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She Survived Both The San Bernardino and Las Vegas Mass Shootings
The world is a strange place. It can be warm and beautiful, full with life, but it can also be cold and ruthless. For Melissa Castruita, here's hoping that she finds the rest of her life to be warm and beautiful. She can now be considered one of the world's luckiest (or unluckiest people, depending on how you look at it) as she has survived not one, but two mass shootings.
Her fiance remembers the day, December 2, 2015, when he got a text from his fiance while she was working at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, "active shooter."
That day changed Castruita's life forever. Crowds began to make her uneasy, and she often found herself jumping to thoughts of "does that person with their hand in their pocket have a gun?" Time does seem to heal most wounds, because less than two years later she was in the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival celebrating her 34th birthday. Fate transpired against her, and the most terrible re-run imaginable began to take place in front of her as bullets started to fly during Jason Aldean's set.
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Danica Patrick: Angelina Jolie Should Play Me!
If anyone could play race car driver cutie Danica Patrick in a movie — who would it be?
"I've always said Angelina Jolie would be great because she's an action star!" Danica told some Canadian bloggers. As for Mandy Moore, Danica thought she was way too tall to play her!
Danica, 26, was then asked about Jennifer Aniston, to which she answered, "I don't think that'd be age appropriate. She's older than me!"
Angie is 33 and Jen is 40.

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|Jun 24th, 2009 03:11 AM
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5 was much better.
|Jun 21st, 2009 11:19 PM
|I agree. Jason just isn't the type to have an alarm system or take prisoners. Making him more human is a bad idea. Jason is supposed to be inhuman. And while it's true he was once, the human part of him is rather dead. If anything, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger are known for their inventive, gory, and sometimes hilarious kills. Killing a chick by jamming a party horn in her eye, or turning a chick into a roach and squishing her in a roach motel? Priceless.
|Jun 19th, 2009 09:57 PM
|Then again, I have never seen any of the films of this horror saga.
|Jun 18th, 2009 10:06 PM
|Relaxing Dragon
I really didn't get that either, seemed like a lame way to keep the sister alive (which was itself a cop out, just kill her already. It's not like the characters aren't interchangeable anyway, no one would notice). And I think running Jason works (for a pre-Zombie form, at least), gives him a cool crazed woodsman feel. Which is pretty much what he is when he's still human.
Also, word from the makers is that they'll try to have more creative kills in the next sequel: http://www.chud.com/articles/article...ACE/Page1.html (near the bottom).
|Jun 18th, 2009 04:02 PM
He was awesome as Rorschach, but I honestly don't think anybody else should play Freddy. Unlike the silent killers such as Jason Voorhees & Michael Myers, Freddy has real personality and you can't just have anybody play him. I hope Earle does a good job, but I don't envy anybody who has the task of filling Robert Englund's shoes. As much as I love Elm Street, that's a series I think they should let die once Englund is done with it. I hope they prove me wrong with the remake, but I'm certainly not counting on it.
Anyway, in regards to Jason holding a prisoner in the new movie, yeah that was pretty absurd. Here's the real question it brought up for me: if that necklace she was wearing confused him and really made him think she was his mother, there's no way in hell he would keep her chained up. He'd either let her go because he thought she was mom or he'd chop her to bits because he realized she was an impostor. Jason is definitely not the kind of guy who keeps somebody chained up because he wants some company.
|Jun 18th, 2009 12:43 PM
|I know this might be a bit irrelevent, but they're making a remake of Nightmare on elm street with Jackie Earle Haley (The guy who played Rorschach in the watchmen movie) playing the role of Freddy Kreuger
|Jun 18th, 2009 09:02 AM
|The first 20 minutes were great.....the rest of the film was easily forgettable.
|Jun 17th, 2009 05:08 PM
Jason Running=No. Nonononono.
Jason in this movie is just Leatherface, -mask, +hockey mask, -chainsaw, -watchablity. This is the only Friday movie I've ever seen that I got bored watching.
|Jun 17th, 2009 12:30 AM
|I can't believe that some people think that jason is more meanacing when he's running.
|Jun 15th, 2009 07:34 AM
I keep waiting for them to flip one of the Horror movie champions. By which I mean, do like they did with Godzilla. There's tons of movies where Godzilla (In all his Tokyo Destroying Glory) is the good guy fighting off some evil force.
They should make some absurd movie where the military like, captures Jason and dispatches him into the middle east to take down some facist dictator.
|Jun 15th, 2009 02:06 AM
|Mental Pooperscooper
Usually I like to look at remakes as stand alone movies and judge accordingly (which by the way, isn't deluding enough to excuse the travesty that Rob Zombie dared to call Halloween), but Friday the 13th VI was the first horror movie I ever saw, and the series has been my favorite ever since, so I didn't cut this one the usual slack. Having said that, I actually enjoyed this one enough to support a sequel, mostly because it had an excellent Jason and managed to stay more true to the original psyche than any (recent) remake I know of. Truth be told, I wasn't really bothered by the lair or the prisoner, and he ran a bit early on so that was forgivable, all I had a problem with was the alert system. Granted while he's still alive it'd make sense to take further measure to preserve said state, but this is Jason, since when does he worry about this?
Oh, almost forgot, it should be noted that the first film wasn't messed with, it was really only noted at the beginning to give som background, THAT should be a company standard in remakes
|Jun 14th, 2009 04:42 PM
|Rufus the Perturbed
|First off, I have to say that I agree with ROG about Jason Takes Manhattan. That movie was fucking great, it was just more of a comedy than a horror, sort of like a keyed-down version of Club Dread. Second, I walked out on this movie, and I've only done that once before (The Crow: City of Angels was the first). I wanted to see new, more inventive kills, and I got nothing except lots and lots of boobs. If I want lots of boobs, I'll watch a damn porno. Oh, and by the way, JASON SHOULDN'T TAKE PRISONERS! EVER! That was when I left. Just on a side note though (and I'm not trying to bash saturnknight here), I though the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic was HORRIBLE, but maybe that's just me.
|Jun 14th, 2009 12:25 AM
|The place is a camp for kids right? They have things like archery haystacks. I bet Jason practiced his archery during the off seasons.
|Jun 14th, 2009 12:23 AM
I'm still trying to figure out why they do remakes of horror movies with a million sequels. Wouldn't it just make more sense to do yet another sequel? I mean horror movies aren't exactly known for their continuity anyway and this way we can skip the boring origin film and get right to the good stuff. And if you say that it can't be done or that it doesn't allow for enough creative freedom I'll promptly direct you to the two "chucky" films. They have virtually nothing to do with the first three childs play films, contain totally re-designed creatures and a new plot and yet they are still merely sequels. This allowed for a lot of freedom and yet kept the original plot and mythos intact, allowing it to be drawn upon in the future.
Sadly, I hear they are now going to throw Childs Play under the remake train. I suppose it could be worse, they could be re-making highly character driven films like nightmare on elm street in which the actor portraying the villian literally IS the villian and cannot be played by anyone else. ..... Oh wait.... :-(
|Jun 13th, 2009 09:20 PM
I disagree, I liked the movie. I will agree with Rog on 2 things about the movie. 1) I didn't like Jason's little alarm system. 2) I felt most of the kills were just ok. The chick getting hung to the antlers was clearly un original, and when Jason killed the asain guy who gave him the hockey stick, Jason should've used the hockey stick to kill him. I do disagree with what Rog said about Jason killing the guy on the boat with a bow and arrow. I personally found it to be an ok kill, but that kill was like that one kill in part 3 where Jason used a spear gun to kill the chick on a dock. In all good slasher films the killer doesn't heavily rely on one weapon one method. Freddy Krueger seldomly used his glove, Jason would'nt always use his machete, and in My Bloody Valentine Harry Warden (in both movies) mostly used his pick axe to do the killings but he would use his axe in several different ways to do the killings. So the same principle applies to the killing on the boat, it goes to show that no matter where you are in Crystal Lake you are not safe from Jason.
Overall I enjoyed it, I thought it was much better than Jason goes to Hell and better than part 5. I'd give the movie more of a 4/5. It lacked on having as good of the kills as part 2 and 6, but It also delivered on some of the stuff the series did best the nudity and the humor.
|Jun 13th, 2009 04:46 PM
|Kilgore Cod
|I enjoyed the film when I watched it. I don't have high standards when it comes to Jason flicks. The kills were on the lame side and the whole bit about Jason's underground lair complete with bells really betrayed a cardinal rule about horror movies (DON'T SHOW THE MONSTER TOO MUCH!!!!). I half expected Jason to drop onto a sofa and watch a football game.
|Jun 13th, 2009 08:46 AM
|I also noticed there were more boobs than in any of the other films. So it felt like watching a porno at times.
|Jun 13th, 2009 05:10 AM
|I actually enjoyed the reboot when I saw it...but the kill for Mr. "your breasts are stupendous" made the least amount of sense to me...it was like Jason had an unknown tag team partner for it or something...
|Jun 12th, 2009 10:21 PM
|Yet another lame remake. Nuff said.
|Jun 12th, 2009 05:56 PM
|I can't wait for the next one, as this one was fantastic. I enjoyed most of the characters, as I thought the hokey stereotypes were amusing to see in 2009. Best slasher movie of the year other than My Bloody Valentine. I wish that it was longer though, the extended cut is still less than 2 hours :/
|Jun 12th, 2009 04:21 PM
|I can't wait to see what they'll do next.... I wonder if thry'll attempt another 3D after the last mishap they had with Jason in 3d. Eyeball on a strong, and random acts of guys juggling. although the spear headed at the camera was cool in it
|Jun 12th, 2009 02:49 PM
|Yep, that's what I'm hoping for, and like I said, Mears did a fine job as Jason and I hope they'll stick with him for future installments of the Friday the 13th series.
|Jun 12th, 2009 12:24 PM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
ROG: I'm with you that the kills weren't that memorable compared to the kills of yesteryear but this is also the "first" in a new series. The reason why they had such
|Jun 12th, 2009 08:16 AM
|The guy who directed this might be the shittiest slasher flick director of all time, some creepy molestache wearing Aussie who likes to expose his chest hair in interviews. The last scene when Jason is supposed to be getting sucked into a wood chipper, I KNEW nothing was going to happen, I knew it was going to stop short. If anyone else made the movie Jason would have come alive and shoved the male lead head first through it. This movie had great cinematography, making it seem even more less like a Friday movie. Another typical horror remake: not enough balls for quality gore scenes and apparently written by/for retards. I dunno, I still can't get behind any of these remakes.
|Jun 12th, 2009 04:09 AM
|It can't be worst than Jason Goes to Hell or Jason X.
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(Reuters) - The Maryland House of Delegates may vote to overturn the state's death penalty as early as Friday, making it the 18th U.S. state to abolish executions.
Legislators from both parties predicted passage of the bill in the House, which votes a week after the Senate approved the repeal. The measure would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole.
The bill is Governor Martin O'Malley's second attempt to overturn capital punishment since 2009, and he has pledged to sign it into law.
"We believe that the outcome will be favorable," said the governor's press secretary, Takirra Winfield.
When O'Malley introduced the legislation in January, he said the death penalty was expensive and did not work.
"Year after year, states which have a death penalty have actually had a higher murder rate than states which do not have a death penalty," he said.
The governor also pointed to a 2008 study conducted by the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment that found the state's death penalty sentencing to be racially biased. Of the five men currently serving time on Maryland's death row, four are African-Americans whose victims were white.
But some Maryland legislators insist the death penalty is necessary to bring justice to victims and their families.
Republican Delegate Gail Bates said she planned to vote against the repeal because she believes a maximum term of life in prison simply is not enough.
"Lawyers will bargain down from that, instead of bargaining down from the death penalty," she said.
Bates said she also feared for the safety of correctional officers, who are at risk of being attacked by lifelong criminals with little to lose.
Another opponent, Republican Delegate Kathy Afzali, said: "I am someone who believes that there are some crimes that are so heinous and so horrible that they do deserve the death penalty."
Her attempt to amend the bill to allow the death penalty in extreme cases, such as mass killings and school shootings, was voted down on Wednesday.
Currently, five men are on Maryland's Death Row. If capital punishment is repealed, the governor will decide their fate on a case-by-case basis.
Since Maryland reinstated the death penalty in 1978, some 58 people have been sentenced to death, while only five sentences have been carried out, according to Jane Henderson, executive director of the nonprofit Maryland Citizens Against State Executions. Henderson said the vast majority of sentences were changed to life without parole.
Maryland's last execution was in 2005.
Five states - Connecticut, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, and New Jersey - have repealed the death penalty since 2007, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. A total of 17 U.S. states have put an end to state-sanctioned executions.
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BOSTON – In Toronto, there have now been two instances of fans throwing waffles on the ice as a sort of protest against the team's terrible play.
While TheBruinsBlog.net would never advocate throwing anything onto the ice surface, maybe it's time for someone to get a breakfast entrée or two to the black-and-gold-wearing players early in games to prevent yet another instance of the current Bruins being done faster than a one-minute egg.
For the ninth time this season, the Bruins allowed the first two goals of the game en route to their effort-less 3-0 loss to Anaheim tonight at TD Garden.
The lack of spunk and fire the club showed on the ice, despite firing 45 shots on net and Ducks goaltender Jonas Hiller, carried over into the dressing room. The postgame ruminations were typical for a Claude Julien-coached club, where everything stays in-house and hardly anyone ever points a finger or calls anyone out.
To hear the Bruins tell it, no one can figure out a reason for the club's awful starts, although they've allowed the first goal 17 out of 32 times this season. No one can pinpoint why the team's emotion level can fluctuate not just game to game, but period to period, regardless of opponent. Not a 3-0 lead on Washington at home nor the start of a game for first place in Montreal can get this team to play high-caliber hockey for a long period of time.
Would it be far-fetched to suggest someone let them eat Eggos?
But on a serious note, complacency has obviously come home to roost. Remember all that competition the Bruins had fostered by adding some rookies to a mix of underachieving veterans? Well, that has gone the way of the organ serenading the Garden faithful during breaks in the action. Matt Hunwick and Marco Sturm were jettisoned to make the Bruins cap-compliant. Mark Stuart and Brad Marchand got hurt, leaving the Bruins with the minimum amount of available skaters. Mix in the inability of Boston to keep a young challenger like Jordan Caron on the roster, and also the fact that when they have an a full roster of healthy forwards the Bruins' only option outside of the top 12 is "Stone Hands" Daniel Paille, and you have a team of players so comfortable in their roster slots they might as well be wearing pajamas and having breakfast in bed.
The Bruins were 12-8-2 when they traded Hunwick; they're 5-3-2 since. Since the night of the Sturm deal, they're 1-3-1 and have averaged just 1.80 goals over those five contests.
"We should have been excited about playing this game tonight," Julien said after his players hemmed and hawed in the postgame dressing room. "We should have been excited. The intention of waking up tomorrow morning or leaving tonight in third place, that should have been exciting enough, and unfortunately that didn't happen."
The only visible action Julien took to light a fire under his squad was a third-period line shuffle – a tact he has attempted numerous times during his tenure. This time, it didn't work. Rewarding Blake Wheeler with a chance to play with Milan Lucic – possible the only Boston forward who broke a sweat – and David Krejci made sense considering the third-year forward's improved two-way play of late. But putting "Skating Zombie" Nathan Horton on a line with Marc Savard and Michael Ryder, and letting Tyler Seguin get a shot with Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi was nothing more than attempting to mix tar with milk to make chocolate milk. Inexplicably, every time Julien tries to turn things around with a lineup jumble, the team's hardest workers get nailed to the bench.
Gregory Campbell had a rough night with a couple of giveaways that led to Anaheim's first goal. But he still dropped his gloves with Kyle Chipchura in an effort to zap life into his teammates. Instead of skating just 12 shifts for 8:10, maybe he could've shifted out to the wing to add some grit to the Bergeron-Recchi combo. Shawn Thornton skated just nine shifts, yet still fired five shots on goal – none wide, and none blocked. Imagine that, a player working to get the puck through the traffic. It shouldn't be a surprise Thornton did that, considering he has done it almost every night since arriving in Boston. Maybe get him on a line with a couple of the "skill" guys who think that game night is effort-optional to set an example and really mix things up. Instead, the lunch-pail players take the blame.
Of course, the coach shouldn't have to stoop to gimmicks. These are grown men, professional athletes, who should not only be able to motivate themselves to want to win at all costs but also earn some pretty hefty paychecks. If Nathan Horton, Dennis Seidenberg and David Krejci can look in the mirror and say they've played up to their pay scale lately, then someone should check what's getting slipped in their orange juice.
Julien spoke after the game about thinking in the overnight hours about how to respond tomorrow morning. Should he loosen things up or make things tough on his players? We already know their 11 a.m. practice won't run too long because they have holiday toy delivery duties in Boston at 1 p.m. It's great that the Bruins, as players and as an organization, always put in a 100-percent effort to aid the community and those less fortunate. Now it's about time the club put forth a similar effort from the first drop of the puck until the final horn.
No one's asking the Bruins to win every game, just to work harder than the other club every night and cash in some of their two-point performances with an effort that's worthy of the breakfast of champions. Right now, they don't deserve more than some soggy, stale toast.


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An enjoyably supercharged and ultraviolent teen-rebel comic-book fantasy that might be described -- in spirit, at least -- as reality-based.
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Parents need to know that Kick-Ass is a superhero action/comedy based on a popular comic book that kids will be eager to see. But be prepared: It features teen characters, and -- most notably -- an 11-year-old girl who dole out extreme violence (think slo-mo Matrix-style bloody gunshots to the head) and language (including "f--k" and "c--t" out of the mouth of the 11-year-old). Expect some conspicuous sex scenes between teens and references to drugs. It has some arguably good messages about taking action instead of standing by when bad stuff happens, but it also has a relentless, darkly humorous mean streak. Due to a strong marketing campaign, very positive buzz, and good early reviews, parents are going to have a tough time keeping teens away from this one.
Messages: Despite the movie's main theme of taking action and doing something, becoming involved, rather than simply standing by and watching horrible things happen, the methods by which the characters "do something" are questionable at best. And the inclusion of the young girl spewing extremely strong language and gunfire sends a confusing and disturbing message. But nestled in among the violence and foul language, there are also issues of trust, and working together, and the question of whether bravery and recklessness alone can make one a superhero.
Role models: "Kick Ass," otherwise known as Dave Lizewski, decides to take a stand against bullies and bad guys by becoming a superhero. The main question is whether this is a good idea -- he both makes a small impact in his attempts to do good and suffers some painful consequences. Each superhero is attempting to make a difference in the name of good, but the violence and near-constant extreme language -- especially from the young girl -- make them far from templates for kids.
Violence: We're talking extreme comic book-style violence with some blood. The main character is transformed after two thugs beat him up and he stumbles into the path of an oncoming car. The 11-year-old Hit Girl is perhaps more skilled and deadly than any other character, and racks up a large body count. In one highly stylized scene she wraps a bad guy around the neck with a cord to make him shoot himself through the head. Otherwise, the movie is filled with fantasy fighting, with knives and billy clubs, and many of the blows feel more real and painful than in a standard superhero movie. There are also tons of weapons (one character has his own arsenal), including a bazooka and a kind of armed jet pack. One character is burned.
Sex: Aside from endless sex jokes and sex talk, the hero looks at naked women (National Geographic-style women in native dress) on the Internet and prepares to masturbate. There is kissing and breast-grabbing. A teen fantasizes about having sex with his well-endowed teacher and we see her in her bra (in a daydream). Later in the film, the hero and a teen girl have fast, loudly passionate sex in an alley behind a comic book store though no nudity appears on screen.
Language: The movie features almost constant swearing, including some from the mouth of an 11-year-old girl. Words include all the variations on "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "c--k," "c--ksucker," "dick," "balls," "t-ts," "p---y," "c--t," "ass," "asshole," "Jesus," "Christ," "retard," and "douche." (Not to mention the title itself.)
Consumerism: Part of a popular comic book franchise. Several brands are mentioned or shown, but not in an overt or meaningful way. They include Pepsi, MySpace, the GMC logo, Welch's jelly, and Slurpee. A Hellboy logo can be seen in the comic book shop.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: An adult gangster is a drug dealer, and his teenage son -- who becomes "Red Mist" -- wants to become involved in the family business. Drugs are seen and discussed.
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At Saturdays protest, from left, Gregg Levine of Friends of the Tunnel Garage; Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance; and Andrew Berman, director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
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Neighbors and preservationists rallied in Soho outside the Tunnel Garage on Saturday, calling for the historic structure to be landmarked. A developer is seeking a variance from the citys Board of Standards and Appeals to build a 10-story residential building on the site.
The garage at Broome and Thompson Sts. was empty last Saturday, after the owner had told parkers they would have to remove their cars by that day. Joining the protest were members of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the Soho Alliance and Friends of the Tunnel Garage.
The garage was built in 1922 and was named for the impending construction of the Holland Tunnel, which was completed five years later. It is one of the oldest existing garages specifically built for car parking. It features proto-Art Deco terracotta detailing and a unique Model T medallion underneath its 24-Hour Parking sign.
Earlier this year, G.V.S.H.P. asked the citys Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate the garage as city landmark, but the commission has not yet acted. In addition, the building has been deemed eligible for the State Register of Historic Places but not yet designated for the register.
Andrew Berman, G.V.S.H.P. director, said the garage is not only historically deserving of landmarking, but also important because the area has lost so much parking in recent years. For the developer to argue before the B.S.A. that he faces economic hardship and thus needs a residential variance is ridiculous, Berman said.
This site is so valuable to them as a parking garage, he said, that it is going to be very hard for them to argue hardship. This parking garage is a virtual goldmine. The only problem is the developer feels they have an even huger goldmine with a residential development.
Berman said they are calling on L.P.C. to designate the garage immediately since the owners clearing out the cars raises fears that a demolition is imminent. G.V.S.H.P. and Friends of the Tunnel Garage have gathered hundreds of letters and petition signatures and sent them to L.P.C. urging they save the building. The garage is also located at the southern end of the societys South Village Historic District Study Area, an area the organization is examining for a potential proposal to the city as a new historic district.
Also supporting the Tunnel Garages landmarking are City Councilmember Christine Quinn, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, the Historic Districts Council and the Art Deco Society of New York.
Community Board 2 has passed opposing resolutions on the garage. The Landmarks Committee voted to recommend landmarking it, while the C.B. 2 Zoning Committee backed the developers variance application, though with some modifications.
We had two conflicting resolutions, said Doris Diether, chairperson of the boards Landmarks Committee. Its a very interesting building. The new design wasnt bad. It will have a rounded corner. But why take down whats there to build a new building? My resolution was passed last, she added, as if to say her committees resolution should be taken as the boards final word to date on the subject.
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So they are dead. Even Baghdad exploded in celebratory, deafening automatic rifle fire at the news, a delight of matchstick-snapping sound and red tracer bullets.
The burned, bullet-splashed villa in Mosul, the four bullet-damaged corpses, America's hopes however vain that the deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, will break the guerrilla resistance to Iraq's US occupation troops, all combined last night to give the American occupation of Iraq a seemingly new and invincible power. And a new illusion that they may be safe from further attack. From the start, it looked as if the brothers might be dead. The two dead men were said to bear an impressive resemblance to Uday and Qusay. The house was owned by Mohamed al-Zidani, a tribal ally of the Husseins. A 14-year-old child killed by the Americans one of the four dead might have been one of Saddam's grandsons. Qusay was a leader of the Special Republican Guard, a special target of the Americans.
But it was a bloody battle. Those Iraqis who loved the Saddam regime will at least claim that his sons fought to the death.
The Americans used their so-called Task Force 20 to storm the pseudo-Palladian villa on a main highway through Mosul.
Task Force 20 combines Special Forces and CIA agents. But this is the same Task Force 20 that blasted to death the occupants of a convoy heading for the Syrian border earlier this month, a convoy whose travellers were meant to include Saddam himself and even the two sons supposedly killed yesterday. The victims turned out to be smugglers. And American Intelligence was also responsible for the air raid on a Saddam villa on 20 March, which was supposed to kill Saddam. And the far crueller air raid on the Mansur district of Baghdad at the end of the air bombardment in April, which was supposed to kill Saddam and his sons but only slaughtered 16 innocent civilians.
All proved to be miserable failures. So yesterday's killings will be billed as a historical reversal of fortunes.
But the questions remain. In a family obsessed with good reason with their own personal security, why were Uday and Qusay together? Why did they allow themselves to be trapped, the two so-called "lions of Iraq" (this courtesy of Saddam) in the very same cage?
Saddam's early life was spent on the run after he tried to assassinate an Iraqi prime minister. He dug a bullet out of his body after being shot. But he always travelled alone. In adversity, the family had learnt to stay apart, just as they had during the 1991 Gulf War and during the invasion of Iraq in March.
Even in power, Saddam and his sons were in hiding.
The American military in Mosul were saying last night that the four Iraqi bodies were "pretty shot up" in other words, they had been shot so many times in the face that they had been disfigured and so another question remains: will Iraqis believe that the corpses really are those of those of Saddam's sons?
And will this bring the guerrilla war to an end?
Even though Uday and Qusay are dead, Saddam is clearly still alive. Though Uday was a cruel man and a psychopath, the sons were appendages to the king, mere assistants in the monster's cave. Saddam lives. And his voice is still heard on tape throughout Iraq. It is of his fate that Iraqis are waiting to hear.
Secondly, and far more importantly, there is a fundamental misunderstanding between the American occupation authorities in Iraq and the people whose country they are occupying.
The United States believes that the entire resistance to America's proconsulship of Iraq is composed of "remnants" of Saddam's followers, "dead-enders", "bitter-enders" they have other phrases to describe them.
Their theory is that once the Hussein family is decapitated, the resistance will end.
But the guerrillas who are killing US troops every day are also being attacked by a growing Islamist Sunni movement that never had any love for Saddam. Much more importantly, many Iraqis were reluctant to support the resistance for fear that an end to American occupation would mean the return of the ghastly old dictator.
If he joins his sons in that special nirvana that the Baath keeps for its children a place of marble palaces and torture chambers, I suspect the chances are that the opposition to the American-led occupation will grow rather than diminish, on the basis that, with Saddam gone, Iraqis will have nothing to lose by fighting the American forces.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Thanks for your service, and good luck.
That's what the national parties are saying to congressional veterans like Roscoe Bartlett, the Maryland Republican whose district was redrawn by Democrats to include liberal-leaning communities near the capital Beltway. National Republicans have all but abandoned his bid for an 11th House term. Bartlett, 86, is not giving up. He's says he's the most environmentally conscious Republican in Congress.
"That's not a very steep hill to climb," Bartlett said in a recent interview, acknowledging his party's record on environmental issues. "But I'm the greenest Republican, so I have a lot of characteristics that recommend me to these people."
Both parties have officeholders they've effectively thrown overboard, but not as many as in 2010. Republican and Democratic strategists point to three House campaigns where the parties clearly have declined to make independent expenditures for an incumbent in trouble — Bartlett, fellow Republican David Rivera in Florida and Democrat Larry Kissell in North Carolina.
National Republican officials who control millions of party dollars also have abandoned GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin, an 11-year House veteran thought to have a decent shot at unseating Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill until his remarks in August on "legitimate rape."
In a few other cases, the distance between party leaders and the candidate is less clear but perceptible, as the party committees scale back their spending in some districts or decline to match the resources that the other party is throwing into the race. It's a phenomenon that happens to some degree in every election, but this year it's been driven in part by once-a-decade redistricting and the occasional political scandal.
Because incumbents are generally the last group of candidates the national campaign committees abandon, being a member of this tiny caucus of the rejected carries particular sting. Democrats need to gain 25 seats to retake the House majority, an uphill battle they're not expected to win. The small number of incumbents running with little or no financial backing from their national party indicates how competitive the races are in this year's swing districts, which will make it difficult for either party to make significant gains.
"The sign that there's not going to be big swings is that Democrats are defending their own," said Paul Lindsay, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "For every one of those losses, they have to find a win somewhere else. And the map is not big enough for them."
Democratic officials scoffed, pointing to the Republicans' shifting support away from tea party candidates like Bartlett and New Hampshire freshman Rep. Frank Guinta, who is facing a difficult rematch against Democrat Carol Shea-Porter. Two years ago, Shea-Porter was one of the incumbents that Democrats threw overboard. Republicans have supported Guinta this year, but not in the last two weeks, federal fundraising records show.
"Republicans have a funny way of showing they're protecting the tea party majority when they're giving up on their own members," said Jesse Ferguson, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Officials at the NRCC noted that total spending when all outside groups are included favors Guinta, giving the NRCC flexibility to put resources elsewhere.
Bartlett has served in Congress for 20 years, representing the Appalachian portion of Maryland and some of Washington, D.C.'s outlying communities. Last year, the state's Democratic-dominated legislature remade the district by stripping out some Republican strongholds and replaced them with a bustling urban corridor that stretches along Interstate 270 in Montgomery County. Democratic voters now outnumber Republicans by about 42,000.
Linda Alban, one of the future constituents in the new congressional district, likened the move to cheating. Yet, the Democrat said she's not comfortable voting for Bartlett, saying she would have nothing to do with a member of the congressional tea party caucus.
"I don't think changing the boundaries is right, but I don't happen to support the person who's there in the first place," said Alban, a resident of the city of Gaithersburg, one of the Montgomery County suburbs added to the district.
National Republicans have offered some financial support to Bartlett, but they've declined to make any big-money independent expenditures to pay for big ad buys.
On the Democratic side, Kissell is in a similar position. The DCCC has poured more than $1 million into helping North Carolina Rep. Mike McIntyre win re-election, but they've declined to invest in Kissell's adjoining district, redrawn to favor Republicans, even though Republican-aligned political action committees have spent heavily there.
The committees that lead their party's congressional campaign efforts shift money into some races and out of others in the final weeks depending upon how competitive they become. Coming down the stretch in the 2010 election, the DCCC signaled that they were waiving the white flag for about 10 incumbents including Shea-Porter, Walt Minnick in Idaho, Steve Driehaus in Ohio and Steve Kagan in Wisconsin_all of whom lost.
Among Republicans, Rivera has also got little help from the national party, according to Federal Election Commission records. Rivera, a freshman, has been accused by the Florida Ethics Commission this week of committing 11 violations of ethics laws while he was a state legislator. He's also been accused of secretly funding an opponent to his current challenger, Joe Garcia, during the Democratic primary. Rivera and his campaign have denied the accusations.
The redistricting that took place in the states last year prompted several incumbents to retire. In California, Republican Reps. Jerry Lewis, Elton Gallegly, Wally Herger and David Dreier all stepped down rather than face difficult re-election battles. In North Carolina, Democratic Reps. Brad Miller and Heath Shuler stepped down after that state's Republican-led legislature drew new congressional borders.
Kissell opted to stick it out. He survived the Republican wave in 2010 that saw 16 Democrats in the South lose their seat, but the DCCC appears to view the district as unwinnable, making no independent expenditures that would help counter the more than $800,000 that Republicans have spent in the past five weeks to criticize him.


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France and Spain fell short of their budget deficit goals last year, data showed on Monday, although the overall fiscal picture for the euro zone improved.
France's 2012 budget deficit was 4.8 percent of economic output, statistics office Eurostat said in the final reading of all 27 countries' public accounts. It compared with a target of 4.5 percent.
Spain's budget shortfall was 7.1 percent, excluding bank recapitalization, higher than the government's 6.98 percent official year-end reading and well above Madrid's original target of 6.3 percent.
Overall, the 17-nation euro zone looked much better off at the end 2012, however. Its combined fiscal deficit was 3.7 percent of gross domestic product, compared with 4.2 percent in 2011 and 6.5 percent in 2010.
Budget cuts are at the center of the euro zone's strategy to overcome a three-year public debt crisis but they are also blamed for a damaging cycle where governments cut back, companies lay off staff, Europeans buy less and young people have no little hope of finding a job.
Crippling levels of unemployment and outbreaks of violence in southern Europe are now forcing something of a rethink, with the focus shifting to economic growth strategies.
Both Spain and France are expected to get more time to reach EU-mandated targets of 3 percent.
"We need to combine the indispensable correction in public finances, huge deficits, huge public debt... with proper measures for growth," the European Commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech in Brussels just before Eurostat released its data.
EU leaders are desperate for economic growth as the euro zone struggles through its second consecutive year of recession, and some officials say they will back off from the spending cuts blamed for deepening Europe's economic downturn.
The Commission will decide on May 29 whether to recommend to EU finance ministers to give Paris and Madrid until 2015 to cut its fiscal gap to 3 percent of GDP, today targeted for 2014.
It is not yet clear how big a policy shift EU policymakers are planning.
EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told Reuters in Washington on Thursday that financial leaders from the group of 20 economies calling for less austerity were "preaching to the converted."
Rehn says he is willing to grant more flexibility on fiscal targets to try to increase economic growth and is looking increasingly at countries' fiscal efforts in structural terms, which means removing the effects of the business cycle and one-off measures on the budget.
Germany and the European Central Bank still want to see the euro zone put its finances in order after a decade of borrowing that saw countries' debt and deficit levels rise dramatically.
In addition, the EU's Fiscal Compact treaty signed by all EU countries, except Britain and the Czech Republic, in March 2012 requires governments to keep the budget in balance or surplus with a structural deficit no higher than 0.5 pct of GDP.
"I can't see there's been a big change and that austerity is off the table," said Jurgen Michels, a senior economist at Citigroup in London. "Most countries will have to come out with additional, substantial fiscal measures in order to meet their new targets," he said.
Underscoring that, the task facing Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy remains daunting if he is eventually to bring Spain's budget deficit down to EU-mandated levels.
Adding in the cost of recapitalizing Spain's banks and a 40 billion euro ($52 billion) bank bailout from the euro zone, Spain's deficit was nearly 11 percent in 2012, higher than the European Commission's forecast of 10.2 percent, and an increase from the 9.4 percent deficit of 2011.
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The Towel Warmer will heat up to between 100 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. It will not produce sufficient heat to injure you if you touch or brush up against it, though you should still exercise caution around the device. The Towel Warmers have a three to nine inch offset from the wall depending on which model you purrchased; the offset provides sufficient clearance to prevent any damage to the wall. You should also maintain a distance of four inches between the Towel Warmer and surrounding fixtures.
How heavy/large are the Towel Warmers?
Weights vary based on design but typically range from 9 to 29 pounds. Even larger Towel Warmers will not be a problem when attaching to the wall. As indicated in the instruction manual, you just need to make sure that at least two of the four brackets are attached to a stud.
How do I use the Towel Warmer after it is installed?
The WarmlyYours Towel Warmer is designed for everyday use. The programmable timer can be used to accommodate your lifestyle. If you want to have a warm, dry towel anytime, just program the timer to your desired "on" and "off" times. You can also use the manual function to turn the towel warmer on! There will always be a towel ready for your bath or shower. If you prefer to use the Towel Warmer only occasionally, just bear in mind that the Towel Warmer is designed to gradually warm towels over the course of a day and does work best when towels are left to hang for about 3 hours.
Does the Towel Warmer have an automatic shutoff function?
The Towel Warmers are designed to stay on at a relatively constant temperature to keep your bathrobes and towels fresh, warm, and dry. The programmable timer provided with the Towel Warmer allows you to program specific "on" and "off" times. However, should you need to turn the unit off for any reason, the timer features a main on/off switch. The Infinity Towel Warmer is designed with an on/off switch located at the bottom of the left rail (when facing the unit).
Can I install the Towel Warmer myself or do I need to hire someone to do it for me?
Each Towel Warmer comes with an instruction manual which fully explains how to install the device from start to finish. If you can hang a picture, you can probably install a Towel Warmer. However, you will need a licensed professional who is certified to do electrical wiring for the final hook-up.


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The Tuscaloosa City Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday denied a petition by Jack and Susan Warner for a variance to create an artist-in-residence program at Whispering Cliffs, the Warners' house on Lake Tuscaloosa.
The Tuscaloosa City Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday denied a petition by Jack and Susan Warner for a variance to create an artist-in-residence program at Whispering Cliffs, the Warners' house on Lake Tuscaloosa.
The hearing on the variance lasted for more than an hour as opponents and supporters shared their thoughts with the board, which voted 3-2 against the Warners' petition.
"We are pleased. We love our neighborhood," said Pam Askew, one of the residents who opposed the variance. "We love Jack Warner. We really hated that it came to a meeting like this."
The variance would have allowed the three-story home at 2731 Battlement Drive NE, zoned R-1, to become a temporary residence for artists and art scholars working on art or scholarship as part of a residency program created through a partnership between the Warner Foundation and Samford University.
"We just presented what we thought was a proper use of the property. The board did not need it that way. We gave it our best effort," Warner Foundation board member Skip Goodwin said.
The Warner's plan would allow three to six artists a year to reside in the first floor of the home on Lake Tuscaloosa for as long as two months with no more than one being in residence at a time, according to the meeting packet. The artists or scholars would be academically associated with Samford University, which would also be the venue for any public workshops or lectures.
A graduate student manager would reside in the guest house on the property to ensure the program runs smoothly. While there would be no public tours or commercial use, the agreement would allow small limited tours by Samford faculty, students and scholars, according to the packet.
"This would be the first such program of its kind in this part of the country," Susan Warner said.
Samford University Arts Dean Joseph Hopkins called the proposed residency an extraordinary opportunity for the state.
Warner's wife and other advocates characterized the proposed residency as a low-key program that would not disrupt the neighborhood, but would enrich the arts culture of Tuscaloosa and the state while preserving Warner's legacy as a collector of American art and a supporter of American artists.
The advocates said a usage hardship was the basis of the request for the variance, with Goodwin and others arguing the residence, with many significant artistic features of its own besides the artwork, and the grounds were assets that could not be moved elsewhere for the program.
The opponents Monday argued the collection of artwork remained Warner's true legacy and the house and grounds were not a critical component to keeping the collection in Tuscaloosa or establishing the residency program.
"It does not have to be out here with our homes," Askew said.
Askew, joined by her husband J.D. Askew, and other residents of the neighborhood voiced concerns that the variance would lead to decreased property values, security in the neighborhood, increased visitor traffic and a constant turnover of temporary residents as neighbors.
Citing previous complaints to the city about noise and traffic associated with the property dating to 2008, resident John Robb expressed concerns that the variance would lead to more disruptive activity in the neighborhood.
"Sheriffing is not my aspiration in life," Robb said.
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Inside Room 304
Have you ever imagined sleeping amidst a fairy glen with a giant erotic fun fur canyon scene of husky wood nymphs frolicking in a forest glade? Then you should step inside Room 304 Faux Naturelle by Allyson Mitchell. This woodsy retreat where lesbian separatist commune meets Storybook Gardens will have you dreaming in colour.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Dan--One thing you may want to check in your template is adding data #162 (Only One Per PC) and #163 (Auto-assign to parents room).I pulled these from the Zwave template and they seemed to make device discovery more stable.Look at the Z-wave template or the Insteon template I had posted for their configuration.-Pete
Looking at the TestSerialPort code, i noticed that there is no detection mechanism in there for sending hex values. My guess is they planned to implement it, but did not finish. I'm working on extending it to support the PLM, which will require hex send and probably a way to receive values and correctly work the compare, ignoring address bytes.


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Now Benedict Cumberbatch May Play Julian Assange
With Joel Kinnaman as his right-hand man.
So much for Jeremy Renner: Deadline is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch is now the front-runner to play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a biopic to be directed by Bill Condon. The Killing's Joel Kinnaman is also said to be circling the other lead; he'd play Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who served as the spokesman for WikiLeaks. Will they make out? Probably not. (Gotta save something for the sequel.)


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Take look into the X Series Dome bag.
Bryan is an Ohioborn photographer and graphic designer currently based in the Midwest. His passion for design and photography started at a young age, but it wasn't until he took his first film photography class in college that he began to recognize it as a form of art and expression. He established his own freelance creative company while still in school and immediately got to work. From weddings and commercial work to his true passion landscape and cityscape photography, Bryan has been a part of the industry for over 10 years and is only just getting started traveling and teaching workshops. Since picking up the original X100 in 2011, Fujifilm X Series cameras have transformed his style and technique, and have since become his gear of choice for all aspects of his work. You can find Bryan most frequently on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as well as bryanminear.com


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UH Astronomy to provide safe Venus transit viewing venuesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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At each location, IfA will distribute free "solar viewers" to allow people to look at the sun without damaging their eyes. There will also be telescopes equipped with solar filters to give people a better view of this event. Experts advise to never look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. Sunglasses do not provide enough protection.
No transits of Venus occurred in the 20th century, and the 2004 transit was not visible from O'ahu. Hawai'i and Alaska are the only states where this event can be viewed in its entirety. In the contiguous 48 states, the sun will set before the transit is over. In Honolulu, the transit will begin at 12:10 p.m. and end at 6:45 p.m.
The Waikīkī Beach viewing site will be at the Sunset on the Beach location toward the Diamond Head end of Kalakaua Avenue, where there will be screens showing webcasts of the transit as viewed from Mauna Kea and Haleakala. There will also be robotics displays and other science and technology activities for children and adults.
The Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor is located on Ford Island. While the museum usually charges an admission fee, viewing the transit of Venus and related activities will be free, and the museum will stay open until dusk. In addition to viewing the transit, those who come to this venue will be able to see a show in the IfA's StarLab planetarium and a robotics display, and there will be other demonstrations and activities for children and adults.
The Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl harbor is located on an active military base, and a military or Department of Defense identification is required. You may also make a reservation by providing the vehicle year, make, model, and license plate number of your car, and a government-issued ID number for each adult in the vehicle in an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling the museum at (808) 441-1007. Tickets may also be purchased to the museum at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center where visitors may take the free shuttle bus to the museum.
The public is also invited to view the transit at Ko Olina Resort near Lagoon 4. Assisting IfA personnel there will be Greg McCartney and Stars Above Hawaii, as well as amateur astronomers. There will be free activities such as robotics, swimming in the lagoon, and others.
On May 30, IfA will sponsor a free panel discussion about the transit of Venus in the Art Auditorium on the Mānoa campus. IfA astronomer Paul Coleman will speak about the role of Hawai'i during the 1874 transit of Venus; IfA solar physicist Shadia Habbal will speak about the sun and its connection to Venus and Earth; Peter Mouginis-Mark, director of the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at UH Mānoa, will talk about Venus itself; and IfA's Roy Gal will speak about the transit on June 5. Free solar viewers will be distributed. For more information about this Frontiers of Astronomy Community Event, go to http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/transit/panel.shtml.
For the most up-to-date information on the transit of Venus, go to http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/transit/.
Founded in 1967, the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
The University of Hawai`i at Mānoa serves approximately 20,000 students pursuing more than 225 different degrees. Coming from every Hawaiian island, every state in the nation, and more than 100 countries, UH Mānoa students thrive in an enriching environment for the global exchange of ideas. For more information, visit http://manoa.hawaii.edu. Follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/uhmanoa and Twitter http://twitter.com/UHManoaNews.
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Gallery: Celebrity Fashion At Coachella
The annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival occurred this past weekend. Coachella seems like a really great way to spend three days, if you love portable toilets, B-List celebrities trying to look "with it" and bands that haven't been cool for a few years. Also, does anyone actually like outdoor music festivals*? However, if you're bummed about missing the chance to bodycheck your way through an almost-gelatinous cloud of pot smoke so you could be just 100 yards away from Kings of Leon, here's a gallery of some mildly famous people dressed for the weather…. to… ease… your pain?
It is nice that they put the word "Arts" in the title, though.
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SAN DIEGO — The flames may have been turned up higher in the debate over whether dozens of fire rings -- nostalgic to some, bothersome to others -- should be removed from two popular beaches in Balboa and Corona del Mar.
While the Coastal Commission agreed Wednesday to delay its vote on the fate of the fire rings, state air quality officials indicated they would take up the bonfire issue later this spring as part of a debate that could affect beach cities along the entire California coastline.
Residents in Newport Beach, with the support of the city, said that the fire pits had become a public nuisance and that the smoke billowing from the beach campfires can be choking.
But Coastal Commission staffers have recommended keeping the fire rings as a free attraction for beachgoers and a symbol of full public access. Some commissioners on Wednesday seemed to reject the city's proposal to install volleyball courts, playgrounds and covered picnic areas as a tradeoff.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 10, 2013) – Each week during the volleyball season members of the ETSU volleyball team will be featured in a segment called "Getting to Know You."
The first player to be featured is freshman setter Kristen Favre (Plano, Texas). During the preseason, the players were given the questionnaire, which are listed below, and each of them submitted their answers. Below are the responses by Favre:
Academic Major: Exercise Science
Favorite Song: "Yellow" by Coldplay
Favorite Actor/Actress: Russell Crowe/ Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite Book: "Prayer for Owen Meany"
Favorite Movie: "Bridesmaids" or "Gladiator"
Favorite TV Show: "Friday Night Lights"
Favorite Food: Steak
Favorite Animal: Dogs
Favorite Ice Cream: Mint Chocolate Chip
Favorite Sports Moment: Kerri Strug – 1996 Olympic Vault on a broken ankle to win Gold
Favorite Quote: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say 'I used everything you gave me" – Erma Bombeck
Favorite Athlete: Khat Bell
Favorite Subject in School: Any science class
Favorite Vacation Spot: Belize or Greece
What's the number one thing on your bucket list?
If you could be on any reality TV show what would it be and why?
What is one thing you can't live without?
If you were stranded on an island what are two things you would bring with you?
Is there any meaning behind your number you wear?
If you could be one person for a day, who would you be and why?
If you weren't playing volleyball, what sport would you play?
Do you have a gameday tradition?
What are your plans after graduation?
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To Update you: My little guy is 12 weeks old and we have been exclusively breastfeeding and all has been going extremely well. I pump at work 3x a day to provide milk for him at Daycare and nurse on demand any other time.
I had a bout of Mastitis in my right breast at 5 weeks
Yesterday I noticed my right breast was extremely sore to the touch--almost like a bruise. The underside was hard and painful. I took a hot shower, massaged, expressed milk in the shower and nursed frequently on the sore breast. I am not experiencing any fever or other symptoms related to Mastitis
Today it is not AS sore, but still slightly so, and i've noticed i'm not pumping NEARLY as much milk out of either breast as I usually do. On any given day I pump around 6-8oz in my first AM pump, 6oz in my 2nd pump and another 4-6oz in my 3rd pump.
Today I followed my same pumping schedule and have gotten HALF the amount I usually do and the least amount of milk came from my right (sore) breast.
Any ideas? Clogged duct? Remedies other than what i've been doing? Would this affect my milk production?
Thanks in advance!


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As someone new to Magi I liked this episode. I felt I didn't really have a handle on Morgiana before this so I am glad they did an episode on just her. In previous eisodes I felt we only saw Morgiana through other characters but in this ep we saw Morgiana through her eyes.
Anyways I like all 3 main characters and think they complement each other well. I also expect they are wise & naive in different ways hence why I don't exactly agree that Morgiana & Aladdin are the simple ones & Alibaba is the more complex worldly one. But I think that is more a wait & see.
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Have watched all 6 episodes just now and I have to say that I'm more hooked than I expected.
Lately none of the shows seems to rise a spark of interest in me, they are just something to watch in free time.
But this one got me really engaged and wanting more.
I expected it to be something like Fairy Tail, light with some action and comedy but Magi's story is actually much darker despite it's animation and I love it!
The show has a good balance of everything. I hope it will keep it up and bring us to an epic conclusion.
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DVD is currently ranked @ #52 while the Bluray is @ #108, Sinbad da boss drawing in dem fujoshis.
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Man, seeing Balbaad in full view, painted in color, was pretty awesome!
Oh, and I think Leaf Hero link is appropriate now.
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I like FukuJun, but his voice just isn't the right choice Kassim.
Not feeling Ono Daisuke as Sinbad either, but atleast it isn't as bad as the former.
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I thought it was actually going pretty slow but then again I was highly anticipating Alibaba's reveal (which I saw coming a mile away) and was just hoping the episode would hurry it up.
This is definitely an interesting twist. Can't wait for the next episode.
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Aladdin and Morgiana traveling together.
Can't wait to see all three of them together.
So they picked up Sin and arrived to Balbadd.
At least they got a free stay at an expensive hotel.
That Sin was just too carefree..
Yet another explanation of rukh energy and Magi.
The fog troupe problem was rather serious.
Why would Alibaba rob people when he got all that wealth and title?
Maybe it's something that in his blood... guess we'll find out next time.
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Every Weeks I always see a lot of guys who have read the manga complaining about the adaptation and it pisses me off. You know, you don't have to criticize the advencement of the anime from the manga to show to the world that you are a TRUE, one of these man who knew Magi before everyone.
For the moment I'm not disappointed by this adaptation: it's really like I was imagined it. This last episode wasn't really rushed at all in my opinion ; they needed to show alibaba's face to create a good climax at the end of the episode. That's rather well made, no?
The only thing that I could reproach at this adaptation is the inconsistency of the animation: it's all or nothing. The scene of fight with Morgiana in the episode 06 was really amazing, but to be honest, that's really the only one like that. When you see all the great animators who are currently working on the anime it's really depressing... (it was the parenthesis of the sakuga fan.)
Anyway Magi is without a doubt the shonen of the year!
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Really, really liking the developments in this series. For as much as this show goofs around, it does a magnificent job of building a serious mood when it wants to. Quickly too; just like that. The balancing act between action, drama and comedy has been great so far, which is something I particularly appreciate.
Sinbad's character design looks fan-freaking-tastic (especially decked out in jewelry before he got robbed ), and I concur with aohige; Balbaad in full view was splendid to behold.
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Nicki Minaj must be a magician ... because she made Lil Wayne's entire head disappear last night ... when she sat him down for a badonka-licious lap dance during their concert in New York.
Moments before Nicki grinded on Weezy for all to see at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, she laid out the ground rules for him ... saying, "You got three rules: Legs open, hands behind your back, mouth shut."
It was definitely a well-rounded performance.
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The 49ers didn't help themselves much in the first quarter - and the tone was set on their first play.
The 49ers didn't help themselves much in the first quarter - and the tone was set on their first play.
Mistakes hampered them early, and the Ravens took advantage.
On the first play of the game, Colin Kaepernick faked a handoff out of the pistol formation and completed a pass to tight end Vernon Davis for a 20-yard gain. However, the 49ers were flagged for an illegal formation, as Davis was covered by a wide out - an inexcusable blunder that cost the team a first down, and momentum, as offensive coordinator Greg Roman went into a conservative play-calling mode and the 49ers punted after a three-and-out.
The Ravens started their first possession of the game at their own 49 after a 15-yard punt return by Jacoby Jones, and offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell began his masterful job calling the offense.
With the Ravens quickly entering the red zone, the 49ers appeared to have weathered the touchdown threat when Joe Flacco missed tight end Dennis Pitta in the back of the end zone. However, linebacker Ahmad Brooks was flagged for offsides, giving the Ravens another chance. They didn't waste it, as Flacco hit Anquan Boldin over the middle in the back of the end zone for a touchdown to cap a six-play, 51-yard drive.
The 49ers' second drive started at their 20. They decided to go after Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis with a pass over the middle to Michael Crabtree and inside runs to Frank Gore. Kaepernick threw a pretty pass down the field to Davis for a 24-yard gain to the Ravens' 8. But Baltimore's bend-don't-break defense stiffened, and after Kaepernick missed an open Crabtree in the end zone on second down, the second-year QB was sacked for a loss of 10 yards by Paul Kruger, and David Akers put San Francisco on the scoreboard with a 36-yard field goal.


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Being in the tech industry, it is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of technical blogs. There are approximately a gazillion technical blogs, and a whole gob of those are really good. I could easily spend 8 hours per day just combing through the good articles and blog posts out there. Of course if I did that, I wouldn't get much real work done, and I would soon be without income. That would be bad.
So with all those good technical blogs out there, I'm not even going to attempt to put together a Top Ten list of technical blogs. But I will share with you my Top Ten list of non-technical blogs. Why would you be interested in that? Well, career enhancement, for one. There are some companies that will hire you strictly on your outstanding technical skills, but there are far more companies that want you to be a little more well-rounded, and reading some of these blogs will help with that. This is even more important in tough economic times. And if you, like so many others, aspire to be your own boss, you will definitely need to know a few of these things.
Now here's the list, with brief descriptions, of my favorite non-technical blogs (in no particular order):
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