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Question: Where is God? Answer: God is everywhere. This nine-syllable exchange, one of dozens of similar mini-mysteries solved in an educational book known as the "Baltimore Catechism," will strike a familiar chord with anyone who was raised in the Catholic faith.
But for the young Catholic Christopher Fritton, the simple, straightforward answer in his catechism book wasn't exactly satisfying. By the time Fritton was in the sixth grade, he recalled during a recent chat at Founding Fathers Pub, he had already grown disenchanted with the answers his religion provided to what struck him as incredibly complex questions.
"It opens up with 'What is God?' and then it answers it in a sentence," Fritton said, his voice taking on a tinge of childish frustration. "Even at 10, I was like, what? One sentence? That's it?"
For Fritton, founder of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair and print shop manager at the Western New York Book Arts Center, one sentence wasn't enough. Though no longer a practicing Catholic, he returned to the lessons of his youth for an expansive new project he produced with fellow writer and artist Ric Royer.
The centerpiece of the project, called "The Baltimore Catechism," is a hand-printed book of questions and answers that follows the form of the Catholic document of the same name used in thousands of schools across the United States.
The loose-leaf book, encased in a laser-cut pine box and wrapped in a black cloth shroud, was co-written by Fritton and Royer in the summer of 2010 in Baltimore. During a 35-day residency in the sprawling AS 220 arts complex in Providence, R.I., last year, Fritton completed the book's 75 copies and expanded produced 12 gigantic woodcuts, letter-pressed posters and other material.
The project will go on view today in the Book Arts Center, where Fritton will give a reading and artist's talk March 15.
The book provides strange, lyrical and sometimes tongue-in-cheek answers to many of the same questions posed in the original catechism. For instance, when the co-authors asked themselves "What is good?," they dreamed up this answer: "Good is a reward that one receives when he or she sells the most candy bars, bowls a perfect game, makes love well but not too often, and allows others to walk all over them. Good is the opposite of normal."
But the book also answers some questions – often the most difficult ones – with graphic elements that Fritton unearthed while looking through the archives of Buffalo's P22 Type Foundry. The answer to "Where is God?," for example, is merely a picture of a sad-looking man sitting in a bathtub.
"To be really clear, it didn't start as a satire, it didn't start even with this title or anything, it sort of acquired all that as it moved along, really organically," Fritton said. "Even as it stands now, there is an absurdist tone, a whimsical tone that's sort of capricious. But there's nothing that's advocating in one direction or the other. This doesn't advocate for or against religion. It doesn't poke fun very directly."
Fritton and the Baltimore-based Royer, who met as students at the University at Buffalo, treated the writing phase of the project as a true collaboration. Across four months in the summer of 2010, they would banter back and forth about the questions, sometimes leaving notes on the kitchen table of the house they shared in Baltimore for one of them to ponder while the other was away or sleeping.
The writing style is so cohesive, Fritton said, that neither of them can recall with any certainty who wrote what.
To fill out the project – and to make use of the equipment at his disposal at AS 220 – Fritton turned to a series of type ornaments he found in the P22 library.
He blew up the figures, strange human-chicken hybrids probably once used in the margins magazines or pamphlets, to gargantuan proportions and made woodcuts out of them. In the exhibition, the slightly menacing woodcuts will be on view "like stations of the cross," Fritton said.
It's all part of an attempt to explore the impossible questions of his childhood education in ways his teachers probably never envisioned.
"Right now it stands in this perfect place that isn't just comedy and isn't just heavy, where it's just so heavy-handed and slaps you in the face with its existentiality," Fritton said. "Right now, it's more absurdist, and I like it there."
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flexReceipts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
flexReceipts is a startup web based company founded to eliminate paper receipts and make digital receipts commonplace around the world. Today thermal (paper) receipts are distributed after every purchase. Most consumers don't ask for these receipts and likely immediately throw them away; creating huge inefficiencies and waste. We will provide merchants a solution to deliver electronic receipts and consumers the ability to manage their receipts from one central website. Now, when a consumer has a need for a receipt they can go online to flexReceipts.com and access it at their own comfort. This makes life easier when managing exchanges, returns, disputes, tax filings, business travel, personal finances, and more. By going to digital receipts we will also be saving many trees, thus helping the environment.
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Basically, what we like about all of these sites are they are clean and sleek. They are also easy to navigate and intuitive. They use colors that are soothing to the ideas. They also are pretty simple and to the point. If in doubt, please focus more on the side of more simple and intuitive.
In this section we'll provide a high level overview of which pages we'll need designed. Please also refer to the file attached titled "flexReceipts Web Wire Frames for Brief" for some additional views on the functionality of each page.
1) Home Page. Should have a short space where we can give a short 2-3 sentence intro on our company. It should have a place where users can log in or create a new account. It should also have a place where we can place a video which plays a short intro on our company. It should have a place where we can put special buttons for social and security links. In addition, there should be a link or an indication of a mobile application for iPhone and iPad (probably with a phone silouehette). Please put a section that shows our users that we have a mobile app (mint.com has an example). This page will likely be the most artistic and should give visitors the feeling of a high tech, professional, and creative company.
2) Lay out for Digital Receipts Detail Page- This is the page where our users will be able to see the detail for their receipts. We are looking for a sleek/cool yet simple background to have on this page. We are also looking up for ways to section the web page to show the receipts detail in a cool/creative manner.
3) Lay out for how it works – This is one example of a webpage where we will describe how our technology works. What is key about this page is that it should flow with the rest of the web pages, but also have images that describe the content we have on here. We will decide at a later date whether or not we will have that content on there, but what is important right now is that we have the background and images to make this page work. The background we are looking for is one that complements the copy and that makes it easy to read. The comments on the sleek/cool still apply.
Please note: The wireframes attached are for functional purposes and NOT FOR DESIGN PURPOSES. This is very important.
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Initially, we feel like the consumers most likely to utilize this service will be younger (predominantly young professionals, college students), highly educated, receptive to green movements, they care about the environment, & technology savvy.
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Freshman Elizabeth Swallow followed her opening round 72 with a solid 1-over par 73 on day 2, finishing in second place overall and leading the Tornado to a 6th place finish at the Hilton Head Lakes Invite in Hardeesville, SC.
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My last post of 2012 said some mean things about Judith Collins. Let me make amends by starting 2013 with some nice words.
A couple of years ago, I had a grumpy prod at Simon Power for introducing a revamped Prisoners and Victims Claims regime into Parliament before he took off to enjoy a real life working for Westpac. You can have a look at that post for a full account of what he proposed, but in a nutshell it went something like this:
A prisoner is in jail serving their punishment - doing the time for their crime. Whilst in jail, they are mistreated ... in a way that breaches the rights guaranteed to all New Zealanders under legislation. They then get monetary compensation (only after all other means of remedying the situation have failed). That compensation first pays any debt they owe to any person they may have harmed through their crime - assuming there is such a debt in place.
And then the Government takes back the rest of the compensation and uses it to bolster the account it uses to pay for the support of victims of all crime.
So, in essence, the Government is proposing to fund a system of helping crime victims with money that it pays to prisoners after mistreating them whilst they are in its custody. And it will take that compensation away no matter how grievous the rights breach the prisoner has suffered, and irrespective of whether the crime that put the person in prison caused any individual any loss at all.
For me, this is the sort of lazy, knee-jerk populist legislation that gives Parliament a bad name. Sure, lots of prisoners are not-nice people who have done not-nice things. And yes, the actions of lots of prisoners leave lots of people hurt and out-of-pocket. And yes, we as a society have an obligation to help those who are harmed by crimes.
But to go from those propositions to a solution that prisoners have no right to receive compensation for harms caused to them by the State, but instead must pay it over to help society meet its obligations to crime victims, is to in effect say that prisoners are not people. And that is wrong.
That is why I'm pleasantly surprised to see Judith Collins essentially agree with me and announce that she won't be following through with Simon Power's proposal, but rather moving to make permanent the existing claims system. As she said late last year:
"I just think it's really important that we get that right, that we don't go so far overboard in one direction that we end up causing injustices in another. I think it's important that we don't have injustices or wrongs done ..."
Quite right. So credit where credit is due - my first words of 2013 are praise for Judith Collins.


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So Tim Tebow is "terrible." The New York Jets only have one quarterback, and that's Mark Sanchez. (That's Jets guard Matt Slauson's quote on the record.)
No matter what Jets coach Rex Ryan says about his team's punting statistics, the Tebow acquisition hasn't worked. The Jets aren't confident enough to play Tebow as a starter. Tebow isn't very effective in his Wildcat role. He's a non-factor.
Jeff Darlington of NFL.com and NFL Network says the Jets should just cut Tebow if they aren't going to use him. That's not going to happen during the 2012 season -- Tebow has too much value as a backup quarterback -- but it's an interesting thought for 2013.
Will Tebow be around next season? There are a lot of variables here.
JetNation.com did a great breakdown of Tebow's contract earlier this year. The short, short version: Tebow is due $2.08 million next season. That's a very reasonable salary for a backup quarterback. If the Jets truly believe in Tebow in that role, it makes sense to keep him.
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Ryan and general manager Mike Tannenbaum brought in Tebow. Will they be around next season? We would guess that Ryan can survive just about anything for one more season. Tannenbaum -- the architect of this team -- could be in hotter water. It's possible Jets owner Woody Johnson will give both men a pass because of injuries to the 2012 team.
A new regime unlikely would want Tebow. That's just usually how these things work.
|Take a look back at Tim Tebow's career.
After one season with Tebow, would the Jets really want to keep him in a backup role anyway? They clearly don't believe in him as a potential starter. They could decide he's not worth the trouble for such a role player.
Trade or release?
We believe the Jets would have to release Tebow outright if they wanted to move on from him in the offseason. Remember: Backing up Mark Sanchez was the best job Tebow could get. Only the Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars were interested in his services, and reports indicated Tebow preferred New York. (The Jaguars' coaching staff reportedly didn't want Tebow; ownership did.)
Even though Tebow hasn't started this season, we believe he chose wisely. The Jets were his best chance for a meaningful role. It's not like there will be teams lining up to give him a better opportunity. I don't need to talk to an anonymous Jet to tell you that.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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SalmonMan87 wrote:folks on twitter saying "faceoff" is Root pregame code
Malkin0017 wrote:Anyone have the IceTime code?
jweezy61 wrote:Hey everyone, Root Sports post game code is 'caps'.
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* Sandy left more than 8.5 million without power in Northeast
* NY and NJ still have more than 1 million customers out each
* Some may have to wait a week before power restored
By Scott DiSavino
Nov 2 (Reuters) - U.S. utilities restored power on Friday to about a million East Coast homes and businesses plunged into darkness by Hurricane Sandy, a slowdown from the past two days, as crews began to work on the hardest-hit areas that may take days to fix.
About 3.5 million customers remained without power as of Friday afternoon, according to U.S. Department of Energy figures based on utility reports. The 1 million customers restored on Friday was down from the 2.1 million who had power restored on Wednesday and the 1.6 million on Thursday, the data showed.
Utilities say they typically look to restore power to the biggest blocks of customers first, then tackle more difficult, isolated problems. They have warned it could yet be another week before all the lights are back on.
That utilitarian approach may still frustrate homeowners, as well as motorists who must wait hours to fill their tanks with two-thirds of area filling stations lacking power.
More than 1.2 million homes and businesses in New York and 1.4 million in New Jersey remained without power on Friday, including many of the dozens of oil terminals along the harbor that are critical links in the fuel supply chain. Some operators had brought in generators to resume flows.
FirstEnergy Corp, the holding company hardest hit by the storm, has restored power to 82 percent of the outages in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland, where wind and rain was the primary cause of outages.
But in New Jersey, where a direct hit from the massive storm inflicted catastrophic damage across the state, FirstEnergy said flood waters and substantial debris were still impeding restoration efforts in many areas. More than 710,400 of its 1.2 million customers in the state were still without power, down from more than 1 million affected by the storm.
"Customers in the hardest-hit areas can expect to be restored throughout the following week," FirstEnergy's Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) said. "A significant number of customers will not be able to receive service until damaged roads, infrastructure and homes are rebuilt."
The total number of customers affected by Sandy was 8.5 million, slightly more than following Hurricane Irene in August of last year. But the damage from Sandy is much harder to fix.
By the fifth day following Irene, 6.7 million or 80 percent of the outages has been remedied. For Sandy, however, only 59 percent of power had been restored by Friday.
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In this storm, utilities in New York and New Jersey said the devastating damage was not caused by wind and rain but by record storm surge that flooded coastal communities.
Most utility companies in the two states said it could take a week or longer to restore power to all customers.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo sent a letter Thursday to the CEOs of state power companies, saying he would "take appropriate action" if utilities fail their duties.
"I recognize there are men and women in the field now working hard to restore service ... but it is your job to provide them with adequate resources and support to get the job done in a timely and safe manner," Cuomo said.
"When (utilities) fail to keep the public's trust, they must answer," the governor said, threatening to commence efforts to revoke operating licenses if any are found wanting.
New York power company Consolidated Edison Inc said it has brought in crews from as far as California to help with what the company said is the worst natural disaster in the company's 180 year history.
The company said Friday afternoon it repaired a key 14th Street substation whose spectacular explosion on Monday evening knocked out much of lower and mid-Manhattan on Monday evening. It has promised to have power restored by Saturday.
The 249th Engineer Battalion is moving a 13-megawatt power "package" in from Fort Belvoir in Virginia that will be hooked up to the Con Edison grid. That generating package can provide enough power for around 42,000 New Yorkers or 70 medium-sized apartment buildings, according to Reuters calculations.
The company said on Friday about 561,900 homes and businesses in New York City and Westchester County were without power, down from more than 900,000 affected by the storm.
Con Edison, which serves more than 3 million customers in all, does not report outages by region often but in its last report at 5:00 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) Friday, the company said about 226,000 customers lacked service in Manhattan, 84,000 in Queens, 35,000 in Brooklyn, 54,000 in Staten Island, 31,000 in the Bronx and 140,000 in Westchester.
In New Jersey, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc, the biggest power company in the Garden State, said 692,000 customers were still out, down from 1.7 million. PSEG serves about 2.2 million customers in the state.
Before restoring service, PSEG said workers had to wait for the flood waters to recede, dry out the equipment and replace equipment when necessary.
"This is a painstaking process," PSEG said in a release.
Elsewhere in New York, the state-owned Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) — which has been among the most heavily criticized for its response to the storm — said it still had about 529,800 customers still without power, down from more than 900,000. LIPA serves about 1.1 million customers on Long Island.
"With respect to the Long Island Power Authority, I will make every change necessary to ensure it lives up to its public responsibility," Cuomo said.
"It goes without saying that such failures would warrant the removal of the management responsible for such colossal misjudgments," Cuomo said about LIPA.
UK power company National Grid operates the power system on Long Island under a contract with LIPA. That contract will end in 2014, when a unit of New Jersey's PSEG will take over the operation of the system.
"We understand and share the governor's concern for the citizens of New York, and that is our sole focus until every customer is restored," National Grid said in response to Cuomo's letter.
The utilities in New York and New Jersey with much fewer current outages include units of Con Edison, Iberdrola SA , National Grid, CH Energy Group Inc and Pepco Holdings Inc.


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How Technology Killed the Future
Presidents—and the rest of us—can't get anything done anymore.
The crises arrive from everywhere, and all at once. The responses do, too. New allegations about NSA eavesdropping, for instance, pop up on Twitter before the White House has had a chance to fully spin the last set. A Cabinet secretary is presumed ripe for firing over a botched health care website even before the site's problems are fully diagnosed. The pauses between an event and a response to it—the space in which public opinion was once gauged—is gone, and now the feedback is indistinguishable from the initial action. The verdict, the takeaway, the very meaning behind what is happening is more elusive than ever before. We cobble together narratives and hunt for conclusions. Millions of social media posts per minute are parsed and analyzed as if those vast bits of opinion, conjecture and fancy somehow coalesce into a story.
But they don't.
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Welcome to the world of "present shock," where everything is happening so fast that it may as well be simultaneous. One big now. The result for institutions—especially political ones—has been profound. This transformation has dramatically degraded the ability of political operatives to set long-term plans. Thrown off course, they're now often left simply to react to the incoming barrage of events as they unfold. Gone, suddenly, is the quaint notion of "controlling the narrative"—the flood of information is often far too unruly. There's no time for context, only for crisis management.
Sure, the rate at which information spreads and multiplies has accelerated, but what's taking place now is more than a mere speeding up. What we're experiencing is the amplification of everything that happens to be occurring at the moment, and a diminishment of everything that isn't. It's not just that Google search results favor the recent over the relevant; it's that suddenly an entire society does.
I feel myself chasing the "now" all the time. Last June, on my way to the stage to speak about the phenomenon of present shock at the Personal Democracy Forum, the NSA scandal hit the wires and CNN began pinging my phone for me to appear on air. Sensing a kind of meta-moment, I switched the approach for my talk and wove the emerging news story into my remarks, reading live updates from my phone as I talked about our urge to be caught in the now. Using any other example of a fast moving news story would have felt past tense. My talk became more of a demonstration: an example of present shock about present shock, on a day of present shock.
It wasn't always like this. As recently as the end of the 20th century, the zeitgeist was animated by a kind of forward-leaning futurism. There was a sense that we were accelerating toward a big shift fueled by new technologies, networks and global connectivity. Today, that shift may have finally occurred, but rather than encouraging us to look further ahead, it has instilled in us a pervading "presentism." Our old obsession with the pace of progress has been drowned out by the onslaught of everything that is happening right now. It's impossible even to keep up, much less to look ahead.
This new paradigm is fundamentally scrambling our politics. Our leaders' ability to articulate goals, organize movements or even approach long-term solutions has been stymied by an obsession—on their part and ours—with the now. Unless we adapt to this new presentism, and soon, we may edge more dangerously close to political paralysis.
As you might expect, we can blame our current condition, at least in part, on digital technology. Consider the remote control, DVR and even YouTube, which in their own way have each eroded the traditional storytelling functions of television, rendering instead a deconstructed landscape of independent memes. The typical story arcs on which both news and entertainment used to depend no longer function when the audience can dart away—or move forward and backward—with the press of a button. Traditional stories with beginnings, middles and ends just don't work anymore. The looping mini-movies on Vine, for instance, don't even attempt to adhere to them. And when we're not engaged with disjointed mashups like that, we gravitate toward epic, endless sagas—such as "Game of Thrones" or even "Breaking Bad"—which move more like fantasy roleplaying games than the TV shows of old.
Martin Luther King Jr. wouldn't be able to rally people to realize his great dream today. He would be as desperate for hourly retweets as the rest of us, gathering "likes" from followers on Facebook as a substitute for marching with them.
Our relationship with social and political movements is changing much the same way. Gone are the days when we could follow a charismatic leader on an ends-justify-the-means journey toward a clear goal. A person like Martin Luther King Jr. wouldn't be able to rally people to realize his great dream today. He would be as desperate for hourly retweets as the rest of us, gathering "likes" from followers on Facebook as a substitute for marching with them. Imagine John F. Kennedy attempting to rally national support for a decade-long race to the moon? The extreme present is not an environment conducive to building lasting movements.


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A road-rage lorry driver is captured on a dashcam ramming a terrified motorist on a busy motorway in a real-life version of 1970s thriller DUEL.
Matthew Stockdale, 46, was driving home from visiting his mother when the ten tonne HGV came up behind him in the middle lane of the M1 blasting its horn. Despite calling police six times from his mobile phone during the high-speed attack, police took THREE HOURS to respond after he got bounced between three forces.
Mr Stockdale said he had "never felt fear like it".
He added: "I was moments away from moving into lane one and getting off the motorway when I became aware of the lorry which started dazzling me.
"Before I knew it he was bearing down on me and he went into the third lane and started to whip his trailer into the side of my car.
"I honestly thought I was going to die.
"My life literally rushed before my eyes. I can honestly say I have never felt fear like it. I began shaking uncontrollably.
"I had my hazards on and all the traffic behind us was backing up.
"Then 14 minutes later he tried to run me off the road again exactly the same way.
"My car was left with £3,000 worth of damage with bumps, scratches and dents all along the driver's side.
"That driver didn't know whether I had children in the car or an elderly person.
"He showed no regard for my safety or the safety of other road users."
Police have now apologised for failing to respond more quickly to Matthew's 999 calls.


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Questions and answers about gender identity and pronouns
People who are transgender come from all walks of life. Yet they are some of the most disadvantaged individuals in society. Trans people routinely experience discrimination, harassment and even violence because their gender identity or gender expression is different from their birth-assigned sex.


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ok. in the first picture, the audio xformer (in the circle marked 'A') i have the device. it's a radioshack #273-1380 audio xformer. it has four wires.. i can figure out the names for them via a datasheet, no problem. but that symbol in the schematic looks weird, how do i hook it up?
next, is B. it looks like a simple power circuit.. but why do i need to wire it to ground between the batteries.. and isn't the batteries already ground and voltage? so.. i would just be wiring that one battery to itself.. which is dangerous.
C. U1a and U1b are IC chips. i don't know what that symbol means though. does the plus and minus refer to certain pins? the only thing i'm certain is that the tip of the triangle must correspond to the 'output' pin. if you need a datasheet, the IC is a 'dual op amp' radioshack # 276-1715
D. again, this is an xformer.. radioshack #273-1380 although this time, it looks like this xformer only has two wires. the other one had 4. mind you, i haven't bought this yet.. the only picture i have is on the radioshack website there.
and where the big X is, i'm using an arduino circuit instead of that very costly precision waveform generator chip.the second picture is just so if you can't see clearly under my writing in the first.onto the third picturei have two questions here...1. the part of the circuit labled 'AMP' it looks like a potenimeter? but both amp chips i have are chips. so, what does that mean?
2. while i know what a normal capasitor looks like, i don't know what i'm supposed to do here. instead of just the two lines going paralell, one is a semicircle.. and the other is straight.. then there is a + sign above it. what does that mean? is there a difference between the normal capasitor symbol and this one?
what is ground then?
"Amp" stands for "amplitude", not "amplification", I believe.


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Hopes raised for Ebola breakthrough
Hopes of a breakthrough in the fight against Ebola have been raised by the 100% successful treatment of monkeys with the deadly disease.
The experimental drug ZMapp cured the animals even when administered five days after infection, while they were displaying severe symptoms.
All 18 rhesus macaques made a complete recovery, in contrast to three other untreated monkeys that quickly fell seriously ill and died.
About 45% of those infected in the current Ebola outbreak have survived without treatment (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention/PA)
ZMapp is a blend of three laboratory-made antibodies designed to neutralise the virus.
Two US doctors given the drug after they were infected with Ebola while working in Liberia subsequently recovered.
But it is not known whether they were saved by the drug or just lucky. About 45% of those infected in the current outbreak have survived without treatment.
At least two other patients treated with ZMapp have died, possibly because help got to them too late.
The new research, published in a special report on Nature journal's website, provides hard evidence that the drug works and can be highly effective.
A team of scientists led by Dr Gary Kobinger, from the Public Health Agency of Canada, wrote: "ZMapp exceeds the efficacy of any other therapeutics described so far, and results warrant further development of this cocktail for clinical use ...
"We hope that initial safety testing in humans will be undertaken soon, preferably within the next few months, to enable the compassionate use of ZMapp as soon as possible."
The news follows a warning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could eventually claim more than 20,000 victims.
Latest figures show 1,552 deaths from the 3,069 cases reported so far.
Ebola, belonging to the family of "filoviruses", ranks alongside Marburg virus as one of the world's deadliest infections. Fatality rates in previous outbreaks have been as high as 90%.
It kills by overwhelming the immune system and sending the body into shock as blood pressure drops to dangerous levels.
Currently there are is no approved vaccine or post-exposure treatment. Management of the Ebola outbreak in Africa has been confined to palliative care and physical attempts to prevent transmission.
The development of ZMapp and its success in treating advanced stages of Ebola infection was described as a "monumental achievement" by Professor Thomas Geisbert, from the University of Texas, writing in Nature.
He added: "The next crucial step will be to formally assess its safety and effectiveness. Testing the latter is clearly difficult, because intentional infection of human subjects in clinical trials is not possible."
The treated monkeys were exposed to a lethal level of Ebola virus before receiving three doses of ZMapp starting three, four and five days after infection.
The treatment reversed Ebola symptoms including excessive bleeding, rashes, and liver damage.
Three weeks after they were infected, no trace of the virus could be detected in the animals' blood.
Untreated monkeys all succumbed to the virus by day eight after infection.
One drawback of the research was that it used a version of the virus different from the Guinea strain responsible for the current outbreak, which was not available at the time.
But the scientists went on to show that ZMapp blocks replication of the Guinea strain in laboratory tests.
Dr Alain Kohl, from the Medical Research Council/University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, said: " What needs to be done next is assess against how many strains and species of the virus it can act. Clinical trials in humans are not possible so some questions will go unanswered. At present too few people have received the drug to allow conclusions about efficacy and treatment timings, though in emergency situations it is at least one potentially useful option."
David Evans, Professor of Virology at the University of Warwick, said: "A ll animals survived and had undetectable viral loads 21 days post-infection. This is an extremely encouraging result for a virus which has an incubation period of two to 21 days in humans and for which no vaccine exists.
"These results do not prove that the healthcare workers who received ZMapp and recovered did so due to the therapy. Others who also received ZMapp succumbed to the virus.
"Distinguishing between correlation and causation will require analysis of the clinical data on viral loads before and after therapy was administered. Nevertheless, the results are encouraging."
Professor Martin Hibberd, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "This looks to be a very well designed study with better than expected results, which give great hope for future clinical trials.
"I hope the team can receive sufficient funding to undertake these clinical trials straight away as this is by far the most advanced potential treatment option available to my knowledge."
The Belgian scientist who discovered Ebola in 1976 while investigating reports of a terrifying new disease in Zaire - now the Democratic Republic of Congo - said it was vital to start clinical trials of ZMapp.
Professor Peter Piot, now director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also spoke of his shock at the scale of the latest outbreak.
"This well designed trial in non-human primates provides the most convincing evidence to date that ZMapp may be an effective treatment of Ebola infection in humans," he said. "It is now critical that human trials start as soon as possible."
He added: " The resurgence of Ebola serves as a reminder of the importance of investing in health systems and infrastructure.
"This terrible disease is controllable with proper hygiene practices which all too often are not in place. We must work to find ways to alleviate symptoms and save lives with new treatments but at the same time we must act to prevent the spread of the disease.
"I never thought that 40 years after I encountered the first Ebola outbreak, this disease would still be taking lives on such a devastating scale."
Dr Kobinger believes safety data paving the way to ZMapp's approval as a treatment for Ebola could be available within a year.
"It could be as fast as the summer of 2015," he said, speaking at a press briefing.
Meanwhile, the drug could still be used as it had already on compassionate grounds, despite being unlicensed.
It remains to be seen how quickly production of the drug can be geared up to meet future demand.
ZMapp, developed by US biotech company Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc, is manufactured in the leaves of genetically modified tobacco plants.
Potentially the process could yield 20 to 40 doses per month, said Dr Kobinger.
Evidence suggests that effective treatment with ZMapp requires three doses of 15 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
Currently, supplies of the drug are very limited. Dr Kobinger said that at one stage his team had "10 or a dozen" human-sized doses for research, which could be used more sparingly in animal experiments.
"Now there's nothing left," he added.
A Spanish missionary priest who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa and later died in Madrid had been treated with one of only three doses available in Europe at the time, said Dr Kobinger.
Subsequently, the remaining two doses appear to have been given to William Pooley, 29, from Eyke in Suffolk, the only Briton known to have been infected so far.
Mr Pooley, who caught the disease in Sierra Leone and was flown to the UK last weekend, is said to be in a stable condition at London's Royal Free Hospital.
"The two doses used in the UK were the ones not given to the Spanish priest, that's my understanding," said Dr Kobinger.
However, he suggested there may have been other factors involved in the death of the priest besides the fact that he received only one dose of ZMapp.
Miguel Pajares was 75 years old, and it is unclear how advanced the disease was when he was treated.
"We know there is a point of no return where there is too much damage to the internal organs to go back," said Dr Kobinger.
Mr Pooley's case came to light at least two weeks after doctors attempted to save the priest.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Free Hospital said no further information about Mr Pooley's condition or treatment had been issued since the last update on August 26.
She was unable to say how many doses of ZMapp Mr Pooley had received.
In its earlier statement, the hospital described Mr Pooley as being in "good spirits", sitting up and talking to nurses and doctors.
It added: " After careful consideration William decided that he would like to take the experimental drug ZMapp and he took the first dose of the drug on Monday (August 25). Further doses are expected to be given to William in due course."
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The euro has been on the move lower over the last month, with declines accelerating after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi suggested more stimulus could come in June.
It all goes down Thursday, when the ECB will announce its interest-rate decision at 7:45 a.m. Eastern and Draghi begins to speak at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
So how will the euro react? That's the million dollar (er, euro) question.
"Overall, this is a pivotal meeting, but the market is thirsty, and if Draghi only delivers the minimum then the market will seek revenge and EUR could move higher," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at Forex.com, in a note.
Market participants are gearing for rate cuts that could push the deposit rate into negative territory for the first time. People are also waiting to see if there will be liquidity measures that could encourage lending. Read: How to invest if the ECB cuts rates below 0%
Net short positions on the euro, or bets the currency will decline, increased to $2.8 billion in the week ended May 27 from $1.6 billion in the prior period, according to the latest data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
That means that if the ECB just delivers rate cuts, which are likely already priced into the market, the euro could rise and investors who were betting on a euro decline could scramble to undo those positions.
A move in the euro above $1.3650 could trigger a bout of short covering, said George Dowd, head of Chicago foreign exchange for Newedge. The euro fell to $1.3600 on Wednesday from $1.3628 late Tuesday.
Euro positioning is the shortest since August 2013 using CFTC data, but that's partly because the market was net long euros for most of that time, said Dowd. "I wouldn't say the market is overly short. It's moderately short," said Dowd.
On the other end, a fall in the euro below $1.3585 could trigger further euro declines, he added.
For that to happen, the ECB likely needs to introduce a quantitative easing program, which isn't very likely. "Our sense is that the ECB would need to announce a large-scale quantitative easing (QE) programme in order to weaken the euro substantially," Jack Allen of Capital Economics wrote in a note.
As usual, it all comes down to what Draghi says and suggests.
--Saumya Vaishampayan
More must-reads on MarketWatch:
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How to invest if the ECB cuts rates below 0%


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Picturesque Barn Extension in France by PPA Architects
The architecture team of PPA worked on the reconstruction of an old barn in the highlands of Hautes-Pyrénées, France. The result is a welcoming rustic retreat, with appreciation for the local tradition: "Our purpose was to add an extension to the existing barn conversion, creating new living spaces (a guest room and multi-purpose room), along with a utility area and garage. The specificity of the extension project is rooted both in the character of its natural setting and that of the existing building, and creates a double bind in terms of both typology and design. The extension was positioned in the southern portion of the site, on equal footings with the barn, and slips effortlessly into the naturally excavated lay of the land". With a highly original facade defined by glass and logs, the addition originally combines raw materials like stone and wood, with a minimalist, modern design approach. How would you comment on the appearance of this holiday home?


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A graphical depiction using PowerPoint of the positions of Wehrmacht soldiers during mass killings in Belarus. Waitman W. Beorn, 2010
View of the Krupki (Belarus) killing site. Waitman W. Beorn, 2009
Wehrmacht route sketch which includes Krupki, 1941. RH 26-286-3. Bundesarchiv Militärarchiv (BAMA), Freiburg, Germany
Spaces and Mentalities in Wehrmacht participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in the Soviet Union
How did geography and conceptions of space impact the ways in which German soldiers participated in Einsatzgruppen killing across the Soviet Union? At a regional, local, and individual level, we can use geographic methodology to better understand how and why these killings unfolded in the ways they did in the early days of the war in the Soviet Union.
First, the very towns and cities in which killing took place and the dates of massacres were determined in a large part by the geography of the region. For example, towns and cities located on the main high speed highways were among the first to be targeted at least partially because they were the easiest to get to. Likewise, more isolated and rural communities required longer to reach. These spatial considerations also influenced how German army units came into contact with the Holocaust. Unit boundaries drawn on maps determined which actual soldiers would be in what locations. Towns located at important junctions were of increased importance and soldiers tasked with protecting these areas often ended up participating in the murders of Jews there as well. Later, while SS and SD units would target larger towns and cities, the Wehrmacht, given its greater manpower, would also find itself searching for Jews in the countryside.
At the very local level, considerations of privacy and ease of excavation meant that the nature of the landscape itself often determined where the killing site itself would be located. Thus, we often see existing pits, ravines, and areas with sandy soil chosen. In addition, the time of year was also important as large killing operations often slowed down or stopped during the winter months due to the frozen ground.
At the most intimate level, we can also see a spatial breakdown of how the men themselves participated in killing. The nature of a soldier's experience and the extent of his participation in killing was often directly related to his actual position on the ground. German soldiers rounded up Jews, prevented their escape, marched them to the killing sites and often participated in the killing themselves. Because these soldiers had some agency regarding these participations, their physical position on the ground can reveal much about their attitude toward the killing itself. Thus, we can speak of a geography of complicity where we can suggest that the more willing soldiers often found themselves closest to the killing, spatially. Temporal and spatial location also changed the soldiers themselves. This project has shown that extended physical contact with the Nazi genocidal project over time led most soldiers to become more deeply complicit.
Scale: Local and Regional
Time: July 1941–Winter 1941/1942
Place: Krupki, Krucha, Slonim, Novogrudok, Szczcuzyn
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Our mid-week gathering is designed to reach middle school and high school students at their current stage in life. A 6th grader is at a much different place in life than a senior in high school, which is why we provide two unique experiences for middle school and high school students that happen at the same time and at the same location. Every mid-week gathering begins with a time of worship where all of the students are together, and is then followed by separate programming for middle school and high school where they each experience Biblical teaching and small groups. Doors open at 6PM. Dismissal is at 8:30PM.
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Great news for the anti-fur campaign: Starting this Saturday, it will be illegal to sell fur clothing, including shearling, in West Hollywood. I guess Uggs are out!
Fur is an inherently cruel industry, where wild animals are trapped and killed, and farmed animals are raised in cages, and then gassed or electrocuted. It's not humane, and it's not green (the chemicals used in the preservations process and the runoff from farms is very bad for the environment).
And as West Hollywood is proving, fur isn't necessary either. Let's keep working on this issue so other cities join the cause too.


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Garrett McNamara is a big wave surfer based out of Hawaii who just last year was confirmed as having ridden the biggest wave in history. This year, he returned to the same spot, Nazaré, Portugal and took it up a notch. Maybe. I don't know, there does not appear to be a whole lot of science in measuring the height of waves.
McNamara's 2011 wave was initially described as 90 feet and then a year later it was confirmed as a world record at 78 feet by Guinness. So, it's possible it's not 100 feet, but everyone seems convinced it is at least a new world record. So come on, get it together, Guinness Book of World Records, we need to know exactly how many feet this crazy guy surfed.
In the meantime, enjoy the eye candy.


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You might have heard about the new regulations going into effect in 2012 to better protect the Galapagos Islands. If you haven't, Gadling covered them in the recent blog post, "New Galapagos Islands regulations will change 2012 tours."
The new regulations will make it possible to limit the number of people on a given island at a given time. No vessel will be permitted to visit the same island more than once in a 14-day period.
When Friendly Planet Travel was advised of these changes, we applauded them! The Galapagos Islands are precious and fragile, and we want to be sure the islands are protected in the future.
Some travelers might assume that these new regulations will affect the tours we offer to the Galapagos Islands. There will some minor changes to the itineraries, but it's only for the better.
Since we have several tour programs, both cruise and island-hopper types, and are heavily involved in tourism to the Galapagos, we expect to be able to provide excellent programs at affordable prices, just as we do today.
In fact, we plan to continue to grow our programs to the Galapagos in the coming years. And just as we've done in the past, we will do it fully respecting the fragile environment so that these precious islands continue to be a source of wonder and discovery for generations to come.
When we make changes to the itineraries of the Galapagos Island Hopper, Galapagos Island Explorer, Ecuador and Galapagos Cruise, and Peru, Ecuador and Galapagos Cruise, we'll let you know right here on our blog.


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If you have a clone system and want to update that system, you can create a differential archive that contains only the differences between two images, the unchanged master image and an updated master image. When you update a clone system with a differential archive, only the files that are in the differential archive are changed. You can choose to install a Solaris Flash differential archive with the custom JumpStart installation method or Solaris Live Upgrade. An update is a five-part process.
Prepare the master system with changes. Before changes are made, the master system should be running a duplicate of the original archive.
If the master system is not running a duplicate of the original archive, the differences between the two system images might result in a large differential archive. Consequently, installing the differential archive could be time consuming. Use an initial installation with a full archive in this case.
(Optional) Prepare customization scripts to reconfigure or customize the clone system before or after installation.
Mount the directory of a copy of the saved-unchanged master image. This second image is to be used to compare the two system images. Access the image by the following methods.
Mounted from a Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment
Mounted from a clone system over NFS
Restored from backup by using the ufsrestore command
Create the differential archive with the -A option of the flarcreate command.
Install the differential archive on clone systems with custom JumpStart. Or, you can use Solaris Live Upgrade to install the differential archive on an inactive boot environment.
Figure 1–2 shows the creation and installation of a differential archive. A master image is updated with some modifications. These modifications could be as simple as the addition, reconfiguration, or deletion of a few files, or as complex as propagating patches. The updated master image is compared to the unchanged master image. The differences between the two images become the differential archive. The archive can be used to update other clone systems that are currently using the unchanged master image. If the clone system has already been modified or is not running the unchanged master image, the update fails. If you have many changes to make on the clone systems, you can do an initial installation at any time.


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We have a new sign courtesy of Wilmington High School who painted this great sign! Here are pictures of the new sign and our gracious volunteers Ashley Wheeler, Melissa Woodall and Mrs. Josette Twait who helped with the installation. We are very thankful for their kind assistance and a special shout out to Wilmington High School!
Many volunteers help us with the heavy task of restoring Oakwood Cemetery. Here are students from Wilmington High School assigned through the Southern Will County Cooperative For Special Education (S.O.W.I.C.). The SOWIC mission is to build a world class education service provider.
In order to do this they: Value each child; Value parent input; Foster self-esteem and independence; Listen to and respect the needs and differences of others; Be honest and perform with integrity; Show kindness to others; and, Provide a nurturing environment.
The students who helped us build a new cemetery entrance on this day demonstrated all of these positive traits and their efforts were greatly appreciated. You can see some of the work they did with us in the following photos.
The south portion of Oakwood Cemetery, which is catalogued and available for purchase from the Will County Historical Society for $20 plus mailing cost, lies on a sandy bluff overlooking the east branch of the Kankakee River, known locally as the "Mill Race". Shaded by giant oaks and generally cooled by a river breeze, it is a favorite spot for summer evening walks. As Wilmington was one of the area's first settlements, Oakwood has, since the 1830's, been a burial place of choice for residents of Wilmington and surrounding townships in Will and Grundy Counties.
This portion of the cemetery, south of a shallow creek, contains burials from 1838 to the present time, while the "new" part, north of the creek, dates only from about 1907. The earliest burials, interspersed with newer ones, are generally confined to lots 99 through 113 and have markers set at a different angle. These "angled" lots, noted in the editorial information following the lot number, were generally discontinued in the 1840's. The first map of Oakwood, filed at the Will County courthouse in 1854 by the owner, Hiram 0. Alden unfortunately excluded this original section of the cemetery.
As this map, and each map of subsequent additions, used different lot-numbering systems, the repetition of numbers made lot identification unduly complex. Hence, for the purpose of this book, a wholly consecutive numbering system and an accompanying map have been provided. These lot numbers are NOT the ones still in use by the cemetery. A three-row parcel of lots, part of the 1881 addition, was apparently sold to the adjoining Catholic Cemetery.
The transition is imperceptible and it takes a sharp eye to distinguish the border between the two cemeteries. Early cemetery records were destroyed in a 1923 fire at the home of the Secretary-Manager, Julius Luther. Both Mr. Luther's daughter, Mary, and James McGovern, a former cemetery maintenance worker, recall that there were once a number of wooden markers perhaps an inexpensive alternative to a stone marker of which not one remains today.
Until its destruction by fire a few years ago, a two holed outhouse/shed served not only as a "comfort station," and reference point, but also as a refuge from heavy rain. (One wonders at the circa 1900 sensibilities and the "privacy" of a two hole outhouse.) Only the limestone foundation remains just north of lot 113 which is indicated on the map by a dotted line. Oakwood burials include residents of the Soldier's Widows' Home once located in Wilmington. Founded in 1895 by the Woman's Relief Corps (W.R.C.) and the G.A.R., it opened in March of 1896. After a few years, the State of Illinois took over the operation, so residents' graves are marked with military-style markers. These, alas, give only the name and date of death. While the majority of these markers are in a very obvious section in the newer part of Oakwood, the earliest Widows' Home burials are on lots 74 and 75 in the south portion of the cemetery.
Cataloging began in the fall of 1986 with revisions in the spring of 1988, the summer of 1990 and final proof reading in August of 1991. After the collapse of the Mill Race dam in 1990 and the subsequent lack of rainfall, much of the water was drained from the Mill Race and a number of whole or fragmented "lost" markers were found on the bottom. Heaving or rolling markers down the embankment is a favorite form of teen-age vandalism, with the cylindrical sausage-shaped ones being particularly vulnerable. (One of the latter, after a great deal of back-breaking labor to extricate sufficiently for the inscription to be read, was found to say "Father.")
Occasionally, final proofreading efforts were unceremoniously interrupted when angry wasps, annoyed at being disturbed, would swarm from their nest at the base of a marker. While angry wasps would hardly be a problem for the casual visitor, the very prevalent poison ivy might be. The Mill Race embankment is covered with it and, out of reach of mowers; innocent-looking sprigs of it lurk at the base of trees and stones. "Leaves three, let it be."


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FARGO, N.D. -- Representatives of six North Dakota companies are going on a trade mission to the South American nation of Colombia next week.
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and officials with the North Dakota Trade Office and the U.S. Commercial Service will lead the group, which will meet with potential buyers in the cities of Bogota and Medellin.
It is the first North Dakota trade mission to Colombia in four years. Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the recently signed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, along with Colombia's growing middle class and improved living standards, are opening doors for North Dakota exporters.


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DOC Whakatū / Nelson Visitor Centre
Start your journey through New Zealand's stunning landscapes at a Department of Conservation (DOC) Visitor Centre. Information about conservation areas, as well as DOC's 14,000 km of tracks, 10 Great Walks, and network of 950 huts and 324 campsites.
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Visitor centres are staffed by DOC rangers who have firsthand, in-depth local knowledge about:
•Walks and hiking - short walks, multi-day hikes, Great Walks
•Track conditions, weather, and safety
•Hut and Campsite bookings
•Heritage sites
•Marine reserves
•Conservation projects
•Local stories, legends and history - our nature, our people
•Abel Tasman National Park
•Abel Tasman Coast Track Great Walk
•Kahurangi National Park
•Heaphy Track Great Walk
•Mt Richmond Forest Park
8:30am-5:00pm Mon-Fri
9:00am-4:00pm Sat-Sun
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MONTREAL — A judicial recount in a Quebec riding has given the NDPtheir 59th seat in Quebec, while reducing Conservative party holdings in the province to five.
The recount for the riding of Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup, completed Friday, confirmed the New Democratic Party's Francois Lapointe won by nine votes over incumbent Conservative Bernard Genereux.
The recount, performed by Justice Gilles Blanchet of Quebec Superior Court, gave both men about 36% of the 45,545 valid ballots cast — Lapointe with 17,285 votes to Genereux's 17,276.
Preliminary results on election night gave Genereux a lead of 110 votes, but a tabulation error erroneously awarded about 100 NDP votes to the Green Party candidate. A retabulation ended with Lapointe leading by five votes (17,278 to 17,273), prompting an automatic recount.
"I have just been a witness to a formidably intense democratic exercise; respect for our institutions, admiration for my fellow citizens," Lapointe posted on Twitter Saturday.
Genereux was elected to the House of Commons in a byelection in November 2009, replacing the Bloc's Paul Crete, who resigned to run for the Parti Quebecois in a provincial byelection.
The win gives the NDP 59 of 75 seats in Quebec, and 103 nationwide.
The Conservatives drop to five seats in Quebec and 166 across Canada.
The Liberals have six seats in Quebec (all on the island of Montreal), and the Bloc Quebecois remain at four.
Automatic recounts have also been ordered in the Ontario ridings of Etobicoke Centre, where Conservative Ted Opitz leads Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj by 25 votes, and Nipising-Timiskaming, where Conservative Jay Aspin leads Liberal Anthony Rota by 15 votes.
Elections Canada announced Friday that a recount has also been requested in Winnipeg North, where Liberal Kevin Lamoureux leads New Democrat Rebecca Blaikie by 45 votes.
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'Green Book' Under Fire for Accuracy in Portrayal of Don Shirley
The hit film "Green Book" has given director Peter Farrelly new-found respect in Hollywood. But it has also led to greater scrutiny of his past, as this Newsweek story from 1998 that was found yesterday by the website The Cut revealed.
Whether or not his exposing himself twenty years ago will have an affect on his chances for a Best Director Oscar nod remain to be seen; but Farrelly, who (with his brother Bobby) wrote and directed such raunchy comedies as "There Is Something About Mary" and "Shallow Hal" is on the fast-track to such an honor. Just this Best Director nominations from the Director's Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), both good harbingers that an Oscar nom is in his future.
But the film is quickly becoming as controversial as last year's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri." "Green Book" follows the unlikely friendship between closeted African American musician Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony 'Lip' Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), the man he hired to be his chauffeur and bodyguard on a tour of the South in 1962.
That it was co-written by Nick Valleglonga, Tony's son (along with Farrelly and Brian Currie) is said to give it authenticity, but it was revealed when the film was released this past November that the writing team never consulted Shirley's living relatives beforehand. Maurice Shirley, Don's surviving, 86-year old younger brother, refused to see the film, calling it "full of lies" when asked to comment by NPR's 1A Movie Club host Joshua Johnson. "He also said that, unlike in the film, Dr. Shirley was not estranged from his family or the Black community," Johnson said. "He says (Dr. Shirley) had definitely eaten fried chicken before." (In one of the film's most viewed scenes, Tony Lip introduces Shirley to eating fried chicken.)
Carol Shirley Kimble, Shirley's niece, also spoke to 1A: "There was no due diligence done to afford my family and my deceased uncle the respect of properly representing him, his legacy, his worth and the excellence in which he operated and the excellence in which he lived. It's once again a depiction of a white man's version of a Black man's life. My uncle was an incredibly proud man and an incredibly accomplished man, as are the majority of people in my family. And to depict him as less than, and to depict him and take away from him and make the story about a hero of a white man for this incredibly accomplished Black man is insulting, at best."
In a report from Vanity Fair, Farrelly said that he attempted to locate family members before shooting of the film began, but got no responses. When asked about this issue, he said: "I wish I could have talked to the family earlier. But I don't think it would have changed the story, because we were talking about a two-month period [of Vallelonga and Shirley on the road together]. Those were the only people that were there. . . . I would have just let [the family] know as a courtesy that we are making this movie."
Aside for veracity, the film has come under fire for what is its "Magical Negro" problem, which was defined by IndieWire as a phenomena in American buddy comedies that give equal screen time to both characters "except when one of those characters is black, and exists almost entirely to help transform his white companion on a quest toward salvation. That's the 'Magical Negro' problem, and 'Green Book' falls right into the trap."
In the film Shirley is driven through the deep South by Vallelonga in a reversal on the "Driving Miss Daisy" meme in which the racist learns to be a better human being by their time together on the road. Indiewire cites such films as "Ghost," "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" as examples.
"The 'Magical Negro"' archetype is typically rooted in a white screenwriter's ignorance of any genuine African-American experience," the IndieWire story puts it. "He's typically patient, sometimes wise, and usually has some sort of magical power. His ultimate function is to help the white protagonist overcome some major character flaw."
Addressing the "white savior" allegations in a Hollywood Reporter story, Vallelonga says, "I never thought that he [Lip] was 'saving' anything — the only savior I know is Jesus. I think it's kind of insulting to Mahershala Ali because he's on top of that character, how he's portrayed and how he comes across, and he would not have let anything go by." He continues, "I could have just changed [Shirley's] name, but I said, 'No. I want people to buy his music, I want people to know about him.' I did this with love." And, he adds, "The family was all invited to the premieres, and went. Then I finally met a couple of them, who told me they loved it."
"Green Book" is currently in theaters. It will be released February 19 on DVD and streaming services on March 5. Ballots are due for Oscar nominations on January 14 with nominations announced on January 22 and the awards ceremony on February 24.


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Dogpatch and Potrero Point
Neighborhood: Dogpatch
Please Note:
Our free (donations welcome!), regularly scheduled tours are open to the public but NOT open to parties of 8 or more. If you plan to bring 8 or more walkers to a regular tour, please click here for more information on booking private group tours.
Designated as a San Francisco Historic District, this colorful neighborhood has important ties to many of the city's past commercial industries. Explore the past and present of this eclectic neighborhood in transition, from its historic working-class cottages and industrial-age relics to modern lofts.
Next Tour:
Sunday, November 3 at 11:00 am given by Linda Zeichner
Future tours:
This tour is also scheduled on those dates in the calendar below (after the map) where the tour time is indicated (in red). You can advance to future months by clicking the >> symbol in the calendar title.
Meet at 3rd and 20th Streets. Muni 22 or T-3rd.
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Related Links:
- www.pier70sf.org A fantastic website documenting the history and architecture of Potrero Point, Pier 70 and Dogpatch
- SF Chronicle, March 2000 The Quest to Save Dogpatch: Dot-coms and developers arrive in tiny, funky, S.F. neighborhood.
- SF Chronicle, September 2006 Beauty in buildings: A walk with keen observers in three sections of the city reveals some unknown jewels.
- Pictures from Flickr Pictures of the industrial landscape of Potrero Point and Dogpatch


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tl;dr version: what do you think of my website? Link: code.KevinWorkman.com
Hey guys,
As some of you might know, I have a growing collection of hobby programs on my website. Until pretty recently, that's been the type of ugly site we've all seen: a page with a gray background and an applet centered in the middle. After all, we're Java programmers, not web developers! Without getting off on too much of a tangent, I think that difference in skillsets is a major reason why flash overtook Java in simple online gaming- the websites of flash games just generally look better than the websites of Java games, because there is more of an overlap of skills between webdev and flash than webdev and Java.
Anyway, in my own little attempt at remedying this, I've been working on improving the look of my website, and I've made some pretty major updates in the past couple days. I'm eventually hoping to spawn off a more commercial, more game-focused site with a pretty similar setup, but for now I'm using this as practice.
But I'm still not a web developer or a designer- I might not be color blind, but I sure am color illiterate! So I'd love any feedback. Does anything look weird or not work? What does it look like on a phone, or on a mac browser? Screenshots would be helpful, but any input is definitely appreciated. What would you do differently? What is your overall impression?
One thing I know I have to fix is cross-browser compatibility. It seems to work perfectly in firefox 7, and I thought I had fallbacks for IE, but for some reason it just looks terrible in IE. Does anybody with CSS knowledge know why that is?
PS: I'm not really asking for feedback on the actual programs, just the website surrounding them, but I definitely appreciate feedback of any kind.
PPS: If you've been to the site before, your browser might have an old version cached. If things look really weird, try refreshing.
Thanks so much, I'm pretty lost in the web world, so I really appreciate anybody taking the time to look it over and check my sanity.


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Woods, Mickelson, Watson together at U.S. Open
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Masters champion Bubba Watson will play in the same group for the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open.
It will be the first time Woods and Mickelson have been paired in the U.S. Open since the USGA grouped players off the world ranking at Torrey Pines in 2008. The rankings were used for another big group -- Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood.
Woods is coming off a win at the Memorial, making him one of the favorites next week at The Olympic Club.
Mickelson has finished runner-up a record five times in the U.S. Open. In a bizarre coincidence, the U.S. Open champion has played with Mickelson in the opening rounds -- Woods in 2008, McIlroy last year at Congressional.


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OAKLAND — The Warriors announced on Tuesday that they have surpassed 11,000 full season tickets for 2012-13, one of only eight teams in the league to do so.
The Warriors reached the benchmark after their 6-1 road trip, which put Golden State in the conversation regarding West contenders. The Warriors sold 700 season tickets since the road trip began on Dec. 5.
In nine home games this season, Golden State is averaging 18,582 fans per contest.


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For the first time since being assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in February, Rihanna is ready to speak out.
The singer will break her silence in a new interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday, a rep for Rihanna confirmed to Access Hollywood.
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An extended interview will also be featured on Friday night's "20/20" on the network.
ABC began running commercials promoting the interview over the weekend and again on Monday morning during "The View."
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Rihanna's first interview since the assault also coincides with the release of her new album, "Rated R," which will hit shelves on November 23.
While the singer has remained mum on the incident, Brown has spoken out several times on the attack, most recently in an October interview with New York Hot 97 DJ Angie Martinez, opening up about his lingering feelings for Rihanna.
"Feelings are feelings and they don't go away overnight, especially if you sit down and be like, 'Look, I'm [going to] really be in this relationship with you, past whatever the case, past our busy schedules, past us being two of the biggest artists.' I really care about her," he said.
A few days later, Brown posted a link on his Twitter page, linking to a user-created video montage of him and Rihanna over the years, set to R. Kelly's song, "The Way We Used to Be."
"IM SORRY YALL. JUST HAD TO POST IT," Chris said in a Tweet with a link to the video.
"FOR THE FELLAS: showing emotion doesn't make u weak," he wrote in another Twitter post. "BEING HONEST MAKES U STRONG."
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