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Playing for Olympian Smith, Greiss shuts out Flamesby Jerry Brown
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Tuesday was a day to remember for both Phoenix Coyotes goalies.
Hours after starter Mike Smith was named to the Canadian team that will compete at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, backup Thomas Greiss recorded the first shutout for a Phoenix goalie this season in a 6-0 win against the Calgary Flames at Jobing.com Arena.
Lauri Korpikoski had a goal and two assists for Phoenix. Mikkel Boedker, Shane Doan, Martin Hanzal and Michael Stone each had a goal and an assist; the Coyotes had seven players with multipoint games.
The Coyotes hadn't won in regulation since defeating the New York Islanders 6-3 here on Dec. 12. Phoenix was 2-4-4 since, with its wins coming during a run of six straight overtime games.
Phoenix coach Dave Tippett decided Monday that Smith would sit against Calgary regardless of how the Olympic selection went. With Smith watching, Greiss completed his second career shutout with 27 saves. He is 6-2-1 this season, lowered his goals-against average to 1.89, and has three of the Coyotes' past five victories.
"It was a must-win for us. We needed those points," said Greiss, whose other shutout came last Jan. 26 for the San Jose Sharks against the Colorado Avalanche. "The guys blocked a lot of shots [15] that took chances away that made it easier for me. Then we got up a couple of goals and that helps too."
Griess made his best save in the first period, making an acrobatic glove save on a Dennis Wideman power-play shot. But most of the night he made it look easy.
"He just looks solid in there. He doesn't do anything flashy," Tippett said. "When a goaltender makes things look easy, like routine saves, then he's playing well. A couple of the shots he saw were tougher than they looked, but he made the saves and moved it along."
The Phoenix offense took it from there. Doan and Boedker scored their 13th and Hanzal his 12th during the second period, when Phoenix took control with three goals during a span of 10:37. Boedker has career highs for goals and points (29) and three goals and five points in his past four games. He has 14 points in his past 17 games, feeling more comfortable since moving to the right side.
Korpikoski, who will play for Finland in Sochi, has four points in the past two games. It was his first three-point-night since Nov. 16 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, when he had a goal and two assists before suffering an upper-body injury that cost him 13 games. He's been easing back into the lineup.
"It took some time to get my conditioning back and to get used to things like back-to-back games," he said. "But it's coming back and I feel pretty good. I'm happy to be playing in the Olympics, but I want to focus the next month on getting the Coyotes in good position and contributing."
Rob Klinkhammer also scored for Phoenix, and Mike Ribeiro and Radim Vrbata each had two assists.
The Flames were shut out for the fourth time in their past six games; they've been outscored 16-1 in five losses during that span. They snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-3 road win against the Colorado Avalanche on Monday.
"The first period was a good period. Then we had a couple of bounces and we started to get away from it and get discouraged," forward Mike Cammalleri said. "But we played a team that's had the success they've had by staying patient and sticking with it. We saw the snowball effect. They did it the right way and we did it the wrong way tonight."
Goalie Reto Berra made 24 saves but was the victim of some bad bounces in the second period.
Boedker ran down a wayward Ribeiro shot behind the Calgary net, and his centering flip deflected first off Berra, then the shoulder of Doan before falling in the net at 2:07. The goal was Doan's first since being sidelined with Rocky Mountain Fever on Dec. 4. The Halkirk, Alberta native has 45 points in 62 career games against the Flames.
Fortune struck again 1:34 later. After two Calgary players were tangled in the Phoenix zone and behind the play, Korpikoski let a shot go that caromed off the back of Vrbata and squirted into the slot, where Hanzal had a gaping net in front of him. Hanzal slid it home at 3:45.
"They get the two breaks and then Phoenix just sat back and waited," Calgary coach Bob Harley said. "If you look at offense, they have more weapons that we do. Their top three lines can all score.
"Last night we were happy with the win, tonight we are not happy. There is no sugar-coating; unfortunately that is part of our process."
The Coyotes took their first three-goal lead in nearly a month (Dec. 12) in a more conventional fashion. Ribeiro dug out a puck behind the goal line and fed Boedker for a one-timer that beat Berra cleanly at 12:40.
Korpikoski punched home his rebound at 9:02 of the third period before setting up Stone for his eighth of the season at 15:36. Klinkhammer made it 6-0 on the power play at 18:38.


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by Jennifer Ward Barber
The Western Canadian Triathlon Series, now a part of the IRONMAN family, offers triathletes a unique chance to race a series of races across one of North America's most spectacular and diverse countries. For athletes living in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, or for anyone wanting to plan a multi-race vacation, the series takes in everything from vibrant cities to majestic mountains, to quaint, artsy towns. Take advantage of these races, and all that Canada has to offer, with our "race and play" plan below.
May: Start your season in Shawnigan Lake
Race: The series kicks off in May with the Shawnigan Lake Olympic-distance triathlon, a short 30-minute drive from Victoria. You'll run on the breathtaking Trans Canada trail to the newly rebuilt historic Kinsol Trestle, with no pavement pounding your legs. A true West Coast experience in one of the most beautiful areas of the world, the Shawnigan event offers the chance to swim an open water triathlon in a stunning scenic venue, beautiful trail running, great camping near the race site and a fun festival atmosphere. The weekend activities also include a Saturday festival in Shawnigan Lake Village with live entertainment, food sampling, demonstrations, clinics, sponsor and local business expo booths, and concessions.
Play: A fashionable summer recreation and cottage area for over a century, Shawnigan Lake attracts fishers, sunbathers and day-trippers. Shawnigan Lake Village, located on the eastern shore, is known for its arts and craft scene, and some active choices for recreation include paddling, golf, and numerous hiking options in one of the area's many provincial parks.
- Memory Island Provincial Park is located on the southern half of the lake, only a short paddle away. Bring a picnic, stretch your legs, and do a little laid-back bird-watching.
- Head north to Cobble Hill and go wine tasting for the day, another creative community for painters, sculptors, and potters.
Early June: Ramp up in Victoria, B.C.
Race: Next up, Saunders Subaru IRONMAN 70.3 Victoria in June makes the perfect lead-up for athletes racing Subaru IRONMAN Canada in nearby Whistler, or as a "next step" for shorter-course athletes. Taking place on beautiful Vancouver Island, the event anchors a festival of races including Olympic and sprint-distance races. The long-course option is a sentimental favorite in the sport of triathlon and now in its 19th year. The popular race is famous for its one-loop swim course, beautiful ride through the Saanich Peninsula and scenic run on trails bordering Elk Lake. The weekend also includes a music festival on Saturday, a partner expo, keynote speakers, entertainment on the course and activities for the kids. Register now for the distance of your choice.
Play: Victoria retains the essence of British refinement, but with a modern flair. The famous Empress Hotel, with its afternoon high tea offerings, is located in the heart of downtown, as are the gothic Christ Church Cathedral and the IMAX National Geographic Theatre, the Emily Carr House, Victoria Bug Zoo, Market Square, the Pacific Undersea Gardens and the oldest (and most intact) Chinatown in Canada. Victoria's climate makes it ideal for many recreational activities including rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, golf and water sports. The city is also known as the cycling capital of Canada, with hundreds of miles of bicycle paths and routes in the city.
- Enjoy high tea at the Empress
- Go whale watching
- Visit the world-renowned Butchart Gardens
- Take a ferry to one of the many Gulf Islands
- Zipline your way to another adrenaline boost
- Visit tourismvictoria.com for more ideas
Late June: Relax in Saskatoon, Sask.
Race: Just weeks later and a province away, the series moves to Canada's flattest province, Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon Triathlon, including both Olympic- and sprint-distance races, takes place in the small, cultural city of Saskatoon. Both races include a swim in Pike Lake Provincial Park, a ride into Saskatoon on charming country roads and an exciting downtown run and finish in the beautiful River Valley.
- Adding to the festival environment in Canada's sunniest city, the Saskatoon Jazz Festival features five live outdoor venues and internationally-renowned artists.
- Explore the city's quaint markets and coffee shops, vibrant nightlife, eclectic shopping scene and miles of walking trails.
- Visit tourismsaskatoon.com for more ideas.
July: Let Vancouver excite and energize
Race: At the beginning of July, the series moves back to mainland British Columbia for the Vancouver family of races. The series features a long distance, aqua bike, Olympic, sprint and relay races in all distances. The event distances and the new Aqua Bike event were inspired by athletes preparing for IRONMAN Canada, and designed to build final fitness, but save the legs for Whistler. The Long Distance event will serve as National Championships, where 10 amateur athletes per age group and four elite athletes will qualify to represent Canada at the 2015 World Long Distance Championships. Register now for the distance of your choice.
Play: With this diverse city's numerous neighborhoods, all boasting a unique feel, there is enough to do in this city to fill days of exploration.
- Visit major attractions like the Vancouver Aquarium, take in a theatre show on Granville Island, or take a picnic to the massive urban green space, Stanley Park.
- Trek off the beaten path to the Capillano Suspension Bridge, take in a yoga class, or visit one of many beaches, farmer's markets, or art galleries.
- The city is a foodie's paradise, with lots of fresh sushi offerings, fish markets and unique Pacific Coast cuisine.
- Visit vancouvertourism.com and start planning your visit.
August: Wind down in Banff, AB.
Race: Concluding with the Banff Triathlon Olympic, sprint and super sprint races, the series winds down in September in Canada's first National Park—a national pride and joy. Athletes will swim in the pristine waters of Two Jack Lake, cycle around stunning Minnewanka Loop Road and into the town of Banff, then finish on the famous Banff Avenue. The race takes place on Saturday, allowing athletes to enjoy the Saturday social activities and the rest of the weekend.
Play: Where do we begin with Banff? This national park is the true gateway to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, breathtaking in and of themselves. The town of Banff offers all the usual shops and attractions, walking trails, and trailheads to some serious backcountry excursions.
- When you're done enjoying this mountain town's charm, drive to Lake Louise for the day and hike up to the Plain of the Six Glaciers.
- Drive the scenic Icefields Parkway all the way to Jasper National Park for the experience of a lifetime.
- Visit banfflakelouise.com to begin planning your trip.

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(CNN) -- Syria warned the United States on Friday that it is prepared to confront any aggression against the war-torn nation.
The challenge came as Western powers debated the use of military force against Syria's government in response to a chemical weapons attack in Damascus' suburbs last week.
Opinion: For the U.S., Syria is a problem from hell
U.S. President Barack Obama has said there's no doubt that Syria launched chemical weapons attacks against its own people. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has blamed the August 21 attack on rebels.
Most recent:
-- Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Lukashevich dismissed a possible missile strike as "unacceptable." He added that United Nations weapons inspectors are still investigating and "without any proof we are hearing threats of striking Syria."
-- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the evidence against al-Assad is overwhelming and, "therefore, the focus now legitimately lies on the most appropriate from of international response."
-- There has been no request by the United States or any other country for the Australian military to participate in possible strike against Syria, Rudd said.
-- Obama said he has not made a decision on how to respond to the chemical weapons attack, but he called it "a challenge to the world."
-- The president also said the U.S. military and his security team were looking at a "wide range of options," but he added that any American action would not involve sending troops or waging a long-term campaign.
-- Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that U.S. intelligence information found that 1,429 people were killed in last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children.
-- A preliminary U.S. government assessment asserted "with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out the chemical weapons attack against opposition elements in the Damascus suburbs." Kerry said the question now is "what are we ... in the world going to do about it."
-- The United States says in an assessment released Friday that it has "intelligence that leads us to assess that Syrian chemical weapons personnel ... were preparing chemical weapons munitions prior to" what Washington believes was a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21.
-- Kerry said Syrian officials made preparations for chemical weapons use for three days prior to the August 21 attack, and that rockets were launched from areas controlled by the Syrian regime and landed in areas controlled by the opposition or contested.
-- A preliminary U.S. government assessment said 100 videos connected to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria "show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with, but not unique to, nerve agent exposure."
-- Some videos show what appear to be fatalities "with no visible injuries" -- which is "consistent with death from chemical weapons, and inconsistent with death from small-arms, high-explosive munitions or blister agents," said the government assessment.
-- Kerry said Friday that U.S. officials make "our own decisions on our own timelines, based on our own values and interests" in signaling a possible military response to last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria.
--The United States "will not repeat" justifying a military campaign on false intelligence, referring to the Iraq war under President George W. Bush, in detailing information about the chemical weapons attack in Syria, Kerry said.
-- A U.S. military response to last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria "will not involve boots on the ground" or be open-ended, Kerry said Friday, adding that America will not assume responsibility for Syria's civil war.
-- Citing support from the Arab League, Turkey and France, Kerry said Friday that "we are not alone in our will to do something about" last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria that he blamed on al-Assad's regime.
-- Obama administration officials are holding a conference call about Syria with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, a Senate source told CNN.
Previously reported:
-- Seven people were killed and dozens were hurt Monday when a bomb hit a school in northern Syria, a strike anti-government activists believe was conducted with chemical weaponry.
-- The U.N. mission inspecting a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria has completed its collection of samples, said Martin Nesirky, spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general said Friday. Nesirky told reporters that inspectors visited a government military hospital in Damascus and will be leaving Syria on Saturday.
-- President Barack Obama met his National Security Council oFriday on the alleged chemical weapons use by the Syrian regime last week, a White House official said.
-- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon intends to consult with countries at the United Nations on developments in Syria and is scheduled to meet with permanent members of the U.N. Security Council at noon Friday, his spokesperson said.
-- Former President George W. Bush, in an interview, said President Barack Obama has a "tough choice to make" on potential U.S. military action against Syria's president. "If he decides to use our military, he'll have the greatest military ever backing him up," Bush said in an appearance on Fox News.
-- Former President Jimmy Carter said "a punitive military response without a U.N. Security Council mandate or broad support from NATO and the Arab League would be illegal under international law and unlikely to alter the course of the war."
-- The Obama administration will release on Friday declassified intelligence backing up the U.S. government assessment that the Syrian regime was responsible for a chemical weapons attack outside Damascus last week, a senior administration official said. The administration has said that the information would be made public by the end of the week.
-- Half of Americans say they oppose possible U.S. military action against Syria, according to a new national poll. And nearly eight in 10 of those questioned in an NBC News survey released Friday morning say President Barack Obama should be required to get congressional approval before launching any military attack against al-Assad's forces.
-- The British parliament vote to reject military action in Syria reflects "the majority opinion in Europe as a whole, not just Britain," Russian President Vladimir Putin's senior foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters in Vladivostok Friday, according to the Kremlin's press office.
-- British Prime Minister David Cameron said it is important for the United Kingdom to have a "robust response to the use of chemical weapons and there are a series of things that (Britain) will continue to do. But, he said, British involvement in a military action "won't be happening."
-- French President Francois Hollande told newspaper Le Monde that a possible military intervention should be limited and not have the goal of overthrowing al-Assad.
-- The Syrian army and its people will respond to any attack and are ready to confront any form of military aggression by superpowers against the country, Syria's defense minister, Fahd Jasem al-Freij, said during a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart, Hussein Dehghan, Syrian state news agency SANA, reported Friday.
Why Russia, Iran, China stay loyal to Assad
-- Iran's armed forces chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, warned the United States and its allies against any attack on Syria, saying any new military operation in the region would inflict serious damage and would only benefit Israel, the Iranian state news agency IRNA, reported Friday.
-- Washington respects a vote by the British parliament rejecting a strong response to recent developments in Syria, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Friday. "Every nation has a responsibility to make their own decisions, and we respect that of any nation," he told journalists in the Philippine capital, Manila. The United States is seeking "an international collaboration and effort" on "whatever decision is taken" to address the Syrian crisis.
-- The United States may have to take unilateral action against Syria after British lawmakers voted down a proposal for military action, a senior U.S. official said.
-- Cameron was dealt a blow Thursday in his push for a strong response, including possible military action, against Syria when the House of Commons rejected the measure.
Sources: Intercepts implicate Syrians
-- The vote, 285 to 272, came just minutes after members of Parliament voted down a Labour Party motion calling for additional time for U.N. weapons inspectors to gather evidence over whether al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in suburban Damascus.
-- A closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council ended with no agreement on a resolution to address the crisis in Syria, a Western diplomat told CNN's Nick Paton Walsh on condition of anonymity. "It was clear there was no meeting of minds, and no agreement on the text. It is clear that our approaches are very different and we are taking stock" of the next steps, the diplomat said.
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-- Members of the Security Council expect U.N. weapons inspectors to brief Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shortly after they depart Syria on Saturday. Ban, in turn, will swiftly brief the Security Council on the findings, the diplomat said.
-- Cameron opened the emergency session of the House of Commons on Syria Thursday by saying the debate is about "how to respond to one of most abhorrent uses of chemical weapons in a century" -- not about regime change or invasion.
-- Cameron told the House of Commons that the UK government would not act without first hearing from U.N. weapons inspectors, giving the United Nations a chance to weigh in and Parliament to have a vote.
Iran says a U.S. military strike would spark disaster
-- Failing to act would give al-Assad a signal that he could use such weapons "with impunity, Cameron said.
-- The British government on Thursday published a summary of its intelligence assessment on Syria's alleged chemical weapons use, arguing that at least 350 people died in an attack in the Damascus area on August 21, and that there is no plausible culprit other than the Syrian government. It is "highly likely" that the Syrian government was behind the attack, the report said.
-- The British government also published its legal reasoning for a strike on Syria Thursday, saying that it would be justified on humanitarian grounds.
-- "The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime is a serious crime of international concern, as a breach of the customary international law prohibition on use of chemical weapons, and amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity," the UK government's statement read. "However, the legal basis for military action would be humanitarian intervention; the aim is to relieve humanitarian suffering by deterring or disrupting the further use of chemical weapons."
Chemical weapons in Syria: How did we get here?
-- British members of parliament received an open letter from the Syrian government Thursday, urging them not to take any military action against Syria, the press office for House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said.
-- The Syrian letter to British lawmakers compared the current situation to the march to war against Iraq a decade ago, and riffing on Shakespeare, saying: "If you bomb us, shall we not bleed?" It also says an attack on Syria would be illegal, and "would automatically strengthen our common enemy, al Qaeda and its affiliates."
-- Al-Assad vowed Thursday to defend against any Western military attack. "The threats of launching an aggression against Syria will increase its commitments," and "Syria will defend itself against any aggression," he said, according to Syrian state TV.
-- U.N. inspectors entered the eastern part of the Ghouta region outside Damascus on Thursday, Syrian activists said. The Ghouta area was hit by the August 21 attack, activists say.
-- Al-Assad's claim that rebels were behind the August 21 chemical attack is impossible, Obama said on "PBS NewsHour" Wednesday. "We do not believe that, given the delivery systems, using rockets, that the opposition could have carried out these attacks," Obama said. "We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out. And if that's so, then there need to be international consequences."
-- Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who along with President George W. Bush helped send the U.S. military into action in Iraq and Afghanistan, told the Fox Business Network on Wednesday that the White House has yet to justify potential strikes in Syria.


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fptechnoApr 23, 2013 08:31:08 IST
FIFA President Sepp Blatter's Twitter account was hacked on Monday with a series of bizarre tweets saying he was stepping down and was involved in corruption.
A statement from FIFA confirmed the account had been hacked, saying: "Some FIFA accounts, incl. @SeppBlatter and @fifaworldcup, have been hacked. If in doubt, please verify any info with FIFA office."
The bogus messages on Blatter's account included a retweet from FIFA World Cup saying: "It was decided that the president Sepp Blatter is to step down due to corruption charges.
Blatter's Twitter account has been vandalised (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Another tweet on Blatter's page said: "So what if I took money from Qatari prince? I am the family's bread earner," before declaring himself unrepentant.
"His excellency the Emir of Qatar has been the most generous figure I have ever met," and "I do not apologize for my decision. I have done the best for Fifa. For almost 15 years I have toiled for this organization."
The official World Cup Twitter account also fell victim to the hackers with several fake messages, including: "Sepp Blatter has been investigated for multiple charges of bribery."
A group calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army, supportive of the country's leader, Bashar Al-Assad, claimed responsibility for hacking the accounts, tweeting: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here" and "Twitter #Failure... You can't stop us!"
Blatter, 77, has been president of FIFA since 1998 and has not yet announced whether he will be standing for a fifth term when his current mandate ends in 2015.
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Feige Confirms Rumor That The Eternals Are Getting Their Own Movie
A while ago it was revealed by our friends over at MCUCosmic that one of the new projects for Phase Four would be a solo film based on Jack Kirbys Eternals.
Basically, the Marvel version of New Gods.
While speaking to TheWrap during yesterdays Avengers: Infinity War junket Kevin Feige confirmed this reporting.
Eternals is one of many many many things that we are actively beginning to have creative discussions about to see if we believe in them enough to put them on a slate.
When and where theyll get this release is something unknown there is chatter that its already going out to screenwriters.
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Marvel Sets Black List Writers for 'Eternals' Movie (Exclusive)
Matthew and Ryan Firpo, whose spec script 'Ruin' shot to the top of the 2017 Black List, have been hired to adapt the Jack Kirby-created comic book.
Marvel Studios has pinned its next potential franchise, the Jack Kirby-created title The Eternals, and is moving ahead with development.
The studio behind Avengers: Infinity War has hired writers Matthew and Ryan Firpo, whose spec script Ruin shot to the top of the 2017 Black List, to pen the script for the superhero team adventure.
In comics lore, the saga of the Eternals began millions of years ago when the cosmic beings known as the Celestials genetically experimented on humans, creating the super-powered and near-immortal beings and a more monstrous off-shoot known as the Deviants. The two races moved behind the scenes throughout human history while also engaging in Game of Thrones-style cosmic powerplays.
Among the characters are Ikaris, fueled by cosmic energy; Sersi, who relishes moving amongst humans; and Thena, often mistaken for the Greek goddess Athena.
Kirby created the title in 1976 during his cosmic hero stage and influenced by such as works as Chariots of the Gods, which explored ancient gods as aliens. The comic was his part of his second sojourn at Marvel, which he had left in 1970 and done the then-unthinkable, moved to rival DC Comics.
The Firpos are best known for writing Ruin, a spec script that shot to the top of the 2017 Black List. Even before that, the project was emanating enough heat that it attracted Gal Gadot and got set up at Marc Butans MadRiver Pictures.
Ruin tells of an ex-Nazi captain who, to atone for his crimes, hunts down and kills the members of his former SS squad.
The Firpos are repped by UTA and LBI Entertainment.
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Marvel Studios' 'The Eternals' Finds Its Director With Chloe Zhao
Matthew and Ryan Firpo, whose spec script 'Ruin' topped the 2017 Black List, wrote the screenplay for the superhero team adventure.
Chloe Zhao has nabbed the gig to direct Marvels next potential franchise, the Jack Kirby-created title The Eternals.
Matthew and Ryan Firpo, whose spec script Ruin topped the 2017 Black List, penned the script for the superhero team adventure.
The project features the super-powered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals and a more monstrous off-shoot known as the Deviants that were created by cosmic beings known as Celestials.
Kirby created the title in 1976 during his cosmic hero stage and was influenced by such works as Chariots of the Gods, which explored ancient gods as aliens.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that one aspect to the story involves the love story between Ikaris, a man fueled by cosmic energy, and Sersi, who relishes moving amongst humans.
The project also allows Marvel to assemble a diverse cast of various shapes and sizes.
The director search for Eternals narrowed in the last few weeks of summer, with a shortlist consisting of Watchmen pilot helmer Nicole Kassell, Travis Knight (Bumblebee, Kubo and the Two Strings), as well as Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the duo behind Colombian movie Birds of Passage.
Chinese-born Zhao was already well known to Marvel as she went down the road with the company on Black Widow, the standalone featuring Scarlett Johansson's spy heroine. That gig ultimately went to Cate Shortland.
Eternals is a big opportunity for WME-repped Zhao, who will be going from the settings of Native American reservations and American Heartland from her indie festival darlings The Rider and Songs My Brothers Taught Me to the epic global, if not intergalactic, scale of this Marvel project.
Marvel had no comment.
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Marvel: a Racconigi, in Italia, le riprese del prossimo film?
Stando a quanto riportato da Il Saviglianese, le riprese del prossimo dei film dei Marvel Studios toccheranno ancora una volta lItalia. Dopo Avengers: Age of Ultron e Spider-Man: Far From Home (in collaborazione con Sony), questa volta a ospitare la produzione dovrebbe esserci il Piemonte.
Secondo il giornale il castello e il centro storico di Racconigi, in provincia di Cuneo, faranno da sfondo ad alcune scene per un kolossal Marvel che sarà girato tra aprile e maggio 2019. La storia dovrebbe essere ambientata negli anni della prima guerra mondiale si legge con una rivisitazione fantastica dellattentato di Sarajevo.
Salvo sorprese, i prossimi film a partire della Fase 4 dellUniverso Marvel saranno Vedova Nera e Gli Eterni, perciò dovrebbe trattarsi di uno di questi progetti.
Il Saviglianese conferma che il regista (o la regista nel caso di Vedova Nera) ha già fatto un sopralluogo in città.
In attesa di aggiornamenti vi invitiamo comunque a prendere la notizia con cautela.
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Dopo Angelina Jolie nel pressoché quasi confermato ruolo di Sersei, è in trattative per il film Richard Madden nel ruolo di Ikaris.
La trama dovrebbe vedere al centro delle vicende l'amore tra i due personaggi.
Inizialmente il ruolo di Ikaris era stato pensato per Ryan Goslin
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* Le riprese saranno in Inghilterra, agli Studios Pinewood (dove ora stanno girando Vedova Nera) e dovrebbero iniziare a settembre 2019.
* L'uscita è prevista per il 6 novembre 2020, anche se non ancora ufficiale.
Dal sito HN Entertainment:
Marvels The Eternals Directed By Chloe Zhao Expected To Film At Pinewood Studios UK Stars Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden
The next new Marvel Studios film franchise will be based on the Jack Kirby characters The Eternals and we now have a better idea where the comic book film will be shooting in the United Kingdom.
HN Entertainment has now learned that The Eternals is expected to primarily film at Pinewood Studios UK in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England.
The famous British stage location best known for Bond and Star Wars productions is currently being used for Cate Shortlands Black Widow starring Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, and O-T Fagbenle.
The Eternals directed by Chloe Zhao will reportedly star Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden (The Bodyguard, Game of Thrones, Rocketman), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Men In Black: International, Silicon Valley, Stuber), and South Korean actor Dong-seok Ma (Train To Busan). Trades are reporting that Madden will play Ikaris and Jolie will play future Avenger member Sersi.
Created by Jack Kirby in 1976, the comic book is set millions of years in the past, when the cosmic beings known as the Celestials genetically experimented on humans to create super-powered individuals known as the Eternals, along with the villainous Deviants. The two groups battled each other throughout history. The Eternals also warred with Greek, Roman and Norse deities before leaving Earth to explore the stars.
Its script was penned by Ryan Firpo and Matt Firpo, who also wrote Margot Robbies upcoming Nazi-hunting thriller Ruin that will be directed by Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, Assassins Creed).
Filming is expected to begin this September.
A release date for The Eternals has yet to be made official by Marvel Studios, but there is a strong chance that it will land the November 6th, 2020 spot given late 2019 shoot.
3/6/2019, 23:31
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Keanu Reeves in trattative per unirsi al cast del film.
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Keanu Reeves is Being Sought For a Role in The Eternals (Exclusive)
If youve followed MCU Cosmic over the last year, youll know this site has been on top of The Eternals since the very beginning when the news first broke of Marvels newest franchise. Now I have a small bit of news about that movie, from the same reliable source who first told me of The Eternals (and other things that have come true).
Keanu Reeves is being sought for a role in The Eternals, and negotiations are apparently underway already. Hes not signed yet and this is all still early, and I dont know what role hes being considered for.
I usually dont bother with casting scoops, but given this source Im confident in putting this out there. Again, its still early and sounds like negotiations are pretty recent. Still, I know Marvel fans have dreamed of seeing Keanu show up in the MCU (theres fan art out there of him as Wolverine), and I personally thought hed make a great Silver Surfer; but it seems like The Eternals is where he may end up.
If things work out, and he does end up in the movie, then The Eternals is shaping up to have a pretty strong cast that already includes Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden.
6/6/2019, 23:38
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Dal sito The GWW:
The upcoming Marvel Studios film The Eternals now has production designer Eve Stewart onboard.
Stewart recently did Fede Alvarez The Girl in the Spiders Web and Gore Verbinskis A Cure for Wellness. She has also collaborated with director Tom Hooper several times, with The Kings Speech, Les Misérables, and The Danish Girl. Next up is Hoopers live-action adaptation of Cats, releasing December 20th.
Moreover, the speculation going around is that Angelina Jolie will play Sersi. Meanwhile, Kumail Nanjiani and Ma Dong-seok are cast in undisclosed roles. Richard Madden is in talks to play Ikaris. Lastly, Keanu Reeves in negotiations for an unknown role.
Some of the premise, given by The Hollywood Reporter, is below:
One aspect to the story involves the love story between Ikaris (Madden), a man fueled by cosmic energy, and Sersi (Jolie), who relishes moving amongst humans.
Meanwhile, according to That Hashtag Show, Marvel Studios is also looking to cast an openly gay Asian male actor for a lead role. The role is under the name of James, who is intellectual, emotional, and has a strong sense of family. Specifically, the studio is looking at openly gay/bisexual Asian actors in their 20s.
This role will mark the first time Marvel Studios will feature an openly gay male as a lead. This character will likely have a major presence in the film alongside the other leads: Sersi, Ikaris and Piper. As for actors, at the top of Marvels list for the role is Conrad Ricamora (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, How to Get Away with Murder).
Moreover, Chloé Zhao (The Rider) will be directing, while the screenplay is from Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo (Ruin).
Also, for a different role, Zhao has interest in casting Cameron Britton (Mindhunter, The Umbrella Academy). Additionally, Tomasz Kot (Cold War) could nab a supporting role in the film, one that requires an imposing physical presence. However, no offers have been made to either of these actors as of now.
Further, filming will begin in the United Kingdom on September 16th, and wrap sometime in January 2020.
There is currently no release date yet, but it will most likely claim the November 6, 2020 slot.
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Editor Craig Wood (Guardians of the Galaxy, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) has joined the crew for Marvels THE ETERNALS. (EXCLUSIVE)
28/6/2019, 0:11
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Salma Hayek entra nel cast in un ruolo non ancora precisato.
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Salma Hayek Being Eyed For A Role In Marvel Studios The Eternals
Marvel Studios most obscure project yet is not having any trouble getting big name stars to board the project, as Salma Hayek is reportedly in talks for a role in The Eternals.
According to TheWrap, character details are being kept under wraps.
Hayek would join a cast that includes Angelina Jolie who is still in talks according to industry insiders, who is said to be playing Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, as well as Kumail Nanjiani and Ma Dong-seok both in undisclosed roles. Keanu Reeves was also rumored for a role a couple of weeks back, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has since said that Reeves is always looked at for roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Details about the film are still tightly under wraps. However, we do know that it will center on the Jack Kirby-created comic, The Eternals. The storyline follows super- powered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals. They battle with a more monstrous offshoot known as the Deviants. Deviants arose at the hands of the cosmic beings called Celestials (a race featured in the Guardians of the Galaxy films).
Chloe Zhao, an award-winning indie director behind the critical hits The Rider and Songs My Brothers Taught Me, will helm from a script by Matthew and Ryan Firpo.
Filming on The Eternals is expected to begin later this year after Black Widow wraps production.
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SDCC 2019: Marvel Studios' 'The Eternals' Announced
In theaters November 6, 2020.
Today at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Marvel Studios took to the stage in Hall H to reveal the upcoming movies and TV shows from the studio including the next chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and whats planned for Disney+.
Feige kicked off with an overview of the feature film Marvel Studios' The Eternals, an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Feige introduced the director, Chloé Zhao, followed by stars from the film, including Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, and Angelina Jolie as Thena.
The Eternals will make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in theaters on November 6, 2020.
25/8/2019, 0:39
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Entrano nel cast Gemma Chan nel ruolo di Sersi e Kit Harrington nei panni di Dane Whitman.
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The Eternals Adds Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington, Confirms Gemma Chan [D23]
The Eternals will continue to expand the cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it arrives in theaters in the fall of 2020. The Marvel Studios movie will dig into the history of the universe by following super-powered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals as they try to keep Earth save from a more monstrous off-shoot known as the Deviants, both sects of powerful warriors created by the cosmic beings known as Celestials. But we learned a bit more about the project at The D23 Expo, including the confirmation of three new cast members.
Production has not yet begun on The Eternals, so there was no footage to share with the D23 crowd. However, Marvels Kevin Feige did invite the entire cast on stage and confirmed a handful of new cast members. Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, who was reported to be joining the MCU yesterday, has joined the cast. Harington will play Dane Whitman, AKA Black Knight, a hero who inherits his evil uncles estate, obtains a mystical sword, and decides to use his newfound powers for good instead of evil.
Also confirmed: Gemma Chan has joined the cast, but she will not be reprising her minor Captain Marvel role. She will play Sersi, one of the Eternals, which will surely prove to be a juicier role. The final new reveal was the casting of Barry Keoghan as Druig, another member of the Eternals. Keoghan is a rising actor whose best known roles include Dunkirk and Chernobyl.
The Eternals, directed by Chloe Zhao will focus on the characters Ikaris (Richard Madden), Thena (Angelina Jolie), Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), Makkari (Lauren Ridloff), Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), Sprite (Lia McHugh), Gilgamesh (Don Lee), and Ajak (Salma Hayek), who is a mother figure for the team. Theyve been on Earth for 35,000 years, so there are plenty of stories that can be told that will expand the scope and reach of the MCU.
Speaking with ComicBook.com briefly after the Marvel Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Kevin Feige added:
It will be a story that will introduce you to this incredibly eclectic group of immortals, theyre the focus of the story, Feige admits. It takes place in our universe it takes place in the MCU, so youll hear mentions and stuff about it but yes, the Celestials go back a long way. We know a little bit about them. The Collector told us about Celestials, Knowhere is the severed head of a Celestial. Ego was involved with them, but we learn much more about their agenda and what theyve been up to.
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Chissà se giustificheranno mai il doppio ruolo della Chan anche in "Captain Marvel". Sarà vero che le sembianze erano un po' diverse e che il personaggio ha visto un arco di storia brevissimo ma tant'è...
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The Obama administration has promised to provide Israel with 2.3 billion fellatios – also known as "blow jobs" – as recompense for failing to stop the rest of the world from voting Palestine into UNESCO.
The 2.3 billion fellatios are expected to be performed personally by President Obama himself – a feat that would take him approximately 30631 years to complete, presuming the average time to orgasm from fellatio is seven minutes.
At this time it remains unclear whether any single human being is capable of ingesting that much Israeli seminal fluid, even if over a period of thirty millennia. Nevertheless, Obama has promised Israelis "change we can believe in" in terms of their oral sex lives.
It is understood that Israeli President Netanyahu will be standing by President Obama's side throughout the ordeal, patting his back in support while noting the various reported nutritional benefits implicated in the act.
The acceptance of Palestine into UNESCO is seen as a serious threat to Israeli sovereignty and the peace process, as the organization's stated purpose is "to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights" -- a clear danger.
A White House spokesperson elucidated the point: "This is a stark conflict of interest. Palestinians need to choose: do they want peace with Israel, or do they want to just join organizations that promote peace? Which is it exactly?"
The White House also noted that this was not a good time for Palestine to be "preserving its few remaining cultural sites using UNESCO," as these sites were likely to be demolished anyway to make room for more Jewish settlements.
Meanwhile, feminist groups in Israel have complained that the compensation package is void of any cunnilingus -- better known as "muff diving" -- and have accused Washington of blatant sexism.
The White House has responded to the allegations by noting that any sizable cunnilingus-based package would simply require far more time to complete, adding that President Obama already has a stiff neck from the number of times he "turned the other cheek" after being bitch slapped by President Netanyahu in the past months alone.
It is expected that the US will perform a far more kinky sex move to stop Palestine from receiving full recognition as a state at the UN Security Council later this month. The act will involve President Obama donkey slapping most of the world's representatives in order to stop their vote from counting. This move is also known as a "veto".
so true...so very true.....
Brilliant piece. Absolutely hilarious.
Awesome job finding that photo haha
Great job on getting that picture, it's awesome


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Dreams of my father
When I was seventeen, my father passed away from pancreatic cancer. Being a fairly ferocious form of cancers, there was really only a short amount of time between his diagnosis and his passing. He died just a few days before I hit that teenage milestone of turning 18, becoming an adult. Shortly after my birthday, came Thanksgiving, the first without him at the table. Then Christmas, Father's Day, and then the day that I graduated from high school. Those first few celebrations and holidays without him were so different than the years before. Being young, I still had questions about him, his life, family members and friends that I didn't even know he had before I met them at his funeral.
There was so much that I didn't about him, that I never knew to ask until he was gone. There was a lot about his cancer that I didn't know. What does it feel like to have cancer? Does your body feel any different? What does chemo feels like when it goes into your body? What do you dream about, knowing that fairly soon you will leave this world and everything you've ever know,n everyone you've ever loved, everything you've ever accomplished…behind? Those questions and so many others ran through my 18 year old mind so very often.
In hindsight, I probably should have sought grief counseling. I didn't really talk about his death a whole lot. In typical teenage fashion, I held it in. I held in so strongly that my dreams began manifesting my father. Dreams of walking home at night from a friends house and coming home to see the light over his easy chair turned on. That light… his chair… were rarely used after he passed. I would come home and see the light on, but he wouldn't be sitting in his chair. For that brief moment in my dream, I would remember that he was gone. But then I would walk through the house, into the kitchen and find him slowly swaying to James Taylor like he loved to do. He was back in our house, our family and lives.
But then I would wake up, and remember that he wasn't downstairs in his chair… or the kitchen. The dreams would bring this cloud of grief with them. They began to wear on me, and eventually they just stopped all together.
I went on to college and quickly encountered all the trials of living on your own, away from your family, trying to make it through college, and having to deal with the grief of losing a loved one all at the same time. One night, the questions that had surrounded the last year of my life without my father came spilling out of me. In my dark room I wrote my father a letter.
I told him what was going on in my life. Said I hoped I was making him proud. I was trying so hard to, and hoped that he knew it. I finally asked all the big questions.
Are you still in pain?
Are you happy?
Are you proud of me?
I hope you're better now, cancer no longer ripping through your body.
I finished the letter, folded it up, stuck it in my desk, went to sleep and quickly forgot about the letter all together.
A few weeks went by, and trials of life kept coming. I was really missing my father's presence. One night, Mallory, my best friend called. I could tell immediately that she was shaken. She said that she hadn't wanted to tell me what she was about to. She thought it would hurt me more than help, but her mother had urged her to call me and tell me these things. They were important.
"I had a dream last night," she said, "about your parents."
"I came home and your dad was sitting on the couch, and your mom was in the chair next to him. I started to speak to your dad and your mom said "Honey, I'm over here…who are you talking to??"
I looked over at your dad, and he motioned to her, to make me talk to your mom.
Your mom and I talked for a while, and she left shortly after. Then…your dad said that she didn't know he was there, she couldn't see him. but he was here to talk to me." Mallory said.
"He said I had to tell you some things.
He said he's fine now.
He wants to quit worrying about him, because he's happy.
He's not in pain.
He's in a good place where he can see all the things you're doing and is so proud of you."
I started crying immediately when I remember the letter that I had written. In this dream, where my father came to my best friend, he answered all of the questions that I knew were so important. To know that he was fine, and wasn't in pain, and was proud of me.
My friend's mom got on the phone a moment later. She said "Honey, your dad obviously came to Mallory because you're shutting him out. Open up your dreams, he's trying to come to you, but this time he made sure to speak with your best friend, a person he knows you trust. Open up, baby."
After that, I started talking about my father more. It brought me a lot of closure to be able to talk about him, remembering all the amazing times we had. And sure enough, I started dreaming again. Dreaming of dancing with him in the kitchen of our home.


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Ah, Twitter. Japan loves you so. Like the rest of the world, Japan has gone gaga for the microblogging service. But surely, even the most active Twitter users can take a break while working out, right?
This image shows a Japanese magazine article on "Mobile Tweeting Yoga", with various tweet-friendly yoga exercises, like the Tree Pose. The article states, "Train your body while you tweet."
While yoga tweeting did merit a magazine article in Japan, it's certainly not a thing in the country—and hopefully not anywhere else, either.
Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.


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FOOD- THE DISH- Hamdingers: Not an everyday hot-dog cart
When you think of fast food on the Downtown Mall, what comes to mind? We're talking five minutes tops to grab a bite. Pizza, dumplings, hot-dogs, burgers– that's about it for super-speedy calories. Varied, but maybe not the healthiest line-up. Now, thanks to cartmeister Patrick Critzer, who wheeled his gourmet healthy fast-food cart, Hamdingers, to the Mall on April 12, busy folks tired of the same-old have a savior.
"I thought there wasn't enough fast healthy food on the Mall," says Critzer, who helped work a cart in NYC for a year. "Instead of healthy street food around here, all we have are Burger Kings and McDonald's. I think the fast food trend is going to die out eventually. People want more healthy choices."
Critzer, who began cooking at Tokyo Rose before moving to Revolutionary Soup, and for several years did special events for A. Pimento Catering, says his main thrust is promoting local and all-natural food. To that end, he's assembled a menu to make a mere hot dog cart weep: beef from the Organic Butcher in the West Main shops, Twin Oaks tofu, organic Chicago-style hot dogs, bread from Breadworks, locally made sausages, home-made sauerkraut, kabobs with chicken, duck, and lamb, and even bacon-wrapped dates.
"That sausage was ridiculous," says customer Max Fenton. "I just ate three of them. I have crazy allergies, and Patrick customizes his menu for me."
Unfortunately, as customers approach, they assume that Hamdingers is a mere hot-dog cart. It's a perception that Critzer hopes to change with a new sandwich board sign and a little word-of-mouth action. Critzer also has a beef against trash.
"When I get a little money," he says, "I'll start using biodegradable containers, stuff made of sugar pulp and corn. I do things on skewers because I don't want to create a lot of trash."
Critzer started out on the East end of the Mall, but has since migrated to a spot in front of the Downtown Grille, where a short-lived newsstand used to stand. He says there's less competition there, and not as much wind.
For now, Hamdingers is on the Mall for lunch Tuesdays through Saturdays, and stays open till dark on Fridays. But you better start making Critzer feel at home. He says he's already gotten a few catering jobs from being on the Mall, and "Hamdingers" would make an awful nice sign on a storefront.
Smokeless Downtown Grill renovates
Last week, you may have noticed that the Downtown Grille's patio had become a construction site. Dish certainly did. That's why we popped in to ask general manger Robert Sawrey what all the hammering and sawing was about.
Sawrey told us he was renovating the bar area, creating a little more room close to the bar, installing booths along the windows, putting the TVs over the bar instead of in the corner, and adding an "inner" doorway to the entrance. Of course, by the time you read this, the work should be mostly done, although Sawrey says it will be about a month before things are really finished. In the meantime, the Grille is open for business.
Dish recently reported that Sawrey decided to ban smoking at the Grille several weeks ago after customers complained about second-hand smoke and because he felt it was the right thing to do for his staff and customers. So how's the new policy going?
"Awesome," says Sawrey. "I've angered only a few people. We might consider allowing people to smoke on the patio, but we'll have to see. Inside, it wasn't so much the smoke that bothered people, but the smell."
Hmm... Maybe next time, the General Assembly will pass a bill protecting us from the ill effects of second-hand smell!
Last week, we told you that the Inn at Court Square was now serving dinner. This week, Oxo co-owner Alice Kim informs Dish that the Water Street restaurant is now serving lunch... again.
"You're more than welcome to say how schizophrenic we are with lunches," Kim laughs, admitting they keep opening and closing for lunch. "But we're open now, and it's great!"
Better hurry before they switch personalities again.
"I thought there wasn't enough fast healthy food on the Mall," says Patrick Critzer, who operates Hamdingers.
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Yippee yea for Patrick and Hamdingers!!!! I hope this is a successful venture for you, pal!
Saw article in June bon appetit about hamdingers - was curious - Patrick of Patrick and Freedom and son of Pat Mayo? Could it be??? Would like to know


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Like the robot maid and the flying car, the perfect prefab house seems like one of those futuristic promises that never quite come true. You know the house: a light and airy, clean and green 3 BR, 2 BA constructed of renewable, energy-efficient materials—delivered to your doorstep. A modern house you can buy the way you buy almost everything else, with a click of the mouse. A modular house that can be assembled in an afternoon and comes complete, right down to the towel racks in the bathroom. Just plug in the utilities.
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This is the house that Michelle Kaufmann believes she has designed—a young architect's answer to the challenge of bringing good design to the masses. "We want to create sustainable homes, of high quality, for a reasonable price, for the middle classes," says Kaufmann, 38. And to do that, she says, "you need an assembly line."
Not too long ago, Kaufmann bumped into her old boss, architect and design maestro Frank O. Gehry. "You know," he said, "some pretty smart people have tried this and failed." Indeed, several masters of 20th-century architecture saw the promise of prefab—giants such as Walter Gropius, Charles and Ray Eames and Joseph Eichler—but they could not redeem it.
But where others have failed, Kaufmann sees a way. Gropius or the Eameses could have built the factories to make their prefabricated homes, she says, but they lacked a crucial piece of technology. "The Internet is the key," she says. "A house is not a toothbrush," meaning a one-size-fits-all, perishable good. "You need and want to interface with the customer," to get a sense of how your building might be tailored to individual needs.
But instead of taking a dozen meetings with an architect, pinning down a hundred details, a Kaufmann prefab buyer meets with her once and then communicates with her through a Web site and by e-mail, selecting from a limited menu of options. "If you had to take meetings, you could never have mass production," says Kaufmann, who grew up in Iowa and holds degrees in architecture from Iowa State and Princeton universities. "But with e-mail, we can make the changes, we can tweak in an instant. You can keep the process moving forward."
The prefab house is hot again, at least in the pages of shelter magazines, and Kaufmann's designs are some of the smartest around; she has "definitively answered the question, 'Why prefab?'" wrote Allison Arieff when she was editor of dwell magazine. One of them is on view through June 3 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., in an exhibit titled "The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design." Another one, a demonstration project Kaufmann did with Sunset magazine in 2004, went up in a parking lot in Menlo Park, California, and was visited by some 25,000 people over two days. On her own she has designed a third, called mkSolaire, tailored more for urban than suburban lots. Kaufmann's firm's Web site (mkd-arc.com) has received some 15,000 inquiries for information on her modular homes.
How many prefabs has Kaufmann built? A dozen. Which hardly constitutes a revolution—high design, tailored prefab still remains more of an idea than a product line, but Kaufmann vows to change that.
She came to her "eureka" moment through personal experience. In 2002, she and her then-new husband, Kevin Cullen, a carpenter and contractor, began to look for a place to live in the San Francisco Bay Area; they quickly confronted the brutal realities of a real estate market gone bananas. Their choices were as frustrating as they are familiar: pay a gazillion dollars for a tear-down in close-in Oakland (and end up with no money to rebuild) or move to the far reaches of former farmland for a long commute from a soul-sucking tract of mini-mansions.
They looked for six months. "It was really depressing," Kaufmann recalls. "I seriously thought about what kinds of bad decisions had I made in my life to end up in a place where we could not afford a home. We actually went into therapy."
So they decided to build a house themselves. They found a narrow lot in suburban Marin County, and Cullen went to work on a Kaufmann design with a simple but beguiling floor plan of connected rectangles, just 1,560 square feet, with an easy flow from space to space—a curtain of glass doors under a shed roof covered with solar panels. They called it the Glidehouse. Friends took a look at the plans and said: Make us one too. "This is the thing," Kaufmann says. "They didn't want me to design them another house. They wanted our house, the exact same house. And that's when I thought, hmm, could we make this in mass production?"


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Intensive Care
Visiting Hours
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Surgical Patients
Personal Supplies
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We appreciate and encourage family members and friends to visit our patients, especially when it is convenient for you and desired by the patient. You play an important role in supporting your loved one's physical, mental and emotional recovery. To make your experience at Silver Cross smooth and enjoyable, we have put together some helpful information for you and your family. Please don't hesitate to contact our team or another member of our staff to assist you or answer any questions.
Visiting Hours
8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Any visitor approved by charge nurse to stay overnight must be over 18 years old
- Number of visitors—3 per room
- Children 12 and over may visit if supervised by an adult who is not the patient. No children under 12 years old may visit
- All visitors, including children over 12, must follow isolation guidelines
Family Visitation
While the ICU observes open visiting, some patient's conditions may require special visiting guidelines. The number of visitors, times of visits and child/infant visitors may need to be limited for safety and infection control purposes. Any child visiting must be supervised by an adult that is not the patient. Your loved one's diet is specifically order by his/her doctor. Please refrain from bringing food in for yourself or visitors. You and your family/friends may use the Season's Dining Room, Café 1900 and the ICU Lounge for your comfort and meals.
Family Lounge
For your convenience, a family lounge and rest rooms are available just outside the ICU, but please do not leave children unattended. There is also a phone in the lounge for your use and for your family members to reach you. The number is (815) 300-2919. Please help us in keeping our lounge clean for all to enjoy. We also ask for your safety, that you do not stand in the halls. Wheelchairs, beds and other equipment regularly travel through our hallways.
When your loved one is a patient in the ICU, we understand that nothing can replace the comfort and reassurance of a physician's presence. At Silver Cross Hospital, patients in our ICU not only receive bedside care from specially trained critical care staff, they also benefit from an extra layer of expert care from our eICU team. Staffed by highly skilled intensive care physicians and nurses, eICU technology allows our clinical team to monitor our patients' conditions - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Learn more.
Family Spokesperson
Each family is requested to designate one spokesperson who will call for updates. Other family members and friends should contact the spokesperson for information. Please feel free to ask questions while you are here. We will do our very best to explain. We understand this is a stressful time for not only our patients, but their families as well.
Surgical Patients
Surgical patients may come to us directly from the Procedural Care Unit with the ICU staff providing the recovery room care. This care usually lasts about one hour and you may be asked to wait in the ICU family lounge. Some patients come to the ICU after spending time in the recovery room. If this is the case, the ICU staff provides initial care and will have the patient ready for your visit shortly.
Personal Supplies
While in the ICU, patients will be wearing a hospital gown. Feel free to bring items such as toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, glasses, dentures, hearing aids, robe and house shoes. We ask that you do not bring flowers into the unit to help prevent infections.
Silver Cross Hospital
(815) 300-1100
Waiting Room
(815) 300-2919
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
(815) 300-2100
ICU Charge Nurse
(815) 300-8008
ICU Manager
(815) 300-5975
ICU Administrative Director
(815) 300-7218
You are welcome to speak with a member of our management team at any time. Our Shift Coordinators and Charge Nurses carry phones at all times, but their phones do not have voicemail. If you do not get an answer, please call the unit at (815) 300-2100.
Resources for patients and families: www.myicucare.org.
Silver Cross Facilities
Childerguild Gift Shop
Located in the Hospital Lobby. They offer flowers, balloons, cards, candy, magazines, jewelry, and gift items for all ages.
Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sun. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Seasons Dining Room
Located on the Lower Level. Open 7 days a week.
Breakfast - 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Lunch - 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Dinner - 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Grill - 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
*Please note, no food or drink is allowed in the ICU patient's room.
Café 1900 Coffee Shop
Located in the Hospital Lobby. Serving StarbucksTM brand beverages. Also serving pastries, salads, snacks and deli sandwiches.
Mon.- Fri., 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Sat.-Sun., 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Located on the first floor of the Hospital Lobby. If you would like the nurse to contact the hospital chaplain or other clergymen, just let us know.
Other programs available at Silver Cross include social services and discharge planning, inpatient rehabilitation, physical, occupational and speech therapy, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, diabetes education, dietary counseling, ostomy/wound care, home health care and a variety of support groups. For more information ask a member of our ICU team.


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Back to School Events
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Measuring Up 2006
Personnel Changes
State Reforms
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Back to School Events
Continuing her Back to School tour of the nation, Secretary Spellings visited Providence, Rhode Island, to announce 32 new Early Reading First grants. These multi-year awards to organizations in 25 statestotaling nearly $101.7 millionare designed to enhance the early reading skills of preschool children, especially those from low-income families, via instructional materials, teaching strategies, and professional development. "We want to make sure children enter elementary school ready to learn how to read," she said. "The first years of life are critical for a child's development, and this grant will help children from low-income families start life on the right track." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/earlyreading/.
Then, over the holiday weekend, the Secretary attended the dedication ceremony of GlenOak High School and Plain Community Campus in Ohio. This two-story structure, which brings the district's high school students together under one roof, is divided into career academies. It also incorporates wireless Internet access, a 900-seat auditorium, a coffee shop, and a branch of the Stark County District Library. "With this new facility, you've literally put your school system at the heart of the community," she said, "which is right where it belongs." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2006/09/09032006.html.
Today, the Secretary will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and, as is the case for every Back to School visit, meet with business leaders to discuss improving the quality of math, science, and technological education to compete in the 21st century.
NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
Yesterday (September 7), Secretary Spellings and 100 Black Men of America, Inc., announced a new partnership to raise awareness in the African-American community of educational resources under the No Child Left Behind Act. According to the agreement, the Department will "fully engage" the community and its leaders on charter schools, school choice, supplemental services, parent report cards, and all of the benefits and options provided to students in schools in need of improvement. The partnership will co-sponsor events, produce parent-focused materials, and educate families and communities about the principles of No Child Left Behind. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/09/09072006a.html.
Meanwhile, in a letter to Chief State School Officers, Secretary Spellings encouraged states to "pick up the pace in our efforts to ensure that all core academic subjects are taught by highly qualified and effective teachers." To that end, she urged elimination of the High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE), noting that "too many states have HOUSSE procedures that provide relatively weak indicators of a teacher's attainment of subject matter knowledge." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/060905.html.
BTS: American Competitiveness
A special Back to School edition of "Education News Parents Can Use" (September 19, 8:00-9:00 ET) will focus on American competitiveness. Recent statistics, while heralding the effect that No Child Left Behind has had on reading and math achievement in the early grades, vividly illustrate the need to better prepare high school students for tomorrow: reading and math scores for 17-year-olds have remained flat since the 1970s; nearly half of all high schools offer no Advanced Placement courses; and three out of 10 students (and five out of 10 minority students) fail to complete high school on time. In response, the President has proposed the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), which aims to expand advanced programs in math and science; increase the number of highly qualified math and science teachers in America's classrooms; and craft incentives for students to major in high-tech fields. The broadcast will consider how ACI will help students graduate with the skills they need to succeed in college or the workforce, as well as highlight innovative programs that are intensifying learning in math, science, and engineering. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/. (You can watch live and archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Measuring Up 2006
This week, Secretary Spellings joined former North Carolina Governor James Hunt for the release of "Measuring Up 2006," a biennial report card on higher education from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. This paper grades the performance of the U.S. and all 50 states in preparation, participation, completion, affordability, benefits, and learning. It also includes international comparisons. For example, while the U.S. ranks second in the educational attainment of older adults (35-64 years), it drops to seventh for younger adults (25-35 years). Moreover, while the U.S. is among the leaders in college participation (35%), it is 16th of 27 in college completion (17%). For more information, please go to http://measuringup.highereducation.org/.
Note: Both ACT (http://www.act.org/news/data/06) and the College Board (http://www.collegeboard.com/about/news_info/cbsenior/
yr2006/reports.html) have released results from their 2006 college admissions tests.
Personnel Changes
President Bush has nominated Sara Martinez Tucker to be Undersecretary of Education, the Department's third-highest ranking official. Tucker currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Previously, she worked for AT&T for 16 years, becoming the very first Hispanic female to reach the company's executive level. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/08/08292006a.html). The President has also nominated Lauren Maddox to be Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach. Maddox is currently a Principal at PodestaMattoon. Before that, she served as the House Republican Conference communications director. She received her bachelor's from Creighton University and her master's from Northwestern University (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/09/09072006.html). And, internally, Kerri Briggs has been named Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, filling the post vacated by Tom Luce.
Note: The President recently named Jason Dean a 2006-07 White House Fellow. Until this month, he was Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's education policy advisor. He has also served as a college administrator. His fellowship will be at the Department, where he will work on No Child Left Behind implementation, higher education, and teacher projects. For more information, please go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/fellows/about/fellows.html.
State Reforms
The Department's National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) "Overview and Inventory of State Education Reforms: 1990 to 2000" describes the growing role of states in public elementary and secondary education through the 1990s. (In doing so, it extends an earlier NCES report, "Overview and Inventory of State Requirements for Coursework and Attendance," which examined state-level reform efforts in the 1980s.) To facilitate discussion, the report groups reform efforts into four categories: standards, assessments, and accountability; school finance; teacher training and resources; and school choice options. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/programs/statereform/.
Official Statement
On August 29, the Secretary issued the following statement on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:
"As we mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we can look back at a year where significant progress was made to help the Gulf Coast region and its citizens recover from one of the worst natural disasters in our country's history. At the Department of Education, we have been there every step of the way. With timely and significant federal aid totaling $2 billion, thousands of furniture and book donations, and student loan relief, we are doing everything we can to make sure schools reopen and children learn. As the region continues to move forward, we at the Department will do all we can to ensure the resources and support needed are available to help this vibrant area once again thrive."
Upcoming Events
To mark the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, Congress has mandated that every school and college receiving federal funds take a day to teach the document. (This year, because the 17th falls on a Sunday, institutions will observe Citizenship Day/Constitution Day either the week before or after.) To support students and teachers in their studies, the Department's Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site has posted an array of online resources. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/free/constitution/.
Schools are also encouraged to participate in "Pledge Across America" on Monday, September 18. The synchronized Pledge will begin at 2:00 p.m. EDT; 1:00 p.m. CDT; 12:00 noon MDT; 11:00 a.m. PDT; 10:00 a.m. in Alaska; and 8:00 a.m. in Hawaii. For more information, please go to http://www.celebrationusa.org/.
On October 12, Lights On Afterschool!, a coast-to-coast rally organized by the Afterschool Alliance, will illuminate the country by celebrating afterschool programs and the need they meet in keeping students safe, helping working families, and improving academic achievement. Last year, 8,000 afterschool programs, including hundreds of the Department's 21st Century Community Learning Centers, hosted activities. For more information, please go to http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/lights_on/index.cfm.
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On Thursday, canvassing at a Manhattan apartment building, Weiner asked the reporter what he was working on. When the reporter said he was covering the campaign, Weiner said: "Dude, you got to get a hobby."
Weiner, a Democrat whose run for mayor of New York has been roiled by new admissions of racy online chats, was looking for votes at a senior center on Friday and wondered aloud why no one talks about what other candidates have to hide.
"Apparently our thin-skinned friends here don't like the idea that I made a joke about having a hobby," Weiner said, pointing to the reporter. "That's what they want to cover."
"You're not allowed to have a laugh. Ask this guy," Weiner went on. He added: "It was a joke, right, people laughed, he laughed, and they made a big deal, they say I insulted him."
The candidate muttered to himself, "I should learn that guy's name."
At a later stop on a small business tour in Brooklyn, Weiner said: "I gave this guy a hard time, everyone laughed and then they did their best exposé. They're calling it — what are they calling it? NBC Hobbygate."
Also on Thursday, Weiner mocked a British journalist and publicly belittled his staff. He knocked on doors at the apartment building and expressed displeasure with the heavy media presence.
"I just have a feeling I like stepped into a Monty Python bit," Anthony Weiner said as a British journalist questioned him about his campaign to become New York City mayor. He then offered to present an impromptu weather forecast.
When he finally exited the building after finding only a few supporters who pledged him their vote, he did a brief interview with the British journalist, who works for the broadcaster ITV, in which he told her, "It's hard to take you seriously."
The reporter posed a particularly dramatic question to the former congressman, asking whether "a hunger for the big job" was what motivated him to continue his campaign in the wake of his newest round of sexting admissions.
"I just have a feeling I like stepped into a Monty Python bit," Weiner told the journalist after laughing at a question about what could stop his candidacy.
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A few residents did say they would support the embattled candidate in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary. No one confronted him over the lewd-text messages that have come to define his mayoral run.
Weiner has tried to make up for falling poll numbers after his admission that he had continued the inappropriate Internet activities that caused him to resign from Congress in 2011.
"I'm not asking to be your fourth for doubles tennis, I'm not asking to be your husband … I'm not asking to be your father," he told a crowd earlier Thursday. "I'm asking to be the person who every day wakes up and says: How do I make life better for the people of this city?"
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Import Export Job Management through REST API
This sample demonstrates how to create and manage (Create, List, Update, Get, Delete) your Import Export job using REST API. This sample only works against classic storage accounts. One can create an Import Export job in their target classic storage account using the Classic portal or the Import/Export REST API. We will use the latter to create our job in this sample
This sample contains Import Export REST-API Swagger definitions which will enable you to generate Import Export models for different languages like Ruby, CSharp, NodeJS, Java and Python using AutoREST. The Swagger definition is located at importexport.json. If you want to use CSharp, this sample already contains the generated files and you do not need to generate your own.
This sample only provides the C# version of Swagger-Based generated code. In this sample
StorageImportExportClient is a wrapper over the existing REST API in Open specification format.
Pre Requisite
- Access to subscription and classic storage account.
- Access to Management certificate of the subscription in which this storage account lives.
- Create a new self-signed certificate.
- Upload the certificate
How to get started with Import Job
- Create a storage account.
- Procure the disk and adapter.
- Download the client tool.
- Prepare the disk.
- Create a job using REST API using this sample.
- Ship disks to Azure datacenter using address obtained using
- Track your job using REST API using this sample.
How to get started with Export Job
- Procure a disk.
- Create a job using REST API to specify the data you intend to export using this sample.
- Ship disks to Azure datacenterusing address obtained using
- Track your job using REST API using this sample.
- Retrieve the Bitlocker key using
GetJobREST API using this sample.
- Unlock your drive and retrieve your data using this key when the disk arrives back to you.
Running this sample
- Download the solution and open the RestAPISample.sln in Visual Studio.
Open TemplateExportConfig.xml or TemplateImportConfig.xml and set the following values
<Location>{your azure storage location name}</Location> <StorageAccountName>{your storage account name}</StorageAccountName> <StorageAccountKey>{your storage account key}</StorageAccountKey> <ReturnAddress> <Name>{contact person name}</Name> <Email>{contact email}</Email> <Address>{contact postal address}</Address> <Phone>{contact number}</Phone> </ReturnAddress> <ReturnShipping> <CarrierName>{carrier name like Fedex, DHL}</CarrierName> <CarrierAccountNumber>{account number for return shipping}</CarrierAccountNumber> </ReturnShipping> <BlobList> <Blob BlobPaths="" BlobPathPrefixes="/export/"/> </BlobList>
In addition following are fields for an Import job from your journal file.
<DriveId>{your drive serial number}</DriveId>
<BitLockerKey>{drive bitlocker key}</BitLockerKey>
<ManifestFile>{path to manifest file}</ManifestFile>
<ManifestHash>{your manifest hash}</ManifestHash>
Update the endpoint in storageimportexportlib.cs. It will be https://management.core.windows.net for public Azure and https://management.core.usgovcloudapi.net for US Gov Cloud
this.BaseUri = new Uri("<management end-point>");
Update managemnt certificate thumbprint the value in Program.cs. If you don't know about management certificates, here is the guide.
var clientCertificateThumbprint = "<client certificate thumbprint>";
Update the Azure subscription id
var client = new StorageImportExportClient("<azure subscription id>", clientCert);
Update name of the import or export job. This could be any string value to identify your job.
Update storage account name and job name you wish to view
var jobItem = client.GetJob("<storage accountname>", "<jobname import>");
Set breakpoints and run the project using F10.