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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shares of media companies rose Wednesday as fears of an advertising slowdown based on slower economic growth abated somewhat due to a deal to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff."
Movie studio owners could also benefit from a one-year extension of certain film and TV tax credits in the budget deal passed Tuesday.
But analysts said the market's reaction was driven more by relief over the broader agreement over taxes. Without it, TV networks' advertising revenues could have been hurt.
That's because the deal stopped steep income tax hikes on many Americans that would have started this year. Tax increases would likely have hurt consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. And advertising usually tracks economic growth.
"If we went into a recession, people would be concerned about advertising," said Evercore analyst Alan Gould. "The fact that we didn't go off the cliff means advertising demand will hold up a little bit better."
In afternoon trading, media companies' stocks rose faster than the broader market.
— The Walt Disney Co. shares rose 2.3 percent to $50.93
— Time Warner Inc. shares gained 3 percent to $49.25
— News Corp. shares climbed 3.4 percent to $26.38
— Viacom Inc. shares jumped 5.5 percent to $55.64
— CBS Corp. shares were up 2.4 percent to $38.95
The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 1.8 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite increased 2.4 percent.


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Wigan boss Roberto Martinez insists his fringe players have given him plenty to think about ahead of Saturday's trip to Everton.
Martinez made seven changes from the side beaten 3-0 by Manchester City when they travelled to Crystal Palace in the Carling Cup On Tuesday night.
And despite a 2-1 defeat, the Latics' fourth second-round exit in six years, Martinez felt the trip to south London was a worthwhile exercise, saying: "I felt we learned two or three players will be competing for the first team and that's what this competition should be about for us."
On-loan Chelsea left-back Patrick van Aanholt, one if three debutants, certainly pressed his claims for a place at Goodison Park with an assured display in the back four, while Shaun Maloney and young substitute Callum McManaman also looked sharp.
Ben Watson's stoppage-time goal came too late but Martinez was unrepentant after rotating his squad and vowed to do the same when the FA Cup comes around in January.
"We can't participate in the League Cup at the expense of losing other players," he said:
"Just a week ago some of the players were travelling all over the world with international weekends and then we played a very difficult game at Manchester City and we have to share the effort.
"If you want to be successful in the League Cup you have to be able to do it with a squad. I was happy with certain players who showed they are ready.
"It was a great exercise. And what we need to do now is make sure in the FA Cup the whole squad is ready and sharp.
"We have players who have never played in the English game who needed to get that taste and I feel we are a stronger squad because of that game."
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I worry a lot.
My husband is always telling me, "Stop worrying." But then I worry about worrying.
It's very worrisome.
My biggest worry is probably the same as most parents out there: my children. What they're eating? What they're watching? How much they're eating? How much they're watching? Are they learning enough at home? Are they learning enough at school? Do they have friends? Do they feel loved?
And for crying out loud, are they ever going to stop picking their noses?
As I've sat and thought (and worried) about who and what is influencing my boys, I came across an interesting article from Forbes titled "7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors that Keep Children from Growing into Leaders."
And, of course, I panicked because more than likely, I'm hindering them in some way. But as I read through the article, I found that even though I can most definitely improve on some behaviors, I have been well prepared to face the difficulties of modern parenting because of the love and instruction I received as a child.
According to Forbes contributor Kathy Caprino, one of the behaviors to watch out for is "rescu(ing) too quickly."
I remember playing outside for hours and hours as a child. I always think my kids will get bored if I don't have every second of every day planned, but when I think back on my childhood, most of my "free time" was play time.
In elementary school, we had huge trees that grew up on the field behind our school. Every recess in early autumn and spring was spent up in those trees. We used to pretend we were falling and have one of the girls run and get a boy to "rescue" us. We would climb up to the highest branch, swing our legs over and hang over the edge.
That was probably pretty dangerous.
But we grew confident in our abilities and didn't really think about falling. After all, even if we did, there was a very strong and capable fourth-grader waiting at the bottom with open arms.
I have often thought about my boys climbing trees and how nervous I'd be if I saw them do what I did. But I also think of the adventure and boost of self-confidence and assuredness that came from something as simple as climbing a tree.
I don't think it's allowed at my old school anymore. And while I understand the practical and legal reasons, I think it's a bit of a shame. Is over protecting worse than a broken arm? Hmm.
Another hindering behavior, according to Caprino, is that "we rave too easily."
I heard this before I had kids and thought it was ridiculous. How is it possible to praise a child too much?
My boys have recently become little artists and are at their craft table drawing pictures all day long. A few days ago, both drew pictures and brought them to me. My oldest drew a picture of Thomas the Train rushing down the hill with wind in front of him, his wheels clattering down the tracks complete with grass growing underneath and the word "HELP" bubbling out of his smoke stack.
I was super impressed and hung the drawing on the fridge.
Then my 3-year-old brought me a picture of, well, what looked like a snake.
"Beckham!" I exclaimed. "That's wonderful! That looks so good. What is it?"
He looked at me, then looked at the picture. "Um, it's a river."
"Wow! Look at that river!" I grabbed it and hung it up, too.
And I couldn't help but notice the look he gave me. It was almost to say, "Yeah right, mom. It's just some squiggly lines. Why are you freaking out?"
"Kids eventually observe that Mom and Dad are the only ones who think they're awesome when no one else is saying it. They begin to doubt the objectivity of their parents; it feels good in the moment, but it's not connected to reality," writes Caprino.
But I want my children to feel like their efforts are appreciated.
A few days later, my 3-year-old brought me another picture.
"What is this?" I asked again.
"It's a ducky, it's a ducky, it's a ducky!" he sang. He seemed very proud of himself.
"It is a ducky!" I said and smiled. "You drew a ducky. That looks great!"
This time, he smiled big and got out some tape to hang it up on our fridge, which is now completely covered in drawings.
His reaction to my reaction was what surprised me the most. Genuine compliments are more accepted than sugar-coated praise.
In his recent acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, actor Matthew McConaughey said his mother strongly encouraged adventure and hard work.
"If it was daylight, you had to be outside playing, and we'd go, 'Why, mom?' and she'd say, 'Don't watch somebody on TV do it for you, go out and do it for yourself.' " Because of her encouragement and support, McConaughey's mother was a positive influence in her son's life.
"Because we're not the only influence on our kids, we must be the best influence," Caprino writes.
The best influence. That's a lot of responsibility.
Dr. Time Elmore, author of "Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future," "Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenges of Becoming Authentic Adults" and "Habitudes," shares:
"It's important for parents to become exceedingly self-aware of their words and actions when interacting with their children, or with others when their children are nearby. Care enough to train them, not merely treat them to a good life. Coach them, more than coddle."
Part of taking the worrying out of living is the knowledge that you're continually striving to do your best and teach correct principles by training and coaching and then allowing your kids to fall, fail and find themselves. That, I think, is the toughest, most crucial part.
If I've learned one thing during these five years of mommyhood, it's that most of us are just trying to do our best and most of the time, things work out. When knowledge is sought after, answers are found.
And sometimes, calling your son out in front of his friends will make him think twice about picking his nose.
Carmen Rasmusen Herbert is a former "American Idol" contestant who writes about entertainment and family for the Deseret News.


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Saguinus imperator
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Saguinus imperator (Goeldi, 1907)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Taxonomy follows Hershkovitz (1977, 1979a).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Rylands, A.B. & Mittermeier, R.A.
|Mittermeier, R.A., Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Least Concern as the species is widespread, common, and there are no major threats resulting in any significant population decline. However, its status may require revisiting in future as parts of its formerly remote range become more accessible.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|There are two recognized subspecies:
Saguinus imperator imperator (Brazil, Peru)
South-western Amazon, east of the upper Rio Purus, between the Purus and the Rio Acre (Hershkovitz, 1979). Izawa and Bejarano (1981) did not record S. i. imperator for Bolivia, but reported an isolated population on the left bank of the Rio Acre, in the basin of the Rio São Pedro in Brazil, in an area otherwise occupied by S. l. labiatus. Encarnación and Castro (1990) found populations of S. i. imperator (but not S. l. labiatus) on the right and left banks of the Rio Acre near the Quebrada Río Branco, approximately 20 km west of Inapari, close to the region indicated by Izawa and Bejarano (1981). The population on the south bank of the Río Acre is evidently highly restricted, the subspecies not having been found anywhere else further south in Peru despite a number of surveys (Castro et al. 1990). It is not known how far it extends into Peru along the Rio Acre, nor whether it occurs between the Rio Purus and Pauiní and the Rios Purus and Ituxí (Hershkovitz 1979).
Saguinus imperator subgrisescens Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
South-western Amazon, in Brazil along the east (right bank) of the upper Rio Juruá east to the Rios Tarauacá and Juruparí, to the Brazil/Peruvian frontier. Into Peru, west from the Juruá headwaters, it occurs as far as the foothills of the Andes in the upper Río Ucayali, east of the mouth of the Río Apurimac and to the south of the Ríos Urubamba and Inuya. Its range extends east into Bolivia on both sides of the Río Madre de Dios (Izawa 1979). It is probably limited to the south of the Río Tahuamanú. Izawa and Bejarano (1981) reported it only from the Río Muyumanu basin, a south bank tributary of the Río Tahuamanú. Castro et al. (1990) found that it was absent from the area between Iñapari (just south of the Río Acre) and Iberia (north bank of the Río Tahuamanú) in Peru where S. l. labiatus occurs. Aquino and Encarnación (1994) extended the range indicated by Hershkovitz (1979) east to the basin of the Río Tambopata to the Bolivian border, indicating that the Río Madidi, an eastern tributary of the Río Beni in Bolivia, may mark the southern limit to this species.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Brazil (Acre, Amazonas); Colombia (Colombia (mainland)); Peru
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Population densities in Manu National Park have been estimated at 8-12 individuals/km² (Terborgh and Janson 1985).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The Emperor Tamarin occurs in Amazonian lowland and lower montane rain forests, seasonally flooded forest, remnant forests or fringe patches and secondary forest (Terborgh 1983).
Marmosets and tamarins are distinguished from the other monkeys of the New World by their small size, modified claws rather than nails on all digits except the big toe, the presence of two as opposed to three molar teeth in either side of each jaw, and by the occurrence of twin births. They eat fruits, flowers, nectar, plant exudates (gums, saps, latex) and animal prey (including frogs, snails, lizards, spiders and insects). Marmosets have morphological and behavioural adaptations for gouging trees trunks, branches and vines of certain species to stimulate the flow of gum, which they eat, and in some species form a notable component of the diet. The dentition of the tamarins (Saguinus and Leontopithecus) does not provide for gouging and they eat gums only when readily available.
Tamarins live in extended family groups of between four and 15 individuals, but usually 2-8. Average group size recorded by Terborgh (1983; Terborgh and Janson 1985) was 8-10 individuals. Generally, only one female per group breeds. Home range size found to be about 30 ha, in Manu National Park (Terborgh 1983).
Emperor Tamarins tend to form mixed-species groups with the smaller, sympatric saddleback tamarins: Saguinus fuscicollis (Heymann and Buchanan-Smith 2000). The Emperor Tamarins travel higher in the forest, spending more time in the lower and middle canopy, above 10 m, whereas the saddlebacks spend more time foraging and travlleing at 10 m or lower. Azevedo Lopes and Rehg (2003) observed S. imperator travelling with Callimico in the Serra do Divisor Nastional Park, Acre, Brazil.
Adult 500 g (Terborgh 1983)
Adult 474 g (Smith and Ungers 1997).
|Major Threat(s):
|Much of the range of Saguinus imperator, previously remote, is increasingly subject to progressive deforestation largely as a result of colonization along highways, associated with logging and cattle ranching (Rylands et al. 1993). The species is probably not hunted, but they may be subject to some trade as pets.
|Conservation Actions:
Saguinus imperator is included on the national official lists of threatened species of both Brazil and Peru. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
The Rio Acre Ecological Station (77,500 ha) is within the distribution described by Hershkovitz (1979). It probably also occurs in a number of other protected areas, including the Chico Mendes Extractivist Reserve (970,570 ha), the Macauá National Forest (173,475 ha), and the Macauá and Antimari State Forests to the north, all lying between the Rios Acre and Purus, although none of them are specifically for the preservation of wildlife.
Saguinus i. subgrisescens has a larger range than S. i. imperator, and is protected in the Manu National Park (1,532,806 ha) in south-eastern Peru (Terborgh 1983; Terborgh and Goldizen 1985; Terborgh and Janson 1985). There are no protected areas within its range in Brazil, but in Bolivia it occurs in the Manuripí Heath Nature Reserve (1,844,375 ha) in the Pando region.
|Rylands, A.B. & Mittermeier, R.A. 2008. Saguinus imperator. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T39948A10295512. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Contia tenuis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Contia tenuis (Baird & Girard, 1852)
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Hoyer (2001) presented evidence that Contia tenuis comprises two distinct species, a short-tailed species ("common sharp-tailed snake") and a long-tailed form ("forest sharp-tailed snake"). A formal taxonomic revision is in progress.
Feldman and Spicer (2002) examined mtDNA variation in populations from California and southern Oregon and identified two lineages: a north coast clade restricted to cool evergreen forests along the Pacific coast and an interior/south clade widespread throughout California. Genetic, distributional, ecological, and morphological data suggests that the two clades are distinct at the species level, but Feldman and Spicer refrained from making a formal taxonomic revision until further studies delimit the geographic distribution of each clade.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Hammerson, G.A.
|Cox, N., Chanson, J.S. & Stuart, S.N. (Global Reptile Assessment Coordinating Team)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a broad range of habitats, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
|Range Description:
|This species occurs mainly in the west of the United States, extending into extreme southwestern Canada. Its range extends from northern and central California (along the Coast Ranges south to San Luis Obispo County and the Sierra Nevada south to Tulare County) north to the Willamette Valley, Oregon, and also includes the Puget Lowland southwest of Tacoma (at least formerly) and scattered locations on the east side of the Cascades in Washington and north-central Oregon, as well as the southern end of Vancouver Island and the nearby Gulf Islands British Columbia, at elevations from sea level to around 2,010 m (6,600 feet) (Nussbaum et al. 1983, Brown et al. 1995, Leonard and Ovaska 1998, St. John 2002, Stebbins 2003). A record from near McGillivray Lake in south-central British Columbia needs confirmation (Stebbins 2003).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Canada; United States
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|This species is represented by a large number of occurrences (subpopulations). Nussbaum et al. (1983) mapped about 30 collection sites in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Many more sites exist in California. The adult population size is unknown but surely exceeds 10,000 and probably exceeds 100,000. This species is locally common. The extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, number of subpopulations, and population size are probably stable.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Habitat includes moist situations in pastures, meadows, oak woodlands, broken chaparral, and the edges of coniferous or hardwood forests (Stebbins 2003); also shrubby rabbitbrush-sagebrush (Weaver 2004, Herpetological Review 35: 176). The long-tailed form appears to be associated with coniferous forest habitats that are relatively cool and humid. This snake generally is found under logs, rocks, fallen branches, or other cover. It retreats underground during dry periods.
|Major Threat(s):
|No major threats are known.
|Conservation Actions:
|Many occurrences are in protected areas.
|Hammerson, G.A. 2007. Contia tenuis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63766A12707233. . Downloaded on 21 September 2018.
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Black Authors, Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia (1556-1922)
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Black Drama
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Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. When completed, the database will have over 1,200 plays.
Subjects: African American Studies, African Studies Sub-Saharan, English and American Literature, Ethnic Studies
Black Literature Index
Indexes African American fiction, poetry, and literary criticism appearing in Black owned and edited publications in the United States. Black Studies Center includes the online index to Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection.ExpandIndexes African American fiction, poetry, and literary criticism appearing in Black owned and edited publications in the United States. Black Studies Center includes the online index to Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection. This index allows users to search bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. Many of the works were published in black newspapers, and citations from The Chicago Defender are linked to the full-text page article.
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Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center seamlessly integrates the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) and full-text access to historical back-files of Chicago Defender from 1935-1975, a prominent black newspaper.Expand
The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience consists of commissioned essays by scholars in the field and a collection of primary resources that includes photographs and video clips.
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Black Studies Center Historical Black Newspapers Collection
Major urban African American papers of the 20th century, searchable within the Black Studies Center database. Titles include the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1986), the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Daily Defender (1956-1975), the Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991), the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1994), the Norfolk Journal and Guide (2016-2003), the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).Expand
The same newspapers also available via the Proquest Historical African American Newspapers database.
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Black Studies on Disc (Index to Black Periodicals)
Indexes scholarly and popular periodicals in African American studies. Black Studies on Disc also includes provides access to the cumulative catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Expand
The Schomburg catalog contains references for African American, African, and African Diasporan studies. The Index to Black Periodicals is available in print. (Woodruff Library Reference AI3 .O4).
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Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture is a collection of published and unpublished non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, and other figures.Expand
Highlights include a unique collection of Black Panther oral histories, a full run of Artist and Influence (Billops-Hatch), and interviews from artists ranging from Romare Bearden to Dizzy Gillespie.
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Book Citation Index
Scholarly books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, including edited books and Annual Reviews, are now indexed in Web of Science via Book Citation Index.Expand
Authors can see who's citing their work and researchers can see what other literature is being referenced potential collaborators. Fully indexes editorially selected books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Access Book Citation Index by going to Web of Science and choose Book Citation Index under search limits.
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Full text, references, updates, and graphics from sources in medicine, nursing, and pharmacology.Expand
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Boston Globe Historical
Coverage: 1872-1901; when complete, will cover 1872-1922 (Use LexisNexis Academic for recent years of the Boston Globe) Digital reproductions of every page of every issue cover to cover--of the renowned Boston newspaper, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements, back to the first issue.Expand
Coverage: 1872-1901; when complete, will cover 1872-1922 (Use LexisNexis Academic for recent years of the Boston Globe)
Digital reproductions of every page of every issue cover to cover--of the renowned Boston newspaper, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements, back to the first issue. Full-text searching and browsing capabilities are available. Users may choose to display and download in PDF format either the full image of any page or just the individual article they need. Additional years of coverage will be added annually; when complete, the database will cover 1872-1922.
Subjects: History US, News Sources, Archives and Primary Sources
Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library (Parts I and II)
The online archive includes around 2,750 pamphlets, from the Oliveira Lima Library housed at Catholic University. Most of the pamphlets relate specifically to Brazil.Expand
Significant coverage is given to history, politics and literature. Additional content covers social and economic conditions, agriculture and trade, travel and immigration, law and diplomacy, religion, women's rights, medicine, public health, foreign and international relations, geography, Pan-Americanism, positivism, the First World War, the Portuguese and Spanish empires, and more. More than 90% of the pamphlets are in Portuguese, with additional content in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Latin. The majority were published in Brazil or Portugal.
Part I includes approximately 2,750 pamphlets, defined as monographs of fifty or fewer pages, representing more than 80,000 digitized pages of speeches, flyers, official decrees, sermons, poems, plays, concert and theatre programs, funeral orations, letters to editors, individual newspaper and magazine articles, and separata of newspaper and magazine articles. Covering a date range from 1800 to the mid twentieth century, many of these pamphlets represent the only known copy in the world.
Part II "Monographs" features approximately one million pages of primary sources on Brazilian history from colony to republic, as well as the political and economic dimensions of Brazil and the Portuguese e
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Brill Dictionary of Religion
Multi-media reference with over 500 entries on the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions as well as their role in daily life and public discourse.Expand
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Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online
Scholarly interdisciplinary reference work on the religion of Hinduism in its divergent and common forms. Articles are organized thematically in sections and alphabetically within sections.Expand
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Each author has the Greek text with facing English translation; new, critical commentary; a brief encyclopedia-style entry, and a select bibliography.
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Brill's New Pauly
Full-text articles on all aspects of the ancient world, including persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts, and interaction between Greek and Roman culture with others (Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, etc.).Expand
Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs. Brill's New Pauly Online includes the entire text of Metzler's Der Neue Pauly and also all volumes of the English language Brill's New Pauly.
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Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. With so much material now being published on the world wide web in either un-reviewed form, or in fee-based services, the IHR has shown its commitment to promoting the study of history by publishing these priceless resources for their historical value, cross-searchable, in one place and free of charge.
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British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS)
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British Online Archives
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British Parliamentary Papers Index
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British Periodicals I
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British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
This database provides online access to collections on the history of the Atlantic world from the British Archives. It includes materials such as journals, correspondence, official records and personal papers spanning two centuries of Britain's colonial, commercial, missionary and literary relations with Africa and the Americas.Expand
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Brockelmann Online
Brockelmann Online consists of both original print volumes of Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes.Expand
It is full-text searchable. The "Brockelmann" has become an indispensible research tool for the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular. Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. The multi-volume reference work is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre. Individual entries typically consist of a biographical section and a list of the author's works in manuscript and print, with references to secondary literature.
Subjects: Area Studies, Classics, History Early Modern 1450-1800, History Middle Ages 400-1450, History Modern 1800-
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Simplicity in Woodworking
Here's what I like to see when I look at something I've built, something someone else has built or someone in the process of building. Ease. I like to see the simplified result – in form, product or technique – of what I know is not so simple.
I don't mean it has to be modern, and I don't mean it has to be pure (whatever that means). What I'm saying is that I love the pared-down thing. If it's a process or activity I'm observing, rather than a product, give me only the necessary motion. Give me the casual but effective moves of a pro ballplayer at the annual family reunion game. Woodcraft, at its best or by the best, is like that. Even static objects will come alive when their lines are easy to follow with the eye and brain.
The teacher I had in the production cabinet shop told me to always do the hard part of a build first. That takes some discipline, though when a deadline and money are involved, you learn that it's by far the most efficient practice. For the hobbyist, it's often harder to acquire that discipline because it's more enjoyable to complete a series of basic, habitual woodworking moves than to take on a difficult project or technique. Also, in your typical garage shop, there aren't five other cabinetmakers standing around to offer tips, ideas and the occasional well-meaning jab.
In any case, whether you're a hobbyist or a professional, the questions are: How do you make this stuff look easy? And, how do you know when you've reached that level of success?
The second question is probably impossible to answer. Hemingway's famous quote on writing was, "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master," and I think some of that applies to woodworking. But the first question is something we can tackle. How do you go about simplifying a design or a job? Who are the teachers and writers that do it for you? And, when it comes to finished products, what do you like to look at? What are the forms or styles that appeal to you?
For me this week, it's Frank Klausz on dovetails. I like looking at the ones he's done, and I like his simplified approach to cutting them. Share your current favorites in the comments section, or by e-mailing me.
p.s. – we have Frank Klausz's writing in our store, if you're interested. There's a nice joinery book available in both digital and print formats. Visit the product page and consider picking up a copy.


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Andy Coulson Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail for Phone Hacking
Jury Previously Found Mr. Coulson Guilty of Illegally Intercepting Voice-Mail Messages
LONDON—A judge sentenced Andy Coulson, a former top newspaper editor and onetime media aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, to 18 months in prison for conspiring to hack phones during his tenure at the helm of News Corp's now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
Jurors had found Mr. Coulson, 46 years old, guilty of phone hacking—the culmination of an eight-month trial stemming from a long-running probe of journalistic practices at the paper. In 2011, News Corp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch apologized and shut the News of...


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HIGH POINT, N.C. – Belmont Abbey women's cross country, Belmont Abbey men's cross country, King women's volleyball, North Greenville women's soccer, and Mount Olive men's soccer teams were named 'Team Sportsmanship Award' winners following the recent completion of the fall season league championships. These teams were recognized to have demonstrated the best sportsmanship in their Conference Carolinas sport. The designation was voted on by member coaches and student athletes throughout the league.
The 2012 fall sportsmanship team award recipients:
Women's Volleyball – King College
Women's Soccer – North Greenville University
Women's Cross Country - Belmont Abbey College
Men's Cross Country – Belmont Abbey College
Men's Soccer – Mount Olive College
The sportsmanship awards are presented annually to the member institution judged to have exhibited the highest degree of sportsmanship among its players, coaches, and fans during their regular playing season. This year marks the second year that there will be an individual sport 'Team Sportsmanship Award' highlighting Conference Carolinas efforts to honor institutions exhibiting sportsmanlike behaviors.
The sportsmanship award is decided using a voting process implemented by Athletics Directors that calls for a coach and student-athlete representative to vote together and judge conference competitors' sportsmanship. After all the votes have been submitted the conference office averages the results and the institution with the highest overall average in a particular sport is awarded the 'Team Sportsmanship Award'. These awards will now correspond with the current "Messick Sportsmanship Award" that recognizes the school with the overall best average across all conference sports throughout the year.
Last year, King Baseball won a Team Sportsmanship Award following the end of the spring athletic season. This is the second such award King has received since beginning competition in the league in 2011.
The King women's volleyball team finished the 2012 season with a 16-16 overall record and finished third in the West Division after completing the Conference Carolinas schedule 9-7. With its 3-1 victory over Limestone in the regular season finale, the Lady Tornado locked its place in its second consecutive Conference Carolinas Tournament, falling to Belmont Abbey (3-0) in the first round.
The Lady Tornado were paced by Conference Carolinas Defensive Player of the Year, Payton Tipton (Cleveland, Tenn.), who finished the year with 437 digs, 3.90 digs per set, and 41 services aces. She joined outside hitter Summer Kremer (Mills River, N.C.) and setter Olivia Underwood (Pearland, Texas) on the All-Conference Team.


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Fortune Force Field - Tech N9ne
I can see it right in front of me
But something is saying no
Granted a lot has come to me
But sum' major ideas still trying to make it go
Fortune force field
I can taste this but can't drink it
I can make it when I think it
Can't mistake it, so distinctive
Man I hate this, man I dreamed it, can't believe it
I gotta' let it go!
(So!) It's on for tonight
(Oh!) Hope this wall is ready for a fight
(Yo!) In this hole I'm reaching for the light
(No!) A lot of dreams are lost in the night
[Verse 1:]
Why you wanna try to take my bill ticket?
I mean real wicked, I seem real livid
I've been filled with it I mean vexed
Un-ex-pect-ted-ness, when everything is the best
I get a minute to rest, but then
A n_gga regrets I gets the money
But next I'm in debt (I won, what?)
I mean I lost take green from a boss
Be the things that I dream but
They intervene they get my creme, then I'm off
(Whose they?) They turned the
Motherf_ckin' best position
Into a deposition dealing with that will
Make you wanna ex the mission
Never no checks to get to and that's the b_tching
How do I maintain my autonomy
With so many leaches in this economy
My moaning is mearly monetary
But the moment it's really gone is scary
Try to beat my high score, but I fight
Forward despite lawyers
An eye for an eye because my types warrior
Never the less I inherit a mess, a big floor speel
I'm steady pushing to break down this
Fortune force field
[Verse 2:]
Yeah, it's like pulling a bad one
Get her off at the pad, then get the jimmy to stab some
But you can't and puddy is right there
Like a barrier or something, keeping you from her
Such a negative type lair,
You can never pipe nair
When you've got it in front of you
Wanna do it's a pitiful nightmare
It's like making a baby, you never having it
It's making you crazy
And toting a living human, it's making you weighty
Kick, kick, kick, shaking your lady
Like late in the 80's, got my name
And got to taking the stage
V told the people I got Satan to save me
That's why radio be hating to play me
Everything you gain, only brains you pain
But the fame it fools the blame
But you regain it through Strange
Yeah, never put your guard down
Because I wanna bang, bang, bang hard now
I'm a warhound, never mistaken I kick walls down
To the ground and get applause sound
Because I got even, then I'm lard bound
[Bridge: x2]
Lot of dreams are lost in the night
[Verse 3:]
F_ck your litigation
We gon' win, just a bit of waiting
Everytime that I get ahead
Gotta be a motherf_ckin' drawback
So I'm a draw back and bang them
B_tches 'til they all crack
MSC look what you've done to me
Kept the first five I done from me
And you others know that Caribou belong to me
You come for me, just know we will never settle
War is what it's gonna be!
[Bridge x2]
Yeah, been breaking down that
Fortune Force Field for a long time
Now I get my Just Due


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Get ready to meet Marshall's other boss: Joe Lo Truglio.
The Reno 911! alum will guest-star on How I Met Your Mother this season as the founding partner Honeywell of Marshall's law firm Honeywell and Cootes.
Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsLo Truglio will appear in at least two episodes during November sweeps for a trial that was first referenced last season involving a multi-billion dollar corporation that polluted a lake. At the time, Cootes (Martin Short ) accepted a $24,000 settlement from the corporation, angering Marshall (Jason Segel). Previously announced returning guest star Joe Manganiello will appear in the same episodes as well, reprising his role as Marshall's law school buddy Brad.The gig will reunite Lo Truglio with Segel, with whom he appeared in I Love You, Man and Gulliver's Travels. He most recently played a nudist in Wanderlust.
How I Met Your Mother boss on a Season 9, premiere's big moment and Ted's "terrible mistake"Lo Truglio joins Abby Elliott as new guest stars on Mother this season.Season 8 of How I Met Your Mother premieres Monday at 8/7c on CBS.(Additional reporting by Natalie Abrams)


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Monarchs vault into playoff position
April 20. 2013 3:12AM
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The Manchester Monarchs moved into a tie for a Calder Cup playoff position in the Eastern Conference with a 2-1 victory over the Binghamton Senators at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena on Friday night.
Manchester (36-31-3-4) is in third place in the Atlantic Division with 79 points. That puts the Monarchs in a four-way tie with Hershey, Norfolk and Connecticut for the final two Eastern Conference playoff spots.
Also Friday, Albany defeated Connecticut, 3-2, Hershey beat Adirondack, 2-1, and Norfolk was hammered, 6-1, by Syracuse.
The Monarchs have two games left: tonight at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Sunday at Hershey. Hershey is at Binghamton tonight. Connecticut wraps up its regular season tonight at Portland, and Norfolk finishes its regular season with a game at Albany tonight and at Providence on Sunday.
"We kept plugging away and withstood big pressure from a real solid team, " said Monarchs head coach Mark Morris. "Martin Jones (37 saves) came up big when we needed him. The penalty kill was very good and the (Tanner) Pearson, (Linden) Vey and (Tyler) Toffoli line provided the scoring."
Monarchs center Linden Vey scored the game-winner just 26 seconds into the third period. Vey intercepted a pass near the left wing half wall, circled around the top of the zone before fired a shot from the right-wing face-off circle that beat Senators netminder Marc Cheverie for his 22nd goal of the season.
Binghamton opened the scoring at 4:06 of the first period with a goal by center Pat Cannone. Tanner Pearson tied the game at 1-1 for the Monarchs at 7:44 of the first period.
Jones (26-25-4) earned his 26th victory of the season, making 37 saves on 38 shots.


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This is exhibit is right up our alley. For the next few months, the Pittsburgh Museum of Natural History is displaying strange prehistoric critters as part of its "Bizarre Beasts" series. Descriptions provided by the Museum.Helicoprion A coil of teeth caps the lower jaw of a sculpture of a 13-foot (4-meter) whorl-tooth shark, or Helicoprion,…


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Camarillo - Start Smart Program Scheduled for May 2014
Nature of Incident:
Start Smart Program
Camarillo Police Station Community Room
Date & Time:
Thursday, May 15th, 2014, 5:30 p.m. ' 8:30 p.m.
Unit(s) Responsible:
Camarillo Traffic Unit
The Camarillo Police Department will be hosting a program to educate newly licensed and future drivers.
The 'Start Smart' Program is a cooperative effort between the California Highway Patrol, Camarillo Police Department, teenage drivers, and their parents/guardians.
In an attempt to remain proactive and not reactive, Start Smart is designed to help young drivers and their parents/guardians understand the responsibilities associated with driving a motor vehicle. Start Smart will show how a poor choice behind the wheel can change the lives of everyone involved. Our goal is to raise awareness and reduce the number of teen-related injuries and deaths due to traffic collisions.
Interested parents are asked to contact Sergeant Renee Ferguson at (805)388-5132 for more information. For reservations, call the Camarillo Police Department Community Resource Unit at (805)388-5155. Space is limited to 20 students and their parents/guardians. There is no charge to attend the program.
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Media Release Date:
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Follow-Up Contact:
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Loomis, CA
Tommie Evelyn Bratcher
1918 - 2013
Tommie passed away peacefully at the age of 95 on June 18, 2013 at a care home in Loomis, CA. She was born in Gainesville, Texas in the year 1918. She resided in Stockton, CA for 70 years and worked at Tri Valley Cannery in Modesto.
Tommie is survived by her five children James, Pamela and
Steven Bratcher, Phyllis Martin and Linda Banks; daughter-in-law Judy Bratcher and son-in law Don Martin. She is also survived by her eight grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
Visitation will be Wednesday, June 26, 2013 from 10 am to 8 pm at the Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home located at 831 Industrial Way, Lodi, CA. Funeral services will be Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 10 am in the Evergreen Chapel located at the Cherokee Memorial Cemetery, Hwy 99 and E. Harney Ln, Lodi CA.


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Once upon a time — like five years ago — all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll. Of course, that's still true, as startups like Wild Woods, J Wells and Bootstrap have proven.
But there's a movement within craft beer toward specialties, as consumers begin to accept craft beer as a whole and seek out their favorite styles. River North Brewery in Denver opened in 2011 and features beers with a Belgian twist; Denver's Prost Brewing, which opened last year, brews only authentic German lagers; Gravity in Louisville, also a year old, specializes in high-alcohol beers; and the upcoming Twelve Degree Brewing, aiming to open sometime soon in Louisville, will feature Belgians.
West Flanders is in this bold new group of breweries that's making a specialty out of a particular style. While the recent addition to Boulder's beer scene does produce an IPA, a stout, a pale ale and a few other standards, it's all about the Belgians here. When we stop by for a Monday lunch, there are four Belgian styles on tap, along with actual Belgians from actual Belgium in bottles and on a guest tap.
The Belgians here generally keep the yeast in check, leading to smooth brews like the St. Mark's Dubbel, a mild, slightly banana-flavored beer that Joel embraces enthusiastically. "That's a burger beer," he says as his burger arrives from the kitchen.
I, meanwhile, am thrilled with my choice, the Daisy Cutter Belgian strong ale. It's all caramel and malt, yet light and drinkable, yet 9 percent ABV, yet I wanted a second one.
Elizabeth is "pleasantly surprised," she says, by the ESBueno, an ESB that's quite bitter but never goes overboard. "I have one and I'm ready to crawl under the table and take a nap," she says, in the most positive sense.
As we welcome new interns with a beer — "Oh, wow, cool cup," Joe exclaims over the classic Belgian tulip glass — and Joel recounts memories of West Flanders' location decades ago, when it was Potter's and he was being tossed out for fighting, I wander off to check out the "Home Brew Wall of Fame," a bit of an anomaly in such a nice place. I mean, would a fancy restaurant dedicate a bulletin board to home chefs?
But that's just the ethos of the craft brewing community. West Flanders offers an extended happy hour for homebrewers every Tuesday. It features photos of homebrewers working at home and keeps contact information displayed for Hop Barley and the Alers, the Boulder homebrew club. West Flanders' brewer, Brian Lutz, has spent decades in the homebrewing community, and it shows.
For this week, we are hoping to attend a May 16 event at the Boulder History Museum, the Coast to Coast Toast in celebration of American Craft Beer Week. If not, we might finally trek up to Ned and knock off Very Nice and Wild Mountain. Either way, the end, sadly, is in sight.
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Great Green Clean: Bon Ami's Natural Home Cleaners
I can't lie. As a writer for The Kitchn and Apartment Therapy, I get amazing mail. Real mail, like from the mail man. I know you're jealous. Recently a magical wooden box appeared on my doorstep and judging by my reaction you'd think I had won the lottery. What was inside? Cleaners. I'm a simple person folks and this was exciting stuff! Here's why:
Back in April, writer Sarah Coffey got her hands on a few of these products and we made mention of this timeless brand. Although we share many of the same opinions on the product, I left my kitchen test trials a little more smitten and here's why:
There is something to be said for using the same products as your Grandparents did. Most things in life have taken great leaps and bounds to be the next best thing. To have the brightest and boldest advertisements on television or heavy internet sponsorship. You know what I'm talking about, a new product comes out and suddenly you see it everywhere.
Bon Ami is different. Although they've recently rebranded and their packages look all new and hip, the same good old fashioned product is inside — and that's a good thing. While other green cleaners like Method and Mrs. Meyers were making media splashes making you feel like they were the first cleaners to be eco-friendly, Bon Ami sat back and smiled. They'd been doing it for decades and not because it's what was cool, because that's the way they've always done it and in their opinion, it's the only way to do it.
I'm a big believer in reading labels. I can't help it. After writing about putting healthy things in your body, I read every label for cosmetics and cleaners that come into my home. When you read the back of a Bon Ami product there's words you understand and ingredients that make sense. It's really that simple and for me, that's a comfort.
I've always had Bon Ami powdered cleanser in my cabinets. It's priced well and seems to scrub just hard enough to remove dirt, grime and food stuffs without scratching anything. The same goes for sinks. My baking sheets leave marks on my enamel sink and a regular sponge or rag don't even make a dent at getting it clean. I always get these fun black and silver marks in the corners, totally frustrating.
Because I've held strong loyalties to other dish soaps in the past, this was my first time testing out Bon Ami's dish soap. I personally like to put my dish soap in a little water. I talked about it here and I have several reasons for it and this passed the test. Although it is thinner than many commercial dish soaps, I wasn't concerned with the viscosity or the amount of bubbles (which were fluffy as usual), just how well they got things cleaned which they did in a snap without extra rinsing to rid things of hang-tight soap.
Overall I greatly enjoyed cleaning my kitchen (and shower with the liquid cleanser... but who wants to see me clean my shower?) with this range of products as they all had a job to do and they did them well. Their fresh smells — hello tangerine thyme — were fresh without being offensive and left things without a heavy odor, just a nice clean feeling.
One of my favorite things about this line of products is that I don't have to go to a specialty store to find them. In fact, I found them at my local (regular) grocer a few months back (check out the proof here). Their price point is right, they work, and they're safe for your family. This ladies and gentlemen is why I'm in love with the small yellow chicken and the cleaners it's attached to.
*Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.
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Love is in the ballroom this week on "Dancing With the Stars."
During Tuesday night's results show, viewers were treated to a steamy performance from pro dancers Emma Slater and Sasha Farber.
But once the music stopped, the audience received a surprise very few saw coming.
"First of all, you guys have great chemistry," host Tom Bergeron shared. "And Sasha, I've always thought you had the potential to actually host so I'm going to give the show over to you."
With all eyes on Farber, the dancer decided to put his hand in his pocket (hint hint) and deliver a few thoughtful words.
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"Baby, I've wanted to do this for such a long time. I love you so, so much," he professed to Slater. "Will you marry me?"
As you likely could have guessed, the answer was an absolute yes!
Confetti came down from the ceiling as the entire "Dancing With the Stars" cast came out to congratulate the pair. As an added bonus, "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars began playing in the background.
Shortly after the live proposal, many in the show's family went to social media to express their congratulations for the couple's new relationship status.
"OMG! Congratulations to @SashaFarber &@EmmaSlaterDance!!!" judge Carrie Ann Inaba shared on Twitter. Sasha's former DWTS partner Nicole"Snooki" Polizzi added, "OMG IM BAWLING. So happy for my beautiful friends! I LOVE YOU GUYS! @SashaFarber @EmmaSlaterDance."
--Additional reporting by Alessandra Mortellaro


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BERLIN (AP) — A new movie from dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, which defies a ban on filmmaking and reflects his frustration at being unable to work officially, makes its debut at the Berlin film festival Tuesday.
"Closed Curtain" is co-directed by Panahi and his fellow Iranian filmmaker and longtime friend, Kamboziya Partovi. Panahi, who has won awards at several major film festivals in the past, was sentenced to house arrest and a 20-year ban on filmmaking in 2010 after being convicted of "making propaganda" against Iran's ruling system.
Partovi presented the movie at the Berlin festival, where it's one of 19 films competing for the top Golden Bear award.
The new film, made by a very small team, is filmed entirely inside an isolated seaside villa, much of the time with the curtains drawn.
The two directors are the lead actors: Partovi playing an increasingly paranoid man trapped in the house as police search the area, and Panahi playing himself as the director of that story.
Scenes with the curtains open were "shot at the very end so we didn't get into trouble," Partovi said.
Festival officials say Panahi is no longer confined to his home but still isn't supposed to make films. The German government says it asked Iran to allow Panahi to travel to Berlin for the premiere; there has been no word on any response.
"It's very difficult not to work ... you become depressed," Partovi told reporters, speaking through an interpreter. "For him, it became very difficult just to sit around at home."
He added that he didn't know what, if any, consequences making the film might have.
"Nothing has happened up to now," he said. But "we don't know what the future holds in store for us."
"Closed Curtain" contrasts with earlier Panahi films such as the exuberant "Offside," a movie following girls who disguise themselves as boys to sneak into a football match in Tehran. It won Berlin's runner-up Silver Bear in 2006.
The new movie follows "This Is Not A Film," a 2011 documentary that Panahi made in his Tehran apartment, where he was under house arrest.
That reflects his predicament, Partovi said. "If he's no longer allowed to speak about others and other people's lives, then he has to talk about himself."


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Guillermo Del Toro is photographed on June 17, 2103. Click through the gallery for a look at some milestones in his career. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)Link
"Cronos" (1993): Del Toro's first feature, the Spanish-language thriller "Cronos," centered on a young girl and her grandfather, who stumble onto a golden, scarab-like device with a secret inside. (October Films)Link
"Mimic" (1997): Del Toro famously warred with studio executives on this film about killer insects, which was his second feature and his first Hollywood production. (Kerry Hayes / Dimension Films)Link
"The Devil's Backbone" (2001): A moody ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War, the film chronicles what happens when a young fatherless boy arrives at a haunted orphanage. (Sony Pictures Classics)Link
"Blade II" (2002): A race of super vampires is on the loose in this comic-book inspired sequel directed by Del Toro and starring Wesley Snipes. (Bruce Talamon / New Line Cinema)Link
"Hellboy" (2004): Longtime Del Toro collaborator Ron Perlman starred, with Selma Blair, in the filmmaker's adaptation of Mike Mignola's signature comics about a grumpy demon summoned to Earth. (The Orphanage / Columbia Pictures)Link
"Pan's Labyrinth" (2006): Del Toro's brilliant, beautiful dark fairy tale follows the stepdaughter of a cruel military man as she stumbles into an elaborate fantasy world. The film won three Oscars. (Teresa Isasi / Picturehouse)Link
"The Orphanage" (2007): Del Toro produced Juan Antonio Bayona's terrifying Spanish-language thriller, which helped introduce the filmmaker to a wider audience. (Picturehouse Entertainment)Link
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (2008): Perlman's title character is only one of dozens of magnificent monsters who become embroiled in an epic supernatural conflict that threatens the people of Earth. (Universal Pictures)Link
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (2010): Del Toro co-wrote and produced this remake of a 1970s scarefest that was among his favorites as a child. (Carolyn Johns / Miramax Film Corp.)Link
"Mama" (2013): Del Toro fell in love with Andrés Muschietti's spooky short film, then signed on to produce the writer-director's full-length expansion of the story of two orphaned girls visited by an apparition. (Universal)Link
"Pacific Rim" (2013): Rinko Kikuchi starred as one of the pilots of the massive Jaegers that fought against invading Kaiju in Del Toro's love letter to Japanese monster cinema. (Warner Bros.)Link
"The Strain" (2009 book): Partnering with author Chuck Hogan, Del Toro penned an apocalyptic vampire trilogy that he now hopes to translate to television. He's currently directing the pilot for the show in Toronto. (William Morrow)Link
If there was one creative force who appeared to be nearly omnipresent at San Diego's Comic-Con International this year, it was Guillermo del Toro.
The busy writer-director was on hand for the pop culture expo to discuss a slew of projects: his 2015 horror film, "Crimson Peak," starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam; his FX TV series, "The Strain," adapted from a trilogy of vampire novels he wrote with Chuck Hogan; the upcoming animated movie he's producing, "Book of Life," which arrives in theaters Oct. 17; and "Pacific Rim 2," the sequel to last summer's movie that paid glorious homage to the Japanese pop culture he adored as a child in Guadalajara.
After debuting the first scenes from "Crimson Peak" at the Legendary Comic-Con panel in Hall H on Saturday, Del Toro sat down with Hero Complex to discuss his San Diego experience, the status of the "Pacific Rim" sequel and his passion for subverting genre convention.
Hero Complex: The "Crimson Peak" footage was truly remarkable.
Guillermo del Toro: I was afraid of coming between big, big movies with a quiet one, because "Crimson" is a very delicate, beautiful thing and I thought, "Is it going to look a little too quiet?" I was happy the hall was so happy for it. I got to also finally show for the first time an English-language project that has the beauty that the European ones have. Normally, I go for the pop, big stuff and it was thrilling to see it well received.
HC: You're such a beloved figure here. It must be an interesting experience for you sitting on the Hall H stage and feeling like a rock star.
It's the only place where I can feel like Mick Jagger. What truly is great, you know what is funny, I've come to feel that my movies connect with the type of person, the ones they connect the deepest with, is a person who is creative in a way — they draw, they write, they design, they sculpt. Whatever it is, I find they can read the movies beyond the plot, and beyond the screenplay. They can go, "He did this with that texture, he did this with that monster, he did this with that color." I think people throw everybody in the same basket when they say "Comic-Con" or "geek" or "fan," but in reality, we are so diverse. You can have a fan who is a fan of George R.R. Martin and they don't like superheroes, or they love Tolkien, but they [also] love Victorian steampunk stories and I find that's why I love it, because I'm all of the above. I know it sounds trite, but I feel I come back to family. There's no better way to describe it.
HC: Comic-Con is also one of the few places where you can interact with fans dressed as Hellboy, or Tomas from "The Orphanage," characters that you've created or had a creative affiliation with.
GDT: It's full circle. It's almost like sending your kids to school, and the kid's visiting you after graduation. It comes back different, somebody has loved that character. It's kind of spacey, in a good way. I met a really young kid dressed as Gipsy Danger. He had a turbine that lit up, I took them through the Oculus Rift, I took them through the haunted house for "Crimson Peak," and I was really moved by the kid. Then I saw a girl, age 12, dressed as Gipsy Danger, and I loved that it was embraced by a girl. To me, my favorite character in many ways is Mako Mori in "Pacific Rim." I just love it. It's an experience that you can't get any other way.
HC: Speaking of "Pacific Rim," when do you begin work on the sequel?
GDT: We start designing in three weeks. We get the first draft of the screenplay in three weeks; Zak Penn and I are co-writing and then there's a long, long, long journey of drafts and design. It took nine months to design "Pacific Rim"; it will take nine months or more to design the second one. We start scouting for the movie in the summer next year, July, and then we start shooting in November. Then it's a long year of post after we wrap and we'll probably be showing the movie in January/February 2017 to test audiences.
HC: Will you shoot in Toronto?
GDT: No, it's all over the world this time. I want it to be different enough to the first one that you don't feel you're seeing the same movie. I'm doing a little more location-oriented stuff, there are night battles, but there are also daylight battles. The things we do in the action scenes is very different from the first one. We are expanding the mythology of the Anteverse. We are taking the characters into a completely different journey this time because Raleigh for me solved his problem the minute he was able to go full circle and save Mako by sacrificing himself, which is what he couldn't do with his brother. He's not on that journey anymore, he's on a new journey.
HC: You have a period of several years where you worked on "The Hobbit" and "At the Mountains of Madness," which you ultimately did not direct. Now, you're in a period where you appear to be working non-stop, between "Crimson Peak," "Pacific Rim 2" and "The Strain." How do you feel about that shift?
GDT: What's funny is all these projects were happening right when I went to "The Hobbit." I had already pitched "The Strain." We were already finishing the first novel. I was going to develop a video game, then it all got put on hold when I went to New Zealand. When I came back and went through the heartbreak of "Mountains of Madness," I said I'm going to make up for lost time. I'm a workaholic anyway, but I said, I'm going to work harder than I've ever worked in my life.
HC: In terms of "Crimson Peak," you described the movie during the Legendary panel as a great adult story for a female lead. Can you elaborate on that?
GDT: We follow a "Jane Eyre"-type of romance and then it changes. It is a love story, but that's not all it is. The whole story is not depending on that. What I wanted to do in a way is, most of the Romantic novels end with a marriage. The whole thing is, Can I get the guy? Can I get the guy? Can I get the guy? And then they marry and that's the end. In my experience, marriage is the start of it. The other stuff is intoxication or delusion and marriage is a real beginning. I wanted to show how, especially for a girl, marriage is the beginning of noticing that the guy is not what you think he is. Then digging deeper and realizing that you have to stand on your own in a way. I take a very archetypical romance structure, which is she has two suitors — they're both in love with her and she has to choose, blah, blah, blah. But then, to twist that, to make it really change, it's my hope to do it. I'm not doing it overtly as a thesis, I'm doing it organically with the character.
HC: You've often talked about how your work is centered on recontextualizing archetypical stories — "Pan's Labyrinth" being an example of a recontextualized fairy tale, "Cronos" operating as a recontextualization of vampire mythology.
GDT: I've done that for 20 years. The problem is when you really do it right… Let me give you an example. Someone who works in postmodern art like Jeff Koons, he can riff on a vinyl figure and you know it's a riff because the vinyl figure is 30 stories high. When you're riffing on the tropes of a genre, people don't have the physical data to go, Oh, he's riffing on it. They think, Oh, he's doing what the genre does. If you do a giant kaiju, giant robot movie, you have to do what it does, but then you subvert it by riffing on it. Same with a vampire movie like "Cronos." You have the coffin, you have the daylight, you have the sucking of the blood, but it's not the normal way. The indicators of that — the Magritte, "This is not a pipe" — are very hard to convey and my hope is … the people who don't get me, don't get me. Period. But the people that get my stuff, they understand I'm doing "This is not a pipe" of the genres I tackle. But it has to look like a pipe, right? It has to have the color, the texture, the shape of a pipe, but you are trying to do something with it.
HC: How does that same philosophy apply to "The Strain"? And how does the experience of telling that story on television differ from having it unfold in a novel?
GDT: The difference for me, the novels go and dig a little deeper in a way. They are still just fun genre novels, but they can have quiet moments with the characters in a more effective way than you can do in an audio-visual medium at the beginning of a story. Eventually, we'll get to have more and more of that, but my feeling was OK, what would I like to see. I said to myself, OK, I want to do a Dan Curtis, 1970s fun horror. Not all horror — I've done both types of horror — horror can be a deep meditation on the poetic whatever, you know. But horror can also be fun, and I wanted "The Strain" to go to places that were brutal and gory and this and that, but in a fun spirit. That was my intention. My favorite show ever was "Kolchak: [The Night Stalker]" and as a kid, I was always going, Why is Kolchak going alone in the middle of the night completely unprepared to meet the zombie? And the answer was, Who cares? Just get to the zombie. That is the difference between the book and the series.
— Gina McIntyre | @LATherocomplex
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ST. PAUL (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has given a Minnesota turkey its walking papers just in time for Thanksgiving.
Dayton "pardoned" a Minnesota-grown turkey on Tuesday at a brief ceremony in his office. It's an annual tradition in a state that produces 46 million turkeys a year, making it the nation's leading provider.
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