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It would shock me if he did show up in WWE, even shock me more with Karen Jarrett to show up with him backstage somewhere. And doesn't Vince McMahon have like some kind of hate for Double J? I would like to see him in WWE HOF.
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We all judge others even if it isn't our place to judge, but supposedly at the end we are all judged by one!!!
Wrestling, women and money who could ask for more???
The IWC is to TNA what the Republicans are to Obama: No matter how much good they do...as soon as they're shown to be less than perfect, the other claims that they just can't get anything right.


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Three suspects are reportedly caught allegedly discussing break-ins when one of them happens to have his cell phone in the wrong position and, police say, butt-dials 911. The dispatchers listen in.
The New York mayor blames a rise in crime on thefts of Apple devices. I'm talking here!
With the help of software, the owner of a stolen MacBook Air is able to get into his computer and see that the alleged thief has taken a picture of himself--and filmed himself dancing.
One of the most talked about phenomenons online this week is Rebecca Black, a 13-year-old who was dubbed on YouTube as the worst (Auto-Tuned) singer in the world and yet broke into the iTunes Top 100.
A police officer caught another police office stealing headphones in a Brooklyn Best Buy yesterday; is this a sign that headphones are too expensive?
Our reservoir of embarrassing stories about Jeff is bottoming out, so we're happy to welcome his old chums from BeenVerified.com to refill the glass. Josh, Ross, and Jay are ushering in a new generation of background checks for employers and job seekers.
Record labels should have won case against Minnesota woman who was probably sharing copyrighted music on Kazaa. The problem is the $220,000 penalty.
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Marvell Wynne is in the prime of his soccer career. If not for soccer, he might be competing at track, given his speed. Or possibly playing baseball, since his dad was a Major League Baseball player. Or how about even a referee for the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls?
Marv blew the opening whistle Saturday at the Filmore Auditorium in the match between the RMRG United States Pummeling Service and Pikes Peak Derby Dames' Slamazons.
"I had a great time at the Roller Derby bout," Marv told ColoradoRapids.com. "The girls are great and the crowd was into it and fun. I was nervous to blow the whistle to start everything but I pulled it off. Blowing a whistle is harder than it looks. Props to the refs....in roller derby!"
At first glance I thought maybe Stew Ceus had injured his hand when I saw him take a goal kick while holding a large burgundy wrap at practice. And then it was obvious that he was having a hard time trying to get his warmup top off over his 'keeper gloves. Our equipment manager was quick to the spot. After a second trying to softly remove it, he and Stew pulled in opposite directions until it came off.
Last night Colombia defeated Mexico 2-0 in a friendly played in Miami. Today I asked Rapids and former Colombian National Team midfielder Jaime Castrillon if he aims to get back on his country's squad. He says his only concentration right now is to do well with the Rapids, and then who knows if that will help him get back in the mix for his country.
Jaime has scored five goals with the Colombia national team, and you might be surprised to learn what two of those goals have in common with the Rapids.
Goal #1: July 17, 2005. The opener for Colombia in a 2-1 win over Mexico in the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarterfinals in Houston's Reliant Stadium, thus eliminating Mexico from the tournament.
Goal #2: December 28, 2005. The lone goal in Colombia's 1-2 loss to Comunidad Valenciana in a friendly played in Spain.
Goal #3: July 2, 2007. Against Argentina in a 4-2 loss in group play of the 2007 Copa America played in Venezuela. His goal made the scored 3-2.
Goal #4: July 5, 2007: Against the United States in a 1-0 win in group play of the same tournament. He beat now teammate Drew Moor (right) to the ball before heading it in the goal. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO OF THE GOAL:
Goal #5: August 22, 2007: The game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Mexico in a friendly played at Dick's Sporting Goods Park (watch below):
On any given day, one can walk by the break room here in the front office and be happily surprised to see free treats sitting there waiting to be snapped up. I've seen sandwiches, bagels, burritos, chips, cookies, etc. Different departments take turns, and even individuals are known to bring goodies to share.
But there's one day each month where we've come to anticipate - even get excited for - the sweet treats.
The KSE Spirit Committee - among other roles - sends out a company wide email on the first of every month wishing Happy Birthday to all employees who were born in that particular month. They also send celebratory birthday treats to each facility later in the afternoon. We never know what it will be - but you often see staff casually passing by the break room to see if the treats have been delivered.
In the theme of St. Patrick's Day, today's March birthday treats were green frosted cupcakes and cookies.
Happy March Birthday, KSE staff!!
If you've ever been out here at the Dick's Sporting Goods Park complex during this time of year, you've likely noticed the 'coyotes' that are sitting all over the fields. They are actually wooden cut outs places throughout to look like coyotes in an effort scare away the prairie dogs that like to dig their holes everywhere.
The reason the park uses coyotes? Because they, too, like to roam around the complex - like this guy (below) that was running through the parking lot this morning.
Rapids forward Omar Cummings today helped the Jamaican national team defeat host New Zealand 3-2 out in Auckland, New Zealand.
From the video highlights we see that Omar assisted on Tramaine Jones' goal in the 53rd minute with a nicely weighted through ball which Stewart hammered home.
According to the Jamaican Observer, Omar played 65 minutes before he was replaced by Navion Boyd, who would go on to scored Jamaica's third goal.
And here's odd note to Stewart. He was on the same flight with Omar that left LA for New Zealand last Saturday. Once they landed, apparently Tramaine forgot he had brought an apple with him, and was consecuently fined for not declaring the 'risk goods' upon landing. The Jamaican Observer has this story, stating the Jamaican National Team lawyer said an appeal 'would be fruitless.' No mention if the pun was intended: HERE'S THE STORY.
Before the team departed for Hawaii, Oscar Pareja had invited fellow Colombian midfielder Andres Sarmiento as to train with the group. El Michi, as he's known in Colombia, has now returned to his former club in South America, with a positive experience of his week in Colorado and towards Pareja and assistant coach Wilmer Cabrera.
"Training with that club was a great pleasure for me in my career," he told Vanguardia.com. "(Pareja and Cabrera) were kind with me and made me feel like a compatriot. My relation with them is very good."
Sarmiento has already begun training with Atlético Bucaramanga. FULL STORY (SPANISH)
We want to give a shoutout to the Colorado Rapids front office staff for taking the Fight for Air Climb on Sunday. The group was part of the Kroenke Sports & Entertainment team that climbed the 56 stairs - 1096 steps - of the Republic Plaza building in downtown Denver in a fundraiser to help fight lung disease and promote lung health. The KSE team finished 3rd overall as the individuals collectively raised over $5000 for the American Lung Association of Colorado.
The staff that participated were: Caleb Alexander, Jordan Allerding, Wayne Brant, Gretchen Claypool, Christa Dellebovi, Sara Frazier, Ossie Hamrick, Chris Hoffner, Emily Kilcoyne, Lindsey Nielson, Chelsea Hedrick, Kristen Sonsma, and Traci Swanson.
One of the common conversations heard among the players after Friday's game was about seeing the Rapids colors in the stands at Aloha Stadium. It was a welcome surprise to the players, especially since these are preseason games being played so far away from Colorado.
We knew that Kosuke, Pablo, and Kohei had friends and family in the stands, and we also heard fans calling out players names from the stands both before and after the game. Unfortunately we didn't get to find out who these fans were.
But we did get to talk to eight Rapids season ticket holders that are here for the games. The photo above shows Brandi and Bruce Mahaffey, Pamela Houpts, and Art, Ana, and Joddy Shipley, who ended up moving over and sitting right behind the team bench.
I also met third-year season ticket Stephanie Adams, who timed her busines trip just right to catch Friday's game before flying back to Colorado that evening. And some of you may have followed the tweets from Richard Bamber, a member of the Bulldog Supporters Group that flew out and posted photos and videos on the Bulldogs twitter account (@BulldogSG).
Finally, we met this group (below) of fans from Hawaii that have taken the Colorado Rapids as their team, mostly because of their interaction via twitter with Drew Moor and Eddie Ababio. They brought signs for both players and got to meet them in person. They then helped keep fans in Colorado updated on the game by tweeting their thoughts from inside the stadium. On Friday they stopped by at the hotel and met and got autographs from a bunch of the players.
And finally, we also want to thank and recognize the fans that stayed up late throughout the country late Thursday / early Friday following our tweets.
Forward Andre Akpan made an astute observation the other day on twitter that got us thinking. Are there other players who look like people we've seen - whether other celebrities or just people down the street?
Holy look-a-like! Tony @Cascio14 = Adrien Brody image.toutlecine.com/photos/o/x/y/o…
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Rapids rookie Tony Cascio (left) and Academy Award winner actor Adrien Brody:


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Turn up the naughty in the Nurse Adult Thigh High. These red fishnet thigh highs feature a dark red seam running up the back which ends in a sexy little bow.
For the girl who looks to accessorize, even while saving lives, the Officially Licensed Nurse Jewelry Set is for you. The set features a red choker necklace with heart and cross detail and red heart earrings which also feature a tiny white cross.
Get guys finding any excuse to dial 911 when you're on call in this pair of naughty nurse thigh highs! This sexy set of stockings come in an innocent white with racy Red Cross bows sure to raise anyone's temperature.
Give your guests a scare they will never forget when you decorate your haunted house with the Convulsing Nurse Animated Decoration. This screaming and flailing nurse is compatible with the First Aid Box, features volume control and comes with a power adapter.
There will be plenty of wounds to fix up on Halloween. Hope you're qualified in this Nurse Adult Womens Shirt. At least you'll look the part in this classic white collared shirt with signature red cross logo.
He won't mind you checking up on him when you wear the Bedside Beauty Nurse Women's Costume. You have the power to see how he reacts to your every move with your stethoscope. Also features, white hot dress with red accents, nurses hat and gloves.
Prescribe your friends a fun Halloween when you wear this Nurse Heartbreaker adult womens costume. The short and sassy white mini dress of this nurse costume features red trim and a front zipper closure. A red belt and matching nurse hat complete this sexy costume.
Everyone will want you to be their nurse in the Army Nurse Women's Adult Costume. This army green bra top and skirt has a throwback retro look. With a delicate white apron, sporting a red cross and matching green headband with a red cross, you'll have people lining up to get their pulse checked.
Be sure you get the right prescription on Halloween when you wear this Miss Diagnosed Nurse adult costume. The black dress of this nurse costume features red trim and comes complete with matching headpiece.
Here's a prescription for Halloween fun - complete your naughty nurse or cute Candy Striper costume with this clever name badge. The Nurse Name Badge is equipped with a handy shot glass - you determine the proper dose.
Temperatures will rise and hearts will beat a lot faster when you show up in this short and sexy Nurse Knockout adult womens costume. The white and red mini dress comes complete with jacket, belt and matching nurse hat along with a stethoscope and name badge.
…will quicken at the sight of you in this short and sweet Hot Flash Nurse adult womens costume. The white, 100% polyester, zipper-front dress of this nurse costume features red graphics and comes complete with a matching nurse hat. This sexy womens costume is a prescription for a fun Halloween!
Here's a nurse that definitely takes house calls! Sexy Midnight Nurse Adult Womens costume resembles a medical uniform while vamping it up with frills and lace! You should be ready before twelve with the help of ruffled gloves, choker, and headpiece, also included.
…about to rise when you wear the Nurse Heartbreaker Adult Women's Plus Size Costume. This crisp white dress features a corset style top with sexy red lining that will draw all the right attention, a matching belt that accentuates your waist and flirty hat that will have everyone screaming "nurse!".
Make sure that your patients get the medical care they require when you wear the Nurse Anita Reefer Adult Women's Costume. This white and green nurse outfit features a pleated skirt, matching shirt and headband along with a tie and clip.
Make him feel better when you wear this Pin Up Nurse Adult Womens Costume. Just one look at you in this sexy slim fitting blue and teal dress with classic medical logo, matching capelet and hat and he'll be cured of all ailments.
Prescribe some fun for the Halloween party when you dress in this Knock Out Nurse adult womens costume. This short and sweet, red and white, zipper front uniform-inspired dress features a keyhole back, an attached belt and oversize bow along with matching headpiece.
Let's play doctor! You call the shots with this sassy Naughty Nurse Garter complete with a hypodermic needle. Fill a prescription for Love Potion #9 and tell him to drop his drawers.
Better check all the pulses in the room because hearts will race when you arrive in thisCardiac Arrest adult womens costume. The black, white and red uniform-inspired mini dress of this nurse costume features a zipper closure and comes complete with a red and white belt along with a matching hat.
Get ready to check pulses when you arrive in this Cardiac Arrest adult womens plus size costume because hearts will be racing. The black, white and red mini dress of this nurse costume features a zipper closure and comes complete with a red and white belt and matching hat.
Make your clown costume a smash hit with this fun inflatable mallet!
Perform your life-saving duties when you wear this Ravishing RN adult womens costume. The white, zipper front dress features red trim and an attached heart waist sash, complete with a matching headband.
The details make the difference in any costume - distinguish yours with the addition of this realistic looking Doctor's reflector - it's a prescription for a fun Halloween.
The Hospital Honey Nurse Stethoscope will make his heart beat a little bit faster. Complete your naughty nurse costume with this cute red cross heart embellished accessory.


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One goal of the Sustainable Energy Project at Wilson College is to demonstrate readily available energy solutions that can be easily built at home or readily purchased. These devices may provide power solutions in remote locations or harvest energy through simple means.
Have you ever left a car parked in the sun on a hot
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When you first get inside, it may feel like it could be hot enough to bake a potato! This is the same concept behind a solar cooker. The sun's energy passes through a glass (or plexiglass) panel into an insulated box and some of the energy is trapped inside as heat. By focusing the sun's rays into the box with reflective panels, the energy can be intensified to the point that cooking temperatures are reached.The solar cooker at the Fulton Center for Sustainable Living is made from plywood, foam insulation, plexiglass, and sheet metal flashing. An inner wooden box is lined with the reflective sheet metal, then placed inside an outer wooden box with insulation stuffed in between. A sheet of plexiglass is used to admit and trap the sun's rays, and a large reflective panel at the back helps to focus sunlight inside. Finally, the whole unit is painted black to absorb heat and withstand the weather. Castor wheels added to the bottom are handy for moving the cooker from place to place. Items to be cooked (cookies, rice, breads, etc.) are placed inside the inner box with the plexiglass on top, then the cooker is pointed into the sun. Temperatures inside quickly heat up and the food begins to cook.
By periodically turning the oven to face the sun, cooking can be completed in a few hours. This fun project saves energy and shows how useful the sun's rays can be! Simple solar cookers can also be made from cardboard boxes lined with aluminum foil, or from potato chip cans (the perfect size for cooking a hot-dog).
For more information on solar cookers, visit the Solar Cookers website.Solar Water Heating
Have you ever felt the hot water that comes out of a hose if it is left in the sun on a summer day?
The sun can heat water effectively, cleanly, and cheaply. Solar water heaters work on the same principle as solar cookers. A water storage tank is painted black, then placed inside a transparent box. This is then set in a sunny spot, and allowed to heat up over the course of a day. By evening, hot water is available for dish washing, bathing, or other uses.
The water heaters at the Fulton Center for Sustainable Living are made from tanks recovered from a local plumber's shop. Each tank is situated inside its own wood-framed box, surrounded by transparent plastic. A garden hose with cold water runs into the bottom of each tank, and a hot water hose runs out of the top. Interns who live on the farm for the summer use the hot water for bathing at the end of the work day.
Solar water heaters are quick, cheap, and easy to build, and they can save an incredible amount of energy! Every time someone washes with solar-heated water, it uses water that did not have to be heated with electricity, gas, or oil. A solar water heater sits in the sun and collects heat whenever the sun shines. The only maintenance needed is to drain the tanks in fall before freezing temperatures set in.
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Social justice is not a concept to define; it is an action to be taken.
Social justice is a call to action. It challenges individuals to work for the greater good of society as a whole.
The College for Public Health & Social Justice is committed to social justice as understood as:
-The creation of just relationships at all system levels.
-The development of structures that provide for equality of opportunity.
-The facilitation of access to needed information, services and resources.
-The support of meaningful participation in decision-making for all people.
This commitment is grounded in the ethic of the public health and social work professions. It is infused into all major components of the college, including our teaching, research and service.
Consistent with SLU's Jesuit mission of being men and women for others, our academic programs have a strong tradition of focusing on improving the lives of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. As the only Jesuit college of public health in the nation, the College for Public Health & Social Justice is committed to educating the whole person, mind, body and spirit within the Jesuit tradition.
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The term social justice was first coined by Jesuit scholar Luigi Taparelli, S.J. in 1840 based on the teachings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas believed that life was a union with God and that an individual's life must be ordered towards doing right things for the betterment of others.
Initially, the concept of social justice was thought of as an extension of the idea of justice within the context of a society as a whole as Taparelli was concerned with the social problems arising from the industrial revolution. To Taparelli, individuals within an industrialized society have the potential to only be concerned with individual gains rather than the equality and solidarity of society as a whole. He believed that Aquinas' teachings needed to be revived in order to maintain a socially just society that works for the greater good.
In 1995, the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus set an agenda of social justice as a moral imperative for human rights, life, the environment, and interdependence in a global world (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1995). Saint Louis University challenges faculty, staff, students, alumni, and our communities not just to learn about social justice but also to practice social justice in all aspects of their lives.


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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography and Ennio Morricone composed the famous film score. It is the third and final film in the Dollars trilogy following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). The plot centers around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, Civil War battles, and prison camps.
Opening on December 15, 1966 in Italy and in the U.S. on December 23, 1967, the film grossed $6.1 million, but was criticized for its depiction of violence. Leone explains that "the killings in my films are exaggerated because I wanted to make a tongue-in-cheek satire on run-of-the-mill westerns... The west was made by violent, uncomplicated men, and it is this strength and simplicity that I try to recapture in my pictures." To this day, Leone's effort to reinvigorate the timeworn Western is widely acknowledged: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has been described as European cinema's best representative of the Western genre film, and Quentin Tarantino has called it "the best-directed film of all time."
Following a relentless search, Tuco ambushes Blondie and marches him across the harsh desert. As Blondie collapses from dehydration, Tuco prepares to kill him when a runaway carriage appears on the horizon. Inside, Tuco discovers a dying Bill Carson, who reveals that Confederate gold is buried in a grave in Sad Hill cemetery but falls unconscious before naming the grave. When Tuco returns with water, he discovers Carson dead and Blondie slumped against the carriage. As he passes out, Blondie says that he knows the name on the grave. Tuco takes Blondie, both disguised as Confederate soldiers, to a Catholic mission, allowing Blondie time to recover before the two leave, still disguised as Confederate soldiers when they inadvertently encounter a force of Union soldiers, who capture and march them to a Union prison camp.
At the camp, Corporal Wallace begins a roll call, and Tuco answers for Bill Carson, catching the attention of Angel Eyes, a Union Sergeant stationed at the camp. Angel Eyes has Wallace torture Tuco into revealing Sad Hill Cemetery, but confesses that only Blondie knows the name on the grave. Angel Eyes offers Blondie an equal partnership in recovering the gold. Blondie agrees and rides out with Angel Eyes and his posse while Tuco, being escorted by train to his execution, escapes. Blondie, Angel Eyes and his posse stop at a war-ravaged town to rest. Across town, Tuco aimlessly wanders through the wreckage, oblivious to the bounty hunter (Al Mulock) who tracks and ambushes Tuco. Despite the surprise, Tuco kills the bounty hunter. Blondie leaves to investigate the gunshot, tracking down Tuco and informing him of Angel Eyes's involvement. The two resume their old partnership, skulking through the wrecked town and killing Angel Eyes' henchmen before discovering that Angel Eyes has escaped.
Tuco and Blondie track down Sad Hill Cemetery when they discover a great battle brewing between massive Union and Confederate forces, separated only by a narrow bridge. Eager to disperse the standing armies, Blondie and Tuco wire the bridge with dynamite. During the process, the two trade information, with Tuco revealing Sad Hill Cemetery, while Blondie saying the name on the grave is Arch Stanton. The two detonate the bridge and take cover as the two armies angrily resume their battle. The next morning, the Confederate and Union soldiers have disappeared. Tuco abandons Blondie to retrieve the gold for himself and stumbles upon the sprawling Sad Hill Cemetery. Frantically searching the sea of makeshift tombstones, Tuco finally locates Arch Stanton's grave. As he digs, Blondie appears and offers him a shovel. Moments later, the two are ambushed by Angel Eyes, who holds them at gunpoint. Blondie kicks open Stanton's grave to reveal only a skeleton. Declaring that only he knows the real name of the grave, Blondie writes it on a rock in the middle of the graveyard and tells Tuco and Angel Eyes that "two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're going to have to earn it."
The three stare each other down, calculating alliances and dangers in a famous five-minute Mexican standoff before suddenly drawing. Blondie shoots Angel Eyes, rolling him into an open grave, while Tuco discovers that Blondie unloaded his gun the night before. Blondie directs Tuco to the grave marked Unknown next to Arch Stanton's. Tuco digs and is overjoyed to find bags of gold inside, but is shocked when he turns to Blondie and finds himself staring at a noose. Blondie forces Tuco atop a grave marker and wraps the noose around his neck, binding Tuco's hands before disappearing with his share of the gold. As Tuco screams for mercy, Blondie's silhouette returns on the horizon, aiming a rifle at Tuco. As Tuco screams in rage, Blondie fires and severs the noose rope, dropping Tuco face-first onto his share of the gold. Blondie smiles as the livid Tuco screams at him, before turning and riding into the frontier.
Leone built upon the screenwriter's original concept to "show the absurdity of war...the Civil War which the characters encounter, in my frame of reference, is useless, stupid: it does not involve a 'good cause.'" An avid history buff, Leone said, "I had read somewhere that 120,000 people died in Southern camps such as Andersonville. And I was not ignorant of the fact that there were camps in the North. You always get to hear about the shameful behaviour of the losers, never the winners." The Betterville Camp where Blondie and Tuco are imprisoned was based on steel engravings of Andersonville. Many shots in the film were influenced by archival photographs taken by Mathew Brady.
While Leone developed Vincenzoni's idea into a script, the screenwriter recommended the comedy-writing team of Agenore Incrucci and Furio Scarpelli to work on it with Leone and Sergio Donati. According to Leone, "I couldn't use a single thing they'd written. It was the grossest deception of my life." Donati agreed, saying, "There was next to nothing of them in the final script. They wrote only the first part. Just one line." Vincenzoni claims that he wrote the screenplay in 11 days, but he soon left the project after his relationship with Leone became strained. The three main characters all contain autobiographical elements of Leone. In an interview he said, "[Sentenza] has no spirit, he's a professional in the most banal sense of the term. Like a robot. This isn't the case with the other two. On the methodical and careful side of my character, I'd be nearer Blondie: but my most profound sympathy always goes towards the Tuco side...He can be touching with all that tenderness and all that wounded humanity."
The film's working title was The Two Magnificent Tramps and was changed just before shooting began when Vincenzoni thought up The Good, the Bad & the Ugly which Leone loved. The Italian title, Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo, translates to The Good, the Ugly, the Bad.
The Franco regime approved production and provided the Spanish army for technical assistance; the film's cast includes 1,500 local militia members as extras. Eastwood remembers, "They would care if you were doing a story about Spaniards and about Spain. Then they'd scrutinize you very tough, but the fact that you're doing a western that's supposed to be laid in southwest America or Mexico, they couldn't care less what your story or subject is."
Wallach was almost poisoned during filming when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had set next to his soda bottle. Wallach mentioned this in his autobiography and complained that while Leone was a brilliant director, he was very lax about ensuring the safety of his actors during dangerous scenes. Wallach was endangered in another scene, where he was to be hanged after a pistol was shot and the horse underneath him was to run away in fright. While the rope around Wallach's neck was severed, the horse was frightened a little too well. The horse rode off for about a mile with Wallach still on top of the horse and his hands bound behind his back. The third time Wallach's life was threatened was during the scene where he and Mario Brega jump out of a moving train. The jumping part was fine, but Wallach's life was endangered when his character attempts to sever the chain binding him to the (now dead) henchman. Tuco places the body on the railroad tracks, making the train roll over the chain to sever it. Wallach and presumably, the entire film crew were not aware of the heavy iron steps that jutted one foot out of every box car. If Wallach had stood up from his prone position at the wrong time, one of the jutting steps could have decapitated him.
The bridge in the film was reconstructed twice by sappers of the Spanish army after being rigged for on-camera explosive demolition. The first time, an Italian camera operator signaled that he was ready to shoot, which was misconstrued by an army captain as the similar sounding Spanish word meaning "start". Luckily, nobody was injured in the erroneous mistiming. As a result, the army rebuilt the bridge while other shots were filmed. As the bridge was not a prop but a rather heavy and sturdy design, powerful explosives were required to destroy it. Leone has said that this scene was, in part, inspired by Buster Keaton's silent film, The General.
An international cast was employed, and actors performed in their native languages. Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach spoke in English, and were dubbed in Italian for the debut release in Rome. For the American version, the lead acting voices were used, but cast members were dubbed into English. The result is noticeable in the synchronization of voices to lip movements on screen; none of the dialogue is completely in sync because Leone rarely shot his scenes with synched sound. Various reasons have been cited for this: Leone often liked to play Morricone's music over a scene (and possibly shout things at them as well) to get the actors in the mood; Leone cared more for visuals than dialogue (his English was limited, at best); and given the technical limitations of the time, it would have been difficult to record the sound cleanly in most of the extremely wide shots Leone frequently used. Also, it was a standard practice in all Italian films at this time to shoot silent and post-dub. Whatever the actual reason, all dialogue in the film was recorded in post-production. The relationship between Eastwood and Leone had remained strained from their previous collaboration and it only worsened during the dubbing sessions for the U.S. version because the actor was presented with a different script than the one they had shot with. He refused to read from this new script, insisting on using the shooting one instead.
Leone was unable to find an actual cemetery for the Sad Hill shootout scene, so the Spanish pyrotechnics chief hired 250 Spanish soldiers to build the cemetery in Carazo near Salas de los Infantes, which they completed in two days.
Given that the Italian Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo literally translates to the English: The Good, the Ugly, the Bad, reversing the last two adjectives, advertisements for the original Italian release show Tuco before Angel Eyes, and, when translated to English, erroneously label Angel Eyes as "The Ugly" and Tuco as "The Bad".
The film was initially banned in Norway and did not have its premiere there until 15 years later, on October 8, 1982.
|International release dates
|December 15, 1966
|United States
|December 23, 1967
|December 29, 1967
|December 30, 1967
|February 2, 1968
|March 8, 1968
|April 8, 1968
|April 10, 1968
|June 13, 1968
|United Kingdom
|August 22, 1968
|July 21, 1974
|August 7, 1977
|October 8, 1982
Sergio Leone established a rule that he follows throughout The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The rule is that the ability to see is limited by the sides of the frame. At important moments in the film, what the camera cannot see, the characters cannot see, and that gives Leone the freedom to surprise us with entrances that cannot be explained by the practical geography of his shots. There is a moment, for example, when men do not notice a vast encampment of the Union Army until they stumble upon it. And a moment in a cemetery when a man materializes out of thin air even though he should have been visible for a mile. And the way men walk down a street in full view and nobody is able to shoot them, maybe because they are not in the same frame with them.
Today, the film is regarded by many critics as a classic. It remains one of the most popular and well known westerns and is considered to be one of the greatest of its genre. It was part of Time's "100 Greatest movies of the last century" as selected by critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. In addition, it used to be one of the few films which enjoyed a 100% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the rating has since been changed to 98% due to the inclusion of a single negative review by Time Magazine on February 9, 1968, which was only recently added to the rotten tomatoes website on 11 August 2008, ten years after the fact, since Rotten Tomatoes debuted in 1998.
In a 2002 Sight & Sound magazine poll, Quentin Tarantino voted The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as his choice for the best film ever made.
Empire magazine added The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to their Masterpiece collection in the September 2007 issue.
The main theme was a hit in 1968, alongside the Rolling Stones song, "Jumpin' Jack Flash". The soundtrack album was on the charts for more than a year, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart. The main theme was also a hit for Hugo Montenegro, whose rendition was a No. 2 Billboard pop single in 1968. In popular culture, the American New Wave group Wall of Voodoo performed a medley of Ennio Morricone's movie themes, including the theme for this movie. The only known recording of it is a live performance on The Index Masters. Punk rock band Ramones played this song as the opening for their live album Loco Live. The British metal band Motörhead played the main theme as the overture music on the 1981 "No sleep 'til Hammersmith"-Tour. American thrash metal band Metallica has run "The Ecstasy of Gold" as prelude music at their concerts since 1985 (except between 1996-1998), and recently recorded a version of the instrumental for a compilation tribute to Morricone. XM Satellite Radio's The Opie & Anthony Show also open every show with "The Ecstasy of Gold".
The film was first released on DVD by MGM in 1998. The special features contain 18 minutes of scenes which were cut for the film's North American release, including a scene which explains how Angel Eyes came to be waiting for Blondie and Tuco at the Union prison camp. Because they were cut, the scenes had not been dubbed in English and were only available in the original Italian dub on the DVD release.
In 2002, the film was restored with the 18 minutes of scenes cut for U.S. release edited back into the film. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach were brought back in to dub their characters' lines more than 35 years after the film's original release. Voice actor Simon Prescott substituted for Lee Van Cleef who died in 1989. Other voice actors filled in to dub for other actors who had since passed away. In 2004, MGM released this version in a two-disc special edition DVD.
Disc 1 contains an audio commentary with writer and critic Richard Schickel. Disc 2 contains two documentaries, "Leone's West" and "The Man Who Lost The Civil War", followed by the featurette, "Restoring 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'"; an animated gallery of missing sequences entitled, "The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction"; an extended Tuco torture scene; a featurette called "Il Maestro"; an audio featurette named, "Il Maestro, Part 2"; a French trailer; and a poster gallery.
This DVD was generally well received, though some purists complained about the re-mixed stereo soundtrack with many completely new sound effects (notably, all the gunshots were replaced), with no option for the original soundtrack. At least one scene which was edited back in had been cut by Leone prior to the film's release in Italy, but had shown once at the Italian premiere. It is generally believed that Leone willingly cut the scene for pacing reasons and, thus, restoring it was contrary to the director's wishes. The 1998 DVD with the original US cut with the original mono soundtrack is still available in stores, although the transfer is vastly inferior to that on the restored DVD. (However, unlike the original DVD releases of the other two "Dollars" films, the transfer is anamorphically enhanced for 16:9 televisions.)
In 2007 MGM re-released the 2004 DVD edition in their "Sergio Leone Anthology" box set. Also included were the two other "Dollars" films, and A Fistful of Dynamite.
As well, additional footage of the sequence where Tuco is tortured by Angel Eyes' henchman was discovered. The original negative of this footage was deemed too badly damaged to be used in the theatrical cut, but the footage appears as an extra in the 2004 DVD supplementary features.


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Submit your pictures and programs
Now, the small print: If you send me files, please give me written permission within the email to post and share the files on the blog. We also reserve the right to edit your commentary... space limits again, and sometimes spelling/grammar issues will need to be cleaned up.
I'm excited to have some more people with the kits in hand soon... more ideas, more bots, more experiments, more challenges, more troubleshooting, more theory, more of everything NXT.
Also, if any of you are going to be creating your own NXT blogs or websites, please let me know - I'd love to have more links on the right-side of the screen for readers to visit.
It's going to be a CRAZY time - the sheer amount of information, pictures, web content, programs, and other stuff might be overwhelming, so please be patient with all of us here at The NXT STEP as we sift through all the information coming our way... the original purpose (and continuing job) of this blog is to provide links to new information, websites, and other media sources... and we'll continue to do so along with our random bit of commentary, new discoveries, and miscellaneous projects.
Thanks to all of you for the kind words, the encouragement, and your participation in discussions... I never had any idea this blog would become such a fun (and apparently, popular) project to maintain... Brian, Matthias, and the others have brought their own ideas and the blog has really become a partnership.
Good times ahead...
29 comments:
Yes!! My NXT just arrived today! (I ordered it from Amazon Friday night) Man, it's so much better than I expected! The only problem is the slowness of it, and there's a little problem with the memory. But I love the new features on it! Right now I'm just trying to get used to the new language and other things about it.
- Jun 27, 2006, 8:15:00 AM
slowness and memory prob? please elaborate
- Jun 27, 2006, 12:32:00 PM
The software is slow in that (1) it takes quite a long time to load (at least on my laptop, I have a really good desktop but haven't tried it on there yet), and (2) Once you start putting a lot of blocks in the program, it can start running REALLY slow (it even started giving me errors after a while).
The memory problems with the NXT aren't really bad, but I found I have to be careful to only have a few sounds uploaded, as they take up a ton of space. This is too bad, because I don't think the NXT has enough memory to make a robot that can say a lot to you.
- Jun 27, 2006, 8:49:00 PM
are you on mac or pc?
- Jun 27, 2006, 9:18:00 PM
PC - I hate macs. :-)
- Jun 28, 2006, 3:38:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
I'm running on a Mac (non-Intel), and the same issues crop up. Boot-up isn't too troubling (after all, it happens once, and then I usually leave the environment running for days or more), but editor slow-down with large programs can be an issue. MyBlocks help, although there is also a slow-down when dropping a large MyBlock in.
As to memory within the NXT, yes, it's limited... and sound files can be big. But I'm not sure (for sound files) there's really a way around this. It would be nice if there was an option to use a really-low-sample-rate sound file... but then how clear would the speech be? For simple sounds, it's OK, and for long complex sounds, well... any way you slice it, that needs bytes.
Brian Davis
- Jun 28, 2006, 4:36:00 AM
So just about every Nxt is a bit slow and can have his memory just about taken up by sounds?
- Jun 28, 2006, 5:12:00 AM
So just about every Nxt is a bit slow and can have his memory just about taken up by sounds?
- Jun 28, 2006, 5:12:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
The NXT itself isn't neccessarily slow - in some ways, it's significantly faster than the RCX (and I expect 3rd party software will make it faster still). As to memory, it has a 100k+ of free memory. But if you want the NXT to use a 40k sound file, well, that's going to take up a lot of the memory.
It's partially a question of how you use the memory that is availible.
Brian Davis
- Jun 28, 2006, 5:36:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
The NXT itself isn't neccessarily slow - in some ways, it's significantly faster than the RCX (and I expect 3rd party software will make it faster still). As to memory, it has a 100k+ of free memory. But if you want the NXT to use a 40k sound file, well, that's going to take up a lot of the memory.
It's partially a question of how you use the memory that is availible.
Brian Davis
- Jun 28, 2006, 5:37:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I guess it all depends on what you will do with your NXT. For me, sounds just aren't that important.
I do have one request, though - let's let everyone who's receiving their NXTs and those that are still waiting enjoy their opening moments and try and refrain from finding problems...
Yes, there are problems... but I'd rather focus (for now) on the good stuff and let people enjoy their new toy... I mean, tool.
Plenty of time for complaining later... :)
Just my opinion...
(By the way: I'm running XP Pro on a P3 1.8Ghz with 1gig of RAM. Loading the NXT program the FIRST time is a little slower than subsequent openings as long as the PC isn't rebooted. If I close down the program and then re-open it again a few minutes or hours later, it opens much more quickly. 1Gig of RAM is nice!)
- Jun 28, 2006, 5:42:00 AM
I just got mine opened, and built the "quick start" robot. I think the instruction manual has a mistake. The very first step (page 4), which shows putting the axle into the motor shows using a full bushing on one side, and a half bushing on the other. When I finally got to page 22 and put the wheels on, they were too close to the motors. I switched the bushings, putting the half-bushings in the center, and the full bushings on the outer side. This allowed sufficient axle length to attach the wheels without rubbing.
Hope you don't think this is a complaint. I just thought it might help as people get their kits and try the sample robot.
- Jun 28, 2006, 6:33:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Hi, Linda.
Nope... not a complaint, but useful information. Thanks for posting... can anyone else verify this?
- Jun 28, 2006, 6:44:00 AM
Linda Zoe,
I think I know your problem, because I think I had the same one. The instructions tell you to put the wheels on with the wrong sides pointing out (there's two different sides to the wheel). If you just put the wheels on with the other sides pointing out, it will work perfectly.
You're right, the sounds aren't really important, and I found that as long as I keep the number of programs limited, I can have a reasonable amount of sounds, and as big a program as I need.
Anyone who can help,
I have a question. Is there anyway to make your own sounds to play on the NXT? I saw an interview with someone working in the NXT department, and in it he shows Alpha Rex saying, "Hey, you're blocking my view." I couldn't find this in the list of sounds, so that's why I'm wondering if you can make your own.
- Jun 28, 2006, 9:46:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Check out Matthias' webpage... I think he has a linkpage there that has software links... one of them was related to making sound files (I think)...
- Jun 28, 2006, 9:55:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
To make the NXT play a sound of your own choosing, first you need to have a .wav of the sound, and then convert it to a .rso file the NXT can use with a utility such as John Hansen's offering Wav2Rso:
Then just drop the newly created .rso file into the "sounds" directory within the application (LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT -> engine -> sounds), and it will appear in the configuration panel of any sound block you drop. that easy.
Hehe. Mine plays R2D2, as well as "By your command" (Cylons).
Brian Davis
- Jun 28, 2006, 11:00:00 AM
Wow, that is easy. Thanks! The problem is the NXT distorts the sound so it sounds wierd. Can this be fixed?
- Jun 29, 2006, 2:35:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
You're welcome, but honestly the folks to thank here are the other members of the MUP & MDP - I didn't write that utility (and there's more coming... like ways to make your own image files).
As to distorting the sound, yeah, a simple speaking in a complex plastic enclsure does *not* have a high-quality sound response. There's no way around that I know of (you even get it with simple tones, and it's a serious issue for the RCX as well).
Brian Davis
- Jun 29, 2006, 2:42:00 AM
Ah sound... Those of us hard core enthusiasts (who want all the accesories and multiple NXT's) have some options.
More NXT's = more memory (dedicate one to playing sounds via BT comands.
Better yet. Use BT to control your MP3 Phone and add it to you bot.
I'm working on decoding comands for Motorola's ROKR which has nice external speakers, a camera, light (flashlight and decorative), video, MP3, and txtmsging all of which can be accessed via Bluetooth. (I think its the best and updated phones with NXT in mind.)
I'd like to hear if anyone else has figured out ways to make Palm Pilots respond. My T3 also plays sound files but I dont know how to boss it around with BT.
I imagine thier migth be a way to control your computer and have NXT trigger your PC to play sounds via full speakers.
Can a program be made that will hotswap files while a program is running? (NXT deletes a sound file then requests via BT or USB tether the next sound its about to play then plays and deletes it?)
I think the Image utility is available already.
- Jun 29, 2006, 7:58:00 AM
- mikdiamon said...
drew that's good stuff! I'm still waiting for my nxt, but I have the new Moto Q and i'm already thinking of designs for my Q-bot! Please keep posting the cool smartphone ideas! I read about someones nxt chasing his wife around and yelling at her, the only thing better would be to have my wife's reaction on video lol! LIGHTS, ACTION, CAMERA!!! LOL (sorry i'm a bit giddy)
- Jun 29, 2006, 4:26:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
Jonathon: a note on the US sensor (yes, we do sometimes read other forums ;-)... and I'm impressed you saw the "help" section displayed in DAZLR's program): while the official range is out to 200+ cm, I've rarely gotten all the way out to that in practice: for large, flat, hard walls, with new batteries, I get reliable wall detection out to 150+ cm or more. for smaller objects, softer objects, or objects at an odd angle (not flat-on) the range is shorter than that.
Regarding "BT extension" of the NXT: to get NXT-to-Palm or NXT-to-Phone communication working I've seen people do it at a lower level than the NXT-G language (perhaps we can figure out a way to do it within the language, but I've not seen it done... *yet*). As to streaming files onto the NXT as needed, interesting idea. Since file transfer from the computer is not controled or requestable from the NXT brick, I don't think this is possible in the standard environment... which is not to say that might not change, or that 3rd party solutions wouldn't be able to get around this.
Brian Davis
- Jun 29, 2006, 9:56:00 PM
Lol, I wondered if you guys read posts there. Since I couldn't play with the NXT, I spent my time scavenging around for any piece of information I could find about it. : )
Thanks for the extra info. 200+ cm is only about 80+ inches. So I guess the real range is actually quite a bit shorter than advertized.
- Jun 30, 2006, 3:35:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
I've browsed the Mindstorms forums some, but I've never registered any of my RCX sets, so I can't post. You seem to be getting info into those forums just fine.
On the US sensor, I'm really not sure what the "ultimate" range is (and I'd like to). As far as truth in advertising, the reduced range for small, curved, or soft objects is exactly what would be expected from an US sensor. The detection range will always be smaller fomr some objects, due to the physics of the situation. A bigger problem is that two US sensor in the same room can result in nonsensical readings.
Brian Davis
- Jun 30, 2006, 8:18:00 AM
Yeah, it's really nice that everyone looks for/posts info about interesting things. This blog has definitley been one of our best resources for finding out things about NXT.
That's really too bad about two US sensors messing each other up - I was just thinking of all the wonderful things I could make with multiple US sensors (like precision tracking).
- Jun 30, 2006, 9:29:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
Well, there may be solutions. For one thing, LEGO knows that this is a problem, and one of the big markets is FLL... where you have two robots competing at the same time. It's a known issue, and I can think of ways around it, so hopefully LEGO will work on this.
As for precision tracking, you can still do a lot with one. for instance, pivot it back and forth, so you know if an object is left/right/ahead. Or triangulate, by moving the whole robot to a different loaction and re-aquiring the same target. And keep in mind with both the range and bearing (you can now keep track of how much your robot turns, with thos motor encoders), you know pretty well where an object is even if viewed from a single location.
There are a *lot* of solutions just waiting to be found...
Brian Davis
- Jun 30, 2006, 10:01:00 AM
I mean tracking a moving object. If one US sensor sees an object and then doesn't see it, it knows that the object is moving. However, it doesn't know what direction the object was moving in. If you had two (4 would be ideal) you could see if, after one detects an object, the other detects it. Then you would know which direction it was traveling, and move to track it. If you had four, you could track something moving in four different directions.
Boy, that will be a problem in FLL. I have a team (Built On The Rock, NJ) and will be competing this year. Thankfully, we're probably only going to use the built-in rotation sensors, since roation sensors worked really well for us last year (we placed third in the state tournament).
- Jun 30, 2006, 10:46:00 AM
Does anyone know if there is any hack or program I can add to the NXT to play Mp3 songs?
e-mail me if possible
- May 10, 2007, 10:08:00 PM
i have visited u r site that i got a lot of information with u r site
- Jan 18, 2008, 9:18:00 PM
I wonder if there is a way to import songs to mindstorms?
- May 31, 2008, 11:28:00 PM


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Peter Abetz WA Parliament -
Eric Abetz Federal Senator -
Never far from the tree do the seeds fall
Recent exposure from "Abetz brothers political scandals", grand nephews of Heinrich Otto Abetz an SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) in Hitler's Nazi Party with one of his appointments as head of the French fifth columnists and police control in occupied France, we find Peter Abetz MLA Member for Southern River Western Australia Liber-+al Party projecting police allegiance to his political aspirations.
In a letter on an official WA Police letterhead addressed to residents from the Officer in Charge of Canning Vale Police with the Senior Sergeant introduces herself, talks about a new local policing strategy and details how to contact her team. The letter containing Abetz had paid for the printing and costs was inserted into his political campaigning material he had delivered to letter boxes in his electorate. Read the story below.
Eric Abetz recently exposed shredding documents, hiding pedophiles, misleading information and smoke screening facts on child abuse all documented and substantiated at www.arrestabetz.wordpress.com , you should also visit to be informed about this disgraceful duo showing traits of "The Third Reich" in Australian politics.
Questions raised after Liberal MP Peter Abetz pays for and distributes police letter
The letter is on an official WA Police letterhead and is addressed to residents from the Officer in Charge of Canning Vale Police.
In the letter, the Senior Sergeant introduces herself, talks about a new local policing strategy and details how to contact her team.
At the end of the letter is the branding of local Liberal MP Peter Abetz, with a disclosure that he paid for the printing and costs.
The Opposition's Sue Ellery said the letter was inserted into political campaigning material Mr Abetz had delivered to letter boxes.
"It's extraordinary … it's not appropriate for politicians to be inserting themselves into the everyday communication business of police," Ms Ellery said.
"Is it the case that WA Police are so starved of resources themselves that they have to get local MPs to introduce them to the people they are protecting?
"I'm fascinated to know what the Police Commissioner thinks about this … who authorised this, was it approved by the Premier?
"I have never seen a local backbench MP be the main conduit for information to voters from a government agency and I do think with police in particular it's really not appropriate to politicise them."
'Nothing political' about letter: Peter Abetz
But Mr Abetz defended the letter, saying it was his idea to pay for and distribute the police communication with his political pamphlet.
He was not aware of whether it, or the use of WA Police letterhead, had been authorised by anyone in senior police ranks.
The police have a limited budget and I'm more than happy to contribute to the well being of my community by facilitating the letter to go out to every member of the community.Liberal MP Peter Abetz
He denied it amounted to politicising police and said he was proud to be able to help them communicate with the local community.
"There's nothing political about that at all … it's simply a letter from police," he said.
"The police have a limited budget and I'm more than happy to contribute to the wellbeing of my community by facilitating the letter to go out to every member of the community.
"I think police and the community and my constituents need to work together to make this a safe community and anything that I can do to help that communication, I'm more than willing to put my money to that.
"The community policing effort is a State Government-initiated project and for me to help the police communicate what this State Government project is doing, I think, is very appropriate for me to do.
"It's a total non-issue because as members of Parliament we often sponsor the printing of [information for] say the local horticulture or garden club or biking group or senior citizens group.
"We do that all the time so if we do it for any community group, why shouldn't we be doing it to communicate a fantastic government initiative which is the local policing program."
Mr Abetz said the costs incurred for the letter were for photocopying, and his volunteers had delivered it.
A spokeswoman for Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said he was not aware of any arrangement with the local MP to sponsor the costs of letters and postage.
"There are communication strategies in place to inform the community about the new policing model," the spokeswoman said.
"However, if a local policing team was authorised to contact residents by mail, then the cost should be met by WA Police."
Ms Ellery also queried information obtained under questions in Parliament revealing the Government's $600,000 Bigger Picture policing advertising campaign was paid for out of the WA Police budget.
"It is not appropriate when we are slashing and burning across every government agency for money to be taken directly from police to fund political advertising," she said.
The Government has consistently maintained its "Bigger Picture" campaigns do not constitute political advertising.


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I have some pages in the popup template that are frequently printed. Each used to print nicely on one page, but with this latest set of templates, I just can't quite make them fit, even after adding my own "@media print" css to condense the content. Part of my problem is that printing inserts a header--the N atop a UNL title line, then my site's h1/h2 title and tagline--and it takes up 20-25% of the vertical space on the page.
Suggestion: In the print header for the popup template (and possibly others), shrink the N to a height of half an inch or less and put the UNL title beside it on the same line. Would anybody object to that?


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Dying dad films last dance for daughter's wedding
AUBURN, Calif. - For most women, a poignant moment in their wedding is the traditional father-daughter dance.
Rachel Wolf is not even engaged, but knowing that her father is dying of cancer, she surprised him with a faux wedding so they could have their dance and so that he would be at her wedding whenever it does occur, even if only on video.
"It meant more to him than I ever thought it would," said Wolf, 25, of Auburn, Calif. "The joy that I saw in his face when he saw me was amazing."
Wolf's father, Dr. James Wolf, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2011. He has endured nearly two years of chemotherapy and surgery and his time is running out. Just days after the Saturday dance, Wolf received what is scheduled to be his final round of chemo and was so exhausted from the ordeal he had the energy for only a few words about the dance.
"I was completely taken aback," Dr. Wolf, 58, told ABC News . "It was a special idea to remember her father at her wedding day."
Rachel Wolf has always dreamed of her wedding, and emphasized that she and her dad were very close.
"I always told him I would have a religious wedding, but I never told him how important it was [the dance] because I thought he was going to be around for a lot longer. You don't think about these things until they are too late," she told ABC News.
So she arranged a faux wedding so they could still have their moment. She sent her father an invitation requesting his presence at a father daughter dance. But her father told ABC News he had no idea what exactly was going to happen. His daughter simply told him to make sure he brought nice pants and a shirt.
With the help of donations from stores, she put on a white wedding dress, met her father at a park and had the traditional dance – to "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman — this past Saturday.
ABC Affiliate KXTV recorded the event, but she is not planning to watch the video until her actual wedding.
"It was a fairytale come true for Rachel," said her mother Jeanine Wolf.
"It just grew into this magnificent event," the mom said, adding, "She just really loves her dad and he loves her and she just wanted this moment."
Dr. Wolf had practiced medicine in the community for 25 years and was so devoted to his patients that his wife told ABC News he made house calls. As a result, the "wedding" also turned into an occasion for the town to bid their farewells.
"I was very happy to help out someone in the community who had been there for everybody else," said Matt Wescott, the owner of RMW photography who photographed the event. He said many of his friends had been patients of Dr. Wolf's, so the event took on a special significance.
Rachel Wolf said her father's goal had always been to make a difference, and "care more about other people than you do yourself." So she was ecstatic that, as part of his final legacy, the video had touched lives across the country.
"I want to tell dads who have little girls, videotape you and your daughter dancing, but save it. You never know what's going to happen," she said.


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The motivating factors that precipitated the development of regional strike teams in Kentucky and the initial planning process will be discussed.
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Tomlin: "It's Ravens' week for us"Posted by on November 13, 2012 – 6:43 pm
There was no rest for the weary as the Steelers' coaches were back at it on Tuesday morning, preparing for Sunday night's game against the Baltimore Ravens at Heinz Field.
The Ravens are 7-2, one game up on the 6-3 Steelers in the AFC North. But both teams could have 0-15 records and you would still get the same kind of battle that is expected this week.
"It's Ravens' week for us," said Coach Mike Tomlin. "This is going to be an awesome game. It always is. They are a talented bunch as they are perennially. They are a very good football team."
The Ravens might be without their emotional leader on defense in Ray Lewis, who is on the injured reserve-designated for return list, but they certainly aren't hurting for talent there.
"They still have some guys that have historically been issues for us," said Tomlin. "Haloti Ngata is a guy that has created issues for us in the past and anyone else that suits up against him. He is tough to deal with. Terrell Suggs is back in action. He has had big games against us in the past. Ed Reed kills everyone."
Reed continues to be a thorn in the side of opposing offenses with three interceptions so far this season, while cornerback Cary Williams leads the team with four.
"Paul Kruger, Dannell Ellerbe and Cary Williams are all playing really good football for them. These are guys that have grown in their program and have been playing for them for a number of years," said Tomlin. "They are familiar names to us but might not be familiar to others. When I watch them on tape I see the emergence of this group and their ability to deliver crucial plays for them. They step up when needed."
Another player who has stepped up this year is quarterback Joe Flacco, the AFC's seventh leading passer. Flacco has completed 186 passes for 2,331 yards and 13 touchdowns, while spreading the ball around to prime targets Anquan Boldin, Dennis Pitta, and Torrey Smith, as well as Ray Rice who is a threat in the air but primarily on the ground.
"They are continuing to grow on offense and mature with their quarterback," said Tomlin. "The offense runs through Joe Flacco. They do a lot of no-huddle. They have a lot of autonomy for him, and rightfully so. He's a great decision maker. He spreads the ball around to a variety of guys. He does a nice job of highlighting the talents of people."
It all boils down to a classic battle to stay in the race in the AFC North, and the bottom line this week is this game is not going to be one for the faint of heart.
"More than anything, we understand what this matchup is all about," said Tomlin. "It's about physicality and playing good, hard-nosed football. We expect them to do that, and we better be prepared to do it."
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In 1964, Barbie® doll replaced her bangs with a sleek, side sweep hairstyle, known popularly by collectors as the swirl ponytail.
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Prof. Joan Grassano
Getting Started with Research in Dental Hygiene
This guide will help you get started with research in dental hygiene.
Search the library's databases to find articles and other reference materials pertaining to dental hygiene and dentistry. To access the databases listed below, all important in dental hygiene research, click the Find Articles tab on the library homepage and select Databases A to Z. To access additional health databases, click the Find Articles tab and select Databases by Subject > Health.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
Provides articles from scholarly journals in nursing, dental hygiene and other health professions. Also indexes contents of books, conference proceedings and dissertations.
The Cochrane Library (Wiley)
Full-text articles on evidence-based medicine and interventions in health care. Oral health is one of the topics covered.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)
Provides a wide variety of resources for health-related research. Full-text coverage includes professional journals, health magazines and newspapers, and medical reference books. Designed for students, health professionals and knowledgeable, consumer health researchers.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Created by the National Library of Medicine, this database includes citations and abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and worldwide. Medicine, dentistry and health administration are among the fields covered. Provides the full text of more than 1,400 journals.
The National Library of Medicine's search system for health information. Contains millions of references to articles published in biomedical and life sciences journals. Many references have links to full-text articles in PubMedCentral, a free digital archive. Most PubMed references are MEDLINE citations.
Journals and Magazines
The library has many journals and professional publications of interest to the dental hygienist. A few key titles are listed below:
International Journal of Dental Hygiene
Journal of Dental Hygiene
Journal of Dentistry for Children
Journal of Periodontology
Journal of the American Dental Association
Special Care in Dentistry
For an overview of the library's print and electronic journals, see our periodicals guide. Need a specific journal? Want to browse the library's journals by subject (Health & Biological Sciences > Dentistry)? Follow this link or go to the library homepage and click the Find Journals tab. If you have the full or partial citation of an article, try using the library's Find it! service.
Finding Books and More in the Library
Use CUNY+, the library's online catalog, to find books, videos and other resources on dental hygiene and dentistry. You can begin searching right on our homepage. Here are some of the many subject headings to use in your search:
Would you prefer an ebook? Although each of the library's ebooks is included individually in CUNY+, you can also search for ebooks within a specific collection. Follow this link for a list of the library's ebook collections. Quick tip: ebrary, a collection of over 46,000 ebooks on scholarly topics, has numerous titles pertaining to dental hygiene and dentistry.
Reference Resources
Want an overview of your topic? Need to check a fact or find the meaning of a word or concept? A reference resource or a textbook is often the best place to begin your research or look up specific information. Here are just a few of the many reference resources and textbooks that may be useful in your research. All are available at the City Tech library.
Darby, M. L., & Walsh, M. M. (2010). Dental hygiene: Theory and practice (3rd ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders. CALL NUMBER: Reserve RK60.5.D445 2010
Langlais, R. P., Miller, C. S., & Nield-Gehrig, J. S. (2009). Color atlas of common oral diseases (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. CALL NUMBER: Reserve -- Three weeks RC815.L35 2009
Mosby's dental dictionary (2nd ed.). (2008). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. CALL NUMBER: Reference RK27.M672 2008
Nelson, S. J., & Ash, M. M., Jr., (2010). Wheeler's dental anatomy, physiology, and occlusion (9th ed.). St. Louis: MO: Saunders. CALL NUMBER: Reserve RK280.A74 2010
Newman, M. G., Takei, H. H., Klokkevold, P. R., & Carranza, F. A. (2006). Carranza's clinical periodontology (10th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders. CALL NUMBER: Reserve -- Three weeks RK361.G49 2006
Regezi, J. A., Sciubba, J. J., & Jordan, R. C. K. (2008). Oral pathology: Clinical pathologic correlations (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders. CALL NUMBER: Reserve -- Three weeks RC815.R39 2008
White, S. C., & Pharoah, M. J. (2009). Oral radiology: Principles and interpretation (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby. CALL NUMBER: Reserve -- Three weeks RK309.O7 2009
Wynn, R. L., Meiller, T. F., & Crossley, H. L. (2008). Drug information handbook for dentistry (14th ed.). Hudson, OH: LexiComp. CALL NUMBER: Reference RK701.D78 14th ed. 2008
Quick tip: Gale Virtual Reference Library has a large collection of online, medical reference books that may be of interest.
Internet Resources
The websites in this selective list will lead you to a wealth of information on dental hygiene, dentistry and oral health:
CDC Division of Oral Health (DOH)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
NYU Health Sciences Libraries: Web Sites
WHO Global Oral Health Programme (ORH)
Professional Organizations
Professional organization websites often provide valuable, discipline-specific information as well as links to quality resources in the field. Here are just a few of the many professional dental organizations:
American Dental Hygienists' Association
Dental Hygienists' Association of the State of New York
International Federation of Dental Hygienists


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I covered a story from www.nicar.org, called 'Resources for covering floods.'
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Calculates temperature distributions, heat flows and (optionally) vapor diffusion flows in building structures - particularly those with thermal heat bridges. AnTherm (Analysis of Thermal behavior of Building Construction Heat Bridges) is designed for the technically qualified designer by providing thorough and reliable evaluation of thermal performance in accordance with current European standards (EN ISO).
It directly calculates characteristic indicators for the construction, such as linear (or point) thermal transmittance or the matrix of thermal coupling coefficients (i.e. boundary conditions independent results).
AnTherm facilitates generation of geometrical models through a graphic input display of building structures, as well as by providing very fast, fully automated generation and precise solution of the underlying numerical model. AnTherm allows the user to control the precision of numerical solutions through parameters.
The thermal performance of assemblies with overall dimensions of up to approximately 100 meters and details as small as 1/10 mm can be simulated with AnTherm. Limitations to the scope of evaluation depend on the capabilities of the PC (available RAM, number and speed of processors). Screen Shots
Thermal heat bridges, heat flow, steady state, 2D, 3D, transfer coefficients, thermal conductance, visualization, simulation, European standards, EPBD, temperature distribution, vapor transfer, vapor diffusion, avoiding moisture, avoiding mould, energy performance, linear thermal transmittance, point thermal transmittance, vapor pressure, surface condensation, thermal comfort, dew point
Two- and three-dimensional steady-state high precision method: The software AnTherm is validated to conform all 4 cases of EN ISO 10211:2007, Annex A, for three-dimensional calculation programs.Ā The test cases are available on http://www.kornicki.com/antherm/EN/Validierung.htm#10211 .
Standard method for calculation of heat flow through frames of windows, doors and shutters: The software AnTherm is validated conform the all ten cases of EN ISO 10077:2003, Annex D.Ā The test cases are available on http://www.kornicki.com/antherm/EN/Validierung.htm#10077 .
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With the Release 4 by end of 2008, there are more than 50 users in Europe (Austria, Germany and Spain) with more than 100 licensed commercial installations. Further EU installations used at Academia, High Schools and Colleges. Commercial non EU involvement in Canada, USA, New Zeeland, Australia and Japan.
Building physics consultants, energy performance consultants, designers, engineers, architects, moisture analysis experts, insurance analysts, building product developers, researchers, teachers and students.
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- Thermal (and optionally vapor diffusion) conductance properties of materials, transfer coefficient of surface elements (standard properties available by selection from the material database included).
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Results from AnTherm include:
- Generally applicable results in the form of g-values (temperature weighting factors) and conductance matrices (thermal coupling coefficients) conformant to the European Standards, including the required information on calculation precision
- Specific results, applicable to particular air temperature conditions in spaces thermally coupled by the building components analyzed, in the form of surface temperature minima and maxima as well as respective dewpoints (maximum non-condensing air humidity).
- Interactive two- and three dimensional graphic plots and prints of isotherms, surface and interior temperature or heat flux distribution as well as streamlines of the heat flow (not limited to 2-dim. models only, but also in 3D). Vapor diffusion pressures, flux and flow visualizations are available as an extended option.
Fully automatic execution of calculation with AnTherm is given even in the event of poorly conditioned calculation cases. The maximum quantity of balanceable equations is nearly unlimited (several ten millions), thus making the thorough analysis of large, three-dimensional models feasible. Complex cases are given, for example, by components or spaces in contact with ground, entire spatial envelopes or groups of spaces, or detailed modeling of complicated assemblies like window frame and installation details, steel reinforced structures, etc.).
Textual Output (standardized reports):
- Project description, materials used, detailed construction report including U-values at adiabatic boundaries
- Conductance matrix and distribution factors (thermal coupling coefficients)
- Standardized information on calculation precision (close-up error)
- Linear thermal transmittance (psi) for two dimensional, two space cases
- All data for deriving point thermal transmittance (chi) for three dimensional cases
- Minimum and maximum temperatures for each space surface and location, g-Values, fRsi temperature factors
- Maximum relative air humidity of surface condensation at coldest point of each space
- Temperatures at arbitrary chosen interior or surface points (probe points)
- Export to file formats like PDF, RTF, XLS
Graphical output (three dimensional graphs and advanced visualization techniques) include:
- Model view colored by material conductance (optional explosion view)
- Colored surface (with isolines) and orthogonal slices (with isolines) of temperature, condensing humidity, heat flux and optionally partial or saturated vapor pressure or vapor diffusion flux
- Heat flow streamline(s) colored by any other scalar value (e.g. temperature, heat flux, etc.)
- Vapor diffusion flow streamline(s) (option)
- Isosurface of any of the above scalar values within components interior (valuable for identification of three dimensional thermal heat or vapor diffusion bridges)
- Combinations of above through opacity/transparency and visibility options
- Axes, labels, annotations, probing of values, various coloring tables
- Export to pictures formats such as JPG, PNG, and BMP as well as to scene formats such as VRML, OOGL, and OIV
- Graphics can be transferred via clipboard to other picture or word processing application
Computer Platform
PC with Windows XP/Vista (XP recommended) 32 bit, minimum 512 MB memory (1GB or greater recommended), 200 MB disk space, support for 3D OpenGL graphics (at least, 3D accelerated graphics board recommended), and B/W printer (color printer recommended).
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- Easy to use, short learning curve.
- Fast and fully automated generation of computational discrete model and computation (optionally, users can take full parametric control of that).
- Immediate and precise results conformant to standards, standardized result reports
- Advanced interactive visualization techniques significantly speeding up the process of analysis.
- Direct calculation of characteristic indicators for the construction, such as linear (or point) thermal transmittance or the matrix of thermal coupling coefficients (i.e. boundary conditions independent results).
- Very fast recalculation of result under new, different boundary conditions without the need to run the full simulation from scratch (based on the concept of "basic solutions" independent of boundary conditions).
- Precise calculation of even very large models of millions of equations (and the eightfold number of ōsuper-fine-gridö nodes during evaluation) easily possible on moderate equipped typical PCs. Equation size limits result only on technical limits of hardware used.
- Fully validated conforming to EN ISO 10211:2007: AnTherm has been qualified as a "Class A" tool ss for two- and three-dimensional, stationary high precision method.
- Fully validated conforming to EN ISO 10077:2003: AnTherm has been qualified as standard method for calculation of heat flow through frames of windows, doors and shutters.
- Extensive documentation and tutorials (English and German) including nearly full theoretical background information. Includes context sensitive help available directly within the application.
- English and German user interface which can easily be adopted in the future for additional languages.
- Maximally utilizes currently available personal computer technology, including multiprocessor/multicore environments.
- Relatively high CPU and memory demand during three dimensional graphical evaluations (without visualization the program can operate well even with less than 128 MB memory) ¢ user is warned if operational limits have been reached.
- Both the application and documentation currently available in English and German only.
Tomasz Kornicki
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+43 (1) 615 7099
Single workplace licensing available from 560 Euro (small two dimensional versions) up to 5000 Euro (unlimited equation size, three dimensional versions). Vapor diffusion option available from 500 to 1000 Euro. Academic discounts and update-subscription plans are available also. Multiple-workplace, special project, rental and competitive licensing programs are available upon request - contact the vendor.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – The M&T Bank Charitable Foundation recently presented Wilson College with a ceremonial check for $15,000, to be used to help construct an outdoor learning pavilion at college farm.
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CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – The M&T Bank Charitable Foundation recently presented Wilson College with a ceremonial check for $15,000, to be used to help construct an outdoor learning pavilion at college farm.
M&T Bank Vice President J. Bret Elbin and Administrative Vice President Vickie Howe presented the check to Wilson President Barbara K. Mistick, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the Faculty Mary Hendrickson and Fulton Center for Sustainable Living Program Manager Christine Mayer at the site where the outdoor classroom will be built.
"At M&T Bank, we understand the importance of education," Howe said. "We are excited to have the opportunity to be part of the pavilion project. The outdoor classroom will be of lasting value to both the college and our community."
The $15,000 has been pledged over five years and will cover part of the estimated $26,500 cost of the outdoor learning pavilion.
"Wilson College is dedicated to shaping a more sustainable future by educating not only its students, but also the community as a whole, about the importance of thoughtful environmental stewardship," President Mistick said. "We are grateful to the M&T Bank Charitable Foundation for this gift, which will allow us to hold classes in a comfortable, sheltered space at the farm itself rather than across campus."
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