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Dan Creed, of East Ridge, has the famous pitcher's autograph and an original photograph of Ms. Mitchell signing a contract with the Lookouts just days before the Yankees' stop in Chattanooga.
On Thursday, he found out how much his collection is worth — between $700 and $1,000. Mr. Creed mostly focuses on baseball gloves but has recently expanded his collection to include his hometown team.
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As part of the three-day "Antiques Roadshow" shoot in Chattanooga, Mr. Creed and another baseball fan were invited to AT&T Field for a special segment on minor league baseball memorabilia. "Roadshow" host Mark L. Walberg and collectibles expert Philip Weiss discussed selected pieces during the film shoot.
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When it comes to baseball memorabilia, items belonging to or commemorating record-setting players or minor-leaguers who went on to greatness in the majors are among the things collectors seek, Mr. Weiss said.
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Mr. Weiss appraised Mr. Broome's 8-by-10 autographed photo of Harmon Killebrew wearing his Lookouts uniform at about $100. Mr. Killebrew, a baseball Hall of Famer who played for the Lookouts in 1957 and 1958, went on to hit 573 home runs in his 22-year career in the major leagues.
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Clean, nice room. Amazing Breakfast! Lots of choices of what to eat.
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Breakfast and staff were good.
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Front desk was helpful and nice.
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Elijah Wood stars as a psychotic loner with a tendency to scalp women and a penchant for mannequins in this bold re-imagining of the 1980 cult classic. Daringly shot entirely from the first-person perspective of its lead anti-hero, this deeply disturbing horror film from director Khalfoun and co-writer Alexandre Aja (High Tension) paints a nightmarish portrait of a deranged mind overwhelmed by violence and obsession.
English, 90 min
Denmark Director: Bille August
Married to one of Denmark's most celebrated 19th century painters, Marie Krøyer's life is both privileged and fraught. With artistic aspirations of her own, Marie struggles to discover her identity while managing her husband's increasingly erratic behavior and begins to look outside of her marriage for affirmation and autonomy. But at what cost? This beautifully crafted period drama presents a compelling portrait of a woman ahead of her time.
Danish with subtitles, 103 min
Australia Director: Nick King
Marla and Sam meet and flirt in the restroom of a bar, but this isn't just a story of boy meets girl. Hands down, this just may be the strangest, and most inventive, love story you've ever seen.Part of: Shorts 4: Not OK, Cupid!
English, 15 min
From Oscar® and Gold Hugo winner Alex Gibney comes this searing documentary about the response to sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic Church. Starting with a string of allegations at a Milwaukee school for deaf boys in the late 70s and early 80s, the film charts a decades-long, systematic cover-up that reaches all the way to Vatican. Mea Maxima Culpa provides an impassioned and detailed look at one of contemporary society's enduring controversies.
English and Italian with subtitles, 106 min
Iran Director: Adel Yaraghi
Featuring a brilliant performance from A Separation star Leila Hatami, Meeting Leila follows a young woman who demands that her chain-smoking fiancé quits smoking before their marriage. This poses a problem for this advertising agency idea man for whom smoking is an integral part of his creative process in this gently comic, insightful look at the compromises and negotiations required in any relationship.
Farsi with subtitles, 88 min
France / Thailand / UK Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
From Apichaptong "Joe" Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee…), whose gorgeous, thoughtful films are counted among the most acclaimed masterpieces of the new century, Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River on Thailand's border with Laos. Blending fantasy and reality, fiction and documentary, the present and the future, this exquisite poem of a film strikingly expresses the bonds of love and family between people, and the looming presence of the river in their lives.
Thai with subtitles, 61 min
Iran Director: Mani Haghighi
Tasked with giving away huge sums of money by whatever means possible, Kaveh and Layla drive through the remote, war-torn mountains of Iran with a trunkful of cash. What begins as a seemingly harmless game soon reveals itself to be a twisted bout of charity as the power, humiliation, and shame inherent in their act plays out between the privileged couple and the impoverished villagers.Modest Reception is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2013 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org.
Farsi with subtitles, 100 min
Argentina / France Director: Marion Laine
Mila (Juliette Binoche) and Javier are brilliant heart surgeons and passionately in love. While their professional lives are clinical and require precision and perfection, their married life is entirely opposite - they drink, eat and make love to excess. When Mila discovers she is pregnant, she and Javier continue to deny what everyone else recognizes: that Javier is an alcoholic. As her pregnancy develops, their impulsive and unpredictable relationship is derailed - and held together by ego, addiction and hope.
French with subtitles, 91 min
USA Director: Nick Palmer
An offbeat, touching documentary portrait of Bruce Metz reveals how he became Mr. Christmas, a man whose astonishing holiday light displays have earned him fame in his community.Part of: Shorts 6: Truth Be Told
English, 14 min
USA Director: Danny Green
In the 90s, Ron Waters (Harry Lennix) was the hottest comic in Hollywood. Richard Pryor-like in his trenchant social and political commentary, Ron ultimately was driven away by controversy that increased as he grew more successful. Now settled in Chicago doing regular standup routines at his wife's (Tatum O'Neal) club, he is given a second shot at the big time. But, as he learns once again, fame and fortune come at a price.
English, 97 min
Switzerland Director: Antonio Veiras
In this darkly comedic animated tale, a serial killer is prowling in a small town. But who can really be trusted?Part of: Shorts 3: Midnight Mayhem
French with English subtitles, 9 min
Italy Director: Enrico Maria Artale
A girl attunes her breathing to the movements of her bow, but her talent for archery hides violent instincts in this visceral, powerfully immediate piece of filmmaking.Part of: Shorts 3: Midnight Mayhem
Italian with English subtitles, 11 min


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Blizzard announces July 27 release for StarCraft II
Release date for StarCraft II announced by Blizzard Entertainment
Almost 12 years after the original StarCraft launched a global strategy game phenomenon, on Monday, Blizzard Entertainment announced the sequel's release date. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty comes out for the PC worldwide on July 27, first in retail, followed by availability direct from Blizzard "shortly after the retail launch," according to Blizzard's press release.
Blizzard announced StarCraft II back in May 2007, and the beta testing process started this past February. The original StarCraft sold 11 million copies, and remains one of the most popular PC games, particularly in South Korea where the game has become akin to a professional sport. Analysts have predicted fast sales for the latest version as well, with Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson suggesting in a February interview with GameSpot that Blizzard will sell 6 million copies of the game this year alone.


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New York City Faces Increasing Risk From Climate Change, New Data Show
New York Times: The Bloomberg administration on Monday issued new warnings about New York City's vulnerability to climate change, offering updated data to encourage businesses, residents and perhaps even future mayors to better prepare against hotter weather, fiercer storms and increased rainfall. Administration officials estimated that more than 800,000 city residents will live in the 100-year flood plain by the 2050s. That figure is more than double the 398,000 currently estimated to be at risk, based on new...
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By Degrees: What to Make of a Climate-Change Plateau
New York Times: As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming. The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace. The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists. True, the basic theory that predicts a warming of the planet in response to human emissions does not...
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Climate change threat to North Sea oil and gas output
Independent: The North Sea oil and gas industry is set to lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year as global warming threatens to unleash increasingly frequent and intense storms, producing bigger waves that could damage platforms and make it harder for staff to do their jobs, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned today. Announcing that global greenhouse emissions jumped by 1.6 per cent to a new record last year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the world is on course for a 4C temperature...
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Canada: New study looks at killer whale deaths to understand whales' lives
Yahoo!News: Researchers are learning a lot about the lives of orcas from the deaths of orcas, thanks to a team of experts from British Columbia and the United States.
Though killer whale carcasses are on occasion found washed up on beaches around the North Pacific, few tests were being done to figure out why or how.
The lack of information became a real concern when researchers noticed an alarming drop in the 1990s in the population of southern resident killer whales found around southern Vancouver Island...
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United Kingdom: Case for Severn barrage 'unproven'
BBC: The latest plan to build a barrage across the Severn to generate electricity has been severely criticised by a committee of MPs.
Hafren Power had outlined a £25bn tidal scheme to generate up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs.
But the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said it could not recommend the plan.
It said that on both economic and environmental grounds the case remained unproven.
In 2010, the then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne pulled the plug on public efforts...
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Plastic Bags Litter Seafloor
Scientific American: You know what's becoming more common than fish in the sea? Plastic bags.
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute surveyed underwater video footage. They saw that plastic bags have become ubiquitous on the seafloor off the U.S. West Coast—even as far away as Hawaii.
The institute's robot subs collected the videos over the last 22 years, mostly in and around Monterey Bay but also further afield. Technicians noted whenever it showed objects or animals.
The footage spanned...
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Eight ways to solve world hunger
Guardian: PREVENT LAND GRABBING An ugly side of current scares over future food supply is wealthy, land-poor states, like those in the Gulf and South Korea, acquiring tracts of undeveloped countries to use as allotments. It is a campaigning cause of the multi-charity IF campaign against hunger. Ethiopia, Sudan, Madagascar and Cambodia have been targeted and a total area the size of Spain may already have been acquired. Problem: Hard to police. Difficult to distinguish between genuine investment in Africa...
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Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringing
Washington Post: In a recent op-ed for The Post, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) offered up a reheated stew of isolated factoids and sweeping generalizations about climate science to defend the destructive status quo. We agree with the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology that policy should be based on sound science. But Smith presented political talking points, and none of his implied conclusions is accurate. The two of us have spent, in total, more than seven decades studying Earth's climate,...
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North Sea cod stocks 'on road to sustainability'
BBC: North Sea cod stocks are on the road to sustainability, according to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) research.
The council, which certifies whether fish are being caught sustainably, says it is too soon to tell exactly when the North Sea fishery will be sustainable.
But a spokesman said on current trends, it will be ready for certification within years rather than decades.
Stocks would still be in recovery then, James Simpson said, but they would have passed an acceptable level.
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Cod stocks recover after years of overfishing
Guardian: Cod could be in for a revival at the fish counter as stocks recover after being overfished for decades.
Eating cod has been regarded as close to a crime by environmentalists, and consumers have been urged to opt for alternatives such as gurnard.
But a survey by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and other fisheries organisations suggests that effective management means cod is increasing. The standards body, which certifies certain fisheries as sustainable as a guide for consumers, said that...
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Large-scale biodiversity is vital to maintain ecosystem health
ScienceDaily: Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.
Think of it as patches on a quilt, says Erika Zavaleta, UCSC associate professor of environmental studies. Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants, animals, and insects but it is equally...
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Report: Accidents Likely In Environmentally Fragile Seas
National Public Radio: Many of the world's most accident-prone waters for shipping are also among the most delicate marine ecosystems, according to a new study released Friday by WWF International.
The fear of something like a major oil spill in environmentally sensitive waters comes as the number of vessels plying the world's oceans has risen 20 percent in the past 15 years, from 85,000 to 105,000, the report, released on World Oceans Day, says.
"Since 1999 there have been 293 shipping accidents in the South China...
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Coral Reef Ecosystems Devastated by Climate Change
EcoWatch: Marine biologists' worst fears seem to be confirmed: coral colonies take a long time to recover from catastrophic climate events.
British and Brazilian biologists report in the Public Library of Science One (PLoS One) that the richest habitats of the sea could also be among the most vulnerable to climate change.
Bleached coral at a site in Palau monitored by the Palau International Coral Reef Center, juxtaposed with healthy, living coral. The number and extent of bleaching events have been...
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Climate change in the Arctic affecting health in parts of Europe
PhysOrg: Climate change in the Arctic is more evident than in most parts of the world, with global warming moving at a rate of almost twice the global average. But this also has an effect on some parts of Europe, which is being investigated by the project ArcRisk ('Arctic Health Risks and Impacts on Health in the Arctic and Europe Owing to Climate-Induced Changes in Contaminant Cycling'). This project is being highlighted to mark World Environment Day.
With funding of EUR 4.75 million (of which the EU...
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China's environmental problems are grim, admits ministry report
Guardian: China's environmental situation has been described as "grim" in an annual update on the country's environment released this week.
The update by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said that overall pollution problems were serious last year and reporting on the update, the state-controlled newspaper China Daily said there has been a "marked deterioration in China's air, water and land quality".
The 2012 Environmental Conditions Report addressed water and air pollution, the two types...
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As Extreme Weather Increases, Bangladesh Braces for the Worst
Yale Environment 360: Melting ice sheets, calving glaciers and rising sea levels: scenarios of impending inundation fill the news, while climate change skeptics assure us that these are long-term problems, part of the natural cycle of things. One thing is certain: These are multi-decade changes in a warming world, which we're tempted to leave to future generations.
But as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy forcibly reminded us here in the United States, warming brings more extreme weather events -- and the catastrophic...
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EU agrees to tighten its ban on 'shark finning'
Reuters: The European Union agreed on Thursday to tighten an existing ban on "shark finning", or slicing fins off sharks often while they are still alive, which environmental campaigners say is cruel and threatens the survival of some species.
Once the change comes into effect, the ban will forbid shark finning by all vessels in EU waters and by all EU-registered vessels anywhere in the world, a move its supporters believe will put pressure on countries where the practice is common.
"Shark finning is...
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This is what an ice-free Antarctica looks like
Grist: Check out the most detailed map of a continent never truly seen by human eyes: the de-iced surface of Antarctica. By virtually peeling back the frozen ice sheet and studying the land beneath, researchers can get a better sense of how the southern pole of our planet could react to climate change.
Bedmap2 was created by the British Antarctic Survey, and used decades of data to produce this detailed view of the frozen continent. NASA's contribution to the dataset includes surface measurements from...
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Japan: Water leak at Fukushima nuclear plant
BBC: Radioactive water is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's Fukushima plant, its operator says.
Nuclear plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said a worker discovered the leak on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Tepco also announced that it had found radioactive caesium in ground water around the plant.
The plant was damaged in an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, and has been hit by several leaks and power failures in recent months.
Hundreds of huge water tanks have been constructed...
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BP to pump $1 billion into its Alaska drilling efforts
Grist: Not content with wrecking the Gulf of Mexico`s ecosystem, BP has announced that it is expanding its operations at the far northern end of the country, on Alaska`s North Slope.
BP plans to increase its spending in the region by $1 billion over five years, increasing its fleet of oil rigs at the North Slope from seven to nine by 2016.
The announcement came after state leaders reduced taxes on oil companies. In May, Gov. Sean Parnell (R) signed legislation that cuts oil taxes to a flat 35 percent...
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Twinkies give-away
December 13, 2012 3:48PM
Luanne Germann from Aurora, right, smiles after getting her box of Twinkies from employees of Cherry Logistics in North Aurora on Thursday, December 13, 2012. The company bought 400 boxes to give away and Eric Szos, left, said they had their first car show up at about 9:30 this morning. | Brian Powers~Sun-Times Media
Updated: December 13, 2012 9:02PM
The first car of Twinkies lovers rolled up at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday for the give-away at Cherry Logistics in North Aurora.
The company purchased about 400 boxes of Twinkies that it planned to present to clients, but instead decided to hand out the sweet treats to the general public on a first-come, first-serve basis Thursday afternoon.


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Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. | |
Born | Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. January 2, 1968 Bronx, New York |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1986–present |
Spouse(s) | Sara Kapfer (m. 1994) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Jerry Maguire (1996) |
Cuba Gooding, Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American film actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His performances in films such as Boyz n the Hood (1991), As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000), and Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013).
Personal life[edit]
Gooding Jr., was born in Bronx, New York, the son of Shirley Gooding (née Sullivan), a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of the soul group The Main Ingredient.[1][2] He has three siblings: April, Omar, and Tommy Gooding. His paternal grandfather was a native of Barbados.[2] His family moved to Los Angeles after his father's music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972; the elder Gooding abandoned his family two years later. Gooding was raised by his mother and attended four different high schools: North Hollywood High School, Tustin High School, Apple Valley High School, and John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills in Los Angeles. He served as class president in three of them.[3] He became a born-again Christian at age 13.[4] In 1994, Gooding Jr. married his high school sweetheart, Sara Kapfer, and they have three children: Spencer, Mason and Piper. They live in Pacific Palisades, and Porter Ranch, California.
Early career and major success[edit]
His first job as an entertainer was as a breakdancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[1] After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting. Early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues (1981), Amen (1988) and MacGyver (1988, 1989 and 1990)[5] and also had a tiny part in the popular comedy Coming to America (1988). Gooding's first major role was in John Singleton's inner-city crime drama Boyz n the Hood (1991), in which he played the lead, Tré Styles. A box office surprise and critical hit, the film is now considered a modern classic. He followed this success with supporting roles in major films such as A Few Good Men (1992), Lightning Jack (1994), and Outbreak (1995). In 1996, Gooding reached a new level of prominence when he was cast as an arrogant yet charismatic football player on the brink of a career-ending injury in Cameron Crowe's blockbuster dramatic sports comedy Jerry Maguire (1996) with co-star Tom Cruise, which was a major critical and commercial success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Most significantly, it earned Gooding an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. His exuberant "Show Me the Money" line in the film became a nationwide catch phrase.[6] Additionally, his Oscar acceptance speech has often been cited for its enthusiasm.
Post-Oscar prominence[edit]
In 1997, Gooding followed his breakout with a notable supporting role in the acclaimed Academy Award-winning comedy As Good as It Gets (1997), but in the following years his career was inconsistently successful. Some of his best received performances include turns in films such as the mystical drama What Dreams May Come (1998) and the US Naval drama Men of Honor (2000) in which he played the lead role and co-starred with Robert De Niro. Gooding also received attention for his roles in the epic Pearl Harbor (2001) as historical figure Doris Miller, the ensemble farce Rat Race (2001), the musical The Fighting Temptations (2003) in which he co-starred alongside Beyoncé Knowles, and the football drama Radio (2003), in which he played the title role. Additionally, though not well received critically, the family comedy Snow Dogs (2002) was a commercial success. Other roles of note during this time include a co-lead role alongside Anthony Hopkins in the psychological thriller Instinct (1999) and the voice of Buck in Disney's animated film Home on the Range (2004). However, during this stage of his career, he also began to appear in a series of films which were not critically or commercially successful, such as Chill Factor (1999), Boat Trip (2002), Norbit (2007), and Daddy Day Camp (2007), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and, with the exception of Norbit, performed poorly at the box office. On top of this, Gooding had allegedly turned down roles in successful films such as Amistad (1997) in the aftermath of his Oscar win. Ultimately, neither his earlier successes nor his leading roles in a couple of smaller independent independent films, including Lee Daniels' directorial debut Shadowboxer (2005), were able to offset these failures and prevent the downward trajectory of his career.
Recent film career[edit]
Since then, in great contrast to earlier stages of his acting career, Gooding has appeared in many more gritty, critically ignored, direct-to-DVD films than theatrical or television releases. A well received performance as Ben Carson in 2009's Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, and small supporting role in 2007's Ridley Scott's American Gangster, both proved to be exceptions to this trend, it was his last theatrically released film until 2012. Indeed, when Gooding had a prominent role in the World War II film, Red Tails (2012), produced by George Lucas and also with other prominent actors such as Terrence Howard and Bryan Cranston, it was his first theatrically released film since 2007's American Gangster. In 2013, Gooding had roles in several theatrical release films, including a well received supporting performance in Lee Daniels' The Butler and brief appearances in Don Jon and Machete Kills.
Other work[edit]
In 2013, Gooding, Jr. made his Broadway theatre debut alongside Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams in a Tony Award-nominated production of The Trip to Bountiful.[7] In 2012, he starred in a TV pilot for FOX called Guilty that was directed by McG. Though it was well received in screenings, it was ultimately not picked up by the network. He appeared on Channel 4's Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on August 5, 2011, closing the show dueting Bad Romance with Lulu. In 2002, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[8]
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2013 | The Trip to Bountiful | Ludie Watts | Broadway |
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1998 | Murder of Crows, AA Murder of Crows | Lawson Russel | |
2006 | End Game | Alex Thomas | |
2007 | Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends, TheThe Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends | Loofah the Beipiaosaurus | Voice |
2008 | Hero Wanted | Liam Case | |
Linewatch | Michael Dixon | ||
Way of War, TheThe Way of War | David Wolfe | ||
2009 | Lies & Illusions | Isaac | |
Devil's Tomb, TheThe Devil's Tomb | Mack | ||
Wrong Turn at Tahoe | Joshua | ||
Hardwired | Luke Gibson | ||
2011 | Ticking Clock | Lewis Hicks | |
Sacrifice | Detective John Hebron | ||
The Hit List | Jonas Arbor | ||
2012 | One in the Chamber | Ray Carver | |
2013 | Absolute Deception | John Nelson |
- ^ a b Gaul, Lou (August 7, 2008). "Cuba Gooding Jr. talks 'Daddy Day Camp'". Phillyburbs. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ a b http://www.soulandfunkmusic.com/content/view/451/1/
- ^ "Cuba Gooding Jr Bio: movies.yahoo.com".
- ^ Williams, Kam (August 15, 2007). "Cuba Gooding: The Daddy Day Camp Interview with Kam Williams". Kamwilliams. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0274908/
- ^ "Cuba Gooding Jr.". Vibe. Retrieved July 6, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams head to Broadway
- ^ "Cuba Gooding Jr.". Lodi News-Sentinel. Associated Press. January 18, 2002. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
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- Cinema Confidential interview (January 2002)
- Hollywood.com interview (November 9, 2000)
- Jet interview (October 11, 1999)
- Ebony interview (June 1997)
- JAM! Movies interview (December 13, 1996)
- Hanes Backstage Game with Cuba Gooding, Jr. & Michael Jordan (July 2007)
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I tried to upgrade SQL Express 2005 to SQL Express 2008 but it failed while trying to stop/Start a system service. I stopped the service manually and uninstalled all SQL Entries from Add/remove programs. I tried re-installation but it wouldn't install before because of an error : Error code 0x84B30002. I again removed every SQL 2008 program from Add/remove and also deleted the 100 and MSSQLServer10 folder from Program files\SQl server. Now receiving this error message : [Error Message] The instance ID 'MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER' is already in use. Please choose a different value. [Details] Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingValidationException: The instance ID 'MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER' is already in use. Please choose a different value. HELPPP !!
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Try the steps outlined in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955404 I dont have a 'Release' folder as mentioned in this link : CD %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Release
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August 15th, 2011, 08:10 PM | #1 |
I'm not old, honest...
Trailer tire wear
Trying to figure out why I have a trailer tire going bald.
I have no more than 5000 miles on my flatbed trailer and the left front tire is wearing bad on a band about 2" wide on the outside. The rest of the tires have good tread and so does this tire on the rest of the tire but the outside band is bald. The other tires have some cupping but not anything significant. Any ideas? What I know; tires are all at pressure. (50 psi) trailer sits level tires don't get hot bearings don't get hot Trailer doesn't sway C rated tires
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August 15th, 2011, 08:17 PM | #3 |
Wheelin the HD
Could be a bad inner bearing or a bad alignment. The cupping makes me want to say alignment, but it could be a bet axle too.
Motors hate me, axles fear me. I got your jeep thing, now my damn Chevy wont start, and its missing a wheel. My build: http://www.greatlakes4x4.com/showthread.php?t=206107 |
August 15th, 2011, 08:36 PM | #4 |
I'm not old, honest...
I would expect the wheel bearings to be hot if I had a bad bearing. I would also expect that if it were bad axle alignment that the other side would have a problem on the inside. Plus it's pretty hard to get misalignment with tandem axles.
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August 15th, 2011, 08:59 PM | #7 |
I'm not old, honest...
Good point. I was just looking at them, they're all wearing pretty bad. Probably be lucky to get home.
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August 15th, 2011, 09:14 PM | #10 |
It Lives once again!!!!
Well if you get home without a blowout...I got my radial trailer tires at Leslie Tire on M59 across from the M-TECH rental place. He had a good price and I have been real happy with the tires.
August 16th, 2011, 08:39 AM | #12 | |
I'm not old, honest...
Doubt it. Once again, if it were out of alignment, I would expect the tire or bearings to be running hotter than the others. I check them every time I stop and everything seems symmetrical.
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August 16th, 2011, 08:44 AM | #13 | |
Someday, yeah Someday
I bought 5 new tires and wheels a little over a year ago, two of them have gone out of shape so bad that the outside edge of the tire circumference is almost an inch more then the inside. I'll take a picture if I remember. A third one blew out on the way to Attica this spring. Last edited by FORD FLARESIDE; August 16th, 2011 at 09:54 AM. |
August 16th, 2011, 08:51 AM | #14 |
hosejockey and I have had good luck with trailer tires from Dewey's in Fenton Jim. I got 4 for the boat trailer a few years back for a very good price. I believe goodyear radials of some sort. If you are shopping around talk with Jerry at Dewey's. GREAT service.
August 16th, 2011, 10:34 AM | #15 |
I was thinking the same thing,but the tire would be bald on the inside if it was bent from over loading the trailer.I guess you could hit a stump ,or something ,to bend it in a way tyat the outside would wear first.
August 16th, 2011, 10:39 AM | #16 |
Are we there yet?
The tire that you replaced on the way out to Moab was on the same side, correct? Is the new tire wearing the same?
Wonder if the replacement tire is different and causing more load on the front tire?
83' CJ-7, I-6 Propane/HEI, Fiberglass body, SOA, 4.88's locked front and rear GLFWDA Land Use Committee Chairman Tri-City Trail Riders President www.glfwda.org - support the sport www.ironmanoffroad.com |
August 16th, 2011, 11:04 AM | #17 |
Not as old as Whiterhino
Had the same problem with my #3500 axles and you know our discussion over it. Are your axles cambered? My are. I talked to the guys @ Richfield about it. If you don't load your axles up to the max capacity, non-cambered axles would be a better choice.
I run Marathon Trailer tires. Load range 'C' and NO WHERE near the load rating they need to be to be hauling the Jeep and the trailer combined weight. Cupping on the outside is a sure sign of underinflation and uncontrolled tire/rim movement. Same as worn out shocks show on cars. Sure, it might not be way over, but it's right at it's capacity. Same with the crappy 1" outer bearings that #3500 axles have. I'm already pricing out my new axles, going with #6000 and leafs, not torsion flex like they tried to talk me into. And NON-cambered. Again, #3500 axles do NOT belong towing anything more than lawnmowers in my opinion. Been there done that, and it cost me plenty to learn that hard lesson. jim-kb8ymf |
August 16th, 2011, 03:27 PM | #18 |
Senior Member
Side note while on the topic of tires.
I need tires for my 22' enclosed. Currently 205/65/15 C rated trailer-only radials. Why would I not want E rated? What is trailer-rated in comparison to passenger tires? |
August 16th, 2011, 10:16 PM | #19 |
I'm not old, honest...
Jeep weighs around 4600#
Trailer titles at 1460# Add tool box and crap inside and I would guess the axles are fairly close to maxed out. It's dark out, I'll check for camber in the morning. I can say that when observing it on flat pavement that the tires looked square to the ground. I never had these issues with my former tandem 3500# axles.
GLFWDA member since 1979. Member Southern Michigan Rock Crawlers. |
August 17th, 2011, 07:53 AM | #20 | ||
Not as old as Whiterhino
If you saw how small that outer bearing was you'd shit! Especially you who deals with bearings all day long in your conveyors. Quote:
What's your axle rating? How much do you haul weight wise? Enclosed are already probably near #2500. j-kb8ymf Last edited by kb8ymf; August 17th, 2011 at 07:56 AM. |
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A year ago, on the afternoon of September 11, when I couldn't bear to watch the awful images from New York City and Washington, D.C., any longer, I went to my office and hurriedly wrote a few paragraphs for National Review Online. The brief article was posted on their website at 7:30 p.m. New York time, and so probably qualifies as one of the earliest editorial reactions to the day's savage attacks. I concluded the piece with a kind of prediction: "Our enemies underestimate American courage, forgetting that American democracy has ever been a fighting faith."
A year later, we pause to remember and to take stock. How goes the fight that we are in, and do we still have faith in it? More broadly, what does the past year reveal about our faith in American democracy itself? Let me try to answer these questions by meditating, briefly, on developments as they have affected America in three respects our character, our principles, and our duty under the present circumstances.
Initially, the country reeled in shock, disbelief, and fear. One year later, the shadow of death and despair has passed over us. It proved evanescent because the American spirit reasserted itself more quickly than
the terrorists had figured and than many of us had feared and to be sure, because they didn't manage to strike again so spectacularly. The destruction in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania stunned us momentarily but it also filled Americans with patriotic and righteous indignation. Peering through the smoke and ash, we saw the familiar outlines of the American character reasserting itself. Once again the American alchemy took place and the common man showed himself capable of uncommon virtues.
Firemen and policemen had a job to do and they did it not stintingly but courageously. Aboard United flight 93, the passengers had to assume responsibility for a task that was no one's clear responsibility, because it could hardly have been imagined before takeoff. Here was the spirit of self-government in action in that quintessentially American moment when after praying and voting together, the passengers resolved to resist their murderous captors. That moment came so naturally, though I'm sure reluctantly, to those brave men and women because it evoked the mystic chords of memory connecting them to generations of praying, voting, and fighting Americans stretching back to the Puritans. Here was the great secret of the American soul, shown at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, and Bastogne, revealed yet again: that freedom is our form of longing for excellence.
The only throwback to September 11's initial fearfulness and self-doubt, so far as I can tell, is the passion for internal security measures that is about to be institutionalized in the new Department of Homeland
Security. Not that certain defensive steps might not be valuable. But the spirit of homeland defense is not that of the militia of old, nor even that of the duck-and-cover civil defense drills of the Cold War-era (whose purpose
was at least clear), much less that of the valiant passengers of flight 93. On the contrary: the predominant theme of homeland defense is not civic virtue but civic anxiety. This anxiety is to be cured, or rather alleviated, by techniques partly therapeutic and partly bureaucratic. Call it bureaucratic therapy, to be administered by government experts. The epitome of these efforts is airport security.
Manifestly, airport security is not a system designed to catch terrorists. This is a system designed to whip the population into line, actually into several lines, each filled with resentful citizens, many shoeless, shuffling back and forth through screeching portals. It is as if, in a single stroke, America had been returned to the soup lines of the Great Depression, except that there is no soup. Only in the bowels of this new bureaucracy does the view live on that every American is at once a potential terrorist victim and a potential terrorist suspect. The point of airport security is not so much to make you secure but to make you feel secure, which they accomplish by wandings, patdowns, and other harrassing procedures. The reasoning seems to be that if you and your fellow passengers become sufficiently annoyed, you will forget about your fear. And once you've achieved freedom from fear, you are, so to speak, safe. Of course, one of the byproducts of this approach is to generate among the flying public a sullen cynicism towards homeland security, and by extension towards the whole government. By the tortured logic of this program, however, that just goes to show why you can't trust the flying public!
Americans put up with this arbitrariness because they think it somehow a contribution to the war effort. It is harder to see why President Bush puts up with it, but then he gets to fly Air Force One.
One of the most striking aspects of Americans' reaction to 9/11 was the public outpouring of religious sentiment and ceremony. Millions of prayers rose heavenward on that day, and for months afterward the churches and synagogues were packed. The formerly naked public square was suddenly and richly clothed. President Bush led a moving, ecumenical prayer service at the National Cathedral. Face-to-face with evil, even the A.C.L.U. blinked. No lawsuits were filed challenging the use of public property for religious purposes or seeking to enjoin firemen and policemen from praying on the job.
Yet this was more a ceasefire than a victory in the battle over the public significance of religion. Already the federal judiciary has roused itself. A Ninth Circuit panel ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance creates an unconstitutional establishment of religion in the United States, and accordingly forbade public schoolteachers to lead their students in reciting the Pledge. On a happier note, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers are not unconstitutional just because some parents might spend them at schools encouraging pious acts between consenting adults and even between children.
Alongside the religious outpouring, the revival of patriotism was the clearest sign of the political change wrought by 9/11. Though the flag-waving has subsided, most citizens still feel a renewed loyalty and, as the Pledge case shows, public opinion does not look kindly on those who would try to divorce our country's cause from its service to liberty and justice, under God.
Nonetheless, distrust of this kind of patriotism runs deep among American intellectuals, and a cooling trend, blowing from the mountains of the extreme Left, has begun to set in among the foothills and will, in all probability, touch eventually the vast plains of the liberal Center. Let me put the question squarely: Can we pronounce the attacks of September 11 to be evil, or not? Not merely the extreme Left, but many mainstream liberals and even some deluded conservatives squirmed and objected when Ronald Reagan pronounced the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Now the same issue arises in a new context. The intellectual Left faces a dilemma. On the one hand, Osama bin Laden is not exactly a liberal posterchild, what with his penchant for oppressing women, persecuting homosexuals, and rejecting Supreme Court doctrine on the separation of church and state. On the other hand, he and his gang are an authentic culture or subculture unto themselves, are anti-bourgeois, and strive to resist American imperialism. Who are we to condemn them? muses the Left.
Behind this moral and intellectual abdication is the doctrine called postmodernism, which is simply relativism dressed up in robes and mortarboard. Postmodernists find everything ironic, including themselves (or so they say), and they delight in deconstructing structures of power even as they build powerful structures for themselves within our universities. They take nothing seriously because they think, seriously, that nothing exists outside the flux of forces and values. In particular, there is no moral or political truth "out there," as Richard Rorty, a prominent postmodernist, likes to say. Hence patriotism is their bete noire. American patriots take themselves and their country seriously because they know that "liberty and justice for all" reflects God's and nature's intention for man. From the perspective of liberal postmodernism, patriots "don't get it"; don't understand that there is no truth, only perspectives. Cleverly, however, most postmodernists claim to want to save patriotism by recreating it on relativist grounds: I pledge allegiance to the flag of my choice, and to the notions for which it stands, under Nietzsche, so long as no animals were harmed in making it and no one was offended by the mistaken notion that this flag is better than any other flag.
September 11 was a deathblow to postmodernism, we are often told. I wish this were true. President Bush has tried repeatedly to show that the attacks prove that there is a real difference between good and evil, and his and Mayor Guiliani's speeches contain powerful moral testimonies. Nevertheless, they make their moral case by pointing to the facts to the collapsed Towers, the shattered Pentagon, the anguished last calls from doomed husbands, wives, parents, and children. These facts speak for themselves, Bush and Guiliani say in effect. And they do; and the American people understand this. The facts speak, but they do not say enough. War is a coldhearted business, and democracies are better at fighting wars than many critics think because the people understand perfectly well that at some point it comes down to this: either we are going to kill you or you are going to kill us. The red ants and the black ants, in their own way, understand this, too. But this sentiment is no refutation of postmodernism. In fact, it is highly compatible with the postmodern fascination with the will to power and its urge to strip away all ethical significance from human life. This is not the faith that we are fighting for, and our statesmen have made this clear too, and the people affirm it.
Still, the reasons, the arguments that anchor America's democratic-republican faith are neither explored nor exploited as they should be. One searches, not quite in vain but certainly in exasperation, for statements that could be said to be genuinely Lincolnian or Jeffersonian; statements that would be useful not only in refuting relativism and its twin, fanaticism, but in elaborating the truths of free government. On this front the churches have failed us even more than our political class. There are no postmodernist grounds for condemning the terrorists' attacks on September 11. Nor are there any grounds for celebrating them, except perhaps self-hate: admiration for the daring actions of cruel men who would despise these academic gamesmen. Most American liberals are not postmodernist, at least not yet; but neither do they offer any good arguments against it. Few conservatives do, either, which is a sign of the larger problem. The patriotic American consensus may hold, but make no mistake, it is under pressure. The longer and more indecisively the war drags on, the greater the pressure will become.
No survey of America after 9/11 can neglect the economy. The New Yorker cartoon is eloquent on the subject: two stock brokers in a bar, one having a boilermaker and the other working on his second martini. Says the latter between sips and between puffs on his cigarette (this is not a California bar): "I want my bubble back."
The bubble has burst, thanks partly, though only partly, to September 11. It had to pop sooner or later. At Milton Friedman's 90th birthday party, the after-dinner entertainment consisted of...Milton Friedman answering questions. I liked especially his answer to the one about the bubble. This is a profit-and-loss system, he explained, in which the losses are just as important as the profits, maybe more so. There is nothing wrong with the system, which is working exactly as it should. He pointed out that the illegal shenanigans at Enron and other corporations had been brought to light by the market itself, and that the market, in advance of any changes in the law, had begun to reward those companies that had adopted more transparent accounting practices. Finally, he offered two words of advice good, he said, in almost any situation: "Don't panic."
Whether or not the economy is completely self-correcting, it certainly achieved an odd prominence in America's reaction to 9/11. With patriotic impulses surging through it, the nation was poised for mobilization and sacrifice, but neither conscription nor a war economy seemed appropriate for the war we were in. (Not even the "national greatness" conservatives called for a revival of the draft.) The nation was puzzled: how could it contribute to victory? In a strange anticlimax, President Bush advised us to go shopping, to support the war by strengthening the peacetime economy. A bit of patriotism's lightning was drained away by that call, however necessary it might have been in order to jolt Americans out of their homes, where they hunkered in front of the television news. Politically, his emphasis on the economy makes its rather dismaying performance since 9/11 more of a liability for the President than it might have been. The revelations of corporate corruption did not help, either. They looked especially tawdry when compared to the firemen's and policemen's heroics.
Mayor Giuliani's and President Bush's words and deeds were vital to the larger recovery of American self-confidence after 9/11. Their words were deeds, and their deeds had an eloquence of their own. Still, their remarks, even the President's fine speech on September 20 and his State of the Union Address, fell short of the Churchillian, and it was the words of Todd Beamer that Bush chose to characterize the country's response to September 11: "Let's roll."
"Let's roll" is the kind of thing that George Bush could have said; it is the kind of rhetoric he likes, pithy and preparatory to action. But "let's roll" became a kind of national slogan not because Bush repeated it but because it struck a nerve: it signaled courageous resolve in a moment of disheartening national paralysis. The spirit of flight 93 was reaffirmed in the American military's smashing success in Afghanistan. But a year after 9/11, is the country still rolling? If so, towards what?
Whatever else it was, September 11 represented a flagrant breakdown of American strategy. Historically, our grand strategy was whenever possible to fight our wars abroad over there, not over here. On 9/11, our enemies brought the battle to us. What's more, we may infer from their past conduct (e.g., regarding the World Trade Center) that these enemies like to finish the job, which is why the unconsummated attack on Washington, D.C., is worrisome. And like pornographers, the terrorists have to top themselves in order to continue to shock their audience. To be effective, their terrorism must be ever more lurid, more spectacular. To put an end to it, our war must also be short, violent, memorable: we must wage war energetically, for the sake of a victory impressive enough to deter future atrocities against the United States. At a minimum, this demands the destruction of the Iraqi tyrant and his regime.
A few weeks ago, I listened to former Gov. Tom Ridge, soon to be the new secretary in charge of Homeland Security, confess to his audience that he did not think there would ever be a V-T Day, a Victory over Terrorism Day, on the order of V-E or V-J Day, ending the Second World War. He doubted, in other words, that we would ever attain a clear-cut victory in the present war. This is a formula for the long-term demoralization of our fighting faith; a strategy for defeat, or at any rate not for victory. The great question for our country is which policy the Bush Administration will pursue: war for the sake of victory and peace, or war without end.
In formulating its strategy, the Administration will be guided or at least constrained to some extent by public opinion. It's curious that the public has so far not united around a watchword regarding 9/11, a slogan meant to engage our memory and our conscience. Is this a backhanded tribute to liberal postmodernism's growing influence? In its view, the past has nothing to teach us because it is all interpretation; the postmodern slogan, so characteristic of the Clinton administration, is "let's move on." Past generations of Americans refused to do this, refused to betray those who had sacrificed on their behalf. Think of our ancestors' great battlecries: Remember Pearl Harbor. Remember the Lusitania. Remember the Maine. Remember the Alamo.
Yet no one vows, "Remember 9/11." We may quietly say or wish it, but it is not a sacred oath constantly on our lips, our billboards, or our televisions. Without such a promise, however, we are prone to forget why and where we are rolling. Victory loses its luster, and its urgency, when prescinded from the reasons we are at war. How then should be commemorate September 11? Not as victims though we must never forget the brave and the innocent who were slaughtered but as proud citizens, intent on vindicating our fallen comrades. The phrase 9/11 caught on in part because it coincided with 9-1-1, the well-known emergency telephone number, employed on that horrible day a year ago. But 9-1-1 is a call for help. 9/11 must be a call to arms. Let it become our battlecry: Remember 9/11.


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There Can Be Only One: Jetpack Vs Car Race
Ever wanted to see some bro with a jetpack race a foreign sporty-ish car (Renault Megane RS)? Well you're in luck, because that is WHAT THIS IS. Unfortunately, 23-year old "daredevil" Nick Macomber doesn't know the meaning of daring the devil and gets smoked.
Today's short, 400-metre flight - reaching a top speed of about 100kmh while travelling about 50m off the ground - was Macomber's first mission in the southern hemisphere, but he's done "hundreds" of jet-pack flights before.
The short hop took just 16 seconds - the fuel runs out in 30 seconds."I've literally lost count of the times I've done this, but I still get nervous every time," he said. "I have to ask people how it looked afterwards because I can barely remember it."
Admittedly, Nick lost because he had to get 'up' to a safe height before he could start moving forward. Wait -- did I say had to? I meant chose to because he didn't want to win bad enough. If that was me I would have stayed low enough to touch the ground the whole time -- with my peenor. "Soooo... just centimeters?" HUNDREDS OF THEM.
Hit the jump for the less than impressive jetpacking performance.
Daredevil defies jet-pack jitters to race car [stuff]
Thanks to Logan, who agrees he should have just put rollerskates on and gone for the gold.
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This is a video of two buttholes in C5 and C6 Corvettes trying to race each other off the line at a red light in Texas over the Thanksgiving holiday. SPOILER: It ends with a crash. But it begins and middles with a guy chewing his gum so f***ing loud you'd swear he's trying to... / Continue →
The Hover Scooter may have made its debut in December, 1960, but that doesn't make it any less the vehicle I want to ride to work everyday. Also, if any of you ladies are interested in a lift I'll even mount a seat on the blower. And I'm not just saying that so I can make a '... / Continue →


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Under construction: The multi-screen video business model
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Memory Lane - Nightmare on DVR Street
June 5, 2012 5:46 pm | by Stewart Schley, media and technology writer | Articles | CommentsFrom the evil Dr. Caligari of the silent film era to the freaky Ghostface of the modern "Scream" film series, Hollywood has produced an impressive lineup of scary characters over a 90-year run of horror movie-making. But no fictitious villain ever elevated Hollywood's chill meter as high as a real-life industry entrant that made its premiere 13 years ago at CES.
Open Mic - Network DVR vs. TV Everywhere
June 5, 2012 5:22 pm | by Bob Scheffler, senior director of next-generation video solutions at Motorola Mobility | Articles | CommentsSince the advent of home entertainment technology – from the phonograph to radio to TV – the living room has long been the gathering place for the family. But in today's world, the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has created an insatiable consumer appetite for anytime, anyplace content.
U.S. campaigns mine online data to target voters
May 29, 2012 12:54 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe 2012 election could be decided by the campaign that better exploits voters' Internet data.
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Broadcasters sue Dish over ad-skipping DVR service
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Azuki, Arris team on TV Everywhere platform
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FourthWall signs licensing agreement with Microsoft for STB data
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TWC, Cox, Bright House, Comcast team up for Wi-Fi roaming
May 21, 2012 11:56 am | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsSubscribers from Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cablevision and Cox Communications will be able to log in to each other's Wi-Fi hotspots, thanks to a new roaming agreement.
Cablevision's Wi-Fi network an industry beacon
May 21, 2012 11:50 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsWhile Cablevision has been in the news for the steady stream of executives that have left the company, its decision to build a Wi-Fi network in 2008 has turned out to be visionary.
TWC taps BlackArrow for nationwide deployment of DAI in VOD
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SeaChange, Avail-TVN to demo VOD ad insertion
May 18, 2012 2:39 pm | by Brian Santo | Product Releases | CommentsThe two have integrated their products to create a system that can place ads at any place within a VOD stream.
Avail-TVN bows DAI tools
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SeaChange, Tellabs cue up OTT ad targeting demo at Cable Show
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This Technology adds former Broadbus CEO to its board
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Cable gets the lead out
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Cox teams up with hospital to launch a patient channel
May 11, 2012 2:56 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsCox Communications has developed a new internal channel for Phoenix Children's Hospital.
SeaChange sticks a fork in broadcast and storage unit sale
May 11, 2012 2:54 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAfter passing regulatory muster, SeaChange announced that it had completed the sale of its broadcast server and storage unit to a private investment group that has named the newly formed company XOR Media.
Bing to duel Google with Facebook-friendly format
May 11, 2012 2:48 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsMicrosoft hopes leveraging the data it gets from partner Facebook will allow it to craft a search engine that really does provide more relevant results.
Neustar expands into LBS
May 10, 2012 2:18 pm | by Brad Smith, Wireless Week | News | CommentsNeustar, through subsidiaries and acquisitions, has a wide range of IP and Web services and has recently gotten into location-based services using wireless networks.
Time Warner Cable adds Ruckus gear to Wi-Fi arsenal
May 8, 2012 2:59 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsTime Warner Cable is building out its Wi-Fi network in its Los Angeles system with the addition of a new vendor, Ruckus Wireless.
TV's double vision: When 1 screen isn't enough
May 3, 2012 2:20 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsSocial networking is wreaking a profound change in TV-viewing habits.
Messaging for fun, profit
May 1, 2012 3:00 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsA top 5 MSO installs Front Porch's messaging system and gets a huge boost in response rates on mobile phone app.