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While resting after a singing engagement, he opened his Bible and asked God to speak to his mind. What happened next was far from routine. Suddenly, he was looking up at a map of the world. Only the map was alive, moving! He sat up, shook his head, and rubbed his eyes. It was a mental movie. There was a map of the world and waves were breaking all over it. The waves began to turn into young people, thousands of them, spilling on to every continent and sharing the good news about Jesus.
"Was that really you, Lord?" he asked. This idea that young people could be missionaries was radical at the time, but Loren trusted that this vision was from the Lord. Four years later, in 1960, he began walking out this vision by starting an organization called "Youth With A Mission".

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for the last 5 days I have had lots of symptoms...swollen breasts, nausea, dizziness and I can't stop crying. following a few failed attempts and a miscarriage I am terrified of taking a test incase I have yet more disappointment :-(posted 08/17/2013 by jenniferwheater
So I have been reading this since the 10th. I have been trying to get pregnant for 8 months. This month we got serious did rhe fertility days and proped my butt up for 20 mins each time after. My ovulation day was the 11, but since the 9th I have had bad cramping like a cyst or bad cramps. My boobs hirt on the sides and my nipples are always hard and sensitive. Yesterday I noticed that I have bumps around my areolas. This isn't my first pregnancy, with the other I new by two weeks I was pregnant. I just didn't no it was possible to feel symptoms that fast! I have a 35 day cycle so my boobs hurting almost 3 weeks before my period has to mean something is up!! If my boobs do hurt its between 5-7 days before my expected period. I have to wait sooo much longer to test due to my long cycle. I have also had crazy night sweats, and the past 2 days acid reflux, to the point I'm waking up in the middle of the night. Idk if I'm getting this all in my head but my bf is noticing nipple changes 2posted 08/15/2013 by pmansmom1
Hi ladies! I'm not sure how old this site may be but, I'm trying to concieve! My last mp was July 26 & I was ovulating between August 7-11 & we had sex the 10th. Today is the 13 & I feel incredibly sleepy, hungry with no appetite at that, I have weird fluttery feelings in my lower abdomen as well, & some tingling here & there in my breast. Also been having weird stomach aches. My discharge is also pretty white & creamy, (sorry, tmi lol) but I'd love to have a child of my own in my life. Could anyone help me decipher if these could be leading to a pregnancy? I've never had feelings like this before.posted 08/13/2013 by abigaillyle12
So this is my first month trying to conceive. I have a 6 year old and I don't get pregnant easily. She is the first and only pregnancy I've ever had. Infact when I was young my periods were so irregular my doctor told me it would be hard for me to conceive. I didn't try for her I just popped up pregnant at the age of 28. I just went off Birth Control and now I am trying for another one. I have this feeling this is going to be so hard but I feel like this is all my imagination. We have sex everyday and during the time I was supposed to be ovuation I had this pains on my left side not my right side and a week later i was taking off my bra and my boobs would hurt but since then has gone away the only thing is I m extremely tired I'm coming home from work eating dinner and immediately falling asleep on the couch. That is not like me at all I never take naps during the day and I go to sleep at damn near midnigh everymonth. So now I'm crossing my fingers hoping it happened this fast.posted 08/09/2013 by demarly07
I don't know but I had sex the day before my period, and as soon as my period started lightening up on the 4th day I felt this fuzzy, dull feeling in my uterus that lasted for about 30 mins. Do you think it's possible for implantation to happen after your period? I have no kids and never felt that feeling before. Will update if I start to get symptomsposted 08/08/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
My bf nd I had intercourse yesterday morning and a few hours later I had a discharge it looked like egg white and this morning I have abdomen cramps and my boobs are tender and sore.I had my period a week ago can it be early symptoms plz sumbody anybody plz help meposted 08/07/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
Been TTC for a couple months now. Very active with my hubby & tracking my cycle daily. Ovulation was 2 days ago & we had sex everyday during the days up to & on the day. Starting the night of ovulation my breasts started to hurt. I mean HURT. With a bra or without. They are fuller & heavy. I am incredibly tired and nauseous in waves. I keep getting these weird twinges in my lower abdomen area.... Took a PG test this am, negative. I know it would be too early for this cycle but I'm just completely off. My 1st pregnancy I went almost 4 months without 1 symptom besides bigger breast.... Is it possible I'm preto just super early?posted 08/05/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
Hi, ive been trying to concieve for 3 years, im 20 now and for the first time I feel sick, tired, dizzy, my stomach feels sesetive, hard, and ive gone of tea, coffie but can drink it at night, had an urge to put chili on a tikka buttie last night, and I also feel pregnant, drinking loads of water and peeing for britian, if I am my ovulation is today and ivr felt pregnant for 4 days ive done a test and it negative but I still feel pregnant? Help me please?posted 07/27/2013 by zoe and aran
I think I might be pregnant. My fiancé and I tried 2 days ago (our wedding is in 2 weeks!) & I've been having weird cravings for fresh food & aversions to fried foods. Should be able to take a test in 2 weeks! We'll see!posted 07/26/2013 by catrinaldallman
Hey girls! .. Haven't talked to anyone yet, feeling embarrassed to say that I think I may be pregnant, my partner and I have been trying for just a few moths now, I always wanted to be a mommy so I may just be tricking my bodie into thinking I'm pregnant , reading your comments makes me feel less crazy ! ... So about 3 days after my breasts started getting really really sore, they still are till this day and they usually aren't until about 5 days before my period, so I'm just wondering, call me crazy but I think this is it ! :) .... I'm really hoping so , also I've been urinating more frequently and feeling more tired then usual.. Just wanna hear your thoughts :)posted 07/24/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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Memphis Belle (1990) We'll drop it right in the pickle barrel." Captain Dearborn This is a late entry in the WWII movie genre with a story about the least depicted branch of the service: the Army Air Corps. The movie purports to tell the story of the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle and her 10-man crew, headed up by Capt. Dennis Dearborn (Matthew Modine). This crew was noted as the first to complete 25 missions, the magic number set by the Department of Defense after which they would rotate home. DOD had found through bitter experience that most men would crack if pushed further than 25 missions. The movie shows the last day of their tour of duty, including the preflight hours and the final mission. As a tribute to the many unsung fliers of WWII, Memphis Belle is a decent movie but is hindered by a slow pace and many cliches that will be apparent to those who have seen their share of WWII movies. The buildup to the mission encompasses the night before when the crew are feted at a dance put on by Army public relations officer John Lithgow, a guy you could easily learn to hate. The superstitious crew is afraid the celebration is premature but Lithgow only cares about his photos destined for Life magazine. Apart from the tension provided by Lithgow's heavy-handed PR man, the puppy-faced crew of the Memphis Belle serve well to depict the real life characters but with little differentiation, despite being introduced a couple of times by the voiceover. The mission is delayed because of clouds in the target area and the men wait patiently until the weather clears. Then it's off into the wild blue yonder for their final mission which we ride along with them through hell and high water, proverbially speaking. The movie drags and seems to go nowhere until the mission begins and that is one of the major flaws of the production. About half the running time is spent introducing the ten crew members who are firstly cliche characters like youve seen too many times before (scared, religious, superstitious, etc.) and secondly too many to be able to do justice to in the movie. Once they don their flight gear and scrunch up into their stations in the drafty old war bird you will not recognize them for the most part. Incidentally, they mentioned it was 30 below zero at the altitude they were flying but I saw no breath, steam, or any indications of cold. The movie has some decent action but director Michael Caton-Jones rarely colors outside the lines so you end up with a fairly well executed but boring and derivative story, overall. Incidentally, this is a labor of love from Catherine Wyler, the daughter of director William Wyler, who served in WWII and made a documentary about the Memphis Belle in 1944. The Warner Bros DVD is presented in double side; flip over for either theatrical 1.66:1 or full screen format. There are several text based special features concerning the making of and some of the choices made for this fictional version of the Memphis Belle.


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In order not to be cheated, it's a good idea for essay writers to investigate the legality of the giveaway, which depends on the state and county in which the contest is being engineered. In most states an essay contest, where some element of skill is involved, is legal.
But in many, including Florida, where a state lottery is established, contests that can undermine it are considered illegal. Gambling of any kind also is strictly regulated. In particular the general public should be wary of raffles, such as the one currently being run by a restaurateur, who will only identify himself as Jeff, and who won't reveal the name of the eatery he is giving away in Boca Raton because, �I'm trying to keep it where business isn't interrupted.� Posted as a small ad in the back section of Nation's Restaurant News, the contest is advertised as a �$100 raffle ticket [that] could win you your own restaurant/café!!� The ad specifies that 2000 tickets will be sold, and that the unnamed eatery, a turnkey operation that will include all furniture, fixtures, and equipment, currently is grossing approximately $300,000. Jeff claims, too, that the business has no debt or liens, and that the checks from entrants go into an escrow account overseen by his law firm, Weintraub and Weintraub in Deerfield Beach.
Johni Hardiman, division chief of the criminal intake unit for the State Attorney's Office in Miami-Dade County, admits, �I would have questions if I were considering buying a ticket.� But she admits the rules are sometimes relaxed for nonprofit organizations such as churches, synagogues, or schools who want to run a raffle.
A private enterprise is hardly nonprofit, though. According to Connie Crawford, bureau chief in the division of licensing at the Department of State in Tallahassee, such a raffle is indeed illegal in Florida. She cites Florida gambling statute 849.094, which states that �it is unlawful for any operator ... to require an entry fee, payment, or proof of purchase as a condition of entering a game promotion.� Game promotion is defined as a contest, game of chance, or gift enterprise. Jeff is calling his contest a sweepstakes, but Crawford says, �A sweepstakes is only legal if it does not require an entry fee.�
Assistant Attorney General Bob Buchner of Broward County concurs that this particular raffle is illegal. He points out that there is �a fee, a prize, and a primary element of chance -- the three things that constitute gambling.� It may be that Jeff is following the advice of the ex-con in The Spitfire Grill who, when queried about the legality of the contest, ventured, �It must be legal if it's been done before.�


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Yes, tonight is the Season 5 finale. For those Lizards who are fans of this show the time is 9pm EST or when your local PBS station shows this episode. Keep an eye out for a reference to Harry Potter and Hogwarts.
Yes, tonight is the Season 5 finale. For those Lizards who are fans of this show the time is 9pm EST or when your local PBS station shows this episode. Keep an eye out for a reference to Harry Potter and Hogwarts.
HTC has just announced the Vive, a virtual reality headset developed in collaboration with Valve. It will be available to consumers later this year, with a developer edition coming out this spring. The company has promised to have a significant presence at the Game Developers Conference next week, where devs will have a chance to play with Valve's VR technology.
The Vive Developer Edition uses two 1200 x 1080 displays that refresh at 90 frames per second, "eliminating jitter" and achieving "photorealistic imagery," according to HTC. The displays are said to envelope your entire field of vision with 360-degree views. The company says in a press release that it's the first device to offer a "full room-scale" experience, "letting you get up, walk around and explore your virtual space, inspect objects from every angle and truly interact with your surroundings."
More: Valve's VR Headset Is Called the Vive and It's Made by HTC
Almost everyone who has health insurance in the United States gets help from the government to afford it. For the elderly, that's Medicare. For the disabled and the poor, that's Medicaid. For full-time workers it's the tax subsidy for employer-provided health insurance.
More: Americans Are Making a Big Mistake About Health Care - Vox
In it's never ending quest to provide "Fair and Balanced" "reporting" Fox News bring on the air all manner of talking heads. This one is a gem. Yes, she actually said that. Who books these nimrods? Stupid 'splaining shit to the stupid 24/7. Girls just want to have guns. And know nothing about them. At all. A few fries short of a happy meal. She's armed? Whoa…..Video
Somewhere way back when I wrote a few posts mentioning how bad measurements of internet authority & trust were. They are based on numerical counts of links, good or bad, and I proposed that authority should instead be measured on real trust of real facts. E.G. right now if you Google "FEMA" or "Vaccination" you will find several clearly crazy kookspiracy posts within the first couple of pages of results.
This is because gaining bad notoriety on the Web is sometimes better for traffic than gaining good, or trustworthy notoriety. Being right gains you little but trust from folks who care about such things as truth, but being wrong can get you an avalanche of eyes and ad revenue. Go viral with your bad, and hey, there's this month's beer money.
In a case of bad notoriety the kooks link the perpetrator to back up their claims, while the non-kooks link them to point out how [awful, wrong, bad, crazy, evil,] they are. The more outrageous the grenade tossed, the more links the kooks are likely to get. This is how internet bottom feeders like Jim Hoft, Pamela Geller, and Chuck C. Johnson survive, and it's a business model that works for them.
It's good to see that Google might finally be getting around to improve that, however I won't for a moment pretend that they are going to actually fix anything here, because they are dependent on those kooks and internet grenades for revenue as well.
Ok so after stewing about this awhile, I've come back to ask: what could Google do to improve things?
A number of possible factors come into play. You also must keep in mind that the kook still has the right to find his favorite kookspiracy site without tons of labor.
An better search algorithm might factor in a few big data hard fact Knowledge-bases like this experiment. It would also look for links from known world trusted reference sites (e.g. OED dictionary, etc.) and grant them more weight. It would still crowdsoure popularity by number of total links weighted against net negative or positive social network up and down votes, but also factor in length of time spent on page, number of same person return trips to page, and overall number of more trusted sites linking than less trusted sites linking. The system would likely still need some Artificial artificial intelligence: when hordes of most trusted or least trusted sites link at once the post gets flagged and then perhaps a team of human moderators with an arbitration process takes a look. What would you suggest? What am I missing here?
The trustworthiness of a web page might help it rise up Google's rankings if the search giant starts to measure quality by facts, not just links
THE internet is stuffed with garbage. Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free "news" stories spread like wildfire. Google has devised a fix - rank websites according to their truthfulness.
Google's search engine currently uses the number of incoming links to a web page as a proxy for quality, determining where it appears in search results. So pages that many other sites link to are ranked higher. This system has brought us the search engine as we know it today, but the downside is that websites full of misinformation can rise up the rankings, if enough people link to them.
A Google research team is adapting that model to measure the trustworthiness of a page, rather than its reputation across the web. Instead of counting incoming links, the system - which is not yet live - counts the number of incorrect facts within a page. "A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy," says the team (arxiv.org). The score they compute for each page is its Knowledge-Based Trust score.
More: Google Wants to Rank Websites Based on Facts Not Links - 28 February 2015
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In Boston this winter, jail inmates have been shoveling out fire hydrants, streets, and buried train lines in the face of historic snow. Clearly, Massachusetts needs the help. But instead of using current inmates for the task, Boston would be better served to employ newly released inmates desperate for cash. It's just one example of how public officials tend to focus on those currently behind bars, instead of placing their emphasis on reintegrating former prisoners into society.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has actually praised the use of current inmates as "an important component to successful re-entry." There's no question that it's a cheap solution. After all, the median wage in state prisons is 20 cents per hour. Those who have already paid their time, by contrast, would need to be paid the prevailing wage. And the union workers performing the same tasks are paid $30 an hour.
It's a single study, so it will need to be both validated and replicated before it becomes proof of anything, however this link to cytokine levels is truly worthy of much more investigation.
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health identified distinct immune changes in patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, known medically as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) or systemic exertion intolerance disease. The findings could help improve diagnosis and identify treatment options for the disabling disorder, in which symptoms range from extreme fatigue and difficulty concentrating to headaches and muscle pain.
These immune signatures represent the first robust physical evidence that ME/CFS is a biological illness as opposed to a psychological disorder, and the first evidence that the disease has distinct stages. Results appear online in the new American Association for the Advancement of Science journal, Science Advances.
With funding to support studies of immune and infectious mechanisms of disease from the Chronic Fatigue Initiative of the Hutchins Family Foundation, the researchers used immunoassay testing methods to determine the levels of 51 immune biomarkers in blood plasma samples collected through two multicenter studies that represented a total of 298 ME/CFS patients and 348 healthy controls. They found specific patterns in patients who had the disease three years or less that were not present in controls or in patients who had the disease for more than three years. Short duration patients had increased amounts of many different types of immune molecules called cytokines. The association was unusually strong with a cytokine called interferon gamma that has been linked to the fatigue that follows many viral infections, including Epstein-Barr virus (the cause of infectious mononucleosis). Cytokine levels were not explained by symptom severity.
More: Scientists Discover Robust Evidence That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is a Biological Illness 02/27/2015
Just add methane.
Liquid water is a requirement for life on Earth. But in other, much colder worlds, life might exist beyond the bounds of water-based chemistry.
Taking a simultaneously imaginative and rigidly scientific view, Cornell chemical engineers and astronomers offer a template for life that could thrive in a harsh, cold world - specifically Titan, the giant moon of Saturn. A planetary body awash with seas not of water, but of liquid methane, Titan could harbor methane-based, oxygen-free cells that metabolize, reproduce and do everything life on Earth does.
Their theorized cell membrane, composed of small organic nitrogen compounds and capable of functioning in liquid methane temperatures of 292 degrees below zero, is published in Science Advances, Feb. 27. The work is led by chemical molecular dynamics expert Paulette Clancy, the Samuel W. and Diane M. Bodman Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with first author James Stevenson, a graduate student in chemical engineering. The paper's co-author is Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Astronomy.
More: Life 'Not as We Know It' Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan
Immigration officials are moving to deport at least 150 Bosnians living in the United States who they believe took part in war crimes and "ethnic cleansing" during the bitter conflict that raged in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
In all, officials have identified about 300 immigrants who they believe concealed their involvement in wartime atrocities when they came to the United States as part of a wave of Bosnian war refugees fleeing the violence there. With more records from Bosnia becoming available, the officials said the number of suspects could eventually top 600.
"The more we dig, the more documents we find," said Michael MacQueen, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement historian who has led many investigations in the agency's war crimes section. The accused immigrants, many of them former soldiers from Bosnia, include a soccer coach in Virginia, a metal worker in Ohio and four hotel casino workers in Las Vegas.
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David Koepp is no stranger to a solid action movie — he was the screenwriter for Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man before he turned his eye towards directing — and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and 2012's The Dark Knight Rises) is slowly becoming a familiar name paired with Hollywood's best movies, big and small. The duo of creatives have joined forces for this week's Premium Rush, a chase thriller that leaves behind the usual over-the-top tropes in favor of crazy stunts and a unique world: New York City bike messengering. If anyone could pull it off, it was these two, and the off-beat premise works. Koepp's intimate action flick wows with on-location stunts and zippy dialogue to match, with Gordon-Levitt and an army of stuntmen making it all look easy as pie.
Turns out, Premium Rush wasn't so easy to actually get in the can. Unless you think flying through the window of a taxi cab is "easy." I sat down with Koepp and Gordon-Levitt to discuss how the two brought the innovative stunts to life without spending too many days in the hospital:
Hollywood.com: Premium Rush is about the thrills of zipping through New York City traffic on a bike, but it's also about being absolutely in love with that feeling. It made wonder: do the two of you remember when you learned to ride a bike?
David Koepp: I remember vividly my kids learning to ride, because it happened recently. I remember my son Nick was learning to ride the bike and it was just killing him. He just kept falling. He could hold the bike, but he couldn't stay up. It was one wipeout after another. I remember he brought it back to the house at one point and threw it on the porch and said, 'Don't ever make me go on this horror machine again!' I love 'horror machine.' He got it one day.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I was probably six or seven, something like that. Growing up with an older brother… they can do everything, you can't do anything! There was that. I remember it as a truly magic moment. And I mean magic as in unexplainable. You don't know why now it's working and ten minutes ago it wasn't. It's not like you figured it out in your conscious head or anything. Now it works, now you can do it. So quickly this thing that was impossible… you don't remember why you would fall over. It's just natural.
And then (no pun intended) you feel 'the rush.' Which is why I love your character in the film. He just loves biking so damn much. David, how did you become enthralled by this love and the world of biking?
Koepp: I live [in New York City] and you see bike messengers and they almost hit you all the time. And you wonder, who are those a**holes? And I like a movie that takes place in a contained period of time or a contained place. I had this image in my head of what I called a 'map movie.' I wanted to see a map and a guy who had to get from point A to point B.
Gordon-Levitt: So that's the reason the movie takes place between Harlem and Chinatown?
Koepp: Kinda [Laughs]. It takes you all the way down and all the way across. Columbia [University] and Chinatown, and that's how those evolved among other reasons, then I wanted him to do it on a bike because I hadn't seen bikes going through the streets of New York and it seemed like an incredible cinematic opportunity that I hadn't seen since Quicksilver [dir. Thomas Michael Donnelly, 1986].
I was surprised to see the bike messengering community being so close-knit and vivid.
Koepp: They're really tight. Online there is the New York Bike Messenger Association and I just started reading that. It's a really tight community. So we then started meeting a few of them. As advisors for the movie, but they're also in the movie. What I loved about it is that they have an ethos, and a really simple one. 'I want to ride my bike.' And that's it. You look for more, but it isn't there. 'I want to ride my bike. If I can get paid to do it, all the better.'
Gordon-Levitt: I found strong sentiments in that community of environmentalism — more bikes, less cars. I found a lot of people really quite conscious of the fact that riding a bike, which comes from a basic love from when you're a kid… that if more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, that the world would be a better place.
It's not a hobby, it's a lifestyle.
Gordon-Levitt: And a statement.
We featured a video on the site where real life bike messenger/your stuntman Austin Horse…
Koepp: Isn't that a great name?
The perfect stuntman name, in fact. Watching him speak, Horse exudes that lifestyle. Did you learn about the biker character through him? Did he bleed into the performance?
Gordon-Levitt: Certainly. He's a very different guy than the character I play in the movie. Austin is gentle, mild-mannered and extremely considerate, whereas Wilee is more of a balls-out punk rocker on two wheels. But once Austin gets on a bike… it's kind of funny to see because he's a modest dude who gets on a bike and he's like a superhero. He turns heads. I rode around with him — we'd go for rides on the weekends — and people turn their heads and watch him.
Koepp: The first time we shot him, he said, 'How fast do you want me to go?' And we said, 'Well, go as fast as you can go.' And he says, 'Well, I can go pretty fast.' And I thought: 'We have cars.' So it's take one and he was just gone. There was no prayer of keeping up with him. So I say, 'Cut… eh, take a little off it.' [Laughs] A motorcycle would do much better weaving with him. There's a fluidity to it that's amazing.
Gordon-Levitt: It's beautiful. Anytime you see someone do something with a God-given talent, when they're that excellent at it… and that's at the core of these action scenes. It's not some grand, CG whatever. It's about really talented guys doing things for real.
Koepp: Being able to admire what real people can do. It was important that it was a stunt movie. The actors always wanted to do more than we would let them do. I think it's an incredible physical accomplishment.
Reality is a key component of this movie. What were the logistics of shooting on the actual streets of New York, trying to pull off stunts while surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the city?
Koepp: It was a nightmare. It was really, really, really f**king hard. I'm happy when people say, 'It looked like so much fun!' because that means you didn't see us sweat. The city is tough. It's uncontrollable. A New York City 'lock up' doesn't exist. You think you have it but then a diplomat drives over the cones in your lane and makes Joe crash. Or a SWAT team barrels through [laughs]. There's never total control.
How does that work for the acting side of things? There is a lot of talking and riding in this movie. Is having an element of danger helpful to the performance?
Koepp: [To Gordon-Levitt] You know, we never talked about that.
Gordon-Levitt: The time when the SWAT team barreled through was not helpful for my performance [laughs].
Yikes, no actual accidents I'd hope.
Gordon-Levitt: Oh no, there were accidents. One really bad one.
Koepp: Do you still have that? [Gordon-Levitt lifts up his right arm to reveal a scar.] Oh. Sorry about that.
Good Lord.
Gordon-Levitt: This is 11 of the stitches. The other 21 of them are scattered around. What's cool though is that you actually put it at the end of the movie after the credits.
Koepp: It was a scary moment. So we had three lanes of 6th Avenue closed. Joe's riding uptown and all there is is our stunt cars and our stunt drivers. And the rule is the stunt cars can't change lanes — only the guy on the bike can change lanes. He's got weavability and no one is going to cut him off. So a diplomat in an SUV in the free lanes decides he doesn't like the traffic. So he drives over the cones and into our lane, right as we call action. So here comes Joe at 30 mph and the guy cuts him off. Then the diplomat, who I'm sure is an a**hole from some awful country (although we never found out which), is also angry and decides he's going to get out of his car and yell at people. Now Joe has to use his Bike-O-Vision [Wilee's stylistic Spidey Sense in Premium Rush]: he can either go straight and hit the guy (doesn't seem like a good idea), swerve to the right into live traffic where they aren't expecting you, or go this way where you can't tell what's up there but, fingers crossed, there's nothing and you'll be OK. So you go with that. Except there's a cab. He crashes through the back windshield of the cab and cut himself to ribbons. It was awful, because there was about 30 seconds between his crash and the moment I hear it, so I have to go check if he's dead or not. That was the worst part for me.
Gordon-Levitt: You get so flooded with adrenaline that I didn't feel any pain at all. Not until later that night. I flew off the handlebars and went through the windshield and I was immediately like, 'Oh s**t, sorry! I'm fine.' And then you look at it and you're like, 'Oh Jesus Christ, look at that!' Dave comes running up really scared, really nervous. I told him, 'You have to record this!' I cajoled him, after lots of convincing, to take out his phone and shoot some video of me bleeding and the broken glass. To my delight, when I saw the movie he actually put the footage in after the credits.
Koepp: When you got it….
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By Chantel Jennings
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A lot of athletes don't hit the public eye until they get onto a college campus and play on Saturdays. But for football players at high-profile programs throughout the country, that spotlight comes a bit early.
Watch List offensive guard
Sam Mustipher
(Olney, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel) is in that position. He knows that anytime he wears a football shirt or his varsity jacket, he's representing more than himself.
"Pretty much anywhere in Maryland," Mustipher said, regarding where Good Counsel gets recognized. "It's pretty cool and a humbling experience. With that, you know you have a spotlight on your back at all times. If I'm wearing something with Good Counsel on it, people are going to look to me to set the example."
And considering his 20-plus offers from the likes of Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida State and Notre Dame, coaches have noticed a lot more than a shirt. Recently, his game film has him being recognized further west at schools such as Oregon, USC and Stanford -- all of which he hopes to get offers from soon.
With that much interest, it might be difficult for most players to keep things under control, but Mustipher has decided that he'll see how the rest of this school year plays out and then try to narrow his list to five or 10 schools during the late spring or summer.
"I want to get a feel for the coaches who've shown a lot of interest and schools where I'd fit in best at," he said. "That's what I'll base my top five or top 10 off. I'll then focus on those schools, getting second or third visits in during the summertime."
Of the schools that have offered, six stand out because of how much the coaching staffs have shown interest. Those schools are Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Northwestern, West Virginia and Maryland.
Several things are important to Mustipher as he thinks about narrowing down his list, and tradition is definitely one of those.
At Notre Dame, he was impressed with the legacy that players embrace on campus. He liked that they're not an endorsement-heavy team that decorates its field or buildings with obnoxious logos. At Ohio State, Mustipher is impressed with how coach Urban Meyer has brought back and recreated the tradition of the Buckeyes.
On top of the interest from coaches, Mustipher has heard even more about Michigan than others because of his friendship with Michigan sophomore cornerback and Good Counsel alum
Blake Countess
. Countess was a senior when Mustipher was a freshman, and Countess' younger brother attends Good Counsel now.
"We're close family friends," Mustipher said. "His father is the one who really sold me on Good Counsel and now he's trying really hard to sell me on Michigan as well."
During his spring break Mustipher will have the chance to visit Countess at Michigan, as he plans to stop by April 4. It will be a part of a weeklong tour of the Midwest, as he'll also stop by Northwestern (April 1-2), Notre Dame (April 3) and Ohio State (April 6).
Mustipher knows there are a lot of different elements playing into his recruitment and that he doesn't control all of them. He is planning these trips and keeping in touch with coaches, but at the end of the day -- specifically as an offensive lineman -- his decision timeline might be dictated by something other than the player himself.
"With the schools I have offers from, a lot of offensive linemen want to go to these schools," he said. "For me, I want to take official visits but I feel like my decision will probably be spontaneous. Maybe I'll wake up one morning and be like, 'This is the right school for me.' "
And at this point, with 20-plus offers, Mustipher could likely have the pick of the litter.


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Emmett McLoughlin in his book wrote:Morally, this book will show the high rate of crime and sin among Roman Catholics everywhere, and particularly in the United States. It will also demonstrate that this immorality is not in spite of Catholic education and training, but directly because of it.
Now, if you want your son to become President of the U.S., you send him to parochial school like Billy Clinton's mother did, of course he was lacking in the morality department, no big deal for Catholics or politicians.
Dorcas wrote:What a breath of fresh air to read about this young man and his courage in honoring the Lord.May the Lord bless him and his family.


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Country View in Waterloo Iowa has a 90% occupancy rate with 121 residents using its 134 beds. They are not part of a multiple nursing home ownership and are a County Government run nursing home.
Country View has a below average registered nurse per resident per day of 17 minutes compared to the Iowa state nursing home average of 44 minutes. They had 9 deficiencies in its past 2 state inspections compared to the IA average of 10 and complaints compared to the IA average of 3. Country View had 8 fire safety deficiencies in the past 2 state inspections which is better than the Iowa state nursing home average of 12.
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A couple weeks ago I was browsing the intarweb and found a company that sold a 10tap kegerator that was made from what appeared to be a standard upright fridge. They would install a heavy duty shelf in the middle and you could have 5 cornys on the bottom shelf and 5 cornys on the middle shelf. If anyone has seen this before and knows who makes them that would be awesome! And no I don't want to buy one (at least not for the $5k+ they wanted for them), I want to try and figure out what fridge they are using so I can build one of my own. Thanks!
Do you remember the site you were looking at when you saw it? I can't seem to find it using google. Cheers
Well have the same amount of beers and start searching again j/k, i will keep looking too. Cheers
Woot! I finished a pumpkin ale and found it.http://www.koolkeg.com/pages/Homebre...w_pictures.htm
Damn I'm good! I drank another half a glass of a winter elf ale and I found the retail model this is based on.http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...2JW&lpage=none
Friggin Sweet Dude! That is awesome! let me know when you hook that up, I am only 4 hours away from STL. See you just needed to lubricate your brain Cheers
You owe it to yourself to have a Utopias. Do you think if you did, it would magically appear in your home?
At first I was wondering how the heck you get 2 kegs worth of height in a fridge. It took a bit of staring at the pics to clue in to the lack of a freezer (time to turn in me thinks). That is sweet!


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Facebook has added the first set of updates to its messaging app Slingshot for iOS and Android, with additional features that let users respond to reactions, and invite other users via SMS.
The reaction-to-reaction option creates a chain that enables users to continue a single conversation thread.
This feature was not present in the app before, and by adding it users will stick to a single thread which the social network hopes would result in more time spent on the app.
Facebook has added a My People tab, which allows existing users to invite their contacts via text to download the app too, as well as inviting friends via Facebook.
Users can also customise photographs by drawing and adding text to the photograph, like rival Snapchat.
Despite the updates some reports claim that the app is not yet ready to compete with Snapchat because it provides a better user interface and additional features that Slingshot does not offer.
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A sports blog with Richard Justice
Monthly Archive for August, 2010
People care about the Astros again, and isn't that a nice change?
I've had maybe a dozen people tell me they're watching the Astros again. In the three months before that, all I heard was, "I can't even watch 'em anymore." Drayton McLane was a long time getting his mind around the fact that the Astros were going to get better only if they got rid of […]
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It's going to be fun playing for Astros now
One of the veteran Astros approached me Saturday afternoon and said: "This is going to be fun." He was excited to be in a clubhouse with a bunch of younger guys who would be excited to put the uniform on, who would play with energy and passion. Who knows what the results will be? There's […]
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Al Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP): factions, motivations & regions
Excellent article on the factions, motivations and regions of various "Al Qaeda" groups in Yemen including identifying which groups are primarily mercenaries (murtasaqat).
Yemen's Mounting Challenges: Fractured militant groups & Post-Conflict reconstruction
By Fernando Carvajal Analyst at University of Exeter
Yemen Post:While many praise recent victories by Yemen's army over militant groups in Abyan and Shebwa, some warn of the coming chaos. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi warned governments of Yemen and the US of planned operations in a video published in late March. This warning came as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) published its intention to join the fight in Yemen. These announcements also coincided with the creation of Ansar al-Sharia Central Region.
US-led drone campaign Easter weekend was interpreted as a delayed, but brazen response to events in March. Drones targeted camps in Abyan and individual militants in al-Baydha and Shebwa provinces, where initial media reports claimed top leaders were targets. Yemen's government also claimed Special Forces had participated in raids by helicopter incursion and recovered a number of bodies. No further information has been provided with regard to the operations in late April.
As heightened security warnings lead to closing of four western embassies, observers highlight not only threats made by AQAP but also fears of rifts within the organization. Local analysts have indicated growing divisions within AQAP over the past six months extend from differing visions of its future. Some argue the rift between al-Wuhayshi and second tier leaders over priorities has also led to individuals like Makmun Abdul Hamid Hatim and Ibrahim al-Rubaish praising ISIS, challenging al-Wuhayshi's allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden's successor, who formally denounced ISIS early this year. Intensions by ISIS in the Arabian Peninsula remain obscure, but contact with Somalia's al-Shabab and AQAP in 2013 raised concerns over an expansionist agenda beyond Syria in attempt to wrestle the jihadist movement from al-Zawahiri.
The rift has also affected relations with Ansar al-Sharia (AAS), which is led by Emir Jalal Bil'ayd al-Maraqashi. Since the murder of shaykh Ali Bin Salem Ba'wazir in February, the so-called insurgency group has exhibited signs of widening divisions. The conflict within AAS is said to extend primarily from prioritizing political assassinations over the establishment of emirates in the eastern province of Hadhramawt. Observers in Aden and Sana'a insist this rift has damaged the group's capabilities and role vis-à-vis AQAP.
Western analysts still see AAS as a natural extension of AQAP, but many in Yemen's military insist the group is simply a mercenary arm rather than an ideological ally. Evidence lies on the priority given to Ahwar, Abyan during the current military offensive. By securing Ahwar the army has managed to eliminate a major strategic supply line that allowed AAS to deliver services for AQAP from the coast of Abyan to the mountains of Mayfah in Shebwa. The area in Ahwar was previously protected by government supported Popular Committees, but the resignation of its leader in late April illustrated the difficulty of securing the area and the troubled relations between the Committees and the government of president Hadi.
The fact Jalal Bil'ayd has now appeared in a number of videos by al-Malahem, AQAP's media wing, served to assure analysts of the relationship between AAS and AQAP. Al-Malahem identifies Bil'ayd as 'commander' in videos, but has yet to officially announce his place in the hierarchy. Military officials in Sana'a have often referred to AAS as mercenaries (murtasaqat) and dismiss labeling Bil'ayd AQAP due to his obscure background and role within AAS following the death of Khaled Abdulnabi in 2011, and the split with shaykh Abdul-Latif Saeed in 2012. The relationship has simply been explained as one of mutual interest, where one looks for financial gains, while the other requires a strategic force multiplier.
The rise of AAS Central Region (AAS-CR) has also generated much concern among Yemeni analysts. The group was announced in typical AAS form, rather than by any AQAP related media source. Yet, Bil'ayd has not commented on the new wing. It is believed this wing of AAS is not only gathering some of the militants who dispersed from Abyan in June 2012, but also incorporating a large number of Yemenis and foreigners returning from Syria. The main evidence cited is the role played by those previously in charge of logistical support for Yemenis joining the fight in Syria, along side al-Nusrah Front or ISIS. Those identified as responsible for the fighters in Ibb, Taiz and al-Dhale also happen to be high profile figures with roots in each of those provinces in the Central Region. The area not only covers access to Bab al-Mandab, as opposed to the Gulf of Aden, but it is also a strong hold for Salafi elements.
The Central Region was identified as an area of priority for AAS to counter Houthi expansion, but the group had not previously expressed such interests. In contrast, ISIS has expressed fighting Iranian influence as a priority, along with its antagonism of Gulf monarchies. If indeed ISIS is responsible for AAS-CR as Yemeni analysts indicate, it would suggest ISIS is using a known brand, Ansar al-Sharia, to gain a foothold in the Peninsula and aims to take advantage of rifts within AQAP to cement that presence. It would also imply ISIS is taking the battle with al-Zawahiri out of Syria and challenging the leadership of the global jihad movement. Blogs now boast of the number of jihadist groups in Central Asia and Southeast Asia pledging allegiance to ISIS, providing further evidence of ambitions by ISIS.
Recent incidents in Sana'a have taken many by surprise, but the opening of new fronts by AQAP, as the army intensified its offensive in Abyan and Shebwa, was expected. This has renewed a lack of confidence in the government even as president Hadi and the armed forces gain support from a growing section of the population, from Sana'a to the conflict areas. The government and its international partners clearly have to gain the confidence of those affected at this time and assure people they will not be abandoned once victory comes, and that funds will be available to rebuild and help displaced people return home. Also, concerns remain over military and security capabilities to contain AQAP's expected reaction when defeated in Abyan and Shebwa, as well as the ability of AAS to create more chaos in Aden, Lahj and Hadhramawt.
Weeks to come will be a great test to president Hadi's resolve, international partners, and the people. Without a clear post-conflict strategy for the affected areas, people fear a vengeful return by AQAP and AAS. To prevent this will require access to funds for long-term troop presence, and perhaps new Popular Committees, as well as economic opportunities. Fighting a versatile enemy of the State in multiple fronts is a major challenge. Assuring long term security before discontented grows once again will be a monumental challenge.


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