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=== Major Traffic Events ===
=== Major Traffic Events ===
A Major Traffic Event (MTE) is an event that involves road closures.
A Major Traffic Event (MTE) is an event that involves road closures.
Before making any MTE, please coordinate with local champs first. This is to prevent duplication of events and to make sure all closures are created and placed correctly.
Before making any MTE, please coordinate with local champs first. This is to prevent duplication of events and to make sure all closures are created and placed correctly.
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Map Editing Guide for the Philippines
It is presumed you have read Best map editing practice before reading this section. While most of the content in the Global Waze Wiki are applicable for the Philippine road network, the Waze map still needs to be tweaked and customized for the Philippines. Below is the general guideline for Waze map editing in the Philippines. This supersedes any generic guide wiki entries not specific to the Philippines.
Note to all would-be editors in the Philippines
Waze map editing differs from traditional cartography and other online cartography programs in that we don't just map as we see. Many well-meaning editors have attempted to edit the Waze map without carefully perusing the guidelines first, causing damage to the map and messing up navigation instead. That being said, once you have gotten the hang of the rules, much of it is common sense and logic. It is, however, expected of every editor in the Philippines to be part of the community because Waze is ever-evolving and so are community guidelines.
General Guidelines on Road Editing
1. Creating roads: You may use aerial images or GPS tracks as a guide, or you may use your recorded drives. When drawing roads, pay careful attention where you trace. Generally it is recommended that you trace right where the GPS tracks are thickest (if available). Please make sure the Roads layer is on before tracing a new road to prevent making duplicate/overlapping roads. Note also that we don't necessarily trace exactly what we see. See Best map editing practice for specifics.
2. Setting the road type:
- Freeways – Toll Roads or Expressways where a toll fee needs to be paid
- Ramps – On and off ramps from Freeways, segments that are not at-grade or ground level, used to connect segments with different levels
- Major Highway – DPWH Primary Roads or roads that connect cities of > 100,000 population
- Minor Highway – DPWH Secondary Roads or roads that connects other cities (i.e. <100,000 population), ports, ferry terminals, airports, tourist service centers, and other national government infrastructure to the primary network.
- Primary Street – Main thoroughfares of a city or municipality and/or DPWH Tertiary Roads
- Street – ordinary street, mainly residential
- Off-road / Not maintained – drivable roads but not used for routing, except when 'allow dirt roads' option is enabled or if destination is on the dirt road.
- Parking Lot Road – drivable roads within a commercial or private parking lots, used for routing but with a high time penalty. If the parking lot is covered, do not create any parking lot roads or if it is a parking building or structure and it does not have a roofdeck, do not create any parking lot roads. Map only the main roads leading to and out of the parking area, DO NOT map all the lanes inside the parking area.
- Private Road – drivable roads within gated communities, subdivisions, villages, or compounds. Not used for routing except when destination is on the private road. All roads within the area must be the same private road type. Put '(sticker required)' on the main entrances to these areas where a pass or sticker is required.
- Ferry - Ferries that meet any of these conditions should generally not be mapped
- Passenger ferries without vehicles
- Ferries requiring pre-booking
- Private ferries unavailable to the general public
- Ferries over two hours in duration If the ferry does not meet any of the above conditions, it can be added to the map
- Walking Trails, Pedestrian Boardwalk, Stairway, Railroad, Runway/Taxiway – other non drivable and non-routable roads, do not map these unless they are used to landmark an area or to help in navigation. If the road is too narrow like an alleyway and only motorbikes and tricycles can drive through it, use Street instead and restrict access to it so that only select vehicles can be routed on it.
3. Setting road type attributes:
- Toll Road - Expressways where toll fees are collected
- Unpaved - If the road is a highway, primary, or a street but is unpaved. Different from off-road where only specialized vehicles can pass through
- Tunnel - If the road is underground
4. Setting directionality: This is fairly straightforward for most roads. However, take note of the rules for splitting segments before mapping two parallel one-way segments going in opposite directions. Many Philippine roads should be mapped as two-way segments despite being split in reality (e.g. subdivisions with a guard house between the entrance and exit)
5. Setting the elevation level (Ground, Tunnel = -1, Flyover = 1, 2, 3, etc.): Only tunnels or underground roads are to be set to -1. If one road passes over another, the bottom road is Ground and the one that passes over is 1. Tunnels should at least be 100m in length, otherwise leave them as ground level unless they pass under a segment already on ground level.
6. Setting speed limits: Do this in accordance with REPUBLIC ACT No. 4136 Chapter IV Article 1 (Section 35) Restriction as to speed. Check here for details.
7. Connecting or creating junctions (attaching to existing roads): Before attempting to connect roads, make sure both roads are within your editing level. If any segment is above your level you will not be able to make a connection (they are not connected even if they look like they are). All you will have succeeded in doing was to put an end node on top of a segment. You will know that you have successfully made a connection/junction when you see the roads "snap" together, and turn direction arrows appear.
Do not make a connection/junction between non-routable road types (e.g. Walking Trails, Pedestrian Boardwalk, Stairway, Railroad, and Runway/Taxiway) and routable road types, even if they are connected in real life. This will cause routing problems.
8. Setting turn restrictions and u-turns on junctions: This is straightforward - red is disallowed, green is allowed. The easiest and fastest way to allow all turns is to click on the junction node and hit 'w' on your keyboard. This will set all turns to enabled or green.
Leaving a turn restriction disabled does not mean that Waze will not route to it, Waze might still route a turn to it since it is connected. Hence, for cases where driving through is physically impossible (e.g. there is a gate or wall between segments), the segments need to be totally disconnected from and placed 5m apart.
For u-turns at junctions (those fish-hook u turns at the ends of segments), the default is still to leave them disabled.
9. Naming roads: If you don't know the street name, add the city name and mark the street name as 'None'. Somebody else could edit it. Do not leave segments in red (unnamed). Do not name roundabouts, the road name will not wrap around the roundabout segments and will not look right on the map. It will also break the routing instructions for the roundabout.
Follow the PH Road Naming convention when adding road names -
- Always use the official name as the street name (DPWH Name)
- Do not use multiple street names separated with a slash "/"
- If there are local (LGU) or other name for the street, add them as an alternative name
- Use punctuation for initials except for cardinal directions
- N, E, W, S, NE, NW, SE, and SW without punctuation will be read as cardinal directions
- Excluding route numbers, maximum length of street name should NOT exceed 5 words (street name)
- Do not use the word 'to' (preposition) as the beginning of a street name, unless it is an actual street name
- Do not use the word 'exit' (e.g. 'Exit to...') in the street name. It can be used when the street is commonly known to have one e.g. 'Marilao Exit'
- Refer to the Philippines TTS List for a complete list of supported abbreviations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FsYSMh1aR7l-ZF9NAHT63h8xSVFD5S8ixeJlsM98o4w/edit?usp=sharing
10. When naming streets, omit "City" and "Street". e.g. "Pasig City" to "Pasig" only and "Dela Rosa Street" to "Dela Rosa" only. Except when they are not "Streets" like "Kamias Road", "Aurora Boulevard", "Ayala Avenue", etc. If you are going to abbreviate, make sure you follow Waze Abbreviations and TTS standards so that our street names are ready for TTS (Text To Speech).
The City field should only contain the CITY or MUNICIPAL Name and NOT the AREA, SUBDIVISION, DISTRICT or BARANGAY NAME nor should it be combined with the PROVINCIAL Name.
Take extra care on the City labels of your edits. Unlike Street names which reflects edits (or corrections) quicker and appears on the next update, City names embeds much longer on the City tiles in the servers. So misspelled City names reflected during an update will appear for a long time in the client app despite any corrections made.
Stick to the official (but shortest possible) name of the jurisdiction being edited. If you are unsure of the political boundaries of the "city" you are editing, leave it at that for the moment. let's leave it to the more experienced and knowledgeable editors to sort this matter out.
On the matter of city labels, we omit the word "city" to derive the shortest possible official political name of the area. The only exceptions are Quezon, Cebu, Davao, Cavite, etc as these cities have a provincial counterpart. This will distinguish Quezon City with the province of Quezon, Cebu City with the province of Cebu, and so on. All other cities or municipalities will stand on its own without the label "City" or "Municipality", provided it does not have a same Province name.
Currently Waze has a global issue with cities having duplicate names (with the exception of North America). We are hoping to resolve this in the future by having the Province label (equivalent to State) activated. For the time being, to address this issue, the province's initial, to which the city or municipality belongs to, is added (suffixed) to the name. e.g. Alaminos (L) for Laguna, Alaminos (P) for Pangasinan. Kindly refer to this link of repeating city names for a complete listing of all the cities and municipalities within the Philippines.
11. Splitting roads: Most Philippine roads can be mapped as a single road despite being split in reality. Do not split roads unless they are Expressways, Major, and Minor Highways. Even if they are Major or Minor highways, do not split them if they do not have wide median barriers. Split roads complicate routes and are harder to maintain. Some formal guidelines for splitting roads in the Philippines
A road should be split if:
- There is at least 5 meters of non-drivable surface between directions of travel. (This means a median of some type like cement, planter boxes, trees, or just grass.
- GPS tracks show a clearly definable gap/blank area between the color-by-azimuth arrows at the 100m zoom level.
- U-Turns are required to properly make turns that are blocked by a median.
A road should not be split because:
- There is a curb or non-drivable media less than 5m wide between lanes of travel. This means a turn lane, even a wide one, between directions of travel, does not count because it is drivable.
- There are a lot of roads intersecting which can only turn onto the nearest direction of travel.
- Google Maps or other mapping source show it as a split road
- The non-drivable median is interrupted by a cross segment at most intersections.
12. Turn Lanes or at-grade connectors: First and foremost, the need to have the turn lanes mapped needs to be established. As the driver approaches an intersection, Waze has usually given at least one warning that a turn is imminent, and we can assume that the driver is already looking for turn lanes. For most intersections, that is enough to guide the driver into the proper lane and to turn at the proper time; in other words, it is enough that the two roads intersect without separately mapped turning lanes. There are only a few situations in which connectors are called for in an intersection:
- When the turn lane physically separates from the main road well in advance of the intersection
- When the turn lane is far enough from the point of intersection on the map (due to the size of the intersection or the angle at which the roads meet) that the driver might overshoot while waiting for a delayed "turn" audible, or that the Waze client might become confused and disrupt navigation
- When the area is "busy" enough that the driver may not get any advance warning that a turn is coming up--in which case a connector lets you notify the driver a little earlier
- When there are user complaints (update requests) that the audible was too late, or that the map should have shown a connector
- When you get an automated report (map problem) that the roads are too far apart due to the intersection being too far from the turn lane
- When in doubt, leave it out. Each connector complicates the map and adds to your workload when the time comes to check connectivity, direction, name, etc
13. Locking roads: When you are confident of the area you have mapped, lock the roads to prevent any changes or edits on the roads. While we appreciate the help of newbie Waze editors in editing our maps, they are prone to creating errors if not informed and educated properly on our map editing guidelines. It would be great if we can direct them to read this guide first before they start doing any edits. Read the Philippines Locking Policy for more details.
14. KISS! - Keep It Simple, Stupid! Our maps should work best if they are kept simple rather than complex, therefore simplicity should be the main objective in our maps and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
General Guidelines on Editing Places
Places are the equivalent of Points of Interest (POIs) in other navigation systems. Unlike traditional cartography or other online maps, we do not map every single place/POI we see. We only add places that are likely to be useful for navigation. Hence, we do not map generic places such as fishball stands, sari-sari stores, plants, pedestrian footbridges/overpasses, etc. That is also why we try to avoid generic names such as "basketball court", "fountain", "store", etc. for places we've deemed worth mapping. See our Places Policy for more details.
- Area Places - These are POIs that are useful visual landmarks and are mapped to be visual cues on the client app. .
- Point Places - Most establishments should be mapped as a point place. These are searchable on the Waze app but not visible unless chosen as a destination
Map Comments
Map comments are used to communicate with other editors but it is NOT an alternative to the other communication channels of the community. Use it to leave short notes to other editors (e.g. "Do not connect these segments, there's a gate here"). DO NOT use it to request for edits as map comments are too easy to overlook.
Speed Cameras
This feature has been disabled for the country. Do not try to add speed cameras to the map.
Real Time Closures
A Real Time Closure (RTC) is a temporary closure that is added to the map for segments that are impassable in one or both directions for any reason but does not need to be modified (i.e. no change in turn restrictions, etc.). This should NOT be used for lane closures. Read here for more details.
At present, editors level 4 and above are able to add and remove real-time closures to roads in the Philippines. Special permissions have also been given to our CCP partners such as the MMDA. For urgent closures, contact a local champ to facilitate the addition or removal of an RTC.
Major Traffic Events
A Major Traffic Event (MTE) is an event that involves road closures. Read here for more details.
Before making any MTE, please coordinate with local champs first. This is to prevent duplication of events and to make sure all closures are created and placed correctly.


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Monday, March 24, 2014
By Very Rev. Thomas A. Baima
On Monday, March 31st, the Archdiocese of Chicago and our four partner organizations in the Jewish community will host the 2014 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture at Temple Sholom in Chicago. The topic is timely as the Church celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. "What Changed at Vatican II: Past, Present and Future Reflections on Catholic-Jewish Relations."
The 2014 Bernardin Lecturer, Fr. John Crossin, will guide us through a discussion of Nostra Aetate: the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, which was one of the most dramatic teaching documents of the council. The document is important because it addressed directly how common understanding in the Catholic Church historically reflected attitudes which often led to a sense of anti-Judaism among Christians. The Fathers of Vatican II confronted these interpretations and presented a corrective vision of the relationship of Jews and Christians.
Unique among the world religions, Judaism alone has an organic relationship to the Church. The Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus and all of the apostles were Jews. When the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70, both Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity were finding their distinctive identities. As the centuries went on, both communities spread and developed, but usually in isolation from each other. Now twenty centuries later we know of each other; sadly we do not directly know each other.
What changed at Vatican II was this call for Christians and Jews to directly know each other. To facilitate that goal, the Council called Catholics to a correct religious understanding of Judaism. Free from past prejudice, our two communities can forge relationships which will allow a common future.
The Reverend Dr. John Crossin is an Oblate of Saint Francis de Sales and Executive Director of the Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He served most recently as executive director of the Washington Theological Consortium. Previously he was a visiting fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, academic dean and later president of De Sales School of Theology. He also has served for the past 20 years as an assisting priest at Annunciation Parish, Washington, D.C. Within his religious order he has served as a superior, a member of the provincial council and assistant general treasurer of the congregation.
For information about the resources offered by the Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, visit: www.archchicago.org/departments/ecumenical/.

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FT216: "Liberals are about as open-minded and tolerant as Nazis and communists were." —Old Pithy
Fundamental Truth
The CEO of Mozilla resigned for Thinking 'Incorrectly'
In 2008, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to support California Proposition 8. A proposal to keep marriage in California between only a man and a woman. Proposition 8 passed as most Californians agreed with Brendan Eich. They did not want to change law, tradition and custom. The left has determined that the people of California are hate-filled people. And liberal judges have since overruled the will of the people of California.
So who is Brendan Eich? Until recently he was the CEO of Mozilla. The company that puts out the internet browser Firefox. He rose to CEO this year. He cofounded Mozilla Foundation in 1998. So he's been there for awhile. And did good work. To rise to CEO you have to be pretty darn good. And you can't be a monster. For if you are a monster the odds are slim of becoming CEO. For it tends to garner bad press.
Well, as it turns out, exercising your free speech can make you a monster. A hate-filled individual. Which the left said he was. Because of this $1,000 donation. Just because he thought like the majority of all Californians. That marriage should be between a man and a woman. And because he did the left demanded his resignation for daring not to think 'correctly' like them. So he did. He resigned for thinking 'incorrectly'.
Conservatives were not Welcomed at a Feminist Conference on Inclusivity
This is not the only 'thought crime' the left has leveled at someone. For anyone that dares to think differently from them they call a thought criminal. And do everything in their power to silence them. For the 'tolerant' left is very intolerant of anyone that thinks differently from them. Because the left hates dissenting views. Especially those of conservatives. As there are about two conservatives for every liberal they face a lot of dissenting views. So they have a lot of 'thought crime' to police.
Universities are mostly liberal these days. And whenever a conservative is invited to speak the thought police come out. They protest. They heckle. They throw pies. Just ask Ann Coulter. Even when conservatives are invited back to their alma maters to give a commencement speech the thought police turn out to keep them from speaking. Just ask Dr. Ben Carson. Or Condoleezza Rice.
Feminists on university campuses are particularly intolerant to other points of view. Even at a feminist conference about inclusivity. Everyone was welcomed. Except conservative women. In fact, the feminists at this conference identified a woman as being a conservative. Telling the students gathering there that they shouldn't talk to her. Because conservatives were not welcomed at this conference on inclusivity. Just ask Katherine Timpf.
It's hard to Pass your Agenda when you're Outnumbered Two to One
Liberals have long wanted to revive the fairness doctrine. For the one area they can't control is talk radio. And they don't like what they're saying on talk radio. So they want to shut them up. To balance the content broadcasted over the public airwaves. As determined by the Federal Communications Commission. Which could, of course, find that 3 hours of Rush Limbaugh a day is not balanced. And require that he give up an hour or two of his time for an opposing viewpoint. Hence the moniker the 'Hush Rush Bill'.
The left has been warning us about the calamity of global warming for the last three decades or so. Telling us if we don't act now the world will end within the decade. But the people aren't quaking with fear. Some are even debunking their 'science'. With real science. Something the left does not like. And they want to do something about. They want to shut them up. Some even want to jail them.
Conservatives don't do this. They don't call for boycotts or resignations when people exercise their right to free speech. They don't throw pies at people. They don't pressure universities to shut down debate by preventing someone from speaking that disagrees with them. They don't warn young women that someone 'thinks wrong'. That they shouldn't talk to 'wrong thinkers'. They don't try to balance the content in the liberal-dominated media. And they don't put politics over science. Liberals do. But conservatives don't.
There have been some in history that put politics above everything else. Just like liberals do. People who punished those who said the wrong things. And punished those for thinking wrong. They had state censorship. Propaganda. And jail for those who weren't like them. Or worse. Things the left would love to do to stifle all debate. Because it's hard to pass your agenda when you're outnumbered two to one. So who are these people from history? Nazis. And communists. Yes, liberals are about as open-minded and tolerant as Nazis and communists were.
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Sun Expands OpenSolaris Toolkit
Pundits not convinced open source is a storage element as yet.
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) is pushing out a new tool that lets developers build an OpenSolaris storage server in 10 minutes, as part of its three-year-old open source storage community effort.
The vendor contends open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures just as open source efforts in the past provided for today's server environments.
"We're going to see very different economics in storage over the next year as profit pools change due to open source technology," Graham Lovell, Sun's product director of storage services, told InternetNews.com.
"The OpenSolaris effort has a lot of momentum as the community recognizes this can grow into a business model," he added, noting that 3,000 community members are involved and more than 30 projects are in process.
Experts aren't confident Sun's open source contentions will pan out, however. Some describe the vendor's open source strategy as marketing to loop in more business. Others claim it would take years of bad economics for enterprises to grab open source for storage.
"There is not a lot of open source as storage buyers are conservative," says Andrew Reichman, an IDC analyst, told InternetNews.com. "Big players like EMC will continue to win even as their products get long in the tooth."
Why? Storage decisions have a huge impact on business, and housing and protecting data is more critical than ever, experts said.
"No one has gone down this path besides Sun because customers are quite willing to still play for a 'done' solution," Reichman explained. "A storage choice lasts forever, and as long as customers are willing to pay a premium the jury is out on whether open source will take root."
Yet Sun's Lovell believes his company is at the forefront of knocking down what he calls the "last bastion" of proprietary technology in today's datacenters.
"Yes, it's going to take a while as there is skepticism, but the profit pool will change and what we're doing is rebasing the economic model," he said, adding adoption of open source will be spurred by startups using the technology and customers becoming more comfortable with open source environments.
A major point of contention in the storage-open source debate is the decision Sun made when initiating its strategy. OpenSolaris is currently under the CDDL license. Industry reaction may very well be different if Solaris was under the GNU license, say pundits. That open source license demands greater openness as all code improvements are shared.
"A bigger issue is that Sun has, for years, been a supporter and promoter of Linux but then took Solaris to open source," Charles King, Pund-IT analyst, told InternetNews.com.
Noting that other vendors, such as IBM and HP support Linux, but have no storage revenue streams tied to the technology, King compared open source as "Amish barn raising" work within IT development.
"It's not a business model. It's a tough way to make a living," he said.
Included in Sun's latest offerings are a how-to guide for building a NAS with OpenSolaris and a tool for helping developers gain familiarity with Solaris data management tasks including Sun's open source file system, Network File System, Common Internet File System (CIFS), and Common Multi-protocol SCSI Target.
In late February Sun donated the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities in its quest to spur more cost-effective technologies and help solve digital archive and preservation challenges facing enterprises.
Sun's latest tools are simply another push to foster more development activity and entice energetic developers, King said.
"Sun's aim is to produce tools that make OpenSolaris development as easy as possible. The goal is to keep developers happy and interested."
Article courtesy of InternetNews.com


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25. The Ornamental Hairpin (Shimizu, Japan, 1941)
Hiroshi Shimizu's film about a disparate group of vacationers staying at a hot springs resort for the summer starts off as a comedy and then wondrously, imperceptibly morphs into a poignant drama. The great Chishu Ryu (best known for his work with Ozu) plays a soldier who badly injures his foot when he steps on a hairpin in the communal bath. He later discovers that it was left behind by a beautiful young woman played by Kinuya Tanaka (best known for her work with Mizoguchi). When she returns to the resort to apologize, all of the guests speculate that love must be in the cards. But Shimizu, a master of subtlety, decides to steer the material in a more interesting direction. Released less than four months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Ornamental Hairpin contains fleeting references to to the war and the fact that Tanaka's character is a geisha, lending touches of gravitas to another deceptively light Shimizu masterwork.
24. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, USA, 1944)
23. Going My Way (McCarey, USA, 1944)
22. Colorado Territory (Walsh, USA, 1949)
21. Laura (Preminger, USA, 1944)
20. Notorious (Hitchcock, USA, 1946)
19. Children of Paradise (Carne, France, 1945)
The best collaboration of director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert is this epic tale of doomed love set in the world of 19th century theater. Baptiste is a mime who falls in love with aspiring actress Garance. His shyness prevents their affair from being consummated and they go their separate ways until, years later, fate brings them back together for one last shot at romance. Both the behind the scenes look at theater and the depiction of 19th century France are lovingly detailed and passionately executed. This is sometimes referred to as a French Gone with the Wind but it's actually much better than even that would suggest. One of the all-time great French movies.
18. Out of the Past (Tourneur, USA, 1947)
The ultimate film noir – a cynical, fatalistic crime movie with a gorgeous, shadowy visual style in which writer Daniel Mainwaring and director Jacques Tourneur create a dichotomy between: cool detective (Robert Mitchum) and hotheaded gangster (Kirk Douglas), good girl (Virginia Huston) and femme fatale (Jane Greer), idyllic small town and corrupt big city, day and night. Remade officially as Against All Odds and unofficially as A History of Violence.
17. Brief Encounter (Lean, UK, 1945)
David Lean will probably always be best remembered for lavish, 70mm-photographed Oscar-friendly pictures like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, but I think his relatively early Brief Encounter remains the high point of his career. It's a minimalist story of adulterous love as "brief" and compressed as the later films are expansive and epic, and arguably all the more effective for it. The performances of Trevor Howard and doe-eyed Celia Johnson as the star-crossed lovers and the script by Noel Coward are all world class. In a memorable line of dialogue Celia's Laura says "I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people." If "violence" can be considered purely emotional then this is one of the most violent movies ever made.
16. Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch, USA, 1943)
15. The Third Man (Reed, UK, 1949)
In Carol Reed's classic British noir Joseph Cotton stars Holly Martins, a dime store novelist who travels to Vienna to visit childhood pal Harry Lime only to find that his friend has died in a mysterious accident. Martins' belief that Lime was murdered inspires a personal investigation that leads him deep into the morally dubious heart of the postwar European black market as well as into a love affair with Lime's beautiful girlfriend Anna (Alida Valli). Among the film's unforgettable ingredients are the catchy zither score by Anton Karas, the legendary extended cameo by Orson Welles and the cinematography of Robert Krasker, whose use of dutch angles and chiaroscuro lighting make the rubble-strewn Viennese streets look positively lunar.
14. Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, Italy/Germany, 1948)
13. Late Spring (Ozu, Japan, 1949)
Yasujiro Ozu kickstarted his great late period with this terrific drama about a young woman named Noriko (Setsuko Hara, playing the first of three Norikos for Ozu) who lives with her widower father (Chishu Ryu) and is reluctant to get married for fear of leaving him alone. Not only is this the first of the loose "Noriko trilogy" (even though Hara's characters are different in each film), it also laid down the template that all of Ozu's subsequent films would follow until his death in 1963: the themes of intergenerational conflict, familial love, loss and regret, wedded to a precise visual style favoring static, low angle compositions and long takes. The depth of feeling that arises from this marriage of form and content is simply unparalleled in cinema.
12. Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II (Eisenstein, Russian, 1944-1958)
11. Detour (Ulmer, USA, 1945)
10. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Sturges, USA, 1944)
Writer/director Preston Sturges was to the American cinema what Mark Twain was to American literature: the greatest satirist of our mores and all that we hold sacred. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is his most subversive work, a cinematic powder-keg that does impressive narrative somersaults in order to illustrate the predicament of Trudy Kockenlocker (a name that makes me laugh just to type it). Trudy (Betty Hutton) is a small town girl who, in one long drunken night, meets, marries and gets knocked up by a soldier before he heads off to war – but wakes up the next morning unable to remember anything about him. Hilarity ensues when she turns to 4F Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), her longtime admirer-from-afar, to help prevent the inevitable local scandal.
9. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, Denmark, 1943)
The first sound film that Carl Dreyer made in his native Denmark is this great work of art about religious intolerance, hypocrisy and persecution in the 17th century. While "witches" are being burned at the stake, a beautiful young woman marries an elderly pastor and then embarks on an affair with his son, leading to tragedy for everyone. This is no stolid "period drama" but rather a vital piece of filmmaking with incredibly atmospheric cinematography, restrained but razor sharp performances and a story that brims with obvious parallels to the question-and-torture methods of the Nazis. One of the essential films of its era.
8. Spring in a Small Town (Fei, China, 1948)
7. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, USA, 1946)
William Wyler's hard-hitting film about returning war veterans readjusting to civilian life holds up extremely well today as an absorbing drama as well as a fascinating window into the myriad social issues facing ordinary, small town Americans in the mid-1940s. Gregg Toland's deep focus photography and the large ensemble cast, including Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright and non-actor Harold Russell, are world-class.
6. The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, UK, 1948)
As "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collectively wrote and directed the most extraordinary movies of the golden age of British cinema and The Red Shoes is their masterpiece. Taking its inspiration from a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, this beautiful, visually baroque Technicolor extravaganza tells the story of a ballerina (Moira Shearer) who is torn between the desires of her heart and the quest for perfection in her craft. The highlight is the title ballet sequence, a fifteen minute scene employing dozens of dancers and over a hundred painted backdrops, shot and cut together as a thrilling spectacle of pure cinema. One of the great films about obsession. One of the great films about the artistic process. One of the great films period.
5. Casablanca (Curtiz, USA, 1942)
A strong candidate for the most entertaining movie ever made, Casablanca irresistibly weds the theme of self-sacrifice for a greater good to a love story set against a backdrop of wartime intrigue. Mix in Bogie and Bergman at their most iconic, deliciously witty dialogue, a cast of colorful supporting characters played by unforgettable character actors and the able craftsmanship of director Michael Curtiz and you have Exhibit A for anyone looking to understand the genius of Hollywood's old studio system.
4. Citizen Kane (Welles, USA, 1941)
Orson Welles' legendary film about the life of a newspaper tycoon loosely based on William Randolph Hearst was completed when its writer/director/star was just 26 years old. Revolutionary for both its deep focus cinematography and its intricate flashback structure, Citizen Kane also astonishes by capturing wide swaths of human experience in its two hour running time. In case you've been living under a rock, this is the film most often cited by critics and historians as the greatest of all time.
3. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, Italy, 1948)
The definitive Italian Neorealist film remains a deceptively simple, emotionally overwhelming experience that must be seen by anyone who loves movies. Writer Cesare Zavattini and director Vittorio de Sica crafted the ultimately politically engaged drama with this tale of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed factory worker (non-actor Lamberto Maggiorani) who finds a job putting up posters around Rome that requires the use of a bicycle. After selling his bedsheets to get his bike out of hock, Antonio finds that his bicycle is tragically stolen, a turn of events that causes him to spend the day looking for the thief with the aid of his young son Bruno (Enzo Staioloa). A humanistic portrait of despair that has never been bettered.
2. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, USA, 1941)
The failure of the Academy to award Best Picture of 1941 to Citizen Kane is often cited as definitive "proof" that the Oscars have always been out of touch – the cinematic equivalent of the Grammys not honoring Elvis, The Beatles or Bob Dylan for their best recorded work. However, as innovative and influential and great as Kane is, John Ford's deeply moving portrait of life in a 19th century Welsh mining community is nearly as cinematically expressive and, for my money, the more emotionally affecting work. Ironically, How Green Was My Valley is very similar to Kane in its treatment of the theme of subjectivity; what we see is not after all objective reality but the romanticized memories of Irving Pichel's offscreen narrator.
1. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, USA, 1948)
Set in Vienna in the early twentieth century, Max Ophuls' masterpiece tells the incredible story of the title letter-writer (Joan Fontaine) and her three brief but fateful encounters with a ne'er-do-well pianist (Louis Jourdan) over the course of several decades. His inability to recognize her on the latter two occasions elevates the simple plot, which is recounted via flashback, to the level of high tragedy. Fontaine is heart-breaking in the lead role but the real star is German-born, French-bred director Max Ophuls, whose relentless use of tracking shots has made him virtually synonymous with that type of camera movement and has been a major influence on subsequent directors from Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese to Paul Thomas Anderson.


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Hi All,
I hope you got a chance to relax and enjoy the weekend. Please take a look at the number of windows that you have received. If any numbers are missing, your window may have bounced due to a full mailbox. If so, please let me know to supply the missing windows.
These are seminal moments in our history. I hope the Windows on Iran will keep you informed in ways that you would not otherwise be. In fact, in my out-of-classroom activities, I do more than preparing these windows. Recently, I was a guest of Krista Tippett on NPR's "Speaking of Faith." The show which is dedicated to the poetry of the medieval Persian poet and mystic Rumi (1207-1273) will be aired in the St. Louis area on Sunday, March 4, 9:00 am. Those of you who are not in St. Louis, Missouri, if interested in the show, please check NPR's website. It is an hour of talking about Rumi and reading his poetry.
Now, let us attend to Window on Iran – 21 without further ado.
*I would like to start by introducing you to the web site of a very
informative independent campaign, CASMII (Campaign Against Sanctions
and Military Intervention in Iran). This campaign is run by Nader
Sadeqi, an Iranian American Professor of Surgery at George Washington
University! Thank you Dr. Sadeqi! Do visit CASMII's web site at
*Sunday times has the wonderful news that American military officials
at the very top may in fact be far more cautious and unwilling to
start a new disaster in the region by attacking Iran. According to
this article as many as five top U.S. Army officials "will quit" if
the President orders an attack on Iran. To directly quote: "General
Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said recently there
was "zero chance" of a war with Iran. He played down claims by US
intelligence that the Iranian government was responsible for supplying
insurgents in Iraq, forcing Bush on the defensive. Pace's view was
backed by the British intelligence officials who said the extent of
the Iranian government's involvement in activities inside Iraq by a
small number of Revolutionary Guards was "far from clear". General
Peter Pace's repudiation of the administration's claims is viewed as a
sign of grave discontent at the top. For the full essay please go to
(thank you Adam Shriver for sending this link).
*General Pace's refusal to blame Iran for resurgency in Iraq is based
on his knowledge of facts on the ground. On February 19, an attack on
an American outpost in Northern Iraq left at least two soldiers dead
and 17 wounded. This attack, followed by gun battle, was described by
Iraqi and American officials as the work of "Sunni millitants, most
probably al-Qaeda."
What is the relevance of this to Iran? Quite a bit. Iran is one of
few places in the region where al-Qaeda members face arrest and cannot
operate. In fact, two such members were arrested trying to pass
through Iran less than two weeks ago. An America-Iran military
confrontation would be a gift to al-Qaeda.
*Another story that you don't hear often is that although Iran refuses
unconditional halting of uranium enrichment, it calls almost on a
daily basis for direct negotiation with the U.S. and is prepared to
put enrichment suspension on the table. Here are two articles in the
Iranian papers (in Persian) quoting top Iranian officials on the
subject: http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-883808&Lang=P
and http://mizannews.com/default.asp?nid=1020
*CASMII, which I introduced to you in this Window, has reported this
morning "evidence of US coercion of Members of IAEA against Iran
revealed." http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/1456
Social: Challenge to the Iranian President
*Papers in Iran reported a challenge by an Iranian nuclear physicist to
the Iranian president Ahmadinejad. Professor Shirazad said in an
interview that Ahmadinejad's views on the necessity of nuclear
technology for Iran was as "uninformed" as his views about the
magnitude of the Holocaust. Shirzad's invitation to a public debate is
unlikely to be accepted by the Iranian President but the fact that the
interview makes it to the front page in Iran is good news: (sorry,
Persian source again)
*Time for a nice colorful break from political matters. A friend,
Mazdak Khajehpour, recently sent me the address to the Iranian
Institute of Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences:
http://www.iasbs.ac.ir/ . I hope to be able to utilize this site for
information about science and technology in Iran. My first visit to
the site yielded visually delightful information. A collection of
slides of flowers that grow in Iran. If you are a plant biologist, I
am sure you will have your scientific curiosity. If not just enjoy.
There are about 70 slides with a 4 seconds transition time. Click here: Flowers of Iran. Enjoy!
*A majority world opinion shows skepticism about a "clash of
civilizations" leading to violent conflict between Islam and the West,
according to findings of a poll published Monday. Pollsters
questioned about 28,000 people in 27 different countries, including
the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil,
Mexico and Australia; as well as four predominantly Muslim countries:
Egypt, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia; and two
countries with large Muslim populations: Lebanon and Nigeria.
*In an essay called "Iran: the Day After," Phyllis Bennis looks at what
a horrendous situation we would be facing on the hypothetical day
after the U.S. makes such an erronous move:
Art: Visual Delight
Just have to stop talking politics and visit a few delighful art works
from Iran! I have prepared for you a slide show of the latest painting
exhibit of Seroge Barseghian, the contemporary Iranian Armenian
painter. His colorful celestial feasts are a good visual delight
before closing Window number 21 on Iran. Click here: Seroge Barseghian Paintings. Enjoy!
Have a great week!
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor and Chair
Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
Tel: (314) 935-5156
Fax: (314) 935-4399


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SAVANNAH - Savannah singer Huxsie Scott knows more about breast cancer than she ever wanted to.
Her sister, Deborah Sirmans of Valdosta, Ga., was diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease two years ago. Two mastectomies later, Sirmans, 58, is a cancer survivor.
Because of her sister and her deep concern for all breast cancer patients, Scott will be performing Friday and Saturday at an important event for breast cancer survivors, their families and friends - the Susan G. Komen Savannah Race for the Cure. Scott will sing Friday evening at a special "celebration of life" just for cancer survivors and their caregivers. Then she'll perform the national anthem at the start of the race, 8:15 a.m. Saturday, on Broughton and Barnard streets.
When Scott sang the national anthem a year ago, she left a powerful impression. Many in the audience were moved to tears. Her beautiful voice "sent chills through me," said Joanne Kooden, who with Sue Adler has been co-chairwoman of the race since it began here in April 2009.
As many as 6,000 runners and walkers, about 400 of them breast cancer survivors and caregivers dressed in pink, are expected to take part in this year's Savannah race. They come from all over the country, most from the Coastal Empire but also from Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, California and Florida.
"It's a powerful event for Savannah," Adler said. "It brings people together in our city. ... Everyone is touched by it."
It's an emotional two days, said Sally Silbermann, the race's volunteer public relations director, because "just about everyone knows someone who has breast cancer."
The event will begin with the reception, light foods and entertainment for cancer survivors. On Saturday morning, the 5K race begins with breast cancer survivors leading the way for the serious runners. There also is a 5K run/walk and a 1-mile kid's race around Ellis Square.
Entry to the main run costs $35 in advance, $45 on race day. The run/walk is $35, and the kids run is $10. Sponsors of the race include Memorial University Medical Center, Fleet Feet Sports Savannah and Gulfstream.
Kooden and Adler said
75 percent of the proceeds go to breast cancer screening and education in the region, which includes Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Glynn, Liberty, Long and McIntosh counties. Komen has invested more than $1 million in the area since 2006.
The remaining 25 percent goes to breast cancer research. This year, organizers expect the race will generate $450,000 and net about $330,000.
Now held across the nation, the race has an emotional history. It began after Susan G. Komen died of breast cancer at the age of 30, Adler said. As she was dying, her sister, Nancy Brinker, made a promise to Komen.
"She promised she would do everything in her power to find a cure for breast cancer," Adler said. Although Komen lost her battle with the disease, her legacy lives on through the Race for the Cure, the organization Brinker started in her honor. Since the race began in 1982, more than $1 billion has been invested in the fight against cancer, according to www.komencoastalgeorgia.org.
One of the local race's proponents is Dr. Diane Weems, chief medical officer of the Chatham County Health Department and a breast cancer survivor. She is leading a team called "Diane's Bosom Friends Forever."
"I was so moved by the courage of the survivors," Weems said. "I believed in the mission of Susan Komen even before I got breast cancer two years ago. Its dollars are distributed in the community for screening for women," many of whom otherwise would not be able to afford a mammogram.
Although Weems knows a lot about breast cancer, she said, she was shocked to learn she had the disease. That year she walked in the race, it was "toward the end of my chemotherapy, and I was bald and tired. ...
"I was taking that walk with my co-workers, family members and friends," she said. "The mission of Susan Komen complements our mission - to celebrate survivorship."


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New Vintage USA Gauge Kit Performance Series Black Electronic Speedometer 1967-1968
New Vintage USA Black Performance Series Gauge Kit with Electronic Speedometer for 1967-1968 Mustangs.
New Vintage USA, a manufacturer of aftermarket gauges, offers their Performance Series gauges in an easy to assemble gauge kit with a modern, upscale appearance. Each gauge is hand-crafted in the USA and thoroughly inspected before shipping to ensure the highest quality.
The perfect solution for customers that want aftermarket style gauges but want to keep their Deluxe Woodgrain or Aluminum instrument bezel, the Performance Series gauges feature smoked titanium bezels, real glass lenses and perimeter lighting for a modern look. All five gauge faces are available in your choice of black or white finish, with the tachometer and electronic speedometer gauges being 3-3/8" in diameter; all other gauges are 2-1/16" in diameter. This kit contains everything necessary for installation in your existing stock or reproduction instrument bezel, including gauge support mount bracket, adapter bushings and turn signal and high-beam indicators.
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- Speedometer: 140 MPH, Electronic
- Tachometer: 8K RPM
- Fuel Level: E-F
- Coolant Temperature: 100 Degree-250 Degree F
- Oil Pressure: 0-80 psi
Please Note: This Gauge Kit does not include a speedometer sending unit. Electronic speedometer requires a 16 pulse generator sending unit adapter to convert the transmission mechanical Speedometer drive to an Electronic signal.
Each gauge includes the required sending units for the temperature, oil pressure and fuel. Assembly is straight-forward, with detailed, step-by-step instructions included.
*Kit does not include an instrument bezel/panel.
*Kit requires assembly and wiring, not assembled as shown in photos.
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This kit is part of their white Performance Series designed to fit your stock bezel for your '67 through '68 Mustang. The kit includes five white faced, backlit electric gauges with chrome bezels. It includes speedometer, tachometer, fuel level, water temperature, and oil pressure.
The electric speedometer comes with its own specific wiring harness and includes a sending unit as well. All of the other gauges come with their own sending units, as well as hardware necessary for installation.
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Now it's time for sports.
WERTHEIMER: The NBA hoped to bring out its brightest stars on Christmas Day, but another injury to Kobe Bryant cancelled his duel with LeBron James. And in the NFL, division titles and playoff spots are up for grabs, but there too injuries might make the difference. Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine joins us now from the studios of New England Public Radio. Welcome, Howard.
HOWARD BRYANT: And good morning, Linda. How are you?
WERTHEIMER: I'm good. Kobe Bryant, the NBA's biggest star for a decade, but with another injury this week. Do you think his best days are behind him?
BRYANT: Well, they are and I think that it's a very sad narrative so far that's been, well you know, Kobe Bryant's got this heart of a lion and he's a tough guy and he'll come back. Let's face it. Kobe Bryant is 35 years old, he's coming off an Achilles injury and all the heart and all the fortitude in the world is not going to be enough to overcome those types of injuries.
Now he's got a knee injury, he's going to be out another six weeks. He is one of the greatest basketball players that anyone's ever seen and I put him right up there neck and neck with Michael Jordan in terms of what he's done; five championships over his career. But I have a hard time believing that the Kobe Bryant that comes back is going to be anything close to what we've seen over the past 17 years.
WERTHEIMER: Well, let's move over to the NFL. The Packers are taking on the Bears, the Cowboys and the Eagles square off, both for division crowns. There's lots going on, but Cowboy's quarterback, Tony Romo not going to play.
BRYANT: Yeah, you've got two winner-take-all games this weekend in the NFL and Romo's out. He had back surgery today I think, or yesterday, and he's not going to be playing. It's going to be a while before we see him on a field again. And that's going to take a little bit away from tomorrow's game. I feel like the Eagles are automatically favorites for that game anyway. They've been the hottest team in the league right now.
They're the team that nobody wants to play and it looks like another heartbreak in Dallas. They're going to have a backup quarterback going out there for them and so it's going to be a really tough game for Cowboy's fans, but hopefully we'll get something good in the Green Bay-Chicago winner-take-all where Aaron Rodgers is coming back.
And that's the NFL for you, Linda. The injuries are as important as anything. It's a really difficult, tough year for them, but once again, the sport - the final score is nowhere near as important as the injury report.
WERTHEIMER: So let's take stock. How has this year been?
BRYANT: It's been a difficult year. It's been a hard year for every, every sport, especially the contact sports. You've got the CTE issues, the head trauma issues; you've got the real problem with sports this year is that I think for the first time, because of the empirical data, because of all the research that neurosurgeons have done across the country, that this bigger, faster, stronger narrative is no longer a compliment, that there are limits to what the human body can sustain.
And this year, whether it's the suicides of NHL players, the suicides of NFL players and even Ryan Freel, the Major League Baseball player last year who ended his life, showed signs of CTE. We're starting to find out that this head trauma issue is not a joke and I think that people talk about it being the year of safety. It really hasn't been the year of safety, in my opinion.
I think it's really been the year of masculinity in sports because you've got this collision course, you've got the limits of what the human body can do, but you also have this macho culture where every single time you have sports bodies or governing bodies coming out saying, look, we have to make these games more safe for the players, then you've got this other group of the macho culture saying, hey, well, why don't these guys just wear dresses and why don't they, you know, why don't they wear high heels now?
Because the game's not what the game used to be. Even Major League Baseball is going to do a lot to eliminate home plate collisions. So these sports now have reached a real tipping point that you can't finesse anymore and I think what we have now is you've got this battle between commerce and libertarianism. It's like no one's putting a gun to your head, but I don't think that's going to be enough.
WERTHEIMER: Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine. Thanks, Howard.
BRYANT: My pleasure.
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HBO has run out of Luck. On Wednesday, the pay cable network, along with executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann, announced an abrupt end to the Dustin Hoffman-starring drama, following news that three horses had died during production.
Whether it was the threat of continued negative press, or that no one could guarantee another horse would not perish during the run of the series, the surprising and quick decision to pull the plug has caused many in the media to theorize as to why.
HBO cancels Luck after three horses die during production
When a third horse died Tuesday during filming for the second episode of the second season, HBO quickly announced that all use of horses on the show would be suspended indefinitely. (Two other horses died last year during the filming of the first season.) But within the next 24 hours, after an investigation into further safety precautions had taken place, HBO and producers decided to kill the show outright, saying that they couldn't prevent further fatalities.
Why end things altogether? California Horse Racing Board Equine Medical Director Dr. Rick Arthur, who worked with the production when it filmed at the Santa Anita race track, told TVGuide.com on Thursday that horse fatalities are not uncommon at the race track. "Accidents do happen," Arthur said. "It's not as outrageous as it's been played to be. Any of these accidents are not unique circumstances." The third horse died, not while filming, but as she was being walked back to her stall. She reared, fell over backwards, struck her head on the ground, and the determination was made to euthanize her.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, however, has long been opposed to the series. After HBO canceled the series, the organization sent out its own release, claiming Luck used "old, unfit and drugged horses."
Asked about PETA's claims, a rep for the network sent the following response: "The drugs that have been referenced by PETA were administered post-injury to calm the horse and to allow the attending veterinarian to properly examine the injury." HBO, which worked closely with the American Humane Association and the CHRB, also insisted that no drugs were administered prior to filming of racing sequences for any purposes. PETA's Vice President of Laboratory Investigation Kathy Guillermo told TVGuide.com on Thursday that the necropsy report cited additional drugs in the horses' systems that shouldn't have been there, and has called upon law enforcement to investigate the deaths.
Is HBO's horse-racing series Luck a big gamble?
There may also have been future problems with shooting at Santa Anita, Luck's primary filming location. Frank Stronach, chairman of the Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita, said Wednesday he had wanted to end the relationship with the show. "I'm just disappointed because it puts sort of an ugly face on the whole point of horse racing," he told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. "We're not going to participate if horse racing is shown in such a bad way." Stronach had planned to meet with the producers, Santa Anita Director of Special Projects Pete Siberell told TVGuide.com. "[Stronach's] people in Toronto wanted me to set up a meeting with Michael Mann and David Milch to talk about the show. That was [Tuesday], when all this hit. We were going to have a meeting to talk about it because he was concerned about the direction the show was going."
A spokeswoman for HBO replied: "We have no knowledge of any such conversation."
Some industry watchers have said that Luck's lukewarm ratings may have also been a factor to its quick demise. The show premiered to 1.1 million viewers in January, but fell by almost 50 percent a month later. However, HBO renewed the show for a second season early on, and has stuck by series with even smaller audiences, including its Laura Dern/Mike White comedy Enlightened.


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China has come online extremely quickly in recent years. Today, one in five Internet users are Chinese — that's half a billion people. And while growth has evened out since 2007, it shows no sign of stopping.
Chinese Internet users spend about the same amount of time online as their U.S. counterparts, but their habits differ. Instant messaging apps are still big, and edge out even search engines in terms of active users. Chinese users also flock to web "portals," as U.S. users did in the earlier days of the World Wide Web. Online shopping has also taken hold, and some analysts predict China may become the largest ecommerce market by 2015.
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Disney Cruise Line could make New Orleans its next home
Port officials trying to lure Disney cruise ship
The Port of New Orleans is going for the gold when it comes to the next cruise line to call the Crescent City home.
Officials have already met with executives at Disney Cruise Line to talk about the possibility of docking a Disney cruise ship or two at the city's proposed new cruise terminal at Poland Avenue, where construction is set to begin at the end of this year.
"Certainly to bring a plum like Disney to New Orleans is a very good thing," said Port of New Orleans President Gary LaGrange.
LaGrange says talks to lure Disney here are in the very early stages and could take months if not longer to get an answer.
"It's like getting a Super Bowl to agree to come to New Orleans. You start well in advance while all the planning and preparations can take place," LaGrange explained.
A spokesperson for Disney told WDSU the company is always looking at new locations, but at this time, New Orleans is not part of the cruise line's itinerary. LaGrange is hoping one day it will be.
"We will continue to sell our great city and why we think New Orleans would make a wonderful addition to Disney's current locations."
LaGrange said Disney isn't the only cruise line he's currently in talks with. Several others are also potential contenders and could make New Orleans home. According to him, the new terminal would be home to two ships with a cruising capacity of up to 12,000 passengers every weekend.
Businesses near the proposed site say whether it's Disney or another cruise line, the addition will greatly impact the area.
"We think it's tremendous," said Paul Martin, the day manager at The Bacchanal Wine & Spirits on Poland Avenue. "Anytime you can bring some positive reinforcement into the community."
LaGrange will meet with Disney Cruise Line executives again next month. Construction of the new cruise terminal is set to begin at the end of this year with completion set for late 2014 or early 2015.


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Tim's choice of subject matter and keen eye for composition reflect the patterns and shapes that exist in nature. His square format camera adds a sense of symmetry and space to his frame. The result is a cohesive oeuvre that straddles abstraction and reality, photography and painting. As Hubert Schwärzler, the former head of tourism for Lech, Austria, commented, "Tim simply paints with his camera."
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Some things really do get better with time. Especially TV shows. Sometimes a show stumbles out of the gate so badly, you can't believe it'll ever become watchable. And then you check back a year or two later and boom — it's become the best show ever. Which show had the worst first season, before achieiving greatness?
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URS Corp., the California company that runs the MassRIDES carpool program, has won a five-year $16.6 million contract to continue its work for the state.
BOSTON — A company based in San Francisco that runs the MassRIDES carpool program has been selected for a five-year $16.6 million contract to continue its work for the state.
Though its board authorized the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to negotiate a new contract with URS Corp., chairman John Jenkins asked for more information about what MassRIDES does and another board member said he was unaware of the program.
"Probably you're coming from the same angle I am, which is I really wasn't conscious of this program before. It's really the first time I'm hearing about it," said board member Andrew Whittle.
URS had $10.9 billion in revenues in 2012, with $2.3 billion coming from the oil and gas sector, according to its annual report. The company provides engineering and construction for gas exploration, builds refineries and provides environmental management for the oil and gas industry.
"URS like most conglomerates does good things and bad things. And we have no problem with the state contracting with them to do good things like MassRIDES, particularly if it takes time and money away from their bad things like fossil fuels," said Environmental League of Massachusetts President George Bachrach told the News Service.
URS has offices throughout the world and gets most of its business as a federal government contractor, doing $1.7 billion in work for the U.S. Army in 2012 and $989 million for the Department of Energy.
MassRIDES is funded with 80 percent federal dollars and 20 percent state spending. The program seeks to limit the use of single-occupancy vehicles by coordinating carpools and promoting alternative transportation.
Several state officials make earnest efforts to participate in car-free week every spring, and MassRIDES said the 2013 week forewent 214 tons of emissions.
MassRIDES began in 2004, taking over from the Caravan for Commuters program. URS has been the only contractor for the program, said Clinton Bench, deputy executive director of the Office of Transportation Planning. The current contract expires March 31.
The board authorized negotiation of a new $3.32 million annual contract ending fiscal year 2018, Transportation Secretary Richard Davey said he would update the board on MassRIDES at the next MassDOT meeting.
"It's one of those hidden gems in this organization. There's actually a lot of good stuff going on," Davey told the board. He told the News Service, "They've done a number of our programs – Bike Week for example, as mentioned, and ECO Awards that we give out, encourage private employers to encourage employees to get to work in different ways. We've basically outsourced what is a function that the DOT would have, and we've been very satisfied with URS, so we're going to continue that contract."
Parsons Brinkerhoff was the only other corporation to respond to the bid, Bench said. A major Big Dig contractor, Parsons Brinkerhoff and Bechtel agreed in January 2008 to pay a $458 million settlement for work on the tunnel project.
"Massachusetts is very unique in that we have a statewide travel options program. Usually these are handled at a metropolitan level. So we have a very big program and there is a limited number of companies that have the breadth of technical expertise and staff to be able to handle a statewide program," Bench told the board.


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Since 1964, this item's manufacturer has been crafting American made upholstered furniture in the foothills of East Tennessee. When other furniture suppliers decided to take their manufacturing overseas, this group's manufacturer remained in the US, offering American made furniture with a wide selection of American made fabric options.
This living room sofa was made with families in mind. It is an American made piece of furniture from a US manufacturer and features an outstanding value when it comes to durability that withstands daily family use. It has a manufactured hardwood frame with a seat cushion construction that takes extra measures to ensure long-lasting support and comfort. The style is traditional with elegant rolled arms and a curvaceous silhouette on the arm's sides. Casual tapered legs complete the piece.
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Soria, a candidate to close, has been impressive
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Joakim Soria is off to the quickest start of the three candidates for the closer's role. While Neftali Feliz and Tanner Scheppers have been dealing with minor ailments, Soria has impressed early in Rangers camp with his throwing.
"He's such a professional," manager Ron Washington said. "His arm looks much more free and his velocity has picked up. He was never a power pitcher, but he could locate and throw breaking balls."
Scheppers has been bothered by back spasms, but those have subsided. He threw off flat ground on Saturday without any problem and is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Monday. Feliz is also throwing better after some early soreness in his right biceps. He is scheduled to throw one more live batting practice and then in the intrasquad game on Tuesday.
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Vacationers leave as Arthur nears North Carolina
RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Arthur gained strength in the Atlantic on Thursday and threatened to strike near the North Carolina coast on Independence Day, prompting thousands of vacationers and residents to leave parts of the state's popular but flood-prone Outer Banks.
Nichole Specht, 27, and Ryan Witman, 28, had pre-loaded their Honda CRV and left Hatteras Island at 3:30 a.m. Thursday, beating the expected traffic jam. The island was under an evacuation order, with no traffic allowed in. Officials asked an estimated 35,000 residents and travelers to leave through North Carolina Highway 12, the only road on and off Hatteras.
Specht and Witman found the road wide open for their return home to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Specht said her parents left their rental later, at 5 a.m., and also found clear sailing.
"We were just saying we were really, really lucky this year that the weather was so great, and then this," Specht said as she ended a two-week vacation that included scouting sites for the couple's wedding next year.
Forecasters expect Arthur to speed up to a Category 2 storm and pass over or near the Outer Banks - a 200-mile string of narrow barrier islands with about 57,000 permanent residents - early Friday, bringing rain, heavy winds, storm surge and dangerous rip currents. Category 2 hurricanes pack winds of more than 96 mph.
"We don't know for sure if the exact center of Arthur is going to pass over land or not. The chances have been increasing for that to occur with the last couple of forecasts. But even if the exact center doesn't go over you, you will experience impacts tonight. The weather is going downhill in North Carolina, even as we speak," said Rick Knabb, the director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Before the storm hit, tourism officials had expected 250,000 people to travel to the Outer Banks for the holiday weekend. Gov. Pat McCrory sought to strike a balance between a stern warning to vacationers and optimism that part of the busy weekend could be salvaged.
On Wednesday, he warned people: "Don't put your stupid hat on."
But the next day, even as the storm gathered strength, he said: "Of course, this holiday weekend, the July 4th weekend, is one of the biggest weekends for coastal tourism in the state, and we anticipate a beautiful weekend after the Tropical Storm Arthur or the Hurricane Arthur is out of North Carolina."
Some visitors stayed put, hopeful the fast-moving storm would follow predictions to pass through by Friday afternoon. About 20 miles north of the only bridge off Hatteras, Sean Fitzgerald and his 5-year-old son, Cade, enjoyed a sunny morning lounging in beach chairs in the town of Kill Devil Hills.
The sand was dotted with tourists. A handful of surfers took to the water. Like all areas north of Oregon Inlet, Kill Devils Hills wasn't under an evacuation. Fitzgerald said he saw no need to disrupt his family's vacation.
"I plan to sit on the beach as long as the sun is here," then head out for a seafood dinner, said Fitzgerald, 44, of Fairfax, Virginia.
Those who don't evacuate the islands should prepare for possibly getting stuck for several days without food, water or power, National Hurricane Center forecaster Stacy Stewart said Thursday.
"We want the public to take this system very seriously, go ahead and start their preparations because time is beginning to run out," he said.
Arthur, the first named storm of the Atlantic season, prompted a hurricane warning for much of the North Carolina coast. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for coastal areas in South Carolina and Virginia. On the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island, accessible only by ferry, a voluntary evacuation was underway. Officials said ferry service would end at 5 p.m.
Before sunset Wednesday on Highway 12, a long line of cars, trailers and recreational vehicles formed a steady stream of traffic. The road has been sliced apart twice in recent years as storms cut temporary channels from the ocean to the sound. N.C. 12 is easily blocked by sand and water.
Officials called the evacuation for Hatteras Island residents and visitors mandatory, but some residents were likely to stay, as in past storms.
Mike Rabe of Virginia Beach, Virginia, planned to remain in his Outer Banks beach home the entire weekend. He and his wife, Jan, stowed lawn furniture and anything else that could be tossed about by winds, then planned to help a neighbor.
"I'm going to ride it out," Rabe, 53, said.
The holiday weekend was not expected to be a complete loss on the Outer Banks. Forecasters said the storm would move through quickly with the worst of the weather near Cape Hatteras about dawn Friday. Then it was expected to clear. The National Hurricane Center predicted Arthur would start to weaken Friday night.
Farther north, the annual Boston Pops Fourth of July concert and fireworks show was moved up a day because of potential heavy rain ahead of Hurricane Arthur. Organizers and public safety officials said the celebration was rescheduled for Thursday, which appeared to be the best of two potential bad weather days. Other cities along the East Coast warned of weather condition and potentially life-threatening rip currents.
On Thursday afternoon, Arthur was about 225 miles (365 kilometers) southwest of Cape Hatteras and moving north around 13 mph (20 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph).
If Arthur makes landfall in the U.S. on Friday, it would be the first hurricane to do so on July Fourth, according to National Hurricane Center research that goes back to the 1850s.
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Starchaser Industries has received a $200,000 contract from the European Space Agency to submit an analysis of the proposed Thunderstar Starchaser 5 rocket and to develop a business plan on the sustainability of space tourism.
Starchaser spokeswoman Kimmarie Hartley said Monday that the report will explain the company's design for the rocket's capsule in a way that complies with ESA requirements.
"It's a step-by-step verification of our engineering designs," she said.
The contract is part of the ESA's effort to identify privately funded vehicles for human space flight, the company said in a news release.
Starchaser chief executive Steve Bennett said the ESA survey reflects a growing worldwide interest in space tourism and commercially funded space travel. "Investors are looking for the next frontier of profitability and space tourism is getting a lot of attention," Bennett said.
The co company, which has offices in Britain as well as New Mexico, hopes to one day construct a 120-acre "Rocket City" in the desert west of Las Cruces. It would feature rocket production buildings and astronaut training facilities.
The company envisions launches from the New Mexico spaceport north of Las Cruces as early as 2009. The rocket would carry one pilot and two passengers on suborbital spaceflights, then the capsule would return by parachute.
Customers could keep the spacesuit "as a memento of their experience," the company said.