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WILMINGTON -- Two packages detonated by authorities Thursday at a storage facility near Monkey Junction were explosive devices, Sgt. Jerry Brewer of the New Hanover County Sheriff�s Office confirmed about 5:30 p.m.
WILMINGTON -- Two packages detonated by authorities Thursday at a storage facility near Monkey Junction were explosive devices, Sgt. Jerry Brewer of the New Hanover County Sheriff�s Office confirmed about 5:30 p.m.
The FBI was at the storage unit as part of an ongoing investigation, he said.
The first device, which exploded about noon in an area behind North State Storage, 5835 Carolina Beach Road, was a pipe-bomb-like device, Brewer said.
The explosion was caused when a robot fired a water cannon at a suspicious device removed from a storage unit, he said.
�When they shot it and it exploded, it was not something they were expecting,� Brewer said.
The second device was detonated shortly after 5 p.m., resulting in a loud boom and a cloud of dust. That device also had been taken to the rear of the storage facility, which fronts Carolina Beach Road, where it was buried about 2 and a half feet deep and covered in sandbags before it was detonated, Brewer said.
He said investigators were preparing to return to the storage unit to remove more suspicious packages and likely would work through the night.
The storage unit where the device was located is at the front of the facility nearest Carolina Beach Road and across from the intersection with Sanders Road, Brewer said.
Businesses in the area of the storage facility have been evacuated, Brewer said.
He said it wasn�t clear if anyone had been arrested or what the FBI investigation concerned.
Shelley Lynch, a spokeswoman for the Charlotte division of the FBI, said the lead investigators on the scene are with the State Bureau of Investigations, although the case itself is being handled by the FBI.
�We are handling the Wilmington scene, but it is related to a larger investigation being handled by the FBI,� said SBI spokeswoman Noelle Talley.
Lynch said neither the SBI nor the FBI will be �releasing any information regarding the investigation connected to those scenes.�
Neighbors reported hearing an explosion and seeing a plume of white smoke in the storage facility about noon.
Ronda Batterson, owner of Gossip Salon in S&P Town Center, said a law enforcement officer came into her shop Thursday morning to tell her authorities believed somebody was building bombs in a storage unit next door and one of the bombs exploded. The officer told her other bombs were in the unit.
Batterson said the officer told her somebody was in custody.
Jackie Oakes, owner of Coastal K9 Bakery, immediately next door to North State Storage, said law enforcement had been at the facility all morning and were there when something exploded.
�It rocked us,� Oakes said. �We heard it and then there was a big cloud of white smoke.�
Paul Hockaday of Wilmington said he was stopped at a traffic light in the southbound lanes of Carolina Beach Road when he saw a sheriff�s cruiser at the storage facility. The light turned green and Hockaday heard an explosion.
�I looked over toward the back of the storage facility,� he said. A big, white plume of smoke was rising from the area, he said. Hockaday said he continued on his way to lunch after the incident.
A Wilmington Police Department bomb squad vehicle was at the storage facility, along with vehicles from the sheriff�s office and SBI.
John Weigle, president of the Eilweg Co. of Durham, managers of the storage facility, said he didn�t know who had rented the unit where the devices were located. He said he would reserve further comment until after speaking with law enforcement officials.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 3, 2009) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team makes its first trip to China since the 2008 Olympic Games this weekend for two FIVB World League matches.
The team will be playing in Nanjing, not Beijing, and only six members of the team that won the gold medal last August are on the roster – Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), David Lee (Alpine, Calif.), Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawai'i) and Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.).
The matches will be played at 4:15 a.m. PT in the United States on July 4-5. Live scoring is available on the FIVB web site.
The U.S. Men swept China twice on June 26-27 in San Jose, Calif.
Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), who led the team in scoring on June 26 (11 points on nine kills and two blocks) and was second on June 27 (12 points on 10 kills, one block and one ace) will not be with the team in China due to illness. He will be replaced by Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.).
The rest of the team from the past weekend remains largely the same, although the U.S. is only bringing 12 players to China instead of 14.
China will be looking to improve after going 1-5 in six straight matches on the road. The team has been led in scoring by Ping Chen, who is 27th among all World League players with 63 points on 58 kills, one block and four aces.
Rooney is leading the United States in scoring and is ninth among all players with 90 points on 82 kills, seven blocks and one ace.
Rooney is sixth among spikers with a success percentage of 52.9 (82/155) while China's Jianjun Cui is seventh with a 52.04 success percentage (51/98).
In San Jose, the U.S. blocking and serving was especially effective against China. Lee leads Team USA in blocking and is third overall with 19 blocks in 50 attempts for an average of 0.86 per set.
Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) leads the U.S. Men in serving and is third overall with nine aces in 71 attempts for an average of 0.41 per set. Lee is seventh among all blockers with seven for an average of 0.32 per set.
Lambourne is third among all World League diggers with 66 in 93 attempts and an average of three per set.
World League Tickets: Tickets for the matches in Hoffman Estates, Ill., (July 10-11 against Italy) and Wichita, Kan., (July 17-18 against Netherlands) are on sale.
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2009 U.S. World League Roster for July 3-4
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Andrew Hein (MB, 6-11, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
10 David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
13 Clay Stanley (Opp, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
16 Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe
Team Manager: Albert Gasparian
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson
Team Doctor: Russell Petrie
Medical Support: Aaron Brock
2009 FIVB World League Schedule and Results
Date: June 13-14
Opponent: Netherlands
Location: Rotterdam
June 13: Netherlands def. USA, 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 26-24)
June 14: USA def. Netherlands, 3-2 (25-16, 30-32, 25-17, 20-25, 15-6)
Date: June 19 and 21
Opponent: Italy
Location: Florence and Catania
June 19: USA def. Italy, 3-1 (25-21, 30-28, 21-25, 25-21)
June 20: USA def. Italy, 3-1 (25-19, 18-25, 25-22, 25-20)
Date: June 26-27 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: China
Location: San Jose State University Event Center Arena in San Jose, Calif.
June 26: USA def. China, 3-0 (25-20, 25-19, 25-21)
June 27: USA def. China, 3-0 (25-20, 25-23, 25-22)
Date: July 4-5
Opponent: China
Location: Nanjing
Date: July 10-11 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: Italy
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Date: July 17-18 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: Netherlands
Location: Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kan.
Date: July 22-26
Event: Final Round (teams must qualify)
Opponents: TBD
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Scientists and researchers are always busy at work, hoping to create the next greatest consumer product, or identify a new species of mammal, or create a cure for cancer. Similarly, archeologists are constantly digging around to unlock secrets from the past. More often than you'd think, all of this hard work results in some pretty bizarre discoveries.
These discoveries don't come just at the hand of scientists, of course. Plenty of regular citizens have stumbled upon the craziest things. So what's been discovered in 2012? Lots of oddities, just like any other year. Here are 10 of them.
A Chinese Turtle that Pees Through its Mouth
How cool would it be if you could pee through your mouth? Actually, it doesn't sound appealing at all. But scientists have discovered a Chinese soft-shelled turtle that can do just that. Its name is Pelodiscus sinensis, and it comes equipped with unusual gill-like projections on its mouth [source: Choi].
The turtles typically live in salty swamps and marshes. Strangely, when they're on dry land, they often stick their heads in puddles. In fact, researchers discovered these turtles can submerge their heads underwater for as long as 100 minutes. They also found the turtles can pee about 50 times more urea through their mouths than from their rears [source: Choi].
So why are they doing this? Like humans, turtles need to wash out the urea their bodies create. Urea is a result of proteins that decompose in our bodies. Humans create the urine to do this by drinking fresh water. But the soft-shelled turtles can't simply drink some water, because they live in a salty environment, and saltwater's not good to drink. Scientists speculate that to solve this problem, the turtles get rid of their urea by sticking their heads in fresh water, like that found in puddles, and simply rinse the urea out through their mouths [source: Choi].
A Slime Mold With a Memory
The goopy puddles known as slime molds are part of a group of microbes called protists. These single-celled organisms don't have brains, yet researchers discovered they have memories.
Slime molds secrete a thick, translucent slime as they move. Then, they use the slime trail they've laid down to record where they've been -- which, in turn, helps them go around obstacles and find things. In studies, researchers hid a sugary meal behind a U-shaped barrier, and the slime mold found it by using its trail to figure out where it had already been, and thus where to look next [source: Choi].
Such a memory isn't the same as a human memory, of course. Slime molds can't store memories, for example. Still, the findings help us understand how early organisms figured out problems and puzzles. And the discovery marks the first demonstration of a spatial memory system in a brainless organism [source: Choi].
French Bees Producing Colored Honey by Eating M&Ms
Blue and green honey? Mon dieu! Sounds like a fun, marketable product. But not to beekeepers in the town of Ribeauville, in northeastern France. France has tough standards for honey production. French honey must have standard coloration (nearly colorless to dark brown), and must come from the nectar of plants. So when the Ribeauville bees starting producing colorful versions of their sweetener, the beekeepers weren't happy [source: Andries].
An investigation ensued, and the beekeepers discovered the culprit: a neighboring biogas factory. The plant was processing colored M&Ms, and storing the sweet waste material outside and in uncovered containers. That lured the Ribeauville bees from their hives 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) away, and they promptly began pigging out on the sugary remains. Next thing you know, blue and green honey [source: Andries].
Employees at the waste-processing plant cleaned the outdoor and uncovered containers, then moved all remains into a covered hall [source: Andries]. A bummer for the bees, most likely.
A Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur
Not all dinosaurs were enormous creatures. Researchers identified a 2-foot-long (0.6-meter) heterodontosaur, P. africanus, that was running around the earth 200 million years ago, living along forested rivers. The pint-sized creature sported quills and a blunt beak, giving it a bird-like appearance. It also had fangs. Yet these little guys weren't out to kill prey. They were plant-eaters, reserving their chompers for self-defense and foraging [source: Dell'Amore].
Interestingly, the finding of a new heterodontosaur species wasn't considered that unusual. What was more surprising was the ensuing discovery that P. africanus had an advanced jaw structure that allowed its choppers to neatly cut plants because the upper and lower jaws worked like self-sharpening scissors. The new dino species was identified from some fossils that had been collected in the 1960s in South Africa, but had been sitting around Harvard University gathering dust [source: Dell'Amore].
Virgin Snakes Giving Birth
University of Tulsa researchers discovered virgin female cottonmouth and copperhead snakes giving birth, a process called parthenogenesis. This evolutionary rarity had previously been observed in captive female snakes, Komodo dragons, birds and sharks when they had no other option for reproduction, as there were no males available. But strangely, the cottonmouth and copperhead snakes had given birth as virgins even though there were plenty of healthy males around [source: Than].
Scientists don't know why the virgins forged ahead on their own. One theory is that the snakes, which were smaller than normal, had been scorned by the males and thus didn't have any other options. Another idea is that their parthenogenesis was simply a random biological error, or that the snakes had contracted some kind of bacteria or virus that triggered the blessed events [source: Than].
Parthenogenesis happens when a cell is produced along with the egg, and the cell acts like a sperm to fertilize the egg. The resulting offspring, then, are part-clone and part individual [source: Than].
Cockroaches Can be Turned into 'Biobots' to Help Find Earthquake Survivors
"Bring in the cockroaches!" may soon be the first cry when there's been a devastating earthquake. Scientists at North Carolina State University's iBionics Lab have figured out a way to turn the much-maligned cockroach into a "biobot," or biological robot, and steer it remotely. The hope is that soon these tricked-out insects can be sent into earthquake zones to look for survivors in hard-to-reach areas [source: Fiegl].
How does it work? Scientists took cockroaches and inserted electrodes into their antennae and cerci, which are their rear sensors, plus strapped on tiny backpacks with wireless control systems, locator beacons and microphones. With this gear in place, the researchers were able to guide the bugs to stop, go and turn -- skills needed to navigate around rubble when looking for survivors. The microphones would be used to pick up cries for help [source: Fiegl].
Creating cockroach biobots is deemed a better bet than creating robots. Not only can cockroaches already walk around on their own, but they innately scurry away if they sense danger, so they're less likely to get trapped or killed in the rubble than a robot [source: Fiegl].
Men With Deep Voices have Fewer Sperm
A new study shows men with deep voices tend to have a lower sperm counts than their higher-pitched counterparts. The sperm is just as fertile and mobile, but there are fewer of them swimming around.
That's a surprising discovery. Numerous studies have shown women prefer men with masculine features, such as lots of muscles and that deep voice. And those traits were thought to be present in prime male specimens -- meaning those with plenty of sperm, among other things [source: Dell'Amore].
Researchers already knew that testosterone, a male hormone that lowers your voice pitch, can also lower sperm production. Now they're reasoning that this new finding means men who are biologically programmed to put more effort into attracting women -- by developing lower voices, strong jaws and the like -- may be doing so at the cost of sperm production. This trade-off makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint if the result is that they get the women, and have more status and dominance [source: Dell'Amore].
A Machine that Can Disrupt Speech by Making You Hear Your Own Delayed Words
Don't you hate it when people are talking in the library when you're trying to study, or chatter through a movie? Or what about colleagues who start talking in a meeting and don't know when to let someone else have the floor? Maybe one day, you'll be able to solve these problems by shooting the offenders with a SpeechJammer gun.
Two Japanese researchers invented a machine that painlessly makes people stop yammering by forcing them to listen to their own spoken words at a slight delay. The device consists of a direction-sensitive microphone and direction-sensitive speaker, which can be set up in, say, a meeting room. The same technology can also be placed into a portable, gun-like device [source: Kurihara].
If someone won't stop talking, the device is turned on, aimed at them and activated. Everything the person is saying can then be heard by the person at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds, which so disturbs people they stop speaking. Only the speaker is affected. This creative invention received the 2012 Ig Noble Acoustic Prize. Ig Noble awards are given to encourage scientific research and reward the unusual [sources: Kurihara, Sinha].
A Non-stick Ketchup Bottle
Remember when you had to pound the bottom of glass ketchup bottles to get the ketchup out? It was so frustrating. The ketchup would either suddenly plop out in a big glob, or you'd get tired of waiting and have to fish it out with a butter knife, which was really messy. But then came the plastic squeeze bottle -- heaven! The ketchup came out pretty easily and smoothly, although you could never get it all out, and would have to throw out the bottle with several burgers' worth of ketchup still left. Soon, those once-innovative squeeze bottles may seem quaint. Because now there's LiquiGlide.
A crew of Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineers and nanotechnologists created the new, nonstick coating to help all kinds of condiments effortlessly glide out of their bottles, from ketchup and mayonnaise to relish and mustard. Despite some challenges in finding food-safe materials to use, the team did find them, and their project took a mere two months to complete. Now the development team is working hard to sell LiquiGlide to bottle companies. Let's hope they're successful [source: Rogell].
Serial Killers May Kill According to a Mathematical Formula
Believe it or not, there may be a method behind serial killers' madness, according to the findings of two researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles. The researchers found a strong correlation between the timing of the murders committed by the "Rostov Ripper" -- a serial killer -- and a mathematical distribution called a power law.
Power laws are used to predict sporadic events such as earthquakes and stock market crashes. Serial killers act sporadically, often killing people in close succession, then waiting months or years before striking again. Scientists have often wondered why.
The researchers plotted the number of days between the Rostov Ripper's murders against the number of times he waited that number of days. The result? A nearly straight line on a log-log plot graph, which matches the results scientists get when they plot the magnitude of earthquakes in a particular area against the number of times each magnitude has occurred.
What does this suggest? A serial killer murders when the firing of neurons in his brain goes awry. Our brains fire neurons that trigger thousands of others to fire. This rapid firing is generally a short-term event. But in serial killers, the firing occasionally crosses some threshold, resulting in an irresistible impulse to kill. The power law may be able to predict when a killer's neuron-firing will next cross that threshold [source: Wolchover].
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Author's Note: 10 of the Craziest Discoveries of 2012
No, one of the craziest discoveries of 2012 wasn't that Elvis is still alive. But a non-stick ketchup bottle? Now that's crazy!
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- Choi, Charles. "Potty Mouth! Turtle Dips Head in Puddles to Pee." Live Science. Oct. 11, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://www.livescience.com/23893-turtle-pees-from-mouth.html
- Choi, Charles. "Puddles of Good? Brainless Slime Molds Have Memories." Live Science. Oct. 8, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://www.livescience.com/23797-brainless-slime-mold-memories.html
- Dell'Amore, Christine. "Deep-Voiced Men Have Lower Sperm Count, Study Says." National Geographic News. Jan. 5, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120105-deep-voices-sperm-masculine-men-women-science-health-evolution/
- Dell'Amore, Christine. "New Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur Found -- "Would Be Nice Pet." National Geographic News. Oct. 3, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121003-new-dinosaur-species-fanged-sereno-science/
- Dell'Amore, Christine. "Tentacled, Carnivorous Plants Catapult Prey Into Traps." National Geographic News. Sept. 27, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120927-catapult-carnivorous-plants-sundew-insects-science-animals/
- Fiegel, Amanda. "Could Cyborg Cockroaches Save Your Life?" National Geographic News. Sept. 7, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120907-cyborg-cockroaches-video-science-remote-control-robots-bugs/
- Kurihara, Kazutaka and Koji Tsukada. "SpeechJammer: A System Using Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback." ArXiv. Feb. 21, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1202/1202.6106.pdf
- Rogell, Eric. "The New, Mind-Blowingly Slippery Non-Stick Coating: Watch as Ketchup Slides Right Out of the Bottle (Video)." Discovery. Aug. 16, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://dsc.discovery.com/life/the-new-mind-blowingly-slippery-non-stick-coating-watch-as-ketchup-slides-right-out-of-the-bottle-video.html
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- Than, Ker. "'Virgin Birth' Seen in Wild Snakes, Even When Males Are Available." National Geographic News. Sept. 14, 2012. (Oct. 12, 2012) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120914-virgin-birth-parthenogenesis-snakes-science-biology-letters/
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|House Majority Whip James Clyburn invoked civil rights era imagery to demonize opponents of Obamacare.
On March 20, Democrats and the corporate media launched a misleading propaganda offensive claiming Tea Party protesters in Washington spat on Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver and hurled racial epithets at members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they walked to the Capitol to cast a vote on Obama's authoritarian health care bill.
"The congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The congressman would like to thank the U.S. Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the other Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care," said Danny Rotert, a spokesman for Cleaver.
In fact, nobody spat on Cleaver. He wandered too close to a screaming protester and was hit by flying saliva. The "N" word cannot be heard in either of the videos below, although it is difficult to tell what beyond "kill the bill" is being yelled at the Congress critters as they flaunted their power over the plebs.
"I have heard things today that I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to get off the back of the bus," House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the highest-ranking black official in Congress, told the CIA's favorite newspaper, the Washington Post.
Clyburn tried to turn attention away from the fact most Americans are opposed to Obamacare and more than a few were so outraged they traveled to Washington and yelled at House members who subsequently betrayed the Constitution and handed the government authoritarian power over millions of people. He even rolled in civil rights imagery in order to make his point and prevent rational opposition.
"A lot of us have been saying for a long time that much of this, much of this is not about health care a all. And I think a lot of those people today demonstrated that this is not about health care," he said, "it is about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful."
One has to ask why members of the House decided to wander into a crowd of people opposed to a bill they were about to vote on. Congress critters usually use a tunnel in order to avoid the commoners. But on this "historical" day they waded directly into a hostile crowd.
Is there a reason for this? Of course. It was a propaganda stunt designed by Democrats. They were well aware of the people gathered outside upset over Obama's totalitarian care. The imagery was nearly perfect for their purposes — a crowd of howling mostly white people confronting a small number of black people. It would reaffirm what Chris Matthews and other corporate media apologists for state power have said for months — opposition to Obamacare (or anything the government does) is racist. The complaisant corporate media inserted the accusation of racism in the argument at exactly the right time. It was all part of a well orchestrated plan.
Democrats like to pretend Republicans and their compromised Tea Party followers are responsible for a brick thrown through the window of Rep. Slaughter's office and other incidents of minor property damage. Is it possible Democrats orchestrated these events as part of their effort to demonize opposition to Obamacare?
Recall the case of Maurice Schwenkler in Denver. Schwenkler, who is a "transgender" activist connected to the SEIU supported group Colorado Citizens Coalition, was arrested for smashing eleven windows at the Democrat headquarters last year. "While Schwenkler does not appear in the state's voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition for 'communications,' according to campaign finance disclosures," the Denver Post reported.
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Did Schwenkler attack the Democrats because he opposes Obamacare? Hardly. It was an attempt to blame those opposed to Obamacare and make them look like violent thugs. Fortunately, Schwenkler was caught by the cops and the real story came out. The truth, however, was dwarfed by the initial sensationalistic story and the insinuation of Tea Party activists gone wild. News reports of Schwenkler's real motivation were greeted by the sound of crickets.
SEIU thugs attacked Tea Party protesters at a Rep. Russ Carnahan town hall in St. Louis around the same time. "Union thugs viciously attacked a patriot, Kenneth Gladney, who was handing out Gadsen flags outside the stage-managed event. The St. Louis Tea Party was also demonstrating against Democrats attempting to force Obamacare through Congress," Infowars.com reported on August 7, 2009.
Did Tea Party activists beat up members of the Congressional Black Caucus? No. In fact, they did not even spit on them as the Democrats claim.
Fortunately, Democrat and "progressive" efforts to portray Tea Party activists and millions of ordinary Americans outraged over Obama's authoritarian health care "reform" as brick-toting and gas line cutting neanderthals will continue to fall flat.
Fifty-four percent of surveyed Americans oppose Obamacare and only 41% approve, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted on March 21. "Among insured Americans, 82 percent rate their health coverage positively. Among insured people who've experienced a serious or chronic illness or injury in their family in the last year, an enormous 91 percent are satisfied with their care, and 86 percent are satisfied with their coverage," ABC News reported last October.
Demonizing the opposition as crazed "teabaggers" and white supremacist militia members will not change the broad and growing opposition to Obamacare and a tyrannical government growing by leaps and bounds. Chris Matthews' diatribes and bully boy interview tactics will change little.
Democrats are in trouble and this will become obvious in November during the midterm elections. Let's hope the outrage does not benefit the Republicans who are the right shoe to the Democrats' left shoe on the same corrupt and authoritarian body politic.
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Rodrigues has had a 25-year career in nonprofit leadership. Most recently, as CEO of Triangle, he led a 15-year period of dramatic growth., overseeing the creation of nationally recognized initiatives, three mergers and the transformation of Massachusetts' largest sheltered workshop into the state's leading community-based employment program for individuals with disabilities, according to Greater Marlboro Programs.
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State Rep. James Cantwell, D-Marshfield, presented the President's Volunteer Service Award to Bob Cunningham of Natick, who has volunteered more than 100 hours in one calendar year. As a recipient of this national honor, Cunningham received a personalized certificate, official pin and a congratulatory letter from the president of the United States.
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Roy graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering technology. He holds a construction supervisor license with the state of Massachusetts along with 30- and 10-hour OSHA certifications.
Tighe & Bond recently hired Joel Loitherstein of Ashland to support the increasing site assessment and remediation needs of its clients throughout the Northeast.
He joins the firm's environmental services team in Worcester with the goal of more completely serving that region.
Loitherstein will help manage Tighe & Bond's Massachusetts environmental site assessment and remediation practice, and provide senior licensed site professional (LSP) leadership. He brings more than 40 years of engineering and environmental expertise to his appointment, 20 of which include managing his own environmental services firm.
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Loitherstein is a founder and past president of the LSP Association, and was one of four LSPs selected by MassDEP to develop the first licensing examination. He also has served on several committees organized by MassDEP relative to the licensing of professionals to perform this type of service. In addition, he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Council of Engineering Companies.
Loitherstein's other affiliations include serving on the board of directors of the 495 MetroWest Partnership and the Jewish Community Relations Council.
He earned his master of science degree in civil engineering from Northeastern University. He also studied groundwater technology at MIT, and holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds engineering and LSP licenses in Massachusetts.
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My husband and I got to check one off the bucket list this week - we saw a performance by Cirque du Soleil! We're always wanted to see a show but the opportunity had never presented itself.
But lucky us - Cirque du Soleil was performing in our town AND we managed to snag free tickets for the family. (We probably would've attended the show even if we didn't have the comped tickets, but we weren't going to turn them down!)
I didn't realize this, but Cirque du Soleil has a number of different shows. They have permanent shows in Las Vegas, New York, Orlando, and Riviera Maya in Mexico, and they also have quite a few touring shows.
The show we saw is called OVO, which means "egg" in Portuguese. The story is set in an ecosystem, where insects work, play, eat, fight, and even look for love. When a mysterious egg ("ovo") appears in their home, the insects are fascinated and curious about the strange object.
The show contains many acts that are characteristic of a circus - there are trapeze artists, acrobats, a tightrope walker, aerial performers, contortionists, and even clowns. But it's so much more than a traditional circus.
One major difference from a regular circus (we saw the Ringling Bros. Circus earlier this year, so that's what I'm comparing it to) is that it is more like a play than a series of acts. It takes place on one stage, so it has a more intimate feel. And it tells a fairly cohesive story, with the performers, costumes, and setting sticking to one theme (insects, in this case).
But of course, the real magic of this show comes from the performers. They were simply incredible, with jaw-dropping (literally) feats and stunts. Interestingly enough, all 4 of my family members had a different favorite act. Vic picked the aerial dancers as his favorite performers. Sophia (age 11) liked the tightrope walker best, and Amelia (age 9) picked the contortionist. And as for me, I loved the acrobats - the sticky crickets at the end of the show who jumped, flipped, and stuck to the wall.
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Israeli soldiers cheered while Palestinian bled to death under army jeep
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Two days after Abdallah Ghuneimat was killed by Israeli occupation forces, his hometown of Kafr Malik was still reeling.
It was not just the killing that caused an overwhelming sense of shock and anger in the village to the northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. It was also the cruel manner in which it happened.
Recounting the few hours following Ghuneimat's killing, Kafr Malik resident Aisha Hamayel said that "his mother was looking at his corpse from afar, saying, 'May God help his poor mother,' not realizing that he was her son. Is there any worse crime than putting a mother through this?"
"Is there any worse tragedy than a mother not recognizing her son because of how deformed his face was?" she added.
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I've got a confession to make: I'm a promiscuous cheese lover. I indulge constantly, with little regard for decorum or consequence. I'll eat and enjoy soft cheeses, hard cheeses, cheeses with an cantankerous personality, and cheeses that are more tender of sensibility. I don't really care the cost—I'll spend a fortune for one good hour of eating.
But as is usually the case for brazen trollops, a piece of my heart is permanently captivated by one particular cheese, or in this case, a family of cheeses. While I'll accept propositions from any fine dairy specimen, I'll clear out my calendar without a second thought for my one true love: double- and triple-cream cheeses.
I'm not talking about Brie here, though I've known a few; rather, I'm referring to a class of cheeses that are so luxurious that they consume a permanent area of my heart at all times, regardless of my current flavor of the week (or day, or hour). With every other cheese I taste, a little part of me longs for the whipped-mousse texture of Brillat Savarin, Delice d'Argental, or one of the other cheeses I've listed below.
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Fromager d' Affinois Blue
I say this about a lot of cheeses, but this right here is a beginner's blue. With barely a hint of blue bite, this cheese is so creamy, so fluffy, that you'll almost forget it claims to be a blue at all. But penicilium there is indeed, poking its tongue out at you at the end of every nibble, hinting at a unique funk that you'll catch only the slightest hint of. Rich, full-bodied, and with a layer of nearly-whipped buttery fat, there's a saltiness in Fromager d' Affinois Blue that mellows its potential pungency. All in all, it's a funny little aunt of a cheese, poking you in the ribs one second, squeezing your shoulders affectionately the next... but you'll love her no matter what.
Crèmeux des Cîteaux
The "cheesiest" of the creamy varieties I've listed here, Crèmeux des Cîteaux is aged longer than standard triple creams, lending it a subtlety of stinky funk without bowling you over. Besides its saltiness, you'll find wave of other complimentary flavors as well: mushrooms, earth, sweet grass, and cool climes. While this cheese is certainly creamy, it's not overtly fatty due to its status as a somewhat matured cheese—sure, it's rich, but its texture is held together by a hint of gentle effervescence. Crèmeux des Cîteaux is a cheese lover's cheese, for those who enjoy big flavor paired with compelling texture, and a special treat for those of us smitten by creamy cheeses with a little more complexity.
Petit Grès Champenois
This little cake-looking ellipse is a recent find, discovered only because I asked my local cheesemonger what new triple creams she had that I might not have tried before. (I can't stress this enough: engage your cheesemonger, and you will be richly rewarded.) Petit Grès Champenois is lusciously salty and deeply savory, with a whisper-soft creamline around the inner core. In a younger cheese the middle will be a touch pasty with a slightly firm texture, so I recommend letting your immature Petit Grès chillax on your counter for a few days in its little wooden tub at room temperature. Crack into it when the top of the cheese begins to dip inward a half-inch or so, which means the inside has begun to collapse into a vision of warm, whipped butter.
What are your favorite creamy cheeses?
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- U.N. Security Council deplores the incident
- Army says it thought U.N. mission helicopter was an "enemy" aircraft
- Four crew members were killed
- U.N. mission is investigating the incident
South Sudanese armed forces admitted shooting down a United Nations helicopter in eastern South Sudan on Friday.
The Sudan People's Liberation Army said it was an accident, according to spokesman Philip Aguer.
Four Russian crew members were killed, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said. The group reported that there were no passengers on board.
Aguer said that a craft was seen about 9 a.m. hovering near an SPLA command area. The army asked the U.N. mission whether it had sent a plane.
"The U.N. said there is no plane, they don't have (a) plane in the area," Aguer said.
The troops thought the aircraft looked to be the type that had dropped munitions to militias in the area, he said.
Aguer was unable to specify what was used to down the helicopter except that "anti-aircraft weapons" were used.
The helicopter was an MI-8, the U.N. mission said, and it went down near the settlement of Likuangole, in the state of Jonglei, in the country's east.
The U.N. mission is investigating the incident.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the shooting down of the helicopter.
In a released statement, he said that the helicopter was clearly marked as being a U.N. aircraft.
Ban extended condolences to the crew members and called on the government of South Sudan to bring whoever is responsible to justice.
The U.N. Security Council similarly deplored the incident, saying it "constituted a grave violation" and jeopardized the U.N. mission there.
The helicopter had been on a reconnaissance flight about 10 a.m. local time, according to the mission. The mission launched a search and recovery effort that confirmed the crew members' deaths, it said.


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The Democrats immediately shifted into the theory that anger over the bill is simply not allowed. They merged that anger with actual violence, and they took whatever reports and threats of violence they could find and, in turn, merged them with the anger over the bill.
Can we identify neutral principles about anger and violence? How much free expression of anger do we accept in our opponents? When will we listen to it as part of a valuable debate? When do we stigmatize it as part of a system of violence? If the answer to the last question is whenever it serves our political interests to do so, then we are making propaganda.


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There are numerous races both large and small that make up the pro cycling season. However, none get quite the attention of the three grand tours: the Tour de France, the Giro de Italia (Tour of Italy) and the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain). However, this year I'll also be doing three of my own grand tours:
- Group Health Seattle to Portland Classic (July 17/18) *
- Tour de Ross's Commute (Aug 22)
- Tour de Tahoe (September 12) *
* My wife Melissa will be with me on these two rides
Wait. The Tour de Ross's Commute? What the heck is that??
For over three years now, I've been commuting an average of 3 days a week between my home in Sacramento, CA and my work in Palo Alto. It is about 125 miles or so by car. Of course, I don't do it by car. However, after a couple of the "Oh – did you ride here from Sacramento" jokes from coworkers as I rolled my bike into the office, I decided to make it so that I could actually answer "Yes!"
That's right, I'll be throwing my faith (and bike, and life) into the hands of Google maps and their new bike route mapping to plot my safe path the 139 miles I'll be riding.
There are some interesting challenges and points of interest in my route:
- Davis, CA. Arguably one of the best bicycling cities in the country.
- Vacaville. Famous for being Vacaville.
- Jelly Belly factory. Convenient should I need to restock my Sport Beans supply, or maybe a pro rider to pull for me.
- The Sacramento river delta area. Home of a thousand head winds.
- The Benicia-Martinez. 2.5 miles over Suisuin Bay, with views of the Naval Reserve Fleet.
- Alamo. No, not that one.
- Castro Valley
- Dumbarton Bridge (second bridge of the day. Third if you count the Yolo causeway as a bridge)
I don't fully know what to expect of this ride yet. That is part of why I am so excited about it!


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Posted by Editoress on 03/7/08
Normon Thibault sent us the following note and accompanying information about an upcoming road closure
This road is in the USA but is a popular destination for Canadian riders. Jim Pearson organizes a Canada Day ride up Hurricane Ridge that I think had 80-100 riders last year. As well Roland Green used to take the ferry over and then do hill repeats up this major climb.....it would be a loss for them to not allow cyclists.
Dave Lasorsa in Port Angeles in circulating the following letter to interested members of the cycling community in BC and Washington State.
ONP Bicycle Closure
Hello Cycling Friends!
Did you happen to see the article in the February 15 Peninsula Daily News regarding the upcoming repairs/repaving scheduled for Hurricane Ridge Road?
Slipped into the end of the article was this statement:
During the construction, bicycles will not be allowed on the road,
Maynes said. "It is a safety issue," she said.
So it appears that for the next two summers Olympic National Park is planning to close Hurricane Ridge Road to cycling. We were very disappointed to read this, and felt compelled to write a letter to the Acting Park Superintendent asking her to reconsider this decision. If, like us, you feel that the planned bicycle closure is unacceptable, we encourage you to also share your feelings with the Park. We felt that a paper letter might carry more impact, but you could send an e-mail if you prefer.
Send your thoughts to:
(by MAIL)
Sue McGill, Superintendent
Olympic National Park
600 E. Park Avenue
Port Angeles, WA 98362
E-MAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you need help getting started, here are a few topics you might consider
addressing in your letter:
a.. who you are and why this issue is important to you
b.. bicycles are a non-polluting, quiet way of enjoying the Park's natural beauty
c.. roads that are open to motorized vehicle traffic should be open to bicycle traffic
d.. the experienced cyclists who ride on Hurricane Ridge Road are very aware of safety concerns
e.. the National Park Service should not discourage human powered transportation
f.. unlike motorized vehicles, bicycles allow park visitation while causing virtually no damage to the roads
g.. most road construction projects are carried out safely without prohibiting bicycles
We're attaching a copy of the letter (from Dick and Heidi Pattee) that was mailed to Sue McGill in case you'd like to read our thoughts on this issue.
Thanks for your consideration of this important topic. Please forward this
e-mail to any other cyclists you'd like to inform of this.
Sue McGill, Superintendent
Olympic National Park
600 E. Park Avenue
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Dear Sue:
I read in the Peninsula Daily News last Friday about plans to repair and repave Hurricane Ridge Road starting sometime this spring. According to the article, Barb Maynes said that bicycles won't be allowed on the road during the construction. I'm writing to ask you to reconsider the bicycle closure.
My wife Heidi and I enjoy hiking, climbing, and backcountry skiing, and we often venture into the Park's backcountry. We also have performed volunteer work many times in the Park, including trail work and beach cleanups. I currently do trail clearing and repair work with a local group of volunteers that help Larry Lack and his crew. Additionally Heidi and I are avid cyclists. We've ridden our tandem bicycle and single bikes up Hurricane Ridge Road many times.
We were surprised and very disappointed to read that you plan to close the road to cyclists during the upcoming paving and repairs. Whenever the road is open to automobiles, it should be open to bicycles as well. Unlike their automotive counterparts, bicycles are quiet, non-polluting, and allow the rider to connect much more closely to the natural world nearby. ONP, like all other National Parks, was founded to encourage resource conservation and outdoor recreation (as per your Mission Statement on "About Us" on www.nps.gov ).
I've spoken to a number of other local area cyclists who share the same sentiment. We all feel that ONP should encourage, not discourage human-powered transportation within the Park. Those who are fit enough and motivated enough to ride a bicycle up Hurricane Ridge Road tend to be experienced cyclists with a keen awareness of safety. We've all safely ridden our bikes through construction zones, near heavy equipment and flaggers, and through sections of torn up pavement. If the road is safe enough for a car, it's safe enough for a bike.
Please follow the excellent example of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. In 2007 they carried out a major rebuilding and repaving of Trail Ridge Road, a project with far greater scope than that of Hurricane Ridge Road. Not only did they do a great job creating a smooth, bike-friendly asphalt surface, but the road remained open to cyclists despite months of heavy construction and missing pavement sections. Heidi and I enjoyed a glorious day together riding up and over Trail Ridge Road during the peak of construction last summer.
Thanks for your thoughtful consideration.
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Daily Kos: Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
At the new mainstream voice of the Democratic Party, Jewish lesbian "sallykohn" explains: Daily Kos: Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
No, it's not a joke. And no, this is not an unusual sentiment at Daily Kos.
I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…
Okay, I admit it. Part of it is that he just looks cuddly. Possibly cuddly enough to turn me straight. I think he kind of looks like Kermit the Frog. Sort of. With smaller eyes. But that's not all…
I want to be very clear. There are certainly many things about Ahmadinejad that I abhor — locking up dissidents, executing of gay folks, denying the fact of the Holocaust, potentially adding another dangerous nuclear power to the world and, in general, stifling democracy. Even still, I can't help but be turned on by his frank rhetoric calling out the horrors of the Bush Administration and, for that matter, generations of US foreign policy preceding.
Recall that, back in May, Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush:Because of the possibility of the existence of WMDs in one country, it is occupied, around 100,000 people killed, its water sources, agriculture and industry destroyed, close to 180,000 foreign troops put on the ground, sanctity of private homes of citizens broken, and the country pushed back perhaps 50 years. At what price? Hundreds of billions of dollars spent from the treasury of one country and certain other countries and tens of thousands of young men and women —- as occupation troops —- put in harms way, taken away from family and loved ones, their hands stained with the blood of others, subjected to so much psychological pressure that everyday some commit suicide and those returning home suffer depression, become sickly and grapple with all sorts of ailments; while some are killed and their bodies handed to their families.Ahmadinejad, it would appear, cares more about American troops than President Bush.


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For 2015, our community selected "Lives Well Lived" as our Jan Term theme. Take a moment to reflect on some of the most interesting notes submitted on this theme by students, faculty, and staff...
- "Lives Well Lived" describes what Jan Term is all about: enriching our academic experience and providing us, through travel and on-campus courses, a college life well lived. Jan Term encourages exploration, both of the mind and in life.
- The phrase brings to mind an intentional way of life - a life that is not simply something that happens, but something that is experienced. It's the difference between being passive or active, of acquiescing or being critical. "Lives well lived" is a reflection of the way in which we hope all Saint Mary's students, staff, and faculty will live their lives.
- "Lives Well Lived" sounds very promising in that it suggests an experience-based approach to the basic philosophical question of how best to live. I think it would encourage faculty to think about how their courses relate to their and their students' lives.
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Angels & Airwaves has remained busy during its relatively brief lifespan, issuing four albums of epic space jams since lifting off in 2006 with We Don't Need To Whisper. (The band also has a couple of films under its belt, with more supposedly on the way.) Then again, being prolific gets easier when you're just tinkering with a formula, and Angels & Airwaves has amassed a discography that, sonically speaking, is more or less interchangeable. But perhaps even more surprising than the band's lack of evolution is the fact that it still exists: Born back when frontman Tom DeLonge didn't have another band, AVA has been slipping out of the limelight ever since it gave away its third album, Love, for free. And judging from the recent Neighborhoods, DeLonge's reunited Blink-182 mates are fine with him bringing his new direction to the old group. But AVA stayed the course with Love: Part Two, which, like its predecessors, reaches for the rafters with triumphant melodies, with guitars indebted to The Edge, dramatic keys, and we-are-the-world-we-are-the-children lyrics that are never as inspiring as they set out to be.
All that said, Angels & Airwaves has carved out a nice little spot for itself in the oxymoronic world of thinking-man's arena-rock. (If only the band had enough fans to fill arenas.) Surprisingly little guilt goes along with the pleasure provided by the band's arm-raising tunes, even for those singing along with lines like "When God falls fast asleep / the kids still dance in city streets / from the White House lawn to the Middle East" (from "Surrender"). Angels & Airwaves shoot for the stars, and continue to score.


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It could be my office but just as well, it could be yours. This isn't about throwing annoying colleagues or employees out of my office. It's about meeting partners and customers. It's about leaving the safety of your desk and meeting the people who buy your product or help you do whatever it is you do at your job. It's further about the harsh reality of having potential users or partners tell you that your product sucks. Most of the time, doing online surveys or speaking via phone or Skype, you get politically correct feedback. Seeing body language and sitting across from customers or partners tells a far clearer story.
Since having started building products again instead of investing in companies, nothing has paid off more than speaking to users. The harsh reality of product development is that "build it and they will come" just doesn't work anymore. Not only do you have to know what your customers want but you also have to make sure they find it. The feedback you get when speaking with folks directly is invaluable in terms of first building the product, but second also in how to market it to your target audience. People will not only tell you happily what their problems are but also how you can get their attention. I don't care how smart you think you are and you also aren't Steve Jobs. You won't tell your customer what he needs....this he or she will decide for themselves. At most, you can figure out what their problems are, build something that solves them and then ask their permission to sell ito them.
The same goes for partners. Get to them and sit together. Ask them about working together and how to optimize things. Once initial progress has taken place, get out of the f%&king office and go see them again. Say hello and ask what else can be done to optimize things. Don't get lazy and do everything remotely. As great as the modern world is with Skype, video conferencing, email, IM, Twitter and so forth, nothing beats face-to-face interaction. Every second company is trying to streamline costs by optimizing and automating the process of "working together". You know what though? The best entrepreneurs will always continue to have their ear on the ground and will interact directly. They wouldn't dare gauge where they will invest years of their time and potenitally millions of dollars without getting out and about.
If you haven't bailed on this post by this point, I'm glad you stuck with me. Although that which I write above is nothing new and has been posted in a million different variations, it bears repeating. I'll do so because I see it in my office. People, including myself, get lazy and comfortable or even worse, are scared to go stand in a mall and basically walk up to people and ask their opinion. They see researching one more thing online as more important than getting feedback directly, harshly, and honestly.
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Yes, your nose may be covered with icicles and a game of outdoor tennis may be quite far from your frozen brain, but down under, players are pounding the hard courts in the later rounds of the Australian Open under a hot sun. Lucky them, right?
In case you missed it, yesterday saw two of our faves — the already legendary Serena Williams and young up-and-comer Sloane Stephens — square off in a quarterfinal match (the first all-American at a major in five years). It was hard to pick a favorite seeing as Williams is the beloved, badass master of the women's draw and Stephens a fresh, sweet 19-year-old talent in a very weak field of American competitors. But — whaddya know — Stephens sweated out a three-set match to beat her childhood idol 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 and advance to her first semifinals in a major.
It's a blow for Williams, but a much, much bigger win for Stephens who is quickly winning our hearts. We mean, just look at that face!
As she told the Wall Street Journal, "[I'll] just take it one day at a time obviously, just play my best really. I know definitely everyone's watching back home and is very proud of me, so [I'll] just do my best and make them happy." You totally did, Sloane. You totally did. We'll be watching those semis and checking you at our Open in several months.
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In an era of hard-R comedies and Hollywood's endless love affair with re-purposing, an "Entourage" movie has been a hot topic of conversation for some time now. With the show's finale looming, it seems a film is gonna happen--even if Mark Wahlberg has to open his own wallet.
"If I had to finance it myself, I would do it," Wahlberg, the show's executive producer, told the Television Critics Association yesterday. "I've been telling Doug, "The Hangover" is to me very much like "Entourage", and look at all the recent success of R-rated movies."
"Doug" is Doug Ellin, the show's creator and EP, who seconded Wahlberg's determination.
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We're going to do a movie," he said. "We're going to do it, the questing is when and how quickly. Hopefully we'll come down with an idea and make it happen."
The eighth and final season of "Entourage" premiered this past Sunday on HBO.