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Seymour, 70, noticed a patch of what looked like blood on his pajama top and thought he had cut himself, but he was not scratched. His doctor tested the discharge and told the New Jersey man he had
breast cancer.
Dan, also 70, a retired Michigan engineer, was pulling weeds, when for no apparent reason, he fractured two vertebrae. He was diagnosed with
As a teenager, Gary was obsessed with having a trim, athletic body. The Wisconsin resident shunned food and exercised excessively. Sometimes he would do sit-ups and push-ups for 3 hours before school. He ate little and shrank from 160 pounds (73 kilograms) to an unhealthy 104 pounds (47 kilograms). Over a 6 year period, he was hospitalized 4 times. Now 26, Gary says he is "completely recovered" from his eating disorder.
What do these men have in common? They all suffer from illnesses typically thought of as "women's diseases." Breast cancer, osteoporosis, and eating disorders all occur in men as well, though their prevalence is much greater in the female population. As a result, many men may fail to recognize symptoms. Likewise, doctors and families often do not suspect these illnesses. This can delay therapy and make disorders more difficult to treat.
Medical experts say men may shy away from seeking medical treatment for disorders they feel are unmasculine. In support groups, men use terms like "very scared" and "ashamed" to describe initial feelings about their illnesses. Others express frustration at the difficulty in finding information and therapy.
Osteoporosis is a disorder in which bones become weakened. It is sometimes known as a silent disease because it has no symptoms until the first fracture occurs. Osteoporosis most often results in fractures of the
wrist, and spine. Scientists are still piecing together just how osteoporosis develops, but it is well known that a key factor is low levels of the mineral
Bone is continually being broken down and rebuilt throughout our lifetime. Calcium is an important factor in rebuilding. Low calcium in the body may impair the rebuilding process. In addition, when there is not enough calcium in the diet, the body will take calcium out of the bones to make sure there is enough in the bloodstream. Both these factors can make the breakdown process exceed the rebuild process make the bones less dense, weaker, and vulnerable to fractures. Loss of sex hormones can also accelerate bone loss. Testosterone may diminish as a result of hypogonadism, a condition marked by decreased function of the testicles. Testosterone levels may also naturally become lower as a man ages.
Osteoporosis is seen less often in men than in women for several reasons. Men generally have greater bone mass than women, and in males, bone loss begins later and advances more slowly. Getting adequate calcium and vitamin D is the first line treatment for both men and women with bone loss.
The Endocrine Society recommends screening in men starting at age 70. Younger men (aged 50-69 years) should be screened if there are other factors present, such as certain medications or other chronic diseases. Screening is done by checking bone density. In men at higher risk for osteoporosis, a test called a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, may be used to measure the spine and hip.
Though osteoporosis cannot be cured, it can be slowed down, and steps can be taken to prevent it. The National Osteoporosis Foundation suggests these preventive measures:
Talk to you doctor about factors that can increase your risk. Some include long-term use of certain medications, such as steroids or aluminum-based antacids. Also, increasing age, undiagnosed low levels of testosterone, and chronic lung or kidney disease can raise your risk.
Alendronate and other bisphosphonates that prevent or slow the weakening of bones are a treatment for osteoporosis in men. Calcitonin is a drug that has been shown to slow bone breakdown and reduce pain associated with
attributed to osteoporosis. If doctors see a benefit, some will prescribe this drug for men. Additional options include:
parathyroid hormone and a nasal spray version of calcitonin.
Men who have low testosterone levels may respond to testosterone supplementation.
Breast tumors may be present and go undiscovered in men because breast cancer is so rare in men. Men may also not be aware of new small lumps in their chest tissue and doctors do not ordinarily examine men for breast cancer during physicals. The lump is also often painless. It may not draw attention until it causes more abnormal symptoms like nipple retraction, crusting, or a discharge. Breast cancer in men is usually found in advanced stages, which can make treatment lengthy and more difficult.
Though medical professionals typically do not recommend detection exams for the general male population, doctors may advise men at high risk to perform periodic breast self-examinations and to have mammograms.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), risk factors for male breast cancer include:
The approach to treatment is geared to the stage, or extent, of the disease at diagnosis. Since there are so few cases of breast cancer in men, the data on effectiveness of treatment comes from clinical trials in women. If the cancer is found in an early stage before it spreads to surrounding tissue or to the lymph nodes, surgical removal of the breast and lymph nodes may completely remove the cancer. However, often some additional therapy (adjuvant) is recommended to kill any undetected cancer cells that may have been left behind after surgery. Depending on the type of cells in the tumor, and a person's general health, hormone,
radiation, or
may be used. Later stages of breast cancer may be treated with a combination of therapies. If the breast cancer has spread to other organs, a regimen of hormonal or chemotherapy is tailored to each man. Once hormonal or chemotherapy is no longer effective, there are still options for immunotherapy as well as other treatments to relieve symptoms.
Possible complications after surgery or radiation therapy include decreased shoulder function, fluid retention in the arm, and pain or stiffness in the operated or radiated area. The ACS emphasizes that, besides tending to the physical consequences of breast cancer therapy, attention should be paid to the psychological after-effects.
Men who have or had breast cancer also need follow-up monitoring, which may include regular exams, blood tests, imaging (such as an
MRI scan), and bone scans, to discover any recurring tumors quickly.
Two common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
anorexia nervosa, the person limits food intake to the point of starvation. With
bulimia nervosa, people alternate between eating large amounts of food and ridding the body of it through vomiting or laxative use.
Anorexia and bulimia are most commonly seen in people who have a fear of getting fat, or in people who have body image problems that are heavily influenced by weight and shape. Other aspects of eating disorders include psychological factors centering around control, attention, mood, or even family environment. Many times disorders include
These eating disorders may appear more frequently in adolescents, but can happen at any age. These illnesses can lead to lifelong medical and psychological complications as well as death. Most people find it difficult to halt the behavior without professional assistance. Though some men ultimately seek help, many continue untreated with the disorders, often for years, and sometimes for a decade or more.
Diagnosis is complicated by a reluctance some men have to seek medical help for disorders that are still primarily related to women. Many men may be ashamed to have an illness of this type and thus, suffer in silence. Another problem is that a great number of doctors and healthcare professionals are not trained to identify or treat male eating disorders, especially anorexia. Families, too, often fail to see the man's symptoms. The illnesses then can progress to a more advanced stage where they are harder to treat.
Treatment for eating disorder has several components. The first and most important aspect is to stabilize any medical condition brought on by the disorder. Sometimes this may require hospitalization. Proper diet, nutrition, and weight gain are addressed, but that alone may not fix the original problem. Counseling, in a group or alone, is often a part of the healing process. During this time, medications for treatment of depression may also be prescribed. Antidepressants and even tricyclic drugs have been used to effectively treat eating disorders. Only your doctor can guide your treatment.
Men in support groups for eating disorders, as well as those for breast cancer and osteoporosis, say the public gradually is becoming more aware that these disorders can occur in men. They also say there is a long way to go. Some think doctors need to be enlightened, others bemoan the lack of research. Most seem to agree that men should be educated about these serious health problems and how to prevent or detect them.
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National Cancer Institute
National Osteoporosis Foundation
Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association
Canadian Cancer Society
Osteoporosis Canada
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Racing Future is determined to inspire a new generation of fans to enjoy the sport of horse racing.
With a Triple Crown bid on the line and 10 outstanding stakes races on the card, this year's Belmont Stakes Day proved to be a smashing hit, with the on-track handle of $19,105,877 and all-sources handle of $150,249,399 easily setting all-time NYRA records.
The on-track handle figure includes money wagered at Belmont Park, at Aqueduct Racetrack, and through NYRA Rewards.
The attendance was 102,199, the third highest in Belmont Stakes history. The Belmont Stakes attendance record remains 120,139, which was set in 2004 when Birdstone denied Smarty Jones a sweep of the Triple Crown. The attendance in 2002, when War Emblem came up short in his Triple Crown bid, was 103,222.
The previous on-track ($14,742,520) and all-sources handle ($124,009,593) records were set on October 29, 2005 when Belmont Park hosted the Breeders' Cup.
The previous Belmont Stakes Day handle records were set in 2004, with $14,461,402 wagered on track and $110,994,390 wagered from all-sources.
"We're so proud of this record-breaking day of racing at Belmont Park and give our special thanks to the more than 102,000 fans who joined us this afternoon." said Chris Kay, President and CEO of The New York Racing Association, Inc. "Congratulations to our 146th Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist and his connections for an outstanding performance in the 'Test of the Champion.' Thanks also to the great run from California Chrome, whose terrific story captivated the nation for the past five weeks. We are also extremely pleased with the terrific lineup of 10 stakes races propelling our handle to an all-time Belmont Stakes Day and Belmont Park record of more than $150 million in total wagering and more than $19 million bet on track. To top it off, we had sparkling entertainment lineup led by LL COOL J, Frank Sinatra, Jr., and Dee Riscoli from the Tony Award winning cast of Wicked."
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Welcome to the Port Fairy Historical Society
Piecing Our Past Together
We welcome you not only to the Museum and Archives but to our delightful town.
The Museum and Archives feature changing displays covering various aspects of our past.
We sell a number of local history publications, details are on our "Publications" page.
We meet regularly and most meetings feature a guest speaker. We welcome visitors to our meetings, details of which are on the "Functions" page.
We have extensive archives and can assist in putting the "meat on the bones" of your ancestors. Unfortunately private research of our archives is not possible.
The Port Fairy Historical Society can be contacted for research, general enquires or feedback by emailing:
We are located at:
Port Fairy Historical Society
Port Fairy Museum and Archives
30 Gipps Street, Port Fairy, Victoria 3284
(03) 5568 2263
Our postal address:
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P.O. Box 152, Port Fairy, Victoria 3284
OPENING HOURS and COSTS:
Saturdays, Wednesdays, Public Holidays 2.00 pm. until 5.00 pm.
Sundays, 10.30am - 12.30pm
In winter, from mid July until 1 September, the museum is open on Saturdays only 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.
Please note Port Fairy Museum and Archives is NOT open on the Labour Day weekend in March. This is the weekend of the Port Fairy Folk Festival for those who are following up family histories and who can only be here on that weekend we ask that you contact our archivist by phone beforehand and she will make every effort to meet with you.
Adult $5.00 and accompanied children are free.
Unaccompanied children $1.00
Open to adult groups at other times by appointment. Minimum charge $30.00 per group. Over 30 is $1.00 per head extra.
School groups are encouraged to visit by appointment. Groups of 10-20 students can be provided for at any one time; numbers over 20 will need to be divided into smaller groups. Cost: 50 cents per student. Teachers are free. Contact The Port Fairy Museum and Archives on our phone number (03) 5568 2263 and leave a message and phone number if unattended.
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AFOL's (Adult Fans of Lego) are welcome anytime at Brick & Mix but on Thursday evenings, The Build Zone is open exclusively for over 16s from 6-9pm.
Give yourself some 'me time' and get involved in some group builds and chat to fellow Lego fans.
Previous AFOL Evenings have involved working on group builds such as the Ghostbusters Firehouse and Technic sets. We are also planning an idea for an exciting collaborative project to display at a Lego show.
Experienced, novice and beginner AFOLs are all welcome to drop in. Free refreshments provided.


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Telenor Infinity i4
Charge your device quickly with the Fast charger and take high quality selfies in the dark with the front flash light.
Are SIM slots networked locked?
No both SIM slots are open for all networks
What value does the Rs 350/- easy card offer?
Easy card offers 500 Telenor & PTCL minutes, 50 off-net minutes, 30 Days validity , 500 SMS and 500 MB 4G Internet.
How to avail use the easy card?
The easy card is packed inside the device box, instructions are on the back side of the card.
What are the discount vouchers in the box for?
With Telenor Infinity 2 series you get Free discount vouchers from 3 online partners.
Will I receive any updates of android operating system (bug fixes if any) ?
Yes, updates will be received when released
Can I install more software in Infinity?
User can install any software on his own based on the available memory.
Can my Infinity phone act as a data hotspot?
Yes, both phones can act as a data hotspot
Can I uninstall preloaded applications in Infinity a2, Infinity e2?
No, user cannot delete Telenor preloaded applications.
Where can I buy Telenor phones?
All over Pakistan. Telenor franchises, Telenor website, Partner stores
How many colors are available for each model?
Both Infinity a2 and Infinity e2 are available in two colors (Grey and Gold).
What accessories are included in the box?
Phone boxes have USB data cable with a handset charger. The sales pack also includes earphones along with a clear screen protector. Infinity e2 also comes with an OTG cable while both devices have a silicone cover free.
What is covered in warranty?
Telenor Warranty covers any software issues with phones & also any dead on arrival cases.
Where should I go to claim my warranty?
Customers can claim warranty from Telenor franchises, Advance Telecom's Advance Care centers.
Can I buy extra accessories (Batteries/earphones/charger/Screen protector) from the market?
Accessories will be available at Telenor Franchises.
Facebook has stopped working error?
Facebook updates its software on weekly basis. In case the app starts to crash then a regular update will fix the issue.
- Any app that shows Stopped working Error frequently needs to be updated in the play store.
- All apps need to be updated on the play store once the device is activated.


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Hi all,
I thought I would do a review for mini kettles, seeing that there seems to be a few different types turning upon the on the market now.
All the mini kettles next a Ghillie Mavrick kettle ,just to show the size difference.
I started it with a mate of mine called Phil Sorrel who owns and runs a website called social hiking web site, heres a link www.shareyouradventure.com We thought we would compare our kettles mine is an mkettle which is manufactured here in Britain and his is a backcountry boiler which is he got from America. The backcountry boiler kettle that Phil owns is not the Hard anodised version, but my mkettle is. I will admit before I go on, that I was given my mkettle to show to a bunch of TA soldiers and allowed to keep it for my trouble.
Phil praying his kettle will boil first
Before having the mkettle land on my door step I had never seen one of these kettles before and I must admit I love it for I think it is a great bit of kit I have used it for camping when away with the TA and when on holiday with the family. And if the wife would let me I would place it above the fire place to be in full view instead of the family photo that is there at the moment!
On Holiday (not my bag) and next pic just showing how easy they store away
Im only saying this so no one can come back and say Im being biased for my kettle. Infact Im going to try to be unbiased as possible.
But basically both of these kettles have been redesigned from the old fisherman type kettles that are made and sold by Kelly, Storm, Ghillie and Eden. For the backpacking community so that it was smaller, lighter and more portable. The differences between these and the original type kettles is the top of the kettle has been flattened out and the carry handles and chains removed and the water nozzle was also removed leaving just a round hole in the top of the kettle next to the chimney. The cork was are place by a rubber stopper that can be used to keep the water in the kettle whilst in transit making it a water bottle as well. And lastly a Neoprene sleeve which surrounds the kettle so you can pick it up without burning yourself.
Anyway, we did a comparison between them in his back garden aided by a few cans of beer...well, fosters. We decided that they were both very similar in cooking times both around the five minute mark and look very similar the reason for this is that the mkettle design was well,sort of err....borrowed from the maker of the backcountry boiler.
After doing this I found out that there is another newboy on the block. And this one is designed and made here in Britain. And if you are reading this on song of the paddle you will already know this as it has been reviewed on your site where the makers have been listening to your opinions in the design of the kettle. It is the F1 kettle and it is made by Storm kettle.
This kettle is similar to the other two kettles but it hasnt gone as far as them and still keeps some of the traits of the original type kettles.The storm kettles have kindly sent me one so I do a comparison between this in with the original comparison of the other two kettles.
So what are the differences?
Well,Ill start from the top andwork my way down.
Ok as I have already said the boiler and the mkettle both have a flat top which has the hole for water to go into.The hole on the mkettle is 19mm across and the backcountry boiler is 22mm. The fact that when the water is being poured out ofthe kettle the air is trying to get in to replace the space left by the water. This can cause a bit of a glugging effect and the water can get sort of splashed around a bit when being poured. And if you try to pour it slowly it will just dripple down the side ofthe kettle. On the mkettle is the slightly worse because this hole is the smallest. This is something that just happens on anything without a nozzle. But on the F1 kettle with its nozzle the water pours smoothly all the time as it doesnt have the problem of air and water trying to pass each other.
Another thing to be aware of with the holes is when filling the kettle if you are not careful you can spill some of the water when trying to fill them.
These are only really small issues but ones that are worth a mention. But that is what you get when you are trying to save on weight and remove the nozzle
The stoppers are used to plug intothe kettles so that you can carry water in the kettles during a journey. You just have to be careful not to knock the stoppers out. I filled them all up and gave them each a good shake to see if they leaked or the stopper fell out and I happy to say neither happened.
The stoppers that go in the mkettle and the F1 are made from a translucent silicone food-grade non-toxic Stopper that is usually only supplied to the pharmaceutical industry. And the backcountry boiler also uses a Silicone Stopper which made to last at high-temperatures, this one is fitted with a loop that will go over the top vent of the kettle it can be kept on the kettle even when in use...just dont leave any of them plugged in the when using the kettles
As for the amounts that each kettle holds the mkettle and the F1 both hold 0.5 litres but the backcountry boiler kettle holds a full pint. This is 56 ml in difference between this and the other kettles.
The mkettle and the F1 that I used are Hard anodised. The reason for Hard anodising a kettle is to make the aluminium stronger it can be almost as strong as steel and it conducts heat faster than normal aluminium and also it has improved wear and corrosion resistance. And as my wife says it looks nicer.
The weights of the kettle also differed. The backcountry boiler kettle is the lightest I weighed it at 262 grams. Next was the mkettle at 394 grams. And the heaviest of these three is the F1 at 416 grams. But the weights did differ from the advertised weights but that could just be my wifes scales. But to get lightest weight the backcountry boiler must have given some of it strength possibly by using a thinner piece of aluminium.
All have a neoprene sleeve fitted so you do no burn your hand when picking up the kettles but the F1 kettle have gone a bit further and fitted a hand guard to put your hand in to help hold the kettle. Just in case anyone doesnt know what neoprene is? Well believe it or not its rubber? It is designed to resist burning and can be used over a wide variety of applications. From diving suits to, well err, these kettles
And now I will get onto the firebases
I would just like to say at thispoint that if you are not being aided (Cheating) by using firelighters, hexi blocks or something else similar. Then getting these to light can really test your fire lighting skills if you are to not use to lighting a fire in a smaller area. I know its taught me a thing or two.
The bases are what stop these kettles from being a one trick pony as you can use the bases independent from the top part of the kettle. All you need to do is get a couple of tent pegs to give it a gap at the top and voila a mini cooker. All these are different aswell the mkettle is the tallest but it also the narrowest at the bottom. The backcountry boiler is only very slightly wider and shorter. But the lowest ofthe three bases is the F1 it also has the widest area to have your fire. The only issue I found with the F1 base was when using my Trangia as it is nearly flush with the top of the base. So I think I would have to put second layer of tent pegs on to give it a bit of space to breathe so to speak.
Saying that you can get also get stands that sit on top of the mkettle and the backcountry boiler so you can heat pots on top of them but you have to make sure that the kettles are fullwater so as not to damage the kettle and that ok if you are after a brew as well. But if you just want bacon butty that is a bit of waste of time heating up all that water as well.
As for the carry bags the kettlemakers seems to have gone in different directions with this one the backcountry boiler makes his own bag which is ok but it is nothing exciting. Where as storm kettle are supplying a 2 litre sea to summit dry sack as they believe that these are the best quality and well known brand in the UK (The bags having won 'editors choice' awards in the past). Also Storm kettles told me that they will only substitute this current bag with their own label when they find a superior British manufacturer to make their bags for them. And finally there is the mkettle bag the one I have is a camouflage coloured one with a zip around the top, but the normal bag is black but they have stopped fitting the zip now and are using a pull tie to keep it closed.This bag also has two D rings fitted on it so that it can be attached to a back pack or a push bike or to whatever takes you fancy.
As for the cost of the kettles these can vary a bit as well. The cheapest kettle is the non anodised version of the F1 at £45.66 inc P&P Right up to the Hard anodised backcountry boiler at around £85*($134) inc P&P. In-between you have the non-hard anodised backcountry boiler at around £71*($114)inc P&P. The Hard anodised mkettle coming at £55 inc P&P (They dont do a non Hard anodised version anymore)and the hard anodised F1 coming at £59 also inc P&P.
*Please note that the price of the backcountry boilers can change due to the exchange rate
In my opinion all the kettles are good, they all the job that they are made to do. The issues I made on here are only small issues really. The heating times are all similar at around the five minute mark...unless you are using a Trangia that can add another three or four minutes onto your heating time (as I found out).
The backcountry boiler has put some nice little touches on like laser printing it name on top of the kettle and the stopper that you not have to remove from the kettle so dont have a chance of losing it. And if you are looking for something really light this is the one to go for. But to me it feels a bit flimsy and not as sturdy as the other two and I really dont like how they have done the rim around the base of the kettle it looks like they have just squeezed it together and it just doesnt look finished.
backcountry on left
The mkettle as I have already said I love it, its a really solid bit of kit it has never let me down and it is manufactured here in Britain which cant be a bad thing. But the nozzle hole is the smallest of the three here but nothing I have not been able to live with. Some people have an issue with its back ground. But that is nothing that hasnt happened a million times before (Just look at Apple and Samsung). But it is a well made kettle and seems to be selling well so it must be doing something right.
As for the F1 not everyone who buys one of these mini kettles will be going out in the wilds on foot and looking for the lightest bit of kit they can carry. Having the nozzle fitted is a nice touch and it does get rid of all those filling and pouring issues. But it adds some weight onto the kettle and for anyone who is always trying to lose every oz they can it might not be on top of their Christmas list. But the hand hold on the sleeve gives a nice touch to this kettle and it's something the other two dont have. Plus one thing that cant be beaten it's British.
As for which is my for which one I prefer ....The jury is still out on that one!!


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I had breakfast yesterday with Steve Roach, one of Wall Street's most respected economists. Steve is now the chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and a professor at Yale.
In addition to getting Steve's latest take on the global economy (gloomy), I learned that he is married to my second grade teacher, whom I remember fondly.
On to Steve's thoughts about the economy ...
BLODGET: Thanks for doing this, Steve. Great to see you. So where are we in the world economy these days?
ROACH: Japanese-like outcomes in the developed world, from Japan in its third lost decade to stagnation in the U.S. to recession in Europe. And I say Japanese-like because these are not temporary slowdowns. They are going to be lasting because of the damage done during these massive credit, property — and in the case of Europe — currency and interest rate bubbles for Southern European economies.
BLODGET: Is there anything that can be done to change this or is it just a matter of time?
ROACH: It is going to take really aggressive structural policies aimed at changing behavior rather than the big bazooka of monetary and fiscal stimulus, which the authorities have embraced as an answer to a crisis. I think what we found in '08 and '09 is that aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus can stop the crisis but it can't spark a sustainable recovery. There's no traction when you're in a 'liquidity trap' when interest rates are too low and debt loads are too high to get real actors in the economy to respond.
BLODGET: And when you draw the Japan comparison, do you really think it's 20-plus years for the U.S.?
ROACH: I don't know, I honestly don't know. But one of the great courses I'm teaching at Yale is called "The Lessons of Japan." You spend five weeks studying what happened in Japan and developing metrics to calibrate the excesses pre-bubble, the mistakes made post-bubble, and then we look at that template relative to other countries in the developed and developing world and there's a lot of striking similarities. Especially insofar as the U.S. and Europe let these bubbles and policy blunders distort the real side of their economy. It would be one thing if these were just financial or market-driven excesses. But they're not.
BLODGET: One of the things that is different about the United States compared to Japan is that the United States' population is still growing quite rapidly. Does that change things? Do we pull out faster as a result of that?
ROACH: I hope so. I mean I hope that our culture is one of greater resilience that enables us to do the necessary things. But our political process is so dysfunctional that it's really hard to agree on the type of policy agenda that could have a lasting impact. The comparison I like to make is in Japan, the excesses in the late '80s and then the problems in the '90s and 2000s were in the corporate sector. A huge capex bubble went from like 15% to 22% of GDP and then just round-tripped back to 15%. It left a lot of bankrupt, insolvent or 'zombie' companies alive on artificial life support by these government directed funding policies. In the U.S., the problem is not the same. It's consumers. Overly indebted, short of savings, high unemployment. We levered up in an asset bubble to take consumption to levels that we've never seen. Consumption pre-bubble in the U.S. was 66% of GDP. Now it's 71%, 72%.
BLODGET: And does that go back to 66%?
ROACH: I think it does, yes. But in the meantime, in the last four years, consumer growth, in real terms, after taxes — or just consumer growth in real terms, forget the taxes — has averaged 0.4%, compared with a trend of about 3%. So, we're focused on paying down debt and rebuilding savings. Consumers have zombie-like behavior in the United States. I don't think it's going to go for two decades but it could go for another 3 to 5 years.
BLODGET: The Japanese stock market peaked in 1989 or 1990 at 40,000, and now, 20+ years later, we're at less than a quarter of that. What's the prognosis for the U.S. stock market?
ROACH: It's not as bad as Japan because again the real excesses in Japan were in the companies that really ultimately had no earnings capacity. Our companies focused on productivity and still have the earnings capacity. The big question for us is do the rewards go from capital to labor. That's the big debate of our time.
BLODGET: And do you think that they will? That does seem to be the big debate of our time. [Wages as a percent of GDP are at an all-time low, while corporate profit margins are near all-time highs.]
ROACH: I think it's going to be tough. I don't think that government policy is the best way to get it there. Redistribution by tax policy, I think, will backfire. The emphasis has to be on re-skilling and education to equip workers to justify higher productivity-based returns. Just taking from one and giving to the other without validating it through relative productivity performance, it ain't going to work.
BLODGET: So that sounds like investment, which costs money. What do you think about the U.S. debt situation at this point?
ROACH: It's not great. It's not great if you look at debt trajectories. An interesting chart that I and others have developed, if you look at Japan's debt to GDP ratio, it was roughly around 40% of GDP when the bubbles burst. Now it's 230%. Pre-bubble, we were about 35% and now we're on our way, depending on how you measure it, to either 60 or 90%. So we're not at Japanese levels. We subsidize the debt overhang by keeping interest rates low so that debt service is minimal. But how can we keep interest rates low and duck the bullet on the debt overhang?
BLODGET: People have been predicting collapse in Japan for twenty years now, because of the debt overhang and obviously the famous book, Rogoff and Reinhart, saying that debt at 90% of GDP is the magic number. Does the debt load really matter? Some people say it doesn't matter, just look at Japan.
ROACH: It definitely matters. I mean, the trick to all of these flash points is that we don't know when they really spark a major adjustment. Economists are good at pointing out tensions, but in terms of timing the correction, not great. What we know about Japan in retrospect is they are huge savers — at one point the biggest savers in the world. So they could fund their debt overhang internally. We're not big savers. But we can issue debt in our own currency, which gives us what some have called "the exorbitant privilege" for a while. But you have to ask yourself how long can we stay in the good graces of our foreign creditors, especially if we're aggressive in our trade policies against China.
BLODGET: What about Europe? Has the problem been fixed?
ROACH: I don't think the currency's going to blow up. But I think there's still a huge battle over fiscal, political consolidation, giving up sovereign, national governments. And I think the debate will shift quickly from stopping the crisis — the ECB has expanded its balance sheet dramatically and is about to do more of that and that has been helpful in stabilizing the debt markets — but I think the debate will shift to how to deal with the recession. Europe is in a recession right now. So, as I said earlier, you can use policy to stop a crisis, but can you really use it to foster recovery when you have done as much damage as you have?
BLODGET: After 2008-2009, everyone's primed to expect the next crisis. There are constantly predictions that it will be in the next six months — and then that time period just keeps rolling forward. Do you think it's likely that the "tensions," as you put it, end in a crisis in the next couple of years? Or is it more likely that it's like Japan, where it's just an endless workout period?
ROACH: I don't know. I really don't. I will tell you this. If you look at a timeline of major crises over the last couple of decades, starting in the early '80s with the Latin debt crisis, going through the savings and loan crisis, Mexico, your favorite dotcom bust, subprime, sovereign debt, if you add them up, we've had 11 crises in the last 30 years, roughly one every three years. Those are not great odds. We always work hard to do a lot of backward-looking fixes. Here we are with Dodd-Frank post sub-prime. We will make sure that a subprime crisis never happens again. But it probably would never happen again anyway. So have we really figured out how to avoid crises? I think the odds suggest there will be another crisis, especially with excess liquidity and reckless fiscal policies in place. I just don't know exactly where it will be and when.
Thanks to BI's Ben Walsh for transcribing this interview.
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Harebrained Schemes on Thursday released Shadowrun Returns, a brand new tactical role playing game based on the enormously popular tabletop RPG that later became a popular computer and console game. Shadowrun Returns has been released for OS X and Windows, with iOS and Android versions still in the wings. (Don't worry, Linux neckbeards - you haven't been forgotten about.)
Shadowrun, originally published as a desktop pen-and-paper RPG by FASA Corp., is set in the near-future world of 2050. Things have changed - people getting cybernetic implants to give themselves new abilities and megacorporations rule the land. What's more, the entire world has transformed as magic has suddenly reemerged after a long dormancy. Large numbers of ordinary people have been transformed into trolls, orks, elves and other magical creatures - and the ability to wield this magic is crucial.
You are a shadowrunner, a mercenary with specialized abilities suited to this strange new world. And in Shadowrun Returns, you set out to find a mysterious killer as you enlist the help of other shadowrunners and master new technology and magic to help save the day.
The game includes an editor (Mac and Windows-compatible) that lets you create and share your own campaign - so count on lots more Shadowrun Returns content appearing in the weeks and months ahead.
Harebrained Schemes raised the initial capital to develop Shadowrun Returns through Kickstarter.
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I once tried to pick up Ed Begley Jr.
Before your mind dives for the gutter, it was 2004, not long after Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor, and I rented a Hummer to write about whether it was all that its most famous fancier believed it to be. I invited Begley, connoisseur of energy consumption, to join me. After all, at 6 feet 4-ish, he's the right size for the Hummer's hugeness. But nyet, nein, no way, he said. Never been in one. Wouldn't ruin his perfect record now.
Short of living in a yurt on the Bolivian Altiplano, Begley is as green as they come, certainly for someone inhabiting one of the biggest cities in the First World. His father was the Oscar-winning actor, and he's found his own way onto the small screen and large: from the complex 1980s hospital drama "St. Elsewhere" to "Six Feet Under," and current guest spots on "The New Adventures of Old Christine"; and film roles in droll mockumentaries like "This is Spinal Tap," the handiwork of Begley's friend, Christopher Guest.
Begley's foray into reality TV, "Living with Ed," now on Planet Green, follows the literal power struggle in Casa Begley, in Studio City, where his wife, Rachelle, tries to make peace with life a la Ed, in which you have to pedal a generator bike to power the toaster.
His latest Guest enterprise is a series of TV ads for the 2010 census. Begley is in for the count.
You're about saving the planet. So what's with promoting the census?
The idea is there's a director -- me -- who wants to do a Ken Burns documentary, "Snapshot of America" -- every single man, woman and child in America. We're going to have a big call for everybody, get everybody into makeup and wardrobe -- you can imagine how insane that would be -- and then someone goes: "Don't they know there's another way? The 2010 census. Fill it out."
Why do you care about the census?
It's very important for us in California, and in Los Angeles, to get everybody to sign on to the census, fill out the form, because that's how we're going to get our federal money.
People like Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann have been saying the census is government intrusion.
I think it's sad that it's even viewed as mildly controversial. Despite the facts of the government's purpose in conducting a census, there will be "tea-baggers" who see a plot to send in census workers in black helicopters to count and eventually confiscate their guns. I can't summon a reasonable response to that.
The video of your November set-to with a Fox News show host over global warming has gone viral.
We were talking about energy audits. Energy audits are voluntary. [The host was] going on and on about the intrusion: "Ed Begley, why do you want to come into our homes?" Nobody wants to come into your home. If you want to buy cases of incandescent bulbs and store them in your fallout shelter, give them to your grandchildren, you can. There are no black helicopters, folks. They say this nonsense about "death panels" and other hyperbole -- out-and-out lies.
And that morphed into a donnybrook. What was the fallout?
I got 50 angry e-mails an hour. The thing that made them maddest was when I said, "Don't listen to me, don't listen to this guy, just check out the peer-reviewed science."
You wonder why they had an actor on to talk about global warming; why wouldn't they have a scientist? They've had plenty of "scientists" on who believe it's a hoax. My friends were upset with me. Buck Henry said, "Why do you even go on there?"
I've been [on Fox] for the past decade, and I've never once raised my voice as I did that time. I'm a good little Alan Colmes: Yes, I understand, let's agree to disagree about climate change, but how about we clean up the air and lessen our dependence on Mideast oil and save some money in the bargain, OK? But this time I just couldn't do it.
You're not going to make people believe in climate change by getting loud on Fox; so I'll go back to Plan A, which is being very polite, and it resounds with the red states as well.
Conservative: "To conserve"? This should be their issue -- they're supposed to own the word. I've had a lot of success talking about it that way.
You've seen the polls. Compared with a year or two ago, fewer Americans now think global warming is real.
It's human nature. People don't want to change. People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. [Deniers] have convinced people there's a lot of controversy. And their big lie is, we'll all go broke if we do this. I haven't gone broke -- I've prospered because of all the energy efficiency I've done. In the years that we cleaned up the air in California, we didn't go broke -- because there's money to be made in clean technology. It's a model for the world.
Your wife is Rachelle Carson. I immediately thought of Rachel Carson, who wrote the seminal environmental book "Silent Spring." Some weird karma?
Her father named her after Rachel Carson because he so admired [Carson]. He was a conservative Republican, like my dad, but he thought it was true that you're going to lose all the birds if you keep putting out poisons.
Until your epiphany, were you just another kid who kept the lights on and wanted to drive a big car?
I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys. After two decades I was fed up. I'd been a Boy Scout, so I saw nature up close and personal. And my dad was a conservative who liked to conserve, and he turned off the lights and turned off the water and saved string and tinfoil and all that. [I thought] the old man was probably right about a lot of this stuff.
I started recycling, taking the bus. I went to buy an electric car: A guy named Dutch in Reseda; a Taylor-Dunn electric car for $950. When I say electric car, I'm being generous. You're talking about a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
Critics say Hollywood people talk a good green game but fly in private jets and drive Escalades.
I try not to judge. I love my friends, and I think people are trying to do the best they can, people of every stripe. Focus on what you are doing and try to do more. It's not about being a Luddite and living in a dome in Topanga -- I have friends who do, and I'm proud of them. But I live in the real world. I've got a cellphone and a computer. My No. 1 [transportation] mode is walking, No. 2 is my bike, No. 3 is public transportation, No. 4 is my wife's Prius. I drive to Vegas; I drive to Arizona, I've driven cross-country. But when I cannot do that, I get on a plane and [buy] a carbon offset. It doesn't eliminate pollution, but it puts green electrons into the grid.
When people see you on the bus or the train, do they talk to you?
Some people wave, or come over and whisper: "I don't want to bother you. I thought it was just part of a show. I love that you're actually riding the bus." I thank them for doing it too.
Do you find unexpected support?
In a lot of red states. A lot of them don't believe in global climate change, but they all want to clean up the air in Houston, Bakersfield, L.A.
People come up: "Let me tell you something, Mr. Begley."
I'm going, "Uh-oh."
"I love what you've done. I've got a rain barrel. I tried a gray-water system like you got, and damned if it didn't work."
It's fantastic.
It can get onerous. Finding out, is the food local? Is it organic? Is this or that endangered? People get overwhelmed.
Perhaps it does, if you're trying to do everything. But you look up at Mt. Everest. It's daunting. We do have a Mt. Everest of environmental challenges, but nobody runs up that mountain. You get to base camp, you get acclimated. Not everybody is Sir Edmund Hillary. You climb as high as you can. Focus on recycling at first. Buy an energy-saving light bulb. Home gardening, home composting -- talk about dirt cheap. Just slow down. The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
Your daughter Hayden is 10, and her generation's grown up with this awareness.
The poor kid is probably suffering from Stockholm syndrome, identifying with her captors. [But] at her school, kids who are not confined to our bunker in Studio City are [also] very much into all of it.
I don't want you to rat her out, but does she break the rules sometimes?
We'll go to the car wash or roller rink and she'll want those little tiny plastic toys. She does leave the lights on, or the TV on, and leaves the room. We all have our weaknesses.
Ken Burns told me his kids didn't really give him a lot of cred until he was portrayed on "The Simpsons." You've been on twice.
I [also] have two grown kids who are now 31 and 32. I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, but I was on "The Simpsons," and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star. I was on again recently. There's an eclipse and I'm driving along in a solar-powered car, and it stops on the railroad tracks. The train's coming, you think I'm going to die, then the train stops just before hitting me. On the side it says: solar-powered train.
This interview was edited and excerpted from a longer taped transcript. An archive of Morrison's interview is online at latimes.com/pattasks.


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Hope College is one of only a dozen colleges and universities nationwide and the only institution in Michigan selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to implement a new genomics course that will involve incoming freshmen in cutting-edge research during their first semester in college.
The program, the Phage Genomics Research Initiative, has been developed by HHMI's Science Education Alliance, which is a new initiative intended to help shape science education nationwide. HHMI is committing a total of $4 million overall over the first four years of the program, including the support given to all of the individual colleges and universities.
The research-based, year-long laboratory course has been designed to provide beginning college students with a true research experience that will teach them how to approach scientific problems creatively and hopefully solidify their interest in a career in science.
"The key is that it's focusing on first-year students to get them into that investigative mode as quickly as possible," said biologist Dr. Aaron Best, who with colleague Dr. Joseph Stukey is directing the college's participation in the program and will be teaching the course. "That is not being emphasized at many institutions across the nation, except through this program."
Best noted that the new course will fit well as an extension of the college's broader emphasis on using research as a teaching tool.
"Hope has a strong history of incorporating undergraduate students into active research programs of individual faculty members, and we've been using open research questions in our advanced coursework in recent years," Best said. "This new initiative will enable us to create a dedicated research experience in the context of first-year coursework that is modeled on work we have done in advanced courses. We are also excited by the potential for future collaboration with the other institutions that are participating."
Hope will offer the two-semester course beginning in the fall of 2008 for up to 20 students each year. They will work collaboratively with their faculty mentors in isolating and characterizing previously unknown bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. During the fall semester they will collect viruses from the local environment and then isolate, purify and amplify the viruses' DNA. One virus from each of the participating colleges and universities will then be sent to a national genome sequencing center to prepare phage DNA libraries and sequence the DNA over the semester break. In the spring semester the students will receive the DNA sequence data and reconstruct and annotate the sequence using techniques of bioinformatics.
Ultimately, the final phage sequence information developed by the students will be deposited into public databases for use by the extended scientific community, and student findings could be published in scientific journals.
Best noted that the college is hoping that the experience will motivate the students to get involved in ongoing research projects at the college. "Our goal would be to use this as a springboard to get those students into individual labs with professors," he said.
The Science Education Alliance (SEA) is a new direction for HHMI, which for two decades has funded science education programs run by faculty and teachers at institutions across the United States. By creating the SEA, HHMI is taking a more active role in catalyzing change in science education.
The course is being piloted at the University of Pittsburgh during the current, 2007-08 school year. HHMI intends to include 36 institutions in the SEA program, adding 12 per year in 2009 and 2010, and anticipates that approximately 720 students will have participated by the time the program concludes.
HHMI's support to the participating institutions includes resources to develop the course, reagents and laboratory components, computing support and software, and an Internet-based networking infrastructure for all participants. Participating faculty will meet three times with SEA staff and scientists before teaching the course.
In addition to Hope, the institutions chosen for the program's first year are Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh, Pa.; the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.; James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.; Oregon State University in Corvallis; Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.; the University of California, San Diego; the University of California, Santa Cruz; the University of Louisiana at Monroe; the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.; the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, in Baltimore; and Washington University in St. Louis, in Missouri.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which was founded in 1953 by aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes, is a nonprofit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Md., and emphasizes serving society through biomedical research and science education. One of the nation's largest philanthropies, the institute has an endowment of $16.3 billion and commits almost $700 million a year for research and $80 million in grant support for science education. The SEA is headquartered at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va.
Hope's selection for the Phage Genomics Research Initiative follows having received major support from the institute nearly four years ago. Hope is currently in the fourth year of a four-year, $1.5 million grant received from HHMI in 2004, part of $49.7 million in grants awarded to 42 baccalaureate and master's degree institutions in 17 states and Puerto Rico to support a variety of programs to improve undergraduate science education. HHMI invited institutions to apply for those awards based on their record of preparing students for graduate education and careers in research, teaching or medicine.


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"That sound you hear? It's the fat lady singing.
"For the umpteenth time in the Republican presidential primary race, Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in a major Midwestern swing state — a win that effectively forecloses any chance that the former Massachusetts governor might not be the GOP nominee in the fall…
"'Maybe it's time to get going,' Romney said in an interview with conservative talk show host Sean Hannity on Tuesday. 'This is time for us to start focusing on [President Obama] rather than standing and focusing on one another in these primary contests.'"
"In a move that shows Republicans are coalescing around the party's front-runner, Mitt Romney plans to begin raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee this week as both the candidate and the GOP brace for an expensive general-election fight against President Barack Obama.
"The arrangement will allow top donors to write checks as large as $75,000 per person, by giving to party organizations in addition to the campaign. That's far more than the $2,500 ceiling that applies to individual donations to a presidential candidate for the fall election.
"The move reflects a general clamor within the party to begin amassing the funds needed to compete with Mr. Obama's fundraising operation, Romney and RNC advisers said. "Our donors are ready to mobilize for November," said Andrea Saul, a Romney spokesperson. For the Republican nominee to be able to compete with the president's re-election effort, 'they need to get started now.'"
"Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod mocked GOP front-runner Mitt Romney's economic policies on Tuesday, saying his ideas were from a 'time warp.'
"'He must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news,' said Axelrod on 'CBS This Morning,' referring to the popular drama set in the 1960s.
"Axelrod accused Romney of being 'oblivious to the experiences of everyday people.'"
"Aides continue to debate whether they should seize even tighter control of the former Massachusetts governor or yield to the push by some advisers to 'let Romney be Romney' — but they have yet to crack the code. 'They haven't been able to grapple with the central issue and central challenge they face as a campaign,' one Romney adviser lamented. 'In the absence of a candidate who has any poetry — who has any ability to connect on an emotional level — how do you create a bond?'…
"The operative said the campaign had become overprotective of Romney. 'It's part of the 'We've got to keep him locked in a box' thing. You know, at a certain point, the narrative feeds the narrative, right? So if you keep him locked in the box, then people say, 'Well, that's why they've got to keep him locked in the box,' and it's a giant mistake. He's a really smart person. You can have a conversation with him, and he's going to say some things that are going to make you cringe, but he's going to say some things that sound pretty smart, and you've got to be able to take the risk.'"
"What's interesting about Romney and his supporters is that, despite his conservative rhetoric, moderates and country club conservatives continue to support his candidacy.
"Think about it. Romney, who stresses his opposition to abortion, talks tough on immigration and rules out a tax increase even to help cut the deficit, continues to get the support of pragmatic conservatives who reject former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's ideological rigidity, thought Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) was too conservative and viewed Texas Gov. Rick Perry as a bomb thrower…
"Romney's great asset is that these voters figure he is merely pandering to evangelicals and the most conservative element of the GOP when he talks about cultural issues, immigration and taxes.
"The bottom line, of course, is that nobody — not his critics and not his allies — really believes Mitt Romney."
"Mitt can't fake it. He stinks at politicking. But then again, so did many others who would later succeed at governing. If Boston wants their candidate to humanize himself, maybe they should just let him admit that fact and stop trying to stuff himself into a suit that doesn't fit…
"Mitt Romney should then just admit the sad truth. He's stiff. He's boring. He looks plain uncomfortable every time he tries to be cool. And despite what the love of his life may believe, he has never been the life of any party. But he may be the only leader on the national stage who has what it takes to fix an economy that's deep in debt, bleeding jobs by the year and suffering through 30 years of decline.
"Now is not the time to tell jokes. Now is the time to lead. So Mitt Romney, lead. And leave the bad jokes to Jay Leno."
"With his sweep of the Wisconsin and Maryland primaries, Mitt Romney has finally secured the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. That is no small feat, given the realities of the modern Republican Party.
"But he did so without sketching out any design of what a new social model might look like. Indeed, Mr. Romney seemed to stand aside from the most urgent political and policy question of our time — what comes next — and instead bored us to tears with reassurances that America would be great again if only we elected him to its highest office.
"The key to a Romney victory is not to defeat President Obama; that would be a byproduct. The key is to make the case that the Blue Social Model is truly dead, that a new model is urgently needed and to present the first rough draft of what the new model might look like. Points one and two are an open-and-shut case. Point three is much riskier, obviously, but will (over time and with repetition) sharpen the points of difference. Vote for Obama and surely sink. Vote for Romney and at least there's hope.
"Mr. Romney will never run his campaign along these lines. He and his team will Etch A Sketch as they go; energy today, bomb Iran tomorrow, whatever gets them through the next news cycle."
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Grae's Rating:
Cover your eyes.
If the overwhelmingly intellectual films of the summer have stressed out your brain box, The Watch will be a delightful vacation from thinking, good taste and creativity for you. A movie about neighborhood oddballs who set out to find a murderer but discover aliens instead, all while uncovering suburban neighborhood secrets, aspires to reach the heights of The 'Burbs but feels more like Desperate Housewives minus the laff riot.
Costco manager and classic Type A personality Evan (Ben Stiller) is outraged at the murder of one of his employees. So, like any concerned citizen who needs distraction from his own personal problems, he forms a neighborhood watch team. Vince Vaughn plays Bob, the same reluctant-and-vulgar-but-devoted suburban dad that he always plays. Jonah Hill is Franklin, the weirdo loner with a switchblade, and Richard Ayoade plays Jamarcus, the guy who's strange because he is British and wears blazers. Quite a motley crew--at least by Hollywood standards. Together they run around their neighborhood discovering alien weapons and the aliens that misplaced them, while making plenty of semen and penis jokes.
As an R-rated comedy, the movie can't hold a candle to recent zingers like Ted or Bridesmaids because although the story seems unique, the jokes definitely aren't. Vince Vaughn peeing into a Budweiser can on a stakeout and Jonah Hill yelling at his mother aren't exactly comedy revelations. Are they funny? Mildly. But examining alien goo on Ben Stiller's car and telling us what it reminds them of was funnier when Cameron Diaz used it as hair gel in one of Ben Stiller's other movies. At best, this movie is a decent rental but isn't likely to replace your rainy day favorites.
When the joy gets sucks out of what should be an effortlessly funny time, I always research who was involved. One of the writers of this film, Jared Stern, also wrote Mr. Popper's Penguins, which relied solely on the charm of Jim Carrey and those adorable little birds wearing nature's tuxedos to be palatable (which it wasn't, to anyone over the age of 6). The director is Akiva Shaffer, who has directed plenty of funny shorts for Saturday Night Live and also the Andy Samberg comedy Hot Rod. These factors seem to explain why the film feels much less funny the longer it runs--the humor is so uncreative that it becomes much more noticeable over time.
There is one thing the movie does pretty well. It seems like mishandling British actors remains the only way we can continue punishing Great Britain for their centuries-old imperialist ways (case in point: Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand). We just can't figure out what to do with them. Richard Ayoade, however, fits into the movie well and brings the freshest comedy of the bunch. If you haven't caught him in IT Crowd yet, track it down on DVD and treat yourself. Sacrificing days to go through the series is a far better way to spend your time and money than this classless, uninspired drag.
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Assassination Tango
An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a general in Buenos Aires. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance
Actor: Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker, Luciana Pedraza
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The only reservation I have about sharing this (delightful) video of a cheetah cub romping around a playroom at the Cincinnati Zoo is that cheetah cubs invariable meet horrible ends in Nat Geo documentaries, yet they're also easily the cutest animals. Ever. They have fuzz — fuzz — that literally makes them more cuddlable. It's almost like cheetahs have adapted just to elicit our pity when their young get gobbled up by other African predators. This one, anyway, is safe.
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Monster Porn Books – The 8 Strangest Monster Erotica Novels
Some like to read romance novels, while others prefer monster porn (otherwise known as monster erotica). We've done the hard work reading through countless scorching hot books of monster sex in order to find the very best reads in this surprisingly popular adult book genre. How popular is it? One of these books has sold over a 100,000 copies in a year.
Wether you're into minotaurs, dragons, dinosaurs or sasquatch, this list has something for everyone with strange erotic fantasies. But be forewarned: These books are tales of monster sex and not suitable for someone under 18 years of age. Read at your own risk!
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Taken and Used by Monsters Erotica CollectionBy Wynne Burroughs
Excerpt: "Finally, he was close enough that his hot breath rushed against my face. He smelled musky and smoldered with hungers and desires."
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Ravished by the TriceratopsBy Christie Sims
Excerpt: "He thrust the broken horn at me as if to say, " You did this to me! Now you get to make it up to me!" I looked into the creature's eyes and saw the rage there, but I saw lust as well."
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Hammered by the HydraBy Persephone Parsons
Excerpt: "One thing is sure: the depraved human rulers of the city will do whatever it takes to keep the monsters satisfied and the money flowing in. What none of them realize is that some women crave the touch of something more than human, and are all too willing to abandon themselves to the exotic pleasures that can be found in the garden of Unearthly Delights."
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Double Stuffed By The DragonsBy Rose Black
Excerpt: "The tip of his tail moved to caress my lips, tracing slowly along the top, and then the bottom. "You'll beg even more soon enough." Syth said, his smoky voice full of promise. And then the two dragons were on me. Strong claws ripped at my clothes, and they tossed the ruined scraps aside. Their scales were warm and smooth against my naked flesh, and I felt heat begin to fill my veins. Syth's tail pushed past my lips and invaded my mouth. I nearly gagged as he filled me, going deep into my throat."
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Taken by the Minotaur HerdBy Odessa Lasch
Excerpt: "The largest of the five came close; his almost human eyes looked her up and down before he gave a gruff snort through his snout. Haile believed that she could see his lip curl into a discernible half smile as he trotted closer - so close that she found herself breathing into his bare, muscular chest."
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Taken by the PterodactylBy Christie Sims and Alara Branwen
Description: Dianne is a shepherd, watching over flock of sheep. She is sworn to protect them against any predators– no matter the size. But when a flock of pterodactyls attack, Dianne has no choice but to use herself as bait to draw their attention away from her precious flock. One pterodactyl swoops in and picks her up, taking her to his nest. She fully expects to be eaten by the massive beast, but when it starts to peck her clothes away, leaving her naked, she begins to understand that the pterodactyl might have another, more deviant use for the young virgin. But can Dianne accommodate such a massive creature?
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Moan For BigfootBy Virginia Wade
Excerpt: "Mating with an animal, part man, part beast, was as unthinkable as having sex with a donkey, and yet, here I was reveling in the experience and not wanting it to end."
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Taken by the T-RexBy Christie Sims and Alara Branwen
Excerpt: "Drin taunts the beast, giving her tribes mates time to flee. As she runs, leading it through a gauntlet of traps, the thrill of the hunt soars through her blood, leaving her wet with desire. When the angry T-Rex corners the huntress in a box canyon, it seems more interested in her wet womanhood than in her flesh."


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In accordance with the "Reopener" provision of the 1991 civil settlement with the Exxon Corporation, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Alaska Department of Law today presented the company with a proposed plan to restore shorelines in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska that still contain oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The State of Alaska and three federal agencies whose trust resources were injured by the spill—the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior—have estimated the project to cost approximately $92 million over the course of several years. The additional funding is being sought under the "Reopener for Unknown Injury" provision of the 1991 civil settlement which required Exxon to pay $900 million in damages at the time.
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On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. The resulting spill of approximately 11 million gallons of crude oil ultimately contaminated nearly 1,750 kilometers of the Alaska shoreline with crude oil, including those of a national forest, three national parks, four national wildlife refuges, five state parks, four state critical habitat areas and a state game sanctuary.
On Oct. 8, 1991, the federal district court in Anchorage approved both a plea agreement that resolved criminal charges by the United States against Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping Company and a civil settlement that resolved the claims of the United States and the State of Alaska against various Exxon entities for past cleanup costs and natural resources damages. The plea agreement called for a $150 million fine, $125 million of which was remitted, and $100 million in restitution payments that were divided equally between the federal and state governments. The civil settlement required Exxon to pay $900 million over ten years. That money has been and continues to be used for both short-term and long-term restoration projects in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. The settlement also included a Reopener clause stating that Exxon may be required to pay up to an additional $100 million for unforeseen natural resource damages caused by the spill.
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