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Jim Mattis has signed on with Dartmouth and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Former Central Command commander Jim "Chaos" Mattis will not, so far as we can see, be cashing in right away. Instead, we can report this morning, he is headed to Dartmouth, where he will be a Distinguished Visitor at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, starting in late September or early October. Dan Benjamin, the former counter-terrorism official, got to know Mattis while he was at Central Command and then asked him to Dartmouth.
Definitely some lectures I do not want to miss. Serving under General Mattis in Al Anbar in 2004 when he commanded the storied 1st Marine Division is one of the highlights of my career. His ADC? John Kelly. His Chief of Staff was Joe Dunford. A hell of a team, one the bad guys couldn't beat.


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Can You Hear Them? FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein Wants To Hear More Voices On The Radio (12/03/07)
By Editor-In-Chief Joe Howard
His positions on the hot-button questions may rankle some in the radio industry, but that hasn't stopped FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein from taking a firm stance on controversial issues such as media consolidation, minority ownership, low-power FM radio, and localism. He believes that ownership consolidation in radio has diminished the number of independent voices in the industry, and he has supported a variety of ideas — including dropping the third-adjacent channel protections that LPFM stations must provide to full-power broadcasters, and imposing specific public-interest obligations on digital radio stations — as possible solutions.
On the latter, Adelstein's has endorsed encouraging — but not requiring — digital radio broadcasters to lease their side channels to minority groups, a move he believes could open the airwaves to voices not currently being heard. While his effort to have such language added to the digital radio rules was unsuccessful, Adelstein believes the notion still has merit. "We have sudden new opportunities for new broadcast streams," he says. "But does that alone bring diversity if the same owners control them, and there's no willingness to work with new voices — minorities and women and others — who can't get their unique voices heard on the airwaves? There should be ways to encourage that."
Adelstein also backs a congressional effort currently under way to undo the third-adjacent channel protections for LPFM, and notes that an FCC-commissioned study conducted by the Mitre Corporation determined that sufficient proof does not exist to support such protection. "That study showed there aren't interference problems, and I don't think the evidence to the contrary has been at all convincing," he says. "If there are interference problems, we shouldn't place LPFM stations and we should do thorough evaluation before any of these stations are licensed. But, in general, I don't think this limitation is necessary to prevent harmful interference. That's what our engineers believe, and that's what the study showed." Adelstein adds, "If people want to present more objective studies, I'm certainly open to seeing them, but so far we haven't seen the Mitre Corporation study convincingly contradicted."
Adelstein is also hopeful that the agency's ongoing proceeding on localism will lead to meaningful reforms. "It's time to implement solutions and figure out what the FCC can do within its authority to require more accountability, more localism, and more responsiveness to the concerns of the local communities to which these radio stations are licensed."
RADIOINK: Now that the FCC has completed six open hearings to gather public input, what are your goals for the localism proceeding?
We need to take what we learned on the road and actually implement improvements in the way the media responds to the concerns of local broadcasters. We've heard across the country concerns about a lack of localism, and the homogeneous quality of radio. As people travel across the country, they hear the same thing on the radio. People are frustrated with the loss of the ability of local artists to get heard on the air, the loss of local news, investigative reporting by radio stations. What are we going to do about it? We have this exhaustive record of people complaining all across the country, but it's not enough to report that there is a problem. Now it's time to try and implement solutions and figure out what the FCC can do within its authority to require more accountability, require more localism, and require more responsiveness to the concerns of the local communities to which these radio stations are licensed.
RI: Does that mean stricter or more precise public interest obligations?
Public interest obligations are a big part of it. We have an open proceeding right now on public interest obligations for digital broadcasters, and I think there could be some need for a localism requirement. Broadcasters are getting two or three channels where before they had one, and yet they do no local content on the new channels. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
RI: HD Radio is still a very nascent technology. Are additional regulations necessary, or do broadcasters just need more time to figure out how best to utilize those channels?
It will take time. HD Radio doesn't yet have the revenue stream to support a lot of local programming. But we have to think about how it will in the long run, and how the main station might have additional responsibilities given the new opportunities of HD Radio — and just in general — to assure more responsiveness. We are hearing concerns all across the country, and these aren't isolated issues; they're consistent, they're loud, and they're reflected in some of the problems that the industry is having more broadly. People aren't leaving radio just because they have other options; they're leaving radio because it isn't exciting them as much as it used to. There are more new competitive options, but the complaints we hear, and even when I talk to friends about it, is that somehow the life or vitality of much of radio has seemed to drain out and become more corporatized, more homogenized, and less linked to the local communities.
RI: Specifically, what are the complaints?
They are tired of the repetition, tired of the lack of local flavor, and they're looking for more dynamic programming. Really, there's not a lot that the government can do about those subtleties – those are issues radio has to come to grips with itself – but one thing we need to study is the effect of consolidation on the vitality of radio. People out in the countryside are telling us that they see a link between consolidation and the loss of radio's vitality, and they give examples. We often get former industry veterans talking about the way it used to be, and the way it is now. They're the ones who show up when the FCC comes to town; they get out of their houses and get down to the hearing, wherever it might be, to share their stories. And they are very depressing stories; there are a lot of ex-employees because so many radio jobs have been lost. We also go out and see young people who want to get into this field, who are in schools of communications or working at their local college radio station, and wonder if there is a future for them in this field. There aren't as many jobs as there used to be; one of the effects of consolidation is that they've squeezed out those jobs. In some ways it may be a good thing because it helps the bottom line and helps radio survive, but on the other hand it certainly seems to take out some of the freshness and new ideas that might come from new blood. As things get computerized and syndicated and national, there's less need for people on the ground who are part of the community, who have that link to the community that was so important in the history of radio.
RI: The commission is reviewing its local radio ownership limits. Would tightening or changing those limits address these concerns?
It's something that a lot of people have called for at these hearings, but it's not something that I think is on the table here. It's not even something that is being considered.
RI: Tightening the limits isn't even on the table?
I haven't heard any discussion about doing that from the chairman's office or the bureau.
RI: Would you support it?
I don't know. We have to look at this in a comprehensive way. I want to see what other changes are being made and look at the overall picture.
RI: The Arbitron-based radio market definition rules that have been in place for several years were intended to curtail market consolidation. How do you feel about their effectiveness?
It seemed like a rational way to look at things. Some places allow more consolidation and some places less. But I always get a little concerned when we use a private-sector definition that can change, and we still haven't established the rules for the non-Arbitron markets, which is a real problem. We need to let people know what's going on.
RI: Where is that?
I'm hopeful that is something we can address as part of the media ownership review. It's something that certainly deserves, after a long hiatus, to be addressed so everybody knows what the rules of the vote are and they can proceed accordingly.
RI: The level of minority ownership in radio is an issue that you've spoken about improving. When the FCC adopted its digital radio rules, you lamented that the FCC didn't including language encouraging broadcasters to lease time on digital side channels to minority groups. Is it the FCC's place to make business suggestions like that to licensees?
The Communications Act calls for service of the public interest, which we've traditionally defined as diversity. Here, we have sudden new opportunities for new broadcast streams. But does that alone bring diversity if the same owners control them, and there's no willingness to work with new voices — minorities and women and others who can't get their unique voices heard on the airwaves? There should be ways to encourage that. Ownership of radio stations among women and minorities is abysmally low; we've done virtually nothing to try to turn that situation around. Consolidation has raised the value of these outlets, and made it more difficult for new entrants to get a foothold, particularly with the difficulty getting access to capital. It's also difficult sometimes for the owner of a smaller single station — which minorities and women tend to be — to compete with a consolidated entity that has a large market share of the advertising. That's a serious structural problem that we need to deal with.
When the FCC hosted a public hearing on ownership in Chicago, WBLN was a great example of how important it is for minorities to own stations. That African American-owned station is serving the African American community in ways that nobody else can. Their station has a deal with Clear Channel, which has been very beneficial. They use a stronger signal from a Clear Channel facility, I think on 1690 AM, that reaches more people and has a stronger penetration than would otherwise be possible with WBLN's original license. It can also broadcast during more hours. That kind of arrangement is something we want to encourage and commend, because it's a wonderful arrangement. There's a buyout option at the end of the lease, but can that minority-owned station ultimately control its own fate by being able to buy that better facility? That would be a wonderful thing. This is a rare example, but one that we should emulate.
RI: Is this lack of minority ownership more of a business reality or regulatory problem?
It's both. I think a lot of it is a business problem. You're talking about an expensive business to be in, one that has limited opportunities because of the lack of stations that are available, but it is also a government problem because the government creates the licenses; there's only so much space on the dial, and we can't squeeze more in, so the prices have been going up, up, up. People talk about problems of the radio industry, but the stations aren't getting any cheaper, they're getting more expensive. Nobody's coming back here and asking to turn their licenses back in, saying "Oh, this was just too tough for us." So what can we do to ensure that some of those get sprinkled to people who look like the communities they're serving? Chicago is 2/3 people of color, and they own about 5 percent of the radio stations. There is something seriously out of whack.
RI: Can low-power FM stations help to address this need?
Low-power FM stations can fill in the gap and it's a very important addition, but it can't make up for the loss of ownership of full-power stations. There are real limitations because of congressionally imposed limits on our ability to license new low-power FM stations.
RI: You've been supportive of dropping the third adjacent channel projections that LPFM stations must afford full-power stations. Broadcasters are concerned that if those protections were dropped and more LPFMs begin broadcasting, it will lead to increased interference with full-power stations.
We certainly want to avoid interference concerns. That's why the FCC hired the Mitre Corporation to conduct a study on this issue. That study showed that there aren't interference problems, and I don't think the evidence to the contrary has been at all convincing. If there are interference problems, we shouldn't place LPFM stations and we should do thorough evaluation before any of these stations are licensed. But in general I don't think this limitation is necessary to prevent harmful interference. That's what our engineers believe, and that's what the study showed. If people want to present more objective studies, I'm certainly open to seeing them, but so far we haven't seen the Mitre Corporation study convincingly contradicted.
RI: There is talk in the industry that HD side channel power limits should be increased. Is any consideration being given to amending the power limits on HD radio side channels?
Of course we want to find out how much we can do without causing interference to the existing station or to adjacent stations. I think we will try to find ways to maximize the power levels without running up against creating harmful interference.
RI: This year the FCC reached a $12.5 million settlement with several broadcasters over allegations of payola. You've been very outspoken about this issue. Were you satisfied with the settlement and the reforms that the broadcasters adopted?
I think it was a good and a fair settlement. Somebody complained at the last local hearing that Elliot Spitzer got $36 million and we only got $12 million, but if you look at the context of our finding authority, that was the second largest fine in the history of American broadcasting, so it was pretty big by FCC standards. It sent a pretty strong message, and every executive I talk to is very serious about stamping it out and making sure it doesn't happen in their networks. To the degree there is payola, it does place merit with money and it hurts the long-term viability of the radio industry. It might be a short-term boost for some people or some companies, but it doesn't help when you are programming based on that rather than what the audience really wants to hear. Sometimes, of course, stations say we're gonna play this anyway, we might as well get paid for it, but that's just not the way the law is set up. I'm very pleased that we all worked together on a bipartisan basis to say that we're going to enforce the law strictly. We do have people's attention, and the problem has hopefully been addressed. I think basically it was a pretty good deal, and it was a good deal for consumers.
RI: Are there any more investigations pending?
We're still looking at some of the smaller station groups and some of the other complaints that are pending and trying to see if we can't reach agreements with the remaining stations against which there are allegations. There are some other investigations going on; anything that comes our way, we're exploring. We occasionally get calls from people who explain it's gone deeper underground, and that there are still things going on that are inappropriate, but I don't think we're going to be seeing e-mail exchanges again like we did. But if that's our only accomplishment, that's not enough. We hopefully are really pushing this to the fringes and making it something that is not a regular practice. Hopefully station management is doing the same thing. The big ones now have procedures in place to ensure that they catch problems. But there are always going to be people committing crimes; you can outlaw theft, but that doesn't mean people aren't going to steal. Stations can put policies in place, but that doesn't mean some employees won't violate those policies. But there are now much better procedures in place to monitor it, and a higher level of corporate awareness because of our strong enforcement actions.
RI: Indecency was a hot topic a few years ago, but has since quieted. Is the FCC receiving as many complaints, or do you feel that the radio industry has cleaned up its game?
We're getting fewer complaints. When I got here there was very little enforcement. We stepped up enforcement, and we got people's attention. Now the danger is we might go too far, overstep our authority, and actually get reversed by the courts. So we have to be very careful about how we do it. I was at a recent hearing where there were some incredible lyrics from Urban radio that seemed to be pretty shocking. We need to look at that and ensure that the standards are being held in all the different formats.
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The birth certificate has been released. So again, we ask, is President Obama a natural-born U.S. citizen?
Again, we ask, is President Obama a natural-born U.S. citizen?
A certificate of live birth is Not a Birth Certificate. That hospital was not called that in 1961. Anyone can obtain a certificate of live birth at any later date, upon the testimony of the father and mother. My aunt was born in 1916, and she received her certificate of live birth in 1941. She was born at home.
Obama's birth is important. If proven that Obama is not a natural citizen, all his acts as President is nullified: Qualifications for the Office of President Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
The team of investigative experts includes, retired federal marshals, cia agents. Also seasoned professional forensic & graphic investigators, These men are to Obamas birth certificate, what a cardioligist is to a heart patient. They are all career professionals at the top of their game.They are not at his for fun & games, nor for their health.
Obama, .. always the least experienced erson in any room he enters.
Obama.. a post turtle.
No one EVER gives evidence that it is not a fake, they just attack the people who have proven it to be a fake.
Many people announced the birth of a foreigner in Hawaiian news papers during that peroid even years after they were born in another country ,
These contributors have to be the most insecure and cynical people on the face of the earth! It was pretty cagey of Obama's mom to post in the newspaper that her son was born there in Hawaii in August 1961 --- in the August 1961 edition, yet. She sure had some insight, or maybe foresight!! Next she will be described as an african medicine woman able to forcast the future so that is why she jetted from Kenya,ran down to the Hospital and somehow suborned a bunch of Hawaiin medical professionals to fake a birth certificate so that he newborn son could become President!!! I wish I had her foresight available when I invest in the stock market!!
I was taught through the bible that the antichrist would be of middle eastern descent, is that what we have here
In your poll you missed an answer. NO. His father was a NOT a US Citizen. So he is NOT NATURAL BORN. His father was a British Citizen. Therefore Obama can not become POTUS as its states in the constitution that BOTH Parents must be of US Citizenship!
Am really surprised at the voting results here. Seems people never do some in=depth browsing at all. It's not this Mr Arpaio who thought it out. True scientists on the internet pointed out huge forensical problems with that certificate. Do Americans actually think that their own laws should be scrapped willy nilly? I'm quite shocked at this. The moral compasses have been buried somewhere
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GREEN BAY – Mike McCarthy appreciates Jim Schwartz's concern about how the Green Bay Packers used their allotted minicamp practices, but the Packers coach feels pretty good about his decision to cancel a day of practice last month to take his players skeet shooting as a team-bonding exercise.
That move drew a not-so-thinly veiled shot from Schwartz, who had his Detroit Lions practice all three days.
"We had no sporting clays today or no amusement parks or water parks. Work day of minicamp," Schwartz said following the Lions' final practice of minicamp last month. "We take a lot of pride in the fact that we play for a blue-collar town and we try to reflect that kind of work ethic, and we have very few opportunities to practice this off-season. ... Every one was crucial and couldn't afford to waste any."
McCarthy was clearly aware of Schwartz's comment when he was asked about the Packers' budding rivalry with the upstart Lions on Thursday during an appearance on Green & Gold Today.
"Their approach is really tailored to the way they go about their business, starting with their head coach," McCarthy said. "I don't know what the problem with skeet shooting is; I thought that was probably one of the best events we've ever had here."
McCarthy went on to explain how the event worked logistically – with police officers at every one of the 19 shooting stations to handle all the weapons – and suggested that the interaction between law enforcement and the players had an added benefit.
"Just the interaction with the policemen and the players was excellent. You were literally handed a gun, pulled the trigger and handed it back to the police officer. That part of it was in place for the safety," McCarthy said. "But it was really a neat day. We've tried some differnet things, and by far it was our best group dynamic/team building event that we had. I actually got a chuckle out of hearing someone else worried about us taking our team skeet shooting.
"But to answer your question, I don't really get caught up in that stuff. I don't really worry about what other people do. I don't pay much attention to their clips. Like every team, you have media clips put on your desk every day, and I don't really pay (attention to) mine. I worry about who's playing for them and how they're playing and what we need to do to beat them."
Then, after a pause, McCarthy added, "We have a lot of confidence in the way we run our program, and we're always trying to make it better. And I think skeet shooting is going to be the difference in us getting back to the Super Bowl. So there."
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New "Andromeda" Strains Credulity
I had high hopes for the new Andromeda Strain miniseries, which airs tonight and tomorrow night on A&E. After all, the trailers looked pretty jazzy, and it was produced by both Ridley and Tony Scott — so there was double Scott power. And there were some great alien-virus-attack moments, along with some nice bits of… »


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"THE EMPTY CHILD" – Series 1, Episode 9, Story 165a – Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by James Hawes – Improperly Behaving Companion Theater continues as the Ninth Doctor and Rose chase a metallic cylinder through a time vortex and end up in World War II England, where soon-to-be Companion Captain Jack Harkness takes his first bow. Jack is a former Time Agent and current horndog and con man, and he's trying to sell Rose a Chula ambulance that he knows will be hit by a German bomb. This means Jack is Adam, except really competent. Also, he's maybe probably trying to get in her pants. The Doctor starts following around homeless kids who sneak into houses during the German air raids, and the kids get all freaked out by a little kid with a gas mask who asks everyone, "Are you my mummy?" You can't touch him because then you become just like him. You are more than welcome to touch Jack, though. They're like opposites. Because This Story Is All About The Dos and Do Nots of Touching.
The eyes are not here / There are no eyes here / In this valley of dying stars / In this hollow valley / This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms / In this last of meeting places / We grope together / And avoid speech / Gathered on this beach of the tumid river / Sightless, unless / The eyes reappear / As the perpetual star / Multifoliate rose / Of death's twilight kingdom / The hope only / Of empty men.
— T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
THE EMPTY CHILD is a fantastic episode. At varying turns, it's creepy, flirty, fun, scary, mysterious, grand, and intimate. EMPTY is the first part of a two-part story (THE DOCTOR DANCES finishes the story because someone in production decided calling part one, Part One, and part two, Part Two, was a silly idea) and Steven Moffat has turned in a powerhouse script that plays to the strengths of every actor in the episode, and James Hawes deftly directs the story through the mystery of the Empty Child, the con of Jack Harkness, and the food-stealing homeless kids of London and their ringleader, Nancy, a girl with more going on than she's letting on.
The story opens with the Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS, chasing down a metal cylinder through a time vortex that's been coded with a "mauve alert," which is the galaxy equivalent of "red alert," a signifier that, the Doctor tells Rose, the rest of the universe finds a bit camp." When the TARDIS lands in 1941 London, the Doctor reasons they've landed sometime within a month of when the metal cylinder landed.
Hawes sets the mood as the Doctor and Rose exit the TARDIS into a dark London night in a cramped alley between tall buildings. It's an instantly uneasy feeling, isolated and cramped at the same time. The Doctor and Rose are split as their ears pick up different sounds that demand their attention – for the Doctor, it's music playing from behind a door that turns out to be a cabaret, and for Rose it's a child asking for its mummy from atop a roof.
What happens next is a wonderful example of Moffat's craft – he has the Doctor and Rose jump plot tracks. The Doctor's path turns out to be an infodump (we get the particulars of where we are, punctuated by an air raid siren), while Rose's path births the empty child mystery, but when the Doctor exits the cabaret, the empty child mystery switches over to him, while Rose drifts off (literally) to a plot path that puts her in the middle of the air raid, and which will introduce Jack Harkness to the series.
I'm totally stealing that configuration in a future novel.
It's a clever bit of writing, but more importantly it works to the benefit of the plot – it's not just showing off, but it naturally flows from their personalities to enhance the overall story.
Rose reaches the roof to get near the kid who's asking the question – he's a young boy wearing a gas mask and standing on some kind of cargo container, repeating the same question as he searches for his mummy. The more the young boy asks the question over and over, never acknowledging any questions that come his way, slowly turns the scared into the scarer. There's a rope hanging down and Rose grabs it to climb up, but its tied to a barrage balloon and she floats off, heading right into the oncoming German air assault.
Rose makes a little quip about how it was the wrong day to try out her new Union Jack t-shirt, which is another trick from Moffat's bag. He liberally peppers his script with all these quick asides and jabs that helps to nuance the emotional and narrative balance of the episode. By all rights, it's Rose's portion of the narrative at this point that should take hold of our dramatic attention, given that she's hanging from a rope above London in the middle of an air raid, but with the empty child mystery switching over to the Doctor (and with Rose about to run into the light-hearted Jack), Moffat deftly lightens her situation by giving her that little self-deprecating putdown.
Three things about the shirt: 1. It's Rose's best look all season. 2. It sets up a gentle contrast with Jack, who's American (or, pretending to be American – again, as we discussed earlier, here's where we get into treating this episodes as they come versus folding in what I know to be coming). 3. It's Rose's best look all season.
The Canadian flag is the coolest looking flag on the planet (and looks best on a hockey jersey), but the Union Jack looks the best on a t-shirt. It just does. I thank Def Leppard for that. (There's a Who pun in there somewhere that I totally just let walk on by. You're welcome.)
While Rose goes dangling over London (holding on for a hero, you might say … or not …), the Doctor hears the outer telephone ringing on the TARDIS, which it shouldn't be able to do. A young girl named Nancy shows up in the alleyway (not at all creepy) and tells him not to answer it. The Doctor does, because he needs something to do for the next two episodes, and now he hears that little boy asking for his mummy a few times before the line goes dead.
Good mystery. It's simple and effective and turns the war into background noise.
When the Ninth turns around the girl is gone, but he spots her sneaking into a house and follows her in. Nancy is a sort of mother hen for a group of homeless kids around London; when the air raid sirens go off and the home residents go to their shelter, Nancy and the kids sneak into the now empty homes and raid them for food.
The Doctor places himself at the table to take a piece of meat alongside the other kids and they freak out when they see him, but Nancy plays it cool and smart, keeping a level head and asserting her position as head of this group to the Doctor. He's taken two pieces of meat and she walks down the length of the table to take one of them back. Another Doctor, another serial, you'd have been hoping she climbed aboard the TARDIS because she's clearly got the backbone to stick up for herself.
The kids' meal is interrupted by the empty child, who shows up outside the house, still calling for his mummy. The creepiness his voice ushered into the narrative is now grating, getting under your skin the way it much be on the skin of the kids – you just want it to shut up but of course it won't. The kids split because the empty child's touch turns you into him, you go empty and searching for mummy, too. The Doctor wants to help, tells Nancy it's tough being the last boy all alone, but she pleads with him not to touch the boy's hand (which is poking in through the mail slot).
Nancy points the Doctor to the hospital, where the metal cylinder fell from the sky.
As this is happening, Rose is caught in a tractor beam and then brought into an alien ship, where Captain Jack is ready to charm her. She's instantly smitten dumb with him, and his reaction to that is like he expected nothing else. He tells her he's an American volunteer with the RAF and shows her his credentials, which Rose recognizes as psychic paper. Instead of seeing his war credentials, the paper tells Rose that Jack is single and works out. Rose hands the paper back to him and Jack reads her message – she has a boyfriend but she's available.
Piper and John Barrowman have good chemistry together, but it's not quite like the romantic comedy routine you'd expect. Smitten as she might be with Jack, Rose is also aware that there's something else going on – they are in an alien ship, after all – and Jack's charm towards Rose feels rehearsed. It lacks the spontaneity that comes with an attraction that goes beyond the surface.
Rose's hands are damaged from hanging onto the rope, so he heals them with nanogenes that are everywhere inside his Chula warship.
The healing serves to get them to come clean; Jack says he knows she's a Time Agent and that he's got something to sell her. He invites her onto the roof for drinks and now they start to sparkle; Jack's attempted seduction is both business and pleasure and Rose is infinitely more interesting sparring with him then she is staring dreamily at him. When she wonders how he's going to find the Doctor and he pulls out a device and says that he's going to search for alien tech (which is what Rose suggested the Doctor do back and the start, but didn't), Rose gets this amazing, smitten smile on her face and sighs, "Finally, a professional."
Great sequence.
Barrowman is superb as Captain Jack, all easy confidence and confident bluster. It would be easy to play Jack as a camp Tom Cruise – heck, maybe that's what Barrowman is doing, but it comes across as Captain Jack and not a send-up of anyone else. Rose has a lot of fun with Jack being more of the rockstar time traveler that the Doctor isn't; she likes a little sizzle with her steak and Jack oozes the sizzle, but without sacrificing the steak underneath. (Yeah, somewhere there that analogy went a bridge too far.) Jack is a real guy, with his own set of quirks and issues and you can see it in Barrowman's performance. That idea comes through strongest when the gig is up and he's trying to convince the Doctor and Rose that he made certain the cylinder was empty before he set up the con – the only one he wants to hurt are Time Agents because the Time Agency erased two years of his life from his head.
The Doctor goes to the hospital where he finds the doctor-in-charge and a whole lotta kids who look just like the empty child. Then he goes all gas-masky, and you can hear his bones snapping and breaking as his new, gas mask face emerges from inside of him.
Jack and Rose show up, and Jack's con is revealed. He swears it was just a con and that his ship had nothing to do with turning all these kids into empty shells with gas masks for faces. The Doctor isn't so sure and wants to know the kind of warship Jack is trying to sell them and Jack says it's just an ambulance, and that he put it in a place where he knows a bomb will drop. His plan was to make the sale and have the bomb drop on it before they could realize they'd been had.
The Doctor insists it has to have something to do with this physical plague that's being transferred around because human DNA is being rewritten.
All of the comatose, gas-masked kids come to life and back the Doctor, Rose, and Jack into a corner and we have an honest-to-goodness cliffhanger. You know the Doctor's not in danger, and you know Rose probably isn't in danger, but you don't know about Jack, and even if you figure he's going to survive, the tension with DOCTOR WHO cliffhangers isn't WILL they survive, but HOW, and THE EMPTY CHILD sets that question up convincingly.
THE EMPTY CHILD is a fantastic episode, every bit as good as ROSE and DALEK to stand as one of this season's Tier One stories.
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Body found in Flint River on Sunday
39-year-old man found dead in Michigan river
Published On: Jun 18 2012 11:46:10 AM EDT Updated On: Jun 18 2012 12:00:13 PM EDT
Authorities say a 39-year-old man was found dead in the Flint River.
The Flint Journal reported Monday that police believe Jason Parish drowned.
His body was found Sunday in Flint.
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An investigation into charges of grade changes in Montgomery Public Schools will begin Monday.
Tommy Bice, Alabamas state superintendent of education, confirmed at a meeting Thursday that a team has been formed to conduct an investigation into charges made by several current and former MPS teacher.
This investigation was requested last week by MPS superintendent Barbara Thompson. The Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday also approved funding a separate investigation into the grade changing allegations.
Malissa Valdes-Hubert, spokeswoman for the Alabama State Department of Education, confirmed that the state systems investigation will begin Monday but she was not able to say who would serve on the investigation team.
Ill have the team members names on Monday, she said Thursday.
These actions came in response to a Montgomery Advertiser story last week, in which teachers at three of Montgomerys public high schools admitted to participating in improper grade changes.
MPS board chairman Charlotte Meadows has requested a third investigation. Meadows sent a letter to Attorney General Luther Strange asking him to conduct an investigation into the allegations of grade changes.


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Posted on: April 25, 2010 2:37 am
I think there's a very good chance that I did in fact jump the gun on my opinion of Jeremy Hermida. Granted, I didn't get too many chances to see him play while he was with the Marlins because he was either hurt or very rarely on national television. Now I'm starting to see what he may be capable of. Given the opportunity, a 25 HR, 80-90 RBI season certainly isn't that unrealistic. He's no Dwight Evans in the outfield, but he is absolutely a threat at the bottom of the Red Sox lineup. Especially at Fenway Park!
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ASUS Eee Top ET20 and ET22
ASUS today catered to the US with three new Eee Top all-in-ones. The regular ET2002 and touchscreen ET2002T are the first of the systems to use NVIDIA's Ion hybrid graphics and system controller and consequently have much better graphics performance than Intel's own parts without the cost of a dedicated chipset. Both 20-inch units also break out of nettop limits with dual-core 1.6GHz Atom processors, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drives and DVD burners in addition to the usual 802.11n Wi-Fi and webcams.
One larger model, the 22-inch ET2203T, again comes with a touchscreen but is given a much faster still Radeon HD 4570 graphics chipset to decode HD video. It also gets one of two Core 2 Duo notebook processors and appropriately has the option of a Blu-ray drive for HD movies. Hard drives mostly stay the same with the option of a 500GB disk, but the ET2203T comes with 4GB of RAM by default.
In characteristic ASUS fashion, neither system has an official price or ship date in the launch, though it's unlikely either size Eee Top will cost more than $1,000.


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|Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and related fluctuation spectroscopy and microscopy methods have become important research tools that enable detailed investigations of the chemical and physical properties of molecules and molecular systems in a variety of complex environments. Information recovery via curve fitting of fluctuation data can present complicating challenges due to limited resolution and/or problems with fitting model verification. We discuss a new approach to data analysis called τFCS that couples multiple modes of signal acquisition, here specifically FCS and fluorescence lifetimes, with global analysis. We demonstrate enhanced resolution using τFCS, including the capability to recover the concentration of both molecular species in a two-component mixture even when the species have identical diffusion coefficients and molecular brightness values, provided their fluorescent lifetimes are distinct. We also demonstrate how τFCS provides useful tools for model discrimination in FCS curve fitting.
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Enslaved -- New York, NY - - January 10th, 2007
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Ok, so first off, a little anecdote from the night: I wanted to wear my Hellhammer - Satanic Rites shirt to this show, but as I was going to the show right from work and that shirt isn't exactly work-friendly, I wore my KD - Abigail shirt in the morning, planning to change in the car once I got to the train station. Well, I forgot to bring the Hellhammer shirt, so I was stuck with Abigail. Fast forward a while, about three songs into the first band's set--Abigail Williams, they were awful goth-metalcore crap--I remembered what shirt I was wearing and felt like an idiot.
Here are the songs Enslaved played, in some semblance of the correct order, but probably not exactly:
Path to Vanir
Fusion of Sense and Earth
The Voices
Return to Yggdrasil
Queen of Night
Slaget i Skogen Bortenfor
These guys are
tight live musicians--in an interview included on the
CD, Grutle talks about how in recent years they've really tried to improve their live show and give 100% effort, and it shows. The set was pretty great, though very heavy on the new album... but I like it, so I had no qualms about that. It was awesome that they closed with a track from the fucking Hordane's Land EP (the split they did with Emperor for you noobs), I was NOT expecting that.
Then there was Dark Funeral. Fat, aging, balding guys in clownish corpsepaint and ridiculous armor is not my idea of grim (and generic, bland black metal is not my idea of good music), but, regardless, they were marginally fun to listen to live. They had more headbanging opportunities than I expected. Anyway I had to leave just before their encore to catch my train back. That was followed by an adventure of having to change trains in Newark, waiting there for an hour and a half, all the while talking to some random girl (who was stuck in the same situation) who was nice enough, but tried to relate to the fact that I had just come from a concert by telling me about Saves the Day, Brand New, etc.
I got home at 3 AM and had work at 8. Kvlt.
Also, I was looking through the booklets of the two Enslaved discs I own (Isa and Ruun), and ALL of the music and lyrics were written (or co-written for a few songs) by some guy named I. Peersen, who is not in the band. WTF?
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HARTFORD CITY - Dwane T. Needler, 91, former Hartford City resident, passed away Monday, December 31, 2012 in McKinney House, Logansport.
Dwane was born June 9, 1921 in Blackford County, the son of Ord and Lizzie (Schwartzkopf) Needler.
He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1939 and attended Indiana Business College. He married Violet Knox in Hartford City on September 14, 1941.
Dwane began buying and selling cars for himself at the age of 14 and later worked as a salesman for Crankshaw Motors. He was a nationally recognized salesman through Crankshaw for General Motors. He won many awards and prizes before retiring in 1983.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Violet; a daughter, Trudy (John) Ryan, Logansport; a sister, Marjorie (Charles) Kesler, Arizona; grandchildren, Emma (Gregory) Haines, and Sean Ryan, both of Fort Wayne; and three great-grandchildren, Ryan and Haley Haines and Madison Ryan.
The funeral service will be 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 4, 2013 in Waters Funeral Home, 501 W. Washington St., Hartford City with Pastor Dustin Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Gardens of Memory, Muncie.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Thursday and from noon to 1:00 p.m. Friday.
The family prefers memorials be made to the Trinity United Methodist Church, 303 N. Walnut St., Hartford City, IN 47348.
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On all accounts WIA 2011 was a great success. I talked to many woodworkers who raved about their favorites classes, but to a person their favorite was the WIA marketplace. Sure lots of money was spent, but the knowledge was free and their were demonstrations as far as the eye can see. I tore myself away from the Hand Tool School booth momentarily late in the day on Saturday and took a tour of the entire show floor. Enjoy the ride!
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Nice tour. Now for me to go back and freeze frame on all the tool porn.
Thanks for the Marketplace tour! Regretfully I didn't actually get the chance to walk around and see stuff. Now I can, briefly.
If I were rich and famous, I'd follow John Economaki's and Mark Harrell's example: hire customers to assist at the show. No better sales force.
Glad you were so busy and generated a lot of interest in your school.
What a great tour! Thanks, from all of us who couldn't be there.
Thanks Shannon. Any info on the new Veritas chisels?
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said genetic tests confirmed it was a small, uncollared female. More tests are under way to determine which pack the wolf was associated with.
In January, an employee with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services shot what officials described at the time as a "canine." The employee reported the shooting because the animal looked like a Mexican wolf after closer inspection.
The wolf was shot from about 250 yards away, officials said.
"Our specialist, at the time, was upset and that's why he reported it. Still, we're disappointed that it occurred," said Carol Bannerman, a spokeswoman at Wildlife Services headquarters.
The Mexican gray wolf was added to the federal endangered species list in 1976. The effort to reintroduce the wolves in New Mexico and Arizona has stumbled due to legal battles, illegal shootings and other problems.
Federal officials have been tightlipped about the January shooting. They have not said what prompted the employee to shoot but implied that he may have thought it was a coyote. The employee was in the Mangas area investigating cattle deaths when the shooting occurred.
Bannerman said the employee remains on the job and the agency is cooperating with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The case has been turned over to the U.S. attorney's office for review.


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Google looks to be readying yet another change to its search results.
Just spotted an interesting screenshot from the U.K., which shows a full-page preview of the target website, as well as a blue background that highlights the selected site. Clicking anywhere on the preview takes you directly to the site. Have a look:
Also of note, snippets of text on the preview site are being highlighted in an orange box that is enlarged in what appears to be a pop-up box of sorts. These snippets aren't the same as the ones found on the SERP.
This Google SERP test was spotted this morning by Patrick Altoft. He wrote, "this is not a plugin. I'm using Google Chrome incognito mode with no plugins installed." This has also been confirmed by other users.
This layout could do some damage to click-through rates. There are no previews for ads, and these website previews are actually hiding the sidebar where Google's ads run.
Google had this to say: "At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more on our blog."
Anybody else seeing this today?
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It started off as such a good week for Jamie Benn. The Dallas Stars forward was named an All-Star for the first time in his career, the only member of the Stars elected to go to Ottawa for the game at the end of this month.
Well now he might not make it because his week didn't end as well as it began.
Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday evening that the young star is going to miss 10 days to three weeks after he was sent to the hospital for an appendectomy.
If he is out on the long side of that projection, he'll miss the All-Star Game in Ottawa on Jan. 29. If that's the case, his teammate Loui Eriksson could possibly be called on to replace Benn in the game to represent the Stars.
On a more important level -- you know, where the games matter -- the Stars will be without not only Benn for a little bit but also Mike Ribeiro until after the All-Star Game. Head coach Glen Gulutzan released that information earlier on Sunday.
The Stars have five games until the All-Star break hits including back-to-back games this upcoming week against the Red Wings and Blues.
On the season Benn is the Stars' leading scorer with a total of 42 points in 43 games (13-29=42) and has taken more shots than anybody on the team. His absence won't be easy for Dallas to overcome.
"I'm excited about the challenge,'' Gulutzan said. "I've been dealt worse hands than this before and we came through just fine in those situations. Hopefully we'll be a better team in February for having gone through this.''
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