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This brand new set features new street Cars relevant from the movie franchise. Micro Scalextric is ideal for the younger slot racer and the perfect introduction to the action-packed world of Scalextric racing.
Age from 4 years.
Rule the roads with the fantastic Hot Wheels 10 Car Pack.
With 10 die-cast vehicles reproduced in glorious detail, you can bring your high-speed games to life.
With vehicles ranging from a flame-detail flatbed truck, retro sports cars to flash convertibles, there are enough cars here to start your collection or to add to an existing one.
There are lots more Hot Wheels sets and accessories available separately - click on the logo on the left to see more.
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- Hot Wheels 10 Car Pack
- Features 10 die-cast vehicles
- Fantastic detail, moving wheels
- Lots more Hot Wheels sets and accessories available separately
- Hot Wheels 10 car accessory pack
Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years.
Spiderman Super Radio Controlled Spiderman Car
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New radio controlled with an exclusive Spiderman design.
A radio controlled car with all the functions and a detailed Spiderman figure inside the car.
Batteries not included.
Transformers Bumblebee Radio Controlled Car
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Incredible Bumblebee radio controlled car!
With the real Camaro design like the one in the film! Makes amazing turns and swerves at full speed!
Batteries not included.
Take to the skies and race your friends with the fantastic Disney Planes Air Race Trackset.
With more than 5 feet of track, this impressive set has everything you need to recreate some epic air adventures from the film, whether its aerial acrobatics like stunts and barrel rolls, or good old fashioned speed!
With obstacles like mountains and a tunnel included as well as a Dusty Crophopper model, planes can be clipped to the track before being launched side-by-side for some truly amazing racing action.
The first to complete the race is then automatically diverted to the winner's circle to be crowned king of the skies!
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- Disney Planes Air Race Trackset
- Race side-by-side with your friends
- Comes with 5 feet of track
- Obstacles included mountains and a tunnel
- Suitable for age 5 and above
With this brilliant Scalextric Demolition Derby Set you and your child can build, race and create awesome collisions.
This set gives you the excitement of the demolition derby thanks to 2 quick-build cars. These cars clip-together and then break apart on impact, for totally amazing crashes every time. The cars can be customised too, for plenty of fun.
The figure-of-eight track includes 2 crossroads and twin-chicane sections for maximum contact opportunities as the cars race around the track.
With 2 hand controllers you and your child can race against each other, building up speed until they create an awesome crash, then rebuild and start again.
Useful info:
- Quick-build clip together cars
- Figure-of-eight track
- Includes cross roles and twin-chicane sections
- 2 controllers
- Age from 5 years
- Scalextric Demolition Derby
Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years.
Hornby Micro Scalextric Stock Car Challenge
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This fantastic great value set comes with two 1:64 scale decorated stock cars, large track and lap counter. Brilliant fun for the younger racer!!
Scalextric Fast and Furious Set
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Make your own action, thrills and spills with this awesome Scalextric Fast And Furious Set.
Based on the hugely popular films, this Fast And Furious Set comes with everything you need to recreate your favourite racing scenes, while the flying jump section is ideal for making gravity defying leaps that Vin Diesel would be proud of.
The track also features crossroads and daring turns, ideal for perfecting your technique on the track.
This set comes with 2 hand controllers and 2 of the iconic cars from the series, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger, to act out all of the awesome races.
Useful info:
- 5.3 metre track
- Figure-of-eight circuit
- Includes a model Chevrolet Camaro and a Dodge Challenger
- Includes ramps and chicane
- 2 hand controllers included
- Power supply included
- Scalextric Fast And Furious Set
Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years.
Scalextric Digital Law Enforcer
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Bring the city streets to vivid life with breathtaking police pursuits in the incredible Scalextric Digital Law Enforcer set!
You can perform amazing, realistic overtaking and braking manoeuvres and with only the touch of a button you can switch lanes to overtake or even block your opponent!
Packed with incredible features this fantastic set boasts more than 6 metres of track and cars installed with digital chips for even more realistic racing action.
Part of the Scalextric Digital range, the set gives you more power than ever before to create the kind of races you want, with up to 4 digital chip-installed cars now able to go head-to-head (3 cars are supplied with this set).
The super resistant Audi R8 Police Car's siren sounds and its lights flash as it races off in hot pursuit of the street racing Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Corvette which have working front and rear lights.
Useful info:
- Scalextric Digital Law Enforcer
- Recreate realistic police chases
- Change lanes, overtake and brake to avoid the cops
- Police car's siren sounds
- More than 6 metres of track
- Comes with power base to race up to 4 cars
- 3 cars supplied
- Suitable for age 7 and above
Welcome to the exciting world of Scalextric Digital.
This set allows you to race up to four cars at the same time (two cars are provided), performing amazing, realistic overtaking and braking manoeuvres. You can switch lanes at the touch of a button to overtake or block your opponent. This set includes everything you need to get started with Scalextric Digital - it features a large circuit and comes supplied with two Digital Chip installed cars.
Additional digital cars are available or you can easily convert most standard cars to run on digital layouts. The super resistant Lamborghini Aventador and Bugatti Veyton racers feature easy change pick-ups and the Magnatraction system to help them stay on the circuit.
Age from 7 years.
The new Air Hogs Elite Helix X4 Stunt Quad is the only high-performance radio controlled stunt quad-copter around!
Utilizing 2.4GHz radio control, gyro stabilisation, and 4-ducted fans, the Helix X4 is aggressively manoeuvrable and incredibly fast!
Perform 3 incredible stunts with the push of a button as you backflip, barrel roll and 180° flip. Helix X4 features incredibly crash-resistant materials protecting the rotors and delivering superior durability. Its full 4-channel control enables the Helix X4 to easily outfly any obstacle and out stunt any other radio controlled vehicle. Experience the future of flight with the agile Helix X4 Stunt!
Requires 8xAA batteries (not included).
Age from 12 years.
Scalextric Monster Truck Mayhem
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- Next day delivery available
The two Monster Trucks in this set compete on this oval track, leaping over a pair of jumps and swerving through the two racing curves. Track borders and barriers are supplied. The Super Resistant Monster Trucks are tough enough for full impact racing.
Please note: The drift borders in this set are grey.
Age from 5 years.


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|Critics," "the critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend." I am honored to be on lists for review, and as I fuse to my "best word" so too are my true gems proud to give their marks. Starting to build upon this true key to life, am I, with only half of a memento to wear. I know in time that some gems will diminish in sparkle and some will be lost and replaced, but it won't be the stones I will remember in the long run. I will never forget the lessons and instances shared and the various times the stones fit together to form the grand, yet still advancing necklace I call life. Margaret Fuller, thank you for adding some shine.

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Possible hate crimes at Bay Ridge religious sites
Police have a suspect in custody in an investigation into 11 instances of graffiti throughout Bay Ridge, some of which were found on or near places of worship, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said on Tuesday.
"It sort of ran the gamut," Kelly said. "Catholic church, Prostestant church, Jewish recreation center, cars and homes."
But officers didn't have to do very much to find him: the suspect, 55-year-old Cristos Papademtropolos, reportedly turned himself in, approaching a captain from the 68th precinct outside a TD Bank on 5th Avenue and declaring unprompted, "You got me, I did it all."
Cops said he was wearing the same clothes and shoes as a person identified in video footage from a local hardware store and two of the sites where graffiti was found.
Papademetropolos has no prior arrests or domestic incident reports, though his wife reportedly called 911 in 2011 and said her husband was acting "strange." He was not arrested or taken into custody at that time, however. About two months prior to that, he was the victim of a car theft, police said.
Cops said the graffiti was first discovered by a dog-walker at 3:18 a.m. last night on two statues of Jesus and Mary outside St. Anselm, a Roman Catholic church on 82nd Street just down the street from the TD Bank where Papademetropolos reportedly turned himself in.
Patrol officers responding to the report from St. Anselm's found the word "No" in red spray paint about one foot tall on the Bay Ridge Jewish Center on 81st Street, cops said.
"No" was reportedly also found on the side of the Bay Ridge Prep School on Ridge Boulevard and on the United Lutheran Church's mailbox, as well as a red square next to the church door. Another one-foot-high "no" was on the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, also on Ridge Boulevard.
Two homes on 84th Street were also vandalized with "no" and x-marks, cops said, and red dots were discovered spray-painted on the sidewalk in front of a Bank of America on 3rd Avenue. The licenses plates of three cars on 79th Street between Ridge Boulevard and 3rd Avenue were also spray-painted.
Police say Papademetropolos was spotted on video camera footage at an ACE Hardware store at 8115 5th Avenue purchasing red spray paint, cops said. Police said they also caught him on surveillance camera outside the Bay Ridge Jewish Center and the Greek Orthodox Church.
Kelly said all of the incidents occurred at night. No motive is known at this time, the commissioner said.
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Submitted by Ernest Landante, Jr., Lt. Governor's Office:
Acting Governor Kim Guadagno visited the Township of Toms River today to present a piece of original steel from the World Trade Center to the Toms River East Dover Fire Company. The section of steel I-beam will honor the memory of the victims of September 11, 2001 attacks.
"The memorial being created by the Toms River East Dover Fire Company will forever remind us of what happened on 9/11 and ensure that future generations appreciate how fortunate we are to live in freedom," said Acting Governor Guadagno. "This will be a special tribute to the brave and honorable first responders who were lost on 9/11 in selfless service to their fellow Americans."
Toms River lost two residents, Patricia M. Fagan and Robert C. Kennedy in the 9/11 attacks.
"On September 11th, two of our neighbors from Toms River never came home," said Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni. "It is a sacred mission for the Port Authority to ensure what happened that day is never forgotten. We thank Toms River for partnering with us to create a poignant reminder."
During the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center following the attacks of September 11, 2001, artifacts were identified among the wreckage and preserved for their historical significance. Stored at Hanger 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, these artifacts include various pieces that have been cataloged by a professional curator to ensure they were kept as close as possible to their original condition.
The fire company plans to display steel on their grounds as a memorial to fallen emergency responders and all others who died in the attacks of 9/11.
A piece of World Trade Center steel was also placed at the Empty Sky Memorial at Liberty State Park, which was dedicated on September 10, 2011 in honor and memory of the 746 New Jerseyans that lost their lives on 9/11. Last March, a piece of steel, along with an urn of Trade Center dust and an American flag, was put on display in the Statehouse Rotunda for visitors to view.


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K-12 and 5-12 Secondary Education
K-12 and 5-12 licenses in several content areas are offered through a combination of graduate and undergraduate coursework. K-12 licenses prepare teachers to teach a content area across elementary, middle school, and high school. Licenses for grades 5- 12 prepare teachers to teach at the middle and high school levels. Graduate-level licensure coursework (500 and above) is available to students who already hold a bachelor's degree and meet MAE admissions criteria.
Subject matter courses in the following majors are offered on weekday evenings and summer: English, communications (for communication arts), history or economics or psychology (for social studies), art. Students seeking 5–12 licensure in social studies must complete a broad-based core of courses in the social studies in addition to a social science major. Education courses for these licenses are also taken during weekday evenings and summer.
The following content area majors are offered primarily or entirely through the weekday program: biology, chemistry, physics, health, physical education, music, and mathematics. Students seeking licensure in any of these areas typically will need to take additional content courses in the weekday schedule and off-campus. Students can obtain a 9-12 license in physics, chemistry, or biology and have the option of adding the 5–8 general science to the 9-12 license. Students also can obtain the 5–8 general science license without the 9–12 license. Education courses for these licenses are taken during weekday evenings.
Licensure Requirements
The following requirements are offered at both the undergraduate and graduate level. All courses must be taken for licensure; four to seven of them also may be taken at the graduate level and applied toward the master's degree in education.
- EDC 200/522 – Orientation to Education in an Urban Setting*
- EDC 206/566 – Diversity/Minnesota American Indians
- EDC 310/533 – Learning and Development in an Educational Setting*
- EDC 410/544 – Learners with Special Needs*
- EDC 490/580 – School and Society
- ESE 325/525 – Creating Learning Environments
- ESE 300/500 – Reading and Writing in Content Area*
- EDC 591 – Topics
To complete the license, students also will need to complete the following requirements at the undergraduate level:
- HPE 115 – Chemical Dependency Education
- EDC 220 – Educational Technology
- ESE 3XX – K-12 or 5-12 Methods (in the content area)*
- ESE 481, 483, 485 – Student Teaching: Secondary
- ESE 488 – TPA and Student Teaching Seminar
*Field experience hours are required in these courses. A minimum of 100 hours in classrooms and education-related settings is required prior to student teaching. Students spend approximately 20 hours per term in field experiences.
Undergraduate Content Area Requirements
The equivalent of a major in the licensure content area is required for K-12 and 5-12 licenses. Students who have majored in a field in which we offer licensure must have their previous coursework evaluated by the major department at Augsburg. Two or more content area courses tied to Minnesota licensure standards are generally required, even with a completed academic major.
Previous coursework is evaluated by the content area department and accepted if it meets Minnesota licensure standards and if a grade of C or better was achieved. Coursework older than five years is judged on a case-by-case basis. Specific course requirements for each content area are on file in the Education Department.
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Permanent Exhibition of the 1989 Revolution
This work in progress is an ideal venue to brush up on the December 1989 anticommunist revolution that began in Timişoara. Displays include documentation, posters and photography from those fateful days, capped by a graphic 20-minute video (not suitable for young children) with English subtitles. Enter from Str Oituz.


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Authorities say one man was arrested after a SWAT standoff in northwest Atlanta ended early Wednesday morning.Police say it started around 1 a.m. as a domestic dispute between a man and woman at an apartment on Holly Street. Police say a man threatened a woman with a gun, and also threatened to shoot anyone who came to the door. Police say the SWAT team was able to make contact with the man, and took him into custody without incident.There were no injuries.
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Florida Cracker Belgian-style White Ale - Cigar City Brewing
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Ratings: 878 | Reviews: 132 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by bigfnjoe:
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
03-25-2013 22:29:21 | More by bigfnjoe
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3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
06-23-2014 01:55:49 | More by DanGeo
3.69/5 rDev +0.3%
Pours a weird color, somewhere in limbo between straw and yellow with a pretty hefty haze, giving a grungy, unfiltered look and feel. The skull-white head grows and then bellies up almost instantly - completely vanished within 20 seconds of the pours. Being so volatile, a quick swirl can bring it back, but only for a very brief moment. Aroma is packed with some nice spices; clove, coriander, and other warming spices. Some moderate bubblegum on the very tail end thanks to the Belgian yeast. Not really picking up much of a hop flavor - maybe some lightly floral notes deep down in there, but it's stretch.
Pretty light on the palate with a thin-medium body, densely packed with carbonation; crispy and snappy on the tongue. Orange peel and lemon zest come out in the flavor right away - the lemon more so as it warms up. More clove, coriander, and perfume-like spices jump on the palate while a very light hop profile makes its way in. Slighty wet and floral, they are almost too far in the background to matter, though. I'm picking up a moderate funky flavor and aroma near the latter half of the beer now - corky, musky, cellar-like, wet wood. Is this a characteristic of the yeast strain? It was actually quite pleasant, not overpowering or off-putting at all - a nice little addition. Very "wet" on the palate despite the high carbonation. At times, it seemed a bit watered down and not packed with as much flavor as it should've had - but at 5% ABV, you've gotta give them some leeway.
Listed as a witbier, but it drank more like a spin-off of a toned down Belgian style. Not a bad crack at the style, especially when you consider the relatively low ABV, but nothing comes close to the real thing. I could imaging this one going down well on a warm beach somewhere.
02-08-2013 04:23:35 | More by tectactoe
3.18/5 rDev -13.6%
Poured on-tap at the Cigar City Brewing tasting room in Tampa. The beer was served in a pint glass, and it poured a slightly hazy, pale gold color with no head. The nose is very muted, with floral (juniper?) smells, and very light spicing. The beer is light and smooth, with flavors of slight sour citrus and a smooth, bready spicing. Light in mouth, this beer has an aftertaste that is mostly coriander spicing. The finish is minimal and quick, making an easy drinker.
03-20-2013 02:14:04 | More by ExtraStout
New York
3.91/5 rDev +6.3%
Canned on December 3, 2013
A hazy light golden beer with an enthusiastic head. The soapy white foam quickly fades with little head retention.
A soft wheat malt sweetness and a medium-low Belgian yeast aroma that is mostly spicy with a light fruit character. There is a light citrus peel aroma along with a moderate earthy hops aroma.
The soft malt sweetness and moderate bitterness are up front quickly followed by a medium citrus flavor that is comes from mostly the zesty peel character and backed by some of the yeast character. The yeast also brings some spice while the moderate hops have an earthy and spicy character. There is a fair amount of coriander flavor in there but it's nicely balanced and comes through strong in the finish. The balance is slightly towards the bitter and the finish is off dry.
This is a light bodied beer with strong carbonation.
A Belgian White with the flavors turned up to eleven making for a refreshing and flavorful beer.
03-23-2014 23:11:21 | More by MadScientist
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
08-07-2013 20:25:44 | More by npala86
4.25/5 rDev +15.5%
08-28-2014 21:50:03 | More by sicilian
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
01-25-2014 05:39:03 | More by Ben7773
South Dakota
4/5 rDev +8.7%
05-07-2014 13:32:01 | More by SD-Alefan
3.75/5 rDev +1.9%
06-03-2013 01:12:11 | More by warnerry
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
01-29-2014 12:43:50 | More by tim6298
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
06-12-2013 23:40:48 | More by TimoP
4/5 rDev +8.7%
06-24-2013 02:23:23 | More by mverity
3/5 rDev -18.5%
01-07-2013 23:24:57 | More by iemailjack
New York
4.03/5 rDev +9.5%
12 ounce can. There is "canned on" dating on the bottom of the can, but its undecipherable/smudged to sh%t, oh well, they tried...
Pours super typical, wit beer, clouded and dull light tangerine,off white head, that stays a bit, but leaves minimal lace.
Potent nose of coriander, orange and cloves, nice.
Tasty, zesty, assertive and quite enjoyable Florida, USA take on the classic Belgian style. Cigar city knows what they are doing and its been showing in every can that I've been enjoying of this "Cracker" beer. On the palate the themes established by the sniff carry forward. More orange, more coriander and more cloves. Aggressive and peppery hopped up finish seals the deal.
Gotta love quality beer in a can...Well done Cigar city...
01-03-2014 18:31:48 | More by Billolick
4.25/5 rDev +15.5%
03-11-2013 18:18:03 | More by mctizzz
3.25/5 rDev -11.7%
08-11-2013 03:27:21 | More by JayEvans813
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
02-16-2014 22:57:14 | More by KolbMarley
4/5 rDev +8.7%
07-03-2014 00:04:59 | More by Andrew_Rios122
3/5 rDev -18.5%
08-31-2014 01:31:33 | More by Freehouse
New York
4/5 rDev +8.7%
03-24-2014 02:11:51 | More by JC333
3.91/5 rDev +6.3%
Poured from a can into a pint glass.
Appearance: Straw yellow with a thin white head. No lacing on the glass and a lot of carbonation.
Smell: Cloves, hints of banana, hops, wheat and some citrus.
Mouthfeel/Taste: Smooth medium to light bodied. Taste of grassy notes, cloves, and hops.
Overall: Great brew! Beginning to really like what Cigar City has to offer for beers!
04-24-2014 15:14:53 | More by Cavanaghty
3.95/5 rDev +7.3%
Serving glass: Poured from can into white wine glass.
Appearance: Pale cloudy yellow with rapidly rising and even more rapidly falling head. Looks too still for a Wit.
Smell: Orange peel, coriander, spices, wheat, and a touch of banana.
Taste: Nice wheat backbone with just the right amount of orange peel and coriander. The yeast is well integrated as well, with clove, banana and spicy notes. Cracked black and white pepper. The orange peel really lingers.
Feel: Very light with moderate carbonation. Finish is relatively dry. Nice feel, but overall the beer could be slightly more effervescent and crisp.
Overall: This is a very safe Witbier, as it simply falls the rulebook, but the execution is fantastic. Improve the appearance and finish, and this would be world class.
03-18-2013 18:25:45 | More by bsp77
4/5 rDev +8.7%
01-10-2014 23:44:43 | More by deebo
New York
3.5/5 rDev -4.9%
06-06-2014 04:12:48 | More by mjtiernan
Florida Cracker Belgian-style White Ale from Cigar City Brewing
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Summer 2013 is over, and so ends another season of loud, dumb, propulsive blockbusters and noisemakers. Lost within the rubble of explosions, posing, next-day blockbuster think pieces and box office discussions, there was also no shortage of options for audiences who didn't want to turn their brains off, who didn't want to feel like a kid again. Not that great films are measured in budgets or studio support, but this was an unusually dismal season for popcorn features, and the lines were drawn pretty clearly between the robots, aliens and superheroes of this season, and the lovers, comics and oddballs of the arthouse. For better or for worse, in ten years we'll be talking about Nicolas Winding Refn's divisive, maddening "Only God Forgives" more than "White House Down" or "2 Guns," even if that talk is mostly about how some of us hated it.
We're in the golden age of choice for film buffs, and a lot of the best stuff was available on VOD this summer, giving people outside of metropolitan cities a chance to check out alternatives to multiplex fare. As a result, not only were people seeing new and more interesting work, but they were also opening up the conversation. Any film fan not aware of some of the great films released during the warmer seasons has to be almost willfully oblivious, particularly with the embarrassment of riches we had during this season.
In fact, we had some difficulty limiting our top picks of the season to just ten, though we went by the industry's definition of summer (mid-May until the end of August). As a result, this top ten feels incomplete in a way, in that there are several movies and standout performances we're leaving out of it. But when you put together a list at the end of August that almost feels like it could be an end-of-year best list, then it's gotta be good news for film fans, right? For some of you, it may feel like we've been carping on about these films all summer, but if this leads to ten people to cancel their ticket purchase to one of this summer's utterly forgettable tentpoles and discover one of these efforts, our work here is done.
"In A World..."
Making a film about a woman in the voiceover industry seems like potentially niche material, to the point where seeing it's the writing and directing debut of prolific comedienne Lake Bell gives one pause. Bell stars as an up-and-coming voice therapist who sees a golden opportunity when the film industry attempts to resurrect trailer voiceovers for a gaudy "quadrilogy" blockbuster. The institutionalized sexism she fights doesn't just come from an oily competitor played by Ken Marino, but also by her own father, a legend in the profession who refuses to acknowledge a market demand for his daughter, or any other female, in the world of movie promotion. Bell's film tackles a number of issues regarding the representation of women in the film and marketing world (driven home by a biting late-film moment from a cameo-ing Geena Davis) but it never forgets that it's a comedy, and a wonderfully perceptive, exceptionally cast one. Bell's picture gives grace notes to an entire ensemble, including the smarmy father played by Fred Melamed and the distracted sister essayed by Michaela Watkins; her subplot with husband Rob Coddry fleshes out Bell's world and showcases her as a compassionate, powerful voice in independent cinema, one able to juggle charming workplace comedy, social commentary and humanist ensemble storytelling.
"Ain't Them Bodies Saints"
The wind blows often through David Lowery's fractured fairy tale romance, marking not just the passing of time, but the ways in which two heartbroken lovers drift apart and towards each other simultaneously. The wind feels just like another character in this picture, as does the grass, the soil, the mud and the rain. Lowery's film has been compared to the work of Terrence Malick, but Malick views nature as an ideal, an Elysium for all souls to strive for. In Lowery's picture, the nature seems to be more of a malevolent presence, controlling these characters, willing them to do their deeds. It's the sun peeking over the horizon that makes moony Rooney Mara fire into the shoulder of local cop Ben Foster, and it's the visiting moon that takes haunted lover Casey Affleck off to prison, leaving behind promises of a return. The idea he might return for his lover is disturbed by the tremor of her guardian, played by an imposing Keith Carradine as if he emerged from the ground to strike thunder into poor Affleck; a moment where he uses force against the outlaw almost makes the ground shake beneath you. By the time Foster begins making eyes at Mara, it's almost elemental: outside forces brought these characters together, and ultimately outside forces will pry them apart, and to see this film is to surrender yourself to the emotional tempest and hope for the best.
"Before Midnight"
The drama was overrated. Of course Celine and Jesse got together by the end of "Before Sunset." Now, it's more a matter of whether these two can navigate domesticity properly. Richard Linklater's film isn't an example of social realism, of course, instead opting for the liberal fantasy of the talkiest of the French New Wave, where beautiful intellectuals visited extravagant locales and spitballed ideas of politics and social radicalism with no one's eye on the clock. Placing Jesse and Celine in the Greek countryside has that lulling affect, giving the series a premature happy ending. But when the second-half of 'Midnight' surfaces, that's where Linklater's trilogy-ender becomes one of the most suspenseful films of the year. Did Jesse cheat? Is Celine miserable with Jesse's career? Is his pseudo-intellectual machismo going to forever clash with her wounded, adversarial feminism? Linklater fixes the camera in that extended final sequence to stretch out one of the year's most agonizing question marks, seeing both sides adapt, and then alter, can't-miss strategies in what feels like a war of the sexes where everyone has a chance to lose. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are both heartbreaking in this film, playing characters with years of history who clearly aren't learning of each other's shortcomings, instead understanding them as character flaws, ticking time bombs destined to erupt at an inopportune time. Linklater's film features both a bracing harshness in its depiction of a romantic paradise, but also an unexpected lyricism that possibly makes it the loveliest picture in the series thus far.
"Short Term 12"
Brie Larson takes her first full-fledged steps towards stardom in Destin Cretton's sophomore effort. Her turn as a youth officer in charge of a small group of troubled children captures not just the hard work and deep compassion of those who watch over unfortunate youth, but also the more mundane day-to-day activities that come with rehearsed room checks, handy pep talks and extensive safety procedures. "At-risk" isn't just a phrase limited to the kids, but to her domesticated home life with a co-worker, where the unspoken tension about going public with their love and possibly having a child could lead to their relationship collapsing. The film's class sensibilities are reflected subtly but powerfully, both in the idea that theirs is a relationship, and a career, barely teetering on financially manageable, while they cope with children in more dire straits who nonetheless emerge, broken, from more well-off circumstances. This is a compassionate film, but it still manages to feature sweet moments of levity, as both Larson and beau John Gallagher Jr. leaven their portrayals with good humor and an agreeable attitude that suggests great, joyful pride in what they do for a living. It's a beacon of bright light in a dark subject, making "Short Term 12" ultimately one of the season's more uplifting offerings.
"The Act of Killing"
There's not a single comfortable moment in one of the year's most compelling documentaries. This brief retracing of Indonesian legend finds a place where history has been written, and re-written, by the victors, in this case a mob of killers who wiped Communists off the face of the earth. "The Act of Killing," produced by both Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, has both the former's fascination with the sometimes appalling beauty of disquieting human behavior as well as the latter's emotionally explicit invasion into the intent hidden behind the words of people rationalizing their inhumanity. Here, the killers walk the street, saluted as heroes by descendants of people they brutally, publicly murdered. Their cheery anecdotes about yesterday usually involve ending the lives of a couple of innocents, delivered over a cold drink with like-minded friends, morality never once entering the conversation. The gamble then becomes allowing these men to star in a movie, one that depicts their crimes as mercy killings, with the heart of a nation at stake. There's nothing even remotely like "The Act of Killing" that seems familiar: you can't find these sorts of off-the-cuff conversations anywhere, nor can you see such candid moments as a man addressing and forgiving his father's killer, or a tacit admission that the lack of acknowledgement from international forces validates their actions. It's impossible not to be moved, repulsed and fascinated by this unique film, a darkly comic look into the abyss that stands alone as the summer's most unique achievement.
Highstakes92 | September 1, 2013 8:55 AM
Haven't seen a few of these but from where I'm sitting here's my top 10 of the summer (June 21st and after release in my area).
1.The Spectacular Now
2.The World's End
3.Blue Jasmine
4.A Hijacking
5.You're Next
6.The Bling Ring
7.The Butler
8.The To Do List
10.Prince Avalanche
oi | August 30, 2013 3:43 PM
You guys do know that Before Midnight takes place in Greece, right?
Mary | August 30, 2013 3:03 PM
Are you serious with Short Term 12? When she goes to the girls house with a baseball bat
I said this is a fucking Clint Eastwood movie with long lenses. I'm beginning to wonder about your finances. Do people pay you to put shit like Short Term 12 in your top tens?
Larry | August 30, 2013 3:00 PM
Fruitvale station?
bonzob | August 30, 2013 2:59 PM
Sorry in advance for being pedantic, but The Kings of Summer opened on May 31st. If that's not a Summer movie, neither are Iron Man 3, Great Gatsby, Start Trek Into Darkness, Hangover III, Fast and Furious 6, etc. I mean, Before Midnight's limited release was one week EARLIER than Kings's, on May 24th, and that film did make this list.
DG | August 30, 2013 2:55 PM
In A World felt like a massive let down. The tone and plot were not at all what was advertised in the trailers. Ain't Them Bodies Saints is the best movie on this list and there's at least three or four on here that should be swapped for Only God Forgives
saralaura2 | August 30, 2013 2:35 PM
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I had another ten minutes onstage before I could exit so I got to witness the entire cast corpsing around me. My guards took turns spinning upstage while Fantine begged for mercy.
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Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:
I was on as Javert while touring with Les Miserables and forgot half my lyrics during my entrance to "Fantine's Arrest."
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Were you a big ABBA fan prior to this gig?
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Leading man role you've been dying to play:
Sweeney Todd. Not a typical "leading man" but, um...a real lady killer?
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Private Lives, She Loves Me, The Music Man, Kiss Me Kate, On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd, Guys and Dolls
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My hair is comprised of sleeping squirrels.
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Being a father
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TOWN and district councillor Les Sibley has withdrawn his objection over Bicester's replacement hospital.
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Narrative is critical for Albertson, whose work has been exhibited internationally. A previous series, Unhinged, explored the parallels between personal and worldwide crises — pairing the domestic with the global, the unraveling of an individual life with the unraveling of an entire system.
In Storyteller, Albertson explores her mother's personal history, a tale that is rife with struggle and success. Johnnie was an orphan who climbed trees, read voraciously and dreamed of a better life. She married for love. She had a pioneering career in advertising. She was a loving mother to her son and adopted daughter. She also had her demons — alcohol, drugs and, when her marriage failed, poverty. But it would take more than hardship to squelch Johnnie's spirit. In time, she joined Alcoholics Anonymous. She rose through the ranks of the Small Business Administration, achieving the highest possible position in American civil service without a congressional appointment. She even jumped out of a cake — when she was in her late 70s — at a convention.
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In many ways, the sculptures are a celebration, but Albertson unflinchingly tackles the difficult times, as well. A tall, narrow house, side open to reveal a skeleton cradling a baby, represents the dissolution of Johnnie's marriage and the dark days that followed, days of alcoholism, suicide attempts and overdoses. A rocking horse of sorts — a hybrid of a rabbit, bird and fish, really — with "once upon a time" stenciled on the runners is Albertson's way of coming to terms with the grandmother Johnnie wanted to be and the grandmother
Johnnie was. And then there is the eagle-plane — a B-17 with talons instead of wheels, representing Johnnie's stint as a Women's Air Force Service Pilot — a story Albertson heard many times. Yet when she started researching for the installation, she couldn't find any record of her mother's service.
"You question whether you heard the story right," Albertson says. "What does it mean that it's unlikely to be true? I went through a period when I thought she had lied to me, but I started thinking about the context of her life, thinking about the psychology of the person, thinking as an adult rather than a child. As a woman who has faced difficulties, sometimes you come to believe the metaphor. Sometimes, the distinction between metaphor and verifiable fact becomes untethered."
After much soul searching, Albertson decided that the facts were less important than the overarching truth about her mother — she did soar.
Johnnie wasn't perfect. But she was amazing. And when she passed away, her absence left a void that was difficult to fill. Through her art, Albertson was able to build something beautiful around that void. Something that would make sense of it. Something that would contain it.
"For most people, their mothers are a pretty big presence, but my mother was a big presence for others as well," Albertson says. "Some of what I did was working out what it meant to be the child of someone so big, someone who accomplished what she did in her life. Most of us hope to achieve more or to build on what their parents did, but when you get someone who is so extraordinary as a parent, you have to rethink that."
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Life on Regal-Hill by Gail Hillriegel is a weekly column about the many aspects of life on a farm, including care of animals, working the land, and gardening. Recipes are shared for readers' cooking enjoyment.
Now that we have had several frosts here at Regal-Hill, it is time to clean up the flowers and garden. As soon as we got the first damaging frost, I pulled or dug up the Dahlias and Gladiolus bulbs. Then I cut off the tops and prepared them to dry before storing them.
Although George finally finished haying for the year here at Regal-Hill, there still seems to be plenty to do. Now that the pastures aren't growing as fast as they were, hay is taken to the pasture where the heifers are, nearly every day. We don't want to put them in the barn any sooner than we have to, hopefully not until the first of November.
It was a bit cool here at Regal-Hill this morning. Even though the sun was out it hadn't warmed up much yet. As I left the house for my morning walk I picked up the mail I had ready to take to the mailbox and as I reached the corner of the house I could hear a fire siren going off. I returned to the house to tell George, who was burning papers in the furnace to warm up the house.
It looks like the sun has finally decided to shine today in earnest here at Regal-Hill. The previous two days weren't very good for drying or anything else since it stayed so windy, cloudy and cool. This time of year the sun makes such a difference in how warm it feels.
Finally, George is going to try and mow some more hay. He gave up wanting to harvest another cutting in the meadow, so soon the heifers will get to enjoy it and mow it for themselves. Thunder, Allegra's horse, is already in the meadow where he has been fenced in. He seems to be enjoying it even though he can't chase the heifers now.
Life here at Regal-Hill has been rather boring lately. We finally got a good rain and wind, then it didn't want to dry off so more hay could be dried or other outside work could be done. We still have berries to pick, a garden to harvest and flowers to cut or stake. Every morning I am thankful there hasn't been any frost yet.
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A cat who was found tortured to death has left neighbors outraged.
The cat's body was found near the corner of Crums Lanes and Cane Run Road in the parking lot of Roses Department store on Friday.
The animal suffered broken hind legs and severe head wounds and was so badly mutilated its gender could not be determined.
Louisville Metro animal services is working to track down whomever is responsible.
LMAS Director Justin Scally explained, "We do periodically get these types of cases where there's intentional abuse and its not going to be accepted and we're going to investigate this as thoroughly as possible."
If you have any information on who may have committed this crime, you are asked to call LMAS at (502) 363-66-09.
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How to call to this devices? Where can I find out their number?
I need to test one program, which activate on incoming call ...
How to call to this devices? Where can I find out their number?
I need to test one program, which activate on incoming call ...
I noticed that the E6-00 devices all still run the 21.x firmware. Would it be possible to upgrade some of them to 22.x (released about 2-3 weeks ago), as this is probably the most advanced Symbian Anna build that is available anywhere. So it would be good to be able to test on that in preparation for the Anna upgrade to the N8, C7 and E7 models.
Not sure, but the same probably applies to the X7-00.
ciao marcus
Hello All,
Sorry for out of topic question, currently me n my friend have a problem while accessing RDA service which is not showing list of phones at all, like my friend stated here: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Commu...ows-no-handset
Anybody know the issue?
I am becoming increasingly frustrated with attempting to access the RDA. I have, historically, been unable to access this in Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Yesterday I worked on a Mac, and on a lark I decided to try accessing http://apu.ndhub.net/ via Safari. Low and behold, it worked beautifully! I was thrilled!
Fast forward to this morning, not less than five minutes ago. Now I try to log on through Safari, and I get the same "The page is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." issue I get with every other web browser I've used in the past.
What the heck is going on?
hmm. anyone else have similar issues as HourglassThorne? I haven't observed that much of anything out of ordinary during the past days on the server side.
Is it possible for me to factory reset a device? Also, I reserved an E6 device today and when I connected, found someone's emails and settings on the phones, are these phones not hard reset after each session? I want to test device management, but without a hard reset between each test, I can't really use this. Thanks
Bloodredsky is the expert, so wait for his answer. However as a preliminary opinion I would say it is probably not possible. RDA devices are normal retail devices, having a remote control software installed on them. It would disappear after a hard reset, making the device unreachable.
if you let me know the device IMEI, I will factory reset for you. though email accounts are usually fairly easy to delete from the device (start Email-app and choose Options->Delete mailbox-> mark mailboxes to delete and click ok, unless I remember wrong).
I think a bunch of devices should be kept with the firmware that Store QA uses for acceptance testing. My specific issue is the N9 -- QA reports a problem with PR1.0, but these devices are rather hard to find. Private devices are, of course, quickly updated to the latest firmware, and for some reason all the RDA devices have PR1.1 already, too.
The point is valid though, and we will look for a solution to make PR 1.0 devices available in RDA.
-- Lucian
If you are not yet a DVLUP member it is time to correct that mistake :) Click here to join: http://www.dvlup.com/lucian/Invite
I would like to know if wether Chinese varient is available in RDA? If present, how can i identify them? Thanks..


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MT. VERNON — More than 60 dozen hot dogs, 41 dozen of hamburgers and 30 dozen of cookies were consumed last year during the annual National Night Out, sponsored by the Mt. Vernon Police Department.
This year's event has been scheduled from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at Veterans Memorial Park.
City police officers and community members have an opportunity to socialize in a family-friendly environment, while eating, playing games and interacting, according to DARE officer and National Night Out Coordinator Ray Gilbert.
"It's the same event that we do each year for the community," Gilbert said. "Each year it seems to be bigger and bigger no matter what the weather is like."
National Night Out began in the mid 1980's to promote involvement is crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, neighborhood camaraderie and send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. The first year, 2.5 million Americans took part across 400 communities in 23 states. Now, the event includes over 37 million people and 15,000 communities from all 50 states, according to the organization's web site.
"We want the community to meet us … to meet us outside of our everyday work routine. Most all of our officers will be working at the various activities that are set up, and this is a good opportunity for the community to see us in a more social environment," Gilbert said.
In addition to the free food, K-9 demonstrations will be given, blood pressure checks will be given and children can be fingerprinted at no charge.
"Last year, I fingerprinted around 150 children," Gilbert said, adding, "The kit not only offers fingerprinting, but it collects valuable information such as DNA and allows us to create an identification card."
Other activities include the Dunk-A-Cop, trackless train, kid combo Buccaneer, hockey snapshot, soccer challenge, giant dual slide, tropical toddler town, baseball fast pitch, inflate-a-hoops and clown/face painters.
Jefferson County Crime Stoppers will offer free snow cones.
"We get very positive feedback after this event. We encourage people to look at our Facebook page for the activities we have planned. It's a good time for everyone, and the officers look forward to meeting new friends," Gilbert said.


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The delusional and paranoid, super-Republican Tea Party right has predictably charged that their great, supposedly socialist nemesis Barack Obama – the corporate-friendly savior of Wall Street – has supported and even sparked the historic progressive public worker rebellion that has emerged in Madison, Wisconsin and rolled across other Midwestern states. The "charge" (I use quote marks because most Americans would have no problem with the president having backed and encouraged the great state-level labor uprising) is completely false. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Weisman observed in the second week of the remarkable Wisconsin protests, in an article titled "Obama Sits Out State Fights," Obama stepped back from the state-level battles after initially seeming to support labor in Wisconsin. Top Democratic officials told Weisman that this was because Obama "is eager to occupy the political center…to forge a bipartisan deal on the nation's long-term finances that could strengthen his position heading into the 2012 election." 1
"Sitting out" may not do full justice to the depth of Obama's conservatism in relation to the ongoing public worker struggle. Yesterday (I am writing on Friday, March 4, 2011), national New York Times correspondent Jackie Calmes learned that the White House actually intervened in anger against the national Democratic Party's initial efforts to support the Wisconsin labor protests, which administration officials saw as contrary to their happy and neoliberal message:
"…the White House mostly has sought to stay out of the fray in Madison, Wis., and other state capitals where Republican governors are battling public employee unions and Democratic lawmakers over collective bargaining rights. When West Wing officials discovered that the Democratic National Committee had mobilized Mr. Obama's national network to support the protests, they angrily reined in the staff at the party headquarters…Administration officials said they saw the events beyond Washington as distractions from the optimistic 'win the future' message that Mr. Obama introduced in his State of the Union address, in which he exhorted the country to increase spending for some programs even as it cuts others so that America can 'out-innovate and out-educate' its global rivals."2
So the purportedly left Obama has responded to the remarkable rank-and-file labor rebellion in the American heartland in much the same way as he responded to the right-wing coup in Honduras in June of 2009 and to the rise of the Egyptian revolution in January and February 2011: with initial statements of seeming support for popular-democratic forces followed by conservative equivocation and caution meant to identify himself with democratic change without severing his accommodation to dominant hierarchies and elites. 3
Nobody should be surprised. The "deeply conservative"4 Obama's failure to align himself strongly with the public workers and their fight within and beyond Madison is consistent with his centrist campaign pledge to be a "post-partisan leader" ready to take on his own party's union base. It matches: his support (over the opposition of teachers' unions) of charter schools and "performance-based" teacher pay; his recent advance of corporate neoliberal free trade deals opposed by labor; his recent public strengthening of ties with business leaders; his refusal to move in any meaningful way on campaign promises to reform the nation's management-friendly labor laws, and his federal workers salary freeze (a move that angered public sector union members).5 Before the progressive labor rebellion broke out, Obama had already gone far down the path of joining business and the right in advancing the narrative that American prosperity was being undone by overpaid public workers and excessive government regulation, not by the real culprits on Wall Street, who recklessly crashed the global economy in 2008.6
The real energy in the Wisconsin public worker rebellion and its state-level offshoots came from the bottom up. It arose from the grassroots, not from the top down. As Wisconsin State Democratic Senate Leader Mark Miller rightly noted when the Wall Street Journal queried him on Obama's role: "Really the people of our state, and the people of our country, have been able to find their voice in this battle. The voices of the people are the voices the governor needs to listen to."7
Consistent with Miller's sentiments, a USA Today-Gallup poll conducted at the height of the union rights battle in Madison found that "Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions." The poll found that 61 percent of Americans would oppose a law in their state similar to the law proposed by Walker in Wisconsin, compared with just a 33 percent who would favor such legislation.8
Unlike the Obama-obsessed Tea Partiers, the union and pro-labor crowds in and around the Capitol Rotunda seem uninterested in the question of who sat atop the national media-politics extravaganza. They have been focused, laser-like on the real and relevant policy issues at hand and above all on basic labor, human, and civil rights and social justice within and beyond the workplace. With tens of thousands of them circling the Capitol and thousands occupying the structure itself, they seem to have been channeling the wisdom of the late great radical American historian Howard Zinn in 2009:
"There's hardly anything more important that people can learn than the fact that the really critical thing isn't who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in—in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating—those are the things that determine what happens. It is becoming clearer and clearer to many, after the first year of Obama's presidency, that it is going to require independent action from below to achieve real change."9
It's nice to see North American progressives and activists show some new awareness of something their South American counterparts have long understood: it isn't about politicians and elected officials at the end of the day; it's about the people joining together in solidaristic social movements to discipline and educate the politicians and policymakers from the bottom up.10 The people have found their own voice and understand that it's not about Obama or who's sitting in the White House.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org)is the author of many articles, chapters, speeches, and books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007; Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010); and (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio), Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, May 2011). Street can be reached at [email protected]
1. Jonathan Weisman, "Obama Sits Out State Fights," Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2011, A4.
2. Jackie Calmes, "Less Drama in White House After Staff Changes," New York Times, March 3, 2011 at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
3. For details and sources, see Paul Street. "Cold-Blooded Calibration: Reflections on Egypt, Honduras, and the Art of Imperial Re-branding," ZNet (February 11, 2011) athttp://www.zcommunications.
4. Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?" The New Yorker (May 7, 2007); Paul Street, "Statehouse Days: the Myth of Obama's 'True Progressive' Past," ZNet (July 20, 2008), read atwww.zcomm.org/
5. Weisman, "Obama Sits Out."
6. Robert Reich, "Obama's Republican Narrative of Our Economic Woes," The Berkeley Blog, December 2, 2010 at http://blogs.berkeley.edu/
7. Miller quoted in Weisman, "Obama Sits Out."
8 Dennis Cauchon, "Poll: Americans Favor Union Bargaining Rights," USA Today, February 22, 2011 at http://www.usatoday.com/news/
9 The Legacy of Howard Zinn," Socialist Worker, November 2, 2010, http://socialistworker.org/
10 For example, mid-February of 2011 brought a nationwide general strike during a popular rebellion against food price hikes in Bolivia. All of Bolivia's major cities—La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Oruro—were paralyzed three Fridays ago, as "workers marched in city centers and blockaded roads and highways to demand that the government increase wages and take measures to combat rising prices and food shortages…." As the World Socialist Web Site reported, "Long lines of workers marched through Cochabamba in a steady downpour, while thousands of factory workers, teachers, health care workers, other public employees and students took over the center of the capital of La Paz, punctuating their chanting of demands with explosions of dynamite." So what if Bolivia's president Evo Morales is left-leaning and indigenous? The nation's popular forces expect him to respect the power of their social movements and their determination to resist the drastically increased cost of food and fuel imposed by capitalist elites. See Bill Van Auken, "Bolivia's Morales Faces General Strike Over Food Prices," World Socialist Web Site (February 22, 2011) athttp://www.wsws.org/


text: Industrial, Global Nursery Pictures Wren's Globe-Trotting, Industrial Nursery by Katharine Stahl 10/25/12 15 Reactions 774 Shares Print 728 42 4 0 0 Baby Wren's parents spent a majority of their preparenting days exploring the world, so when it came time to settle down and create a permanent space for their new arrival, they wanted the room to reflect their wanderlust. "My husband and I love traveling, maps, and National Geographic," says Wren's mom, photographer Heather Cook Elliott. "We thought it would be great to design a room for our new little traveler using the magazine as the inspiration." Heather also had to consider the unusual layout of her home: "an old warehouse with cream city brick and half-height walls." "Our baby's room is also part of the living space in a way that most nurseries aren't, so we wanted the room to be adult and modern," she says. The result is a space that highlights the couple's traveling spirit with photos Heather took while on a safari in Tanzania, an awesome and affordable globe mobile, and lots of National Geographic yellow, along with modern elements (check out the white leather rocker!) that come together to create one gorgeous, global nursery. Source: Heather Cook Elliott Wren's Birth Announcement What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wren's birth announcement from Cracked Designs reflects the global mindset of her parents, also shown in her nursery. Source: Heather Cook Elliott 1 / 14 Pops of Yellow What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "I saw a big yellow dresser in the same iconic yellow of a National Geographic on a blog called Honey & Fitz, and I fell in love with that mom's design for her son's safari room," Heather says. To get a similar look, she found a secondhand dresser, then hired a pro to give it a smooth finish and added Anthropologie pulls. A yellow pouf from Etsy's One Half Dozen adds another pop of yellow to the room. Source: Heather Cook Elliott 2 / 14 Rock to Sleep What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 A bright blue retro Vespa scooter rocker sits at the end of Wren's crib, a Jenny Lind style from Babies "R" Us. Source: Heather Cook Elliott 3 / 14 Safari Scene What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Before Wren was born, we went on safari to Tanzania, and I used my photographic landscapes and animal photos from that trip to create a huge wall display behind her crib," Heather says. "We framed the prints ourselves using PictureFrames.com to create custom mats for retail-purchased frames." Source: Heather Cook Elliott 4 / 14 Chic Chair What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "I had a secondhand granny rocker recovered using white leather by Designtex. Gliders in leather can be thousands of dollars, but my version was totally custom and half as much," Heather says. "The key was to find an old chair with interesting detail. 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Funding opportunities
Developing Placental Neural Crest Stem Cells for In Utero Spina Bifida Repair
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Funding Recommendations:
Not recommended
Grant approved:
Public Abstract:
Spina bifida is a devastating and costly birth defect that causes lifelong paralysis and is one of the most common birth defects worldwide. Spina bifida affects physical, educational, social, and psychological development, and most children require many operations throughout life. A recent randomized controlled trial showed for the first time that spina bifida can be improved by surgically repairing the defect before birth. However, improvements in the distal neurological consequences (such as paralysis and bladder incontinence) were less strong. This project aims to address these problems by developing a stem cell product from the fetus's own tissue and applying these cells during surgery before birth in order to take advantage of the unique immunology of the developing fetus. In this project we will complete the development of this stem cell product and establish its preliminary safety and efficacy in appropriate animal models. Successful use of stem cell therapy for spina bifida could potentially cure this devastating disease and would introduce the concept of using a fetus's own tissue to treat existing or later disease.
Statement of Benefit to California:
Spina bifida is one of the most disabling and costly birth defects compatible with life. California's 5-year statewide rate for spina bifida was 6.8 per 10,000 live births between 1999 and 2003—significantly higher than the Healthy People 2010 target of 3 per 10,000 births. Average total lifetime cost to California is approximately $532,000 per child. For many children, the cost may be several millions of dollars, and these figures do not account for indirect medical costs, pain and suffering, and lost time of unpaid caregivers. There is no cure for spina bifida, and interventions that mitigate the negative consequences of the disease (lower body paralysis, bowel and bladder incontinence) are urgently needed. Hope was recently provided by a clinical trial which demonstrated, for the very first time, that the paralysis associated with spina bifida might be improved by repairing the defect before birth. The great promise of fetal therapy for spina bifida is that by intervening as early as possible—in the womb—the potential exists to correct the problem in time to prevent permanent damage. This proposal presents an innovative stem cell-based prenatal therapy that may further improve and possibly cure the neurologic deficits of spina bifida. A cure for spina bifida would relieve families and society of the tremendous cost burden of the disease and would be life-changing for future children afflicted with spina bifida.
Review Summary:
This development candidate (DC) proposal will test autologous placental-derived stem cells (p-SC) in a delivery vehicle, as a candidate therapy for the prenatal treatment of spina bifida. The principal investigator (PI) plans to refine methods to characterize p-SC and use these assays to profile the cells through isolation, expansion and formulation. Next, he/she plans to identify a surgical delivery vehicle and develop a reproducible, scalable process to produce therapeutically relevant quantities of p-SC in a clinically relevant time frame. When this has been accomplished, the PI proposes to demonstrate disease-modifying activity in relevant preclinical models of spina bifida as well as perform preliminary safety testing. Objective and Milestones - Reviewers found the milestones poorly focused and often lacking in quantitative success criteria. Further, they noted that plans to achieve the milestones were poorly described in the application. - The TPP is scientifically and clinically reasonable Rationale and Significance - The proposed DC, if successfully developed, could have a major impact upon patients. Spina bifida is a major disabling condition for which even prenatal surgery has had only limited success. - The proposal builds upon pioneering clinical work performed by the PI. Research Project Feasibility and Design - The panel agreed that the plan lacked so many critical details as to be fatally flawed. For example, the cell biology as presented in the application was weak; the method of cell isolation, relevant starting cell numbers, cell expansion characteristics and differentiation procedure, if applicable, are all lacking from the application. This hindered the ability to assess feasibility of the proposed program. - Reviewers questioned the rationale for using term placenta as a source for many studies, as it may differ substantially from the therapeutically relevant pre-term placenta, the source for the actual DC. Further, the donor origin of placental material should be determined. -The applicants have not provided any data to substantiate that the small pre-term placental sample obtained at the developmentally appropriate stage for clinical use could provide adequate cells in the targeted time window for transplantation. - Several concerns regarding the relevant preclinical model were raised. This proposed preclinical model is immunologically competent to reject the transplanted human cells at the specified developmental stage and the applicant did not properly address this concern. In addition, given the variability of recovery following repair, the proposed animal numbers might be inadequate to detect subtle functional improvements and demonstrate in vivo disease modifying activity. Further, it is not clear that the proper controls have been selected. - While the immunostaining in the preliminary data are encouraging, reviewers did not find them convincing evidence that the desired cell population could be derived from placenta. They noted a lack of data demonstrating generation of functional neurons, glia and Schwann cells from this cell source. - The timeline to achieve many of the milestones is unrealistic. Qualification of the PI (Co-PI and Partner PI, if applicable) and Research Team - The PI is an accomplished surgeon with laudable expertise in spinal bifida repair and relevant preclinical models, but does not possess a track record in cell therapy. - The application would benefit from more experienced cell therapy and cell biology leadership. The co-investigator providing cell therapy expertise as yet has no independent track record, and input from an accomplished former mentor will be limited to a consultant role. - A formal communication plan was not evident from the application and should be developed to ensure integration of the diverse expertise of the team members. Collaborations, Assets, Resources and Environment - Collaborators are excellent investigators, but the cell biology expertise is not evident in the application. Some, but not all of the proposed collaborations are already established. - Reviewers were not clear regarding some of the consultants' roles and questioned whether some of these individuals would be able to commit the necessary time to the project. - The host institution is strongly committed to translational research. Responsiveness to the RFA - The proposal is responsive to the RFA.