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Jessica Jones Has Nothing To Do With The Avengers. That's The Point.
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- @AlishaGrauso
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We pick away and explore Marvel's Cinematic Universe connective tissue....
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- @thefilmcynic
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Here's another reason to see Me and Earl and the Dying Girl this summer: to size up Jon Bernthal for the role of Frank Castle in Dardevil season 2. ...
Marvel's Daredevil: A Mature Superhero for Adults
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Marvel gives a first look at its first Netflix series, 'Daredevil,' which arrives on April 10th....
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If it seemed like the Netflix Daredevil series had been missing something that you couldn't quite put your finger on up until now, it should all make sense when you hear that, according to Variety, Rosario Dawson is joining the show in a "critical" female role. That's it, everything is good,...
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Team USA going for another win in Olympic medals count
Quick: name the biggest controversy that has swirled for years around the upcoming London Olympics.
Unlike the 2008 Beijing Games in China, there has been no endless barrage of international disputes surrounding the London Games as they draw near. No charges of institutionalized human-rights abuses. No global challenges to an authoritarian regime. Heck, nobody has even attacked the Olympic torch in protest during its journey around the United Kingdom.
Which means there's plenty of room to anticipate the actual sports.
Can sprinter Usain Bolt repeat his spectacular performances on the track? Will swimmer Michael Phelps hold off rival Ryan Lochte in his final Olympics? Can injury-plagued Team USA win basketball gold on the 20th anniversary of the original Dream Team and help the Americans surpass surging China to win the medal count again?
All of those questions, and more, will begin to be answered when the Olympics begin July 27 in the only city to host them three times.
"It looks like our team is really shaping up well," said Alan Ashby, the chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Exactly who will be on it, though, remains to be seen.
Track, swimming and gymnastics, in particular, will hold dramatic, make-or-break trials over the next month that will determine the bulk of the American team.
Many locals are hoping to make the cut, although realistically, the Utah contingent probably will comprise about a dozen athletes including BMX rider Arielle Martin of Cedar Hills, who already has clinched her spot four years after a devastating disappointment kept her from Beijing.
"I can't even describe the feeling," she said.
Volleyball players Logan Tom and Ryan Millar figure to earn a place on the team for their fourth Olympics  former Brigham Young University coach Hugh McCutcheon now leads the American women's team, after leading the men to gold in Beijing while cyclist David Zabriskie is hoping to make the team again and distance runner Cam Levins could be the surprise of the group.
The senior at Southern Utah University already has qualified for his native Canada, and owns some of the best times in the world this year in his events, the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
"It's a great position to be in that I didn't necessarily expect myself to be in," he said.
The Americans are hoping to win the medal count for the fifth straight Summer Olympics, but Ashby and other officials said they expect tough competition from China and Russia.
In fact, legendary track star Sebastian Coe, who now leads the committee organizing the London Games, said he expects the Chinese to beat the Americans because of their commitment to a wide array of sports programs that grew out of their preparation for the Beijing Games.
"We properly chastised him," USOC chairman Larry Probst joked recently. "Hopefully we can prove him wrong."
The Americans won 110 medals in Beijing, but only 36 golds compared with 51 for China, which won 100 medals overall. The last time they did not win the medal count at a Summer Olympic was 1992, when they finished behind the Unified Team of former Soviet republics at the Barcelona Games.
Yet the biggest sports stories in London seem poised to involve few Chinese.
While track hurdler Liu Xiang and swimmer Wu Peng the man who snapped Phelps' nine-year winning streak in the 200-meter butterfly last year could become transcendent figures, most of China's medals figure to come in lower-profile sports such as diving, shooting, badminton and weightlifting.
That's what happened in Beijing.
In London, the sports world once again will be focused on whether Bolt can blow away the field in track's marquee sprints (despite his unspectacular recent form), and whether Phelps can win the three medals he needs to reach 19 and become the most-decorated Olympian of all time before heading off into retirement.
Beyond that, the home country will be pulling for star heptathlete Jessica Ennis, track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy (going for his fifth gold medal) and doubles rowers Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, among others though Coe has acknowledged that "Team GB" will have a battle on its hands to finish even fourth in the medal count, the way it did in Beijing.
"The Germans are probably going to bring the strongest team they've ever brought to a Games," he told the Associated Press. "The French are very, very strong this time, and the Australians will think fourth place is very much up for grabs. We could end up with more medals than we got in Beijing and maybe not finish fourth in the medals table."
And though the sailing toward the opening ceremony has been relatively smooth, organizers have not completely avoided controversy.
Critics have targeted a ballooning $15 billion budget that's roughly triple the original estimate, a massive security presence that could include deadly surface-to-air rockets on residential rooftops, an ongoing doping dispute that could allow previously banned drug cheats such as sprinter Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar to compete, and an Orwellian (if admittedly unenforceable) policy that aims to ban ticket-holders from posting photos or videos to social media sites.
On top of that, beer will cost $11 a pint inside the venues.
But all of that is practically standard operating procedure for the Olympics, anymore.
Surely, organizers are just happy the torch is safe.
Twitter: @MCLTribune
Countdown to London
Today marks the start of The Salt Lake Tribune's countdown to the London Olympics that run from July 27 to Aug. 12. We'll have regular features on the most compelling athletes and top storylines both local and international  as we tick off the days until the opening ceremony.
U.S. Olympic Trials
Athletes in three of the most glamorous sports in the Olympics will contest high-profile trials in the coming weeks, to determine much of Team USA:
• Track & Field, June 22-25 and June 28-July 1, Eugene, Ore.
• Swimming, June 25 to July 2, Omaha, Neb.
• Gymnastics, June 28 to July 1, San Jose, Calif.

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An Australian funeral director had to store the body of a 200-kilogram man in her car overnight after a morgue refused it for being too big, reports said on Thursday.
Joanne Cummings said she had to drive for two hours back home with the corpse in her hearse, with the air-con going full blast to keep it cool.
"I actually had to turn around and drive two hours home to Roebourne (in Western Australia) and keep him in my car overnight," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"I had to have the air-con up full and look after him that way, check on him every half hour, and the following morning we hired a sea container with a chiller unit in it."
Cummings, the co-owner of Pilbara Funeral Services in north-west Australia, said it was not the first time the Hedland Health Campus hospital had rejected large bodies.
She said a staff member described a 250-kilogram dead man last year as "too fat, he can't go in the fridge".
"You can't say things like that - imagine if this was your mother," Cummings told Port Hedland newspaper the North West Telegraph.
Western Australia's Country Health Service said the hospital's equipment could only handle bodies weighing up to 150 kilograms and that it would look into installing machinery that could take bodies of up to 300 kilograms.
"It is imperative that at all times a deceased person is treated with the utmost care and respect and viewings are arranged so as not to cause distress and inconvenience to grieving families," the service's regional director Ron Wynn said in a statement.
But Cummings dismissed his claim that the hospital could not take in larger bodies as a "load of crap".
"I could probably put a baby elephant in one of those fridges and it'd fit through the door, and they're refusing entry for a human being," she said.
"My issue is if that was your father, mother, partner ... you wouldn't want them refused entry into the mortuary." - Sapa-AFP
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Court documents say that Dancing Bull Fischer was drinking alcohol with 47-year-old Tony Fischer Senior and Tony's son, Dominic Fischer, just before 1 a.m. Tuesday at a mobile home just a few miles north of Marty, South Dakota.
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For an old-fashioned sweet treat just like Grandma made, try this creamy pudding. It has a rich cinnamon flavor and is made wonderfully light after whipped cream is stirred into it at the end.—Jennifer Bennett, Salem, Indiana
- 1-1/4 cups 2% milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup uncooked converted rice
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
- Additional whipped cream and ground cinnamon, optional
- In a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker, combine the first nine ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 2 hours; stir. Cover and cook 1-2 hours longer or until rice is tender. Transfer to a small bowl; cool. Refrigerate until chilled.
- Just before serving, fold in whipped cream. If desired, garnish with additional whipped cream and cinnamon. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Rice Pudding in Taste of Home Everyday Slow Cooker & One Dish Recipes Annual 2009, p95
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By Ashby Jones
Iowa voters did the unprecedented Tuesday when they ousted three justices of the state's Supreme Court.
The move, a repudiation of a ruling last year that struck down a law prohibiting same-sex marriage, was particularly noteworthy given the nature of the vote. The justices weren't running against opponents. They would have stayed on the bench for another eight years had a majority of voting Iowans said yes.
It was the first time since the retention vote was introduced in 1962 that an Iowa Supreme Court justice wasn't retained.
Less than 24 hours after the highly charged battle, another minicontroversy was brewing over this question: Who will appoint their replacements? The options: the current governor, Democrat Chet Culver, or the man who defeated him Tuesday, former Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican.
Mr. Branstad doesn't take office until January. Todd Pettys, a law professor at the University of Iowa, said there's nothing in the law keeping Mr. Culver from moving quickly on the justices' replacements.
Mr. Culver issued a statement Wednesday saying only that he would review the matter carefully.
On the topic, Mr. Branstad was less cautious. At a post-election news conference, he said : "I think it would be inappropriate to have a governor that was just rejected by the voters to try to rush through appointments to a court when the court was just rejected as well."
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Clipper 2011-12 Round the World Yacht Race fleet are on day thirty of race seven, from the Gold Coast to Singapore.
Derry-Londonderry at the start of the race from the Gold Coast to Singapore - Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race.
The Clipper 2011-12 Race Team has arrived in Nongsa Point Marina in Batam, Indonesia, where the yachts are due to muster ahead of next Saturday's arrival in Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore, and now all that's needed to complete the picture is ten 68-foot yachts, each emblazoned with the name of an international city, state, country or corporation.
But we won't have long to wait as the first teams are expected to arrive in the marina at 0700 local time tomorrow (2400 UTC Sunday) at the end of race seven from Queensland, Australia.
Race seven winners, Gold Coast Australia, and Derry-Londonderry, who secured their first podium finish of the campaign with a convincing second place, will be the first to arrive, with the group of five expected 24 hours later, and the final three early on Thursday morning local time.
The final stage of 4,300-mile journey from Australia's east coast has been completed with a mixture of motor and sail after the Race Committee made the decision to finish the race early. Freed from the need for constant concentration on trim, course and boat speed, the last few days have given the teams some time to revisit training drills and to get to the items right at the bottom of the 'to do' list.
'Deb Grant and Chris Hopkins completed their wind scoop today which is making a fantastic difference to the cooling of the internals of the boat,' reports Gold Coast Australia's skipper, Richard Hewson. 'As we motor-sail along it scoops up the wind from all angles making life below a lot more pleasant from bow to stern.
'Today we also utilised our time to practice a few emergency drills including man overboard, flood and fire. All these drills reiterated how important it is to keep what to do in an emergency at the back of your mind as it could happen any time. When you're on a yacht preservation of life and the yacht is the most important thing in the world.
'Everybody is very excited about reaching Batam and Singapore, and there is a lot of talk about eating and enjoying the fundamentals of land based life which normal 'landlubbers' tend to take for granted.'
Top of the list every time: hot/cold showers (depending on the weather you've been through), flushing toilets, cold beer and food you need to chew.
The weather for the final stages is also producing a little bit of wind so it's a chance to enjoy a respite from the noise of the engine. Race meteorologist and former winning skipper, Simon Rowell, is predicting a 'gentle reach' to Singapore.
'We are able to give our engine, aka 'the beer-seeker' a rest and proceed under full sail,' says Derry-Londonderry's skipper, Mark Light.
'Everybody is looking forward to a great stop in Batam before transferring to a fantastic welcome ceremony in Singapore. Last minute jobs are being completed in order to maximise our down time in Batam – I hear it is a beautiful place and I am looking forward to a cool shower, cold beer(s) and some good food - not necessarily in that order!
'It is a great feeling to have our first podium position and it will only sink in when we finally get on that stage to accept our runners up pennant in Marina at Keppel Bay. With our boat in very good order and lots of work already complete, it is shaping up to be a most enjoyable and very welcome stopover.
'We have got on really well with the crew of Gold Coast Australia over the past week or so and I am sure that the mood and celebrating will continue long into the early hours when we arrive.'
The next five yachts are expected between Monday evening and Tuesday morning local time. Skippers report a speed over ground of ten knots, thanks to a favourable current and very flat sea state.
Among the teams in the second group of yachts is third placed Geraldton Western Australia, Qingdao and home team, Singapore, who are assured of the warmest of welcomes when they arrive in the premier waterfront precinct, Marina at Keppel Bay, on Saturday.
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Qingdao's skipper, Ian Conchie, reports his team are also enjoying being able to switch off the engine during the closing hours of the stage from the Gold Coast.
'During the night the wind filled in enough to allow us to hoist our headsail and get a bit more speed for less revs for a while to help us on our way,' he says.
Tomorrow is a very special day for Chinese communities around the world – including the one on the 68-foot yacht approaching the Singapore Straits – as it marks the end of the Year of the Rabbit and heralds the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. Already, looking from the shores of Batam Island across the Straits to Singapore, fireworks are filling the sky. The streets of Singapore are decorated with red lanterns and the doorways of businesses and hotels are adorned with mandarin trees with red envelopes tied on to their branches bearing wishes for an auspicious new year.
Ian comments, 'We have prepared the boat for Chinese New Year with Brett (Liang Wu) providing some authentic Chinese posters and writings to put up around the boat.
'We also finally got the results from the inter boat quiz with Geraldton Western Australia and Singapore but there appears to be some debate over some of the answers and therefore the overall result may need to be settled with a tie breaker over a beer or two in Batam!'
The final trio of yachts are currently expected on Thursday morning.
'The convoy of Edinburgh Inspiring Capital, Welcome to Yorkshire and Visit Finland eventually set off from the refuelling port just around sunset,' Edinburgh Inspiring Capital's skipper, Gordon Reid, tells the Race Office this morning.
'We had been rafted up on the pontoon and enjoying a bit of light relief in the form of a spot of swimming and a very nice lunch i.e. not pasta, rice or couscous, whilst we waited for the fuel delivery truck to arrive and allow us to refuel to capacity.
'Now we have refuelled we can be a bit more generous with the revs and have been easily making nine knots Speed Over Ground as we weave our way around the various reefs, numerous oil and gas platforms, seismic survey vessels and rig support vessels.
'With most of our maintenance and cleaning programme done, the crew have a bit of time to do some personal grooming, lots of shaving and filing of nails going on – and that's just the boys!'
Welcome to Yorkshire in Race 5 - Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race
Welcome to Yorkshire's skipper, Rupert Dean, also notes the need to dodge various obstacles in their path.
'Lots of floating logs, oil and gas fields to avoid. Right now we're having to do a detour to give a seismic survey vessel six miles of clearance, before we can resume our chosen course. Nevertheless, we're making good progress under engine. Thank goodness for Perkins Power!'
While the teams are in Batam they will mark several key dates for the teams. Chinese New Year – also called Spring Festival in China – is on Monday, while on 25 January Edinburgh Inspiring Capital will lead the fleet in a Burns Night celebration of one of Scotland's favourite sons, the poet, Robert Burns; and the following day on 26 January, the two Aussie teams will encourage everyone to join in as they mark Australia Day.
Overall standings after race seven:
1. Gold Coast Australia 73 points
2. Visit Finland 53 points
3. De Lage Landen 46 points
4. New York 40 points
5. Singapore 38 points
6. Welcome to Yorkshire 37 points
7. Derry-Londonderry 35 points
8. Qingdao 34 points
9. Geraldton Western Australia 31 points
10. Edinburgh Inspiring Capital 14 points
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race website


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November 28, 2015
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - A new report says the way to clean up the Lower New River is to clean up the creeks and streams that flow into it.
The New River Clean Water Alliance is releasing a report Thursday that says water quality is impaired.
That means on rainy, high-water days, the river doesn't meet West Virginia's standards for a river that serves as a drinking water supply and source of contact recreation like swimming.
The alliance, comprised of groups including the National Parks Conservation Association, says citizens' groups and community leaders must work together to clean up polluted tributaries.
The New is one of the nation's busiest whitewater rivers, providing millions to the region's economy.
Mark Lewis of West Virginia Professional River Outfitters says it's difficult to overstate its importance to tourism.
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Archives for "Public service"
April 2, 2007 1:16 pm
Bates students participate in alternative spring break
Twenty-four Bates College students and two chaperones head to Biloxi, Miss., April 15-20 for an "Alternative Spring Break" as Hands on Gulf Coast volunteers in a hurricane-ravaged community.
April 3, 2006 12:00 am
Virginia party chair to lecture on 'failure of feminism'
Virginia Republican Party Chairwoman Kate Obenshain Griffin gives a lecture on the topic "Failure of Feminism" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Sponsored by the Bates College Republicans, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact Nate Walton, chairman of the Maine College Republicans, at 207-240-4549 or email@example.com.
December 23, 2005 2:28 pm
2006 Martin Luther King Day Workshops
The following workshops will be held in Pettengill Hall, Monday, Jan. 16:
November 23, 2005 3:08 pm
Bates and Veterans for Peace present Iraq war poetry reading
Poet Brian Turner Brian Turner, author of the Beatrice Hawley Award-winning poetry collection Here Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005), will read from his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
April 27, 2005 10:39 am
National service day links Rebuilding Together, Bates volunteers
Two different service programs will bring more than 100 volunteer carpenters, painters, roofers and others together to refurbish two Lewiston homes on Saturday, April 30.
March 31, 2005 11:24 am
Students, faculty and staff honored for service-learning
Six members of the Bates College community — four students, a psychology professor and a staffer for the chaplain's office — were among a select group of individuals from campuses across the state to receive awards from the Maine Campus Compact in recognition of outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.
November 9, 2004 12:45 pm
Poet Mathis featured in Writers Harvest reading
The annual Writers Harvest reading at Bates College will be given by Cleopatra Mathis, professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of five collections of poetry, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Ave.
October 14, 2004 11:56 am
Panel to discuss Vietnam and Iraq wars
To provide historical perspective on what happened more than three decades ago and what is going on now in the Middle East, a Bates College panel consisting of a Vietnam veteran, a Vietnamese student from Hanoi, a Republican Party student activist, and a former member of Congress and Reagan arms control official will debate the differences and similarities between the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.
October 28, 2003 1:47 pm
Homeless activist to discuss 'works of mercy' in spiritual series at Bates
Jim Greene, deputy director, Boston City Shelter Commission, will give a talk titled "Corporal, Spiritual and Political Works of Mercy on the Streets of Boston" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited free of charge to attend this presentation, part of the series "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003-04," sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.
October 8, 2003 10:27 am
Rent-A-Husband founder to speak at Bates
The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.


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