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Canine glamour was honored Friday in Cannes, with pampered poodle Baby Boy from Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" winning the film festival's unofficial Palm Dog prize.
The Hollywood pooches from Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" were named runners up in the contest for best four-legged performance.
The award was founded in 2001 — its name is a play on Cannes' top prize, the Palme d'Or — and is judged by a panel of film critics. Previous winners include superstar terrier Uggie from Oscar-winning movie "The Artist."
"What a remarkable canine year it's been," said judge Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian newspaper. He noted that while there was a lot of canine bling onscreen at Cannes, it also "has been a year of canine suffering and pain," with dogs meeting sticky ends in U.S. drama "Fruitvale Station," Mexican drug-war thriller "Heli" and other films.
Prize founder Toby Rose said this year judges also had to deal with "the interloper issue," in the form of the scene-stealing, audience-pleasing cat from Joel and Ethan Coen's "Inside Llewyn Davis."
The feline character, Ulysses, played by half a dozen different cats, was ruled ineligible for the Palm Dog.
Swarovski not worried about Cannes jewel thefts
There have been two high-profile jewelry thefts during the Cannes Film Festival, but team from Swarovski, which is providing baubles for stars to wear on the red carpet, isn't too worried about its inventory here.
"Our position is not as high as Chopard," Xavier Hottinger, a rep for Swarovski, said Thursday. The jewels he deals with just "look like precious stones."
Swarovski has been lending, and in some cases gifting, celebrities some of its famous crystal designs at the festival for more than a decade. Stars, or their stylists, have come into the famed crystal jeweler's luxurious white hotel suite during the festival to borrow items, including rings, earrings, necklaces and clutches.
This week, some of the stars who wore Swarovski included Frieda Pinto and Milla Jovovich. Some of the jewelry is still quite expensive: the dark gray earrings Jovovich wore on one red carpet cost about $321,000, said Hottinger.
But that's nothing compared with the diamond jewelry that Chopard stocks.
"To steal $1 million worth of Swarovski products, you would have to steal a trunk," he said.
Thieves stole about $1 million worth of jewels from Chopard after ripping a safe from a wall of a hotel room in Cannes last week, shortly after the festival began. The jewelry was stolen from a Novotel hotel room of an employee of the Swiss-based watch and jewelry maker.
Hottinger said Swarovski felt safe at the heavily guarded Martinez hotel, which is on the Croisette, the main strip in Cannes for the festival and where several stars are staying. It's also where Chopard has its official suite, which was not burglarized.
Unlike other jewelry brands who lend for red-carpet events, Swarovski doesn't use bodyguards to monitor the stars who borrow their items, which likely makes them feel more comfortable, Hottinger said.
"They have freedom, so they can go to a party without worrying," he said.
Alec Baldwin says stars should avoid the media while talking to the media
Alec Baldwin did the publicity tour at the Cannes Film Festival for the documentary "Seduced & Abandoned," but he recommends other stars be publicity-shy if they want to maintain their careers.
"Those people now who survive, like you look at Leo (DiCaprio), or you look at Russell Crowe or anybody who really is at the top of the pile, they avoid the press as much as possible," he said during an interview earlier this week.
"Half the press you deal with are malicious and out to destroy you, and they want to trip you, and when you fall down the stairs they want to cheer. They cheer when you fall down the stairs, and that's a very, very, very haunting reality for someone in my position to deal with," said Baldwin, who has had several tangles with the press.
"The way that you survive is you stay away from the press. You don't see Leonardo DiCaprio go on (David) Letterman. He does as much of that as he needs to and then he'll avoid that like it's a disease. It's terrible."
Baldwin also had harsh words for movie studios, assigning them blame for Lindsay Lohan's downward spiral.
"One minute Lindsay Lohan was one of the most promising young actors of her generation. . She was an enormously talented actor: Now she's a punch line," he said.
"Well, the company that did both those things, the company that developed her talent, is the same company that assassinated her in public. So that's the problem. . Not only do you not have a studio which mentors you, that cares for you, no one cares for you anymore, no one takes care of you anymore. "
Kylie Minogue shocked by French gay marriage protests
Gay icon Kylie Minogue, who attended amfAR's AIDS fundraiser in Antibes, says that she's shocked by recent vocal anti-gay marriage protests around France, and the case of a gay man who was victim of a homophobic attack in Paris.
"It's shocking and surprising. With the Cannes Film Festival, and all the fashion shows in Paris (that are tolerant to gay people) you'd think there would be no problem with gay people and equality in this country," she said.
"I hold my position. Gay people deserve the same rights as everybody else, to marriage and whatever it may be," she added.
Kylie joined movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica Chastain, Janet Jackson, Milla Jovovich and Goldie Hawn for the celebrity auction that raised $25 million for AIDS research.


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Only yesterday I posted about the hissy that Buzzfeed pitched over literally in the figurative sense. Today at Slate Simon Akam is railing against bridezilla and chillax and a handful of other contemporary constructions that he finds inelegant.*
Lord knows I agree with many of his dislikes. I've never watched Bridezillas; reality TV shows make me break out in hives. I did use chillax in a post once, but only for mild shock effect. Wikipedia may be a loathsome construction, but the graver problem is its suspect claim to accuracy and reliability.
So why (you saw this coming, didn't you?) am I about to lump Mr. Akam with Ms. Misener of Buzzfeed? Because charging your blunderbuss with rusty nails and shards of glass and blasting away at nonce words is an idle occupation. Bromance will either make a place for itself in the language or mercifully fade away with the genre it names. You and I and Mr. Akam will have very little to do with it.
After a fair bit of venting, Mr. Akam writes about what he considers responsible punning. I love a good one myself. In one of my favorites, the late Michael Flanders of Flanders and Swann renders "No smoke without fire" as "nil combustibus pro fumo."** But the pun is and was and always shall be such an inherently low form, prone to groaners, that efforts to elevate it are as idle as carrying on about ephemera.
You don't like the word bootylicious? Don't use it. It irritates you when a writer uses it? read somebody else. Really, this is not complicated.
*Curiously, he includes bardolatry (Bard of Avon plus idolatry, for excessive reverence of William Shakespeare) among twenty-first-century lapses in taste and judgment, though the OED cites George Bernard Shaw from 1901. Perhaps he should read more widely. Or research.)
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Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) research involves many ethical, legal, scientific, and policy issues that are of concern to the public. As such, it is essential to promote responsible practices in the conduct of hESC research. Various groups have developed guidelines for hESC research to advance the science in a responsible manner, including the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), and the International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). These organizations recommended that research institutions should create special review bodies to oversee this emerging field of research, with the intention of providing a critical level of review and scrutiny warranted by the complex issues raised by hESC research.
In order to ensure adherence to ethical and legal principles of hESC research, Yale University has established an Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) Committee as recommended by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies' 2005 Guidelines for hESC Research. ESCRO members are appointed by and serve as advisors to the Office of the Provost. The membership of the ESCRO reflects the scientific, medical, and ethical expertise necessary to perform the aforementioned responsibilities, and includes members of the Yale community (faculty, staff and/or students), as well as outside members, at the election of the Provost.
In addition, the University is committed to ensuring that the Federal government's current prohibitions against direct or indirect use of Federal funds for research on Non-Registry hESC Lines are fully observed. Link to Special Procedures for hESC Research Financial Tracking (in development).
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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, returned [Scrooges] nephew. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket I believe it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the old city knew, or any other good old city, town or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him.
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards, and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim Observed, God bless Us, Every One!
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Category: Non-Historical Miniatures
Rules: D&D Dungeon Command (1st Edition)
Cost: $4.00
Duration: 1 hour
Host: unknown (WIzards of the Coast)
Age requirement: Teen (13+)
Experience requirement: None (You've never played before)
Are materials provided: Yes
Location: Indiana Convention Center, room 134--139, table HQ
Tickets: 11 out of 24 are available (as of 1:30 AM Saturday August 25th, 2012, but this information may be out of date.)
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Time slot: Thu Aug 16 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event added: Wed May 23 2:34 pm
The Academy trains drow warriors in the martial arts. In Melee-Magthere, you can come to learn and play the new D&D miniatures game, Dungeon Command, featuring the Drow Faction Pack Sting of Lolth. The third branch of the Academy trains drow warriors in the martial arts. As a visitor to Melee-Magthere, you can come here to learn and play the new D&D miniatures skirmish game, Dungeon Command, featuring the Drow Faction Pack Sting of Lolth.
The event was originally listed with rules of "D&D Dungeon Command (1st)." It has been changed to "D&D Dungeon Command (1st Edition)."


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Aurora Morning Amble (Aurora)
June 29 @ 7:00 am - 9:00 am
An event every week that begins at 7:00 am on Saturday, repeating indefinitely
TYPE: STSP Weekly | PACE: Conversational | TERRAIN: Mostly paved trail, some grass/dirt trail, some road | DISTANCE: Approx. 4.5 mi
** Starting on Saturday 5/12, we will be moving the start time of the walk back to 7:00. This time will continue through the summer months, so that we can get our walk in and beat the heat of the day. **
One of our longest-standing walks, rebooted with new walk leader Robin. Come and explore parts of the High Line Canal and Aurora city streets and the Delaney Farm area. We have a wide range of wonderful participants including a host of friendly and welcoming regulars, and new walkers are arriving all the time!
Walk Leader: A long-time walker of this route, Robin recently took this walk over from Donna. She's enjoying leading the Aurora Amble 2.0. If you have questions or concerns about weather you can text Robin at 7 two zero-3 four 1-2 two nine 5.
Schedule & Parking: We will meet at 8:30 am in front of the Aurora Central Library. There is plenty of parking in the lot. We'll introduce ourselves, and answer any questions you might have. Please plan to arrive a few minutes before 8:30 am as we will leave NO LATER than 8:35 am. We should be done walking no later than 10:00 am. You may use the restroom in the library before and after the walk.
Trip Notes:
— Dogs welcome – We will be walking a loop going back to our starting location. Please consider whether your dog can handle 4 miles when walking in this season and insure that your dog is calm, and well-behaved. They MUST stay leashed. Please be sure to bring baggies.
— Restrooms available before and after the walk at the library.
— Consider bringing comfortable socks and shoes, a light backpack with water and a snack if you like (we will take a short break half way through the walk to have a drink and to sit if you need to). Dress accordingly for temperature and weather, and bring sunglasses or hat and sunscreen as there is not much shade on the path. Bring a camera if you have one, we do see wildlife regularly.
Welcome Waivers: Please fill out the online "Welcome Waiver" or download, print, sign and bring a hard copy if this will be your first Walk2Connect walking experience this year. If this is your first time walking with this trip leader, please arrive 5 to 10 minutes early to connect and learn more about the walk.
Welcome Waivers: Please fill out the online "Welcome Waiver" or download, print, sign, and turn in a hard copy if this will be your first Walk2Connect walking experience this year. If this is your first time walking with this trip leader, please arrive 5 to 10 minutes early to connect and learn more about the walk.
RSVP: You can RSVP one of two ways 1) On our Aurora Amble Meetup page 2) Texting Robin at 7 two zero-3 four 1-2 two nine 5.
You are welcome to text me (Robin) in the morning to check status or confirm the walk is going. But remember, no news is good news and we go unless otherwise notified. Know that I enjoy walking in cool and rainy weather, and it will have to be VERY cold or EXTREMELY wet for me to cancel. An umbrella and waterproof boots are great friends on a rainy walk!
Hope to see you there!
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We are pleased to announce our incredible concurrent session PRESENTER LINE-UP for the 2013 Louisiana Environmental Education Symposium on February 22-23 at the at the Marriott Hotel in Baton Rouge and hosted by the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission and the Louisiana Environmental Education Association.
We are excited about the variety of sessions we are able to offer this year! Every session will provide much needed inspiration and information for your students...all in the spirit of this year's theme: "Build A Sustainable Future!"
Also included in the line-up are some of our 2012 Environmental Education Research Grant recipients who will be showcasing their research projects in the Exhibit Hall on Friday, February 22nd.
So, get your hard hats on, grab your tools and equipment, because it's time to reshape the world! Let's build our sustainable future together! The blueprint starts here!
Early Bird Registration of $35 ends today (postmark deadline)! The regular registration fee of $50 will apply to all registrations with postmarks after today's date.
For more information on this year's Symposium, visit: www.wlf.la.gov/eecor contact Venise Ortego at email@example.com. This lineup is subject to change.


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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Four Seasons Hotel Reunion!
Justin Bieber walks into Four Seasons Hotel while his estranged girlfriend Selena Gomez follows close behind from his signature van on Thursday (November 15) in Los Angeles.
The day before, the 18-year-old entertainer headed to the LAX Airport to pick up the 20-year-old actress and then they drove to her home.
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The day after, Justin donned camouflage pants while shopping and also seen carrying around a skateboard in a different outfit.
Last week, it was reported that Justin and Selena had called it quits after dating for over a year and Victoria's Secret model Barbara Palvin was quick to deny rumors that she was dating Justin.
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A sense of place
Occasionally, Michael G. Imber will get a client who requests "a Michael Imber house."
"There's no such thing," says the San Antonio architect, whose residential work is celebrated in a gorgeous new coffee-table book titled "Ranches, Villas and Houses" from the respected New York art book publisher Rizzoli.
Add a third prestigious Palladio Award for traditional design and current building projects from Telluride to Costa Rica, and 2013 is turning out to be a pretty good year for the small firm based in Olmos Park.
"You see architects that have a specific style that says, 'This is what we do,'" Imber says. "That's not us. We're problem-solvers."
Imber has three goals when designing a building:
Meet the client's needs (which involves a lot of conversation).
Marry the building with the landscape (which requires a lot of contemplation and sketching skill).
Create an architecture that is meaningful to the client and the culture (which means research of the region where the project is located).
If there is a tie that binds Imber's designs, it is a sense of permanence.
Whether it is the La Dolce Vita complex in Roswell, N.M., with roots that can be traced back to ancient Rome, or Rancho Dos Vidas in Frio County, with its echoes of Mission Espada, an Imber building looks as if it has been there for a long time. Moreover, it looks like it belongs there.
"Generally, architects are no longer educated in the language of architecture," says Imber, a 52-year-old with a neat moustache and goatee, his genial face framed by straight gray hair that parts naturally in the middle. "When a client wants a traditional building, they'll look at bits and pieces and place elements — almost like Mr. Potato Head."
Imber's elegant work — built on a foundation of native stone, stucco, wood and iron by regional crafstmen — reflects a deep respect for history, landscape and the continuum of architecture.
"His work is beautifully crafted and unabashedly romantic," says architect Ted Flato of San Antonio's Lake-Flato Architects, which leans much more toward the modern. "His work is rooted in the great traditions of architecture but is very much a part of where we now live. And he has a beautiful hand, meaning he can draw very well, very fluidly, which allows an appreciation of the nuances of architectural tradition."
Reared in West Texas, Imber early on admired the simple proportions of the Pueblo village and frontier settlements such as Fort Davis that he encountered on family vacations.
For his fifth-year thesis project at Texas Tech University, Imber designed a Texas dude ranch; his body of student work earned him a fellowship to travel in Europe, where his admiration of classical architecture deepened.
Back in the States, Imber joined the Washington, D.C., firm of noted classicist Allan Greenberg, who emphasized history and nuts-and-bolts skills such as drawing and drafting. The South African believed that "architecture is like a river and its many branches influence its course." Imber was baptized in that river.
Returning to Texas, Imber found a kindred collective spirit in San Antonio and went on his own in 1992.
Michael G. Imber Architects has gone on to win many awards, including the 2007 Arthur Ross Award for commitment to the Classical tradition in residential architecture, the highest honor of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. Imber was the founding president of the Texas chapter.
In 2008, he was inducted into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, an honor only a small fraction of its thousands of members earn.
Branching out from residential to commercial, recent projects include a high school, a boutique hotel, a clubhouse and the Vistana lofts on the western edge of downtown San Antonio.
Imber is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism, a place-making philosophy that promotes walkable neighborhoods like those that existed before the automobile took over our lives.
He is a great admirer of the stone mason, the carpenter and the ironsmith; he has mixed grout with reddish sand from a local riverbed and carved a limestone lintel with a mustang grapevine design to root a building to its surrounding landscape.
"He begins his designs by considering the land through watercolors and then develops his ideas in relation to climate and local historical references," writes Elizabeth Dowling, professor emerita of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of "Ranches, Villas and Houses."
With architectural inspirations ranging from the Roman temple to the hacienda to the German Sunday house to the octagonal Czech meeting house — tempered by modern lifestyles, materials and methods — Imber designs buildings that, according to his colleague Marc Appleton, principal of Appleton & Associates Architects Inc. of California, "are not only rich in cultural iconography but in their attention to the craftsmanship that was typical of those building precedents."
For Imber, also a principal in Austin-based Mohon-Imber Interiors, no detail is insignificant.
"Imber is a keen observer of details that reinforce the architectural concept," Appleton writes in the new book. "One does not find a superficial pastiche of salvaged or store-bought materials and ornament but carefully researched and executed details that are integral to the larger idea. Very seldom are they self-consciously displayed but seem rather to be unassuming or natural parts of the overall fabric."
In other words, no potato heads.
Imber is not insulted by words such as "romantic" or "nostalgic," he says. He quotes Winston Churchill: "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
"I define myself as a modern classicist," Imber says. "We have to understand the language of the past, yet relate to the modern needs of our culture. We're not building museums to the past. We're interested in trying to understand who we are as people. Traditional architecture is so successful because it's generally doing what people want — not what architects want."
In a world of ubiquitous buildings, of "international" style, of "architecture as data transference," as Imber puts, the work of the so-called neoclassicists stands out — because it takes a step back.
"It is into this void that Imber's architecture intrudes and is making a difference," Appleton writes, "suggesting that the future of architecture may lie closer to home than we imagined."


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San Antonio, Texas, Aug 22, 2012 / 04:00 am ().- The Catholic Hispanic Leadership Alliance has applied Catholic social teaching to issues that will shape the upcoming presidential election in a new voter's guide.
"We invite U.S. Catholics to reflect on this document and use it as an aid to decision-making before entering the voting booth in November," president Robert Aguirre said Aug. 21.
The San Antonio-based group has gathered candidate opinions with related media reports and compiled them into a 21-page document to summarize where the presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties stand on particular issues.
"Opinions from candidates and the media related to these issues may be debated, but Catholic social teaching is clear," Aguirre said.
Available on the Catholic Hispanic Leadership Alliance's website, the document evaluates President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on 23 key issues such as "gay marriage", the contraception mandate and immigration reform and assigns them a score signifying how closely their policies and opinions line up with that of Catholic social teaching.
According to the group's analysis, President Obama achieved a score of 17.4 percent while Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney had a rating of 52.2 percent.
Aguirre said that the report's data indicates that "the difference between the two major party candidates is very clear."
With a population of 50.5 million people in the United States, 42.7 percent of Latinos are currently eligible to vote.
In the 2008 presidential election, 49.9 percent of those eligible voted, with 67 percent of them voting for Obama and 31 percent for McCain, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
Aguirre said that his organization's report draws from the U.S. bishop's statement "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility," which describes "responsible citizenship" as a "virtue" and political participation "a moral obligation."
"Let there be no mistake about it, this is a national call for Catholics to exercise their faith in the voting booth," Aguirre said.
Catholics have a responsibility to vote with "an informed conscience, formed by the Gospel," rather than from "habit or tradition," the report said.
To that end, the document is "an effort to assist thoughtful voters" in making their decisions for the upcoming presidential election.
It is expected that Latino voters will turn out in even greater numbers in November, given their largest showing yet for a non-presidential race at the 2010 midterm elections where three Hispanic candidates, Marco Rubio, Susan Martinez and Brian Sandoval, took top statewide offices in Florida, Nevada and New Mexico.
In that election, 60 percent of Hispanics voted for Democrats while 38 percent voted for Republicans. Those numbers reflect a change from the 2006 midterm elections where 69 percent voted for Democrats and 30 percent for Republicans.
Although the voter report comes from the Catholic Hispanic Leadership Alliance, it is intended for all Catholic voters in America.
"This isn't just an evaluation for Hispanic Catholics," Aguirre explained, "it is a guided reflection of the position of our Catholic Church and of all people of faith who believe in applying the principles of the Gospel in the public square."
The full text of the Catholic Hispanic Leadership Alliance's voter guide can be found at www.catholichispanic.org.
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I don't want any single person ever to be able to "push the button" and generate a fuckstorm of destruction on earth. Never understood all the stuff about mutual destruction, if we're fucked anyway, why strike back? It's not for our sakes, right? So, it's simply revenge? Kill a couple of billion, because "they started it!"?
"When the time comes to push that button".
You know, I would be a lot happier if that "when" was replaced with an "If ever".
Evidence suggests that George W. Bush, had he contemplated pushing the button, would have asked guidance from Jesus. And what would have been Jesus' response? "Nuke the m_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ s!"
There is a wonderful scene from a UK TV show called Yes, Prime Minister - in which the 'red button' policy is discussed. For those on low bandwidth, it is a 5.47 minute Youtube upload.
Remember, the strongest of our earliest ancestors, cyanobacteria (AKA pond scum), gobbled the weaker with no feelings of guilt. We are, very slowly and occasionally backsliding, learning to get along. Progress, which included the invention of chocolate, requires patience.
Japan would not surrender - that was the problem - the dropping of those bombs was necessary - they just would not give up.
The Japanese did not surrender because they had too much honor. Their emperor would not accept defeat and their people would fight to the death. They were not afraid and even after the bombs were dropped they didn't surrender. The Japanese surrendered because of the Soviet's threat to attck them. America was dragged into the war, only after Pearl Harbour - otherwise America would not have been in the war. But I am grateful that America did come into the war, otherwise Australia and eventually surrounding countries would be under Japanese rule. Without the bombs Japan would not have surrendered, keeping in mind Japan started this part of the war.
I can't imagine that scenario ever happening again - unless you get the likes of Mitt Romney who would believe in Armageddon - as did George W. This must never happen again. I do think Iran is years away from making a bomb, I would be more worried about Israel doing something dramatic, they already have the bomb.


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by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 35
This article appeared on TownHall.com on Thursday, July 11, 2002.
The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
--Patrick Henry
Another Fourth of July filled with patriotism and love of country has come and gone. Given the events of this past year, we shared a concern that terrorists would disrupt our holiday, but their deadly plans were thwarted by a federal government now focused on whats really important - ensuring our safety.
The foreign enemies of liberty have been kept at bay.
I believe its an appropriate time to thank those who have renewed their promise to keep us safe, and have delivered on that promise: our military, our FBI Agents, our police officers, our firemen, our doctors and our nurses these are the true American heroes of our time.
No significant act of terrorism has occurred since September 11, 2001, which proves that the federal government under new management has the ability to fend off our foreign enemies.
Sadly, the domestic enemies of liberty, our homegrown anti-patriots, have been working harder than usual. They behave like mindless termites, eating away at the foundations of our great nation.
The U.S. Senate, under the control of Liberal forces, has monkey-wrenched efforts of the Bush administration to fill the many federal court vacancies that our Supreme Court justices have rightfully labeled a crisis.
As a direct result of these forced vacancies, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California asked a retired judge to return to the bench to help reduce the heavy backlog. His help came just days before our precious Independence Day in the form of an appalling and absurd ruling: people could no longer use the phrase under God when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Think for a moment about the depth of hatred this man must have for those of us who believe in God.
In other forums, like our mainstream media, the Liberals are determined to hold on to power despite the fact that they are destroying the very foundations upon which this nation stands.
For years The Patrick Henry Center and other like-minded groups have been reporting that the media is heavily biased against Conservatives, rarely giving them a voice or an opportunity to state an opinion. Meanwhile, outrageous Liberal opinions are relentlessly splayed across newspapers and on television networks. Liberals wage a relentless war against the Bush administration, slinging mud at our president and his dedicated team. Im convinced they wont stop as long as they draw breath!
You may be aware that a new book has just been published that describes in great detail how the Liberal media attempts to silence and shut out people like us. Author Ann Coulters Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, has just achieved the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and you know Liberals are stomping mad about this!
Her book is an excellent and accurate analysis of the prevalent lies in the mainstream media. She provides many credible examples from Conservatives across the nation, including a reference to my own experiences:
In light of events since the release of Aldrichs book, leading to Clintons impeachment, contempt citation, and disbarment, Aldrich appears to have been vindicated with a whoop!
I am, of course, pleased that my account has been corroborated, but, as Coulter clearly shows, media bias remains rampant. Vindication does not mean we can lay down our swords of liberty. Rather, the 9th Circuit Court ruling is a grim reminder to us all of the need to increase our efforts in this battle against the Politically Correct. Right now, every Conservative voice must be heard!
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The impact of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has not only changed consumers' habits, but also exposed development engineers to serious challenges from diversified hardware platforms and shortened development time. In particular, the launch of Microsoft Windows 8 in late October 2012 will mark an extension beyond x86 platforms to include ARM architecture. To meet the challenges of working under such a complicated development environment, firmware engineers need a set of BIOS tools that can support multiple hardware platforms without disrupting the continuity of the BIOS development experience.
US-based American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a founding member of the Unified EFI (UEFI) Forum and a leading player in the global BIOS industry, has long been aware of these challenging market conditions. With this in mind, AMI hosted the "Touch the Future with Aptio V: The Innovative UEFI BIOS" technology forum at the Howard Civil Service International House in Taipei on October 5, sharing information about recent conditions and trends in the market, as well as providing an in-depth review of AMI's newly launched Aptio V UEFI BIOS Firmware. The event also featured a content-rich exhibition area to let participants experience the latest and most powerful development tools from AMI on the latest Windows 8-ready hardware.
AMI maintains a large share of the global BIOS market and a long history of innovation since its establishment in 1985, with over 1,100 employees worldwide and branch offices in many countries. AMI entered the Taiwan market in 1986, in recognition of Taiwan's strengths in the IT industry. In addition to its established presence in the BIOS industry, AMI has also made notable achievements in such diverse market sectors as network storage solutions, remote platform management technologies, solutions for mobile devices and system design services. A perfect example of the diversity of AMI's success is the MegaRAID Host Bus Controller (HBA), which AMI turned into the market leader in its class for several consecutive years before selling the product division to LSI Corporation in 2001.
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The company's Aptio UEFI Firmware is perfect for cross-platform development, suitable for diverse environments from mobile devices to personal computers and servers. The recently launched, next-generation Aptio V from AMI is able to further reduce developers' learning time thanks to its ease of use, and can effectively shorten new products' time-to-market by incorporating previously developed program modules.
Although the UEFI 2.3.1 specification is known for its focus on fast boot time, enhanced security functions and many other excellent features, in reality, user requirements from different market sectors may be completely distinct. For example, embedded devices may require accelerated boot times, while server equipment may require assistance from remote access service mechanisms to ensure security and system availability. In response, AMI has been extremely proactive in enhancing the functionality of its BIOS solutions to meet needs across the market spectrum. Its FastBoot capability is targeted at embedded devices to shorten system boot time to a mere 0.6 seconds, while AMI is currently engaged in the development of Aptio V for the 64-bit ARM platform to help bring a solution based on the ARM platform to the server market.
"AMI has also recently introduced a unique product called DuOS into the market which allows users to run both Windows and Android operating systems on x86-based hardware," noted Mr. Shankar. "We have observed that some consumers wish to run two operating systems on their tablets and created DuOS to enable Android to run under the Windows 7/8 environment without rebooting." Such innovative solutions not only satisfy the ever-evolving demands of the consumer market, but also allow AMI's partners to introduce unique and eye-catching products to enhance their competitiveness.
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Since the birth of the personal computer, BIOS has always handled the tasks of initialization, hardware inspection and booting the operating system. As the IT industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the speed at which new hardware architectures enter the market is so fast that manufacturers and system designers are greatly challenged to quickly learn to use the development tools for these new platforms, as well as deal with an overall lack of qualified firmware engineers. In the face of such harsh conditions, a cross-platform BIOS development tool is the only real solution to the shortage of tool familiarization time and capable development personnel.
AMI's Aptio UEFI development environment meets these challenges head-on, as it is easy to use and can significantly shorten the learning period for newly recruited engineers. In addition, its cross-platform support leverages senior engineers' valuable development experience, accelerating product launches for the consumer market.
The newly-launched, latest-generation Aptio V inherits the strengths of Aptio 4 and adds several key innovations to improve development workflow, such as integration of the industry's latest EDK II implementation and an enhanced Visual eBIOS (VeB) development interface. Aptio V also enables continuity of previous development experience from non-EDK II projects to speed up the product development process by firmware engineers. Furthermore, the modular architecture and integrated programming library in Aptio V help reduce human errors and costs incurred from future product modifications.
AMI's Director of Strategic Marketing, PaiLin Huang explained that "Aptio V represents AMI's latest efforts to satisfy the wide range of challenges that our partners routinely face. Thanks to its cross-platform support, Aptio V can reduce the number of lines in program codes, facilitate better use of personnel resources and shorten development time. It can also contribute to a sizeable reduction in the overall development cost." To further enhance support for its valued partners, AMI is also strengthening its services and providing all of the necessary tools and technology required by OEM and ODM partners in areas such as manufacturing, maintenance and customer support, with the goal of minimizing the challenges that these partners may face during development and production.
Because Aptio V is built with the latest EFI Development Kit (EDK II) at its core, AMI's partners are assured of full support for the complete UEFI specifications with Aptio V. Its design is very similar to AMI's previous-generation UEFI Firmware, Aptio 4.6x; as such, key learning acquired with Aptio 4 is easily carried over to the new firmware platform. Another noteworthy point is that Aptio V retains many of the acclaimed features of Aptio 4, such as its diagnostic and debug capabilities, recovery, enhanced SMM service, PCI Bus support and multiple-language support. Retaining these features allows developers to preserve their design methods and extend existing projects to new platforms, such as those based on ARM hardware.
In light of the rapid pace of changes in the consumer market, AMI has also added several new features to Aptio V to enhance the efficiency of its application. For example, Aptio V provides a number of import wizard functions that allow firmware engineers to quickly transfer their previous Aptio 4 modules, such as the EDK Package, to the new platform - which means that valuable code can still be used in future projects.
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AMI Vice President of Engineering Department Stefano Righi noted, "Aptio V is definitely the best choice for developing Windows 8-based products. In addition to multiple fast-boot options to choose from, it also supports several security specifications, such as TPM, Secure Boot and Secure Firmware Update, to allow users to launch products that suit market demand in a short period of time." Additionally, Aptio V offers a menu-based graphical user interface for adding or removing features, something that helps junior engineers maintain existing development projects with ease.
For example, the Visual eBIOS (VeB) development environment supports multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux, with cross-platform support for x86, x64 and ARM systems. Not only can VeB reduce the need for coding with complex commands, consistency between Aptio versions and hardware platforms means there is no need to re-learn how to use the tool. Instead, the VeB development environment allows firmware engineers managing different product lines to share their development experience, leading to improved product quality and stability.
AMI understands clearly that cross-platform and cross-OS support are of utmost importance to firmware engineers. Mobile devices, which saw shipments of over 100 million units in 2011, are a great example of the need for such broad support. The majority of mobile devices shipped were based on the ARM architecture, in large part thanks its emphasis on power efficiency. But because development for ARM-based devices is significantly different from that for x86-based platforms, firmware engineers were often forced to re-learn the development tools as they moved between platforms. Aptio V solves this problem by enabling engineers to quickly transplant their x86 development experience and related applications onto the ARM architecture without any compatibility issues.
Tony Lo, AMI Senior Manager of R&D explained that "Developers can easily transform existing program modules to ARM or Android environments through Aptio V's import tool. For firmware engineers that have been working with Aptio 4, it is truly a convenient and useful solution." In cases where engineers may not be overly familiar with the transform function, AMI also provides in-depth technical support to help enterprises quickly adopt the Aptio V toolset and will even provide assistance with transforming existing code.
In short, to respond quickly to the business opportunities that will soon be triggered by Windows 8 and the onset of the mobile generation, AMI's cross-platform Aptio V is not only the most efficient development tool on the market, but also the best choice for enterprises to maintain their hard-earned competitiveness.
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AMI CEO Subramonian Shankar explains how the company has been closely monitoring market changes to provide the IT industry with complete and timely solutions. According to Shankar, with regard to the Windows 8-supported UEFI 2.3.1 specifications, AMI is ahead of the competition by releasing Aptio V with full support for the complete UEFI specifications, giving its partners a head start towards the enormous business opportunities expected to come with the launch of Windows 8.
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STOCKTON, Calif. - The Santa Clara women's basketball team compiled a 71-64 victory over Pacific Saturday night at the Spanos Center. With the win the Broncos improved to 6-3 on the season, while the Tigers dropped to 3-5 overall.
Redshirt junior Sara Majors led all players with 17 points and led the Broncos with five rebounds. Senior Jen Gottschalk registered 15 points and three assists, while junior Elizabeth Doran recorded 11 points and went 5-for-6 from the free throw line. Senior Chandice Cronk also led all players with three steals.
The score was kept extremely tight for the entire first half. Pacific was first to break away on free throws from Andrea Swanson, 6-4. Santa Clara tried to tie the score, but Pacific held onto its slight lead. With 13:02 remaining, Maggie Goldenberger knotted the score 8-8 with a free throw and the two teams battle shot-for-shot once again. A nailed jumper from Tracey Walker with 10:40 left gave SCU its first lead of the game, 12-10. Yet, the Tigers tied the score and a three-point goal from Jake Kelly put UOP up, 15-12.
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The Broncos held control of the scoreboard in the beginning of the second half as points from Majors, Walker and Gottschalk made the score 46-40. Yet, a 6-0 run fueled by baskets from Karen Dawkins and Jake Kelly tied the score, 46-46, with 12:48 remaining. Santa Clara bounced back and kept control pushing to a 50-46 lead on back-to-back layups from Gottschalk, but UOP knotted the score again, 50-50.
After three and half minutes of scoreless action Majors ended the rut with a free throw and Gottschalk added four points with back-to-back layups to give SCU a 57-50 advantage with 6:24 remaining in regulation. Santa Clara continued to widen the gap, earning the game's largest lead, 63-50, on a made jumper from Majors with 3:30 left. SCU held Pacific scoreless for eight and a half minutes until free throws from Jennifer Fath made the score 63-52. A three-point goal shortly after from Kelly brought the Tigers within 10-points, 65-55. Free throws from Cronk, Majors and Walker kept the Broncos alive as the Tigers tried to chip away at the lead.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The No. 16 Georgia College golf team concluded its 17th-consecutive Regionals in a tie for 16th with Rollins College. The Bobcats shot a third-day team-score 310 for a three-day 911 total at the 2014 NCAA South/Southeast Regionals at Savannah Quarters Country Club on the 7,016-yard par-72 course.
"I'm very proud of the competitive nature of this group," said head coach Jimmy Wilson. "The guys competed just as hard as always. It just wasn't in the cards for the Bobcat golf team this year."
Georgia College's team scores for the three-day event were 300, 301 and 310, respectively. The 911 total was 47-over par. The top-four scorers for the Bobcats today were senior Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.), freshman Conner Albright (Macon, Ga.), senior Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) and sophomore David Sullivan (Woodstock, Ga.). Just behind Sullivan by one stroke was freshman Nicolas Falkinhoff (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Monte finished with a three-over par 75, followed by a five-over par 77 by Albright. Fox was third on the team with a six-over par 78, while Sullivan rounded out the team scoring with an eight-over par 80. Falkinhoff improved his game from the previous day to finish with a nine-over par 81.
Georgia College's two departing seniors finished highest individually overall. Fox, who had the best score of any golfer Tuesday, finished with a 226 (81-67-78) tied-41st. Just one stroke behind him was Monte with a 227 (75-77-75), tied-52nd.
"We lose two tremendous seniors in Victor Monte and Bryan Fox," said Wilson. "Our younger guys certainly have some big shoes to fill."
Albright finished tied-71st (75-78-77) with a 230 total and Sullivan carded a 233 score (74-79-80) for tied-80th. Falkinhoff finished tied-95th with a 240 (76-83-81).
The Bobcats ended 30 strokes back of a national invitation with No. 1 Barry University taking the Super Regional Title with a four-under par 868. The Buccaneers were the only team in the tournament to finish under par.
The other six teams that finished below Barry (and over-par) that will play for the National Championship are: No. 11 Nova Southeastern University (10-over par), No. 3 USC Aiken (12-over par), No. 8 Armstrong Atlantic State University (12-over par), No. 6 Lynn University (13-over par), Delta State University (17-over par) and No. 13 University of North Alabama (17-over par).
Wilson summed up the three-day tournament, "It's always tough preparing for finals and NCAA Regionals at the same time. The boys worked hard both in the classroom and on the golf course. It just seemed as though we couldn't get out of our own way this week."
Prior to this week, the Bobcats were getting in everyone else's way. Georgia College entered the Super Regionals with first- and second-place finishes in its last two outings. In March, the Bobcats won the Bearcat Invitational Golf Classic hosted by Lander University. In their lone April appearance, Georgia College finished runner-up in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament.
Individually, three Bobcats made the All-PBC Team. Fox was a First Team selection, while Monte and junior Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) were selected to the Second Team.
Fox finished second and tied-second in the First Federal Southeastern Collegiate and the Bearcat Invitational, respectively. The senior was named PBC Golfer of the Week and Bobcat Athlete of the Week once during the season.
Falkinhoff also received Bobcat Athlete of the Week honors and finished fourth overall in the Bearcat Invitational.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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It's a reasonable approach, since company websites typically provide the kinds of information that explain what a company does, the products or services they sell and some means for collecting inquiries or conducting transactions.
But here's the problem with that in 2014 and beyond: Consumer trends towards content discovery, engagement and interaction have evolved way beyond the common corporate website or online store.
Buyers can get the information they need to decide on a vendor or make a transaction from any combination of devices; smartphone, tablet, computer or web destination; social network, blog, microsite, industry publication, document hosting service.


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Mark Leopold is a Philadelphia improviser, sketch comedian, employee, owner-of-a-wardrobe-full-of-plaid-shirts, and a friend. He is a member of the PHIT house team Hey Rube as well as a new addition to the cast of Comedysportz and he does sketch comedy with his group The Hold-up. When he isn't doing one of these things he is busy doing other things, like working and laundry, and so while he sincerely wishes he was able to be a real interviewer, the best he is able to do is interview people in his head while he drives different places. Today, while going to pick up some milk, Mark took some time to sit down in a tent down at Occupy Philly in his head with Philadelphia improviser and Beirdo member Dan Jaquette.
Mark Leopold: Hey Dan, it's me Mark!
Dan Jaquette: Hi. (extending his hand for a handshake) Dan.
ML: (shaking his hand) Mark.
This joke really only makes sense to the two of them and is based on a single incident which has colored their friendship ever since.
ML: So, you're in Beirdo now…that's new and therefore, something we should talk about.
DJ: I'm doing it ironically.
ML: Beirdo?
DJ: Yes. I'm a member of the group ironically. Whereas Dennis and Kevin are both genuinely interested and committed to being in an improv group based on the fact that they have beards, I actually grew a beard and joined the group as a commentary on people who would do that sort of thing.
ML: That is…elaborate.
DJ: No one has ever accused me of being less than elaborate.
ML: I've heard you described as circumspect.
DJ: How flattering!
ML: Do you know what it means?
DJ: Not entirely, but honestly I find it flattering that people are talking about me at all.
ML: Any press is good press?
DJ: Something like that. I feel like circumspect means something about circles, like circumference. And the "spect" part is probably a dig about my glasses.
ML: Well you do wear glasses.
DJ: I know right?
ML: (laughing) Terrible!
DJ: Just call me Mr. Imperfect Vision.
ML: (holding up his finger to call attention to an important point he wants to make) Bad eyesight is caused by the eyeball becoming deformed and throwing off the focal point of the lens in your cornea. Fact.
DJ: And there's other reasons too…
ML: Nope. Just that reason. That is the only reason for bad eyesight.
DJ: I find myself forced to agree with you.
ML: We've got quite a back and forth going here Dan.
DJ: It's Gilmore Girl-esque.
ML: You're Gilmore Girl-esque.
DJ: Heyoo!
ML: …and you wear glasses!
DJ: You're really on a roll now.
They laugh uproariously and smile…the best of friends.
ML: (extending hand for a handshake) Mark.
DJ: (raising eyebrows in a spot-on imitation of a person meeting Mark for the first time) Dan.
ML: Ah! So…let's talk about you getting married.
DJ: Okay.
ML: Has that already happened?
DJ: My marriage?
ML: Yeah, are you already married or are you just engaged?
DJ: I am engaged.
ML: To…I want to say…Helen?
DJ: Ellen.
ML: Eileen?
DJ: Nope, still Ellen.
ML: Yeah, that's just not sticking. Any chance we could get that changed?
DJ: What works for you?
ML: Hm. Brooke?
DJ: She doesn't seem like a Brooke.
ML: Are you kidding? She's smart and funny and pretty!
DJ: Easy…that's my future wife there tough guy.
ML: Wow…you just don't strike me as a the type of person who would say "tough guy."
DJ: Are you kidding? I'm a rugged badass with a beard and a motorcycle, but who has also studied the works of Shakespeare at a graduate level.
ML: Hm, well I guess that settles it. Best of luck with…dammit…Elton?
DJ: Not a first name.
ML: Maureen?
DJ: Someone else entirely.
ML: …well…I mean…I'm assuming most of these other names belong to other people entirely…
DJ: Not Erolton.
ML: No one's gotten to that name yet?
DJ: Not yet. It's fresh off the name-assembly line.
ML: It's not terrible.
DJ: Well don't get any ideas, we're planning on naming our first child Erolton.
ML: We?
DJ: Yeah, me and…oh man...dammit.
More laughter. More friendship.
ML: (extending hand for a handshake, but unsure.) Dan?
DJ: (thinks for a moment, then points like he's ninety percent sure) Mark.
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Utah defensive end Trevor Reilly spent the summer stabilizing his surgically repaired knee, increasing his strength and getting faster.
Now he wants to do the same for Utah's defensive unit when the Utes open camp Aug. 5.
Reilly, who earned an All-Pac-12 honorable mention in 2012 despite playing with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, is determined to end his college career with a good year for himself and the Utes.
"We had some ups and downs that were out of our control," he said, referring to Utah's injuries at the quarterback position. "But we are ready to go now."
Reilly represented Utah along with tight end Jake Murphy at the Pac-12 media day in Culver City, Calif.
He was selected because he is a natural leader and good spokesman for the team, according to Utah coach Kyle Whittingham.
Reilly is expected to fulfill the same role on the field when the season starts. He already has his coach's respect after leading the team last year with 69 tackles and three forced fumbles.
"There aren't many guys who could have played on a knee like that," Whittingham said. "He is a tough guy and he should be in for a very good year for us."
The Utes need a good year from Reilly to help a defense that was average but not great in 2012.
Utah allowed an average of 363 yards and 25 points a game, but gave up too many big plays and didn't create enough takeaways.
As Whittingham said, the Utes aren't accustomed to average.
"We need to be better than that," he said.
Reilly believes the Utes can improve. He, for one, feels better about his own play now that his knee is repaired.
"I'm a lot more stable than I was last year on it," he said. "I didn't want to sit out spring ball, but I had major knee surgery and it was the reality of the situation. I'm ready for camp now."
Reilly said Utah's defense doesn't need a lot of work overall, just some attitude adjustments and increased efforts overall.
"It comes down to personal accountability for every position," he said. "If you win your personal battle, then the game takes care of itself."
The defensive end spot is a position that should be strong for the Utes. Reilly is healthier, Nate Orchard has experience and Jason Whittingham is an up-and-coming player moved from linebacker to end.
When it comes to leadership, Reilly believes he, linebacker Brian Blechen, tackle Tenny Palepoi and safety Eric Rowe will set the standard for the defensive unit.
"We need to be leaders," Reilly said. "You can't always lead by example. Sometimes you need to step up and talk in terms."
Watching his teammates practice in the spring when he couldn't participate was difficult, Reilly said.
He occupied some of his time by honing his golf game, a sport he described as "addicting."
But hitting a little white ball across a manicured field isn't the same as getting down and dirty in the trenches of the Pac-12 in the hunt for quarterbacks.
His improved health, a fresh outlook and a long offseason have Reilly eagerly awaiting the start of camp.
"We're ready to go," he said.
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Is this your Camelot ... in Makiki?
For centuries, scholars have argued over where King Arthur's Camelot may be located, and if it actually exists. Well, they can continue their debate while I tell you about one very real Camelot, right in Makiki.
The Camelot condominium may not hold the romance of one in an Arthurian world (after all, most of its units are leasehold), however, it does have the charm of being in a tight-knit community where neighbors keep an eye on what's happening.
"Lifestyle, location and the convenience of living in a place like that are what residents love about it," says realtor Renee Hampton of Kahala Associates. "It's a well-managed building on a nice street with old-fashioned curbs."
This one-bedroom corner unit, on the 12th floor, was tastefully redone in 2010. The owner, who invested $50,000 in the renovation, installed granite countertops throughout, new cabinetry, carpeting, tile flooring and appliances, including a Bosch washer and dryer.
"She didn't do it for the resale," says Hampton. "It was done with the intention of staying there." However, for personal reasons, the owner is upsizing.
During the renovation, the kitchen wall was removed to create an open space bridging the area into the living room. Making great use of space, there's now a bar top with two chairs on one side, storage above and below the countertop on the kitchen side, along with a hanging fixture overhead for stemware.
One of the notable details in the bathroom is a walk-in shower with an attractive river rock floor.
From the lanai, which has remote control shutters, you can enjoy views of the city and sunset.
The building's amenities include a pool, whirlpool, barbecue and exercise room. The swimming pool and lobby areas were redone last year.
The address scores an 80 on Walkscore.com making it "very walkable" to restaurants, grocery stores and coffee shops. However, if you need to drive to do errands, the price includes one covered parking stall.
As I mentioned above, many of Camelot's units are leasehold, and this is one of them. It's obviously something to consider when purchasing a home. But the lease doesn't expire until 2036, so perhaps for a retiree who's looking for a turn-key condo, this might be Camelot.
You can take a look on Wednesday at a broker's open house (open to the public) from 9 to 11 a.m. Click here for details.
Money talk: $250,000 leasehold
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Music's biggest stars have been known to adopt alter-egos from time to time – Beyonce channels Sasha Fierce, Garth Brooks became Chris Gaines for an entire album and David Bowie transformed into the unforgettable Ziggy Stardust in the '70s – but Jennifer Lopez is not becoming the mysterious Lola.
In advance of J.Lo's upcoming new album, "Love?" dropping in January, the singer has released the dance track "Fresh Out of the Oven," featuring rapper Pitbull. The track will not be appearing on her new album, but has spawned a Web site and Twitter account featuring a dancing diva named Lola, sparking rumors that J.Lo might be taking on a new identity.
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But according to a source close to the singer, Lola is not sticking around.
"Lola is just for this song, it's not her ongoing persona," the source told People "It's something fun. She hasn't become Sasha Fierce. There won't be anything to do with Lola on her 'Love?' album."
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J.Lo's record label also confirmed that Lola wouldn't be hanging around too long on Jenny's block.
"This is a hot club record that the label loved and Jennifer thought was fun," Amanda Ghost, president of Epic Records told People. "Jennifer and Pitbull got together and the record leaked. Lola is a fun character just for this song."
Listen to Jennifer's "Fresh Out of the Oven," HERE! Fierce hit? Or dance floor bore? Tell us what you think below in our comments section below!
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Big cats from the Calgary Zoo could be moved to holding cells at the Calgary Court Centre if flooding conditions worsen.
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Big cats from the Calgary Zoo could be moved to holding cells at the Calgary Court Centre if flooding conditions worsen.
Earlier this morning, Bruce Burrell, director of Calgary Emergency Management Agency said the cats were evacuated from the zoo to cells at the new court centre to ensure they would be safe from flood waters.
However, police officials told the Herald at 6 a.m. that the big cat move to the courthouse hadn't occurred but they still consider it an option.
Zoo spokeswoman Laurie Skene said the zoo had discussed a number of options for the cats, which include four lions, two snow leopards and six tigers, three of which are cubs that are approaching full size.
"The courthouse remains a contingency plan for the big cats if they need to be evacuated," said Skene.
The cats have been moved to other zoo enclosures including holding pens at the zoo's animal health centre.
Parts of the zoo are under a foot or two of water, particularly the west end.
Two pot-bellied pigs were believed to be evacuated to the City of Calgary animal shelter from their low-lying enclosure.
The gorillas were also confined to a higher area of their enclosure which includes a large play area, due to fears that flood waters could seep into the lower part of their homes.


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DIN is a 100-year-old typeface that was in dire need of a makeover – and Linotype's Akira Kobayashi has done just that. Originally available in only two weights, the DIN Next™ typeface enlarges the family to 25 designs, perfectly suited for today's digital typesetting needs.
The history of the DIN Next typeface design is long and storied. The original DIN 1451 typeface was based on 1905 master drawings for an alphabet used by the Prussian railroad as a means of standardization. Later, the typeface's use was extended to the rest of the German railway system. Gradually, DIN 1451 was also used for road signs and a variety of engineering applications.
DIN, an acronym for the "German Deutsches Institut für Normung" (German Institute for Standardization), was used for industrial applications for decades. DIN was not used much by graphic designers until the late 1980s and, for many years, only the two basic weights were available. In 2009, Akira Kobayashi, Linotype's type director, gave this venerable sans serif new life. To distinguish the DIN Next typeface from its older brethren, Kobayashi developed a new family of seven weights, from light to black, each having complementary italic and condensed counterparts. Also available are four rounded designs, bringing the new family's total to 25 typefaces.
Several aspects of the original DIN typeface design were changed, including the corner angles, which, instead of being squared off, were redesigned with a slight rounding. Additionally, a suite of small capitals, old style figures, subscript, superscript and several alternate characters (for example, uppercase C and G as well as "slashed" versions of the capital Z and the figure 7) were designed to complement the new typeface.
The DIN Next family provides graphic communicators with a typeface to fit virtually any project requirement. DIN Next, like its inspiration, DIN 1451, is a highly effective typeface for print use – particularly headlines. It is also a bold, "honest" face for logotype.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Critical pedagogy encourages students to respond to texts not just as literary critics, but as politically aware members of a community.
One of the central tenets of critical pedagogy, especially as it is outlined by education scholar Paulo Freire, is the establishment of classrooms in which teachers and students learn together. Critical pedagogy allows students to speak with greater authority because they are drawing on knowledge they already possess. While discussing creative assignments, moreover, teachers and students can create a dialogue in which they both learn about the issues they mutually face. At the same time, teachers can help students to find their own voices and their own capacity for action. In this mode, students generate questions and determine the direction of their studies, while teachers participate as equal, fellow members of their shared community.
Critical pedagogy is also a valuable means of helping students to interact with their communities more effectively. By speaking in a self-expressive mode, students are able to connect their own experiences with those of their communities. Just as importantly, students who develop a means for creative political expression begin to consider how they want their thoughts and words to affect others. As students work to guide their own studies, to critique the political ideologies at work in their communities, and to develop creative dialogues with others, they become active, teaching participants in their classrooms and communities. Critical pedagogy, at its heart, moves toward this goal. As educator Henry Giroux writes: "[Critical] pedagogy ... signals how questions of audience, voice, power, and evaluation actively work to construct particular relations between teachers and students, institutions and society, and classrooms and communities."
Impact on teaching literature
Critical pedagogical classrooms encourage students to see literary texts as cultural constructs which both comment on and develop out of given ideologies. They also encourage students to direct their own investigations of literary texts, focusing on issues that are important in their daily lives. That focus often inspires students to read literature more closely, exploring why an author might have made specific literary choices and how those choices support or resist dominant ideologies.
Critical pedagogy also offers students a means of finding connections between literature and their own communities. Because critical pedagogy in literature classrooms combines literary analysis with political action, teachers often find it valuable to move from criticism of a given text to activism in the community. A teacher may begin by encouraging students to investigate the practices of a given culture, for example, and then ask students how these practices support or subvert the political power structure. Students may then write argumentative essays, petitions, or proposals for making positive changes in their communities.
Incorporating critical pedagogy in the classroom
In the classroom, teachers can introduce critical thinking by comparing texts that reflect in different ways on a single political question. A teacher might ask students to compare different kinds of texts that refer to the same issue (for example, medical texts and memoirs that refer to foot-binding); or he or she might ask students to compare multiple literary texts that explore the same issue but in different cultural settings (for example, two memoirs, one Chinese and one African American, both of which focus on the politics of beauty).
By comparing cultural practices from a variety of perspectives, students learn to read critically. In addition, critical pedagogy often forces students to lay aside prejudices about cultures unfamiliar to them. Cultural practices that at first may seem unusually barbaric -- for example, the foot-binding practiced in Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Thousand Pieces of Gold -- seem, after further consideration, to mirror the more familiar and "acceptable" practices of dieting or cosmetic surgery.
Teachers will also want to focus on texts with strong political content, such as memoirs that describe the experiences of people of color, for example, or novels that explore the social and cultural practices of a given community. These texts can help students to locate similar practices in their own communities, so that they can become active participants in their worlds.
Benefits and challenges of using a critical pedagogy approach
A critical pedagogy approach offers students a way to bring texts into their lives in an immediate way: They learn how their thoughts and their actions connect. Critical pedagogy also encourages students to explore how they can make effective arguments. Moreover, by finding ways to critique and change practices in their own communities, students realize that they are ultimately responsible for their communities.
Assignments may consist of papers or presentations that combine literary analysis with historical research or proposals for change. Teachers may also ask students to design their own assignments, responding in a way they see fit to the issues raised in class.
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