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Michigan is not Wisconsin.
Right to Work legislation in Michigan doesn't touch collective bargaining for private or public unions. Right to work legislation in Michigan doesn't include firemen or police in any legislative bill. Right to work legislation in Michigan only makes it a personal decision by an employee to join or not join a union, and makes it unlawful for an employer to fire an employee for not joining or joining a union.
That's it.
So of course, the slack-jawed pea-brained Michigan opinion dupes in the media over-act the entire issue. All of a sudden, the middle class will cease to exist if somebody has the choice to negotiate his own deal. All of a sudden, Michiganders didn't send a majority of
Republicans to handle Lansing. All of a sudden, thousands of protesters practice modified Christmas songs to sing in front of the capitol because somehow allowing more freedom is the death knell for America.
Even some union-beholden intelligence-deficient Republicans vote against individual rights when push comes to shove. Mike Nofs, the Republican Senator who pushed for unionization of home-healthcare workers after taking money and several workers from SEIU for his reelection campaign, said he didn't vote for Right to Work legislation because,
"I think that in general, working-class workers will not benefit from this," Nofs said.
He said he thinks workers already have the freedom to decide whether they want to take a job that's unionized or not.
"When you go to apply for a job, you know it's a union job," he said.
"If you don't like unions, don't apply for a union job. There are plenty of other non-union jobs."
Senator Tom Casperson has also said he is against the Right to Work, and though I haven't talked with him on this issue, has mentioned to others that he believes unions create higher wages and Right To Work would lessen those wages. Somehow. I guess.
But these fellows are off, just as is the predictable media, and the fanatical demonstrators that will be bussed in on Tuesday. The protesters are undergoing vigorous training, preparing for clashes with police.
The unions are preparing for war because, quite simply, it is not right for people to be able to take on their own responsibility.
From the Detroit News: "Humanize the situation. Be clear with your intentions. Introduce yourself," national labor activist Lisa Fithian, of Austin, Texas, said through a megaphone. "They're going to do everything they can to criminalize us."
I'll humanize the situation. When a man or woman works for someone else he or she can take what is handed out, or he or she can negotiate for his or her own future. Yes, wages are high because of unions, but they also increase the prices of goods, which hurts middle America. The unskilled laborer hits a windfall when he makes comparable money and benefits as a highly-skilled specialized laborer.
If equality is what is sought, tell me of the equality between someone who never took the initiative to learn a craft and one who can build something and make it work. People are different, and in companies all across the nation, people with special skills negotiate for their own pay. This legislation is about the right to be responsible for yourself.
Of course the argumentative union representatives complain that it would be unfair for people who refuse to join a union to be able to 'freeload' from the collective bargaining efforts of the union. Actually, they are more afraid that when a skilled laborer makes a better deal based on skills that he owns as much as he owns his body, it will be the end of union power over man.
If men and women are allowed to create their own deal, and depend on their own ability to succeed or fail, they won't be "freeloading" in fact, it will cause people to learn skills, an acute need in America.
The only freeloading taking place is that of unions who launder dues into Democrat coffers at election time. If you are of the mind that you do not agree with the Democrat party, and you do not wish to feed it, and you belong to a union, you can get out.
So as this whole issue gets overblown and civil disobedience courses are taught in universities and pastors rail at the pulpit against the so-called extreme nature of Right To Work, just remember, freedom isn't free and slavery comes in many forms.
On Tuesday, many people will object to freedom by protesting. In the near future, the unions will try to organize recall efforts for some or all of the Republicans who voted in favor of RTW, including the governor. We will be fed the impression that Republicans are anti-American Nazis and who knows what other drivel they will conjure.
If in America, you are not allowed to be your own person, responsible and willing to be accountable to yourself and yourself alone, then there is no freedom anywhere.
A great American author, Eric Hoffer, wrote of mass movements, and described the condition of those who do push for solidarity in the collective versus the freedom of man.
Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual. And as freedom encourages a multiplicity of attempts, it unavoidably multiplies failure and frustration…Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?
It is hard work when one decides to be completely responsible, but there are empowering side effects that create a confident, vibrant economy and society. By arguing and protesting against individual empowerment, those against Freedom to Work put themselves in direct conflict with the fabric of America.
Power to the people, individually.
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Today people so misunderstand and misapply the "establishment clause" in regards to religious symbols when in fact those symbols of faith are allowed under the "expression clause". The idea behind the "establishment clause" was to prevent a theocracy which would in fact prevent individuals from advancement in public life or government unless they became a member of a particular religion. Discrimination laws do the same thing and go even further. What is the difference between those concepts and requiring an individual to be a member of a union in order to secure a job? Nothing!
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Clinicians from around the country will learn about LDS Hospital's use of unique protocols that are designed to get patients off heavy sedatives as quickly as possible — and then getting them back on their feet. Healthcare professionals from Seattle, Toronto, North Carolina and elsewhere will take the methods back home to their hospitals after this week's two-day class.
In most hospitals across the United States, intubated ICU patients are kept in a heavily sedated "twilight state" where they're not quite awake and not fully asleep, according to Dr. Terry Clemmer, MD, director of critical care medicine at LDS Hospital.
But the consequences of using these sedatives can be profound: The drugs cause delirium in up to 80 percent of ICU patients who are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. Often these patients will suffer from post traumatic stress disorder and nightmares months and even years after their stay.
The drugs also keep patients immobilized, which means that patients begin to lose muscle strength within days. Many lose the ability to care for themselves and must move from the hospital to a nursing home. Studies show that among patients who have experienced a critical illness, more than half are unable to return to work within a year of ICU hospitalization.
Heavy sedation, immobility, and delirium can also lead to longer hospital stays, increased risk of death, and higher medical costs, says Dr. Clemmer.
For several years, Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital has taken a nontraditional approach to caring for ICU patients.
"We get them off sedatives the day they arrive in the ICU and manage their symptoms with pain medication," says Dr. Clemmer. "When you remove the sedatives, patients are able to think more clearly and they're not as fearful."
That means they're less likely to try to pull out an IV or a breathing tube, which is the reason most ICUs keep patients heavily sedated.
Withdrawing the sedatives also allows the ICU team at LDS Hospital to get patients moving again very quickly — often the same day they arrive. The team will begin by helping the patient sit on the edge of the bed, then move to a chair, then take a few steps.
"More of our patients go home after their stay in the ICU than patients in ICUs across the country. That's because we've been able to help them maintain their strength and ability to function," says Dr. Clemmer.
The ICU team at LDS Hospital and the respiratory ICU at Intermountain Medical Center have published on their successes with ending sedation and getting patients moving; several other centers, including the prestigious Johns Hopkins, have adopted their strategies. However, the approach is still novel for most hospitals.
Clinicians from Seattle, Toronto, North Carolina and elsewhere will take the methods back home to their hospitals after this week's two-day class, which is sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving healthcare in the United States.
The class will be taught at LDS Hospital by Dr. Clemmer and other members of the ICU team at LDS Hospital and the respiratory ICU at Intermountain Medical Center. They will be joined by Wes Ely, MD, a physician from Vanderbilt University, which has also adopted some of the sedative strategies.
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This marks the first Detect-Thru-Engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative target in an over-the-water, combat representative scenario.
A total of two UAV targets were engaged and destroyed in a maritime environment during the testing, the second series of successes for the U.S. Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS) Program. Members of NAVSEA's Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems (DE&EWS) Program Office (PMS 405), Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS), Raytheon Missile Systems, and NSWC Dahlgren fired a laser through a beam director on a KINETO Tracking Mount, controlled by a MK 15 Close In Weapon System (CIWS). This brings to a total of seven UAVs destroyed by the Surface Navy's first tactical development for fielding a Directed Energy weapon system.
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Giggling your way to health and well-being may sound like a joke, but it's no laughing matter - or is it? As the number of scientific studies on the benefits of a good guffaw grows, laughter yoga is on the rise - and so are Japan's laughter clubs.
What's everyone laughing about? For starters, laughter works stomach, chest, neck, and facial muscles, leaving them and others relaxed after a workout chock full o' chortles. Researchers say its effects may range from stress release to reduced risk of heart disease. But its boon to well-being is as obvious as the punch line to a good joke.
These are just a few reasons why the laughter movement is afoot, and why a gaggle of gigglers meet weekly at one of Tokyo's laughter clubs in Kichijoji. After stretching, participants form a circle chanting their signature "ha-ha, ho-ho-ho" to rhythmic clapping. The act punctuates deep breathing, simulated laughter and other activities designed to evoke the inner chuckle-prone child. It's not just fun-filled mock snowball fights or mochi feasts, either. Members practice finding humor in things as mundane as napping or as disheartening as a sky-high credit card bill.
Hour-long sessions end with meditation and relaxation techniques. To the uninitiated, it is an enigmatic exercise in pure silliness. But therein lies laughter yoga's secret to success: of its many lauded benefits, few who have tried it can deny that practicing simulated laughter can stimulate the real deal.
"Laughter yoga, or hasya yoga, is the use of laughter as an exercise, without the use of humor, jokes or comedy," says Mary Tadokoro, 53, founder of Kichijoji Laughter Club. "Very simply, laughter exercises are combined with yoga-based breathing exercises, or pranayama. We do not use hatha yoga poses per say, although a few of our laughs derive from them; for example, the lion laugh is based on the lion pose."
Tadokoro first learned of laughter yoga from a friend who experienced it as part of a coaching conference. The 35-year-veteran ex-pat says the two were initially looking for ways to support multicultural families, "where they could laugh heartily and forget the pressures of living in a foreign country." It wasn't long before she co-founded Japan's first laughter club in 2005. Ironically, English interpretation is often provided for ex-pats, but she says core members of most clubs here tend to be Japanese.
Laughter yoga is the brainchild of physician Madan Kataria of Mubai, India. Since 1995 it has spread globally spawning some 5,000 laughter clubs in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, America and Asia. Virtually unheard of in Japan three years ago, it now boasts at least nine laughter clubs, with three in Tokyo set to host seminars lead by visiting Kataria in March. Despite its expressed purpose, laughter yoga targets the silly and the somber alike.
"No sense of humor is necessary," says Akira Sugiura, 41, founder of Tokyo's Yoyogi Koen Laughter Club. "People are pleasantly surprised to see their sense of humor develop after joining our clubs. We see many instances where people who have difficulty expressing themselves become more cheerful. They tell us that friends and relatives say they seem happier." But is such Tomfoolery really yoga?
"That depends on how you look at yoga," says Akira, who also studied and taught yoga in Mumbai for a year. "When people think of yoga most think of asanas yoga (postures) but that's only the tip of the iceberg. Yoga is a philosophy and it means union. It consists of the yoga of action, karma yoga; the path of devotion, bhakti yoga; yoga of knowledge, jyana (or jnana) yoga; and the science of mind control, raja yoga.
"We call laughter yoga 'yoga' mainly because we practice pranayama (breathing) exercises, which are a part of raja and hatha yoga. I would also say laughter yoga is a part of karma yoga (as a form of community service)... I am intrigued by the whole idea of laughter yoga and its benefits for humanity and for myself. It's a fun exercise."
Like the movement's early days in Mubai, Sugiura holds his sessions free of charge in a public park. In fact, most laughter clubs in Japan are free, ask for an unspecified donation or cost no more than 2,000 yen per session. It's in keeping with a peace-propagating philosophy that seeks to transcend class and other distinctions using laughter as an equalizer. As Tadokoro says, "It's kind of hard to fight with someone that you're laughing with." Yukking it up, however, offers more than mere philosophical benefits. Ever since Norman Cousins told his story of overcoming a fatal disease by watching Charlie Chaplin movies in "Anatomy of an Illness" some 20 years ago, scientists have been taking a serious look at laughter.
In 2005, researchers at University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore showed for the first time that laughter induced by humorous movies seemed to dilate the inner lining of blood vessels, increasing blood flow and reducing stress. The opposite occurred in the same group of about 20 volunteers when they watched stress-inducing films. The study adds to another by lead researcher Dr. Michael Miller in 2000 that showed of 300 subjects those with healthy hearts are more prone to humor, indicating a link between laughter cardiovascular health.
A similar study at Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital in Osaka showed infants with eczema have milder symptoms and fewer allergic reactions when breastfed by mothers who laughed beforehand, compared to those that didn't, according to the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. And in addition to reducing stress and blood pressure, Loma Linda University Medical Center studies in California note that laughing can boost the immune system by upping the number and/or activity of T cells, the antibody IgA, IgB and Complement 3, which aids antibodies.
The list of such research goes on. Skeptics, however, are wont to question their perceived biases, small numbers of subjects studied or if results are really derived from laughter or if they can be reproduced by similar activities such as screaming. But advocates seem to laugh off skeptics. Such health benefits, regardless of how accurate, don't seem to be laughter yoga's main draw.
"People come for a variety of personal reasons," says Tadokoro, "ranging from the realization that they seldom laugh and they want to laugh more, to people who want a gentle exercise, to people who love to laugh and who love the opportunity to laugh for no reason." For them, it offers a chance to have the last laugh - and that's just the beginning.
To join Mary Tadokoro's laughter club in Tokyo's Kichijoji, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or call: 090-2427-3991. Learn more about Akira Sugiura's outdoor laughter club in Tokyo's Yoyogi park via e-mail: email@example.com or phone: 090-9190-1756.
For more on laughter yoga in Japan, next month's seminars by the movement's visiting founder and a nationwide list of clubs, visit: http://www.laughteryoga.jp. Also, see the international site for Dr. Kataia's School of Laughter Yoga at: http://www.laughteryoga.org/
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Vampire Diaries Spoilers: Candice Accola Says Finale Will Have "Closure" on Silas — Exclusive
With ghosts bearing down Mystic Falls, it doesn't seem like anything could right with the high school's graduation. The big event takes place in The Vampire Diaries Season 4 finale, and despite the malevolent spirits the gang does manage to in a few memorable moments.
That's what Candice Accola (Caroline Forbes) told Wetpaint Entertainment during a recent interview. She also said that while shooting Season 4, Episode 23, "Graduation" wasn't emotional, it did bring up a few nostalgic feelings.
Wetpaint Entertainment: Was it emotional shooting the finale?
Candice Accola: No. I think Season 1 was really emotional, and I think by Season 4 — we did 23 episodes this season and the episodes were just so big, I think it was more like everyone just got in to marathon mode. Just trying to make it to the finish line. So by the end, I think everyone was just seeing the finish line in the horizon, but we did it. Everyone did it. We usually finish towards the beginning of April, so this is a big, long season for everyone, but everyone made it.
It's so funny because Julie's teasing another death, and I feel like when I ask you guys about it if it's sad to say goodbye, you're like, "What do you even mean? Everyone comes back all the time, dead or not."
Yeah, there was a really sweet sadness to those death storylines happening in Season 1 because it was all just happening so fast, but I think now, we've seen just so many characters just go and come back. And the mythology has opened up so many doors. There's no really final goodbyes it really feels like. At this point, I think we understand its part of the storyline as opposed to like, "This is it. You will never see this person again."
Can you tease the last two episodes just in broad strokes?
Last two episodes, we're going to see unity within the whole group. I think there's been a lot of separation with all the different mythology-based storylines this year, and also because the Originals, everyone kind of has gone to New Orleans. We're going to see the core group of characters within the show working together and not as separate as they've been throughout the season. And we're also going to see everyone graduate. Graduation is a real thing, and we're going to see a lot of big storylines come to an end. And we're actually going to end the season with a new beginning.
I think it's inevitable because high school is over, finally.
Yeah, I know. I know. It's very funny to be in the cap and gowns.
Was it really? Did it feel nostalgic, weird?
Yeah, I little bit. It was kind of nice because when I actually graduated, I had graduated with bright red hair. I was a redhead for three years, and so I had this bright red hair but then our caps and gowns were red. So I just was red. There was like a pale face popping out. I felt a little bit more put together for this one, but I wish I could swap out the pictures. It was really fun. It is something that got everyone together talking about when they graduated and their senior year. It was definitely a really nostalgic time to be on set.
Are you saying there's actually a moment of levity in this really intense and dark season?
Oh, yes. There's some bright moments within the graduation episode. There are really good, happy, normal, high school days moments that come up.
When you say new beginning, is there something else in the cards?
I know that Julie and the writers have a great plan for next year, and none of it will be touched upon within the finale. But from what I've heard, college definitely is in the future. And there will be a forward-moving storyline that would make sense for our ages whether we're vampires or not. So whether that's new jobs or college, it's all open ended right now.
Now, Claire Holt mentioned in an interview that the last two scripts were just overwhelming. Is it scale because the episodes this season have not been exactly small either?
It's been a very, very big season. The episodes have been huge. And these last three episodes in particular, it was just really big, and there's no really way to say anything without giving it away because there's just so much going on.
Do we get closure in the Silas matter?
We will have some closure. That won't be completely left open-ended in an effort to confuse anyone. They will actually have a lot of questions answered when it comes to Silas, and we're going to get to know him better. And yeah, that's definitely going to be a storyline that will not necessarily close or left completely open. There's going to be a lot more answers.


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A little while ago, Robert Chambers blogged about a conference 'Engaging with Crisis-affected People in Humanitarian Action' that he attended. Robert reflected on the change from top-down measurement towards accountability to the people he has witnesses over. Patricia Njoroge, who met Robert at the conference got in touch afterwards to share about a Participatory Action Learning project which illustrates the difference a participatory approach can make to people affected by crisis.
In 2013 the World Food Programme (WFP) and IDS launched a Participatory Action Learning (PAL) project 'Innovations from the Field: Gender Mainstreaming from the Ground Up'. The project is funded by USAID and is being piloted in 5 countries: Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, Senegal & Guatemala. The project's objectives are to learn and sharewhat already works to mainstream gender equality in WFP field programmes. And to Apply the lessons to strengthen gender-sensitive practice within WFP
In Kenya WFP staff identified four themes they wanted to research through the PAL process. In December 2013 the 'Deepening Understanding of Gender Relations' and the 'Communicating with the Field' PAL Teams undertook a field study at the coastal region, using participatory tools to engage with communities involved in WFP Kenya's Cash for Assets (CFA) programme. As well as talking about a range of benefits associated with the programme, several programmatic issues were raised by the affected communities. The best we could do was to record these on small hand held video recorders - this had a great impact! On returning from the field these issues were shared with management and steps were initiated to resolve them.
Providing feedback to the communities
In March 2014, two members of the PAL teams returned to the study communities and provided feedback on actions taken. Community members very much appreciated that action had been taken on the issues they had raised and also that the fact that the Team was able to visit them again and provide them with feedback. Often researchers collect community members' views but not all are able to return and give feedback on actions taken with the information provided. The team showed those interviewed a video developed with their recording/contributions. The joy of having a team listening to them, and taking their concern to management, action taken and then going back to give feedback was immense. They said they appreciated that the organisation was now listening to them. They were happy to see themselves on film, with one person commenting about one of the women shown in the videos 'She is now known across Kenya'!
As part of the analysis of findings, the PAL teams reflected on the use of different participatory tools during the study.
Time Line (12 hour clock)
This tool helped to highlight how men and women spend their time in a day. Where there was a member in the Focus Group able to write, the team guided the discussion and the members would discuss freely and write on the manila papers provided. This was an ice breaker, often causing laughter as participants reflected on how men and women spent their time differently, as well as creating space for discussion on how WFP can engage more men in project activities to reduce the burden on women.
At the end of the session, the list of what men do and women do was distinctive with men having a shorter list while the women's list was far longer. The men all acknowledged that women do a lot more than men in a normal day and are the first to wake up and last to go to sleep.
When I used this method I found it is very engaging, there's a relaxed atmosphere and participants don't focus on themselves but rather discuss and agree on a common general activity to write down. Also, as a start I tell them I want to learn from them (they have the power to teach me about their lives) - all in all a very rewarding and satisfying experience.
Gender Participation in Productive Activities
With the help of this tool participants mapped 5 main daily activities and through proportional piling they showed how many men and how many women participate in each activity. This was a very participatory exercise as it involved drawing signs of men and women on a manila paper to represent proportions of engagement in various productive activities. It elicited some interesting, and sometimes conflicting, results. For example, in one community a group of women concluded that for 4 out of the listed 5 activities (CFA, Farming on own land, Paid Labour, Charcoal burning for sale) women represented 8 out of 10 people doing the activity, while for the remaining activity - drinking "Boko",(the local brew) - men rated 10 out of 10. This resulted in a hilarious moment as one woman tried to point out that there are a few men who look for paid work. Yet in a discussion with young and older men, while they agreed that men's participation in CFA activities was low at a mere 1 out 10 men, they said they participated more than women in casual labour and equally in charcoal burning. However, they did acknowledge that women's contribution to income generation on top of their participation in CFA activities meant that in general women were doing more than men.
Problem Census in Communication Tool
The tool helped to clarify how affected communities usually communicate between each other, how they receive information about the CFA project and how information is relayed through different sources and means. The tool also helps identify the preferred/ideal information-flow, including what channels to use in order to ensure communities receive information about projects effectively. This information is not always easy to capture through just verbal focus group discussions, neither is it easy to make people understand what information you are trying to obtain from them. Hence, using this tool to engage people helps both the participants to understand the information they should try to give as well as it assists the facilitator in her/his task to guide the conversation and map out the issues in an easier way.
Benefits of using participatory tools in the project
To sum up, these participatory tools helped in engaging with community members, creating an open friendly learning atmosphere with them educating the team and clearly bringing out issues for discussion. The participatory tools bring the participants closer to the subject and elicit rich discussions on the subject matter. It also holds the participants' attention and the moderator has less fear of losing their audience.
In the course of the discussion, interrelated problems are discussed and causality factors identified. This provides a good opportunity for those involved to identify measures which can redress the weak points. By using the tools the beneficiaries felt they were in control of the process, telling their story in their own words.
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Home-based player Evans Vitisia beat a large field of seasoned golfers to be crowned this year's Triad Foundation golf champion at the par 72 Muthaiga Golf Club over the weekend.
Triad Architects sponsored charity golf tournament was staged to mark 50 years of excellency and attracted over 100 golfers. Triad Foundation aim was to raise Sh5 million in support of Getrude's children Hospital and Muthaiga Primary School within the community. Playing off handicap 2, Vitisia posted 20 points in the first nine and a similar score in the second for a total of 40.
"I had the home advantage. I have played continuously from last weekend and had improved on my slight pitching mistakes and it was easy for me," he said. Maxwell Walumbe playing off 4, shot the second best for the day, beating Joe Kigwe on countback with 38 stable ford points.
Playing off handicap 17, Benny Orwako came in fourth, beating Jason Jang on countback with 36 stable ford points. Ladies prize went to handicap 20, Eunice Mpenda with 33 stable ford points and the most effort prize went to Edward Muli with 9 points. The event raised Sh3 million.


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Schwarzenegger 's THE LAST STAND Coming to Blu-ray/DVD & VOD, 5/21
When the leader of a drug cartel escapes from the FBI and attempts to make his way to Mexico, it's up to Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop him in his tracks in THE LAST STAND arriving on Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), DVD (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View on May 21from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The Last Stand will also be available for Digital Download on April 30, three weeks prior to the Blu-ray, DVD and Video on Demand release.
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After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy.
With the help of a fierce band of Lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow. Cortez' path: straight through Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement, including Agent John Bannister (Whitaker) will have their final opportunity to intercept him before the violent fugitive slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately rallies his team and takes the matter into his own hands, setting the stage for a classic showdown.
The Blu-ray Disc and DVD are filled with action-packed bonus materials including, deleted/extended and alternate scenes, a "making of" featurette which follows the movie from story development to action-film realization, a look at the director's innovative stunts, car scenes and techniques as well as Arnold's camaraderie with his cast and crew. The Last Stand Blu-ray Disc and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.
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"The Dinkum Firearm and Historic Weaponry Museum" featurette
"Actor-Cam Anarchy: with Johnny Knoxville and Jaimie Alexander" featurette
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Year of Production: 2012
Title Copyright: The Last Stand, Artwork & Supplementary Materials © 2013 Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
Type: Theatrical Release
Rating: R for strong bloody violence throughout and language
Genre: Action
Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH
DVD Closed Captioned: English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Feature Running Time:107minutes
Blu-ray Format: 1080p High Definition 16x9 Widescreen (2.40:1)
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Blu-ray Audio Status:7.1 DTS HD Master Audio and 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital
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Loose cable maybe??? If not, bad motherboard/BIOS/IDE-controller.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I have an ancient P-II 350MHz PC (192 MB RAM and 6GB HD) which I inherited
> from a friend of mine. It had an old installation of Win98 on it, and I was
> planning on fixing that and installing Debian on it. It was set to boot from
> the hard disk, though, so I entered Setup and changed the boot sequence to
> boot from the CD-ROM and stuck the Debian disk in. Unfortunately, it did not
> boot: instead it gave me an error telling me about invalid boot media. And
> now I believe I have killed the boot loader or something, because if I set
> the device to boot from either the hard drive or the CD-ROM, I get the same
> error. I set it to floppy and used Tom's Root Boot to fdisk the hard drive,
> hoping to flag the hda1 partition as bootable, and then go from there, but
> that didn't work out either.
> The CD drive is actually a DVD/CD drive, but I do not have the installation
> disk that came with it.
> So. What to do? I'm thinking about just dumping this computer on someone
> else, because it doesn't meet any of my own needs and I'm hesitant to spend a
> lot of time on it. I figure it would make a dandy router or firewall,
> though, if someone wanted to take the time to fix up the boot sequence.
> --
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I am puzzled as to why Guy Cox finds it puzzling that we are not hermaphroditic (10 January, p 30). There are good reasons for the evolution of dimorphism in gametes, resulting in big, less mobile ones and small, mobile ones. When that happened, selection for different behaviour on the part of the "females" that produce the big gametes and the "males" that produce the small ones began to operate.
Co-occurrence of the two kinds of gamete production within one body precludes the development of such differences. No wonder simultaneous hermaphroditism is the rare exception rather than the rule among vertebrates.
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Sorry to spoil the fun so soon, but just a few hours after nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards came out, it looks to be a virtual certainty that Best Picture Oscar will go to Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln,' at least according to prediction market Intrade.
If Intrade's traders are right (and they often are, with a 97.89% accuracy rating on Oscars-related markets last year on $1.28 million in trades) The Academy might as well keep the red carpet rolled up and save some cash on the band.
At just after 1:30 PM Thursday, contracts predicting 'Lincoln' would take the Academy Award for Best Picture gave the Civil War epic a 73% shot at winning the when Oscars are handed out Feb. 24.
By comparison, second-place 'Zero Dark Thirty' is given just a feeble 6% chance of scoring the top prize of the evening, followed by 'Silver Linings Playbook' at 5.5%, Les Miz at 4.5%, 'Argo' 4.4%, Life of Pi 3.5%, 'Amour' 1.5%, 'Django Unchained' 1%, 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is given just a 0.5% shot at the statue.
The markets for betting on the best picture were the most active of the day on Intrade, making them statistically far, far more accurate than other, less-active Oscar categories. Still, it's worth a peek at those, just for fun.
In very thin trading, Daniel Day Lewis is given an 82%+ chance of taking home the Best Actor prize for his role as Lincoln. It's a bit closer in Best Actress category. So far, Jennifer Lawrence is given a 65% shot at the Oscar for 'Silver Linings Playbook' vs. Jessica Chastain at 30%. Best Director? Spielberg, at 75%. Best Supporting Actor? Tighter (again, on tiny volume), with Tommy Lee Jones ('Lincoln') at 50% and Philip Seymour Hoffman ('The Master') at 37.5%.
Ann Hathaway can exhale, and expect to go home with the Best Supporting Actress award according to Intrade. She's given an 85% shot at winning in that category. But again, those numbers are based on just a few trades.


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Please contact your home university first. Your home university nominates you for a student exchange to the Viadrina. When we have received the information on your nomination, we will send you a link to a web site where you can fill in the application for your stay online. On this web site you will find additional information for the online application process.
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