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The Hemingway Cats Get a Reprieve!
The Hemingway cats may continue to freely roam their Key West, Florida estate, after a judge's ruling in a legal case that could have resulted in them being removed or caged. It's taken five years and $250,000 for the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum to resolve the case.
They'd been threatened by the USDA with a fine of $200 per day PER CAT (for a total of about $10,000/day) because they did not have an animal exhibition license and couldn't qualify for one (because the cats weren't enclosed). After working with an animal behaviorist and fencing the property, they reached an agreement with the federal government.
Hemingway's cats are descended from a cat named "Snowball" who was a gift to the cat-loving writer in 1935. All carry the gene for polydactylism (multi-toes), although not all exhibit the trait. In fact, polydactyl cats are often referred to as "Hemingway Cats." We like to think that the cats are what draws thousands of visitors each year to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
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John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the U.S.
Custom motorcycle helmet painted by Alëna Skarina.
Maurice's show, "Cockadoodle: The Erogenous Art of Maurice Vellekoop" was given a double page review in the Manchester Evening News.
The show in Manchester, England is a flamboyant new exhibition of Maurice's contribution to illustration, underground comics and contemporary erotica. This is Maurice Vellekoop's first European solo exhibition with a wide selection of his erotic work on show alongside examples of his mainstream editorial work. The exhibition comes at a moment of renewed significance for Maurice as he embarks upon a graphic memoir, I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together! commissioned by the Canadian Council for the Arts and edited by author and award-winning art director Chip Kidd, to be published by Pantheon Books.
The exhibition is supported by a programme of events and activities that address notions of private shame, empowerment, sex-positivism and the often overlooked role of personal fantasy in critical cultural appreciation.
Cockadoodle: The Erogenous Art of Maurice VellekoopThe show is at Twenty Twenty Two in Manchester, England from 15 August to 13 September 2014. The show will move to a Liverpool venue and dates will be announced soon.
Curated by Bren O'Callaghan, is supported by Arts Council England, Manchester Pride and Homotopia Liverpool.
The 24-page portfolio, is being printed at Colour Innovations' Toronto plant on an 11-colour Heidelberg 40″ Perfector press, utilizing Colour Innovations' patented CIX metallic ink printing process. The paper, courtesy of Ariva, is Sappo HanoArt gloss cover and text. Printed with Metalstar® Pantone® premium silver ink, courtesy of Ekart, a leading international manufacturer of metallic pigments for the graphic arts industry.
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These Turtles? Heroes on a half (hearted) shell
The fourth decade of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has arrived and here's a new movie for a new generation.
The Turtles have had their ups and downs through the years.
About the film
The Turtles were first conceived in November 1983 when a couple of artists jokingly sketched out four turtles in ninja attire with weapons.
The Turtles' origin story is patterned after Marvel Comics' Daredevil. A canister bounces off a truck and the radioactive goo inside creates superpowers. Instead of hitting a man as in Daredevil, the gunk splashes onto some baby turtles.… Read the rest
Marvel-ous streak continues with Guardians
The big gamble paid off and it's official: Marvel Studios is on the kind of roll Pixar enjoyed. Marvel can seemingly do no wrong.
About the film
The studio created a Galactus-sized plan. Not only would a series of movies be made – some of them utilizing far from popular characters – but they would interlock with each other and be projected out for years in a series of "phases."… Read the rest
Purge binges on violence and social comment
Hollywood folk will tell anyone who will listen that they usually have no idea whether a movie they just made will be a hit.
History is littered with "can't miss" movies that cratered at the box office.
There is no fool-proof genre – one that, no matter the professional input or source – will be a guaranteed success.
That goes for thrillers, too.
About the film… Read the rest
Dawn rises to the occasion as in Apes sequel
The Movie Man has visited before how rare it is when a sequel equals and (rarely) even surpasses the original.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a second movie is mighty good. This is one of those times.
About the film
This recent Planet of the Apes reboot, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, follows a 2012 film that followed what many consider a disastrous "revisiting" of the 1968 original by quirky director Tim Burton back in 2001.… Read the rest
Walk like a man to check out Jersey Boys
Musical biographies occasionally pop up and soon more than usual will be landing in theaters.
If the newcomers are as good as Jersey Boys, then we're in for some groovy movies.
About the film
(The Movie Man said he was going to see Tammy this week, but, since he's like the common man only substantially more educated cinematically, he read the endless horrid reviews and witnessed its lukewarm weekend performance and passed. [The Movie Man's tricky; he doesn't always go see what he teases.])… Read the rest
New Transformers will make your ears extinct
This review is Movie Man No. 1,094, and he can declare that Transformers: Age of Extinction is the loudest movie he has ever seen.
About the film
No snotty cinema lover goes to a Transformers movie expecting Citizen Kane. But the common Joe and Jane do.
The fact that the most hated director on the planet, Michael Bay, is behind the movies makes them even more kryptonite-y for those who consider film "art." Oh, there's art in the Transformers movies – this is No. 4 and the first of a second trilogy – and it's all done on computers.… Read the rest
Dragon 2 flies high but can't reach original's heights
The life of an animated movie can be a weird one. (Well, just like most movies, really.)
About the film
Any actor of any experience will tell you that they are sometimes amazed when the movie they made was a huge hit.
(And vice versa – when a sure-fire success tanks.)
Disney and Pixar dominate animation, of course.
But, you might be surprised to know that Dreamworks has churned out 29 animated movies since 1998.… Read the rest
Crude, coarse 22 Jump Street funnier and knows it
22 Jump Street surprised right off the bat and at the very end.
About the film
For only the second time in Movie Man history – this is review No. 1,093 – a movie was preceded by a red band trailer.
The past few years have seen an upsurge in the R-rated previews; however, the great majority of them are only viewed online (where several sites offer them).… Read the rest
Time travel movie is Groundhog Day with aliens
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The idea of the Movie Man a couple of decades ago was for a highly-educated person (the Movie Man, of course) to give the common man an unbiased account (well, mostly) of one of the bigger releases each week – all the while eschewing critics-only previews.
The Movie Man settles in with everyday folk at normal screenings – sticky floors, old popcorn, screaming brats, text messaging teens and all.… Read the rest
Yawn, Maleficent casts a sleeping spell on audiences
There are chick flicks and kids movies then there are movies that attract both. Maleficent is one of those.
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In a summer filled with male-oriented action/bromance/superhero movies what's a woman – and her children – to do for film fun?
Disney, cruising with so much success in female-empowerment mode (Frozen [2012, Movie Man No. 1,064, 7] is now the most successful animated movie in history and the 19th movie to reach $400 million in America), perfectly planted Maleficent, a twist on Sleeping Beauty (1959).… Read the rest


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Cemetery flowers may remain until June 2
City cemetery officials at Fernwood and Fairmont cemeteries are allowing placement of flowers on burial spaces beginning Friday in observance of Memorial Day and they may remain until June 2.
Flowers and other items left on the ground after June 2, including solar lights or items that get in the way of cemetery mowing and maintenance, will be removed by staff.
Flower arrangements that are mounted on markers, monuments, or in hanging baskets may remain year round, as long as they do not interfere with the maintenance of the cemetery or cause any type of danger to visitors, cemetery workers or equipment.
Cemetery officials remind cemetery patrons that glass, ceramic or breakable items are not allowed in city cemeteries at any time.
Roselawn Memorial Garden has practically identical policies, although it allows flowers to be placed on graves a full week before Memorial Day. They must be removed by June 2.


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That line is gorssly overused already, and now they've named a movie after the phrase. Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as two people who end up in Vegas after she gets dumped, and he gets fired. One night of heavy drinking later, and they wake up Britney-Jason Alexander style: married.
They end up winning a $3 million jackpot at a casino the next day, and try to split it in court. But the judge orders the couple to "six months of hard marriage." They simply cannot get along. Until they both realize they're gorgeous and fall in love. The end. Sorry! Spoiler alert!


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It almost sounds too good to be true: Install tens of thousands of wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico and you not only get clean electricity, you also knock out the catastrophic punch of hurricanes.
'You can dissipate hurricanes so much that you can reduce wind speeds, peak wind speeds by more than half, and the storm surge by almost 80 percent in the case of New Orleans and hurricane Katrina.'
That is according to Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University. Jacobson, a Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering, co-authored the study with scientists from Cornell University and the University of California-Davis.
'We ran simulations without turbines present, and then with turbines present,' Jacobson says.
Their computer models focused on Hurricanes Sandy, Isaac and Katrina.
A satellite image of Katrina without wind turbines shows the storm's impact from space.
'As it hits land it starts to dissipate, it's causing damage over land,' Jacobson says. Then he says they modified the computer model, adding 78,000 wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico.
'We added tens of thousands of turbines in this triangular region up here,' he says, pointing to a northeastern corner of the gulf. 'And you can see initially that these turbines are reducing the wind speeds significantly.'
Jacobson says his research shows the turbines could reduce the devastating power of a hurricane so much that the turbines themselves would not be damaged.
'The wind speeds are dissipated, the hurricanes are dissipated sufficiently so that you never get to the destructive wind speed of a turbine even in a hurricane such as hurricane Katrina, which destroyed much of New Orleans.'
One of the world's largest makers of wind turbines, Siemens, says each offshore turbine can cost $2.1-million per megawatt. Thousands of them would cost tens of billions of dollars.
But Jacobson says it is an investment that pays for itself.
'You get all that money back by electricity sales over 25-30 years, and you reduce storm surge and wind speed associated with a hurricane.'
Eyewitness News asked a University of New Orleans scientist to examine the Jacobson study.
'My initial reaction,' says Dr. Ioannis Georgiou of UNO, 'was, is this possible?'
Georgiou is director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences and has a background in storm surge and hydrodynamic modeling.
'The assumption here is that there's a loss of kinetic energy because of the friction through the blades and the rotors and so forth. That energy has to go somewhere and it goes into electricity and heat basically.'
Georgiou says the idea obviously has benefits.
'I'm not questioning the reduction in winds.'
But Georgiou says some aspects of the research need more study.
For example, he says Louisiana's shoreline is far more complex than the research model shows.
'We don't have a straight shoreline, right. We have deltas. We have estuaries. We have levees. We have flood protection systems, layered defenses.'
Georgiou says the research doesn't fully account for the various angles of attack that storms take.
'Where its outer bands are going to be affected by the turbines may cause the storm system to be higher on the east bank of the Mississippi levees, for example, St. Bernard and so forth; and much lower on the other side.'
Georgiou cites hurricane Isaac as an example of a weaker storm that produced more storm surge than some stronger storms.
He said storm surge is not directly related to wind speed. So reducing wind speed won't have a direct effect on cutting down storm surge.
'The presence or absence of wetlands and geometry, you know, the shape of the basin also affect, locally, storm surge quite a bit.
Ioannis Georgiou says he believes it is going to take quite a bit more study before a huge investment can be made in the kind of concept that the Jacobson study proposes.


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The authors also report that study participants experienced significantly worse side effects with concurrent therapy versus sequential therapy, particularly, severe esophagitis (inflammation of the esophagus lining). However, data collected from study participants, who were followed for a median of 11 years after treatment show that late side effects occurring months or years after treatment were minimal and similar across the three study arms.
Medical oncologist Corey J. Langer, M.D, Director of Thoracic Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and research co-author states, "Many patients initially diagnosed with inoperable stage III disease are too ill to tolerate the more aggressive concurrent therapy administered in this trial. We are encouraged, however, that new radiation therapy techniques and chemotherapy drugs developed since the trial's conductsome currently under investigationhave the potential to increase the benefit of concurrent therapy. It is critical for RTOG and other groups to continue their investigation of new treatments to improve cancer survival and minimize treatment side effects."
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NT Remembers Laurence Olivier Well at Centenary
Editorial Staff • West End • 24 Sep 2007
Olivier, the first director of the National Theatre when it opened at the Old Vic in 1963, was born in Dorking, Surrey, on 22 May 1907. The celebration at the NT was delayed to coincide with the delivery of the sculptor Angela Conner's statue, which shows Olivier in the role of Hamlet, high on a plinth, holding his sword in a gesture that represents, said his elder son Tarquin Olivier, his belief in the NT.
The ceremony was attended by Olivier's widow, Joan Plowright, and their three children (Tarquin was Olivier's son by his first wife, the actress Jill Esmonde; Olivier subsequently married Vivien Leigh, and then Dame Joan in 1961), and by many actors in his NT company, including Maggie Smith, Anna Carteret, Sheila Reid, Graham Crowden, Charles Kay, Edward Petherbridge and Ronald Pickup.
They were joined by playwrights Harold Pinter, David Hare and Tom Stoppard, directors Frith Banbury, Peter Hall (Olivier's successor as head of the NT in 1973), Michael Blakemore and Jonathan Miller, and by many other actors including Geoffrey Palmer, Keith Baxter, Simon Callow, Janet McTeer, Nancy Carroll, Lindsay Duncan, Paterson Joseph, Antony Sher, Michael Pennington and Alex Jennings.
Tarquin Olivier paid tribute to the many donors towards the appeal for the statue whose names will be enshrined on a plaque on the plinth and said that the role of Hamlet was chosen because his father always said it was impossible to cheat in the role, and it was one of the few Shakespeare characters he played without disguise or prosthetics.
Richard Attenborough - who revealed that Olivier had once invited him to be in a proposed production of Guys and Dolls and to play Shylock, "one of his few misjudgements" (neither show happened) – said that, without Olivier, the National simply would not have come into being, and that what he did in his life was unique – "He was a colossus in world theatre and also a giant in the cinema."
The two-hour performance told Olivier's life story – he died on 11 July 1989 and was only the third actor, after David Garrick and Henry Irving, to have his ashes interred in Westminster Abbey – in the form of readings, film clips and reminiscences. It was produced by Nicholas Hytner, the NT's current artistic director, and Angus MacKechnie, with music played on stage by the South Bank Sinfonia under the direction of Simon Over.
The Hamlet theme was maintained to the end when present-day members of the NT shared the lines of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy with the brooding, blond-haired image of Olivier in the 1948 black and white movie which he directed. Another poignant moment in the performance came when a clip of the scene in Richard III where Olivier's Crookback woos Claire Bloom as the Lady Anne by the coffin of the man he has murdered, her husband, was followed by Claire Bloom herself stepping forward on the stage to proclaim a rave review of Olivier's performance.
Olivier's great roles at the National included Othello, Solness in The Master Builder, the Captain in The Dance of Death, Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Shylock, and James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night. His last appearance at the Old Vic – he never played on the Olivier stage, but addressed the opening night gala performance attended by the Queen in 1976 – was as a Glaswegian Trotskyite trades unionist in The Party by Trevor Griffiths. On the last night of that play, said Gawn Grainger, Olivier received a thunderous ovation with a seductive smile, got down and kissed the stage – "his mistress, his lover…there was absolutely nothing sentimental about it."
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Inter-communal violence over access to water has been a fatal risk for the Toposa communities in Eastern Equatoria state. However, 2012 has been hopeful for the Toposa people in Jie, Kapoeta East County. For the first time in their living memory, they did not migrate in search of water. The reason for this dramatic change is a newly built 30 million cubic-meter water reservoir funded by the South Sudan Recovery Fund (SSRF), a UNDP managed international donor fund for large-scale development projects in South Sudan.
Haffirs or man-made lakes are not a new concept for the Toposa. They have been hand-digging them for years but it has never been enough to meet their needs. Under the intense sun during dry-season, the lakes dry up, forcing communities to migrate in search of water for human and livestock consumption. This caused tension between communities and often led to violent conflicts.
By not migrating to search for water, the prospect of violence from the pastoralist livelihood of the Toposa communities has been reduced. "If the haffir had not been constructed, we would not have remained in our settlements and the dry season would have caused us a lot of suffering", said a Jie resident.
Through a series of community consultations across Eastern Equatoria, the Community Security and Arms Control (CSAC) project of UNDP, identified water access as a barrier to community security in Kapoeta North and South counties. These consultations brought together local government, state ministers, village elders, representatives from the Peace Commission, religious leaders and community members to discuss and find local solutions to their security issues. The lake was built by the UNDP implementing partner Pact Sudan.
"Access to water is often a source of conflict. Working with communities to identify needs, and constructing water access points in areas where water related conflicts are most prevalent, we are helping to lay the foundations for peaceful communities", said George Conway, Country Director, a.i. UNDP South Sudan.
As there is evidence that building haffirs mitigates conflicts among communities, there are plans to construct more water access points in other water scarce areas of the country. In Kapoeta alone, SSRF is building three more haffirs to further the benefit to various pastoralist communities. This is one of several results of the US$19.8 million SSRF Joint Stabilization Programmme for Eastern Equatorial being implemented by UNDP and UNOPS.


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Veteran actor Aanjjan Srivastav who was last seen in the show Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuchh Kaha still regrets that he couldn't do a film directed by Yash Chopra.
The stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years, met Yash ji during one of his event. "Yash Chopra ji was a life time member of IPTA. First time I met him, was in the year 1982, during an IPTA event. He was a very considerate and affectionate human being. He knew me as an active IPTA member. He used to even come for Inter college drama competitions as a Judge. He always had an eye for talent and his casting was just perfect," says Aanjjan.
According to Aanjjan, every love story Yash ji made was fresh. "I was part of the movie Chak De! India, which was produced by him. "I remember how he got the promo of Chak De changed to highlight that woman who do ordinary stuff can play hockey as well. I regret that I couldn't do any film directed by him. Because of my role in Chak De, Subhash Ghai signed me for Yuvvraaj. His untimely demise is a great loss for the Indian cinema."
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Not enough pressure? Consider this: Twenty-eight years earlier another world-class 10,000-meter runner had entered the New York City Marathon. It was his first 26.2-miler, too. His name was Alberto Salazar.
He won.
On the morning of the race, Salazar and Treasure chaperoned a sleepy-eyed Goucher onto the bus that takes racers to the starting line on Staten Island. "It's a little like the first day of school for your child," Salazar later said. "You're putting her on the bus with your fingers crossed."
She did just fine. On a blustery November day, Goucher drafted Radcliffe and let the reigning champ cut through the wind. She shadowed Radcliffe so closely that when Radcliffe tossed a used gel pack, it grazed Goucher before falling to the ground. She made some rookie mistakes. She had a hell of a time grabbing water bottles from the table, a skill you don't think much about until you have to do it.
At the 12-mile mark she thought of her father, who lived in Queens and died across the river. It gave her a little lift. Helped her stay strong. And feel like she wasn't alone.
Six miles from the finish, her body began to rebel. Her stomach hurt. Her calves began to cramp. As if sensing Goucher's weakness, Radcliffe broke away.
"I had to recoup," Goucher said after the race. "I told myself, It's a 10-K. You can do this. Pull it together."
This wouldn't be a repeat of the Beijing 10-K, though. Goucher called on her key word—this time it was confidence—to find the fortitude to continue on and claim third place, one minute, 57 seconds behind the winner, Radcliffe.
As in Helsinki, the significance of her time took a while to sink in. She had just run 2:25.53, the fastest debut marathon for an American woman, beating Deena Kastor's 2001 mark by a little more than a minute. Her third-place run was the first podium finish in New York for an American woman in 14 years. But the big one was this: No American woman had ever posted a faster time in the New York City Marathon. Not Deena Kastor, not Miki Gorman, not Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Adam greeted her at the finish wearing a T-shirt that read, "Mr. Kara Goucher."
This time she didn't ask for a picture with Radcliffe (as she had at the Great North Run). She'd proven to herself that she deserved to be here. "I want to run against the best people," she told reporters after the race. "No hiding from anyone. As much as I was hurting the last five miles, I'll be back for more."
Five months later, at the 2009 Boston Marathon, Goucher came out swinging. Before the race, she announced her intention to end the 14-year winless streak for Americans in Boston. And she nearly did it. After an unusually slow start, Goucher shattered the pack and surged into the lead from mile 20 to 25. But Kenyan marathoner Salina Kosgei and 2008 Boston winner Dire Tune of Ethiopia stayed tucked in behind her until there was a mile to go. When they kicked less than 800 meters from the finish line, Goucher couldn't stay with them. She finished third again, nine seconds behind Kosgei's winning 2:32:16.
This time she wasn't just happy to finish. She was visibly upset. In tears, actually. Third place was no longer good enough. "I'm proud of how I ran," she said in a postrace press conference. "I raced the best that I could. But I wanted to be the one who won for everybody."
She would run one more marathon before shutting down her 2009 season. At the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Goucher placed a disappointing 10th, more than 2:30 behind the winning time set by China's Xue Bai.
A year earlier, a ninth-place finish in Beijing had shattered her world. This time, a disappointing 10th was...well, it wasn't so bad. During the past year, Salazar and Treasure hadn't just trained her to become a marathoner. They'd helped her become a different athlete. More mature. Confident. Maybe even a little more zen, a woman able to enjoy the ride as much as the destination.
This, too, is an important part of the sports psychologist's toolkit. "One of the things I work with athletes on is helping them recognize and enjoy the sensation of their bodies in motion," says Gloria Balague, University of Illinois professor of sports psychology. "Get in touch with that. When you enjoy the feeling of your back in good posture, your arms and legs perfectly in sync, then it's very hard to be tight."
In his forthcoming book, Spirit of the Dancing Warrior, Jerry Lynch encourages athletes to embrace a more Eastern philosophical attitude toward their competitors. "The word competition comes from the Latin competere, which means 'to seek together.' So look at your competitor as your partner. You seek greatness together."
"Let's say the world record holder lines up next to me," Lynch writes. "I'm thrilled. And I hope he brings his best game. Because if he does, I'll find out how good I am. I know for certain I will run my best, because the greatest competitors have shown up."
That's kind of how Goucher felt. The night before the World Championship marathon, she told Adam: "No matter what happens tomorrow, this is the happiest I've ever been in my whole life."
Even during the race, as she watched her chance to medal slip away, Goucher never lost her confidence or her enjoyment of the physical act of running. "The feeling of lining up against the best women in the world, that was amazing," she later recalled. "I loved the idea that we were all going to be out there for a while. I loved the challenge of shutting my mind off and just enjoying the race. I loved it all."
Salazar's prediction had come true. Some day you're going to be a marathoner. That day had arrived. Six years after hitting bottom, Goucher had climbed back close to the top. Where once she despised running, now she reveled in it. Her fear of long distances had been replaced by anticipation. Long runs in a weight vest? Bring it on. Working with Salazar and Treasure, building up her confidence day by day, she'd beaten back the demons of self-doubt.
At the end of the 2009 season, Goucher decided to follow Paula Radcliffe's example. Radcliffe won the marathon at the 2005 World Championships, then took half of 2006 off to have a baby. She returned with a vengeance, winning the New York City Marathon in 2007 and 2008. "Adam and I have always talked about starting a family," Goucher says, "and this is the time to do it." 2010 is an off year in elite running—no Olympics, no World Championships. So she's ramping down, running 50 miles a week instead of 120. There will be no second chance at Boston or New York in 2010, but she vows to return in plenty of time for the 2012 London Olympics.
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TUCSON, Ariz. In a tense courtroom scene, Susan Hileman stared intently from her wheelchair at the smiling suspect who authorities say wounded her and 12 others and killed six people in a Tucson shooting rampage in January.
Wednesday's hearing in Tucson was the first time that survivors of the violence, that also left U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords severely injured, came face-to-face with suspect Jared Lee Loughner since the shooting.
Two others - retired Army Col. Bill Badger and Mavanell "Mavy" Stoddard - sat on the opposite side of the courtroom as the 22-year-old Loughner, whose once-shaved head featured short, dark hair and sideburns. Two U.S. marshals stood just feet behind Loughner throughout the hearing.
Badger, 74, is credited with helping to subdue Loughner at the scene after a bullet grazed the back of Badger's head.
Stoddard, 75, was shot in the leg three times. Her husband, Dorwan, dove to the ground and covered her. He was shot in the head and died at the scene.
Hileman, 58, was holding 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green's hand when the shooting erupted. The woman was shot three times; Christina was killed.
Loughner made one brief comment, at the beginning of the hearing. The judge asked the 22-year-old if Jared Loughner was his name. "Yes, it is," Loughner responded as he stood behind the defense table.
Loughner then pleaded not guilty to dozens of federal charges, including trying to assassinate Giffords, attempting to kill two of her aides, and murdering federal judge John Roll and Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman. The hearing took place in the same courthouse where Roll worked before he was killed in the tragedy.
Loughner also is charged with causing the deaths of four others who weren't federal employees, causing injury and death to participants at a "federally provided activity" and using a gun in a crime of violence.
He likely will also face state charges stemming from the attack outside a Tucson grocery store. Hileman, Badger and Stoddard were among those wounded at the meet-and-greet event held by Giffords, who is now at a Houston hospital and undergoing rigorous therapy to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.
The suspect's father, Randy Loughner, also made his first appearance in the gallery during his son's criminal case. Dressed in a pressed charcoal-colored shirt and blue jeans, the father with bushy salt-and-pepper hair sat three rows behind his son, his arms folded.
Randy Loughner kept his eyes fixed on the floor and wall, glancing up only a few times to see the court action. After the hearing, he rushed out of the courtroom without acknowledging reporters asking him for comment.
Also Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Larry Burns decided search warrants from Loughner's home should be made public. He also scheduled a May 25 hearing to determine if Loughner is competent to stand trial.
The search warrants contained details about the items found by investigators at the suspect's home, including two shotguns, ammunition and drawings of weapons.
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The only bright spot in the PC biz right now are convergience PCs that allow you to watch and record your favorite TV shows when you want, plus you can easily skip the commercials or other slow points in the programs.
HP's $1,399 Media Center is leading the way. Gateway ($4,099 PC media system with 42" plasma monitor included), Sony, and even Dell says "watch this space" for their spin. Unlike TiVo, you don't need a subscription, and with DVD burners standard, HD space isn't an issue plus you can view on your TV or anywhere else.
But at Apple Computer Inc., which uses its own proprietary operating system, executives have decided against marrying TV viewing with personal computing.
"The idea for a lot of customers to move their PC right next to their television or entertainment center isn't exactly going over well," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president for hardware marketing.
"When it comes to how these things work in the living room, we have what we think is a better approach, which is not that the computer has to go right next to these devices, but that all these devices should talk to each other."
HP Media Center fans point out that all a user has to do is plug the cable TV cord into the back of the PC to essentially turn it into a television.
I imagine this is just a temporary oversight. Apple will probably have their own system by this summer to make it easy to record, burn and watch TV on their Macs. The key thing you need is a video card which has a cable jacks in/out. Most of the major graphics card makers have them for under $200. Plus you need software and preferably a 200GB HD or better.
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Hi, my name is Tony Lee. I am a virus researcher on the Microsoft Antimalware team. One of our top priorities is to conduct advanced research to combat malware problems. A significant challenge we have today is the large number of active malware samples, totaling in the order of tens of thousands, and increasing rapidly. It has become apparent to us that the traditional manual analysis process is not adequate in dealing with malware of this order of magnitude, and that we should seek automation technologies to aid human analysts. To address this challenge, we are conducting research on technologies which model human analysis, to enable autonomous processes that analyze and classify malware, in an automatic and adaptable manner.
As described by Matt's EICAR recap post last week, my colleague Jigar Mody and I presented a paper on this research work at the EICAR conference at Hamburg, Germany. The subject was on automatic malware classification using runtime events and machine learning. The underlying approach we took involves capturing malware behavior in a time sequence of events, which is a knowledge representation we then used as input to a machine learning process to uncover similarity information across a large number of malware samples. The novelty in this research is the application of a distance-based clustering algorithm on behavioral data observed during malware execution. Past technologies and research attempts, such as rule-based, weights/thresholds and abstract feature set approaches, focus mostly on heuristics to detect generic categories of malware (e.g. malicious or not); common challenges include algorithms too generic to provide classification precision or difficult to scale to unaccounted characteristics.
Having looked into numerous research and technologies from the past, we decided to take a step back and approach the problem from ground zero. First, we conceptualized the classification process in terms of knowledge consumption, representation, learning, and application. We then tackled the basic problem of representing knowledge extracted from malware. By using event sequences as a representation, we were able to describe the ordered effects or system transition states observed from malware behavior. Unlike common statistics-based data mining techniques (association rules, Bayesian classifiers, term vector, etc.), we use instance-based learning, allowing objects represented in rich syntax (ordered sequence). We solved the object-distance problem by adapting Levenshtein distance to measure similarity between objects. We took an innovative approach to fine tune edit operation cost as a function of event type, values and operation type, in order to achieve optimal similarity precision. We then employed K-medoids clustering algorithm to construct semantic groups of malware objects based on similarity measure, classes to serve as the basis to family classification.
The preliminary tests, conducted among 3 to 11 families, with total over 700 variants, showed fairly high classification accuracy (up to 84%). The tests reveal a consistent trend of improving results with respect to number of families, clusters and events. As the number of events used in the similarity measure increase, we see the increase in accuracy as we expected. We also found that number of clusters and families affect the classification accuracy positively, because, given proper similarity measure, the more semantic groups proposed, the more centers or space for data points to be drawn to the right groups. We also observe the outlier effects were contained to the degree in proportion to the number of clusters proposed, because of the stronger collective "gravitational forces" due to the increased number of centroids. For more detailed observations, please see the paper available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.
We are continuously working on optimizing the algorithms and techniques of this system, such as the similarity measure precision, clustering algorithm efficiency, malware replication system effectiveness, and applications in domains such as automated behavior descriptions and correlation analysis. The method we have proposed in the paper is one of the many routes towards a solution that addresses the challenge of a growing number of malware in the wild.
These days I am jealous of some of the neat security research being done over on the Microsoft campus. Although I don't have any plans to ever work there, there are a few teams that are doing some interesting stuff I wish I could be part of... if nothing
If you follow these kinds of things, you will realise that AV technology is getting worse not better at protecting you from malware. Case in point, yesterday I downloaded a file from a rather dubious site. I checked it out with ClamAV and McAfee and
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New flood maps for New Jersey predict water levels to climb several feet higher than previous estimates when major storms strike the state.
The updated information raises the elevation at which flood insurance becomes cheaper for residents and businesses planning to rebuild after Sandy.
The new maps produced by FEMA in collaboration with the state depict flood hazards across 1,800 miles of coastal tidal zones in ten counties: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Cape May, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union.
These maps show how high water is expected to rise due to a so-called 100-year event. That means a storm that has a one percent chance of happening any given year.
The new maps were already being made when Sandy hit the region in October, but FEMA expedited the process in response to the storm. Ryan Pietramali, a Risk Analysis Branch Chief at FEMA, says elevations will be three and a half feet higher on average for these counties, with most elevations increasing by one to five feet.
It's the first time these maps have been updated in more than 20 years. Pietramali said advances in science help give a more accurate picture of risk that was always there, but may not have been documented.
"Obviously we're not driving the same cars we were driving with the same technology 20 years ago," he said. "The science has changed on the way we understand coastal hazards. We've also been able to update the topography these maps are based on."
FEMA analysts looked at 60 years worth of storm data when revising the maps. Bill McDonnell, Deputy Hazard Mitigation Branch Director for FEMA, said that data did not include an analysis of Sandy's effects, but it did include a look at the effects of hurricanes "substantially similar to Sandy."
Pietramali says the new maps should help New Jersey residents make decisions about where and how to rebuild after Sandy. He stressed that building above the new elevation lines will save people money on flood insurance.
"Construction in coastal areas needs to withstand damaging wind and waves," he said. "It's important that property owners and business owners should check with local building officials to fully understand any requirements for using advisory based flood elevations in rebuilding."
Raising the flood elevation increases the number of people who would be required to purchase flood insurance. Had these revisions been made before Sandy hit, it's likely that more New Jersey residents would have had flood insurance, and would have been covered for damages sustained from the storm.
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Phil Jackson would be so ashamed of us.
He has hardly vacated his office overlooking the Lakers' practice court. (Who moved into Jackson's office? Joey Buss. I told you to get to know Joey.) Already so many Lakers disciples have forgotten Jackson's Zen mantra: Stay in the moment.
Dwight Howard to the Lakers! Dwight Howard!! To the Lakers!!!
The NBA lockout ends, and we go from lamenting what isn't, skip right past what is ... and dive right into what isn't again. (At least isn't yet.)
Understandable. How fun it is to indulge exciting possibilities – especially because Lakers fans have been tied to the same core players for so many years now. And Howard is indeed a physical marvel on par with Shaquille O'Neal (although somehow fulfilling even less of his potential).
Yet if we stop the merry-go-round for a moment – though both Shaq and Dwight, being such goofballs, will surely want to keep riding – the place that Lakers Nation should be worshipping is at the feet (and knees) of Andrew Bynum.
More than anyone else, Bynum can remove the adjective from this dying dynasty.
And he is more prepared to do it than you know.
He lost 10 pounds to take a load off his knees while losing more body fat than Kevin Durant even carries. He strengthened his core and the muscles all around his knees, so critical for him to improve his base and make powerful moves when so weak in those knees. He ditched all the insecurities over sub-par conditioning and poor lateral movement that led him to rush things and get out of sync with his team.
He focused on developing quicker moves (drop steps, spin moves, one-dribble jump hooks, even the Dream Shake) and locked in on free throws, too.
Bynum remade his body with trainer Freddie Roach, who is in three Boxing Halls of Fame and now teaches champions Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan – and maybe more importantly, Roach's strength and conditioning specialist Alex Ariza.
Often twice a day over five months, six days a week, Bynum took this one healthy offseason that his always-failing knees finally gave him, and he bent them forward to put his nose to the grindstone. Howard can have the "Superman" theme; Bynum will take the "Rocky" music.
You could even say the results have closed the biggest gaps between Bynum and Howard, because the feet are definitely lighter and the hands are far quicker now. This was Bynum's plan – although he upgraded in trainers from Roger Mayweather to Roach – long before he revealed himself in the season finale as someone who would take a shot at a guy a foot smaller.
That's a fair context for this, too, because the feeling now is this: Bynum, 24, has a never-before-felt comfort level with his big body, less inclined to cheat when confident in what his body can do for him in attacking others and stopping them. He's keeping at it now, but concentrating more on basketball as training camp nears with his usual trainer, Sean Zarzana, in Atlanta.
Bynum has trained hard before, but he believed boxing, which teammate Lamar Odom has used to such great results that he has pushed wife Khloe Kardashian in the ring to train now, would help him own his space more confidently. It has turned out to be a perfect physical extension to the mental empowerment he discovered midway through last season via consultations with George Mumford, Jackson's psychology guru.
It all goes together, ideally, as Mumford said when talking about Bynum's breakthrough in having NBA action become, in Bynum's own words, "really quiet."
"Sometimes working on the body directly is not going to get it, and sometimes working on the mind directly is not going to get it," Mumford said. "But if you can get the two to talk to each other, you're probably into some good stuff."
In Bynum's case, the mind was always running laps around the body.
He had a curious mind and a fat body in high school: Even after he'd dropped from 310 to 293, he carried about five chins when he played in the 2005 McDonald's All-American Game. One of his limiting beliefs has always been that he is, fundamentally, more mind than body.
In his first Lakers years, he kept studying physics, engineering and computers to engage his analytical side while also filling up on plenty of McDonald's, which didn't help. Then his body, of course, broke down again and again and again – though he was smart enough to have told me years ago he was saving his money for this very lockout.


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Former Arsenal star Paul Merson is convinced Manchester City will sack Roberto Mancini.
Merson wrote in the Daily Star: "I would be shocked if Roberto Mancini survives, for a start. I never like to see anyone lose their job, but let's be realistic.
"They went out of the Champions League at the first hurdle – again. They are nowhere near winning the league. They don't even play very entertaining football.
"On top of all that, Mancini's signings have not really been up to it. You put that all together and I just can't see him being there next season.
"City have to make changes – and they will improve. They will spend money and they will go again. They know they have not been good enough."


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Appropriateness of detention and demurrage charges must be addressed on a case-by-case basis, says World Shipping Council.
Announced on the heels of a port driver labor strike, Eco Flow will use "free-flow" to move containers out of terminals to off-dock yards.
French ocean carrier will commence transatlantic operations on a new joint pendulum service with Hamburg Sud and UASC this month.
The logistics roll-up company will raise the funds in both equity and the sale of senior notes to finance current and future acquisitions.
Move opens the door for full establishment of diplomatic relations and business opportunities between the United States and Cuba.
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Utah's starting point guard Deron Williams [right calf] will play tonight against the Celtics.
Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan made the announcement 90 minutes before tip-off.
"I'll let out trainer let me know where he is in the game. That's what we usually do when a player's been out, make sure we don't cause any problems and screw him up in any way," Sloan explained.
Williams has played in all seven games for the Jazz this season, averaging 21.4 points and 10.7 assists. He suffered the calf strain in Utah's win on Monday night in New York against the Knicks.
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Last week started with two big casino news items that were rife with symbolism: the closing of the Riviera and the official groundbreaking for Resorts World. Some 24 hours after padlocks were slapped on the Riviera's front doors, lion dancers gyrated in an air-conditioned tent across the street on the former site of the Stardust. Read More


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Studio Heads Pledge Continued Support of MPAA at Intimate Dinner With Chris Dodd (Exclusive)
The former senator sat down with WB's Kevin Tsujihara, Disney's Alan Horn and their peers to discuss making changes
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CEO Michael Lynton is looking at structure before making a decision, they tell TheWrap
Longtime industry veteran died at his home in Beverly Hills after battling a "lengthy illness"
Clinton was headliner at star-studded Hollywood event co-chaired by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg
DNC event will be held Monday at Brentwood's Tavern restaurant for the not-yet candidate
It's the third time this year Democrats are calling on Hollywood's elite, following the president's fundraising events at the homes of Shonda Rhimes and Disney...
TheWrap's film reporter Jeff Sneider compares the two casts and crowns a hypothetical winner
Kevin Brady spent 26 years at the studio before he was allegedly replaced by someone younger and cheaper
The former Warner Bros. boss joined Disney in 2012
Obama makes remarks at fundraiser and Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation Dinner
Miller says he's siphoning Hollywood money from Greuel in race for Henry Waxman's seat. She denies it
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Fans of the beloved franchise will soon find out who is joining R2-D2 in J.J. Abrams' "Episode VII"
CinemaCon 2014: The bad news? Theater owners have to wait more than a year
After the "Lone Ranger" flop this summer, Disney ends its deal with the prolific producer
Alan Horn tells theater owners studio will devote 8 slots on its annual slate to big-budget films
Universal's Adam Fogelson suggests more experimentation to come
The Mouse House will take a $50 million write-down this fiscal quarter
Disney Studios Chief Alan Horn explains his plans to reinvigorate the live-action unit, the reason he loves "Finding Nemo" and why, at 69, he's not...
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Bruce Rosenblum, president of Warner Bros. Television Group, said he's trying hard not to be distracted by the elephant on the lot: who will lead...
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`Tertiary sector needs to be developed'
Farmers urged to grow flowers and fruits to augment their incomeHorticulture Department asked to promote export of jasmineMore people should be absorbed into tertiary sector, says Minister
UDUPI: Minister for Medical Education and Animal Husbandry V.S. Acharya said here on Sunday that focusing on horticultural crops and the tertiary sector is the key to the development of coastal districts. He was speaking after inaugurating a district-level awareness camp on the activities of the National Horticulture Board organised by the Department of Horticulture. Dr. Acharya said that about 30 years ago, the undivided Dakshina Kannada district was among the top 50 districts in the country in the production of paddy. However, owing to dependence on rain and because it is labour-intensive, paddy cultivation has become unviable. Therefore, many farmers took to cultivation of horticultural crops such as coconuts and arecanut. However, even these crops were affected in the price crash. When the Brahmavar Sugar Factory came up farmers took to cultivation of sugarcane, but as the factory is facing problems, farmers were forced to give this up. He said officials of the Horticulture Department should encourage people to grow flowers, vegetables and fruits along with horticulture crops. The department should also take steps to promote export of jasmine from Shankarpura, for which there is a demand in the Gulf. The Regional Research Station at Brahmavar, affiliated to the agricultural university in Bangalore, should provide information to farmers on the latest developments in agriculture. He said nearly 57 per cent of people in the district are dependant on agriculture, and added that this should be brought down to 35 per cent. While it is necessary to encourage employment in the tertiary sector, agriculture should not be completely abandoned, he added. K. Raghupati Bhat, MLA; President of the Udupi Zilla Panchayat B.N. Shankar Poojary; Joint Director of the Department of Horticulture D.L. Maheshwar; and zilla panchayat member Kota Srinivasa Poojary were present.


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Mana, also known as Life Energy, is the name given to the life energy that is present in all living things (except Ectonurites) throughout the entire universe. Mana was introduced in What Are Little Girls Made Of?. In this episode, it is explained that Anodites, a race of "energy beings", are sentient beings who are entirely comprised of mana and likewise, are able to freely control and manipulate it to their every whim.
Mana is an Anodite's source of power, energy and strength. While it is incredibly powerful, it is not invincible. Constructs made out of mana seem to have similar properties to either glass, light, or what appears to be metal. In What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Verdona mentions how most of her corporeal descendants did not inherit "the spark", the catalyst that allows for the control and manipulation of mana.
Humans and Geochelone Aerios can be taught to manipulate mana at a lesser degree than Anodites.
According to Aggregor, Geochelone Aerios can't be harmed by mana.
List of Known Users
- Gwen Tennyson
- Verdona
- Charmcaster
- Hex
- Michael Morningstar
- Adwaita
- Kevin Levin (temporarily)
- Sunny
- Ben 10,000 (taught by Gwen)
- Spellbinder
- Anodites
List of Possible Uses
In Ben 10: Alien Force, it is implied that the magic constantly utilized by both fifteen-year-old Charmcaster and ten-year-old Gwen in the original series it is actually derived from mana and that highly skilled humans like Charmcaster are capable of harnessing it (though obviously not at the same level as Anodites). In Where the Magic Happens, this is confirmed true.
A key difference is that this form of magic (or at least magical rituals) relies much more on the use of spoken incantations, spell books, charms and talismans, and even celestial events, (like a full moon or a solar eclipse) to achieve the desired magical and mystical effects the caster desires.
Energy Control/Manipulation
Basically involves the numerous ways and uses of using pure pink-and-magenta-colored energy to create shields and force fields of varying shapes and sizes for protection and circular magenta shapes or globes that can be thrown to disable enemies.
Beams of pink-magenta glowing energy that are generated from the user's hands can also be used to knock enemies back, ensnare them, or slice through objects with a slashing strike.
In addition, platforms or stepping-stones of magenta energy can be created and used to levitate the user and others in the air and to get to higher ground.
Tracking of organic life through objects they have touched via their mana energy signature and find out what he or she is doing at the time.
Limited Reality Warping
Only shown by Verdona by fixing a broken glass at Gwen's house, creating unusually strong and very sticky tape around Ben's mouth, gagging him so that he could not speak and repairing Gwen's house when it was destroyed during their fight with a mere snap of her fingers. This also shifted Ben and Kevin back to their human forms.
- Mana is similar to the energy from the power rings used by Green Lantern.
- The concept of mana found in many cultures under different names all having the idea of life force. The Chinese call it chi, Indians call it Chakra and the movie series Star Wars uses "The Force", a similar concept.
- In some RPG games, mana is a the term of how much magic energy/points the caster have.
- It has been seen that there are different forms of mana that Gwen uses when in battle. The different types of forms appear to be; Transparent-like, with glass like characteristics. Glowing type, with full energy appearance, and the last is a sort of 'solid and thick' form.
- Although it is shown in the captions on television as "manna", it is spelled "mana".
- It is shown that absorbing an Anodite or sorcerer powers doesn't mean you are capable of manipulating mana in all its ways, meaning that mana is also a power one needs to practice.
- The word "mana" is derived from "manna," a food that fell from the sky in the Bible, keeping the Hebrews alive, in much the same way as mana is a life force for all beings.
- Ectonurites do not have mana, though this does not mean that they are not alive or undead.


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