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Jerry Bruckheimer Gives Update on 'Pirates 5,' 'National Treasure 3' & 'Bad Boys 3'
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Since the early 1980s, Jerry Bruckheimer has been responsible for producing some of the most recognizable action films Hollywood has had to offer. Top Gun, The Rock and Armageddon are just a few of the smash hits he's had his name on.
However, a large chunk of Bruckheimer's filmography consists of crowd-pleasing franchises, the kind of blockbuster entertainment that audiences will come back for again and again. His latest film – director Gore Verbinski's take on The Lone Ranger (check out the new trailer) – aims to attract the same audience and potentially launch a franchise of its own.
Bruckheimer showed up at CinemaCon recently to promote The Lone Ranger and gave Collider a bit of an update on the latest batch of action-heavy sequels he has in development.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – the fourth entry in the Johnny Depp-fronted Disney franchise – may have received the weakest critical reception of the series, but a worldwide box office gross over $1 billion means that the (currently) untitled Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is still moving along.
Last we heard, Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour, Catch Me If You Can) was revising the script by longtime Pirates scribes Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and according to Bruckheimer, that work continues on. Disney has already staked out a summer 2015 release for the film. So it's quite likely that we'll be hearing further details sooner rather than later. At the very least, expect a big announcement at the studio's D23 Expo in August.
The same goes for National Treasure 3, another project that Bruckheimer has in the pipeline. That film – which will follow the 2007 adventure National Treasure: Book of Secrets – was to be written by Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro (the writing team behind Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time). Bruckheimer simply said that "a team of writers" are currently working on that script, which makes it sound likely that another writer (or writers) is revising Bernard and Miro's draft, though it remains unclear at this point.
Still, National Treasure 3 is far closer to a sure thing than another threequel, namely the long-discussed Bad Boys 3. Here's Bruckheimer's advice to fans who want to make that film happen:
"You got to talk to Sony Pictures. We'd love to have you talk to them and tell them it's a good thing to do. Please write them letters."
The most recent update on the project mentioned that star Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay had continued to discuss the project, but their busy schedules made it a tricky proposition. Likely, the bigger problem lies with securing star Will Smith (who still isn't attached to the planned Independence Day sequels). It's doubtful that Sony would sign off on the project without one-half of the franchise's leading men, and besides, Bay is keeping busy with Pain & Gain and the upcoming Transformers 4.
Bruckheimer went on to say that Pirates 5 is not only a "priority" for the studio, but also for him personally. With the above projects, it's easy to see why. The previous Bad Boys film came out a full decade ago, and Smith is an even hotter commodity than he was back then (the same can be said of Bay), and the National Treasure franchise has laid dormant for long enough that most of today's children have probably forgotten about it. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Sparrow continues to be one of the most iconic characters in today's market.
Are you excited that Pirates 5 is moving forward? And would you watch a new National Treasure or Bad Boys film? Let us know in the comments section.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 will hit theaters on July 10th, 2015.
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McHugh follows up debut with two-hit victory
HOUSTON -- When Collin McHugh joined the Astros rotation last week following his promotion from Triple-A Oklahoma City, the goal was for him to make two starts before ace Scott Feldman was able to be activated from the disabled list.
McHugh, however, doesn't plan on giving up his spot in the rotation that easily. The 26-year-old journeyman, who was a relative unknown to most Astros fans five days ago, spun his second consecutive gem Sunday afternoon by holding the A's to one run and two hits in a masterful 8 2/3 innings in a 5-1 win in the series finale at Minute Maid Park.Full Game Coverage
HOUSTON -- When Collin McHugh joined the Astros rotation last week following his promotion from Triple-A Oklahoma City, the goal was for him to make two starts before ace Scott Feldman was able to be activated from the disabled list.
McHugh, however, doesn't plan on giving up his spot in the rotation that easily. The 26-year-old journeyman, who was a relative unknown to most Astros fans five days ago, spun his second consecutive gem Sunday afternoon by holding the A's to one run and two hits in a masterful 8 2/3 innings in a 5-1 win in the series finale at Minute Maid Park.Full Game Coverage
"He's the man right now," Astros catcher Carlos Corporan said.
Indeed, in his first two starts with the Astros, McHugh is 2-0 with a 0.59 ERA, having allowed only five hits and one run while striking out 19 batters in 15 1/3 innings. He came within one out Sunday of recording a one-hit shutout before the A's rallied for a run.
He's the first pitcher in franchise history to pitch at least 6 2/3 innings and allow one run or fewer with at least seven strikeouts in his first two starts.
"It feels great," McHugh said. "First of all, it feels good to get another win against the A's. They're a good team. To be able to take two from them, especially at home and even the series and build some momentum, it's huge."
Astros manager Bo Porter said McHugh will remain in the rotation going forward.
"He put himself in a really good spot," Porter said. "Performance pretty much speaks for itself. This guy has earned the right to get the ball next turn."
In his first start with the Astros on Tuesday in Seattle, McHugh picked up his first Major League win by striking out 12 batters and walking none in 6 2/3 scoreless innings. He struck out seven batters and walked three on Sunday, but the A's weren't especially complimentary.
"Stuff-wise, I thought he was OK," said Josh Donaldson, who went 0-for-3 with a walk. "I don't think it was anything special. But he changed speeds well and pitched to his game plan."
McHugh's control certainly wasn't quite as good on Sunday, but he retired 19 in a row before hitting Brandon Moss with a two-out pitch in the ninth inning. The ball grazed Moss' foot and originally wasn't called a hit by pitch, but A's manager Bob Melvin had a successful challenge via instant replay.
Moss, with the Astros not holding him on, swiped second base and scored on a looping liner off the bat of Alberto Callaspo, who took advantage of a cutter up in the zone and wound up being McHugh's final hitter. He reached career highs in innings pitched and pitches (114).
"That was an outstanding performance," Porter said. "When we sent him out there in the ninth, it was with the complete hope that he was going to be able to finish what he started. That was tremendous, attacking the strike zone with all three of his pitches. To pitch that well against a really good-hitting Oakland lineup speaks volumes to Collin and the way him and Corporan worked today."
The Astros blew the game open in the seventh inning by scoring four runs on a two-run triple by Jonathan Villar and a two-run homer by Jose Altuve, his first of the year. Villar doubled and scored on a Dexter Fowler single in the third inning as the pair went a combined 4-for-7 with three runs.
"Those tack-on runs are always huge," Porter said. "When you start to look at the quality of two-out hits, those are big, big hits from a standpoint of giving yourself the extra cushion late in the game."
McHugh allowed the A's to load the bases with two outs in the first inning on a pair of walks and a single by Jed Lowrie, but he got Josh Reddick to pop out to shortstop to end the threat. He was pretty much unhittable after that, sending down 21 of the next 22 batters he faced to carry a one-hit shutout into the ninth.
"I wasn't even thinking about the hits," McHugh said. "I was more mad about the walks. I had walked a couple of guys early, and with this team you can't give them free base runners because anyone in that lineup can really do damage. Once I got that momentum and started rolling with it, it got a little bit easier to kind of make pitches and feel that flow."
Facing a lineup that featured eight left-handed hitters, McHugh credited his cutter, which zooms inside to lefties, with helping him navigate his way. Unlike Tuesday when he relied on strikeouts, he was willing to allow the A's to put the ball in play and let his defense perform.
"The guys played great defense behind me all night," he said. "Those guys put the bat on the ball. Early in the game, I was trying to pitch around them, and they're going to take and put themselves on base if you do that. The middle of the game Corp[oran] said, 'We'll go right at them and let our defense play for you,' and they did, and did a great job."
McHugh's success through two starts is one of baseball's biggest surprise stories so far. He was claimed off waivers by the Astros from the Rockies in December, and hadn't fared well in his previous 15 Major League outings with the Mets and Rockies over the past two years.
When asked if he would have believed it if someone had told him coming into this year that he would have two eye-popping Major League starts under his belt, McHugh responded: "Depends who told me."
Brian McTaggart is reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter.


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I don't enjoy the way it feels
To run; I always bruise my heels.
But running (so I hear) appeals
To most of you, I know.
The thing I did not understand
Is, running, on the dirt or sand
Is better if I try to land
Not on my heel, but toe.
This "running" that I've often cursed
Is harmful, if you land heel first;
Initial impact is the worst—
Three times your weight, and Ouch!
I'm thinking now, it might be fun
To check this out, to take a run!
Just one thing keeps me from the sun—
I really love my couch!
It's all over the news-I saw it last night on TV, today on the Beeb, and over at Laelaps (and I'm sure I'll see more). In addition, Cuttleson just finished the book, and is a new convert.
Hey, I am a big fan of barefoot. My neighbors have caught me out getting the paper, having walked barefoot through the snow to get to the box; in summer, shoes are evil. So this is a nice finding–but I have to admit, I have seen a lifetime's worth (or not quite yet) of ads for running shoes–enough to avoid an "I knew it all along!" response. I think the ads convinced me. But hey, new evidence, new conclusions, for couch potatoes as well as science.


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If an academic transcript recently uncovered belongs to former North Carolina two-sport standout Julius Peppers and is not a test transcript as the university says, the academic scandal that has plagued North Carolina could get even worse, according to the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer.
The newspaper published a 2001 transcript that the university said was fake, but a possible partial transcript that is allegedly Peppers' was posted Sunday night on an N.C. State bulletin board and is nearly identical to the fake one.
The university released a statement Monday regarding the transcript: ""Student academic records should never be accessible to the public, and the University is investigating reports of what appears to be a former student transcript on the University's website. The University has removed that link from the website. University officials are prohibited from discussing confidential student information under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act."
Of the classes on the two transcripts, the News & Observer reports that 34 of 36 classes match—the two that don't match are the same classes, but different grades.
The transcript was posted on the UNC website to provide an example for students and advisers to monitor academic progress. It's possible that Peppers' name was accidentally left on the transcript, as CBSSports.com reports that there is a page on the UNC site that reads "Grade Summary for Peppers, Julius Frazier."
Peppers is an All-Pro defensive end with the Chicago Bears.
The main issue is that two of the classes—AFAM 070, an African-American Seminar class—show up on the transcript four times as no-show classes. Those classes—54 similar cases were investigated by UNC and deemed "aberrant"—presumably just took place from 2007 to 2011. If those classes were being used to help athletes remain eligible for further back, more trouble could be on the way for North Carolina.
Nine of the 10 classes in which Peppers earned a B-plus, B or B-minus that could've helped ensure his eligibility came in the AFAM department where he was majoring, according to the possible transcript. Three were listed as independent study classes, another problem area cited in the school's probe for a lack of supervision of work — often a research paper — performed by students.
The possible transcript lists a 1.824 GPA, beginning with classes during the summer of 1998 and finishing in the fall of 2001 during Peppers' last year on the football field for the Tar Heels under first-year coach John Bunting. The link lacked grades for five classes in summer and fall 2001 terms.
Carl Carey, Peppers' agent, didn't immediately return a call for comment Monday afternoon. Peppers declined comment to reporters after Monday night's Bears practice.
Peppers also played two seasons for the men's basketball team under Bill Guthridge and Matt Doherty, serving as a reserve on the team that reached the Final Four in 2000.
Peppers was the No. 2 pick of the Carolina Panthers in the 2002 NFL Draft and spent eight seasons there. He signed with the Chicago Bears in 2010 and is a six-time Pro Bowl defensive end.
The school's investigation of the AFAM department began as an offshoot of the NCAA investigation into improper benefits and academic misconduct in the football program, which began in June 2010. That probe ultimately led to the firing of coach Butch Davis last July, though Davis wasn't cited for a violation when the NCAA penalized the program in March with a one-year bowl ban and 15 scholarship reductions over three years.
Davis, who has denied knowledge of wrongdoing, has said he never steered players to take AFAM classes nor met former department chairman Julius Nyang'oro — whose name was linked to the grade rolls or as instructor of record for the majority of the suspect AFAM classes. Nyang'oro, who had led the department since 1997, resigned as department chairman last August and retired from the faculty in July.
The AFAM investigation also found unauthorized grade changes, reports of possibly forged faculty signatures on grade rolls and infrequent classes. The school has said there is no evidence of preferential treatment for student-athletes or grades awarded without written work in the suspect classes.
In June, NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn referred questions to the school when asked whether investigators would return to Chapel Hill. Osburn didn't immediately return an email for comment Monday.
The UNC board of governors — who oversee the 17-campus public university system — has appointed a four-member panel to review the school's investigation of the AFAM irregularities. The school has also imposed stricter standards on independent study coursework, among other changes.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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I've got the "System load monitor" running in the panel and I suddenly noticed that my mem (2gb) and swap (0,5gb) both were all full. I fired up top and noticed that I had 4 instances of xfce4-mixer each using several hundred megabytes of physical memory. I closed them down and now my system looks normal with ~1gb physical ram used and hardly any swap.
I did start 4 instances of the mixer, that's no mistake, I'm just surprised they consumed that much memory. My pc has only been on for ~30 hours. I'll try to find out what's causing the supposed memory leak. Can anyone else confirm?
I started two instances of the mixer after my last post, saw a few tv series, then went to bed. Now both mixers use 112MB of physical memory each.
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"No doubt it was exciting," he said. "I was very proud of our young men. It was one of those games that comes down to who has the ball last. I was proud of the whole team. We had a lot of people contribute in this ball game."
Panthers (3-4, 2-2 5A West) quarterback Brandon Lovell was 5-for-12 for 99 yards passing during the evening. Lovell joined a host of other Clarksville Panthers on the ground and picked up 99 yards. Bryan White nabbed 101 rushing yards and Steven Banyard had 64.
It was Banyard who scored first for Clarksville. Michael Fultz added the 2-point conversion and at the end of the first quarter the Panthers led 8-7.
Lovell scored in on a 1-yard run in the second quarter and connected with Luc Stumbaugh for the 2-point conversion to make it 16-16 at the end of the second quarter.
Lovell hit Stombaugh again in the third quarter, this time for 26 yards. The PAT was good and Clarksville took a 23-22 lead in the third quarter.
The Panthers scored twice in the fourth quarter. The first came on an 8-yard carry by Banyard. The second on 4 from Lovell to set the final score.
"Our defensive coordinator Brad Pearson did such a great job handling an explosive ball team," Banning said.
"We did a good job defending them as well as rushing the ball to keep them off the field."
Clarksville will travel to Harrison on Friday to take on the Goblins.
Hector 46, Union Christian 14
HECTOR — It didn't take long for the Wildcats to assert their dominance over the Union Christian Eagles on Friday at Wildcat Field. Hector head coach Mark Taylor started subbing in the second string with 10 minutes remaining in the second quarter.
By then, the Wildcats had already built a 33-0 and moved one step closer to the 2A-4 Conference title. By the end of the game, the score was 46-14.
"We'll finish up with Decatur and Johnson County Westside and both games should be winnable," Taylor said.
A win against the Decatur Bulldogs will clench the conference title for the Bulldogs. For Taylor, it's been a dream season.
"We felt like we had a good enough team to go through conference undefeated," Taylor said. "That was our goal. Our kids expected to do that from the start. I know it's a shock to people from the outside, to people who haven't heard from Hector in a while, but it's not a shock to us. Anytime you have a chance to play after Thanksgiving, you've had a dream season."
Against the Eagles, Gus Nichols had two touchdowns. Tanner Gaines had a 70-yard touchdown. Tyler Brashears had two touchdowns and rushed for over 100 yards. Brendon Wiley had four catches for 75 yards and a touchdown.
Hector will travel to Decatur on Friday to take on the Bulldogs. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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The Importance of Sustained Professional Development for Teaching Statistics -- An Example Involving the Mode and Range
This paper presents a progression of events from a case study that explored elementary school teachers' understanding of essential topics in statistics. One particular teacher revealed misconceptions regarding the mode and range during professional development. These misconceptions were corrected, the concepts taught appropriately in the classroom, and then the original misconceptions resurfaced. This example sheds light on the importance of sustained professional development.
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Tax season is in full swing as U.S. Residents and businesses gather up their tax documents and file their returns before the April 15 deadline. It's also the season for scammers and criminals to brush off their fraud campaigns to swindle you out of your hard-earned money.
According to industry figures, nearly 80 percent of tax documents were filed electronically last year, and that number is not expected to go down anytime soon. Identity theft cases involving tax fraud have also increased 62 percent from last year, according to the IRS.
Just to give an idea of how lucrative these tax schemes are, last summer, a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that more than 1.5 million tax returns filed in 2012 claiming $5.2 billion in tax refunds were potentially fraudulent.
Whether you are going to do your taxes yourself or go to an accountant, file electronically or rely on the U.S. Postal Service, below are some tips to keep you safe from unscrupulous scammers this year.
The first step is to watch out for tax-related emails in your Inbox or messages on social networking sites. The IRS will not email you or post on your Facebook wall. If you are getting messages via email, it's most likely a phishing scam, no matter how authentic it may look. Just remember that no legitimate bank or tax preparation service would ask a user to enter sensitive information, such as bank account information or Social Security number, into a pop-up screen or ask for it over email.
Don't download documents sent to you via email, either. One click to open the file, and you may wind up with a really hard to remove malware on your computer. Even if you think it's someone you trust, drop them a call and make sure they actually sent you that file or link before you do anything.
If you are looking for a specific form or information, don't hit the search engines. Go to the IRS.gov site and search there instead. Many criminals register addresses with similar names to legitimate sites to lure unsuspecting victims. Any file you get from these fake sites are likely to be malicious.
The next step is to make sure your tax preparer, whether it's a company or an online service, is legitimate. The IRS has a list of authorized e-filers. You can also select the online service based on how secure they are, such as offering two-factor authentication and anti-malware services. Any preparation site you wind up using must use SSL encryptionyou can check by making sure the address bar has HTTPS, and not the insecure HTTP. Some browsers may display a padlock icon instead. While going through the site, make sure the address stays the sameif it changes, you've likely been hijacked and your data is no longer safe.
Make sure the software running on your computerthe operating system, security software, Web browser, software applicationsare all regularly updated and patched. Information-stealing malware crawl the hard drive looking for documents with sensitive information. As soon as you file your tax return, save it onto an external drive or burn it onto a DVD and store it offline in a secure location.
Stay aware and scrutinize everything you do so that you don't fall for one of those scams.
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Still in thrall to the national chocolate obsession, Gourmet decided to investigate gianduia in 1998. "In the early nineteenth century," wrote author Carole Bloom, "naval blockades imposed by the English against Napoleon sharply curtailed the cacao supplies arriving to continental Europe from the Americas. To avoid using too much of the now-scarce ingredient, the confectioners of Piedmont (then under French occupation) added finely ground hazelnuts to their chocolate." The result was gianduia (zhahn-doo-yah), and the world has been a better place ever since. These are the best brownies you will ever taste.–The Editors of Gourmet
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"These are the best brownies you will ever taste." say the editors of Gourmet magazine. Hmm. Talk about tossing down a gauntlet. So many very personal preferences play into one's notion of "best" in terms of brownies. Cakey versus chewy. Nuts or no nuts. Crackly topped or smooth. Although suffice it to say, we can't imagine anyone turning away one of these moist, nutty, fudgy brownies. Nope, not at all.
Gianduia Nutella Brownies Recipe
- Quick Glance
- Makes 16
- 1 1/4 cup hazelnuts (about 6 1/4 ounces)
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
- 3 ounces milk chocolate
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, plus more for the pan
- 1/4 cup Nutella (chocolate-hazelnut spread)
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (176°C). Butter a 9-inch square baking pan and line it with two crisscrossed sheets of aluminum foil, allowing the excess to hang out over the edges. Butter the foil and dust the pan with flour, tapping out any excess flour.
- 2. Toast the hazelnuts on a rimmed baking sheet for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the nuts are lightly colored and the skins are blistered. Wrap the nuts in a kitchen towel and steam for 1 minute; then rub them in the towel to remove the loose skins. Cool completely.
- 3. In a food processor, pulse the cooled hazelnuts until coarsely ground (the bits should be about 1/8 inch in diameter).
- 4. Chop the two different types of chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler or a metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water, melt the chocolate with the butter and Nutella, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove from the heat.
- 5. While the chocolate is melting, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
- 6. Whisk the sugar into the chocolate mixture until well combined. Add the eggs, whisking until the mixture is glossy and smooth. Stir in the flour mixture and the hazelnuts until just combined.
- 7. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out with moist crumbs adhering to it. Cool the brownies completely in the pan on a rack and cut into 16 squares. The brownies will keep, layered between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container at cool room temperature, for up to 5 days.
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Large, Statewide Tactical Force to Receive Tactical Headsets Systems from TCI
BRENTWOOD, CA — Tactical Command Industries' (TCI) corporate headquarters announced the selection and procurement of over three-hundred TCI integrated tactical headset suites that will be used throughout the state of Illinois by agencies within the ILEAS organization. ILEAS' four plus year market research, assessment and evaluation of tactical communication headset resulted them selecting headsets by Tactical Command Industries, Inc.
TCI's integrated tactical headset suites will provide tactical operators with a compellation of components tailored to address the various mission types encountered by law enforcement agencies associated with ILEAS. The TCI system, which is modular in its design, provides digital hearing protection, advanced situational awareness, and connectivity with Avon C-50 and FM-53 APR masks or PAPR systems.
According to TCI's Don Medine, "We are very pleased ILEAS selected TCI as their vendor for tactical communication systems. TCI has always been known as an integration company, with a specialization in tactical headset systems. The ILEAS opportunity was perfect for us and demonstrated how we can provide capabilities, force multiplication attributes, high-performance, and system integration and do so in a reliable, cost-effective manner."
About Tactical Command Industries, Inc.
TCI is a tactical headset development and manufacturing company with offices in New Hampshire, Indiana and California. They have supported law enforcement, military and security operations in over sixty countries and are celebrating their fifteenth year in business. TCI has experienced tactical operators who maintain proficiencies in tactical applications, equipment and tactics. Their personnel trains with customers and many customers believe they have the most comprehensive understanding of tactical requirements in the industry.
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I wonder if Bill Ayers really wrote Dorner's manifesto?
I wonder if Bill Ayers really wrote Dorner's manifesto?
The only way to discern "truth" anytime anybody is speaking to (or at) you, is to use the ability to reason that God (or whomever) gave you. Just believing what one side or one outlet tells you would ALWAYS seem like a bad idea to me.
You seem to believe that people are ignorant and unable to think for themselves and sort out the truth. That is a major facet of liberal/socialist thinking.
You have it here and I totally agree.
It seems like FOX is like an "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM". One designed to right the wrongs of lying liberal media for decades.
Fox seems to have more TRUTH than the boys at MSNBC or CNN.
Is there not a deficit? Is there not high unemployment? Are there not enormous giveaways to the dregs of our society? THe lies and exclusion of the truth is the story line at ABC, CBS, NBC at MSNBC/CNN.
And I absolutely think that the average person is either not capable of (in some cases) or too lazy to sort out the truth. But you are wrong to think that it's a liberal/socialist way of thinking; all I hear from the fox acolytes is how liberals cannot think for themselves and are slaves to the main stream media. It goes both ways, my friend.
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Every time I open a thread started by unintelligentjetsfan I feel like I'm sitting in a totalitarian special education class.
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Isn't it special the way the federales only apply RICO to groups outside law enforcement?
Because, gee, I dunno, I wouldn't want to be a member of a PD that has these criminals. I might be guilty of association and what not.
a lot of people like guns.....and just like anything else people have more than one. it doesnt make it an "arsenal" its just something the guy enjoys. I have 2 assault rifles, 2 other rifles and 6 handguns....does that mean that Im up to no good?
why can you have an interest in collecting cabbage patch dolls? you spend 20 percent of your free income to collect all of them skanky dolls and you wouldnt want anyone to tell you how to spend you money, right?
for some guys, its comics....others motorcycles , others sports memorbillia ........what does the gun guy have to explain.
People who collect **** also sell their **** to other people at some point. Unlike guns Mickey Mantle Jersey's aren't going to be used to kill your wife although his bat might beat her to death.
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MIAMI - Officials at a South Florida animal attraction say one of their young orangutans has cancer.
Jungle Island reports that Peanut, an 8-year-old female, is preparing to undergo treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The cancer was discovered following a recent abdominal surgery to remove what was thought to be a simple obstruction. Jungle Island is seeking help from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Division of Comparative Pathology, which specializes in wildlife.
A team of experts from multiple disciplines is developing a treatment program. Because orangutans share 96 percent of their DNA with humans, Jungle Island says Peanut's treatment will likely be more similar to what a human would receive, rather than another animal.
Jungle Island officials are also concerned about the effect of Peanut's illness on her fraternal twin sister, Pumpkin.
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Digital Extremes • Page 2
Warframe PS4 11.5 Update 'The Cicero Crisis' out now, patch notes & trailer inside
Warframe PS4 has received a new update dubbed 'The Cicero Crisis,' adding a new Warframe, weapons and more into the mix. Get the patch notes here.
Warframe age rated for Xbox One
Warframe, the free-to-play sci-fi ninja shooter lately making waves as an early PlayStation 4 release, looks to be headed to Xbox One.
Warframe PS4: update 11 adds new characters, bosses & more
Warframe PS4 has received its first title update from Digital Extremes, bringing the free-to-play shooter in line with its PC counterpart's 11th update 'Valkyr Unleashed'.
Warframe Update 11: Valkyr now available on PC
Warframe is available in North America on PS4 now and will soon be in Europe, and today on PC, Update 11: Valkyr Unleashed has been released. It includes new environments, Damage 2.0, the Codex, trading, a new titleset, Warframes, weapons, the introduction of the new Berserker Warframe Valkyr and more. The development team has released […]
Warframe PS4: free pre-order exclusives revealed
Warframe PS4 developer Digital Extremes has released details of the game's pre-order goodies. It's a free-to-play title sure, but you can still get some extras at no additional cost if you order it ahead of the console's launch.
BioShock 2 gets Steam update as Games For Windows closes, adds achievements & more
BioShock 2 has been updated for Steam after moving away from the now-closed Games For Windows Live service. The shooter has been bolstered with Steam Achievements, new gamepad support and more.
Warframe update 10 "Shadows of the Dead" gets trailer, full details inside
Warframe developer Digital Extremes has published a trailer for the free-to-play shooter's tenth update "Shadows of the Dead", along with a slew of details about what's involved.
Star Trek game disappointed J.J. Abrams: "emotionally it hurt"
Star Trek: Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams has discussed how disappointed he was with Digital Extreme's game tie-in.
Warframe launching as timed PS4 exclusive at console's launch, Nexus app adds second-screen play
Warframe developer Digital Extremes has announced that the console edition of its free-to-play shooter will launch on PS4 first, and re-iterated that it's a day-one release.
Warframe studio would "be silly not to consider" the game for Xbox One since self-publishing reversal
Warframe developer Digital Extremes said last week it would like to released its shooter on Xbox One, but it would depend on the firm's indie publishing policy. OXM followed up its original chat with the firm after Microsoft announced self-publishing on the console, and VP of publishing Meridith Braun said the firm is "happy to […]
Warframe: Xbox One release depends on Microsoft's indie policy
Warframe developer Digital Extremes has expressed interest in getting the free shooter on Xbox One. It all hinges on Microsoft's indie publishing policy however.
Warframe: from PC to PS4 in three months
It took Warframe developer Digital Extremes just three months to get its free online shooter running on PS4. VG247's Dave Cook speaks with the team about the flexibility of Sony's next-gen console.
Warframe dev praises PS4 tech, says DualShock 4 is best controller yet
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is bringing its free-to-play ninja shooter to PS4 at launch, and in an interview with VG247, has discussed the console's technical power and PC-like architecture. The studio also championed the DualShock 4 controller as the best console pad they've ever held.
Warframe developer feels it's riskier for a mid-size firm to go mobile than free-to-play
Digital Extremes creative director Steve Sinclair has said that while most mod-sized studios would rather play the safe card by developing a mobile title, to them, it's just as risky as going free-to-play – like with Warframe.
Warframe has been an "idea" of Digital Extremes' since launch of current-gen
Warframe is coming to PlayStation 4 as a launch title, and below you will find a video featuring Digital Extremes' creative director Steve Sinclair discussing the game with the PS Blog. Have a watch. Apparently the team behind the game wasn't too pleased with the final name of the game – but they are okay […]
Warframe trailer celebrates PlayStation 4 launch
Warframe is coming to PlayStation 4 as a launch title, with Digital Extremes describing the porting process and hardware as "awesome". See how the worked-over co-op shooter looks with the new console's grunt behind it in the debut trailer through the break.
Warframe coming to PlayStation 4
Digital Extremes' free-to-play sci-fi action effort Warframe is on the way to the PlayStation 4, which is a bit of a turn up for the books.
Star Trek: The Video Game reviews arrive, scores inside
Star Trek: The Video Game came our in North America on Tuesday to no reviews. But now they've started to appear online, and the news isn't good.
Star Trek: The Video Game launch trailer is go
Star Trek: The Video Game publisher Namco Bandai has unleashed Digital Extreme's launch trailer into the wild, in time for the game's launch across North America today.
Star Trek: The Video Game's story creation discussed in latest video
Star Trek: The Video Game is out soon, like, next week soon. In it, you can co-op as Spock and Kirk as they fight off the Gorn – who are more than just B-movie style monsters wearing evening dresses this time out. The game has a storyline original to it, and you can hear all […]
Digital Extremes latest
Warframe: Xbox One release depends on Microsoft's indie policy
Warframe dev praises PS4 tech, says DualShock 4 is best controller yet
Warframe developer feels it's riskier for a mid-size firm to go mobile than free-to-play
Warframe has been an "idea" of Digital Extremes' since launch of current-gen
Star Trek: The Video Game's story creation discussed in latest video
Star Trek: The Video Game talent video is full familiar faces
Star Trek gets a trio of gameplay videos showing early missions
Star Trek: The Video Game "making of" video delves into co-op
Warframe alpha trailer shows off Digital Extremes' F2P effort


text: Well, the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on, and as far as I can tell, we haven't all been slurped into a black hole to Narnia or whatever alternate universe might await us at the end of one. It's an amazingly ambitious experiment, and one that will certainly reshape a lot of what we understand (or don't) about the early universe. I like Stephen Hawking's take on the whole thing. He's banking on that wonderful unpredictability you so often find in science. Hawking has bet £100 that, in fact, the LHC will not confirm the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, but will in fact lead us to discover things we may never have dreamed of. We'll see how it pans out, won't we? Unless I wake up tomorrow with a winged octopus perched on my nightstand singing Beatles tunes while feeding me breakfast in bed. I might get suspicious I was in another universe at that point.


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hamsterdb Embedded Storage is an embedded database engine for C/C++, including wrappers for Java, .NET, and Erlang. It supports in-memory databases, very fast database cursors, "record number" databases, ACID transactions, and duplicate keys. hamsterdb is very fast and highly configurable. It compiles and runs on Unix platforms, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and embedded platforms.
Tsung is a distributed load testing tool. It is protocol-independent and can currently be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, AMQP, and XMPP/Jabber servers. It simulates user behavior using an XML description file, reports many measurements in real time (statistics can be customized with transactions, and graphics generated using gnuplot). For HTTP, it supports 1.0 and 1.1, has a proxy mode to record sessions, supports GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods, cookies, and basic/digest authentication. It also has support for SSL, WebSocket, and BOSH.
ejabberd is a multi-platform, scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server. It includes Jabber services like Multi-User Chat, IRC transport, HTTP-Bind, Publish-Subscribe and PEP. It supports virtual hosting, connection to transports (gateways) to other networks, and connection to other Jabber servers. Other supported features are Web and command-line administration, encryption support (SSL and TLS), several authentication methods (embedded, external script, LDAP, PAM, and ODBC), varied storage methods (embedded, ODBC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL), Jabber user directory, and translations in more than 20 languages.
RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is based on a proven platform, Erlang/OTP, offering exceptionally high reliability, availability, and scalability. It delivers good throughput and latency performance that is predictable and consistent. The code base is compact and easily maintainable, facilitating rapid customization and hot deployment. The RabbitMQ distribution also includes a Java client that interoperates with any compliant AMQP server.
Ebot is a scalable and distribuited Web crawler. The URLs are saved to a NOSQL database (which supports map/reduce queries) that you can query via RESTful HTTP requests or using your preferred programming languages. The URLs that need to be analyzed are sent to AMQP queues. In this way, it is possible to run several crawlers in parallel and stop and start them without losing URLs.
REPOS stands for Repository of Erlang-Projects.Org Software selection. It is a collection of major ready-to-use Erlang software. Erlang REPOS is distributed as a CDROM image (ISO). You can use every program included in the REPOS environment either directly from the CDROM, from your hard drive, or from a USB key.
Yaws is a WWW technology with capabilities similar to the combination of Apache with PHP and a database. Yaws runs faster, with smaller footprint, higher scalability, and higher reliability. Subjectively speaking, it uses a more beautiful technique to generate dynamic pages than other similar technologies.
A cloud storage toolkit.
A Web server log analyzer and interactive viewer.


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During the next week, you'll see a little change to our video player. We will be adding a "LEARN" component to the player and truly making Watch | Learn | Speak come alive! All LEARN progress will be credited to videos already done by students when the LEARN mode becomes active.
Here's an advance look at what it'll be like. We are also going to be updating the video detail page to a much cleaner, more presentable look. All in all, we are sure you'll find the new experience on EnglishCentral stellar.
1. LEARN begins with a screen, just like for WATCH and SPEAK. It shows the words that students will study and also what to do.
2. When students are studying in the LEARN mode, they type in the words they hear. Like a regular listening cloze activity. They can go back and do any lines at any time. However, they have to do all the lines, the whole mode, inorder to get full credit. Their score/percentage will be shown at the top of the player.
Here's a short video tutorial showing LEARN in action. Also, see below a preview of how our new video detail page will look like.
Last thing to note – we'll be rolling this out first for all the videos that are in our courses. The quiz will remain a part of a course and students will still have to study the meaning of these words in the Quiz section. (actually, the words they learn in each video will be the same as those in the Quiz, so the learning will be really focused).
The new Video Detail Page


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World in Brief
Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide up again, 2-degree limit to global warming unlikely
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global warming can be limited to a couple of degrees, which is an international goal.
The overwhelming majority of the increase was from China, the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter. Of the planet's top 10 polluters, the United States and Germany were the only countries that reduced their carbon dioxide emissions.
Last year, all the world's nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according to new international calculations on global emissions published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. That's about a billion tons more than the previous year.
The total amounts to more than 2.4 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms) of carbon dioxide released into the air every second.
Because emissions of the key greenhouse gas have been rising steadily and most carbon stays in the air for a century, it is not just unlikely but "rather optimistic" to think that the world can limit future temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), said the study's lead author, Glen Peters at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway.
Pressure mounting on Obama over pipeline decision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure to decide whether to approve Keystone XL, a $7 billion proposed oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada.
Environmental activists and oil producers have fought for years over the potential environmental impact in states the pipeline will cross. But it's really a proxy battle over broader issues, like climate change and energy consumption.
Both sides consider Obama's decision a sign of what approach he'll take to energy and the environment in his second term.
Opponents have been protesting in Washington and Texas. On Capitol Hill, support appears to be building. A bipartisan group of senators is urging Obama to approve the pipeline quickly.
After Obama rejected the initial proposal in January, the pipeline's route was adjusted to satisfy some environmental concerns.
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in stable condition
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush remains in stable condition at a Houston hospital where he is being treated for a lingering cough related to bronchitis.
George Kovacik, a spokesman for Methodist Hospital, said Sunday there has been no change over the last couple of days in the status of the 88-year-old Bush.
Aides originally said the 41st president could be released from the hospital this weekend. But his cough has yet to clear up, meaning he has stayed put while doctors "play it safe."
Bush has been in and out of the hospital recently for complications resulting from bronchitis.
Hospital visitors have included Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush. They live in Dallas.
Geithner says next move
up to Republicans, who must accept higher tax rates on top earners
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans have to stop using "political math" and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview that aired Sunday.
Just four weeks from the proverbial "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner countered that Republicans have a plan for providing as much as $800 billion in new government revenue over the next decade and would consider the elimination of tax deductions on high-income earners. But when pressed on "Fox News Sunday" for precise details, the Ohio Republican declined to say.
There are "a lot of options in terms of how to get there," Boehner said.
Both Boehner's and Geithner's latest remarks indicate it could be some time before serious negotiations begin between the White House and Republicans on how to avert economic calamity expected in less than a month when President George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic, across-the-board spending cuts kick in.
Last week, the White House delivered to Capitol Hill its opening plan: $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and enhancing the president's power to raise the national debt limit.
A year of strife hardens Syrian rebel brigade into fierce, Islamist fighters
MAARET MISREEN, Syria (AP) -- A year ago, a soft-spoken sweet shop owner from this poor Syrian town got together with his little brother and eight friends to declare war on President Bashar Assad.
They didn't have enough guns to go around. Their leader, 35-year-old Mustafa Filfileh, had no real military experience and little idea how to face one of the Mideast's strongest armies. He didn't even know how to drive.
They learned fast. On Nov. 17, the brigade called "The Beloved of Allah" braced for its biggest challenge yet, making it clear how far its members had come and how far the war had brought them from their former lives.
Men who once sold real estate, laid bricks, wore suits and treated sick farm animals armed themselves with vests laden with ammunition, hand grenades and pocket-sized copies of the Quran. After a two-month siege, they planned to storm a major military base in one of the larger coordinated attacks of the uprising.
It was late 2012, the year that Syria's uprising outpaced the other Arab Spring revolts to become the longest, deadliest and most brutal, killing more than 40,000 people and chasing more than 1 million from their homes.
Egypt's rebellion of judges is complete as crisis over president's decrees worsens
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's rebellion of the judges against President Mohammed Morsi became complete on Sunday with the country's highest court declaring an open-ended strike on the day it was supposed to rule on the legitimacy of two key assemblies controlled by allies of the Islamist leader.
The strike by the Supreme Constitutional Court and opposition plans to march on the presidential palace on Tuesday take the country's latest political crisis to a level not seen in the nearly two years of turmoil since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising.
Judges from the country's highest appeals court and its sister lower court were already on an indefinite strike, joining colleagues from other tribunals who suspended work last week to protest what they saw as Morsi's assault on the judiciary.
The last time Egypt had an all-out strike by the judiciary was in 1919, when judges joined an uprising against British colonial rule.
The standoff began when Morsi issued decrees on Nov. 22 giving him near-absolute powers that granted himself and the Islamist-dominated assembly drafting the new constitution immunity from the courts.
Palestinian president returns home triumphantly after acceptance from UN
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations.
An Israeli decision to cut off a cash transfer to the financially troubled Palestinian Authority, following an earlier decision to build thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements, failed to put a damper on the celebrations.
But Palestinian officials acknowledged they were undecided on what to do with their newfound status, and were waiting for upcoming Israeli elections and new ideas from President Barack Obama before deciding how to proceed.
Outside the headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, some 5,000 people thronged a square, hoisted Palestinian flags and cheered their leader's return from New York. Large posters of the Palestinian leader, whose popularity had plummeted in recent months, adorned nearby buildings.
"We now have a state," Abbas said to wild applause. "The world has said loudly, 'Yes to the state of Palestine."'
Bersani wins Italy primary, heads into 2013 general vote as center-left candidate
ROME (AP) -- Pier Luigi Bersani, the head of Italy's main center-left Democratic Party, won a runoff primary Sunday to be the main center-left candidate for Italy's 2013 general elections -- a vote that polls indicate could well be won by the Democratic Party given the utter disarray of the opposing center-right.
Preliminary results gave Bersani 60.8 percent of the vote compared to Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi's 39.1 percent, with two-thirds of the votes counted.
Even before the results were released, Renzi conceded the victory to Bersani in a Twitter message, writing: "It was the right thing to try, it was beautiful to do it together. Thank you all from the heart."
The primary had been closely watched since the Democratic Party has a significant lead in the polls over former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right People of Freedom party, which has been in chaos following the media mogul's 2011 downfall, a series of corruption scandals within party ranks and Berlusconi's indecision over whether to run for a fourth term.
The 2013 general election -- expected in March or April -- will decide if Italy continues on the same path to financial health charted by Premier Mario Monti, appointed last year to save Italy from a Greek-style debt crisis. The former European commissioner was named to head a technical government after international markets lost confidence in then-premier Berlusconi's ability to reign in Italy's public debt and push through structural reforms.
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text: I've been riding a KTM 990 Supermoto-R since last fall. It is still the only one I have ever seen. I had to travel over 450 miles to get it because there weren't any closer at the time. Is there anyone else out there who rides one of these things? Has anyone started a 990 Supermoto-R thread, or is this it? Photos by _Anatic . . . Thanx for the help Shane. Windscreen, bashplate, front axle sliders & crashbars from KTM Hardparts. Older style Akrapovics, G2ergo throttle, Evoluzione clutch slave, and Duke mirrors. Of course the stock clutch slave had to go. Your stock one will fail before too long. T-Rex Spoolsliders. *


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Recap - Fever Defeat Chicago 82-77
The Fever grabbed an 82-77 win over the Sky on Friday, behind a 23-point effort from Briann January at Allstate Arena.
The Fever were a 6.5-point underdog in the win, and managed to turn a profit for their supporters. The combined score went OVER the total, which closed at 145.5.
Shavonte Zellous had 14 points for Indiana and Erlana Larkins chipped in with 13 points. Erlana Larkins had 6 assists for the Fever, while Erlana Larkins was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 12 boards.
Chicago got 23 points from Sylvia Fowles in a losing cause and another 19 points from Epiphanny Prince. Swin Cash contributed 4 assists for the Sky, while Tamera Young had 10 rebounds.
First-half bettors who backed Indiana were victorious, as the score was 44-34 at the break.
Next game, Indiana takes its act home to face Connecticut looking for another win. For Chicago, they head on the road to face Washington.


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Book Report: Read about famous Norwegians known by few this week
Eric Dregni, a professor at Concordia University-St. Paul has a deft touch when it comes to titles. One that attracted me a while back was "In Cod We Trust," a light-hearted account of visiting relatives in Norway and explaining customs he and his wife discovered there.
Now he's out with a somewhat scary title, "Vikings in the Attic" (University of Minnesota Press, $22.95), in which he characterizes Midwestern Scandinavianism and some of the peculiar marks they have made on our culture and some memorable markers as well.
Peculiar? Collecting silver spoons, shots of turpentine for the common cold, and a deep love of rhubarb pie. (Rhubarb grows well in cold climate.)
And let's not forget about that great big twine ball.
Memorable? Immigrants who lived on the prairies in sod huts, but managed to send their kids to college; giving birth to the co-op movement; and founding the Farmer-Labor party.
Dregni is especially good when it comes to tracking down important Scandinavians and telling this reader more than he knew about them before picking up his new book.
Like violinist Ole Bull, whom Dregni calls a "Nordic Paganini;" Gutzon Borglum, carver of Mount Rushmore; novelists Vilhelm Moberg and Ole Rolvaag, as well as poet Carl Sandburg; aviator Charles Lindbergh, Jr. and his politician father Sr.
Then there's Thorstein Veblen, Carleton professor, "...a magnificent misfit, who coined the term 'conspicuous consumption' and got fired from lots of teaching jobs, even taught at the University of Missouri, where he described Columbia "a woodpecker hole of a town in a rotten stump called Missouri." (He ended up co-founding The New School of Social Research.)
Also Joel Hagglund. Who's that? None other than Joe Hill, the Swedish migrant worker, who was shot by order of the governor of Utah. (Where else?)
And, of course, John Hanson. Hanson was the first president of the United States when he became president of the Congress of the Confederation. (George Washington voted for him).
There's lots of fun in this book and interesting details attested to by Dregni's voluminous footnotes of sources cited. He can't resist poking fun at lutefisk, which he calls "fish soaked in drain cleaner," but he wouldn't be the first Scandophile to commit this bit of exaggeration.
"Pretend the World," by Kathryn Kysar (Holy Cow! Press, $15) is a fine new book of verse by the editor of a book I reviewed years ago, "Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers."
Kysar lives in St. Paul and writes about a wide variety of subjects, serious and not-so.
Here's a short one that made me laugh out loud, "Eating Sushi with Robert Bly and Sam Hamill:"
It took seventy-eight years to make this moment:
the cantankerous farm boy turned cantankerous poet
sitting in the large Saturday night sushi restaurant,
saki in small blue cups, tucked in a corner table, talk politics and poetry.
When the plates come, we find he has ordered beef, the only food he knew.
He asked for the brown stuff, poured too much soy in his bowl, but Sam shows him
how to chop the wasabi into the soy with sticks, dip the sushi into the sauce
that bites, stings, and barks. He tasted it all, forced the ginger flower
on to his tongue and said, "All I know is that it's not Norwegian."
Dave Wood is a past vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Phone him at 715-426-9554.


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High Performance Computing Training Workshop
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HPC is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of research in Science and Engineering, and there is an urgent need to train more researchers in the use of this technology. The National Science Foundation is making large investments in HPC to enable research solutions that were not possible in the past. Interestingly, the National Science Board meeting to decide on over $300 million of spending on HPC took place at the same time as our HPC Training Workshop.
The agenda for this workshop was designed to address these needs. Topics covered included:
Parallel Programming Models Multicore architectures High-end HPC architectures MPI OpenMP TotalView parallel debugger Performance analysis Condor
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Sri Lanka claim Twenty20 series after tense finish
AUSTRALIAN selectors should feel relieved the next World Twenty20 is still 14 months away, as the national team's bid to belatedly succeed in the shortest format remains a flawed one.
Sri Lanka's finished its eight-week tour of Australia on a high by claiming a two-run win in front of a crowd of 39,427 at the MCG. The rain-affected result, close enough to heighten doubts over the suitability of Duckworth-Lewis adjustments in the shortest format, sealed a 2-0 series win for Sri Lanka and also extended its winning streak over Australia in the shortest form to five matches. Australia's last head-to-head triumph was at 2010 World Twenty20 tournament.
The home team was punished for its bowlers' inability to shackle Sri Lankan batsmen Mahela Jayawardene (61 not out off 45 deliveries) and Thisara Perera (35 not out off 15) late in Sri Lanka's innings, as it squandered what had been an impressive start with the ball.
Chasing Sri Lanka's 4-161, a surprisingly high total given the visitors were languishing at 3-56 at the half-way mark of their innings, Australia was stung by the loss of both openers within the powerplay and by the half-way mark was a similarly subdued 2-60.
A 46-minute rain delay after Australia's 10th over resulted in a Duckworth-Lewis-adjusted target of 122 from 15 overs, meaning the home team needed 62 from 30 deliveries - a kind adjustment given the control Sri Lanka had before the interruption.
Shaun Marsh and captain George Bailey, whose partnership had reached 40 before the resumption, managed only two boundaries between the 11th and 13th overs but then dragged the home team back into contention.
Australia needed 34 from the last two overs, one of which was from limited-overs expert Lasith Malinga. Consecutive boundaries from Bailey were vital in Australia claiming 16 runs from that penultimate over, leaving a target of 18 from Thisara Perera's final over. Bailey holed out for 45 from the second delivery to end a gutsy 86-run partnership with Marsh, leaving Glenn Maxwell to take over. All-rounder Perera, having already been no-balled for a high full-toss to Marsh, was then sliced to the boundary wide of third man by the new man from consecutive deliveries to leave Australia a target of four runs from the final ball, which the right-hander was unable to make contact with. It left Marsh unbeaten on 47 and Australia 3-119.
Sri Lanka engaged in some gamesmanship at the end. They delayed bowling the final ball until Maxwell yelled at them to get on with it and Jayawardene yelled back.
Thilara Perera angrily shouted at Maxwell as he ran past for a single off the final ball.
Maxwell lets his feelings be known as the players shook hands at the end.
David Warner had some tough words to say to Perera and then Jayawardene. George Bailey intervened and appeared to shove Jayawardene away.
The home team's search for a reliable death bowler may spawn another candidate for next month's season-ending Twenty20 match at Brisbane, after latest triallist Ben Laughlin suffered another horror end against Sri Lanka. Had Australia had a bowler capable of shackling Sri Lanka's typically daring batsmen it would have been chasing a total much closer to 130.
In the last seven overs Australia conceded a game-changing 80 runs. Four bowlers were used - Laughlin, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner and Mitch Starc - but all conceded at least nine runs and a boundary in every over.
Laughlin earned a national-team recall based on a Big Bash League in which he was, with the exception of veteran left-armer Dirk Nannes, the form Australian seamer. His closing effort in Sydney went horribly awry - he conceded 19 runs in the second-last over as Sri Lanka surged to victory - but Bailey, who also led him at Hobart, had sufficient faith to try him again.
The 30-year-old's recent success has been largely due to his ability to outsmart opponents, although on this latest occasion his primary opponent was Jayawardene, whose limited-overs international match tally is about to past 450. Experienced and skill triumphed as the first three deliveries of that last over raced to the boundary, from improvised shots atypical of such a classy batsman.
Australia was hurt by Bailey's decision - possibly at Laughlin's request - to forego a deep third-man.
The first and third deliveries both ended precisely in that region, abutting Jayawardene's deft dab past wicketkeeper Matthew Wade. Laughlin's wretched end was then compounded by Perera's hook that was played so early the ball landed closer to third-man than it did to fine-leg.
Two matches into Laughlin's comeback he has one wicket and had been pounded for 86 runs from 7.5 overs.
Jesse Hogan has been a reporter at The Age since 2004, and has been part of its sports department since 2008. He is primarily focused on cricket and has covered a number of the Australian team's overseas tours, including the 2011 World Cup. He also reports on AFL and soccer.
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Hundreds of whales face slaughter as Norway's killing season resumes
Today is the official start of the whaling season in Norway. Norway is one of just three countries defying the 1986 international ban on commercial whaling. This moratorium on whaling was implemented by a qualifying majority of member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in attempt to put a stop to a hunting practice which was leading to the near extinction of several whale species.
Despite the international opposition, Norway resumed commercial whaling in 1993 and has since killed over 9,500 whales. This year, 1,286 sociable and sentient minke whales are earmarked to die in Norwegian waters in the hunting season which runs between April and August.
For years the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has worked alongside animal welfare groups in Norway to help increase the pressure on the Norwegian government to put a stop to this cruel, outdated and unnecessary practice. So far it has been hard getting through to government officials in the Norwegian home turf and the IWC alike. It has been made clear by the Norwegian government that the argument of whaling being cruel isn't reason enough to put a stop to the hunts.
Dwindling support
However, next week WSPA and Norwegian organisations Dyrebeskyttelsen Norge and NOAH – for Dyrs Rettigheter will release new evidence which demonstrates that public support for whaling in Norway is dwindling, that the Norwegian appetite for whale meat is at an all time low and as a consequence the industry is struggling to survive. The diminishing profitability of the industry is already acknowledged by whalers and the Norwegian government as recent years have seen declining catches and fewer people and vessels involved in the hunts.
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Season series: Thunder won, 2-1
If you believe Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant — the Nos. 1 and 2 scorers in the NBA this season — will neutralize one another, this series will be decided in the paint, not on the perimeter. If Ibaka gets in Gasol's head early in the series and turns him into Mr. Softy, the Thunder won't need more than five games to advance to the conference finals.
Thunder can win if: James Harden makes Metta World Peace rue the day he elbowed him in the head. Harden is Oklahoma City's most competitive player and MWP gave him every reason to play with even more intensity in this series.
Lakers can win if: Andrew Bynum plays like the league's best big man instead of its most inconsistent star. Bynum had 30 rebounds in one game against the Spurs, nine in the other two Spurs-Lakers games. L.A. needs at least four games of Dominant 'Drew to have a chance.
Prediction: Thunder in 6.
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Cheyney T-Shirt Day
August 18, 2011
In commemoration of the 175th anniversary year, Cheyney University faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends are invited to participate in Cheyney T-Shirt Day every 3rd Friday. Wherever you are across the globe, please join with us in solidarity and proudly don your Cheyney blue.
Out of Cheyney gear? Contact Susan Stuart in the CU Campus Store: email@example.com.


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Number of Human-made Fires in Amazon Rain Forest Grows
SAÕ PAULO, Brazil The number of human-made fires is increasing in the Amazon rain forest on Indian reservations, in farming regions, and in so-called environmental protections areas, the federal environmental protection agency, Ibama, said recently.
Citing figures compiled by Brazil's National Space Sciences Institute (INPE), the agency said that from the start of the year through Oct. 10, a total of 162,289 fires was registered in these three areas 13 percent more than the number registered during the same period one year earlier.
The number of square kilometers (square miles) of forest land destroyed by these fires was not immediately available, Ibama's press office said.
The number of fires has increased due to the steady encroachment of cattle ranches and farms in the Amazon region and to the growing use of fire as a means to clear the land and prepare it for new agricultural endeavors, INPE researcher Alberto Setzer told Agencia Brasil, the government's official news agency.
He said poorly controlled camp fires lit by hunters and fishers in environmental protection areas are responsible for the fires destroying those regions.
Earlier this year, INPE pegged deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Basin in 2002 and 2003 at an annual rate of about 25,000 square kilometers (9,750 square miles), the same rate as in 2000 and 2001. INPE follows deforestation by evaluating satellite photographs of the region.
The Amazon rainforest comprises an area of more than (1.6 million square miles), of which about three-fourths is located in Brazil.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Joey Tattoo (right) and his sidekick, Sammy The Builder (left)
New 10-Episode Series Features Joey Tattoo Who Helps Turn Failing Tattoo Parlors Into Profitable Businesses
Network Also Announces A Second Season For "World's Worst Tenants"
New York, NY –November 13, 2012 – Spike TV has ordered 10-episodes of a new, one-hour original series "Tattoo Rescue." The show follows renowned tattoo expert Joey Germinario (aka "Joey Tattoo") and his team of experts as they travel the country transforming failing tattoo studios into profitable ventures.
"Tattoo Rescue" is produced by Charlie Corwin's Original Media. Vem Miller's Sweatshop Media also serves as executive producer. The series is scheduled to debut next summer.
At one time, they were the symbol of the culture's dark underbelly, but now tattoos have gone mainstream with an industry gross of well over $2.3 billion. Despite the fact that more Americans than ever crave permanent ink to wear like a badge of honor, every day countless tattoo shops go out of business, many falling to the stereotypes of being dark, inhospitable and full of unsavory characters.
Joey Tattoo, a native of Hoboken N.J. will use his 22 years of experience in the tattoo business and his larger-than-life personality to rescue these establishments from financial ruin before it's too late. His knowledge of the tattoo industry is well-known in his home state of New Jersey where he has personally guided a bevy of shops into economic success.
In "Tattoo Rescue," Joey will often have to deal with belligerent owners, obstinate tattoo artists and shops with massive health code violations in his seemingly impossible weekly quest.
Also, Spike TV will once again beat down the door of the most despicable, outrageous, dangerous and insane tenants with a second season of the original series, "World's Worst Tenants." The premiere season of "World's Worst Tenants," (airing June-August), averaged a robust 1 million viewers and improved the timeslot in Men 25-34 by 96% and Persons 18-34 by 114%.
The half-hour series follows Todd Howard, along with his team of eviction specialists, business partner Rick Moore and wife Randye, as they forcibly remove problematic tenants from any of the residential, commercial and retail units in which they manage. Howard and his team will take viewers behind closed doors into the most heated, high-stakes disputes between landlords and their tenants. Each mission documents the process and procedure that allows this no-holds-barred team to operate within legal guidelines to resolve each case on behalf of their clients.
"World's Worst Tenants" is produced by Barry Poznick and John Stevens of Zoo Productions.
Sharon Levy is Spike TV's Executive Vice President, Original Series and Tim Duffy is Senior Vice President of Original Series for Spike TV. Justin Lacob serves as the network's Executive in Charge of Production for "Tattoo Rescue" and Chris Rantamaki and Jeff Savaiano for "World's Worst Tenants."
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Klinsmann's new contract calls for elevation of men's program, not just the national team.
MLS finds competition from the abundance of foreign soccer on American television.
World Cup draw proves difficult to U.S. team and its fans.
It Seems To Me. . .
(Wednesday, February 5, 2014) -- United States men's coach Jürgen Klinsmann has made it very clear, both in public statements and directly to the players on his radar for inclusion in this summer's World Cup squad. If they have any hope of making the squad, they need to be playing regularly for their club teams.
The players have taken this edict very much to heart and a number of them have made recent moves.
The first was striker Clint Dempsey. He had been acquired last season by Tottenham Hotspur from English Premier League for Fulham to score goals. He had set records for Fulham and Spurs expected him to do the same. He was something of a disappointment, so during last summer's transfer window, Spurs went shopping for attacking midfielders and Dempsey could easily read the handwriting on the wall.
He had several choices. He could stay with Spurs and fight for playing time. He could move to another EPL or European team, but the likelihood of finding one where he would be assured of playing and the club would be willing to pay him the kind of money he was making at Tottenham was not high.
When a third option opened up -- the Seattle Sounders were anxious to calm their restive fan base by bringing in a big name and paying him an Major League Soccer record salary. Dempsey jumped.
An almost identical situation occurred at AS Roma in Italy where midfielder Michael Bradley had established himself as a key player in a defensive midfield role. Roma was doing well, very well, this season, but felt it needed greater goal production from the midfield and went shopping for attacking midfielders.
The club made it clear that Bradley was welcome to stay -- in fact, Roma coach Rudi Garcia publically said he wanted him to remain. But Bradley too got the message, especially with the arrival of Radja Nainggolan from Cagliari. So when Toronto of MLS (in even more dire straits with its fan base in revolt) came calling and was willing to pay him even more than Dempsey was getting at Seattle (with MLS willing to pay a record $10-million transfer fee), Bradley was Toronto-bound.
Other moves are happening. In Germany, German-American midfielder Jermaine Jones, a stalwart with the U.S. men looking at less playing time at FC Schalke 04, left the German Bunesliga for Besiktas of the Turkis Süper Lig.
U.S. midfielder Brek Shea has not been getting minutes at the EPL's Stoke City, so he went to the second division with Barnsley, which is in a major fight to avoid relegation.
The issue here is simple -- are these players better off? In the case of Dempsey and Bradley, would it be better to stay with two of the better teams in two of the world's best leagues, training every day and fighting for playing time, or making the jump to MLS, getting 90 minutes every match but against lesser opposition?
Likewise, is Shea better off playing at lowly Barnsley or competing for a place at Stoke? What about Jones at Schalke?
Klinsmann has made it clear he supports both Dempsey and Bradley's move to MLS and Shea's willingness to find playing time in the second-tier English League Championship. They might be making the right moves to guarantee a trip to the World Cup, but in the long run is the U.S. team better off?
Time will tell.
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Report: Online Pass will curb used game sales
Analyst group Cowen and Company suggests in a new report that "online pass" from EA may be a way for the industry to curtail used game sales.
Analyst: Red Dead Redemption will sell 4 million in its first year
Rockstar's favourite number is going to be four – with a bunch of zeros at the end – if analyst Doug Creutz is correct.
Pachter: StarCraft II will "quickly" sell 4-5 million
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has chorused Cowen's Doug Creutz on predicted StarCraft II sales, saying the imminent PC RTS will move a quick 5 million units and could eventually outsell the original StarCraft.
Analyst: StarCraft II to move 5M units its first year
With the announcement of a date for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, comes a probable analysis from Cowen group's Doug Creutz.
Analyst: Reviews are the "least important factor" to gamers
A Cowen Group survey has revealed that game reviews are the "least important factor" to consumers when deciding on which title to purchase. Instead, according to analyst Doug Creutz, gamers rely mainly on word of mouth and publishers should stop focusing on scoring a high review. "We believe that while Metacritic scores may be correlated […]
Analyst suggests EA has "largely missed this console cycle"
Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has stated that "EA has largely missed this console cycle", while lowering sales estimates for the publisher's games citing that Dead Space: Extraction and Dragon Age: Origins will under perform at retail. Need for Speed: Shift is not expected to do as well as planned either, according to Creutz, […]
Analyst: Console price cuts may not stimulate hardware sales
Price cuts for consoles may not stimulate hardware or software sales in the US, says Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company. Due to economic pressures, Creutz does not believe that despite historically working in the past, a price cut will not boost the games market this time around. "We are concerned that, given pressures on […]
Analyst: Natal is "technological solution in search of a problem"
Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz isn't impressed with Natal. In fact, he reckons Sony's motion-sensing set-up for PS3 is a better propostition for the hardcore gamer. "Natal appeared to me to be a technological solution in search of a problem," said Creutz, speaking to Gama. "I had a very hard time envisioning playing Modern […]
Analyst says Guitar Hero will be the clear winner in its genre
Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that Guitar Hero will be the sole winner in the music genre category, and beat out all others this year. "We believe music genre sales for the company will be driven by an expansion of the release slate in 2009, which should broaden sales to core consumers," Creutz […]
March NPD: Chinatown Wars likely to be "marginally" profitable
This has got to go down as one of the biggest "whoopses" in recent memory. Cowan analyst Doug Creutz has predicted GTA: Chinatown Wars will only be "marginally" profitable, after the game – the highest rated in GTA's history – managed to secure only a woeful 89,000 sales in the US last month. "We believe […]
Analyst: PS3 continues to lack a clear 'must-own' title that will drive sales
Cowen analyst Doug Creutz says he has lowered his expectation to toward PlayStation 3 for the year ahead as he doesn't believe the console has any bona fide system sellers. "Although there appears to be a reasonably robust slate of games for the PlayStation 3 this year, Sony continues to lack a clear 'must-own' title […]
THQ unlikely to break even this financial year, says analyst
Cowen analyst Doug Creutz reckon that Saints Row 2 publisher THQ is "likely miss its guidance" of breaking even for the second half of its March 09 fiscal year. Creutz says the company won't hit its target "due to the declining performances of key franchises in the December quarter." He says that recent NPD data […]
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