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A.I. (Warner Bros.). The brainchild of the late director Stanley Kubrick and grown-up Wunderkind Steven Spielberg, this futuristic sci-fi fairy tale about a lovable robot's Pinocchiolike desire to become a real boy stirs critics. The reviews reflect a complex response, finding the movie" [i]ntriguing, inspired, flawed, misbegotten and fascinating," (Desson Howe, the Washington Post). Some elements get across-the-board praise: 1) the ambition of the project; 2) the dark tone ("A.I. is a chilly fairy tale, a spooky and disturbing film," says Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times); 3) the performance of Haley Joel Osment as the young bot David; and 4) Jude Law as Gigolo Joe, of whom Howe says, " His performance as a half-machine half-soul is balletic, precise and memorable." The movie falters, though, when"Mr. Spielberg seems to be attempting the improbable feat of melding Kubrick's chilly, analytical style with his own warmer, needier sensibility" (A.O. Scott, the New York Times). (Read David Edelstein's review for Slate here.)—S.G.
crazy/beautiful (Buena Vista Pictures). The teen love story could be the usual rote adolescent dreck, but it isn't. Critics find that the "brown-and-white romance" (Jess Cagle, Time) between a bad-little-rich girl and a hardworking boy from the other side of the tracks transcends melodrama. Starring sweetheart Kirstin Dunst as the spoiled brat and Jay Hernandez as the industrious blue-collar go-getter, the film "occasionally runs aground on melodramatic writing" (Stephanie Zacharek, Salon). But a breakout performance by Dunst—"emotions [she] portrays with such raw authenticity have been pulled out of the dusty warehouse of melodramatic convention" (A. O. Scott, the New York Times)—and the sexy spark between the two stars help to elevate the movie: "Their potent chemistry brings the story alive (no easy task)" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times). (crazy/beautiful's official site features a great trailer for the movie.)— S.G.
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf). Empire Falls, a dying industrial town in central Maine, is a place all the critics are thrilled to visit. Russo's fifth novel "is his best yet, a wise, wry, big-hearted epic" (Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today). Although filled with a "bumptious cast of sharp-tongued women, sarcastic old-timers, and … a tone of affable, chop-busting comedy darkened by minor chords of heartbreak and frustration" (A.O. Scott, the New York Times), the central character, Miles Roby, is sad-sack, good-egg of a guy who 20 years ago dropped out of college to return home to care for his dying mother. "No one writes better than novelist Richard Russo about the gritty dreams and quiet desperation of small towns" (Minzesheimer). "Russo's feathery foreshadowing is perhaps his finest touch, in a novel with finery all about" (Michael Prager, the Boston Globe). (Listen to Russo read from Empire Falls.)— L.S.
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, by Andrew Solomon (Scribner). Critics seem loath to criticize this book that's both a memoir about the author's battle with depression and an exhaustive survey of the disease, but even so, the reception is somewhat mixed. The least enthusiastic claim it's "a loose and baggy monster that ought to have been cut by about a third" (Gail Caldwell, the Boston Globe). Some counter that the "bulk (given its rambles through biomedical research and cultural history, and its … interviews with other people suffering from depression) renders it oddly reassuring" (Joyce Carol Oates, the New York Times). Most critics point to Solomon's account of his mother's death by assisted suicide as being particularly moving, but "[t]his sensitive material is rather swamped by the many reportorial pages that surround it" (Oates). Still, for "someone who doesn't know much about the topic—but who wants (or needs) to learn a lot, … [this book] will probably serve as the standard reference" (Scott McLemme, Newsday). (Read Slate's "Book Club" on Noonday Demon.)— L.S.
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Hi, I am thinking about building board with paulownia wood core (about 130 cm by 39 or 40). I have seen boards that were made with smaller pieces of wood 10mm by 30mm (and lenght of the board) glued together to create the core.
1. Was it done on pupose or was it done because it is hard to find one continueos piece of paulownia wood. How does it affect flex and weight of the board
2. If you shape such a core to the thikness of 10 mm between footstraps and taper at the tips can you still create concave and rocker just by using rocker table and vacuum bagging process (just like you can do it with foam core or do you have to shape concave bottom before laminating?
3.does paulownia wood core has any advantages over foam (corecell)
4.do you know any suppliers of paulownia in US
5 any suggestions regarding laminating? i am trying to get strong board but with considerable amount of flex for soft landings and comfortable ride in chop since i had a knee injury.
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Adriano fills in alongside Gerard Pique at the heart of the defence.The central midfield partnership of David Beckham and Blaise Matuidi that started in the French capital is no more for Paris St-Germain.Former England captain Beckham is replaced by the younger legs of Marco Verratti, while Thiago Motta, who spent six years at Barcelona, is in for the suspended Matuidi.Barcelona vs Paris St Germain is scheduled to kick off at 7.45 p.m.UK time and can be watched online through free live stream by clicking here.Barcelona vs Paris St Germain takes place in the Champions League quarter final second leg on Wednesday night with the game evenly balanced. UK time and can be watched online through free live stream (details below).
Barcelona will be favorites for this game despite the fact that the first leg was drawn.
The first leg in Paris ended 2-2 and PSG showed that they were not going to lie down and let Barcelona have the tie.
However, with two away goals for Barcelona PSG will have their work cut out tonight.
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This study out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sounds great:
Software Allows Neighbors To Improve Internet Access At No Extra Cost
The way they are accomplishing higher throughput makes sense: use
multiple paths. However, I'm not so sold on how secure this will
necessarily be. The software has some allowances for security but
basically it means willingly allowing another onto your private
network. Don't get me wrong. Wireless as implemented in most homes
isn't anywhere near to secure, however, I think this type of solution
may present folks with a false sense of security: "This software
handles security for me so I don't have to do anything else."
A couple of years ago I saw a presentation at Black Hat about how firewalls and the concepts we have for perimeter-based security models aren't going to cut it in the future
Thinking Outside the Box–Embracing Globalization). The trick then is to
ensure each individual system is secure and that they talk with each
other using secure mechanisms. While this may end up being the rule in
the enterprise, I doubt the average home user is going to get to a
point where he or she is going to be able to lock down a computer
system to be reasonably secure in an environment such as this.
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|View Poll Results: Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 3 Rating
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|2009-07-16, 10:23
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Nighteyes is an awesome track, but wouldn't work for the anime, in my opinion.
That being said, this was the best episode yet, I really liked it. If not for some minor issues, it would have been almost perfect (for an anime adaptation, obviously).
|2009-07-16, 10:28
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I do think that in some cases they are exagerrated, and I wish they would try to still keep her cuteness which not always happens, but overall I'm positively impressed.
I really enjoyed this episode, even though I admit my pleasure came mostly from seeing animated a novel that I really love, even so this episode included many awesome things. I can't say that Deen is doing an awesome job, there are many many defects on the animation on certain choices are odd, but that's Deen I wouldn't expect anything different (sigh, me wishes IG did it, but even JC would be better).
Anyway it's the story the thing that really matter. Battler jumping in the servant conversation was pure awesomeness. And Maria challenging Battler's certainty was also a pleasure to see. I'm talking in particular about Battler looking behind himself, even though the VN implied that, seeing it has a completely different flavor and that's why I'm glad this anime exists.
Another great thing was the scene in the parlor when Battler and the cousins start talking about the murders, and then little by little the adults join the conversation until everyone including the servants are all gathered around them. This is yet another thing the Novel couldn't perfectly convey, seeing this whole scene was great.
I lol'ed at the dynamic reconstruction of the events described by Battler, Kinzo hiding under the bed was funny. Yeah the idea was really funny since the beginning, but yet again, seeing it has a completely different flavor.
This episode brought up the two things that I really love about this series:
The clash between rational thinking (magic can't possibly exist) and fantasy thinking (magic exists, else how can you explain it?) and Battler's battle of (twisted) logic with chessboard thinking who can turn over practically every theory upside down.
Oh and then the music! I just wish the volume was higher, if I didn't know these bgm already I probably wouldn't notice them >_<
|2009-07-16, 11:00
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Agreed on Maria's expressions, I liked them. Sure, they're crazy, but in the VN it was stated that Maria was like a completely different person, and this seems to fit the bill. The whole thing is supposed to be really weird, and if they'd kept it low-key, that would have been a real shame.
|2009-07-16, 11:35
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I think nighteyes wouldn't have worked only because the entire part of Natsuhi raising the gun is cut up and goes straight to Battler. It's almost funny because no one even seems to care that she's pointing a gun at Eva, except for like a couple still shots of the servants and Hideyoshi. It's like they're more afraid of the actual gun than of Natsuhi pointing it at Eva.
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But some music would be nice, if that part was a bit longer.
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Wow, I love ep 3. Definitely the best episode yet. I love how almost the entire episode focuses on the characters trying to solve the murders themselves. It makes me thinking alongside the characters.
Battler is also proving to be a great main character. He seems fearless, collected, and intelligent despite the creepy behaviors of the servants and Maria.
The only con that I have is how predictable the next 2 victims are based on the epitaph. I was thinking it's too obvious to be Eva and Hideyoshi and there'll be a twist, but I guess not.
Overall, love it. It's been so long since I watch a series where I can't wait to see what will happen next episode
|2009-07-16, 14:01
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I liked the episode...but how come NO ONE in the anime is reacting to maria talk like that? And her little weird "KI HI HI HIH IHIH AHAHAHA" 's and her weird facial expressions. Plus the fact that she speaks differently now...no one is gonna point that out?
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Actually it should have happened already. The anime skipped it. Battler and the cousins discuss about Maria strange double personality soon after the little discussion in kitchen with the servants.
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|2009-07-16, 14:55
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there isn't anything extremely important in that discussion. To sum it up, everyone agrees that Maria's behaviour is odd, however they explain it by saying it's somehow natural for a child of her age to play the part of an outstanding figure, which in the case of Maria is a witch.
Then Battler goes on remembering how he pretended to be a member of the earth self defense force and Jessica told them that when she was that age she tried to learn things noone know and do things noone else did to become popular. It is also said that Rosa knew this odd behavior and that to her was as problematic as the "uu uu".
|2009-07-16, 15:16
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Hi Jan Poo, thanks for replying. But you might want to delete that part, as it technically is a novel "spoiler" right? And i don't think it's allowed to be posted here, even under a spoiler tag??
Thanks though, i'll +rep you for the info however. But before you get in trouble you might want to remove it
|2009-07-16, 15:22
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Well I think there is a sort of debate about the possibility to tell things that a Novel reader at the same point of the story would already know. Generally speaking I think this should be dealt on a case by case manner. This particular thing I said doesn't seem to be really important to me and the Novel Reader at this point of the story already knew it.
Anyway Klash is reading the forum right now, if it is unacceptable I trust he would delete it ^^;
|2009-07-16, 16:31
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|2009-07-16, 16:41
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damn but really, if one hates her all the way to this episode, but when they are together it's like soo cute ;_; wonder who's next though... there are some friends always wanting to spoiler me, but I won't let them.
Is it just me or is it much less cruel than Higurashi? maybe I'm just used to it now...
Maria sorta annoys me a lot sometimes, but she's cute anyway. and from this episode on, I really like Battler, he sure is SO Phoenix Wright x3 cute one..
can't wait for next week.
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French water company Cogitio has launched new connected smartwatch collections, Cogito Classic and Cogito POP. The Classic range is designed to give users a smartwatch without sacrificing the style and elegance that comes from a regular dress watch. Created by French industrial designer Xavier Houy, The Cogito Classic comes in six different colours, is water resistant up to 100m, a year …
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Forget going for gold. Team GB will be decked out in indigo as they take to the track and field for the London 2012 Olympic games. Inspired by the Union Jack flag, the Olympic and Paralympic sportswear will feature predominately blue hues paired with red footwear as they compete across the summer. Designed by Beatle offspring Stella McCartney in partnership …
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LFW menswear preview: James Long, Carolyn Massey, Tim Soar
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Kris Van Assche, creative head of Dior Homme, and luxury sunglasses label Oliver Peoples have already put out successful collections of their collaborative designs but this week has seen the launch of the Spring/Summer 2009 collection.
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For a man who claims to not only feel no human emotion but to want no possessions, memories or immortilisation, Karl Lagerfeld sure likes to have his bedazzled fingers in a lot of different pies. After Grand Theft Auto, the Kaiser has collaborated with the German toy manufacturer Steiff on a Karl Lagerfeld teddy bear. That means a bear decked out in all the maestro's signature pieces; the sunglasses, the rings, the high-collared shirt, skinny trousers, statement belt and skinny tie.
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Knife crime has reached an unbelievable height in Britain and with the murder of Ben Kinsella, the seventeenth teenager to die as a result of knife crime in London this year, Grazia has launched their 'Lives for Knives' campaign. As part of the campaign, the magazine has got Henry Holland, Katharine Hamnett and Sophia Kokosalaki on board to design t-shirts as well as laying a set of Five Government Demands.
On my WISHLIST is Henry Holland's design, an electric-blue t-shirt with striking design and bold lettering.
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A court ruling in Cologne this past Tuesday stated that circumcision of young boys for religious reasons is considered to be grievous bodily harm. This judgment, which stated that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents," is a landmark one at that.
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A doctor in Cologne was charged after performing a circumcision on a four-year-old boy born to Muslim parents. When the boy was admitted to the hospital after severe bleeding occurred, the case came into question. The doctor was later acquitted by both a lower and regional court, and was declared innocent due to the confusion regarding the controversial issue.
But now, the court has taken a definitive stand against those looking to circumcise their sons for religious reasons. The court stated that "the body of the child is irreparably and permanently changed by a circumcision." Also, the court argued that early childhood circumcision does not allow people to make their own religious decisions later in life.
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The strong Jewish community present in Germany spoke out against the ruling, stating that circumcision has been a practice in their religion for thousands of years and a court should not stand in the way of their religious choices. Statistics support the prevalence of circumcision in the world, with one in three males over the age of 15 being circumcised, according to the World Health Organization.
The court determined that circumcisions performed for strictly medical reasons were permissible. But the question still remains, who is in the right here? Both opponents and proponents of circumcision have strong opinions regarding their stance. This ruling, in the wake of the 2011 ban proposed in San Francisco to make circumcision illegal when performed on males under the age of 18, illustrates the continued controversy surrounding the subject.
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A History of Magnum Photos in Ten Photographers
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Over a career spanning momentous historical events, Paul Fusco has produced searing documentary photographs through which he seeks to foster empathy and understanding. As he explains: "I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at, the visual experience is incredibly emotional." Among his iconic series is his 1968 "RFK Funeral Train", for which he documented the mourners who stood by the railroad tracks as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train rumbled past—a moving, textured portrayal of the grief of ordinary Americans.
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Incoming executives need to be realistic about priorities and the time required to drive specific results, and clear about the risks that can impede success and the resources that specific priorities will require.
There is no shortage of potential priorities that beckon the attention of most incoming executives during their transitions. But it is important to be highly selective and realistic about the signature priorities you choose to focus on. In reality, given what comes across your desk on a daily basis, it is very hard to meaningfully drive more than five priorities.
Before sharing elevator pitches about your priorities with stakeholders, it's a good idea to be realistic about how far they can be moved forward in the first 6–12 months. Will you really be able to demonstrate tangible progress on your priorities in this timeframe and win the confidence of your key stakeholders?
For conversation's sake, consider these five CFO priorities:
- Talent: Develop the finance team, and recruit critical talent to deliver a finance organization that's able to partner with the business.
- Partnering: Reset partnerships with the businesses to proactively deliver facts and support decision making.
- Strategy: Align your capital strategy to cost-efficiently finance corporate strategy.
- FP&A: Improve financial planning and analysis capabilities to better forecast key business metrics and support decision making.
- Cost reduction: Deliver $500 million in operational cost savings.
Next, rank the priorities based on how confident you are that you can accomplish them in the next six months. List the higher-confidence priorities at the top of the table below. For example, you may have a lot of treasury experience, and you are confident that you can get lines of credit, extend debt terms, and lower your cost of capital. On the other hand, you may find HR to be unwilling to change and incapable of supporting your talent initiatives. As a general rule of thumb, greater dependence on others to get a job done should decrease confidence in your ability to accomplish that specific priority.
Next, ask yourself four critical questions:
- What could go wrong in executing a priority, and what risks can lower your confidence?
- What resources can enhance your confidence or mitigate risks?
- Who in your company will help you execute this effort, and do these people change your level of confidence?
- How much time do you need to realistically spend per week to accomplish a chosen priority?
For illustrative purposes, the table below has some of the common issues around talent filled in.
|Confidence in Priority
|Cost Reduction
|HR will resist changing the compensation model to recruit key staff. Broken performance management will make it difficult to exit unproductive staff.
|CEO, audit chair, and CHRO support your attempts to upgrade your organization's talent with changes to the hiring model and staff.
|John Doe from HR will oversee recruiting and exiting staff. Jane Doe from finance will build training and rotation programs to develop staff
|8 hours per week
Identifying the risks that undermine each of your signature priorities and the resources needed to successfully deliver them can add a helpful dose of clarity to your transition. As you cannot accomplish all the work by yourself, you need to designate the right people to support you and make sure you are giving each issue the time it deserves.By identifying risks, resources, talent, and time around your signature priorities, you can begin to elevate confidence in your ability to execute your chosen transition priorities while remaining realistic in your time allocation.
By the way, talent is normally a top-five agenda item for incoming executives. In addition, on average, it will generally take about a day per week in the first six months to assess staff, recruit critical talent, and build a sustainable organization.
The takeaway: Be realistic about the priorities you choose and the time that you need to successfully drive specific results. Be clear about the risks that can impede success and the resources that specific priorities will require. Finally, make sure you have the right team supporting you on your critical initiatives. The simple exercise above can help you increase your confidence and chances at a successful transition.


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By Edward Krudy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The unemployment rate fell last month in most states, including those considered undecided in the presidential election, data from the Labor Department showed on Friday.
Stubbornly high unemployment is a key issue in the November 6 election. The contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is heating up in states where polls suggest voters are undecided.
Overall, regional and state unemployment rates were generally lower in September. Jobless rates fell in 41 states and the District of Columbia from August, rose in six and were unchanged in three states.
Compared with a year ago, jobless rates fell in 44 states and the District of Columbia and rose in six.
"Overall, following last month's rather negative report, this one is definitely very encouraging," said Michael Dolega, an economist at TD Bank Group. "Specifically, the statistically significant declines across the board and employment gains."
In swing-state Florida, the jobless rate fell to 8.7 percent from 8.8 percent.
"Florida basically is gaining on the rebound in housing; it's created 4,000 jobs in construction," said Dolega. "Construction has been shedding jobs, so this is a nice turn around for them."
The national unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest since President Obama took office nearly four years ago.
But the slow pace of economic growth and high level of unemployment have been a focal point of the campaigns. Of the eleven states where the polls are currently tight, about half had unemployment rates above the national average.
Among swing states, Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in the country at 11.8 percent, down from 12.1 percent in August. In Colorado, the jobless rate fell to 8 percent in September from 8.2 percent the previous month.
Unemployment fell in eight other such states, with North Carolina at 9.6 percent and Wisconsin down to 7.3 percent. Virginia and New Hampshire held steady.
Pennsylvania was the only swing state to show an increase in its jobless rate, which rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1. However, there were some positive signs in the state as jobs increased by 17,800 during the month.
(Reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Dan Grebler)


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BEIRUT – Syrian government forces heavily shelled the cities of Aleppo and Daraa and a suburb of Damascus on the second day of a major Muslim holiday Monday, killing up to 30 people, rights groups and activists said.
There was a relative lull in the civil war on Sunday, the first of three days of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. During the holiday, Muslims the world over celebrate by wearing new clothes, feasting on sumptuous food and visiting the graves of loved ones. The renewed fighting, however, showed President Bashar Assad's regime is not letting up on its drive to quell the 18-month-old uprising out of respect for the occasion.
Activists reported no signs of jubilation across the battered nation, with smaller-than-usual turnout for traditional prayers on the first day of the holiday and an air of gloom blanketing major cities.
Adding to the despair, two main activist groups -- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees -- said that 10 bodies of adult males shot execution style were found in the Qaboun district in the capital Damascus. The discovery of bodies in similar condition is not uncommon in Syria, particularly in the last few months as the uprising descended into a civil war with heavy sectarian undertones.
Anti-regime activists say some 20,000 people have been killed since the revolt against Assad's rule began in March 2011.
Even the U.N.'s new envoy to Syria acknowledged on Sunday that he had no concrete ideas to end the conflict and that his mission would be difficult without a unified position by the U.N. Security Council.
"The problem is not what I can do differently, it is how others are going to behave differently," Lakhdar Brahimi told The Associated Press at his Paris home on Sunday. "If they spoke in one voice and were clearly supportive of what I will be doing on their behalf, that is what I need," Brahimi said of what he seeks from the Security Council. "Without a unified voice from the Security Council, I think it will be difficult," the former Algerian foreign minister added.
Brahimi was named Friday to replace former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria. He served as a U.N. envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq and helped negotiate the end of Lebanon's civil war as an Arab League envoy. He said Annan's mission failed "because the international community was not as supportive as he needed them to be."
Russia and China have used their veto power at the Security Council to block strong Western- and Arab-backed action against the regime of Syria's Assad.
A Syrian foreign ministry source quoted by the official SANA news agency warned Brahimi that, for his mission to succeed, he must persuade countries backing the rebels to stop their support for the "armed terrorist bands" -- the regime's parlance for the rebels.
Syria often singles out Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey as the rebels' main backers.
The rights groups and activists said the latest assaults by tanks and warplanes caused two houses to collapse in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, killing at least 14 people. The buildings were in the Al-Sakhour and Qadi Askar neighborhoods, said activist Mohammed Saeed, reached by Skype inside the city.
Aleppo has been the scene of daily battles for several weeks now, with forces loyal to Assad trying to wrest control from the rebels without making much headway.
Saeed also said that fighting raged inside the city with rebel forces making advances in the districts of Al-Jadidah and Maadi Telal, in the northeastern part of Aleppo.
The reports from the activists and groups -- the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees -- could not be independently verified.
In the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the uprising, intense fighting between government troops and rebels killed six people, including two children and two women, the activist groups said.
An activist in the Damascus area, El-Said Mohammed, said seven people were killed and at least 70 wounded when government forces shelled the suburb of Moadamiyeh with tanks and mortars. He said some 30 troops along with a tank defected to the rebels' side on Sunday, which may have been the reason for Monday's shelling.
Mohammed spoke by Skype from the greater Damascus area. His information could not be verified, but the Observatory said the shelling in Moadamiyeh killed at least 10 civilians and three rebels.


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Btbam rocks your socks off!
by Teh lover March 19, 2004
a band from north carolina that has not only made beautfiul music but has influenced me to write lyrics and music of my own. if i could describe their style in simple words i would have to say a technical aggression mixed with a complex beauty. they have four cds out, a self titled album, the silent circus, alaska and colors.
some songs by between the buried and me include white walls, ants of the sky, camilla rhodes, ad a dglgmut, backwards marathon, the need for repetition, more of myself to kill, naked by the computer, and so much more.
by a fan of btbam February 03, 2008
An awesome-ass band with some awesome-ass songs such as Alaska, All Bodies, Aspirations, Ad a Dglgmut, and Mordecai.
Between The Buried And Me kicks ass. Rock the fuck on!!
by your mom is my bitch July 27, 2006
Dude1: Yesterday i was listening to between the buried and me and..
Dude2: you tell me this everyday You jizzed during ants of the sky!
Dude2: you tell me this everyday You jizzed during ants of the sky!
by Btbammakesmejizz February 19, 2010
Ad a Dglgmut is the best song ever. by the best band ever - btbam.
by dave(y) April 04, 2005
one of the best metalcore bands out there. they actually have their own sound unlike most of the generic bullshit that happens to be of the same genre as them. they use a keyboardist which is pretty uncommon in metalcore. you could say they have progressive elements in their newer stuff.
by nosotros June 13, 2007
The epitome of all musical amazingness.
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Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
Notice of public meeting.
The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) will hold a public meeting on June 5-6, 2002, to review and discuss three issues: New Technologies in Meat and Poultry Operations, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-171), and the FSIS Field Workforce. Three subcommittees of the full committee will also meet on June 5, 2002, to work on the issues discussed during the full Committee session. All interested parties are welcome to attend the meetings and to submit written comments and suggestions concerning issues the Committee will review and discuss.
The full Committee will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, June 5, and Thursday, June 6, 2002 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Subcommittees will hold open meetings on Wednesday, June 5, 2002 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
FSIS was not able to publish notification of this public meeting in the Federal Register at least 15 days prior to the meeting, as required by Departmental Regulation 1041-001, due to late changes to the agenda.
All Committee meetings will take place at the Georgetown University Conference Center, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC. Start Printed Page 3824720057. The full committee will meet in the Grand Ballroom A & G. The subcommittee meetings will be held in Conference Room 2, Conference Room 4, and Conference Room 5 and 6. A meeting agenda is available on the FSIS Web site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/nacmpi, which is a sub-Web page of the FSIS home page at http://www.fsis.usda.gov. Submit one original and two copies of written comments to FSIS Docket Room, Docket #02-018N, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Room 102 Cotton Annex, 300 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700. Comments may also be sent by facsimile (202) 205-0381. The comments and the official transcript of the meeting, when they become available will be kept in the FSIS Docket Room at the address provided above. All comments received in response to this notice will be considered part of the public record and will be available for reviewing in the FSIS Docket Room between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.Start Further Info
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On January 19, 2001, the Secretary of Agriculture renewed the charter for the NACMPI. The Committee provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture pertaining to the Federal and State meat and poultry inspection programs pursuant to sections 301 (a)(4),7(c), 24, 205, 301(a)(3), and 301(c) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and sections 5(a)(3), 5 (a)(4), 5(c), 8(b), and 11(e) of the Poultry Products Inspection Act. The Administrator of FSIS is the chairperson of the Committee. Membership of the Committee is drawn from representatives of consumer groups; producers, processors, and marketers from the meat and poultry industry; State government officials; and academia. The current members of the NACMPI are: Dr. Gladys Bayse, Spelman College; Nancy Donley, Safe Tables Our Priority; Sandra Eskin, American Association of Retired Persons; Dr. James Denton, University of Arkansas; Carol Tucker Foreman, Food Policy Institute, Consumer Federation of America; Michael Govro, Oregon Department of Agriculture; Martin Holmes, North American Meat Processors; Dr. Lee C. Jan, Texas Department of Health; Dr. Alice Johnson, National Food Processors Association; Collette Schulty Kaster, Premium Standard Farms; Dr. Daniel E. Lafontaine, South Carolina Meat-Poultry Inspection Department; Dr. Irene Leech, Virginia Tech; Charles Link, Cargill Turkey Products; Dr. Catherine Logue, North Dakota State University; Dr. Dale Morse, New York Department of Health; John Neal, Courseys Smoked Meats, and Michael Mamminga, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
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Syrian President Basher Assad isn't the only target of Syrian rebels as Syria's Orthodox Christian Church reports "ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians" by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.
The report from the Vatican news agency Fides says Brigade Faruq, which has links with elements of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamist mercenaries from Libya, has expelled 90 percent of Christians living in Homs, nearly 50,000 people.
Reportedly, the armed Islamists went door to door in the Christian neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan informing the homeowners that if they did not leave immediately they would be shot. Then pictures of their corpses would be taken and sent to al-Jazeera, along with the message that the Syrian government had killed them.
As such, the men, women and children -- denied by the Islamists from taking any of their belongings -- were forced to flee to mountain villages 30 miles outside of Homs, their homes occupied by the militants who claimed the owners' possessions as "war-booty from the Christians."
According to reports by Barnabas Aid, a relief agency assisting Syrian Christians, the forced Christian exodus from Homs has been ongoing since the beginning of February when armed Islamists murdered more than 200 Christians, "including entire families with young children."
At that time a representative of Barnabas Aid pleaded, "Christians are being forced to flee the city to the safety of government-controlled areas. Muslim rebel fighters and their families are taking over their homes."
Unfortunately, Islamist attacks against Syria's Christian community, including kidnappings and murder, have occurred almost from the onset of the popular uprising against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad which began in March 2011.
These murders, which have killed over 100 Christians, include the hanging of a 28-year-old man; a 40 year-old father of two shot dead; two young men killed while waiting in line at a bakery; and a 37-year-old father with a pregnant wife, his body cut into pieces and thrown in a river.
Most recently, a car bombing targeted the Christian district in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing three and wounding 30. As Giuseppe Nazzaro, the Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo, said, "In this situation the Islamist and terrorist movements are making headway," adding "These are bad times for religious minorities."
Unhappily, these sectarian attacks on Christians have sparked fears that Syria could become like Iraq, where church attacks, kidnappings and forced expulsions by armed Islamist militant groups after the US invasion in 2003 drove Iraq's Christian population from 1.4 million to less than 300,000 today.
For its part, leaders of the Syrian opposition have denied sectarian motives against Christians, noting that, even though the Syrian insurgency is rooted in the nation's Sunni Muslim majority, all groups are welcome to join the Syrian rebellion.
Not surprisingly, that open invitation to join its ranks has gone largely unanswered among Syrian Christians who make up 10 percent of Syria's 23 million, mostly Sunni Muslim populace.
Specifically, Syrian Christians have long viewed Assad's secular regime as being generally more tolerant of Syria's religious minorities, a belief certainly buttressed by the current anti-Christian violence being perpetrated against them by Syrian Islamists.
To that end, despite the Syrian government's horrific, murderous crackdown on civilian protesters, Syrian Christians have mostly stayed away from the street protests, worried that the alternative to the Assad regime is, according to former Israeli ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, "chaos, civil war, and possibly a radical Islamist takeover."
As was the case in Libya, that latter possibility becomes more of a reality as Islamist terror movements in and out of Syria are vying to gain influence over the Syrian revolt in hopes of gathering power if Assad falls.
For example, Sheikh Adnan al-Arour, a Syrian Salafi cleric exiled in Saudi Arabia, has been calling for jihad against the "infidel" Assad regime. Al-Arour's exhortations have garnered him the open allegiance of several Syrian Islamist rebel brigades, including "Supporters of God Brigade" in Hama, which has praised him as "the leader of the revolution."
In eastern Syria, the "God is Great" Brigade proclaimed its formation in an internet video that declared their fight to be a "jihad," and which they exhorted "our fellow revolutionaries…to declare jihad in the path of God."
The Syrian Islamist brigades are also getting assistance from outside terror organizations and mercenaries from Iraq and Libya, aid which Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged in February when he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that "al-Qaeda in Iraq is extending its reach into Syria."
That terrorist reach was on display recently when the Al-Nusra Front, a front group for al-Qaeda in Iraq according to US intelligence officials, claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing in Damascus that killed 27 and wounded more than 100.
Finally, evidence of the rising Islamist influence in the Syrian uprising was on view when several prominent figures quit the Syrian National Council (SNC), the most widely-recognized coalition of anti-regime forces, alleging that the Muslim Brotherhood had "hijacked" the SNC agenda.
It should be noted that the news of the Islamist crackdown on Christians comes at the same time that the UN is reporting that Syrian rebels are using children as fighters and are kidnapping, torturing and executing supporters of Bashar Assad and members of his security forces.
Nevertheless, President Obama has reacted to the growing sectarian violence in Syria by recently pledging to send "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian rebels, such as communications help and medical aid.
However, given the attacks it has suffered at their hands, the President may want to earmark some of those humanitarian supplies to Syria's besieged Christian community.


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Sri Krishna Jayanti, birthday of Lord Krishsna, in 2018 date based on calendars followed in India. Sri Krishna Jayanti celebrates the birthday of Lord Krishna. Sri Krishna Jayanti 2018 date in West, East and Southern parts of
India is on September 2. In North India, it is on September 3, 2018. It is observed as Dahi Handi in Maharashtra, the formation of the huge human pyramids to break the pot hung high up. The festival is also known as Gokulashtami and Krishnashtami.
Sri Krishna Jayanti 2018 in Different Parts of India
Sri Krishna Jayanti 2018 in Different Parts of India
- Sri Krishna Jayanti - on September 2 day and midnight in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and eastern parts of India.
- Krishna Janmashtami Mahotsav - September 3 midnight from 11:30 PM onwards in North India and Gujarat Dwarakadish Temple.
- Janmashtami Vrat is on September 3 in North India
- Ashtami Rohini - September 2 in Kerala
- Dahi Handi and Gopalakala in Maharashtra - September 3
- Vittal Pindi at Udupi Sri Krishna Temple - September 2
- Kalo in Goa - September 3
- In Tamil Nadu Sri Krishna Jayanti is on September 2, 2018
In North India, Shri Krishna Janmashtami is observed eight days after the full moon day in Hindi month Bhadrapada (August – September). In
South India, the festival is observed on the eighth day after full moon in the month of Shravan (August – September).
The Sri Krishna Jayanti festival is not celebrated on the same day in all parts of
and this is due to the various regional calendars and the various calculations in the time of the birth of Krishna. India
Special pujas are held in Sri Krishna Temples spread around the world and millions of people visit the shrines. Special poojas and rituals are held at midnight the time of
Krishna's birth.
Krishna devotees fast on the day. It is a 24-hour fast.
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- Public Health
- Community
- Public Health Administration
- About Public Health
- Core Functions
Core Functions
Core Functions: 10 Essentials
The 10 Essential Public Health Services or "core functions" were developed in 1994 through a collaborative process by public health leaders working to achieve a more consensual framework for reforming the health care system.
The Essential Services highlight the importance of prevention and health promotion as well as evaluation and monitoring of services. Through data review and other assessments, public health leaders can make more informed decisions about program development, funding, and capacity. This Essential Services are used as a foundation for public health performance standards program instruments.
The core functions of Public Health include Assessment, Policy Development, and Assurance. The ten Essential Public Health Services are listed below and categorized under the appropriate core function. The Office of Performance Improvement oversees the integration of these functions in an effort to build a more effective and efficient public health system.
I. Assessment:
- Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems (e.g., community health profile, vital statistics, and health status).
- Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community (e.g., epidemiologic surveillance systems, laboratory support).
Ii. Policy Development:
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues (e.g., health promotion and social marketing).
- Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems (e.g., convening and facilitating community groups to promote health).
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts (e.g., leadership development and health system planning).
Iii. Assurance:
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety (e.g., enforcement of sanitary codes to ensure safety of environment).
- Link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable (services that increase access to health care).
- Assure competent public and personal health care workforce (e.g., education and training for all public health care providers).
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services (e.g., continuous evaluation of public health programs).
- Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (e.g., links with academic institutions and capacity for epidemiologic and economic analyses).
Note:** A consensus list developed by federal health agencies in partnership with major national public health organizations, adopted: Fall 1994 by the Public Health Functions Steering Committee.
Public Health Core Functions and Essential Services, January 15, 2004


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Braveheart: Sapphire Series (US - BD)
Thanks to 1080p video Gabe can make out all those de-Kilted Scottish bits. Ew.
Following the wartime death of his father William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is taken a raised by an uncle. He returns to a Scotland still crushed hard beneath King Edward's oppressive regime as a peaceful man, and secretly marries a childhood friend. Meanwhile, Edward, aka: Longshanks, increases pressure on the region and gives his troops almost unlimited power over the Scots. When his wife is killed by the local magistrate Wallace fights back, and what starts as simple revenge turns into a leadership role in the Scottish resistance. Wallace's battlefield intuitions become legend, and Longshanks takes notice, as does the corrupt Scottish nobility.
I like to call Braveheart 'My First Epic', as many of my generation truly discovered the possibilities of grand scale, historical filmmaking for the first time in 1995. Most of us had seen Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus and Ben Hur, but those were 'old people' movies. Braveheart was new and exciting, and perhaps even more importantly, really freaking violent. I've personally grown apart from 'My First Epic' over the years, thanks to a more adult understanding of superior epics like the aforementioned three, not to mention Peter Jackson's little three film Hobbit opus. Gibson's film (like all his films) lacks rhythm, and feels as exceedingly long as it is. Even those once beloved battle scenes drone a bit these days. Arguably the film teems with Gibson's usual pretentious slant. I preface with an 'arguably' because making such films requires real commitment, and the assumption that you, as a director, can do it better than anyone else. For some reason Gibson's particular brand of self-importance rubs me a little more raw than those of David Lean, Kubrick, Ridley Scott, or Peter Jackson (it's also a good possibility that Mel's recent social activities have coloured my opinions unfairly).
Braveheart is still an achievement, without a doubt, but it's more of a technical achievement than a satisfying emotional experience (that said, I still get choked up over Wallace's dying word). Gibson and his collaborators craft a world rich in tactile details and textures, like bloody wounds, torrential rain, cool grass, splintered wood, and scratchy wool clothing. The brutality of the subject matter and era is so viscerally achieved the viewer can practically touch the on-screen events. Even though the overall pacing is kind of a mess, there are single scenes and sequences that are truly perfectly rendered. These are almost exclusively the violent scenes, but Gibson manages to infuse a bit of genuine artistry into some of the more spiritual and quiet scenes too (the romantic sequences are darned mawkish though, If you ask me). A relatively inexperienced director at the time, Gibson had the foresight to surround himself with the most talented, and often underutilized cast and crew possible. The best choice was DP John Toll, but the cast is a masterstroke, including several actors, like Brendan Gleason and Tommy Flanagan, that built a career on these early performances.
Following the whole Gladiator debacle I was worried about Paramount's entire 'Sapphire Series'. Braveheart was released the same day, and as if the two films hadn't been constantly compared enough, they're dual Blu-ray releases will likely go down in AV geek history. In short, Braveheart hasn't ever looked this good. This isn't a perfect transfer, or comparable to the best I've seen on this set, but it's a definite upgrade from the DVD release. The new transfer allows one to explore previously unavailable details, specifically Longshanks' prosthetic nose, which for the first time I notice doesn't match the rest of his face. It beats the Gladiator transfer in any non-close-up shot. The focus is occasionally rather shallow, and the shallow pull leads to some slight image doubling (the fault of the original negative, not this transfer), but for the most part the majestic fields of green are sharp, if not occasionally a little flat. Most importantly there's little sign of all that nasty edge-enhancement. There are more print artefacts than I had expected (mostly small white flecks), but grain is fine (save a few of the more overcast and foggy scenes), and for the most part compression noise is absent. The print's colours are rich (Gibson's baby blues are pretty intense), and as natural as cinematographer John Toll's filters will allow, but aren't exclusively consistent. The blacks are deep for the most part, but are occasionally the victim of a little colour bleeding during the darkest shots.
The Gladiator Blu-ray wins one event, that of audio quality. Braveheart is presented in a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track, rather than a DTS-HD track. The overall quality is pretty similar to the DVD release's Dolby Digital track, with a little more volume, bass, and obvious spatial representation. The film shows its age a little bit here in that the mix isn't quite as aggressive in the surround channels as more modern releases. The sound design is glorious, but the mix isn't quite up to revamped standards. The track's finest moment is the massive Battle of Sterling, which features screaming, multi-channel crowds, galloping horses, clanging metal, swishing swords, and squishy, flying viscera, and which ends on a pretty massive orchestral cue. I used to have parts of the Braveheart soundtrack on a mix tape I kept in my first car. I was going through a sort of Highlands phase. James Horner's Scottish influenced score isn't as impressive as it once was, mostly because it's been mimicked to death over the last 14 years, but on this track the drums are heavy, the strings are warm, and the traditional instruments cut through the noise without overwhelming.
To continue the Gladiator Blu-ray comparisons, Braveheart features oodles of previously unavailable extras, and a lot of them are actually presented in HD. The extras begin with Mel Gibson's commentary, which was available on that original DVD release. The track is just as tonally dull as it always was, and there are a few 20 minute gaps of utter nothingness, but Gibson does find room for a few interesting factoids, and fesses up to some of his more grievous historical inaccuracies. Disc one also features the ' Braveheart Timelines', a big pile of text and video facts concerning the film, the production, and the real history. I'm entirely unclear as to why these weren't included as pop-ups.
Disc two features start with 'Battlefields of the Scottish Rebellion', an interactive timeline of the historical events bastardized by the film. The timeline leads into maps, text-based facts, video interviews, scenes from the film, and animated battlefields. It's a little overwhelming to behold at first considering the volume of menus, but once one gets the hang of it one finds some valuable historical information (and it does feature an 'auto play' option). Again, this would be better served in a pop-up form, or as part of the first disc's timelines.
' Braveheart: A Look Back' (60:00, HD) is a three part retrospective documentary. The well structured doc covers the major bases including conception, hiring Gibson to direct and star, putting together the production, character development, casting, shooting in Scotland and Ireland, Gibson's direction and relative selflessness, practical jokes, using the Irish Army as battle extras, make-up design, editing, shooting the big battles, walkouts during test screenings (the torture scene original featured a warning from the torturer), audience reception of the final cut, and the lasting effects. The gamble of the production is the most interesting aspect of the behind-the-scenes story. Most of the crew, including Gibson, was relatively untried, and such historical epics hadn't been popular for decades (and wouldn't be again until after Gladiator). I'm not clear on the point of separating the doc into three relatively random parts, but with the 'play all' option employed it's easy to pretend its all one big thing.
'Smithfield: Medieval Killing Fields' (25:00, HD) is a historical featurette about Smithfield, a dark and disturbing town just outside of London where Wallace and countless others were tortured and killed before crowds of thousands. This is the set's biggest surprise. I had zero knowledge of the area, and the movie itself barely touches upon it. Over the course of the featurette a motley crew of historians are interviewed, and their words are set to amusing animated versions of wood carvings, footage of Wallace's 2005 official funeral, and images of the modern look of the city.
The rest of the extras were available on the special edition DVD, starting with 'Tales of William Wallace' (30:00, SD), a slightly subdued, but largely informative featurette on the real Wallace (often compared directly to the film). 'A Writer's Journey' (obviously intended as a companion piece to the original DVD's 'A Filmmaker's Passion', 22:00, SD) looks into writer Randall Wallace's history with the project. Things are completed with two theatrical trailers.
Braveheart's historical accuracy is fuzzy, to say the least (ironically enough, Gladiator is probably more historically accurate), but the choice of historical figure is interesting from the standpoint that he wasn't known in pop culture until after the film was released. It's a legendary (and broadly drawn) version of the historical figure, but it is still notice that was previously missing. Such a thing arguably hadn't been done since Lawrence of Arabia, if that even counts (T. E. Lawrence was definitely better known than William Wallace). I see this as the film's biggest achievement, as I don't think the whole thing has stood up as well as I had hoped, and don't think Gibson had as big an effect on modern cinema as he maybe should have (big budget historical epics with 3 hour runtimes were pretty unheard of in 1995). This Sapphire Series Blu-ray release doesn't disappoint, and includes a solid transfer, and solid, new extra features. The closest thing to disappointment is the slightly unimpressive audio, and a few missing DVD release extras.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st September 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Braveheart Timelines, Demensional Battlefields of the Scottish Rebelion, Braveheart: A Look Back, Smithfield: Medieval Killing Fields, Tales of William Wallace, A Writer's Journey
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, Brendan Gleeson, Sophie Marceau, Peter Hanly, Ian Bannen, James Cosmo, Catherine McCormack, David O'Hara, Brian Cox
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama and War
Length: 177 minutes
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"For my father, traveling on the creek was always about the adventure, and about the story you could tell when you got back, What we have to learn from that and be reminded of is that when we put in on Sugar Creek, here or anywhere else, or on any trip we take, it's not about executing a smooth plan, it's about having an adventure and telling people about it.
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What I'm really trying to say is "a different perspective", which I think in English is connotated by "another". Is there another word in Greek which would be better than ἄλλος?
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Operating from a 38-55 Vdc input, ten
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3: The ending "P" indicates positive enable logic (pull PC pin low to disable). Change to "M" to
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Channels are an important technical condition prevalent on almost all price charts on all time frames. Traders use these simple formations to identify profitable trade setups on both the long and short sides. If drawn and analyzed correctly, price channels can provide precise entry, exit, stop-loss and profit-taking levels for all types of traders in all markets. However, price channels have their limits, and those who put too much faith in them can get burned.
A price channel combines an existing trendline with a second, parallel trendline so that when the lines are taken together, they fully contain the price fluctuations in the current leg of the move. The upper trendline connects significant highs of the move, and the lower trendline connects the lows of the move. These trendline levels represent areas where key demand (support) and supply (resistance) exist. An asset's price will oscillate between these levels — the upper and lower trendlines — helping traders position their entries and risk-aware exits.
All else equal, buy entries tend to be more profitable when placed at the lower end of the channel, and sell entries tend to be more profitable when placed at the upper end. Of course, that thinking assumes the channel will hold. Likewise, traders can set stop-loss and profit-target orders in the vicinity of these established highs and lows to protect the bottom line or get the most out of a position.
"Stepping higher" (above) shows a typical price channel in the S&P 500 stock index. After setting a low of 1266 on June 8, 2012, the S&P 500 generated a series of higher highs and higher lows — the classic definition of an uptrend. Although relatively short in duration, this is a typical example of how price trends play out, with surges and retracements that, when taken together, result in a net move in a predominant direction. What also is clear is that channels aren't always picture perfect. Highs and lows are fluid, and traders must be alert and flexible as channels develop.


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AUBURN, AL (WSFA) - The Auburn Tigers are back in Alabama. The team touched down at the Montgomery airport just before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Dozens of fans braved the cold to cheer on their tigers. Coach Gus Malzahn and several players walked across the tarmac and straight up to the fence to thank the fans for their support.
The teams boarded buses to head to a welcome home celebration on campus in Auburn.
The party will be held at the indoor practice facility near the athletics complex. It is free and open to all fans.
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U.S. financial regulators, taking a landmark step in the five-year effort to rein in Wall Street, decided to curb some types of trading while largely freeing chief executives from personal responsibility in the final version of the Volcker rule.
The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and three other agencies are set to sign off today on the proprietary trading ban, which has been contested by Wall Street banks JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and their industry allies for more than three years.
Wall Street's lobbying paid off in part. Regulators granted a broader exemption from the ban for banks' market-making desks, on the condition that traders aren't paid in a way that rewards proprietary trading, according to a draft of the final rule. The final version also exempts securities tied to foreign sovereign debt from the ban. At the same time, regulators gave banks less leeway for bets considered hedges for other risks.
"It prohibits risky proprietary trading while protecting economically essential activities like market-making," Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said last week. "Regulators have worked hard to find the right balance that protects our economy and taxpayers while also leaving room for well-functioning financial markets."
Volcker's Idea
The rule is named for Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman credited with taming rampant inflation in the 1970s and who served as a top adviser to President Barack Obama. Volcker proposed the ban as a means of restoring stability to Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis, arguing that banks that benefit from federal deposit insurance and discount borrowing shouldn't be permitted to take risks that could trigger a taxpayer-funded government bailout.
The rule, enshrined by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, allows exemptions for market-making and some hedging, and defines limits for banks' investments in private equity and hedge funds.
Bill Issac, a former FDIC chairman who is chairman of Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp, said the rule will pinch revenue and income at the biggest banks and some regional lenders, limiting their ability "to fulfill the full range of needs of their largest and most consequential customers."
"These companies will turn elsewhere for these services, including foreign banks and non-regulated firms," Isaac said in an e-mail.
Fine Print
With Wall Street banks having already shut proprietary trading desks in anticipation of the rule, its impact rests largely in the fine print -- how regulators address other banking activities, primarily market-making and hedging.
The final version set for approval by the Fed, FDIC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency sets parameters for how banks may buy and sell financial products for clients and manage their own risks in the process.
Wall Street's five largest firms had as much as $44 billion in revenue at stake on the outcome of just one part of the debate -- how market-making is defined and exempted -- according to data for the year ended Sept. 30. JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. lender by assets, had as much as $11.4 billion riding on the answer.
What follows are summaries of five of the rule's major provisions:
Making Markets
The Volcker rule bans banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley from trading to profit for their own accounts, while allowing them to continue making markets for clients. Distinguishing between those two practices has been one of the most difficult tasks for regulators.
In the final draft, the regulators eased the criteria banks must meet to qualify for the market-making exemption. To receive the exemption, a trading desk must both buy and sell contracts or enter into both long and short positions of those instruments for its own account.
The trades must not exceed, on an ongoing basis, the "reasonably expected near-term demands of clients." Further, the final draft also requires that compensation arrangements not be designed to reward prohibited trading.
Bankers became concerned about the rule's potential to ban big parts of their business almost immediately after Dodd-Frank was passed in 2010. The 2011 draft included a list of criteria to be met for trading to be exempted as market-making.
Industry lobbyists urged the exemption be widened, saying regulators needed to recognize that banks routinely buy and sell stocks, bonds and derivatives and build up inventories to help clients when they eventually place orders. Restricting those practices would hurt companies selling bonds, for example. Banks were joined by asset managers such as Vanguard Group Inc. and AllianceBernstein Holding LP in warning that a narrow exemption could unsettle markets.
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Where Did That Come From? 15 Quick Peeks Into Food History
Have you ever wondered who thought up the whisk? Or how chicken came to dominate the dinner plate? What about the origins of cellophane packaging, or who invented soft serve ice cream? If your curiosity is piqued, check out these 15 quick glimpses into food history, including a look at meat market playsets in Victorian times (yes!) and history's 20 most significant food and drink inventions.
• 1 How the Chicken Conquered the World
• 2 A History of Coffee Culture in America
• 3 Xiao Long Bao: Tracing the History of Chinese Soup Dumplings
• 4 The History of the Espresso Machine
• 5 The History of Weck Canning Jars
• 6 A Brief History of the Recipe Card
• 7 The History of Cellophane Packaging
• 8 A Brief History of Smorgasbord: It's Not Just a Buffet!
• 9 The 20 Most Significant Food and Drink Inventions Throughout History
• 10 Baby's First Butcher Shop: Meat Market Playsets in Victorian Times
• 11 A Brief History of the Whisk
• 12 Do You Know Who Invented Soft Serve Ice Cream?
• 13 Eating Lunch: Vintage Photos from The Library of Congress
• 14 Stunning Cover Art from Vintage Seed Nursery Catalogs
• 15 Food Flashback: New York City in 1938
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