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Lake Levels Update: June 20
by CBS11 Meteorologist Jeff Jamison June 20, 2014 8:44 PM
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It's the first weekend of summer. You may have plans to take the boat out on an area lake, or join a friend who is.
Drought is in firm control of North Texas, so our reservoir levels are below normal pool stage. In fact, the total capacity of all North Texas lakes is 70%.
Watch CBS11 News at 10pm and I'll show you where a few of our lake levels were a year ago compared to today.
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Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum
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Lata Mangeshkar: I want to sing with Amitabh Bachchan3 years ago 0
The legendary Indian singer says she also wants to record poems of Bachchan's father, late Harivansh Rai Bachchan Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar has… Read Article ▶
Did Shahrukh Khan's film with Yash Chopra finally get a name?3 years ago 0
It is a rare thing that a big ticket film is almost up for release, but it still doesn't have a name. Everybody was surprised when the teaser trailer… Read Article ▶
Shahrukh Khan misses his father in Kashmir3 years ago 0
Bollywood baadshah Shahrukh Khan is currently shooting for Yash Chopra's untitled film in Pahalgam Being in Kashmir has made Shahrukh Khan nostalgic… Read Article ▶
Yash Chopra's Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma film: What's the title?3 years ago 4
Finally we have some hot goss on Yash Raj Films' that is so-far known as Production No 45 Our feathered friend who makes regular visits to the swank… Read Article ▶
Shahrukh Khan's film with Yash Chopra NOT titled 'Yeh Kahaan Aa Gaye Hum'3 years ago 30
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College roundup: HSU volleyball team falls just short of first NCAA tourney win
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Adele and New Man Pack on PDA at Everglades in Florida
Swamp love for Adele!
On Monday, the British singer, 23, debuted her new boyfriend Simon Konecki in the most unlikely of places: Trolling for alligators and other critters aboard an airboat in Everglades National Park in Florida.
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The "Someone Like You" chanteuse -- whose beloved album 21 was famously inspired by a gut-wrenching breakup with another man -- was "very sweet and caring" with her bearded new guy, an onlooker tells Us.
"Adele was taking pictures of him and the scenery . . . they were having fun and were very comfortable with one another," the witness adds.
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Konecki, 36, is the founder of British charity Drop4Drop, and was "very attentive" with his new love during their hour-long boat tour. "He watched her every move, especially when she was on the dock and on the boat. He wanted to make sure she didn't fall into the water!" the source adds. "They were lovey dovey with one another [and] very into each other," with the duo kissing during the field trip. "She seems really happy."
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Animal Care and Use Committee
Animal research may never never look as exciting to the public as a college football game. However, everyone involved within this field of endeavor (from committee members to the animal care technicians and the investigators), are caring individuals that share, at their core, a deeply respectful and humane regard for the animals in their charge. Additionally, we should always be aware that it is through the work of dedicated individuals in animal research (past, present and future), that we can all look to the future as Fearless Champions.
Welcome to the Animal Care and Use Committee Web site at Texas Tech University. The committee is dedicated to providing resources for all faculty, staff, and students involved with animal research at Texas Tech. We would like to help make the submission and reporting processes as applicable as possible for our investigators.
Next Meeting: October 2nd, 2015
Submission Deadline For Consideration/Approval During the meeting is
5:00 PM September 25th, 2015
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Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center was recently in the news for their research:
TTRC Studies Effect of Hippotherapy For Children With Disabilities
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John Gilstrap's got a thriller instinct
John Gilstrap saw the trailer to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" as a kid. Not only did he not sleep, but the razor-edge suspense of the British master sank so deep into his consciousness, Gilstrap never forgot it.
Perhaps that's the origin of Gilstrap's success today. A New York Times best-selling author of thriller novels, he has the mechanism of horrific anticipation so deep in his bones he probably couldn't shake it off if he wanted to.
The irony is that, like most of us, Gilstrap has led a life steeped in routine. Adding irony to irony, the man even has a master of science degree in safety engineering and works as director of safety for a trade association in Washington, D. C.
Good thing his plots run all over the rails before biting off every last reader's fingernail as if on autopilot. Thriller fans praised Gilstrap's 2009 book No Mercy as aptly titled, and then some. Publishers Weekly which tosses off most mass-market paperbacks like heaping road-kill of the highway praised Gilstrap's newest book for its "exceptional characterization and an intricate, flawlessly crafted story line."
Speaking from his home in Fairfax, Va., the "skiller thriller" was polite and humble, if just a tad upset The League of Utah Writers didn't schedule his visit to Salt Lake City closer to the ski season. "But this is Utah," Gilstrap said. "I've no idea what it looks like in September."
The gravity of your latest book, Hostage Zero, pulls toward the kidnapping of two schoolchildren whose parents are incarcerated. Most thrillers, by contrast, revolve around the super-rich or politically powerful. Why did you choose this socio-economic setting?
It's less of a social statement than what I thought would make a great story hook. Jonathan Grave, the main character, is a former Delta Force operator who also happens to be wealthy as a result of his father's activities in what's known as the Dixie Mafia in Virginia. When Jonathan came of age, he donated the estate where he grew up to create Resurrection House for children of the incarcerated. He used his father's ill-gotten gains for good. That's a long way to get around the fact that you need a character with skin in the game. Watching a character do what they do because they're paid is a lot less interesting than watching a character who does something because they have an ethical or moral stake in the outcome.
With your expert background in constructing thrillers, do you ever despair at the formulaic cliffhanger approach of so many movies?
I despair a lot about what's going on in Hollywood. But I understand the Hollywood business model. Movies are such a huge investment, with an average cost of $80 million. The sure thing is the last formula that worked. There are a lot of new stories out there to be told, but aren't being told because every new movie has to play it safe. Ultimately, of course, the opposite happens because moviegoers get tired of the same-old, same- old. The new, wide-open territory is all in the literary world.
Do you remember the first thriller you read that impressed you so much you felt you could never improve on it?
Let me change your question. The first thriller I read that let me see exactly how the writer did it was Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal. It was like understanding the skeleton of a thriller, and it was very special.
Many writers debate endlessly on which must come first in a writer's conception, character or plot. Where do you fall?
Character is plot. Without a compelling character nothing matters. But the most compelling character who does nothing interesting isn't much of a book. They're hopelessly and forever intertwined.
One of your readers gushed that "Gilstrap somehow makes a three-man assault against a heavily fortified compound seem plausible ... the most natural thing in the world." Care to share any trade secrets?
You asked that question as if [making something implausible real] was my goal. But that assault is not all fiction. In many cases, it's what hostage rescue forces do. Six Minutes to Freedom, my nonfiction book, tells the story of a successful Delta Force. I got unprecedented access, and in the process of getting to know these folks you learn about the amazing things they do with relatively few people.
Do you always know where your story is going? If you do, how do you convey the texture of suspense if you know the outcome?
I know where it's going before I write the first word, but I may not know how I'm going to get there. With thrillers, more than other genres, pacing is so important. If you're watching movie, you get a sense of what may happen if the music gets louder and faster. It all comes down to sentence length. Chapter length. Word choice. If I don't know where the story's going, I'm not going to choose the fastest route to get there. I have a contract to produce one book per year, after all.
If you were forced to write another genre, say romance, could you do it?
No. Not romance. I'm a guy, OK? A lot of other genres perhaps, but not romance. Westerns? Perhaps. I was certainly a devotee in the days of television. I'm sure it informs my sensibilities. That's one of the scary things about being a professional storyteller. It's not knowing where the stories coming from. Because I can't bottle it, I'm not always sure it will be there when I need it. So far so good.
What's the most interesting response you've received to one of your books?
Anytime I get a sense that the story has impact beyond mere impact, that's great. I hear stories about people in the emergency room who read my books, and [they] say it made the wait easier. That kind of stuff I find very touching. What I find a satisfying thriller, and that's what I try to write, there's a very strong sense of justice and good things happening to good people. They're good people who help others. The fictional world can put the real world right.
P Best-selling writer John Gilstrap appears at The League of Utah Writer's 75th annual statewide convention
When • Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17-18
Where • Hampton Inn & Suites, 307 N. Admiral Byrd Road, Salt Lake City
Info • Convention registration is $128 for League members, $160 for others. Call 435-619-0331 for more information, or visit http://www.luwriters.org/events.html.
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It turns out, politicians are human, too.
Watching seasoned politicians at work, it's difficult to imagine that they ever suffered from self-doubt. But in 60 hours of oral history interviews, men and women who now shape government policy revealed disappointments, exhilarations, vulnerabilities and humbling moments from their first political campaigns — campaigns that formed the foundation of their public careers.


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Katie is a new media journalism graduate student at Texas State University. She is a stand up comic, spends a lot of time talking to her cat (who she refuses to name until it proves to her that it won't die), and is a firm believer that every voice deserves to be heard.
Katie Pengra is a mama's boy trapped in a daddy's girl, body.
Katie Pengra has developed a special condition.
Katie Pengra is a sucker for a gutter baby but who's not?!
Katie Pengra gets wild with the chapstick and applies liberally!
Katie Pengra divulges some information that leaves the audience reeling.
Katie Pengra is excited because it's raining men. Hallelujah!
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How Good Is Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Friday Series? [AIM & Fire]
Anslem: NICKI MINAJ
Adam: Nicki
Jesse: i think everyone agrees nicki freaking murdered monster – best verse of the summer
Matt: I'm not even the biggest Nicki Minaj fan, and i'll agree that she had the best verse
Jesse: Best verse of all the Good Friday tracks IMO
Thomas: It's a good Busta Rhymes verse
Matt: Haha
Rob: Nicki had the best verse hands down. One of the best verses of the year
Jesse: Busta wish he spit that…Rondell, what u think?
Rondell Conway: Nicki did body the track
Thomas: Can we talk about Jay-z's verse on "Monster"
Brooklyne: What about it? I think Ye's was better than Jay's
Thomas: I'm sick of him complaining
Adam: Yeah I hear that
Rondell: I think 10 years from now that one may go down as her signature verse
Adam: I think he does it creatively at least
Brooklyne: Creative complaining?
Thomas: Yeah, on "Some People Hate," that song came out in 2002 or "what more can i say" that song came out in 2003
Matt: That song title says it all
Rondell: Jay been complaining since The Black Album
Thomas: Blueprint 2
Rondell: He was upset people didn't like BP2
Thomas: Nah, BP2 was all about how people hated on him, he was complaining on BP2
Rondell: I don't remember BP2. I've erased it from memory, that and Kingdom Come
Jesse: Here's something to think about — the best verse so far from Good Friday is Nicki and the best beat is from Bink – "Devil In A New Dress"
Thomas: OK, what's your favorite line on "Monster"
Matt: Kanye brought an amazing word into the hip-hop conscious, though: "sarcophagus"
Matt: When drunk in a club, that's the part of the song that I'll chant the loudest
Matt: I bet Kanye wrote that entire verse just as an excuse to say "sarcophagus" in a song
Brooklyne: **Everyone starts playing the song in their headphones**
Jesse: "And I'm all up all up all up in the bank in the funny face" LOL! I die everytime
Brooklyne: It's the "sarcophagus" line by far
Thomas: "Just killed another career, it's a mild day" I think Nicki's voices and all that are bells and whistles, smoke and mirrors
Matt: I agree that Nicki's voices are wearing a bit thin
Thomas: I think they take away from what is a very good verse
Anslem: Thats why she's singing now
Rob: I don't mind the voices, it adds entertainment value. Nicki's voices > Eminem's voices


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History of Kitchener MB Church
In retrospect, KMB is the mother church of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Its founding in 1925 gave it an exciting and optimistic beginning. Many of the founding members had personal ties to the early Mennonite Brethren churches in what is now Russia and Ukraine. In recognition of this close connection, it was first named Molotschna Mennonite Brethren Church of Kitchener. From the start there was rapid numerical and healthy spiritual growth. There also was significant organizational development. This growth resulted in the creation of new churches.
KMB continues to develop leaders and to sustain growth. As in the New Testament churches, the Lord has
stood by our congregation. To be sure, the church and its members have experienced testing
in their faith, but God was faithful to give the needed grace. Today,
KMB shows much evidence of a healthy church at work in the Kingdom
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I would like a Twonky update for the My Book Live.
Hi, I understand that quotas on shares aren't currently available on the MBL, but does anyone know if there are any plans to allow this in future software releases?
The reason I ask is that I'd love to replace using my Time Capsule for TM backups, but don't want TM to effectively hog the space on my MBL, hence the desire for quotas.
Btw, isn't it about time WD made smartware perform similarly on a mac to a windows machine, as it's basically non-existent for the mac, and despite the software initially installing an icon into my macs' status bar, that has now disappeared and I can't find it on my system to put it back - I've tried reinstalling it from the dvd but the system won't let me as it says it's already installed.
New here, so go easy on me. I was just thinking that an easy way to back up a WD MyBook Live to another WD MyBook Live would be great (kinda like a duo, but two seperate devices). Software that could run on the hard drive (not the PC) to automatically back up another drive would be an easy way to do back ups.
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"Baby, will you love me?" asks Matthew E. White on his debut album, Big Inner. That's the thing about White: He's careful and delicate but never timid. Most of his songs resemble little model ships, painstakingly constructed and impeccably designed with an eye for even the most inconsequential detail, but instead of being stored in tight little bottles and placed on a shelf these songs are sent off to sea, driven only by the gentle breeze of White's voice. It's gleefully retro music that draws from far beyond the standard psychedelia and garage pop folio of the '60s and '70s that's become such a common trope for young rock classicists. White's sense of history and his startling spirituality means the album burrows deep into grand gospel, smoky Al Green soul and wide-eyed Gram Parsons country. It's erudite and precise music that's not afraid to be emotionally needy.
White spends most of Big Inner yearning for a transcendence that will never come. In a recent interview White described his relationship with religion, specifically his upbringing by two missionary parents in a deeply Christian family. At one point in the article he states, "I did everything. And not just like religion, or faith, or mysticism, or some shit like that, but specifically Jesus Christ and evangelical Christianity is where I'm coming from." That type of specificity is felt in the songs, not necessarily in the quoting of chapter and verse from the Bible, but in the way White matches a haunting reverence for God with a blistering yearning for the flesh. On the death-obsessed opening track "One Of These Days" White sings, "I want to lay next to you when our glory fades," signaling that physical desire continues long after death and even the faithful need someone to hold onto when heading into the unknown. This solemn and unsettling request takes on a luminous quality as the song's horns swirl around White's patient preacher voice.
To accomplish this mystery-soaked sound White has assembled a record label and studio band that goes by the name of Spacebomb and draws on the traditions of Stax and Motown, labels that had clearly identifiable house sounds and a certain aesthetic coherence. The Spacebomb band consists of White on guitar and horn arrangements, Trey Pollard on strings, Cameron Ralston on bass and Pinson Chanselle on drums, and together they conjure a style that's simultaneously sacred and playful. White has worked as a composer on projects with Megafaun, Justin Vernon and Sharon Van Etten; Transcendental Youth, the upcoming Mountain Goats album, features his distinct horn arrangements. Despite these big name collaborators Big Inner is the first album for the 29-year-old artist and also the first record for his nascent label, but instead of feeling like a testing ground for a series of wild experiments, White has crafted a collection of hushed character sketches worthy of Randy Newman or Bill Callahan.
Far from the drug-addled cosmic boom of Spiritualized, the Spacebomb crew is interested in a more homegrown, sweat-stained type of catharsis. There are choral arrangements and cinematic strings on songs like the aching "Gone Away," but they rarely reach for grandeur, suggesting a type of celestial crisis that can't be solved through a big collective swoon. Like most religious texts, these songs always come back to questions: "Why are you living in heaven today?" or "Do you think that's true?" Even a more easygoing track like the whiskey anthem "Hot Toddies" can make the "fire's warm embrace" sound vaguely malevolent, even demonic. Though the album only has seven songs and most of them smack of ecclesiastical ambition, White finds room for "Steady Pace," a piano-driven ditty that's destined to soundtrack a very cool church BBQ.
While his insistence that we "take it easy" on songs like "Brazos" might suggest that White is ultimately a creature of easygoing nostalgia—like fellow pop archivist M. Ward who White can sound very similar to—there's a sense of impending existential anxiety in these songs. Even as the album builds to its climatic, hand-clapped and horn-filled ending with its "Jesus Christ is our lord, Jesus Christ is our friend" refrain, it's tough to shake the feeling that there's something sinister lurking in the shadows cast by all the divine light. White can shrug off the devil, but he can't cast it out.


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Use the field below to browse the Currier & Ives Collection at Springfield Museums
Clipper Ship THREE BROTHERS, 2972 tons. The Largest Sailing Ship in the World.
Ship with name plate of THREE BROTHERS (on right end of ship in image), sailing to right. No other ships in view. Duplicate title (2004.D03.599 FAC #1170), difference is .599 does not show name. From the Inventory Listing of Sidney A. Alpert "Clipper Ship "Three Brothers"/ 1875 - L "
The era of sailing ships began just before 1845 and ended 20 years later with the opening of the Suez Canal. Many clippers specialized in the China tea trade, were active during the California gold rush, and engaged in the long voyage to Australia. They carried both passengers and cargo and established impressive speed records, such as twelve days from Boston to Liverpool, less than 90 days from New York to San Francisco, 81 days from Calcutta to New York and around the world in 134 days. All clippers were specially designed for fast sailing. They were fitted with three or four towering masts and had so much sail that large crews were needed to handle them. They averaged 1500 to 2500 tons, making Clipper Ship Three Brothers above the average. This vessel, along with the Clipper Ship Flying Cloud were deemed the "speed queens" of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The record voyages that clipper ships were making intrigued the public and there was a great demand for images of vessels. Nathaniel Currier, always anxious to fill the demand, published his first clipper-ship print in 1845. Later Currier & Ives re-issued many of these prints including the print Clipper Ship Three Brothers in 1875.
Date: 1875
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Sales Tax Holiday Underway In Massachusetts
August 13, 2011 6:55 PM
BOSTON (CBS) – Shoppers across the Bay State packed stores beginning Saturday, as the Sales-Tax Holiday weekend was underway.
Over the two days, the 6.25% tax on items $2,500 or less will be waived.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Kim Tunnicliffe reports.
The state stands to lose about $20 million in tax revenue, but the program will be an obvious boost for retail sales in the state.
The sales tax will be waived until stores close on Sunday night.


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Jinro 25 Soju70cl / 25%
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Jinro Soju is the world's best-selling spirit. 2011 figures were more than 60 million nine-litre cases, compared to just under 20 million of Bacardi and just over 10 million of Jack Daniel's. Soju is a Korean spirit that can be made from rice, grain or potatoes and is diluted before bottling. The producer recommends drinking this with BBQ or grilled meat dishes.
Jinro 25 Soju Reviews
Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes by Rocky
Nose: Neutral, with hints of butter, cream and flint.
Palate: Light in body, with subtle herbal notes of parsley and sage, backed up by pepper spice.
Finish: Clean and fresh, with a hint of pepper at the very end.
Comment: Light and easy to drink, it's not hard to see why this is so popular in Korea. Its subtle character make it an easy way to spice up your fruit juice and will not overpower food if accompanying a meal.
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Taste is very smooth and sweet. I highly recommend
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The Smithsonian Considers These Games Art
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Major Nelson has released his Xbox Live activity stats for this week (week of February 7) - while a lot of it is the status quo (Call of Duty and Hal Read More
This week saw three water-based games get their prices slashed, but next week it's all about the retro shooters. Six titles will be getting discounte Read More
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 has been a smash hit XBLA title for quite some time now, and so it comes to a surprise that Bizarre Creations' Gareth Wilson while on the Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, stated that we may not see Geometry Wars 3 anytime soon. Why would Bizarre Creations want to abandon a seemingly profitable franchise? Read More
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St. Petersburg, Florida - We have triple trouble to tell you about this week, with three Bay area restaurants temporarily closed down by the state, all with insect issues inside their kitchens.
We begin in the Coquina Key area of South St. Petersburg and a Chinese Take Out spot,China 1 on 6th Street South.
"I got there and I saw this big orange sticker and I'm like, 'What the bleep is going on?''" asked China 1 customer Randal Ballard.
Turns out a state inspector ordered an emergency closure after documenting 11 violations, including 102 live roaches found in and around the hand sink and under the prep line with the rice.
"If they're not taking care of the product then they're jeopardizing the community, because everyone in the community comes here," said Ballard.
We stopped in, hoping to check out the restaurant's kitchen.
"I'm sorry but my manager goes on vacation so she's not coming back," said employee Selena Zheng. "She said right now everything is doing good. Thank you so much."
When we asked for permission to take a look in the kitchen, we were told restaurant staff members were too busy. "No, thank you, because we're still working," said Zheng.
From the front counter, we spotted what appeared to be a possible chemical sprayer right next to the bagged rice, and several insects flying around the restaurant, with both the front and back door wide open.
When asked if he'd give the restaurant a second chance, customer Randal Ballard told us no way. "I'm never going back there again. From the minute I saw that sticker on there, that was it for me," he said.
Next stop was Seffner and a Restaurant Red Alert repeat offender. Young Bin Chinese is located on West Martin Luther King and was written up with 38 violations. The restaurant was closed down for the second time in two months, this time with roach excrement along the walls, under the prep table, and live roaches right over the cooking equipment. An employee was also written up for not properly washing their hands.
"If you're going to touch my food and you're not washing your hands, that's pretty gross," said Michela Taylor, who we found outside the restaurant.
Employees declined to comment, saying the owner was unavailable.
The final stop was St. Pete Beach, where Silas Steakhouse & Bayside Bar on Gulf Blvd. was temporarily closed with 17 violations,including a black or green mold-like substance inside the ice machine, no soap at an employee hand washing sink, a dirty soda gun, and live roaches found inside cooking equipment.
Owner Rob Stambaugh arrived to provide a tour, saying his pest control company was called right away.
"They immediately sent someone out, they spent several hours here, they certified to the health department that we were roach free," said Stambaugh, who next showed us the tilt skillet where the roach problem was originally discovered.
"He went into the side and there were roaches down in it," said Stambaugh of the state inspection a week earlier.
We toured the entire kitchen, including the walk-in cooler where fresh seafood is stored.
"These actually just came in this morning, they were harvested yesterday," said Stambaugh showing off some fresh seafood.
Food was covered and six inches off the floor. We also found a cleaned out ice bin. The foaming soap was a little slow to come out of one dispenser we found in the kitchen, but there was no sign of any additional insects.
"I'm very disappointed in what's happened here, and it won't happen again," said Stambaugh, who invites any customer to call and arrange a tour of his kitchen facility.
Silas Steakhouse has been open on St. Pete Beach for 35 years. The state cleared them to reopen later the same day.
The other two restaurants featured in this report also have been allowed to reopen.
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Blindnessby Jose Saramago
Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers — among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears — through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses — and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
"Beautifully written in a concise, haunting prose...this unsettling, highly original work is essential reading." Library Journal
"Saramago's Blindness is the best novel I've read since Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera. It is a novel of enormous skill and authority....Like all great books it is simultaneously contemporary and timeless, and ambitiously confronts the human condition without a false note struck anywhere. Saramago is one of the great writers of our time, and Blindness, ironically is the product of his extraordinary vision." David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars
"Blindness may be as revolutionary in its own way and time as were, say, The Trial and The Plague were in theirs. Another masterpiece." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Saramago writes phantasmagoria — in the midst of the most astonishing fantasy he has a meticulous sense of detail. It's very eloquent stuff." Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon
"It is the voice of Blindness that gives it its charm. By turns ironic, humorous and frank, there is a kind of wink of humor between author and reader that is perfectly imbued with fury at the excesses of the current century. Blindness reminds me of Kafka roaring with laughter as he read his stories to his friends....Blindness' impact carries the force of an author whose sensibility is significant." The Washington Post
"Blindness is a shattering work by a literary master." The Boston Globe
"More frightening than Stephen King, as unrelenting as a bad dream, José Saramago's Blindness politely rubs our faces in apocalypse....A metaphor like 'white blindness' might easily seem forced or labored, but Saramago makes it live by focusing on the stubbornly literal; his account of a clump of newly blind people trying to find their way to food or to the bathroom provides some surprisingly gripping passages. While this epidemic has a clear symbolic burden, it's also a real and very inconvenient affliction." Salon
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The graduate students in the Ed Tech emphasis have the opportunity to pursue the interests and issues that matter most to them and their learning communities. Read about our recent graduates and current students and their projects with an Ed Tech emphasis.
Tara Lyon
Area of Emphasis: English Language Development
Tara has been a teacher for fourteen years. She began in 2000 after graduating from Sonoma State University. Her first job was in a first grade classroom, followed by two years of Kindergarten. After that Tara took a leave to serve in the United States Peace Corps with her husband where she traveled to Azerbaijan and lived, studied, and taught English for just over two years. When she returned, she got right back into teaching with a move to the upper elementary grades.
For her Curriculum, Teaching and Learning master's cognate project, Tara began by wondering how to best help move English language learners beyond an intermediate CELDT level (California English Language Development Test). While in this program she closely examined her classroom practices, curriculum, and methodologies and found many ways to be a more effective teacher for her English Language Development (ELD) students.
She continues to closely examine the practices and lessons within her regular day, specifically within a Project Based Learning Unit, to see what types of language learning components are included in her content lessons, and to determine whether her ELD students are getting the explicit direct instruction in English that they need without being pulled out of class.
Tara has taught at many grade levels and currently teaches sixth grade within the Santa Rosa City School District.
Darin DuVander
Area of Emphasis: Educational Technology
Darin is a strong advocate for the "Maker" and "Tinkering" culture. This mindset applied to teaching and learning invites creativity, experimentation and accidental discovery into the learning process. Tinkering, when folded into the curriculum, has the potential to form a bridge between school subjects and their applications.
For his CTL master's cognate project, Darin created a large interactive kinetic sculpture that was showcased in the Commence: Sculpture Projects 2013 at Sonoma State. The mechanical workings of his sculpture were kept visible and explorable, so that through hands-on investigation a person could experience the physics involved in making the mechanical parts move. Darin video documented throughout the construction process to demonstrate the "Maker" and "Tinkering" culture in action and its viability as a learning/teaching method.
Darin is currently a stay-at-home dad and someday hopes to bring tinkering-maker mentality into local schools or his own classroom. http://darin-duvander.blogspot.com/
Lisa Brown
Area of Emphasis: Educational Technology
Lisa is a teacher at Alexander Valley School in Healdsburg, where she teaches 2nd grade. Her interest in educational technology was sparked in a Media and Information Literacy class, EDCT 559. She became interested in integrating Digital Citizenship into her classroom and felt it was lacking in her school's curriculum.
Her cognate project took the form of a parent information night on digital citizenship for elementary age students. Digital citizenship is teaching students how to use technology appropriately, ethically and effectively at school and at home.
Lisa shared with parents what she's been doing with her 2nd grade students and shared a variety of online resources to help them join the conversation about how to best prepare our students to be digital citizens. http://lbrownedtech.wordpress.com/
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For her thesis, Kristen sought to understand students' processes when creating a pathogen Public Service Announcement using iMovie, and to examine the benefits and challenges for students when integrating media production into an 8th grade science class.
Based on the study findings she argued that video production, in addition to teaching students how to use and understand the new media they are immersed in during their everyday lives, enhanced their understanding of science concepts and developed real-world science skills and practices. https://sites.google.com/a/scds.org/kristen-sorensen/
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Christina has been teaching for 22 years in the Sonoma Valley, where she currently teaches 5th grade. She has taught everything from kindergarten to high school algebra in her career.
Her love for gardening and being outside lead her to participate in a Jr. Master Gardener Program at her current school. Watching the students' engagement in the outdoors with this curriculum motivated her to incorporate it into everyday classroom experiences.
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Three lessons were developed and implemented and in-depth observations and reflections were collected from students and classroom teachers. The data consisted of fourteen participating classrooms, including over 337 students, spanning the K-5 grades. The findings show that if a teacher focuses on the 'Aesthetic Learning Experiences' and incorporates them into their daily lessons, students will not only be engaged and motivated, but the information will be retained by the students and stored long term in their episodic memory.


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Tropical Storm Andrea dumps rain on state; business as usual in SW Florida
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday, but it seemed to be business as usual in most of Lee and Collier counties.
Tropical Storm Andrea was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane but forecasters warned it could cause isolated flooding and storm surge before it loses steam over the next two days. In Southwest Florida, city officials closed the Naples Pier due to heavy rain and high winds Thursday, and there was at least one unsubstantiated report of a tornado in eastern Collier.
The storm made landfall around 5:40 p.m. in Dixie County — about halfway between Tampa and Tallahassee. It is expected to move northeast through Georgia and into the Carolinas, according to the National Hurricane Center.
By and large, Thursday was just another rainy day in Southwest Florida, said Gerald Campbell, chief of planning for Lee County Emergency Management.
"It's not the one they put on the brochure," he said, "but it's not a particularly dangerous day as far as weather is concerned."
Lingering downpours can be expected in Southwest Florida through Saturday, NBC-2 Meteorologist Jim Reif said.
"It may be Sunday before the sunniest and the driest weather return to Lee and Collier counties," he said.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said one of the biggest risks associated with the storm for Florida was the chance of tornadoes, eight of which had been confirmed Thursday across the state. Scott urged residents to remain vigilant.
"This one fortunately is a fast-moving storm," he said. Slower-moving storms can pose a greater flood risk because they have more time to linger and dump rain.
Lee and Collier were under a tornado watch until 10 p.m. Thursday, but there were no substantiated reports of any touching down in either county, according to the National Weather Service. One person reported a possible tornado at Desoto Boulevard and Oil Well Road, the Collier County Sheriff's Office reported, but there was no property damage or injuries as a result, just a couple of snapped trees.
Emergency officials could not determine if it was a tornado or just a gust of wind, according to Big Corkscrew Island Fire Control and Rescue District.
Dan Summers, director of Collier County's Bureau of Emergency Services, said the tornado sighting corresponded with a short-lived period of wind and rain activity he experienced at the emergency services center in East Naples around 3:45 p.m. The wind blew in at around 40 mph during that burst, he said.
Collier County did not have any storm-related damage, he said.
"We have been very fortunate," Summers said.
City officials temporarily closed the Naples Pier just before 3 p.m. as rain and high winds picked up. Roger Jacobsen, head of Naples' code enforcement, drove around the city to survey possible wind or rain damage, but had not encountered any flooding as of by mid-afternoon.
"We're not doing too bad right now," he said.
Andrea had no significant impact at Southwest Florida International Airport, spokeswoman Victoria Moreland said.
Florida Power and Light activated its Storm Command Center due to Andrea's arrival, and responded to several power outages. The company reported about 4,500 of its more than 400,000 customers in Collier and Lee counties lost power during the storm. As of late Thursday, only about 300 were still without power.
The Lee County School District cancelled district-wide activities that began on or after 4 p.m. Thursday, including adult education, professional development and testing programs due to the weather.
On Fort Myers Beach, the Red Coconut RV Resort did not evacuate anyone due to the storm, front counter clerk Chris Dawson said.
"We don't actually tell people not to come down unless it's a hurricane warning," he said.
Fort Myers Beach Town Manager Terry Stewart said he was not worried about beach erosion related to the storm.
"This is our first major rain after months of it being a little drier," he said. "This is nothing different than the norm for this time of year."
Meanwhile, south Georgia residents were bracing for high winds and heavy rains that could lead to flooding.
On Cumberland Island off the Georgia cost, the National Park Service was evacuating campers as the storm approached.
"My main concern is the winds," said chief park ranger Bridget Bohnet. "We're subject to trees falling and limbs breaking, and I don't want anybody getting hurt."
Forecasters were predicting the storm would pass through Georgia overnight, and the island would likely re-open to tourists Friday. In the Carolinas, Andrea's biggest threat was heavy rain, with as much as 6 inches expected, the National Weather Service said.
In Cuba, heavy rains associated with the storm system have soaked the western part of the island for the past several days, overflowing rivers and damaging crops. At least 30 towns were cut off by flooding, and more than 2,600 people sought refuge from the rising waters at relatives' homes or state-run shelters, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported Thursday.
Staff Writer Kristine Gill and the Associated Press contributed to this report
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Goldberg Preps RetailNOW Attendees For SaaS Model, Implores Them To Act
One of the top speakers at RetailNOW every year is attorney Bob Goldberg, who specializes in legal representation of reseller companies. Goldberg's 2013 presentation included his regular dose of insight, advice, wit, and candy thrown to participants, but the big bonus this year was his list of actionable items that will aid retail IT resellers in their transition to the "as a Service" business model.
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Greg Dixon, ScanSource's CTO and Technology Evangelist, began his "Mobility Agility" presentation at RetailNOW Monday promising attendees they'll leave with 60 pounds of actionable information. He certainly delivered.
Emotional Awards Banquet Caps RetailNOW Day 2
Repeat winners — and a few surprise victors — earned attention at Tuesday night's RSPA (Retail Solutions Providers Association) Awards of Excellence ceremony at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The evening concluded with an emotional passing of the gavel to the first female chairperson in the 65-year history of the RSPA.
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TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) - C.B. Rathburn the Third has resigned as president and CEO of Texas A&M University-Texarkana after four years on the job.
The Texas A&M University System made the announcement Thursday in a news release, adding that Rathburn will "remain in the Texarkana area and attend to personal matters."
The news release says Keith McFarland, a former president and faculty member of Texas A&M University Commerce, will serve as acting president.
The system says Rathburn, named president of the university in July 2008, has overseen major developments in infrastructure and student population.
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The player was found guilty of match-fixing over the Euro 2008 qualifier between Norway and Malta, a game his country lost 4-0.
"Sammut has been banned from exercising any football-related activity for life by the UEFA appeals body," UEFA said.
A UEFA control and disciplinary body hearing in August handed out the original 10-year ban but the player and the governing body's disciplinary inspector requested an appeal and that was where the life ban was imposed.
FIFA, world football's ruling body, has been asked to make it a worldwide suspension.
Players union FIFPro had previously expressed concern the case against Sammut, 31, was based largely on the evidence of a member of a criminal gambling syndicate and questioned whether UEFA was capable of handling such an issue.
Sammut has 10 days to lodge an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
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Yatra.com, the India-based online travel-booking company, is considering a listing in the US — possibly on the Nasdaq — sometime next year.
"The US market has good appetite right now for high growth stocks. Most of our online peers from Latin America and China have also listed in the US," cofounder and Chief Executive Dhruv Shringi told ET in a recent interview. "A Nasdaq listing gives us a much wider coverage and higher volumes."
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Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is a deft politician. So when he announced that he would lead the latest campaign to legalize marijuana in California, the movement gained an instant level of legitimacy.
Newsom calls the war on drugs an abject failure and believes most politicians share his view, though they "say one thing publicly and another thing privately."
"If it was good politics, you'd have a lot more politicians out front," Newsom told me last week. "I can't defend the status quo. I feel an obligation to make a better argument."
Marijuana has been all but legal in California since 1996, when voters approved it for medical use. That has turned into a mess, with some growers denuding hillsides and using chemicals on what they claim is medicine, while bottom-feeding physicians blithely sell scripts, mostly to young men who claim one ailment or another.
Newsom believes California can do better by legalizing the weed and licensing, regulating and taxing growers, distributors and retailers. Details to come.
His immediate allies include the American Civil Liberties Union and academics, with likely funding for any initiative from billionaire legalization advocates George Soros and Peter Lewis, the chairman of Progressive Auto Insurance.
In the initial announcement, the ACLU said Newsom would lead a "blue ribbon panel" of experts who would spend 18 to 24 months studying how Colorado and Washington implement marijuana legalization and learn from those states' experiences.
The Oct. 17 press release promised policy "white papers," "round-table discussions" and "town hall events," presumably leading to a 2016 ballot measure. That still may happen. But Newsom told me the measure could be on the ballot in November 2014.
The reason has little to do with policy and much to do with politics. New polls including one by Gallup last week showing attitudes are shifting fast in favor of legalization. In September, a Public Policy Institute of California poll said 60 percent of likely voters back legalization, though Latinos oppose it by a wide margin, as do Republicans.
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Our wine continues to age as separate components in the french-oak barrels that we chose in Bordeaux. All of our wine components finished their malolactic conversion last winter (in late 2010). Since that time our wine has been racked three to four times in 2011 (some barrels are getting their forth racking right now) and will get one more racking prior to the final blending, fining and bottling process.
One of the better vintages of the last 20 years.
As producers of a 2010 Bordeaux, we have operated in what is considered one of the better vintages of the last 20 years. Here is a good article from Will Lyons of the Wall Street Journal on overall impressions (including Parker's) of the 2010. In addition, follow this link for broad coverage by Decanter Magazine on the 2010 Bordeaux campaign, where you'll read much about market reaction to inflated Bordeaux pricing in the face of a second 'vintage of the century' in a row. Since we are positioned as a winemaker, working with Crushpad, Bordeaux, we already know our cost of our wine upfront. So we are immune to that issue with Crushpad, in spite of the fact that many of our parcels touch these rated growths.
As for the overall quality of the wines, we recently performed a tasting with a professional whom we've been told has one of the better palates in Bordeaux. He also has a reputation for 'telling it like it is' without sparing criticism. His conclusion was that all of our 2010 batches easily match 'classified growth' quality. This is not the first time wI've heard it, albeit from less neutral sources. You'll be the ultimate judge. But the bottom line is that Neil Whyte, Eric Boissenot and the Crushpad Manager in Bordeaux, Steven Bolger, continue to be very pleased with each of our blend components.
Since we already blended our wine in our September visit to Bordeaux, we won't be attending the 3rd Annual Client Mashup, to be held on May 5, 2012 to finish our wine. For those of you who have never attended one of these events, the Mashup is an opportunity to finish your wine assemblage with either our winemakers or Eric Boissenot, who is the consultant for four of Bordeaux's five first growths and a myriad of other 1855 classified chateaux. In addition, you get to meet other fellow winemakers, growers and other industry players. Crushpad Bordeaux also organizes an optional tour of the great estates of Pessac-Leognon (and perhaps Sauternes) on May 4. If you did not attend last year's event, here is a video of how it went.
We are Finishing Our Label and Packaging Options
We are almost done, working with the very efficient Rachelle O'Brian with our wine labels They will be ready when they are needed to get labels to the printers in time for a June or July bottling. We kind of underestimated the time it takes to finish our label. Deciding on our brand name, making creative decisions, numerous copy edits… all of this is time-consuming. And with the hundreds of labels that Jenny and Rachelle in Crushpad Sonoma need to produce, they aren't always immediately available.
In addition to our label design, we already advised Crushpad Bordeaux about our packaging options for our wine.
Finally a Recommendation to Bordeaux Wine Lovers
If you are interested in making a 2011 barrel of great quality Bordeaux wine, Crushpad Bordeaux still has available allocations from a number of their vineyards. Crushpad Bordeaux is primarily a word-of-mouth business, so we are very happy to pass the word around to our wine-loving friends. We highly recommend the knowledge, the excellent attention to the clients and the great connections in Bordeaux offered by our friend, Steven Bolger. Please consult Crushpad 2011 Vineyard List by clicking here.
Steven Bolger expects to issue the 2012 Vineyard List shortly, along with what he hopes will be some interesting news. So stay tuned.


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Stephen H. Lekson - "Mimbres: Its Causes and Consequences"
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the AAHS holiday party and auction to support scholarship and research grants. Mimbres is often treated as some sort of backwoods idiot savant: an isolated society with regrettable architecture and astonishing artists. Mimbres was more than that. To begin with, Mimbres was anything but isolated, deeply engaged first with Hohokam, then with Chaco, and finally with Casas Grandes. Mimbres was roughly equidistant from the respective heartlands of those three ancient societies. Mimbres, Hohokam and Chaco were contemporary; Casas came later. Up to 900 CE, there are many more Hohokam "things" in Mimbres (palettes, cremations, cut shell, red-on-brown/buff figurative pottery, etc) than there were Hohokam things at Chaco. Subsequently (and conversely), when Hohokam waned and Chaco waxed, around 1000 CE Mimbres shed its Hohokam interests and took on a Chacoan cast: indented corrugated jars, black on white pottery, stone masonry pueblos with "kivas." And ultimately, after 1150 CE when Mimbres qua Mimbres ended, its history continued in developments culminating in Casas Grandes. Mimbres was a player. Mimbres "art," however, was in a sense isolated – as much as we admire it today: very little Classic Mimbres pottery (and particularly the ideologically charged figurative pottery) went beyond Mimbres territory. Other ancient societies did not covet Mimbres bowls — which tells us something about Mimbres art! These points are illustrated by the University of Colorado's recent research in the Mimbres area.
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Senator Coons leads bipartisan, bicameral letter to President Obama on MLPs, REITs
The sponsors of the Senate and House versions of the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act will hold a press conference on Wednesday morning to discuss a letter they and more than two-dozen of their colleagues are sending to President Obama this week calling for Master Limited Partnerships and Real Estate Investment Trusts to be a priority in the federal government's "all of the above" energy strategy.
Their letter is below:
December 12, 2012
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Over the past four years, the renewable energy sector has seen major reductions in technology costs, including a 75 percent decline in the price of solar panels and about a 25 percent decline in the price of wind turbines. But even as technology costs have dropped, the cost of capital required to deploy those technologies has remained stubbornly high – inflating overall project costs and presenting a major barrier to wider deployment.
Minor changes to the federal tax code could provide the renewable energy industry access to large pools of low-cost private capital. Already, oil, gas, and coal infrastructure projects raise cheap capital by selling shares of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), as do energy transmission projects using Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Wind, solar, and other renewable energy projects cannot use these investment tools and, therefore, suffer from high costs of capital.
Opening MLPs and REITs to renewable energy would level the playing field by giving renewables the same access to low-cost capital enjoyed by oil, gas, coal and transmission infrastructure projects. Small tweaks to the tax code could attract billions of dollars in private sector investment to renewable energy deployment, reduce the cost of renewable electricity by up to one third, and dramatically broaden the base of eligible investors. In fact, bipartisan legislation has already been introduced in both the House and the Senate (H.R. 6437 and S. 3275 respectively) to allow renewable energy projects to raise low-cost capital through the MLP structure. In the case of REITs, a straight forward ruling by the Treasury Department would allow access to this investment vehicle for renewable energy projects.
We strongly support moving America towards energy independence using an "all of the above" energy strategy. Renewable energy can play a critical role in accomplishing that goal. We ask that your administration move to unlock capital markets for broad-scale investment in renewable energy and help move our country towards cleaner, more efficient energy. We stand ready to work with you to accomplish this goal.
Senator Coons (D-DE)
Senator Moran (R-KS)
Representative Poe (R-TX-2)
Representative Thompson (D-CA-1)
Representative Welch (D-VT)
Representative Carney (D-DE)
Representative McCollum (D-MN-4)
Representative Moran (D-VA-8)
Representative Garamendi (D-CA-10)
Representative Schakowsky (D-IL-9)
Representative Clay (D-MO-1)
Senator Begich (D-AK)
Senator Harkin (D-IA)
Representative Kissell (D-NC-8)
Senator Murkowski (R-AK)
Senator Bennet (D-CO)
Senator Tester (D-MT)
Representative Lujan (D-NM-3)
Senator Brown (R-MA)
Representative Grijalva (D-AZ-07)
Representative Capps (D-CA-23)
Representative Connolly (D-VA-11)
Senator Franken (D-MN)
Representative Matsui (D-CA-5)
Senator Shaheen (D-NH)
Representative Watt (D-NC-12)
Representative Carson (D-IN-7)
Representative McIntyre (D-NC-7)
Representative Carnahan (D-MO-3)


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1. Batman Begins (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it.
Writers: Bob Kane, David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan | Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson
Votes: 876,053
2. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more...
Writers: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls | Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf
Votes: 1,212,690
3. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.
Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Raymond Carver | Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 319,094
4. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
Creators: Mark Frost, David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 96,294
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.
Writers: Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson | Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Votes: 205,811
6. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Writers: Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner | Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 328,015
7. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Writers: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch | Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 382,285
8. Spider-Man (2002)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
Writers: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, David Koepp | Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco
Votes: 499,869
9. Orphan (2009)
R | 123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be.
Writers: David Johnson, Alex Mace | Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder
Votes: 126,064
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson | Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,102,887
11. TRON: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Writers: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal, Steven Lisberger, Bonnie MacBird | Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 250,184
12. The Machinist (2004)
R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
Writer: Scott Kosar | Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
Votes: 260,963
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
PG-13 | 179 min | Adventure, Fantasy
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson | Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 994,289
14. Batman Forever (1995)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Batman must battle Two-Face and The Riddler with help of an amourous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
Writers: Bob Kane, Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Akiva Goldsman | Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman
Votes: 177,730
15. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Writers: Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn | Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
Votes: 349,141
16. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius.
Writers: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon, Alvin Sargent | Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco
Votes: 369,019
17. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
Writers: Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, James Robinson | Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 133,724
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
R | 87 min | Horror
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world.
Writers: David Chaskin, Wes Craven | Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler
Votes: 39,706
19. Red Dragon (2002)
R | 124 min | Crime, Thriller
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer; aiding him is imprisoned criminal genius Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally | Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 193,537
20. The Uninvited (2009)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Anna Rydell returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home.
Writers: Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, Jee-woon Kim | Directors: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard | Stars: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn
Votes: 56,810
21. Identity (2003)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller
Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
Writer: Michael Cooney | Director: James Mangold | Stars: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes
Votes: 165,847
22. Hide and Seek (2005)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend.
Writer: Ari Schlossberg | Director: John Polson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue
Votes: 67,051
23. Dreamcatcher (2003)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.
Writers: Stephen King, William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan | Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis
Votes: 72,071
24. Southland Tales (2006)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
During a three day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Writer: Richard Kelly | Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua
Votes: 31,765
25. Mr. Brooks (2007)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Writers: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon | Director: Bruce A. Evans | Stars: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, William Hurt, Dane Cook
Votes: 117,567
26. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
R | 100 min | Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Writers: Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater | Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane
Votes: 84,897
27. Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.
Writers: Peter Farrelly, Mike Cerrone, Bobby Farrelly | Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee
Votes: 175,507
28. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
R | 135 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.
Writers: David Lynch, Robert Engels, Mark Frost | Director: David Lynch | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 50,683
29. Secret Window (2004)
PG-13 | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice."
Writers: Stephen King, David Koepp | Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 137,613
30. The Ward (2010)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Writers: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen | Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh
Votes: 32,029
31. Youth in Revolt (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.
Writers: Gustin Nash, C.D. Payne | Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart
Votes: 61,775
32. Man on the Moon (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and career of a legendary comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski | Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry
Votes: 96,546
33. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family.
Writer: Amanda Silver | Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson
Votes: 27,755
34. Psycho (1998)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young female embezzeler arrives at the Bates Motel which has terrible secrets of its own.
Writers: Robert Bloch, Joseph Stefano | Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen
Votes: 36,659
35. Dressed to Kill (1980)
X | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
Writer: Brian De Palma | Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Votes: 21,958
36. The Pledge (I) (2001)
R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Writers: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski | Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels
Votes: 40,687
37. The Nutty Professor (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Grossly overweight Prof. Sherman Klump, desperate to lose weight takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
Writers: Jerry Lewis, Bill Richmond, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac, Steve Oedekerk | Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller
Votes: 80,435
38. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.
Writer: Jee-woon Kim | Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim, Geun-young Moon
Votes: 40,158
39. Erufen rîto (2004– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
University students Kohta and Yuka (Kohta's cousin) save a Diclonius girl called "Lucy" when they see her naked in a beach. In fact "Lucy" is a serial killer who is being searched by the ... See full summary »
Creator: Lynn Okamoto | Stars: Sanae Kobayashi, Chihiro Suzuki, Mamiko Noto, Adam Conlon
Votes: 18,455
40. Serial Mom (1994)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family.
Writer: John Waters | Director: John Waters | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 20,067
41. Multiplicity (1996)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do is offered the opportunity to have himself duplicated.
Writers: Chris Miller, Mary Hale, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel | Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Zack Duhame, Katie Schlossberg
Votes: 23,612
42. Good News (1947)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20's, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat ... See full summary »
Writers: Lew Brown, Laurence Schwab, Frank Mandel, Buddy G. DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Betty Comden, Adolph Green | Director: Charles Walters | Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken
Votes: 1,886
43. Black Christmas (1974)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Writer: Roy Moore | Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Votes: 20,209
44. In Dreams (1999)
R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
The housewife Claire Cooper is married with the pilot Paul Cooper and their little daughter Rebecca is their pride and joy. When a stranger kidnaps a girl, Claire dreams about the man but ... See full summary »
Writers: Bari Wood, Bruce Robinson, Neil Jordan | Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Sagona, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 10,777
45. Paprika (2006)
R | 90 min | Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Writers: Yasutaka Tsutsui, Seishi Minakami, Satoshi Kon | Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya
Votes: 38,956
46. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Professor Sherman Klump is getting married. And the Klump family could not be more delighted for him. But Buddy Love, his Mr. Hyde alter-ego from the first film, is back and trying to make ... See full summary »
Writers: Jerry Lewis, Steve Oedekerk, Barry W. Blaustein, David Sheffield, Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz | Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales
Votes: 37,336
47. Repentance (I) (2013)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A successful author and spiritual advisor takes on a troubled man as a client, completely unaware that the man's fixation on his mother's death will soon put his life in jeopardy.
Writers: Shintaro Shimosawa, Philippe Caland | Director: Philippe Caland | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Forest Whitaker, Sanaa Lathan, Mike Epps
Votes: 1,612
48. Youth Without Youth (2007)
R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in pre-World War II Europe, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
Writers: Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola | Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke
Votes: 11,022
49. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Writers: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath, Robert Louis Stevenson | Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 8,649
50. Sybil (1976 TV Mini-Series)
198 min | Biography, Drama
A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, Brad Davis, Martine Bartlett
Votes: 4,899


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The Roomies
An under-employed and over-indulgent misfit aims to turn his life around through sobriety and religion while moving into the least supportive environment for either: an apartment with his old high school friends and indie band The Entropy All-Stars.
Matt Rua (Quinn Allan, Tandem Hearts) knows he's no good. He knows that. How to change that is another matter.
Sobriety, chastity and Christianity seemed like a good start. Moving in with his old high school friends Chase (Geno Romo, Rid of Me) and Leland (Benjamin Farmer, The Falls) of belligerent indie band The Entropy All-Stars? Probably less so.
As temptations fill the apartment and old resentments boil to the surface, Matt struggles with his new ideals and new roommates while growing closer to Chase's girlfriend, Irene (Katie Mentesana). Yet he may already have doomed more than just his redemption by unintentionally spurning the advances of a seductive stranger (Carly Carcione) on his last night of debauchery.
Featuring a cast loaded with up-and-coming Portland talent and set to an eclectic indie soundtrack, The Roomies is a bitterly comic drama about faith, friendship, love, hope and all that falling apart.
The Roomies Official Site and production blog.
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January 3, 2013
Heller Named to Senate Banking and Veterans' Affairs Committees
"Nevada has been at the top of the list when it comes to foreclosures. It is critical that Congress works effectively to help provide relief for those that have fallen victim to abusive lending practices. Serving on the Banking Committee will allow me to more effectively advocate for people in the Silver State struggling to pay their mortgages. Having previously served on the House Committee on Financial Services, I have dealt with these issues and will continue to advocate for homeowners in Nevada," said Senator Dean Heller.
"Nevada is home to one of the fastest-growing populations of veterans in the United States. Providing the most comprehensive treatment is one of our nation's most important responsibilities when it comes to the men and women who served in our Armed Forces. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve on the Veterans' Affairs Committee to continue fighting for the nearly 230,000 heroes that call the Silver State home," Heller said.
Heller will continue to serve as Nevada's representative to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee; the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; and the Special Committee on Aging.
"My top priorities in the U.S. Senate continue to be economic growth and job creation. It's important that we address rising energy prices, ensure that our transportation needs are met, encourage a regulatory climate that does not impede interstate commerce and fulfill the promises our nation has made to our aging population. I'm honored to continue to serve on these committees as an advocate for people all across the Great State of Nevada on some of the most important issues facing our communities," added Heller.


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Your chances at a job can be decided by more than your resume. Studies have shown a number of factors can play a part in whether you land the position.
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Don't be skinny: Your body weight might not impact whether you can do a job, but it can determine whether you get one. A study found people who appear emaciated or are too skinny are often discriminated against in the interview process.
Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology