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Sandler reunites with Drew Barrymore in "Blended," a comedy about modern family life.
Adam Sandler gets all family friendly in "Blended," a comedy mixing heart and humor with his usual scatological shtick (humping rhinos, monkeys dressed as Hooters girls). Surprisingly, it's better
than you'd expect for Sandler.
In his canon of comedies, "Blended" falls somewhere between the putrid "Jack & Jill" and his two apexes, "The Wedding Singer" and "50 First Dates." In the latter two, Sandler starred opposite Drew Barrymore, whom he once more taps to play his female foil in "Blended." As Lauren, a professional closet organizer, Barrymore again gamely plays along with Sandler's juvenile antics, but their charm as a movie couple is clearly waning. The film opens with Barrymore on the toilet at a Hooters. She's on the phone, arranging an "emergency excuse" so she can ditch her "blind date from hell." That, of course, would be Sandler's Jim, a sadsack widower raising three tomboy daughters played by Bella Thorne (a dead-ringer for Keira Knightley), Alyvia Alyn Lind and Emma Fuhrmann.
Their names are Larry, Lou and Espn, which might explain why the trio is often mistaken for boys. Well, that, and the tracksuits they wear courtesy of Dicks Sporting Goods, where Dad works alongside Shaq. The girls undoubtedly need a mother figure.
Enter Lauren, a recent divorcee with a hyper-sexual teen son who looks like Frodo (a joke the film plays a few times) and a younger boy who's just plain hyper. The lads really need a dad because theirs (Joel McHale) is always a no-show.
After a series of script contrivances – the predestine lovers bump into each other in a pharmacy, where Jim is cluelessly buying his daughter tampons and Lauren is awkwardly replacing a dirty magazine she ripped up – the two families end up together on a weeklong African vacation, or a "blended family moon," as the movie puts it. It's "The Brady Bunch" with boobs-and-balls jokes.
That's not to say "Blended" doesn't have its moments, most of them courtesy of supporting players Wendi McLendon-Covey, Terry Crews and Jessica Lowe. Given what they and director Frank Coraci are given to work with, it's a miracle any laughs are derived from a wonky script by Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera.
Crews, the former NFL linebacker, draws on his dancing pecs and crazy eyes to flat out steal every scene he's in as the resort entertainer. Functioning as a Greek chorus, Crews and his elaborately costumed crew show up at random moments, crooning in a Jamaican accent.
Firing off some good wisecracks and insults, Crews' "Bridesmaids" co-star McLendon-Covey makes the most of a small part as Lauren's best friend. And Lowe makes a strong impression as the bubbly and dimwitted wife of Kevin Nealon, a couple staying at the same resort.
If nothing, Sandler has always enjoyed sweet interactions with his youngest co-stars, and "Blended" is no different. He plays it less infantile than usual, and as he moves from lug to lover, he sweetly earns our sympathy. The movie, however, doesn't seem to want to end. The outcome is never in doubt, but it takes what seems like forever to arrive.
Dana Barbuto may be reached at email@example.com or follow her on Twitter @dbarbuto_Ledger.


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Part of US 441 closed after landslide in Smokies
Part of US 441 closed after landslide in Smokies
GATLINBURG, Tenn. —
A landslide in the rain-drenched Smoky Mountains has closed a section of U.S. 441.
The National Park Service said a 200-foot section of the road, also known as Newfound Gap Road, slid about 1,000 feet down a slope at about 9:40 a.m. EST Wednesday. There were no injuries.
That section of the highway is expected to be closed for an extended period of time. The slide was between Collins Creek and the Webb Overlook.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are evaluating the rest of the road and expect that visitors should soon be able to drive from Gatlinburg to Newfound Gap on the Tennessee side of the park. The road is expected to be opened soon on the North Carolina side from Cherokee to Smokemont.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama's administration of standing in apology for American values when it should have been voicing outrage, as he looked for political advantage in the deadly protests that caused a breach of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and left four Americans dead in Libya.
The GOP nominee offered no regret for criticizing the president in the midst of an unfolding international crisis.
"It's never too early to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values," Romney said in a hastily called news conference at a campaign office in a Jacksonville strip mall.
Romney condemned the violent protests and expressed condolences to the families of those slain in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador there. He said that instead of speaking out forcefully against the initial Egyptian breach, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo had seemed to sympathize with the attacks by issuing a statement that he called "akin to an apology."
In fact, the embassy statement Romney referenced had been issued before protesters reached the embassy, as tensions were rising over an amateur film made in the United States that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammed. When it became clear that there would be a demonstration outside the embassy, officials there issued a statement condemning "continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims."
Romney, who suggested the statement had been issued after the embassy grounds had been attacked, said: "An apology for America's values is never the right course." He held Obama personally accountable.
"The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department," Romney said. "They clearly sent mixed messages to the world."
Romney called it a "severe miscalculation" and said he would not hesitate to lay out his differences with Obama on foreign policy.
Overnight, the Obama campaign had criticized Romney for choosing to "launch a political attack" in the midst of the unfolding situation. And on Wednesday, Obama himself said his GOP rival "seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later." The president spoke in an interview with CBS News.
Romney did not back down, faulting Obama for a "hit-or-miss approach" to foreign policy and saying he would not hesitate to lay out "places of distinction and differences."
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Romney's comments were "about as inappropriate as anything I have ever seen at this kind of a moment."
To speak out "before families have even been notified, before things have played out, is really not just inexperienced, it's irresponsible, it's callous, it's reckless," Kerry said.
The Romney campaign hastily shifted plans to hold the unscheduled news conference at a campaign office where the GOP nominee had planned to rally supporters. After the news conference, Romney met with the supporters and urged them to find a friend who voted for Obama last time and help sway them to go for the Republican ticket this time.
He spoke of the electoral importance of Florida and told dozens of people here that "we're looking to you to get the job done."
The morning was a scramble for the Romney team. Initial plans for a rally atmosphere were scrapped so that Romney could speak about the killings in Libya. Supporters and their campaign signs were led outside to erase the trappings of an overt political event.
Four American flags and a lectern were set up for Romney, who was whisked away after the news conference. The people who had shown up for the rally then returned for his brief campaign remarks.
At a fundraiser later Wednesday, Romney asked donors to join him in a moment of silence for the four people killed in the Libyan crisis.
Microphone in hand, he bowed his head for 10 seconds, as did others standing in the hotel ballroom. After that, Romney went right back to bashing Obama's record. Mocking Obama's slogan of "forward," Romney said "forewarned is a better term."
On the day that the Census Bureau reported that the ranks of America's poor remained stuck at record levels, Romney said Obama "pretends that he's the candidate of the middle class" but he's really "the candidate that's pushed the middle class into poverty."
"We're not the party of the rich," Romney said. "We're the party of the people who want to get rich."
Tickets to the fundraiser cost from $2,500 to $50,000.
The overall poverty rate stood at 15 percent in 2011, the Census Bureau reported, statistically unchanged from 15.1 percent in the previous year.


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1. Re: EPS vs AIJETalmage Apr 19, 2009 8:11 AM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
Think of file types as falling into two general categories: "application-native formats" and "exchange formats".
Generally speaking, an application-native format is designed to be understood only by the software that creates it. It contains all the code that the creating program needs to edit the file with nothing being lost between work sessions. For example, a FileMaker Pro file can only be opened with FileMaker Pro.
Generally speaking, an exchange format is one intended for multiple applications to be able to open. It's a way to get content created by one program into another program. For example, FileMaker Pro can export the content of its files (.fm7) into several exchange formats (ex: .tab), so that some other database program (ex: MS Access) can import it.
That's "generally-speaking". In reality, the makers of a program may consider it advantageous to provide an import and/or export filter that can read and/or write a competing program's native format. For example, FileMaker Pro can export its content directly to a MS Excel file (.xls).
So, generally-speaking, .aiis Illustrator's native file format; .eps is an exchange format for passing around PostScript content between programs. The following elaborates:
AI (.ai): Adobe Illustrator
This is the application-native file format for Adobe Illustrator. It has different versions, because capabilities of the program change over the development years.
As noted above, an application-native format is intended for use by the creating application. So an application-specific format has no "responsibility", so-to-speak, for compatibility with some other (often competing) program.
Illustrator is, at its core, a PostScript interpreter. It's internal language is PostScript. So it's not all that difficult for other programs that do pretty much the same thing (FreeHand, CorelDraw, Canvas, Xara, etc.) to write an import filter to convert the content of a native .ai file into objects which are native to the importing program--and just throw away any Illustrator-specific stuff it doesn't understand. The simple fact that of Illustrator's predominance makes it desirable for a competitor to do so. Often, therefore, competing programs are able to "open" (although this should really be called "import") .ai files "directly" (without conversion to an exchange format).
It should be pointed out, this works the other way 'round, too: For example, Illustrator can "open" (more correctly, import) FreeHand and CorelDraw files.
Something is almost always lost in such "opens" (imports), and such features almost always lag a version or two behind that of the originating program.
EPS (.eps): Encapsulated PostScript
The operative word is "Encapsulated". Think "delivered in a sealed box". This is an "exchange" format, not necessarily associated with one specific graphics program. Originally, it was a mechanism by which other programs that don't understand PostScript to at least be able to "place" or "insert" (include) PostScript files and pass them along to the printer.
An EPS file "dumbs down" the code of the objects it contains to the minimum constructs which a PostScript printer needs to understand in order to render it. It "wraps" that content between an EPS "header" and "footer". The "header" may (or may not) contain a low-res raster image which can be used as an on-screen representation of the content.
For example: Word is not a PostScript program. But it can "insert" an EPS file, make a space for it on the Word page, and display the low-res raster image (if any) in that space. Word doesn't know didly about the content of the "sealed box", and doesn't have to. When the Word document is printed, Word just sends the "sealed box" along in the print stream. If the printer is a PostScript printer, it sees the "sealed box", opens it, and interprets its content. If the printer also doesn't know didly about PostScript, it just prints the low-res raster image (and the print looks like crap).
EPS was/is also used for exchange between different PostScript programs. For example, PageMaker was also a PostScript program. But that doesn't mean it could actually draw or understand the PostScript code for all the various PostScript objects created by, say, Illustrator or FreeHand. So it would also import an EPS exported from Illustrator or FreeHand, make a space for it on the PageMaker page, show the low-res preview, and pass the "sealed box" on to the printer in the print stream.
Nowadays, the relatively clean-cut "native format vs. exchange format" distinction has become muddier, due mostly to ill-advised marketing brainstorms on the parts of software vendors.
PDF is increasingly used as a better exchange format (most notably in InDesign) for placing non-native artwork on pages as spot graphics. As such, PDF has largely obsoleted EPS. Not all graphics programs, however (for example: earlier versions of QuarkXpress that are still in widespread use), can treat a PDF as a spot graphic, so EPS persists despite its inherent inconveniences.
At one time, the marketers at Adobe decided it clever to proclaim that "PDF is now Illustrator's native format." That ill-advised claim was mostly smoke-and-mirrors, and resulted in untold confusion among Adobe's customers. In reality, you can now chose to includean entire and separate PDF version copyof the Illustrator artwork "sealed up" inside the .ai file. At the same time, the PDF format was altered to provide for a "sealed off area" in which Illustrator (or some other program) can include a whole copy of the same content in its native format.
So a .ai file may or may not also contain a whole separate copy of itself in PDF format; and a PDF may or may not also contain a whole separate copy of itself in Illustrator's (or some other program's) native format. And users wonder why files have become so needlessly large.
Inversely, Macromedia turned smoke-and-mirrors into mirrors-and-smoke by appropriating what should be considered an exchange format (.png) as its own "native" format for Fireworks. A .png file may or may not contain other content in a "sealed off area" within the file. So a .png file (a raster image format) may or may not contain a whole copy of itself in native Fireworks objects (including vector shapes). As a result, the recipient of a .png who doesn't open it in Fireworks, doesn't know whether it is a "native" Fireworks document or not.
So...for a real answer to your specific problem, you should provide specific information about your intended use of EPS. What program do you intend to deliver it to?
2. Re: EPS vs AIMordy Golding Apr 19, 2009 9:22 AM (in response to JETalmage)1 person found this helpful
Illustrator is, at its core, a PostScript interpreter. It's internal language is PostScript. So it's not all that difficult for other programs that do pretty much the same thing (FreeHand, CorelDraw, Canvas, Xara, etc.) to write an import filter to convert the content of a native .ai file into objects which are native to the importing program--and just throw away any Illustrator-specific stuff it doesn't understand.This was true up until the release of Illustrator 9. Since version 9, Illustrator's internal language is a superset of the PDF 1.5 language spec. PostScript has no support at all for many of the constructs that Illustrator now supports (transparency, etc). It's actually quite difficult for anyone -- even other Adobe teams for that matter -- to parse native .AI information since Illustrator 9. Since most Adobe apps don't need to access editable information -- they really just need an unflattened composite -- it's easier to just have Illustrator embed a PDF (1.5) version of the native Illustrator file which other apps can easily read and place.It's interesting to note that Adobe *IS* indeed started to include Illustrator's own graphics libraries into other apps, meaning that other apps WILL be able to parse Illustrator's native file format (think of these apps as having a built-in headless version of Illustrator). Adobe is doing this for apps where the editing of content would be important or necessary. For example, Flash CS3 and CS4 contains Illustrator's graphics libraries. Meaning that you can save your file from AI using the .ai file format WITHOUT checking the Include PDF Compatible File option, and Flash will be able to correctly parse the file. I believe that Fireworks can do this in CS4 (although I've experienced instability and constant crashes when doing so), and also, Adobe's new Flash Catalyst contains Illustrator's graphics libraries.
At one time, the marketers at Adobe decided it clever to proclaim that "PDF is now Illustrator's native format." That ill-advised claim was mostly smoke-and-mirrors, and resulted in untold confusion among Adobe's customers.
Hm. As I mentioned above, Illustrator's native file format IS indeed PDF -- but since it's a superset of the public ISO PDF language spec (it has to support things like Illustrator's 3D features, appearances, etc.), it's a version of PDF that only Illustrator itself can understand. But it's certainly PDF. There's no smoke and mirrors there. Also, as I mentioned above, the default behavior is that Illustrator embeds an unflattened composite of the file as a PDF file that CAN be read by other applications. This PDF is able to fully reproduce the art when printed (it's just not editable like the native version is). I don't think there's any confusion amongst customers. Most designers just place native .ai files into other Adobe apps and it just works. What Illustrator is doing "behind the scenes" really doesn't affect the average user at all. And designers like when things "just work".
To specifically answer the original question in this thread, reading this article, What's In a File, should help.
3. Re: EPS vs AIHarron K. Appleman Apr 19, 2009 1:07 PM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
I am getting an error all the time when saving an AI file that contains text.
Strangely I am abe to save AI files without text or EPS files with or without text.
... I think this might be an Illustrator CS4 bug.
Miguel, it might be a bug, and it goes back many versions.
Do a search here with keyphrase 'can't save' and/or 'cannot save,' and you'll come across many discussions that deal with this issue. There is no definitive answer, but there are many suggestions -- some work for some users, and other users are still left in the lurch.
Unfortunately, the search function in this new forum is a complete piece of crap. And, in cases like this, it doesn't help that they combined Mac and Win. You'll have to slog through the process, but with a little luck, you'll come across a workaround that works for you.
To get you started, Here's an old, but ongoing, discussion that started in the old Illustrator Win forum. I know it's a lot to read, but slog through it if you can. There might be an answer in there for you.
(I gleaned from your other post here that you're a Win Vista 64 user. You should, nevertheless, always identify your Illustrator version and OS every time you post here.)
Good luck.
4. Re: EPS vs AIMiguel D Moura Apr 19, 2009 1:25 PM (in response to Harron K. Appleman)
Yes, I found that post and others yesterday in Google.
I followed all the sugestions I could find including resinstalling Illustrator CS4 twice with and without Mcafee active.
I just don't understand how Adobe has a report of a bug since 2005 from CS2 version ... and release CS4 with the same bug.
If it would be Microsoft they would be crucified ... lol
I am only creating a few images with text ... I use transparency, brushes, layers and gradients.
Nothing really fancy ... can I save it in EPS and later when, and if, I solve the problem opening it again and save it as AI?
Or I will loose my properties and will get something like a JPEG?
I really don't know what else to try ...
5. Re: EPS vs AIMordy Golding Apr 19, 2009 6:00 PM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
OK, well let's start from scratch here...
Can you describe exactly what the error is? What does the dialog box say? Do you get the error with ANY file you try to save or is it specifically with one file, or just a few files? Please be as specific as possible.
6. Re: EPS vs AIMiguel D Moura Apr 20, 2009 3:00 AM (in response to Mordy Golding)
Thank you for your help.
It happens with any file ...
I open Illustrator, I create a square and I am able to save in any format, including AI.
If I add just one line of text then I am not able to save in AI. But I am able to save in any other format.
If a new document with only a text "abc" and nothing else won't save in AI.
The error says (the window has no title):
An unknow error has occurred.
Thank You,
7. Re: EPS vs AIartdrectr Dec 22, 2010 9:22 AM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
Sounds like a font error.
8. Re: EPS vs AIAEvangelist Apr 23, 2012 8:52 AM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
Do you have permissions for the fonts used ? is it a system font or a free font?
Have you tried to outline text (select text box and press shift-cmd-o / ctrl-shift-o) and then save to ai ?
free fonts often limits you to just see the text on-screen and will be substituted with another font with permissions to print when exporting to pdf or saving to ai.
Is it just a warning in the save as ai dialogbox, and you can save but the fontinformation is lost, or are you prohibited form saving alltogether?
9. Re: EPS vs AIAEvangelist Apr 23, 2012 9:13 AM (in response to AEvangelist)
ooops .. didn't see that this post was way old
11. Re: EPS vs AIryant16802880 Sep 29, 2017 6:46 AM (in response to Miguel D Moura)
So basically, what's the difference?
12. Re: EPS vs AIMonika Gause Sep 29, 2017 7:42 AM (in response to ryant16802880)
Please read answer #1


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The University of Alabama coaching staff hosted its second Junior Day this past Saturday with more than 100 prospects from across the country in attendance. Alabama extended scholarship offers, welcomed several underclassmen and landed a new commitment.
The University of Alabama coaching staff hosted its second Junior Day this past Saturday with more than 100 prospects from across the country in attendance. Alabama extended scholarship offers, welcomed several underclassmen and landed a new commitment.
The biggest news of the weekend was the Crimson Tide receiving a commitment from Deionte Thompson, a defensive back from West Orange Stark High School in Orange, Texas (class of 2015). He will enter his junior season this fall. Thompson was offered a scholarship during the visit.
Alabama welcomed plenty of top talent including Tony Brown, a five-star cornerback from Ozen High in Beaumont, Texas, and Elisha Shaw, a Rivals100 defensive tackle from Tucker High in Georgia. Brown and Shaw already held offers from Alabama before their trip.
The coaching staff extended several new offers including to Matt Elam, defensive tackle from James Hardin High in Elizabethtown, Ky., and Koda Martin, tight end from Manvel High in Texas.
"Getting offered (Saturday) was definitely the highlight," Martin told The Tuscaloosa News. "Also getting to see their facilities — they're pretty awesome. Getting to see the field and the new weight room was a pretty big deal. It was all great. Alabama is one of my top schools. It was a pretty impressive day. They win a lot of football games. They're definitely one of my top schools right now."
Samaje Perine, a Rivals250 running back from Hendrickson High in Pflugerville, Texas, was also offered by the Crimson Tide. Perine, 5-foot-11, 233 pounds, said his two schools are Alabama and Oklahoma with a decision possibly coming soon.
"I like everything about Alabama," Perine said. "When you look at the program with the stability, all the success they have, and the way Coach (Nick) Saban runs his program it's all pretty nice."
Jacob Pugh, a four-star linebacker from Godby High in Tallahassee, Fla., was one of the few Panhandle prospects in town. Pugh got an offer from Alabama during his visit.
"They are No. 1 for me right now," Pugh said. "They are the best. That's big time for a school like them to offer. I want to go to a good quality school like Alabama. I don't want to go too far from home."
Dylan Moses, a prospect for the class of 2017 from University School in Baton Rouge, La., will enter his freshman season this fall. The 6-1, 215-pound athlete was clocked last summer at the LSU camp at 4.48 in the 40-yard dash. LSU offered last summer. Alabama offered during his visit this past weekend.
Moses played running back and linebacker in junior high. He wants to play in the secondary this fall "because Nick Saban is a defensive backs coach," said Edward Moses, Dylan's father. "The offer from Alabama was just so surreal. You hear about this type of stuff happening. He is only 14 though. He isn't 17 or 18. He hasn't touched a varsity football field yet. Coach Saban was talking to him like a grandfather. He was telling him he has a bright future ahead, to keep him grades up and to have the right temperament."
Other underclassmen among the visitors this past weekend included Kerryon Johnson, 2015 athlete from Madison Academy, Garrett Thomas, 2015 offensive tackle from Many High in La., and Gabe Angel, 2016 athlete from Wilson Central High in Lebanon, Tenn.
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In today's volatile and unpredictable markets, option selling is becoming a popular choice among high net worth investors and traders. This has been mainly because of the strategy's high probabilities of success on individual trades, ability to generate reliable income and positive performance in all types of market conditions.
But while option selling can be a powerful way to diversify into a non-correlated, non-directional strategy, there is no free lunch. Writing options is one of those strategies that is easy to understand but infinitely more difficult to master. Option selling, especially in commodities, has its own set of risks. Knowing how to deal with them should allay any fears you may have about selling premiums and boost your bottom line.
When considering whether or not to allocate capital to an option selling portfolio, many of the resources you may have access to describe a recommended way to go about selling options. Whether you hire a professional manager or attempt to go it alone, knowing what to do seems to take precedence over what not to do.
Experience shows, however, that not doing the wrong things will have as much, if not more, an impact on your portfolio's ultimate performance than doing all of the right things. Therefore, we can learn a lot from the errors of others. To that end, we'll explore the three biggest mistakes that option sellers make and, more importantly, discuss simple ways to avoid making them.
Mistake one: Over-positioning
Over-positioning is the biggest mistake new option sellers make. Most brokers servicing self-directed clients will see this again and again. No matter how much you school them on how to sell options, it is difficult to teach somebody how to position.
Typically, this is how it works: New traders sell a few options, see them decay and get excited thinking they have found the Holy Grail of investments. They proceed to ramp their activity to ridiculous levels, selling far too many options relative to their account size and end up with either too many options for their account or too concentrated in a particular market or sector. This puts the whole portfolio at greater risk of taking losses. Option selling works but you have to understand and respect the leverage. Remember you are supposed to be right most of the time in premium selling but at some point you will take a loss and you can't let that loss wipe you out.
This also goes back to the trader versus investor mentality. Option selling can sometimes be detrimental to active traders. Traders want to (and sometimes think they have to) trade every day. Option selling is more of a passive activity that requires mostly time and patience. This puts the strategy at odds with active traders that like a lot of action.
Some simple guidelines can go a long way toward protecting against over-leverage: Keep 50% of your account capital in cash and diversify your other 50% among at least six to eight commodities, puts and calls using a mix of naked and spread strategies. This portfolio structure is based on many years of experience managing propriety and client funds. Use it and you won't make the mistake of over-positioning. While the vast majority of professional option writing managers concentrate on stock index markets, diversifying across commodities provides more variety and allows you to better take advantage of mispriced premium levels, particularly some seasonal mispricing that often occurs in certain agricultural markets.


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BOISE — A bill that would require all breeding bulls in Idaho to be tested annually for trichomoniasis was introduced in the Idaho Legislature Jan. 30.
Currently, Idaho law only requires bulls south of the Salmon River to be tested for trich, a venereal disease that causes infertility and abortions in cattle.
About 80 percent of Idaho's beef cattle are located south of the Salmon River.
The Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee unanimously voted to print the legislation, which is a one-sentence change to Idaho code that requires all bulls in Idaho to be tested for the disease.
The bill, which was crafted by the Idaho Cattle Association, will be debated later during a public hearing.
The issue has created strong feelings among cattle producers on both sides of the river and the proposal to require statewide testing has been hotly debated by the industry for at least three years.
ICA members in November passed a resolution to pursue legislation that requires all bulls in Idaho to be tested for trich.
"We think it's a serious enough disease and a large enough threat to the cattle industry that we want to make certain it's (addressed properly)," said ICA Executive Vice President Wyatt Prescott.
Prescott said while some north Idaho producers still disagree with the proposal, the resolution was passed by an overwhelming majority.
"We have been torn on it for a while," he said. "But at the end of the day, the industry voted to pursue this."
The cost of testing for trich varies from $25 to $50 per bull.
Some cattle producers in north Idaho say there is no data to support that there is a problem in their region, but others say that could simply be due to a lack of testing in that area.
Idaho in 1989 became the first state to adopt a trich testing program and producers north of the Salmon were exempted five years later because it was felt there wasn't a problem in that area.
According to state data, 13,000 bulls were tested statewide during the first year of the program and 400 tested positive for trich. Last year, 23,000 bulls were tested and 17 tested positive, nine of them from out of state.
Republican Sen. Bert Brackett, a rancher from Rogerson in southern Idaho, said there are still some cattle producers south of the Salmon River who aren't happy with the mandatory testing and he wouldn't be surprised if there is some opposition to the legislation.
"There will be some people in the industry who won't be supportive of it, both in the north and south," he said.
But Brackett said the industry's understanding of the disease has evolved since north Idaho producers were exempted from mandatory testing and the threat it poses to cattle producers is better understood.
"It doesn't do you any good if you test for trich but your neighbor doesn't test for it and his bulls get over to your (herd)," he said.


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The most comprehensive assessment of the world's vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD, in Nagoya, Japan.
The study, to be published in the international journal Science, used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, to investigate the status of the world's vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fishes) and how this status has changed over time. The results show that, on average, 50 species of mammal, bird and amphibian move closer to extinction each year due to the impacts of agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation and invasive alien species.
"The 'backbone' of biodiversity is being eroded," says the emminent American ecologist and writer Professor Edward O. Wilson, at Harvard University. "One small step up the Red List is one giant leap forward towards extinction. This is just a small window on the global losses currently taking place."
Southeast Asia has experienced the most dramatic recent losses, largely driven by the planting of export crops like oil palm, commercial hardwood timber operations, agricultural conversion to rice paddies and unsustainable hunting. Parts of Central America, the tropical Andes of South America, and even Australia, have also all experienced marked losses, in particular due to the impact of the deadly chytrid fungus on amphibians.
Whilst the study confirms previous reports of continued losses in biodiversity, it is the first to present clear evidence of the positive impact of conservation efforts around the globe. Results show that the status of biodiversity would have declined by nearly 20 percent if conservation action had not been taken.
"History has shown us that conservation can achieve the impossible, as anyone who knows the story of the White Rhinoceros in southern Africa is aware," says Dr Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN's Species Survival Commission and an author on the study. "But this is the first time we can demonstrate the aggregated positive impact of these successes on the state of the environment."
The study highlights 64 mammal, bird and amphibian species that have improved in status due to successful conservation action. This includes three species that were extinct in the wild and have since been re-introduced back to nature: the California Condor, Gymnogyps californianus, and the Black-footed Ferret, Mustela nigripes, in the United States, and Przewalski's Horse, Equus ferus, in Mongolia.
Conservation efforts have been particularly successful at combatting invasive alien species on islands. The global population of the Seychelles Magpie-robin, Copsychus sechellarum, increased from fewer than 15 birds in 1965 to 180 in 2006 through control of introduced predators, like the Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus, and captive-breeding and re-introduction programmes. On Mauritius, six bird species have undergone recoveries in status, including the Mauritius Kestrel, Falco punctatus, whose population has increased from just four birds in 1974 to nearly 1,000.
In South America, protected areas and a combination of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the Vicuña Convention helped spark the recovery of the Vicuña Vicugna vicugna. Similarly, legislation enacted to ban commercial whaling has seen the Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, move from Vulnerable to Least Concern. Unfortunately, very few amphibians have yet shown signs of recovery, but international efforts are escalating, including a programme to reintroduce the Kihansi Spray Toad, Nectophrynoides asperginis, back into the wild in Tanzania.
The authors caution that their study represents only a minimum estimate of the true impact of conservation, highlighting that some nine percent of threatened species have increasing populations. Their results show that conservation works, given resources and commitment. They also show that global responses will need to be substantially scaled up, because the current level of conservation action is outweighed by the magnitude of threat. In this light, policy-makers at the CBD meeting in Nagoya have been calling for a very significant increase in resources – from extremely low current levels - to make the objectives of the Convention achievable.
"This is clear evidence for why we absolutely must emerge from Nagoya with a strategic plan of action to direct our efforts for biodiversity in the coming decade," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of IUCN. "It is a clarion call for all of us – governments, businesses, citizens – to mobilize resources and drive the action required. Conservation does work but it needs our support, and it needs it fast!"
The paper highlights that the percentage of species threatened among vertebrates ranges from 13 percent of birds to 41 percent of amphibians. Although the study focused on vertebrates, it also reports on the levels of threat among several other groups assessed for the IUCN Red List, including 14 percent of seagrasses, 32 percent of freshwater crayfish and 33 percent of reef-building corals.
The level of threat among cycads is extremely critical, with 63 percent threatened with extinction. Cycads, the most ancient group of seed plants alive today, are subject to extremely high levels of illegal harvesting and trade, and are in danger of going the same way as the dinosaurs.Learn more
Recently, a United Nations-sponsored study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) calculated the cost of losing nature at $2-5 trillion per year, predominantly in poorer parts of the world. A recent study found one-fifth of more than 5,000 freshwater species in Africa are threatened, putting the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on these vital resources at risk.
Failure to meet the internationally agreed 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss does not mean that conservation efforts have been in vain, as this study demonstrates. However, the erosion of biodiversity has reached such dangerous levels that we cannot afford to fail again. Ambitious targets are needed for 2020, and to meet them will require urgent and concerted action on a greatly expanded scale. It is time for the world's Governments, meeting in Nagoya, to rise effectively to this global challenge.
Quotes from Red List Partner organizations
"We know what has to be done to save individual species from extinction," says Alison Stattersfield, BirdLife's Head of Science and one of the authors on the paper. "Through BirdLife's Preventing Extinctions Programme we are taking effective and cost-effective action for the world's Critically Endangered birds. But much more effort is needed, through NGOs, governments, businesses and committed individuals working together, to stop the slide towards extinction and start to address the root causes of biodiversity loss."
"This study testifies to the transformative power of conservation," says Dr Sara Oldfield, Secretary General of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. "It shows that if we can emerge from Nagoya with a clear conservation strategy and the resources to secure the future of the world's plants, we can radically improve the status of this group of species that has such tremendous cultural and economic importance for society."
"The critical point from our analysis is the role that conservation plays in slowing species losses. That means we can do something about this global problem by taking concerted action at local national and regional scales," says Dr Andrew A. Rosenberg, Senior Vice President for Science and Knowledge at Conservation International and an author on the paper.
"This landmark analysis proves that, when guided by detailed data and supported by adequate financing, conservation of threatened species and their habitats works", says Mary Klein, President and CEO of Natureserve. "We know what can and must be done to safeguard biodiversity – we just need to do much more of it."
"A recent study on plants coordinated by Kew and involving several IUCN partners (http://www.kew.org/news/one-fifth-of-plants-under-threat-of-extinction.htm), suggested that just over one-fifth of all plant species are threatened, that most threatened plant species are found in the tropics and that the most threatening process is man-induced habitat loss," says Professor Stephen Hopper, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Conifers, with a world-wide presence in virtually all types of forest, face extinction for at least 29 percent of species. Many are 'keystone' species, without which their ecosystem could collapse, taking other species with them to extinction. Unsustainable logging and deforestation are the main causes. Clearly it is important to continue and increase conservation actions across the globe."
"The conservation of biodiversity is a daunting challenge that requires a robust base of scientific information and theoretical framework. The Red List Partnership, of which our university is member, is a unique combination of centres of excellence sharing the responsibility of advancing the science of biodiversity assessment and maintaining updated information on the trends of biodiversity status," says Dr Luigi Boitani of Sapienza University of Rome and an author on the study. "Expanding the coverage of species and monitoring their status through time is a responsibility we cannot postpone anymore."
"The results of this study suggest that we must adopt a broader and more comprehensive approach to conservation, one that includes not only protected areas but also better strategies to work with rural communities and traditional people to conserve biodiversity in places where people use the land for their support," says Professor Thomas Lacher, Jr. at Texas A&M University and an author on the paper. "We cannnot afford piecemeal approaches."
"This paper is proof that conservation is working. Now we have to scale-up our efforts to match the unprecedented threats faced by the natural world," says Professor Jonathan Baillie, Director of Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London and an author on the paper.
"While the outlook for many species is still grim, this report is a testament to the real and valuable impact conservation work can have," says Harriet Nimmo, Chief Executive of Wildscreen, who are working with IUCN to help raise the public profile of the world's threatened species. "We need to urgently address our disconnection from the natural world and will only succeed in rescuing species from the brink of extinction if we successfully communicate their plight, significance, value and importance."
Related Links:
- Conservation successes - image gallery
- Fighting for survival - image gallery
- Video news release compiled by ARKive
- To access the Science paper in Science Express follow the links provided to the paper under the Analyses of the Red List section on the Publications and Links page.
Editor's notes
The study involved some 174 authors from 115 institutions and 38 countries. It was made possible by the voluntary contributions of more than 3,000 scientists under the auspices of IUCN's Species Survival Commission, and a growing partnership of organizations, including BirdLife International, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Conservation International, NatureServe, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Sapienza Università di Roma, Texas A&M University, Wildscreen and the Zoological Society of London.
For information about more species on the IUCN Red List please visit www.iucnredlist.org
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
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Global figures for 2010.4 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
Total species assessed = 55,926
Extinct = 791
Extinct in the Wild = 63
Critically Endangered = 3,565
Endangered = 5,256
Vulnerable = 9,530
Near Threatened = 4,014
Total Lower Risk/conservation dependent = 269 (this is an old category that is gradually being phased out of the Red List)
Data Deficient = 8,358
Least Concern = 24,080
The figures presented above are only for those species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List to date. Although not all of the world's species have been assessed, the IUCN Red List provides a useful snapshot of what is happening to species today and highlights the urgent need for conservation action.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (or the IUCN Red List) is the world's most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It is based on an objective system for assessing the risk of extinction of a species should no conservation action be taken.
Species are assigned to one of eight categories of threat based on whether they meet criteria linked to population trend, population size and structure and geographic range. Species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable are collectively described as 'Threatened'.
The IUCN Red List is not just a register of names and associated threat categories. It is a rich compendium of information on the threats to the species, their ecological requirements, where they live, and information on conservation actions that can be used to reduce or prevent extinctions.
The IUCN Red List threat categories
The IUCN Red List threat categories are as follows, in descending order of threat:
Extinct or Extinct in the Wild;
Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable: species threatened with global extinction;
Near Threatened: species close to the threatened thresholds or that would be threatened without ongoing specific conservation measures;
Least Concern: species evaluated with a lower risk of extinction;
Data Deficient: no assessment because of insufficient data.
Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct): this is not a new Red List category, but is a flag developed to identify those Critically Endangered species that are in all probability already Extinct but for which confirmation is required,for example, through more extensive surveys being carried out and failing to find any individuals.
About IUCN
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges by supporting scientific research; managing field projects all over the world; and bringing governments, NGOs, the UN, international conventions and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.
The world's oldest and largest global environmental network, IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries. IUCN's work is supported by over 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN's headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.
About BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a partnership of 114 national conservation organisations and the world leader in bird conservation. BirdLife's unique local to global approach enables it to deliver high impact and long term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.
About Botanic Gardens Conservation International
BGCI is an international organization that exists to ensure the world-wide conservation of threatened plants, the continued existence of which are intrinsically linked to global issues including poverty, human well-being and climate change. BGCI represents over 700 members - mostly botanic gardens - in 118 countries. We aim to support and empower our members and the wider conservation community so that their knowledge and expertise can be applied to reversing the threat of extinction crisis facing one third of all plants.
About Conservation International
Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity. With headquarters in Washington, DC, CI works in more than 40 countries on four continents.
About NatureServe
NatureServe is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to providing the scientific basis for effective conservation action. Through its network of 82 natural heritage programs and conservation data centers in the United States, Canada, and Latin America, NatureServe provides a unique body of detailed scientific information and conservation biodiversity expertise about the plants, animals, and ecosystems of the Americas.
About the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a world famous scientific organisation, internationally respected for its outstanding living collection of plants and world-class Herbarium as well as its scientific expertise in plant diversity, conservation and sustainable development in the UK and around the world. Kew Gardens is a major international visitor attraction. Its landscaped 132 hectares and Kew's country estate, Wakehurst Place, attract nearly 2 million visitors every year. Kew was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2003 and celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2009. Wakehurst Place is home to Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed bank in the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its partners have collected and conserved seed from 10% of the world's wild flowering plant species (c.30, 000 species) and aim to conserve 25% by 2020.
About the Species Survival Commission
The Species Survival Commission (SSC) is the largest of IUCN's six volunteer commissions with a global membership of around 7500 experts. SSC advises IUCN and its members on the wide range of technical and scientific aspects of species conservation, and is dedicated to securing a future for biodiversity. SSC has significant input into the international agreements dealing with biodiversity conservation.
About Texas A&M University
From humble beginnings in 1876 as Texas' first public institution of higher learning, to a bustling 5,200-acre campus with a nationally recognized faculty, Texas A&M University is one of a select few universities with land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant designations. With an enrolment of about half men and half women, 25 percent of the freshman class are the first in their family to attend college. Here, 39,000-plus undergraduates and more than 9,400 graduate students have access to world-class research programs and award-winning faculty. Texas A&M has two branch campuses, one in Galveston, Texas, and one in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. This research-intensive flagship university with 10 colleges was recently ranked first in the nation by Smart Money magazine for "pay-back ratio" (what graduates earn compared to the cost of their education). The 2011 U.S. News and World Report ranked Texas A&M second nationally in their "Great Schools, Great Prices" category among public universities and 22nd overall. Many degree programs are ranked among the top 10 in the country
About Wildscreen
Wildscreen is an international charity working to to promote the public understanding and appreciation of the world's biodiversity and the need for its conservation through the power of wildlife imagery -www.wildscreen.org.uk Founded in 1982, Wildscreen is uniquely positioned at the heart of the global wildlife and environmental media industry, with a long standing international reputation for excellence and credibility in the fields of natural history media, communications and education. Wildscreen's ARKive project is a unique global initiative, gathering together the very best films and photographs of the world's species into one centralised digital library, to create a stunning audio-visual record of life on Earth. ARKive's immediate priority is to compile and complete audio-visual profiles for the c. 18,000 animals, plants and fungi featured on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
www.wildscreen.org.uk; www.arkive.org
About the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Founded in 1826, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international scientific, conservation and educational charity: our key role is the conservation of animals and their habitats. The Society runs ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, carries out scientific research at the Institute of Zoology and is actively involved in field conservation overseas.
Sapienza University of Rome
With over 700 years of history and 145,000 students, Sapienza is the largest University in Europe, the second in the world after El Cairo: a city within the city. The University includes 11 faculties and 67 departments. In Sapienza there are over 4,500 professors, and 5,000 administrative and technical staff. Sapienza offers a wide choice of courses including 300 degree programs and 200 specialised qualifications. Students coming from other regions are over 30,000 and the foreign students are over 7,000. Sapienza plans and carries out important scientific investigations in almost all disciplines, achieving high-standard results both on a national and on an international level. Professor Luigi Frati has been the Rector of Sapienza University since November 2008.


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Friday on Lubbock's First News, Mayor Glen Robertson will join Tom Collins and Laura Mac for a full hour starting at 7am. The Lubbock City Council will meet on Thursday night and Friday will be your chance to get some answers from the Mayor. Some of the big issues in Lubbock lately have been the ongoing saga involving Councilman Victor Hernandez and Lubbock City Manager Lee Ann Dumbald, Lubbock Power and Light, and the future of the Godeke & other libraries.
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Stanford sailing finished the 2017-18 season with a sweep of the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference for the ninth straight season, won the Big Sail for the 13th consecutive year and had five sailors earn All-America honors.
Top Five Again
Stanford sailing wrapped up a successful 2018 campaign with a fifth-place finish at the Gill Coed Nationals Championships this week, the program's second-best showing at the regatta.
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Stanford sailing heads East to compete in the Intercollegiate Sailing Associations (ICSA) three spring national championships in Norfolk, Virginia, May 22-June 1.
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Second so you are saying that it would be better if we had one opensource media player, browser, office suite, distribution, de, display server except you approve otherwise in each case. I am sorry that's not open-source. Open source means forking. And of course NO ONE can stop you from creating or forking under gplv3. Don't like it. Don't use it. Don't port your app there. or port it and charge it. I can't see any problem there. Mir's problem.
Third in every project someone must take decisions. Why should Canonical and Wayland cooperate when there is clearly a direction problem between them. Mir is costing Canonical reputiation and money. Shuttleworth is not insane. Stop being haters and think more before judge anything. The easy solution was supporting Wayland. But was the best? I think Canonical is affraid to say public that Wayland is not viable for them. probably for technical reasons. I strongly believe that Ubuntu Touch wouldn't be in that state today with Wayland. Thats of course mine affair.
And last but not least to prove that forking is good i will let you compare today Gnome and Unity. Objectively Unity is more polished, modern, productive, feature rich and as Phoronix proved faster DE. Could Canonical do the same feature changes under Gnome? Of course not! You have an answer why Mir exist now.


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Ride that injured boy in Medford will be at county fair in Eugene
EUGENE, Ore. - The carnival ride that injured a boy in Medford last week will be at the Lane County Fair this week.
The Zipper is safe to ride, Funtastic Entertainment officials said Tuesday.
The ride was inspected after the incident, which cut the boy's cheek as he stood in line waiting to board the ride, the Medford Mail Tribune reported. Within 36 hours, Funtastic officials felt confident the ride was ready to resume service.
The injury came from a non-mechanical part of the ride, a Funtastic official said Tuesday in Eugene.
The ride has received extra scrutiny since the incident, a Funtastic official said.
"It's run through several cycles and final inspection is undergone on the ride. And then once everything passes it's put in to service and ready for operation," said Kyle Bennett, Funtastic operations manager.
Bennett said companies that operate carnival rides are very familiar with their equipment because they set them up and take them down each week.
"We have many employees who are specialized in a few more particular rides than others," he said, "and then we have a few folks who really have a tremendous knowledge base of all the rides."
A recently released analysis of emergency room admissions found that an average of 4,423 children nationwide suffer injuries on carnival rides.
Also this week, an adult woman died on a rollercoaster at an established Texas amusement park.
Medford Mail Tribune: Mishap on the Midway
Article: US Pediatric Injuries Involving Amusement Rides, 1990-2010


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Enhance your riding time with communication devices that permit clear conversations with a passenger or other riding buddies in your group. Receive phone calls, listen to music, and even follow spoken navigation instructions with ease using Bluetooth compatibility. Twisted throttle stocks communication devices from trusted brands like Interphone, and SENA. Kits are compatible with most modular and full face helmets. Putting a helmet on is a smart move for protection, adding a communication device to it for staying connected to friends, family and entertainment is an even wiser decision that you'll wonder how you ever rode without one!


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'Metallica Through The Never' – Album Review
The year 2013 has proven to be a very, very busy one for Metallica. From playing sold-out shows all across the globe to just a few nights ago rocking a packed house at the intimate and legendary Apollo Theater in New York City, the legendary metal band is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. This is most obvious in the simple fact that within the same week, they are celebrating the release of their first ever full-length feature film and its official soundtrack. 'Metallica Through The Never' is a live disc fans need to add to their 'Tallica collection as soon as possible.
Recorded over the course of five nights in 2012 – two in Edmonton, Alberta and three in Vancouver, British Columbia – 'Metallica Through The Never' features the best of the best from those performances, while packing a few punches fans won't be expecting. Diving into the soundtrack, it's easy to think that you're just listening to a standard recording of Metallica, but don't be fooled: this is a movie soundtrack and it has several surprises scattered throughout the 16 tracks.
Taking a look at the track listing, the first surprise that will jump out to hardcore fans is the fact that the band played '…And Justice For All.' For the uninitiated, this is one of the most complex songs written by Metallica, and because of that they rarely play it live. In fact, it's only been played a little more than 230 times since it first debuted on-stage in Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 11, 1988.
Other surprises on the album come in the form of technical glitches. While it might sound strange, the surprises are actually very cool and add to the experience of 'Metallica Through The Never' being a movie soundtrack, rather than just a live album. The technical mishaps you hear on 'Ride the Lightning' and 'Enter Sandman' play significant roles in the plot of the film. During the latter song, frontman James Hetfield talks to the crowd and explains what is going on. "Two people got hurt up here but they will be OK," he tells the crowd. "Can we get some lights up here to assess the damage, please? Should we keep playing?" And with that, the crowd goes nuts as Metallica tear into 'Hit the Lights.'
The last song on the two-disc soundtrack is the instrumental, 'Orion.' Played in an empty arena with no crowd cheering the band along, the song has a powerful, yet haunting feel to it. It's the perfect performance to wrap up the soundtrack as it's the same song that the band plays during the closing credits of the movie.
Full of classic tracks like 'Creeping Death' and 'Master of Puppets,' with a few more recent tunes like 'Fuel,' 'The Memory Remains' and 'Cyanide,' the 'Metallica Through The Never' soundtrack is one of the best sounding live albums released in a long time, and might be the best ever released by Metallica. The only thing that might have taken this album to a new level is the inclusion of a new song; something to get fans ready for the next Metallica album, whenever that might be.
Lars Ulrich's drums have never sounded better on a live recording, Kirk Hammett's solos pierce through your speakers and Robert Trujillo's thunderous bass hits you in your chest. All of that is complimented by Hetfield's signature vocals and heavy guitar riffs. It's mixed perfectly by Metallica soundman Greg Fidelman and is the essential companion to the movie.
'Metallica Through The Never' is a fiery compilation that is full of heavy metal and a few surprises (don't worry – we didn't spoil all of them for you). Fans shouldn't expect anything less from one of metal's greatest bands.


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Sat, 13 Jan 2018 09:25:38 -0800
The Chicago Bears hired former New York Giants tight end coach Kevin M. Gilbride to assume the same post Saturday, Jan. 13.
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New York Giants quarterbacks coach Sean Ryan will now coach the team's wide receivers. Kevin M. Gilbride, who coached the wide receivers in 2012 and 2013, will now work with the tight ends.
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The New York Giants promoted offensive assistant Kevin Gilbride Jr. to wide receivers coach and Sean Ryan to quarterbacks coach.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been denied permission to interview New York Giants quality control coach Kevin Gilbride Jr. for their quarterbacks coaching job.
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Mike Kern, of Philly.com, reports the New York Giants are hiring Temple University assistant coach Kevin Gilbride Jr. as their offensive quality control coach, according to a source. Gilbride is the son of Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride.
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The following is a press release, dated October 17, 2007, from People for the American Way.
Earmark for Anti-Science Creationist Group Must Be Removed
People For the American Way today called for the Senate to remove an earmark for an anti-science creationist group from the FY08 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education appropriations bill. The earmark, inserted by Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, would send taxpayer money to the Louisiana Family Foundation (LFF), a leading advocate of creationism in the state.
Speaking on the Senate floor on October 17, 2007, Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) withdrew a controversial $100,000 earmark that he previously added to the appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. The earmark was to the Louisiana Family Forum, a religious right group with a long history of promoting creationism and attacking evolution education in the state, including backing a "strengths and weaknesses" policy in Ouachita Parish.
In its new official statement on evolution, adopted on March 28, 2007, the California Academy of Sciences reaffirmed that "Evolution is a central concept in modern science, including biology, geology, and astronomy.
In the October 2007 issue of Discover magazine, Liza Lentini examines the creationism/evolution controversy, with a focus on teachers. She begins in Kansas, with a pair of teachers at private Christian schools who use textbooks that "present the universe as the direct creation of God and refute the man-made idea of evolution" and think that "The term 'evolution' is misused. ...
Reviewing Michael Behe's latest book, The Edge of Evolution (Free Press, 2007), in the October 2007 issue of The New Criterion, the biologist Paul R. Gross is anything but impressed. After observing that Behe's argument from irreducible complexity in Darwin's Black Box (Free Press, 1996) was quickly recognized to fail, he comments (PDF), "In response, Behe and the ["intelligent design"] movement shifted ground, first redefining I.C.
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KANSAS CITY (AP) - The mother of former Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the team after exhuming his body so that his brain could be examined.
The lawsuit, filed by Cheryl Shepherd in Jackson County circuit court Tuesday, alleges that Belcher was subjected to "repetitive head trauma" and that the Chiefs failed to provide adequate medical care before he killed his girlfriend and then committed suicide last December.
Belcher's body was exhumed this month at his family's request so his brain could be studied for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative condition found in some former players.
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For those of you who suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th, or triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13, today is the only Friday the 13th this year. What is to fear from Friday the 13th or the number 13, you may ask?
Several famous killers have 13 letters in their name including: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, Theodore Bundy, Albert Desalvo, and Jack the Ripper.
Some unlucky events that have taken place on Friday the 13th include:
- Friday, July 13, 1951 -- Rivers in Kansas flooded leaving five hundred thousand people homeless and twenty four people dead.
- Friday, June 13, 1975 -- an F3 tornado hit the town of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
- Friday, March 13, 1992 -- a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Erzincan, Turkey, killing around five hundred people.
- Friday, August 13, 2004 -- Hurricane Charley made landfall near Charlotte Harbor Florida causing around sixteen billion dollars in damage and fifteen fatalities.
Other interesting facts about the number 13 include:
- Many hotels omit the 13th floor and instead call it the 14th floor.
- Some airlines including AirFrance, Iberia, Ryanair, AirTran, Continental, Air New Zealand, and Lufthansa omit the 13th row.
- Many gallows and Hangmans knots have 13 steps and 13 coils in the rope.
To mark the day we asked several people from around the Orlando area about their belief or disbelief in common superstitions and about Friday the 13th.
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i m gone,thx everyone for so much fun and good info.
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Malicious Web Page Demos: were blocked by my UFP sevrer, titghly integrated into a *real* firewall aka CPNG and another kick ass solution known as SSSG;
Scrap Files - Hidden File Extensions: Linux?;
Malicious File Attachment Demos: Receive as E-mail Attachment: That's why I got a CVP server, a CVP server for those who don't happen to know is an AV over IP security solution that -also- tightly integrates into CP thru simple resources;
So, my one and only REAL FW does better than your solution for a fraction of the system load, you know why? cuz it was built by security freaks for security freaks, installing 3 FWs on top of each other is just a system resouce hog no more, can't even consider it to solve any real security issues. Most of those FWs don't even bind to the interface's IP stack so packet based attacks like just pass thru it without any troubles, plus since when did these boxes do stateful inspection to undertsand wtf is actually going on?
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Well, there are some solutions out there that cost a bit more but actually provide a lot more than having 3 FWs installed on the same box, plus, if your system cries from 3FWs, what would it do with an AV, IDS, VPN client-server, Auth demon and a small webserver do?
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I agree total on your post,but the majority of the users has limited funds and knowledge so their is no way they will even come close to a tight security you ve just told.
Nothing is 100% secure, so no a virus scanner can not detect EVERY virus/trojan, but it will do a whole lot better than a personal firewall.
The key is to weigh the risk and determine what level of protection you need. Everything outside of that is simply a waste.
I am done arguing with you. You have already proven yourself to be a moron, and I am not going to waste any more of my time. (same concept you should follow...it is important to know when enough is enough...just like using multiple personal firewalls)
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I tried it, but my Finjan SurfinShield blocked the active content
ah poo... what about just using the firewall provided with XP. anybody have any problems with it?
ah poo... what about just using the firewall provided with XP. anybody have any problems with it?
From what I know, you can't configure anything with it. It does not really inform you about anything that is happening. It doesn't ask you whether something should be allowed to access the internet.
I don't really know too much about it and how effective it is, but I use Sygate - I like to know what is happening and which programs are using my internet connection.
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John Bill Banks, 78 - June 20, 2007
John W. "Bill" Banks, 78, of Sterling, IL, died Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at C.G.H. Medical Center in Sterling.
Services were held June 16, at the First Church of the Nazarene at Sterling with the Rev. Robert J. Hasselbring officiating. Interment took place at Riverside Cemetery with graveside military rites.
Banks was born on Aug. 14, 1928, at Gothenburg to David E. and Minnie V. (Moore) Banks. He attended and graduated from Farnam High School.
On Dec. 17, 1953, he married Barbara L. Alber at Sterling.
Banks served in the United States Army during the Korean War.
He was employed by Northwestern Steel & Wire Company at Sterling, then by R B & W of Rock Falls, IL. He then worked as a custodian at the Morrison Southside Grade School and raised registered Angus cattle in the rural Morrison area. He most recently was employed with the United States Postal Service at the Morrison Post Office, retiring in 1991.
?Banks was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene of Sterling, the American Legion Morrison Post No. 328 and Morrison VFW Post N0. 8281.
?He was preceded in death by: his parents, David and Minnie; a sister, Donna Bottita.
?Survivors include: his wife, Barbara; a daughter, Bethany (Dr. John) Lorenz of Evansville, IN; two sons—Michael (Kathy) Banks of Sterling and Jason (Lori) Banks of Garden Prairie, IL; four grandchildren—Tracy (Mrs. Ian) Geiger, Gregory Banks, Chelsey Banks and Paul Joseph Lorenz; a sister, Phyllis Thornton of Clarion, IA.
Memorials are suggested to Wounded Knee Indian Reservation of Wounded Knee, SD.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at: www.bosmarenkes.com.
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Hi, is the linux-dvb ML still "alive"? maybe http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media is read more frequently
Regards, Matthias 2009/4/8 Klaus Schmidinger <klaus.schmidin...@cadsoft.de>: > On 04/08/09 01:21, Tobi wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Recent DVB driver releases (now in Kernel 2.6.29) cause trouble compiling >> VDR (see snippet A below). >> >> The common solution to this seems to be to add a "-D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES". >> >> It felt wrong somehow and I didn't liked this, so I tried another >> solution, which is to have any libc6 <sys/*> includes appear before the >> linux DVB header includes <linux/*>. Doing this only in dvbdevice.c seems >> to do the trick for VDR (see snippet B). I works for VDR 1.6.0 as well as >> VDR 1.7.4. >> >> I think the root of this problem is caused by the Kernel headers / DVB >> drivers changing from asm/types.h to linux/types.h: >> >> -#include <asm/types.h> >> +#include <linux/types.h> >> >> How should this problem ideally be fixed? Is my solution (snippet B) >> better than using -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES or should the kernel / DVB >> driver developers be blamed for this? > > My 2ct: > > - An application should not need to use -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES. > - Any header file that requires other header files to be included > should do so by itself. > - The sequence in which header files are included should not matter. > I normally list them alphabetically, to easily find a particular one. > > I currently solve the broken DVB driver header files by replacing them > with the ones from an earlier driver version, where they still worked. > > I had posted this problem on the linux-dvb ML a while ago, but apparently > nobody cared... > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > email@example.com > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr


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Color is what makes your heart sing and what makes you feel secure and happy in your home.
Good morning, it is so good to be back on a lovely Saturday! Recently, it was suggested I discuss color trends, including current color trends, how to incorporate new color trends into your home without starting from scratch and, finally, how often color trends change. Wow, that is a very full request! So, I guess you best refill your morning drink and let's uncover some of the mysteries of color!
To take the third question first: Recognized experts in the field decide color trends and release them to the public at the beginning of each year. Experts include Jackie Jordan of Sherwin-Williams and Pantone. In fact, Pantone holds secret meetings twice a year with a variety of color specialists to decide the "color of year" for the following year. These colors are published and made available to the fashion world, florists and other companies interested in guiding consumers' color choices. It is all very calculated. For now, let's see whether this year's predictions were correct. I assure you that this January I'll do this column again, with new hues to ponder.
For 2013, gray is reaching a strong position. It's still a "strict" color like black, but not as authoritative as black at its purest level. Rather than pair black with more brilliant colors this year, however, those in the decision-making world have added grays, smoke, mist and shadowy colors to lend a softer backdrop for the stronger colors to rise from. Take a look around you, and you will indeed see an abundance of gray in this season's color palette. Joining grays you will see some dusty taupes and charcoaled blues. Essentially, any color that is not black and has the sense of smoke or ash is very much in vogue at present. To work this into your home, consider a wonderful dove gray sofa with smoldering charcoal decorative pillows, and then add the darling of the year—emerald green—for a real show stopper. Or perhaps paint an entryway piece in emerald green for that "hello" of color.
The color of the year-emerald green represents both luxury, like the precious stone, and a sense of relaxation as well. Imagine a forest with its canopy of leafed-out trees…you can almost smell the color. Plus, the color experts no doubt wanted to reflect the green theory of living—being kind and good to our world is part of who we are on this planet right now. And who in Kansas does not relate to the Emerald City of Oz? For the emerald touch, maybe consider adding some Fiesta dinnerware into your cabinets in lemongrass or shamrock. These are perfect for crisp white linens to end summer and too divine for Christmas Eve dinner. When you are out and about this weekend, see for yourself the abundance of green in clothing as well as interiors furnishings.
This year, neutrals were a bit on the soft and chalky side. Think of the inside of a seashell, the Kansas sky when the blue is at its palest and fluffy clouds with variations of white and pale gray. In homespun items, look to yarns that are natural and the color of ripened wheat or sparrow eggs, or a farmhouse with peeling paint, with exposed raw wood and the lovely patina of the few remaining shutters or screen door. These are the neutrals of 2013. So how does one introduce this soft, almost transparent, color to your home without holding Augusta's largest garage sale? Try finding a painting of a dreamy Kansas afternoon sky, frame a piece of art you already own in weathered wood, fling a cotton throw in flax over a chair, or add a wonderful colored glass vase in pale amber from a place like T.J. Maxx or Bed Bath & Beyond. It is the tiny touches that allow you to freshen with ease and not be committed to a particular color.
To step the palette up just a bit are the stronger pastels you might see in decorated cupcakes and retro wallpapers. Remember the 1950s kitchens with laminate counters featuring the boomerang design in charcoal on turquoise? We're also seeing the return of mauve, rosy pinks, violet, clay and a soft greened gold. These colors from the past are made new once again. Then there's the bright, don't-you-dare-miss-me hues! These include the neons, like the marquee at the Augusta Theater, or the vests of the highway crew. I think one color that is certainly here to stay is acid green while Smurf blue, geranium red, turquoise from the islands and bright clear raspberry remain in the mix. These brights all need a clarifier in the form of a smoky gray or charcoal to layer with.
Keep in mind that not all forecast colors can or will find a place in your home. You might, on occasion, opt to just set a marvelous table with flowers, candles and perhaps pasties in the colors of the year. Maybe even start an annual get-together with friends featuring a tablescape dedicated to the colors you love from the recent forecast. To reinforce the theme, have place cards done with paint chips of this year's focus colors. This makes for a great way to temporarily enjoy colors that may not end up living in your home. Colors are a part of life that make us happy, so use them in creative and entertaining ways.
So, there you have it: a simple and concise way to understand color forecasting. Some of these hues already live in your home, and some would never even make it into the driveway! But it is always a lot of fun to see why and how the "popular" colors begin. But at the end of the day, color is what makes your heart sing and what makes you feel secure and happy in your home. So take the color forecasting for what it is for a good share of you—interesting.
Let me leave you with some wise and somewhat funny words:
"I owe my color sense to crayons." —Angelo Rafael Donghia, The New York Times
This week appreciate the colors that make you look twice! See you for coffee next week.