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Aero design team breaks record, finishes 1st in international competition04/16/2014
Members of UA's Zips Aero design team celebrate their milestone victory in the 2014 SAE Aero Design East competition.
It was an ordinary spring weekend in Marietta, Ga., the air noiseless but for the drone of planes, and rainless but for the precipitation of sandbags.
Seventy-four student aerospace design teams from around the world landed in Marietta, April 11-13, to test their aircraft in the 2014 SAE Aero Design East competition, where The University of Akron's Zips Aero design team placed first overall and set a new record for accuracy in the Advanced Class competition and second overall in the Regular Class competition.
The object of the Advanced Class competition is to drop three-pound sandbags onto targets on the ground from 100 feet in the air. UA's Advanced Class plane, "B-50 Roo," features an on-board camera and sensors, which transmit data including airspeed and altitude to the ground station. A co-pilot watches the camera and data and instructs the pilot to drop the bag at the right moment.
"We set a new record for the closest drop on target," says aerospace systems engineering student and team co-captain Ian Maatz. "Not bad for our first time competing in this class."
In the Regular Class competition, the team was scored on its aircraft's reliability, weight and payload, as well as a technical report and presentation to Lockheed Martin employees. The goal is to design and build a plane that can carry as much payload as possible, and also to be able to predict well what that payload will be.
The team has much experience designing and building aircraft for the Regular Class competition. The objective this year was to take advantage of the solid model they have developed over the years and work to make it as light, strong and simple as possible, according to Maatz.
Zips Aero is led by faculty adviser Jerry Drummond, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering.
About the SAE Aero Design competition
The SAE Aero Design competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a real-life engineering challenge. The competition has been designed to provide exposure to the kinds of situations that engineers face in their real-life work environment. First and foremost a design competition, students will find themselves performing trade studies and making compromises to arrive at a design solution that will optimally meet the mission requirements while still conforming to the configuration limitations.
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Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata
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- On, Robert (University of California-Berkeley)
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I've fallen in love. The waitress rolls a gray, plastic cart up to my table and holds up an egg. As I nod approvingly, she casually cracks the egg into a black earthen bowl of simmering, bright red, spicy soup, in which the egg poaches perfectly in a matter of minutes. You can tell she's done it a thousand times. The beef and kimchi soup is full of soft tofu, giving the broth a silky, thick texture.
For soup lovers, this is as good as it gets, but there's definitely more to Chodang's charm than tableside poached eggs. The combination of spicy, sweet, and briny flavors makes this restaurant's Korean eats instantly addicting. Among aficionados of authentic Korean food in town, Chodang joins the ranks of beloved spots like Café Ga Hyang. Although Chodang's menu is smaller and its hours more limited than those of Café Ga Hyang, the soft tofu soup is the best you'll find in town. And you shouldn't stop there.
Inside a little Chandler building attached to a small apartment complex, the sleek and simple restaurant has rich wood floors and paneling on the walls, modern furniture and fixtures, and large, dark landscape paintings. Seating just 60 people, it's the kind of place where you bring a group of friends to chow down on family-style plates between shots of soju (an intense, clear rice and grain liquor) and sips of OB, a Korean golden lager that pairs nicely with spicy dishes.
Chodang Tofu and BBQ in Chandler: A Korean Love Story
Chodang Tofu 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m Saturday and Sunday
Kimchi tofu soup: $10.25
Chodang galbi: $17.95
Dolsot bibimbap: $10.95
Chik bibim myung-myun: $10.25
The service is fast and friendly, though you can expect a language barrier if you're not up on your Korean. Luckily, there's usually an English-speaking server on weekend nights who's happy to guide you through the menu with explanations and suggestions — even when it's a packed house. And if your server — being sensitive and accommodating to dietary restrictions — doesn't know the answer to a question, he or she will pop into the kitchen to ask.
Aside from its soft tofu soup (if you haven't gotten the hint), Chodang also excels in barbecued meats and big bowls of the Korean-style DIY stir-fry known as bibimbap. Most dishes are priced between $15 and $20, pricier than you'd expect. However, the large portions are meant to be shared and combined. Two dishes easily will serve three diners.
After you've chosen, a cart rolls out with banchan, traditional side dishes that come gratis with nearly everything on the menu: pickled bean sprouts, kimchi, potatoes covered in a sesame sauce, dried seaweed, and more. Each provides unique flavor when added to dishes.
Though it doesn't come with banchan, you should start with a plate of handmade dumplings to share. The delicate pouches of beef, chicken, and such veggies as cabbage are offered both fried and boiled. The fried version has a nice crunch, but it's best to stick with the boiled dumplings, which retain the light sweetness that frying overpowers.
If dumplings aren't your thing, or you seek a lighter option, salad-like dishes of cold arrowroot noodles are a one-of-a-kind treat for healthy eaters. I ordered the chik bibim myung-myun. The dark, black, thin noodles come dressed in a sweet and tangy sauce with fresh greens and veggies. The gluten-free noodles have a tendency to stick together, so they were served with a pair of scissors for easy plating.
If you want to fit in with Chodang diners, go with a large group — a third of the restaurant tables are reserved for parties of six or more. Half the fun of Korean dining comes in ordering several dishes for the table and piling bits of everything onto your own bowl of rice, which you can customize with banchan as you see fit.
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This DIY rice bowl method works well with dishes like the osam bulgogi plate of sautéed squid and pork with scallions and onions in a slightly sweet and mostly spicy sauce. Though the squid was tough, it at least was not overcooked and added to the moist, tender slices of pork that slightly funky sea flavor I love in Asian cuisine.
If you don't want squid, the chicken version of the dish, called dak bulgogi, has the same bright red, spicy barbecue sauce, but without the fishy flavor. The marinated chunks of chicken were moist and fatty, adding a richness to the sweet and spicy sauce thanks to the use of dark thigh meat. However, the obvious stand-out barbecue dish is the Chodang galbi, or short ribs. The tender bone-in meat topped with sesame seeds and scallions has a delicate sweetness, without all the goopy sauce the word barbecue typically connotes.
The main event of Korean dining has to be the big, sizzling bowls of bibimbap, which are as much about the auditory, olfactory, and visual presentation as they are about the taste. The bowls come with separate piles of rice, vegetables, and meat with optional raw egg on top. While the bowl is still hot, you quickly mix the ingredients together so the egg cooks thoroughly, kind of like DIY fried rice. Served with a squirt bottle of devilishly hot yet completely addicting red chile paste, bibimbap is good for spice lovers and wimps alike.
There's a lot to love about this modest spot, whether that means mixing up a bowl of bibimbap or picking up tender bone-in short ribs with chopsticks. As far as family-style dining is concerned, Chodang is one of the most unique and satisfying spots for it in town. Just please don't tell pho that I'm cheating.


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Boating has always been an adventure: from the first mariners that set sail to discover new worlds to the commercial fishermen and merchant seamen even today who go down to the sea in ships. The seamen who opened world trade routes around the Horn, the captains and crew who fought the world's great sea battles, and the birch bark canoe men were adventurers all. Whenever or wherever you take to the water in your boat, from a dinghy to a yacht, you are joining the ranks of marine adventurers of all time. There is always an unknown ahead of you -- an adventure awaits.
You can, of course, boat alone, but the greater satisfaction is in boating with others, bonding with family and friends, and developing teamwork that makes your boat go better. Working together to leave the dock, racing, cruising, anchoring, and returning to harbor can expand your life and relationships. Sailing, perhaps, offers the greatest opportunity for team building, but so does two man canoeing, even pedal boating.
Boats, more than automobiles or airplanes, require craftsmen. There is always something to fix or improve on a boat that you must do yourself, not contract for. There's a crack to mend, or a leak to plug, or a bottom to clean; something to paint, varnish, or polish, or a broken line (boaters don't call them "ropes" see Education, below) to splice or replace. Perhaps there is a bolt to tighten or a block to grease. If you have an engine, there may be oil to change or packing to stuff. It is an endless source of satisfaction for a job well done.
Developing skills, wisdom, and confidence
There is never a day when you will go out in a boat that you do not learn something new or sharpen a skill. There is never a day when you are not required to make a decision, often quickly, that you have not made in quite the same way before. Boats are not as life threatening as automobiles, but they seem to be. The bigger risk in boating is to your ego, for there are times when wind, wave, or current becomes the master. And with loss of ego, as the Maine sage says, comes wisdom. In this way you develop confidence in yourself and in your ability to handle unexpected situations.
First of all, you have to learn a new language. Boats don't have fronts or rears. Even canoes and dinghies have bows and sterns, with bow lines and stern lines. There are knots you must learn to tie. There is nothing intuitive about making boats go, either, and you will always want to make the boat go better, or faster, or safer, requiring education in seamanship, rules of the road, and safety. You need to learn piloting and chart reading, how to anchor, and how to read the weather and the water. If you trailer your boat, you need an education in how to launch and retrieve, and how to balance your load; it is not as easy as it looks. In boating, continuing education is the name of the game.
Lots about boating is just plain fun: towing youngsters in a tube, wake boarding and wake surfing, shooting white water in a kayak, skimming at high speed over flat water, heeling a sailboat into the wind, diving into dark blue water in the middle of a lake, trolling for fish, or just rocking gently at anchor in a quite cove and reading a book or magazine. It's major fun.
Getting away from it all
No matter how much stress you have at work, at home, or at school, when you take your boat out you leave that stress behind. Boating is all-consuming of your attention. You are aware of each minute, what is happening right now, and what is ahead. The more daring your trip, or the more you venture into a new place or try out a new seamanship technique, the more you get away from terrestrial worries.
Boating is exercise. It is not aerobic unless you are in a canoe race, or paddling a kayak into a stiff headwind, or cranking winches on a racing yacht, or making long offshore passages that "trawlerdog", a veteran of Alaska to Mexico runs, calls "terror aerobics". Every muscle in your body works in a boat. Even when you are just sitting at anchor your body is working as the boat rocks and rolls. You are getting lots of fresh air and Vitamin D (and don't forget the sunscreen).
It takes some intrepidness just to buy a boat. You are committing to a non-essential capital expenditure, perhaps to lessons, to continued maintenance costs, and, for some boats, mooring expenses. It takes still more intrepidness to venture out into the unknown, even if the unknown is a small lake. Not everyone can be a boater. If you are, you are special. You are intrepid.
This is reason number ten, just because this list is alphabetical, but it probably should be number one. Joy is more than happiness or gaiety. It is an elevation of your entire spirit – a rejoicing. Can boating give you joy? You bet. Ask a kayaker who has come out of a Class 4 or 5 rapids, a racing sailor who has made all the right tacks at the right times to take first place in a windy race, a power boater who followed the moon on the water to a lovely anchorage, a wake boarder who has gotten major air, or a young child back from his first pedal boat excursion. Your adventures are out there, your joy unbounded.
You do not have to own a boat to be a boater. You can charter or rent, by the hour, the day, or the month. You can crew for boat owners. You can partner with boat owners who want you to share only in expenses. If even those commitments are more than you desire, you can hop on a scheduled ferry, sign up for a guided kayak tour, board a fishing party boat, or join a group excursion. Whatever. Get out there!
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Thom Yorke Is Pressing 'Suspiria' Outtakes to Limited-Edition Vinyl
By Katrina Nattress
January 11, 2019
Thom Yorke is keeping the new music coming.
The Radiohead frontman added "film score" to his already impressive resume last year with his hauntingly beautiful score to director Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria. As if that collection of songs wasn't enough to satisfy fans of his work, Yorke is gifting seven previously unreleased songs next month in the form of Suspiria: Limited Edition Unreleased Material — a 12" record of which only 1,500 copies have been pressed. It will be released on February 22nd. Fans can find more information here.
The soundtrack's single "Suspirium" was recently short-listed for the Academy Awards' "Best Original Song" category. Though the singer-songwriter has made it abundantly clear that he will not be attending Radiohead's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this Spring, he seems particularly excited about his potential inclusion in the Oscar nominations.
"That would be great because it was a year and a half in my life, and I worked bloody hard on it," he told Variety in a recent interview. "So, you know, sometimes it's nice to be recognized. Sometimes, if you understand what it means."
Yorke also debuted one of the soundtrack's other songs ("Unmade") live during his recent run of solo tour dates.
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In most states there are restrictions about the use of payday loans for the consumer's benefit. One rule in many states is that you can only have two payday loans at a time. This helps you stay out of the huge problem of having too many loans due at one time.
If you are juggling a couple payday loans and are not able to get out of either loan, you may run into a second problem. Many states will only let you take out five loans in a row without a break between loans. If you are carrying two loans, and need to renew or roll them over a couple months, you may find that by the third month you can only take out one and are stuck with a second that you cannot roll over or pay off.
There is a secret among payday loan users with experience that can help you get past this barrier. You may run into this problem over time even if you are attempting to lower each consecutive loan as you go along. For example, if you have two loans at the same time, and one is for $400 and the other for $300, but you can only reduce each by $100, here is the sequence of events:
Loan #1 is for $400 and Loan #2 is for $300. At payoff, you pay $100 on each and roll them to the next period.
Loan #3 (next period) is for $300 and Loan #4 is for $200. When these are due, you are at Loan #5 and can only take out one new loan. Just when these two are due and you want two new loans, you can only roll one over because of the 5 consecutive loans limit. Therefore, you must find enough money to repay both loans on time and then you must wait 48 hours before you can get another two loans. Managing this requires a little planning ahead.
If you cannot pay off both loans, you will need to find enough money to repay them at least for a few days. Then take out Loan #5 for only the smallest amount ($100) and repay it as soon as possible, like the next day. At that point you are reset and can start over. Take out whatever cash you need to survive to the next pay day, either in one or two new loans.
Here is the secret. If you know you cannot repay both loans in full, and need two more loans but are only allowed to do one, you have to do a tiny loan to reset the count. Take a loan (#5 of this set) out for the smallest amount ($100) and pay it off as soon as possible. Wait the 48 hour waiting period and then you can start over again with 5 more loans. Try to pay off loans quickly!


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Though my Alpha Parents take me for daily W-A-L-K's and I am frequently allowed to visit the P-A-R-K, sometimes I feel that I have an excess of "alone time." I am an introvert, don't get me wrong, but even a hound who sleeps 21 hours per day gets a little lonely sometimes. Luckily, I have plenty of nice friends who live nearby, including a family of bunnies and my next-door neighbor, a cat named Sprinkles. (Okay, Sprinkles isn't very nice, but I like to have staring contests with her.) My most recent acquaintance, however, was with a clan of sugar ants.
I think they live somewhere behind the shoe bin, but I'm not quite sure. They're not shy, and they often wake up early to greet me during breakfast. I've always been fascinated by their ability to counter surf, a feat that is a bit challenging for me given my height. Bonding with these sugar ants has not been so difficult given that we have so much in common. For example, we both despise fruits (especially grapes!) as well as vegetables. Also, we both frequently find ourselves the subjects of Alpha Mom's frustration, though none of us have been able to figure out why.
I hope my new friends will decide to stick around for a while. I quite enjoy sharing my room with them, and am always happy to point them in the direction of the pancake mix.


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Jim Cymbala addresses students at Friday convocation
Liberty students pray for each other during Friday convocation in the Vines Center.
Liberty University students were blessed on Friday by an encouraging and inspirational message from guest speaker Jim Cymbala.
Cymbala is the popular author of several Christian life books, including "Fresh Wind Fresh Fire." He serves as senior pastor of The Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York, a church he started with his wife more than 30 years ago — with just a handful of people and a boatload of faith. Now more than 10,000 people benefit from their ministry weekly.
At Friday's convocation, Cymbala taught from the book of Isaiah, pointing out how the prophet's faith was tried by God to build him up for future success.
He began with the familiar verse, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord" (Isaiah 55:8).
"Everyone here in this room, if you love the Lord Jesus Christ, God wants to bless your life," Cymbala said. "But, His way of blessing you, developing you and making you a blessing for others is not the way we look at it at all."
Cymbala used perfect simplicity to describe God's one plea for our life.
"Whatever your priorities are and whatever you'd like from life, I'll tell you what God has for you: He says, 'I want to make you men and women of faith, because nothing blesses me more than when my children trust, when they have a confidence that I'm going to take care of them,'" Cymbala said.
Cymbala shared an experience he had with his first granddaughter while walking in New York City. He described how they began to approach a group of men who were arguing when his granddaughter reached out her hand, "as if to say, 'Papa, hold my hand.'"
"She's given me a lot of presents since then but none of them will ever touch what she gave me that day," he said. " … That's what God wants from us," he continued. "He doesn't want us to climb a mountain; He just wants you to put your hand out and say, 'God in the hard times, I'm going to trust you.'"
Cymbala closed with words of encouragement for Liberty's student body.
"So when your back is against the wall and you don't know what to do and you're going through pain that you can't explain, just remember God knows, He permitted it because He's going to build your faith, He's going to teach you how to pray out of necessity, and He's going to give you a testimony."


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Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack.
- When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.
- On being bullied and the It Gets Better Project
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- I didn't think anyone outside of LA would read Less Than Zero. I thought The Rules of Attraction would be a huge hit. I assumed people would react to American Psycho as a comedy. I thought I showcased some of my best writing in The Informers. And I was totally caught off-guard by the amount of good reviews and bad reviews Glamorama elicited. I've stopped guessing because I'm always wrong. And quite honestly: I don't care. Writing the book is the main thing. Waiting for a reaction: a waste of time. But, obviously, I hope people respond to the book in a favorable way. I don't want people to dislike it. But I don't really mind if they do.
- I read it for the first time in about 20 years this year–-recently. It wasn't so bad. I get it. I get fan mail now from people who weren't really born yet when the book came out. I don't think it's a perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. I know that sounds so ambiguous. It's sort of out of my hands and it has its reputation so what can you do about it? There's a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19. I was pretty surprised by the level of writing.
- On Less Than Zero
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- It might be my favorite book of mine. It was a very exciting time in my life. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for.
- On The Rules of Attraction
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- I reread that book in the summer of '03. . . . And I hadn't looked at that book either since '91. And I was dreading it. I thought it was going to be a really terrible novel. Everything everyone had ever said about it was going to be true. . . . And I started reading it... and I was surprised. It was good. It was fun. It was not nearly as pretentious as I remember I wanted it to be when I was writing it. Not nearly as weighted down with the importance that I thought I was investing it with. I found it really fast-moving. I found it really funny. And I liked it a lot. The violence was... it made my toes curl. I really freaked out. I couldn't believe how violent it was. It was truly upsetting. I had to steel myself to reread those passages.
- On American Psycho
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- It's definitely the book that I can tell—I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer–-is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book... I like it.
- On Glamorama
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Less Than Zero (1985)Edit
- People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
- Disappear here.
The Rules of Attraction (1987)Edit
- ...and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin's room, because she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or Junior and usually somestimes at her boyfriend's place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore Ceramics major but who was actually either some guy from N.Y.U., a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed to Get Screwed party, or a townie.
American Psycho (1991)Edit
- ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.
- p. 3; the opening of the book.
- "Wait," she gasps.
"What?" I moan, puzzled but almost there.
"Luis is a despicable twit," she gasps, trying to push me out of her.
"Yes," I say, leaning on top of her, tonguing her ear. "Luis is a despicable twit. I hate him too," and now, spurred on by her disgust for her wimp boyfriend, I start moving faster, my climax approaching.
"No, you idiot," she groans. "I said Is it a receptacle tip? Not 'Is Luis a despicable twit.' Is it a receptacle tip? Get off me."
"Is what a what? I moan.
"Pull out," she groans, struggling.
"I'm ignoring you," I say, moving my mouth down on her small perfect nipples, both of them stiff, sitting on hard, big tits.
"Pull out, goddamnit!" she screams.
"What do you want, Courtney?" I grunt, slowing my thrusts down until I finally straighten up and then I'm just kneeling over her, my cock still half inside. She hunches back against the headboard and my dick slides out.
- p. 103; Patrick is sleeping with Courtney, the fiancee of his associate Luis Carruthers, whom he despises and later finds has a homosexual attraction towards him. The dispute is over what type of condom he is wearing.
Glamorama (1998)Edit
- Specks—specks all over the third panel, see?—no, that one—the second one up from the floor and I wanted to point this out to someone yesterday but a photo shoot intervened and Yaki Nakamari or whatever the hell the designer's name is—a master craftsman not—mistook me for someone else so I couldn't register the complaint, but, gentlemen—and ladies—there they are: specks, annoying, tiny specks, and they don't look accidental but like they were somehow done by a machine—so I don't want a lot of description, just the story, streamlined, no frills, the lowdown: who, what, where, when and don't leave out why, though I'm getting the distinct impression by the looks on your sorry faces that why won't get answered—now, come on, goddamnit, what's the story?
- We'll slide down the surface of things...
- 'As a general rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
- 'I just had my makeup done, so you can't make me cry.'
- She staggers over to the bathroom door and grabs the edge of it to balance herself and blood starts running down her legs in thin rivulets and when she lifts up the robe we both can see her underwear soaked with blood and she pulls it off, panicking, and suddenly a huge gush of blood expels itself from beneath the robe, splashing all over the bathroom floor.
She gasps, a thick noise comes out of her throat and she doubles over, grabbing her stomach, then she screams. Looking surprised and still clutching her stomach, she vomits will staggering backwards, collapsing onto the bathroom floor. There are strands of tissue hanging out of her.
- I'm Christian Bale", Russel, says, taking [her hand].
"Oh right," she says. "Yeah, I thought I recognized you. You're the actor.
- The stars are real.
The future is that mountain.
Lunar Park (2005)Edit
- You do an awfully good impression of yourself.
- "I hear today's college women are 'prodigious.'"
"Prodigious? Is that what you heard?"
"Well, I read it in a magazine. It was something I wanted to believe."
"The Jayster. Always a dreamer."
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The powerful storm made for dicey driving conditions in Iowa, causing a 25-car pileup. In Wisconsin, the governor declared a state of emergency. And in the South, several tornadoes spawned from the same weather system. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.
The first major wintry storm of the season hammered the Midwest on Thursday, causing a pileup in blizzard conditions that killed three people, dumping a foot of snow in some areas and creating travel problems during one of the busiest periods of the year. Those travel woes could extend into the Northeast, with high winds and rain expected there Friday.
Nearly 600 flights were canceled at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Thursday, according to FlightStats, and an additional 700 were grounded at Kansas City International, Midway (Chicago), Detroit Metropolitan, Minneapolis-St. Paul International and other Midwest airports.
Southwest Airlines canceled all flights at Midway starting at 4:30 p.m. local time, NBCChicago.com reported.
Full coverage of the storm at The Weather Channel
The storm system also spawned a tornado that flipped vehicles in Mobile, Ala., and cut power to 400,000 homes and businesses. Some 130,000 were still without power Thursday afternoon.
At least six deaths were tied to the snowstorms: In Iowa, three people died Thursday in a pileup involving more than 30 vehicles on Interstate 35, NBC affiliate WHO-TV reported; in Wisconsin, slick road conditions led to two fatalities; and in Utah, a woman who tried to walk for help after her car became stuck in snow was found dead, officials said late Wednesday. Search and rescue crews on snowmobiles found her buried in the snow just a few miles from her car.
Snow, whipped by 50 mph wind gusts, have been causing white outs and leaving residents in the dark. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.
Blizzard or winter storm warnings were issued for 16 states on Thursday, Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel told TODAY.
Northeast cities can expect rain and high winds from the system Friday morning, said NBC meteorologist Bill Karins. Most of the snow should move into Canada Friday night.
A foot of snow fell on Des Moines, Iowa, by early Thursday and residents across the state were urged to stay off the roads.
"Because of the wind, travel is pretty treacherous, especially into Iowa, as the storm moves east," National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Dergan said.
The snow cover will drag temperatures much lower in Iowa and Nebraska, he added. "We're talking single digits. We may even see some sub-zero temperatures in Nebraska. This cold weather will stick around for several days, maybe until the day after Christmas. So we're definitely going to have a white Christmas."
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Some of the vehicles involved in a pileup on Interstate 35 in Iowa are seen Thursday.
Blowing snow led to school closures in parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. All state government offices also closed in Iowa. Storms in those four states left around 130,000 homes without power.
"Thundersnow" was reported in Iowa Wednesday night, as thunder and lightning accompanied the storm as it trekked across the state.
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This vehicle at a car dealership was flipped over by a storm in Mobile, Ala., on Thursday, Dec. 20.
In Alabama, a tornado peeled the roofs off homes and buildings and toppled vehicles in Mobile, but caused no serious injuries, Al.com reported. Arkansas also saw damage from high winds.
The storm system earlier delivered heavy snow and strong winds to parts of the West, where trucks tangled on icy roads on the Oregon and California state line.
Snowstorm prompts state of emergency in Wisconsin
In West Texas, winds from the same system kicked up a dust storm Wednesday that caused accidents along Interstate 27, resulting in one death and more than a dozen injuries, NBC affiliate KCBD reported.
At Dallas-Fort Worth airport, American Airlines said it canceled about 120 flights Wednesday night due to the storm.
In Nebraska, snow blowing sideways on Wednesday night forced the closure of a 146-mile stretch of Interstate 80, a major east-west highway.
Much of the nation is dealing with a big blast of winter as a massive snowstorm barrels from the Rockies to the Midwest, with some parts of Colorado buried under more than a foot of snow. NBC's Mike Seidel reports.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. Schools were canceled in advance of heavy snowfall and the University of Wisconsin-Madison postponed Thursday's final exams.
Before the storm, several Midwest cities had broken records for the number of consecutive days without measurable snow.
In Chicago, people made a run on snow shovels and salt ahead of what should be the first snow to hit the city in 290 days (the record is 296).
The storm has package delivery companies nervously checking the weather forecast during this busy time of year. "We're closely monitoring the storm," FedEx spokesman Scott Fiedler told NBC News. "We have a team of 15 meteorologists who track the weather around the world every day."
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The new drama series Elementary, premiering on CBS on September 27th, is a modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes. Just out of rehab, Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) has been assigned to live with sober coach, Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), and together they make a dream team for solving the NYPD's most impossible cases.
While at the CBS portion of the TCA Press Tour, executive producer/writer Rob Doherty talked about what drives this interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, what makes the character more than just a brilliant detective, how he came to be such a fan himself, how they're approaching the puzzle-solving aspect of the show, what led them to casting a woman as Watson, and how Moriarity will be different in a modern-day world. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Question: What is your interpretation of who Sherlock Holmes is and what drives him?
ROB DOHERTY: Our Sherlock is a puzzle-solver. I really think that is his obsession, to the point you might call it an addiction. In many senses, he has something of an addictive personality. In the source material, that turned into a real addiction. The original Sherlock dabbled with cocaine and opiates. Our Sherlock had those same problems, but one of the big differences is that our Sherlock hit a serious wall. I've always described him as someone for whom the world and life came quite easily because he could see so many things. He could take things down to their simplest elements. That makes not just investigation relatively simple, but living your life and navigating this world.
To his great surprise, the world is not as easy as he thought. Something terrible happened to him in London, and he spiraled out of control. Our Sherlock has emerged with what I think is, at his core, just a tiny kernel of self-doubt, where one previously never existed. It's not something we are going to speak to very often, but I think it's one of the things that drives him. I absolutely don't see him as a sociopath. I see him as someone who is driven to solve puzzles, to do the right thing, and to help people. I really do think, at the end of the day, that he believes in justice. It's not just about putting bad guys behind bars. Helping people and doing the right thing are factors that play into it as well.
What is uniquely Sherlock, as opposed to just a simply brilliant detective?
DOHERTY: For me, it's funny. I feel like I turned the dial on my television and I see Sherlock everywhere. I see his fingerprints on almost every procedural show. Not every one, but most shows have a Sherlock in them. They just happened to be called something else. What we have is a name that means something, a franchise that means something, and a mythology that people treasure and value. So, for us, there's a lot that comes along with the character. It seems foolish to not take advantage of the relationship that was built in the books, and the spirit of the smart source material. The source material is incredible. It's amazing work. These are stories and characters that work wherever you are and wherever the character is. Having always been a fan of the character, I've now seen him in the present, in the past, in the future, in comics, and in books. It tends to work. Conan Doyle knew what he was doing.
How did you come to be such a fan of Holmes, how did you come to be doing this series, and how did you come up with the twist of the show set in modern-day New York with a female Watson?
DOHERTY: I was always a huge fan of the character. It's hard not to be. I've spent most my career writing for genre shows. My longest stint was a show called Medium, which had a supernatural aspect to it, but at the end of the day, had a procedural engine. This felt like a very natural fit. There's nothing supernatural in this show, and yet Sherlock is unlike anyone any of us know will ever know. As far as the story and the genesis of the project, (executive producer) Carl [Beverly] is somebody that I've known for awhile, and we would meet to kick potential projects around. Carl had said he'd been thinking about Sherlock Holmes in New York City with "an Englishman in New York" vibe. I was immediately attracted to the idea because I've just always enjoyed the character, but I also know that, as a fan, because Sherlock lives in the public domain, he's been through many, many, many hands.
I think that's actually one of the upsides to the character. If so many people couldn't put their own spins on it, I don't know that he would exist in the popular culture, in the way he does. So, I was intrigued, but also wanted to make sure that, if we were going do this, I could have my own take on it. It took a little time. For me, it was absolutely about his drug use, which I know has been mentioned and acknowledged, once or twice, outside of the books. One of the things that jumped out at me from the books was that it never really dictated plot. It never really informed or altered the course of the story. Some of them are just throwaway lines. And his relationship with women was not great. It was very complicated. Understandably, he's a very complicated guy. The more handholds I could find, the more excited I got about our take. Everything came together quite nicely.
How are you approaching the puzzle-solving aspect of the show?
DOHERTY: It's one of the challenges of the show. I personally respect the shows that are strictly procedural. There are many on TV that are wildly successful and work a certain way. They're just not my bag. It's not what I like, when I tune in. These cases have to merit his attention. They have to open a very intricate piece of Origami to structure an episode for a brain like Sherlock. It's really hard, but it's not a good reason to not try to do it. We have a great staff. I have some stories that I've been wanting to do for awhile. I feel like we're on a good track.
Watson is not only a woman, but also not white. Will viewers see the racial and cultural differences? Will that become a tension between the two characters?
DOHERTY: As we began the casting process, there was no part on the show that was race-restricted because we all felt very strongly that it was irrelevant and incidental. You find the best Sherlock you can. You find the best Watson you can. We did that, obviously. So, I would shy away from something like that. Honestly, it's just not even in my head. If we did an episode where Sherlock met Joan's family, it would not be about him reacting to Chinese-American culture and what's different about it. Sherlock is a guy who's seen it all and been everywhere, and happens to live in New York, right now. If anything, he struggles a little bit with the New York of it all, compared to London, but as far as cultural differences go and race, it's just not going to play into it. Elementary is not going to be teaching cultural differences to the audience.
What kind of guy will Moriarty be, in this modern-day world?
DOHERTY: Wow. We want to keep all our secrets. I feel it's important, at the end of the day, to be true to the spirit of the character. There's a little more wiggle room with Moriarty in that, in so many of the books, he was such a shadowy figure. I think he was described as the spider at the center of the web of crime in London. Quite often, you're dealing with his agents. He has a finger in every pie. He's the man behind the man behind the man. We may be able to make some use of that. In other words, there are a few dominos that we will knock over before we ultimately get to him. Because I want everyone to be surprised, it's hard to give too many clues or descriptive terminology, when it comes to Moriarty.


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To date it would appear that it is not Bernard Stamm's lack of skills or materials which have prevented him completing repairs to his hydrogenerators but rather the weather which has chased him from one spot to another. So it would appear again that the Swiss skipper was required to move again. Stronger NE'ly winds and a building swell have required Stamm to move eight miles from his anchorage at Murdering Beach to now stop off Allan's Beach on Wharekakthu Island. He has been the subject of considerable local interest, steadfastly refusing all offers of food, drink and any kind of help at all that would break the strict Vendée Globe race rules.
Stamm has been interviewed by 3News and The Otago Daily Times reported their encounter with the round the world racer:
"When asked if he had had a shower since his departure, he shook his head and pointed to the sea before making scrubbing motions. He often dreamed of having a cold beer. He said: ''A beer would be nice now, but it would taste better at the end.''
Being at sea alone was lonely at times, but he was grateful he could communicate via his laptop with his wife and two children. However, the damaged hydro-generator meant he has had to cut back on the amount of communication with his family. He was looking forward to finishing the repairs so he could make contact with them more often. He hoped to be back on the high seas some time today, he said."
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So far the two leaders have managed to resisted their expected slow down, but the light winds are widely forecasted for the complicated transition zone ahead of them. Of the two it is Le Cléac'h who was faster by nearly one knot over the 'night' period between the 2000hrs and 0500hrs rankings. The duo have still made just over 400 miles each for their 24 hours up to 0500hrs, 100 miles more than Virbac-Paprec 3 but the tables are expected to be turned. Indeed Dick and Thomson, are already three knots or more quicker this morning. The leading pair have chosen the southern option which is more direct but the quiet zone will be at its worst for them today between noon and midnight. Their pain should not last too long as a new low pressure should press them on their way tomorrow with NW'ly winds of more than 30kts.
Approaching the Pacific West Gate today Jean-Pierre Dick's fortunes continue to yo-yo. After a loss of nearly 200 miles over the last 36 hours Dick will seize every opportunity presented by the 25-30kts of NW'ly winds which he has, placed nicely on the edge of the new depression which will catch up to the leaders later tomorrow. Dick has already been making close to 20kts this morning and so too Alex Thomson has had Hugo Boss wound up to between 17 and 19 knots. And both the third and fourth placed skippers are already winding in miles from the leaders.
Just less than 2000 miles behind the leaders fifth placed Jean Le Cam is now looking to the next wind shift as he angles SE to prepare for the Pacific West. Mike Golding on Gamesa has continued to make small gains on Le Cam who is now 350 miles ahead, but the British skipper has been slowed this morning in the downwind conditions. Golding is still perhaps compromised in the moderate wind strengths against both Le Cam and Switzerland's Dominique Wavre who remains 49 miles behind Gamesa in terms of distance to finish, but is on a similar longitude but further to the south of the Briton. Javier Sanso is currently just to the south of the Auckland Islands, gybing downwind in winds of 20kts which will hold firm for at least 24hours, probably precluding the Spanish skipper's planned mast climb to repair his damaged mast track.
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New study from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Nevada, and the Nevada Department of Wildlife shows mountain lions dispersing from Nevada to California
Mountain Lion. Credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS
Using data collected over the course of seven years, the study looked at DNA in tissue samples collected from 739 mountain lions. In the first-of-its-kind study at this scale, the authors used only the gathered genetic information to discover population structures and history, and to identify what areas in the region serve as "sinks" (habitat that animals move to at a greater rate than they disperse from) and "sources" (areas that animals disperse from at a greater rate to live elsewhere).
The study, "Identification of Source-Sink Dynamics in Mountain Lions of the Great Basin" appears online in August's early-view edition of the journal Molecular Ecology. Authors of the study include: Alyson M. Andreasen of the University of Nevada; Jon P. Beckmann of WCS; and Matthew L. Forester, William S. Longland, and Kelley M. Stewart of the University of Nevada.
The scientists expected to see an influx of lions from California, where lions are not hunted, into Nevada where mountain lion hunting is allowed and leaves vacant territories for outside lions to claim. The opposite occurred. Lions mostly moved in a north and south direction following the topography of the many mountain ranges throughout the area, resulting in distinct genetic populations. However, when moving between populations in an east or west direction, the results suggested that more lions moved west from Central Nevada to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, than vice versa—potentially taking advantage of better habitat quality.
Study author and University of Nevada PhD student Alyson Andreasen said, "The results are surprising and telling in that in most situations where you have hunting, the animals move in the direction of the resultant vacant territories. While this appears to be occurring in other areas of the state, habitat differences between the Sierra Nevada and the arid Great Basin may be attracting dispersal age mountain lions west into California whereas the abrupt ecotone may act as a barrier for lions residing in the Sierra Nevada."
Study co-author and WCS Scientist Jon Beckmann said, "In this case, a hunted population is the source for the non-hunted/protected population. This is somewhat counterintuitive: Some might think that in remote mountainous terrain of Nevada, the impacts of hunting on lion populations would outweigh those associated with more people and roadways in the Sierra of California but this appears to not be the case."
The scientists are currently working on questions arising from this study and on studies to discern how mountain lions interact with other species and select habitat in the region.
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I asked Guillen about whether Jake Peavy or Mark Buehrle would be his Opening Day starter in 2010. The usually politically incorrect manager went politically correct on me, basically saying that Peavy will be the ace of the staff, but that Buehrle deserves Opening Day status due to his 10 solid years of service. Guillen promised to make the decision on his Opening Day starter early on in spring training.
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Rita Soni '92 Reflects on Her Journey to CEO of Indian Trade Group
Rita Soni, Class of 1992, was recently appointed CEO of the NASSCOM Foundation, the social development arm of NASSCOM, the internationally recognized trade body of the Indian IT-BPO industry. It was established to transform the lives of the underserved through the application of Information and Communication Technology.
Even leading up to this, Rita's journey has been full of great opportunities and experiences.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rita also lived in Texas for awhile before finding herself in Morris County, New Jersey with her American-Indian family. As a family, they visited India about every four years.
At a very young age, Rita had a practical mindset. Her father was the one to tell her that she should be an engineer. She initially wanted to study math in college, but after taking an electrical engineering class at Stevens Institute of Technology, she realized that math was very much incorporated, which sparked an interest and ultimately led to her decision to major in electrical engineering instead.
She found Stevens to be the perfect mix of a small school next to the "big city." She was very involved at Stevens, especially with the Indian Association, serving as president of the organization. Although her family was Americanized, she appreciated the integrated atmosphere at Stevens and being around those students for whom English was not their first language.
Rita also joined the Cooperative Education (co-op) program, which she cannot say enough about: "Now being in the real world, I see how great of an opportunity the co-op program is for young people. Gaining practical experience at a young age is so important."
Rita herself was able to work with four different companies while at Stevens, where she got hands-on experience in areas such as research, support function, and design.
This experience helped Rita land a position with General Electric at the time of her graduation. She was placed into a technical leadership program and the rest is history. She embarked upon her professional journey with G.E., moving from several positions within the company to the Corporate Audit Staff where she was able to travel all over the U.S. and in Europe.
"My engineering background was extremely important during this time as I was working on financial audits and process reviews along with a band of internal consultants," said Rita.
After working with the audit staff for a few years, she moved to NYC to work in operations and finance at NBC.
Starting to reflect on "what next," she had her heart set on a Master's degree, which she obtained in International Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
During her time at Columbia, Rita transitioned into a new area of her life by working for the U.N. The following summer her perspective began to shift again after she spent a few months in India with a non-profit organization.
Once she graduated from Columbia, Rita became a founding team member of the International Fellowships Program (IFP) at the Ford Foundation and focused on worldwide affirmative action for communities excluded from higher education.
Added to her prior experiences, these opportunities began to add up for Rita. She always wanted to live abroad, but found excuses to not make that leap. Finally, an opportunity arose and she realized it was the right time to make a change. There was an opening in the American Indian Foundation (A.I.F.), which would make her the first American working in the position. She moved to India in January 2006, shifting her career path to non-profit.
Her job focused on communication, bridging the gaps between the organization's offices in India and counterparts in America. Ironically, she had her own communication gap as she transitioned her life into the Indian lifestyle. Here she was able to travel to every corner of India and really learn what development was all about.
At this time, a corporate bank based in India was seriously looking at how they could have an impact in that country. This was exactly what Rita needed to hear to find her next step.
She gained an important leadership position within YES Bank, spearheading a pioneering business approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability and was part of the core team that offered innovative financial solutions to address a wide spectrum of issues regarding sustainable livelihoods, food security, public health, education, and climate change.
"I have a completely different outlook on what the issues are in India and how embedded and complex they are. In terms of solving problems, I realized that it would take a lot of time to see changes."
Her time in India had been truly eye opening – and continues to be – as she has met many innovative individuals working to solve issues on education, health care, poverty, and the environment.
"The professionalism in India is quite personal to me," says Rita. "The level of distress in India is overwhelming. I see the need to make a difference whether it is on a daily basis or at least on the path of making that difference."
Recently, the NASSCOM Foundation recruited Rita to be its Chief Executive Officer. Rita's position calls for strengthening the efforts of the IT Industry towards inclusive growth and bridging the gaps between private sectors and non-profits to contribute to the cause of social development.
She also focuses on creating innovative, effective, and scalable programs that leverage ICTs for education, health, employability, and entrepreneurship for under-served communities. As part of this, she will further enhance relationships between NASSCOM members and the NASSCOM Foundation in all its endeavors including programs and fund-raising.
Rita has successfully found her passion in helping others in a place where she can be surrounded by professionals. Other than missing Mexican food and being apart from her family and friends in the U.S., she has truly enjoyed this part of her journey in India.
Her time at Stevens enabled her to cultivate relationships she still values to this day. She remarks, "If I did not partake in co-op, really engage with the Indian Association, or had not been in such a diverse university as Stevens I would not be the person I am today."
Looking back on her college days, she talks about how much Stevens has continued to evolve: "It is so wonderful to see the variety of courses available from engineering to humanities, the amount of sports, and campus involvement. If I can give you my advice, take part in the co-op program, get the technical background, and expand your horizons to see the world outside of you."
"The mindset you obtain as an engineer to solve real-life problem makes SUCH a difference," Rita states. "Being in India now, I can say that engineers are very valuable. Undoubtedly, Stevens has been a huge part of my journey and success."


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On Wednesday, the World Bank once again downgraded its global economic growth forecast for 2016. The downgrade resulted from the World Bank's prediction of weak performance from major emerging market economies, like China and Brazil. The reduced performance of these economies will reduce overall performance of the global economy and perpetuate the sluggish improvement of more advanced economies such as the United States.
According to the World Bank, and as reported by Reuters, global growth should accelerate to 2.9 percent in 2016, expanding from 2.4 percent in 2015. While any growth is a positive result, it is disappointing compared to earlier predictions from June of 2015 that anticipated growth at rates as high as 3.3 percent.
The Bank commented that: "Given the size and global economic integration of the largest emerging markets—Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa, or the so-called BRICS—the simultaneous slowdown underway in all but one of them could have significant spillovers to the rest of the world."
According to the Bank's forecast, the Russian and Brazilian economies would contract in 2016. Earlier predictions had anticipated a small amount of growth for these nations. The reversal is so significant that the World Bank actually predicts possible contraction of 0.7 percent this year for Russia. That is actually a significant improvement over the 3.8 percent contraction the Russian economy endured in 2015.
Similarly, the forecast predicted that Brazil's GDP would decline by 2.5 percent in 2016. In June, the World Bank had predicted growth of 1.1 percent for the South American nation in 2016. However, conditions have not improved enough to reach that rate of growth, particularly following contraction estimated at 3.7 percent in 2015.
Of course, China is anticipated to represent the biggest drag on the global economy. While the Asian juggernaut will experience GDP growth of about 6.7 percent in 2016, this is down from a prediction in June of 7.0 percent. Given the relative size of the Chinese economy, this represents a huge loss to the international economy.
Of the world's largest emerging markets, India was the only one predicted to experience reasonable amounts of growth. In 2015, the World Bank had only estimated growth of 7.3 percent, but adjusted that number up to 7.8 percent on Wednesday.
Because of all of the struggling emerging markets, more developed countries' predictions also shrank. For example, the experts once predicted that the U.S. economy would experience 2.8 percent growth, but those forecasts shrank to 2.07 percent on Wednesday. Eurozone economies shrank in a similar fashion, down to 1.7 percent from an earlier prediction of 1.8.


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Apple paid $356 million to buy AuthenTec Inc, a company that creates high-tech fingerprint authentication products.
According to a securities filing, Apple was hurrying the deal in late July, according to the Los Angeles Times. From the Securities and Exchange Commission filing:
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Representatives of Apple also noted Apple's desire to proceed quickly due to its product plans and ongoing engineering efforts. As a result of its focus on timing, Apple's representatives also informed the Company that Apple would not participate in an auction process and would rescind its proposal if the board decided to solicit alternative acquisition proposals for the Company.
Although the company never specifically singles out the fingerprint technology, it does specify intellectual property and patents -- one of which is a "smart sensor" that picks up the "live layer" of skin so it can read fingerprints even when calloused, dry or oily, ensuring accuracy. The technology also allows you to assign different fingers to do different functions. That means people could "securely launch eBay (including user log-in and password) by swiping their index finger, launch Yahoo with their thumb, or speed dial their spouse with a swipe of their ring finger."
Whoa! That's a bit high-tech even for Apple, right? The rumors are that this technology is going to appear on the new iPhone, which would make its capabilities much more interesting.


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EBay Inc. and Intel Corp. launched a recycling program Thursday to motivate Americans to safely dispose of mounting piles of used computers and other electronic gadgets.
LAS VEGAS EBay Inc. and Intel Corp. launched a recycling program Thursday to motivate Americans to safely dispose of mounting piles of used computers and other electronic gadgets.
U.S. consumers retire or replace roughly 133,000 personal computers per day, according to research firm Gartner Inc. EBay lists roughly $2.5 billion worth of new and used computers every year, as well as $2.5 billion worth of consumer electronics such as cellular phones, gaming equipment and hand-held computers.
But because relatively few people are willing to pay for professional recycling, and many don't want to dispose of hard drives that contain personal data, machines often end up in basements, garages and spare bedrooms. If improperly disposed, PCs can leak a plethora of toxins into the environment, including lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury.
"You don't want to throw them out, and you don't know what to do with them," said eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, who launched the "Rethink" initiative at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The effort is centered around a Web site, at http://ebay.com/rethink , where Americans with unused gadgets can get information on how to get rid of them safely. The site includes a downloadable program that will erase all data from hard drives, ensuring that the owners' financial and other data can't be shared.
Other corporate sponsors include Apple Computer Inc., Gateway Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., International Business Machines Corp. and Ingram Micro Inc., as well as the U.S. Postal Service, which in some cases will help deliver PCs to eBay drop-off locations or recycling centers.
According to a study commissioned by San Jose, Calif.-based Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, roughly half of all U.S. households have working but unused consumer electronics products. Roughly 400 million gizmos will be thrown out by 2010.
The gizmos, ranging from old MP3 players and home media centers to million-dollar servers at large corporations, can be resold. Or eBay will connect owners with charities, such as educational nonprofits that distribute used PCs to poor communities.
Or consumers can simply dispose of products at nearby recycling centers, which will be listed on the site. Rethink will only link to recyclers that promise not to dump the machines in landfills in developing nations -- a growing source of environmental toxins in China and southeast Asia.
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Whoa – it looks like Scott McClellan won't be getting a White House Christmas card this year. The former Bush press secretary is being shunned by administration officials from the president on down in response to his new tell-all memoir.
"This is not the Scott we knew," said current Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino on Wednesday – perhaps implying that this was another Scott McClellan, constructed in the secret basement lab of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.
But as Mr. McClellan fires back in kind – maybe he'll burn his White House pass live on CNN's "The Situation Room" – let's stop and look at one of his most substantive criticisms: that the Bush administration's strategy for selling the Iraq war was "less than candid and honest."
McClellan's not really the only ex-insider saying that. In important ways, this statement mirrors points made in a recent book by a former official who's otherwise supportive of the administration: Douglas Feith, ex-undersecretary of Defense for policy.
The similarities deal with prewar marketing. Both books say that the administration overemphasized the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and played down other reasons for invading Iraq.
In his book "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan dubs the effort a "political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people."
Bush and his team tried to make the dangers of Mr. Hussein's biological, chemical, and nuclear programs "appear just a little more certain, a little less questionable than they were," McClellan writes.
Over at the Pentagon, Undersecretary Feith saw aspects of the same thing. Not that he opposed the invasion: To the contrary, he remains a strong supporter of the decision to topple Hussein, whom he considered an overall very scary guy.
But Feith points a finger of accusation at Colin Powell. In preparing his memorable Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the United Nations, Mr. Powell chose to focus on secret intelligence info on alleged mobile poison labs and such, he recounts in his book "War and Decision."
"He did not have to focus so dramatically on specific CIA findings on WMD.... Instead, the case he made relied heavily on intelligence-based particulars – leaving us open to devastating attacks if those particulars turned out to be wrong," Feith writes.
Of course, Feith probably did not envision that those attacks might come from a certain oval-faced press secretary who'd known George W. Bush since his Texas days. He was probably thinking more along the lines of ... France. Or maybe John Kerry.
Meanwhile, in Sweden, where she's traveling, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that she wasn't going to comment on a book that she hadn't read, meaning McClellan's.
Then she commented that McClellan was wrong in insisting that the administration wasn't forthright about the reasons for the war. "The concern about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq was the fundamental reason [for the invasion]," she said.


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Pope Benedict's final act may be one of his best gifts to the church.
I'm actually a bit shocked—that anyone is shocked. He practically signaled when he got the job that he didn't necessarily intend to die in office. On the contrary, Benedict spoke openly, both during the waning years of Pope John Paul II's papacy and after his own election, of the possibility of a pope resigning.
After all, the pope is a bishop, and bishops, according to canon law, are required to submit their resignations on their 75th birthdays. Benedict—elected at 78—always foresaw the possibility of stepping down, especially since he was elected three years after that mandatory retirement age.
Papal surprise aside, to my mind Benedict's action is a healthy and maybe deliberate diminishment of the person of the pope—the man who actually exercises the ministry. The pope has, especially since the declaration of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council, acquired a quasi-inspired status, as if he had a direct line to the Holy One. That aura grew to a new level of unhealthiness under Pope John Paul II, whose papacy centered in so many ways on his particular personality.
Benedict, on the other hand, has reminded us that the pope, like any bishop, merely holds an office in the church—albeit an extremely important one. But he is also a regular human being, a fact Benedict put with breathtaking humility and simplicity in the announcement of his resignation: "I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry."
Pope Benedict's resignation tells me that he knows his role, both as bishop of Rome and as successor to Pope John Paul II. Joseph Ratzinger was elected as a short-term caretaker pope, and nearly eight years is a sufficient amount of time to let the echo of Pope John Paul II's perhaps too-long papacy fade. While I think Pope John Paul II saw himself as personally called by God to live out the end of his papacy as he did—and there was indeed something beautiful about his death and how he was cared for by the crowds outside his window—Benedict, on the other hand, leaned into the job with the mind of a professor: The work he set for himself to do is done; now it
is time for someone else.
Benedict may have given one of his best gifts to the church now, at the end of his time as pope, by demystifying the office of the papacy. He wasn't "abandoning the flock," as one Italian parliamentarian put it in the Reuters story. On the contrary, his resignation is an act of pastoral care and concern, both for the church as a whole and for himself. Indeed, I hope it will become a new papal "tradition," especially given the long lives contemporary popes can expect to have and the ever-shifting needs of the church.
Questions now turn on how the pope emeritus will influence his successor—or worse, whether he will be a new center of power in the Vatican. (The New York Times even asked the ludicrous question of whether Benedict would still be infallible, as if papal infallibility is a personal attribute.)
The two-pope worry is actually nothing to worry about because, simply put, as Benedict demonstrated, there is only one papal office. Besides, I imagine that he wants to be left alone with his books and his time for prayer, even as he lives just a stone's throw away in a Vatican convent.
However we judge Benedict's service to the church, it was always offered in integrity and charity—even if some of the results were not always to our liking. At any rate, his last act has been among his best, for which I for one am grateful.
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Sitting in their living room in Hampden, Sandi Carver asked one of her two daughters, Ella, 7, whether there was anything different about their family.
"We have two moms, that's all," Ella said.
Is our love different than any other family's love? Sandi, 37, asked. Her partner, Suzanne, sat nearby.
"No," Ella replied.
For Ella and her sister, Maya, 5, there was never a question during the ultimately successful, and historic, same-sex marriage campaign about why their mothers should be able to marry. They understand the issue in terms of fairness and love.
What did "yes on Question 1" mean?
"I love you," Maya said.
Hearing a child speak about the legalization of same-sex marriage puts the matter in perspective. It's simply about caring for each other. During the campaign, Ella wanted to know why people didn't want her mothers to be able to marry.
It was a difficult question for Sandi and Suzanne — known respectively as Mommy and Momma to their girls — to answer. They explained that people don't always agree with other people's lives and that some people are opposed to gay marriage for religious reasons.
The campaign took an emotional toll on the Carver family, and many families, as they tried to convince voters of what their daughters inherently understood. Suzanne said she dreaded the thought of the initiative failing, not necessarily because she wouldn't be able to marry her partner of 12 years, but because she would have to find a way to explain the decision to her daughters.
For Suzanne and Sandi, the vote was not only about being able to one day have a wedding ceremony. It was about the state's recognition of their family's equality and legitimacy.
"We have intentionally chosen to be together and be partners," Suzanne said. "Marriage would just give us the rights to strengthen what we've built."
With Sandi in graduate school, they don't have time now to plan a wedding. But when they do get married, "it will be a huge celebration about love," Sandi said.
Suzanne and Sandi are proud of their state for the very important step forward taken Tuesday.
Yet the situation is bittersweet. They will still lack full, federally given rights. The reality remains that 47 percent of the state does not support them. And they face the awkwardness of celebrating a vote they wish had not been required in the first place. The work isn't done.
Ella is used to classmates being curious about her two moms. Does she think the vote will change anything at school?
"I don't know. Maybe after a long time they'll understand," she said.
One thing won't change: her loving family. In that way, the law is only catching up to the reality of families everywhere. "If we had a family value, it would be love," Suzanne said. "We really knew, regardless of the vote, our family would not change at all."


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One of Bravo's biggest stars from "The Real House Wives of Atlanta," NeNe Leakes, found herself playing mom and hard knocks teacher this week after her son Bryson was arrested on alleged minor marijuana possession.
Access Hollywood caught up with NeNe at the Bravo Upfront Party in NYC earlier this week where she said she was taking a hard line approach with her son.
"I was young before and I've made mistakes, and my son has made a mistake… and as a parent I do have to say, 'No,' and 'It's not right,'" NeNe said. "But at the same time I'm a mom and I love him and I know he make mistakes. Hopefully we can help another family out there… I'm showing tough love 'cause I'm a tough mom. Be very scared"
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Orioles hit 5 HRs in 9-1 win over Rays
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The Baltimore Orioles have a knack for moving forward instead of looking back, a trait that just might be more important than their home-run power and solid pitching.
"The strength of his team is the ability to forget," center fielder Adam Jones said after Baltimore snapped a three-game losing streak with a 9-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.
Delmon Young, J.J. Hardy and Chris Davis homered in succession during a six-run fifth inning as the AL East-leading Orioles bounced back from a lamentable weekend in which they totaled only four runs and 13 hits in three losses to the last-place Chicago Cubs.
"Something happens, forget it, move on," Jones said. "It's three games. Hip hip hooray. It's not the end of the world."
Baltimore hit five homers in all against the Rays, four off rookie Jake Odorizzi (9-11). Nick Markakis and Steve Pearce delivered back-to-back shots in the third to spark the Orioles to their ninth win in 13 games against Tampa Bay this season.
"It's good because it seemed like y'all went in panic mode when we got swept in Chicago," Young said. "We weren't scoring many runs, but it happens and then we're back in our division at home facing a guy we've seen before, a team we play, we know their tendencies and everything. And we've got better facilities here than Wrigley."
Chris Tillman (11-5) yielded an unearned run and three hits in seven innings. He is 4-0 in eight starts since July 18.
"All our pitchers have been good," Hardy said, "but every fifth day when he takes the mound we feel like we've got a great chance to win."
Baltimore led 3-1 before pulling away in the fifth. Three straight singles produced a run before Young hit a three-run drive to left. Hardy chased Odorizzi with a shot to center, and Davis greeted Kirby Yates with his 22nd home run.
It was the first time since May 2012 that the Orioles homered in three successive at-bats.
Odorizzi yielded eight runs and 11 hits, both career highs, as were the four home runs.
"Jake has been hit a little bit this year, but he hasn't been hit like that in a long while," manager Joe Maddon said.
Odorizzi said: "It was an overall lousy night. I'm frustrated because I feel like I let the guys down. We need every win we can get now and I didn't keep us in the game."
Not unlike the Orioles, the Rays sought to quickly put this one behind them.
"We just take this one and throw it in the trash and come back tomorrow," Maddon said.
The Orioles added a fielding gem in the sixth when Jones made a leaping catch at the wall to rob Evan Longoria of a homer. Jones then threw out Matt Joyce, who tagged up from first base.
After the Rays scored in the third, Baltimore went up 3-1 in the bottom half. Markakis snapped an 0-for-21 skid with a two-run drive and Pearce followed with his 15th homer, the fourth in his last eight games.
Rays: C Ryan Hanigan (left oblique strain) could return from the disabled list as soon as Tuesday, Maddon said. But OF David DeJesus (left hand fracture) likely wouldn't be activated until rosters expand on Sept. 1. Also, Ben Zobrist got his first start in CF since 2010 because Desmond Jennings was promised a night off and RF Kevin Kiermaier had a stiff neck.
Orioles: 3B Manny Machado is scheduled to have season-ending knee surgery Wednesday and will rehab at the team complex in Sarasota, Florida. He hopes to cheer on the team at home games in October.


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Demi Lovato is not happy about Lady Gaga's puking segment during her SXSW concert.
The singer took to Twitter to vent her frustrations about the shocking incident, saying that Mother Monster glorified bulimia.
"Sad... As if we didn't have enough people glamorizing eating disorders already. Bottom line, it's not 'cool' or 'artsy' at all," she wrote.
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But Lovato's war of words against the pop star didn't end there.
She added, "Would you let someone bring a needle and shoot up on you? Addiction is addiction."
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The Lovatics are known for being a rather zealous group of fans, just as Gaga's Little Monsters, so it was only a matter of time before tweeters retaliated by attacking the former Disney darling.
But Lovato, who's never been afraid of speaking her mind, fought back to the haters.
"It's not 'shade' and it's not 'hate,'" she explained.
"But if someone has to come forward and say it...I'll take the heat for it. Putting the word ART in it isn't a free card to do whatever you want without consequences."
She then tweeted directly to Gaga and said, "you're SO talented, if not one of the most talented in our industry PERIOD. Dope is INCREDIBLE.. but you don't have to do that."
During today's keynote speech at SXSW, Gaga herself shared how the now infamous vomiting act came about.
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"I've known Millie [Brown] for I think like five years now and we've actually collaborated before...she was just in town and so we thought we would collaborate again," she told the audience.
"It was just exciting to see people talk about performance art on the internet. We really just did it because we believe in the performance and we believe in what it meant to the song."
However, even Gaga knew that she had pushed the envelope far. During her sit-down chat, she admitted that she was worried her team wouldn't approve of her latest onstage antics.
"I asked my publicist if she quit in the middle of the show!" she said while laughing.