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A programmed design tool and method for determining the placement of components of a very large scale integrated circuit. The present invention is characterized by a common timing engine adapted to check front end high level timing constraints in relation to a netlist representing the circuit.
1. A programmed design tool for a very large scale integrated circuit, chlaracterised by a common timing engine adapted to check front end high level timing constraints in relation to a netlist representing the circuit, and further comprising:
a timing verifier controlled by the common timing engine;
a front end synthesis tool controlled by the common timing engine;
a placement/floor-planning tool using the common timing engine in order to highlight critical instances in a graphic display and to perform timing driven placement; and
an in-place optimization tool using the common timing engine and installed in the placement/floor-planning tool the in-place optimization tool adapted to modify components on a critical path reported by the common timing engine.
2. A programmed design tool according to claim 1 adapted to create congestion maps automatically.
3. A method of determining the placement of components of a very large scale integrated circuit from a netlist thereof, using a programmed computer, chlaracterised in that the method includes:
using a common timing engine to check front end high level timing constraints in relation to a netlist representing the circuit;
operating a timing verifier using the common timing engine;
operating a front end synthesis tool using the common timing engine;
using a placement/floor-planning tool to highlight critical instances in a graphic display and to perform a timing driven placement; and
using an in-place optimization tool to modify components on a critical path reported by the common timing engine.
4. A method according to claim 3 adapted to create congestion maps automatically.
This invention relates to the design of very large scale integrated circuits by means of a programmed computer and particularly the performance of spatial organization of the components of a circuit. This spatial organization or layout will normally be performed after the functional specification of a circuit has been converted into a netlist, representing a description of the gates, delay elements and other circuit elements and how, functionally, they are interconnected. The spatial organization is necessary to augment the netlist by a description of the actual placement of the components.
Two aspects of spatial organization are termed herein `timing-driven layout` and `in-place optimization`. They are defined, at high level, by algorithms which may in general be implemented in a selected machine language.
Timing driven layout (TOL) algorithms are necessary to place designs according to some chip level timing constraints--that is they are adapted to reduce the wiring capacitance on a node subject to a very tight timing constraint. Timing driven layout algorithms accept as inputs a netlist and some timing constraint information and code a timing driven placed netlist or layout.
At the present time most TLD algorithm do not work directly with the chip level timing constraints; instead they receive as input some `digested` timing constraints. Digested timing constraints are low level timing constraints generated from chip level user-specified timing constraints by a `netlist forward annotator`. Digested timing constraints are usually divided into two main categories, the net timing slack constraint and the path-based constraint.
The not timing slack is used to indicate how much slack or tolerance is available on a net. Path-based constraints are used to indicate how much delay is available for individual paths through a design. More specifically, a path-based constraint is composed of a path that is a chain of interconnected netlist instances and a required time value for that path, that is a timing value specifying the maximum signal propagation timing through that chain.
In both cases, the delay values are based on the chip level user-specified timing constraints such as the clock frequency or the arrival times of signals at on external input connectors. The invention is particularly concerned with the difficulties arising from path-based constraints which are usually written in SDF syntax. SDF files are generated by so-called forward annotators (report coverdesign utilities) from high level timing constraints. Currently a TDL program tool checks the ting along the paths specified in the SDF files, using its own embedded timing verifier. Note that by definition, a TDL tool merely checks the paths reported in the coverDesign and not all the timing paths. This is illustrated in FIG. 1. In FIG. 1.a is a deliberately over-simplified design. FIG. 1.b shows all the timing paths constrained to 1ns. In FIG. 1.c are shown the timing paths that would be reported by a coverdesign utility. The coverdesign utility is just guaranteeing that all the nodes are covered by the worst paths going through them. It does not guarantee that all the paths are covered; this would be anyway unrealistic in real design. Finally, these reported paths are found according to the estimated wirecap model used before the placement. Let it be imagined that after the placement, the the wirecaps are totally different from what they were supposed to be before the placement, and thus that the worst paths of the design are no longer something like u1-u2-u3-u4-u5-u6 but rather something like u1-u2-u3-u4-u8, then the limitation of this methodology is that TDL will never check this path because it did not got into the SDF file through the use of coverDesign.
Synthesis tools run many timing verifications in order to achieve a design that meets the user-specified timing constraints. These timing verifications are done using predictive interconnect capacitance. Placement takes place after the synthesis. It consists of allocating a real physical placement to the synthesized design leaf component. Once the placement is done, interconnect capacitance can be accurately estimated and quite often these estimated interconnect capacitances are different from the ones obtained out of the predictive model used by the synthesis tool. As a matter of fact, timing violations may be created by the placement.
In Place Optimization (IPO) is a process which takes place after the design placement and which attempts to fix these post-placement timing violations. It mainly consists in swapping gates by equivalent gates, having exactly the same behaviour, but having for eagle better drive capabilities more appropriate to drive heavily loaded nodes.
An example of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1, previously mentioned, illustrates a simple netlist and its timing paths.
FIG. 2 illustrates a known timing-driven layout algorithm.
FIG. 3 illustrates a known process of in-place optimization.
FIG. 4 shows the new TD and IPO flows using CTAE.
FIG. 5 shows a typical and optimistic chip planner's timing driven flow.
FIG. 6 shows a realistic timing driven flow.
A TDL tool suffers from the following limitations.
(i) Because SDF files are huge, typically 20 Mbytes for 36K instance designs, it thus takes quite a t to generate these files by the forward annotator and substantial memory is also necessary to the TDL to store thee paths and to check them.
(ii) SDP files only contain very low subsets of all the timing paths of a design, i.e. TLD tools do not check all the paths.
(iii) A TD tool runs its own timing verifier, which is thus different from the timing verifier used by the front-end tools such as the synthesis tools, the forward annotator and so on. It creates some timing inconsistencies and requires a lot of maintenance.
(iv) A TDL flaw (shown in FIG. 2) in itself is also badly implemented, it first forces the user to load initially the complete design in the forward annotator together with the chip level timing constraints in order to generate the digested low level timing constraints (SDF file), it then forces the user to load the design together with the SDF file in the placement tool in order to perform a timing driven placement and extract the parasitics, and finally, most of the time, the user will have to reload the design together with the parasitics in the chip level timing verifier in order to check the placed design timing.
(v) The floor-planning and placement tools are not able to give to the designer sufficient information regarding the timing and the design rules violations. That is, if the user wishes to compare two different placements or two different floor-plans on a timing point of view, he has each time to quit the placement/floor-planning tools with an extraction of the parasitics, load them back in the chip level timing verifier. The user will then obtain some values reflecting the amount by which the constraints violated, but it will be very difficult to relate these values to the placement/floor-plan in order to find out why the placement/floor-plan is bad and how it could be improved.
The IPO flow suffers from the following main problem. At the end of the placement, the design needs first to be reloaded together with the parasitics in the IPO tool (usually available in most of the Synthesis tools). In order to perform the IPO itself, the in-place optimized design needs then to be written into bulk memory (such as a disk) and reloaded in the placement tool in order to replace the swapped cells. Now interconnect capacitance are then estimated by the placement tool. Finally, the design needs to be reloaded in the timing verifier to check the final design with the final estimated interconnect capacitance. Clearly enough, the IPO flow could be drastically improved if one could omit all the loading/writing phases.
The objects of the invention are thus:
(i) to have the possibility of running timing layout algorithm using front end high level timing constraints;
(ii) to have the possibility of running in place optimization within a placement tool in order to fix high-level timing constraints timing violations as well as design rule violations; and
(iii) to provide as much information related to the timing from the placement/floor-planning tool as possible and to relate this information to the placement/floor-planning of the design in order to help the designer to estimate the performance of the current placement/floor-planning. He could then be able to compare same different floor-planning/placement and to pick the best one. He will also be guided by this information in order to manually improve the floor-planning/placement.
The invention broadly comprises:
a common timing verification engine, understanding and checking high level timing constraints;
a timing verifier superimposed on the common timing engine, the timing verifier being the user interface with the common timing engine; and
a placement/floor-planning tool superimposed on the common timing verification engine. The common timing verification engine is preferably also used in a stand-alone timing verifier as well as in a front end RTL synthesis tool.
One example of the invention is indicated in FIG. 4.
The advantages of this new system are as follows:
(a) The design is loaded once rather than for example six times.
(b) There is no more need to generate the SDF file.
(c) Because there are no SDF files, the chip planner will not use any memory to store all the paths represented in those files.
(d) TDL will be more accurate because it will use CTAE to compute node slacks rather than only tracing along the SDF file paths.
(e) It will be possible to run directly any timing report from the chip planner: there is no need to run QTV/chipTime to get timing information.
(f) IPO is also run inside the chip planner; swapped gates are automatically and incrementally replaced by the placement engine.
Once the placement/floor-planning tool is installed on the top of the common timing engine, a typical and optimistic placement timing driven design flow looks as shown in FIG. 5. When the common timing engine is invoked to check the high level timing constraints, the physical wiring capacitances are estimated by the placement tool and used during the timing propagation. Then, together with the timing path trace report, critical instances are highlighted in the graphic pane of the placement tool which allows the user to understand where the problem is.
Note that in FIG. 5 the flow is optimistic because it assumes that after the TDL placement and the IPO, there are no more timing violations reported by step 5. In case there are still some timing violations, the designer will have to reiterate steps 3 and 4 as long as the reiteration reduces the timing violations. If the reiteration does Not fix all the timing violations, one should either conclude that this is impossible or try to resynthesize the design with a new wirecap model; indeed, it might be that during the synthesis a too optimistic wirecap model has been used.
Note also that at the end of step 3, the designer can already invoke the timing report and only run the IPO (step 4) in case he are timing violations after TDL placement.
Note finally that the designer may report the timing as soon as the wiring capacitance can be estimated by the chipPlanner, that is as soon as the floor-plan is created. If the worst timing slack much greater than +0 ns, so that any timing violations (when the slack would be negative) are unlikely, the designer might even be tempted to omit the timing driven placement and merely to ran a standard unconstrained placement, assumed to use less cpu time. As a conclusion, a more realistic flow will look like that sin in FIG. 6.
In FIG. 6, assuming that after step 3 the slacks are really very negative, then the user should not expect to be able to fix the timing violations by using the TDL or the IPO. The only thing he could do would be to derive custom wireloadmodal and to run a new optmization (so-called Post Layout Optimization) of the full design, using his favourite synthesis tool.
A congestion map is a graphical way to give information to the user in order to help him to find out what he should do to improve the floor-plan/placement/routing. In this invention three types of congestion maps have been implemented, timing constraint related congestion maps, design rules related to congestion maps, and skew related congestion maps.
This will colour or modify the design according to some criteria that are timing, skew or design rules. Once one has a congestion map one may still use the instance selectors in order to view only the instances that you want to see. As will be seen in the section, problematic instances are often coloured in red in the congestion maps. An interesting thing to do is for instance to `edit→select inst` `u1,u2` to only keep the instance belonging to the logic hierarchical cell `u1,u2`. If all the instances are in blue, one already know that the logic hierarchical cell `u1,u2` is satisfactory.
An instance slack based congestion map is a colouration of the design instance according to the slacks or the percentage slacks on the output connectors of that instance. This is important information which helps to quickly find out where the problematic blocks are and cot two floor plans on a timing point of view.
The way to produce an instance slack based congestion map is to get the wiring capacitances as they can be estimated by the placement tool, to digest high level timing constraints, to compute signal arrival time on input nodes of high level timing constraints, to probate signal arrival times through all the design, to propagate signal required times through all the design, compute the slacks on the design instances as being the worst difference between the signal required time and the signal arrival on all the instance output connectors, and to modify the instance according to the negativity of the slacks that is according to the amount by which the instance violates the timing constraint.
A nods slack based congestion map is a modification of the design nods according to the slacks or the percentage slacks on that node. This is helpful information telling you if indicating Her there are timing problems inside block only or between a couple of blocks, in other words does one have critical `colour` segments between to blocks or are there critical `colour` segments inside a block. If there are critical segments between the two blocks this might mean that one has to put these blocks closer or even to merge them.
The way to produce an instance slack based congestion map is to perform a pin-based estimated routing, get the wiring capacitances as they can be estimated by the placement tool, digest high level timing constraints, compute signal arrival time on input nodes of high level timing constraints, compute signal requited times on output nodes of high level timing constraints, propagate signal arrival times through all the design, propagate signal required times through all the design, compute the slacks on the design nodes as being the difference between the signal required time and the signal arrival on all that node, and colour the node segments according to the negativity of the slacks according to the amount by which that node violates the timing constraint.
An instance skew based congestion map is a colouration of the design instance according to the skew on the instances. This information which helps to quickly find out where the problematic blocks are and cod two floor-plans on a skew point of view.
The way to produce an instance slack based congestion map is to get the wiring capacitance as they can be estimated by the placement tool, propagate the clock signals along the clock network up to the sequential elements clocked by that clock, compute the skew on these sequential elements, the skew on a sequential element being defined as the difference between the clock signal rival time on that sequential element and the smallest clock signal rival time on any sequential element clocked on that clock, and colour the instances according to the skew.
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Following two brief, but significant, cool spells across south Florida (Jan. 3 – 4 and Jan. 7 – 8, 2014), temperature and dew point (a measure of absolute atmospheric moisture) readings soared across south Florida on Jan. 9. However, high dew points near the ground (where we humans experience humid discomfort) were only part of the story. Humidity values throughout the entire atmospheric column (from the ground to altitudes about 6 miles above the ground) rose to near record levels. At Miami, FL, precipitable water values (a measure total column moisture) reached 1.82 inches early on Jan. 9, 2014 (Fig. 1). The record for January, spanning the period 1948 to 2013, was around 1.98 inches (Fig. 2). The observed value on Jan. 9, 2014 exceeded 99 percent of all observations (roughly 4,000) taken in January during the most recent 65-year period.
In short, the atmosphere was primed for a significant rainfall event. It did not disappoint.
Starting around midday, heavy showers developed near Vero Beach on Florida's south-central East Coast. The showers redeveloped southward, hugging the coast. By early afternoon, heavy rain started to fall in the Fort Pierce area. During the next six hours, more than six inches of rain fell at the Fort Pierce Airport.
The rainfall area continued to move and redevelop southward, eventually locking itself in place along the coast of Palm Beach County (Fig. 3). From about sunset though the overnight hours, torrential rains fell over coastal Palm Beach County, FL. During a roughly 12-hour period, widespread ten to fifteen inch rains fell in the eastern parts of the county (Fig. 4 and Fig. 5). Locally, amounts topped 22 inches. Most of the rain fell within a six- to ten-hour period.
The heavy rains did not make it southward to Broward County (including Fort Lauderdale).
There were reports of significant flooding (Fig. 6); some highways (including Interstate 95) were closed due to deep water.
The event can be likened to numerous other excessive rainfall events that have occurred in recent years along and near south Florida's East Coast. Many of these involved a combination of most of the following: local convergence zones (where winds at low levels blow together), interactions with a sea breeze front, favorable vertical wind shear (easterly winds near the ground and westerlies aloft) and an unseasonably moist atmosphere.
In this case, the main convergence zone seemed to have been driven by the larger scale wind flow. Offshore, strong easterly winds (30 to 35 miles per hour) were blowing into an onshore region where easterly winds were much weaker (10 to 15 miles per hour). Coupled with this larger scale convergence zone (Fig. 7), the rain area moving southward from Fort Pierce brought its own low level convergence zone. Torrential rains fell where the two zones merged and locked into place.
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If Jeff Zucker is about to be named the new worldwide president of CNN, it's not happening from the stage of a media conference.
At Business Insider Ignition 2012, Henry Blodget, in an interview with Jeff Bewkes, asked the Time Warner CEO about a report in The New York Times that Zucker, the former chief of NBC Universal, is on the verge of replacing Jim Walton at the helm of the 24-hour news network.
"We're going to have an announcement soon" was all Bewkes would say in response.
In the meantime, he attempted to make the case that the straits CNN is in aren't as dire as they've been made out to be. With $600 million in annual profits, he said, "it's been one of the highest earnings-growth networks inside the Time Warner portfolio," growing at double digits annually.
As for CNN's well-documented ratings problem, he argued that it's only a problem if you think CNN's primary goal is to get high ratings. He pointed to HBO, Time Warner's most profitable network, as an example of success through class over mass.
"We don't try to win the night at HBO because that's not how you make money at HBO," he said. "That's not how you strengthen the brand. Those things have a lot in common.
"Did we pick 'Girls' because we wanted to have the higest ratings? Did we pick 'Sopranos' or 'Game of Thrones'? No. You're not doing the whole thing for the lowest common denominator mass audience. Some things you're going for niche, you're going for the brand identity of the network."


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During the 2008 Election, Florida's then governor, Charlie Crist, extended early voting hours because large cities including Miami faced unprecedentedly long lines — but it looks like Gov. Rick Scott and local officials in Miami-Dade County won't follow in Crist's footsteps.
The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times reports,
Citing long lines, a former Miami Beach state senator, the Florida Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters of Florida urged Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday to extend early voting.
But don't expect the effort to go anywhere.
Top Republican officials in Tallahassee said Thursday an extension isn't needed. And in Miami-Dade, the county with the longest lines, the office of Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a Republican who appoints the elections supervisor, said he has no plans to ask the governor for more time.
The likely result: more long lines for early voters and long lines for Election Day voters on Tuesday.
Already Miami-Dade County, a Democratic-leaning area, has seen early voting waits peeking at four hours for the past several days.
Millions of people have already voted by absentee ballots and early voting, but there are still millions more left to vote all over the state.
Add to that: counties such as Palm Beach have had a series of problems with absentee ballots, which has led a lot of voters to ditch absentee for in-person voting.
There is also the added fact that Floridians all over the state are facing a historically long ballot this year. State lawmakers put 11 long, confusingly worded amendments on the ballot, which have tripped up voters and made lines even longer.
In short, everyone is expecting that officials in counties including Miami-Dade will have to extend early voting hours — especially considering that early voting days were cut this year statewide. However, already officials are saying the hours will not be changed.
Just remember, under Florida law, voters who get in line at the polling station before it closes (at 7 p.m. in most places) — even if at the last minute — must be allowed to vote.


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Orchestra concerts celebrate, showcase member musicians
Upcoming Lee County Community Orchestra concerts will honor several members — while also helping raise funds for the group's commissioning of a special 25th anniversary musical piece.
Six soloists and a violin quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 16, and again at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at Grace Chapel Church for the event, called "Celebrating the Musicians." Admission is free, and the event will also feature a reception afterward — during which the orchestra will sell special-edition pottery bells, made by Kevin Brown and Sandy Cole of North State Pottery. Those sales will support the costs of commissioning a unique selection by Mark Petering, a composer who has worked with the orchestra in the past.
Carol Judd, a trumpet player with the orchestra, said the show is set up to keep the audience engaged.
"We're going to do a variety of different solos, playing different styles," she said. "It's not all classical. I'm playing a turn-of-the-century cornet piece."
The orchestra will also have a concert in May to help raise funds for its anniversary piece, which will premiere in October. Orchestra Publicist Jean McSwain previously told The Herald that Petering was keeping his creation a surprise for as long as possible, but she's excited for the finished product.
"He has not given us any hints to what he's writing as of yet," she said in January. "But we are sure excited about it. He does beautiful work."
Judd said in addition to the upcoming concert and the one in October, she's also looking forward to the May show, which will feature fan favorites and audience suggestions.
"We've had a basket for people to drop a piece of paper in with what they'd like to hear, and we'll go through and pick the best," she said. "It's like a people's choice show."
In the March 16 and 17 shows, the orchestra will accompany solo performers Morgan Caffey Brewer (viola) playing "Harold in Italy" by Hector Berlioz; Elisabeth Crandall (cello) playing "Kol Nidrei" by Max Bruch; Judd (trumpet/cornet) playing "Fantaisie Brillante" by Jean-Baptiste Arban; Eric Keith (horn) playing "Villanelle" by Paul Dukas; Jessica Traversino (flute) playing "Flute Concertino" by Cecile Chaminade; and Lauren Winkens (clarinet) playing "Concerto #2 in E flat Major" by Carl Maria von Weber.
Playing Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto for Four Violins" will be Miriam Bryant, Hunter Cox, Ueli Schweizer and Debbie White.
Who: Lee County Community Orchestra
What: A concert featuring six soloists from the orchestra, as well as a violin quartet
When: 8 p.m. March 16 and 3 p.m. March 17
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Edgar: I will defeat Charles Oliviera
By Evan Stoumbelis – @MMAEvan
Frankie Edgar spoke to UFC.com recently on his upcoming fight with Charles Oliviera which will be the co-main event at UFC 162 Weidman vs. Silva.
"It's a blessing in disguise, I feel like, coming back to a three-round fight. It's going to make me get out of the gun early and make sure, first round, I'm in his face and I'm in the rhythm that I like to be in fourth and fifth."
"My biggest concern is just making sure you show up and do everything you did throughout the training camp, all the preparation that you prepared to do, and put it to work and make it all work for you, I will defeat Charles Oliveira."
Edgar is on a 3-fight losing streak, with 2 of the losses coming at the hands of current lightweight kingpin Benson 'Smooth' Henderson, after dropping both losses Edgar made the cut to featherweight and was given an immediate title fight against Jose Aldo, which he lost. With a loss to Oliviera Edgar would extend his losing streak to 4, and his record will drop to 15-5 (MMA).
However as we all know, Edgar is one of the toughest fighters in the UFC and if anyone can defeat Oliviera (16-3 MMA) it's Edgar. Edgar is a great wrestler, and all 4 of Oliviera's UFC wins have come by way of submission, which will make this fight extremely interesting if it ends up on the ground.
"He's tough. He's dangerous. Probably the tallest guy I may have ever fought. He's got pretty good Muay Thai. He mixes it up well with kicks, knees, elbows. He's got a slick submission game. He's willing to go for broke to go for submissions," said Edgar of Oliviera.
Tune in to UFC 162 Silva vs. Weidman Saturday night at 9P.M. on PPV live from Las Vegas.
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Go get em Frankie!! Get that monkey off ur back.
Edgar only has (ONE) win in his last 5 fights. That same record got Fitch released.
Frankie won't engage with Oliveira
I see Frankie using the jab poke, run strategy and flash takedown at end of round to steal rounds as usual
Oliveira by highlight reel KO 2nd round, not in the first or else he'll want a rematch again..
Frankie's gonna absolutely outclass Olivera. Olivera isn't gonna be able to sustain through the high volume of strikes that Frankie's bringing. Olivera doesn't look good at this weight and Swanson showed his brain can't take a shot that dehydrated.
thanks to Dana Edgar has been able to avoid Mendes, Swanson which is total B.S IMO
Edgar asked to fight Cub. Cub said no. I would love to see Edgar vs Mendez
Go watch Edgar vs ALDO,
RD3, Frankie takedown, aldo does front kick and then last 3 mins all Edgar.
RD4-5 Edgar dominates aldo and outstrikes him.
BJ PENN VS EDGAR 1, I think BJ won then 2nd fight All edgar. Both Benson fights Edgar won.
HE IS P4P top 10 and it takes a real MMArtist to see that not some fago ufc couch potatoes that watch fights in bars and think they can fight.
Judges don't like Edgar pitter patter and they remember all the gifts he has gotten over the years like 2nd maynard fight when he was knocked down 6-7 times in one round and brain damaged.
Edgar face always shows he lost all those fights fair and square
Edgar is a tough fighter. always brings it. He will whip Olivera no doubt. BTW my +1 was in agreement with the first comment …from Magoo and Ddddd. I agree with them FE is going to win…and to the goof who compared him to getting released by Fitch C'mon Man sober up before you comment. That's as dumb as something that Sasquatch A.K.A ASSQUATCH or the other fat hairy guy THE WAY OF THE DUTCHMAN would say…..FE is a true fighter and always brings it. Give credit where credit is due.
Put a tampon in it!
I never said he hasn't heart. He knows how to take a beating, that takes heart. I said he has an unusual high percentages of underserved wins and rematches. And the fat and hairy comment made me laugh, thanks for that couch potato.
edgar is one of those fighters that uses cardio to their advantage. not that fun to watch but what other option do you have if you're not heavy handed or slick on the ground? these types of fighters definitely works a lot to perfect this technique…all respect for the dude…
So what if that's what he uses. Heavy handed fighters like to punch. Good strikers like to strike, wrestlers like to wrestle, BJJ guys love to get it to the ground and submit people. If that's his strength that's awesome if he uses it to beat people and win titles. He was heavy handed enough to knock out Maynard. You can say he didn't hurt Henderson but he did knock him down a couple of times and Henderson didn't knock him out, neither did Maynard, Neither did BJ,neither did Aldo. He must have a little more going on than you give him credit for. That is a pretty hefty list of fighters, not to mention the ones he beat to get there…..stop being a hater
Contrary to what the whiny little b!tch says (757), Edgar is going to f**k Oliveira up!
Oh my gosh please go shave your back…the fat pot belly kid just won't go away. Ok brother your right…
Assquatch….put a tampon on it????Your comments don't fit….wow do everyone a favor and go away. Everyone bombs you fucked up observations anyway…ha ha what a dick
Don't know where you got "on" from and "bombs you ****ed up".. WTF does that mean!?? Now put a tampon in that whiny b!tch hole you call a mouth.. understand that you dyslexic sh!t kid… ha ha what a retard!
Your one to talk you illiterate bitch. Just not long ago people where laughing at you like they did everyday in school and in public which led to your fucked up attitude. Don't blame me or anyone else for the fucked way you came out. It's obvious that you had some pretty traumatic events in your life that shaped you into the incredibly insecure and poor attitude person that you are. It all makes sense to read your comments…..ha ha you fucking geek go back to your basement cave and cry ha ha ha you love the term shit kid I wonder if your repeating what everyone called you…buzz off dork try talk about fighting instead of trying to fight with people to cure your own insecurity ha ha ha what a joke.
Well if that isn't the pot calling the the kettle black I don't know what is… "That's as dumb as something Sasquatch A.K.A ASSQUATCH would say". You call me out and then cry when I school your retarded @ss!. Grab some tissue b!tch tits.. WEAK is the only way to describe you sh!t kid haha!
Wow you really are schooling me…on what? You babbling fool. You haven't said one thing about the fight game that's made sense. You haven't schooled anyone on anything you moron. H Ha shit kid? OH YEAH REALLY SCHOOLING ME.
Your like schooling a per-schooler… EASY. Don't be calling me out if you can't take it you whitless little piece of sh!t.. kid!
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Obese kids are at higher risk for mental illness -- what are we going to do about it?04/29/2011
A twenty year cohort study in The Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry looked at overweight and obese children and their risk of developing of a mental illness later in life. The research found that obese and overweight children have an increased risk for the development of a mood disorder in adulthood when the same overweight trends continued. The research included both sexes; however overweight and obese girls were found to have an even higher risk than boys for developing mood disorders and other mental health issues when the obesity continued on into adulthood.
A first of its kind, the research looks at the psychiatric risk factors associated with obesity and overweight children. While more research is needed—one conclusion can be made. Obesity in American youth is a risk factor for the development of a mental disorder later in life.
Racial bias a key factor in decisions we don't know we make04/28/2011
You might be surprised.
In the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers showed (yet again) that we make many of our decisions around money and overall trust based on our unconscious racial bias.
Psychologists have generally agreed that we have explicit and implicit thoughts that inform our day to day experience. Explicit refers to intentional thinking, decisions and judgments. Implicit thoughts are hidden behind all those good intentions. These implicit biases, or the more technical term for this implicit social cognition have an impact on how we live and work.
Reviews of Guantanamo files confirm: psychologists knew of torture, and tacitly supported it04/27/2011
In 2008 the American Psychological Association issued a resolution saying that psychologists may not work in places where people are tortured, or support torture in any form.
To many of us have done it anyway.
Vincent Iacopino and Stephen Xenakis reviewed Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) medical records and case files of nine prisoners. The records showed that the detainees did tell GTMO medical staff that they were being tortured, tortured with abusive interrogation methods that are clearly defined by the UN as being torture. What they went through was even beyond the Bush administration lax definition of torture.
Despite witnessing the physical and psychological wounds of these nine detainees, medical staff took no action to report the violations. They patched them up and sent them back in.
It gets worse. Medical records show that the detainees were showing signs of psychological problems. Yes, being imprisoned is going to take someone to an edge of psychological despair, but the records showed that there was much more going on. One of the detainees was having nightmares, memory lapses, loss of appetite, depression and suicidal thoughts. He was treated with antidepressants and a chilling recommendation of "You…need to relax when guards are being more aggressive."
Painkiller addiction requires a psychological cure04/26/2011
Is heroin still heroin when it's prescribed?
Alleviating pain was the original intent behind the design, creation and prescribing of pain medications. A well-used type of pain killer is the powerful class of narcotics called opioids. Oxycodone is essentially pure version of heroin develop in 1916. Of course its purity adds to its' addictive quality. The number of prescriptions for opioids has gone from 74 milligrams in 1997 to 369 milligrams in 2007.
Where are all these drugs going? These drugs are going to mothers, fathers, their children and even our elders; to the homeless and the owner of the penthouse on the corner. It's easy to get these drugs and doing so is even validated by the fact that many people are getting them from physicians.
The Food and Drug Administration is taking one small step towards helping end opiate addiction.
The latest efforts by the FDA and supported by the Whitehouse are an attempt to stop the flow of the drug. They are recommending a four part approach:
Rediscovering Virginia Satir - and fighting for self-esteem04/25/2011
Are women who choose to breastfeed their babies seen as less competent?
The surprising answer is yes, according to the latest research. In the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Researchers Smith, Hawkinson, and Paull report findings that suggest prejudice against women who choose to breastfeed their children. The research findings report that women who breastfed were viewed as less competent, capable and intelligent. They were less likely to be hired, to be viewed as competent in analytical disciplines, and more likely to be viewed in a sexualized manner.
Furthering this research, researchers Schooler, Ward and Merriwether found a link between risky sexual activity, decision-making processes and feelings regarding women's reproductive capacities. Published in the Journal of Sex Research, researchers found that greater societal shame and ignominy regarding natural menstruation cycles led to higher levels of sexual risk taking. Essentially, the shame a woman has regarding her body increases her willingness to take risks in sexual activity.
We have a big societal problem. Women's natural reproductive and physiological functions have become the scapegoat in society's messed-up psyche, causing the self-esteem of individual women to plummet.
We need to take action: but we don't need new tools. A pioneering psychologist has already developed them.
Psychology's "how to" guide to relationships04/22/2011
Human beings are social creatures, and so it's no surprise that when we're not trying to get in relationships we're managing relationships, and when we're not managing relationships we're complaining to our friends about how we need to be in one.
What is surprising is that for all the time, energy, and thought we put into our relationships, most of us are not very good at getting them right.
Admit it. Don't worry, you're not alone.
An article in Psychology Today, entitled A Message of Hope for Anyone Seeking a Relationship, looks looks at three core constructs that form the basis of all growth facilitating relationships.
Here's a glimpse of what relationship guru Ken Page suggests:
Beyond the Inhaler: a whole person approach to treating asthma04/21/2011
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that children with asthma are successfully managing their symptoms using complementary and alternative medicines and practices like prayer and relaxation.
This research adds to a growing body of research that could help doctors and community health care providers gain insights in to helping a community of children self-manage their asthma.
Children living in urban centers in the United States are more likely to suffer from asthma than their suburban or rural peers. The field of pediatrics has been working on ways to help these youth live better lives despite their condition. Traditional treatment methods such as using inhalers or the pill form of asthma medications are effective at dealing with the physical symptoms.
But we also know that asthma can undermine a child's experience of daily life. Every day they are burdened with the need to manage their physical health. They must live in complete awareness of what's happening in their bodies at all times because they may or may not know when or where the next asthma attack may happen. The need for coping skills is critical for their overall well-being – and spiritual and alternative approaches were found to have significant benefits for asthmatic children.
Empathy is going the way of the land-line: one more thing the young are giving up04/20/2011
Are college students today less likely to feel sympathy for people less fortunate than them than college students were 30 years ago?
We'd better have a talk about empathy, before it's too late.
A meta-analyses study published in the August 2010 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review looked at research empathy dating from 1979-2009, including over 13,000 college students. The researchers were looking at the personality quality referred to as dispositional empathy – which is what students display when they say that they care about the homeless man who sleeps in the park near campus.
Konrath and colleagues found that students were less likely to agree with statements such as "I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me" and "I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective." That last statement is critical to empathy.
The research indicates that a particular type of empathy has been lost. There has been a steady decline in the ability to imagine another person's point of view and to sympathize with them.
Dying and dignity: Finding a good death in the story of our lives04/19/2011
We all wish for a good life – and we try to imagine what a good death would be.
A good death may be one where we are able to have some control over how we die. What would be a part of a good death? What would you want to do with your last moments of life? There may be so many things running through your mind … but would one of them be sharing time with your family and friends?
How, and when, would you want to say goodbye?
NPR recently featured as story about a hospice in St. Louis that gives clients the opportunity to not only say goodbye but to leave a legacy of their lives, their stories.
The proof piles up: complementary medicine can change your life.04/18/2011
Hypnosis isn't all powerful – but it can sure make your life better.
A recent article in the New York Times gave an example: a middle aged woman suffering a debilitating illness, facing the fear of surgery. She undergoes four hypnotic sessions at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Integrative Medicine. The result—a calm surgery and speedy recovery.
The reintegration of hypnosis into society is part of a bigger societal transformation. Indeed it is the forerunner of a more complete and wholesome methodology of care: a revolution of mind-body and integrative medicine. It's catching on like wildfire – with some of the biggest and best hospitals offering integrative medicine focused on mind-body techniques akin to hypnosis. Among them: Stanford Hospital, Beth Israel Medical Center, and Mount Sinai Medical Center.
In recent years, integrative medicine has seen greater credibility and wide-spread acceptance as research proves its efficacy. Its selling point for many: It's a combination of conventional treatments combined with complementary and alternative treatments.


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Part 283: Livingston County
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§283.1 General classification
The air quality within the political boundaries of Livingston County shall be maintained using Levels II and I as set forth in Part 256, Ambient Air Quality Standards--Classification System, for the areas described in the following sections.
§283.2 Level II
All that area within the following boundaries:
(a) The corporate limits of the Village of Geneseo.
(b) Commencing at the intersection of Route 245 and the North Dansville-Ossian town line; thence clockwise along the North Dansville town line to Route 63; thence southerly and southeasterly along Route 63 to the Dansville village line; thence clockwise along the village line to the intersection of Route 245 with the westerly portion of the village line; thence northwesterly along Route 245 to the beginning point.
§283.3 Level I
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Bo and John find a special box, Kelly gets good news, David pays Spencer a visit, Marcie and Michael fear losing Tommy and Bruce is shot...
Bo and John are at Spencer's office on a search warrant. Inside a cabinet, John finds something hidden in a box on the backside of the cabinet. Paige shows up. Bo invites Paige to have a drink with him when he's done. Paige peeks in Spencer's office, sees the box, tells Bo that Spencer's box requires a special key to be opened, a hospital, magnetic key. Bo gets the key and hands it to John. Anxiously, John opens the box, seeing that it has been used for cold storage! John and Bo close the box, fearful of what's inside. John sends the box to forensics, then they leave Spencer's office.
In jail, David visits Spencer, takes a picture of Spencer in his cell! David expresses that Spencer was never there for him, that if their mother had been around, his life would've been so different. Spencer agrees, blames their terrible lives on the Buchanan's. David asks Spencer why he's been out for the Buchanan's since day one. Spencer declares that the Buchanan's are going to get what's coming to them. Paige walks in, tells Spencer that Bo and John are going to get him first, but she doesn't divulge the specifics to Spencer. Paige leaves. David tells Spencer he's on his own, then he leaves, too.
Kelly wakes up to find Kevin at her bedside. The doctor comes in with the test results, telling Kelly that her baby is going to be all right, says that Kelly can go home. Although Kevin wants to take her home, Kelly won't go back to Llanview with him, says she needs to do what's best for her baby, that she has to go on without Kevin.
Natalie and Clint are at Capricorn, where Natalie tries understanding what her father sees in Dorian. Although she doesn't like Dorian, Natalie wants to see Clint happy. Clint tells Natalie that he blames himself for what happen with Jessica. Natalie makes Clint focus on the good things that have happened in their lives, that he's not perfect, but he's always loved his kids. David and Paige share a drink at Capricorn before Bo shows up for their date. John arrives to be with Natalie, tells her he's real close to getting the peace he needs. John gets a call, tells Natalie they have to go to the station.
Michael shows up at Social Services to meet Marcie, where they are told that another, more experienced couple is interested in fostering Tommy, that the couple wants to adopt the baby. When the social worker leaves the office, Michael tells Marcie that they aren't giving up on Tommy, that they're taking him home tonight. When the social worker comes back, they tell her they want to adopt Tommy. Tommy goes home with the McBain's!
As Rex and Bruce struggle, the gun goes off, Bruce is shot dead! Adriana runs into Rex's arms, thanking him for saving her yet again. Dorian looks over Bruce, says they're going to call the police, and Adriana glares at her mother, says she's going to tell the cops everything! Suddenly, Rex notices that Adriana is bleeding. However, it's not Adriana, it's Rex who's bleeding. Rex falls to the ground. Dorian calls the police, reports a gunshot wound. She instructs Adriana to hold a cloth to Rex's wound. After telling Adriana he loves her, Rex stops breathing! Dorian and Adriana frantically perform CPR on Rex, as the ambulance shows up. Adriana goes in the ambulance with Rex and tells Dorian she never wants to see her again!
Next on One Life to Live: Kelly blames Spencer for everything that's happened in her life, Adriana wants Dorian arrested and Todd pulls a gun on Spencer!


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Whenever i see a cinematic done Blur, it lifts me up!
This Reel just makes wanna improve myself 100 times more!
So thank you Blur!
Amazing Work Compilation…i also loved the Music and the edit
No words to describe this. and yet so many words to describe this.
In the end there's only one word though. Blur.
will CG ever get past soulless eyes and face? We've come so far but have farther to go.
Othoap, I guess they could, but you need a client who pays for that first.
@Nildo: Agreed, editing is particularly good on this one.
Marcin, Good point.
The first HULK was the most believable human(?) CG to date.
With all the talent at Blur when will they do there own feature movie? What ever happened to Rockfish?
@othoap Givens Blur's general budget and time constraints they do amazing work. It seems every step closer to realism just reassures us that the uncanny valley is alive and well
LOL as an example, go back and take a look at Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within or Polar Express, I remember when both came out and people were like "wow the realism its amazing", I thought they looked creepy. =)
Blur is a standard and I couldn't come close. To produce a fake face in 30 years of CG were nature has had a million years of R&D is not fair comparison.
The face rigging tech is mostly there it's the animation. It's all seams to slow. The shots that really bother me is the face on camera shots. It's not a flattering way to draw of frame a face. All the features get compressed and flat looking.
Johnny, Yes completely agree. But I like calling it "By Polar Express" that is on the depressed side.
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April 1993
How Jim Wright schoozes, George Foreman bruises, ZZ Top trims, and Janet Evans swims, plus the straight skinny on everything else from nearly fifty other Texas celebrities.
Since AIDS infected their lives, the proud, the deeply religious Allens have been left to ponder the eternal questions of faith and suffering.
There's trouble brewing at the Capitol this spring, and it has lobbyists and legislators foaming at the mouth. The issue? Your right to drink a glass of fresh, tasty beer.
From Paris to Dallas, everyone's asking, Will the bullet train ever get on track?
So what if Barney's New Age niceness annoys some parents? His TV show is a hit with toddlers—and a financial bonanza for the Dallasites who brought him to life.
Did South-western Bell move its main office to San Antonio strictly for business or because its head honcho is a Texan.
Mother Nature made it impossible to grow azaleas in Dallas' alkaline soil—unless you mulch with money.
In Texas, singer Calvin Russell can barely fill a club. In France, he's more popular than Willie—and sells more records.
At Goliad, you can walk among the ghosts of Fannin's men and the echoes of the rallying cry that history forgot.
Houston's young execs take to the streets on a fleet of shiny Harleys.
A modern surgeon employs a long-discredited cure-all: medicinal leeches.


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Battle Hymn of the Republic - Manuscript Version
Your Guide to Women's History.
About the "Battle Hymn of the Republic": First Published Version | Manuscript Version | Later Versions
Julia Ward Howe, about 1895
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Manuscript Version: Battle Hymn of the Republic
The words to the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as first published, and as it is usually used now, are different, but both of those versions are different from the manuscript version that Julia Ward Howe first wrote in 1861. These are the words to "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as documented in the memoir of Julia Ward Howe, Reminiscences 1819-1899, published in 1899:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the wine press, where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He hath loosed the fateful lightnings of his terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watchfires of an hundred circling camps
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps,
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
His day is marching on.
I have read a burning Gospel writ in fiery rows of steel,
As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal,
Let the hero born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Our God is marching on.
He has sounded out the trumpet that shall never call retreat,
He has waked the earth's dull sorrow with a high ecstatic beat,
Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the whiteness of the lilies he was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that shines out on you and me,
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
Our God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave,
So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave,
Our God is marching on.
"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
- First published version
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Julia Ward Howe
- About Julia Ward Howe - includes bibliography
- Writing the Battle Hymn
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Making the Ferguson Commission Matter
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My Fake Boyfriend Became a Real-Life Crush
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Rep. Jeffrey Pogue Bill Would Ban Unisex Bathrooms
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Darren Wilson Gives Speech to Nonprofit
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Angel Stewart and Other Victims of Violence Ask for Mercy
By Jessica Lussenhop
Obama Praises St. Louis' LaunchCode
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Having spent six years in Los Angeles -- mainly toiling alongside his former St. Louis University High School classmate and local-boy-made-good director buddy George Hickenlooper (Hearts of Darkness, Man From Elysian Fields) -- Boll, whose April Is My Religion in 2001 became the first locally produced feature ever to air at the St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), returned to the St. Louis area to care for his quadriplegic father. His assessment of the local filmmaking landscape is unflinching.
"The scene is nowhere near big enough -- or good enough -- to keep anyone with real ambitions," Boll says. "Everyone who gets good leaves. But that could change overnight."
Tucked beneath Boll's arm is a three-minute trailer for a documentary he's co-producing about the infamous Coral Court Motel. Burned out after April, Boll was aimlessly looking for a documentary project when photographer Shellee Graham and the motel idea all but fell into his lap.
"I'd been [to the Coral Court] several times as a patron," says the filmmaker, a sinister grin creeping across his face. "It was exactly what I was looking for."
Co-producer Graham's vast collection of paraphernalia, photographs and contacts tied to the Watson Road motel, which was bulldozed in 1995, have made the typically daunting task of acquiring licensing rights to topical footage a gazillion times easier than it otherwise would have been. "All the legwork was done," Boll says. "Shellee would set up interviews and I'd just show up with the camera."
All set, then. Or not. There was still the issue of cold hard cash, and Boll was at a loss for potential funding sources for a film with no self-evident ties to civic organizations that can often be relied upon if the topic is relevant. Then Graham told him about a buddy of hers, Bruce Marren, who'd secured funding in 2001 for a documentary about Gaslight Square through a little-known grant known as CALOP (Committee for Access and Local Origination Programming), administered by the municipality of University City.
Mere weeks later, after an application process that included a presentation to a selection committee, Boll and Graham had a cool $10,000. Boll expects that the money will cover the cost of the Coral Court project, which he hopes to complete by November.
Regional and statewide arts-commission grants are commonplace nationwide, but CALOP, which seeds the St. Louis film community with some $125,000 annually via grants of $5,000 to $10,000 endowed exclusively for documentary productions, is a rare bird.
The grant program came out of a partnership between U. City and cable provider Continental Cablevision. To satisfy Federal Communications Commission requirements, cable companies typically supply municipalities with public-access channels or production facilities, but University City officials had other things in mind in 1980 when they negotiated their deal for two percent of Continental's local gross revenues.
Initially, the city used the money to purchase video equipment for its public schools. In 1989, the grant program was conceived. (The city's current provider, Charter Communications, now itemizes CALOP on its invoices, at a rate of $1 per subscriber per month.) Grant applications are screened by a committee composed of four U. City residents, a school district representative, a city councilmember and liaisons from the city bureaucracy and Charter. The grant has few stipulations, the main one being that U. City's public-access channel premieres all CALOP documentaries.
"That's pretty unique," Sandra Ruch, executive director of the Los Angeles-based International Documentary Association, says of the CALOP program. "To fund documentaries is always very difficult. [The filmmakers] usually do it through their credit cards or families. That they're funding local artists when the national arts budget is being cut is rather unusual, and rather encouraging."
"I don't know that anybody does anything like it," echoes Scott Rimmell, Charter's liaison to the grant committee.
There's certainly nothing like CALOP in the city of St. Louis, although city-affiliated nonprofit Double Helix Television (DHTV) has committed to airing some CALOP-funded films. In fact, though it's no guarantee, the CALOP imprimatur enhances a film's odds of being accepted for wider broadcast. "Obviously, if somebody at CALOP liked it, that's good," says Patrick Murphy, an award-winning producer at KETC-TV (Channel 9) and a CALOP grant recipient for a 1998 documentary about the Katy Trail.
As the area's PBS affiliate, KETC occupies a key position in the St. Louis documentary-filmmaking food chain. Bill Boll goes as far as to credit Channel 9 with spreading the grant's gospel to the film community. "[U. City] had been doing it for years and years, but nobody knew about it," Boll says. "Then KETC premiered the Gaslight Square documentary, and everyone and their brother is applying for the grant."
Monica McFee, U. City's staff liaison to the CALOP committee, confirms that KETC's September 2002 broadcast of Marren's Gaslight Square: The Forgotten Landmark was indeed a catalyst for heightened interest in the grant program -- or part of one, anyway. The film, McFee points out, had already enjoyed a lengthy run at the Missouri History Museum, and, of course, a screening on U. City's public-access channel.
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Oh, Shia LaBeouf. We don't think the actor meant to suggest that the "vibe" was better on Transformers: Dark Of The Moon because new co-star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley doesn't mind being treated like a piece of meat, but that's sure how he came off talking to the LA Times about Megan Fox. "Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [thing] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with [director] Michael [Bay], who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women," he explained. "Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It's summer. It's Michael's style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it…When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We're on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There's no time [to gently say] 'I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.'"
Thankfully for the busy men of the cast and crew, Rosie didn't mind Michael Bay's more "Hitler"-y way of getting that back arched. "Rosie comes with this Victoria's Secret background, and she's comfortable with it," says Shia. "So she can get down with Mike's way of working and it makes the whole set vibe very different." Since Megan's "Spice Girl strength" (oh, Shia) hasn't kept her from posing in her underwear for Armani, it's hard to believe she was that uncomfortable with being a sex object—unless Bay was putting the accent on object too much even for her. But thanks for at least trying to see this from Megan's side, Shia. Now shut up and arch that back for the camera! The ladies want to see your LaBeouf!
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It's been a summer of demoralizing drought headlines, but one on the Austin American-Statesman's website could be the most fearsome so far: "Current drought could become worst ever, state climatologist says." What even more frightening is state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon says the current drought could last until 2020, because the region's climate is in the […] [Read More]


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Anyway, this new product, NEOSPORIN® ESSENTIALS™, is a great winter time product. It was originally designed for people with Eczema, which is estimated to affect around 35 million adults. (Eczema is a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by dry, itchy skin and visible skin rash.)
I have never had Eczema, but I do have some awful dry skin in the winter from working outside and simply using my hands a lot. Our entire family is constantly washing our hands in the winter, and I am probably twice as bad. So we're always those people with super dry hands. We're all about skipping the latest nasty virus floating around. But I digress.
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Joaquin Phoenix. Reteaming with his The Master director Paul Thomas Anderson. From a script Anderson wrote. Based on experimental and post-modern icon Thomas Pynchon's 1999 novel, "Inherent Vice." About a pot-smoking detective in late 60s/early 70s L.A. investigating a kidnapping and uncovering deeper corruption. Surrounded by characters with names like Shasta Fay Hepworth, Christian "Bigfoot" Bjornsen, Riggs […] [Read More]


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July 29, 2015
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) - Secretary of State John Kerry says neither President Barack Obama nor the American people want to see a wholesale U.S. intervention in Iraq.
He told ABC that there's "an opportunity for Iraq to come up with his own choice."
Kerry, wrapping up two days of talks in Iraq, said on CBS that the U.S. "is trying to move this process forward" so that there will be "a structure in Iraq which will give us the greatest capacity for success."
He told NBC's "Today" show, "A united Iraq is a stronger Iraq."
Kerry is pushing the central government in Baghdad to at least adopt new policies that would give more authority to Iraq's minority Sunnis and Kurds. He has noted bitterness and growing impatience among all of Iraq's major sects and ethnic groups with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Kerry met today with the president of Iraq's Kurdish region -- whose support is key to solving the country's political crisis. Kurds represent about 20 percent of Iraq's population. The Kurdish leader declared that "we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq."
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Beneath These Red Cliffs
Ronald L. Holt
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Beneath These Red Cliffs
An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes
In this new and updated edition---with a foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah---Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. The recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, but the act revived the Paiutes' identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of possibility.
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This intuitive and beautifully designed jigsaw puzzle game will bring many hours of fun to the whole family. Choose from a fantastic collection of puzzles, or create your own puzzles from photos.
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Minecraft out for PlayStation 3 in disc form
The insanely popular world building game makes the strange transition from digital download to disc-based title for the PS3.
Late last year Minecraft hit the PlayStation Network as a digital download with predictable results.
By that, we of course mean that it was insanely popular, garnering more than 1.5 million downloads to date — making it one of the best performing PSN titles.
Of course, if you hate the convenience of a digital download or have refused to hook up your PS3 to the Internet, the good news is that you'll be able to buy Minecraft on disc for the PlayStation 3 from 14 May.
Perhaps a little more exciting is the news that the game will also be coming to PS Vita and PS4. We're not entirely sure when, but Sony is definitely saying "this year".


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Diablo III designer hints at a return of the Necromancer
Many Diablo II fans had a love for the Necromancer and sadly it isn't in the listing for classes coming in Diablo III. Well Jeff Wilson sat down and gave some reasons for that and also gave hope that the Necromancer class still had a chance at being in Diablo III.
Basically, in an effort to make a new game, they only chose old classes that could be changed to make better. The Necromancer was just too good, however, the Witch Doctor is very similar with just a few differences.


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3. Evaluate information to determine if it is both accurate and current.
The information superhighway is filled with false and outdated information. Because it is on the web does not make it true. There may be better sources.
2. Research takes off on the library's homepage.
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The Vampire Diaries
Did The Vampire Diaries Originals Spin-Off Ruin Klaus and Caroline?
There is a sizable portion of The Vampire Diaries audience who would like to see a relationship between Caroline (Candice Accola) and Klaus (Joseph Morgan) explored. Now that Joseph Morgan is headed for The Originals spin-off, some worry any hope of such a pairing is lost.
As Julie Plec tells Zap2It, the possibility of Klaus leaving Mystic Falls for New Orleans for good didn't fundamentally change the writers' storytelling when it comes to Klaroline. She says, "If anything, the spin-off is just another version of an obstacle. Caroline and Klaus is a very, very tricky relationship, in that we can all understand why she's drawn to him, because we're drawn to him. But Caroline is not the kind of character who would ever comfortably let herself go there." Indeed, the blond vampire has a strong moral core that might make it extremely difficult for her to forgive Klaus for all his sins.
As fans of the show's main triangle know, the TVD writers are all about obstacles when it comes to a couple finding happiness. Klaus's murder problem certainly seems insurmountable at this point. "Something would have to change, whether it's Caroline's character who changes or Klaus's character who changes, or circumstances that change, before we as writers would ever legitimately think about putting them together," says Julie.
With Klaus headed out of town, it might make those alterations more plausible — or Klaus could go wild in the Big Easy. But don't lose heart, Klaroline fans. Julie promises, "You can look at the Caroline/Klaus relationship as something that will live on, in a way, even when he's not on the show. The want is still there."
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Provost (Office of)
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English; Dean of Faculty Affairs
Teacher and scholar of Chaucer, medieval dream vision, food in Chaucer's poetry, medieval period boundaries
Most of my publications relate either to the genre of the medieval dream vision or to the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. I am especially intrigued by the philosophical backgrounds to the dream vision. More recently I have been researching the links between the field broadly known as "food studies" (especially as it reflects anthropological concerns) and "The Canterbury Tales." In addition to my literary critical writings, I am also an editor. In 2007 I published the Norton Critical edition of Chaucer's early poetry, a volume that includes Chaucer's four dream visions and his minor poems.
I regularly teach Wellesley's Chaucer's course(s), both on the introductory and advanced levels. As the English Department's medievalist, I also teach Anglo-Saxon literature and the continental backgrounds to the English medieval romance tradition. Beyond the Canterbury Tales, Beowulf is one of my favorite poems in the classroom. I am also interested in the legacy of the Middle Ages in later periods, especially the Renaissance, and recently team-taught a course on Chaucer and Shakespeare (for first-year students) with a colleague in the English Department. On the advanced level, I have taught many interdisciplinary medieval courses, whose topics range from food in medieval and Renaissance literature to the story of Troilus and Criseyde as it has been retold throughout the medieval period and beyond.
In addition to research and teaching, I have also been somewhat involved in college administration in recent years. In July 2010, I completed six years (not consecutive) as English Department chair. In addition I am involved in professional organizations outside the college, including the Medieval Academy of America and the New Chaucer Society, whose biannual conference I regularly attend. In 2008 I was one of the national judges for an undergraduate writing contest: The Norton Scholar's Prize.
Most important are my three children, the youngest of whom has studied Music and Computer Science at Oberlin College. My older two children are respectively a lawyer in New York City and a writer in Seattle. My children are my hobby and my joy (I don't really have much time for other activities!)
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Please call your Senator by Friday, May 5, at 1-800-826-3688, and ask him/her to sign the DeWine-Feinstein letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee leaders. Foreign operations should be funded no lower than the president's request of $23.7 billion.
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The following Senators have already signed this letter. If one of them is your Senator, you can call and thank them for signing the letter. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tim Johnson (D-SD), John Kerry (D-MA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Rick Santorum (R-PA), John Sununu (R-NH), George Voinovich (R-OH)
Background: In order to meet our promises to the world's poorest people, Congress needs to provide an increase of $5 billion in poverty-focused development assistance every year for the next 5 years. Right now we are not on track to meet this goal.
A key moment in the budget and appropriations process is the setting of the allocations to each of the appropriations subcommittees. These allocations, called "302b allocations" on Capitol Hill, establish the ceiling for each committee's work. The rest of the appropriations process becomes essentially a battle over how to distribute the money to the various programs within the subcommittee's scope. The chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee is about to announce the 302b allocation for each of the subcommittees, including foreign operations.
The Foreign Operations Subcommittee of Appropriations is the focus for our efforts to achieve increases in poverty-focused development assistance. Last year, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee had an allocation of $20.6 billion to work with. This year the Bush administration requested an allocation of $23.7 billion to the subcommittee, one of the few areas of the budget outside of defense and homeland security where the administration asked for an increase. Congress, however, appears unwilling to allocate even the president's request for foreign operations, but $23.7 billion is the minimum needed to begin to meet our promises to the world and reduce global poverty.
The prospect of having to make cuts in popular domestic programs while boosting funding for international assistance does not sit well with many in Congress, especially in an election year. So there is substantial pressure to cut back the president's request for foreign operations in order to have more for domestic spending. Congress needs to recognize, however, that all poverty-focused development assistance amounts to less than one half of one percent of our federal budget. They should not be cutting programs that help poor and hungry people at home or abroad.
Bread for the World is urging Congress to set the 302b allocation for foreign operations at the president's request of $23.7 billion. Senators DeWine (R-OH), Feinstein (D-CA), Santorum (R-PA), and Durbin (D-IL) have also drafted a letter to Appropriations Committee leaders Senators Cochran (R-MS) and Byrd (D-WV), which urges the leaders to allocate, at a minimum, the president's budget request for international affairs. A strong list of signers to the DeWine-Feinstein letter will put more pressure on Congress to provide substantial increases in poverty-focused development assistance and get us closer to the goal of a $5 billion increase for programs that reduce hunger, poverty and disease around the world. Your call is crucial to encourage your senator to sign on to this letter.
Points to consider:
*In 2000, 189 countries, including the United States, agreed to a set of eight specific goals – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – to substantially reduce hunger, poverty and disease in our world. To achieve the MDGs, the U.S. share of the needed resources would be $25 billion by 2010.
*When the leaders of the world's most powerful countries gathered last summer in Scotland, President Bush committed to double aid to Africa and globally by 2010.
*Currently the United States contributes less than one half of 1 percent of our federal budget for poverty-focused development assistance. We can do better than this.
*The United States currently spends about $5 billion on the war on terrorism every four days.
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So I had started on the boxers and was working away on the back panel and struggling with the yarn.
only blocked today. Swallowtail scarf by Evelyn A Clark is knitted with 40g of Colourmart cashmere/merino laceweight 2ply using 3.75mm circs. The colour is fern, and the scarf is gorgeously soft.


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A postcard from Marseille takes 50 years to get to Lorient
A postcard has 50 years to be sent from Marseilles to the sub-prefecture of Lorient, where it finally arrived last October, it was learned Thursday from the prefecture of Morbihan.
The postcard was mailed March 13, 1963. It represents "an overview of the Vieux-Port" of Marseille and was addressed, probably by friends, a former sub-prefect of Lorient, Marcel Jaquet, who died in 1984, according to the same source.
The prefecture of Morbihan is currently seeking descendants of the sub-prefect to their return the postcard, she also said.


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Singles, Doubles, and Triples
It was the long ball that sank Denver's Super Bowl hopes and dreams nearly eight months ago. The Ravens still have the speed demons to drown the Broncos yet again. However, chances are defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio won't use as much single-high coverage as he did a year ago—particularly with a gimpy Champ Bailey, who may not even play (game time decision). Expect the two-deep zone to be in play early and often to negate Baltimore's vertical passing game.
The pressure will be on the Ravens' new group of inside targets to make plays in the middle of the field to soften up the zone coverage. By hitting shorter inside routes early, the team may be able to expand their deep middle routes (posts and digs) to get the safeties to commit and create space downfield.
However, the Ravens will need to be precise and complete the shorter routes to establish more one-on-one opportunities for Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones.


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2012-2013 Waterfowl Hunting Seasons Announced
Annapolis, Md. (August
30, 2012) ─ The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
has reviewed public input and finalized the State's 2012-2013 late waterfowl
hunting seasons.
"As always, public input helps guide our decisions," said Paul Peditto, director of DNR's Wildlife and Heritage Service. "The individuals who took the time to attend our public meeting or provide comments through our online forum should be commended."
DNR established waterfowl hunting seasons within federal framework after reviewing public input and consulting with members of the Wildlife Advisory Commission and Maryland Migratory Game Bird Advisory Committee.
Featured 2012-2013 hunting opportunities:
Duck Season will be 60 days in three segments: October 13-20, November 10-23, and December 11-January 26. The daily bag limit is six per day.
"Open-water diving duck hunting has the potential to be very good this year," said Larry Hindman, DNR's waterfowl project leader. "Breeding populations of diving ducks such as scaup, canvasbacks, and redheads are high and the increase in the scaup daily bag limit to four per day will create more hunting opportunity."
The continental scaup breeding population estimate increased for the seventh straight year reaching 5.2 million this spring, a 21 percent increase above last year's estimate.
Atlantic Population (AP) Canada geese Season has increased from 45 to 50 days and is split in two segments: November 17-23 and December 11-January 30. The daily bag limit is two per day.
The 2012 spring breeding pair survey of AP Canada geese totaled 190,300 pairs, similar to the 2011 index of 216,000 pairs.
"Despite average habitat and weather conditions on key AP goose breeding areas, banding crews recently reported that gosling production was above average along the Hudson Bay coast," said Hindman. "This represents a meaningful improvement over the poor conditions of 2011."
National Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days will be held on November 3, 2012 and February 9, 2013.
Participating youth hunters must be 15 years old or younger and must be accompanied by an adult at least 21 years old who possesses a current Maryland hunting license or is exempt from the hunting license requirement. The adult accompanying the youth hunter(s) may not possess a hunting weapon and may not participate in other seasons that are open on the youth waterfowl hunting days.
All migratory game bird hunters, including landowners who are license-exempt, are required to purchase the Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp/HIP Permit. All waterfowl hunters ages 16 and over must possess the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (federal duck stamp). Hunting licenses and stamps may be purchased online at dnr.maryland.gov/service/license.asp or by phone at 1-800-918-2870. These services complement the hundreds of retail vendors currently selling licenses, permits and stamps.
The 2012-2013 late waterfowl season dates and bag limits will be published in the annual migratory game bird season synopsis and distributed to DNR Wildlife and Heritage Service offices and sport license agents in mid-September. More information on the 2012-2013 waterfowl hunting seasons is available at dnr.maryland.gov/huntersguide/lwfchart.asp.
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Contact: Josh Davidsburg
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