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(KUTV) Recommended films showing in Salt Lake City for the week of April 19 – 25, 2013
1. Jurassic Park IMAX 3D (PG-13)
2. Oblivion (PG-13)
3. The Sapphires (PG-13)
5. Evil Dead (R)
1. The Croods (PG)
2. Oz the Great and Powerful (PG)
3. Life of Pi (PG)
4. Beautiful Creatures (PG-13)
5. Wreck-It Ralph (PG)
Art House
1. Upstream Color (NR)
2. No (R)
3. Room 237 (NR)
4. The Sapphires (PG-13)
5. Trance (R)
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3.5 out of 5 Stars
Director - Joseph Kosinski
Starring - Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko
Rated - PG-13
Recommended to - Those looking for a visually stunning sci-fi experience that barely makes it through its minefield of plot holes and similarities to superior films.
Synopsis - A war with an alien race known as the Scavs has left Earth uninhabitable. Jack (Tom Cruise) and his wife Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) have been left behind to monitor and repair the various drone that now scout the wastelands of Earth and protect the giant machinery that provides power for the surviving human race who have fled to Saturn's moon Titian. With their tour of duty nearly complete Victoria looks forward to returning to society. Jack, who feels emotionally connected with Earth, begins to question everything he knows about his mission and the future of mankind.
Review - I love sci-fi films and as a result I've seen more than my share of them. My overall impression of "Oblivion" is that it relies heavily on the visual style and many of the traditional narrative tropes of the genre. There's nothing in this film that I haven't seen before. That doesn't make "Oblivion" a bad film; it just lacks a real sense of originality. I suspect that those that love science fiction will find much to like in the film, particularly if they aren't bothered by all the visual and thematic nods to other movies. I, however, felt that the story wasn't quite strong enough to overcome its familiarity. Director Joseph Kosinski ("Tron Legacy") is extremely talented when it comes to giving his films a wonderful visual aesthetic. He does seem to have a hard time bringing out the warmth of humanity from his actors. The sterile coldness works for some characters, but undermines others.
"Oblivion" is a respectable film that leaves me wondering if science fiction needs to find a way to completely reinvent itself. I don't want to believe that there isn't any new themes, both visual and narrative, left to be discovered.
The Sapphires
3.5 out of 5 Stars
Director - Wayne Blair
Starring - Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy
Rated - PG-13
Recommended to - Those that like a little politics, history and song in their feel good films.
Synopsis - In 1968 four young Australian Aboriginal girls want desperately to break through the racism and segregation to become a girl group. Discovered by Davie Lovelace (Chris O'Dowd), a down-on-his-luck musician with a few connections, the girls are given their chance at stardom when they get the opportunity to tour Vietnam and entertain the US troops.
Review - "The Sapphires" is a pleasant film that manages to address racism and societies willingness to pigeonhole large groups of people based entirely on false stereotypes. It's very similar to the recently released Jackie Robinson film "42," only instead of baseball the boundaries being crossed involve music. It is based on a true story. Unfortunately because I didn't grow up in Australia I don't know the extent of the impact that these four girls had on society. In the context of the film it doesn't really matter. What matters is that "The Sapphires" is a nice piece of nostalgia that manages to point out the good and the bad of life in the late sixties without ever feeling unbalanced or preachy.
Upstream Color
4 out of 5 Stars
Director - Shane Carruth
Starring - Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig and Thiago Martins
Rated - Not Rated
Recommended to - Fans of experimental cinema in the vein of The Tree of Life
Synopsis - Kris is the latest victim of a thief who uses a powerful drug to temporarily reprogram his targets to willingly give him access to their finances. The drug has a lasting side effect that connects those that have taken it in an almost unperceivable way.
Review - Share Carruth impressed audiences with his debut film, 2004s Primer, and returns 9 years later with an equally beguiling follow up. Upstream Color is a hauntingly cerebral sci-fi romance about love as two characters are drawn together by a force they do not understand. It is rife with gorgeous cinematography reminiscent of Emmanuel Lubezkis work for Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life. Where Malicks film took audiences into space in search of mankinds origin, Carruths film goes beneath the skin to follow the hypnotic drug (which is somehow carried by a caterpillar) through the victim's bloodstream.
"Upstream Color" is the sort of film that implies more than it explains. It is a puzzle that forces audiences to be engaged and be active participants, rather than passive ones. If you're willing to embark on the journey and see it through to its end you will be rewarded. If you're looking to tune out you'd be better off watching something less ambitious.
3.5 out of 5 Stars
Director - Ken Scott
Starring - Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antonie Bertrand
Rated - R
Recommended to - Those looking for a surprisingly funny and uplifting film.
Synopsis - In his early twenties David "Starbuck" Wozniak frequented a fertility clinic trading sperm for cash. Two decades later he learns that he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit in hopes of learning the identity of their father.
Review - I expected very little from this French-Canadian film. The premise suggested that "Starbuck" would be filled with vulgarity; it wasn't. "Starbuck" is actually a very funny and heartwarming film about a man without purpose who discovers his place in the world. Initially he's not a very sympathetic character, but as the story progresses I began to understand him and by film's end my opinion of him had entirely changed.
Ginger & Rosa
3 out of 5 Stars
Director - Sally Potter
Starring - Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Oliver Platt
Rated - PG-13
Recommended to - Those looking for a great performance from Elle Fanning in a so-so film.
Synopsis - Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are best friends living in London in the 1960s. The Cuban Missile Crisis lingers in the background as Ginger and Rosa dive headfirst into the wild abandon of their teens only to find themselves drifting apart.
Review - "Ginger & Rosa" is a difficult coming-of-age story. The cast is quite good with Elle Fanning being excellent, but the script feels a bit empty. The rebellion feels forced and writer/director Sally Potter doesn't capitalize on the atmosphere of the era where it is set. It simply pales to films like "An Education" or this year's Sundance Film Festival sleeper "It Felt Like Love." See it for Fanning, but be prepared to feel under whelmed.
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FamilySearch Centers has released the latest update on July 6th, and one of the projects they have been working on is the Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1935.
Index and images to the records of several Toronto cemeteries (York General Burying Ground (also called Potter's Field), 1826-1855; Necropolis Cemetery, 1850-1912 (the index will continue to 1935); Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 1876-1933; Prospect Cemetery, 1890-1935) have nearly doubled from 7,234 to 14,864.
They say that "Currently this collection is 22% complete and includes records from Necropolis Cemetery. Additional records will be added as they are completed. This is a cooperative project with the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society."
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Universal Studios Japan, Universal's newest theme park, opened last March on a 140-acre waterfront site along Osaka Bay in the Konohona ward of the city of Osaka. Visitors here will discover the usual movie-based attractions, such as Jaws, E.T. Adventure, Jurassic Park, WaterWorld, Terminator 2: 3D, Back to the Future, The Lagoon Show, and Backdraft, all from Universal's Orlando and Hollywood parks. These can be found sitting side by side with new attractions created expressly for the Japanese market, including Universal Studios Motion Picture Magic and Snoopy's Sound Stage Adventure.
Universal Studios Motion Picture Magic, a 10-minute look at film scenes from Universal's archives, is hosted by Steven Spielberg (in a special film segment shot exclusively for this attraction), and housed in a 380-seat theatre that recalls the movie palaces of the 1930s. "The challenge with this attraction," says Donald P. MacLean, who served as technical manager for the media attractions group during the construction of the park, "was moving from a 70mm format to a digital-based projection system."
To do so, the attraction uses QuBit, a digital recording, storage, and playback system made by QuVIS in Topeka, KS. This digital system provides a high-quality image, and avoids such problems as scratches, dust, or fingerprints that would accumulate on film over time. "The QuBit playback is of HD quality," says MacLean, who adds that the images here are projected at 1,920 × 1,024 pixels per frame. The QuBit images can be blown up to large sizes without loss of resolution or pixelation. In this case, the images are projected on three screens, made by Stewart Film Screens in Burbank, which measure a total of 90' across.
The theatre itself has an unusual interior design, created by Richard Bluhm, art director for the attraction. When guests first enter, the theatre is lit only with dimmable fluorescents by the Japanese company Matsushita (all of the dimmers are also by Matsushita Electric). The lighting for the attraction was designed by New York-based Matthew Levesque.
Control is by the Anitech Systems Media Pro 4000 Lighting Control Module; there are no moving lights in this attraction. (USJ attractions with moving lights, such as Snoopy's Soundstage, with its Rosco gobo rotators and High End Systems Cyberlights®, are controlled by Rosco/ET Horizon systems.)
Additional lighting in the Motion Picture Magic Theatre includes 24 ETC Source Fours (hung on the balcony rail) with Gamproducts breakup patterns as house lighting and curtain warmers.
"At first you see the theatre as it would have been in the 1960s," explains MacLean. "It is like an old movie palace that is run down and has been painted beige." Once the film starts, things get more interesting and there is a UV changeover in the lighting, which takes the interiors back to their faux 1930s origins and the audience is carried back in time as the film starts to roll." All of the walls and set pieces are painted with UV paint and lit with 36 new Wildfire 600W UV spots and dimmable UV fluorescents from Japan.
"The walls reveal a multicolored Art Deco pattern in blues, reds, greens, and yellows," explains MacLean. In fact, the pattern was created offsite, with the white-light version painted first and the UV painted over it. It was then hung as wallpaper in the theatre, which also has a surround-sound system by Matsushita.
The film for the attraction was created by BRC Imagination Arts in Burbank, CA, in association with Universal. "They did a lot of preplanning and offline work with the films," explains MacLean, noting that one of the challenges was designing the film to span the three screens, which have 12" spaces between them. To avoid projecting into these voids, 12" mullions were superimposed on the film. "You are always looking at three images, either one image repeated or a large image on the entire width, such as a rocket blast in Apollo 13," he adds.
At the end of the digital film presentation, Steven Spielberg invites the audience to join him in the movies as the center screen flies up and reveals a film set. The audience walks "through" the screen into a post-show area that includes trailers for upcoming Universal films, prop displays, movie posters, and a gift shop.
BRC Imagination Arts also worked on the Woody Woodpecker's Animation Celebration attraction at USJ, incorporating Electrosonic's patented Holovision® process, which allows Woody Woodpecker to escape from his animated cartoon world and enter the real world, wreaking havoc live onstage in an animation studio.
Stage 22, a themed soundstage also found at Universal Orlando, has a new look in the Osaka park. Here guests get a behind-the-scenes look at the sets and props of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a film that was very popular in Japan. California-based LD Tom Ruzika, who did much of the lighting design in the park, lit Stage 22 with a combination of 150 ETC Source Fours and Source Four PARs, controlled by an ETC Lighting Playback Controller.
The audio track for Stage 22 is run on a Roland AS hard-disk playback unit, with digital video playback via five Alcorn McBride DVM2 machines, which play a three-minute preshow video with interviews, and are also used for video stations in the attraction itself, with excerpts of films showing the scenes with the sets in which the guests are standing.
Ruzika, principal designer for the Ruzika Company, started working on USJ in the fall of 1996. "It was a five-year project for The Ruzika Company," he says. "Our basic scope was to serve as a team of designers with Universal's in-house staff of designers, which was headed by Dietrich Juengling as principal designer, with Lonnie Alacarz and Matt Levesque as associate designers. Joining Ruzika from his office were John Sofranko, Michael Finney, Shawn Whitaker, Stephen Boulmetis, and John Martin, with Mark Matzkanin joining the team for the opening-day ceremonies.
"Our initial scope included providing site surveys of all existing attractions and facilities at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida.
"We documented existing lighting conditions for everything that was going to be recreated for Japan," Ruzika explains. "We then provided a master plan for all lighting at USJ, including documentation standards, equipment standards, potential schedule timelines, and coordination with the Japanese contractors and equipment suppliers."
After establishing the basic standards for the park lighting, Ruzika prepared initial "basis of design" statements for all attractions, shows, and parkwide lighting. The Ruzika Company also helped to develop facility infrastructure, such as power requirements, lighting catwalk positions, control room rack requirements, and potential heat loads, among other issues.
"Somewhere during this period of work, Universal brought on its team of lighting designers and then we 'merged' both teams into one team to cover the entire park," says Ruzika, whose design team was eventually responsible for designing and supervising the lighting for 21 restaurants, 23 retail stores, five guest-service facilities, and six attractions (Jaws, Back to the Future, Backdraft, ET, TV Production Tour, and Stage 22).
"We jokingly call the attractions 'bus and truck' versions of Universal Studios," says Ruzika, referring to the attractions that were previously produced either in Orlando or Hollywood. "We produced over 500 pages of drawings for schematic design, design development, and eventually final design," Ruzika continues.
All of these drawings were then re-drawn by the Japanese contractor teams into sekozu drawings, which were reviewed, redlined, and revised onsite as the attractions took shape. In recreating the older attractions, the art directors were able to fine-tune them so that Ruzika could jazz up the lighting designs as well.
"ET is still ET," he explains, "but we were able to increase the amount of lights, adding Rosco gobo rotators, and four High End Systems Cyberlights for color and rotating 'laser-cone' effects." Other changes include six Optikinetics Ltd. Gobo Pro projectors used for moving light projections and swirling light effects in the redesigned preshow area for Back to the Future.
In Jaws, an extensive lighting plot was added for the killer shark sequence in the boathouse. "In Florida, there are a few PARs and ellipsoidals," explains Ruzika. "In Japan, we now have over 100 instruments and an extensive cueing system that helps the eye focus on what's going on." For the overall exterior site lighting, a system of Japanese high-intensive metal halide spots with color filters now adds a moonlight effect to the nightscape of Amity Island.
The Hollywood Magic Lagoon show now has a massive lighting system controlled by two Flying Pig Wholehogs®. The more than 1,500 theatrical fixtures at USJ include many ETC Source Fours modified for Japanese requirements, and a number of Altman StarPars. "It was like taking an out-of-town tryout, and then having the resources to make the lighting the very best possible for the Broadway opening," says Ruzika, who had the chance to relight attractions that were originally created for Universal Studios in Hollywood and Orlando.
"For the numerous retail, restaurant, and guest-service facilities, we worked very closely with Universal's interior designers and art directors to create exciting new spaces that were illuminated to the Japanese standards of high lighting levels, but still with artistic flair and creativity," says Ruzika. "We used as many Japanese-manufactured fixtures as possible while using many international fixtures for decorative fixtures and custom fixtures. All lamps were Japanese." There were literally tens of thousands of architectural lighting fixtures on the project.
"The best thing about the lighting at Universal Studios Japan is the attention to detail," notes Ruzika. "Equipment was chosen and designs executed in a manner that would allow for good maintenance, and hopefully, to preserve the original lighting design intent."Photos: © Kevin Kolczynski Universal Studios Japan Lighting Equipment List (partial) CONVENTIONAL LIGHTS
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(170) ETC 10° Source Fours
(472) ETC 19° Source Fours
(548) ETC 26° Source Fours
(295) ETC 36°Source Fours
(303) ETC 50° Source Fours
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5 Minutes: Putting a Memory Monitor in NetBeans IDE
MemoryMonitor demo = new MemoryMonitor();
add(demo, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
Thread thr = new Thread(new Memeater());
Plus, note that those lines actually come from the main method in the MemoryMonitor class. Since we don't need the main method anymore, we can plunder its content for whatever is relevant to us and then stick it in the TopComponent's constructor, as shown above. (You can then delete the main method, while leaving the rest of the MemoryMonitor class exactly as you found it.)
Then install the module! Before you do that, ponder this: "How much work have I actually done?" (Don't ponder too long, because the answer is that you've just done approximately 5 minutes of work and if you think about it too long you'll have spent more time thinking than working and, guess what, you could be porting another application instead.) Then... here's your new memory monitor in the IDE:
And you can detach it, of course, because of the undocking functionality of NetBeans IDE 6:
The monitor continually updates itself. How does it do that? No idea. I don't need to know that level of detail at all, unless I want to. That level of knowledge was completely irrelevant when porting the application to NetBeans IDE. I can be "clueless" about everything except for the tiny part of the module which concerns the integration with the NetBeans Platform. And all of that part was driven by a wizard. Now, let's see what other cool applications reside in the JDK's demo and sample folders...
Rick Ross replied on Fri, 2008/02/01 - 6:42pm
5 minutes? Wow! This is awesome productivity! I think one of the biggest obstacles a lot of developers (myself included) have to overcome is the tendency to think we should build things from scratch. Learning to see what you can use or re-use in other people's code is a big step towards being more productive.
Nice piece, Geertjan, as usual. Well done!
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ODU Electrical Engineering Professor to Chair IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science
Five hundred of the world's leading researchers in advanced applications of plasma will gather in Norfolk this week for the 37th annual IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS).
The June 20-24 conference, which is administered by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is being chaired by Old Dominion University's Mounir Laroussi, a professor of electrical engineering in the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology and the director of ODU's Laser and Plasma Engineering Institute.
"This conference captures our field in its entirety," Laroussi said. "This is a chance for us to see the cutting edge of all these subareas of plasma research. Without such a gathering, this type of high-level information sharing would be nearly impossible."
As defined on the Coalition for Plasma Science website, plasma, often referred to as the fourth state of matter, "is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, a number sufficient to affect its electrical properties and behavior. In addition to being important in many aspects of our daily lives, plasmas are estimated to constitute more than 99 percent of the visible universe."
The conference is being held at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel. A reception for participants will take place on ODU's Kaufman Mall the evening of Monday, June 21.
The conference will include plenary, oral and poster sessions. Plenary talks will be presented by international leaders in the plasma physics community in four leading areas of plasma research: high-density plasma physics, atmospheric pressure plasma, progress in future thermonuclear fusion reactors and nanotechnology plasma applications.
The conference talks will be broken into seven subareas of plasma research: basic processes in fully and partially ionized plasmas; microwave generation and plasma interactions; charged particle beams and sources; high-energy-density plasmas applications; industrial, commercial and medical plasma applications; and plasma diagnostics and pulsed power and other plasma applications.
The conference will also feature a special oral session on the emerging field of plasma medicine. That session, chaired by Laroussi, features some of the world's leading researchers in the emerging field.
Laroussi was recently interviewed by the online magazine "Material Views" about his personal impressions on the field of plasma medicine. To read the interview click on:
Laroussi said the session will address the promising possibilities for using plasma in medical practice, in areas such as electrosurgery, wound healing, dentistry and sterilization.
"This special session on plasma medicine really is attracting the cream of the crop. These researchers are the very best in their fields," he said.
The plasma medicine presentations are scheduled for Monday, June 21, and Tuesday, June 22. Leading scientists in the field will be invited to present their latest research.
As part of ICOPS 2010, a special day-and-a-half-long minicourse on low-temperature plasma modeling and simulation will be offered, starting after the main conference ends, on the afternoon of Thursday, June 24, and continuing all day Friday, June 25.
The minicourse will feature a group of international experts from academia and industry, who will give comprehensive lectures on modeling techniques for low-temperature plasmas and their applications.
Plasma modeling and simulation are powerful tools to address fundamental questions of plasma physics and chemistry and to interpret experiments. This short course is designed to introduce students to the concepts and methods used in plasma modeling and simulation.
The Conference Record will be available on a USB memory stick. Manuscripts of plenary and invited oral presentations may be submitted for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, to be published in early 2011. Guest editors for the special issue are Ravindra Joshi, ODU professor of electrical engineering; Xinpei Lu, a professor at China's HuaZhong University; and Yukinori Sakiyama, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
For more information about ICOPS 2010, visit the conference website at http://www.eng.odu.edu/icops2010/.
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PEORIA, Ill. -- What started as a small idea turned into an international effort to spread the joy of the holiday season to Washington tornado survivors. Saturday the Washington Secret Santa group collected even more toys from tow trucks traveling from Peoria and the Chicagoland area.
"Today was a mini parade. We had a two-truck caravan down here. About half way through we collected four more trucks, and we came down here as a six person mini parade," said Tow truck operator Jim Bresnaham.
They met the Washington Secret Santa group at the P.J. Hoerr in Peoria. One ten foot trailer brought more than 700 donated toys.
The group has received support from all over.
"Florida, Georgia, California, Alabama... the whole entire east coast has rallied huge for us. Canada has jumped on board and started raising money for us," said Washington Secret Santa co-creator Lindsay Rodriguez. "Never in my life did we think we'd ever get a response like this."
"We ran out of space quickly," said Beth Hinken, the other co-creator. "P.J. Hoerr is one of many locations we tried to store all of it. Lindsay's basement was packed full."
Families who are interested can register online until Tuesday.
"You can register on WashingtonSecretSanta.com, and we're asking for your kid's name, age, sizes and what their Christmas wish is," said Rodriguez.
The group will then assign volunteers to each family. Rodriguez and Hinken have partnered with Target. Target will open their stores early for those volunteers to shop for the items on the wish list on December 14.
The group expects to have $50,000 worth of money to shop with. Any extra money will be given to families in need of extra help.
Families will receive their gifts on December 15.
"As a mom, I know how important Christmas is for those kids," said Rodriguez. "If I couldn't give Christmas to my kids.. I would be heart broken. These families are going through so much, trying to get homes, trying to get cars.. Christmas is probably the last thing on their minds right now, and so we're hoping to make life a little easier for them."


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Running To The Right Won't Work
by Nathan Empsall, Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 11:48:17 PM EST
Jay Cost at Real Clear Politics might just have the most absurd headline I've seen all month: "It's Time for Moderate House Democrats to Stand Up to Obama."
I'm more conservative than most in the progressive blogosphere, and yet even I think this story is ridiculous. Cost writes:
If their constituents ultimately disapprove, moderate House Democrats shouldn't expect Barack Obama to give a damn. That's not his style. He likes to give lip service to consensus - but when you read the fine print, he inevitably defines any divergent viewpoints as out-of-bounds. He did it on the stimulus. He's doing it on health care. If moderate House Democrats don't stand up to him now, he'll do it on cap-and-trade, immigration reform, and who knows what else. Sooner or later, their constituents will elect representatives who will stand up to the President.
And those new representatives will probably be Republicans.
There are at least two things wrong with this argument. First, moderate House Democrats are ALREADY standing up to Obama: 24 House Democrats voted against both health insurance reform and cap-and-trade. Another 15 more voted against just health insurance reform, and Bart Stupak is threatening to stop the whole thing again because even Ben Nelson isn't pro-life enough for him. In the Senate, Max Baucus almost destroyed health insurance reform's chances by spending too much time pointlessly negotiating with Grassley and Enzi. Nelson joined with Mary Landrieu to even further slow the bill, this after working with Arlen Specter to drastically pare down the stimulus. How is this NOT standing up to Obama?
Second, despite Cost's claim that this behavior is key to their re-election, none of this obstructionism has helped or will help the Blue Dogs politically. In fact, they're in more danger than are liberals who supported every bill. Of the six Democratic Senators with disapproval ratings above 50%, two are scandal-plagued and four are moderate-to-conservative (Lieberman, Lincoln, Begich, and the rudderless, pro-life Reid). We saw this in 1994, too - of the 34 incumbent House Democrats beaten by Republicans, only 1 was in a district where Bill Clinton won at least 50% of the vote in 1992, and only 7 were from districts where he ran ahead of his 43% national average.
The fact is, neither moderate nor conservative voters will say, "Hurrah, my Democratic Congressman opposed Obama!" They will say either a) "My Congressman is a Democrat, so's Obama, how dare he!" or b) "I like my Congressman, but I just can't support another Pelosi majority."
If Obama's agenda goes down in flames, Democrats go down in flames. Let's think about this: House Republicans are united, and they're doing a great job spinning in the media and surging in the polls. They are in their best generic ballot position during a Democratic administration since 1946. Democrats, on the other hand, are splintered, and can't gain much traction in the polls or correct the media's record on either science or health care details.
Voters don't hate progressivism; they hate the political process that encapsulates both parties. This election isn't over, but if Democrats follow Mr. Cost's advice, it will be.
Tags: Barack Obama, 2010 midterm elections, Moderates, Real Clear Politics (all tags)


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A Beautiful tale that sits on the fringe of science fiction. I just wished I had read it sooner.
While I still really like this book, I don't think I enjoyed it as much this time around as I did the first time I read it almost 20 years ago. Maybe it had something to do with already knowing the surprise twist at the end. I still feel it's a good book, and one that I continue to recommend to readers. The movie has helped spread its popularity, which has made it an easier sell to reluctant readers.
My edition is by Audio Renaissance, which I don't see listed. It's not abridged.
I'm not too fond of the voice given to Graff's buddy in some of the asides. He's always chuckling which is too much. It does lend a different interpretation to those bits, though. I wonder if that was Card's voice? He did one character in this audio production.
The afterword by Card is kind of long, but has some really interesting bits:
The making of the movie: He did the original screen play for the upcoming movie. Apparently it's been a long haul because the producers kept insisting that Ender needed to be 16. I agree with Card, that's a ludicrously stupid mistake. Only a younger child would have swallowed the manipulation. A mid teen would have been too contrary.
A second point was that he couldn't get the screen play to pop until he put [b:Ender's Shadow|9532|Ender's Shadow (Shadow, #1)|Orson Scott Card|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352781471s/9532.jpg|3145587] into the mix. Once he said it, it was obvious. This book is told from Ender's perspective. By adding 'Shadow' in - the same story from Bean's POV - the perspective changes & the story can be shown. I can wait to see it, though. Hollywood will likely screw it up, even with all of Card's caution.
Card says his books are meant to be read aloud. I've never been much for reading aloud, although a friend of mine does it quite often with his wife & says it's great. I think they have something there. While I really liked the book, this audio production really made it pop. Seriously good.
Card purposely cleaned up the language. I loved the way he did it, too. His reasoning was that his 5 year old would be reading this book soon & he didn't want him or any other child exposed to military gutter language. He left the farting & other bathroom humor in, though. Why? Because they wouldn't be real kids without it. I think he got it just right.
The basic idea of the story is kind of far out in some ways, but makes a horrid kind of sense, too. I kept getting stuck on the kids' ages, but they were geniuses & bred or picked to a purpose. I thought Ender's siblings were super, too. OK, it pushed the limits, but it really worked for me.
All in all, the themes all worked well without preaching. It was an emotional roller coaster, too. Since I already knew the ending (actually remembered the book really well) I had more time to think about some things. Can't mention them without a spoiler, but I highly recommend this book & format for everyone. Like [b:Ender's Shadow|9532|Ender's Shadow (Shadow, #1)|Orson Scott Card|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352781471s/9532.jpg|3145587], it enhances the story & puts a new shine on it.
I found myself tearing through this book and neglecting most other responsibilities to do so. The story is oddly captivating, and the ending was a huge surprise to me.
The only book I have read by this author, and despite my sister telling me he's the greatest author ever, I don't feel overwhelmingly compelled to read more. The story was ok, and the underlying message was good, but I didn't really understand the setting.
Dieses zeitlose und weit über die Science-Fiction hinausgehende Thema spannend und unaufdringlich zu realisieren und dabei noch eine Welt zu erschaffen, die auch nach 25 Jahren weitestgehend denkbar erscheint, ist der Verdienst von Orson Scott Card. "Ender's Game" ist auch im Jahre 2009 noch ausgesprochen lesenswert.
I am aware that this sounds like the synopsis of a grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction-rip-off movie. But Mr. Card has shaped this unpromising material into an affecting novel full of surprises that seem inevitable once they are explained. The key, of course, is Ender Wiggin himself. Mr. Card never makes the mistake of patronizing or sentimentalizing his hero.
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Michael Swan (Practical English Usage, 2005.539-40) writes, "Both some and any can refer to an indefinite quantity or number.[...] Some is most common in affirmative clauses. Any (used in this sense) is a 'non-affirmative' word, and is common in questions and negatives. [...] The differences between somebody and anybody etc are the same as the differences between some and any.'
While there is truth in this, many readers take the remarks about 'some' being common in affirmative clauses and 'any' being comon in questions and negatives to be 'rules'. they are not.
Michael Lewis, In (The English Verb, 1986.34) is perhaps clearer" 'Both some and any are used with indefinite reference.
Some is used if the idea is restricted or limited in some way.
Any is used if the idea is unrestricted or unlimited.
[...] the restriction may be a real one [...]or a psychological one existing only in the mind of the speaker.'
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Comedian Steve Coogan reprises his most beloved character, monumentally self-absorbed DJ Alan Partridge, in this long-awaited big screen adaptation. After being laid off following a corporate takeover, Alan's colleague Pat takes their radio station hostage. At Pat's request, Alan is called in by the authorities to negotiate. Inside the station, Alan's complete lack of effectiveness does nothing to deflate his ego, which is swelling due to his central role in a national news story.
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August: Osage County tells the dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play was the winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Play. August: Osage County features an all-star cast, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Abigail Breslin.
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Teenager Adèle's life is turned upside down the night she meets blue-haired Emma. Adèle's passionate sexual awakening and the couple's ensuing relationship are depicted in searing, intimate detail over the course of several years. With breathtaking performances from lead actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos and sharp, controlled direction from acclaimed director Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain), this groundbreaking erotic epic took the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Based on the beloved bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the inspirational story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. With Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech), Emily Watson (Gosford Park), and introducing Sophie Nélisse. The screenplay was written by Michael Petroni based on the novel by Markus Zusak, and produced by Karen Rosenfelt, p.g.a., and Ken Lancato, p.g.a.
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Fire in Alamo hills was 'human caused'
Original post made on Aug 20, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 17, 2012, 12:40 PM
on Aug 20, 2012 at 6:48 am
Human caused?
In what manner, shape or form?
How far back into the hills was it?
Off the trail or on it?
on Aug 20, 2012 at 7:08 am
The end of Hemme typically gets middle and high schoolers parking there and either smoking in their cars or by walking up the trail a short ways. How do I know? I have seen it many times as I frequent the trail head.
on Aug 20, 2012 at 7:12 am
I run on the ring cat trail at least 3 times a week, and I have done that off and on since the late 80's. Recently i have seen more kids up there, lots of kids smoking pot and cigarettes at the trail head. I was nearly run off the trail by 4 kids single track riding way too fast the day before the fire. I had to jump off the trail into the poison oak to avoid being hit.
Im not surprised that the fire was started by a human, and not to blame anyone, but there have been too many kids up to no good up there as of late. Since our parks and rec departments have been suffering such bad cutbacks i know that patrols are never happening, so i am going to the sherrifs meeting on 9/5 to discuss this and a few other issues with local parks.


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Could it be an allergy?!Posted Friday, July 18, 2008, at 10:39 AM
Last night late night TV star Jay Leno joked about people who are allergic to exercise. "Americans," he said, "are allergic to exercise." This came after an alarming statistic that only 6% of American children play outside on a weekly basis. All of us parents need to take this serious, and get our kids outside and moving; weekly, if not daily!
See the following article, courtesy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.
Exercise Necessary For Youth To Maintain Healthy Weight
As obesity in adults continues to climb in the United States, more children also are suffering from obesity than ever before due to a steady diet of sedentary living.
Obesity can lead to increased cases of type II diabetes and put children at risk of becoming obese adults or developing heart disease or cancer later in life.
However parents can help their children avoid obesity and all its attendant health problems by helping them break the sedentary lifestyle. Children need calories and nutrition for growth, but they also need to be active so they can burn off those calories.
Nationally, overweight children and adolescents account for about 15 percent of the child and youth population, up nearly 4 percent from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a three-fold increase since the 1960s.
Parental help is key. Parents need to set an example by being active themselves and planning family activities such as an after-dinner walk or trip to the park rather than watching television or going to a movie.
Breaking the sedentary cycle is easier said than done in recent years. Youths surf the Internet, play video games and watch television for hours on end, often encouraged by parents who are happy to have the sedentary distractions to keep kids entertained, out of trouble and away from unsafe streets. However, parents still need to take responsibility for their children's activity level.
Parents can set limits on television and video game time and encourage children to be active by planning fun outside activities the whole family can enjoy. An active life is important for children not only physically, but mentally, helping them be creative, eliminate stress and think clearly.
SOURCE: Linda Boeckner, Ph.D., nutrition specialist, NU/IANR
On a lighter note; another piece of my selected studies project, a Healthy Living curriculum for middle school children, is wrapping up! After presenting my projects this coming Wednesday, and a research interview on Thursday, I will have the remaining 3 weeks to better enjoy my summer! As if we aren't already at the pool 3 days a week!?!
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Part of the reason kids in cities don't get outside to play is the potential to be kidnapped. If you're not outside watching them, you may not see them again. I love small town life. You can relax and go do the dishes while they play tag in the back yard.
-- Posted by amystrauch on Fri, Jul 18, 2008, at 8:00 PM
I agree, parents do need to supervise their children! Generally, children who are not getting enough physical activity have parents that are inactive, as well. Playing outside together can be a great way for the whole family to get involved and stay fit! Many cities have walking trails widely available, as well as parks and swimming pools.
-- Posted by smashek on Mon, Jul 21, 2008, at 11:33 AM
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TALES FROM THE BACKLINE: Where did all the time go?
We are quickly approaching the end of the season and from now on every game could be the last one ever in collegiate soccer for ten of us.
It seems like someone pressed the fast forward button and left the couch to get snacks and then forgot to come back. Our US collegiate soccer dream is almost over. All of the sand in our sand glass has more or less reached the bottom. It is on us to slow down to process and keep alive the dream of a championship. Where did all the time go?
It seems like our season started yesterday and now we are already at the end of it. Ten seniors will leave the JU soccer program after this season. College soccer will be history for those guys, and for some it might even be the last time they play competitive soccer. All of the seniors are determined to live the college soccer dream as long as they can. This basically means keep winning and everything will be fine.
This week, we will play in the A-Sun tournament and we all want the ring. Three opponents are in our way and we know we can beat them if we bring our A-game. It is all on our hands. Experts say soccer players perform at their peak when they just play intuitively because our intuitive mind is a sacred gift and our rational mind is a faithful servant. In today's world society has only honored the servant but has forgotten the gift. Playing based on your intuition on the field will make things look easy. A striker is at his best when as soon as he gets the ball, he does not think of where he should put it but rather listens to his intuition. This is the feeling we have to get back in order to be successful. We should all remember the feeling we had when we were kids while playing soccer. Our mothers had to drag us home from the practice fields. We just could not get enough of it. You can have all the talent in the world but if you are not passionate about what you are doing all this talent will not contribute to being successful. You need to have the right attitude and passion for the game you play.
Lionel Messi, arguably the best soccer player of the world, has a brother who people viewed as the more talented soccer player. No one would have ever thought that Lionel might become the better player but the one thing his brother was missing was the right attitude, passion and commitment to be the best every single day. To play with your heart and give everything you've got, that is what made Lionel more special than his brother. Let's drive to ETSU and give everything we got. Play for the love of the game and leave everything on the field. Leave no doubts and then we will have no regrets about the outcome of the game. Keep our dream alive and bring home that ring!
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Somehow, this is an 11-point game. Fueled by hot three-point shooting from Mike Miller, the Heat, despite playing LeBron James at center for the entire stretch, are back in this thing.
The problem for Boston: with Brandon Bass in, someone's going to be open beyond the arc. As it turns out, that was Miller. There's a reason Kevin Garnett was inserted back into the game quickly.


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The study of history is central to a liberal arts education, and provides students with the insights and analytical skills useful to understanding our contemporary world. The history major at Old Dominion University prepares students for careers in government service, law, international trade, education, journalism, and other areas. History majors from ODU have gone on to the Ph.D. in history as well as related fields in the humanities and social sciences. Many of our history majors have become exceptional teachers.
The Department of History offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in History, as well as the Bachelor of Arts degree in History that includes licensure to teach social studies on the secondary level in Virginia. We also have the M.A. degree in history. And finally, we offer an accelerated program that allows students to earn both the B.A. and the M.A. in a five year period.
The faculty of the Department of History at Old Dominion University is a vibrant community of teacher-scholars that contributes scholarship to a wide variety of sub-fields within the discipline. Their interests cover the globe, from China to Africa to the American South, and their scholarship addresses many of the numerous thematic areas characteristic of the contemporary study of the past, from foreign policy to gender and the family. Whatever your interests, you are likely to find enjoyable and intellectually stimulating courses in the Department of History that enhance your educational experience at Old Dominion University.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (March 8, 2013)—Even money favorite Castletown was sent from the gate and never headed en route to an impressive second condition allowance victory at Santa Anita on Friday under Rafael Bejarano, winning by 1 ¾ lengths while getting six furlongs in 1:09.34 on a wet fast main track.
Trained by Tim Yakteen, the lightly raced 5-year-old gelding by Orientate was fifth, beaten only 1 ¾ lengths in the Grade I Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Oct. 6, and came off a disappointing third place finish in a second condition allowance on Jan. 12.
"It's been a little challenging, but we were very fortunate to finally get a race to go," said Yakteen. "I was concerned about the rain and the wet track because he hasn't run on it, so it was nice to see him handle it very well.
"We'll see how he comes out of this race. He's a neat horse, he's so consistent."
Owned and bred by Mercedes Stables LLC, Castletown sped through fractions of 22.41, 45.61 and 57.70.
"My horse broke very well and he went to the lead very easily," said Bejarano. "The whole race was easy. I didn't ever feel any pressure anytime during the race. He can really run."
He paid $4.20, $2.60 and $2.10. With the winner's share of $36,000, he increased his bankroll to $149,790. His record now stands at 8-3-1-2.
Last early in the field of six, Kate's Event, with Julien Leparoux up, rallied four-wide into the lane and finished second, 3 ¼ lengths in front of longshot McKenzies Way and Eswan Flores.
Off as the third wagering choice at 7-2, Kate's Event paid $3.60 and $2.80.
The biggest price in the field at 24-1, McKenzies Way rallied to finish a half length in front of Bench Points and Tyler Baze.
McKenzies Way paid $5.20 to show.
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Students look to this office when dealing with difficult academic issues. The Special Assistant for Academic Policy handles waivers of general education requirements, Academic Recovery Plans, academic probation and dismissal, and those students who are looking to be readmitted to the university after previous academic difficulty. Students can find detailed information on the different forms that pass through our office, as well as other necessary information by clicking on the box above: Info & Resources for Students.
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Council forces developer to demolish six houses
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Six houses built without planning permission in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, have been demolished some six years after enforcement proceedings were initiated against the developer.
Wicklow County Council initiated legal proceedings against developer Leslie Armstrong in early 2003 and achieved a Circuit Court order for the demolition of the six town houses. The council told the court that an agricultural building had been converted into four houses, while a further two were erected nearby.
Granting the orders for the demolition of the new houses and the reinstatement of the land in 2005, Judge Pat McCartan of the Circuit Court described Mr Armstrong as a seasoned developer who should have known better. The judge said there was a complete and knowing disregard of the planning laws by Mr Armstrong.
However, Mr Armstrong applied for permission to retain the houses and appealed to the High Court. When this proved unsuccessful, the council took proceedings against Mr Armstrong in 2007 for non-compliance with the court order.
The application came before Wicklow Circuit Court on February 7th, 2008, and Mr Armstrong sought time to comply with the order. He was granted an adjournment to enable him to reinstate the original buildings and demolish the rest.
When the case came back before Wicklow Circuit Court on Wednesday, the application was struck out given that compliance had been achieved in relation to the court order. Costs were awarded to the council. The council costs were in excess of €18,500 and Mr Armstrong also had to suffer his own legal costs, in addition to the construction and demolition costs involved.
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Federal inspectors who want to know if the University of North Carolina has been accurately reporting campus crimes as required by federal law are to visit the campus at Chapel Hill next month, the school said Friday.
U.S. Education Department inspectors are responding after a former assistant dean of students accused the school of underreporting sexual assault cases for 2010 in the university's annual report on campus crime to the federal government.
The federal Clery Act requires campuses participating in federal financial aid programs to collect and disclose crime statistics and security information.
The former university employee, Melinda Manning, resigned in December. She did not respond to a message seeking comment Friday.
UNC-Chapel Hill has denied underreporting crimes and said it's cooperating with the investigation. The university this week provided the federal agency with a spreadsheet detailing all student complaints of sexual harassment or assault through this month and what was done in each case. The school did not immediately respond to a request by The Associated Press to provide a copy of the spreadsheet.
"We expected this review, and will cooperate fully with the review team," Chancellor Holden Thorp said in a statement. "We are committed to complying with the Clery Act and properly informing students and the campus community about criminal activity and safety threats. The review is an opportunity to make additional improvements if needed."
Thorp is resigning in June to become the chief academic officer of Washington University in St. Louis.
The university also responded by a deadline Thursday to questions posed as part of an investigation by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights.
Manning, three students and one former student in January alleged violations of Title IX, education's gender-equity law, in the handling of sexual assault cases. Two of the women who have spoken for the group did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
The federal agency could punish a violating university by cutting off federal funding, but that's never happened.
Neither complaint against UNC-CH has been released, but the agency's letter acknowledging the investigation alleges that the nation's oldest public university failed to respond appropriately to sexual assault concerns and that it didn't provide impartial investigations. The complaint also alleges the school didn't have appropriate grievance procedures and didn't provide appropriate training for residential life staff and others.
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By Glen Farley, Brockton Enterprise staff writer
The folks in Las Vegas who make a living educating us on such matters have established the Patriots as three-point favorites to defeat the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.
It's not a Super Bowl XLII déjà vu (when the-then perfect Patriots were installed as 12-point favorites heading into the big game), but at the moment, I find the odds to be odder than Bruins netminder Tim Thomas.
I suppose they're understandable, what with a 13-3 team (during the regular season) meeting a team that had to win its last two to finish 9-7 and get in the playoffs, but even with the Patriots in the midst of a 10-game winning streak I don't see them playing a better brand of football than the Giants are at the moment.
When speaking of streaking, the Patriots get the advantage in quantity while the Giants get the nod in quality.
Facing a series of elimination games stretching back to the regular season, the Giants have burst from a .500 team to one that's won five straight, four by double figures, by a cumulative score of 141-67. Their average margin of victory during that span has been 14.8 points.
Give credit to the Patriots for defeating the Baltimore Ravens, 23-20, in last Sunday's AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium for that marked their first win of the season over a team with a winning record.
Meanwhile, the Giants' three postseason wins have been over an Atlanta Falcons team that was 10-6 at the time (24-2) and at the NFC's top two seeds — the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers (37-20) and the San Francisco 49ers on a Lawrence Tynes field goal in overtime (20-17).
What should be most concerning to the Patriots, however, is the sense that these Giants are poised for a Super Bowl XLII redo.
As is so often required at this point in the season, the Giants are doing it with defense, allowing 20 points or less in each of the games during the drive to five that will have them in Indianapolis on Feb. 5.
With the talent they boast up front — Jason Pierre-Paul (16½ sacks during the regular season), Osi Umenyiora (nine) and Justin Tuck (five) — there is no need for the Giants to resort to gimmick defenses to exert pressure on opponents.
With the Giants, it's mano-a-mano, allowing them to drop seven defenders back in coverage.
At the same time, they're able to shut off running lanes, the body of their work reminiscent of their performance in Super Bowl XLII when they limited the Patriots to 45 yards rushing and sacked Tom Brady five times en route to their 17-14 win.
Offensively, Eli's coming.
The "other" Manning no more, he is enjoying a consistent stretch with his 8-to-1 touchdown pass-to-interception ratio during the postseason far better than Brady's 6-to-3. Even while throwing 58 times and taking a pounding (sacked six times) in the Giants' NFC title game victory over the 49ers, Manning was turnover-free.
Giants' special teams contributed two fumble recoveries, Devin Thomas picking up one that Kyle Williams deflected, the other that Williams put on the ground during a punt return, latter leading to Tynes' gamewinner.
Then there's this: The Giants know how to beat the Patriots.
Since dropping the 2007 regular-season finale to them, 38-35, the Giants have beaten the Patriots once with their last-minute drive at University of Phoenix Stadium on Feb. 3, 2008, then again at Gillette Stadium on Nov. 6, 2011 (24-20) when their most productive running back (Ahmad Bradshaw) and second wide receiver (Hakeem Nicks) were both out with injuries.
Brady was able to complete 28 passes for 342 yards in the teams' first go-round this season, but he also turned the ball over three times on a day when the Patriots lost it on four occasions.
That hurt, but it may not be as painful as Rob Gronkowski's left ankle is at the moment, a situation that must be monitored (yeah, the Patriots will be very forthcoming about that) as game time approaches.
The game's still a week-and-a-half away so, to quote a former Giants and Patriots head coach, "I reserve the right to change my mind."
At the moment, though, the odds look like the numbers I'll soon be entering on my tax return.
They don't add up to me.
Glen Farley covers the Patriots for the Brockton (Mass.) Enterprise, a GateHouse Media newspaper.