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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim government called an Al-Jazeera local affiliate that broadcasts in Arabic a national threat Thursday, moving closer to banning its broadcasts beamed from Qatar after the affiliate aired recordings of declarations by fugitive leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Qatar-based television network said four journalists working for its English service were arrested in Cairo.
Three government ministers issued a statement saying that Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr is operating "illegally, in violation to the profession's standards and without a permit to work in Egypt," the state-run news agency MENA reported.
The ministers also said the channel used satellite transmission without a license and spread "rumors and claims which are harmful to Egyptian national security and threaten the country's unity," without referring specifically to the broadcasts of the fugitives' declarations.
Unnamed government agencies have been ordered to close the network, the statement said.
No details were provided, but Egyptians receive the affiliate's broadcasts via a signal from the state-owned satellite operator Nilesat, which presumably would have to cut it off. The channel remained on the air Thursday night.
Calls to Al-Jazeera in Qatar for comment went unanswered, but the network's Al-Jazeera English division said in a statement that correspondent Wayne Hay, cameraman Adil Bradlow and producers Russ Finn and Baher Mohammed were detained on by authorities on Tuesday after they covered events in Cairo.
Al-Jazeera English called the detentions "a campaign against Al-Jazeera in particular," demanded the release of the journalists and said it was holding Egyptian authorities responsible for their safety while in custody.
The Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr Cairo office was raided and closed last month, and 28 staffers were detained and later released. Al-Jazeera said Associated Press Television News was ordered to deny Al-Jazeera channels access to their live services.
A local media service company, Cairo News Company, has also been told to withhold access to broadcast equipment. The Associated Press strongly protested the order to police and government officials. It said it followed the directive because it is bound by local law.
The affiliate did extensive coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood's protests following the July 3 popularly-supported military coup that toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and has been repeatedly accused of being biased toward the Muslim Brotherhood, claims denied by Al-Jazeera. Some of its local news presenters said the station had misled viewers, while the affiliate said it provided balanced coverage of events in Egypt.
Before the raid, Egypt's interim government shut down the Muslim Brotherhood's Misr 25 television channel and four Islamic TV networks sympathetic to the deposed president — but the Al-Jazeera affiliate continued to broadcast live protests by supporters of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood via a stolen live broadcast van owned by Egyptian state TV.
With its newsgathering ability now crippled in Egypt for weeks, the affiliate has relied on amateur video sent by Egyptians to provide images of what is happening in the country. But it made headlines this week after airing the declarations by the fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including a statement by Mohammed el-Beltagy. He was arrested Thursday.
The network has previously had problems in Egypt. Its Al-Jazeera Egypt Live affiliate that broadcasts in English was raided twice by security forces in September 2011, when the military ruled Egypt directly after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the country's previous longtime president. Authorities said that affiliate, which is still broadcasting, had been operating without permits.

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There are few moments sweeter, more humbling or more thrilling than telling someone you love how you feel.
As soon as Roger Mbede did that, he was damned.
This happened in Cameroon, which, like many African countries, treats homosexuality as if it were a curse, a scourge. He lost sight of that, and made the mistake of sending several text messages that were too candid, too trusting.
"I'm very much in love with you," one of them said, and the man who got it, apparently worried that he was being set up, turned Roger in. Law enforcement officers scrutinized all of his correspondence for suggestions of sexual activity with people of the same gender, which can lead to a prison sentence of five years.
One of his lawyers, Alice Nkom, told me that they also made him strip so that they could examine his anus, as if the ultimate proof would be there. This isn't unusual in such interrogations, she said, and it was just the start of his degradation after his March 2011 arrest. The end came last month, when he died at 34.
I'll come back to that. But first, the reason I'm sharing his story.
On Thursday the Olympics begin. Worldwide attention will turn to Sochi, Russia, and there will be a spike in commentary about Russia's dangerously homophobic climate, which has already prompted discussion and protest.
But while this will be an important reminder of the kind of persecution that L.G.B.T. people endure in a country openly hostile to them, it will also be an incomplete one. Russia's hardly the worst.
Although it has an easily abused and utterly ridiculous law against so-called gay propaganda, it doesn't technically criminalize same-sex activity. About 75 other countries do, and by the laws or customs of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Mauritania, Sudan and certain parts of Nigeria and Somalia, such activity is even punishable by death. Gays, it turns out, are handy scapegoats, distracting people from the grave problems that really hold them back.
In Nigeria, the president signed new legislation last month that establishes 14-year prison sentences for anyone who enters into a same-sex union and 10-year sentences for people who publicly display same-sex affection or who simply participate in gay groups. There have since been accounts of gay people being rounded up. A man in northern Nigeria was publicly whipped for having had sex with another man seven years earlier. A BBC reporter described how the man screamed during the 20 lashes.
L.G.B.T. people in Jamaica live in fear, despite a fresh, hopeful push by some Jamaicans to repeal a law that permits long prison sentences for sodomy. Mobs there have chased people believed to be gay, and last year a transgendered teen was reportedly killed — stabbed, shot and run over with a car — in a hate crime.
Strains of Russia's florid bigotry can be found in its neighbors, too: Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine. Ty Cobb, the director of global engagement for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which is about to publish a world report, noted that many traditionalists in these countries cast L.G.B.T. people as the emblems and agents of a decadent Western culture.
Human Rights Watch recently examined Kyrgyzstan and found that while the country doesn't criminalize same-sex activity, the police there detain, taunt and shame gay men routinely and with impunity.
The group also investigated Cameroon, where it says a gay rights activist was killed last summer after being tortured with a hot iron. Over the last three years, according to the group, at least 28 people in Cameroon have been prosecuted for homosexual conduct.
Two men were hauled in for questioning because lubricant and condoms had been found in their house. Another two men aroused suspicion because of their feminine dress and beverage choice. They drank Baileys Irish Cream.
Nkom was involved in their case, as she was with Roger, whose story she and another of his lawyers, Michel Togue, fleshed out for me.
In prison, where he spent more than a year, he was apparently roughed up. Raped, too. He got sick, and while news reports mentioned a hernia, Nkom told me that he also had testicular cancer. He didn't get proper treatment, she said, not even after his release, partly because he went into hiding, terrified of being put away again.
His relatives didn't intervene in his medical care. They spurned him, she said, contributing to the isolation that hastened his deterioration.
Back before the text message, back before the dread label of homosexual was hung on him, Roger had confidence. He had respect. He studied philosophy at a local university, with an eye on a teaching career.
"He was the hope of the family," Nkom told me. "He was the one who had a future."
Then he shared what was in his heart. And that future was gone.


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Well here's something you don't see every day. About midway through the fourth quarter of last night's Nets-Raptors game, Nets forward Kris Humphries stepped to the line to shoot two free-throws. Pretty standard stuff. That is until referee Courtney Kirkland comes flying in and tries to stop Humphries from shooting his second attempt by physically blocking his shot. Maybe just blow your whistle next time, Courtney. That's kind of what it's there for. Also, that was a foul. Got him all over the arm.
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Those McDonald's kids' meals may be getting a little too spicy.
McDonald's is currently handing out a collection of Kidz Bop CDs in Happy Meals, but there are some grown-ups who aren't too happy about it.
On Monday afternoon, a grandmother in Boaz, Ala., took her two grandchildren to McDonald's for lunch, and the CDs were their bonus from the Big McD. But, after listening to the disc, the grandmother was shocked with something she heard in the disc's cover of pop singer Gavin DeGraw's hit "I Don't Wanna Be."
"It's got a phrase in it that I don't think's appropriate for children," she said.
She's not alone in that observation.
"In the song the word is supposed to be looking, but they're saying the f-word with the -ing on the end," said one concerned parent.
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Both women said they feared the children would share the song with other children, and that's a worry.
"If my little grandson learns it, he's going to go to school and sing it," the grandmother said. "It's going to be terrible, because if they listen to the CD, they can hear what we hear."
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A TV station in Huntsville, Ala., WAFF 48, reported that the Boaz McDonald's has pulled all of the No. 6 CDs from its Happy Meals. The reporter there said staff members in the station's newsroom listened to "I Don't Wanna Be," and agreed that the song sounded a bit questionable.


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I don't have any info yet, but heard that there are 2 new areas that Sen's. Wyden and Merkley have put a bill out on. These are not currently WSA's from what I heard. More when I dig up some info. Supposedly in the John Day area.
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ONDA is pleased to announce two new proposed wilderness areas, resulting from a partnership with John Day Basin landowners and consolidating BLM lands never-before accessible to the public. You may be a longtime John Day enthusiast scratching your head, but dont worry youre not the only one that hasnt heard of these two areasthey existed before only as topographical features.
Recently Senators Wyden and Merkley introduced the Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2010. Please contact Senators Wyden and Merkley to thank them for supporting more wilderness in the John Day Basin. Click HERE to send a thank you!
Please encourage Representative Walden to support designation for Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Areas. You can send him an email by clicking HERE.
Click here for a map of Horse Heaven and Cathedral Rock Proposed Wilderness
In 2008 our John Day Coordinator began contacting landowners to better understand their management concerns for designating BLM Wilderness Study Areas as wilderness. Adjacent to the newly designated Spring Basin Wilderness Area, thousands of acres of BLM lands were fragmented across the landscape, as inholdings of Young Lifes Washington Family Ranch. An initial conversation with the ranch manager made clear his concern over these landsevery fall, hunters would trespass through the ranch for access. For both Young Life and ONDA, several issues became central to our discussions: how do we provide the best access to public lands, while addressing trespass on private lands and conserving the land for wildlife? It became clear that consolidating the private and BLM lands was critical to solving long-term management concerns. Wilderness designation provided the protection for fish and wildlife that this untouched and remote area deserves, in perpetuity.
The proposed Cathedral Rock (formerly known as Coffin Rock) and Horse Heaven Wilderness Areas are 8,686 and 8,015 acres, respectively, about 4 miles apart. They encompass dramatic basalt cliffs and rolling hills of juniper, sagebrush and bluebunch wheatgrass. This area has also been identified by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as a Conservation Opportunity Area (BM-03): it contains key habitat for mid-Columbia summer steelhead, pygmy rabbit, Ferruginous Hawk, and is important wintering habitat for deer, elk, and antelope. GAP (Geographic Approach to Planning for Biological Diversity) analysis also identified this important corridor to provide connectivity for a large number of key wildlife species and their habitats. In total, this rugged area is home to 36 sensitive plant and animal species, including spring Chinook salmon, pacific lamprey, Mountain Quail, Yellow-breasted Chat and arrow-leaf thelypody.
The consolidation and protection of BLM lands establishes connectivity and conservation of habitat complexity for these species and facilitates the restoration of riparian, sagebrush, and grassland habitats. It also provides a link to a number of federal and tribal protected lands: Spring Basin Wilderness Area to the north, Pine Creek Conservation to the east, and Pats Cabin and Sutton Mountain Wilderness Study Areas to the south. Altogether, this region represents around 100,000 acres of public lands that will have attained the highest level of protection possible, managed for exclusively for fish, wildlife and recreation.
This is an incredible heritage for public lands recreationists. Rafters of the John Day River can attest to the need for more campsites and public access to upland areas that Cathedral Rock will provide. Backcountry hunters will be able to scan the hillsides for elk, deer and game-birds without concern for complex land ownership patterns. Anglers can access nearly 5 miles of the John Day River by land that they could never reach before.
The history of the area also is rich and intriguing: a significant number of archaeological sites, including pithouse villages, stone tool sites and rock-art pictographs, are scattered across the landscape. Beginning in the 19th century, sheepherders heavily occupied the Big Muddy Ranch, causing Wild-West shootouts resulting in a murder conviction at the Prineville courthouse. The ranch is probably best known for its purchase 1980s by the Guru Rajneesh (Osho). Tens of thousands of red-robed devotees grew vegetables and built infrastructure, but ultimately the Rajneeshpuram was disbanded after leaders poisoned a salad bar in The Dalles for political reasons. The modern-day occupant of the ranch, Young Life, has been a huge success as the setting for a memorable camp experience for thousands of children every year.
The recent owners have managed the lands that will become wilderness with a light touch: the thick bunchgrasses are intermittently dotted with junipers, some burned, suggesting recent lightning fires, which reinvigorate the grasses naturally. The few fences that were observed are ready to be rolled up and carried out by ONDA volunteers; most of the wooden posts have broken or burned long ago. The central two-track route through Cathedral Rock is well on its way to natural reclamation by vegetation.
Letters of thanks and encouragement can be sent directly to:
Senator Jeff Merkley
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Fax: 503-326-2900
Senator Ron Wyden
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Tel: 503-326-7525
Fax: 503-326-7528
Rep. Greg Walden
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Tel: 541-776-4646
Fax: 541-779-0204
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Above is from Oregon Natural Desert Association (onda.org). I believe they've had mention in some of highdesert4x4's posts.
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Wednesday morning, a series of speakers assailed President Barack Obama for failing to advance immigration reform, damaging the economy by restricting free enterprise and embracing liberal positions on social issues such as same-sex marriage.
"It's time to say, 'Enough with the lies, you failed us on immigration reform, and you are the most anti-immigrant president in the history of the United States,'" Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said to loud applause from the group gathered at the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce.
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WTF??!! So Obama is now "anti-immigrant"... Because Congress can't pass comprehensive immigration reform? Oh, and have they forgotten who's fought humane immigration reform all this time? Do they even really care?
After all, they're backing this guy who really seems to like this guy.
And this is far from an "isolated incident". Rather, Mitt Romney has a long history of embracing extreme anti-immigrant xenophobia. And now, some
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the 450 page manual, managed to get my GelTabz configured
on the Xbox 360 analog sticks (setup is easy for any
controller and the Xbox and X360 Gels are interchangeable).
I'm kidding, there isn't a manual. Set up is extremely
simple. Pull the GelTabz onto the analog stick tops
and you're good to go. That's it.
GelTabz are ribbed for your thumbs pleasure and I'm
not kidding when I say these little things really
do make ALL of the difference. The copy on the back
of the package began to echo in my one good ear..."playing
with a stock controller simply isn't good enough..."
Hey, they're right!
provide comfort and grip to the analog sticks. If
you've ever experienced thumb fatigue after a marathon
gaming session you'll realize this inexpensive and
ingenious product is something you'll want in your
bag of gaming tricks. Even if your hands don't suffer
from an over-productive perspiration problem when
playing, you'll want the GeTtabz for the extra comfort.
been playing with the GelTabz for almost two weeks
and I'd like to outfit all of my controllers with
them. If you are interested in this great product,
GelTabz can be purchased online at www.geltabz.com
and it appears that the company is trying to solidify
retail sales for the near future.
most players wouldn't go out of their way to hunt
them out, trust me when I say they make a perfect
gift. They're priced just right at $5.99 per package
and even though the recipient may initially wonder
just what they are and what they do, the GelTabz usefulness
will become immediately apparent once installed. In
fact you had better buy two packages - one for you
and one as a gift because you don't want your friends
having the upperhand now, do you?
None really, except I would have loved a GameCube
GelTab that fit over the C stick. Why? Because Fight
Night Round 2 ripped my thumb apart!
A great fit. Affordable. Comfortable. Improves
grip due to ribbed rubber surface and increases the
circumference of the analog stick head for added control.
Durable although it appears they could wear out over
a few months of constant use. If properly applied,
should not come off during play.
Vaughn Smith
Site Director
Second Opinion
Whatever Vaughn said.
want more? Oh. Products come across the CCC desk weekly.
Some are good, some are average and some are downright
terrible. GelTabz might be small - In fact, they're
the smallest peripheral I think CCC has ever received
- but they will make a big difference in terms of
grip and comfort to your controller is an idea that
seems like a no-brainer, so why has it taken until
now for someone to invent these? It's not like the
regular analog sticks are painful to use obviously,
but the comfort level increases greatly when the Geltabz
are in use. So why not be more comfortable? You gotta
buy these.
Dave Allison
Site Owner
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Adrenoleukodystrophy describes several closely related inherited disorders that disrupt the breakdown (metabolism) of certain fats (very long chain fatty acids).
X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy; Adrenomyeloneuropathy; Childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy; ALD; Schilder-Addison Complex
Adrenoleukodystrophy is usually passed down from parent to child as an X-linked genetic trait. It therefore affects mostly males, although some women who are carriers can have milder forms of the disease. It affects approximately 1 in 20,000 people from all races.
The condition results in the buildup of very-long-chain fatty acids in the nervous system, adrenal gland, and testes, which disrupts normal activity. There are three major categories of disease:
Childhood cerebral type:
Adrenal gland failure (Addison type):
Adrenal dysfunction my be treated with steroids (such as cortisol) if the adrenal gland is not producing enough hormones.
A specific treatment for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy is not available, but bone marrow transplantation can be performed and can cure patients of the condition.
The childhood form of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy is a progressive disease. It leads to a long-term coma (vegetative state) about 2 years after nervous system symptoms develop. The child can live in this condition for as long as 10 years until death occurs.
The other forms of this disease are milder.
Call your health care provider if:
Genetic counseling is recommended for prospective parents with a family history of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Mothers of affected sons have an 85% chance of being a carrier for this condition.
Prenatal diagnosis of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy is also available. It is done by evaluating cells from chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis for either a known genetic change in the family or for very long chain fatty acid levels.
Kwon JM. Neurodegenerative disorders of childhood. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 592.
Steinberg SJ, Moser AB, Raymond GV. X-Linked adrenoleukodystrophy. GeneReviews™ [serial online]. Updated April 19, 2012. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1315/
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CHICAGO (Jan. 14, 2014) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Monday that the club has re-signed midfielder Yazid Atouba and forward Kellen Gulley. Per MLS and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Selected in the second round (30th overall) by the Fire in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft, Atouba made three apperances for the Men in Red during the 2013 season. The Cameroonian Youth International also appeared in the Fire's July 10, 2013 international friendly against Liga MX side Club America.
Gulley re-joins the Fire after spending the 2013 season with the Atlanta Silverbacks of the NASL. A product of the Mississippi Fire Juniors, Gulley became the second Homegrown Player in Fire history on Aug. 11, 2011. The Clinton, Miss., native was named to the U.S. Soccer U-17 Residency Program in January 2010 and earned eight caps at the U-17 level, tallying four goals during international competition in 2009 and 2010.
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Ran qPCRs using both WSN1 and RLOv DNA Helicase primers on the pinto abalone DNA isolated earlier today, as well as one additional sample that Sean Bennett had previously isolated DNA from: 15:6-26E
RLOv helicase standard curve is from 20151106.
WSN1 standard curve is p18RK7 from 20170703
All samples were run in duplicate.
Master mix calcs (Google Sheet): 20171226 – qPCR Pinto WSN1 & RLOv DNA Helicase.
Plate layout, cycling params, etc. can be seen in the qPCR Reports (see Results below).
RLOv helicase qPCR Report (PDF): Sam_2017-12-26 13-19-51_CC009827_RLOv_helicase.pdf
RLOv helicase qPCR File (CFX): Sam_2017-12-26 13-19-51_CC009827_RLOv_helicase.pcrd
WSN1 qPCR Report (PDF): Sam_2017-12-26 13-19-51_CC009827_WSN1.pdf
WSN1 qPCR File (CFX): Sam_2017-12-26 13-19-51_CC009827_WSN1.pcrd
Both standard curves are acceptable (see images below).
No amplification with either primer/probe set in the following samples:
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- 15:30-04
I believe these are both "Control" samples (i.e. unexposed) and no amplification was expected.
All other samples amplify. See qPCR Reports for copy numbers.
RLOv Helicase Amplification & Standard Curves
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In today's premiere installment of our new "What's On Tonight?" feature, Todd VanDerWerff pokes gentle fun at the classic sitcom predictability of Modern Family by summing up any given new episode this way: "Everyone will act annoyed with each other, then they'll realize how much they love each other, and someone will say something moving. Anything different happen, Donna Bowman?" After tonight's episode, Noel turned to me and asked plaintively, "Why can't it be all Phil?"
We've all known sitcoms that were taken over by breakout characters who were at first minor parts of the ensemble, and after Ty Burrell's early success in Modern Family's first season, some viewers were rolling their eyes in anticipation of the series becoming The Phil Dunphy Show. But here we are, a few episodes into the third season, and the rivets are beginning to pop out of the structure almost everywhere but in the Dunphy household. The cringe-to-laugh ratio in the Mitchell/Cam storylines is approaching 1 to 1; this week, Cam pranced down a street in pursuit of a hit-and-run driver with his arms extended and wrists limp, screaming in a girlish tone. (I don't mind finding humor in Cam screaming girlishly, but two episodes in a row is a bit much.) Even Gloria and Jay, who emerged as the unsung heroes of season two's second half, have devolved. Gloria refers to how violent everything was in Colombia in a humorously thick accent, check. Jay hasn't been given much to do, disappointingly, and where his bemused observations used to anchor the ensemble, now they just disappear in the chaos.
Jay has some nice moments in his small subplot this week, but they were definitely low-key. Samm Levine (of Freaks And Geeks fame) does a guest turn as a young developer who just took over his father's condominium business. Jay is pitching a contract to install the closets sin his latest project, a partnership he's had with the father for years. But now the son complains that the closets Jay is offering don't have that je ne sais quoi. "What do you want to build?" he asks Jay. "Closets," Jay answers. "I was kinda hoping you'd say dreams," the developer confesses. "That was implied," Jay attempts. Back home, Manny is fretting over his report on the Mafia, because his teachers are more impressed with razzle-dazzle than substance. (In fairness, he regards many modern innovations, like wheels on backpacks, as unnecessarily flashy: "You're going to school, not boarding a flight to Denver.") And neither of the Pritchett men want to hear Gloria's assessment of the situation, which is unfortunate, because she believes she has all the answers.
The problem with Mitchell and Cam is that increasingly, as we get to know them, their relationship seem to be reduced to one or two irritating tropes. Cam is officious and easily offended; Mitchell is long-suffering and… easily offended. I'm just not sure Mitchell trying to stop Cam from butting in where he's not welcome has many yucks left in it. (Although I did like the final line of the cross-promotional Muppet Movie-themed cold open: "I was always a fan of the Muppets, especially the two guys in the theater who wouldn't shut up.") When their Prius is rear-ended by a hit-and-run driver, Cam wants to pursue the driver and bring him to justice, while Mitchell prefers to call the police and surrender the field.
Like a breath of fresh air from a different sitcom entirely come Claire and Phil, dealing with the humiliation of meeting Duane Bailey, the city councilman and ice-cream-cake aficionado from last week, who is running for re-election. (Claire seems to be the only woman in town whose name and backstory Duane can't remember.) When Claire entertains the thought of running for office, Phil promises to hold together the household despite her misgivings about who would cook and clean and make sure the kids do their homework and take them to all their activities. ("It must be so hard being a single mom," Phil commiserates without a trace of sarcasm.) But while she's at City Hall picking up the paperwork, Phil pops Luke in the eye while wrestling with a Band-aid, gives Alex the nighttime allergy medicine sending her into loopyville, and discovers that Haley lost $900 of her friends' money trying to obtain fake IDs, leading to a terrific scene of physical comedy at Jay's house where Phil is simultaneously expressing horror at all these mishaps while trying to cover up as many of them as he can, for as long as he can.
To be fair, the stuff about Haley and the fake IDs wasn't Phil's fault, but it is the catalyst for the two (two!) resolutions. Happily, nothing syrupy here, and I even get some joy out of Mitchell's triumph as the men of the family decide to take charge and fight back against people who decide to change the rules and run out the back way rather than playing fair; he tackles the fake-ID dealer in full flight and proudly displays the grass stains on his jeans when the group returns with the money. Gloria, meanwhile, has convinced Claire that she should run for office despite Duane's stranglehold on the female voter population and the likelihood that she won't win, because she's tough enough to be okay with losing.
It's okay with me if nothing different happens on Modern Family. I've said all along that it's not whether the show finds any new veins of family comedy to mine; it's how it presents those classic tropes, whether there's a fresh take and some new character interactions to bring them to life. But aside from the evergreen entertainment value of Phil—muttering supportive nonsense to Claire and then warily admitting that he doesn't quite know what he's getting to, regressing to Luke's age whenever allowed, and expressing both confident knowledge of his nature and utter astonishment at it— the vegetables are beginning to go rotten in the crisper drawer, and it might be time to clean out the fridge and restock.
Stray observations:
- David Cross is even more delightfully smarmy this time out as Councilman (and puggle breeder) Bailey, and one wonders if he wrote some of his own dialogue: "Pretty soon, we're stopping at every single corner. Why don't you ask Canada how that's working out?"
- Luke has saved over a thousand dollars by getting both a packed lunch from his mom and lunch money from his dad every day, plus scraping loose change off the hallway table.
- Phil encourages Claire to run for council by complimenting her: "You're easy on the eyes when you put a little effort into it." His secret motivation is that he's turned on by powerful women: "Michele Obama, Oprah, Condoleeza Rice, Serena Williams—wait a minute."
- When Claire arrives at Jay's house looking for delinquent Haley, Phil produces her proudly: "There she is, not a scratch on her!"
- I know this is all Phil quotes, but the man was on fire tonight—especially compared to the rest of the regular cast. He even gets multiple chances to name his fighting appendages after soft folk-rock groups: "Either he gives us the money or he gets a private performance from England Dan and John Ford Coley!" followed by a reference to both fists and feet as "Crosby, Stills, Nash, AND Young!"
- In Cam's family, you learned to drink beer and drive a tractor at the same age. "Not at the same time—this was Missouri, not Texas."


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From Claudia's Kitchen @What's Cookin Italian Cuisine
Almond Paste Cake
2 sticks butter, softened, more for buttering pan
1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (measured after sifting)
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
7-oz tube almond paste, cut into small pieces
4 eggs
1 teaspoon pure almond extract
Recipe Below for Amaretto Hot fudge Sauce
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter sides and bottom
of one 9-inch spring form pan. Mix together the sour cream and baking soda in a small bowl. Sift the flour and salt into another bowl. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the almond paste, a little at a time, at medium speed, and beat for 8 minutes.
Beat in the egg yolks one at a time, and mix until incorporated. It will look curdled; don't worry. Blend in the almond extract and sour cream mixture. Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually add the flour mixture, just until blended. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly.
Bake about 1 hour. It is done when you press the top and it returns to its shape, and also shrinks from the sides of the pan. Remove from the oven and place on a baking rack to cool in the pan. Make Hot Fudge Amaretto sauce while cake is baking.
Amaretto Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons Amaretto
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Combine condensed milk, chocolate and salt in top of double boiler over rapidly boiling water. Stir and cook until chocolate melts and mixture thickens, about 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in water, a little at a time, until sauce reaches desired consistency. Cool slightly and stir in Amaretto and vanilla . Drizzle over cake. Refrigerate any unused for up to a week.


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Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Fallon swapped lips and hilariously tried to sing a song together on Wednesday night's episode of "The Tonight Show."
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Fallon has also flipped lips with fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore.
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The turmoil faced by teenagers almost makes one want to turn into a young adult novel or movie derivation. In each of these works, the the adults have disappointed the children of the world. It falls on the younger generation to right their wrongs.
Knowing the ins and outs of popular culture has never been my strong suit. I turn to my wife to understand the broader context, such as when I was editing a story on the increasing trend, in movies and TV shows, of sympathy toward the villain. The piece, "What happens when the bad guys are the good guys," expanded on popular characters like Don Draper in "Mad Men," Walter White in "Breaking Bad," and an impending Disney movie, "Maleficient," that will tell the "Sleeping Beauty" story from the perspective of the evil queen. Talking about the good and the band in this trend, my wife and I traced it back to the 2003 Broadway hit show "Wicked," which gave voice to the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz. The positive of this teaches empathy for another in trying to understand a person whose actions are, we believe, bad. The negative is the very narrow line from analyzing and understanding evil to accepting and embracing it. That's one reason why that article focused so strongly on the way our culture tells stories to children, and to young adults, and to grown-ups. For each stage of our lives, different aspects of art have different touchstone meanings for us. That's why it's important to grow, gradually, into our appreciation for multi-dimensional characters. Our newspaper's coverage of values in the media permeates many of the subjects that resonate most deeply in our technology-laden society, including the perils of cyberbullying. As with the football coach in Roosevelt, Utah, who suspended his entire team, adults can have an influence on kids by putting competition aside and encouraging service over selfishness. As so many kids have access to internet technology, our culture faces increased strain from their easier access to pornography. Our newspaper's three-part series on the personal and societal costs of pornography broke new ground. That may be causing others voices nationally to wake up to the changes for relationships and values being caused by pornography consumption. The turmoil faced by teenagers almost makes one want to turn into a gripping young adult novel or movie derivation including blockbusters such as the Hunger Games, "Ender's Game" or the Harry Potter series. In each of these works, the adults have disappointed the children of the world. It falls on the younger generation to right the wrongs that have been done to them, and make the word anew. In no particular order, here is a list of 2013's most impactful national values in the media stories from the Deseret News: 1. Media violence 'unchained': Multiple studies show kids are adversely affected by violence in entertainment, news 2. Social, personal and relational costs of pornography: Four-part series 3. Where are the moms in movies? Bechdel Test explains 4. Red-band trailers: Why parents should know what they are, and how easy they are to access 5. 'The Bible' miniseries finishes strong five-week run 6. Faith and family fuel Sundance 'Linsanity' documentary 7. The evolution of horror movies: Why less is still more 8. Oscars illustrate Hollywood's gender age gap 9. What happens when the bad guys are the good guys? 10. Violent video games: Why experts want more research and what parents can do%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D133500%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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Kano's production associate Paul Epworth might've somewhat botched the point when he called grime, "The most punk thing that has happened in ages", but he's painfully close.
Of course punk(rock) as an ideology has long since been tainted by countless utter wankers without a self-sufficient idea in their empty-eyed heads, and any inner city spitter on the updated UK garage tip would likely take it as an insult. Angry rap-orientated music of any kind has always relied on the ubiquitous 'hustle'; grime's greatest gat in their arsenal is being, in the main, fearlessly good.
Kano is, fittingly, one of the best examples yet. Far from all of perfectly pristine debut album 'Home Sweet Home' is breathtaking experimental. Parts are even R&B enough to trouble MTV Base, filled with sufficient pop to rouse CD:UK. But Kano obviously point blank refuses to go near a studio unless the results are anything less than sparkling. It's about songs.
The equation could never be that simple, naturally, but that's the crux. Guests play a substantial part, on the mic and behind the dials, too, with 'Reload It' the all-star culmination of those cameos. Dirty South rap mogul and M.I.A. deejay Diplo takes control of frantic breaks and bouncing rhythms, allowing the emcee talents of D Double E and the crazily characteristic Demon to go double-time with equal exuberance to Kano himself.
Add in the riff from Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs' ('I Don't Know Why'), the best grasp of the subtleties of life outside grime since Dizzee Rascal's first LP, and a triumvirate of the hottest underground hits in recent times ('Boys Love Girls', 'P's & Q's', and 'Mic Check') and – pow – the year's most consistently head-whackingly smart album so far. Not within the confines of grime, black music, or, perish the genre, 'urban'. Just 2005, full stop.
'A star is born' wouldn't quite cover it, however, as Kano's been one in his own mind for 20 years. It's just taken this long for everyone else to notice.
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I am developing a mobile application in which the user selects the fields that s/he wants to enter information into. At the moment, I have two screens - one for selecting the fields and other for entering the information.
My goal is to choose a design that is very intuitive and minimizes the number of screens/views that the user has to visit. With that in mind, please suggest a way so that I can allow the user to accomplish selection of fields and data entry on just one screen.


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Every once in a while an S.F. line comes around that's so good, we can't (make that won't) shut our yaps about it. That's exactly how we feel about Freda Salvador, makers of some seriously lust-worthy sole designs. So, we're extra excited this Monday morning to bring you two juicy bites of Freda Salvador news. Double whammy!
The talented gals have unleashed lookbook snaps of their impressive fall '13 collection. What can you expect to see? Slightly more feminine styles and shapes, rendered in spotted haircalf, metallics, removable ornaments...you get the picture. It's definitely a bit edgier than what we're used to seeing from the line, but still true to its clean, modern foundation. "Geometry, balance, proportion, and lines were the guiding forces behind the collection," say the designers Megan Papay and Cristina Palomo-Nelson.
And, get this: To make room for the glorious new styles, the ladies are having their first-ever blowout sample sale at the Union Street concept store. Going down this Thursday, you can score shoes for $60 to $80 a pop! Definitely don't just mosey by — be sure to hit up this can't-miss sale at 6 p.m. on the dot.
When: Thursday, April 18, 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: Freda Salvador, 1782 Union Street (at Octavia Street); 415-654-5128.
Where: Freda Salvador, 1782 Union Street (at Octavia Street); 415-654-5128.


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I made it. This is a great web site and forum. Much better than the actual FW site.
Anyway, I had a iGesture pad but it was defective when I bought it. Had some trouble getting FW to respond but finally did. They offered to replace it, but I opted to return it and get my money back.
What I'm looking for now is a Silver Dvorak LP. I would really like one, but seems like that won't happen now.
Anyway.... I'm here and I'm looking forward to reading and participating in this forum.


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South Pointe may be one of the few AAA teams that can match Bluffton's speed; and the Stallions have been stingy on defense in their run to the state title game.
"They are fast. They are athletic. They're a good team," said BHS Head Coach Ken Cribb. "There's a reason they're playing for the state championship."
The undefeated Bobcats and Cribb have never faced South Pointe but they know the Stallions were the state runners-up last season, losing 27-23 in the championship game to the same Myrtle Beach team that knocked Bluffton out of contention.
Cribb said he's most worried about "big plays" from South Pointe on special teams and both sides of the ball.
The Stallions have returned five kickoffs and a punt for touchdowns this season. They also have intercepted 24 passes, returning five for TDs.
Junior quarterback Devin Pearson has thrown for more than 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns and rushed for more than 600 yards and seven scores to lead South Pointe, which Cribb said runs a "true spread" offense.
The team from Rock Hill beat York last week 38-15 to win the Upper State championship. Other playoff victims for the 13-1 Stallions include Union County (41-7), Greenville (62-20) and Fairfield-Central (35-16). The season's only loss was to Class 4A powerhouse Spartanburg on Sept. 23.
While the Stallions played in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia last year, the Bobcats will be making their first appearance in a big venue — Death Valley in Clemson.
"It won't affect this crowd," Cribb said of his team. "They're so loose I don't think it even will register with them."
The Bobcats indeed were relaxed Monday while studying video of their Lower State championship win over A.C. Flora.
"Watch this," said junior quarterback C.J. Frazier.
The replay shows an unblocked Flora linebacker knocking Frazier flat on his back just as he's releasing a pass; and Frazier watches from ground level as Marquis Webber catches the pass in the end zone.
Frazier laughed and his teammates laughed with him. "Show that again," he said.
Monday film study also is a learning experience, and offensive coordinator Tom Thompson wanted to know who was responsible for the linebacker. So the Bobcats got back to business.
Bluffton has an extra day to prepare for South Pointe because the state championship game — one of three on the day — will be played at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
"Today is video and mental preparation," Cribb said, but field work Monday was limited because of the weather. After practicing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the Bobcats plan a final walk-though on Friday before leaving early Saturday for Clemson.
Bluffton faces a long bus trip — five hours or so depending on Columbia traffic — and will return Saturday night after the game.
"We'll watch the first game (Class 4A-Division 2 championship) and then have our pregame meal," Cribb said. "Then we'll watch part of the second game (Class 4A-Division 1 championship) before we have to get ready to play," he said. "We'll sleep all the way home."


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Tourists visiting this country will surely be enthralled by its rich Carpathian and Sudeten Mountains in the south, mesmerized by the Masurian and Pomeranian landlakes in the north, which are dotted with numerous lakes and amazing forests. The Baltic coast of the country provides excellent beaches in the north and the lowlands and uplands dominate the central region of Poland. The most popular and not to miss attractions of the country are Poland Castles, Tatra Mountains, Bieszczady Mountains, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Mazury Lakes, Czestochowa, Oswiecim, Malbork and Poland beaches, nature parks, rivers and lakes.
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Noted troublemaker Kevin Bieksa of the Vancouver Canucks did a number on poor Mike Dunsmore of Fox Sports Radio following Game 4. Dunsmore apparently approached Bieksa thinking it was Kesler and Bieksa just played along. Right from jump street Bieksa references Kesler's controversial quotes about Canada during the Olympics. Bieksa (as Kesler) began singing the praises of playing in America and how he loved playing LA and hated to have to go home to Canada.
"The fans in Canada are great, but this is where the real hockey fans are...we'll go back to Canada, I'm sure the crowd won't be as good, but hopefully we get back to here where the real crowd is, like I said growing up in Michigan, I love the States. "
Bieksa then bestows the nickname "Guzzler" on Kessler and ends the interview with a rousing "God bless America."
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Move over Schneider, Kevin Bieksa's Ryan Kesler impersonation is amazing [The Province]


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Though I think we've gotten over most of our sillier stereotypes about Canadian musicians, it is, nonetheless, somewhat startling the debut album by Montreal's Suuns kicks off with the sort of fearsomely lascivious groove Josh Homme used to bash out before he went out to kill his breakfast in the morning. The song is called 'Armed for Peace' and it kicks like some sort of demonic mulebeast, all louche electronic groove and alternately swaggering/staggering guitars topped off with Ben Shemie's oddly high voice. It then promptly steamrollers into the ice cool, psychedelic malevolence of 'Gaze' and you know… COULD we be on course for the birth of a Canadian Queens of the Stone Age? A FRENCH Canadian Queens of the Stone Age? No, no. Obviously bringing nationality into this is a specious approach at best (though I'm sure living in a northerly former French colony founded in 1642 as opposed to An Actual Desert must have some impact). But Suuns are committed members of the cult of the eclectic, and what Zeroes QC demonstrates in range, it doesn't really equal in coherency.
Over the course of the album's sub 40-minute run time the band hit us with burbling, Holy Fuck-esque electronica ('Arena', 'Sweet Nothing'), creepy minimalist throbbing ('Pie IX'), a dash of shredding ('Marauder'), a song that sounds EXACTLY like Clinic ('Up Past the Nursery'), two pretty college rock ballads ('Fear' and the lovely 'Organ Blues') and only one return to the slinky menace of the early songs (the excellent 'PVC').
Which is the album summed up pretty quickly, really, but as we've got some more time here, let's talk about eclecticism. Arguably, it's perfectly reasonable for a band to make an album that's totally all over the shop, stylistically, in this day and age. Sure, I've yet to see any genuinely compelling evidence for the death of the album as an art form, but it's silly to pretend that listening habits haven't vastly changed as a result of download and streaming technology; if you have a dozen different idea for how you want your record to sound, why not put them all into effect and not worry too much about the greater whole? Well, if nothing else, perhaps because a band needs a sense of identity, something Suuns palpably lack, despite their grab bag of alluring tunes. Near label-mates Women have proven that you can possess a pathologically diverse body of work and still give it a sense of coherency via the right sort of production. Here the Besnard Lakes' Jace Lasek offers up a thin, lo-fi mix that doesn't even really begin to reconcile the various aspects of Suuns' music. Even Shemie's vocals don't bind things excessively, seeing as how one of the few constant factors on the record is the scarcity of his voice on the songs.
Obviously, this is only Suuns' first record; given that on it they not only tackle a half dozen different styles of songwriting but – in isolation, at least - tackle them well, the band would seem pretty well set up for a more coherent future release, should they choose to make one. Maybe they won't, but really they should; Suuns don't need to be a Queens of the Stone Age, but they have the potential to do more than just throw a cool clutch of songs together. Dammit chaps, we're supposed to be creating art.
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Fukasaku subsequently hasn't had much trouble finding gainful employment, turning out several niche genre works that have been lukewarmly received at best; most notably his terrorism-themed revival of the Sukeban Deka series, casting Hello Project idols Matsuura Aya and Ishikawa Rika alongside Kubozuka Shunsuke and Takeuchi Riki, was a resounding flop. His most recent effort is "Maid for You", the seventh instalment in the softcore "A Perfect Education" series, which opened in limited release on January 30th and boasted sporadic 3D bonking (Jason Gray has more on the film here). But in a Cyzo interview to promote the film, Fukasaku provided a little background on why the eagerly awaited "Elle" project fizzled out:
"The project wasn't moving forward much, so I asked Oshii Mamoru to write a script and changed its direction so it would become an entry in his 'Kerberos Saga'. Refugees would flood into Japan from mainland China, and an island internment facility would be created in Tokyo Bay... it was an ambitious concept. But there were a number of problems such as the large budget and the necessity of gaining approval from the Chinese government, so it got shelved. Later I traveled to China to research another project, and that's where I met the screenwriter for ["A Perfect Education: Maid for You"], Zushi Kensuke. I told him that I had a hangup about working with actresses, perhaps because my mother [Nakahara Sanae] was one, and that I didn't like working with actresses in sexy situations, and he let me know that there was another entry in the 'A Perfect Education' series in the works. I'd followed the series for a long time, so I ended up saying 'Let me make it'."Although I can't publish my synopsis or script translation here, I can say that making the film would require a massive outlay on production design including sizeable set construction and CG work, not to mention legions of extras, rendering it very difficult to execute effectively in the current conservative film industry climate. Also taking into account its grimly dystopian world view and plot detailing totalitarian oppression and violent rebellion (shades of "Children of Men"), it's unlikely that it would find much of an audience domestically outside of diehard Oshii fans. Nevertheless, it's a gripping story culminating in an incendiary climax that could swiftly relegate the likes of "Sky Crawlers" and "Assault Girls" to the bargain bin of Oshii's filmography.
Whether Fukasaku is the right filmmaker to realize the project is another matter, but in any case he hasn't given up on it yet.
"While I took a risk making 'A Perfect Education', as did Yanagi and Ayano who acted their hearts out in the lead roles, I think we've made it possible for ourselves to take the next step forward. I have about seven or eight projects I'm working on, and I haven't given up on 'Elle is Burning' yet either."


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Spacefarers fewer, but recruits wait in wings
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixteen months after NASA's last shuttle flight, the final four astronauts to fly on one of America's winged orbiters have moved on.
Two now are working in the private sector, still involved in the American aerospace industry. Two remain at NASA, working on the future of U.S. human spaceflight, preparing for missions beyond Earth orbit.
Together, they are representative of a NASA Astronaut Office in the midst of dramatic change — a corps that is just a third of the size it was in the year 2000.
And each of them look forward to a day when U.S. astronauts no longer are hitching rides on Russian spacecraft.
"Last night, we asked the question: 'Where do you think we're all going to be in five years?' And it makes me wonder," mission commander Chris Ferguson said a week ago Friday as he and his crew escorted Atlantis to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where it will be displayed in retirement.
The nation "certainly is going to have flown in space again," he said. "I mean, we're all, obviously, very strong proponents of human space flight, and we all want it to happen. We know it has to happen. We have a space station to support."
Ferguson guided Atlantis to a July 21, 2011, landing at Kennedy Space Center, winding up NASA's 135th shuttle mission and more than three decades of shuttle fleet operations.
NASA now is investing in the development of commercial spacecraft to ferry U.S. and partner nation astronauts to the International Space Station, which will operate until at least 2020 and perhaps 2028.
At the same time, NASA is developing supersized rockets and the Orion crew exploration vehicle for missions into deep space.
But it likely will be 2017 or later before U.S. astronauts are flying on commercial space taxis or the Apollo-style Orion deep space explorer.
Consequently, the size of the Astronaut Office is dwindling. The corps now numbers 52 — about 66 percent less than the 149 astronauts employed by the office in 2000.
That's not to say interest is in a post-shuttle nosedive.
NASA in 2013 will select nine to 15 new astronaut candidates from a pool of 6,372 applications submitted in response to an announcement of opportunity in late 2011.
That's the second-highest tally in the history of U.S. human spaceflight, and about double the 2,500 to 3,500 applications received in biennial selections.
NASA received more than 8,000 applications for 35 slots in the first class of shuttle-era astronauts selected in 1978.
Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson said NASA is looking for "people who really stand out."
An applicant's academic background and professional accomplishments are important factors in the selection process.
But NASA also will be looking at "other elements of their personality and character traits — what types of hobbies they have or unique life experiences," Whitson said.
"We want and need a mix of individuals and skills for this next phase of human exploration."
NASA in the post-shuttle era aims to keep the size of the astronaut corps at about 65 — the number needed to support International Space Station operations.
The members of NASA's 21st astronaut class will be announced in the spring of 2013. They will replace some of about two dozen high-achieving astronauts who have left the agency since the beginning of 2011 — the final year of shuttle operations.
Gone is Jerry Ross, the first astronaut to fly seven missions — a world record he holds with former astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz.
And Shannon Lucid, who flew a 188-day mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in the mid-1990s. It was the longest mission ever flown by a woman, a record that stood until Sunita "Suni" Williams flew a 195-day flight in 2006 and 2007.
Only two of the four astronauts on Ferguson's crew still are with NASA.
Pilot Doug Hurley is an assistant director for new programs in the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at Johnson Space Center, the organization that oversees the Astronaut Office. Mission specialist Rex Walheim is the Astronaut Office liaison to the Orion Program.
Mission specialist Sandra Magnus just took a job as the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Washington, D.C.
"It gives me the chance to still be involved in the aerospace community, but in a different way," she said.
Ferguson joined Boeing last December. He is the director of crew and mission operations for the company division that is developing a commercial spacecraft to fly U.S. astronauts to and from the space station.
"We're all pedaling very quickly to come up with the most cost-effective and safe solution for the nation to get humans back to low Earth orbit again," Ferguson said.