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- BAC, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 2.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 4.6%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Commercial Banks industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, BANK OF AMERICA CORP underperformed against that of the industry average and is significantly less than that of the S&P 500.
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The real-life von Trapp family is disappointed that Carrie Underwood was cast as Maria in NBC's recent production of The Sound Of Music Live! Before the musical even aired, Myles von Trapp Derbyshire expressed his doubts to ABC News. Derbyshire is the great-grandson of the real Maria von Trapp.
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"It's just upsetting that this could potentially be the final broadcast of our story," he said. "And although her voice is amazing, she doesn't have acting experience.... It's just the overall image, she's a country star, she won American Idol, she's very public in kind of a tabloid way."
In fact, Myles von Trapp Derbyshire had a different leading lady in mind for The Sound Of Music Live! In particular, he wanted a woman known for her acting chops, like Julie Andrews was before being cast as Maria in the original film.
"[Our family has] had the conversations of who could play this role better, and it was Anne Hathaway, for example," he said. "Here's someone who just won an Oscar for a similar situation [in Les Miserables]. She was able to act and sing."
Indeed, Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for playing Fantine in the film version of Les Miserables. It is unclear if she was ever approached for the lead in The Sound Of Music Live!
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Myles von Trapp Derbyshire was not the only member of the famous family to express skepticism towards Carrie Underwood as Maria in The Sound Of Music Live! Last year, when the casting was first announced, Francoise von Trapp blogged about NBC's decision. Francoise, who is Myles' aunt, also questioned the choice and opined that Anne Hathaway would have been better.
"But Carrie Underwood as Maria?" wrote Francoise von Trapp. "Seriously? I mean, I have nothing against her personally — she's an extremely talented country singer, but I'm pretty sure my father is repeatedly rolling over in his grave ... And while the girl can sing (although her voice lacks the Soprano purity of Julie Andrews) can she act? I'd like to know who else was in the running. Personally, I'd have put my money on Ann Hathaway, who in her upcoming role as Fantine in Les Miserable [sic], proves that she can act and sing."
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Located in Penedes Wine Region, this spa hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, L'Enrajolada - Santacana House Museum, and Vicenc Ros Municipal Museum. Pont del Diable and Cava Recaredo Winery are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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A full-service spa, a restaurant, and a fitness center are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, and a coffee shop/café are onsite.
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Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 7104 square feet (660 square meters) include conference space. This Sant Esteve Sesrovires hotel also offers a children's pool, spa services, and multilingual staff. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hotel Barcelona Golf Resort is a smoke-free property.
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- Poolside bar
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- Children's pool
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- Full-service spa
- Concierge services
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- Fitness facilities
- Restaurant
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
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- Laundry facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Elevator/lift
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- Total number of rooms - 150
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Number of floors - 2
- Babysitting or childcare
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (feet) - 7104
- Free WiFi
- Year Built 2005
- Conference space size (meters) - 660
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Garden
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- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare
Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Room service (limited hours)
- Climate control
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Bidet
- Free wired high-speed Internet
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Snack Bar Hoyo 19 - This tapas bar specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves light fare only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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A children's pool and a seasonal outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Mountain biking nearby
- Golf driving range on site
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Guests can pamper themselves with a trip to the onsite spa, which has 7 treatment rooms. Services include massages and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and thalassotherapy.
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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A tourist tax will be collected directly at the property upon arrival. The tax applies up to a maximum of 7 nights per person per stay.
A tourist tax will be collected at the property upon arrival. The tax applies up to a maximum of 7 nights per person per stay.
Check-out time is noon
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Pets allowed, Pet maximum weight in kg is 10
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 16 years of age.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 11 for adults and EUR 6.50 for children (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night
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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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IEEE, the world's largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today announced the formation of an IEEE 802.3™ "Standard for Ethernet" study group to explore the requirements for network latency and real-time control in industries such as industrial automation and automotive. The new IEEE 802.3 Distinguished Minimum Latency Traffic in a Converged Traffic Environment Study Group will look at additional opportunities to expand the overall Ethernet market and their associated technology requirements.
"Companies are eager to efficiently converge all network services—scheduled, streaming and priority-based, and best-effort traffic—onto the same LAN (local area network). But for this to occur, particularly in certain market segments such as industrial automation and automotive, lower end-to-end latency and real-time control are required in support of scheduled traffic in time-sensitive LANs," said Ludwig Winkel, chair of the new IEEE 802.3 study group and a fieldbus standards manager at Siemens Industry Automation Division.
The purpose of the new IEEE 802.3 study group is to look at the promise of simultaneous support for undisturbed distinguished real-time control traffic and best-effort traffic (e.g., audio and video data) on a single Ethernet network (converged network), maximizing bandwidth usage while retaining the network's real-time capabilities to support operations in automotive control, industrial automation and other applications. Individuals interested in this work are invited to contribute to the new study group, which is scheduled to meet 17-22 March 2013 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Fla., as part of the IEEE 802 plenary session. Please visit http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/index.html for more information.
"An IEEE 802.3 study group is formed when there is interest in developing a request to initiate an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards-development project," said David Law, chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and distinguished engineer with HP Networking. "Once there is evidence of enough interest in a particular technology area, an IEEE 802.3 study group provides a forum for global experts to come together in collaboration and develop a proposal for an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards-development project. I look forward to the work of the new study group exploring distinguished minimum latency traffic in a converged traffic environment and its insights into expanding the IEEE 802.3 market."
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Our decision to show multiple categories in search results evolved from a marriage of technology and usability. Rich, Greg and our cadre of talented engineers initially built a framework that allowed users to specify a curated set of sites using librarian-crafted semantic categories (slashtags) with their search term. Slashtags separated the golden search nuggets of wheat from the chaff of billions of spam sites, link farms and black hat SEO sites that are notably absent in our search results. Our next iteration in category technology was in late 2011 when we developed the ability to determine relevant categories without requiring users to explicitly type a slashtag along with their query term. We referred to this as "auto-boosting" of slashtags. While this technology helped with usability of the site and our slashtags, the experience was subtle and end users still arrived at a results page with "10 blue links".
Blekko took auto-boosted categories a giant step forward when we completed a new API this January that responds with multiple search categories for most queries. Our mobile app izik was our first product to leverage the new API. Now we have integrated our category rich API into blekko.com along with a bold new design and navigational approach.
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An unanticipated benefit we have observed via izik usability testing and click metrics is deeper user interaction with their search results. There has been much publicity around the search golden triangle which describes the propensity of users to click on links in the upper left portion of the page with very few clicks beyond those lucky top ordinals. Getting users to interact with advanced settings and search filters has long been a Product Manager's holy grail. We have been surprised and delighted to encounter users commonly navigating beyond the top ordinal results deep into 80th or 90th ordinals (unheard of!) due largely to the new categorized layout.
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The Settings menu on the top right corner allows users to adjust their privacy controls, customize the look of the page, and login to their accounts to access slashtags. We still offer the same Privacy policy that users love. Try out the new site — we're eager to know what you think! Send us your thoughts and ideas to: feedback AT blekko.com.


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International Noise Conference 2014: Year of the Woman (PHOTOS)
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Saturday night, Reverend Mother Flash pissed into a cup, drank it, and spit it at the crowd amid the total sonic and physical chaos of Cock ESP's closing set at the 2014 International Noise Conference. A fan flew and firecrackers popped. It was the perfect ending to a full week of anything goes. Not long before, the New York City performer gave birth to a toy baby, stabbed it, and washed her nude body in blood in that same spot in front of a thinning but buzzing late-night crowd. With her majestic red getup and pointed crown, she epitomized the absurdity, the fantastic, the freedom, the emotion, the asshole spirit that INC brings each year to South Florida.
What once was a three-day fuck-fest at Churchill's Pub in Little Haiti -- lots of smelly dudes in town sleeping on couches and in cars who cleverly and not so cleverly played with sound -- is now a five-day-long beautiful shit-show, complete with pre- and postparties. And this year, the longest yet, was dominated by an impressive array of female performers.
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In life, the "hottest chick" will draw the most attention, but at a noise show, the craziest, wildest, most ballsy (if you will) woman will always elicit the most adoration. Praise the loudest, most unruly lords for that. Back in like 2006, at No Fun Fest or Tonic in New York, a bunch of people sat around complaining that more "cute" girls were coming to shows to pick up guys. But if INC 2014 is any indication, "cute" don't matter. Fabulous and daring is winning. Though there were countless moving, shocking, and not-as-exciting-as-pee acts this year, the boldest females and Rat Bastard's brilliant curation made this one of the most unforgettable weeks in Churchillsian history.
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Two Miami duos, all four seasoned noisemakers, drew the crowd in and wrapped them with sound. Sharlyn Evertsz and Teresa Liberatore as Hellmouth turned nobs to the delight of everyone, wearing matching red dresses. Later, Max Kane slammed the drums as Autumn Casey worked the guitar in glittering sequined luchador-like masks as Bag Hag. Both pairs demonstrated what Miami has to offer as far as the range of style and performance that is being crafted here. All four women performed more than once this week in different configurations.
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Yohimbe turned that shit out when, while wearing only a green and white tie-dyed T and lacy black thong, the female half of this duo screamed the shit out of the room and then showed us her (literally) fucking skills on the concrete floor. Unicorn Hard-on remains a yearly favorite, and she didn't disappoint with noise that insists you dance. Irene Moon's set, with a horn on her nose, will continue to give us all nightmares for years to come. Our therapists thank you.
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Simple Sponge Cake
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In America, cake is synonymous with celebration. As such, it is vital that any sweetsmith has a good sponge cake at his disposal. A light and airy sponge cake is also among the most versatile items you can have in your repertoire. I use them as traditional...
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Forgotten series: Lyres – On Fyre (1984; 2012 reissue)
Founded in 1979, Lyres not only spearheaded the 1960s garage rock revival of the following decade, but the Boston, Massachusetts combo also remained kingpins of the scene.
Founded in 1979, Lyres not only spearheaded the 1960s garage rock revival of the following decade, but the Boston, Massachusetts combo also remained kingpins of the scene.
By the time Lovely Sunday Dreaming entered the shops, the Mystreated had already gained a star-studded reputation amongst garage punk advocates in the shape of a couple of albums and several EPs and singles.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJd6Ye1eQM&w=500&h=305] Eric Burdon makes his intentions on 'Til Your River Runs Dry clear early on, with the raucous, witheringly honest "Old Habits Die Hard." Born in troubled times, he goes on to make his share of it, too.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0z_KGN3iJg&w=500&h=305] If these names ring a bell, that's because they've been creating critically acclaimed concoctions for a mighty long while. Big Boy Pete is actually Peter Miller, whose accomplishments, in a brief nutshell, include lead guitarist for the famed British 1960s band the Jaywalkers
These guys from Dallas, Texas have that Stooges/Ramones/1960s-garage amalgam vibe down solid. Not bad at all.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_666sEAP4&w=500&h=305] A choice, not-so-obvious all-covers album from Philadelphia's Mondo Topless, starting with a pretty rockin' version of The Twilighters' "Nothing Can Bring Me Down." Elsewhere, an eclectic bunch of garage and rock bands are represented
This short-lived series, which produced only two installments, focuses on songs from the 1960s that never came within sniffing distance of hitting the national Top 40 charts.
In a gritty reimagining of the old Animals sound, Eric Burdon has joined up with Cincinnati garage rockers the Greenhornes — featuring the rhythm section from the Raconteurs — for a raggedy-ass street-fighting EP.
Fronted by the eccentric charms of Sky Saxon, the Seeds were one of the most popular bands cruising Southern California's fertile music scene of the late '60s.
Formed in 1965, the Haunted from Montreal, Quebec, Canada were one of the area's most popular bands until 1971, the year they split up.


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Today, Redfin debuted its long-awaited report on the best tactics for selling a home (on the Today Show, no less). Based purely on research (what the techies call a data-driven approach), the report may prove to be yet another controversy amongst the real estate community. CEO Glenn Kelman did an admirable job explaining how the research was done and gave us a quick overall view of the report with Meredith Viera. In a nutshell, the seven tactics are:
1. Don't Overprice Your Property
2. Set Your Price to Show Up in Web Searches
3. Debut Home on Friday
4. Stay Engaged
5. Market the Property Online
6. When Selling Your Home, Stay Put
7. If You Can, Wait to List Your Property Until Neighboring Foreclosures Are Off the Market
There appears to be sound reasoning and data to support each of these tactics. (For the full report, go here.) My only disappointment was in seeing that Staging was not one of the tactics. I did a series of articles in October on the benefits of staging, and in my mind there is no doubt that it improves the salability of a home. In my defense, I am rerunning that article after the jump for your reading pleasure.
Real Estate Staging: Introduction
During the month of October I will be doing a weekly series on real estate staging. This has long been a topic that has intrigued me. When I sold my first home 12 years ago, all that was required was keeping the home clean, maybe removing some excess furniture, and maintaining the yard. When I went to sell my dad's home three years ago, it was vacant and staging wasn't an approved use of funds in the probate sale, but my son, along with a friend and some help from my brother, completely cleared the yard of vegetation, cleaned the whole house, and repainted every room. I hung nice curtains, fancied up the bathrooms and kitchen and that was our version of staging, or at least as much as I could afford out of pocket. But since starting to write for this blog I have noticed an overwhelming number of homes that have been staged, and on all price levels. Looking at listing photos online, I can now tell which homes have not been staged, which have had their interior redesigned with existing furnishings, and which have been totally staged. I have often wondered why staging is done, what it entails, and what the benefits are. So I am doing my homework, researching stats, interviewing professionals, and hopefully will find out some information that will be useful to you.
There is no doubt in my mind that staging improves the salability of a home. Developers of tract homes and condos have been utilizing staging for years, setting up model homes that look like designer showcases, all the better to sell their inventory. So why shouldn't individuals do the same thing? As an independent observer, I feel that not only does a home look better when it is staged, but it looks better in online photos, which can be the first impression that buyers get and first impressions are very important. The commonly accepted theory is that the first impression process occurs in every situation, whether it is meeting an individual, reading an ad, or walking into a home, and once that impression is made, it is hard to turn the tide. Not impossible, mind you, but difficult. We are still a society that tends to judge on looks, and homes are no different.
In a nutshell, staging is the act of de-personalizing and de-cluttering a home, making it marketable to the largest audience possible. Buyers want to envision themselves and their furniture in a home. What staging does is allow that to happen through "window dressing," as it was so aptly put in an article on Kiplinger.com. Each room needs to appear as neutral, functional, and large as possible, necessitating less furniture than the average homeowner uses. New furniture, provided by a stager, looks better than the ten-year-old sofa that the dog has chewed on or the glass dining room table with the chips in it. Kitchen counters are removed of all daily accoutrements, save a coffeemaker, and replaced with baskets of fruit or flowers. Bathrooms lose those shaggy toilet seat covers and gain high-end towels, candles, and sink accessories. Bedrooms have new bedspreads, lots of throw pillows, and generic art, instead of grandma's quilt and pictures of the grandkids in random frames. It is all about appearances. HGTV thinks so, too, and is among the cable TV stations to feature shows on the growing trend of staging. In addition to such shows as Designed to Sell, Secrets to Sell, and Curb Appeal, they also have a few tips and trick available in online articles "Secrets of Stagers" and "Top Ten Staging Don'ts."
How much staging affects the price and time on the market varies, depending on where you live and who you talk to, but there is some general statistics that reinforce the notion that staging is a beneficial practice. In the 2006 article "Home Staging Attracts Buyers and Improves Sales Performance" by Diana Hudson for Designing Online, the author describes staging as a beauty contest and I think that is an apt analogy. She goes on to say, "Known in California as the 'secret weapon of real estate,' staging is the art of preparing and packaging a home for sale and industry statistics seem to bear out its value. The National Association of Realtors found that staged homes are on the market 13.9 days as opposed to 31 for non-staged homes. NAR statistics also indicate that staged homes sell for an average of 6.9 to 10% over listing price." Those statistics match up with data on StagedHomes.com, which show an average 6.9% sale price increase and 50% less time on the market for staged homes overall. One study they conducted by StagedHomes.com compared DOM Before Staging (163.7 days), DOM After Staging – for homes that did not sell and then were staged (13.7 days) and DOM After Staging – for homes staged first then listed (8.9 days). Although this was a study done with only 300 homes, those numbers are impressive.
While a 6.9% increase in price does not sound like much, on the typical $1,000,000 Bay Area home, that is $69,000—enough for a new BMW550i sedan with all the bells and whistles, or to send your daughter to Belmont's private Notre Dame High School for 4 years (including books, uniforms, and extracurricular activities), or for a family of 4 to take a 42-day cruise aboard the QE2 from New York to Sydney (in outside staterooms). Certainly food for thought.


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Ghost Mannequin is another name of image manipulation in photoshop. Removing the mannequin and joining the neck of the cloth is the main technique that is used in this process. Some easy steps can be used to do this in photoshop.
I've been struggling a lot trying to connect with people in real life. One of the reasons was that I am an introvert and naturally don't have that feeling of going out and meeting new people. However, as an entrepreneur, I love new experiences and stepping out of my comfort zone to grow as a personality.
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Kyle Jackson's New Series, American Queen, Shatters Gender Binary
By Kyle Jackson
"Why wouldn't you want to be masculine… you're a man?"
I was once asked this question about why I consider myself feminine and proud. Even with today's progressive gender fusion in the pioneering cities in the United States, there is still so much the general public doesn't know regarding gender nonconformity. I am an openly gay commercial photographer. Since I was young, I've always been more feminine than the rest. My unique gender and sexual expression as a child was apparent at an early age. When I was 4 years old, I went up to my aunt at a birthday party and said, "Aunty Jess, I'm not like other boys, I'm a girly boy."
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FLASH GORDON Movie In Development At Fox
By Eric Diaz on April 23, 2014
It's been thirty-four years since the last big screen outing of 1930's comic strip icon Flash Gordon, and after several fits and starts, it looks like the classic outer space swashbuckler will be landing at Twentieth Century Fox, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter. This iteration of the character is being produced by John Davis, with a script written by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the screenwriters who most recently worked on the upcoming Star Trek 3, and is based on a treatment by George Nolfi, best known for writing The Bourne Ultimatum.
John Davis apparently spent more than a year trying to get the rights to the property from the Hearst Corporation, who have held the rights to Alex Raymond's comic strip since its inception in 1934. Other studios like Universal and Sony have tried to launch Flash Gordon as a tentpole movie property for years, with the project never getting off the ground for one reason or another (Universal made a cheapo television version for the SyFy Channel a few years back that is better left unremembered).
If Flash Gordon indeed gets going at Fox, it would be fitting; In the early seventies, after the success of American Graffiti, George Lucas was tapped by Fox president Alan Ladd Jr. to make a "space opera" in the vein of Flash Gordon, which Lucas had grown up watching in reruns on television. After trying and failing to come up with the money to buy the rights from the Hearst Corporation, Lucas instead incorporated several elements from the classic Flash Gordon movie serials into what would become Star Wars, and the rest is history. Now that Fox has no involvement in the Star Wars franchise, it would only make sense that they go back to Plan A… if only a few decades late.
Without Queen, I will not accept this. Unless its awesome. But still, Queen.
Flash on the big screen will never be the same without Freddie Mercury.
FLASH!! AH AH… Defender of the Universe!!
Even without Queen I'm super excited about a new Flash Gordon. The sci-fi show was not as exciting as I had hoped, but still anything Flash Gordon will get a ticket sale out of me.
No Freddy Mercury? I give you Adam Lambert. Problem solved. While I'm at it, let me suggest the actor to portray the title role. Who better to play the former Quarterback turned galactic hero then one Timothy Richard Tebow. #MicDrop
I'm glad the new version will go right back to the original Raymond comic strips.
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It took a jury 15 minutes to convict Ronald Chambers; 31 years and three trials later, he's still awaiting execution.
On an April night in 1975, 22-year-old college student Mike McMahan and his friend Deia Sutton were robbed at gunpoint, then shot near a river bank south of downtown Dallas.
McMahan died after one of the assailants, Ronald Chambers, bludgeoned him with the butt of a shotgun. Sutton was left for dead after the second attacker, Clarence Williams, choked and tried to drown her in the river. She dragged herself to a hotel and called police.
Williams and Chambers were arrested within days of the attack. Williams is currently serving two life sentences. Chambers was sentenced to death in 1976 by the jury that took 15 minutes to convict him.
Thirty-one years and three trials later, Chambers is still on death row, Texas' longest-serving death house inmate.
In late January, three days before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection, Chambers won a temporary reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, which is considering another case that could affect his.
"It's like there's no end in sight," the victim's sister, Janna McMahan, said from her home in Washington state. " ... This has been never-ending but no way in hell will I ever give up."
Chambers, now 52, has been on death row three times longer than the U.S. average of about a decade between sentencing and execution.
A number of inmates have been on death row for more than 20 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In Texas, 15 of the 391 inmates on death row have awaited execution for more than 25 years; in California, 32 of the 655 condemned have been there more than 25 years. The longest-serving death row inmate in the United States is Gary Alvord, a Florida killer sentenced to death in 1974.
While Chambers hasn't volunteered to die or abandon his appeals, neither has he done anything to slow the case as it wound through the courts, said his lawyer, James Volberding. "This is how the system works. He has not unnecessarily dragged out his case, but here he is."
Chambers' first sentence was thrown out because a psychologist hired by the prosecution didn't warn Chambers that his answers could be used against him by the state. At a second trial, in 1985, Chambers was again condemned to death. That sentence was reversed when a court found that prosecutors had improperly excluded three blacks from the jury.
Chambers was tried for a third time, in 1992, and again sentenced to die. In January, his appeals nearly exhausted, the state prepared for his execution when the high court issued a stay while it looks at another Texas capital case. That case raises questions about whether jurors were properly instructed to consider mitigating factors when deciding a death sentence.
Volberding maintains that Chambers' sentencing instructions didn't allow jurors to fully consider evidence that argued against death, such as his harsh upbringing in a Dallas neighborhood known for crime and drugs.
In addition, jurors in the Chambers case did not hear that his accomplice, Williams, was given a life sentence. The jury foreman believed "Williams was at least as culpable as Chambers, if not more," Volberding wrote in a Supreme Court brief. "Had [the foreman] known of Williams' life sentence, she would have considered it a compelling mitigating circumstance demanding equal treatment for Chambers."
Two jurors, including the foreman, have said they would have voted for life in prison had they known a unanimous vote wasn't required for that sentence, Volberding said.
If Chambers' case is sent back for a new sentencing trial, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has said his office will again seek the death penalty.
Today, Chambers is a grandfather who gets occasional visits from his grown daughter. He has a radio, books and a small window in his 9-foot-by-9-foot cell, where he spends up to 23 hours day in isolation.
Not a week goes by that Deia Sutton Roberts, the surviving victim, doesn't think about the attack. "I am the one that was there; I was a part of this violent crime," said Roberts, a wife and mother in Dallas. "As long as the [district attorney] pursues this, I will do whatever it takes to see this through."


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Punch Pick: Young Playwrights' Theater Giving Voice Award Gala
Young Playwrights' Theater will honor world-renowned Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel with the Giving Voice Award on February 9 at the Edison Place Art Gallery. This gala evening will feature food, drinks, live music and unique silent auction items.
Click here to purchase tickets today!
Saturday, February 9, 2013
7pm – 11pm
Edison Place Art Gallery
701 9th Street NW
Washington, DC
The YPT Giving Voice Award recognizes extraordinary individuals who have exemplified YPT's spirit and vision by giving voice to the voiceless and inspiring others to realize their full potential.
Proceeds to benefit YPT and inspire thousands of local students to discover the power and value of their voices and stories through playwriting.
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Knocking the snow off
February 24, 2015
A look at Kalamazoo College's 2015 softball team.
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Kalamazoo College Softball Bowling Fundraiser 2015
February 17, 2015
Support the Hornet softball team on Sunday, Feb. 22 at Continental Lanes.
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Kalamazoo College Softball Camp scheduled for Oct. 11
September 18, 2014
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June 30, 2014 | News
Kalamazoo Student-Athletes Named to MIAA Academic Honor Roll
One hundred eleven student-athletes had at least a 3.50 GPA in 2013-14.
June 30, 2014 | News
Nine Hornet Teams Earn MIAA Team GPA Award
Nine Kalamazoo College teams had a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30 in 2013-14.
April 27, 2014
Softball loses season finale at North Park
April 26, 2014
Softball loses doubleheader to Olivet
April 23, 2014
Softball drops doubleheader to Alma
April 21, 2014
Softball takes two from Defiance
Hornets win 4-2 in opener and 3-2 with walk-off win in game two.
April 17, 2014
Softball splits twin bill with Saint Mary's
April 16, 2014
Softball loses doubleheader at Adrian
April 15, 2014
Tuesday (4/15) Softball doubleheader at Adrian postponed
April 12, 2014
Softball drops doubleheader at Calvin
Paige Maguire (pictured) and Querubin Dubois each had two hits in the first game.
April 9, 2014
Softball splits doubleheader at Albion
Victoria Najacht threw a shutout in a 4-0 win in game two.
April 6, 2014
Softball falls at No. 5 Trine
April 5, 2014
Softball swept at Hope
April 4, 2014
Softball Field Dedication Day Postponed
Saturday games moved to Hope pending field conditions in Holland. Dedication Day in Kalamazoo to be...
April 3, 2014
Thursday (4/3) Softball at Trine postponed
Doubleheader rescheduled for Friday (4/4) at Trine at 3:30 p.m.
March 23, 2014
Softball splits pair of games Sunday
March 22, 2014
Softball wins season opener; DuRoss sets strikeout record
Freshman pitcher struck out 14 in collegiate debut.
March 21, 2014
Spring sports on spring trips
March 10, 2014
2014 Softball season preview
July 3, 2013 | News
Twelve Hornet Teams Earn MIAA Team GPA Award
Twelve Kalamazoo College teams had a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30 in 2012-13.
April 27, 2013
Softball splits pair of walk-off games at Olivet
Rayanne Burl drove in the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth of game two.
April 25, 2013
Softball defeated at Saint Mary's, 10-3 and 5-4
Abby Anderson homered in the second game.
April 22, 2013
Softball defeated by Calvin, 8-0 and 3-1
Senior Rayanne Burl had two hits in the first game.
April 18, 2013
Thursday Softball at Saint Mary's Postponed
Doubleheader rescheduled for Thursday, April 25.
April 16, 2013
Softball defeated by Adrian, 5-0 and 10-6
Sinkovich (pictured) and Page each had three hits in the second game.
April 16, 2013
Tuesday Softball Moved to Jackson CC
Games are on for 3:30 at Jackson Community College.
April 14, 2013
Softball takes two from Albion
Final Scores: Kalamazoo 8, Albion 7; Kalamazoo 13, Albion 1
April 13, 2013
Saturday Softball Postponed
Calvin doubleheader rescheduled for April 22 in Kalamazoo.
April 10, 2013
Softball Postponed
Wednesday's (4/10) softball doubleheader with Albion has been postponed due to the weather.
April 6, 2013
Softball drops doubleheader at Hope
Abby Anderson had a pair of doubles in the second game.
April 4, 2013
Softball drops MIAA opener to Trine
Madeline Sinkovich had a single and a double for the Hornets.
March 27, 2013
Softball edged in final games of Spring Trip
March 25, 2013
Softball splits pair of Monday games
March 24, 2013
Softball drops pair of Sunday games in Florida
March 23, 2013
Softball wins first two games of season
July 17, 2012
Sue Mattice named head softball coach
Coach Mattice was head coach at Grandville High School for 11 seasons.
April 25, 2012
Softball falls to league-leading Trine in season finale
Anderson, Mathieu homer for Hornets
April 21, 2012
Softball drops doubleheader to Saint Mary's


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Please note: Wizard Hex is a universal app, but this review is based on the iPhone version.
Wizard Hex, from Trouble Brothers, has all the hallmarks of a great board game. It can be played with two to six players, involves strategies both simple and complex, and requires only simple manipulation of your pieces. The game itself is rather ingenious. Unfortunately, the lack of a tutorial makes Wizard Hex unnecessarily difficult to learn.
Wizard Hex is played out on a (you guessed it!) hexagonal board. There are six "elements," and you control one of them. The goal of the game is to either eliminate your opponent's element pieces or to have the most board space when there are no legal moves left.
Each turn, you can make two moves; for each move, you can either place a new tile onto the board; attack another tile; or "build up" one of your existing tiles. However, in an interesting twist, you can control not only your own element, but also your neighboring, or "ally", elements. This opens up a host of strategies—you can use other elements to attack and defend, but remember, it's your pieces that count in the end.
Another interesting addition is full control over the setup of a game. So, you can use the traditional, default setup with your and your opponent squaring off; or, you can place yourself adjacent to your opponent so that you both share an ally. Different setups can radically alter gameplay. You can also play with any combination of computer AIs and human players, which is a nice touch.
Once you grasp the rules and nuances of Wizard Hex, it's a fun, intriguingly deep strategy game with much potential. Unfortunately, at the moment its tutorial is too bare-bones to allow most players to fully appreciate the game; I had to go online to find out how certain rules worked. Surely that's not what Trouble Brothers intended! However, that caveat aside, Wizard Hex is a great strategy game. It's simple, without achievements, online play, or any other fancy features—but then, once you learn to play, Wizard Hex can stand on its own.
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Recently by Jon Massey
Any Problems? There are currently no problems on the public transport network, with good services on all routes to all destinations. However, as it's a Friday that could all change in an instant.
Drivers watch out for East India Dock Road westbound, which is blocked by a lorry.
- Little Feat @ The Indigo2
- Al Murray @ The O2 arena
- Paul Merton @ Hackney Empire
- Tess Of The D'Ubervilles @ Greenwich Theatre
By John Biggs
Boris has been talking about electric cars. They are the future and the one he drove can do 160mph, silently.
At least they go in one direction - unlike his position on the challenges facing London's economy.
- Pink @ The O2 arena
- Brandy @ The Indigo2
- Hanging Hooke @ Greenwich Theatre
- GSOH Scott Capurro @ The Albany
By Miriam Gillinson
Bad Blood Blues is a finely balanced and engaging debate about the West's use of African "guinea pigs" in the search for an HIV cure.
- Bob Dylan @ The O2 arena
- Jose Gonzalez @ East Wintergarden
- Faustus @ The Space
- Planet Narnia @ National Maritime Museum
Hustling and bustling. That's what goes on down Greenwich market on a searingly bright Sunday afternoon.
But if you can fight your way through the throng, and it's no mean feat with the masses clamouring for sushi and hog roast, you might just find one of the town's gems.
- N-Dubz @ The Indigo2
- Russell Brand @ The O2 arena
- Bashment Granny 2 @ Hackney Empire
- Brief Encounters @ Canary Wharf
By Miriam Gillinson
Voltaire's Candide
Greenwich Playhouse
"One man, a bare stage and a shaky director, is a recipe for disaster. And a disaster it is."
Editorial staff at Thomson Reuters could be manning picket lines outside its Canary Wharf offices after they voted in favour of industrial action. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) who used to work for Thomson Financial News before the company merged with Reuters last year have voted 59 per cent in favour of a strike and 83 per cent for action short of a strike.


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Throughout the establishment of Vertex Hot & Cold Marketing, our company has obtained numerous awards and certification for our water purifier products. This has certainly increased our company's reputation in the industry while providing greater customers' confidence and satisfactions towards our products and services offered. Being a water vending machine supplier in Malaysia, Vertex Hot & Cold is offering to our customers the widest range of water purifying products that poses quality and effectiveness of water purification process. Our engineers and other supporting employees are well trained and skilled in designing and producing water dispenser, water filter, water vending machine, etc that are innovative and sophisticated to bring great drinking water for customers. We strive to develop more water purifier for both residential and commercial use. Vertex Hot & Cold shall sustain our company's growth in the competitive market by achieving higher standards of water purification methods in our water purifier products. |
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Not the Real World: How the Experience of Gaming Differs from Just About Everything Else... And Why That Makes Gamers Different
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The gamer generation--young people who grew up on video games--is 90 million strong. Data shows that video games have affected this generation's behavior, even in the workplace. As a result, it's important that managers understand two things: what the game world is like, and why gamers have found it so compelling. This chapter opens the door to reveal the nature of the sometimes inaccessible world of video games. This chapter is excerpted from "The Kids Are Alright: How the Gamer Generation Is Changing the Workplace."
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Chountas, Panagiotis and Vasilakis, Christos and El-Darzi, Elia and Petrounias, Ilias and Tseng, Andy (2003) Data warehouses-TOLAP-decision making. In: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE Computer Society, USA, pp. 3876-3880. ISBN 0780379527
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Data warehouses (DWH) have been established as the core of decision support systems. On top of a DWH, different applications can be realised with regard to conventional reporting. On line Analytical Processing (OLAP) has reached the maturity as an interactive and explorative way of analysing DWH data. However DWH are mostly organised as snapshot databases. For this reason important tasks like "how many times have products of a specific brand been sold in the "past?" cannot be answered successfully - in order to control the success of reshuffling the product range it is necessary to compare the sales of "old" and "new" products. The same applies in cases where the seasonality aspect for a particular range of products has to be answered. On the other hand, temporal databases allow a valid time to be assigned to data. In this manner, a past state can be reconstructed during retrieval. In this paper, we address the integration of DWH and OLAP with temporal database semantics.
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Raikkonen edges Fisichella in closely-fought session
Kimi Raikkonen was fastest by just 0.005s in the opening day of the British Grand Prix meeting. It was an interesting afternoon practice, with the Finn pipping Sauber's Giancarlo Fisichella by a mere five-thousandths of a second for the quickest time.
And just in case you might think that others had trouble, the top six was filled out by Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello.
Anthony Davidson set the ball rolling with 1m 21.533s, which was beaten in turn by Coulthard (1m 21.110s), Barrichello (1m 20.727s), Schumacher (1m 20.615s then 1m 20.021s) and then Coulthard again (1m 19.451s). Raikkonen went to the top with his 1m 19.001s, which defied Buttons 1m 19.401s, and a couple of quickest from Schumacher (1m 19.300s, then 1m 19.162s). Then, just to rub it in, Raikkonen lowered his time to 1m 18.655s. That withstood all other attacks, but Fisichella came mighty close with his 1m 18.660s.
What does it all mean? Well, McLaren have clearly made some decent progress with the MP4-19B, which now works well. And Saubers new lowline engine cover has transformed the car, according to Fisichella, who said it was the biggest step the team have taken all season. The fly in the Swiss teams ointment, however, is that Fisichellas problem this morning was engine-related, so whatever he does tomorrow hell be hit with a 10 grid-place penalty.
It was a less promising session for Williams, with Marc Gene as their best runner in seventh place with 1m 19.540s. Juan Pablo Montoya was only 11th in an understeering car, with 1m 19.746s. In between the two team mates came Jarno Trulli (1m 19.601s), Takuma Sato (1m 19.611s), and Felipe Massa (1m 19.676s). With Alonso 12th on 1m 19.874s that makes 10 of the top 12 cars within the same second bracket.
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The Jaguars were also in line astern, with Christian Klien just acing Mark Webber and Bjorn Wirdheim, 1m 21.073s to 1m 21.353s and 1m 21.353s.
Nick Heidfeld was the top Jordan this time with 1m 22.365s, ahead of Timo Glock on 1m 22.500s, then Minardis Gianmaria Bruni pushed ahead of Giorgio Pantanos 1m 22.586s with 1m 22. 516s. Glock was lucky to escape with just a bouncing when the left rear wheel centre tore out of his Jordan as he sped through Bridge flat-out with eight minutes to go; the German went flying backwards into the gravel bed in spectacular fashion but was unharmed.
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Clean Scene By Murad Launches New Website And YouTube Channel
Clean Scene by Murad, a skincare line for teens and young adults, announced the relaunch of the MyCleanScene.com website and the launch of the MyCleanScene YouTube channel. In addition to teaching teens and young adults the importance of healthy skin, both outlets will provide Clean Scene fans with the latest beauty, fashion, and pop culture tips and trends while offering expert advice on school and Extracurricular activities. The new, interactive MyCleanScene.com will continue to provide skincare education but will also expand to include the Squeaky Clean blog and "Buzz" sections noting upcoming and past events, celebrity fans, press awards, and media placements for the line. The site will also spotlight a Clean Scene fan, praising a selected teen or young adult whose school and extracurricular activities are seen as an inspiration to their peers. The MyCleanScene YouTube channel will present tutorials, Q&As, contests, and interviews with top makeup artists, hair stylists, and fashionistas.
New Reality Show Highlights the Nailcare Biz
I will admit it. I'm a bit of a reality TV junkie. I live for "Top Chef," I secretly can't get enough of "The Real Housewives," I'm oddly enthralled by "Millionaire Matchmaker," and I even partake in some "Jersey Shore" from time to time. So I was excited when I received some info about a reality show based in the beauty biz. Airing on the TV Guide Network next month, "Nail Files" takes viewers inside the upscale, unpredictable life of business owner Katie Cazorla. Born and raised in upstate New York, Katie is now living the glamorous life in Hollywood, where she's has successfully launched The Painted Nail, a high-end nail salon. Her salon has become an overnight success, and she plans to franchise the business. The series follows Katie as she juggles running her salon while maintaining fabulous personal life. It already sounds like yet another reality show I won't want to miss.


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Towards Modeling Automation for Synthetic Biology
Rule-based modeling was first introduced to address the 'combinatorial complexity' problem in cellular signaling. A number of software tools and methods have been developed in recent years to make accurate predictions about the functional role of proteins in signaling transduction systems. Many of these approaches are based on formal languages, such as Kappa and BioNetGen (BNGL). Modeling also plays an integrant role in synthetic biology, a new interdisciplinary subject aiming to design novel biological systems. The specification of synthetic biology systems using high level languages is still a challenge. In this article, we proposed to extend the Rule-based modeling rule-based modeling from systems biology to synthetic biology and introduced a new model-specification language, which allows quickly generating mathematical models encoding the phenotypical behaviors of biological systems. Our approach (termed AutoModel) also takes into account the context dependencies of biological interactions, which makes it a desirable method for synthetic biology research. A software implementation of our approach is available at https://github.com/cliao15/Rulebase2011 .
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- Towards Modeling Automation for Synthetic Biology
- Book Title
- A Systems Theoretic Approach to Systems and Synthetic Biology II: Analysis and Design of Cellular Systems
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- Part II
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- pp 201-217
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- 2014
- 10.1007/978-94-017-9047-5_8
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Happiness: elusive or God-given?
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Widening Inequality Threatens U.S. Growth and Social Mobility
Inequality has been steadily rising in the United States since the 1970s, but the gap between rich and poor increased dramatically following...
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Inequality has been steadily rising in the United States since the 1970s, but the gap between rich and poor increased dramatically following the financial crisis of 2008. Jos� �ngel Gurr�a of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development joins Mary Ellen Iskenderian of Women's World Banking to discuss the growing inequality problem and what steps can be taken to promote more inclusive growth going forward. Gurr�a highlights tax policy reform, the minimum wage, and increased governmental support for worker training as examples of policy options that can help the United States move toward greater equality of opportunity for all.
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September 15, 2008 | 4:47 pm
Chabad's "To Life" telethon raised more than $8 million last night—some of it due to amazing basketball shooting by Lakers star Jordan Formar.
Farmar, just back from Israel, shot 36 baskets ('double chai') in 90 seconds to raise over $64K for the organization. Apparel exec Masud... read on
September 8, 2008 | 4:41 am
We've been waiting for this to come out online for free, and here it is. Tiffany Shlain's amazing 'The Tribe'—narrated by Peter Coyote—explores the history of the Jewish people from the time of Abraham up through today, and uses the Barbie doll (created by Southern California Jewish... read on