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The College of Mount St. Joseph will continue to offer five cooperative education positions each semester during the upcoming school year with Hamilton County Job and Family Services funded by a grant of $84,000 from The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
The grant from The Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation provides funding for Mount students to have a cooperative education, or co-op, work experience at Hamilton County Job and Family Services (HCJFS). As a result, the agency gains the benefits of having college student employees at no cost while the students gain valuable career experience.
"The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation has been very generous in granting us the ability to offer these co-op positions for a third year," said Jen Franchak, director of the Career and Experiential Education Center at the Mount. "The students learn a lot through their experiences, and we are grateful that we can continue to offer these opportunities to them."
Sara Vice, a psychology major and student co-op at HCJFS in the communications department, has had opportunities to shadow caseworkers and visit the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital through her position.
"My co-op has been a great learning experience and has prepared me for my future in the field of psychology," she said. "The knowledge that I've gained goes beyond sitting in a classroom because I'm able to do something that I'm passionate about."
Cooperative education allows students to learn in an actual career setting, applying their interests and learning about career options. Nearly one-third of students who participate in cooperative education at the Mount accept full-time employment with previous co-op employers upon graduation.
"We are thrilled to have this exciting partnership with the College of Mount St. Joseph and Hamilton County Job and Family Services," said Christine Bochenek, vice president and senior program manager for The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation. "These students will play a crucial role in filling the gap and applying their skills set at HCJFS."
The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation is an independent family foundation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for residents in this region. They concentrate their efforts and resources in areas about which Carol and Ralph were most passionate: arts and culture, community development, education and human services. In collaboration with this region's stakeholders, they help lead the way to a strong and vibrant community across ten counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. For more information, visit www.haileusb.org.
The College of Mount St. Joseph is an undergraduate and graduate Catholic college that provides an interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curriculum emphasizing values, service and social responsibility.

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The 66th over of Ashes first day changed into a dreadful meander for England when Peter Siddle done a bang-up job for devastation of English batsmen. Siddle's hat-trick gives Australia that commanding prosperity which was Aussie's dream, for Asher opening. What a way of celebration of Siddle's birthday with this manner.
At Brisbane, opening day of opening test for Ashes series, England won the toss and elected to bat. England launched their inning in the way which frustrates English fans, England lost their skipper before opening the account in Ashes. It was Hilfenhaus who gave this first thrust to visitors. Second's was the dismissal of Trott (29), when England's total score was on 41, Watson picked this important wicket. Then Alastair Cook, knowing the ropes, start playing a defensive cricket. He added firstly 76 runs with another bully, Kevin Pietersen.
Peter Siddle one for all, all for one
England currently hold the Ashes, can Australia win them back? As it turns out, no.
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Andrews dismisses 2 reserve policemen
Steve Clark - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:44 PM
The Andrews Town Council dismissed two of the town's reserve police officers during its Monday, July 22, meeting.
Council voted to suspend Paul Weicht and Brody Cook during its last meeting on July 8, pending reviews.
Ultimately, council decided it was in the best interests of the town and of the officers to relieve them of their duties. Council cited conduct unbecoming of an officer as the reason for dismissing each.
Council made changes to the sidewalk replacement procedure that was discussed at its last meeting. Under the procedure, a homeowner can be reimbursed by the town for up to 50 percent of the cost of improving their sidewalk.
Under the amended procedure, a homeowner will fill out an application and approach council with a quote from a contractor. Someone from the council will then conduct a pre-pour inspection at the site where work is to be performed. Following that, the homeowner pays the contractor half the cost of the job. After the job is finished, another inspection will be conducted to ensure that the work meets the town's standards and then the town will pay the contractor the remaining balance.
Council approved $105,759 for the purchase of radio-read water meters. Under a lease agreement, the town will make 36 monthly payments of $3,056 and take ownership of the meters upon payment of the balance. The new meters, which will enable the town to check meter readings remotely, will be installed over the next six months, said Clerk-Treasurer Bill Johnson.
In other business:
Town Marshal Curt VanOver specified that in order to be a reserve with the Andrews Police Department, one must be 21 years of age, have no discrepancies in their background, have not been charged with a felony or domestic battery and live in Huntington County.
The alley next to Snyder's Auction House will be paved, with council voting to accept a bid on the job from Sommers Asphalt.
Citizens will be receiving fair housing brochures in the mail, which Johnson says is being done in order to receive a grant from the Office of Community and Rural affairs for the Andrew-Dallas Township Public Library expansion project.
Johnson stated that the public hearing for the town's 2014 budget would be held on Sept. 9, with Oct. 12 set as the date for its adoption.


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nougatmagnet Lol... I suppose mine would actually be any of the Mario Kart games
DiamondBlitz They are nice... I like them all so hard to pick a favorite!
DiamondBlitz hey Mario Kart is always fun!
allurbase Cool... I've played them since I been so young... Why are they so addictive?
DiamondBlitz I think they are so addictive because they become increasingly hard as you progress... I really don't know how they do it... It's interesting.
DiamondBlitz The New Super Mario Bros.
Rykosuke It's okay to me... I have tried it a few times... not bad
nougatmagnet Love MK... do tourneys with friends all the time
dr mario 64 or mario kart 64 would be awesome on a phone or tablet
hagoromo ooh dr mario
DiamondBlitz what didn't you like about it then?
DiamondBlitz i used to... but who does that anymore?
DiamondBlitz how far did you get?
nougatmagnet It was just fun back then you know
Rykosuke It got old, straight and simple
Rykosuke All the way of course
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Vorinostat and Bortezomib in Treating Young Patients With Refractory or Recurrent Solid Tumors, Including Central Nervous System Tumors and Lymphoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00994500
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 14, 2009
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2013
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|Childhood Burkitt Lymphoma Childhood Central Nervous System Choriocarcinoma Childhood Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumor Childhood Central Nervous System Germinoma Childhood Central Nervous System Mixed Germ Cell Tumor Childhood Central Nervous System Teratoma Childhood Central Nervous System Yolk Sac Tumor Childhood Choroid Plexus Tumor Childhood Craniopharyngioma Childhood Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma Childhood Immunoblastic Large Cell Lymphoma Childhood Medulloepithelioma Childhood Meningioma Childhood Mixed Glioma Childhood Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma Childhood Oligodendroglioma Recurrent Childhood Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Recurrent Childhood Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumor Recurrent Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma Recurrent Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma Recurrent Childhood Ependymoma Recurrent Childhood Grade III Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Recurrent Childhood Large Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Malignant Germ Cell Tumor Recurrent Childhood Medulloblastoma Recurrent Childhood Pineoblastoma Recurrent Childhood Small Noncleaved Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma Recurrent Childhood Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway Glioma Recurrent/Refractory Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
|Drug: vorinostat Drug: bortezomib Other: pharmacological study Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
|Phase 1
I. To determine the maximum-tolerated dose and/or recommended phase II dose of vorinostat in combination with bortezomib in pediatric patients with refractory or recurrent solid tumors, including central nervous system tumors and lymphoma.
II. To define and describe the toxicities of this regimen in these patients. III. To characterize the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
I. To preliminarily define the antitumor activity of this regimen within the confines of a phase I study.
II. To assess the biologic activity of bortezomib by measuring NF-κB activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).
III. To assess the biologic activity of bortezomib by measuring endoplasmic reticulum stress response using the GRP78 molecular chaperone marker in PBMC.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study of vorinostat.
Patients receive oral vorinostat once daily on days 1-5 and 8-12 and bortezomib IV over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, 8, and 11. Courses repeat every 21 days for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Blood samples are collected at baseline and during course 1 of study for further analysis.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up within 30 days.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of Vorinostat and Bortezomib in Children With Refractory or Recurrent Solid Tumors, Including CNS Tumors and Lymphomas
|Study Start Date :
|August 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2011
Experimental: Treatment (vorinostat, bortezomib)
Patients receive oral vorinostat once daily on days 1-5 and 8-12 and bortezomib IV over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, 8, and 11. Courses repeat every 21 days for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: vorinostat
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Drug: bortezomib
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Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
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- Maximum-tolerated dose defined as the maximum dose at which fewer than one-third of patients experience DLT according to NCI CTCAE version 3.0 [ Time Frame: 21 days ]In addition to determination of the MTD, a descriptive summary of all toxicities will be reported.
- Disease response assessed according to RECIST criteria [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days ]Will be reported descriptively.
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|1 Year to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
Histologically confirmed solid tumors, including CNS tumors or lymphoma
Histological confirmation not required for the following diagnoses
- Intrinsic brain stem tumors
- Optic pathway gliomas
- Pineal tumors and elevations of cerebral spinal fluid or serum tumor markers, including alpha-fetoprotein or beta-human chorionic gonadotropin, allowed
- Relapsed or refractory disease
- Must have measurable or evaluable tumor
- No known curative therapy or therapy proven to prolong survival with an acceptable quality of life
Karnofsky performance status (PS) 60-100% for patients > 16 years of age OR Lansky PS60-100% for patients ≤ 16 years of age
- Neurologic deficits inpatients with CNS tumors must have been relatively stable for a minimum of 1week
- Patients who are unable to walk because ofparalysis, but who are up in a wheelchair, will be considered ambulatory for thepurpose of assessing the performance score
- ANC ≥ 1,000/μL
Platelet count ≥ 100,000/μL (transfusion independent, defined as not receiving platelet transfusions within the past 7 days)
- Patients with known bone marrow metastatic disease allowed provided they meet the blood count criteria and are not known to be refractory to platelet transfusion
Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (may receive RBC transfusions)
- Patients with known bone marrow metastatic disease allowed provided they meet the blood count criteria and are not know to be refractory to RBC or platelet transfusion
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR ≥ 70 mL/min OR serum creatinine based on age and/or gender as follows:
- 0.6 mg/dL (1 to < 2 years of age)
- 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (6 to < 10 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
- 1.5 (male) or 1.4 (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 (male) or 1.4 (female) ( ≥ 16 years of age)
- Bilirubin (sum of conjugated + unconjugated) ≤ 1.5 times upper limit ofnormal
- Serum albumin ≥ 2 g/dL
- QTc interval ≤ 450 milliseconds
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Must be able to swallow capsules or liquids
- Able to comply withthe safety-monitoring requirements of the study, in the opinion of the investigator
- No peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 2 within the past 14 days
- No known hypersensitivity to vorinostat or bortezomib
- No uncontrolled infection
- No concurrent enzyme-inducing anticonvulsants
- Must be recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy
- More than 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosourea)
At least 7 days since prior therapy with any of the following:
- Hematopoietic growth factors
Biologic (anti-neoplastic) agent
- For agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration, this period must be extended beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur
- Corticosteroids unless on a stable or decreasing dose
- At least 7 days or 3 half-lives, whichever is longer, since prior monoclonal antibodies
- At least 2 weeks since prior local palliative radiotherapy (small port)
- At least 6 months since prior total-body irradiation therapy, craniospinal radiotherapy, or ≥ 50% of pelvis irradiated
- At least 6 weeks since prior substantial bone marrow radiotherapy
- At least 3 months since prior stem cell transplantation or rescue and no evidence of active graft-vs-host disease
- At least 2 weeks since prior and no concurrent valproic acid
- At least 6 weeks since priorimmunotherapy (e.g., tumor vaccines)
- No prior vorinostat
- No other concurrent investigational drugs or other anticancer agents, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or biologic therapy
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00994500
|United States, Illinois
|Childrens Memorial Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60614
|United States, Massachusetts
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, New York
|Columbia University Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224
|United States, Tennessee
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105
|United States, Texas
|Baylor College of Medicine
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Jodi Muscal
|COG Phase I Consortium
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00994500 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01CA097452 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|October 14, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 2, 2013
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neurologic Manifestations
Hodgkin Disease
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
Lymphoma, T-Cell
Burkitt Lymphoma
Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Immunoblastic
Plasmablastic Lymphoma
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive
Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
Lymphoma, Extranodal NK-T-Cell
Endodermal Sinus Tumor
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Yes, that's right, part one. The traditional best-of list follows, with an upcoming collection of awards for stuff that might have escaped mention here. As always, there are films I didn't get to see in time that will probably be on next year's list, and films that I liked but not enough to make the cut. And now, on with the show.
15. Bombay Beach
Dir. Alma Har'el (USA, 2011)
80 minutes
Bombay Beach is a strange, impressionistic documentary that values aesthetics over reportage. It looks into the lives of individuals and families in a run-down lakeside community in California that we would otherwise dismiss or never even hear of, and shows them as simply people, trying to make the best of a bad situation, but all capable of connection and love. It's impossible to watch scenes like the Parish family struggling with their ADHD son, or the old man who philosophises to the camera about the hard life he's led, and not see them as people who deserve far more than what they've been given.
But the film doesn't contend itself with "realist" documentary miserablism. There are wonderful moments where the participants dance amid the semi-rural decay of Bombay Beach while the Beirut/Bob Dylan soundtrack thrums beautifully in the background; scenes that imbue their run-down surroundings with a kind of dreamlike beauty. It's "anti-realist" in the best possible way; it shows an ideal of a better world and lets this world's inhabitants act it out.
14. Killer Joe
Dir. William Friedkin (USA, 2012)
102 minutes
This was the year that Matthew McConaughey became an actor I took seriously, and a lot of that had to do with his revelatory performance in Killer Joe; a comically heightened Southern-fried pulp/noir blowout that gradually morphs into a folkloric cautionary tale of what happens to people who invite evil into their lives. The final extended scene betrays its stage-play origins, but the go-for-broke insanity of the whole thing (McConaughey in particular) turns it into a viscerally disturbing black comedy tour-de-force.
13. Carancho
Dir. Pablo Trapero (Argentina, 2010)
107 minutes
A bracingly nasty Argentinian neo-noir, unashamed to have its protagonist plumb the depths of scumbaggery. He's a disgraced lawyer turned ambulance chaser (the "vulture" of the title) who's not above faking accidents with the help of homeless people to earn some extra cash. Scuttling through the endless night of Buenos Aries, he strikes up a relationship with a paramedic who's developing an addiction to opiates.
It's dark stuff, but there's room for a tender love story that, as with all things in this film, shades into desperation as the couple struggle to escape the corruption all around them. Gritty, hand-held cinematography chases the characters through ever-narrowing avenues. Crunching collisions of metal soundtrack a story about the trauma inflicted by a brutal world.
12. Looper
Dir. Rian Johnson (USA, 2012)
118 minutes
Looper starts out as a zippy, high-concept sci-fi/noir exercise but quickly goes to some pretty dark places as it asks questions about how much of other people's futures we would sacrifice to protect our own past. There's also a weighty element of subtext on arrogant old age meeting cocksure youth, and the blame directed to the previous generation for leaving the present a screwed-up world.
Weird facial prosthetics aside, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is pretty great, Willis actually seems to be trying and there's a great scene-stealing turn from Jeff Daniels as a hangdog crime boss. The cinematography and production design conjures some unique images from among the fields and run-down post-industrial cityscapes of 2044. The restless camera tilts and whirls during the shootouts and chases, keeping us as disoriented as the uncomfortable ambiguities in the script.
11. Chronicle
Dir. Josh Trank (USA, 2012)
84 minutes
Like the most effective B-movies, Chronicle takes a simple premise (teens gain superpowers, document the experience via camcorder) and makes much more out of it. As with most found-footage movies, the filmmakers have to strain a bit to stick to the gimmick (although the characters' powers do make for an elegant way around some obstacles). It turns from a teen drama to something far bigger and more disturbing, without sacrificing the low-key presentation – which at times makes it feel almost like a horror film. It's one of the (very) few superhero movies I've seen that actually puts across how weird and unsettling superpowers would actually be.
You can read it as many things: as a film about the emotional and moral consequences of living in a world of social media, where being the star of your own movie necessarily relegates others to bits parts. As a critique of the superiority complex inherent in most superhero narratives. As a questioning of why our culture's dreams are so often ones of power, violence and rage. And none of this subtext ever overwhelms the drama.
10. Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai
Dir. Takahshi Miike (Japan, 2011)
126 minutes
Miike returns to historical samurai drama after 13 Assassins, toning down the delirious ultraviolence of that film to offer something more cerebral, but no less gripping. Narrative expectation is upended is the story we think we are watching becomes about something else entirely. Miike uses the conventions of stately, classical samurai films to deconstruct not only the much-romanticised historical period, but the films that portray it admiringly; the chivalry and codes of honour are a farce, as hollow as an empty suit of armour.
9. The Raid
Dir. Gareth Evans (Indonesia/USA, 2011)
101 minutes
All-time outstanding achievement of this year in wrecking shit. Brutal, non-stop violence as a small group of cops take on an army of crooks in a tower block turned warzone. An action movie that's inspiring for how well it lives up to its promise, and for its utter stripped-to-the-bone commitment to mayhem. Every perfectly-choreographed storm of blades, feet and fists is a gauntlet thrown down to everyone else working in this area, saying: Raise Your Game.
8. Haywire
Dir. Steven Soderbergh (USA, 2011)
93 minutes
Almost the opposite number to the previous entry, this is a series of bone-crunchingly realistic fight setpeices set within a classic Soderbergh "process" film about characters who are defined by their jobs, and all the little actions they perform in service of those professions. In using an actual professional fighter as lead, Soderbergh can stage lengthy, complex fights where you see the characters work out in real time the best move to make. Every grab, punch, kick and slam is just professionals doing their thing.
There are so many funny moments – the guy under the door giving the finger, Carano running into shot behind a certain character, the final line – and a pleasingly retro jazzy soundtrack, that make it obvious Soderbergh's having great fun with this. That it refuses to take itself too seriously is a big part of the film's charm.
7. Miss Bala
Dir. Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico, 2011)
113 minutes
A brutal and often viscerally uncomfortable chronicle of the violence done to innocents in Mexico's drug war, which achieves its aim through monomaniacal focus of one of those innocents. Our protagonist Laura is rarely off screen; the camera tracks her constantly like a lover (or a stalker). The film unfolds in a series of long takes that create an unbearable claustrophobia; we are trapped in each scene with Laura as she struggles to get out of every situation alive. (A sequence where she emerges from a crashed car into a running gun battle between cops and criminals has its own surreal beauty.) It's an unflinching exploration of how corruption chews up and spits out anyone who tries not to take a side.
6. Moonrise Kingdom
Dir. Wes Anderson (USA, 2012)
94 minutes
Anderson fully indulges in whimsy and building perfect diorama-like worlds even as he delivers his saddest and most honest story, about a forbidden romance and elopement between two kids leading the adults around them to assess where their lives have gone wrong. In a sly inversion of their usual personae, Ed Norton and Bruce Willis play the pair of sad sacks in charge of the search efforts, and regular Anderson players Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman make welcome appearances. but the film truly belongs to Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the lovestruck couple lighting out into the wilderness. Alternating between slapstick and poignancy, it all builds to a rousingly silly climax that still allows for a lot of heart; a perfectly constructed gem.
5. Killing Them Softly
Dir. Andrew Dominik (USA, 2012)
104 minutes
Grimy and despairing, this ultra-downbeat crime drama filters its narrative through the financial collapse and Presidental election campaign of 2008 to tell a story of an America where the most secure institutions and the rules they play by seem to be in slow-motion collapse.
A pair of scuzzy, none-too-bright low-level hoods (Scott McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) rip off a mob card game in an excruciatingly tense sequence. Brad Pitt is the consummate professional brought in to clear up the mess, but continually stymied by the equivocations of his bosses and the incompetence of his peers (including James Gandolfini in a film-stealing performance as a lugubrious, alcoholic hitman).
The film takes place in a New Orleans more decaying and rain-lashed the the anonymous metropolis of Fincher's Se7en, playing on the theme of how capitalism devours its own without knowing or caring. It's as brutal with the ways people can manipulate others into doing their bidding as it is with the beatings and shootings. The whole sordid story builds to a black-hearted punchline that equals the ending of There Will Be Blood for sheer mordant humour.
4. The Imposter
Dir. Bart Layton (UK, 2012)
99 minutes
A supremely unsettling documentary, which uses its anti-realist techniques (such as reconstructions often overdubbed with the participants' own voices) to draw the audience into the sheer bizarreness of its story and the twists encountered on the way. It owes a lot to Errol Morris (said reconstructions, the Interrotron-style presentation of interviewees speaking straight to camera), and is similarly concerned with his regular themes of the flexibility of truth and the stories people tell to conceal unpalatable facts from others and from themselves. Unfortunately, that to tell much more would spoil the effect, so I'd ask everyone to go see it with as little information as possible, and get caught up in the stomach-churning series of revelations.
3. Rust and Bone
Dir. Jacques Audiard (France/Belgium, 2012)
120 minutes
What could be worthy, melodramatic subject matter is given real weight by the naturalistic direction and the raw power of Cotillard and Schoenaerts' performances. The film is unabashedly rooted in the physical; Audiard's camera lingers on flesh and skin in all its rough beauty, variously scarred, bloodied and tanned by the sun. Vulnerability comes through at every turn, with the characters' interactions alternating between brutality and tenderness. The coupling of physical and emotional trauma is key to this story of damaged bodies, damaged people, and what it means to heal.
2. The Master
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (USA, 2012)
137 minutes
A film that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible; huge landscapes and the surface of individual human faces are given the same level of loving, detailed exploration. Phoenix and Hoffman are truly exceptional; every indication you're watching an actor perform falls away as you're lost in the fine details of these characters. It's a thorny, paradoxical tale of two men struggling with the unspoken connection they appear to have, both too headstrong to settle into the simple prophet-and-follower pattern. Set against the dawn of 50s conformism, it shows people who yearn for something more, wrestling with their own natures, trying to make sense of their lives. But even setting the acres of subtext aside, it's as rewarding to simply enjoy the film as a gorgeous tactile thing and luxuriate in it.
1. Holy Motors
Dir. Leos Carax (France/Germany, 2012)
115 minutes
Leos Carax's latest film makes no attempt to disguise its self-reflexive nature; it's an endless hall of mirrors of film commenting on film. The tale of one day in the life of "Monsieur Oscar" (Denis Lavant), being chauffered around Paris in a limousine between different "assignments", laboriously applying different disguises as he goes, is the framework on which Carax hangs a number of vignettes from downbeat drama to farce, with room for a musical number or two.
All of the surreal moments and Russian-doll nesting of different performances could make it very arch and distant, but there are moments of real emotional heft. Lavant's weathered face has a kind of ruined charisma that shines through all the disguises and prostheses – whether dressed to the nines or clad in rags, he looks like a man who has seen far too much, and knows he'll have to see much more. There's a moment where he and Kylie Minogue (yes, really) take a walk through a derelict department store, reminiscing about the past. And while we're unsure whether they are both actors taking a moment to acknowledge their past relationship, or whether they're both just playing another role, it's a truly moving bit of acting by them both.
With its irrepressible bursts of silliness and refusal to stay still, this is a film lovers' film in the best way possible – so convinced of the possibilities of the form it's hard not to get caught up in its enthusiasm yourself.
And as a bonus, the best non-2012 films I saw for the first time this year (please excuse my embarrassment at the number of classics I've somehow only just got round to watching):
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Gondry, 2006), Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010), Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011), Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977), Hard Eight (Anderson, 1996), Shaft (Parks, 1971), P.T.U. (To, 2003), Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958), Targets (Bogdanovich, 1968), A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971), Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944), The Driver (Hill, 1978), Rope (Hitchcock, 1948), Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993), Fat City (Huston, 1972), Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2010), Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970), The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973)
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Last night, in the second semi final round of Helium Comedy Club's Philly's Phunniest Person Contest, five more comedians moved on to tonight's final round. The five finalists are:
Chip Chantry, Darryl Charles, Andy Nolan, Tommy Pope and Pat Barker.
They will be joining John McKeever, Pat House, Mike Rainey, Gordon Baker Bone and Gary Vider in tonight's finals.
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Increased Access Available for Guadalupe River Trout Anglers
AUSTIN—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has signed temporary leased access agreements with four Guadalupe River property owners to expand free public fishing access to the trout fishery downstream of Canyon Reservoir. In addition, new access sites for anglers are slated to open on the Brazos, Neches and Colorado rivers in time for high-quality spring fishing opportunities.
Recognized as one of the top 100 trout streams in America and the southernmost trout stream in the United States, the Guadalupe River below Canyon Reservoir is the only stocked trout fishery in Texas where trout survive through the summer. Free fishing access to the trout fishery is now available at Whitewater Sports, Rio Raft and Resort and Mountain Breeze Campground. Additional free fishing access will be available at Camp Huaco Springs beginning December 7, 2012.
Site maps, specific conditions for angler use at each site (including any special fishing regulations), and a link to the trout stocking schedule and locations can be found on the TPWD River Fishing web page http://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/recreational/rivers/. Trout stockings are scheduled for this segment of the Guadalupe River on Dec. 7, 14, 21 and 28 and Jan. 4, 11, 18 and 25. Two of the four fishing access areas have special fishing regulations for rainbow and brown trout.
Additional leased fishing access areas will open along the Brazos, Colorado, and Neches rivers in time for high-quality spring fishing opportunities. The new angler access area on the Brazos River will be located upstream of Waco and provide excellent fishing opportunities for smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and catfish. Already a popular fishing destination among fly anglers that target largemouth bass, the Colorado River access area will provide increased access for anglers downstream of Lady Bird Lake in Austin. The Neches River site will provide access to the popular spring white bass run at the State Highway 31 bridge crossing immediately upstream of Lake Palestine.
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Have anyone performed a blower door test on a new home that has a multi bi-fold door installed on an exterior wall? (As in NanaWall, Lanai or Sierra Pacific bi-folds). Is there any performance difference if the doors are configured in-swing or out-swing? I'm concerned with air leakage for a tight envelope. Thanks.
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I have literally zero experience with this style of door, but it seems like the swing out style with depressurization would work well because you are pulling the path of the door against the resistance of the frame, where as the swing in look to have the tendency to pull in with depressurization. Good luck and keep us posted.
Thanks for the comment. I've talked to a dozen of raters and none has done a blower door test with these doors. I figured I would find someone here with all the Resnet & BPI members. I'll keep on trying...
Those are nice looking doors. If I were so fortunate as to have this problem, I would pre-fab a wall section to fit securely into the full opening. Lots of padding and secure and perhaps a built in location for a blower or two.
Yes they are nice doors... pretty expensive too, but the client wants them AND try to qualify for the highest level at NAHB Green and LEED for Homes, so naturally I'm concerned with air infiltration with a blower door test. Live-n-Learn, eh?
What is your real question (since you are getting two different sorts of answers...)?
If you are working with a architect, and looking at the probable rating for a house designed with these doors, it may help to surf their web sites. At least one is NFRC rated, which means they conform to NFRC infiltration standards. Time to track down a sales rep and ask for the rating documents.
If your question is, "how do I fit a blower door frame in this opening so I can test this house?" -- I can only say "Darned if I know! I'd use a different door!"
Thanks, Don. I'm the residential designer, and I have used these doors in the past, but w/o the blower door testing. I've asked 2 of the manufacturers and still waiting on their answer. I would like to hear form the Raters as well.
I have never tested one of these doors, but I would guess that if there is a thermal break or weatherseal between the leaves(which appears to be the case only with the rail and stile construction design in the aluminum door in the top picture), you will be ok at those locations. The top and bottom may not seal as well due to the need for clearances when operating the door-and the ends (right and left) of each leaf may show the highest leakage points.This may be reduced by building a rabbet across the top, and using a rabbeted threshold across the bottom. Both on the inactive side, of course, and that should be on the interior to reduce both air and water penetration. Clear that with the manufacturer to make sure that the cycle of the door is not obstructed.
Most door manufacturers have architectural details of the designs of their doors. Sometimes you can find them on their website, on a page for architects & designers, or professionals.
Thanks Bruce for the suggestions. I've looked at their websites but no information on BDT and leackage. However, no details show your sugestions, I'll wait a little longer on the manufacturers and see what they have to say.
It'd be nice if the manufacturers could give you some air-infiltration test data to use. There's a spot on the NFRC sticker for air leakage, but apparently very few manufacturers do the testing on their products.
I've tested some lift-and-slide doors, but not the folding units in your photos. I think that the need to maintain ease of operation is going to mean that air-tightness is not that great.
If you get any actual data from the manufacturers, please post it.
One of the problems we get with all manufacturer's data is that it's usually performed in control environments,,, and it would be nice to know how these doors do in real world. I've taken tours of a half a dozen window companies, but I have not seen any of these doors. I'll post any information I get from any manufacturer or rater.
Yes, I and unless the door came with an integral frame, I don't see how they would be able to give a reliable result simply due to installation variables.
Here is the only reply I've had from any manufacturer:
A Regional Manager for Sierra Pacific Windows said: "We do not have the report yet, but here is the data from the test lab, for our bi-fold doors. This was forwarded to me by one of our engineers. As I thought (and was hoping) with a standard sill, you should be fine for a blower door test."
From their Testing facility : "The data sheets show a .20 cfm/ft2 for air infiltration (after adjusting the panels up), a 3.76 psf water and DP 25; overall rating would be a PG25."
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SO, I know that's a pretty grand title, and believe me, I'll get to that point. But to begin I have to explain the thought process that led me there.
I've had the idea for a while now that my life would be considerably better if I could fully control my own actions, based solely on reasonable decisions. However, this doesn't seem to be the current case. The other day, after having eaten half a pizza, I still had the other half left. I KNEW that: the calories would worsen my already burgeoning weight problem, that my girlfriend would be mad that I didn't save her dinner, and that there would be shame in my own lack of self control if I ate the pizza. I was even full, and knew that it would cause me some discomfort to carry the extra food around. But the smell of that cheese and pepperoni was too much, and I ate it anyways.
The ultimate result was worse than if I'd just put the half back in the fridge. I knew it was an unreasonable choice and that the end would be bad, but I made that decision anyways. And as an atheist, I find it very disturbing that I can't even enforce my own reason on myself. I've seen the same pattern evolve with homework, getting up in the morning, exercise, cleaning, masturbation, even things like my work. The immediate reward of procrastinating, eating, laying there, etc is overwhelmingly chosen, and I don't even usually like the outcome
I feel that if I were somehow able to force myself to make the "correct" choices, my life would be better. I'd be healthier, I'd be fit, I'd go to bed on time, I'd get better grades, I'd live in a spotless apartment, and I'd have more money. There is no question that overriding my base desires would (a vast majority of the time) improve my life.
So now I admit, the title was just to catch your eye- it is a far reaching extension of my own observations about myself. It is a bit of a reach to assume that just this is the source of "man's suffering". But I do still pose the question- how can one overcome these short term, self-destructive, basic desires, these urges, in order to undoubtedly improve your life?
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Don't worry- she wasn't really all that disappointed. The pizza was my lunch and she wasn't all that excited about having reheated pizza for dinner. I think I just added the part about her being disappointed to exaggerate the "badness" of what I was doing. If in reality it would have made her upset, I would definitely have saved it. The consequences of eating the entire thing were minor and not immediate; I think that maybe I just need to lower my threshold for acceptable misbehavior.
You are missing the point - you let her decide if she wants it or not - and in the bigger picture, carry on with everything else, she won't be around for long anyway :(
I actually agree with you. It's fine to have your pleasures if you do it responsibly. Then, they're not destructive.
When you're young you can afford to squander your time. When you get older you realise you've got no time left, and the last thing you want to do is waste your rapidly dwindling days.
Urges can be a source of suffering. Urges can also be a source of motivation to complete a goal it jsut depends on how you use them. Here are a few things that help me deal with urges:
- Get a stack of post-it notes and a pen and write yourself reminders and stick them in places you will read them... like on the bathroom mirror or front door.
- To keep myself from over eating I package my food into serving size quantities and then use those post-it notes to write for example: "Tuesday Lunch." It helps to invest in some nice reusable containers that are serving sized.
- I make deals with myself. It sounds silly but I tell myself 1 hour of studying set a timer and then I get to watch that show or bum around on the internet for a while.
- I like Heather's suggestion for cleaning, give yourself 5, 10, 15 minutes and clean as much as you can in that amount of time each day. It really does make a difference.
You have already identified things that you'd like to change. The next step is to make these things a priority and create new habits. Don't bite off more than you can chew though. Don't think you are going to go from overeating and sitting around to going to the gym 5 days a week. Don't think your house is suddenly going to be spotless. Take it a step at a time.
Moderation and discipline. Longed for but rarely attained. An idle mind is the devil's playground so to speak. Avoid the couch or easy chair like the plague and immerse yourself in physical activities. For myself keeping a small vineyard and large vegetable garden going provides many opportunities to stay in shape. Being outdoors is key for me. That way I'm not in the house looking at food.
All things in moderation, including moderation --
Is this advice any use to you? Decide what your goals are (say, for the day), and once those are achieved, you're free to do as you wish.
Only unfulfilled ones - juevos azule, I think is the technical term --
OK, smart alec, what does juevos azule mean? Talk about running to the dictionary!!!!
Literally, blue eggs, but I think it is actually a testicular reference.
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"A'ale Ma'a Wau" (Fish out of Water) Season 4 Episode 2
A Five-0 murder investigation leads the team to help a Texas Ranger who comes to the island to find his missing daughter. Meanwhile, Kono and Adam fight to stay alive when their hidden location is discovered, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, Oct. 4 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured (L-R) Scott Caan as (Danny "Danno" Williams) and Daniel Dae Kim as(Chin Ho Kelly) Photo: Norman Shapiro/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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The villain of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit–the fearsome dragon Smaug–dwells deep in a cavern with a massive hoard of treasure and terrorizes nearby villages.
His real-world namesakes aren't quite as fearsome. Smaug is the new name given to a genus of girdled lizards from South Africa by Ed Stanley, a doctoral candidate at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, who reclassified the genus in a paper published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution in January 2011. Stanley's work is funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
Smaug lizards live in tunnels in the highlands, including the appropriately named Drakensberg (Dragon Mountain) mountain range of southern Africa. But the inspiration for the name came from a connection to the author rather than the fictional character. "Tolkien was born in the Free State, South Africa, where this lizard was found," says Stanley.
Though much smaller than the massive fire-breathing dragon of Tolkien's tale, the real-world reptile bears thick scales of armor on its backs and has a weak underbelly that is vulnerable to predators, much like its novelistic namesake.
The natural predators of the Smaug genus may not be the biggest threat to the survival of the species, however. The exotic look of the lizards makes them attractive to wealthy pet collectors, and their habitat happens to intersect with valuable farmland.
"They have a wide range, but it is getting more fragmented," say Stanley. Plows in particular devastate their habitat, cutting into the shallow tunnels that the lizards dig for themselves. Once the land has been plowed, girdled lizards like Smaug won't re-colonize it, abandoning the area to human crops.
"Between being plowed out of their land, collection for the international pet trade, and used in muti [traditional medicine], they really are quite endangered," says Stanley.


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New York City officials are apologizing after sending a letter to a New York man demanding he pay $710 within 10 days for damaging the cop car that struck and killed him during a chase last spring.
Tamon Robinson was caught digging up paving stones at a housing complex in Brooklyn, N.Y., in April, and police started to chase the 23-year-old. When he was struck and killed by the police car during the chase, the front of the vehicle was dented, ABC station WABC-TV reported.
A letter was sent to Robinson in September notifying him that the City of New York was seeking $710 for damage to a police car, according to The Associated Press. His mother, Laverne Dobbinson, said she felt "disrespected" when she received the letter addressed to her late son.
"I was humiliated that they're sending my son a letter for the car that killed him," Dobbinson, 45, told the New York Times. "They killed him; let him rest in peace."
The city has since apologized for the collection demand.
"We regret that Mr. Robinson's family received a collection notice," a spokeswoman for the New York City Law Department said in a statement to ABCNews.com Saturday. "The notice was sent in error. We recognize that this involves a tragic case."
The letter was sent by Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, a law firm that handles the collection effort for the city and police department. After they discovered Robinson had died, they "ceased collection," the Times reported.
"We were not aware of the circumstances," Christina Gonzalez, a lawyer for the firm, told the Times. "This type of receivable is not something we pursue when the alleged debtor is deceased."
Dobbinson's lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, has filed a notice that he will file a lawsuit seeking $20 million for the family because of "wrongful death."


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Tomlin treble caps Posh masterclass
Lee Tomlin scored the first senior hat-trick of his career as Peterborough destroyed nine-man Ipswich in a remarkable 7-1 npower Championship victory at London Road.
Midfielder Keith Andrews put the Tractor Boys ahead in the 23rd minute but Darren Ferguson`s men hit back in stunning fashion to lead 4-1 at the break.
Paul Taylor - making his first start for Peterborough - drew them level in the 30th minute, Tomlin scored eight minutes later and both men found the net again in quick succession to put the hosts in total control.
Paul Jewell`s side were dealt another hammer blow on the stroke of half-time when midfielder Lee Martin was shown a straight red card for a foul on Mark Little.
Ipswich defender Tommy Smith was then sent off for a professional foul shortly after the restart and Grant McCann scored twice, the first a penalty, before Tomlin completed his treble late on.
The result condemned Ipswich to a third defeat from their opening four games and left them looking anything but the serious promotion contenders they were tipped to be.
After a lively opening in which chances came and went, Ipswich led in the 23rd minute when Andrews collected possession and hit a stunning volley into the top corner.
But the lead last just seven minutes as Taylor connected with Little`s cross and hit a superb 25-yard strike into the top corner.
Ipswich struggled thereafter and found themselves 2-1 down in the 38th minute when Tomlin showed delightful skill before drilling home his first from 12 yards.
Remarkably, the hosts struck again two minutes later when Taylor swept a right-footed shot into the net and it soon got worse for Ipswich.
Peterborough went 4-1 up in the 42nd minute when McCann found Tomlin with a fine pass and the attacking midfielder broke clear to drill a right-foot shot into the net.
The visitors were on the ropes and their frustrations boiled over on the stroke of half-time when Martin caught Little with a late tackle and was promptly shown a red card.
Shortly after the restart, Ipswich substitute Smith fouled Tomlin on the edge of the 18-yard box as he threatened to burst clear.
Referee Graham Scott showed Smith a red card and pointed to the penalty spot, with McCann stepping up to fire home left-footed with a fine spot kick which gave David Stockdale no chance.
Posh claimed number six in the 56th minute when McCann hit a low shot from 12 yards which deflected into the net.
Ipswich knew the game was up but it could have got worse for them in the 57th minute when George Boyd hit a fine shot which drew a brilliant save from Stockdale in the Ipswich goal.
Stockdale denied Boyd again in the 64th minute and 10 minutes later Posh came close to a seventh when substitute Ryan Tunnicliffe fired against the crossbar from six yards.
There was more misery for Ipswich late on, though, when Tomlin completed his treble with a neat right-footed finish from close range.
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Description: The dataset includes scanning electron micrographs (SEM) and associated instrumentation settings. The data was generated as part of a larger study examining the mouse-strain specific susceptibility to murine cytomegalovirus (mCMV) dependent hearing loss. The included data documents that part of the study that quantified outer hair cell (OHC) loss. The entire study is documented in Almishaal et al. "Natural Killer Cells Attenuate Cytomegalovirus-induced Hearing Loss in Mice" PLoS Pathogens (2017). Keyword: SEM, OHC, BALB/c, CMV, cytomegalovirus, scanning electron microscopy, C57BL/6, outer hair cells, murine model, and hearing loss Creator: Firpo, Matthew A. Contributor: Pranav D. Mathur, Albert H. Park, Elaine Hillas, Ali A. Almishaal, and Jun Yang Owner: Matthew Firpo Publisher: University of Utah Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Language: English Date Uploaded: 07/27/2017 Date Modified: 10/25/2018 Date Created: 06/22/2017 Rights: CC BY – Allows others to use and share your data, even commercially, with attribution. Resource Type: Dataset and Image Identifier: https://doi.org/10.7278/S5V69GR6 Contact Email: email@example.com Funders: Research to Prevent Blindness Fund, Career Development Award from the Triological Society, and National Institute of Health


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An alarming possibility appears to be developing that Yahoos and Yahoo shareholders need to consider.
The same Yahoo Board that blew the Microsoft $31 per share offer three years ago could conceivably be in the process of blowing another offer--the one from Silver Lake to take a minority stake in the company.
Now, to be sure, the Silver Lake offer is nowhere near as good as the Microsoft one the Board sniffed at three years ago. It also isn't an "exit." For the offer to work for shareholders and employees, Silver Lake's new board will have to sell off Yahoo's Asian assets and then fix Yahoo's core business. The former will require complicated deal-making and the latter, likely, several years of hard work.
If Yahoo's Board could fix Yahoo themselves, the best course of action would be for them to just fix it.
But by canning the CEO, putting the company into purgatory, and seeking the help of anyone willing to offer it, the Board has already basically admitted that it has no idea how to fix Yahoo.
(The Board has also already been trying to fix the company for 5-10 years, to no avail).
So that leaves the Silver Lake offer, a similar offer from another private-equity firm called TPG, and an offer for Yahoo's Asian assets from Alibaba and Softbank.
Of those three options, the Silver Lake offer looks like the best.
And Yahoo's Board is considering it.
But Yahoo's Board is also once again dumbfounding people familiar with the situation with its hemming and hawing and seeming inability to agree on anything.
Yahoo's Board, for example, still reportedly can't agree whether the company is a "media company" or a "products company."
(The answer is that Yahoo is a company whose product is a combination of media and technology. The sooner the company embraces THAT, unifies its mission, and stops arguing about what label to place on itself, the better.)
And then Yahoo's Board also reportedly can't agree which of the offers it has received is the best.
Some board members reportedly like TPG's offer.
Some board members reportedly like Silver Lake's offer.
Some board members reportedly want to sell the company outright.
Some board members reportedly want to fix the company.
And so on.
And now, reportedly, after asking for help and offers from anyone who will give them, Yahoo's Board is suddenly refusing to allow its new potential investors to choose its new CEO. This is mystifying. If the Board wants to pick Yahoo's new CEO, the Board should just pick Yahoo's CEO and dispense with all this crazy deal-making. But now, having asked for help gotten a decent offer on the table, the Board seems to be trying to hang on to control.
One thing all the board members presumably know is that, if the Board doesn't do something, they'll face a proxy fight next spring. They might win the proxy fight, but it won't be a fun experience. And, in the meantime, the company is in purgatory.
(Here it must be said that Yahoo's interim CEO Tim Morse appears to be doing a yeoman's job of making quick decisions and providing a steady hand on the tiller. Tim has one of the most thankless jobs imaginable--babysitting the company while the board deliberates about what to do with it--but he seems to be doing it well.)
Last time the Yahoo Board was in a situation like this, you will painfully recall, the Board hemmed and hawed and deliberated until the party on the other side of the transaction got disgusted and walked. ( Steve Ballmer).
That outcome was disastrous for the company. And Yahoo has been deteriorating ever since.
And now there's another offer on the table.
And there are other impatient and presumably disgusted people on the other side of it.
And these people may not, actually, be willing to sit around waiting until hell freezes over for Yahoo's Board to make a decision.
These people, at any moment, might decide that life's just too short, and take their offer off the table.
At which point whatever negotiating leverage Yahoo's Board still has will go "poof."
We hope this won't happen. We hope Yahoo's Board will quickly make a strong, clear decision that will fix the company and restore some shareholder value.
But the longer this deliberation goes on, the more we can't help but feeling... we've seen this movie before.
SEE ALSO: Okay, Now I Understand The Wacky Silver Lake Deal And It's Actually Not That Bad
Get the latest Yahoo stock price here.
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(Fixes time of Plosser addresses on Friday and Saturday.)
Ben Bernanke & Co. will be heading back to the podium this weekend, with key policymakers set to be making most of their comments at a major economics conference in Philadelphia.
The T-word -- taper -- will play a starring but not an exclusive role in the Fedspeak at the American Economic Association gathering in the City of Brotherly Love. The conference will touch on everything from the economics of intergenerational transfer to the pricing of digital services.
For those who had quite a bit of eggnog to ring in the new year, recall the Fed decided last month to reduce the monthly rate of bond purchases by $10 billion to $75 billion per month. The market is expecting gradual reductions in the bond-purchase rate from here.
Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser at 10:15 a.m. on Friday will discuss transitioning from a low-interest-rate environment, and at 1:15 p.m., Fed Gov. Jeremy Stein will discuss banks as patient fixed-income investors. Bernanke himself at 2:30 p.m. gets a chance to put his tenure in perspective with a speech on the changing Federal Reserve's past, present and future. Bernanke also will subject himself to audience questions.
Another interesting event will take place on Saturday, when Plosser, the New York Fed's William Dudley, the Minneapolis Fed's Narayana Kocherlakota and the Boston Fed's Eric Rosengren will participate in a panel discussion on economics at the Federal Reserve Banks -- moderated by Stanley Fischer, the former Israeli central bank chief who is rumored to be President Obama's choice to be the next vice chairman of the Fed. Kocherlakota has received some negative press of late after a shake-up in the economics department.
Plosser also gives the keynote speech at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Also on the Fedspeak front, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker is due to deliver a speech on the economic outlook at 1 p.m. on Friday in Baltimore.
-- Steve Goldstein
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More MarketWatch must-reads: Nouriel Roubini is getting optimistic | Bank of America shares jump on buy rating


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Dogs in Islam
I started reading an excellent book when I was in Alexandria last week. The Sad Muslim's Guide, by Hussein Amin (brother of Galal Amin the Economist), is a book by a real progressive Muslim with rich and deep knowledge of Islam and history. I've strongly connected with almost all of what I've read of it so far, and for some reason I found myself tearing at some of the genuine progressive thoughts of this guy.
I've been abit lazy in finishing the book since I came back from Alex, but after meeting with someone who has a dog earlier this week, I decided to jump right into the chapter about dogs --which is equally as interesting as all the other chapters. She told me that after asking a Sheikh, he told her that she can only keep a guard or a shepherd dog, otherwise her clothes would be impure as a result of touching the dog's nose and she can't pray with those cloths unless washed 7 times.
I've always believed that dogs are impure (their nose and saliva), and all you need to do is wash up before a prayer if you touch a dog. But that doesn't demean their status as fine and beloved animals. I've even argued before that dogs are highly regarded and beloved animals in Islam, referencing the story of Ahl AlKahf in suret AlKahf in the Quran, and how God praised them and their dog. I've also claimed in that discussion that creating that barrier between humans (Muslims) and dogs was part of the self-control approach in Islam, and because dogs are such fine animals. So it was a mean to prevent humans from getting too attached to dogs possibly replacing human companionship in the process.
Hussein Amin starts his chapter on dogs by dedicating it to his daughter who loves dogs and who was annoyed that her religion teacher said that the prophet ordered the killing of all dogs and said that no Angels enter a house that has a dog in it (I hope he didn't make up that chapter just to please her!).
Amin says that the order of killing the dogs was a temporary order that served a certain timely need. Dogs at the time were encouraged to eat from the garbage to rid the people of it, and thus they developed a disease (alKalab), that resulted in an epidemic. The disease appeared again after the time of the prophet, and Amin thinks that some of the scholars at the time decided that the only way to get rid of the epidemic as well as dogs was by making up Hadiths, claiming that the prophet said that dogs are impure. Amin says that this in fact contradicts with the proper Hadith in AlBokhary which tells us that dogs used to walk freely in the prophet's mosque.
Amin then draws stories of how Muslims thought highly of dogs, praising their qualitites --stories from AlGahez and Dameiry. He also mentions how Imam Malek, Hassan AlBasry, Orwa IbnalZobair find dogs pure (except for washing dishes from their saliva).
Hussein Amin concludes the chapter by telling his daughter that this is what he can say about the topic, which she can use to refute the religion teacher's claim. And if the teacher insists that angels won't enter your house, then ask her if angels enter her house.
Another topic that I'm sure is interesting to many, which Amin discusses in his book, is the veil. And as I expected, I connected with him on this topic too. My logic that I described in a previous post of mine is actually not far off from what he says in explaining all (not just one like I did) versus about hijab in the Quran, adding a historical and cultural perspective to the matter.


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Nick Lachey and his wife, Vanessa Minnillo, became the proud parents of a baby boy on Wednesday night.
The 98 Degrees singer and his partner welcomed their first child, a son named Camden John Lachey, and they confirmed the happy news to People.com.
The couple says in a statement, "We are incredibly proud to announce the birth of our beautiful baby boy, Camden John Lachey. Born today at 6:54 p.m., he came into this world at 8 lbs., 9 oz. and 21 inches. Love has truly been redefined for both of us."
Lachey was previously married to pop star/actress Jessica Simpson, who became a first-time parent herself in May when she welcomed a baby girl with her fiance, Eric Johnson.


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Vassar Outruns Rams for Non-Conference Victory
Vassar College - 15, Farmingdale State - 9
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's lacrosse team dropped a non-conference matchup this evening, 15-9, against Vassar College at Allen Park in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams fell to 3-8 on the season, while the Brewers now hold an overall record of 4-6.
Over the first two periods, Farmingdale State surrendered twelve goals and trailed by 10 at the half. The Rams outplayed the Brewers over the final two periods scoring seven goals, while only allowing three, but could not overcome the first half deficit.
The Vassar scoring was led by junior attack Sean Murray (Wyckoff, N.J./Deer Field Academy) who had two goals and two assists for a team-high four points. Four players scored two goals for the Brewers and five other players scored one. Sophomore defender Zach Beauchamp (Tempe, AZ/Brophy Prep.) picked up a game-high 11 ground balls and led the team with four caused turnovers. Vassar sophomore goalkeeper Alex Tice (Oakland, CA/St. Ignatius Prep.) made six saves for the win.
Freshman attack Erick Thomson (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park) scored one goal and added three assists to lead Farmingdale. Senior attack Sean Maxwell (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) finished with three goals and six ground balls, while freshmen defenders Chris JapNgie (Massapequa, N.Y./Holy Trinity) and Bobby Lazos (Bellmore, N.Y./Holy Trinity) caused three turnovers each for the Rams. Senior goalkeeper Teddy Leone (East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow) made nine saves for Farmingdale.
The Rams will now host Kean in a Skyline Conference game on Saturday, April 11th at 1:00pm.


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Loosely named after Terry Pratchett's character in the Discworld series of novels. The Luggage can hold anything its owner needs, and can follow him/her anywhere.
This is still a very sketchy idea, but here is the use case that is behind.
At work, many people are used to taking notes in their personal notebook (the paper form, not the computer form). I find this suboptimal, and have installed mediawiki on my personal laptop for this usage. But as much as I love mediawiki for a collaborative wiki, this solution is over the top for a personal usage.
There are a number of tools out there, but:
Rekollect comes close, but as far as I could tell, is not based on a wiki philosophy.
Basket is great but follows a different strategy.
In any case, the syntax should not be displayed to the user, unless he specifically requests to edit the source.
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The following are the answers to those questions submitted by Republican candidate Kelley Keisling and Democratic candidate David Harper.
Candidate: Kelly Keisling (R)
What do you consider your qualifications for serving as State Representative for the 38th District?
Having grown up in the district I know the region and the values that its citizens appreciate, which I believe is why I was elected to my first term in 2010. I have leadership experience prior to my current office as Pickett County Executive and I have also been a proud small business owner in the area since 1985.
If elected, what goals do you hope to accomplish in your district?
If re-elected, I hope to continue to help recruit businesses to our area by showcasing what the Upper Cumberland region has to offer in terms of workforce and infrastructure. My first two years in office were highlighted by pro-business tax cuts and reductions in commerce hampering regulations. I'm excited for the opportunity to build on those successes and continue help the 38th District grow.
If elected, what goals do you hope to accomplish for Macon County?
After redistricting this past year, I was fortunate to add Macon County to the list of counties I will potentially represent in the Tennessee State House. I see Macon County as a very important part of my newly redrawn district because of the potential for developments and the eagerness for growth expressed by local leaders.
What message would you like to convey to voters?
I feel that I have been a part of the most pro-business and successful General Assembly that the state house has ever seen. We have wonderful leaders that I work closely with to help move Tennessee in the right direction. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the voters of Macon County this summer and I am excited for the chance to represent you in Nashville.
Candidate: David Harper (D)
What do you consider your qualifications for serving as State Representative for the 38th District?
I have a proven record of managing a large southern region for Bayer Corporation with budget responsibility more than 100 million dollars. This included sales, technical support and product development. The team I managed consisted of 12 and served 11 states.
I served in every office and including International President of the Society of Plastic Engineers, an organization of educators and professionals.
I have served the Democratic Party as County Chair, State Executive Committee, Vice Chair Middle Tenn. National Convention Delegate, and Elector for the 6th. District.
I feel that my record of accomplishment is clear when it comes to listening, understanding and solving problems. I have established agendas, run meetings and accomplished positive results with a multitude of competing interest.
If elected, what goals do you hope to accomplish in your district?
If elected I hope to help education and educators, both active and retired. Improve highways as well access to the main roads. I will also reduce sales tax on food by 3.75% in order to help the people that spend a large part of their income on food. Promote and practice the idea of working on our rural needs rather than being a rubber stamp to D.C. think tanks.
If elected, what goals do you hope to accomplish for Macon County?
If elected I will be like a nagging person about Hwy. 10 and other Macon County issues. While it must be acknowledged this office covers 5 counties having a local that understands local interest is a huge advantage. As a lifelong conservationist, I am interested in protecting our air and water. I feel that we can promote tourism and grow jobs while protecting the beauty of the county. I feel we need to treat our neighbors as we want to be treated.
What message would you like to convey to voters?
I strongly feel that we have the greatest form of government ever. It will not function if we the people do not participate in the process. It is not selfish to vote for your own interest but foolish to stand back and throw rocks at those that try to improve our community.
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