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In AD 978 Anglo-Saxon Calne was the site of a large two-storey building with a hall on the first floor. It was here that St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury met the Witenagemot to justify his controversial organisation of the national church, which involved the secular priests being replaced by Benedictine monks and the influence of landowners over churches on their lands being taken away. According to an account written about 1000, at one point in this meeting Dunstan called upon God to support his cause, at which point the floor collapsed killing most of his opponents, whilst Dunstan and his supporters were in the part that remained standing. This was claimed as a miracle by Dunstan's supporters.
In 1086 Calne may already have been, as it was later, a market town on the main London-Bristol road. The church in it was well endowed, 74 or more households in it were held almost outright by burghal tenure (as citizens of a borough), and the lordship of its large outlying land stood divided between the king, of whom 45 of the burgesses were tenants, and the church. In the Middle Ages the king's successor as the lord of Calne manor and, as owner of the church's revenues, the treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral each had the right to hold a market and a fair in the town, on a similar street pattern, with two triangular market places or fair grounds. A modest hospital was provided on a modest endowment from 1248 until it provided no accommodation in 1546 and was sold two years later by the Crown.[1]
Calne had a significant woollen broadcloth industry in the 18th century, and evidence of this can be seen set around the triangular green, The Green, by the parish church, where 24 listed buildings remain, five at Grade II* including the Tounson almshouses for the neediest poor[2] Georgian era clothiers' houses and nearby are some of the 20 original cloth mills along the Marden. St Mary's church was built to the immediate north by the generous donations of rich clothiers and wool merchants in the 15th century and is among a minority of medieval churches which are Grade I listed.[3]
Houses of the 17th and 18th centuries have external walls of stone and timber-framed walls inside. Most of the stone is limestone rubble, laid with ashlar dressings in houses of higher quality; the walls of many houses were rendered smooth. Until the 19th century quarries beside the London road north-west and south-east of the town were "apparently" according to D.A. Crowley's county history of 2002, the main sources of stone for building.
A relic of 19th century lime, a kiln, exists in the grounds of St Mary's School. This solid marine deposition is chiefly one chemical, calcium carbonate, and is dug in nearby pits for its main use in cement and as fertiliser on acid ground.[4]
The Wilts & Berks Canal linked the Kennet and Avon Canal at Semington, near Melksham, to the River Thames at Abingdon. Much of the traffic on the canal was coal from the Somerset Coalfield. As the canal passed through open country near Stanley, east of Chippenham, a short branch led through three locks to a wharf in Calne. The canal was completed in 1810 and abandoned in 1914.
Calne's former railway station opened in 1863, the terminus of its own branch line of the Great Western Railway running east from Chippenham, with one intermediate stop: Stanley Bridge Halt. The opening of Black Dog Halt in the early 20th century, provided insufficient demand to slow a progressive decline. The branch closed as a result of the Beeching Axe in September 1965, having suffered the ignominy of making the biggest loss per mile of any line in the country.
Subsequently, Calne's main industry other than being a small market town was the imposing Harris pork processing factory. The factory provided employment directly and indirectly to many of the residents until the early 1980s - at its closure in 1983 for example it employed over 2000 people out of a town population of 10,000. It is said that the pork-curing industry developed because pigs reared in Ireland were landed at Bristol and then herded across England on drovers' roads to Smithfield, London, passing through Calne. The factory started in the second half of the 18th century when brothers John and Henry Harris started businesses which merged in 1888 as C. & T. Harris & Co. The factory has now been fully demolished and its site redeveloped as shops, housing and a library. As a result of the closure, unemployment in the town increased considerably and during much of the 1980s Calne suffered many of the economic restructuring problems more usually associated with large cities. A legacy to this day survives with gastronomic plaudits for the techniques developed.
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Tiger Woods 'made Zach Johnson watch porn and called Ian Poulter a d***'
Tiger Woods reportedly made devout Christian Zach Johnson watch porn while they were sharing a hotel room, and called Englandâs Ian Poulter a âd***â, according to his former coach Hank Haney.
The latest damning anecdotes to surface about the former world no.1 come from Haneyâs new book, The Big Miss.
In it, he says Woods ordered the adult channel package at the K Club, where he was staying with Johnson, a month before the 2006 Ryder Cup, in a bid to tease the married father of two.
Woods then allegedly left the channel on after the prank had run its course.
Haney also revealed that Woods slammed Poulter for hitching a ride back to Orlando on his private plane, despite the American offering no invite to the Florida-based Brit after the two played a practise round in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
On the plane, Woods reportedly texted Haney after Poulter unexpectedly turned up at the airport, saying: âCan you believe how this dick mooched a ride on my plane home?â
When quizzed about the story, Poulter replied: âThe book has nothing to do with me and I have no interest in commenting on it.â
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(Vidinhar's parents) are in an impossible situation. They're trying to balance their love for Aza and their other children and how to handle an event of this magnitude, and I think they've done very well. They just want an opportunity to move on privately with their lives —Todd Utzinger, attorney
FARMINGTON — A teenager accused of stabbing his two younger brothers to death in their home in 2013 will serve time in both juvenile detention and adult prison.
Aza Vidinhar, 16, struck a plea deal Wednesday in 2nd District Juvenile Court, pleading guilty to two counts of murder in the May 22, 2013, deaths of Alex Vidinhar, 10, and Benjie Vidinhar, 4, in their West Point home. He pleaded guilty in juvenile court to one count of murder and in adult court to the second count about 90 minutes later.
It is believed to be the first time in Utah state court history that a defendant pleaded guilty in a murder case in both juvenile and adult court.
"It's an attempt to give a balance to a system that makes it hard to do that," Vidinhar's attorney, Todd Utzinger, said after his client was sentenced. "I think any 15-year-old or 16-year-old child deserves, and has to have an opportunity, to mature and get treatment before we impose a draconian measure of sending him to an adult prison.
"Frankly, the bottom line is it would be inhumane for any 16- or 17-year-old child to go straight to the prison without first having an opportunity for treatment and rehabilitation," Utzinger said.
Vidinhar, wearing a blue sweatshirt with his hands and feet shackled, replied, "Yeah, I understand," when 2nd District Juvenile Court Judge Janice Frost asked if he understood that he was admitting to intentionally causing the death of another person.
Later, when 2nd District Judge David Hamilton again went over the conditions of the plea deal for count two and asked Vidinhar if he understood them, he replied, "I understand and agree to them."
In 2013, when Vidinhar was 15, his mother came home and found the 4-year-old child's body. Police were called and discovered the 10-year-old's body after conducting a search of the house. Both were stabbed multiple times. Aza Vidinhar was missing after the discovery but was found by police several hours later.
Utzinger, speaking on behalf of his client, told the court that Vidinhar was sorry for what happened and part of the reason he agreed to the plea deal and to waive adult certification was so his parents wouldn't have to sit through a trial and hear the details that would come out. Utzinger said he believed Vidinhar was already showing progress and maturity for that.
"(Vidinhar's parents) are in an impossible situation. They're trying to balance their love for Aza and their other children and how to handle an event of this magnitude, and I think they've done very well. They just want an opportunity to move on privately with their lives," he said.
Vidinhar's mother, father and other family members sat in the front row of both courtrooms Wednesday observing the plea deals. Each hearing had a heavy presence of security. After the hearings, bailiffs allowed the family to leave through a back door to avoid having to walk past the line of waiting reporters and photographers.
Under the deal, Vidinhar will remain in the Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center until he is 21, or unless he fails to follow through with treatment or causes problems, at which time he'll be transferred to the adult system.
"Your conduct will be the deciding factor in what happens in the adult system," Frost said. "You do understand that when your time in juvenile court is finished, you'll go to adult prison."
Once he completes his time in the juvenile system, Vidinhar will "officially" be sentenced to 15 years to life in the adult system. His attorneys, however, said they will ask the Board of Pardons and Parole for an early review hearing. If the board determines Vidinhar has made significant progress while in the juvenile facility, they could vote to release him before 15 years, Utzinger said. Vidinhar will also receive credit in prison for time served dating back to his arrest in 2013.
"Serving time is just serving time. You pay your debt to society by becoming a better person," Frost told Vidinhar at the end of the juvenile hearing. "You can't make up for what happened, but you can commit to being better.
"Some day you'll get out, and you'll need to be a productive citizen. And that's how you'll pay your debt to society."
A motive for the stabbings has not been revealed. Utzinger declined to go into detail Wednesday about what happened that night, saying the most important thing now for Vidinhar was treatment.
He also declined to discuss any possible mental illness his client might have. At one point during the hearing before Hamilton, however, the judge noted that Vidinhar was on medication and asked if it impeded his ability to understand the plea deal.
"Kind of helps it, actually," he told the judge.
Members of the Davis County Attorney's Office left the courthouse without comment Wednesday. They later issued a prepared statement stating that the plea deal gives Vidinhar the benefit of treatment in the juvenile system while still addressing public safety concerns.
Utzinger agreed.
"A case of this magnitude, it's never a happy day for anybody. It's a somber day. But we thank the attorneys on both sides, and the family, and we've all tried to come together to reach a resolution that will hopefully give Aza the opportunity to get treatment and still protects the state's interest in having society remain safe until we know how well Aza does," he said. "This is not a happy day by any means."
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text: Well, it's not just Organic beings. A major theme of the series is the relationship between the robotic Geth (who despite just being mooks to shoot at in the first game are fleshed out plenty in the second) and their former Quarian masters and seeking a peaceful resolution for it. They go pretty big on the Geth's right to exist, particularly with Legion ("Unit has an inquiry: Does this unit have a soul?"). The Quarian/Geth mission arc is one of the biggest positives of the third game. That and the whole "Saving the goddamn world with your crew" is a recurring Bioware theme. It's there to make the player feel like they're someone important/awesome rather than some random schmuck in the grand scheme of things.


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An employee of a Carbondale company allegedly charged nearly $90,000 in personal expenses before quitting in December.
Anthony Millage, 33, of Lakewood, was an assistant to the president of Churchill Group, a company that deals in real estate. He has been charged with six counts of unauthorized use of a financial transaction device and one count of identity theft. According to a witness statement included in the arrest affidavit, company officials became suspicious near the end of last year. When confronted with the incongruities, Millage allegedly left an envelope with the card inside and "I quit" written on it.
"Upon inspection, I discovered Mr. Millage had been paying the card the bare limit as not to raise an alarm and paying his personal expenses with company money," the statement read.
According to the affidavit, questionable charges ranging from fast food, groceries and liquor, to online transactions, date back to April 2011 and peak in 2012, with more than $5,000 charged in August 2012 alone. In 2013, he reportedly obtained a card under his own name, despite having previously been told to use his boss's card for corporate expenses.
Millage is also accused of charging more than $800 in fuel to a company account, and was reported as filling up three vehicles in one day.
Another employee on the account, meanwhile, reported being unable to use the card due to it being constantly maxed out. The Churchill Group estimates that Millage cost the company nearly $5,000 in interest and fees alone.
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On Monday, Aug, 12, Crockett Police Department officers responded to two different locations in reference to stolen vehicles. At around 7:20 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Polk Ave. in reference to a stolen 2004 Ford F-250. Then, at approximately 7:30 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 400 block of East Bell St. in reference to a stolen 2011 Toyota Camry, CPD Public Information Officer/Detective Clayton Smith reported in a press release Wednesday, Aug. 14. "Both of these vehicles were believed to have been stolen sometime during the night and possibly by the same suspect," Smith reported. Both vehicles were recovered the same day but found at different locations. The investigation is still ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Crockett Police Department at 936-544-2021. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, CPD officers arrested Frank Love for three outstanding warrants, (2) Misdemeanor Theft and (1) Robbery, a felony. According to Smith, officers made contact with Love in the 700 block of Cedar St., and during this contact Love was found to be in possession of a chainsaw and a lawn mower. "While on scene, it was discovered that the chainsaw had just been stolen and was later returned to the owner." Smith stated. "The Cub Cadet Lawn Mower is believed to be stolen and was taken to the Crockett Police Department for safekeeping." CPD currently is attempting to locate the owner." The warrants stemmed from three different incidents that occurred at local businesses around Crockett, according to Smith. On July 31, Love was caught stealing five 30-packs of beer from HEB. Smith alleged. "When confronted by store personnel, Love threatened an employee, grabbed two of the five 30-packs and fled toward the parking lot." Smith further stated. Also, on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, Love allegedly stole a total of nine 30-packs of beer from Brookshire Brothers in Crockett, according to Smith. On July 11, Cody Wade and Michael Miracle were arrested for allegedly stealing two Zero Turn Lawnmowers from Fish & Still Equipment. The two were charged with third degree theft (felony). "During the arrest, the vehicle that Wade was driving, a Ford F-250, was taken to (CPD) and stored for possible seizure since it was used in a felony," Smith reported. "The license plates and VIN plate that the vehicle had on it at the time were registered to Cody Wade." Smith explained that, after receiving information the truck was stolen, CPD investigators contacted DPS officials who came to Crockett and identified the Ford as a vehicle that was reported stolen in Fort Worth on May 1. "A warrant for another third degree theft charge was issued for Wade, who had already bonded out of jail, and he was arrested at his family business in Trinity on Aug. 9. Crockett Police Department would like to thank DPS for their assistance in this arrest," Smith reported. On Aug. 9, CPD officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of East Loop 304 (Bailey's Auto Center) in reference to a stolen wrecker, Smith reported Friday, Aug. 16. The suspect entered the business and expressed interest in purchasing the wrecker, according to Smith's report. "Officers learned that while taking the wrecker for a test drive, the suspect went to Wal-Mart and had a copy of the key made. It is believed that the suspect returned during the night and stole the wrecker," Smith stated. "It is believed that the suspect may also be driving a Brown Chrysler Caravan with Alabama dealer tags on the rear," Smith added. Anyone with information can contact the Crockett Police Department at 936- 544-2021.
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Still I Rise/Dear Old Nicki
I was recently watching some of Nicki's old videos, such as "Click Clack", "Watchu Know" and "Jump Off 07". Nicki speaks some real shit, and I realized when i first became a fan, I wasnt hip to all her old stuff. Either way, I noticed how Nicki has reeeealy grown up since Playtime is Over, and Suka free. She was still a beast back then tho! She has matured, and changed alot, and shes gotten better, style wise, public speaking wise, and with her verses. Shes still the best female spitta to ever do it, but I like how she's changed. I was recently watching this video where she said "Go Hard" was the realist lyrics she ever wrote, and although I agree, "Still I Rise" has got to be some of Nicki's realest, most touching lyrics. This is when she was really breaking out, and the haters were coming from every way. But Nicki didnt stop, and Still I Rise is a perfect example of how strong she is, and thats how she got where she is today.
Some guy on youtube made a video of collective pictures, that I thought was tiiight, and its a video of "Still I Rise"
It really got me thinking of how Old Nicki and New Nicki really are completely different, but in a way, New Nicki Combines both. Its hard to explain, but idk . Nicki is just so real and she continues to show us barbs how she can do anything, makeing us believe we too can do anything =) i love you Nicki.
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You might need a cartridge to play your next mobile game
Having been reared on a steady diet of 8- and 16-bit console games, the very sight of a cartridge makes my heart skip a beat at the thought of the exciting adventures it contains. Beatrobo wants to introduce the concept to today's mobile gamers: At the recent Tokyo Game Show, the Japanese startup showed off Pico Cassette, a tiny cartridge that plugs into your device's headphone jack to unlock games. The Verge reports that the cartridges themselves don't have games stored on them, but instead emit an inaudible sound that authenticates a game app to let you start playing. By… This story continues at The Next Web


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...Makes me think of the phrase, "Penny-wise and pound-foolish".Is the potential trouble worth the risk? Or i guess I should say, is saving a few cents worth the potential risk? This is one of those gambles where the odds of winning (finding good transistors) are very-high, but what you win is very-small. And although the chances of loosing are very-low, if you do loose you can loose big... maybe lots of frustration and wasted-time, maybe even burn-up some other good-parts. This the opposite of playing the lottery, where your chances of winning are low, but the cost of loosing is also low.Even in "big production" where the "pennies add up", it's not worth the gamble, because if 1% of your products end-up with bad transistors, it's going to cost you more than you've saved.Just for example, where I work (a small company), we almost always throw-away any parts that we've un-soldered. If it turns-out that part wasn't the problem... Maybe it's a different part, or maybe it was solder-short under the part we removed... We replace it with a new part from stock. Parts are cheap (compared to the labor) and re-using a part is just not worth the trouble. If it's an expensive part, it's probably something like a 100-pin IC. In that case, a few of the pins are likely to be bent, and again it's usually not worth the extra work & risk of re-using a part.
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QuoteIn "big production" ..., it's not worth the gambleThat's true (or it should be, at least).But if you do not count labor cost in your hobby, it's perhaps different. After you checked the content of your surprise bag and verified it fits to your needs, you have added some value to those cheap parts.Quotewhat you win is very-small1.50 $ for 50 transistors isn't that cheap, IMO. Assuming you cannot really rely on the specs, but 90% will "behave like a transistor" and 10% die during the test... one should get 30 * "2N3904 or similar" for a similar price from a reliable source, IMO ...


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Krueger noted that most of the Senate Republicans have already endorsed Mitt Romney for president, and suggested that the effort to squelch Stavisky's resolution was a miniature version of assaults on reproduction rights on the federal level. "This is the beginning of their little national Planned Parenthood moment, so to speak," she said.
It's also the opening salvo by Democrats in a year that began with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling for passage of the state Reproductive Health Act in his State of the State address. That bill's sponsor in the Senate, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, attended the press conference along with Sen. Tom Duane and representatives of several pro-choice groups.


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Team: Cavendish doused in urine
MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France -- Mark Cavendish believes a roadside spectator sprayed him with urine during the Tour de France time trial on Wednesday, his team manager said.
Patrick Lefevere of Omega Pharma-Quick Step said it may have been linked to anger among some fans who claimed -- unfairly in his view -- that Cavendish intentionally bumped into Dutch rider Tom Veelers and caused him to crash in the final sprint a day earlier.
"(Cavendish) explained to the other guys in the bus that the public was not very fair with him, and then somebody put some urine on him," Lefevere told The Associated Press after the 11th stage.
"We are always happy in cycling that there is no hooliganism, but of course, when there are 100,000 or 200,000 people on the road ... somebody had bad behavior," he added.
After the stage, it did not appear that Cavendish had spoken publicly about it.
The liquid thrown at Cavendish smelled like urine and was "all over him," team spokesman Alessandro Tegner said. The team didn't know where it happened on the 20-mile course to Mont-Saint-Michel on the Brittany coast.
Cavendish's teammate, Jerome Pineau, reacted angrily to the news.
"I'm ashamed when my friend Mark Cavendish tells me that he was jeered and even sprayed with urine," Pineau said on his Twitter feed. "It's scandalous."
Race leader Chris Froome of Britain said it was disappointing.
"Mark, he's one of the big characters in the sport, and some people love him and some people hate him. But to do something disrespectful like that, that's really sad," he said. "One individual doing that, it just leaves a bit of a bad taste in your mouth -- a bad taste in Mark's mouth."
At least one cycling aficionado suggested it was all part of the sport.
Lance Armstrong tweeted: "why all the sudden shock and outrage. this has been happening for 100 years in some form or another."
Cavendish, fourth all-time with 24 Tour stage wins, was adamant that his bump with Veelers wasn't deliberate. Veelers said Cavendish knocked him over, though the Dutchman's Argos Shimano teammate Marcel Kittel of Germany, who won Tuesday's stage, gave the Briton the benefit of the doubt.
The race stewards did not sanction Cavendish, a sign they don't believe he was to blame.
The millions of fans who throng the roadsides often use the passage of Tour riders as an opportunity to picnic, wave flags, and deliver political or other messages aimed at TV cameras on helicopters overhead. The free, non-ticketed event offers closer access for fans to athletes than many other sporting events.
A spectator once punched five-time champion Eddy Merckx in the kidneys.
Lefevere noted that on the legendary Alpe d'Huez -- which the pack will scale not once but twice in Stage 18 next week -- has often been known for rowdy fans who douse passing Tour vehicles with beer.
"They do it on our cars as well, so we ride with closed windows ... it should not happen," he said.
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My first office job carried the weighty job title office manager. I felt pretty happy being known as a "manager" of anything in a company that I respected. I was in charge of ordering and disseminating office supplies. I submitted pricing to our various retailers. I billed vendors for promotional expenses. I submitted orders for our customers. And while I did all that, I answered the phones, sorted the mail and did menial tasks for the executives of the company.
Early on in my position, one of my co-workers referred to me as the office secretary. At first, I can fully admit that my natural feminist inclination perked up. I was ready to be insulted that someone would characterize all my hard work as mere secretarial endeavors. And then the phone rang. And I answered it.
Recently, our sister-site The Gloss wondered if women should be offended that the term "secretary" is on the rise again, partially thanks to a certain 60s drama that everyone seems to be obsessed with. The author, Amanda Chatel, thinks that allowing this word to come back in vogue negates years of work on gender equality that have transferred the title of "secretary" into "administrative assistant."
I understand where her point is and I realize the history of this loaded job title. For years, people associated the term "secretary" with a woman who fetched a man's coffee and reminded him of his anniversary or child's birthday. But as the job market and corporate culture has evolved, so has administrative work.
When I think of a secretary, I think of the amazing woman who works at my old elementary school. I always referred to her as the school secretary. She's who called your mom for you if you were sick. She kept all the school files and attendance records. She answered the phones and coordinated lunch orders and bus routing. She was a secretary and she was female, but she was a hard-working professional who I really liked.
I think we've moved past the idea that a secretary is always female, even if women do still seem to dominate the administrative services. And I think that we've all accepted this person's important role within the company. They are often the gatekeeper to busy executives. They tend to know more about everything going on than most managers. They coordinate and organize, inform and guard. No matter what you call them, the importance of intelligent and thoughtful administrative work is widely accepted.
I consider myself a feminist. I am extremely concerned with gender equality, both in the workplace and in the world in general. But I'm not sure that the term "secretary" hurts any of that. I don't think that job title makes anyone less valued in their office.
There are plenty of gender issues still plaguing corporate culture today. There are lots of battles yet to be won when it comes to female executives, pay inequality and sexual harassment. If "secretary" is making a come-back, I just don't know that it needs to rank on our list of priorities.
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Senator Skelos & Long Island Cares to Sponsor Free Food and Supply Distribution Program in Long Beach
This Friday, December 21st, Senator Skelos and Long Island Cares will be partnering to sponsor a free food and supply distribution program in Long Beach to help families affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The program will take place between 11am and 2pm at Saint Mary's Community Center located at the intersection of Monroe Blvd and E. Park Avenue in Long Beach. Representatives from Long Island Cares will serve families in need by providing the following items free of charge:
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Individuals will be served on a first come, first served basis. No appointments are required.
If you or someone you know is unable to attend this program but is in need any of the above supplies, please contact Long Island Cares at 631-582-3663.


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If you're in the USA on Friday 26th March, look out for Jamie on Oprah (check local listings). He'll be talking about the new series Jamie's Food Revolution, which airs later that evening in a double episode (check local listings). Oprah has been a huge supporter of Jamie's work over the last few years and invited him to take part in her 2009 network series 'The Big Give'.
The show also features some of the local people from Huntington, WV, who play a major role in the Food Revolution series.
Also guesting on the show will be Ryan Seacrest, whose production company, Ryan Seacrest Productions, worked alongside Jamie's Fresh One Productions on Jamie's Food Revolution.
Don't miss Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on the ABC network:
Episode 1 Sunday 21st March 10pm EST (sneak peak!)
Episode 1 Friday 26th March – 8pm EST
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It happens every Dec. 26 -- the dreaded post-holiday returns madness.
No matter how carefully people shop for the perfect gift, occasionally the item is the wrong size or an unflattering color, or it simply doesn't meet the recipient's desires or needs.
To minimize the hassle of returns, the Better Business Bureau advises shoppers to ask about retailers' return policies before making a purchase. Retain receipts until you're certain the gift is right.
Some stores provide refunds, while others issue only store credits. A few stores consider all sales to be final. Seasonal stores may have limited hours after the holidays.
Remember: Stores aren't legally required to accept items for refund, exchange or credit unless the goods were defective or misrepresented.
The BBB reminds shoppers to know their return rights before making a purchase. It's always better to ask than to assume. The following tips can help shoppers avoid post-holiday frustration:
Following these tips can help make returns easier -- and possibly help you to keep the holiday spirit a little longer.
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14th Dungeness River Festival celebrates the watercourse and all around it
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With a theme "Think Downstream . . . Go Green!," this year's festival features music, nature walks, storytelling and special presentations.
The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday with events in Railroad Bridge Park at the end of West Hendrickson Road. Admission is free.
In conjunction with the festival, the Olympic Driftwood Sculptors organization will host its annual show from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the river center at the park, displaying art made of driftwood by area artisans.
The festival is organized by staff and volunteers at the Dungeness River Audubon Center every year on the last full weekend of September to celebrate the river's natural and cultural resources.
Hundreds of students are expected to descend on the interactive exhibits on opening day, and special attractions are planned for adults as well.
Good walking shoes and notebooks might be in order.
Friday highlights include a river walk led by Bob Boekelheide at 11 a.m.; a presentation by Jamestown S'Klallam storyteller and elder Elaine Grinnell, "Drums, Baskets and Stories of the Jamestown S'Klallam People," at 2:30 p.m.; and a natural landscaping walk led by Joe Holtrop, district manager of the Clallam Conservation District, at 3 p.m.
At 11:30 a.m., the Five Acre School marimba band Sound Waves will perform, and at 3 p.m., Aspire Academy dance and music students will demonstrate their talents.
On both Friday and Saturday, nonprofits will offer interactive nature exhibits and activities. Exhibits will demonstrate energy efficiency, water conservation and clean air measures.
Also, festivalgoers can try their skills at "Animal Olympics" when they mimic a specific animal.
For example, they can "Jump Like a Frog" or "Walk Like a Crab."
Food will include wraps, sandwiches, soup, tacos and the ever-popular fry bread.
On Saturday, the Jamestown S'Klallam drummers and singers will lead a traditional welcome ceremony at 10 a.m., and the Young Fiddlers will perform at 11 a.m.
Saturday afternoon activities in the River Stage amphitheater will include Jazzercise and a drumming circle.
At 2 p.m., Ken Wiersema will lead a walk onto the bridge and talk about how early engineers built the historic railroad bridge in 1915.
Partners of the river center include the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe and the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society.
For a complete schedule, visit www.DungenessRiverCenter.org.
For more information, phone the Dungeness River Audubon Center at 360-681-4076.
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Ms. Calkins is Past President of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, an honorary organization of the country's top insurance coverage lawyers, where she also serves on the Executive Committee. She also is a leader in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, where she was former co-chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. She currently serves as Managing Director Designate of the Section of Litigation and holds leadership positions in the ABA.
Ms. Calkins has been recognized repeatedly as a leading practitioner in the field of insurance by Chambers USA in the area of Insurance: Policyholder and The Best Lawyers in America® for Insurance Law and Insurance Litigation. She has been named as one of Los Angeles Business Journal's "Most Influential Women Lawyers" (2017), a "Top 100 Women Lawyer" in California by the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal (2014, 2007-2009), and also recognized as one of 50 "Women to Watch" by Business Insurance Magazine. She is recognized by Legal Media Group: Expert Guides as a leading expert in Insurance and Reinsurance, and has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious Expert Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law. Ms. Calkins also appears in International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers , Legal 500 for Insurance: Advice to Policyholders, and International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. She has been named as a Southern California "Super Lawyer" for Insurance Coverage for over a decade by Super Lawyers magazine.
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Kristen Stewart's style is very much like a mixed bag.
After sporting jeans and burnout T-shirts with Chuck Taylor sneakers, she pulled out a fashion-forward ensemble like the one she wore in Paris Thursday.
For the Balenciaga runway show (the label in which she just landed a spokesmodel gig as the face of their fragrance) during Paris Fashion Week, the Snow White and the Huntsman actress worked skin-tight, high-waist leather pants teamed with a delicate floral blouse.
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By now, the culture wars probably have worn out many Americans. Abortion rights. Gay marriage. Family planning. Women as clergy. Even the liberal '60s vs. the conservative '80s.
Raging debates have roared around issues like these, dividing Americans from one another, even within their own families and circle of friends. Only those on the extremes, or with a political stake in perpetuating the wars, relish the combat. The rest of us are looking to move past the divisions, hoping to find common ground, however tenuous.
Even some of the warriors get tired. David Blankenhorn is an example, yet the social conservative is showing the nation a way beyond the cultural battlefield.
This week, Blankenhorn's organization, the Institute for American Values, released a paper calling for a new national conversation on marriage. In and of itself, that's not remarkable. But it is when you consider that he was a key leader in the fight against same-sex marriage in California. Now his call is a partnership with same-sex advocates and others.
Blankenhorn says he's shifting gears; he wants to spark a conversation about marriage as a stabilizing force. He wants conservatives to get out of their comfort zones and work with same-sex proponents, and he wants liberals to get real about the perils of unwed parenting.
Another leader of this effort is William Galston, the former University of Texas professor who works for the center-left Brookings Institution. "The basic idea," Galston told this newspaper, "is that we believe marriage is a fundamental building block of American society, and marriage is in trouble. That is contributing to widening class divides."
Indeed, ample data shows that affluent Americans marry at a higher rate and form more lasting unions than lower-income Americans. Charles Murray's blockbuster book from last year, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, brought that information to the fore, showcasing how low marriage rates especially have made economic mobility harder for America's white working class.
The conversation that Blankenhorn has started is focused on marriage as a unifying force for communities and a boon for the economy. "Societies suffer when marriage falters," Galston notes.
The organization's "A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage" was released with 74 signatures, representing left, right and center in American politics. They include a former governor, gay leaders, conservative and liberal academics and commentators, and theology school deans.
This common-ground effort is a refreshing break from enless skirmishes. It also is a way to create a serious dialogue about the economic importance of marriage. If this conversation works, and leads to policies and decisions that strengthen the institution, greater equality should result.
In a fractured society like ours, that would be a godsend and more.
From 'A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage'
"We propose a new conversation that brings together gays and lesbians who want to strengthen marriage with straight people who want to do the same. The new conversation does not presuppose or require agreement on gay marriage, but it does ask a new question.
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The new question is: Who among us, gay or straight, wants to strengthen marriage?"
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Course Description The 15K, 5K, Scenic Walk and Kiddie K courses are paved and free from most vehicular traffic, taking runners and walkers past many of the park's historic sites, monuments and battle markers. The 15K and 5K are certified. The 15K is mostly flat with some rolling hills. The 5K is mostly flat. The Trail Run is approximately 7 miles off road, winding through the historic national park. T-Shirts, Prizes, and Refreshments All participants will receive a 100% cotton T-shirt unless they have opted for a technical shirt ($5 additional charge). Post race refreshments include muffins, bagels, fresh fruit, coffee, Powerade and Coca-Cola. There will also be drawings for some great prizes after the race. About the Park On the fields and hills that make up the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Union and Confederate armies clashed during the fall of 1863 in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War.
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Work heats up for outback road gangs
A south-west Queensland mayor says heatwave conditions in the remote region are making it tough for outdoor workers.
Bulloo Mayor John Ferguson says crews working to patch roads near Thargomindah in south-west Queensland have recorded temperatures on the bitumen into the mid 50 degrees Celsius range this week.
Yesterday, it reached 43 degrees in the town and Councillor Ferguson says it has asked its crews to start work early and go home in the middle of the day to avoid heatstroke.
"They were bitumen patching and I think they measured 55 degrees on the bitumen, which is too hot," he said.
"We don't want people going down with heatstroke - it can cause a lot of problems - so we said, 'go home and start early in the morning, knock off at about 11 or so and work that way until the heatwave gets over us'."
He says the heat hit hard and quickly.
"We are feeling it - it is tough, particularly for blokes doing bitumen patching or any manual labour," he said.
"You can go down quick - you probably don't realise - you think are going along okay and then all of a sudden you are dehydrated and you start to feel crook and down you go.
"Bushfires are still a big worry with all this heat around.
"The ground is so hot, you only have to have one dry storm and that's it - you're gone again and you'll have bushfires everywhere.
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The holiday season is always a time of year when we reminisce. We're looking back at a few of our favorite Onepiece celebrity moments. We love seeing our Onepiece crew decked in jumpsuits, joggers, and hoodies, thriving in their comfort zone. Scroll for a trip down memory lane.
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Gwen Stefani and Eve were reunited during their latest #Thisiswhatthetruthfeelslike tour in the US. Both artists chose to wear their favourite Onepiece jumpsuits on and off stage. Eve wore the Stretch Jumpsuit in dark grey during a performance, a new drop from our AW16 collection.
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We read everywhere, including on ClickZ, that advertisers need to remember we are visual beings. True, we are bombarded with more visual marketing stimuli than ever before. But to say that because we're being buried in visual stuff we're visual beings is like saying because we periodically fill ourselves up with air we're balloons. We aren't nearly as visual as a lot of people like, perhaps need, to assume. The premise that "going visual" is the cure-all for advertising ills is a path to advertising doom.
At Future Now we usually write articles, columns, and a newsletter about how to increase online sales. Though we know a great deal about advertising, it's not our specialty. Our specialty is persuasion. Having recently graduated from the Wizard of Ads Academy, produced by Roy H. Williams, a world-renowned authority on advertising and marketing and a best-selling author on those subjects, I feel compelled to respond to some serious misinformation that could cost you money and customers.
Forget Broca… and Go Broke
The hard fact is that few ads, on- or offline, actually produce any measurable results. Marketers like to cover up this fact by calling it "branding." Remember the recent Nissan TV commercials with G.I. Joe and BARBIE. jumping into his car? It had outstanding viewer recognition, but sales spiraled downward at an incredible pace. That kind of "creative" thinking ignores how the human mind works. And ads that don't respect the workings of the brain are likely to fail.
If we're going to pursue an activity that not only engages the brain but also, hopefully, causes it to motivate a specific action, wouldn't it help to know at least a little about how the brain works?
In 1861 Paul Broca identified the section of the brain involved in speech production. It assesses the syntax of words while listening to and understanding what is structurally very complex. Partially the brain does its job by learning rules about how we talk and then almost skipping over the parts of what we say that are predictable based on those rules. This is just some of the scientific evidence behind Williams's advertising medium of choice: sound. According to him, success in advertising is about surprising Broca's area, and you can best do that by using sound.
When you think about it, it seems almost too obvious. Humans are drawn to things that are surprising, shocking, catastrophic, and chaotic. Anything predictable is boring. Yet "predictable" describes most ads, doesn't it? A century and a half after Broca's discovery, some people still aren't paying attention.
Proof Is a Button Away
So what about visual versus auditory, pictures versus sound? Here's something you can try at home: First watch your TV with the sound off, then listen to your TV with the picture off. You can prove to yourself in just seconds, for free, with no fancy research (although there's plenty out there if you want it), that when it comes to conveying information, affecting emotions, and causing action, sound beats pictures hands down.
Where is the sound in advertising?
It's in the words, which we understand by "hearing" them in our minds.
20,000 Leagues Into the Brain
The reason sound is far more effective than pictures in causing people to take action lies in the physiology of the brain. At the front of the brain, right behind your forehead, is the prefrontal cortex, which is the center for planning, emotion, and judgment. Its job is to give the signal to the motor association cortex, located adjacent to it, to coordinate behaviors then initiate voluntary movement (take action). Until your advertising has reached the prefrontal cortex, all you have done is take up space and make noise.
The shortcut into the human brain is the ear. The auditory cortex is right next door. Raw sound enters the auditory cortex, and spoken words, melodies, rhythm, laughter, and jingles are stored in the auditory association area. That's why you can remember hundreds of songs you never intended to learn ("You deserve a break today…").
According to cognitive neuroscience, our thoughts are composed of neither words nor pictures. Human thought is a speed-of-light progression of mental images, each one a complex composite of sound, shape, texture, color, smell, taste, and mood. Different words are attached to these mental images in an area of the brain called Wernicke's area. This is the area responsible for naming, for associating nouns with objects. Once a word has been attached to each mental image, the whole verbal jigsaw puzzle moves to Broca's area (remember him?), where the words are arranged into understandable sentences.
The problem for advertisers is that when the Wernicke area attaches the "usual" words and the Broca area arranges them in the "usual" order, the result can be painfully predictable and, therefore, eminently forgettable. Only when you break the pattern of predictability do you achieve impact and memorability.
The Magic of Words
Williams believes that the secret of persuasion lies in the skillful use of action words: "The magic of advertising is in the verbs… Describe what you want the listener to see, and she will see it. Cause her to imagine taking the action you'd like her to take, and you've brought her much closer to taking the action." The success of his own ads, as well as those he has mentored, speaks for itself.
Sound is invasive, intrusive, and irresistible. Driving sound through Broca's area allows us to cross the bridge to the dorsolateral prefrontal association area, otherwise known as the imagination.
So what does this mean for advertising? It means you will be most successful when you use words that allow your advertising to cross from the ear almost directly to the prefrontal cortex, the decision part of the brain. Verbs. Dynamic-action verbs. Bottom line: The killer app in advertising is not sight, it's sound, whether heard directly (audio) or mentally (ad copy).
Are there exceptions? Of course. But don't bet your budget or your business on them. And as for actual sound via the Web as opposed to sound created in the mind by great copy, some people seem to ignore the fact that 93 percent of the market does not have broadband, and that despite the hype, broadband penetration is already leveling off.
Dilbert or Merlin?
Williams once wrote that "most advertising is flaccid." Think about the choice of words. How does he say ads are impotent? He creates a mental image that will stay with the reader. And it does.
As the subtitle to Williams's best-selling and award-winning book "Wizard of Ads" says, it's all about "turning words into magic." Do you want to follow the same path as everyone else? Or could your ads, marketing materials, sales efforts, and Web sites use some magic?
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing that a cap on credit card fees charged prior to opening an account be eliminated, following the directive given by Chief Judge Karen Schreier late last year.
Fees were capped in 2009 with the passage of the Credit Card Act. The cap for fees was set at 25 percent of an accountholder's credit limit within the first year of opening an account. However, the law did not expressly include fees charged prior to account opening, such as an application fee, in the cap.
In 2011, the Federal Reserve Board adopted an interpretation of the Act that did include fees charged prior to account opening in the cap calculation. When application fees pushed total fees over the cap, the Board viewed this practice as "inconsistent with the intent" of the law, "insofar as it alters the statutory relationship between the costs and benefits of opening a credit card account."
Not surprisingly, card issuers challenged this interpretation. In July, First Premier Bank filed suit in a South Dakota court, alleging that the Board's interpretation went beyond its authority. First Premier went on to seek an injunction against the Board's new rule, which was granted by district court in September.
And that's where the issue stands now — the Board's attempt to include fees charged prior to account opening in the cap calculation has been temporarily suspended. But resolving the issue is no longer the Federal Reserve's job; instead, the CFPB has taken over.
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LOS ANGELES — Filmmaker Martin Scorsese released a well-received documentary last year about the creative life of the quiet Beatle, "George Harrison: Living in the Material World," an intimate and revealing look at Harrison deep in his work. Fans were sure to notice that the film featured not just a trove of archival film footage and home movies but also some first takes, alternative tracks and other audio material that had never been released.
Much of that music is now available on a new CD, "Early Takes Volume 1: Music From the Martin Scorsese Picture Living in the Material World," released this week in tandem with the DVD/ Blu-ray release of Scorsese's film. The album is available as a stand-alone CD as well as part of a deluxe set that includes the Scorsese film, the CD and an accompanying 96-page book that Harrison's widow, Olivia, assembled last year.
"We really were doing it for the fans," Olivia said recently in a joint interview with producer and musician Giles Martin, who oversaw production of the CD and who is the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin. "They wanted to hear it, they've asked for it ... They're so close to the songs, and these early takes really get to the essence of the songs. You can almost hear the excitement in George singing these songs, which he'd written maybe a few months earlier, or perhaps the year before. It's always an exciting time for a musician when you're writing a new song — or for any creative person, when you create something that's new."
"Early Takes" encompasses songs that figure into Scorsese's film, which helped Olivia Harrison and Martin sift through the piles of archival material that George Harrison left behind when he died in 2001 of cancer.
There's his embryonic recording of "My Sweet Lord," his biggest solo hit and the song that became the first No. 1 single from a Beatle after the group broke up in 1970.
How early is the "Early Takes" version?
"It's Take No. 1," Martin said. "It's not from the Phil Spector sessions" that became his watershed solo album "All Things Must Pass." "It's just George laying down the songs. It was the first time he played his songs with a band. It just shows the quality of his voice, the quality of his songwriting."
Other works-in-progress versions of songs from "All Things Must Pass" are included: "I'd Have You Anytime," which he wrote with Bob Dylan; "Awaiting on You All"; "Run of the Mill"; the title track; a late-'70s composition, "Woman Don't You Cry for Me"; and his interpretation of Dylan's "Mama You've Been on My Mind."
"Early Takes" doesn't include any of Harrison's songs that the Beatles recorded. "A lot of Beatles material was touched on in the 'Anthology,'" Martin said, referring to the 1995 TV miniseries that brought Fab Four outtakes and other archival material public for the first time in official form. "I do think it's important that people are not sold the same thing over and over again."
In addition to the hard copy of Olivia Harrison's companion coffee-table book that was published last year, the book is available in e-book form.
One of the more revealing moments among several bonus features on the Scorsese film is an in-studio conversation among Harrison's son, Dhani, and both George and Giles Martin.
As they play back the original tapes for "Something" — Harrison's song that (along with "Yesterday") is one of the most widely recorded of all Beatles compositions — Giles Martin points out that it was the first Harrison song for which his father wrote an orchestral accompaniment.
George Martin had crafted string parts for Lennon and McCartney songs as early as 1965 with "Yesterday," on through the signature orchestral tornado that creates the climax of "A Day in the Life." He even scored the music for the animated Beatles feature "Yellow Submarine."
But it wasn't until the band's final recording sessions for 1969's "Abbey Road" that he extended the favor to some of Harrison's music, and he has said in other interviews that one regret during his years as the Beatles' indispensable fifth man was that he didn't devote more time to nurturing Harrison's music.
Olivia Harrison decided to label the audio disc "Volume 1" because she anticipates releasing additional tracks in the future. Among those she most prizes on this first release are "Woman Don't You Cry for Me," which takes on a benedictory tone in the wake of Harrison's premature death, and her husband's rendition of the Everly Brothers' "Let It Be Me."
"I remember the Everly Brothers had just come to England and that's when he recorded that song," she said. "Anything he did when I was around was special for me. I really wanted those tracks on there."
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N.F.L. ROUNDUP; Nolan Hired To Coach The 49ers
Published: January 18, 2005
Mike Nolan, the Baltimore Ravens' defensive coordinator, was named the San Francisco 49ers' coach yesterday, taking over a 2-14 team. Nolan will replace Dennis Erickson, who was fired earlier in the month.
Nolan flew to the Ohio home of the 49ers' owner, John York, to work out a contract. He follows in the footsteps of his father, Dick, who had a 54-53-5 record as the 49ers' coach from 1968 to 1975.
Mike Nolan, 45, has been in charge of the Ravens' powerful defense since 2001, after stints as the coordinator with the Jets (2000), Washington (1997-99) and the Giants (1993 to 1996). Nolan will have a hand in picking the successor to General Manager Terry Donahue, who was fired along with Erickson.
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The Ravens are expected to hire Jim Fassel as their offensive coordinator, and the former University of Washington coach Rick Neuheisel as quarterbacks coach, The Baltimore Sun reported yesterday.
Fassel, the former Giants coach, was a senior consultant with the Ravens this season, working primarily on the development of the second-year quarterback Kyle Boller.
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Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells dismissed the offensive line coach George Warhop and the kicking coach Steve Hoffman yesterday. Hoffman was the team's longest-tenured football staffer, having arrived in 1989 as part of Coach Jimmy Johnson's first group of assistants. Warhop will be replaced by the tight ends coach Tony Sparano, who was Cleveland's offensive line coach in 2000.


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World Cup & Olympic Protests in Brazil
Brazil is slated to host the 2014 World Cup Soccer tournament and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Currently the FIFA Confederations Cup soccer tournament is being held there as a sort of dry run for these big events and the festivities have been marked by massive public protests over "spending on stadiums" vs. basic public service. The video below has gone viral and was posted a few weeks before the protests started.
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Mexico City 1968 and Denver 1976
The circumstances were different but there were large public protests including a massacre of about 40 protesters in early October of 1968 before the Mexico City Olympics. Here is a link to BBC reporting from that time and also a more recent review of what happened in Mexico City. In the early 1970s the people of Denver rejected public funding for the 1976 Winter Olympics, and the games were moved to Innsbruck, Austria. So, this is not the first time people have questioned the priorities associated with massive public spending on global sports extravaganzas.
Let Them Eat Stadiums?
Here is a link to an NYT op-ed piece entitled "Let Them Eat Soccer" with more on the situation in Brazil. I have been to Brazil a couple of times. It is a spectacular place poised to become a world power with world class people and capabilities in many areas. However, it is marked by all sorts of problems related to corruption, extremely high levels of social inequality, and just plain growing pains. In this context, is spending lavishly on stadiums a good idea? Similar questions have been raised in the US about public subsidies for professional sports stadiums which seem a bit crazy since the owners of the big sports franchises are typically "billionaires". With people taking to the streets in Brazil and the ability of protests to go viral, I wonder what the long term effects will be on the ability of governments all over the world to subsidize stadiums. The recent US Open Golf Tournament at Merion also shows that extravagant purpose built venues are not essential to great competition. So, maybe there is a middle way.
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Disney has released an awesome new poster for Marvel's Iron Man 3 featuring Tony Stark in big freakin' trouble. Looks like he's been shot out of the sky, and is free falling to his doom. He looks pretty jacked up. We know Stark's not going to die, at the same time I don't think the Hulk is going to jump in to save him this time.
The Shane Black directed movie comes out on May 3rd, and it's going to be epic! The movie also stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, and James Badge Dale, with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley. If you want to watch the trailer again click here, and stay tuned for the Super Bowl spot!
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