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"Catch a Rising Star"
Award recognizes student's campus leadership
Student's New Product Debuts on QVC-TV
Angela Cakridas partners with home shopping host and "Shark Tank" star Lori Greiner
Final Exam: A Reenactment of the Boston Tea Party
"I feel so lucky because I get to experience the American Revolution in the place where it was born–Boston."
Leadership Award Recognizes Student Willing to Take Chances
"One thing I've learned through my involvement at Suffolk is that's it's important to step out of your comfort zone. Those are the times when you learn the most about yourself and about others around you." –Helaina Polito
Cram Session
Caffeine, books, calculators, notes... did we mention caffeine? It's final exam time, and we asked Suffolk students putting their noses to the grindstone to share their experiences in words and pictures.
University Economists Testify at State House
"Massachusetts is going through a soft patch, but state revenue collections will be returning to healthier trends." —David Tuerck
Athletes' Holiday Traditions Benefit Local Kids
Student-athletes get into the holiday spirit with Toys for Tots and Breakfast with Santa events
University Launches First Phase of Revitalized Web Presence
New site offers compelling stories and easy-to-find information
A Student's Best Friend
Students take a break from the Dog Days of final exams and papers
For Students, a Day to Celebrate
"Campus is on fire today. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
James McCarthy Inaugurated as University's Ninth President
President says the integration of technology and coursework will be key to student success and to cutting the spiraling cost of higher education
Casting a Wide Net
Virtually every state has a law drafted by Suffolk Law Professor Carter Bishop
Conference Honors 2 Basketball Players after Opening Weekend
Colin Halpin named Player of the Week as he joins 1,000-point club, while Caleb Unni's 29 points earn him Rookie of the Week honors
Rams Player Hits 1,000-Point Milestone
Colin Halpin joins the elite Rams basketball players who have scored 1,000 career points in the men's program
Professor's Journal Article Analyzes Spain's Unique Role in the Eurozone Economic Crisis
"The notion that the country was irresponsible and that public debt had got out of control is simply not true."
An Eye-Opening Experience
Lidia Zayas gained experience and confidence working with Habitat for Humanity during Alternative Spring Break
University President to Be Inaugurated Amid Academic Pageantry at Faneuil Hall
James McCarthy will speak about future of higher education and vision for the University
Suffolk University and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Present "The Last Will"
The final installment of Distinguished Scholar in Residence Robert Brustein's trilogy imagines an ailing, confused William Shakespeare acting as if he were in one of his own plays
Budding Journalist Creates Sports Talk Show
Students, athletes, and coaches gather weekly in the campus television studio for Clash of the Rams
The Future of Higher Education
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BMA Networks is a leading interactive music and entertainment service, reaching consumers through digital cable, broadband and community events. BMA Networks currently delivers multimedia content encompassing video, audio and enhanced graphics consumers of African American arts and culture.
Black Music America is a pioneer in the delivery of cultural specific cable programming service. BMA Digital Channel delivers local and national entertainment, music, arts, news and marketing services through Comcast Cable (channel 937) in Minneapolis and St. Paul and surrounding 13 counties.
In the 2000s, no pop star was as poised, polished, or generally fierce as Beyoncé Giselle Knowles. She scored early success with Destiny's Child which gradually became more and more a vehicle for Beyoncé's operatic vocals and general diva-tude. Beyoncé was omnipresent in the 2000s.
One of the greatest living rappers — and certainly the most inventive and consistently successful — Jay-Z has built a career on combining nimble and largely autobiographical rhymes with adventurous production that incorporates everything from snatches of classic R&B to Broadway showtunes and Eighties electropop.
Wu-Tang Clan
The Wu-Tang Clan established a hip-hop empire with street poetics, kung fu mythology, ingenious production and entrepreneurial savvy. The outfit's rugged beats and top-notch MCing have taken the two-turntables-and-a-mike foundation of hip-hop to its grimiest, and arguably most artistic extreme.
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Kids will love making this Valentine's Day Love Bug. This fun poster activity will allow kids to create their very own Valentine's Day "Love Bug" designed with a pocket so that they can safely store the Valentine cards they receive from their friends.
Red and black poster board
Pre-cut letters and shapes
Poster Markers
Glitter Glue
Large red pom-poms (2)
Black and red pipe cleaners
What to do:
- Draw a large circle on black poster board by tracing a circular household item such as a large bowl.
- Cut out this circle and trace it onto red poster board. Cut out the red circle.
- Cut a smaller circle out of black poster board. Glue this circle to the larger black circle to create your bug's body.
- Lay the red circle on top of the large black circle and attach the two pieces together on the sides ¾ of the way around, leaving an opening at the top. This will form a pocket.
- Draw a line down the center of your bug and go over it with a marker.
- Cut a triangle shape out of black poster board and glue it to the bottom of your bug.
- Glue pre-cut letters and shapes to your bug to make it unique. Then, accent them with glitter glue around the edges.
- Finally, add red pipe cleaners to your bug to make legs and black pipe cleaners with red pom-poms to make antennae.
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Bullhead (US - BD RA)
Gabe pumps himself full of steroids and hormones for this Belgian feature review.
Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Matthias Schoenaerts), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious Mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. (From the original Drafthouse Films synopsis)
I usually try to preface a review with some kind of historical perspective and personal context, but Bullhead (original title Rundskop) defies both. This Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nominee (it lost to Iranian divorce melodrama, A Separation) comes from first-time feature film writer/director Michaël R. Roskam, who, outside the Belgian arthouse, had very little in the way of 'buzz' before the film was released. There's also the whole matter of Bullhead being a Belgium film and my knowledge of modern Belgium cinema is reduced to Fabrice Du Welz survival horror Calvaire, Mabrouk El Mechri's subversive crime thriller JCVD, Rémy Belvaux's brilliant serial killer mockumentary Man Bites Dog, Lee Tamahori's The Devil's Double (which, for most intents and purposes, is an American/UK production in disguise), and a handful of animated features.
It seems that modern Belgian films tend to share a hyper-cinéma vérité style and Bullhead doesn't do a whole lot to differentiate itself on these terms. Roskam's camera direction and blocking aim to capture natural beauty without ever taking a particularly 'stagey' route. There are stylistic hints that clue the audience in to inspiration taken from Coppola's Godfather films, but, by and large, Bullhead is a halcyonic motion picture experience that would rather avoid any detection of style. Only a handful of subjective images and visually poetic shots of the stoic nature and architecture of the area remind the audience of the director's hand at work. I've read reviews that compare Bullhead to a handful of post-modern Euro-crime films I still haven't seen, like Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Matteo Garrone's Gamorrah. I find that in my ignorance it's much easier to compare Bullhead to other films that revolve around self-destructive antiheroes, like Scorsese's more opulent Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, Abel Ferrara's more nihilistic Bad Lieutenant, Darren Aronofsky's more hopeful The Wrestler and Andrew Dominik's more amusing Chopper. But, probably because I saw it most recently, and because it had such a dramatic effect on me, I kept coming back to Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, which is kind of unfair of me since, outside of the lone wolf qualities of the main characters and some basic crime story narrative elements, the two films have very little in common and much different stylistic goals. Not to say Bullhead isn't beautifully shot, it's just shot with an entirely different eye than Drive.
Bullhead's biggest and most persistent problem is its plot's listless, familiar nature. It can also be difficult to follow, thanks in no small part to a flashback story structure that makes it a bit difficult to recall first-act plot points. The necessity of the flashbacks is negligible and the amount of time they take from the present day storyline is rhythmically stunting, but I suppose the back and forth recital does give the film a certain flavour, so the lack of a tighter and more eventful narrative becomes the larger issue. The screenplay has more than its share of unique elements (the cattle farming and steroid angles alone mark it as original), but it rarely feels particularly special due to Roskam's conventional approach. Either he needed to rein his plot threads in a bit more densely, or he needed to delve a bit further in their grotesque qualities. It seems like subtly was not the best approach in this particular case, especially since the overall image design of the film is so pointedly efficient. That said, the final 30 or so minutes are positively riveting without changing things up too drastically, so the pay-off is generally worth the journey. It's difficult at times to keep track of events, but characters are pretty easy to track thanks to Roskam's strong, often amusing dialogue and solid casting, casting that ensures that everyone is easy to tell apart even when they aren't speaking due to interesting and diverse faces. It's a testament to Roskam's haunting stylistic choices and lead actor Matthias Schoenaerts' performance that Bullhead maintains its haunting and even mesmerizing momentum. Schoenaerts is the perfect blend of likable, pitiable and terrifying required for the role and deserves the praised heaped upon him since the film was released.
Bullhead hits Blu-ray with a solid 2.35:1, 1080p transfer that appropriately reproduces the grit of its 35mm source format. Actually, that's not entirely true, on the whole, this transfer is so crisp and life-like it often looks more like it was shot digital in HD, but there are clues as to the 35mm source throughout. These 'shortcomings' appear as fine, consistently dancing grain, softer background detail, lightened frame edges and minor haloes. The film is shot utilizing a lot of natural lighting and the over-running colour scheme is dulled, leading to a rather modest image, but alternating deep-focus wide shots and shallow-focus facial close-ups help keep detail levels dynamic. The sharpness of the details isn't exactly mind-blowing, but there are enough fine textures and complex patterns to make a clear distinction between this and a standard-definition release. The colours are rarely vibrant, but there is a prevailing theme to the hues. These are made up largely of earthy undertones with sickly green lighting schemes and warm, usually reddish highlights. One consistent but minor issue that likely could've been avoided is the slight banding effects during fade-ins/fade-outs and between intersecting warm and cool hues. When the greenish base colours are sharply contrasted with bright, poppy reds, there's no bleeding issues, but subtler blends are a bit off. Black levels are rarely particularly impressive, but even at their greyest, they rarely take on a lot of the surround hues outside of the darkest sequences, where they can appear a bit green.
Bullhead is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound, in a mix of French, Dutch/Flemish (dueling specs?) and Limburgish. There's very little here to exercise the stereo and surround channels – dialogue takes center stage, sound effects are usually presented in the center channel and aren't particularly noisy; there's not a lot of music, and what music we hear is more ambient than progressive, rhythmic or even melodic. Composer Raf Keunen is going for something haunting here that undercuts the story's tone, not a bombastic, standout score. Total silence plays a pointed role throughout the film as well and musically heavy sequences are bereft of additional sound to maintain a certain purity of sound. There are occasional directional effects, such as vehicles moving from front to back, chirping, ambient birds, and a big, bouncy dance club sequence. The LFE channel is also largely underutilized, coming to life on some of the louder musical cues (that big, bouncy club centerpiece) and as support of the richer sound effects. What's important is that the dialogue is consistent and clear, even when characters are whispering. Not that I could discern the words without the subtitles, of course.
Alamo Drafthouse is still new at this whole Blu-ray thing, but these early releases seem to prove they have every intension of treating their audience to experience-widening supplementary features. This disc begins with a commentary track from writer/director Michaël R. Roskam and an unnamed moderator. Roskam, who speaks in plenty discernable English, can be nearly impossible to understand, thanks to his genial tone and soft volume levels. When it is possible to understand his words, he covers all the basics, from his cast and script, to all the technical activities that go into making a feature film. There's a slight problem with simply naming and praising the people involved (it's always good to know the names, but thanking your friends in a public forum is almost always boring for everyone but your friends), but Roskam's discussion is particularly valuable when he's contextualizing the very Belgian cultural elements of the film, specifically dialect, which many of the actors had to learn for their roles. There's also interesting discussion concerning the Flemish paintings that inspired the cinematography.
Next up is The Making Of Bullhead (22:00, HD). This behind-the-scenes featurette covers the production process with an artistic eye, including physically transforming Matthias Schoenaerts via diet, training and make-up, Roskam's process with actors, location shooting, props, stunt prep, music and deleting a big shoot-out sequence. Everything is told via rough, charming, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Schoenaerts (the most in-depth of the interview clips), Robin Valvekens and the other child members of the cast, Jeroen Perceval, Sam Louwyck, Philippe Grand'Henri, Erico Salamone and Jeanne Dandoy. This is followed by two interviews. The first features Roskam (11:50, HD) basically taking his commentary track and distilling it down to its most basic elements (kind of like his Jacky-to-Batman comparison) and the second features Schoenaerts (and his impeccable, accentless English, 6:30, HD) talking about his long, long time on the project.
The extras also feature Roskam's 2005 short film The One Thing to Do (25:10, HD) which stars a much thinner Schoenaerts, and works as a sort of dry-run for Bullhead. It's actually a more ambitious and even epic film than Bullhead and sees Roskam already experimenting with excessive flashbacks. Things end with a trailer.
Bullhead wasn't quite the masterpiece I was hoping for based on its critical acclaim and Oscar nomination. Despite an amazing central performance and some unique story elements, the final project ends up a bit too conventional. It's certainly a very good movie, it just isn't transcendent or particularly brilliant. Drafthouse Films' Blu-ray looks and sounds very good, but is somewhat limited by the source material. The extras are entertaining and informatively inclusive and should please the film's fans quite a bit.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I still need to check this one out. I'll probably blind buy it. It looks to be up my alley, and even if I don't love it I'd like to support the Drafthouse Films label.
Recently saw Chopper myself and would sure love a Blu-ray release of it.
(pssst, watch La Haine and A Prophet. You can skip Gammorrah.)
Recently saw Chopper myself and would sure love a Blu-ray release of it.
(pssst, watch La Haine and A Prophet. You can skip Gammorrah.)
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Disc Details
Release Date: 26th June 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Dutch, French and Limburgish
Subtitles: English SDH
Extras: Director's Commentary, The Making Of Bullhead, Director and Star Interviews, Director's Short Film, Trailer, 16-Page Booklet
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Michael R. Roskam
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Barbara Sarafian, Jeanne Dandoy, Tibo Vandenborre
Genre: Crime and Drama
Length: 124 minutes
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Cotton growers want top returns from their crop input investments. When it's time to defoliate the crop, nothing should be left to chance — especially the harvest aid product they select. And this year that comes with a price reduction.
"Finish 6 Pro is one of the few harvest aids that functions both as a defoliant and a boll opener," said Steve Olson product manager, Bayer CropScience. "That gives the product tremendous value as a foundation for any harvest aid program. With the price reduction, the value of Finish 6 Pro is more apparent than ever."
The product can go out alone or as a tank-mix partner with defoliants such as Ginstar, Def and Dropp, Olson said. Growers should employ a one- or two-shot approach based on environmental conditions, canopy density and other factors.
A well-executed defoliation program can also play an important role in preserving lint quality. Poor defoliation will result in leaf grade discounts of 100 points or more depending on additional quality parameters.
"Growers can avoid color discounts with a properly timed defoliation. Growers who use Finish 6 Pro can get to harvest three to five days faster. That's three to five days the crop isn't unnecessarily exposed to discount-causing bad weather," Olson said.
"Merchants want quality cotton," he said. "Growers should put together a harvest aid program that preserves the quality they have earned. Otherwise, they run the risk of leaving some of their profits in the field."
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Mariners go quietly to wrap up 2013 season
SEATTLE -- A difficult 2013 season mercifully came to an end Sunday for the Mariners, who closed out manager Eric Wedge's tenure with a 9-0 loss to the A's on a chilly afternoon at Safeco Field.
The loss concluded a 71-91 season for the Mariners, though they did go 11-8 against the American League West champion A's.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- A difficult 2013 season mercifully came to an end Sunday for the Mariners, who closed out manager Eric Wedge's tenure with a 9-0 loss to the A's on a chilly afternoon at Safeco Field.
The loss concluded a 71-91 season for the Mariners, though they did go 11-8 against the American League West champion A's.View Full Game Coverage
The A's head into the playoffs with a 96-66 record and will open the AL Division Series on Friday against the Tigers in Oakland. The Mariners head into an offseason search for a new manager as well as some additions to bolster a team that lost four more games than the previous year and hasn't been to the postseason since 2001.
But a young group of players -- including three rookie position starters in shortstop Brad Miller, catcher Mike Zunino and second baseman Nick Franklin -- gained a great deal of experience and will look to build on that going forward.
"It was a tough year for us and we obviously didn't do what we wanted to do," said third baseman Kyle Seager. "But there's a lot to get from this team. There's a good nucleus here, a good core to continue to work forward with and I think we can definitely feel good about going into next year."
Wedge, who announced Friday he won't be returning next season, finished his three-year managerial career in Seattle with a record of 213-273. The outgoing skipper held a closed-door meeting afterward to wish his team well in the future.
"I just told them how much I appreciated their effort, how much I care about them," Wedge said. "They're the toughest part about leaving. That's the sad part of it. Their effort, their work, their preparation, it's just a given."
A season filled with close contests -- and a 19-29 record in one-run games -- ended with a blowout loss, however. Right-hander Erasmo Ramirez didn't last long in his final start of an abbreviated season, giving up four runs on three hits with four walks in just 1 1/3 innings before being replaced by Hector Noesi.
Ramirez had come out of his previous start in Anaheim in the seventh inning on Sept. 20 after feeling some tightness in his right groin muscle, but he said he felt fine physically in his finale. His bread-and-butter command, however, was nowhere to be seen.
"All I can say is I just lost my timing," Ramirez said. "Everything, fastball, breaking ball -- everything. I just felt lost. I don't know why today my timing and mechanics were off. My body and arm weren't on the same page. But even with that, I had to figure it out and I didn't."
The 23-year-old grinded through a 39-pitch first inning during which he gave up a double and two walks, but he struck out the side, including a bases-loaded whiff by Josh Reddick to escape with no runs.
But the wildness continued in the second as Ramirez walked the first two batters he faced, then gave up a two-run single to Chris Young and an RBI double to Seth Smith before Wedge pulled the plug.
"When I started throwing strikes it was late, a couple runners were on and hitters were just looking for that one pitch," Ramirez said. "It's part of the game. I just have to be ready for that and how to get out of trouble and not just believe in my fastball. I have to believe in everything. All I can say is it was a bad day and now the season is over."
The loss dropped Ramirez to 5-3 with a 4.98 ERA in 14 games after the young right-hander missed the first three months with a sore elbow.
Noesi, pitching for the first time in 18 days, threw three innings and gave up four runs -- all in the fifth -- as the A's lead grew to 8-0. The long reliever concluded his season with a 6.59 ERA in 12 appearances after spending much of the year in Triple-A Tacoma.
Seattle's offense went quietly as well, shut out on five hits by six A's pitchers. Miller had two of the hits and finished his rookie season with a .265 average.
The Mariners didn't hit any home runs in their finale, but finished second in the Majors with 188 bombs, their most since hitting 198 in the team's first full year in Safeco Field in 2000. Only the Orioles hit homers more this season with 212.
Raul Ibanez went 0-for-4 and ended his season with 29 home runs, tied with Ted Williams for the most homers by a player age 40 or over. Williams hit 29 for the Red Sox in 1960, also at age 41.
Ibanez reiterated that he'd like to play another year if the circumstances are right. Whether that would be in Seattle or not remains to be seen, but he is another who sees good things on the horizon.
"I definitely have seen growth," Ibanez said. "We've played well together and had some really good moments during the season and won some really good series against some really good teams. It's just a matter of being consistent and I think that consistency will come here."
The Mariners finished with a .237 team batting average, a slight increase from last year's .234 mark and their highest since 2009. They scored 624 runs, five more than last season.
But pitching took a dip as the Mariners ended with a 4.31 ERA, a significant rise from last year's 3.76 and the highest mark since 4.73 in a 101-loss season in 2008.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Eagle Eye (US - BD)
Gabe Powers doesn't even get any phone reception in his own house...
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) has his average life interrupted a few days after the death of his twin brother when he enters his home and finds tons of bomb making equipment. Soon his phone rings, and a woman on the other end begins making threats and demands. If Jerry doesn't follow orders he'll be branded a terrorist and jailed for life, or worse. Meanwhile, single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) also gets a call, threatening to derail her son's train if she doesn't follow some orders of her own.
Eagle Eye ended up being a much bigger film than I'd expected. I haven't seen this many Chicago cop cars this badly mangled since The Blues Brothers. I'm very impressed with the amount of collateral damage incurred on the behalf of the protagonists. Actually, I'd much rather be playing Eagle Eye the video game than watching Eagle Eye the movie. The story's structure and thought process is straight out of a Playstation classic, to the point that I was pretty sure I'd already played this one. I think David Hayter voiced Jerry Shaw.
The script's attempts at humanising the characters depends on the actors in most cases, and often this surprisingly overqualified cast delivers a few believable tears and smiles. The emotional beats are very repetitive, though, so I mostly found myself waiting for the next plot point. It's a little overlong, but the film is pretty tightly plotted (it better be, it took five guys to write it). The suspension of disbelief required to really love Eagle Eye, however, is going to be beyond a lot of people, but I couldn't predict each twist and turn, and the tracks are mostly covered concerning plot holes, so that's something.
I didn't see this D.J. Caruso guy's other movies, but it doesn't surprise me to see he's primarily a television director. Eagle Eye kind of looks like a really expensive and ridiculous episode of The Shield. Caruso obviously has control of his sets, actors and crew; my problems are with his lack of originality, not his abilities as a director. Eagle Eye is a well made film, but I find myself bored with most of its ambition.
My biggest problems with the film would all constitute spoilers, so tread the next section lightly. In the end, Eagle Eye turns into just another 'fear the machine' movie. There isn't any greater villainous theme to the thing beyond the motivations of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and who among movie fans really cares about these themes anymore, especially when they're played this straight. Eagle Eye is a well enough made action movie, but by its last act it's aimed squarely at casual, and frankly, somewhat ignorant audiences, which isn't very thrilling.
The overall consistency of the transfer is hit and miss, though sometimes it looks positively stunning. Some of the daylight and set shot scenes are sharper than needles, others are shot very soft, while darker shots are noisy, so it's hard to get a specific handle on the transfer. Apparently the whole film was shot on the same 35mm film, so the inconsistencies can probably be 'blamed' on the rough shooting style rather than the use of alternate stocks, or the limitations of digital HD film. Most of Caruso's lighting is source based, so there's a bit of flare out on the highlights, and not a lot of stylized colouring. For the most part the hi-def details are quite lifelike, though the muted colour pallet doesn't impress too much.
There are no surprises in this Dolby Digital TrueHD track—it's 5.1 channels of aggressive and stylized action when needed, and light as a feather otherwise. The big car chase towards the beginning of the film is a marvel, as cars are flung throughout the channels, impacting with booming bass. The heavy bass extends to the scenes taking place within the computer's chamber, which hum without overpowering the dialogue (that's Julianne Moore, by the way). Brian Tyler's larger than life score is incredibly generic and misused during the otherwise effectively mixed action scenes.
Extras begin with a selection of three deleted scenes and one alternate ending. The scenes are presented in hi-def, with scene markers and temp audio. These are really more like slightly extended scenes than deleted scenes, and the difference is pretty negligible. The alternate ending is made to leave a larger opening for a sequel.
'Asymmetrical Warfare' is a general making-of movie, that is mostly made up of the usual empty praises, but does hold some interesting information in the absence of a commentary track. I knew that Steven Spielberg had been guiding LaBeouf's career for a while, but I wasn't aware how much the film's story was Spielberg's. This actually cheapens the story a little more in my eyes considering how many times Spielberg's already dealt with the issues in the story. It also appears that Steven had a pretty big production influence, which kind of cheapens Caruso's role a bit. But it's not a bad featurette, and it moves swiftly at twenty-five-and-a-half minutes.
'Eagle Eye] on Location' features the same talking head interviews mixed with behind the scenes and final film footage that the previous making-of featurette worked off of. The focus this time is on the Washington D.C. locations used in the final act. The location shooting is, besides the acting, probably the film's saving grace, because it adds a genuine reality to a silly situation. The featurette runs six minutes. 'Road Trip' probably should've been mixed in with the 'On Location' featurette, as it covers most of the same ground, just outside of DC.
'Is My Cell Phone Spying on Me?' is a look at the reality of the 'Big Brother' themes the film deals with. The science fiction of the situation is pretty minimal at this point, which is definitely a scary thought. If only the film really dealt with this real life horror in an adult fashion. Though not particularly long (only nine minutes), this featurette does delve pretty deeply into the negative effects of our ever shrinking personal space.
'Shall We Play a Game' is a title obviously taken from the popular '80s tech terrified thriller War Games, and with good cause—it's a conversation between DJ Caruso and War Games director John Badham. The two directors compliment each other's films and make some nice comparisons, but unfortunately it appears that Paramount couldn't get any rights to footage from War Games. This makes for a visually dull experience. These heads talk for a solid nine and a half minutes. The decent extras are finished out with a gag reel, a photo gallery, and a theatrical trailer.
I think Eagle Eye's a pretty good movie up to a certain point, but all its unoriginality comes to a head when the twists are all revealed. My real interest in the film is getting a solid look at DJ Caruso's directing abilities when given a sizable canvass, because he's the guy apparently handling the Y: The Last Man adaptation. I'm not sure he's the guy for the job, but I'm also not positive he doesn't know what he's doing, and Steven Spielberg's fingerprints are all over the place. Eagle Eye's small potatoes, and entirely forgettable, but they better not mess with my Y: The Last Man.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
sec127 Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United States Posts: 192
i found this to be a silly but enjoyable movie. at least they *tried* to make it half way intelligent, even if it didnt work as well as planned. lol
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
I found it mediocre yet entertaining.
beckmen Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 355
When Jerry has has speech in the bus, I kept thinking "I got all the recessive genes!" "You took everything from me before I was ever born!"
I liked the concept, but what really ruined it for me was the improbability of all of the action. Too far-fetched. The Matrix was more realistic. I mean when they were IN the Matrix. The power lines scene was where I finally through up my arms.
Basically, the script needed a good tweak, and either somebody other than Caruso hired and it would have been a good movie.
I liked the concept, but what really ruined it for me was the improbability of all of the action. Too far-fetched. The Matrix was more realistic. I mean when they were IN the Matrix. The power lines scene was where I finally through up my arms.
Basically, the script needed a good tweak, and either somebody other than Caruso hired and it would have been a good movie.
Fabricio De Zuasnabar Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,350
i was expecting more from Steven Spielberg's EAGLE EYE... a lot more...
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
This movie really blew once all of the ludicrous action kicked in and why was Eagle Eye's HAL based in the set of a Justin Timberlake video?
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
I tried getting a group of people to see this movie with me, but nobody wasn't able to see it with me.
Disciple Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 775
I loved this film. Sure, it was a bit silly, but it was very thrilling and entertaining.
This is how it should've ended though:
Spoiler with Jerry shooting the gun and then being gunned down by the cops. What came after that just ruined the momentum of what came before.
This is how it should've ended though:
Spoiler with Jerry shooting the gun and then being gunned down by the cops. What came after that just ruined the momentum of what came before.
Tyler Foster Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 717
Worst movie I saw in 2008. Too bad, I liked Disturbia and Michelle Monaghan can be pretty awesome.
There's a mistake in your review. In the bit where it talks about how the alternate ending "leaves things open for a sequel" you meant to write "is a gigantic, blatant advertisement for Rock Band".
There's a mistake in your review. In the bit where it talks about how the alternate ending "leaves things open for a sequel" you meant to write "is a gigantic, blatant advertisement for Rock Band".
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Disc Details
Release Date: 27th December 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English HoH, French, and Spanish
Extras: Deleted and Alterate Scenes, 'Asymmetrical Warfare', 'Eagle Eye on Location', 'Is My Cell Phone Spying on Me', 'Shall Play a Game?', Blooper Reel, Image Gallery, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: DJ Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thorton, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie
Genre: Action and Adventure
Length: 118 minutes
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Diagnosing and treating chronic health conditions is one of the most rewarding areas of feline health care. By learning to recognize and treat these conditions, you will deliver higher-quality medicine. The satisfaction of practicing good medicine motivates both veterinarians and support staff members, and clients will feel more bonded to your practice. Here's a look at the most common feline chronic illnesses and recent medical advances.
As we better understand cats' nutritional needs, we're better able to prevent and treat feline obesity. For example, we know that carbohydrate-rich, energy-dense diets contribute to feline obesity. Energy-restricted diets may lead to weight loss—but often at the expense of lean body mass. Many veterinarians and cat owners have been frustrated by the poor success rate of traditional high-fiber, low-calorie weight loss diets.
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First-Hand:Applying digital television technology to medical imaging = x-ray dosage reduction and non-invasive angiography
Contributed by Stanley Baron, IEEE Life Fellow
I began working on the application of digital technology to television starting in 1962 and from that time on, worked with other individuals in Europe and Asia, as well as America, on advancing the technology.
From 1979 through 1985, I participated in a research project on behalf of my employer, Thomson-CSF Laboratories in Stamford, Connecticut in cooperation with the Lasseret i Lund (University Hospital in Lund, Sweden) and the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The project involved the application of digital filtering to fluoroscopic images.
X-ray dosage reduction
The Swedish medical system had noted that children born with heart defects were observed about a decade later to exhibit abnormally high rates of carcinoma. Evidence indicated the high incidence of cancer was due to imaging radiation exposure when monitoring their condition as infants. Dr. Gudmond Svahn of the University of Lund was investigating methods for reducing imaging radiation exposure. He asked whether a real-time digital processor could be designed that would permit the use of lower radiation dosage levels while retaining fluoroscopic image quality.
When radiation levels are lowered, fewer photons are generated during a fluoroscopic study, resulting in noisier images. I was approached by the Swedes, and based on my knowledge of noise reduction techniques employed for improving television images, I designed a first-order recursive filter device specifically designed for removing noise and improving fluoroscopic images under low-radiation conditions. The processor digitized the image frames in real time (at 50 Hz or 60 Hz image picture rates) with a 15.75 MHz sample rate, which produced an orthogonal sampling structure at either picture rate. The recursive processor employed an iterative process that compared samples of the image with adjacent samples in the horizontal (x), vertical (y), and, since the memory included a frame-store, in the temporal (t) dimension, using an algorithm that modified samples that were deemed 'noise' and restored the missing information. Since the computational requirements were intensive, the device was designed as a dedicated, special purpose digital video processor, and was not based on a standard computer.
Dr. Svahn conducted imaging studies using the prototype device. We produced images using 50% of the normal level of contrast material injected into the blood stream and with reduced radiation levels (between 20% and 50% of normal). The resulting images as processed by the recursive filter were deemed of equal quality to those produced using full contrast and normal radiation levels. The fact that less contrast material was required was also an advantage, since the contrast material used at the time was toxic to humans. The device became the basis of a new digital signal processor (DSP) manufactured in Stamford, Connecticut and sold commercially throughout the world as the DSP 9200. We placed one machine in each of the regional medical hospitals in Sweden. The device was well received in other parts of Europe.
Non-invasive angiography
Working with Dr. Svahn and his team at Lund led to a second phase of the project. Imaging performed on young children with heart defects consists of angiographic imaging, an invasive process, which requires placing a catheter directly in the arteries leading to the heart. It was my understanding that 2% of the patients developed significant problems during this procedure, resulting in a mortality rate of 0.1%. In developing the DSP 9200, my participation in the project with Dr. Svahn involved testing the digital processor in real-life situations, and I participated in a series of angiography procedures.
As a result of my exposure to angiography studies, I proposed to Dr. Svahn the possibility of employing a second-order recursive filter device as a band-pass filter. I drew a block diagram for Dr. Svahn and explained how it could work. In theory, this filter would allow a bolus of dye injected into the arm to be imaged as it traveled through the patient's body. Such a device could, in theory, allow sufficient enhancement of the bolus of contrast material while removing background information to support non-invasive angiographic imaging.
I suggested to Dr. Svahn that it would be helpful to work with a medical center in the United States, as well as my continuing to work with him in Sweden to develop this new device. Svahn was planning a tour of major American medical centers and promised to advise me of possible centers for partnership upon his return from the trip. Figure 1 is a photograph of Dr. Svahn and the diagram for the second-order filter I drew on the blackboard in his office prior to his trip to America. Figure 2 provides a more readable version of the same system block diagram drawn for use in the patent application.
A few weeks after arriving in the United States, Dr. Svahn called me while he was at one of his scheduled stops, the University of Utah Medical Center. He had discussions with a Dr. Robert Kruger who had a concept for non-invasive angiography. Dr. Kruger had drawn the same block diagram that I had. Kruger complained that he couldn't find anyone who could design the necessary equipment. Svahn suggested that Kruger and I get together. I flew out to Utah and held discussions with Kruger and Dr. Jim Nelson, a cardiologist who was working with Kruger. After that one visit, an agreement was drawn up between Thomson and the two universities to proceed on the development of a second-order filter.
I returned to Stamford, and our project team designed and built the second-order digital recursive filter DSP that I had diagramed for Svahn. One of the more challenging aspects of the design of the second-order filter was the creation of the controlling software that was totally crash-proof. The bulk of that effort fell on the shoulders of Tom Lewis and Marc Poncelet. We began animal studies at the University of Utah, and the technique met our expectations. Kruger and Nelson then filed an investigation-protocol proposal with the U.S. government seeking permission to begin human studies.
On the last day of one of my visits to Salt Lake City, I had a very uplifting experience involving our first human study. Dr. Nelson became aware of a patient at the hospital who we might be able to help with our new processor. She was over 70 years-of-age and was experiencing internal hemorrhaging. The staff had conducted several days of angiography studies but none of the images showed the location of the leak. In the meantime, the patient was growing weaker, and her medical team was concerned about maintaining her life. Dr. Nelson approached the patient's cardiologist and explained our system's capabilities to her.
The cardiologist was reluctant to put her patient through a new process still under study. Dr. Nelson explained that our process was not only non-invasive, but exposed the patient to only 20% of the normal radiation and, further, required less than half the contrast material used in a normal angiography. It was my understanding that due to the toxic nature of the contrast material, normally, a patient had to have the contrast material flushed out of his or her system and then be rested for one full day after a study before another study could be performed. Dr. Nelson explained that with our system, a study could be done in the early morning and the patient would be available for a traditional study within a few hours if the use of our system didn't locate the problem. We demonstrated the system to the cardiologist using one of the recorded animal studies. The cardiologist and her patient decided to proceed with our non-invasive approach.
I had designed into the equipment's capability a 'memory mode' as one of the modes of operation. This mode could display the entire trace of the contrast material's path through the body in a single image. Thus, the device offered a choice of watching the bolus of dye move through the patient's cardiovascular system or capturing all of its travel in a single image.
The patient was brought into the Medical Center imaging room in which our equipment had been installed, and the study conducted. Given the subtlety of the problem, the team decided to operate the processor in the memory mode. Twenty seconds after the procedure began; the image on the screen showed a tiny, swirling eddy of contrast at the point where a major vein met a smaller vein. The spot was identified, the patient sent to surgery, and the 'leak' corrected. The patient's cardiologist became one of our strongest supporters. In its first application in a human study, the device helped to save a life.
I returned to Stamford to convert the prototype design to a commercial product. I continued to journey both to Lund and Salt Lake City to conduct additional studies and perfect the algorithms. The system was programmable, in that the design provided different sets of filter parameter values for different types of angiography studies. The computer interface allowed the medical specialists to select an angiography study, such as an 'aortic arch study' or a 'peripheral study' and the processor reprogrammed itself for the proper set of filter parameter values for the selected study. During the course of this program, I participated in dozens of angiograms either at Salt Lake or in Lund.
The device was sold as the DSP 9300. Figure 3 shows a non-invasive angiogram study using the DSP 9300.
As work progressed, I continued to incorporate additional features into the design, and began preparing a patent disclosure that described this latest version of the equipment. The patent application was filed with the U.S. patent office in the beginning of January 1982.
For those individuals interested in reading further, I offer the following references:
[1] R.McMann, S.Baron, et al, "The DFP Digital Noise Reducer, a Real-Time High Resolution, Digital Video Processing System for X-Ray Fluoroscopy," CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY, S.P.I.E., September 1981.
[2] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Optimization of Time Domain Filtering Functions for Digital Subtraction Angiography," R.S.N.A., 67th Scientific Assembly, November 1981, (#115).
[3] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Patient Motion Detection and Compensation in Digital Intravenous Subtraction Angiography," R.S.N.A., 67th Scientific Assembly, November 1981, (#216)
[4] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Vascular Tracing in Conjunction with Digital Subtraction Angiography I: Theory and System Description," R.S.N.A., 67th Scientific Assembly, November 1981, (#385)
[5] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Temporal Filtering Techniques for Digital Angiography," paper presented at University of Kiel, W.Germany, May 1982.
[6] J.Nelson,...S.Baron, et al, "Clinical Applications of Digital Filtration Techniques," paper presented at University of Kiel, W.Germany, May 1982.
[7] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Dynamic Tomography in Real-Time Using a Temporal Filtering Technique," R.S.N.A., 68th Scientific Assembly, November 1982, (#45).
[8] W.Bateman, R.Kruger, S.Baron, "Parametric Imaging Using a Recursive Processing System," R.S.N.A., 68th Scientific Assembly, November 1982, (#319).
[9] S.Baron, "Non-invasive Angiography Using Real-Time Temporal Filtering," IEEE Connecticut Section, Engineering in Medicine, 24 March 1983.
[10] R.Kruger,...S.Baron, et al, "Temporal Filtering Techniques for Digital Angiography," DIGITAL IMAGING IN CARDIOVASCULAR RADIOLOGY, Theme-Stratton, Inc., New York, 1983, pp.80-88.
[11] J.Nelson,...S.Baron, et al. "Clinical Applications of Digital Filtration Techniques," DIGITAL IMAGING IN CARDIOVASCULAR RADIOLOGY, Theme-Stratton, Inc., New York, 1983, pp.183-192.
[12] S.Baron, "Digital Fluoroscopy, 1st and 2nd Order Recursive Filters," (invited paper), Seminar on Digital Radiography, University of Lund, Sweden, 12 and 13 June 1984.
Stanley Baron, F-IEEE


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metablur needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 151 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Metablur is, or will be, a small brand (1-3 people, depending on project) to bring a few individual contractors together on technical projects. We focus on technical training and consulting, dealing with open source web application development and systems.
This includes training people in web-server languages like PHP/MySQL, Java, Perl, website development techniques and technologies, and setting up web platforms like Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, but also includes the decision-making consulting leading up to deploying such solutions.
As part of the consultancy, we also do database performance and optimisation consultation/seminars, including SQL Server and MySQL, along with Business Intelligence/Reporting/Analysis related to SQL Server.
We want the logo to attract two main audiences: the technical people who want us to come in and train/mentor them with a particular technology, and their non-technical bosses who sign the cheques.
So we want to be quirky enough to attract the techs, but serious enough to attract the suits. Challenging enough? :)
To start with, I have complete faith in your creative talents (having been a lurker for a while - kudos to you and your collective talent!), so will give you free rein to go with what you think is good. I'll be very actively rating and eliminating in the first few days, as I see what you're coming up with, so if you're quick off the mark, you'll get a chance to influence the direction, and if you're more careful, you can wait to see what ideas bubble to the top and inspire you.
Our website and our cards will have a light background, either white or a very light grey or beige, so the logo should suit that.
Some initial suggestions based on logos I've seen and liked here:
- something clean and not cluttered
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- lowercase, so "metablur"
- sweeping graphic line or curve over/under/beside the logo or brand name (I've liked only a few logos with this, but not all)
- although it's easy to want to break it into "meta" and "blur", I'm leaning against graphically separating the two
But like I said, I'm not a graphics guy, and I trust you to go against my ideas if they're unattractive. So I won't be surprised if we end up choosing something that's got something completely different.
Because I'll be using the logo on a website and probably elsewhere, I'll be looking for SVG or some other vector-based file format. Thanks!
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Effective Date: 09/01/1993, Docket: RS92- 27-003, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 73 Original Sheet No. 73 : Superseded
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (continued)
Transporter shall be obligated to receive from Shipper at
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shall mean that point at the interconnection of the
facilities of Transporter and Shipper or Buyer at which the
gas leaves the outlet side of the measuring equipment or
mainline of Transporter and enters Shipper's or Buyer's
distribution or pipeline system or another agreed upon
point and shall also mean that point on Transporter's
system where Transporter delivers gas to Shipper or Buyer
that has also been transported by Transporter for Shipper
or Buyer, or for Shipper's or Buyer's account, as
1.20 The term "equivalent quantity", unless otherwise stated in
the Transportation Contract, shall mean that during any
given period of time the quantities of gas delivered
hereunder at the Point(s) of Delivery shall be the thermal
equivalent of the quantities of gas received at the
Point(s) of Receipt for transportation less quantities of
gas for Transporter's system fuel and losses associated
with the transportation service.
1.21 The term "Winter Season" shall refer to the months of
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The Mexican American men's fast pitch softball tournament in Newton is one of the oldest, and one of the few, remaining tournaments of its kind in the nation.
The 65th annual tournament gets started Friday and runs through Sunday, with lots of softball being played, a lot of food and special events to celebrate the area's Mexican-American heritage.
"It is still fast-pitch. I believe we are the only one left," Organizer Manuel Jaso said, noting that the tournament played in San Antonio is no longer being played.
Jaso said the tournament will have its usual 16 teams playing in a double-elimination format.
Opening ceremonies are set for 6:30 p.m. Friday at Athletic Park. During these ceremonies hall of fame members will be inducted, sponsors will be thanked and the games will get set to begin. An old-timers game is set for 7:15 and the first game is scheduled for 8:30.
Games start at 9 a.m. Saturday and go through the day with games played at Athletic Park and Centennial Park.
This year they will be charging $1 admission on Saturday and Sunday to pay tribute to earlier times and to attract more people.
The game is a "men's" tournament, but there are a few women playing. One of the Newton teams - Los Ninos - will have Newton High School pitcher Heather Torres in the circle. Jaso said there may be one or two more girls playing.
Four teams from Newton will be participating, two from Salina, one from Pueblo, Colo., and the rest from the Kansas City area.
A Wichita Mexican restaurant will be selling Mexican food in the 4-H building at Athletic Park.
The tournament is a celebration of the Mexican-American heritage, and teams may have no more than two players who are not of Mexican-American descent.
Most of the players are teens, but many adults still play. Jaso has been involved with the tournament for 43 years, and this will be his first year not playing.
There are some other events scheduled along with the games. Saturday there will be a special reunion mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 421 S. Ash. in Newton. A reunion dinner and dance is set for 8 p.m. to midnight at the church, with the band Grupo Picante playing. Tickets are $10 for that event.
A special commemorative t-shirt will be available for sale at 2 p.m. Saturday at Athletic Park. Only 65 of these shirts have been made.


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J. Hart for the Florida Forest Service
The Four Creeks State Forest and Wildlife Management Area (WMA) occupies 13,060 acres within the 13,147-acre Four Creeks State Forest, located just north of Jacksonville in southern Nassau County. Within the region, the forest provides valuable flood and water quality protection and provides healthy, diverse habitats for wildlife and nature-based recreational opportunities. The area is named for the four creeks associated with the property: Alligator, Thomas, Boggy and Plummer creeks, which join together to form the headwaters of the Nassau River. The Nassau River borders the southeastern portion of the property and flows into Nassau Sound and then into the Atlantic Ocean. Thomas Creek and its associated floodplain form the southern border of the WMA.
Much of the upland portions consist of pine flatwoods. Wetland habitats include swamps, cypress domes and tidal marsh. The floodplain swamps border the creeks and are dominated by cypress, tupelo and titi. The Florida Forest Service manages the area using a combination of timber harvesting, groundcover restoration, reforestation and controlled burns. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission administers hunting related activities. Wildlife is abundant on the area and includes deer, turkey, wild hog, gopher tortoise, wading birds and numerous species of resident and migratory songbirds. Turtles and otters may occur along the creek.
Recreational opportunities on the area include hunting, wildlife viewing, hiking, horseback riding, bicycling, fishing and paddling. Currently, there are no designated trail systems, but twenty-four miles of unpaved roads are open for exploration. In rainy weather, some roads may become impassable for two-wheel drive vehicles. Camping is not permitted. Trail systems and public camping facilities may be developed by the Florida Forest Service within the next five years. Several natural boat landings on the creeks make it easy to launch canoes and kayaks. A public boat ramp is located on the Nassau River, at the end of Edwards Road, off of A1A. Between September and April, high-quality quota hunts take place on limited days. They include seasons for archery, muzzleloading gun, family hunt, general gun, small game, spring turkey and migratory bird. Fishing is permitted year-round. The WMA is open to the public from 1.5 hours before sunrise to 1.5 hours after sunset, year-round. Check the area regulations (link below) for more detailed information about hunting seasons.
For more information: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (386) 758-0525, MyFWC.com/recreation; Florida Forest Service (904) 845-4933.
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Home Toy teens has only the cutest girls using every day objects to get themselves off. These girls are too shy to buy vibrators and dildos so they make do with what they can find. Its sexy because it is real and our members can suggest items they would like to see the girls use.
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Since its introduction to the North American market more than 40 years ago, crosslinked polyethylene, or PEX, has continually gained ground on rigid copper and CPVC systems due to its superior flexibility, durability and stable cost characteristics.
Uponor AquaPEX® Plumbing Systems, featuring the durable ProPEX® expansion fitting system, is the first choice for installers, homebuilders and homeowners looking for a product that will provide consistent reliability and performance.
Eliminates jobsite theft concerns


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CSIRO Wants To Expand Its WiFi Tax: Sues Mobile Operators
from the no-wifi-without-paying-up dept
JohnForDummies was the first of a few of you to alert us to CSIRO's latest set of lawsuits against American tech companies, this time focusing on ISPs. Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile have all been sued, even though none actually make WiFi equipment. However, since they all have WiFi-enabled devices (some of which were almost certainly made by the tech companies who already paid up) CSIRO claims they need to pay up again. Apparently patent exhaustion is not a concept CSIRO considers valid.
Oddly, the article in The Age about this lawsuit seems to side almost entirely with CSIRO, quoting people who insist that companies have "no choice but to pay up" and that CSIRO has the right to demand licenses from the "entire industry." It also quotes someone who falsely claims that the only reason companies would agree to settle is if they knew they were going to lose. That's not even close to true. Lots of companies settle patent disputes because it's often cheaper to do so. And, even if they think they can win, oftentimes their shareholders don't like the uncertainty and push for a faster settlement.
The Age article also provides some more background on the patents in question, highlighting that they're based on mathematical equations created in a 1977 paper. As JohnForDummies points out, mathematical equations are not supposed to be patentable...


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On Specialty Fruit Gadgets and Tools: Really Useful or Just Plain Silly?
There are some fruit tools and gadgets I find absolutely useful and necessary: a citrus juicer, for example, or a zester. But a strawberry huller? A banana slicer? You be the judge:
Up For Discussion
Which of the following fruit gadgets and tools would you buy? If you own them, defend them! If you don't, tell us why!
• The Pineapple Easy Slicer, $19.95 from Williams-Sonoma
• Strawberry Huller, $7.95 from Williams-Sonoma
• Stem Spritzer, $4.99 from Quirky
• Fruit and Banana Guards, from Banana Guard
• Boon Nanner Banana Slicer, $15 from AllModern
• Vacu Vin Kiwi Guard, $6.99 from Amazon
• Rösle Cherry Pitter, $60 from Sur La Table
• Apple Tool, $14.95 from Sur La Table
• Kuhn Rikon Melon Knife Colori, $24.95 from Amazon
For my own part, I have little room in my small kitchen for single-use tools, and I'm also not wild about plastic. If I can get away with using a knife to do the job, even if it takes a little longer, I'm likely to do that. However, I realize that convenience and frequency often trumps all. I'm not likely to buy the pineapple slicer because I don't eat pineapples that often (for seasonal reasons, not because I wouldn't like to!). However, if I lived in a place where pineapples were abundant and a part of my daily diet, then yeah! Absolutely. Sign me up.
What are your buying criteria? Have any of these fruit tools made a world of difference in your cooking life? Or do you find most of them unnecessary or silly?
Related: The 10 Most Useless Kitchen Gadgets
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A bewildered doe crashed through the plate glass window at Frameworks Gallery on West Main Street on Friday morning.
Witnesses said the doe had in the town hall parking lot before taking off up the alley next to the Middletown Transcript. The panicked animal than ran across West Main Street and straight into the window at 27 W. Main St., sometime around 7:50 a.m.
"It must have been an art lover," Frameworks owner Dave Leathrum said. "Fortunately, the only damage was to the window, which is a shame because it was an old piece of glass."
The doe reportedly didn't get far into the store before turning around and running west down West Main Street.
Middletown Police said they have not located the animal, which might have been hoping to avoid today's start of shotgun season in Delaware.
Max Wallis of Max Wallis Building and Maintenance Company said he's hoping to have the window replaced by this afternoon.


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CHICAGO (AP) -- A 23-year-old man has
died after falling into a smokestack atop a Chicago hotel.
Authorities say the man was trying to take a photo from the top of the
Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan
Avenue when he fell 22 feet down the smokestack.
He was pronounced dead at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital
early Thursday. His name wasn't immediately released.
Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Meg Ahlheim says rescue crews called
to the hotel found the man had fallen about 22 feet and was wedged into an
angled portion of the smokestack.
Rescuers had to cut into the chimney's steel ductwork to remove the man.
Ahlheim says crews used boards to keep him from falling farther. After
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In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. Usually I don't have any more information on the people, but this time I do!
Photo taken by me, April 2012. Click to enlarge.
Top Inscription: "Savam mīļam mācītājam" ("For our dear minister")
Name: Jānis Opsis, born February 7, 1865; died January 13, 1930.
Bottom Inscription: "Pateicīgā Dubultu draudze. Mīlestība nekad nebeigsies." ("From the thankful Dubulti congregation. Love never ends.")
Location: Dubulti cemetery, Jūrmala.
As mentioned on the tombstone, Jānis Opsis was the minister for the Dubulti Lutheran congregation in what is now the city of Jūrmala. The congregation in Dubulti had been there for awhile, but until 1903 was subject to the main church in Sloka. Population growth resulted in the splitting off of the Dubulti church. It was at this time that Jānis Opsis became the minister, serving until his death in 1930. The current Dubulti church was built under his leadership.


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Malaysia Airports' Brief Comments On Issues Raised by AirAsia
06 December 2011
Malaysia Airports' Brief Comments On Issues Raised by AirAsia
Malaysia Airports wishes to provide a brief clarification on some of the issues raised by our partner at its Press Conference held earlier today.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Malaysia Airports currently has a Conditions of Use (CoU) agreement with its airlines partners as well as the ground handlers at KLIA. The CoU provides guidance on the use of airport facilities particularly in regard to the safe and secure use of the airport, as well as a schedule of applicable airport charges. This is very much in line with the common industry practice. In regard to AirAsia's request for a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) and its claim of having SLAs at airports abroad, we have indicated our willingness to have an SLA and are awaiting AirAsia's proposal on the SLA for further study and consideration. We would also like to reiterate that the airport charges, both current and future, are regulated by the Government and the mechanisms for future increases have been clearly defined in our Operating Agreement with the Government.
Site Selection of klia2
The present site for klia2 was selected based on the National Airport Master Plan (NAMP) after a detailed and comprehensive study involving all our stakeholders including Ministry of Transport, Department of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Home Affairs and all airlines including AirAsia.
Joint Working Committee
The weekly meetings held with AirAsia and other stakeholders serve as a platform for all views and requirements to be discussed and addressed. Most of AirAsia's requests have been complied with. Only issues which have financial implications are referred to the Board. We will continue to engage AirAsia during the weekly meetings.
It has always been Malaysia Airports' view that in dealing with our partners, issues raised by either party are best resolved through proper consultation. However, from time to time, we are duty bound to make clarifications so that the public receive accurate information and a balanced perspective.
We hope that with the clarifications made above and over the past week on some of the issues raised, we can now move forward and work together with our partners in ensuring the successful development of klia2 for the good of the country.


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Diana Biggs | KF 18 | Burkina Faso
As mentioned in my previous posts, the Field Partner I'm working with, Entrepreneurs du Monde (EdM), is not a microfinance institution in itself – however, the use of microfinance is key to its mission, as it allows EdM to distribute their socially focused products in a way which can become financially sustainable.
The focus of Kiva's partnership is EdM's cookstove project, newly named "Nafa Naana" which can be understood both in Moré and Dioula – the two local languages most spoken in Burkina Faso – roughly translating to "the benefit has come," "that which you easily win" or "the facility is there." (Read about it on EdM's West Africa Blog – and , if you're really keen, starting picking up some Moré!). Nafa Naana's mission is to make environmentally-friendly energy products – such as gas and energy efficient stoves – available in Burkina Faso, even to the poorest and most remote households.
Cookstove projects aren't new to Burkina Faso – both the government and other NGOs have tried to push the population away from using traditional three-stone fires but with limited results. Likely barriers include the perceived higher price of alternative fuels and cooking technologies (due to consumers lack of knowledge), the very limited production and distribution networks for alternative technologies, and the initial investment required (the savings will more than make up for it but most Burkinabe households don't have the $10-45 upfront required to purchase a stove).
But first, why do away with tradition? In this case, despite the sentimentality we may attach from memories of cooking over a campfire, it's not hard to see how daily use could hold numerous practical disadvantages:
- Environmental detriment: Wood is the main fuel used by 72% of households in Ouagadougou and nearly 90% of households in the rest of the country, learning to extreme deforestation in an already arid region. The deforestation means urban households have to spend more and rural women need to go further to find food. The burning of the wood leads not only to clouds of smoke in the air but also creates carbon emissions.
- Both women and children spend hours a day collecting wood for cooking and in the actual cooking process (which is typically very slow)
- Since the cooking fire must be outdoors, you're not able to cook when it's raining (rainy season here in Burkina is April/May – October and both rain and wind can be very strong)
- The smoke from the fires can cause sore eyes and conjunctivitis, burns and even lead to and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and emphysemanot
The gas and energy efficient cookstoves either reduce or prevent entirely all of these issues. And, in comparison with cookstove projects tried in the past, several aspects of the Nafa Naana project make it unique, scalable and sustainable – with numerous benefits:
- Removal of financial barriers via microfinance: both retailers operating as social microfranchises and women's associations who purchase directly benefit from microfinance programs – including Kiva! These will be EdM's Kiva borrowers!
Financial benefits at every level of the value chain:
- The stoves are produced by local artisans (in partnership with GIZ FAFASO) who financially benefit from the increase in production
- The retail distributors benefit from this additional source of income
- End users, most often women, not only save money on fire wood (for a gas stove user, the savings represent an average of 6,000 FCFA ($12.5 US) per month) but they also save time thanks to faster cooking and less time spent collecting wood
- Availability of products, made accessible through main stores acting as storage and distribution centres for existing retailers in remote areas
- Promotional campaigns to help populations understand the benefits
Training programs offered at every level of the value chain:
- The artisans who fabricate the stoves receive training in savings, basic entrepreneurship and stock control
- The shopkeepers who choose to retail the stoves receive two days of training in Nafa Naana's operations and the products and their benefits (live cooking demonstration), the basics of cash and inventory management, sales techniques and awareness of environmental protection
- Women's groups in turn can attend educational sessions on environmental protection, the benefits of the stoves and directions for use and maintenance
- Environmental benefits: the energy efficient stoves use 40% less wood than the traditional and gas stoves use none
- Nafa Naana is currently applying (in partnership with Carbonium) to register the project to enable the sale of certified emission reductions on the voluntary carbon market, the revenues from which will help to finance the program's activities
As you can see, the program is very large and with many facets to cover. The four staff directly involved here at EdM Burkina Faso are extremely dedicated and are working very hard to continue to expand the project and build momentum. This week, we went into the field to visit the borrowers to become our first Kiva profiles! I'll fill you in with how that went and in the preparation, join the Amis des EdM Burkina Faso lending team to get ready to help facilitate the sale of clean energy cookstoves!
Diana Biggs is a Kiva Fellow stationed with Entrepreneurs du Monde in Burkina Faso. Stay tuned for efficient cookstove loans through this Field Partner on kiva.org/lend.


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Experiments of men throughout history have led to the violence between nations which ultimately result in their destruction. This eventually led to the disintegration of countries and people show their sorrow of defeat. However, this does not mark the end of men as they are determined to find answers of their destiny. The city state of Panopticon is the symbol of men's reconstruction of the pyramid, an example of how people's government should evolve through the challenge of time.
The city state of Panopticon is an artificial nation which brings great efficiency and comfort to its people, providing a full system of security as well. This system forms the root of the society, in which all people of Panopticon are a part of and obligated to show their support. Under the leadership of the central headquarter, all men of Panopticon shall make contribution to their home state. In return, the state shall promise a fair distribution of rights and resources to its people. For the first time in human history, people have finally reached an ideal society of true equality and mark the beginning of prosperity.
To all people of Panopticon:
Before us there is no nation, and no nation behind us.
Let us proceed to our hopes and dreams under the noble ideas of Panopticon
In near future, the world will become an unlivable land for all living creatures. For this reason, people have built cities called "Panopticon" at various locations of the world for survival.
However due to a severer lack of resources and an undesirable living environment, these cities start to conflict with each other. In order to effectively rule the people of Panopticon, most people are put into sentence.
Those who are placed under sentence are called "Criminals" and they are forced into strict labor. This kind of labor is known as "volunteer" for war. For the sake of their freedom, these "Criminals" have to continue to "recapture" civilians from the war zone.
The Criminals are those who belong to the city of Panopticon imprisoned for one million years upon birth. They are forced into "volunteer" in order to reduce their sentence and regain their freedom.
Their sentence is indicated with the philosophy that people are wasting resources upon their birth, so their existence is a form of crime. Therefore, under the PT law those who are born in Panopticon are automatically labeled as "Criminal" and sentenced for one million years in prison.
The lives of criminals are put under complete surveillance while having limited and unreasonable rights. However, they are granted with more guarantees for going into battles. This then becomes the only way to reduce jail time and the reason for them to "continue" to fight. In the long run, the inexperienced Criminals eventually develop into veterans.
The player will become one of the Criminals and join into war for volunteering for freedom. The player can choose the gender and the appearance of their character.
Key Features:
- Co-operative online combat with up to 8 players.
- Intense blend of action, shooter, and strategy gameplay created in collaboration between studios Shift and Dimps.
- Select the city you represent and help your city rise in the global ranks as you battle users from other cities and countries.
- Customize your fighter's appearance, class and weapons.
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The permanent art displays in Willard Library have stories of their own to tell. Click on the pieces below to learn more about them.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Robert J. Smith painted the murals for the Montgomery County Public Library in Dayton, Ohio. The pieces were abandoned when that library moved to a new building, and were acquired by Evansville Public Museum Curator Sigfried Weng. After being displayed in the Museum for several years, the murals were permanently loaned to Willard Library, where they now hang.


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Police believed this shooting was gang related — perhaps Azusa 13 vs West Covina Mob Pirus. In any event, an arrest was made. Here's this morning's story:
COVINA – Covina police made an arrest yesterday in connection with a shooting that occurred Tuesday afternoon near Las Palmas Middle School, according to officials.
Carlos Pineda, 20, of Azusa was arrested on suspicion of shooting and injuring two young men in the 500 block of Lark Ellen Avenue, according to Covina police Sgt. Dave Foster.
Both men were shot in the leg, fled across the grounds of the school and took refuge in a nearby apartment. A third man with them escaped injury, according to Covina Sgt. David Povero.
No other arrests have been made.
Pineda is in the custody of Covina police. Foster said Pineda will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon


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castelar necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Sonoma County Winegrape Commission
We are looking for a website re-design for http://www.sonomawinegrape.org.
Your designs should be usable, simple, unique and elegant.
Your designs should be ~960px wide for main content (full width backgrounds are ok)
See requirements (Homepage & Grower Hub should be designed first)
The Sonoma County Winegrape Commission was established in 2006 as a non-profit marketing and educational organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Sonoma County as one of the world's premier grape growing regions. With more than 1,800 growers, SCWC's goal is to increase awareness and recognition of the quality and diversity of Sonoma County's grapes and wines through dynamic marketing and educational programs targeted to wine consumers around the world.
Winegrape growers, grape buyers, wine consumers and the general public.
Please see live site to get a hefty dose of what the SCWC offers! There is a lot of content on the site - check it out.
Sonoma County is a beautiful and unique place, and we want to convey this on our website.
See these sites for design quality we're looking for and some inspiration:
Design in order starting with 1&2 - Homepage & Grower Hub pages.
Designs not eliminated make it to the 2nd round (3-8) for the win.
- Round 1 -
1) Homepage design. (see attached pdf. "Consumers" - shows roughly what blocks are needed. Ask if you need clarification)
2) Grower Hub page design. (see same attached pdf. "Growers" blocks needed. Ask if you need clarification)
- Round 2 -
3) One page specifically for the "Grapes For Sale" section - see http://www.sonomawinegrape.org/marketplace. This should include search filters for Tons, AVA, Variety etc. (see the "search" tab for filters).
4) One page for ALL marketplace listings. (should include: grapes for sale/wanted, bulk wine for sale/wanted, classifieds/equipment, and custom-crush)
5) Calendar / Events page. (see /event for current - be creative here, calendar style not required, but ok)
6) Photo Gallery page. (categories: Grapes, People, Place, Spirit)
7) A two-column (right sidebar) page design for misc. content. (With typography demonstrated - h1, h2, h3, p, a, ul, ol etc.)
8) A one-column full width page design for misc. content.
Again, please be unique, design for usability, and design a simple yet elegant site you'll be proud to put in your portfolio!!!
Our branding guide is attached. Please do not deviate too far from this, but don't hold back your creativity.
If you have questions or need anything, let me know!
Thank you!