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EUGENE, Ore. — Changes are on the horizon that will shape the direction of passenger rail in Oregon and the city of Eugene wants the community involved.
As the city's population grows, leaders want to give people more options to get around. Not just in town, but around the state. A change that is already in effect at the Eugene Train Depot is a train running from Eugene to Portland.
ODOT recently purchased two train sets to allow convenient business travel in a single day, but it made changes to the schedule that many riders weren't too happy about. ODOT decided to get rid of the mid-morning departure from Eugene. Tuesday's meeting will give people a chance to weigh in on that, along with other issues.
"Some people have been frustrated by the change and we'd like the opportunity for people to have a conversation about that. The benefit of that would be people from Portland can come to Eugene for the day to do business, which is obviously a benefit for our community for people to do that," says Transportation Planning Manager Rob Inerfeld.
Mayor Kitty Piercy will also be there to discuss Oregon's passenger rail study. It's looking at ways to further improve travel between Eugene and Portland. She serves as the leadership council co-chair and will be making recommendations to the governor on preferred train configurations.
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Land of the Black Flag - By Casey Coombs. JAAR, Yemen - "Al Qaeda, they don't have a country," my Yemeni security guard said as we passed through the thirteenth and final military checkpoint along a rugged, potholed road leading to the town of Jaar, al Qaeda's newest stronghold in southern Yemen.
"When they see places quiet from the government -- a lazy government -- they go. " Under the moniker Ansar al-Sharia, or Partisans of Islamic Law, al Qaeda handily seized Jaar in March 2011. They quickly renamed the peaceful hamlet Waqar -- it means "respect" or "majesty," according to one of its new inhabitants -- and instituted a strict Islamic government. Yemen: Al-Qaida's new haven. ABYAN PROVINCE, Yemen — After a brief respite in the air assault on al-Qaida militants in Yemen, Sanaa and Washington's warplanes are again scrambling.
A five-day bombing campaign mid-March, for instance, killed at least 60 militants across central and southern parts of the country. Most of the strikes — launched from warships, jets and drones — occurred in Yemen's Abyan Province, a region on the Gulf of Aden that has become the latest and perhaps most important front in the war against al-Qaida. Ceasefire in Yemen. Where to next for Yemen's Arab Spring?
With a new resolution on Yemen adopted by the Security Council, a new promise from President Saleh to step down, and a ceasefire in place, the world is wondering anew where Yemen's Arab Spring is heading. Armed Yemeni dissident tribesmen patrol a damaged neighbourhood in Sanaa on June 9, 2011 following days of fighting with government security forces The international spotlight alighted, then lingered, on Yemen this past week.
On 21 October—the day after the capture and then death of Libya's Qadhafi—the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling on Yemen's Present President Saleh to accept a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-brokered deal to relinquish his 33-year hold on power. Yemen's State Within a Failed State - Photos By Tom Finn. It was a year ago this week that young men and women first flooded into Yemen's streets en masse to demonstrate against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
On Jan. 27, 2011, at least 16,000 Yemenis protested in the capital of Sanaa, demanding an end to Saleh's 33-year rule. It has been a strange, bloody, and maddening journey ever since. Saleh for Sale. Between You and Me Now that Saleh has left Yemen, steps must be taken to ensure his extended influence is also removed.
Though Ali Abdullah Saleh has departed Yemen, his influence remains strong. What's next for Yemen? Three Scenarios for Yemen's Future As the country teeters on the brink of potential civil war, The Majalla proposes three possible scenarios for Yemen's near future. Yemen has endured the least productive uprising of a momentous year in the Arab World, and now is consumed by divisions. Examined here are the stress points of a divided nation, specifically looking at where the cracks will form should President Saleh cling to power, become the victim of a coup, or instigate transition.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh addresses supporters in the southern city of Aden 11 September 1999. With the world's attention focused on Tunisia, Syria, and Iran, developments in Yemen have made few headlines recently. A Reluctant Leader. Vice President of Yemen, Abd Rabbu Mansour Al-Hadi Yemen's Vice President Abd Rabbu Mansour Al-Hadi is the interim government's consensus candidate for the upcoming presidential elections.
As the only candidate contesting the poll, he is effectively President-Elect and faces the unenviable task of pulling Yemen back from the brink. Yemen's Turn. With presidential elections due in February, what lies ahead for Yemen?
Is Yemen's presidential election the first step towards a new, more unified and secure state? Certainly many Yemenis and some influential international friends would like to think so. As with Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, Yemen will be closely watched for hints of the new world taking shape across North Africa and the Middle East. A supporter of Ali Abdullah Saleh unwittingly carries the out-going President's portrait upside-down Yemen will hold a presidential election on 21 February. Freezing Saleh's Power. In a December speech at Chatham House, Nobel Laureate Tawakul Karman addressed the London public.
She voiced two demands: freeze former Yemeni President Ali Saleh's assets, an independent investigation into alleged war crimes. But in light of recent developments surrounding former president Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure, she must broaden the agenda in order to help bring about a total transition to democracy. A Nobel Prize for the Yemeni People. Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkul Karman was announced last night as one of the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
For once, the Nobel committee really got it right. Karman has been a tireless, creative and effective advocate for human rights, media freedoms, and democracy in Yemen for years. And Yemen's struggle for change has been largely forgotten by the world in spite of its almost unbelievable resilience in the face of dim prospects for success. She represents the very best of the new Arab public. Now let us hope that the award sparks the international community to refocus on Yemen's forgotten revolution and push hard for the political transition which it so desperately needs and deserves.
Fighter at a Neglected Front. Tawakkul Karman, Yemeni Activist and Nobel Prize Winner Tawakkul Karman, a Yemeni journalist and activist, is one of three women awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
She becomes the first Arab woman to win the prize. The End(s) of Stability. In September 2010, Saudi Arabia marked the anniversary of the 1962 Republican Revolution in Yemen by funding lavish parties in the country's capital. Large numbers of Yemenis thronged the Saudi Arabian embassy in Sana'a to collect the cash dispensed to commemorate this momentous occasion. Such a degree of profligateness in Saudi foreign policy is hardly new, but the pretence of solidarity demonstrated in their celebration of the Republican Revolution is particularly perplexing—even by Saudi standards of prevarication. On 26 September 1962, a small group of army officers in North Yemen ended the thousand-year-old Imamate overnight and established the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR).
The Republican Revolution, supported by Nasserite Egypt, sparked a number of significant internal upheavals in Saudi Arabia. 90 dead as suicide bomber strikes military parade in Yemen capital Sanaa. Monday 21 May 2012 22.12 At least 90 people are now known to have died in this morning's suicide bomb attack in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. A police source said a man in a soldier's uniform blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal.
Hundreds of injured are being treated in seven hospitals across Sanaa. All the dead and injured are soldiers. Let's Talk about Yemen. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace dissects the economic challenges facing Yemen, and finds that political insecurity is the root cause of economic frailty. A Yemeni soldier shades himself from the sun as anti-government protesters perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally the the capital in Sanaa, on April 13, 2012 Yemen's weaknesses and strengthens are the focus of a recent report by the Carnegie Endowment. On one side, the author stresses the country's natural resources, with oil and natural gas on the frontline. On the other, the report stresses Yemen's incapability of managing these same resources (and many others) due to both its political structure and insecurity in the region more generally.
The Cultural Roots Of Kidnapping in Yemen. Students perform morning exercises before attending a lecture on the impact of terrorism in Sanaa. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah) Author: Al-Hayat (Pan Arab) Posted May 15, 2012 March 14 was an ill-fated day for Zu Yazen Sadeq Nasser, a 13-year-old Yemeni sixth grader. Yemen's Hijacked Revolution. What Next for Yemen? Patriotic Criticism. Yemen Bomb Plot Thwarted. The struggle for security and against terrorism in Yemen: in whose interests? Signature Strikes in Yemen. Yémen - Yemen.


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Actor Samuel L. Jackson tweeted out a photo of him hanging out with the University of Georgia football team. Jackson gave a short speech to the team.
Samuel L. Jackson poses for a portrait following a ceremony at Sardi''s restaurant in New York on Jan. 12.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson has been vocal through Twitter about the Olympics. He seems to have no favorite sport but is willing to sit through everything. And comment on everything.
Samuel L. Jackson appears as Nick Fury in the motion picture ''Marvel''s The Avengers.''
Film actor Samuel L Jackson announces the starting lineups for the New Orleans Hornets prior to tip-off against the Los Angeles Clippers at the New Orleans Arena.
Samuel L. Jackson in the motion picture "Pulp Fiction." Jackson will do the introductions for the New Orleans Hornets for Thursday''s game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
Samuel L. Jackson attends TimesTalk: A Conversation with Samuel L. Jackson at The Times Center on Oct. 24 in New York.
Jackson, in his trademark Kangol hat, wore a Giorgio Armani Nehru style linen jacket with Giorgio Armani jeans and cobalt blue shagreen print tennis shoes.
The cast of Spike Lee's landmark race relations movie Do the Right Thing celebrate its 20th anniversary Monday in — where else? — New York.
From left: John Turturro, Joie Lee, Bill Lee, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, and Luis Antonio Ramos.
Samuel L. Jackson, left, goes down his list of thank-you's during his American Cinemathique tribute Tuesday in Los Angeles.
The honor was presented to him by his Star Wars director, Geoge Lucas.
Samuel L. Jackson, right, marks the bittersweet premiere of Soul Men with rapper/actor Ice-T and his wife, Coco, Tuesday in New York.
Jackson's co-star, Bernie Mac, died in August.
Samuel L. Jackson spends Tuesday painting the railing at Memphis' Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
The National Civil Rights Museum is built around the hotel where King was shot to death April 4, 1968.
The Oscar-nominated actor helped volunteers clean up the building leading up to next week's 40th anniversary events.


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Here at MAKE, we organized the first Maker Faire ever in the Bay Area in 2006 with the intent of uniting the local maker community and celebrating all things maker-made. After the first couple of years, we started hearing from folks near and far, telling us about how they too had great maker communities and how we should bring the Faire to their town. In the true spirit of MAKE, we created…
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PUBLISHED: 09 Aug 2011 00:32:00 | UPDATED: 10 Feb 2012 16:53:56PUBLISHED: 09 Aug 2011 PRINT EDITION: 09 Aug 2011Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad needs a few tweaks, and a few apps, but it's a pleasure to use.
John Davidson
Hewlett-Packard had better be careful not to improve its TouchPad tablet too much more, to the point where too many people will want to buy it.
Make the TouchPad a little thinner, a little lighter, add a few more crucial apps to its catalogue, and Apple, which seem to think it deserves a monopoly on tablets, will sue HP and demand all TouchPads be fed into an industrial grinder.
Thankfully for all concerned, the TouchPad is not yet a major threat to Apple's iPad.
The model that will go on sale in Australia on August 15 is a little too expensive ($699 for a 32 gigabyte model with no 3G, versus $689 for the equivalent iPad), a little too heavy (740 grams versus 600 grams) and a little too thick (12mm versus 9mm) to trouble Apple's lawyers, much less to trouble Samsung, which (courts willing) should soon be coming out with a tablet that's thinner, lighter and, apparently, much, much better than even the iPad.
If Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 weren't better than an iPad, then why would Apple have sought an injunction against Samsung bringing it here? It stands to reason, doesn't it?
Still, there is plenty to like about the TouchPad, and plenty of reason for HP to hope that one day soon it will get the imprimatur of an Apple lawsuit, if not with this model then at least with the next one.
The webOS operating system on the TouchPad, for starters, is absolutely marvellous to use, and much, much better than the stinking software on the iPad, to which we here in the Digital Life Labs suddenly and inexplicably developed a visceral aversion this time last week.
We raved about the user interface on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet when it came out a few months ago, and now we know how Research In Motion got it so right, so quickly: they ripped a page or 10 out of the webOS playbook (speaking of patent disputes waiting to happen), taking many of webOS's ideas and tweaking them a little to suit the BlackBerry look and feel.
We can't decide which one we like better. They both use gestures terrifically well, and on both of them, when you slide open apps around with your fingertips, skipping effortlessly from app to app, you get the sense that you're using a tablet the way it's supposed to be used.
Maybe webOS is a shade ahead, for eschewing fiddly buttons a little more than the PlayBook.
Both of them are ahead of Android (which still looks more like a mobile phone operating system rather than a tablet operating system, though we're yet to see Android 3.1) and both of them are ahead of Apple's iOS (which, did I mention, now officially stinks).
Of course, the niceties of the operating system count for little if there's no software to run on it, and at this stage it's hard to come to a conclusion about HP's app store, which perhaps for trademark reasons, or perhaps because HP has a knack for the mundane, it has called the HP App Catalog.
As I write this review, paid apps are yet to appear in the Australian version of the Catalog, and frankly there are bugger-all free apps worth writing about.
There's yet no Kindle (though it's coming), no Kobo, no tablet-friendly version of Evernote (there is one which shows up in a tiny screen, obviously designed for webOS phones), no Dropbox app (more on that in a moment), no Sonos, no Plants Versus Zombies, no Scrabble, no file explorer.
No most of the stuff you might like to add.
Hopefully, though, most of those apps will appear before too long, unless, of course, the current litigious environment sends a chill through the development community, which is a distinct possibility.
In place of a stand-alone Dropbox app, HP (or more precisely, Palm, the original developer of webOS) has developed a system called Synergy, which takes cloud-based services such as Dropbox, Google Docs and Facebook and plugs them into the operating system so that third-party applications can easily use them.
It's a very promising and elegant idea, but at the moment Synergy seems a little under-cooked.
For starters, several of the apps we tried could have made use of Synergy but didn't, leaving the TouchPad with an inconsistent feel to it.
Sometimes you see your Synergy accounts, and can access files stored on Dropbox or Facebook or Google Docs from within an app, and sometimes you can't.
An e-book reader we tried couldn't access the e-books we had stored in our Dropbox account, for instance, and in the absence of a stand-alone Dropbox app, we could find no way to download those files manually and spoon-feed them into the e-book reader.
There are still a few kinks to work out in the operating system, too.
The device can still be a little sluggish, despite a recent firmware update. Only a very limited number of file formats are supported by the video player. From time to time the onscreen keyboard can stop working.
Connection to a PC works only if you close all the visible apps, and when you disconnect from the PC you get an "Owww! That hurts!" error, even if you have disconnected correctly.
It took HP only a few weeks to address some of the major concerns US customers had with the TouchPad after it was released there on July 1, so hopefully HP will release some firmware updates addressing the outstanding concerns in short order.
We just have to hope there's never a court-ordered firmware update, removing all the features on which Apple believes it owns a monopoly.
As far as we're concerned, the only monopoly Apple has right now is on stinking.
And, right now, the TouchPad infringes that one, just a little.
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By Stephen Gee
I've traveled a fair bit during my lifetime. In recent times I've either visited or lived and worked in China, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Thailand, Laos, UK, France and Germany. You could say I regularly 'visit' many places too – principally but not exclusively the UK, New Zealand, Australia, USA and Canada seeing as I'm an addicted netizen.
There are disturbing consistencies I've noticed in all these places which I've joined as 'idea dots in my head'. Those dots are giving me an image I can't really ignore and don't like much.
Whether it be in Melbourne, Bangkok, Leeds, Ostend, Shanghai, Auckland, Los Angeles, Seoul or Berlin, it's the same picture I observe, to a lesser or greater extent, but always the same picture.
Gridlock, pollution, waste, land, air, soil and waterways spoilt by……………. US.
Try, if it's legal your way getting out of your car at a random spot and proceed to walk along the side of any major highway connecting cities anywhere for oh, say 100 meters. I've done this a few times on different continents but always with the same results – I've needed a plastic bag to collect the casually discarded cigarette packets, drink cans, bits of vehicles, glass bottles, and yes – plastic bags too.
Try finding rivers anywhere that humans exist in significant numbers that aren't to some degree polluted.
Try finding a major natural, as in not man made, forest that isn't degraded and shrinking.
Try breathing in downtown Shanghai, Paris or Auckland.
Try swimming in Bangkok's Chao Phraya River. Try finding green space anywhere in inner Shanghai or Seoul.
Try finding beaches near any urban center that aren't to some degree strewn with washed up garbage – most usually plastic.
Try moving between any two major cities anywhere on the planet by road transport during busy times without being in a traffic jam.
From what I can see unless humans radically alter their behavior you won't be able to do any of these things, not now and not in your lifetimes. The way things are headed possibly your children and grandchildren won't be able to do those things in their lifetimes either.
Demographers tell us there are now 6 Billion humans inhabiting planet earth. They tell us that given current trends 3 important and converging demographic forces are on the near horizon.
First global population is increasing – some demographers reckon we'll be at anywhere between 7.5 and 10.5 billion by 2050.
Secondly, more and more people are living in energy hungry cities which are relatively alienated from nature compared to rural and wilderness areas.
Lastly Billions of people worldwide aspire to the materialist levels of existence experienced by western / first world countries.
Adding these three factors together I can get the sinking feeling that during my lifetime I'm only going to see more of the somewhat 'Silent Spring' like scenes I've described above.
Then enter feminism (aided and abetted by misguided chivalry) and it's unleashing of the materialist, hypergamous modern female.
Much has been spoken here and at A Voice for Men about the prevalence of sexist greed inherent in feminism, and of the forces of hypergamy in females being an instinct which left unchecked by culture leads women to use men as resource providing disposable appliances. Also much has been written at this site of men's part in our current malaise – men who in cowtowing to their instincts to mate giving women the pussy pass and overindulging women generally with misandric laws and social conventions.
So I'll try not to bore my audience by belaboring my point about such matters too much.
It's simply this – given the growing international cultural meme that for men relationships with modern women come with terrible risks attached, and with the inevitability relatively soon of more forms of male birth control I'm beginning to have a line of thought that feminists unwittingly and inadvertently are doing us all a favor.
Namely that in the not too distant future more and more enlightened men, put off by modern women's voracious appetite and empowered with their own new forms of birth control will become a powerful force to depopulate the planet to more environmentally sustainable and unpolluted levels.
Perhaps then I'll come to owe feminists another 'thank you'.
After all they've already inspired me to go my own way and become a human being rather than women's appliance as I formerly was.
So perhaps I'll someday also be thanking them for inspiring millions upon millions of men to protect themselves against women's baser instincts and become the Green wing of Men's Rights Activism.
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The Smartest Ways to Buy and Store Summer Produce
by Dana Angelo White in In Season, June 26, 2014
How you pick and store summer fruits can mean the difference between mealy disappointment and juicy perfection.
Buying: Turn to these antioxidant-packed fruits for a burst of sweet-tart flavor and vitamin C. When shopping for strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries, look for plump and well-shaped pieces that are brightly colored and firm.
Storing: Berries can be stored at room temperature for about 1 to 2 days. After that, get more mileage by keeping them in the fridge. Wash just before using and dry gently with a paper towel. Want to freeze berries? Use these tips.
Buying: Whether it's watermelon, cantaloupe or a lesser-known variety like Sun Jewel or Casaba, melons boast vitamins A and C plus a wide array of cell-protecting phytochemicals. Look for melons that are heavy and have a firm skin. Wash the outside well before cutting to prevent outside germs from being pushed into the flesh by your knife.
Storing: Keep whole melon at room temperature for up to 1 week. Once sliced, store in the fridge in a sealed bag or container for 4 to 5 days.
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Buying: Summer is the absolute best time for peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines. Pop them on the grill, add to salsa and salads or incorporate them into a batch of homemade frozen yogurt. When shopping, choose stone fruits that are firm and colorful and avoid pieces that are bruised or have broken skin.
Storing: Store on the counter for 2 to 3 days or, once ripe, in the refrigerator produce bin for 3 to 5 days (1 to 2 days for apricots).
Buying: Look for heirloom varieties of these lycopene-filled delights and choose pieces that are bright and smooth and possess tight skin.
Storing: Whatever you do, don't refrigerate. The chilly temp will ruin the flavor and sap the fruits of their juiciness. Simply keep tomatoes in a cool, dry place and savor every bite. Making and freezing homemade tomato sauce is just one way to hold on to tomato goodness for months after the season has ended.
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I find giving my berries a vinegar and water bath, then letting them dry before storing in fridge extends their shelf life immensely. I now do it to all my fruit, cuts down on mold spores.
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Peaches freeze beautifully by peeling, removing the pit and slicing into a container. Cover with orange juice, cover tightly and store in the freezer.
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Sam Robertson swaggered into the Celebrity Big Brother basement last night looking ever the dashing Scot, in a kilt. We'll ignore the fact he seemed ever-so-slightly cocky.
The Beaver Falls actor insisted he was single, although it wasn't the most convincing declaration of singledom we've ever heard. Never-the-less, he is apparently on the lookout for love in the CBB house, and there are plenty of women in there who will be right up his street.
According to The Sun, 27-year-old Sam said: "Most guys in their 20s fancy older women.
"Don't get me wrong, there has to be something more than just being older! They have to be super hot too."
Glamour model Lacey Banghard (yes, that is her name) also entered the house last night and she certainly seemed to catch Sam's eye, but, at 20, is she just too young for the cougar loving Dundee lad?
If so, there are plenty of older ladies for him to flirt with in the form of 35-year-old Steps star Claire Richards, 42-year-old actress Tricia Penrose and 57-year-old EastEnders favourite Gillian Taylforth. But they're all currently enjoying the luxury of the main house…
The only women sharing the bleak basement with Sam are Heidi Montag (whose husband Spencer is also down there) and 51-year-old supermodel Paula Hamilton, who admitted she loved Sam's Scottish accent.
Will we see romance blossom in the CBB house for sexy Sam?
Will he ever make it out of the basement and into the main house? He certainly ticks the heartthrob box for CBB 2013.
Sam previsouly starred in teen drama Being Victor, which was shown on STV. Check out our interview with him about the series in the player above.


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Even though a statement from the Kansas City Sprint Center said that Miley had been hospitalized on April 15 for a severe allergic reaction, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that the singer's suffering from a much deeper issue, mostly because of some serious grief she's been unable to shake.
Fans were crushed when Miley Cyrus was forced to cancel her April 15 concert in Kansas City. But a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that she's been headed towards a breakdown for weeks, depressed and running herself ragged. Now find out why.
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The Kansas City Sprint Center stated that Miley was hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics and put on rest by doctors, but her health problems have really cropped up because she's been unable to cope with the April 1 death of her dog, Floyd. We talked about the latest on Miley's hospital stint on our VH1 show, The Gossip Table — you can watch it below.
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Since losing Floyd, the usually cheery singer has seemingly lost the will to take care of herself. "She hasn't been sleeping and it's caught up with her. She is exhausted, beyond exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally, and her family is concerned," the source continued. "She really hasn't had any time off and she would have collapsed on stage had she kept going — she needs liquids, hydration, and most importantly, sleep. The sleep deprivation has caused massive havoc on her emotional well-being."
Miley Cyrus Crushed After Floyd's Death
The day after Floyd died on April 1, it was clear that Miley was absolutely devastated. She took to Twitter to mourn, writing:
Today is the 2nd worst day of my life 😿
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) April 1, 2014
At the time, Miley's message seemed somewhat melodramatic, but now it's clear that Miley wasn't exaggerating. The singer was so broken down by her dog's passing that the grief has actually landed her in the hospital.
We hope Miley's starting to feel better, and hopefully this hospital scare will push her to start taking care of herself again. It's what Floyd would have wanted.
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More Miley Cyrus News:
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why can't you people who hate miley just grow up, show Miley some respect for crying out loud… she is struggling and i think that i am not the only one who cares about miley…. fact is that i CARE deeply about miley and others miley fans i CARE deeply about them too.. haters i don't care about because you guys show AB-SO-F**KING-LUTELY NO respect for miley and i am sorry for the language but you haters don't…
Posted at 3:35 AM on April 20, 2014
Why on earth would she deserve our respect? Miley has a great voice, I can't deny that, but she is throwing it away and wasting her time by acting like a spoiled, horny teenager. We get it, you're not Hannah Montana anymore. The way she acts, the way she prances around on stage doing pornographic dances in barely anything, does not leave anything to respect. Real music lovers don't give a crap about fame. They care about quality, and while Miley is perfectly capable of giving us that, currently she's just not doing it.
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saying this in TONS of respect, Loi: i have had lost one of my dogs and one of my cats that i loved dearly and i was sadden by that, had to go in the hospital so i do really feel for miley… she was not doing drugs and if you say that about miley again, lets just say that you dont want to know…. i still am sticking by miley's side no matter what… could you please show miley some respect because she has been struggling… believe you me i REALLY DO feel for her…
Posted at 3:39 AM on April 20, 2014
I must agree with you here. I lost two cats and my mother and I'm still standing. Losing your dog is a sad thing, of course it is and of course you're allowed to feel grief and mourn about it. But I don't think it's a proper reason to be hospitalized. But heck, what do I know, maybe she has a lot more going on in her life, so I'm not judging. I just think that if she'd take better care of herself and stop trying to prove to I don't even know who that she's a "grown-up" now, and actually starts acting like someone her age, maybe things would work out better for her. Mentally and probably also physically at least.
Miley, right now I am speaking from my heart because I always do and forever will but this comment is for you, Miley… I really can see that because I have had 3 of my dogs die before and no I am not making it up. I had so much grief inside of me and the worst of it was my family and friends said to just get over it… I WILL NOT say that to you because like me I couldn't get over it… You and I are a like in many ways because you need somebody to really listen to you and lend a shoulder to cry on… guess what… I will be more then gladly to listen to you and lend you my shoulder….. i really hope you get better soon because i am worry about you, Miley. i know that you don't think that much of me but to me, you also are my BEST friend and i will listen to you anytime…..
Miley please get better soon. You are my idol and i love you to pieces. I am going to see you at the o2 arena on may 6th me and my cousin have been waiting to see you for 7 years and now it is finally happening. When i finally get to see you it will be a dream come true i have loved you ever sice you first started singing and acting. I have stayed a true fan through everything that you have done. I dont care what people say about you it means nothing because your a grown woman and you have a huge army of adoring smilers by your side, and people saying horrible things about you dont have no one as you have all of us. Everyone going to see you at the 02 arena cant wait to see you and we know that you are going to own that stage like you always have. I love you miley and i always will. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3<3
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That is so true. Miley floyd was lucky to have you as his owner and im sure he loved you with a
l his heart, he still loves you and he would of wanted to see you happy and smiling because that is the miley that he loved to see, no matter what miley always remember floyd loved you very very much and he will always be by your side wherever you go
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- Active Shooter Situations: What to do to Stay Alive – compelling 'Run. Hide. Fight' video explaining what to do in the event of a shooting in a public place. Presented by the US Department of Homeland Security.
- Shots Fired Safety Video - important emergency information in the event of an intruder or active shooter on campus, by Shoreline Community College
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Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Stalled and The Battery
Rue Morgue contributor Charlotte Stear weighs in on the Zombie Appreciation Night selections at this year's Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
Stalled (UK)
Dir: Christian James
If you think you've seen everything a zombie comedy can offer, let me introduce to you Stalled, a British film about a man locked in a bathroom stall during a zombie outbreak. For an entry in a subgenre that has already seen so much, Stalled is a unique, engrossing movie that boasts one of the most interesting zombie concepts in years.
During a Christmas party, a janitor (Dan Palmer) is finishing his last shift by fixing a sign in the women's toilets. After taking refuge in a cubicle when some drunk ladies enter, he realises alcohol is not the only thing affecting their sensibilities. Soon the entire bathroom is crawling with flesh-eating zombies and the janitor has to figure out a way to leave his space without becoming their dinner.
What makes this concept so successful is how, even though it doesn't stray far from the four walls of the bathroom, it manages to develop in the most interesting ways; from a rave scene in a cubicle to a dramatic climb across a ladder balanced over a sea of zombies, you never know where it will go next. Along with the ridiculous gross-out scenes and slapstick humour, there is a tender heart beating at the centre of this film, making Stalled a surprisingly clever success that shouldn't be missed.
The Battery (USA)
Dir: Jeremy Gardner
After watching a zombie attack in such a confined space, The Battery is a perfect place to go to next: zombie life in the great wide open.
Two former baseball players, Ben (Jeremy Gardner) and Mickey (Adam Cronheim), roam New England after a zombie outbreak has ravaged the earth. Their journey is marred by their clashing personalities and they have to overcome their differences in order to survive.
The Battery definitely boasts the best soundtrack of the festival, with parts of the movie often feeling like a music video. The alternative rock is really a great match for the laid-back style of the film. But if you're looking for an action-filled romp, this is not the film for you. The Battery is a slow-paced buddy comedy that explores the relationship between the former teammates. There are some very funny moments in the film – Ben catching Mickey "relieving" himself in the car is a stand-out – but the last quarter of the movie feels flat and the final sequence, which sees the two men trapped in a car, quickly becomes tedious. The style and music of the movie are impressive, but ultimately it brings nothing new to the genre.


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The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge
The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is a Canada-wide competition for teams of university students to design and build a small operational science research satellite known as a "3U- cubesat" or "triple-cubesat". These satellites measure 34cm x 10cm x 10cm, and have a maximum mass of 4kg. The satellites will undergo full launch and space environment qualification, with the goal of launching the winning satellite into orbit to conduct scientific research.
Beyond the primary goal of designing and building the cubesat, the CSDC has objectives to enhance space-related knowledge and capacity at Canadian universities; increase academia-industry co-operation in space-related research and development, and to expose participants to the management processes of a large engineering project.
The CSDC also has an educational outreach component, requiring teams to give numerous presentations to schools and the public. These are intended to raise awareness and understanding of space activities, as well as to inspire younger students to pursue higher education or careers in science and engineering fields.
The first CSDC began in January, 2011, and completed on September 29, 2012 (the 50th anniversary of the launch of Alouette-I, Canada's first satellite). It was won by the team from Concordia University in Montréal. Currently, the Concordia team is waiting to hear if they will be selected to participate in the European Space Agency's "Fly Your Satellite" programme, which could culminate in a launch for the satellite.
The second CSDC began in October, 2012, just after the completion of the first CSDC. Ten teams from across Canada are competing, and in a the team from the École Polytechnique de Montréal has partnered together with students from the University of Bologna, in Italy. We certainly hope that this international collaboration will benefit both universities, and will lead to further international participation in the CSDC.


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After a sleepy summer slumber, Lebanon wakes up to cold, hard reality: it's still in the Middle East.
Some attribute the logjam to the chilling of the regional warmth that had gathered in the wake of Barack Obama's election to the U.S. presidency. Regional antagonists Syria and Saudi Arabia had begun talking again. The U.S. made new overtures to Iran and Syria. But now, it seems, tensions are surfacing, with Lebanon serving as a kind of canary in the coal mine.
Hariri will almost certainly be nominated again to assemble a cabinet, but he may leave the opposition out of the lineup, which could lead to a similar situation as in the dark days of 2006 and 2007, when the country was wracked by car bombs and assassinations after the opposition called for Hariri's majority ruling coalition to step down.
Another disturbing deja vu is that the tiny, gas rich, power-brokering nation of Qatar has offered its services once again to save Lebanon's bickering politicians from themselves.
The emirate, which has a population of 400,000 and 10 percent of all the natural gas reserves in the world, leading it to have one of the highest per capita incomes, announced that it would be willing to host a dialogue session between the embittered Lebanese parties. Qatar is one of the few neutral countries in the region, and juggles friendly relations with Iran while also hosting the U.S. Central Command 's headquarters a few miles away from the Al Jazeera satellite broadcasting channel headquarters. It wouldn't be the first time Qatar has stepped in to mediate. In May 2008 the emirate hosted a dialogue session that broke through 18 months of political deadlock that had led to the brink of civil war.
"We hope that the Lebanese will find a solution but we are ready to help them if that becomes necessary," said Qatari Prime and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Ben Jassem Ben Jabr al-Thani after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Qatar hosted the last dialogue after two years of the Bush administration's confrontational policies in the region gave way to a more conciliatory tone. That shift only increased with Obama's presidency. It's doubtful the U.S. will return to similar policies anytime soon, but the underlying causes of Lebanon's and the region's instability have not been resolved. Until there is a final agreement on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanon appears doomed to suffer the ebbs and flows of regional relations and instability.


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quote:Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias posted a photograph to Instagram Friday featuring himself and other liberal journalists at the White House, with the caption "#thistown." Yglesias' photograph features American Prospect staff writer Jamelle Bouie and MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin attending the briefing. LINK Yglesias, who publicly cheered the death of conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, is known as a member of a tight-knit circle of progressive bloggers that includes Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and low-rated MSNBC host Chris Hayes. Klein and Hayes garnered conservative criticism in 2011 for attending an off-the-record White House briefing at which Obama disclosed his strategy on the temporary payroll tax holiday. Klein also set off a round of controversy in November 2011 for briefing Senate Democratic staffers on the super committee. LINK
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Seattle 911 -- A Police and Crime Blog
The latest news about Seattle police, Seattle shootings, thefts, arrests, fires, criminals and crimes
Monthly Archive for April, 2012
Charge: Mother blinded toddler with bleach
A Pierce County woman accused of partially blinding her 15-month-old daughter with bleach has been charged with assault. Filing charges Monday, Pierce County prosecutors contend Jennifer Mothershead poured bleach repeatedly into the girl's eyes. As a result, the girl has lost vision in her right eye. The toddler was flown to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center […]
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Police: Woman beat up man after asking for handout
Seattle police have arrested a 32-year-old woman suspected of beating up a man at an International District ATM during a robbery. Describing the March 19 incident, a Seattle Police spokeswoman said the alleged victim was using an ATM in the 500 block of South Jackson Street when, at 9:47 a.m., his assailant approached him and […]
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Force claim against Seattle Police dismissed
A federal jury sided with a Seattle police officer, saying he was justified in using a Taser against a man who was trying to flee in the Central District. Demetrius James claimed he was assaulted by the officer who used the Taser through an open window of James' car on July 6, 2009. The officer […]
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Shooting death lawsuit against city dismissed
A lawsuit brought by the parents of a man killed by Seattle police was dismissed last week in King County Superior Court, after the officers' use of force was considered justified. On Jan. 14, 2009, Joseph Bernard Hradec was at the Seal's Motel with a woman who called 911. In the first call, dispatchers could […]
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Police need help with Pioneer Square shooting
A woman was shot in the neck early Sunday in Pioneer Square, and police are asking for the public's help finding her attacker. The shooting happened shortly after 2 a.m. near Second Avenue and Yesler Way. The woman was found on the sidewalk. "The victim and her boyfriend had just left an area comedy club […]
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Woman who targeted cars at Mt. Rainier sentenced
A Tacoma woman who victimized more than a dozen visitors at Mount Rainier National Park was sentenced Monday to two years in prison. Pamela N. Williams, 25, broke into cars parked at trailheads and stole computers, credit cards and other items. She also was sentenced to three years of supervised release and has to pay […]
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Homeless protest at Seattle mayor's house
About 60 people gathered at Mayor Mike McGinn's house Friday evening to protest homeless people being evicted from The Jungle – an area under Interstate 5 where it's illegal to camp. Earlier this year, McGinn's staff said South Precinct officers had been hearing rumors of various assaults, including shootings and potential homicides, in The Jungle. […]
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Fremont bank robbed Friday morning
A man robbed a bank in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood Friday morning and police are asking for the public's help finding him. The robbery happened about 9:50 a.m. in the 600 block of North 34th Street. "Preliminary investigation indicates that an adult male suspect entered the bank, displayed a black handgun that remained inside a pouch […]
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Man carjacked moments after buying used car
A man in the Central District was carjacked Wednesday night – right after he paid $1,400 for the used car, police said. The victim contacted a woman about an online ad for a 1991 Ford Escort and later met her in the parking lot of a restaurant near the Seattle Center. He drove with the […]
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Police: Kirkland firehouse vandal kicked cop
A 21-year-old Kirkland man accused of kicking a police officer after he was caught "tagging" a fire station there has been charged with assault. King County prosecutors contend Jonathan A. Stevenson kicked the officer in the face while attempting to flee the area with spray paint and several cans of Rainier beer. Filing charges earlier […]
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people still use Firefox? LOL
Happy Birthday, Firefox
You probably have the same e-mail address you had in 1997.
You also might be 70.
Fair or not, if you send an e-mail from an Aol account, the recipient is likely to expect it to be spam, a forward of some thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory or pictures of kittens.
"I get the sense that people with Aol addresses have just been too lazy to upgrade, i.e., their e-mail address is still: firstname.lastname@example.com," says Brenna Ehrlich, a co-creator of the "Stuff Hipsters Hate" blog and writer for tech-blog Mashable.
Aol's new upgrades are actually getting some good reviews -- although some of the revamped service's e-mail address options -- @ygm.com (for "You've Got Mail"), @wow.com and @love.com have raised a few eyebrows. email@example.com -- really?
The Oatmeal blog points out the venerable internet portal still has a long way to go to shake the stereotype that its users are prone to direct you to a website by saying, "OK, go to h ... t ... t ... p ... colon ... slash ... slash ... w ... w ... w ... ."
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Machine Science: Putting the "C" in Creativity
Type: Maker Table/Exhibit
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Day/Time: Saturday and Sunday
Location: Fiesta Hall
Machine Science will display a number of sophisticated electronic projects, built with the companys breadboard-based microcontroller platform and on-line programming environment.Example projects include:
- programmable, motorized Etch-A-Sketch
- optically controlled MIDI drum machine
- spinning persistence-of-vision display
- LED and push button memory game
- musical accelerometer
We will show you how to build creative projects like these using inexpensive, off-the-shelf electronic components and our easy-to-use on-line guides and programming environment. Teachers and students looking for classroom-ready resources will find our display particularly interesting no experience with programming is necessary.
Related site: http://www.machinescience.org/
Sam Christy, Ivan Rudnicki, and Emily Lin of Machine Science.
Machine Science is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting hands-on engineering education for students at the middle school, high school, and unversity level. We have developed a suite of project kits and innovative on-line resources that introduce students to the fundamentals of electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, using real-world parts and materials. Machine Science projects provide engaging entry points for younger students and grow rapidly in sophistication to meet the learning needs of high school and university students. Our robust and highly extensible kits and on-line resources have been put to a range of usesas a curriculum for after-school engineering programs in urban public schools, as a primer on C programming for FIRST Robotics teams, and as the autonomous control platform for undergraduate design competitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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Gawker blogger The Cajun Boy (6/24/09) is agog at "How Fox News Educates Its Viewers":
Last night Glenn Beck made crude drawings on a chalkboard, and tonight he and Bill O'Reilly used Barbie dolls to explain ACORN.
In the course of explaining how Nancy Pelosi is trying to stop noble Republicans from stopping ACORN from destroying America, Beck reached under the table and pulled out a Barbie kit. Now, we watched this demonstration twice and actually don't get what Beck is trying to convey, so either we're stupider than even the basest Fox viewer or our elitists brains just can't process anything that comes spewing from the mouths of these clowns. Maybe you'll have better luck.
While Beck's demonstration really doesn't make any sense in itself, another reason for the confusion generated is surely that his and O'Reilly's whole take on ACORN is nonsensical in its entirety; see the FAIR publication Extra! Update: "CNN, Fox Hype ACORN Threat" (12/08) by Daniel Ward.


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The primary student organization for those interested in Human Resources Management is SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). Members of SHRM participate in networking activities, develop their knowledge of human resources beyond the classroom, and participate in regional competitions. In addition, many Human Resources students participate in the other student organizations associated with the business school, including but not limited to Delta Sigma Pi and SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise).
Beacom School of Business has the capacity to award more than $400,000 in awards and scholarships each year. These funds are made available through the generous support of alumni and friends.
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Building Character: Colman Domingo & Forrest McClendon
The Scottsboro Boys stars create metaphorical minstrels
Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages´ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles.
The new Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys could have gone down like medicine. After all, it tells the true story of nine young African-American men who were falsely convicted of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931 and subsequently imprisoned for years. Their case ignited a furious national debate and left a thick scar on the country's psyche, so it's easy to imagine a theatre piece that teaches shameful lessons.
Instead, composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and librettist David Thompson deliver something sly, lively, and funny. Much like Kander and Ebb's Chicago, The Scottsboro Boys assesses history with a detached, lacerating wit that favors the grotesque to the sentimental. Turning the story into a literal minstrel show, two archetypal, African-American minstrels named Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones welcome us to the carnival of injustice. They joke and sing and play multiple characters—most of them white—while they hustle the Scottsboro Boys across the stage.
But here's the catch: The actors playing the Scottsboro Boys give realistic performances. Their very presence contradicts the gaudy theatrics of the minstrels, and the collision of these characters reveals the spirit of the show. It suggests that normal boys got trapped in the nightmare world of American racism.
That puts enormous pressure on Forrest McClendon and Colman Domingo, who play Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones, respectively. How do you build a performance that captures multiple characters and a metaphor?
"It's been a serious journey," says Domingo, who like McClendon has been with The Scottsboro Boys since it played Off Broadway last year at the Vineyard Theatre and earlier this fall at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. "Our first time, Forrest and I were doing research on minstrelsy and trying to find the right tone in contrast to the naturalism of the boys. We were also trying to find out how we work together, what the timing is of sitting down at the same time or what makes the jokes funnier, head shake here or tambourine shake there."
As they developed their performances, Domingo and McClendon realized that Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo were so connected they should occasionally seem indivisible. They worked on walking in tandem, for instance, and giving a pair of white lawmen (Sheriff Bones and Deputy Tambo) similar postures.
And though she refined these moments, director-choreographer Susan Stroman let Domingo and McClendon create them. "We didn't just come in and wait to be molded," Domingo says. "We came to her with options. We were always off to the side, working three scenes ahead."
By now, the pair has a powerful working relationship. "I rely on him entirely," says McClendon, recalling a recent Broadway preview when his deputy hat accidentally fell off during a scene. "Colman, without pause or hesitation, picks that hat up, puts it on my head, and not only pushes me through that moment, but [spontaneously] riffs with me about the hat in the next moment. That symbolizes everything about how we work together."
That's not to say they're giving the same performance, however. Both actors have meticulously built their individual roles (Domingo plays six, McClendon five.)
"I play all the biased characters, and I need to play them differently. It can't just be a general wash of racism," Domingo says. To that end, Sheriff Bones is a man who takes up as much space as he wants. He has a bow-legged walk, always keeps his gun pointed in the air, and speaks in a high-pitched, nasal voice. "To my mind, that voice is the sound of a lynching," Domingo says. "That's the sound that makes a black man run."
On the other hand, when Domingo plays Attorney General, who prosecutes the Scottsboro Boys, he barely moves at all, and his voice is calm. "He takes up space with his mind. He can say things without shouting because he knows he'll win," the actor says.
McClendon, meanwhile, maps out the A to Z of each role, literally assigning a character one trait for each letter of the alphabet. "'G' is for gestures," he explains. "I create three specific gestures that are unique to each of those characters."
McClendon's research also helped him get a handle on his performance. Take Guard Tambo, who sprang from photographs of two guards overseeing the Scottsboro defendants. "I made a decision about which guard I was," he says. "I looked at his tight lips, and that led to everything he said being spit out." Similarly, Deputy Tambo was informed by blustering cartoon characters like Quick Draw McGraw.
But no matter how they got there, both actors have ended up in the same place, in the same show. "We always try to clue each other in about what we're thinking," Domingo says. "We always make a point to look at each other, whether we're in a scene or off stage getting ready to come on, just to stay connected."
Mark Blankenship is TDF's online content editor
[Photo credit: Colman Domingo (left) and Forrest McClendon. Photo by Paul Kolnik.]
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brilliant play…read this really fast but it is fascinating how much thought and work was put into development of characters…
WERE ALL OF THE ACTORS BLACK EXECPT THE WHITE DUDE WHO KEPT LEADING THE CAKEWALK? if so, brilliant idea because rather than think about the racism of the character-say the white woman accusing the boys of rape: rather than think about her as racist white trash, or about how great the white woman's acting was, you now are FORCED to think about how black men perceive these people by how they mimic them…and the mimicry is an act of defiance, and an act of taking power, because their only power was ridicule.
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On "Gossip Girl" dark and handsome actor Penn Badgley's character Dan is ensnared in a baby scandal and stays home as relationships end and new ones begin in Paris. Right now, we're In Beverly Hills with Penn to talk about his new high school-centric comedy film Easy A.
Penn looks really hot in a crisp dark blue dressy shirt, jeans, his signature dark, curly hair and sipping from a coffee cup. The actor let us know that he thrives on work... lots of it. He shot Easy A while flying back and forth endlessly to the NYC "Gossip Girl" set, loves working with "A" co-star Emma Stone and just isn't into all the tweeting, friending and social networking thing in general that drives the plot of Easy A... hummm and "Gossip Girl" as well. Interesting. Check it out!
TeenTelevision: You have a certain pattern in your career it seems. In "Gossip Girl" rumors run wild and rumors shape the story of Easy A. Any comments on that?
Penn: Well, I think it's a reflection of the times and the way teenagers interact, the way young people are. With the social networking and the internet, and Facebook, Twitter and that kind of stuff, it does change the way you operate. I think it's really fascinating how so many movies revolve around that kind of concept, and we as human beings are discovering this new way of micromanaging your personality online.
I think the reason it ties into high school so easily is because that's when everybody was doing that. That was a time in everybody's lives where teenagers are super insecure and they want to be cool and they want everyone to like them. So the fact that Facebook has made them even more acutely aware of like the pimple on their cheek, I think that's what it is. It's a reflection of the world we live in.
TeenTelevision: And both the show and the movie emphasize how fast these rumors spread.
Penn: Yeah. Everything has increased and changes so quickly. When I was in high school, not all that long ago, it was very different. We didn't have Facebook or Twitter. MySpace was still kind of like, 'What is MySpace?'
TeenTelevision: Even as a kid, have you ever started a rumor about someone because you wanted to "get" them?
Penn: You know, not that I've never sinned, but I was pretty good about that specifically.
TeenTelevision: So you wouldn't pass it on even if you heard anything?
Penn: No. I was always pretty responsible and fair with that kind of thing. I went to a private school in Washington State that was really small, and the kids were kind of vicious, and it gave me a sensitivity to that sort of thing at a very young age. I didn't ever want anybody to feel bad about themselves because of some bullshit that somebody was spreading around. I was always very sympathetic or empathetic. It's a really awful thing to see somebody get torn apart like that.
TeenTelevision: Do you think all this online social networking is good for high schoolers or any of us?
Penn: Me personally, I don't think it's terribly good for us. That's my personal opinion, but I think it's amazing what we can do, that we have things like iPhones and whatever, but it is a bit weird. Like the phone call is kind of like reserved for only important people, whereas like most of the time you're just texting. I mean it's kind of a strange thing.
TeenTelevision: What about you personally? Even if you don't like it, are you kind of forced to do it?
Penn: Well, I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace because of the show and because, I guess, whatever you want to call it, the notoriety I have. I actually joined Facebook about two months before the show started, just kind of like, "I'll just see what this is about." All my friends were doing it then I did it and I didn't really like it that much, and then the show started and I had like thousands of requests. This is not happening.
Then the same thing for MySpace. I tried it for a bit and I was just like, 'I really don't want to have to be responsible for creating another personality online'. I understand that you want people to be interested in you but, not that I'm all over the tabloids but I think for somebody who's a celebrity, or whatever you want to call it, it's like a double negative. You cancel each other out, I'm not sure why you would want one to tweet or Facebook. But again, that's just me.
TeenTelevision: When you are in the tabloids, do you ever feel a need to respond to the stuff you read or see?
Penn: No, because it's not true. Like if it's not true, it's not true and it doesn't have any legs to stand on. All of us going through this, something will flare up and one of our cast mates will be frustrated or something, and you've just got to remember, if it's not true it will fade away and nobody will remember it in a week. That stuff comes and goes.
TeenTelevision: You graduated high school at age 13. So your teenaged experience wasn't that of a "normal" high schooler. How do you relate to your character Todd in Easy A?
Penn: Actually he's really not your conventional high schooler. The purpose that he serves is that he is sort of a grounding for Emma's character Olive. He pops in and out and you're not really sure what he's doing there, but he just sort of comes in with a wink and a nod to make sure she's all right. And then he's out.
He sees beyond high school as the end all, be all experience of any teenager. He knows that that's not all there is to life and that this is just another chapter. I think he's one of those guys who knows that he's still waiting for the good stuff. Not to be over-cynical or anything, but he's not terribly caught up in it. And he'll have fun. He'll be the mascot and like do really ridiculous stuff. I think he embraces the fun of high school, but he also doesn't concern himself with it too much. I was the same way. I was fortunate enough to not have to like stick to the conventional path.
TeenTelevision: I understand your wacky costumes in the film (woodchuck mascot and painted blue "Devil") were pretty uncomfortable, right?
Penn: Yeah, but if that's the worst part of my job I'm pretty lucky. It was really chafing is a better word. It was like a hundred degree weather, and I was in blue body paint and with a woodchuck thing. And because we shot it all in one day, I put the body paint on, so we could go back and forth, but I was constantly sweating, and it was getting on the costumes so they had to clean the costume and repaint my body. So in between takes I'm like standing there sweating, disoriented in front of a gym full of Ojai, California high schoolers for extras. And standing there just in blue tights and blue body paint. And I thought to myself, 'Wow, wonder if I could have seen a snapshot of this 5-6 years ago, what would I think?'
TeenTelevision: Did you know Emma Stone before making Easy A?
Penn: I did, but only barely. We'd met in passing a couple of times. You know, we hit it off immediately and we were lucky because, for my role to work, there did have to be a chemistry. He's there with her so little so it's a good thing that we did hit if off so quickly.
TeenTelevision: Emma has tons of lines and just memorized the whole script. Do you ever work that way?
Penn: I've always been a person who's thought of myself as very professional, but over the years I've become sort of lackadaisical because you fall into a pattern. With TV, you're able to memorize your lines in a moment just before you shoot, and your kind of like rehearsing in the first take still, and that's kind of the way I operate. Not that it's a good thing at all. Emma was incredibly prepared. She has lots of dense monologues and I pooped in and was like 'Hey, Olive!'..... Yeah, she had an overwhelming task and she nailed it!
TeenTelevision: You get to dance a teeny bit in Easy A. Didn't you have a musical theater background like Emma did?
Penn: I do, yeah. (I get to dance) a little bit. I actually love to dance, and used to do a lot of hip hop dancing. There was a point where I was taking it very seriously and I was good. But I didn't get to move in this really. In fact, there's one point where I was dancing more, and they were like, 'You really shouldn't be doing that', because the point in that scene is for me to be supporting Emma as opposed to having to do some cheesy dance thing. And I (agreed), 'Yeah, absolutely.'
TeenTelevision: Didn't you make this while you were also shooting "Gossip Girl"? How did that work out for ya?
Penn: [laughs] Barely. The last scene that I shot, which was the party scene, where I pop in again with 'Hey Olive, see you at the salt mines', I went right from there. They had the car waiting outside the house where we were shooting with my bags already packed, and I got in and went right to the airport. It was like that every time I worked. I was just kind of flying in for a bit and then flying out. It was really disorienting, but I I'm young and I can take that kind of schedule and while I can, I like it. It makes the work so important. It gives you a sense of purpose, and it's fun.
TeenTelevision: You get to sort of copy an iconic moment in '80's films where John Cusack holds up the boom box to serenade his love in Say Anything. Were you a fan of those '80's John Hughes or similar films? I know Emma is.
Penn: I haven't seen any of them. I'd seen a clip of Say Anything, I'd seen the iconic boombox shot, but the Judd Nelson 'fist pump', I'd never seen The Breakfast Club. I was watching it, in fact after we shot Easy A. I watched it on set one late night on "Gossip Girl" in the makeup trailer. And I was watching and I saw him do that (he pumps his fist in the air) and I realized, I didn't at all do it the same way! I did some socialist salute. I raised my arm slowly straight out like that, and I can't believe no one told me on set that I was doing it wrong.
TeenTelevision: How long have you been back shooting new "Gossip Girl" episodes and did you get to go to France?
Penn: I did not get to go to France. We've been shooting for about 2 months, I think we're on the sixth episode about now, and there's a baby on the way. In Paris, there's a brush with death.
TeenTelevision: You can't tell us who?
Penn: No, but if you go look at paparazzi stuff, you can tell what's going on.


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2012 Honda CR-V Might Include 3rd Row Seating
May 19th, 2011 by Armaan AlmeidaWith Honda scrambling to maintain market share amongst increasingly sophisticated competing models, high hopes rest on the shoulders of the new 2012 Honda CR-V compact crossover SUV. One feature that was not necessarily expected but will likely see the light of day on the production model?
A third-row seat. Ace spy photographers at Brendy Priddy and Co. have caught the new CR-V in the wild wearing only the slightest camouflage. The extended rear dimensions and clever taping job suggest the smallest Honda SUV will soon seat seven, if in rather cramped dimensions.
The 2011 Toyota Rav4, the CR-V's closest competitor, already offers third-row seating, making such equipment even more likely. Honda is confident its newest model will be ready to compete in a crowded automotive segment:
"As a top-selling crossover for over five years, expectations for the 2012 CR-V are high, and we're confident they will not only be met, but exceeded," Honda says via its official CR-V teaser site.
The 2012 entry will not be simply a styling refresh, but rather an all-new model. Horsepower is expected to stay right around the current car's 180, but Honda will likely be able to squeeze a little better fuel economy than the 2011 model's 21 mpg city/28 mpg highway EPA rating.
The 2011 CR-V is priced from $21,695-$27,895 to start dependent on trim level. The new crossover should be priced about the same with a release date in late Fall 2011.


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