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Throughout the month of October, we'll be giving readers gear for the Annual Meeting. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. To answer the trivia question, you will need to leave your answer as a comment here on this blog. The first person to answer the question correctly will win an item of Annual Meeting gear. There will be one prize-winner each day. Once you win, you will be ineligible to win again during this blog series.
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It was tough to tell which was more impressive about Mary Cain on Sunday, nearly taking down a 31-year-old high school record in the 800 meters on a rainy morning on a slow track after a cross-country trip, or the punishing interval workout that immediately followed.
"It's extreme talent," said Bob Larsen, one of America's most respected running coaches and not prone to hyperbole. "Obviously, it reminds you of Mary Decker."
Not just because they share a first name.
Cain showed why Sunday at the inaugural Re:Run San Diego at Balboa Stadium, a four-race event that represented the first attempt at a high-performance outdoor meet there since a 1988 tune-up to the Seoul Olympics that featured Florence Griffith-Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Cain finished fourth in a loaded 800 field that included three U.S. Olympic Trials finalists from a year ago. She also turned 17 two days earlier and still has another year at Bronxville (N.Y.) High.
Some perspective: Cain clocked 2:01.68. Only five women in the world have gone faster this year, and only one in NCAA Division I (and she's Jamaican).
The next fastest high school girl this year: 2:09.94.
The fastest girl in San Diego Section this year: 2:13.01.
And the 800 might not be Cain's best event. A week ago at the Drake Relays in Iowa, she ran 4:10.77 in the 1,500 and beat her own national high school record. Last summer she went 4:11.01, which broke Jordan Hasay's high school record – by 3½ seconds.
On Sunday, Cain was chasing 25-year-old Brenda Martinez, who won in a world-leading 1:59.59. Really, though, she was chasing history.
One of the most storied prep records still on the books is the 2:00.07 in 1982 by Philadelphia's Kim Gallagher, who would win an 800 silver at the 1984 Olympics and a bronze in 1988 (and who ran in the 1988 meet at Balboa Stadium before a decidedly larger crowd). Cain shaved nearly two seconds off her previous best despite a slow start and running most of the race in lane 2 or 3, which is another way of saying that the elusive 2-minute barrier for a high school girl is probably not a matter if, but when.
If it seems like Cain came out of nowhere, it's because she did. Her father, Charlie, admits "I wasn't really an athlete; I was more on the academic side." And up until 7th grade, Cain was a swimmer.
Her elementary school had a running club, and in fifth grade the students ran a timed mile. Cain went 5:15.
"I didn't exactly know what that meant," said Charlie Cain, an anesthesiologist. "I asked the gym teacher and he said, 'When I was in college, I couldn't run that fast.'"
The comparisons to Decker are inevitable. Cain, too, has uncanny versatility across a wide range of distances. She also is not allergic to hard work, evidenced by a lung-scorching series of 200-, 400- and 600-meter repeats Sunday after Balboa Stadium had emptied out.
"I consider it a huge compliment, honestly," said Cain, who plans to run at the U.S. nationals next month that serve as a qualifier for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. "She was a great athlete. I don't take it as pressure. I take it as support and encouragement, that people believe I can do those kinds of things.
"Taking it as belief is much less stressful than taking it as expectation."
She still attends Bronxville High, where she is a straight-A student, but she no longer runs for the track team. Instead, she gets training advice from marathon legend Alberto Salazar in Oregon and spends her spare weekends flying to high-end meets.
"These are the types of talents that track and field needs," Larsen said. "They transcend the sport. You get people watching the sport who might not otherwise be interested."
Meet notes
Mission Bay High alum Charles Jock led the men's 800 through 600 meters before fading and finishing sixth in 1:48.26. Duane Solomon Jr., fourth at the London Olympics, won in 1:46.54 … Ireland's Paul Robinson won the men's mile in 4:04.35. Susan Kuijken of the Netherlands won the women's mile in 4:27.13 … There are plans to hold the meet again next year, with four different events.

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Authorities still looking for Plaistow couple in connection with burned boy, 3
PLAISTOW, N.H. (AP) � Police are still looking for a New Hampshire couple suspected of inflicting burns and bruises on a 3-year-old boy.
Police in Plaistow received a call last week from Exeter Hospital that a child with significant head injuries was admitted there. The boy was later taken to Children's Hospital at Dartmouth in Lebanon, where is recovering after surgery.
Police said the child's vision is impaired.
The boy's mother, 23-year-old Jessica Linscott, and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Roland Dow, told police over the phone the injuries were self-inflicted, but doctors rejected that.
Arrest warrants are out charging the couple with child endangerment and neglect. The search for them has extended into Massachusetts.
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Despite the mixed global macro picture and some examples of weaker-than-expected earnings, U.S. credit fundamentals in aggregate have remained largely intact. Although leverage has ticked up in the past few quarters... interest coverage is at record-high levels, indicating that companies are well positioned to service their debt. In addition, aggregate 2Q earnings results for the S&P 500, while not gangbusters, have been respectable....
Overall, we remain constructive on U.S. credit and continue to expect carry-like returns for the rest of the year in high yield and some modest upside from spread tightening in investment grade. But we remain cognizant of the risks associated with the possibility of Fed policy normalization without a coincident improvement in the economic picture and will reassess our view following the September FOMC meeting.
Checking in with the big corporate bond exchange-traded funds so far Monday, the iShares iBoxx $ InvesTop Investment Grade Corp. Bond Fund (LQD) is up 19 cents to $112.40. The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG) is up 2 cents to $91.32, and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) is unchanged at $39.65.


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Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the
But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according to hundreds of industry e-mails and internal documents and an analysis of data from thousands of wells.
In the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists and market analysts voice skepticism about lofty forecasts and question whether companies are intentionally, and even illegally, overstating the productivity of their wells and the size of their reserves. Many of these e-mails also suggest a view that is in stark contrast to more bullish public comments made by the industry, in much the same way that insiders have raised doubts about previous financial bubbles.
"Money is pouring in" from investors even though shale gas is "inherently unprofitable," an analyst from PNC Wealth Management, an
"The word in the world of independents is that the shale plays are just giant Ponzi schemes and the economics just do not work," an analyst from IHS Drilling Data, an energy research company, wrote in an e-mail on Aug. 28, 2009.Continue reading the main story
Company data for more than 10,000 wells in three major shale gas formations raise further questions about the industry's prospects. There is undoubtedly a vast amount of gas in the formations. The question remains how affordably it can be extracted.
The data show that while there are some very active wells, they are often surrounded by vast zones of less-productive wells that in some cases cost more to drill and operate than the gas they produce is worth. Also, the amount of gas produced by many of the successful wells is falling much faster than initially predicted by energy companies, making it more difficult for them to turn a profit over the long run.
If the industry does not live up to expectations, the impact will be felt widely. Federal and state lawmakers are considering drastically increasing subsidies for the natural gas business in the hope that it will provide low-cost energy for decades to come.
But if natural gas ultimately proves more expensive to extract from the ground than has been predicted, landowners, investors and lenders could see their investments falter, while consumers will pay a price in higher electricity and home heating bills.
There are implications for the environment, too. The technology used to get gas flowing out of the ground — called hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — can require over a million gallons of water per well, and some of that water must be disposed of because it becomes contaminated by the process. If shale gas wells fade faster than expected, energy companies will have to drill more wells or hydrofrack them more often, resulting in more toxic waste.
The e-mails were obtained through open-records requests or provided to
"And now these corporate giants are having an
Others within the industry remain optimistic. They argue that shale gas economics will improve as the price of gas rises, technology evolves and demand for gas grows with help from increased federal subsidies being considered by Congress. "Shale gas supply is only going to increase," Steven C. Dixon, executive vice president of
Studying the Data
"I think we have a big problem."
Deborah Rogers, a member of the advisory committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, recalled saying that in a May 2010 conversation with a senior economist at the Reserve, Mine K. Yucel. "We need to take a close look at this right away," she added.
A former stockbroker with
"These wells are depleting so quickly that the operators are in an expensive game of 'catch-up,' " Ms. Rogers wrote in an e-mail on Nov.
"This could have profound consequences for our local economy," she explained in the e-mail.
In early 2008, energy companies were scrambling in Fort Worth to get residents to lease their land for drilling as they searched for so-called monster wells. Billboards along the highways stoked the boom-time excitement: "If you don't have a gas lease, get one!" Oil and gas companies were in a fierce bidding war for drilling rights, offering people bonuses as high as $27,500 per acre for signing leases.
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To investors, shale companies had a more sophisticated pitch. With better technology, they had refined a "manufacturing model," they said, that would allow them to drop a well virtually anywhere in certain parts of a shale formation and expect long-lasting returns.
For Wall Street, this was the holy grail: a low-risk and high-profit proposition. But by late 2008, the recession took hold and the price of natural gas plunged by nearly two-thirds, throwing the drilling companies' business model into a tailspin.
The impact of the downturn was immediate for many.
"Ruinous, that's how I'd describe it," said the Rev. Kyev Tatum, president of the Fort Worth chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Mr. Tatum explained that dozens of black churches in Fort Worth signed leases on the promise of big money. Instead, some churches were told that their land may no longer be tax exempt even though they had yet to make any royalties on the wells, he said.
That boom-and-bust volatility had raised eyebrows among people like Ms. Rogers, as well as energy analysts and geologists, who started looking closely at the data on wells' performance.
In May 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas called a meeting to discuss the matter after prodding from Ms. Rogers. One speaker was Kenneth B. Medlock III, an energy expert at
Might growing environmental concerns raise the cost of doing business? If wells were dying off faster than predicted, how many new wells would need to be drilled to meet projections?
Mr. Medlock conceded that production in the Barnett shale formation — or "play," in industry jargon — was indeed flat and would probably soon decline.
"Activity will shift toward other plays because the returns there are higher," he predicted. Ms. Rogers turned to the other commissioners to see if they shared her skepticism, but she said she saw only blank stares.
Bubbling Doubts
Some doubts about the industry are being raised by people who work inside energy companies, too.
"Our engineers here project these wells out to 20-30 years of production and in my mind that has yet to be proven as viable," wrote a geologist at Chesapeake in a March 17 e-mail to a federal energy analyst. "In fact I'm quite skeptical of it myself when you see the % decline in the first year of production."
"In these shale gas plays no well is really economic right now," the geologist said in a previous e-mail to the same official on March 16. "They are all losing a little money or only making a little bit of money."
Around the same time the geologist sent the e-mail, Mr. McClendon, Chesapeake's chief executive, told investors, "It's time to get bullish on natural gas."
In September 2009, a geologist from
A big attraction for investors is the increasing size of the gas reserves that some companies are reporting. Reserves — in effect, the amount of gas that a company says it can feasibly access from its wells — are important because they are a central measure of an oil and gas company's value.
Forecasting these reserves is a tricky science. Early predictions are sometimes lowered because of drops in gas prices, as happened in 2008. Intentionally overbooking reserves, however, is illegal because it misleads investors. Industry e-mails, mostly from 2009 and later, include language from oil and gas executives questioning whether other energy companies are doing just that.
The e-mails do not explicitly accuse any companies of breaking the law. But the number of e-mails, the seniority of the people writing them, the variety of positions they hold and the language they use — including comparisons to Ponzi schemes and attempts to "con" Wall Street — suggest that questions about the shale gas industry exist in many corners.
"Do you think that there may be something suspicious going with the public companies in regard to booking shale reserves?" a senior official from Ivy Energy, an investment firm specializing in the energy sector, wrote in a 2009 e-mail.
A former Enron executive wrote in 2009 while working at an energy company: "I wonder when they will start telling people these wells are just not what they thought they were going to be?" He added that the behavior of shale gas companies reminded him of what he saw when he worked at Enron.
Production data, provided by companies to state regulators and reviewed by The Times, show that many wells are not performing as the industry expected. In three major shale formations — the Barnett in Texas, the Haynesville in East Texas and
Richard K. Stoneburner, president and chief operating officer of
Although energy companies routinely project that shale gas wells will produce gas at a reasonable rate for anywhere from 20 to 65 years, these companies have been making such predictions based on limited data and a certain amount of guesswork, since shale drilling is a relatively new practice.
Most gas companies claim that production will drop sharply after the first few years but then level off, allowing most wells to produce gas for decades.
Gas production data reviewed by The Times suggest that many wells in shale gas fields do not level off the way many companies predict but instead decline steadily.
"This kind of data is making it harder and harder to deny that the shale gas revolution is being oversold," said Art Berman, a Houston-based geologist who worked for two decades at Amoco and has been one of the most vocal skeptics of shale gas economics.
The Barnett shale, which has the longest production history, provides the most reliable case study for predicting future shale gas potential. The data suggest that if the wells' production continues to decline in the current manner, many will become financially unviable within 10 to 15 years.
A review of more than 9,000 wells, using data from 2003 to 2009, shows that — based on widely used industry assumptions about the market price of gas and the cost of drilling and operating a well — less than 10 percent of the wells had recouped their estimated costs by the time they were seven years old.
Terry Engelder, a professor of geosciences at
A Sense of Confidence
Many people within the industry remain confident.
"I wouldn't worry about these shale companies," said
Mr. Pickens said that technological improvements — including hydrofracking wells more than once — are already making production more cost-effective, which is why some major companies like
Shale companies are also adjusting their strategies to make money by focusing on shale wells that produce lucrative liquids, like
Asked about the e-mails from the Chesapeake geologist casting doubt on company projections, a Chesapeake spokesman, Jim Gipson, said the company was fully confident that a majority of wells would be productive for 30 years or more.
David Pendery, a spokesman for IHS, added that though shale gas prospects had previously been debated by many analysts, in more recent years costs had fallen and technology had improved.
Still, in private exchanges, many industry insiders are skeptical, even cynical, about the industry's pronouncements. "All about making money," an official from
"Looks like crap," the Schlumberger official wrote about the well's performance, according to the regulator, "but operator will flip it based on 'potential' and make some money on it."
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After Judge Finds Company Liable and Dismisses Defense, Video Only Settles EEOC Suit
PORTLAND, Ore. – Home electronics retailer Video Only will pay $630,000 and implement preventative measures to settle two discrimination lawsuits, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. Judge Garr M. King of the U.S. District Court in Portland signed the Consent Decree approving the settlement.
According to the EEOC's suit (Civil Case No. 06-1362-KI in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon), two employees of Video Only's Jantzen Beach store in Portland -- Michael Gonzales, a Hispanic, and Jayson Lewis, an African American whose fiancée and two young children are Jewish -- faced repeated slurs and jokes about their race, national origin, and religion. The abuse included use of the "N–word" by management; the telling of racially offensive "jokes"; use of the epithet "beaner"; and a doll with its hair and face painted black that was hog-tied and hung by a nail in the break room.
The EEOC also alleged that the company retaliated against Gonzales and Lewis after they reported the harassment by, among other things, hiring a private investigator to gather information in an effort to discredit their harassment claims. Company officials also confronted co-workers who supported the complainants by telling them they were hurting the company and trying to get them to quit, the EEOC charged.
The EEOC and the employees took the unusual step of filing pretrial papers seeking a ruling against the company and, on June 11, 2008, Judge King ruled that Video Only had indeed unlawfully retaliated against Lewis and Gonzales. In finding for the EEOC and the discrimination victims, the court said the company had called for a private investigation because of Gonzales's and Lewis's
complaints and "for no other reason." The court also knocked down a cornerstone of Video Only's defense, finding as a matter of law that Video Only failed to exercise reasonable care to promptly correct the harassment.
All this alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Gonzales and Lewis will be awarded $500,000 of the total $630,000 settlement. The remaining $130,000 resolved a related suit to which EEOC was not a party. The related suit alleged retaliation against Travis Herron and Dave Guralnick, two other Jantzen Beach employees who spoke out on behalf of Gonzales and Lewis.
In addition to the monetary settlement, Video Only agreed to implement anti-discrimination policies and procedures in its work force. The company will provide anti-discrimination training to all management and non-management employees in Oregon and at its headquarters store in Seattle-Southcenter. The company will also provide periodic reports to EEOC on its compliance with the terms of the consent decree. The Oregon court will have jurisdiction to enforce the EEOC's settlement for the next three years.
"Our investigation discovered harassment that engaged in the worst stereotypes and slurs about Blacks, Latinos and Jews, and that upper management actively participated in this behavior," said EEOC Acting District Director Mike Baldonado. "This is a major victory for Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Lewis, the employees who testified on their behalf and future employees at Video Only. The settlement should send a strong message that harassment based on race, national origin and religion has no place in the workplace, and that those who speak out against discrimination are protected by law from retaliation."
EEOC Regional Attorney William Tamayo added, "The kind of heavy-handed intimidation Video Only employed led us to seek a pre-trial ruling. The court's June 11 finding affirms EEOC's position that retaliation designed to frighten employees from reporting or testifying about discrimination violates the law. These employees should be recognized for their courage in stepping forward,"
Video Only, Inc. sells home entertainment video and audio equipment. The corporation has 18 stores located in Washington, California, and Oregon and has its headquarters in Seattle.
On Feb. 28, 2007, EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp launched the Commission's E-RACE Initiative (Eradicating Racism And Colorism from Employment), a national outreach, education, and enforcement campaign focusing on new and emerging race and color issues in the 21st century workplace. Further information about the E-RACE Initiative is available on the EEOC's web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/e-race/index.html.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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This month All About Lemon is one year old and I like us to revisit this post. To all of my buddies and/or fans here in Word Press and to those who just got/ stumbled here in my blog first time… I am honored to have met you all here in the blogging world. You are all awesome . You are loved!
All of us started as a Newbie in Word Press. I started my blog here in the middle of October last year. And like other newbies, I have felt the same too when I posted my very first blog. Haha, I also said to myself like, would anyone would read it? Would they like my topic? Would someone be critical about it? Well you named all the doubts that you have in mind, but one thing that would justify our reason why we blog after all is because we just like to do it and we are happy to do it for our own joy or peace of mind or satisfaction or to whatever reason we may have… Sure, we all say to ourselves that we blog just for ourself and whether anyone or none would like our blog, bla-bla-bla… we do not mind at all… But the truth is, deep within us, we all want to be recognized by the others. And if one or two would clicked LIKE to our blog, we are quick to check who would that be? We got curious to know about them… We sometimes are not just satisfy for their like but we wanted to know why they like one or two of our posts and so on… and then we started to get curious… and wanting to have more… and then later we feel like we are addicted into blogging or like we always have a hangover after posting our blog each day… LOL.
Why I talk about this? Well, I met a lot of newbies here in Word Press nowadays and they are all amazed of what I have in my blog. They asked me to give them some tips or advices on how they could encourage other bloggers to read theirs or like their posts.
I can not tell whether my techniques are correct or the right approach… but basically I just answered their inquiries into what I thought was very helpful for me when I was just like them- a NEWBIE.
Anyways as you all know me, I like to answer things in my own fun way. I like this to be entertaining to all of us. So I created a comic strip entitled "Wok Pres-Toon Town". Starring you and me, hehehe. This is just an experimental and I will see how it goes.
The Cast are:
Andy: A Story Teller.
Janice: A Writer.
Jess: A Student.
Julie: An Artist
MumOfOne: A Mom
Nooby: A Newbie in Town
Nowan: A Super Weird Genius Guy
Sarah: A Musician
Teri: A Lover
And Toothsome: Yours Truly
***Note: You can visit the HP of my above cast by clicking on their Photoons… hehehe … They are all my awesome buddies and each of them are promising bloggers here at Word Press …Thank You 🙂
So there you met Nooby, she is a NEWBIE in town- The Wok Prestoon Town. Now she is interested to find out where Toothsome's place is and what does she do or have in her world.
Tip #1: If you are a Newbie… do not just sit around and wait for a blogger in Word Press to visit your page. Roam around and see what other bloggers are doing or having in their world… And if you like what you saw, leave a comment or two and if you are not sure what to say just go ahead and click LIKE. I bet he or she will check your blog as well 🙂
Okay, sure some of you would say like, "But I am a writer", or "I love arts", or "I am a photographer", or "I'm a music lover", and so on… Yeah sure each of us have our own passion that we wanted to brag about… and they are all unique in our own ways… But the question is, how would the other bloggers give you a notice? or a nod?
Note: Please feel free to write your ideas as a Newbie, what would Nooby want to ask Toothsome? And If you get lucky perhaps Toothsome would put you in this comic strip… 🙂
And to know more about this comic strip click here… have fun!
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April 1, 2013: An Encouraging Spring in Washington
Bill Fine, WCVB-TV President and General Manager
These days, Washington is not a place most of us look to for good news and progress. And yet, with Spring still new, there are some encouraging signs of life in the nation's capital—and not just their famous cherry blossoms.
However the Supreme Court ultimately decides on the Defense of Marriage Act, it's clear that a dramatic tipping point has been reached on DOMA. National polls now indicate a solid majority—nearly 60%—in support of gay marriage; that number spikes to over 80% among young people 18-29.
No less a leading conservative than Karl Rove recently opined that he could imagine a Republican presidential candidate supporting gay marriage.
Another hopeful note has emerged regarding the longtime bitter divide of immigration reform. Both parties have signaled common-sense consensus is coming, including a path to citizenship for some of the more than 12 million people hoping to live productive lives out of the shadows.
And after four years without one, who would have thought the Democrats would finally pass a budget before those cherry blossoms actually bloomed once more?
All is not entirely rosy, for sure. Tougher gun control laws—which appeared newly possible after the Newtown horror—still seem elusive; and the never ending budget battles which have come to define dysfunction in Washington are still, well, defining it.
But so far this Spring, it's also possible to see some bright, encouraging signs amidst some tired, old battle lines. Here's hoping it's not a one-season wonder


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Besides the print files of lab equipment, cells, bacteria or viruses, and anatomical models of organs, tissue and body parts, the Exchange features modeling tutorials, and educational materials.
As the first government-sponsored website dedicated to 3D printing, the Exchange is focused on advancing the use of 3D prints in STEM education. It also encourages users to contribute classroom worksheets and other supplements so prints can be used as hands-on teaching aids.
"3D printing is a potential game changer for medical research," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins. "At NIH, we have seen an incredible return on investment; pennies' worth of plastic have helped investigators address important scientific questions while saving time and money. We hope that the 3D Print Exchange will expand interest and participation in this new and exciting field among scientists, educators and students."
NIH uses 3D printing, or the creation of a physical object from a digital model, to study viruses, repair and enhance lab apparatus and help plan medical procedures, the agency said. The Exchange makes these types of files freely available, along with video tutorials for new users and a discussion forum to promote collaboration. The site also features tools that convert scientific and clinical data into ready-to-print 3D files.
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"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners; I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
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Forget all those huge names that were floating around last week, as the director's chair for "The Twilight Zone" will be filled by a man who wasn't even considered a dark horse in the race.
Matt Reeves, director of last year's criminally overlooked "Let Me In," is Warner Bros.' choice to direct "The Twilight Zone," reported Deadline. The choice comes as something of a surprise in light of the fact that the most recent reports had the studio looking at Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron, David Yates and Rupert Wyatt.
Unlike the previous "TZ" film, which was anthology of remade episodes, this one will tell a single story touching on themes from several episodes of the show. Reeves will soon do some work on Jason Rothenberg's script, with an eye toward going into production next summer.
Reeves is an excellent choice, despite lacking the cache of some of the other names. "Let Me In," his remake, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, of the Swedish vampire film "Let the Right One In," was a richly detailed and creepy story that also possessed a very sincere sweetness in its coming-of-agelessness story. But it inexplicably bombed, failing to reach even $15 million at the box office. Hats off the Warner Bros. for looking past the film's commercial failure, and recognizing the talent that went into making it.


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Gov. Jon Corzine's standing with the New Jersey public is suffering along with the economy. According to the most recent poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind, 40% of voters approve of the job Corzine is doing while 46% disapprove--a reversal from January when 46% approved and 40% disapproved. "The governor is taking his lumps along with the rest of New Jersey," said Peter Woolley, a political scientist and director of the poll.
Among Democrats, 58% approve and 28% disapprove with 14% unsure, a 2-to-1 margin in the governor's favor, but independents disapprove by 2-to-1 and Republicans disapprove by 3-to-1. More ominous is that among public employee households, 31% approve while 56% disapprove. That compares to an even split among all other households, 43%-44%.
The governor wins handily in a trial heat against an assortment of obscure contenders, picking up 59%, while none of the potential challengers picks up more than 2%. But more than a third of Democrats (36%) are undecided even given that undistinguished field and many of those migrate when given other choices. Democrats asked to choose between Corzine and Senate Majority Leader Richard Codey pick Corzine by 51% to 32% with 17% undecided. Asked to choose between Corzine and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, they pick Corzine by 54%-23%.
Indeed, in a trial heat against the leading Republican contender, Corzine trails former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie by 32%-41%. In that heat, 73% of Republicans line up behind Christie, while just 55% of Democrats line up behind Corzine. "When budgets are cut, public employees laid off, and taxes are in danger of being raised, lots of people think twice about their support for the incumbent," said Woolley. "The governor's own majority coalition is his biggest challenge."
The governor bests other Republican contenders though not necessarily with ease. He comes out just ahead of former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan by 36%-32%. He beats Assemblyman Rick Merkt 37%-28% and beats Mayor Brian Levine 38%-27%, with the rest unsure.
Christie's name recognition continues to climb, from 40% in September to 44% in January and to 57% this month. Just as important, 30% have a favorable opinion of him against 6% whose view is unfavorable, a five-to-one ratio. Other Republican contenders lag in name recognition: 67% of all voters and 53% of Republicans haven't heard of Lonegan, 91% of voters haven't heard of Merkt and 83% haven't heard of Levine.
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[UPDATE: Marvel Studios is officially recasting the Hulk for The Avengers movie - Edward Norton is out. Check out the end of the article for details.]
Since its inception, Marvel Studios has deliberately and carefully been building towards a unique and ambitious cinematic event- The Avengers. From the very first tease offered in the post-credits scene of Iron Man, fans have been salivating over the idea and watching with cautious optimism as piece after piece falls into place.
The Avengers was always going to be a challenging project for creative and logistical reasons but the glue holding it together was the excitement of seeing not only the iconic characters on screen together, but also the familiar faces of the actors we've come to associate with them -- which makes this latest development appear to be the first major misstep Marvel has made with the project.
Evidently, when The Avengers assemble on May 4th, 2012 - it will be without Edward Norton as the Hulk. According to HitFix:
Marvel made a decision to hire an unknown, and they informed Norton that they won't be using him in the film. And that is evidently that.
It's widely known that Norton has had something of a troubled past with the studio but this decision wasn't made because he declined to be a part of the film. In fact, Norton wanted to play Bruce Banner again. He even recently met with Avengers director Joss Whedon and was reportedly so excited by what he heard that he told his agency to keep his schedule open.
Prior to that meeting, his only stipulation was that The Avengers had to push the Banner character forward in some way. Norton may have a reputation for being difficult to work with but in the case of The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers it's important to remember that what he was fighting for was his character and the story. He's a huge fan of the comics and this stuff matters to him and he knows it matters to fans.
Passion is only part of the equation unfortunately- there's also the financial aspect of this situation. We know Marvel initially low-balled Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson for their involvement in Iron Man 2 and with a project as immense and intimidating as The Avengers, they're no doubt looking to cut costs wherever they can.
While details of how exactly the negotiations between Marvel and Norton fell apart are unclear, I can't help but wonder if the studio felt the actor might just be more trouble than he's worth.
Norton's performance was hands down my favorite part of The Incredible Hulk so this news is particularly troubling to me. There's just absolutely no way I can see an unknown actor bringing the same weight and authority to that role. I understand the pressure to control costs, but the true value of this property is not in its budget or box-office gross- it's the innovative execution of something that's never been attempted before. As the HitFix article so perfectly sums it up:
"Avengers assemble" is more than just a nifty slogan for a ball cap. It's a call to arms for a one-of-a-kind movie event. Please... treat it that way. The rewards will be worth the effort.
It's official, Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige has released an official statement - confirming the studio is in fact ditching Norton and recasting a more "collaborative" Hulk-worthy actor for The Avengers:
"We have made the decision to not bring Ed Norton back to portray the title role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers. Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members. The Avengers demands players who thrive working as part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert, Chris H, Chris E, Sam, Scarlett, and all of our talented casts. We are looking to announce a name actor who fulfills these requirements, and is passionate about the iconic role in the coming weeks."
Norton himself has responded to Marvel's announcement with this note on his Facebook Page:
How do you feel about The Avengers minus Edward Norton? Is this a big mistake on Marvel's part or do you think it's possible that an unknown can deliver in the role?
I guess this goes against the rumored plans to have Norton appear on stage as part of the Marvel presentation at San Diego Comic-Con.
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- Abstract: "Project-X" is a US led initiative with strong international participation that aims to realize a next generation proton source that will dramatically extend the reach of Intensity Frontier research. The state of the art in Super-Conducting RF has advanced to a point where it can be considered and implemented as the core enabling technology for a next generation multi-megawatt proton source--reliably delivering unprecedented beam power at duty factors ranging from 0.001% to 100%. The base Super-Conducting RF technology also supports flexible beam-timing configurations among simultaneous experiments, allowing a broad range of experiments to develop and operate in parallel. The US Department Of Energy Office of High Energy Physics and its advisory bodies have recognized this potential and are supporting R&D for Project-X that could lead to a construction start as early as 2017.
Project-X will provide multi-megawatt proton beams from the Fermilab Main Injector over the energy range 60-120 GeV simultaneous with multi-megawatt protons beams 1-3 GeV (kinetic) with very flexible beam-timing characteristics as well as substantial beam power at 8 GeV. The Project-X particle physics research program includes world leading sensitivity in long-baseline and short-baseline neutrino experiments, a rich program of ultra-rare muon and kaon decays and opportunities for next-generation electric dipole moment experiments and other nuclear/particle physics probes that reach far beyond the Standard Model. Project X also provides an opportunity to advance energy research and material science studies. These research opportunities and the potential for collaboration will be presented and discussed.
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Top Bolivian official allegedly got rich off jailed Jewish-American's holdings
Jacob Ostreicher, detained for 18 months without charges, says he fears for his life now that government officials are suspected of corruption
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A high-ranking Bolivian official was arrested Monday for alleged illegal enrichment from the sale of rice seized from a US businessman who has been jailed for 18 months without charge.
The American, Jacob Ostreicher, was arrested in a money-laundering investigation but no evidence has been presented in court to support the case against him. He claims his incarceration has allowed corrupt officials to fleece him, seizing 18,000 metric tons of rice from his farming venture and selling most of it.
The man arrested Monday and accused of receiving $9,900 in proceeds in a personal bank account from the sale of some of Ostreicher's rice is Jose Manuel Antezana, an official in the Presidential Ministry who was named to the board of directors of the state-run Cartonbol cardboard company in 2010.
Prosecutor Javier Monasterios told reporters that authorities were investigating others in the case.
Ostreicher told The Associated Press that prosecutors told him there would be more arrests and that 11 people "who work for the government are under suspicion" for allegedly abuses of authority in his case.
"I'm very concerned that now that the story is finally going to break that, with 11 government officials involved in corruption, some officials are going to think that what better way to get rid of me but to kill me," Ostreicher said from a clinic in the eastern city of Santa Cruz.
"So I have concern right now about not only my physical health but my safety," added Ostreicher, 54.
Ostreicher has been treated at the clinic for malnutrition from a liquids-only hunger strike he mounted to protest his incarceration.
After a Halloween visit from the actor Sean Penn, Ostreicher was sent to the clinic, where he says he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
US diplomats and New Jersey congressman Christopher Smith have also been visiting Ostreicher, an orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, NY, and interceding on his behalf.
The Associated Press has repeatedly questioned senior Bolivian officials about the case since last year, including its foreign minister and interior minister. The officials had said only that they would look into it.
A judge denied Ostreicher bail on Friday, but the New York man said he expected a new hearing next week.
Under Bolivian law, suspects may not be jailed for more than 18 months without charge.
Earlier this year, the regional director of DIRCABI, the state agency in charge of seized assets, was fired over the illegal sale of Ostreicher's rice.
The American says he went to Bolivia to salvage a rice-growing investment after the local manager, whom he described as a Colombian con artist, defrauded investors and planted some of their rice on land owned by the brother of a Brazilian drug trafficker.
Prosecutors initially alleged that the $25 million invested in the rice venture was obtained illegally.
But they subsequently failed to present evidence supporting the allegations and authorities in Switzerland have vouched for Ostreicher's Swiss business associate, Andre Zolty.
Ostreicher said he suspected from the moment of his arrest that Bolivian officials saw in him a golden opportunity to strip of all their assets a pair of foreign investors who had no clue how perilous Bolivian agribusiness would prove for them.
Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey issued a statement Monday evening saying he was cautiously hopeful that Antezana's arrest was "a positive development and that Jacob is a step closer to freedom."
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and justice has been delayed for a long time," he said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Heineman talks about choosing lieutenant governor
Gov. Dave Heineman said he's been getting suggestions from people as to who should be the second in command.
At a news conference Monday, Heineman took questions from the media regarding who he'll choose as the next lieutenant governor. Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned suddenly Saturday after word broke of a scandal involving several women.
Heineman said he is looking for someone who would make the commitment not to run for governor in the next election.
He said he's been getting suggestions from people, but he cited the state constitution's mandate that no sitting senator can be appointed to a state office when the legislature is in session.
"I want to try to find the right person as soon as I can," Heineman said.
Heineman said he doesn't want to give anyone running for governor an advantage.
Two state senators who are considering running for governor said Sheehy's resignation will not affect their decision.
"The bigger question for me isn't who is in the field, but what does Nebraska need? Whether I can continue my service and whether it works for me, and I am exploring that in a very serious way right now," said Sen. Steve Lathrop.
"I'm going to be making the decision. I've got the date set -- Feb. 18. I am going to make a decision on my political future at that point," said Sen. Charlie Janssen.


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#!/usr/bin/perl -w package SHSigGenes; use strict; use Tracer; use SearchHelper; use CGI; use HTML; use Sprout; our @ISA = qw(SearchHelper); =head1 Gene Discrimination Feature Search Helper =head2 Introduction This search performs a signature genes comparison. The user selects two genome sets, and the search returns genes from a given genome which are common only in the first set and not in the second. If the second set is empty, the search will return genes from the given genome that are common in the first set. Gene identity will be computed in this case using bidirectional best hits. If gene X from the given genome has a BBH in a specified genome Y, then it is said to occur in whatever set includes genome Y. A gene is considered I<common> if it occurs in a certain percentage of the genomes of the set. This search has the following extra parameters. =over 4 =item given The ID of the given genome. =item target[] The IDs of the genomes in the first (target) set. 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The default is C<1e-10>. =back =head2 Virtual Methods =head3 Form C<< my $html = $shelp->Include(); >> Generate the HTML for a form to request a new search. =cut sub Form { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Get the CGI and sprout objects. my $cgi = $self->Q(); my $sprout = $self->DB(); # Start the form. my $retVal = $self->FormStart("Signature Genes"); # The bulk of this form will be two genome selection menus, one for the first # (target) set and one for the second (exclusion) set. Above these two controls # there is the selector for the given genome, the commonality and cutoff values, # and the submit button. Our first task, then, is to get the genome selection # menus. my $givenMenu = $self->NmpdrGenomeMenu('given', { size => 1 }, [$cgi->param('genome')]); my $targetMenu = $self->NmpdrGenomeMenu('target', { size => 10, multiple => 'multiple' }, [$cgi->param('target')]); my $excludeMenu = $self->NmpdrGenomeMenu('exclusion', { size => 10, multiple => 'multiple' }, [$cgi->param('exclusion')]); # Get the default values to use for the commonality and cutoff controls. my $commonality = $cgi->param('commonality') || "0.8"; my $cutoff = $cgi->param('cutoff') || "1e-10"; # Now we build the table rows. The top contains the two numeric parameters and # the submit button. my @rows = (); push @rows, $cgi->Tr($cgi->td("Commonality"), $cgi->td($cgi->textfield(-name => 'commonality', -value => $commonality, -size => 5))); push @rows, $cgi->Tr($cgi->td("Cutoff"), $cgi->td($cgi->textfield(-name => 'cutoff', -value => $cutoff, -size => 5))); push @rows, $self->SubmitRow(); # The next rows have the given genome and a feature filter. push @rows, $cgi->Tr($cgi->td({valign => "top"}, "Given Genome"), $cgi->td({colspan => 2}, $givenMenu)); push @rows, $self->FeatureFilterRows(); # Now show the target and exclusion menus. push @rows, $cgi->Tr($cgi->td({valign => "top"}, "Target Genomes (Set 1)"), $cgi->td({colspan => 2}, $targetMenu)); push @rows, $cgi->Tr($cgi->td({valign => "top"}, "Exclusion Genomes (Set 2)"), $cgi->td({colspan => 2}, $excludeMenu)); # Create the table. $retVal .= $self->MakeTable(\@rows); # Close the form. $retVal .= $self->FormEnd(); # Return the result. return $retVal; } =head3 Find C<< my $resultCount = $shelp->Find(); >> Conduct a search based on the current CGI query parameters. The search results will be written to the session cache file and the number of results will be returned. If the search parameters are invalid, a result count of C<undef> will be returned and a result message will be stored in this object describing the problem. =cut sub Find { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Get the sprout and CGI query objects. my $cgi = $self->Q(); my $sprout = $self->DB(); # Declare the return variable. If it remains undefined, the caller will # assume there was an error. my $retVal; # Validate the numeric parameters. my $commonality = $cgi->param('commonality'); my $cutoff = $cgi->param('cutoff'); if ($commonality !~ /^\s*\d(\.\d+)?\s*$/) { $self->SetMessage("Commonality value appears invalid, too big, negative, or not a number."); } elsif ($commonality <= 0 || $commonality > 1) { $self->SetMessage("Commonality cannot be 0 and cannot be greater than 1."); } elsif ($cutoff !~ /^\s*\d(.\d+)?(e\-\d+)?\s*$/) { $self->SetMessage("Cutoff must be an exponential number (e.g. \"1e-20\" or \"2.5e-11\"."); } elsif ($cutoff > 1) { $self->SetMessage("Cutoff cannot be greater than 1."); } else { # Now we need to gather and validate the genome sets. my $givenGenomeID = $cgi->param('given'); my %targetGenomes = map { $_ => 1 } $cgi->param('target'); my %exclusionGenomes = map { $_ => 1 } $cgi->param('exclusion'); # Insure the given genome is not in the exclusion set. if ($exclusionGenomes{$givenGenomeID}) { $self->SetMessage("The given genome ($givenGenomeID) cannot be in the exclusion set."); } else { # Insure the given genome is in the target set. $targetGenomes{$givenGenomeID} = 1 } # Denote we have not yet found any genomes. $retVal = 0; #TODO: find stuff } # Return the result count. return $retVal; } =head3 Description C<< my $htmlText = $shelp->Description(); >> Return a description of this search. The description is used for the table of contents on the main search tools page. It may contain HTML, but it should be character-level, not block-level, since the description is going to appear in a list. =cut sub Description { # Get the parameters. my ($self) = @_; # Return the result. return "Search for features that common to a group of organisms or that discriminate between two groups of organisms."; } 1;
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A family's pet parrot may have saved their lives after it alerted them to a fire inside their Fort Lauderdale home Tuesday morning, officials said.
Residents of the home at 1336 Southwest 18th Avenue were awoken by their squawking parrot around 3:45 a.m. and discovered smoke inside, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Division Chief Robert Bacic said.
The residents were able to escape the home unharmed.
Firefighters responded and found flames and heavy smoke coming from the home and were able to quickly contain it to the laundry room, Bacic said. They were able to stop it from spreading to the rest of the house.
Laurajean Niesel said she wasn't surprised her parrot, Pearly, alerted them.
"When I got him I remember they told me to be very careful with frying pans made out of Teflon because if that burns it could kill the bird," she said. "So they're very sensitive to smoke or even heat."
Pearly is a three-and-a-half-year-old Grey Ringneck.
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The Weeknd celebrated his breakout year from critical darling to full-blown pop star at iHeartRadio's "Jingle Ball" concert in New York City.
The Grammy-nominated singer headlined Friday at Madison Square Garden, and even left out expletives during his set of songs, which was explosive and energetic.
He sang familiar radio hits like "Can't Feel My Face" and "The Hills" in front of the feverish crowd, as did Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez, Charlie Puth, Fifth Harmony and Shawn Mendes.
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Demi Lovato was a vocal powerhouse in front of the loud audience and offered words of encouragement to the young fans.
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Inspired by the beautiful typography-centric logos of Japanese cameras in the 70's and 80's, design firm Antrepo re-imagined the logos of tech companies by stripping them down to their essence. What resulted were line-based logos that're clean, light and forever classic.
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When we take a look at the vintage 35 mm cameras, we notice that, almost, all of these brands use the same style for their logos and typography (line based logos and extended-outline fonts). By the way they use bold logos on their packaging or advertising in 70's/80's. the Production Industry created "line based logos" for metal bodies, probably to cut down the production costs.
And it's true. Look at the beautiful cameras from Nikon and Canon:
Just lovely! Here's how it would look on brands we're all oh so familiar with. It doesn't work for all of them (I like the Amazon one the least) but there's a certain vintage yet at the same time futuristic feel to the logos.
Looks, um, the same.
I really, really like this one for some reason.
Doesn't quite work for me.
Enjoyable, no?
Looks about the same.
I really like the W in a circle here.
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Mr. Speaker, that is far from a satisfactory answer. All these people have put their lives on hold and spent thousands of dollars to file their applications. When it comes to immigration, the Conservatives improvise or change the rules in the middle of the game. That is not the way to reduce the backlog of files, which will increase under this government.
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Geologic evidence of the Middle East and the globe, combined with Scripture, indicates that the Flood/post-Flood boundary is very late in the Cainozoic.
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