busing contracts to develop a single contract incorporating the best aspects of all three. "If all three schools can cut down their transportation costs, it is great for taxpayers," said Patrick Perugino, chairman of the Plymouth Board of Education. Not only that, but it's a great teachable moment, as school leaders exhibit the potential of economies of scale — as taught in high school economics classes — to yield savings to the benefit of all.
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Author(s): Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau
Year Published: 2006
In recognition of the important role fathers play in the welfare and development of their children, this manual builds on the information presented in earlier user manuals in this series as it relates specifically to fathers. It was written to help child protective services caseworkers work effectively with, support, and strengthen the role of fathers in their children's lives.
Table of Contents
The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Purpose and Overview
CHAPTER 2 Fathers and Their Impact on Children's Well-being
CHAPTER 3 Fathers and Their Impact on Child Maltreatment
CHAPTER 4 Effective Fathering
CHAPTER 5 Fathers and Initial Assessment and Investigation
CHAPTER 6 Fathers and Case Planning
CHAPTER 7 Services for Fathers
CHAPTER 8 Fatherhood Programs
CHAPTER 9 Federal Fatherhood Initiatives
APPENDIX A Glossary of Terms
APPENDIX B Resource Listings of Selected National Organizations Concerned with Fatherhood and Child Maltreatment
APPENDIX C State Telephone Numbers for Reporting Child Abuse
APPENDIX D Cultural Competence Self-assessment Questionnaire, Service Provider Version1
APPENDIX E Tips for Dads
APPENDIX F Healthy Marriages
Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2006). The importance of fathers in the healthy development of children. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
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6 Insane (But Convincing) Fan Theories About Kids' Cartoons
#3. The Tick Is a Sick Kid's Fantasy
Cult comic/cartoon/live-action show The Tick is, in essence, a way for creator Ben Edlund to parody every single superhero story ever. The Tick is a big, invincible man-child. His sidekick, Arthur, is an accountant who made a flight suit. Their occasional cohorts, Die Fledermaus and American Maid, are a sleazeball and probably the only competent person around, respectively, and together they fight bizarre enemies, like a guy whose face is a chair.
The Theory:
But what if the parody went deeper? An anonymous fan theory proposes just that: Instead of The Tick being about grown writers aping comic books, it's a little kid with a devastating illness doing the same.
Because Saturday morning cartoons really needed more terminally ill children to help balance the mood.
Why It's Not That Crazy:
The Tick's bizarre world suddenly starts making a whole lot more sense if you imagine that everything in it is based on the stuff a little boy stuck in a bed sees around him. Let's look at some of the Tick's enemies. The Idea Men are a bunch of identical, faceless bad guys, almost like a bunch of crappy action figures you're stuck playing with:
Every kid experienced that sad birthday when you got five Foot Soldiers and no Donatellos.
Plant-based villain El Seed could be inspired by the only sight the kid sees from his bedroom window, the plants in his neighbor's garden:
This also explains his henchman, Marijuano.
And we'll let you guess what Chairface Chippendale represents:
That's right, a table.
According to the theory, this hypothetical child received a blood-borne illness from a tick, and as such he assigns impressive and potentially destructive superpowers to a character of the same name, who also shares his childish and dependent demeanor.
Meanwhile, Arthur represents the boy's divorced father -- the fact that he's an accountant flying around in a white suit shows how little the kid knows about what his dad's job entails. American Maid stands for his mother who, again, seems to be the only character who knows what she's doing. And despite being overly sexualized, the Tick never shows the slightest interest in American Maid, because, you know, that'd be creepy.
This also explains why she keeps saying "Tell that dickless slob Arthur he's late this month."
Finally, Die Fledermaus is his dopey stepfather who tries to connect with him and repeatedly fails. So there you go: The Tick is about a sick child and you should feel ashamed for laughing at it. If you think that theory is too sad, you should probably skip the next one ...
#2. Ed, Edd and Eddy Are Dead
Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy was one of Cartoon Network's original programs created back in the late '90s. It's a pretty simple, wholesome show about three kids (all named some variation of Edward) who ... really, they just spend a lot of time trying to scam the other kids on their block. They're kind of assholes. OK, so maybe it's not so wholesome.
The rest of the time they spend on other common teenager activities.
The Theory:
You know what else isn't wholesome? Dead kids. This theory proposes that all the children on the show are actually dead, and the neighborhood they live in is purgatory. But then again, they said the same thing about Lost and it turned out to be bullshit (mostly).
Why It's Not That Crazy:
For one thing, some of these kids already look like they're dead: Pretty much everyone in this neighborhood has weird skin tones or odd-colored tongues, like corpses might have.
More like Dead, Deadd and Dea- no?
But then there's the fact that there are no adults in the show: They're mentioned, but never seen. You do see vague silhouettes of adults on a few occasions, but they never move (yeah, that's not creepy or anything). The closest thing to an adult we ever see is Eddy's older brother, whom they meet the only time in the entire show's history when they leave their neighborhood/purgatory. However, the guy turns out to be a complete piece of shit, meaning that it's totally feasible that they were simply visiting him in hell.
He lives in the circle reserved for goatee sporters.
This would also explain why the setting of the show is so hard to pinpoint: In one episode, the kids are seen using a typewriter, despite having been shown using a computer in another, and they seem to know what a cassette tape is, unlike most teens of the 2000s. The theory holds that this is because each one came from a different period in American history:
Rolf, the weird kid with the inexplicable Eastern European accent, died in the early 1900s in a farming accident. Johnny, the one whose best friend is a plank, comes from the 1920s, when owning a piece of wood with a face painted on it made you the most popular kid on the block. Jimmy, the sickly kid with yellowish skin, died of leukemia in the 2000s, and so on.
The theory also alleges that there's one set of characters who aren't dead, but not alive either. The antagonistic Kanker sisters, who frequently abuse and berate all the other kids on the show, are actually demons placed in purgatory to torture them. Coincidentally, they are the only regular characters who have pink tongues ... just like non-dead people do.
#1. The Genie from Aladdin Is Actually the Merchant from the First Scene
Disney's Aladdin, on the off chance that you don't live in 1993 and haven't seen it recently, starts with a lonely merchant roaming through the desert on a camel before arriving at the city of Agrabah and telling us the story of Aladdin's magic lamp, but not before trying to sell the young audience a hookah.
Not that kind, sadly.
Then the actual movie starts, and we see Aladdin finding the magic lamp and making his three wishes, the last of which is to free the wish-granting Genie himself, who goes off to see the world.
The Theory:
The merchant is the same person as the Genie. After the Genie gets freed, he becomes a peddler who travels across the land, selling stuff while retelling the incredible tale that led to his freedom. But that's crazy talk, right?
Why It's Not That Crazy:
First, let's take a look at both characters:
Blue clothes? Check. Red band around the waist? Check. Bushy eyebrows and a beard ending in a curl? Double check. If that's not enough for you, how about the fact that they are the only two characters in the movie who only have four fingers? Oh, and they both just happen to be voiced by Robin Williams.
Think about it: Leaving aside the straight-to-video sequels for a moment, nothing in the actual movie says that the Genie will get to keep his powers after being freed. Why should he? The last time we see him, he's flying off into the sky, but who says he didn't run out of power two seconds later and come crashing down into the desert, powerless and mortal?
Also, the last time we see the now-useless lamp is in the scene at the end when the Genie grabs it and gives it to Aladdin to test if it still works ...
"Just wanna make sure I really am free before telling you to suck it."
... then he shakes Aladdin's hands with his giant blue mitts, and the next moment, Aladdin no longer has the lamp.
So if the Genie still had the lamp, how did it end up in some peddler's hands? The answer, of course, is that they're the same person, and now he uses the lamp as an excuse to tell people about his old adventures, never mentioning that he was once a mighty Genie instead of some lonely salesman, because that's just a bummer.
Or maybe he just made everything up to get you to buy stuff, and the movie is a metaphor for Disney.
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April is Jazz Appreciation Month. So it's an appropriate time to showcase four, twenty first century musicians who are taking jazz to the next level. Esperanza Spalding , the twenty seven year-old, Portland-born bassist/vocalist with the Angela Davis-style afro, who shocked the world with her 2010 Grammy award for Best New Artist; the Brooklyn-based velvet-tinged vocalist Gregory Porter, who channels the sincerity of Bill Withers and ebullience of Terry Callier ; Houston pianist/keyboardist Robert Glasper, a formidable musician who is at home with both Duke Ellington and the legendary hip-hop producer J. Dilla, and New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott, a finessed and fiery improviser with a engaging, Black-to-the-future approach to the music.
"All of those guys from my generation are incredible musicians and I love them all," says Spalding. "I don't know if we represent is a movement. I think people who heavily embrace the music they grew up with find a larger audience outside of jazz, because there's a commonality there of what's familiar there, musically."
Spalding's ebullient, Berklee School of Music-bred bass lines, multilingual vocals (In English, Spanish and Portuguese) and world music fluency has earned her some impressive fans, from Prince to President Obama. Her latest CD, Radio Music Society – the sequel to the classically-inspired recording Chamber Music Society – features original compositions like the Black History anthem "Black Gold" and the Patrice Rushen-meets-Steely Dan-like "Smile Like That," along with her ingenious covers of Wayne Shorter's fusion composition "Endangered Species," and an Afropop take on the Stevie Wonder/Michael Jackson classic, "I Can't Help it." Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, co-produced two tracks ("Crowned and Kissed" and "City of Roses"). "What people are going to hear is going to be unique for each person," she says. When you make a piece of art and give it to the public, if it is meaningful, everybody will have their own relationship to it. So I hope there's enough room in the music for their own meaning."
At the same time Spalding's star was rising, the fleet-fingered, 34-year-old Robert Glasper, who studied at the New School in New York, landed impressive sideman gigs with Q-Tip, Terence Blanchard, and Nicholas Payton and released three mostly straight-ahead CDs. His newest release Black Radio with his group, the Experiment, is nothing less than an aural manifesto calling for the artificially-erected boundaries separating jazz, R&B, and hip-hop top to come tumbling down, as evidenced by his silken and syncopated takes on Sade's "Cherish the Day," the Abbey Lincoln-associated jazz jewel "Afro-Blue," a riveting remake of the Nirvana favorite, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and the surging title track, laced with Yasiin Bey's [Mos Def] Brooklyn-born rap prowess. For Glasper, crossing the line separating jazz and hip-hop is an act of self-definition, rather than an excursion into forbidden artistic waters.
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"I think cats fight what naturally comes to them, so they can have a certain sound." he says. "It's ok to have tradition, but some people are held back by the tradition. And the tradition of the music; the spirit off jazz was always to look forward, to be cutting edge. Jazz was the hip-hop of its day. So for me, I can only be influenced by what has influenced me. I'm a child of R&B and hip--hop because that's what I grew up on." Those influences effortlessly merge on Black Radio, Glasper's new CD that features an all-star cast that includes Lalah Hathaway, Bilal, and Lupe Fiasco, with some scintillating versions of Sade's "Cherish the Day," the jazz standard "Afro-Blue," and Nirvana's 'Smells Like Team Spirit."
Exposed to jazz by his mother who was a pianist and vocalist, Glasper immersed himself in Houston's High School for the Performing Arts (Beyonce's alma mater) and was engrossed in hip-hop; a genre he says, owes much of it's existence to jazz. "Eighty percent of hip-hop is sampled from jazz musician's old records, including all of the drum sounds, piano loops, the bass lines, horn lines … everything," he says. "If jazz was not around; half of the music we listen to wouldn't be around. So I'm just really bringing it back around … At the end of the day, is about being honest with yourself. If I did not do what I'm doing now, I would be selling out; not the other way around."
Growing up in the tradition-rich Crescent City, Christian Scott (also 34) – the nephew of saxophonist and ex-Art Blakey Jazz Messenger Donald Harrison - embarked on an identity quest similar to Glasper's. A graduate of the famed New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, where the Marsalis brothers and Harry Connick, Jr. learned to swing, Scott at first resented the back-to-basic approach of his elders.
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WHEELING - Not acceptable. Not OK. Pretty bad collapse.
All of those are ways the Wheeling Nailers and their coaching staff described their 4-3, overtime loss to the Reading Royals on Wednesday night at WesBanco Arena. Wheeling (3-5-3 - 9) blew a three-goal lead in the third period and has won just once in regulation during its first 10 games.
"Certain guys out there just couldn't get it done and they're going to be held accountable,'' Nailers coach Clark Donatelli said. "My job here is to develop hockey players and get them to the next level. Winning is part of development.
"We're going to take the positives out of it and guys are going to be held accountable for what they do. It's that simple.
"Part of development is being held accountable.''
Wheeling goaltender Patrick Killeen was stellar again, but was victimized by some poor play in the defensive zone by his own team, which dominated play throughout the first two periods. Killeen stopped 26 of the 30 shots he faced.
"I guess we weren't as solid in the D-zone and as thorough with pucks - making good plays and getting them out of the zone,'' said defenseman Carl Sneep, who had a pair of assists. "They buried their chances.
"It was pretty quiet in (the locker room). I think everybody in the locker room has a pretty bitter taste in their mouthes.''
Certainly, captain Peter Merth does.
"You're up three goals, you've got to have that,'' he said. "They didn't stop and we've got to do a better job of shutting teams down once we get a lead.
"Everyone's thinking the same thing: what happened? No one wants to be in that situation, so it comes down to what are you going to do? How are you going to react?
"That starts (today)?''
Trailing 3-0, the Royals (4-5-1 - 9) began chipping away at the deficit. First it was Ian O'Connor (first of the season) punching home a loose puck at 4:50. Next was Kirk MacDonald (third) who slid one through Killeen's legs at 11:58.
The equalizer came at 16:08 when Scott Wietecha (second) blasted one home from the right point.
"Reading kept coming on and pushing the pace at us and we didn't push back,'' Donatelli said. "Then we ended up getting away from our game, weren't getting pucks deep and we were losing 1-on-1 battles all over the ice.
"We just couldn't stop the momentum.''
That momentum carried into overtime. Nailers defenseman Reid McNeill made a sliding play to break up a 2-on-1 Royals break, but moments later Wietecha wristed a shot past Killeen for the winner at 2:10 of the OT.
"I think it's just something we have to work on as a team, to play that way each game and each period and be consistent in our play,'' Merth added. "When we are playing, we think good things happen. When we let up, things don't go our way.''


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quinoa porridge w/ roasted strawberry rhubarb compote recipe
As far as the porridge recipe goes, if you have not yet been enlightened to the wonders of quinoa porridge now would be the perfect time to rectify that. I eat versions of this porridge all winter long and when the weather warms and spring brings us berries and rhubarb there isn't a more perfect way to start the day than with a big bowlful of this steaming quinoa goodness. I usually cook up a big batch of quinoa, which will keep in the fridge for around 3-4 days if it's not used up beforehand. The compote can be made in advance too, simply store in the fridge and warm through to serve. Too easy. xx
Quinoa porridge with roasted strawberry rhubarb compote
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Yum, I love rhubarb and strawberries together. The compote sounds very tasty and quick! I've never tried quinoa though. I've seen so many recipes using it. I'd want a taste test before making it myself. I'm such a cautious person ;-) Sorry to hear about the passing of your Grandad. I'm glad you were able to make it home to be with your family.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, I'm so glad it all worked out and I was able to be home with my family at a time like this xxDelete
p.s try quinoa! It's awesome stuff.
Congrats on the article! Rhubarb is one of my favourite go-to porridge toppings. Though I've never used cooked strawberries before. The colour is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear 'bout your grandad...so hard to live away from family at times like this eh.ReplyDelete
Tanks for the lovely recipe, I'll definitely try it.
Sorry to hear about your loss.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Alessandra xxDelete
This looks so delicious and warming. I've never tried quinoa for breakfast but it sounds great.ReplyDelete
So sorry to hear about the loss of your grandad. I bet he was a proud man and so lucky to have a grand daughter like you. I so love your blog...just when I feel like I am getting bored with food (especially during our Mum and daughter candida cleanse), you post and inspiring blog and get me on track again. With a few teeny modifications I am very excited to make this for breakfast. Arohanui xReplyDeleteReplies
Oh that's so cool to hear! Good luck with your cleanse xxDelete
Sorry to hear about your Granddad, I hope your family is doing okReplyDelete
Rhubarb and strawberries are mine and my daughters favourite fruit combination- it's such a perfect match, and the quinoa porridge is a terrific breakfast idea too, yummo!
Congratulations on your article, I hope it helps and inspires many on both sides of the Tasman xox
That first photo? Incredible. Couldn't resist letting you know. Quinoa porridge looks fantastic, and love the lighting in that. Keep it up.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Christina! xxDelete
This sounds amazing! Your photos make me want to make and eat this recipe asap!! My name is Cindy and I blog over at Vegetarianmamma.com I wanted to invite you to link up your recipe and any others at our Gluten Free Fridays Recipe Link up party! It happens every Friday and we'd love to have you join us with some of your awesome recipes! It doesn't mean that you have to be a gluten free bloggers. If you have some recipes on your blog that are gluten free that counts! :) Many recipes are naturally gluten free.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM
Hi, sorry to hear about your Grandad, I'm sure he was a great man. I live in the UK and really want to make this for breakfast tomorrow but can only measure in grams. Please could you convert the cups to grams. Thankyou, Sophie:)ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm sorry but I simply don't have time right now to convert measurements. Google should be able to help you I'm sure :-)Delete