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Rocket Man's invocation of Margaret Thatcher more or less completes my thoughts today. From Churchill to Thatcher, from Friedman to Reagan, I am struck by the power of their audacity in articulating the truth in the face of contempt and derision. Recall, for example, the triumphant return of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain from Munich on October 1, 1938, announcing the agreement with Hitler that promised to preserve "peace with honor." The people of Great Britain celebrated virtually in unison.
In the subsequent parliamentary debate on October 5 Churchill gave one of his greatest speeches, denouncing the agreement as a disaster. The people, Churchill said, "should know the truth…they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road…And do not suppose this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup that will be proffered to us year by year unless, by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."
Take our stand for freedom as in the olden time! That, friends, concludes our lesson for today.
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Feb. 22, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University and Seminole women's soccer head coach Mark Krikorian announced the hiring of Wes Hart as an assistant coach. Hart's primary responsibilities with the Seminoles will include planning the offensive attack, assisting with player development and video analysis along with other recruiting and scouting duties.
Hart replaces former assistant Morinao Imaizumi who returned to Japan and his role with the JFA in January after spending two seasons as an assistant with the Seminoles.
"Wes brings an exceptional soccer background to Florida State," said head coach Mark Krikorian. "He has gained a great deal of experience during his time with one of the best club teams in nation, in the Colorado Rush, and has coached several Youth National Team players.
"Philosophically, we see eye to eye on how the game of soccer should be played. I am excited for Wes to come in and add some new dimensions to our staff. He will make a great contribution to help build our team moving forward."
"I am thrilled to be a Seminole," said Hart. "In my short time around coach Krikorian, it's not hard to see why FSU is considered one of the top college soccer programs in the country. I am excited for the opportunity to learn and grow under Mark's leadership, while at the same time offering my knowledge and experience to the program."
A native of Littleton, Colo., Hart comes to Tallahassee after spending eight years (2005-12) in a variety of roles with the Colorado Rush, one of the premier soccer clubs in the country. In his last three years with the Rush, Hart held the title of Director of Coaching Academy where he oversaw the ECNL teams on the girls side and the US Development Academy teams on the boys side.
During his time with the Rush, Hart was involved in four national championships including three as an assistant and one as head coach. In the summer of 2012, he led the U-15 girls squad to the club's first ever ECNL Championship. Hart has coached several US Youth National Team players including Lindsey Horan, who now plays for PSG in France. He also tutored former Seminole standouts Sarah Wagenfuhr and Erika Sutton.
Before entering the coaching ranks, Hart played six seasons in the MLS (Major League Soccer). He was selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2000 MLS Super Draft by the Colorado Rapids. In four seasons with the Rapids (2000-03), Hart appeared in 68 regular season games making 60 starts. He also started seven of 10 MLS playoff games during that time. His final two seasons in the MLS came with the San Jose Earthquakes as he appeared in 25 games making 14 starts. Hart was honored as the Humanitarian of the Year in the MLS in 2000 and 2001.
Hart began his collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin (1996-97) where he started 36 games over his freshman and sophomore seasons. He was honored as Wisconsin's Freshman of the Year in 1996 and earned a spot on the 1996 All-Big Ten second team. Hart transferred to the University of Washington for his final two seasons (1998-99). With the Huskies, Hart garnered third team All-America accolades in 1998 and second team honors in 1999. He was honored as a first team Scholar All-American by the NSCAA in 1999, was a two-time first team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) honoree and was named the MPSF Player of the Year in 1999. Hart served as team captain in 1999 and set the UW single-season assist record in 1998 with 15 – a record that is still intact.
As a youth player, Hart played for the Colorado Rush where he won a USYS National Championship. He attended Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where he was a three-time first team All-State selection and a two-time Gatorade High School Player of the Year. Hart added Parade All-America and NSCAA All-America honors during his time at Columbine High School, while leading his squad to a state championship.
Hart is married to the former Jamie Martini, who was a gymnast at the University of Denver. The couple has two children Dominic (7) and Grace (5).


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2013 Recognized as a First Team All-Conference honoree at number two singles and number one doubles … Named the Little East Conference Player of the Week April 16 … Finished the year as one of the three players in the Little East to be unbeaten in singles play … Tied the program record for matches played in a single season with 38 and singles matches played with 20 … Registered the ninth most wins in a single season in program history with 26 … Totaled 12 doubles victories, tied for seventh most in program history … Ended the year 14-6 in singles action, with a 10-2 mark at number two singles … Registered a 12-5 mark at number one singles, with a 5-1 mark in LEC play … Picked up 16 straight victories to finish with the second longest streak on the team … Earned the program's first ITA/New England Regional Championship victory since 2008, with a 6-1, 6-1 victory in the First Round on September 28 … Collected 11 consecutive singles victories from March 30 to May 2 … Recorded seven straight doubles wins from April 8 to May 2 … Teamed up with Sean Cullen to record UMass Boston's first ever point in NCAA Tournament play with an 8-6 victory at number one doubles May 9 against Skidmore College.
2012 Named Little East Conference Rookie of the Year and All-Conference honoree as a freshman ... Finished the year with 10 wins in singles play and 10 wins in doubles play ... Posted a combined four wins against conference opponents in singles action, while also recording four wins in doubles competition ... Earned his first singles and doubles wins on March 13 against Curry College ... Notched his first conference doubles victory on April 14 at Rhode Island College (8-1) ... Earned his first conference singles win on April 15 against Southern Maine with a 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 victory.
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SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C#31468 *Astronauts Finish Launch Practice* The STS-120 astronauts capped off three days of exercises and training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida by boarding space shuttle Discovery for a simulated countdown Wednesday morning. After the rehearsal concluded, the crew members flew back to their home base in Houston to complete their final preparations for the targeted launch of Discovery on Oct. 23. Image Above: The STS-120 crew poses just outside Discovery's hatch. The astronauts are, left to right, Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski , Stephanie Wilson, Commander Pam Melroy, Pilot George Zamka, Mission Specialists Paolo Nespoli, Doug Wheelock (front) and Dan Tani. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett + View larger image <http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170419main__DSC0012.JPG> While the astronauts practiced for launch, shuttle program managers started two days of meetings Tuesday in preparation for next week's Flight Readiness Review, which is scheduled for Oct. 16. One of the topics discussed before the conclusion of the program review Wednesday involved the reinforced carbon carbon, or RCC, on Discovery's wing leading edge panels. In the past, there have been post-flight indications that the edges of a couple of panels have lost small amounts of their upper-level coating. Thermography, or thermal imagery, has been used to inspect the panels in order to identify any internal defects that could lead to coating loss. The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has been working with shuttle engineers to better understand the potential causes of coating loss. At Wednesday's meeting, NESC recommended replacing three of Discovery's 44 panels. Discovery has flown at least twice with these panels in the current condition, and with no indications of degradation based on thermography. At this point, the Space Shuttle Program has determined that Discovery's astronauts can safely carry out their mission without having to replace the panels. *Mission Information* + STS-120 Mission Overview <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html> + Harmony Node 2 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/harmony_payload.html> + Space Shuttle Discovery <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/discovery-info.html> ---- Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
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thenerd needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Hi there, I've had requests from people to do some java training so I want to create a site to do this. First step is I'll need a logo, then in a subsequent contest, I'll need a wordpress template.
Desired Style:
Bold, primary, digg, apple, orb, slashdot
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Because this training is hopefully going to turn people into a leading coder, I called the site leadingcoder.com. The logo is for leading coder, we can leave out the com. I'm not sure whether the words look better together or apart, actually I'll leave it up to you.
Like I said, once I'm happy with the result of this contest and have chosen a winner, then I'm going to go on to create a coded design contest for an overall design that would need to be a wordpress template. I thought I'd start with the logo though.
Designs that inspire me:
Digg, Apple, Slashdot, Orb
People that go to this site potentially also go to:
Slashdot, O'Reilly, Facebook
A bunch of words:
human,hi-tech, in-position, not cliche computer, smart, intelligent, simplicity, optimistic, open, competitive, elegant, reliable, back to basics
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Bold primary colours? I'm open to having some shapes, some image component to the logo etc, up to you. I'll let you know when I like it or when I don't. You can do that funky web 2.0 gradiented/aqua style/reflection stuff if that's your bag, I quite like that, but I want a logo that will endure past fads. You don't have to do one like that. Up to you.
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Overall Numbers, Diabetes and Prediabetes
- Prevalence: In 2012, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3% of the population, had diabetes.
In 2010 the figures were 25.8 million and 8.3%.
- Undiagnosed: Of the 29.1 million, 21.0 million were diagnosed, and 8.1 million were undiagnosed.
In 2010 the figures were 18.8 million and 7.0 million.
- Prevalence in Seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 25.9%, or 11.8 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).
- New Cases: The incidence of diabetes in 2012 was 1.7 million new diagnoses/year; in 2010 it was 1.9 million.
- Prediabetes: In 2012, 86 million Americans age 20 and older had prediabetes; this is up from 79 million in 2010.
- Deaths: Diabetes remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010, with 69,071 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 234,051 death certificates listing diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death.
Diabetes in Youth
- About 208,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.25% of that population.
- In 2008-2009, the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth was estimated at 18,436 with type 1 diabetes, 5,089 with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes by Race/Ethnicity
The rates of diagnosed diabetes by race/ethnic background are:
7.6% of non-Hispanic whites
9.0% of Asian Americans
12.8% of Hispanics
13.2% of non-Hispanic blacks
15.9% of American Indians/Alaskan Natives
The breakdown among Asian Americans:
4.4% for Chinese
11.3% for Filipinos
13.0 for Asian Indians
8.8% for other Asian Americans
The breakdown among Hispanic adults:
8.5% for Central and South Americans
9.3% for Cubans
13.9% for Mexican Americans
14.8% for Puerto Ricans
Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2010 based on the 69,071 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. In 2010, diabetes was mentioned as a cause of death in a total of 234,051 certificates.
Diabetes may be underreported as a cause of death. Studies have found that only about 35% to 40% of people with diabetes who died had diabetes listed anywhere on the death certificate and about 10% to 15% had it listed as the underlying cause of death.
Complications/Co-Morbid Conditions
Hypoglycemia: In 2011, about 282,000 emergency room visits for adults aged 18 years or older had hypoglycemia as the first-listed diagnosis and diabetes as another diagnosis.
Hypertension: In 2009-2012, of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes, 71% had blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90 millimeters of mercury or used prescription medications to lower high blood pressure.
Dyslipidemia: In 2009-2012, of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes, 65% had blood LDL cholesterol greater than or equal to 100 mg/dl or used cholesterol-lowering medications.
CVD Death Rates: In 2003-2006, after adjusting for population age differences, cardiovascular disease death rates were about 1.7 times higher among adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes than among adults without diagnosed diabetes.
Heart Attack Rates: In 2010, after adjusting for population age differences, hospitalization rates for heart attack were 1.8 times higher among adults aged 20 years or older with diagnosed diabetes than among adults without diagnosed diabetes.
Stroke: In 2010, after adjusting for population age differences, hospitalization rates for stroke were 1.5 times higher among adults with diagnosed diabetes aged 20 years or older compared to those without diagnosed diabetes.
Blindness and Eye Problems: In 2005-2008, of adults with diabetes aged 40 years or older, 4.2 million (28.5%) people had diabetic retinopathy, damage to the small blood vessels in the retina that may result in loss of vision.
Kidney Disease: Diabetes was listed as the primary cause of kidney failure in 44% of all new cases in 2011.
In 2011, 49,677 people of all ages began treatment for kidney failure due to diabetes.
In 2011, a total of 228,924 people of all ages with kidney failure due to diabetes were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant.
Amputations: In 2010, about 73,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in adults aged 20 years or older with diagnosed diabetes.
About 60% of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations among people aged 20 years or older occur in people with diagnosed diabetes.
Cost of Diabetes
Updated March 6, 2013
$245 billion: Total costs of diagnosed diabetes in the United States in 2012
$176 billion for direct medical costs
$69 billion in reduced productivity
After adjusting for population age and sex differences, average medical expenditures among people with diagnosed diabetes were 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes.
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'Dog-bone' Frame Clamps
There are some amazing specialty clamps for gluing miters, and we're also amazed by some of the prices. It's no trick to spend $40 apiece for mitered corner clamps. And because most frames have four corners, you can spend $160 very easily. By stealing some much less expensive hardware from a commercial application, we've come up with a much cheaper miter clamp that works great for picture frames. Tight-joint fasteners, often called "dog bones" in the trade, are commonly used to pull countertops together, but by shortening the length of the bolt and making a routered cut-out on the back of the frame corners you can make a pretty simple corner clamp for less than a buck.
The routing template is the only bit of difficulty, but once that template is made it's simple to clamp up the corner until the glue is dry. Then release the dog bone clamps and they're ready to use the next time you need to glue up your next set of miters.
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Notes from the (water) underground
Gordon Grant's pioneering work on the northwest's hydrologic sponge
Name Gordon Grant
Age 55
Occupation Research hydrologist and fluvial geomorphologist
Nickname The Bloviator
Ph.D. dissertation Downstream effects of logging on river structure and dynamics
Hidden talent Reciting stanzas of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
Says "Geology is destiny. If we want to know about the future of water, we have to look at the snowpack story and geology simultaneously."
Gordon Grant strides past trillium and shooting stars, over jumbles of jack-strawed Douglas firs and down the edge of a steep embankment. He cocks his head to listen to the water gushing from the moss-covered hillside, plunging toward Oregon's McKenzie River. "If places were honored in proportion to their impact on humans, this would be a shrine," says Grant, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service.
A compact man with grey-flecked curls and warm brown eyes, Grant explains that this place near McKenzie Pass east of Eugene is one of his groundwater study sites. Volcanoes erupted throughout this region as recently as 1,500 years ago, leaving lava flows with huge underground fractures between the rocks. Precipitation filtering from the surface collects in those fractures, creating a gigantic hydrological sponge that holds as much water as Lake Mead.
The water in this sponge is certain to become increasingly precious. In coming decades, scientists predict that climate change will squeeze water supplies around the West, especially those that depend on snowpack. Snow is already retreating higher up on mountain peaks and melting earlier. In the Pacific Northwest, scientists predict that snow accumulations will decrease 50 percent by 2060.
In contrast, the McKenzie and other Cascade rivers are fed by groundwater that literally springs out of the earth on both sides of the crest. By September, when many Western rivers that rely on runoff are reduced to a trickle, groundwater keeps these Oregon rivers robust, Grant says. The August flow from the McKenzie system alone could supply Portland with drinking water for more than a year. Grant, who believes that similar geologic formations around the West offer comparable water quantities, is in the early stages of research in the Pitt River Basin in northeastern California. There, lava flows may have produced porous spaces as capable of storing groundwater as those in the High Cascades.
A former whitewater river guide, Grant was conducting watershed analyses for the Northwest Forest Plan in the early 1990s when he became intrigued with groundwater hydrology. He speaks of the rivers he studies with affection, treating them as animate, almost sentient beings.
Despite the scramble to prepare for the predicted water shortages, Grant is one of the few people paying close attention to groundwater as a resource. Most scientists and land managers focus instead on diminishing snowmelt and dams, the traditional water storage mechanism. Within the Forest Service, which manages the land that supplies water to over 60 million Americans, very little research is directed toward understanding groundwater systems. Grant is doing the most cutting-edge work "by far," says Christopher Carlson, the agency's national groundwater program leader.
But he may soon have company. Carlson is developing a national policy on groundwater management for the 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands. It assumes a connection between surface and groundwater resources, and emphasizes sustaining groundwater-dependent ecosystems, home to many threatened and endangered species. Before it was founded in 1905, the Forest Service was directed to secure "favorable conditions of water flows." Carlson's policy may be the first major implementation of that directive. "We're transforming 100 years of Forest Service practices," he says.
Grant has already documented the amount of water stored underground in the High Cascades. He can even explain how it got there and why. "What I lose sleep over is what we ought to be doing about it," he says. "This is where water will be in the future."
An optimist at heart, Grant is confident that widespread understanding of groundwater and its relationship to river systems will evolve. One day it will be as universally accepted as plate tectonics, he says. Then, he believes, land management will revolve around it: "Clean water will be the single most important commodity produced from national forest lands. It will totally eclipse timber."
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December 02. 2013 10:20PM
Brady to suspicious Texan: Pats 'just played better'
The Sports Xchange
New England quarterback Tom Brady offered a simple response to a suggestion from suspicious Houston defensive lineman Antonio Smith that the Patriots knew what was coming in the second half when they rallied past the Texans.
The Patriots scored 27 points on their first five possessions after halftime for a 34-31 victory.
"You know, truthfully, we just played a little bit better in the second half," Brady said on WEEI sports radio in Boston. "We've kind of been through a lot of this before. I don't really think much of it, truthfully. I just kind of have moved on."
After the game, Smith said the Texans (2-10) used wrinkles on defense that were just installed during the week and not yet on film.
"Either teams are spying on us or scouting us ... I'm very suspicious," Smith told ESPN. "I just think it will be a big coincidence if that just happened by chance. I don't know for sure, but I just know it was something that we practiced this week."
Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday that he was aware of Smith's comments.
"Yeah, I saw them. I don't have any comment on them," he said. "That's a league matter."
Brady noted that second-half adjustments are commonplace in the NFL.
"If you have like a bad first drive, you don't really come over to the sideline and go, 'All right guys, we've gotta change everything. Let's scrap all the (plays) we've been practicing all week and just start making stuff up on the fly,'" he said on WEEI.
"But I think by halftime you have really a good enough sample size to figure out how the game is being played, the things, the matchups that go in our favor, the matchups that don't go in our favor. Maybe there's some new things that they've done that we've got to adjust to, but ultimately, after halftime you get a chance to evaluate and say, 'Well, how did that half play out?' "You've got to be able to stick with it, stick with what we're doing, kind of what we did against Denver.
"Or last week, we said, 'OK, these are some of the things we're going to get to and these are the matchups we like and we've got to start making the plays that we're capable of making.'"
The AFC East-leading Patriots (9-3) handed the Texans their 10th loss in a row.


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Plaistow fire victim remains criticalBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 22. 2013 9:40PM
PLAISTOW — A Plaistow man who was seriously burned in a house fire last week remained in critical condition Wednesday night.
William C. Bartlett suffered burns to his hands and feet when a fire broke out at his home at 9 Sweet Hill Road early on the morning of May 17.
Bartlett, who lived alone at the house with his dog, escaped the burning house and was flown to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston because of the serious burns.
He was still listed in critical condition, a hospital spokesman said Wednesday.
The cause of the fire has not been determined, a fire official said.
The fire destroyed the two-story house and a garage.


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Odd Life of Timothy Green, The (US - BD)
Gabe also grows leaves from his legs, but it's just a case of bad hygiene...
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are a happily married couple that can't wait to start a family. Distraught by the news that they are unable to conceive, Cindy and Jim write the characteristics of their 'dream child' down on notepaper, put the notes in a box, and bury the box in their backyard. That night, a magical storm gives life to a young boy named Timothy (CJ Adams), who enters their house and announces that he is their new son. Soon enough, Timothy is introduced to the Green family and the rest of the neighbourhood, but the joy of his miraculous appearance is cut short when it is revealed he has mysterious leaves growing from his legs.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green screamed sappy, emotionally manipulative, sentimentality porn from Day One. Its teasers, trailers, TV-spots, even its poster art told audiences exactly what to expect and just enough people bit to make it a couple of bucks at the box office. Some of them even paid a bit extra as their children devolved into blubbering messes. Come next year, the only thing anyone will remember about the movie is that two the cruel/brilliant parents recorded their blubbering spawn after leaving the theatre and had a YouTube hit. Writer/director Peter Hedges is not a name most folks remember, but he's been making said sentimentality porn for almost two decades now, starting with What's Eating Gilbert Grape. One can forgive What's Eating Gilbert Grape – it is emotionally manipulative, but it's well-made and well-acted, and when it was released it wasn't yet part of a bigger pattern of devious heartstring-plucking. But then Hedges wrote A Map of the World, About a Boy, then wrote and directed Pieces of April and Dan in Real Life, consummating a cycle of shrewdly abusing his audience. The Odd Life of Timothy Green (which was based on an original idea by Frank Zappa's son Ahmet) fits this mould of insufferable, over-simplified touchy-feely muck and is just competently made enough to be genuinely frustrating.
The film works okay when it's exploring its fairy tale options. The fantasy aspects are predictable and have all been done better in similar, lightweight, family fare, but occasionally pull the film out of the gutter. There's a decent reverse- Mary Poppins in the basic idea, but Hedges doesn't really embrace the possibilities. The more realistic stuff is feel good/feel bad slop, though, and it's incredibly difficult to get through. Not content to pull emotional strings with his simple fairy tale plot, Hedges man-handles a lifetime of hardships into a short time period. Timothy has girl trouble, Cindy's father-figure uncle dies, Jim fights against inevitable pencil factory layoffs, et cetera and so forth. There's even an underdog sports movie thrown into the mix. Then there's the gratuitous flashback narrative storytelling structure, which is predicated on the assumption that a perfectly charming couple that everyone in the town loves can't adopt a child without the experience of briefly raising a plant boy (it's possible this was conceived as a way to soften the inevitable death of the title character by immediately establishing him as no longer in the picture). The performances are good, better than the material. Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton have notable chemistry, specifically the chemistry of a long-term couple, which steers them away from the more simple 'getting to know you' chemistry lesser actors are usually handed. The problem is that their chief character traits are that they're intolerably over-protective and competitive parents. Little CJ Adams is ridiculously darling and rarely veers into obnoxious territory. I'm sure he'll get something better to do someday.
Shot on 35mm, The Odd Life of Timothy Green comes to Blu-ray in 1.85:1 and full 1080p video. If I were to describe this transfer in a single word, that word would be 'warm.' As if the constant stream of emotional manipulation wasn't obvious enough, Hedges and cinematographer John Toll go out of their way to soften and heat the whole film to exude ultimate sap. If I were to add a second word to the description, it would be 'contrast,' because, oh my God, is there a lot of contrast here. The dynamic ranges seem somewhat obvious for the night scenes, but are bizarrely out of place during the perpetually dusk/dawn 'daylight' sequences. Seriously, the film's sunlight always appears to be coming from a specific point on the horizon, even when we're specifically shown, in cutaway, that the sun is sitting in the center of the sky. This looks ridiculous, but also makes for some nice shadow play for the transfer. The warm, golden base tones are gorgeously supported by lush, natural greens and fire engine reds that pop from the incredibly deep blacks beautifully. Sometimes, the darker sequences get away from Hedges and Toll. Highlights and details are often lost among the hard crush of black. I'm not sure why they chose to take things quite this dark. For the most part the detail levels are consistent, though the soft lighting schemes don't give way to a lot of harsh textures. The HD capabilities are best spent in sharply separating complex backgrounds and clothing patterns. The limitations of the stock are found in some noticeable edge enhancement and extremely minor grain, but otherwise, the severity of the colour grading would lead me to assume it was shot digital HD, if I didn't know any better.
This disc features a strong DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. It's a low-key, family drama mix, but it also has some surprises up its sleeve. Mostly, it's simply well-layered, giving music, effects, and dialogue a perfect dab of volume without awkwardly overlapping. Among the more impressive bits are the opening credit sequence where the steady hum and clack of a pencil factory blends beautifully with the bouncy music, a really convincing thunderstorm, a nice 360 turn around the title character that gives the ambient nature sounds a swirling directional effect, a poppy underwater sequence, and some noisy crowd scenes. Geoff Zanelli's soft, feel-good score is precious enough to make you gag, but it's given a wide range throughout the channels and every instrument is nicely separated among the greater wall of sound. The music is warm, crisp, and features a solid LFE pop and throb when necessary.
The extras begin with a commentary track from director Peter Hedges. A perpetual author, Hedges treats the commentary like a storytelling session, narrating as if he's reading from a book before a Barnes and Noble signing event. Assuming you can handle this tone-deaf choice, the track is an effective mirror into what was going through the writer/director's mind as he attempted to create his own version of a Frank Capra movie (he also brings up Field of Dreams and E.T. quite a bit). There's not a whole lot of focus on the technical aspects (save some advice on working with a large crew), but there's plenty for a budding screenwriter to learn here – especially from Hedges' many failures, which he explains thoroughly enough that the audience can easily trace the origin of the problms. Things fall apart a bit when Hedges starts back-patting his cast and crew, and loses focus of his commentary's pseudo-narrative thrust.
Next up is This is Family (10:10, HD), which takes a brief, sappy look behind the scenes with Hedges, Zappa, and actors Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Ron Livingston, Common, CJ Adams, Odeya Rush, and Rosemary DeWitt. There's a lot of overlap with the commentary here, so you might just want to skip the track altogether if you don't have a lot of time. The Gift of Music (9:20, HD) is another touchy-feely featurette, this time covering the process of writing and recording Geoff Zanelli's score and Glen Hansard (who is probably most famous for the Oscar-winning song he wrote for Once), including interviews with Zanelli, Hedges, and Hansard. It's followed by a music video for Hansard's song, 'This Gift' (4:40, HD), five deleted scenes with optional director's commentary (5:50, HD), and trailers for other Disney releases.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green rubbed me the wrong way for almost its entire runtime, but it's not a particularly offensive or badly-made film, so I can understand the appeal. If you're a fan of excessive emotional manipulation, then this is the movie for you. Everything is shot so dark that the image is occasionally indiscernible, but I can't really hold that against this 1080p transfer. The DTS-HD MA soundtrack is deceptively top-notch as well, though extras are a bit brief and disappointing.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I rather enjoyed this review even though I'm not as tough on the movie as you. Many of your points I agree with
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Disc Details
Release Date: 4th December 2012
Discs: 105
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish, DVS 2.0 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, This is Family, The Gift of Music, Music Video, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Odeya Rush, Dianne Wiest, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, David Morse, Common
Genre: Family
Length: 2 minutes
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A Classic Blue Nursery for "Baby Bud"
Name: "Baby Bud"
Location: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This is the second time around for our small nursery. When it was revealed that baby #2 was a girl, we initially wanted to repaint and do a complete overhaul. But the blue is so soothing, we decided to update the space with new curtains instead.
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I've recently had a lively debate with a deist who asserted that atheism is a religeon as it has set tennents and creeds that are followed i.e. the tendancy to adhear to certain "dogma" such as skeptism and so on..
Now I've heard this flacid arguement more times than I'd like, but this particuler individual pruposed that not only is atheism a religeon that the whole of philosophy is by definition a religeon in that it follows set guidelines put forth. He went onto to assert political philosophies are as well. That is what got me thinking...Is a religeon a commonly held set of beleifs shared by a group as proposed by a figure head(s)?
this got my brain scratching...so I'm interested to hear what you think
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Atheism is a religion like bald is a hairstyle.
Or like not collecting stamps is a hobby I agree.
Just a clarification to what others said, that might also help your debate-friend a little too...
Atheism is NOT the lack of a religion. It is the lack of a belief in god(s).
There are atheist religions. Eg. certain flavors of Buddhism, paganism, etc. A "collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values" need not rely on the acceptance of any higher power.
Sometimes recognizing an atheist religion can help people tease apart the difference between the two, how they are more apples-to-oranges. In this case how "religion" is different from "belief" or lack thereof.
Aside from that...
In the grand scheme of debates between atheists and religious theists, the categorization of beliefs as religions or not seems trivial in comparision to weeding out what beliefs are unhealthy bullsh** or not.
A religion is
Belief in supernatural beings (gods).
Can include the following:
A distinction between sacred and profane objects.
Ritualistic acts .
A moral code believed to be sanctioned by the god/gods.
Characteristically religious feelings (awe, sense of mystery, sense of guilt, adoration), which tend to be aroused in the presence of sacred objects or during the practice of ritual, and which are connected in idea with the gods.
Prayer and other forms of communication with gods.
A world view, or a general picture of the world as a whole and the place of the individual therein. This picture contains some specification of an over-all purpose or point of the world and an indication of how the individual fits into it.
A more or less total organization of one's life based on above-mentioned world view.
A social group bound together by the above.
I would say Atheism is none of these things.
However, I think atheism could be defined as philosophy which is:
Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.
The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory:
A system of values by which one lives:
I think your friend is confusing the two ideas and needs to take a university religion 101 course. I really don't see how skepticism is a dogma, as if your skeptical you can change your mind with evidence. If you have faith you less likely as it requires no thought process or evidence.
You are right, "dogmatic skepticism" is in the same stupid catagory as is Jumbo Shrimp.
God is just an excuse to get around reallity - "god did it", "it's god's will" and, my favorite, "god works in mysterous ways".
I just posted to the Forum that this is the latest Believer meme. As black is the absence of all color, atheism is the absence of all religion. We do not believe. We know.
Well my "friend" agrued that as we all adhear to scince and in particuler, the writings of Hitchens,Dawkins, etc..as a some sort of group mentality thing...he even went further to give an "atheist creed" (can't find the link now), but from what I've read it was an obvious mockery of religeous creeds. In any case this individual argues that even a 'non-beleife' is a beleife. It really is tiresom so i've actually given up engaging with this person.
"this individual argues that even a 'non-beleife' is a beleife."
If you ever do have this conversation come up again, this might be something worth discussing. To me this says they have a hard time imagining what it's like to be contentedly unsure about something, which probably implies they are uncomfortable with uncertainty. On that front sometimes its helpful to get them to imagine a question they feel comfortable not knowing the answer to, or otherwise try to at least temporarily dislodge them from this kind of "binary thinking."
I don't think atheism is a religion from an atheist's perspective. We all agree religion is as good of a means of pretending to know something as any other.
In the United States, though, since atheists are still a minority, we need to be pigeonholed into something called a "religion" so we can claim the rights afforded by the Constitution without challenges from theists. Perhaps it could be called a religion with a very, very simple creed espousing naturalism. We don't want the government to impose Christian theology on us, and we have the right to free speech, free expression, and to practice our "religion." (For statistical purposes, "secular" is probably a more accurate pigeonhole.)
oh I see no need with continuing with this person, at least not online, I'll encounter this person again (he's in my best friend's wedding) and I really appreciate the link.
I've grown up around differing religeous folks, some of the conventional types and some that just ascribe to the 'greater truth' so i just take the approach that chances are,i will not/ever convence anyone, best I can do is state where my position is.
I really appreciate youre response Richard Ewald...It was highly insightful!
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Analysts suggested mean rating score of 2.90 for Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR)
On Thursday, Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR) made the way into the market negative movers list with falling -3.01%. JNPR reported a change of -8.82% over the last week and performed -2.79% over the last month while its year to date (YTD) performance revealed an activity trend of -6.04%. The stock's quarterly performance specifies a shift of -3.88%, and its last twelve month performance is stands at -0.30% while moved 7.77% for the past six months The stock price closed last trading at $26.78. Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR) negotiated 5.04 million shares and maintained an average volume of 4.11 million shares. Volume analysis is used by technical analysts as one of many factors that inform their trading decisions. By analyzing trends in volume in conjunction with price movements, investors can determine the significance of changes in a security's price. Volume typically increases as price increases and vice versa; when the opposite occurs, it's called divergence. With approx. 347.52 million shares in outstanding, the company has a market cap of $9306.59 as per the current valuation. Calculating the market cap is easy. Market capitalization is simply the value that can get when multiply all the outstanding shares of a stock by the price of a single share.
Technical Look at Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR): (Is this is BUY or SELL time?)
Moving average technique is used to smooth the data and identify the underlying price trend. Simple BUY signals occur when prices close above the moving average; SELL signals occur when prices fall below the moving average. Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR)'s stock price closed below with -0.75% gap from 200 day simple moving average and its downbeat distance from 50 day simple moving average is -5.02%, while finished with -8.09% bearish trend from 20 day simple moving average. Moving averages are among the easiest-to-use tools available to market technicians. A simple moving average is calculated by adding the closing prices of a stock over a specified number of time periods, usually days or weeks.
Relative Strength Index (RSI) Analysis:
Relative strength index (RSI-14) for JNPR is observed at 27.92. Traditionally, RSI readings greater than the 70 level are considered to be in overbought territory, and RSI readings lower than the 30 level are considered to be in oversold territory. In between the 30 and 70 level is considered neutral, with the 50 level a sign of no trend. The relative strength index (RSI) is a technical indicator used in the analysis of financial markets. It is intended to chart the current and historical strength or weakness of a stock or market based on the closing prices of a recent trading period. The indicator should not be confused with relative strength. Tops and bottoms are indicated when RSI goes above 70 or drops below 30.
JNPR holds Low or High volatility?
Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR) has ATR reading of 0.52. A stock's Average True Range (ATR) is the difference between the high and low price on any given day. It reveals information about how volatile a stock is. Large ranges indicate high volatility and small ranges indicate low volatility. The range is measured the same way for options and commodities – high minus low – as they are for stocks.
By seeing it past volatility it showed that volatility for the week is 2.25% while volatility for the month is 1.74%.
Analysts suggested mean rating of 2.90, according to Finviz. Analyst opinion is vital in valuing stocks. They study the diverse factor and after that study issue different rating to concerning stock whether it is time to sell or buy or even hold the stock.


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Chantelle Houghton meets up with Alex Reid's new girl
CHANTELLE Houghton has had heart-to-hearts with the new girlfriend of her ex Alex Reid.
Alex, 37, was pictured last week with Victoria Rose.
Chantelle, 29, said: "She contacted me and asked me to meet her. I've met up with her twice.
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By Adam Boxer | Vital QPR
Inevitable - that would be the best word to describe Friday's departure of Mark Hughes from QPR.
In a way it is sad that the club have built their very foundation around a man who they thought was going to take them to the next level but has now been removed.
It will be a huge regret for the board that, despite their admirable and steadfast support of the beleaguered boss, things frankly never looked like taking off at any point this season.
Hughes is a self-confident individual who has few regrets from his managerial and playing past but, even through his rose-tinted spectacles, he will surely be able to see that he had a squad of talented players at his disposal, whom he was responsible for assembling.
Unfortunately, he could not organise them effectively or prevent them from conceding the same calibre of goals, week after week.
|QPR are 15/8 with Bet365 to finish bottom of the Premier League
Against Southampton, however, we decided not to turn up at all and in truth it was the players, rather than the board, who had decided that Mark Hughes was not the man to take the club forward.
No effort, no ideas tactically and making Southampton look like Barcelona - it was the last straw for many and certainly displayed to me that things were on the decline and nowhere near the upward curve that Hughes continually purported was occurring at the club.
A delusional post-match press conference after a recent defeat against Stoke City had also only fuelled question marks that were persistently lingering over his leadership.
Harry Redknapp is rumoured to be the man taking the helm and, while he would not have been my first choice, I consider him a fine man-manager and someone who would be able to attract players of genuine quality in January.
We need to get organised tactically and play to our potential - if we do, then the two or three wins that are required to haul us out of the bottom three should be forthcoming.
Any turnaround in fortunes will not happen overnight and certainly not on Saturday but, despite all the things I don't expect at Old Trafford, the fans expect effort in spadefuls and a performance that shall hopefully spur us on to take points against Sunderland afterwards.
We can but live in hope, but Friday's move to sack Hughes was definitely the step which was necessary in order for all parties to move forward.
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Shark fin imports to world's biggest market drop by third
Viet Nam overtook mainland China as the top destination for fins leaving Hong Kong, the city which accounts for over half of the global trade volume. While it is not illegal to consume shark fin in most places, many shark species are being hunted at highly unsustainable rates putting their futures at risk.
Recent trends indicate that shark fin, once perceived as a delicacy or an essential part of dinner banquets, may be no longer as socially acceptable as it once was. WWF has made significant progress in convincing caterers like hotel chains, and transporters like airlines, to stop carrying shark fins. Additionally, the Chinese government has banned shark fin at official state functions, which may be impacting demand for fins.
Famous Hong Kong wedding planner Tim Lau says, "Shark-free banquets have become more popular over the past two years. At least 20 per cent more wedding couples now choose shark-free banquets."
As of this month, 116 caterers have joined WWF's Alternative Shark Free Menu programme and168 corporations have taken the No Shark Fin Corporate Pledge.


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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's election commission said Sunday only two presidential hopefuls, one of them the powerful former military chief who nine months ago ousted the country's first democratically elected leader, have submitted their papers to run in next month's polls.
With only two people — former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi — vying for the country's top post, the race is certain to be dramatically different from Egypt's 2012 presidential vote, when 13 candidates of all political stripes competed in a heated campaign.
Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist from the Muslim Brotherhood, won that race, defeating a former general in a runoff to become Egypt's first democratically elected president. Just over a year later, the military removed Morsi from office following mass protests calling for his ouster.
El-Sissi, the man who led the military's move against Morsi, is riding a wave of popular support and is the clear front-runner in this year's vote. Since Morsi's ouster, el-Sissi has achieved a near cult-of-personality. His picture is plastered in posters around the country; songs about the military and him ring out in weddings and private cafes, and he has been hailed in state and private media as a national savior.
Election commission spokesman Abdel-Aziz Salman said el-Sissi garnered 188,930 signatures of support. That's nearly eight times the required 25, 000 signatures from at least 15 of Egypt's 27 provinces that a would-be candidate needs in order to run.
El-Sissi's only rival is Sabahi, a leftist politician who came in third in the 2012 elections after receiving around 5 million votes and largely appealing to Egypt's secular youth and working class.
Salman said Sabahi submitted 31,555 signatures.
Sabahi's staff has complained of intimidation tactics during the signature collection period and of bias by state officials in favor of el-Sissi. They blamed officials with links to former autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
On Sunday, Sabahi's office said military troops detained a campaign worker in north Sinai because of his political activities. It was not clear why he was taken into custody. The army is waging a campaign against militants in the restive region.
Some in Egypt have urged Sabahi to withdraw from the race to avoid providing what they say would be a democratic facade to el-Sissi's likely victory. Ayman Nour, a liberal politician and 2005 presidential candidate who opposed Morsi's ouster, said he had appealed to Sabahi to withdraw.
"I hope that my friend Sabahi doesn't become an extra," Nour told Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr from Lebanon where he has resided since the summer. "This is farcical theater."
Over the next two weeks, the election commission will review the documents while also allowing the hopefuls to challenge their rival's nomination on legal grounds. The campaign officially begins May 2, when the commission will announce a final list of candidates.
The May 26 and 27 presidential elections are pivotal to the post-Morsi political plan, and are to be followed by parliamentary vote. Morsi supporters reject the plan, and continue to hold near daily protests against the military-backed authorities.
Turnout in the vote will be a key test of el-Sissi's popularity and the ability of Islamists and other critics of the military chief to impact the race— either by boycotting or supporting Sabahi. In the 2012 elections, nearly 50 percent of the voters took part in both rounds. There are 53 million registered voters this year.
Already buffeted by waves of political turmoil since the 2011 ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has been wrestling with a surge in political violence since Morsi's overthrown in July.
Security forces have killed more than 1,300 Morsi supporters and detained another 16,000 — including the ousted leader himself —in a sweeping crackdown on Islamists. The crackdown has also widened to include secular critics of the military-backed government and the crackdown on Islamists.
Suspected militants, meanwhile, have killed more than 450 police and soldiers in clashes and attacks, the government says.
On Sunday, gunmen killed a police captain and a conscript in a firefight on a desert road outside Cairo, the Interior Ministry said, in the second such attack in three days to target Egypt's security services.
The two security men were killed early Sunday while taking part in a joint security patrol that tried to stop a suspicious vehicle on the road to the canal city of Suez, the Interior Ministry said. The vehicle's occupants opened fire before speeding off.
The ministry said Captain Ashraf Badeer al-Qazaz was killed in the firefight, along with a conscript from the central security force. A security official said initial investigation shows the gunmen were driving a four-wheel drive vehicle.
The attack comes two days after a bomb targeting a traffic post in a busy square in Cairo killed a policeman. A militant group that goes by the name of "Ajnad Misr," or "Egypt's Soldiers," claimed responsibility for the blast. The group says it is waging a campaign against police because of the government crackdown on protesters.
Sunday's attack comes as Egypt's Orthodox Christians, who make up more than 10 percent of the country's 85 million, celebrated Easter. Security was boosted around churches as worshippers flocked to them for the Easter Mass. Senior government officials, including the prime minister and the interior minister, paid visits to St. Mark's Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic pope.


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Three separate fights caused Lincoln High School to be locked down for 45 minutes today.
City police arrested seven students, said Fernando Gallard, a spokesman for the Philadelphia School District.
The lockdown started at 1:15 and was lifted at about 2 p.m., Gallard said.
"At this point, the school is looking into what started the fights," he said.
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Our 1500's trim level is SLT. This Ram 1500 SLT is a great blend of features, value, and capability. It comes with an AM/FM radio with a media hub with a USB port and an aux jack, SiriusXM satellite radio, air conditioning, cruise control, power windows, power doors, automatic headlights, aluminum wheels, chrome bumpers, and more. To view the original window sticker for this vehicle view this http://www.chrysler.com/hostd/windowsticker/getWindowStickerPdf.do?vin=1C6RR7GT8DS520373.
To apply right now for financing use this link http://www.billhowichchrysler.ca/financing/application.htm Buy this vehicle now for the lowest bi-weekly payment of $187.04 with $2800 down for 72 months @ 4.99% APR O.A.C. ( Plus applicable taxes - Plus applicable fees / Total cost of borrowing $3984 ). See dealer for details.
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PostedMarch 30, 2018
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Dip half the chicken strips into egg; place in bag. Seal bag; shake to coat. Please chicken on cookie sheet. Repeat to use up remaining chicken. Drizzle butter over chicken, if desired.
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Do you Skype? Or make video calls using MSN or Yahoo Messengers? Well, I do. Especially when one is having a girlfriend/boyfriend or family or even business overseas. As hard as that sounds, the internet helped a lot. Save a lot on the normal phone calls I have to make to my significant other in Hong Kong for sure! For two years, with Skype, I have been using headphone with a small microphone jutting out from the left side of the headphone. Well, I sure look like a call operator. Then I found Hulger Pappa*Phone:
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A year of pain, grief for family of 'Lizzi' MarriottBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
October 09. 2013 10:19PM
DOVER — It has been one year since the Marriott family's world was turned upside down.
One year since they believed their daughter, Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, 19, was on her way to a friend's house from a class at the University of New Hampshire. One year since she was reported missing. And one year since the family discovered she had been murdered.
On Oct. 12, 2012, police searched the waters near Peirce Island in Portsmouth and Dumpsters throughout the Seacoast looking for evidence.
They did not find Marriott's body — her body has never been found — but on Oct. 13, police announced the arrest of Seth Mazzaglia, 30, of Dover for Marriott's murder. The details that followed were too much for any family to bear, but Bob Marriott, Lizzi's father, did his best to show strength to the many people who came out to show love and support for his family, both at UNH and in the family's hometown of Westborough, Mass.
At a memorial service in front of Thompson Hall on the UNH-Durham campus, he talked of his daughter's dream of working in marine biology, how excited she was to be starting her first semester at UNH, and all of the ways she wanted to help educate others about the marine world she loved so much.
"Lastly, please reach out to your parents and tell them you love them. Give them a hug," Marriott told the somber crowd of UNH students.
Mazzaglia is facing numerous charges, including first- and second-degree murder alleging different theories of the crime. Last month, a new indictment was handed up by a Strafford County grand jury alleging a higher level of hindering apprehension and prosecution than previously revealed in court documents.
Police allege Marriott was lured to a Sawyer Mills apartment in Dover by Mazzaglia's girlfriend, Kathryn "Kat" McDonough. There, police say Mazzaglia strangled and/or suffocated Marriott before, during or after committing felonious sexual assault.
The couple then allegedly took several steps to cover up the crime, deleting text messages on their cell phones, discarding clothing, Marriott's GPS and cell phone, and the rope Mazzaglia allegedly used to kill Marriott.
Police allege they transported Marriott's body to Portsmouth and dumped her in the Piscataqua River before abandoning her car in a UNH parking lot.
Following Mazzaglia's arrest, he and McDonough allegedly discussed getting married, motivated in part by a belief that McDonough would not be forced to testify against Mazzaglia.
Mazzaglia also allegedly sent McDonough letters in jail that she later destroyed, detailing a false account of what happened for her to commit to memory. Prosecutors say he discussed fleeing the country with McDonough, and killing witnesses Roberta Gerkin and Paul Hickok.
McDonough will testify against Mazzaglia as part of a negotiated plea deal reached in July. She is currently serving a 1 1/2- to three-year sentence on charges of hindering prosecution, a sentence that outraged the Marriott family.
"Accessory to murder would be much more fitting as it relates Kathryn McDonough to the death of my daughter and does not suggest some victimless crime," Bob Marriott said at the hearing in Rockingham County Superior Court.
Mazzaglia's trial is scheduled to begin in 2014.
In April, through their attorney George Thompson, the Marriott family said they are "resolute" in their demand for justice for Lizzi and their defense of her life and legacy.
The Lizzi Marriott Intrepid Explorer Trust Fund was established in her memory to help perpetuate her love of the environment.
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Sky is to enter the IPTV arena with an internet-hosted TV service of its own.
The station will launch before July this year, the satellite broadcaster pledged, and it'll see many of Sky's existing channels, including Sky Movies, being streamed over the net to a range of devices.
Sky promised owners of "PCs, Macs, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, games consoles and connected TVs" will be able to access the service.
How the financial side will work is unclear. Sky already makes streams of its content available to satellite subscribers. It promised other folk will be able to view its channels over the internet with "no minimum contract" - pay to view, in other words.
The current service, Sky Go, will continue as "a bonus service for existing Sky TV customers".
Sky's scheme was undoubtedly spurred by the arrival of US movie streamer Netflix to the UK and the price and content fight with local rival the Amazon-owned Lovefilm.
Both streaming services are hindered by the limited range of material they offer to watch. Sky has content in spades and since it already has the rights to stream much of that material to its customers, it's in a good position to extend those rights deals to paying punters who are not subscribers. ®


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The developers behind Etoile have discussed their future plans for the project recently, and have provided a summary of the discussion on the mailing list. The Etoile live CD project will be transferred from Nicolas (due to a lack of time) to Quentin; he says: "I will recreate an environment for building the LiveCD from scratch (will now be built on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn LiveCD). To help in this process, Nicolas sent me the current LiveCD scripts. I hope to succeed in two or three weeks." On Etoile itself: "Focus will be put on core elements like System, MenuServer, Azalea, AZDock etc. rather than polished applications for this release. We don't have enough manpower for now and it's better to have a stable foundation to begin with." The next release is now planned for the coming three weeks.


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A man and his dog Buckley were rescued from Lake Michigan by emergency crews at Belmont Harbor on the North Side Tuesday night, authorities said.
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Archives 2013
28 March 2013
Sepang, 28 March 2012 - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad ("MAHB") held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) this morning at the Sama-Sama Hotel KLIA. It being amongst the first few companies (with Financial Year...
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27 March 2013
Sepang, 27 March 2013 - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) will hold its 14th Annual General Meeting (AGM). Malaysia Airports will also be presenting a cheque to Tabung Wira Lahad Datu after the AGM....
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26 March 2013
Langkawi, 26 March 2013 - Malaysia Airports terus meningkatkan kemampuannya di dalam kerja-kerja memadam api dan menyelamat mangsa di lapangan terbang apabila menerima empat buah jentera bomba baru untuk kegunaan...
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24 March 2013
- Retail space increases by five per cent - Revenue expected to grow by 15 per cent Langkawi, 24 March 2013 - Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad (Malaysia Airports)...
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14 March 2013
Sepang, 14 March 2013 - Selaras dengan keperluan semasa industri penerbangan dan untuk memastikan tahap keselamatan para penguna lapangan terbang dipertingkatkan dari masa ke semasa, Malaysia Airports hari ini...
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28 February 2013
Kuala Lumpur, 28 Febuary 2013 - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad's (Malaysia Airports) today presented its TOUCH Campaign Ambassadors - Khairul Faris b. Shafiei from Maxis and Miko Ng from Gold City. ...
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20 February 2013
Sepang, 20 February 2013 - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad ("MAHB") recorded a revenue of RM3,548.1 million for the final year ended 31 December 2012 ("FY2012"), representing a growth of 28.8% compared to...
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14 February 2013
Sepang, 14 Febuary 2013 - Malaysia Airports launched its second annual "Green Day" programme on 14 February, a two-pronged employee engagement activity which aims to stimulate environmental awareness and also to...
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07 February 2013
Sepang, 7 Febuary 2013 - Sama-Sama Hospitality Management Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB), is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard L. Dusome as the Area General Manager...
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15 January 2013
Sepang, 15 January 2007 - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad launched its new airport hotel brand, Sama-Sama, at the KL International Airport hotel this evening. The launch of the Sama-Sama brand...
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