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I was watching First Contact on SyFy today, well had it running in the background anyways. I get they're going to censor a bit of the cursing, blow up the damn ship, to hell with the Phoenix, things like that. Well what did surprise me is they bleeped out Cocharane's "Sweet Jesus!" when the Enterprise started following the Phoenix. I mean... come on. Is our society becoming so "politically correct" that we can't even -mention- something mildly religious in public now? Really that's just sad.
I just finished their broadcast of TVH and they left in all of Spock's "hells" in his conversation with Gillian about the whales. Of course bleeping those would ruin the joke. FC just started to I'll listen for the edits.
Actually you've got it backward. Bleeping out oaths like that and "G*ddamn" is done to protect the sensibilities of Christians who would find them blasphemous. After all, that would be using the Lord's name in vain, which violates the Third Commandment. It's also using the name disrespectfully, as a swear word, which is hardly properly religious. And it's hardly a new trend. From a 1927 set of movie censorship guidelines: Ditto the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930: "The name of Jesus Christ should never be used except in reverence."
It was only a couple of years ago that I noticed "faggot" was bleeped out of 'Money for Nothing'...even though Dire Straits are being completly ironic.
Pointing out restrictions in using the name "Jesus" in film-making guides from over 80 years ago is really stretching the point. The movie is made. The references are there. What we are talking about here is SyFy's reason for editing them selectively. This is nothing new for the company that now owns SyFy. Google "SyFy censorship" for a plethora of examples. You should see what they've done to the lesbian relationship in "Lost Girl."
I find it incredibly funny that the reference in the movie was removed to prevent offending, and in doing so someone took offense. Wow.
Christopher is right to correct the OP though, SyFy's reasoning in this case is nothing to do with avoiding the mention of religion, but rather avoiding offending the sensibilities of the sort of Christian who might get upset by blasphemy. I'm sure they didn't have those particular guidelines in mind when they did it, but in this case they did it for the same reason the guidelines were written. Not sure what point you are trying to make? I am sure you are aware that the USA has a constitution that makes such a provision, but it cannot force a private TV company to broadcast material they don't want to, and nor should it.
But what if the 'offending' phrase isn't actually being incorrectly used ? Maybe the character is genuinely imploring the deity of their choice to damn someone ?
Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to mention. But good on R.Star for blaming it on "political correctness", which of course is just a buzzword that means "those godless liberals". Swing and a miss, buddy.
That's nothing. The Family Channel took out the word "terrorists" during the scene Marty writes Doc a letter in Back to the Future.
It would depend on the context, I suppose. If it were a priest delivering a sermon about how God would damn sinners, then it might be allowed. This is similar to how the original Star Trek handled "hell" and "damn." They were able to use "Hell" as a reference to the underworld on several occasions: "I'll chase you to the very fires of Hell!" in "The Alternative Factor," "It is better to rule in Hell than serve in heaven" in "Space Seed," and "They say there's no devil, but there is. Right out of Hell, I saw it!" in "The Doomsday Machine." They were even able to use "Hell for leather, right out of history" in "Spectre of the Gun," because it was a descriptive phrase, not an expletive. But they had to fight the network censors to be allowed to have Kirk say "Let's get the hell out of here" at the end of "City on the Edge of Forever." (Chakoteya's transcript of "A Piece of the Action" claims that Krako says "How the hell'd I get here" after being beamed aboard the Enterprise, but it sounds to me like "Ho-how di--how'd I get here?") By the same token, they were able to use "damn" literally as a verb -- "The evidence... was damning" in "Court-martial" and "I can't damn him for his loyalty" in "Journey to Babel" -- but never as an expletive or curse. Context is key.
I was watching an episode of The Untouchables last night from 1959. At the end of the episode, Nehemiah Persoff is on the floor yelling at Robert Stack (Eliot Ness), "You have no damn heart! You have no damn heart!" All I could think was "wow, how did that stay in there?" I guess if the high body count of the series was okay at the time, then so was this…
Heck, even Disney could get away with "hell" if it was used literally. The theme song for "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh," which originally aired on Disney's prime-time anthology series back in 1963, featured a lyric about how the Scarecrow "rides from the gates of Hell!" And that was considered a "family" show.


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by Staff Writer / Buffalo Sabres(Photo: Getty Images) |
This season, I will be writing a journal from the road. I will try to include some stories from our trips and give you a glimpse into what goes into our travels - from the moment we get on the airplane, to the time we get back in our cars to head home.
Before I write my first entry, I want to give a little background as to what my role with the team is and why I am even on the road.
I am entering my fifth season with the team in the communications department, but my eighth within the organization. I spent three years prior with our then minor league affiliate, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League.
My main role, among others within the team, is to organize and facilitate all player and coach interviews with the media - both at home and on the road. Whether you read a quote from Ryan Miller in the Buffalo News or hear Derek Roy on the radio, it is my job to make sure that the media gets the players they need for interviews.
On our television broadcasts, I'm the guy that you see pacing back and forth in the background sometimes when our players are explaining what just happened in the game to the viewers.
Our players and staff log a lot of miles during the season. There is more to the story then the stats and games you watch on television. It's a long season and a lot happens throughout the year.. I'm looking forward to sharing some of our stories as a group with you both good and bad. Hopefully by the end of June when our season is finally over, my last journal will about our trip home with a new passenger named Stanley.


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Some horror movies are so bad, Hollywood decided to give them a second, third or fourth try. From evil leprechauns to oversized alligators, here are the best of the worst sequels. You can also check out a new, chilling film about living in debt, and even enter for a chance to win $10,000 to pay for college or pay back your loans.
1. Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
Scared of snowmen? Well, you will be after watching this truly ghastly sequel. The worst scene involves someone's tongue getting ripped out by the titular Jack. Yikes.
2. Critters 2: The Main Course
Critters 2 is the second of 4 movies based on the evil (and hungry) little aliens. In this sequel, the alien bounty hunters crash in on the critters as they feast on burgers at a fast food restaurant, hoping to blow them to smithereens once and for all.
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Guess they didn't run out of sorority girls to terrify on the first go.
4. Leprechaun 4: In Space
The Leprechaun series is one of the most iconic franchises in the "ridiculous horror movie" category - most of the films went straight to video, such as the fourth installation in which the Leprechaun brutalizes a variety of characters aboard a space ship.
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Killer turkey? Check. Worms from outer space? Check. Strange puppets, hilarious plot holes and an inexplicable 16-bit ending? Check check check.
6. Troll 2
This Troll sequel (not directly associated with the first movie) is so amazingly bad that it was the subject of a documentary titled "Best Worst Movie." That ought to give you an idea of what to expect out of this masterpiece of cheese.
7. Anaconda 3: Offspring
What else could make yet another movie about a giant killer snake better other than the presence of non other than David Hasselhoff in the lead?
8. The Gate II: Trespassers
This sequel to The Gate pretty much follows the same plot: a group of friends summons a demonic creature and horror ensues. The movie was so hard to release that despite being filmed in 1988, it was not released in the US until 1992.
9. Hobgoblins 2
Even though it is stylized to look just like its 1988 predecessor, Hobgoblins 2 was released some 11 years later. Unfortunately, the campy copy was received even less well than the original.
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Caravaggio, edited by Claudio Strinati, Skira RRP£43, 247 pages
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Allen Lane £30, 544 pages
The Moment of Caravaggio, by Michael Fried, Princeton $49.50, 301 pages
Caravaggio: The Complete Works, by Sebastian Schütze, Taschen £100, 306 pages
On July 18 1610, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, feverish, bedraggled, frightful to behold with knife wounds to his face, died alone in Porto Ercole. He was 38 years old and was buried in an unmarked grave. Wanted for murder, he had been trying to reach Rome from exile in Naples, but was thrown into jail en route and had lost track of the paintings which he hoped might secure a papal pardon. The most notable of these was his gory "David with the Head of Goliath", full of dread, in which he depicted himself as the decapitated Philistine.
The paintings survived and their intense naturalism and dynamic effects of light and shade influenced generations, but Caravaggio as a personality dropped from historical view. No letter, drawing, or document penned by him remains; the sole records in which he appears are those kept by police, along with scant references by contemporaries confirming him as a brilliant troublemaker. "There is also a Michelangelo da Caravaggio who is doing extraordinary things in Rome," the Dutch painter-poet Karel van Mander noted in 1603. "He does not devote himself continually to study, but after a fortnight's work will swagger about a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him ... ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him. Despite this, his painting is beyond dispute."
This fourth centenary of Caravaggio's death is the first to be celebrated. Although a pioneering retrospective took place in 1951, it is only in the past few decades, in a visual culture held in the grip of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, that interest has soared. The violent sensuality and instantaneousness of Caravaggio's pictorial world, with its combination of vernacular language, frank sexuality and provocative effects, resonates with that of the bestselling 21st-century artists. These four excellent landmark, lavish publications, mark the trend. Each claims the artist as the Old Master most pertinent to our times; each interprets his modernity freshly. Italian, English, American and German perspectives are all represented; together they build a compelling analysis of Caravaggio's unique position in art history.
In the catalogue to the major Caravaggio exhibition at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale earlier this year, Claudio Strinati argues that it was his drive directly to record his own experiences and emotions on canvas that makes him one of us. It is not only that he obsessively includes himself – an instantly recognisable, stocky, dark-haired, often scowling figure – as a self-portrait in narrative or genre compositions. Rather, his entire oeuvre takes its tremendous psychological force from its echoes of his own life story, from the seductive "Self-portrait as Bacchus" celebrating his creative and sexual allure when he arrived in Rome, through the scenes of murder and especially decapitation – "The Beheading of John the Baptist", "Salome with the Head of John the Baptist" – which muse on his own violent history and fear of damnation.
Strinati traces the "autobiographical key" through Renaissance Italy: absent in Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, it is discernible in Botticelli, perhaps in Leonardo and Michelangelo, "but none of these artists is constantly saying I. In Caravaggio, what seemed hesitant a hundred years earlier becomes explicit. The artist speaks of himself from the beginning to the end and interrogates the viewer in a way no one had ever done before." From the start, in the screeching, forward-leaning "Boy Bitten by a Lizard" or the cupid laughing out loud in "Love Triumphant", Caravaggio's figures explicitly engage us. Yet paradoxically, even more mesmerising are those portrayals of himself when the artist refuses to look us in the face. As St Francis of Assisi he is lost in ecstatic vision. In "The Taking of Christ" he depicts himself as a voyeur watching from the edge of the canvas. In "The Martyrdom of St Matthew" he paints himself as a threatened figure fleeing the scene, glancing back, regretful, at his failure to help the saint.
These and many other compositions are, says Strinati, "extraordinary symbols of the very idea of entering and exiting the scene". He says of "Sleeping Cupid" that it "seems to be passing into another dimension, beyond the picture itself". "Basket of Fruit", a wonderful still life, "sets up camp on the plane of existence, absorbing its precarious immobility that can only be held still in the aesthetic space". Few artists so distil a sense of fate's irreversibility into the frozen moment. Existence or non-existence, light or darkness, is Caravaggio's overpowering theme.
It was not by chance, therefore, that his "Judith Beheading Holofernes" (1598-99) is the first piece in which he merged his innovative naturalism with a historical motif. Both its literalness (the gnarled old woman holding a sack for the head) and psychological acumen (the barely frowning, refined Judith "moving her lips silently", as in the Old Testament account, in prayer for strength) are arresting. But "the acme of the action", as Strinati puts it, is the focus on Holofernes in "the most feared and denied instant in a man's life: the passage from life to death. The huge Holofernes is no longer alive, as we see from his upturned eyes, but his howling mouth, contracting body and hands gripping the bed tell us that he is not yet dead".
Of all the responses to Caravaggio here, this emotional Italian most closely squares the circle of exploring our gut reaction to his passionate dramas while fixing their historical context. The English way of doing this, of course, is biography – a genre still held in suspicion in continental Europe as a hybrid, between journalism and scholarship, but popular for exactly that lively compromise in Britain. To the first full-scale life of the artist, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon brings narrative verve and a blood-and-guts evocation of Rome's backstreets, where Caravaggio sought violence, sex and the models whose bodies and faces would jolt his biblical stories into everyday life. "He painted for them and from their perspective," writes Graham-Dixon; in this reading, it is democratic empathy that makes Caravaggio radical and, still today, a shockingly persuasive interpreter of the human heart.
Caravaggio arrived in Rome from Lombardy, aged 20, and soon won attention. But, as this often hilarious yet tender account reminds us, he also began to turn up regularly in the city's Tor di Nona jail: for cracking a plate in a waiter's face over a dispute about an artichoke; for defacing doors, throwing stones, telling a policeman to "stick it up your arse". Each time, an alert to a noble patron got him released. But eventually he went too far and killed a pimp – Graham-Dixon thinks he was trying to castrate him – in a row over a girl and had to flee the papal states. His end-game was life on the run, a period when he painted more disturbingly than ever – from his St John the Baptist, portrayed as an olive-skinned Sicilian teenager, embodying sex and youth, to the decapitated self- portrait painted in terror of his own death "David with the Head of Goliath".
In this artist the Counter-Reformation found its visual champion, one who could inflame his viewers by speaking their language. Crowds flocked to the unveiling of his stark "The Entombment", where he paraphrases Michelangelo's "Pietà" but "substitutes his own intense morbidity. Caravaggio's dead Christ is punishingly unidealised ... a real corpse weighing heavily on those who struggle to lay him to rest. John strains not to drop the sacred burden. Nicodemus stoops awkwardly". Posed for two of the three lamenting Marys, the bold, streetwise features of prostitute Fillide Melandroni bring a raw urban flavour.
Fillide is Caravaggio's Judith too, and his flushed, alluring St Catherine, inclining "towards the wheel and its vicious spikes of grey as if leaning towards a lover." Graham-Dixon reckons the subtle handling anticipates Velázquez, "but it is not hard to see why some of the artist's contemporaries would have been troubled. Was it really a picture of St Catherine, rapt in the joyful embrace of death? Or was it just a picture of a sexy modern girl, with some studio props, alone in a room? In truth, it was both".
Such a picture was, according to Michael Fried, something else too: an attempt to establish the "supreme fiction" of realism which, after the initial blaze of Renaissance representational virtuosity, was the essential concern of painters from Rome in the 1600s to Paris in the 1860s. Fried, the most visually penetrating of a generation of US theoretical critics, has spent a lifetime refining the argument that this illusion was achieved by "absorption". First, "through the persuasive representation of figures so deeply absorbed in what they are doing, feeling and thinking that they appear oblivious to anything else", and second by "a pictorial unity according to which all the elements in a painting are perceived as motivated by a single dramatic imperative, so that the beholder instinctively feels that they cannot be other than as they are".
In his "Absorption and Theatricality" trilogy (1980-96), Fried demonstrated how Chardin, Géricault, Courbet and others embodied this process and Manet smashed it, thus initiating modernism. The Moment of Caravaggio is a prequel, in which he proposes that "the invention of absorption" began with Caravaggio, whose first known work, "Boy Peeling a Fruit", was both a strikingly unusual composition, and a masterly study in absolute absorption.
Fried argues that Caravaggio's sense of interiority, like Shakespeare's, belongs to the dawn of religious scepticism and is nothing less than an existential exploration of how, whether, we ever perceive or understand another human being. This explains the almost scientific exploration of pain throughout his oeuvre, from the early "Toothpuller", to the otherworldly "Martyrdom of St Ursula" (1610): "the bow string, one feels, has not ceased vibrating as Ursula looks down at her mortal injury in grave surprise ... by now Caravaggio has largely passed beyond the range of recognisable modes of human feeling".
A prime exhibit is his meditation on doubt "The Incredulity of St Thomas", where Christ directs Thomas's forefinger into his bloodless wound, Thomas strains forward to look closely, and the other disciples, gazing with wonder, crowd round in a golden glow. Here, says Fried, Caravaggio discovers "that intense and focused absorption could do the unifying work of composition": the painting's human truth and formal structure are inseparable.
Fried is elegant, complex, original, but not the first port of call for those starting out on Caravaggio. That should be the magnificent catalogue in Taschen's large-scale, highly illustrated series, with an authoritative, sober, scholarly but accessible commentary by Sebastian Schütze. Unlike the other authors here, Schütze offers no over-arching argument but assesses each work and period with measured judgment and precision, carefully filling out historical background and incorporating new academic findings, as well as paying homage to Roberto Longhi, who launched Caravaggio studies.
No reproductions can do justice to Caravaggio's sculpting of light as a tool of moral revelation, but these illustrations come as close as possible to conveying a sense of each work's physical presence. Standards of production are superb, and afford much pleasure in the detail, from the loaf, napkin and carpenter's adze constituting a "still life of the poor" in "The Adoration of the Shepherds" to the horse frothing with fear in "The Conversion of Saint Paul". And on each page we watch how, as Longhi wrote, "out of the abstract and abrupt colour structure of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro, the event emerges suddenly and like a fateful incidence – truer, more tangible, more natural than had ever been imagined and expressed before".
Jackie Wullschlager is the FT's art critic and author of 'Chagall: Love and Exile' (Penguin)


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Raith and Livingston cancelled each other out at Stark's Park as they played out a 0-0 draw.
In a quiet first half, Marc McNulty headed over the bar for Livingston while Stefan Scougall's effort from the edge of the area was well held by David McGurn in the Raith goal.
Scougall had a good chance to score for the visitors in the 67th minute but could only shoot straight at McGurn after finding space inside the area.
Livingston goalkeeper Andrew McNeil saved well from Pat Clarke's left-footed drive, before Laurence Ellis headed wide from Allan Walker's corner.
Raith's Greig Spence came closest to scoring a decisive goal, but his 85th-minute effort forced a good save from McNeil.
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In his Minor League debut last week, Danny Hultzen said he threw too many fastballs, making him a bit too predictable. He ended up allowing five runs over four innings.
By Friday, that problem had been corrected.
MLB.com's No. 16 prospect struck out nine and allowed a pair of unearned runs on one hit over 5 2/3 innings in the Jackson Generals' tough-luck 4-1 loss to the Tennessee Smokies.
"It's baseball. I've been on the other side of it plenty of times," said the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 Draft. "We happened to be on the losing side tonight. It just motivates you to make big pitches in big situations the next time."
Hultzen, the Mariners' top pitching prospect, was able to mix up his pitches just a little better than he did in his first start. That, he said, made the difference between his more troublesome first start and his smoother second outing.
"I think I just made better pitches tonight. In my first start, I was kind of predictable with a bunch of fastballs. Today, I was able to throw all my pitches for strikes," he said. "I think the big thing was getting ahead of hitters and keeping them off-balance. That's my motto, I guess. I just try to do that every time I get out there. In my first start, I didn't do that very well."
Hultzen was bested by Tennessee's Dae-Eun Rhee, who allowed one run on six hits over 6 1/3 innings, striking out four and walking one.
The 22-year-old left-hander draws more attention on a start-to-start basis, thanks to his draft status. The Generals attract more attention since they boast a handful of baseball's top prospects in Hultzen, fellow starters Taijuan Walker and James Paxton and shortstop Nick Franklin.
"It's an honor to be talked about like that, that people care that much, but my job is to pitch," Hultzen said. "That's all I'm going to do. The other stuff will take care of itself, and I'll control what I can control."
Hultzen lowered his ERA to 4.66 and he's already struck out 16 batters over only 9 2/3 innings. As a polished college product, the Mariners gave him a look at Major League camp, where he pitched two scoreless innings in his lone appearance.
With his pedigree, it might not be unreasonable to expect to be fast-tracked through the Seattle system, even if it is his first year of professional baseball. That's something else the Maryland native doesn't spend much time thinking about.
"That's everyone's goal, to make it to the Majors, and hopefully that'll be where I am one day," he said. "But right now I'm just focused on getting better every single day and improving as a baseball player."
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Jeanette E. Larsh, 81, of East Stroudsburg, died Wednesday evening, Dec. 19, at Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Salisbury Township. She was the widow of Eldon D. Larsh, who died Dec. 31, 1989.
Born on Oct. 9, 1931, in Reading, she was a daughter of the late Harry R. and Margaret E. (Hoffa) Alspach and was a lifetime resident of the Monroe County area.
A graduate of East Stroudsburg High School, she was a caregiver, having done private duty home care and worked for Beck N Call and Griswold services.
Jeanette was a former volunteer with Bushkill Ambulance Corps.
Surviving are two daughters, Kelly Larsh of East Stroudsburg and Elaine Booker of Pittsburgh; a son, Harry Wolbert of Marshalls Creek; a stepson, Eldon F. Larsh of Bushkill; 11 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; two brothers, Barry Alspach of Hudson, Fla., and Kenneth Alspach of East Stroudsburg; a sister, Bernadine Alspach of Lancaster; and several nieces and nephews.
There will be a viewing from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26, at the William H. Clark Funeral Home, 1003 Main St., Stroudsburg. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and will be followed by burial in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers.
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The Nokia's first Symbian^3 device and next smartphone flagship N8 just got its first short preview. The handset is now confirmed to capture 720p video and 12 megapixel stills, but apparently the new UI wasn't much to the liking of the reviewer.
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While there are no samples to prove it, the image quality of the still camera is said to be similar to the Sony Ericsson Satio 12 megapixel shooter. Which combined with the 720p video recording and the HDMI port doesn't sound like too bad a package to us, but apparently the author believes this is the device that might single-handedly take down Nokia.
Focusing on the HDMI port and the 12MP camera
The user interface improvements also fail to impress and Symbian^3 feels more like evolution rather than a much needed revolution for the platform's touch UI. The Nokia N8 is apparently running fast but once its memory gets filled up it starts to lag.
The camera user interface
Those are of course impressions based on an early pre-release sample of the Nokia N8 and we're likely to see improvements before the handset hits the shelves in the second half of the year.


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Virtual world empowers kids to go green and donates $100,000 to environmental projects.
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, April 20, 2011 – Fans of Club Penguin (clubpenguin.com) can learn how to protect their planet and show support for all its citizens this Earth Day just by playing in the snow-covered virtual world.
As part of its ongoing commitment to creating safe places around the world and protecting the earth, Disney Online Studios, which produces Club Penguin, is donating an additional $100,000 of its annual multi-million dollar giving budget to conserve wetlands and protect endangered species. For its annual Earth Day party, Club Penguin will also launch a series of new activities designed to educate and empower its players to help protect the earth and the living creatures that call it home.
From April 20 through 27, 2011 members can use the virtual coins they earn playing games on Club Penguin to purchase Earth Day-themed costumes for their penguin avatars. Players will also be able to visit areas of the virtual world that have been redesigned to look like the natural habitat of some endangered species, and learn more about those species and what threatens their survival.
"Children have such an innate curiosity, and a desire to protect the planet and all its citizens, and we think this is a great way to educate them and encourage them to take action in their own way," says Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin's co-founders and executive vice president of Disney Online Studios.
Club Penguin is one of the largest virtual worlds for children with a reputation for providing fun for kids and peace of mind for parents. Millions of children and families in nearly every country in the world play Club Penguin in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Club Penguin uses word filters and live moderators to monitor chat and activity on the site and work to prevent the sharing of inappropriate or personally identifiable information.
The Earth Day party is just one example of Club Penguin's ongoing efforts to empower its players to help change the world. A portion of the organization's net profits supports organizations working to improve the lives of children and families around the globe. Each December, the Coins For Change online giving campaign lets players vote on where some of those donations will go.
In recent years, the kids who play Club Penguin have helped more than two million people get medical care, enabled 200,000 children to go to school and helped protect more than a dozen endangered species and their habitats. In addition, last fall, players submitted their drawings for the opportunity to have their art featured in a mural on the wall of a school in Haiti that donations from Disney Online Studios and Club Penguin helped rebuild.
"From dressing up and role playing during the Earth Day party to sharing their ideas on how to help those affected by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, our players never cease to amaze us with their passion for changing the world, and we really want to nurture that passion," says Merrifield.
The $100,000 donation this Earth Day will support:
Projects to preserve wetland habitat and reduce overfishing in China – conducted by RARE (http://www.rareconservation.org/program-wetland-protection-china)
Projects to conserve and protect the African Painted Dog and the Snow Leopard – conducted through the Wildlife Conservation Network (http://wildlifeconservationnetwork.org/wildlife/africandog.html and http://wildlifeconservationnetwork.org/wildlife/snowleopard.html)
About Club Penguin
Club Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com), a product of Disney Online Studios, provides one of the largest virtual worlds for children. Club Penguin works to maintain a fun and safe online entertainment experience by using filtering technology and live moderators. The award-winning virtual world of Club Penguin contains no third-party advertising and is free to use and enjoy, however a subscription membership provides access to additional features that enhance the play experience. Club Penguin is headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, is enjoyed by parents and children in just about every country around the world, and can be played in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish.
About Disney Online Studios
Disney Online Studios (DOS), part of Disney Interactive Media Group, develops and publishes an industry-leading suite of online virtual worlds for kids and families. Products under the DOS brand include Club Penguin, one of the largest virtual worlds for children, World of Cars Online, based on the hit Disney/Pixar animated feature "Cars;" Fairies Pixie Hollow, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and Toontown Online. Disney Online Studios offices are located in North Hollywood, California, and five countries around the globe.
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Spending Christmas Eve with an adorable duo in love sounds like a pretty good plan to me, especially when that adorable duo happens to be the cute-as-can-be Lela and Charlie, two sweethearts with a penchant for J.Crew, gorgeous riverside settings and being uber-chic. Add to that stylish mix a gallery of downright amazing moments captured perfectly by Loft Photographie and it's enough to make any fan of LOVE happy. (That's you and me.) Click here for all of the pretty.
From Loft Photographie… We're simply delighted to share this engagement session with you! We spent a lovely fall morning down by the Guadalupe River in quaint Gruene, Texas with Lela & Charlie! Rich fall colors, J.Crew attire, and a dapper couple are just a few of the reasons why we adore this session!
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A breakthrough aluminium battery that charges your smartphone in 60 seconds! Discover a breakthrough aluminium battery that could charge your smartphone in just 60 seconds. One of the primary and consistent challenge smartphone user faces is, and will continue, to be battery problem. Even with the influx of high-end smartphones to replace the obsolete ones that we thought has lesser battery lifespan, some users still find it difficult to enjoy mobile phone up to its peak standard. As highly hyped the Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxies, and the latest Xiaomi smartphone is, there battery issue still remain the talk of the day – because no matter how effective and power-efficient the hardware gets – the lot of its functionalities are reserved by manufacturers mainly for improved screen displays, faster memory performance, state-of-the-art gaming experience, and some other high-in-demand features. (Hongjie Dai & Meng-Chang Lin of Stanford University) The future of smartphone battery life looks blurry until recently that my colleagues at Stanford University came up with something that looks absolutely like the answers all smartphone users have been looking for. The discovery is nothing but a Holy Grail kind of solution for smartphone users. It is an ultra-fast-charging aluminium battery that can charge your smartphone within just 60 seconds. Oh please! 60 seconds? Yeahbsolutely! And one other upside of this new aluminium-powered-charger is that it could be manufactured in bulk on a large scale basis if there's good budget on ground. When asked about the new technology, the Stanford University's professor of Chemistry, Hongjie Dai, said in an article. "Our new aluminium battery does not, and will not catch fire, even if you drill or make a hole through it" The new rechargeable battery was inspired to render existing storage devices such as the lithium-ion batteries, which infrequently burst into flames, and alkaline batteries, which is totally working against our health and our environment especially now that everyone is working towards a greener environment because of global warming. The aluminium-ion battery contains a negatively charged (-) anode and a positively charged (+) graphite cathode. Researchers placed those two items inside a flexible polymer-coated pouch with an ionic liquid electrolyte during the testing. We think you may like this: Finally! – Apple's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Battery Plans Uncovered Aluminium has always been useful material for battery design, but it has been too complex to work with. It's easy on the pocket, not combustible, and could possibly have high capacities. However, the challenge up to this stage is developing the right equipment that could repetitively generate enough voltage after several cycles of charging and discharging. As we all know, the lithium-ion batteries we have today takes several hours to charge and it doesn't take long to discharge upon use. Due to some of the recent technological advancements, phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung have gone ahead in developing burst methods that give you 25% (25 percent) of original battery life in just 15 minutes of charging it, and it also parched in a new slow-burn, which serves as emergency efficient modes to make it last longer by using extra time out of the last few percentage points of battery life. But, one of thing I noticed which makes this aluminium-ion battery prototype better is, its "unequalled charging times" – lesser than one minute. Wondering how possible? Please don't – it is #TECHNOLOGY! In fact, it is going to be a powerful selling point. Also read: The Holy Grail Steps for Improving iPhone Battery Life discovered! In addition, the researchers conducted a test for this new prototype, they charged and discharged the aluminium-ion battery 7,500 times without loss of power, compared with 1,000 cycles or less of what we have today. The researchers said that, in addition to phone batteries, the aluminium-ion battery could also be used as storage means to store up additional capacity in renewable power grids, and the 2-volt output could an alternative replacement for 1.5-volt AA and AAA batteries which has been destined to be thrown away after use. The last hurdle is that the voltage, according to the researchers, is just about half of what your smartphone needs to charge. As far as this aluminium graphite battery charging prototype is concerned, they cannot manufacture it yet, until this is resolved. We are hoping they get this done soon so that we could all start using our smartphones to their fullness. 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Shoping April 13, 2015 at 7:23 am its really good and fasts for charging i am impressed with the metrics. I can't wait for the aluminium battery to land in my hand. 🙂 Reply
Hamilton April 13, 2015 at 12:56 pm Wow!nice innovation.I want to buy this latest breakthrough aluminium battery for chairing my smart phone. Reply
Olukunle Moses April 14, 2015 at 12:46 am Yes, we will surely keep you guys updated about it once it is finalized. I love it too. It is going to be a ground-breaking revelation for the smartphone market. 🙂 Thanks Hamilton for coming down here. 🙂 Reply
Menghemat April 14, 2015 at 1:20 am OMG! This is what we waiting for! And i hope the smartphone manufacturers will also focusing on this (battery), not only for the specs. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm They'd surely be forced to because as soon as this land in the marketplace, nobody will go for specs without taking note of the longer lasting battery life of the beast they're about to acquire. Gone are the days when smartphone manufacturers will stuff phones with features without thinking about the power to run them effectively. Things are really changing lately. Welcome here Menghemat. Reply
Abi April 17, 2015 at 10:11 am the biggest drawback of android phone is battery life, if this is really possible then it is a very good news for android mobile user. Thank you for sharing Reply
Olawale Daniel May 28, 2015 at 1:25 am From now on, #NoMoreLowBattery on your android smartphone when you have an aluminium battery that charges in less than 60 seconds at your disposal! Thanks for coming around. Reply
zahid April 17, 2015 at 1:19 pm Its really very good addition in smart phone industry and obviously it will bring more facilitation for mobile phone users. Reply
Raj April 22, 2015 at 11:26 am thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful article …. it helped me a lot :v though i ll try once charging with aluminium battery Reply
Aamir lehri April 22, 2015 at 5:20 pm Please link me to that site from where i can also get this type of battery for me Reply
Olawale Daniel May 28, 2015 at 1:33 am For now, nowhere yet but as soon as it is available, we'll update the content or publish a new one in sequel to this to enlighten you about it. Thanks for coming around Aamir! 🙂 Reply
toybizaus April 24, 2015 at 7:54 am This is a AMAZING battery charger ! Thanks to share this post. Reply
Red Rock April 27, 2015 at 7:56 am Low Battery is the major problem for smartphone, but i just want to ask when it will be available in market for use?? Reply
Olawale Daniel April 28, 2015 at 10:50 pm Still under fundraising. It will soon be in the market once there's money to produce it in larger quanities. Reply
satishw.ratna April 28, 2015 at 9:10 am Nice blog its really good and fasts for charging i am impressed. such a attractive post for me and hope for others Thanks for sharing.Its really very good addition in smart phone industry and obviously it will bring more facilitation for mobile phone users. THANKS FOR THE BLOG SIR Reply
Deepika April 30, 2015 at 9:07 am It's really very nice innovation and obviously it will bring more facilitation for smartphone users. Low Battery is the major problem for smartphone users. It's a wonderful post for me. Thanks for sharing. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 1:20 pm Dear Deepika, Yeahbsolutely, you're right! Smartphone has come under one major cause that will not go away easily – low battery! If this new breakthrough aluminum prototype can go all the way to become a realistic product, that will spell a doom for existing smartphone battery models because phone manufacturers will instead, prefer to go for aluminum battery. Thank you bhai for your comment, namastey to my people over there. 🙂 Dan Reply
Rajeev Sharma April 30, 2015 at 7:50 pm Amazing, first time i'm reading this. thank you somuch for sharing this… Reply
Sahel May 1, 2015 at 12:37 am This is a very nice development. It will sure be of immense in improving the battery life o smartphones. Thanks for sharing this…I really appreciate it.~! Reply
mikhail May 5, 2015 at 10:35 am Very useful information, comprehensive enough, thanks for the post, I learned a lot of interesting Reply
Nonvasive May 5, 2015 at 1:03 pm Aluminum batteries is not a greatest of the idea. These can damage the smartphones. How ever other battery chargers are safe and increase battery life. Reply
touhid dalamin May 6, 2015 at 3:08 am Thanks for shearing this post its amazing, that a smart phone charge is 60 second. I love it very much. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 1:14 pm Yes, you read that right Touhid! Not a typo that you can charge your smartphone in less than 60 seconds! Technology is taking over everything day in, day out. It is either one gets involved or stay behind in the oldies! 🙂 Thanks for coming around brother 🙂 Reply
abhay May 7, 2015 at 7:24 pm Great technology, great article, i hope to see this technology ASAP in markets. Reply
Alize Camp May 11, 2015 at 6:04 am If this is come true and use daily in the life, it would be good when just need up to one minute to charge your smartphone and ready to go. There's no problem with battery life and no need to worry about that anymore. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 1:32 pm Alize, in my opinion, the people that would benefit and enjoy this new aluminum battery technology are those who traveled a lot. They can just use their phone backup without the fear of losing out on the other part of the way or staying in touch with their loved ones – since there's an assurance of restoring the power in less 60 seconds. In fact, somebody like me who travels a lot can even devote a whole lot of the journey to watching film instead of reading, which has been part of my habit for so long. Don't you think this will also influence people to spend more time on their phone screen? Reply
rohit mahbub May 11, 2015 at 7:39 pm this is really great post for me and i am really impressed.I want to buy this latest breakthrough aluminium battery for chairing my smart phone. It is going to be a ground-breaking revelation for the smartphone market.thank you for sharing. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 7:49 am We'll update the page once it is available for sale. You've got to keep up with us by Subscribing to TechAtLast via http://techatlast.com/subscribe Thanks for your time Rohit. Reply
sam edwin May 12, 2015 at 8:58 am Thanks for the share. I want to buy this latest breakthrough aluminium battery for charging my smart phone. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 12, 2015 at 12:25 pm Hey Sam, You'll be informed if you're subscribed to TechAtLast newsletter once it is released for sale. Nice seeing you around here. 🙂 Dan Reply
nadaram May 14, 2015 at 11:36 am thanks for sharing more details about this newest aluminum battery discovery. I'd love to buy one when it is released. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 14, 2015 at 9:35 pm Nice having you around Nadaram! We'll keep on sharing more informative and empowering updates on your darling TechAtLast website and its Africa business and technology news portal tool. You can subscribe to the blog for upcoming updates too! Nice to have you around once again. 🙂 Olawale Daniel Reply
clement sadjere May 15, 2015 at 10:38 am Simply amazing discovery. I'll love to try it out and see for myself Reply
Olawale Daniel May 17, 2015 at 8:23 pm Yes, you can Clement. Looking forward to seeing you around once again. Dan Reply
Pique Dan May 15, 2015 at 5:14 pm That's really cool. 60 secs is nothing when you are out of battery. Yeahsome! Reply
Olawale Daniel May 17, 2015 at 8:22 pm Yeahsomemely! Nice one! I like the way you copied my style and expression. You get your phone back up immediately your smartphone battery is drained. I just hope this get to limelight soon. Reply
bizzrisema123 May 20, 2015 at 12:04 pm I got a new phone (iPhone, if it helps) and i don't want to over charge or under charge the battery, possibly ruing it and giving a shorter battery life. This maybe a silly question, but is there a certain amount of time you should charge your phone to keep the battery good? Reply
Anwar May 20, 2015 at 1:40 pm There is no need of going to another place now to know about battery and charger. Your content covers everything Reply
imediadesigns May 21, 2015 at 10:35 am Its really very good addition in smart phone industry and also in other industries too. Reply
Sunday Smith May 28, 2015 at 8:57 am Really, this is a great discovery for the smartphone users. We'd rock this aluminium battery charger if it eventually become a reality because we never know what will come up next. Reply
Olawale Daniel May 28, 2015 at 9:15 am Thanks for your contribution Sunday! Its been nice seeing you around here 🙂 Reply
Bruth May 28, 2015 at 8:58 am Its still an emerging innovation. If it gets public funding, this could become the solution we have all been waiting for in terms of smartphone battery lifespan maintenance. Reply
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How Snowmass Village became the improbable—and mysterious—site of a fossil mother lode that may redefine Colorado's evolutionary history.
Last October, Kirk Johnson got the call: A bulldozer driver named Jesse Steele had unearthed ribs, vertebrae, and a tusk belonging to a young, female Colombian mammoth while excavating a dam at Ziegler Reservoir near the Snowmass Village ski resort. Johnson, curator and vice president for research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, felt the familiar excitement. For the career paleontologist and geologist, mammoth discoveries are not unusual, with at least partial remains surfacing every several years. The finds are wonderful, but, Johnson says, "When a construction worker calls me up and says, 'I think I found a mammoth bone,' I say, 'Yeah, you probably did.' "
Still, each discovery demands investigation, so the next day, he dispatched a crew to plan for further exploration in Snowmass. About 10 days later, Johnson visited the site himself, along with colleagues Steven Holen and Ian Miller. Expecting little more than the usual handful of bones, the three researchers didn't even bring tools.
They laid out what had been found inside a building at the reservoir. As they examined the remains, Holen noticed another mammoth leg bone, clearly from a larger specimen. From that moment, nothing about the dig would be routine.
Most Ice Age sites yield one animal; finding two is rare. The Ziegler site went from rare to one-of-a-kind before Holen could put down the second bone. While Johnson and his peers were still mulling the magnitude of the dual find, a bulldozer unearthed a third leg bone in a different part of the reservoir.
A few days later, the three men returned to Denver, still abuzz from the excitement of the unique find. The next morning, workers in charge of excavating the reservoir uncovered more tusks and a tooth. One of them took a photo of the tooth and sent it to Johnson, who saw immediately it wasn't from one of the mammoths. This tooth belonged to a mastodon, and it sparked a frenzy of questions about what on earth had happened at Ziegler.
In 2009, when two boys digging in the dirt near Ken-Caryl Ranch unearthed a partial jawbone and tusk, it was hailed as the most significant mastodon find in Colorado. Remains from the ancient elephantine creatures are littered throughout North America, from Alaska to Honduras, but they've almost never been found in Colorado; the Ken-Caryl bones were only the third discovery of mastodon fossils in the state. At the time, Holen told the Denver Post it was "the first good record of an American mastodon in Colorado."
Nestled high in the mountains outside of Aspen, however, the Ziegler find showed that mastodons have a far more expansive history in Colorado than anyone had realized. Within a few weeks of the discovery, the museum had installed a crew at the site while construction workers excavated the dam, carefully avoiding what they thought was a single site. By the start of ski season (and the end of digging season) several weeks later, museum crews would identify 28 different piles of fossils at Ziegler, yielding almost 600 bones from as many as 10 individual mastodons—including 16 tusks and the first mastodon skull ever unearthed in Colorado. Some of Ziegler's skeletons are more than 50 percent complete, and not all the bones are from the prehistoric proboscideans. The ancient lake is teeming with fossils: The remains of at least five species of large Ice Age animals are preserved at Ziegler, including a Jefferson's ground sloth the size of an ox, a small deer-like animal, and several huge Ice Age bison with horns spanning six feet across.


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Florence Welch Cover British Vogue
Florence Welch, of Florence and The Machine, has bagged herself the cover of this months British Vogue. The songstress was shot by Mario Testino in a disco inspired Chloe frock and Farrah Fawcett style hair.
Inside the magazine Welch discusses working with Karl Lagerfeld, her sense of style and her inability to be "polished."


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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — After a proposed settlement agreement touched off two days of high-stakes maneuvering, the state Public Service Commission will go ahead Monday with a hearing about whether Florida Power & Light should raise base electric rates.
Commission Chairman Ronald Brise late Friday issued an order rejecting a request to suspend the hearing. FPL and three groups of large power users proposed the settlement agreement Wednesday afternoon and also asked for a suspension, as they hoped to get a decision on the settlement by the end of August.
But Brise's order said the rate case began in January and that the hearing, which is scheduled to last as long as two weeks, had been scheduled since March. He also said the commission is not required to rule on the proposed settlement before listening to testimony and gathering evidence during the hearing.
"Given the significant time, effort and expense that has been expended to date, as well as the monumental task of rescheduling such a complex hearing … I find that the joint motion to suspend shall be denied," Brise wrote.
FPL early this year proposed a $690.4 million base-rate increase that would start to take effect in January 2013. The proposal drew opposition from representatives of consumers and business groups, at least some of which argued FPL's rates should decrease — not increase — by $253 million.
But FPL and three of the groups, the Florida Industrial Power Users Group, the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association and federal agencies that are large electricity users, started a frenzy Wednesday when they proposed the settlement and requested suspension of the hearing. The proposed settlement would lead to about $548 million in rate increases next year, with residential customers picking up a large part of the tab.
The state's Office of Public Counsel, which represents consumers in utility issues, and the Florida Retail Federation said they will fight the proposed settlement. But they also filed a document Friday agreeing that the hearing should be suspended to provide time to deal with the proposed agreement, which they described as the "elephant in the room."
The public counsel and the retail federation, which frequently intervenes in utility cases, said it "makes no sense to proceed with the hearing" scheduled for Monday until the commission makes a decision on the proposed settlement.
Base-rate cases involve highly complex financial and technical information, and Brise's order said 36 witnesses are scheduled to appear during the hearing. Also, earlier Friday, the commission filed a mammoth pre-hearing document that indicates it will have to resolve 193 issues in deciding the case.
Adding another twist, the retail federation Friday afternoon offered another proposal for settling the case — and substantially reducing the increase FPL could receive. The proposal would keep FPL's base-rates flat in January 2013, though the utility would be able to receive increases later in 2013 and in 2014 when new power plants start operating at Cape Canaveral and Riviera Beach.
The federation's proposal does not detail how large those increases would be, but FPL has previously sought $170 million for the Cape Canaveral project.
"The FRF is filing this offer of settlement with a spirit of transparency and openness and in a sincere effort to resolve the parties' differences without further adversarial proceedings," the federation proposal said.
Public Counsel J.R. Kelly said his office would have to fully evaluate the retail federation proposal.
"At first blush, it certainly is more palatable to us than what Florida Power & Light and the other three parties have thrown out there," Kelly said.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.


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Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Bacon, Pecans, and Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette
When you want your vegetables to be more than just a side dish.
These brussels sprouts are roasted until golden and caramelized, then doused in a maple-balsamic vinaigrette and topped with crisp bacon and toasted pecans. They're so addictive, it's hard not to eat the entire lot standing at the stove before you serve them.
About the author: Jennifer Segal is the chef behind the popular food blog, Once Upon a Chef.
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- Yield:serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
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- 1/2 cup pecans
- 6 slices bacon
- 2 pounds Brussels sprouts, halved (stems and ragged outer leaves removed)
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil.
Place pecans on prepared baking sheet and bake until lightly toasted and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Keep a close eye on them, as they can burn fast. Transfer nuts to cutting board and chop coarsely. Set aside.
Increase oven temperature to 400°F. Lay the bacon strips out flat on the same foil-lined baking sheet, leaving space in between so they don't overlap. Roast for until bacon is crisp, 12 to 20 minutes, rotating half way (cooking time will depend on thickness of bacon). Transfer bacon to a plate lined with paper towels; pour rendered bacon fat into a small dish and discard aluminum foil. When bacon is cool, finely chop.
Increase oven temperature to 425°F. Line baking sheet with fresh aluminum foil. Toss Brussels sprouts with rendered bacon fat, olive oil, salt, and pepper, directly on baking sheet. Roast, stirring midway through to promote even browning, until Brussels sprouts are tender and caramelized, about 20 minutes. Add balsamic vinegar and maple syrup and toss to coat evenly. Taste and adjust seasoning then transfer to serving dish. Right before serving, top with chopped pecans and bacon. Serve hot or room temperature.


text: PowerQube Will Power and Charge Any Nine Devices at Home or On the GoAdam Dachis3/06/14 3:00pmFiled to: stuff we likepowerusbcharginggadgetstabletsvideo19EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkWe've featured a number of great power adapters (such as Belkin's Mini Surge and Monoprice's sturdier alternative), but neither supplies a lot of power to USB gadgets or offers a lot of plugs. If you need a serious amount of electricity, the PowerQube can deliver. Instead of three outlets, you get six. Instead of two USB ports with limited output, you get three that can all handle tablets at the same time. It's a pretty powerful charger, but in a relatively compact package that you can take with you when you travel. You can also just use it about anywhere, as the video above demonstrates in a wonderfully intense tone. It'll cost you a bit more than a basic surge protector, but if you need that extra power in both USB and outlet form, it's hard to find a single unit that'll do the job for under $100.PowerQube ($70) Reply19 repliesLeave a reply


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Hello. I am only 20 years (white/German) old but since I was 14 it has been my dream to get the hollow eyes look, kind of Betty Davis, Greta Garbo, Madonna etc. eyelids. When I pull in my eyelids, or use eyelid tape I get that look. Why is this look unwanted when I see people post about their eyes looking like that, in here? What surgery would it take to make my eyelids look like that? Blepharoplasty? And will it hurt the eyes? I have seen some in the before/after gallery getting the look.
Can I Get the Hollow Eyes Look? Why Unwanted? Thank You!
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The hollow eye look is no longer in fashion and we do not try to obtain that look any longer. At age 20, you do not need your eyelids done. The primary goal of upper eyelid blepharoplasty is to remove excess skin with a little fat, while the goal for lower lids is primarily to remove the puffiness and a little bit of skin. The surgery takes approximately one hour performed under a brief general anesthetic as an outpatient surgical procedure
Web reference: http://eyelids.com
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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See Two Deleted Scenes from 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'
With the DVD/Blu-ray for Captain America: The Winter Soldier due out on September 9 (and on digital this August 19) , we're beginning to see some of its special features make their way online. Here's a deleted scene from the Marvel Studios movie, in which Robert Redford's Alexander Pierce announces that Captain America has information about Nick Fury's death and has refused to share it, making him a fugitive from S.H.I.E.L.D. That leads to a group of SWAT-like officers storming a gymnasium where they believe a tracking device is leading them straight to Cap. See what happens instead in the video below.
This is one of those scenes where you can understand why it was cut, mainly because they utilize the whole bait-and-switch tactic later on when Black Widow fools the Winter Soldier, and it's a better reveal than this one. It does, however, show us how Cap lost his new uniform, forcing him to steal an older version from the Smithsonian exhibit later on in the movie.
What do you think of the scene? Should it have stayed in the movie?
UPDATE: Here's another deleted scene below.
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Franzen a pleasant surprise for Red Wings
by Larry Wigge / Detroit Red WingsJohan Franzen is Detroit's biggest forward measuring 6-foot-3 and weighing in at 220 pounds. Franzen highlights |
Exhibit A is Johan Franzen of the Red Wings, whose nickname is Mule – given to him by long-time captain Steve Yzerman because the Vetlanda, Sweden, native is a big (6-foot-3, 220 pounds), hard-working, productive player.
When I asked coach Mike Babcock for his first impression of the 28-year-old forward a short time ago, he said, "I remember looking at him as a third-line guy. You know, that big center who could do a good job defensively with his big body, leaning on some of the other big centers in the West. ... Then coming into this year I remember telling (GM) Kenny Holland that I had the impression that Mule was going to score a little more than I first thought. But when he started this season slowly, I went back to my original observation. ... Now I realize how smart he is. He's gotten quicker by watching our skill guys and he's gained an edge by watching a guy like Tomas Holmstrom. You don't find many players 6-3, 200-plus pounds who can do the things he can offensively and defensively."
Don't be concerned about the inconsistent scouting views. The Red Wings scouting staff has proven time after time how they can see things in players at a young age that have panned out on the ice at the NHL level, regardless of the first impression. And Babcock can be excused for his thoughts on Franzen coming into this season because of the fact that Franzen injured his knee in the second game of the season, missed the next 10 games and took a while to regain his touch and feel around the net.
Most of Detroit's success at the draft table comes back to the character of a player – and in this case, Franzen is one of those intuitive, stubborn-as-a-mule players who refuse to stop at Point A in his development when Point B or C could be much more exciting.
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Whoa, big fella. Alternative?
"Yeah," he continued. "I was a real late bloomer. Didn't start playing hockey at anything other than lower-tier hockey back home until I was 19. I wasn't drafted by the NHL until I was 25. I'd say that's a late bloomer, wouldn't you?
"I had to get a job in the summer. I remember working at a metal factory. I also remember working in a window company. And I hated every minute of it. I guess you could say that was motivation for me to work harder at my hockey career."
All that would be incentive enough to take the mule by the horns – excuse the poetic license – and work harder at your trade.
"I figured I could make a good living playing in the Swedish Elite League," he said. "Never gave the NHL a thought until that day in June in 2004 when I got a call from (Wings director of European scouting) Hakan Andersson to tell me that Detroit had picked me in the draft. I was 25 at the time. I didn't know exactly what it meant, but everyone back home knows about the success of the Red Wings because of Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg, Tomas Holmstrom and the rest of the players they've picked from Sweden and around the world. So that made me wonder if I had a chance."
Every year when players get ready to step up the energy and begin the playoffs, there are a few intriguing players who can make more than just a little impact when the checking gets tighter and tighter. I'm betting that, even though most of the damage Franzen did offensively came while Holmstrom and Dan Cleary were out with injuries, that this big body with a smile on his face is ready to play on the edge and be an impact player for the Red Wings in this playoff run.
Babcock laughed when someone wondered if he would go back to being that big-body center to match up against Nashville's Jason Arnott in the first round or San Jose's Joe Thornton or Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf as the playoffs continue, rather than use him on one of the team's top two scoring lines.
"Ideally he's just improving as a hockey player with his size, with his strength, with his courage, with his ability to hang onto the puck and shoot the puck," Babcock said. "I was giving him a hard time today. I told him he was starting to pass the puck too much for my liking. I told him I don't need him passing the puck, I need him shooting it."
"I wouldn't worry about Johan getting his scoring opportunities, whatever line he plays on," Lidstrom said. "He's shown us he can score on the rush with his skills and size and that hand-to-eye skill he has. But what he's shown us in front of the net, tipping shots, blocking out the vision of the opposing goalie like Homer. To me, paying the price to go to those heavy traffic areas with confidence tells me he's going to succeed no matter who he's playing with."
Intuitive? Stubborn? Smart?
Per Gunnar and Annica Franzen didn't raise a slow-to-develop son. PG was a forward back home – still is, in fact, playing once a week. Annica is a social worker. Johan obviously got his love of hockey and ability to watch, learn and interact with people from his parents.
When I was in Sweden I used my skill more. But halfway through my first training camp here, I quickly saw I was overmatched by the skills of guys like Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg ... everyone was skilled. I realized I would have to change my game, that the only way to get a spot on this team was to play more physically, play with an edge, like Homer and Dan Cleary. - Johan Franzen
What the Red Wings were asking Johan, however, was something very hard. They wanted Franzen to change his game, to play with more size, more of an edge. But the Mule was smart enough to see what changes needed to be made for himself after just one training camp in Detroit. "When I was in Sweden I used my skill more," he said, laughing. "But halfway through my first training camp here, I quickly saw I was overmatched by the skills of guys like Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg ... everyone was skilled. I realized I would have to change my game, that the only way to get a spot on this team was to play more physically, play with an edge, like Homer and Dan Cleary."
Franzen also laughs at how important Babcock was to his development ... with little things he did. Little signs the Mule picked up on right away, like how he had to improve his grittiness by putting him on a line with players like Kris Draper and Kirk Maltby.
"My first training camp he put me out there a lot with Darren Helm, who skates like the wind," Franzen said. "It was coach's way to tell me that I had to improve my speed and quickness. So last summer when I went back home I did a lot of running ... quick sprints ... to improve my speed."
For a quiet, intuitive guy like Franzen, finding the identity he now has was hard at first. He's not edgy or gruff off the ice. Except when his girlfriend wonders why he's always in front of the TV watching other teams and other players play.
"I like movies ... and my girlfriend's OK with that," Franzen said. "But when I tell her I'm watching other teams and other players play, hoping to pick up a little something that I might be able to use in my game to make me better, well, she shakes her head. She hates it. I don't think she believes me. But that's my excuse ... and I'm sticking to it."
With what you've already learned about hulking Johan Franzen, I think you'll agree that there might actually be something to his story to his girlfriend based on how much he's watched, learned and changed his game to make him better.


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Texas Tech announced plans on Thursday for a football Ring of Honor, which will be unveiled during the team's home opener against Northwestern State on Sept. 1.
The purpose of the ring of honor is to pay tribute to "an elite group of players and coaches that made outstanding contributions to Red Raider Football," according to a Tech release.
Inductees will have their names etched on the west side of Jones AT&T Stadium, facing the playing surface.
"The careers of those that we will celebrate in this Ring of Honor brought national recognition to this university and left an incredible mark on our football program," Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said in a statement.
Tech will announce the first class of inductees on July 5.
"I am a firm believer in celebrating and remembering those who helped shape our program," Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said in a statement. "The men that will be inducted into this prestigious group left a mark on Texas Tech University that will forever guide this football program."
Tech said in its statement that candidates for the ring of honor will be screened by an anonymous selection committee.


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India in West Indies - Virat Kohli Aims To Ride On Past Success
Sidharth Gulati | Monday July 11, 2016
India will be aiming to build on their recent success in the Caribbean as Virat Kohli's team prepares to face the West Indies in a four-match series
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Reveals he Was 'Forced to Retire'
Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 3, 2016
Shivnarine Chanderpaul slammed the West Indies Cricket Board for forcing him to retire from international cricket. The left-hander, who is currently playing in Masters Champions Legaue, has scored 11,867 runs from 164 Tests.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Hailed as Role Model by International Cricket Council
Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday January 26, 2016
Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored 11,867 Test runs to be second on the all-time West Indies list behind legend Brian Lara and seventh on the international list.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Deserved Proper Send-off: Brian Lara
Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 26, 2016
Brian Lara said West Indies Cricket administration did not pay proper respect to Shivnarine Chanderpaul, after he announced retirement, despite a career spanning 20 years
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Announces His Retirement from International Cricket
Agence France-Presse | Saturday January 23, 2016
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who played 164 Tests for West Indies in his 22-year career, finally announced his retirement from international cricket.
Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy Dropped From West Indies Cricket Board Contracts List
Press Trust of India | Saturday January 9, 2016
Darren Sammy, Dwayne Bravo and Andre Russell have all been dropped from the West Indies Cricket Board's centrally contracted players list for the 2015/16 season.
'Shivnarine Chanderpaul Still has a Role to Play in West Indies Cricket'
Indo-Asian News Service | Friday September 11, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was sacked by West Indies selectors last May bringing to an end a Test career that yielded 11,867 runs from 164 Tests.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Aspires to Complete 12000 Test Runs Before Retirement
Press Trust of India | Monday July 27, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul has 11,867 runs from 164 Tests with 30 centuries at an average of above 51.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Still Hoping to Play for West Indies in Tests
Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday June 28, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 40, was dropped for the two-Test series against Australia in June after managing only 92 runs at an average of 15.33 in the three matches against England in April and May.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Insists he Still Wants to Play Test Cricket
Press Trust of India | Friday June 26, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 40, was dropped for the two-Test series against Australia in June after managing only 92 runs at an average of 15.33 in the three Tests against England in April and May.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Axe Fury Hangs over West Indies Test Squad
Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 31, 2015
All of the 14 players named in the West Indies squad for the Tests vs Australia -- except opener Rajindra Chandrika and wicketkeeper/batsman Shane Dowrich -- featured in the recent drawn series against England.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Axing 'Untidy and Distasteful': West Indies Players' Association
Indo-Asian News Service | Friday May 29, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was controversially dropped from the Test side to face Australia next week with selectors and head coach Phil Simmons citing the player's "rapid decline" in form as the reason.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sacking Distressing, Says Guyana Sports Minister
Indo-Asian News Service | Friday May 29, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul was left out of the West Indies squad for the Test series against Australia.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Deserves Sachin Tendulkar-Like Exit, Brian Lara Tells West Indies Selectors
NDTVSports | Thursday May 28, 2015
Brian Lara said the West Indian Cricket Board should have taken a leaf out of BCCI's books and given Shivnarine Chanderpaul a farewell series like the one Sachin Tendulkar got in Novermber 2013.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul Unhappy With Test Squad Snub
Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 27, 2015
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 40, was dropped from the West Indies squad for the Australia series.
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Christine Benz: Hi I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. Bank-loan funds have been generating a lot of interest lately. I sat down with Tim Strauts and Sarah Bush, two of Morningstar's bank-loan fund specialists, to discuss some of Morningstar's favorite picks within the category as well as some fund types to avoid.
There has been so much interest in the bank-loan category. I'd like to talk to you two about some of Morningstar's highest-conviction bank-loan investments, both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
Sarah, let's start with you in terms of the open-end bank-loan funds that we look at, what do you rate as our highest-conviction pick in that space?
Sarah Bush: We have a Gold Morningstar Analyst Rating on Eaton Vance Floating Rate, and this is a very experienced management team. It's been in the market for a long time, backed by really serious, good analysts. This is kind of a market-rate-like fund. This particular one doesn't carry any leverage, which some of the other Eaton Vance products do. We just really like the research backing it, and we feel like they're taking a careful and cautious approach to the risks in the market.
Benz: Eaton Vance has been a big player in this space for a long time. They have several different funds, but this is your top pick.
Bush: Yes. Eaton Vance Floating Rate, which is their pure, or nonleveraged, bank-loan fund.
Benz: Tim, let's talk about the exchange-traded fund space. There's been an explosion of interest there, as well. In terms of Morningstar's favorite pick in the bank-loan ETF space, what is the top-conviction fund?
Tim Strauts: It will be PowerShares' Senior Loan, ticker BKLN, and this is an index portfolio. Typically most bank-loan funds are very active in nature, but this fund owns an index of the 100 largest bank loans in the market. You get a very diverse collection of loans and typically speaking, the 100 largest are also going to be the 100 most liquid. You get a more liquid, not necessarily high-quality, but big size as far as bank loans.
The fee in the fund is pretty low because it's an index fund. It's 65 basis points, which may sound high if you're in most ETFs, but compared with most of the bank-loan funds, it's pretty cheap. And it has also grown to about $5 billion in assets just in the last two years.
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