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News: Ludacris' "RocknRolla" Fails To Rock Box Office
Monday, Nov 3, 2008 9:42AM
Guy Ritchie's highly-anticipated action thriller RocknRolla failed to generate blockbuster sales over the weekend debuting at No. 11.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the British gangster flick officially debuted nationwide with $1.8 million in box office sales, bringing it's grand total to $2.4 million. The film was only being screened at 826 theaters.
RocknRolla focuses on a real-estate scam set to offer millions of dollars to interested criminals throughout London. However, the story offers a twist when a drugged out rock star miraculously reappears from the dead and looks to get his hands on the score.
Sharing a large slot of movie time with "Entourage" actor Jeremy Piven, Luda recently gave SOHH the inside scoop on what his role was in the project.
"Me and Jeremy Piven play managers of a rock and roll artist that the whole movie is named after so we're the only two Americans actually in the movie, everybody else has that whole London accent," he told SOHH. "It's definitely reminiscent of Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. So make sure you go check that out. Interesting movie. Gangsta, gansta film."
The star-studded cast also includes Thandie Newton, Idris Elba, Gerard Butler and Toby Kebbell, .
Luda's other movie, the video game based, action flick Max Payne, managed to debut at No. 1 during its opening weekend two weeks ago, banking $18 million. Over the weekend it landed at the no. 8 spot, pulling in $3.7 million. The hugely popular teen franchise, High School Musical 3, won the top slot raking in $61.75 million in ticket sales.
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The initiative asks consumers to submit photos, videos, and tips.
The National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, has launched a summer-long promotion, Summer Scrapbook, in which it is asking consumers to share their favorite park moments, memories, and advice in an online community.
According to the foundation, the goal of the campaign is to inspire Americans to visit their 401 national parks. Since it launched June 20, the promotion has received more than 1,000 submissions.
The National Park Foundation is asking park visitors to post photos, videos, and travel tips. Site visitors will find 10 categories - that includes eight photo options, as well as one each for videos and park tips. Visitors post their content to the appropriate category. Each person can submit up to 10 items. When sharing content, users are asked to select the associated park.
"A lot of people come to the National Park Foundation site looking for national park travel information and ideas," says Angela Hearn, director of marketing at the National Park Foundation. "While the National Park Service website is the online destination for the history and facts on the national parks, the National Park Foundation website complements their information with personal stories and experiences from park visitors and enthusiasts."
All entries must be posted by September 8. On September 10, the National Park Foundation will announce finalists in each category. The public will be invited to vote through September 30.
Anyone who submits content is automatically entered for a chance to win a summer or winter trip to Yosemite National Park. In addition, voters are entered for a chance to win a railway journey to Grand Canyon National Park.
All category winners will receive a National Park Explorer Pack. Prize packs include hiking and camping equipment, as well as National Park Foundation gear and a national parks pass.
There will be two grand prize winners and 10 category winners. Winners will be announced in September and early October.
"We want to inspire the American people to visit their 401 national parks and give them a place online to share and exchange their favorite national park moments, memories, and advice with other national park visitors and enthusiasts," Hearn says.
The National Park Foundation is the official charity of America's national parks. It raises private funds that "aid, support and enrich" America's more than 400 national parks and their programs.
The National Park Foundation has 209,000 likes on Facebook. @GoParks has 39,000 followers.
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Turbo C++ conformed to AT&T's C++ 2.0 language specification. The development environment and command line tools originally ran under MS-DOS. A 1992 version ran on Windows 3.1. Version 1 came in two forms: Turbo C++ and Turbo C++ Professional. The latter included Turbo Assembler, Turbo Debugger and Turbo Profile.
It superceded the C-only Turbo C and was itself superceded by C++ Builder.
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For those of you who are interested in taking Bitcoin mining to the next level, or are considering investing in the sport, can get themselves to the bitcoin mining equipment from Butterfly Labs.
The Butterfly Labs ASIC are basically small crypto calculators that specialize at only one thing - that's crunching numbers.
Is Butterfly Labs a ponzi scheme?
No...it isn't. They are a company based in Leakwood, Kansas. The whole process isn't well established though. The main reason for this is a small company size, which increases the profit margin for them. The very fact that the payment method is by-wire, justifies this.
Many theories have been put forward by various conspiracy theorists on the internet regarding the credibility of Butterfly Labs, claiming that your money is being used to create miner machines that BFLabs uses itself to mine coins before shipping out the product to the consumer. (Note, that there is an infinite waiting time for each mining equipment, as stated on the company website.) The company website clearly states a waiting time of 2 months or more.
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All of this is a bit risky, for people who want a guarantee for everything. Butterfly labs looks a bit shady, but they do keep their word, as people have been getting their bitcoin mining software (a bit late though) eventually!
The last review is probably the most trustworthy. Wired online magazine is one of the most trustworthy online magazines. But then at the end of the day scams do happen. In this case the probability looks high, since the company Butterfly Labs do have an upper hand in the situation with all your money. But the reviews and testimonials by individuals online, don't say so. I have made an order for a 25 GH/s machine and my orders are all reflecting correctly. It is a waiting game from here on. I'll keep all the readers here at Bitminers Guide posted about how that goes.
My shopping experience at Butterfly Labs Inc.
Like I said before the whole thing looks quite shady, but I have invested in a few other ASIC equipment before and that's how these people usually work. The main reason is a low workforce, and low resources. This company apparently uses your money in real-time to create your ASIC mining equipment. That is to say, your order is made only once you've made the payment.
You register with them online, and have 3 payment options. Bitcoins, Paypal, and wire-transfer.
I used the wire-transfer option, since I don't have a paypal account that I use regularly. You have to visit your bank branch for this option. Since the money is being transferred manually. You may have to specify the reason for the bank transfer, and you can call it - "Purchase of computer peripheral" or "electronic device."
The payment took about 48 hours to show up in their system. I did send the butterfly labs message a team, to which I didn't get any response, but on the other hand my status was updated from "Pending" to "Processing," which means that my money has been received.
Other than that, I fully support the Bitcoin Project. There are some doubts we all have regarding this opensource project, but considering the idea, all open source project's are aimed towards the betterment of the human society. If you are smart enough, you can use Bitcoins to your benefit. Securing your bitcoins is essential and that's your responsibility.
Human beings are surely entering a new era, of financial transactions. The last time we saw something like this was when currency itself was invented. Many people, I am sure, must have had their doubts about the currency, and the banking system, but it managed to survive and even exists today. People who control our lives, are essentially the people, who are in the banking sector. They can very easily commit frauds, and get away with all your funds, and you can do nothing about it. That's what happened in the United States of America, in the financial bubble burst of 2009. Bit coin, gives the power to grow, to each and every individual equally. Well, at least if you are an early bird!


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CATEGORIES Action, Drama, Thrillers, Casting, Sony, Scripts, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Movies, CinematicalSony's thriller The Tourist just keeps sending its talent packing. Originally set to be a vehicle for Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron, it shifted gears last month and was re-cast with Angelina Jolie and Sam Worthington. But once again, The Tourist finds itself without travel arrangements for a male lead as Variety reports that Worthington is out due to "creative disagreements" and Johnny Depp is in.
Depp is still in talks to play the hapless American tourist, and with the way this film is going, one can't assume it's finalized. But if it is, it might just be the casting coup of 2010. A Depp-Jolie pair-up has been something dreamed about by a lot of producers and studios over the years. Once upon a time, rumor even had them attached to play Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. People want to see them having onscreen sex. It'd be the hottest thing since ... well, Brad Pitt and Jolie having sex onscreen. (And off. Hey, I'm just being honest. There was a reason everyone wanted to see their offspring.)
The Tourist is also on the hunt for a director. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was circling the project, but departed alongside Worthington over those whispery creative differences. Reportedly, a lot of directors are interested, including Alfonso Cuaron. While shake-ups can be be a sign of a bad film, I'd like to think that a thriller that winds up with Jolie, Depp, and Cuaron came together exactly as it was meant to.


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Recommandépar Tom de Pittsburgh, PA USA
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The Park Hotel is an excellent business hotel with very nice and clean rooms. The reception staff is friendly and helpful along with having no problems speaking English. The breakfast is excellent with a nice selection of items.
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fantastic servicePublié le 28 avr. 2014 sur Hotels.com
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Builders still at workPublié le 24 mars 2013 sur Hotels.com
I was booked in on the 3rd floor which when the lift doors opened was full of noisy builders up ladders and painting on the entire floor I had to walk sideways to get to my room which was open and full of dust. I returned to the reception and asked if it was a joke !!! The front desk did not looked shocked but the manager heard what was going on and moved me to the second floor which was fine, I heard that this hotel is being upgraded and expanding which is fine but I didnt expect to be in the middle of it. The spa is tiny but OK, the food saved my stay it was wonderful so the chef saved the day. If you are going to stay here make sure your not on floor 3 unless you know for certain they have finished work. The colour of the walls everywhere are Brown which makes the place look dark . Would I stay there again if I was certain the building work had been completed yes but mainly for the food.
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conveniently located, modern hotelPublié le 7 févr. 2013 sur Hotels.com
My 3rd time to stay here - the hotel is conveniently located just across from the train station and a short walk (less than 5 minutes) to the town square. Rooms are with modern furnishings and very clean. Internet speed (complimentary wireless) was fast and reliable. The breakfast buffet here is also excellent, though I find the restaurant is a little overpriced in relation to other dining options in town. This hotel remains my first choice for when I need to stay in Kortrijk.
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convenient centre for business trip in KortrijkPublié le 19 nov. 2012 sur Hotels.com
Got a free upgrade to a more expensive room so very pleased.
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Modern good value hotel near train stationPublié le 21 oct. 2012 sur Hotels.com
Conveniently located just across from the main railway station. Second time to stay at this hotel - and was just as satisfied this time as previously. Well maintained rooms and a restaurant with a good range of dining options. Only negative part of the stay was the difficulty in getting a taxi in the morning (arranged by the hotel) so inform the front desk well in advance (and tell them if you need a taxi that can give you a proper receipt - the one ordered for my could not...).


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My Dad would have been 83 today. He died eight years ago and I still think about him frequently.
My father and I chose very different paths career-wise. He was an accomplished academic who stayed in school into his 30s. I went to work right after college, returned for an an MBA, then went back to work. My Dad worked almost exclusively for the federal government as an economist, researcher, and urban planner. I, on the other hand, have been fascinated with private enterprise since I can remember. Working for the government never occurred to me.
And yet, I learned a lot about business from my Dad. Here's a few nuggets:
If You Don't Communicate Well, the Rest is Moot
From the time I was in high school, my Dad beat me up about my writing. He would brutally edit my papers and critique my word choice. At the time, I hated it. Now, I'm incredibly grateful. His point was simple: No matter how strong your position, if you can't communicate it clearly you're dead in the water. My Dad didn't know about Powerpoint, but I'm sure he'd have strong opinions if he sat through many of presentations I've seen.
Be Loyal
Before he died, I went to my Dad to ask for some advice when I was working at some start-up or another. I had been at the company since the beginning, but things were going sideways. I had other opportunities and was considering bailing out. His position was clear: You were a part of getting this thing going, you need to stick it out until the end. He was right. I stuck it out and things worked out for the best.
Just Solve the Problem
Like many of us, I can get wrapped about the axle stressing about some work problem or another. Whenever this happened, my Dad's advice was always the same: don't worry about all the things that you can't do anything about, just focus on the root problem. He was right — wasting energy on stressing about a wild series of what-ifs does nothing to move the ball.
Study the Matter
My Dad never made decisions quickly. It was maddening when I was a kid. The answer always seemed obvious to my naive mind. But he was always thoughtful. He took the time to research and understand, and to let his thought wash over the options before deciding. While I didn't always agree with his answer, it was always well-reasoned and deliberative.
When a Man Knows He is to be Hanged in a Fortnight, it Concentrates His Mind Wonderfully
A sign with this saying hung in his office for years. In other words: deadlines and consequences matter. Some amount of time pressure constrains the task and focuses efforts. I've found this works for myself and for my teams.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Doug Martin left Friday's game against the New England Patriots with an apparent head injury. Martin took a knee to the helmet while in on pass protection and was examined on the sideline briefly before being taken to the locker room.
Regardless of whether or not the Buccaneers think the injury is significant, Martin will almost certainly not get back into this game. If he has a concussion or anything similar, he will have to complete a battery of tests before returning to action.
Below, we've got a GIF of Martin taking the scary hit:
Martin is a huge part of Tampa Bay's offense. When quarterback Josh Freeman struggled last season, it was Martin, then a rookie, who picked up the slack. He carried the ball 319 times for 1,454 yards and 11 touchdowns. He also had 472 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown.
We'll wait for an update on his condition, but it's always a concern when a player seems to suffer a head injury, especially a player as important to the Buccaneers as Martin happens to be. The names behind him aren't very confidence-inspiring, as the roster lists Peyton Hillis, Mike James, Brian Leonard and Michael Smith on the running back depth chart.
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Tuberville Turns Down Canes?
The Austin American-Statesman is reporting that Tuberville has told Texas Tech officials that he will stay put as the Red Raiders coach and will not pursue the Hurricanes' job. The Statesman quoted an anonymous source that it described as "a highly placed official at a Big 12 school." "I think he could get it because he's been [at Miami] before.," the source told the newspaper. "But he has shown no interest. They called and talked to him, but he didn't want to visit with them."


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Initially a bit of a culture shock, but a very pleasant surprise.
Definitely worth a second visit.
Calvinia - Delightful town - bit of a surprise as historical buildings have been mixed with the modern ones. The Akkerdam Nature Reserve is worth a visit, especially if you enjoy 4x4 or hiking. Calvinia is worth visiting for a long weekend.
Sutherland - Sutherland will be a shock to the system if you arrive from a major city. However, within a short time you will hopefully get into the Karoo pace of life. Explore the gravel streets and you likely to find something you won't typically find in Cape Town. Is that not what a holiday away from home is meant to be? An attraction is SALT, 15kms outside of Sutherland. We could only get onto the hourly tour (cheaper), but probably got more out of it than the proper tour. The guide was friendly and very knowledgeable, and went out of his way to personalise our experience.
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The hustling-bustling Christmas season is firing-up. For some, it's non-stop holiday parties, chaotic shopping, tree decorating, cheating on diets, and last minute gift-wrapping.
For others, along with these popular holiday traditions, the main focus is love, benevolent giving, hours of volunteering and the birth of the Christ child, Jesus.
The Kohout family is as big on giving as they are in numbers. For the past three years, this multi-generational family of 20, including 14 siblings aged 10-30, have invited the community to join in a free Christmas feast, The Outpouring.
This year's event will be held at the Oakhurst Community Center on Monday, Dec. 23 from 3-7 p.m. While everyone is welcome, the target population are families in need, the elderly and those with nowhere else to go.
"It's a time of fellowship," event organizer Becky Kohout said, "a time to come together for food, fun and building deeper relationships with neighbors."
"The first year we did this," Kohout continued, "there were a few who enjoyed it so much, that they gave us a cash donation right then and there but it's really the community that brings it all together."
In the past, Mountain Bear Fan Club has donated teddy bears, Pizza Factory has donated paper goods, and Starbucks has donated coffee.
Kohout has sent emails to area groups and churches asking for toy donations and volunteers.
According to Kohout, she only has 10 teams of six committed to making meals, but needs 25-28 teams, who prepare an entire Christmas dinner to feed a group of 12. These teams are given packets on what dishes need to be prepared, and the meals must be delivered either the day before the event, or by 2 p.m. the day of the event.
Currently, there is only one box, located at the Palace Pet Grooming on Highway 41 in Oakhurst, to collect new or slightly-used unwrapped toys.
"My family and I very much enjoy serving," Kohout said, "we love sharing what the Lord has blessed us with ... love, joy and excitement. This is a wonderful time of year and we not only want to celebrate it with our community, but to emphasize what's truly important.
"We want to keep Christmas how Christmas should be ... about the Christ King's birth. It's really not gifts that are important ... it's family, community and keeping life simple."
Just as with previous years, the evening promises much more than a free meal with lively conversation. The Claus' (Santa and his wife) have scheduled a stop to visit with children in Santa's workshop, complete with a rocking chair for comfy lap-sitting, fake fireplace, brightly decorated trees, and of course, toys. Local musicians will not only play Christmas carols, but will invite anyone who wishes to join in a sing-along.
Last year about 400 guests came to celebrate Christmas and share a meal.
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Gr 4-7-Here is a true masterpiece--an artful blending of narrative, illustration, and cinematic technique, for a story as tantalizing as it is touching. Twelve-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive. Hugo's recently deceased father, a clockmaker, worked in a museum where he discovered an automaton: a humanlike figure seated at a desk, pen in hand, as if ready to deliver a message. After his father showed Hugo the robot, the boy became just as obsessed with getting the automaton to function as his father had been, and the man gave his son one of the notebooks he used to record the automaton's inner workings. The plot grows as intricate as the robot's gears and mechanisms [...] To Selznick's credit, the coincidences all feel carefully orchestrated; epiphany after epiphany occurs before the book comes to its sumptuous, glorious end. [...] The plot ultimately has much to do with the history of the movies, and Selznick's genius lies in his expert use of such a visual style to spotlight the role of this highly visual media. A standout achievement. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.


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now the excitement can take hold.
How epic would a Chus & Ceballos set be after Spain wins the Euro cup......
also great news about the bottled water.
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Thanks Jeff for finding that info! So we can bring in chips and granola bars etc. That's good to know!
No worries at all! Can't wait. Should be fun. I think i need to get a better backpack though. Don't have anything that would work well. Maybe i'll hit the mall up this afternoon.
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thats really cool of them to do that with the water...but i plan on drinking beer instead
any word of a TA meet-up spot?
I'm guessing that the city probably requires them to allow people to bring water, and provide free water stations for safety reasons. This is in Toronto after all haha.
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I just want to fast-forward to tomorrow around this time!
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From the website:
Am I allowed to bring food and water to the festival?
All food must be pre-packaged and sealed.
Food packaged in plastic or glass containers or Ziploc bags will be confiscated.
1 sealed water bottle of any size will be allowed. No glass will be permitted.
There will be water stations on site. Vendors will also have beverages available for sale.
Unsealed drinks will be confiscated.
I'm going to go with yes.........
Or get a large water bottle, and build your own makeshift clip-on haha.
So is a steel bottle okay to bring in? I know its not a 'drink' yet..... But it is unsealed....
quote:Originally posted by Dior Homme
So is a steel bottle okay to bring in? I know its not a 'drink' yet..... But it is unsealed....
I don't have FB access at work, but if you ask the FB group page, someone from DD will get back to you about it.
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I don't have FB access at work, but if you ask the FB group page, someone from DD will get back to you about it.
I don't have an FB account, so ill just get one of my friends to do it.
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ps - I don't care who you're coming with. Brag about how many friends you have some other place :P
guv's letting you go?
I'll be there too..not to worry lol
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echo beach stage
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Hrmm... I wonder if I should wear my black Five Finger Vibrams. Ironically, the last time I wore them outdoors was last summer at Ontario Place.
Which style/model do you have?
Wear them for sure!
I've got red sprints. Last yr got on board the Canada Day boat party and had some good laughs with Green Velvet who himself had a pair...green of course! Wore mine to 2 DEMFs and Piknic a few weeks ago...so comfy !
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14Janet Jackson is still banned from the Super Bowl
The NFL has really taken shit to the next level, since apparently Janet Jackson is STILL banned from the Super Bowl 10 years after that fateful "wardrobe malfunction" in which she slipped a little nip, like it actually matters.
Several pop acts are apparently on the shortlist at the moment to perform at the upcoming game – people like Katy Perry, Rihanna and Coldplay – but when TMZ reached out to ask if they were at all close to a decision, here's what they said:
TMZ Sports reached out to the NFL to discuss possible acts at Super Bowl XLIX (49) in Arizona next year — and while the league wouldn't say who's in the running, they did issue the following statement:
"As for potential acts — we have only ruled out Janet Jackson."
No word on how Justin Timberlake escaped the ire of the NFL — considering he played a key role in the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" that day — but if he's NOT banned, BOOK HIS ASS!!!
Shaking my head at the woman having to take all the heat here, and also at America's uptight bullshit about female nudity. Newsflash: Women have breasts. Your mother has breasts. It's only sexualized when you make it so.
Let's all just be honest and say that Janet Jackson wouldn't be in the running because she hasn't done anything interesting in the past decade, NOT over some bullshit Nipplegate crap.
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4Janet Jackson Is Married to Wissam Al Mana
Janet Jackson is batshit crazy, but even nutters deserve happiness. With that in mind, Janet has finally confirmed her marriage to Wissam Al Mana in answer to the "rampant rumours" that have been going on for weeks, apparently (this is the first time I'm hearing anything about this).
From Entertainment Tonight:
Rumors that Janet Jackson is planning her wedding to Wissam Al Mana have been flying fast and furious for weeks now. There's only one problem: they're already married!
In their first joint statement as a couple, Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Mana confirm the news exclusively to ET, saying, "The rumours regarding an extravagant wedding are simply not true. Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony."
"Our wedding gifts to one another were contributions to our respective favourite children's charities. We would appreciate that our privacy is respected and that we are allowed this time for celebration and joy. With love, Wissam and Janet"
I love how insistent they were on letting everyone know that they didn't do anything lavish. Y'all know I don't feel weddings all that hard, but if I had to have one, you'd better believe that shit would be on fire! Literally – I'd have a giant, six level cake with sparklers and probably some jugglers doing their thing with fiery swords or something. (I wouldn't, really.)
In any case, best of luck to them, I suppose. He's either as insane as she is or finds that sort of thing endearing. Either way, good luck to the happy couple.
February 26, 2013 at 6:30 am by Jennifer
15Another Update on the Jackson Family Craziness
Remember Emily told you guys about a "physical" incident that occurred within the perimeter of the Jackson Estate? It was between that fiery fireball, Paris Jackson, and her auntie, Janet. IT'S ON. From TMZ:
Sources who were there say two SUVs with Randy, Jermaine and Janet inside, followed a car driving Michael Jackson's 3 kids inside the gates. We're told Randy, Jermaine and Janet did not have authority to enter.
Once on the grounds, we're told MJ's 3 siblings tried to strong-arm Paris, Prince and Blanket. Their mission was to get them in an SUV and take them to Arizona, where Katherine has been staying.
Our sources say at one point Janet tried to grab a resistant Paris' cell phone, a scuffle ensued and Janet slapped the teenager, screaming, "You're a spoiled little bitch!" We're told Paris fired back with her own slap and told Janet, "This is our house. Not the Jackson family house. Get the f**k out!"
At the same time, we're told Trent Jackson, who was at the house, tried to stop an aggressive Randy and Jermaine. We're told Trent put Randy in a headlock and punched Jermaine in the mouth.
Oh man, the classiness of this entire situation is amazing. Also, can I say that, while I'm slapping the official "I don't condone violence of any sort" label on this entire post, I'm thrilled to pieces that Paris slapped Janet back? Because wow. I don't even have the right words to convey to you the … I guess the absolute glee I feel knowing that there's someone out there who won't take shit from someone like Janet Jackson, and doesn't even need to give their reaction a second thought.
I don't know what's going on with this family, but I'm glad to know that the "lesser" Jacksons aren't taking any shit.
July 24, 2012 at 5:30 pm by Sarah
3Every Celebrity Known to Man Was in NYC Yesterday
And I've got a myriad of photos to prove it!
Well, OK. No, not every celebrity known to man, but a bunch that allowed themselves to be photographed. I mean, it is New York City after all, right?
July 13, 2010 at 3:23 pm by Sarah
9Janet Jackson Masticates as a Means to Mend Her Melancholy
Some celebrities cop to drug abuse in order to deal with life's traumatic events and others head for the nearest seedy bar to drown their sorrows.
However, neither is the case for Janet Jackson — her poison of choice after her brother Michael
was murdered passed away was food.
Janet opens up in a recent interview regarding her deceased brother and stated that food was more of a comfort to her than anything else during that dark period in her life:
"It's stress. When I'm feeling down, I do turn to food. Normally people don't eat; they don't have an appetite… [For me] It's just the opposite; you eat everything."
I can totally understand where you're coming from, Miss Jackson. I am for real when I say that I'm right there with you. When life makes me bum, I have to do my best to fend off stress or else I just end up spooning with Ben and Jerry in bed … or forking a big-assed plate of pasta.
It's alright, though, babe. You're still amazing in my book.
April 4, 2010 at 4:41 pm by Sarah
9Janet Jackson Postpones Rock Witchu Tour … Again
After first canceling a shitload of U.S. dates due to "vertigo," Janet Jackson has now postponed the Japan leg of her Rock Witchu tour, citing "the impact of economic crisis."
This is the most non-euphemistic euphemism I can think of to say "no one was buying tickets." I mean, seriously, Janet, next time, just blame sushi.


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Logic would tell you that having brick-and-mortar retailers collect sales tax from their customers and not doing the same for online retailers seems unfair. These same brick-and-mortar retailers pay commercial property tax in their communities. As brick-and-mortar retailers shrink, thanks to the tax subsidy given to online retailers, community revenue will shrink from lack of property tax and sales tax collections.
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(Reuters) - Iran is concealing the destination of its oil sales by disabling tracking systems aboard its tanker fleet, making it difficult to assess how much crude Tehran is exporting as it seeks to counter Western sanctions aimed at cutting its oil revenues.
Most of Iran's 39-strong fleet of tankers is now "off-radar" after Tehran ordered captains in the National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) to switch off the black box transponders that are used in the shipping industry to monitor vessel movements, oil industry, trading and shipping sources said.
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I've noticed that MLB.TV appears to require a registered account to access archived MLB.TV Games, in other words, games that have already been played, even if they were just finished (pending archiving the game itself). The account is free, and I already had it since I had MLB Gameday Audio before (though my account expired, and since my cc had been changed apparently since I registered, they wern't able to auto-subscribe me).
The account is also required for Chat, if I remember correctly, and contests, and so on.
But if this is not just a special limited-time thing, I love it. It means that if I miss the game, I can go back and watch it, and I suspect that MLB.TV gets most of their users for real-time games, and not archives. It reminds me of something that MLB.TV did the last 2 months of 2007, which was offer MLB.TV for free for games, but now with Advertisements.
So I wonder, is this a new route for MLBAM? Are they doing this on purpose? Making the game more accessable to fans, perhaps trying to clear up their reputation? Is it a prelude, perhaps, to a new MLB Channel and they are trying to cover the MLB.TV subscription fee with advertising revanue? Or is this all something that has just slipped through the cracks because of one or two good guys behind the scenes and MLB hasn't yet noticed that they've 'messed things up and have forgotten to screw the customer quite as much as possible'.
All I know is, as a now NRaf, though with Slingbox, this does make me happier. Now if they can just crack down and fix the Blackouts (or get rid of them), perhaps by requiring a team/station to show the game there, live, for the game to be considered blacked out for that area, then everything will be fine.


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Chance to sign rail freight petition this weekend (From Borehamwood Times)
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Chance to sign petition against rail freight terminal in Radlett this weekend
Updated 11:28am Tuesday 19th February 2013 in News By Anna Slater, Chief Reporter
Campaigners fighting against plans for a rail freight terminal will take to the streets with their petition.
Residents who have not yet signed the petition against the Helioslough proposal in Park Street will be able to show their support at St Albans market from 9.30am on Saturday.
The online petition, set up last month, hopes to convince Hertfordshire County Council not to sell the land needed to build the controversial terminal near Radlett.
Secretary of State Eric Pickles said the plans will go ahead - despite objections from residents, politicians and councils.
So far the petition has collected 7,714 signatures and the closing date to sign is March 31.
Last week, members of the Elstree & Borehamwood Greenbelt told the Borehamwood Times the terminal would cause "mammoth" traffic jams in the area.
Ann Goddard, of Deacons Hill Road, Elstree, said: "The plans are crazy. The traffic tailbacks here are bad enough as it is, but this will make it so much worse.
"It will be generally awful and unpleasant for anyone in the area, and a beautiful patch of green belt will be lost forever."
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When in full operation only 24 trains a day will use the site (12 in and 12 out). Freight trains already use the midland line so no tunnel upgrading is required.
With the major share of terminal generated traffic leaving via a link to the A414 there will be no local HGV traffic. The plans even state that HGV's will be barred from using the A5183 AND Harper Lane.
As for the terminal looking unsightly, you can't see it from the surrounding roads network. And finally, included in the plans are provision of a ParkStreet/Frogmore by-pass which will REDUCE local traffic and make journey times shorter for local people.
4:47pm Fri 22 Feb 13
mr.taxpayer says...
And as for the crazy lady from Deacons Hill Road, what the hell has her road got to do with any development the other side of Radlett towards St.Albans.
Crazyness! Don't these people have hobbies to fill their empty lives?!
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Foles grabs Eagles' starting job10 Nov 13
He's been efficient and dynamic
After Nick Foles' record-tying, seven touchdown performance last week against the Raiders, his jersey was sent to the Hall of Fame to go alongside Peyton Manning's — one of the men whose record he tied.
If Foles continues his pace, they may have to make room next to another Manning display in Canton.
Foles is now tied with Milt Plum (16 in 1960) for 2nd most TDs to start a season without an INT. P.Manning had 20 this year. #FlyEaglesFly—
Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) November 10, 2013
With Eagles QB Michael Vick dealing with a number of injuries, Foles continues shining as Philadelphia's starter. He led the Eagles to a 27-13 victory against the Packers Sunday and showed, again, that he deserves a chance to play the rest of the season.
This year, Foles has completed 63.2 percent of his passes for 1,256 yards and 16 touchdowns in parts of 7 games. He played in only 6 games last year.
He's only just starting to figure out how to play at this level, and yet he has been remarkably efficient … and careful:
That was Nick Foles' first turnover of the season.—
Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) November 10, 2013
That compares with Vick's numbers so far this season: 54.6 completion percentage for 1,215 yards, five touchdowns and seven turnovers.
The big problems with Foles this season have been momentary glimpses of inconsistency with under-thrown balls and occasional indecision. So far, those mistakes haven't hurt the Eagles.
Foles' best plays all day have been near interceptions.—
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Foles has been mediocre in this half. 2nd half is huge. Coaching staff needs to see more consistency On-again, off-again is hard to trust—
Zach Berman (@ZBerm) November 10, 2013
Earlier in the year you could argue that Foles deserved a chance because he could be the Eagles' QB of the future, whereas Vick's time is limited.
You don't need to bend it that way anymore. This much is clear: Philadelphia has a better chance of winning with Foles as its starter. Right now.
The Eagles (5-5) are in second place in the NFC East and could be poised for a division title with more consistent play.
With a tough stretch to end the season that includes games against Detroit, Chicago and Dallas, Foles should remain the starter.
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UPDATE: Citigroup Reiterates Neutral Rating, Lowers PT on ON Semiconductor
In a report published Wednesday, Citigroup reiterated its Neutral rating on ON Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ONNN), but lowered its price target from $9.00 to $7.50.
Citigroup noted, "We trim EPS, reduce our target to $7.50 from $9 on lower EPS and multiples, and reiterate our Neutral rating for ONNN. The stock could bounce after Thursday's earnings based on low expectations and investors 'buying the cut', but sustainable outperformance into year-end may be limited by lack of smartphone exposure and difficulty assessing Sanyo GMs. We would potentially become more constructive, all else being equal, if: 1) the 3 pending Sanyo fab closures can convert to improving GMs toward low-30% by year-end, and 2) if we establish confidence Citi's economic surprise index is set to further rebound based on ONNN's high correlation with the index."
ON Semiconductor closed on Tuesday at $6.94.
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Courage Isn't Enough
Learning from other people's mistakes
John Owen
It all came back to me in March 1984 when standing in the CBC national newsroom in Toronto: someone handed me a wire story out of El Salvador reporting that the American photographer John Hoagland had been caught in a cross fire and killed.
It was Hoagland, on assignment for Newsweek, who had upbraided me when I met him earlier that year outside of the Camino Real Hotel, one of those hotels forever linked in journalists' minds as the Salvador war hotel. I was then a senior journalist and field producer for a CBC TV news team that had been in San Salvador long enough to get press credentials, a translator and a van that we'd loaded with our gear. We were ready to roll out and find some "bang-bang." I introduced myself to Hoagland and asked him a few questions about where the fighting was taking place. But what I got in return were expletives: "You fucking TV guys. You come in here and think that you can just head out somewhere without first doing your homework," or something to that effect.
"Do you have any idea where you are going? You are heading right into a contested area that is dangerous!" He shook his head and abruptly walked away. I was shaken. I should have known better. I was also jolted back to reality. I realized that, in my eagerness to demonstrate my gutsiness to our correspondent who'd never been to Salvador and our TV crew, I was about to put us all at risk. It was a sobering exchange, so instead of looking for bang-bang that day, we spent our time cruising the outskirts of San Salvador.
Yet the irony wasn't lost on me when I thought about that incident and then about Hoagland's death. He knew what he was doing—he didn't take foolish chances—and still he lost his life because he'd got himself caught in a cross fire trying, like most remarkable still photographers, to get as close to the action as possible. Our Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial that honors journalists who've been killed on assignment carries this note about Hoagland: "The last two pictures in his camera show the ground swirling up to meet the falling photographer, who kept his finger on the shutter until he died."
If ego got in the way of the safety of me and my crew in El Salvador, then it was stupidity that nearly did me in at the conclusion in 1983 of the bloody Shouf war in the mountains above Beirut. Again on assignment for the CBC, breaking from my inside responsibilities as the executive producer of our flagship news program, "The National," I wanted to test myself back in the field. I volunteered to relieve the CBC's exhausted field producer who had done a long and dangerous stint in Beirut. At the time, well before the Balkans had replaced the Middle East as the most unstable region of the world, the Lebanese civil war, fought against the backdrop of an Israeli-PLO showdown with its TV pictures of the ruins of Beirut, dominated international news coverage.
But several weeks after arriving there, a cease-fire was negotiated, and the fighting among the warring factions in the Shouf Mountains, once home to popular ski resorts, was finally called to a bloody halt.
On the day that the cease-fire went into effect, the correspondent and I decided that the story could best be told, and given an important Canadian angle, by driving to the mountain village of Kfar Matta, where some of the most ferocious fighting had taken place and where the Canadian correspondent Clark Todd, who worked for a rival TV network, had been killed—perhaps murdered—earlier in the war. If peace was restored there, we thought, there was indeed some hope that it might last.
But to get to the village and back in time to edit and feed our piece by satellite that evening, we had to leave early, shoot quickly and race back. My colleagues back in Toronto had heard me rail about the sin of missing a feed deadline, and I felt under enormous self-imposed pressure to make sure that we delivered this story on time.
While driving up into the mountains we spotted what appeared to be a convoy of open trucks, filled with refugees and their belongings, headed for their home villages. It would make an excellent opening establishing shot, and our cameraman and soundman jumped out to record it.
Suddenly the convoy came to a halt. Across the road from where I had remained by our van, I could see that our cameraman and soundman were now being held by someone, not a fighter, who appeared to be waving a pistol at them. He gestured quite wildly and seemed to demand our camera. While it didn't appear that any of us was in danger, this disruption was eating into our scarce time to get to the village. While our cameraman and soundman tried to reason with the man, I noted that our camera was unattended and that I might just be able to retrieve it. But as I made my move, the man wielding the pistol moved rapidly in my direction and pointed the pistol at me. He fired, I dropped—as I understand is a natural reflex—to a fetal position. I assumed that I'd been killed or was about to be. But the man had fired off to one side.
Alive and in shock, the next thing I knew we were all surrounded by members of one of the warring Shouf factions, a jeep full of armed Druze militia. They had watched this drama unfold and swept in once they saw what was about to happen.
The man, a thieving carpet merchant who didn't want pictures of his booty or him recorded was disarmed and taken away. Hours later we got our camera back, slightly damaged and inoperative, and we were released from custody. There was now no prospect of traveling on to Kfar Matta. We returned to the famed Commodore Hotel to regroup and to see about getting our camera repaired.
I am uncomfortable telling these stories. They undermine the pride I felt at the time, thinking that I enjoyed a reputation of sorts for being willing to put myself at risk in these dangerous war zones, and they highlight the clumsiness and inexperience that marked my forays into hostile environments. As I reflect on these ventures, I think that what propelled me was a mixture of motives, ranging from a personal need to come to terms with never having served in Vietnam, owing to a medical deferment, to a professional sense of curiosity about what was really happening in the trouble spots of the world. Both of these impulses sent me toward zones of danger, but neither would have given me the slightest sort of survival skills once there.
Also, when I look back on what took me to a war or two as a producer for the CBC and a risky stint at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station that was presumed about to blow up, I was, even at the time of these episodes, aware that it wouldn't hurt my news career to be on these high-profile assignments. I had already figured out that those who'd been in the field enjoyed more status than those who'd never put themselves on the line covering conflicts. That was a conventional journalistic wisdom of the times, and in most major news organizations—whether it was The New York Times, CBS News or the CBC—you could often trace how national editors or executive producers had held foreign bureau positions or been on major international assignments before assuming managerial positions.
As I moved up the CBC executive ladder myself, I shared that viewpoint. When I became chief news editor of the CBC, I tended to appoint to senior positions those journalists who were aware of the risks and dangers that they were asking others to take in the field. I also shared a view common for those times that someone's refusal of any assignment to a potentially dangerous area smacked of cowardice, especially if that person willingly accepted pleasant assignments to exotic locales. In fact, I was determined to fire the French soundman who worked out of our Paris bureau because he had refused to accompany the cameraman to several conflicts. But the sound recordist had French law on his side, and I proved unsuccessful in sacking him.
Looking back on those two experiences in El Salvador and Lebanon—and there are other examples where I also did ill-advised things—I realize that the willingness to go into dangerous places was not enough to guarantee my safety, the safety of anyone who worked with me or our ability to capture an important story and bring it home to our viewers. We all desperately needed the kind of training for "hostile environments" that is now readily available in Britain for journalists who are about to be dispatched to their first conflict.
Until the BBC developed these courses—working closely with ex-British soldiers who realized that there was a genuine need (and good business opportunity) to sell their soldier survival skills to journalists—there was nothing in the way of training for anyone heading out the door to cover a civil war or a natural disaster. If you'd been in the military yourself, you had some sense of readiness, or if you were an avid camper, you had some idea of how to protect yourself and handle adversity. But in the words of British news photographer Gary Knight, if you were neither, "You became experienced by surviving your first assignment."
If you were lucky, you were never confronted with life-and-death decisions that tested your resourcefulness. But if you were unlucky or stupid—as I'd been in Lebanon—you called on reserves that simply weren't there.
But Andrew Kain, an ex-Special Air Service soldier who can rightly lay claim to being the founding father of these battlefield-training courses, feels that too many deaths of journalists attributed to "being at the wrong place at the wrong time" are in reality a result of misjudgments, the kind of misjudgments that I made. Too often, Kain feels, journalists tragically "took the wrong road" or didn't pick up danger signals that are part of a hyperawareness that the training courses help to engender.
Kain acknowledges that some of the highest-profile journalists take excessive risks but that those who live to report their stories make careful calculations and also may just be plain lucky, even if they've never sat through one of his courses. But Kain, an amateur military historian, quotes Otto von Bismarck: "Only a fool learns from experience. I learn from other people's mistakes."
Kain and I talked about the differences between time-honored (and prize-honored) journalistic risk taking and dangerously foolish courage at the end of a Marshall Center-organized conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on "military and media relations." After Kain and I parted, I returned to my room and resumed reading former foreign correspondent Peter Maass' book, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, about the Bosnian war. (I was about to go to Bosnia for the first time, having been stuck in London as bureau chief along with other CBC duties.)
I resumed reading precisely where Maass describes his decision to drive down a dirt road that a Muslim villager told him would lead to a Serb-run prison camp. "We returned to the car and discussed the desirability of heading down the dirt track. Should we give it a shot? The answer was obviously no." Maass then says, "And so we headed down the dirt road."
Maass and his companions were soon spotted, and he was convinced they would be executed in the remote surrounding cornfields. But miraculously, they were released. Maass in telling the story says: "I was also dismayed by the realization that I had the capacity to act like a crazy SOB, despite my better judgment. The degree of stupidity in heading down that dirt track cannot be measured."
But Maass said that he, like so many other driven journalists, was like a "bloodhound on the scent of a fox" and was determined to get to the camps to see for himself what was being done to Bosnian Muslims. He did later accomplish that mission and gave the world the benefit of his eyewitness reports.
During the kosovo conflict, all Western journalists, save one—Canadian Paul Watson reporting for the Los Angeles Times—did the sensible and safe thing and stayed out of Kosovo once NATO started its bombing campaign. But Watson felt that in good conscience he couldn't remain outside and went right back in and continued to file throughout the war. Said Watson (who was awarded the George Polk Award in 1999 for his reporting of the war in Kosovo) in a piece reflecting on what he'd done: "The few colleagues who knew what I was doing said I was insane. My wife understood that I had to go back. So I went. It would probably take a psychiatrist to really understand why I felt compelled to return and offer Serbs an easy target for revenge against Westerners but everyone has his own ghosts." And Watson is one of the few correspondents who says openly that some stories are worth dying for. In a March 2000 Freedom Forum debate in London on the coverage of Kosovo he said that "I don't wish death on anybody, but in this business if you choose to do it, the first decision you have to make is: "'I'm willing to make the sacrifice.'"
I did put the question to a Canadian psychiatrist, one who himself has been under fire and is fascinated by what motivates journalists to take the risks they do. Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a South African by birth, served as a medical officer during the bloody Namibian conflict in 1984. He kept a diary, later published in a small book called In Conflict. Feinstein, who distinguished himself in his medical work in the conflict, is greatly admiring of those journalists who do feel a higher calling and are willing to put their lives on the line: "I would put it to you that journalists who go to extraordinary lengths to report the truth obviously show a greater degree of personal courage and are motivated by a strong sense of personal justice." Dr. Feinstein, who practices psychiatry at the University of Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital, does worry, however, about the long-term consequences for many journalists who have witnessed too much horror and destruction. He and The Freedom Forum are about to embark on the most ambitious study yet done of journalists who may be suffering from what is referred to as post-traumatic stress syndrome.
For Andrew Kain, the ex-soldier, and for me, the former CBC producer, some of the most impressively brave journalism is practiced by local journalists who somehow find the inner strength to continue publishing newspapers and broadcasting reports that daily put them in harm's way. When I met up with Kain in Dubrovnik, he had just arrived from Podgorica, Montenegro, where he'd staged a version of the safety course, underwritten by The Freedom Forum, for 10 independent journalists from Serbia—many of them from the embattled B-92 news group of Belgrade (now called B-292) and five from Montenegro. They are at the knife edge of the Balkans conflict and face daily unrelenting pressure, physical intimidation and death threats. Kain is in awe of their willingness to keep going, especially given how little they're paid—well under $100 a month in most places. On Kain's "courage meter" this kind of risk taking ranks higher than any other journalism that he's encountered. But can it be foolish as well?
When Kain and I were having our conversation in Dubrovnik, a young Bulgarian correspondent, Boyko Vassilev, from Bulgarian National Television joined us. He has covered, along with a cameraman, the conflicts in the Balkans by driving from Sofia, Bulgaria, staying in hostels and transporting his own canisters of gasoline. He speaks seven languages so he doesn't need to hire translators.
Asked whether what he was doing was courageous or foolish, Vassilev whose first name means war in Bulgarian, said that "true courage is never foolish."
"It's a calculation you make," he said. "And when it's 50-50 or worse, then you don't go."
John Owen was chief news editor of CBC Television News and chief of foreign bureaus based in London before joining The Freedom Forum as European director.


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There wasn't all bad recruiting news for Notre Dame on Friday. Even though the Irish lost a commitment from linebacker Richard Yeargin, Notre Dame picked up a huge – literally – commitment from massive defensive tackle Pete Mokwuah on Friday as well.
Notre Dame has been in search of a defensive tackle for the #GoldenArmy14 since Matt Dickerson decommitted from Notre Dame to be closer to home after learning his father was diagnosed with cancer and they have done just that with the addition of the mammoth Mokwuah. At 6'4″, 315 lbs, Mohwuah has the build of a prototypical nose tackle for the Notre Dame defensive front.
Notre Dame only recently began to show serious interest in the New York native. The day after being introduced as the new defensive coordinator for Notre Dame, Brian VanGorder visited the Staten Island, New York native and told him that the Irish were going to be offering another defensive tackle soon. A week later Brian Kelly extended that offer to Mohwuah and he was quick to accept despite being committed to Rutgers since May.
For Mohwuah, the offer from Notre Dame was just too good to turn down. As NJ.com reporting last week.
Alabama, Florida, Pitt and Miami (Fla.) are additional schools that have made a strong push since Mokwuah's commitment to Rutgers. For instance, Mario Cristobal, Alabama offensive line coach, has stopped in twice over the past few months but hasn't been able to get Mokwuah on campus.
Mokwuah has stood strong throughout an onslaught of football factories, but there is something about Notre Dame, that has caught his eye.
"It's the academics," he said. "It's tough to just shut that down. If another school came to me, like some random SEC school, and I knew the academics were not first there, I wouldn't even consider it."
Mokwuah has the look of an ideal Notre Dame football player off the field as well. Right now he reportedly has a 45 minute ride every morning and afternoon to and from school so that he can attend St. Joseph by the Sea High School in Staten Island. Combine that with his emphasis on academics and it's pretty clear Notre Dame just added a member to its class that will fit in immediately on and off the field.
On the field, many Irish fans may not get too excited when they will look at Mohwuah's 3-star designation, but there are a couple of factors that contributed to his ranking. First, he's only played varsity football for two years so there wasn't a whole lot of film on him when the recruiting services began evaluating the class of 2014. As a result of that, Mohwuah wasn't involved in any of the camps that go on throughout the year to really improve his stock. His senior year highlights, however, show marked improvement from his junior season and a lot of potential for a player who is really just getting his feet wet.
Think of Mokwuah as a 300+ lbs version of Corey Robinson from last year's class. Robinson was a 3-star recruit from most services with an offer list that didn't have many elite suitors but like Mohwuah, he only had played varsity football for a few seasons and was still very raw. Mokwuah is in the same boat. He's a big, athletic prospect at defensive tackle but is still very raw. For that reason, he will hopefully be able to redshirt next season and spend a year in the weight room and on the scout team to preserve a year of eligibility and to learn the position.
With Mokwuah on board, Notre Dame is trying to add one more defensive lineman to this year's class and has two visits lined up for next week with additional linemen. Daniel Cage will be on campus for a mid-week visit while Michael Sawyers will be in next weekend along with wide receiver and one-time commitment Isaiah McKenzie. If Notre Dame lands one of either Cage or Sawyers, they will have done an absolutely fantastic job in the final month to make up for the loss of Dickerson.
Comments to this Article
fxm commented on January 25th, 2014 at 7:24 pm
Sounds like Kolin Hill may be heading for Texas.
jimbasil commented on January 25th, 2014 at 7:55 pm
I like the commit. Good call Kelly and Co.
Welcome Pete Mohwuah.
MTFLSmitty commented on January 25th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
jonny commented on January 25th, 2014 at 8:58 pm
more, please
Jack commented on January 25th, 2014 at 10:16 pm
This stuff happens. ND loses someone and will vain someone else. Its nothing new.
Ron Burgundy replied on January 26th, 2014 at 9:05 am
C'mon now Jack. Lou or Ara would never lose a recruit. Lou would live with each new one simultaneously to prevent a kid from changing his mind.
Carroll commented on January 26th, 2014 at 2:31 pm
His name appears to be Pete Mokwuah not Mohwuah.
bruce johnson commented on January 26th, 2014 at 10:28 pm
cant afford to lose any commits on the defense


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New York's awesome Tronic Studios must have watched too much Tron before they released this great promo video for the blog of the same name. A trailer for a weblog? Yes, that's right but it's not just a trailer. Tronic Studios: "The Cool Hunters have… Read More


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Councillors concerned about plans for new emergency hospital
11:00am Tuesday 4th February 2014 in News By Helen Morton, Senior Reporter
A GROUP of councillors tasked with looking at proposals for a new emergency hospital to serve the people of Basingstoke, north and mid-Hampshire said they have "a number of concerns" about the plans.
As previously reported, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover hospitals, is working with local Clinical Commissioning Groups on plans to create a new critical treatment hospital.
As reported in last week's Gazette, the new hospital, which could cost around £70million, will be based either on the Basingstoke site or on a patch of land between the A303, A34 and the M3.
But there are fears the creation of the new hospital will lead to the removal of specialist staff from Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals, and the downgrading of accident and emergency and maternity units.
Regardless of where the proposed hospital is built, it will treat the most serious cases and will also be the site for consultant-led maternity care.
A report on the plans was considered by members of Hampshire County Council's health and overview scrutiny committee on Tuesday.
Dr Nigel Sylvester, vice clinical chair of West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, told the meeting that 80 per cent of care would remain at Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals, but creating a new centre to treat the most critical cases was vital.
He said: "It will be manned by staff from Winchester and Basingstoke but this does not mean that we leave these hospitals bereft.
"Specialist staff will still be available to offer advice, but critical care will be located in the treatment centre."
The committee heard that pregnant women classed as high-risk – first-time mums or those with complications during pregnancy – would be encouraged to give birth at the new hospital.
Councillor Fiona Mather raised concerns about those women not classed as high-risk who go into labour at their nearest hospital but then suffer complications and need to be transferred to the new centre.
Dr Sylvester said those involved in the plans need to look at ways of reducing this risk, as they currently do with those mums-to-be who choose a home birth.
Cllr Mather said she found it "hard to believe" his assertion that this would only affect a "very small" proportion of women, saying: "one disaster is too many."
Cllr Martin Tod said the hospital trust needed to be clearer about its plans. He added: "You talk of having an exciting vision for Basingstoke and Winchester hospitals, but it is not clear what that vision is."
Cllr Pat West, chair of the committee, told speakers for the trust and the CCGs that councillors had a "number of concerns" about the plans.
The committee members said they wanted finer details about the proposals, and asked for an update after a formal public consultation process, which will begin in February.
l Do you have a view, or concerns, about the plans for the new hospital? Have your say by writing to The Letters Editor, The Gazette, Pelton Road, Basingstoke, RG21 6YD, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or comment online at basingstokegazette.co.uk/news.
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Sam_Walker123456 says...
jonone wrote:The councillors have been appointed to look at the proposals. If they are not convinced then by them they are right to send the Trust away to put more meat on the bones of their proposals. This project 'could cost £70m', but will probably escalate to +£100m before completion, so I for one want to know that the plans have been fully and rigorously scrutinised before they are approved.
Hmmm, whose word would I take note of - an experienced medical professional, or some councillors....?
Looking at it another way, the medical profession could easily get carried away by the prospect of a gleaming, fully equipped, new facility and may be exaggerating their claims for the benefits.
5:49pm Tue 4 Feb 14
Elena Ellie says...
Does this mean that specialist staff will not be sited at the main Basingstoke Hospital and only available on an advisory capacity? If so, this is a very worrying prospect.
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text: The POD group outing to the Lions-Jets game at Ford field is just over a month from now, on Sunday November 7th. I paid for my ticket months ago but haven't heard much since. Is the group outing still on? How do I get my ticket? How many have bought tickets? Who wants to carpool? I'm coming from Grand Rapids and was planning on picking up KDawg on the way. Someone else had expressed interest in riding with us to the game. Time is getting short and some of us have to make plans regarding days off and such. What's up?


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The Central Michigan gymnastics team might of sweated the selection show out a little bit Monday afternoon.
The Chippewas were the last team selected on the show.
They earned a six seed and will travel to Washington this weekend. Their field has defending champion and one-seed Alabama, followed by LSU, Arizona, Washington and Iowa.
The Chippewas are familiar with Washington after competing against them this year already. CMU was narrowly defeated against, at the time, the No. 24 Huskies.
The only other MAC school to earn a bid was Kent State, which earned a five seed. CMU beat Kent State twice this season.


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Oophorectomy (oh-oaf-uh-REK-tuh-me) is a surgical procedure to remove one or both of your ovaries. Your ovaries are almond-shaped organs that sit on each side of the uterus in your pelvis. Your ovaries contain eggs and produce hormones that control your menstrual cycle.
Oophorectomy can be done alone, but it is often done as part of a larger surgery to remove the uterus (hysterectomy) in women who have undergone menopause. Oophorectomy is also commonly combined with surgery to remove the nearby fallopian tubes (salpingectomy), since they share a common blood supply with the ovaries. When combined, the procedure is called salpingo-oophorectomy.
When oophorectomy involves removing both ovaries, it's called bilateral oophorectomy. When the surgery involves removing only one ovary, it's called unilateral oophorectomy.
Oophorectomy may be performed for:
Oophorectomy combined with other procedures
Oophorectomy can be performed with other surgical procedures, including surgery to remove the uterus (hysterectomy). In women with an increased risk of ovarian cancer, oophorectomy is often combined with surgery to remove the fallopian tubes in a procedure called salpingo-oophorectomy.
Oophorectomy is a relatively safe procedure that carries a small risk of complications, including:
Risks of premature menopause
Women who have yet to undergo menopause will experience premature menopause if both ovaries are removed. This deprives the body of the hormones produced in the ovaries, leading to complications such as:
Women who take low doses of hormone replacement drugs after surgery and until about age 50 may reduce the risk of these complications. But hormone replacement therapy has risks of its own. Discuss options with your doctor.
To prepare for oophorectomy, your doctor may ask that you:
Plan for a hospital stay
Some women may need to stay in the hospital for a few days after oophorectomy. How long you stay depends on how the procedure is performed and the reason for your surgery. Ask your doctor what you can expect.
Plan ahead for time in the hospital by packing:
Plan for infertility
If you want to have children, talk with your doctor about your options. For some conditions you may need only one ovary removed (unilateral oophorectomy). With the remaining ovary, you'll still have a menstrual cycle and you can still conceive naturally.
If both of your ovaries are removed (bilateral oophorectomy), but your uterus remains, you may be able to become pregnant using assisted reproductive technology. Ask your doctor to refer you to a fertility specialist who can review your options with you.
During oophorectomy
During oophorectomy surgery you'll receive anesthetics to put you in a sleep-like state. You won't be aware during the procedure.
Oophorectomy can be performed two ways:
Laparoscopic oophorectomy may also be robotically assisted in certain cases. During robotic surgery, the surgeon watches a 3-D monitor and uses hand controls that allow finer movement of the surgical tools.
Whether your oophorectomy is an open, laparoscopic or robotic procedure depends on your situation. Laparoscopic or robotic oophorectomy usually offers quicker recovery, less pain and a shorter hospital stay. But it isn't appropriate for everyone, and in some cases, surgery that begins as laparoscopy may need to be converted to an open procedure during the operation.
After oophorectomy
After oophorectomy you can expect to:
How quickly you can go back to your normal activities after oophorectomy depends on your situation, including the reason for your surgery and how it was performed. Almost all women are able to return to full activity by six weeks after surgery. Women who undergo laparoscopic or robotic surgery may return to full activity sooner — as early as two weeks after surgery. Discuss exercise, driving, sexual restrictions and overall activity level with your surgeon.


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