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The Outrage in Outrage
August 20, 2004
Professor Stephen Baskerville once again provides a cutting edge analysis of the changing political landscape of marriage and family. His comments in "A Primer Against Gay Marriage," (current issue of HumanEvents.org: Social Issues In the News) on Peter Sprigg's new book on same-sex marriage, Outrage, sets an otherwise rather superficial and reactionary political debate in a deeper and more realistic context.
Peter Sprigg, as Professor Baskerville points out, is Director of the Center for Marriage and Family Studies at the Family Research Council (FRC). Socially conservative groups like FRC tend to reflect partisan positions even when it requires contradicting fact and shooting themselves in the foot. Such is the case regarding the only error Professor Baskerville detected in the book; an aside on how "deadbeat dads abandon their kids."
Professor Baskerville describes the error as "an unnecessary concession that has been roundly refuted by recent research but one that extracts the marriage controversy from its larger context: government policy weakening parent-child bonds." These are crucial points. Removing analysis of policy from its policy context and relying on false information is not the road to serious scholarship – in fact it might be described as the anti-road.
Given that the error is merely an aside in what Professor Baskerville describes as "a concise, clear, and readable book that provides an excellent introduction to where we now stand on perhaps the most emotional issue on the national agenda," this may seem a quantitatively minor problem. In fact however, this anti-father political positioning blocks the possibility of serious scholarship in the area of family policy studies; in effect, making a joke of the Family Research Council's "family research."
In promoting an anti-father view, FRC promotes the entire policy and debate context that comes with it. Anti-father propaganda is categorically anti-heterosexual family propaganda, originating in feminist-homosexual lobbying campaigns. Its eventual effect, after having been adopted as platform positions by both parties and transformed into dramatically altered family policy, was to deliver a lethal injection to marriage as we knew it, which led directly to the proclamations of legitimacy for same-sex marriage. This puts FRC in the untenable position of defending both sides of the issue simultaneously; yielding superficial and reactionary political debate rather than sustainable scholarly argument.
It was the design of anti-father policy and its acceptance by the courts that changed the legal status of marriage and family from its previously recognized status as a crucial and protected fundamental social arrangement to mere "social policy." The latter defines marriage and family as an arbitrary arrangement that derives its "legitimacy" (in every sense) solely due to its recognition by the state.
Concern that the new "right" for same-sex marriage signals the possibility of new "rights" for a much greater variety of "marriage" arrangements is well-founded. The view that legitimizing same-sex marriage is the cause of the problem rather than a convulsion brought about by the lethal injection of anti-father policy is quite wrong. Given the dramatic transformation of the legal status of marriage and family that preceded same-sex marriage, judges ruling on constitutional grounds had little choice but to act as what some describe as "activists."
The plain and simple truth is that you can't defend family while waging war against fathers. This obvious, fundamental truth is reflected in constitutional decisions. One set of rules applies if family is a self-defined critical element of social structure, in which case fathers and families are protected from arbitrary manipulation by the state. Another set of rules applies if family is an arbitrary result of social and economic policy decisions like the details of welfare entitlements and tax tables. By supporting anti-father policy, FRC supports the latter view, directly contradicting its rather superficial stance in defense of marriage (as we knew it).
Professor Baskerville points out that "some who agree with Sprigg's position oppose his proffered solution, the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which Congress recently rejected." I am already on public record, most recently in "Same-Sex Marriage Positions Untenable" (MensNewsDaily.com, July 15, 2004) as opposing the amendment. The resurrection of marriage, as we knew it, can only occur by flushing the system of the poison that is causing its death; that is, by reversing anti-father policy and restoring the legal status of marriage and family.
The price FRC must pay for a tenable pro-marriage position, is the abandonment of anti-father propaganda and support of anti-father policy. In the short term, this means choosing between partisan support for the Republican administration's anti-father policy positions and entering the deeper policy debate honestly. (Serious research does in fact refute the anti-father political position.) It's a difficult choice, but I do not see how FRC can maintain a credible image as a pro-marriage research organization while holding superficial, reactionary, and self-contradictory positions on the status and definition of marriage and family.


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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
As of this writing — just after midnight on Tuesday, October 30 — my New York City neighborhood still has electricity despite the Frankenstorm, aka Hurricane Sandy. The lights have blinked ominously, so I keep bracing for total darkness, but for the moment it's okay. If the electricity stays on, I will see if any of my powerless peeps want to come over once it's safe for them to go outdoors (if you are one of my real-life peeps and for some strange reason you see this and need help, text or email me). My parents, GeorgeB and BarbaraB, have been without power since 6 PM in New Jersey and lots of trees and branches are down, but they're okay.
I was in New York for the big blackouts of 1977 and 2003. Both times it was sweltering, there was no running water, and, in 2003, I had to carry two terrified dogs up and down a pitch-black stairwell while they dug their claws into my flesh. But this is going to be so much worse because of the flooding. I'm worried about all the downtown-dwelling folks … and the business owners. So many small-business people have basement spaces. I hope they're not wiped out. I'm sending dry thoughts their way.
Even in dire times, though, there can be a random funny moment so I'm reminded of a story from the 2003 blackout. I worked for Lehman Brothers on the 30th floor of a building near Times Square. (We moved there after our downtown building was damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.) When the power went out, a backup generator kicked in immediately and the lights turned back on; our new building was supposedly equipped with all kinds of great emergency options. I wondered if there was a power problem in our building only, but I looked out the window and saw the building across the street was dark. Then I called MrB downtown and said, "Is your power off?" When he said yes, I said, "Okay, we're having a big blackout!" and hung up. I pondered what to do for a minute. I looked at my colleagues — including my boss — who were milling about, waiting for some kind of corporate direction. Like I did on 9/11, I decided I didn't care what other people were doing. I was leaving with anyone who reported to me. The problem was that AnneMarie, my only employee in that office that day, was about eleventy-months pregnant. I wasn't sure that walking down 30 flights of stairs was the best choice for her, especially because I'm not trained in midwifery. With the generator still working, I said, "Let's press the elevator button and if the elevator opens immediately, we'll get in it." I pressed, the door opened, and we got in with quite a few other people. Mostly dudes, because Lehman was heavily dude-oriented in certain departments and jobs, but there was a petite woman in the middle of the car. We went a few floors — and stopped. The lights went out. The petite woman started to panic. The men offered her water and a space to sit down and told her, "It will be okay." She wailed, "How do you know we'll be okay?" Hysteria can be contagious and I felt like AnneMarie was breathing a little heavily; I was worried she was going to start hyperventilating. I thought a little black humor might be a good distraction, so I whispered in her ear, "Well, if we're stuck here for a long time, at least we know who we should kill and eat first." Unfortunately, it was more of a stage whisper and everyone heard. For months afterward, I was a quasi-celebrity in my elevator bank. I'd bump into guys I didn't recognize and they would say: "Oh my God! You're the one who said you were going to eat that woman!"
Anyway, before I could make any additional inappropriate statements, the generator kicked into gear again, the elevator reached the lobby and AnneMarie and I ran/waddled a couple of blocks to the garage where she parked. We walked right up to one of the garage guys, gave him her ticket and caught our breath. Then we looked back and there was a line of people behind us stretching to infinity. Our timing was impeccable! We stopped thinking we were dumbasses (and potential cannibals) for taking the elevator and started thinking we were geniuses. Actually, we were just lucky. We could have been trapped in that elevator for a long time if the Lehman building wasn't so sci-fi. That said, I do think I made a well-timed exit. There are times when it's good to follow your instincts, rather than the crowd. So, all you New Yorkers, do what you need to do to keep yourself safe. And please beware of falling branches! They're not only a danger when there is wind and rain. A saturated, rotting branch can reach its breaking point well after a storm. It doesn't necessarily make a cracking sound to warn you it's coming down, and you can be hit even if you're not directly under the tree. I know this because a murderous tree tried to take out me and another woman with a giant branch. One second we were standing, and the next second we were on the ground asking, "What happened?" We literally didn't know what hit us because it was so fast. (This happened in 2002, a year before the blackout, so, elevator lady, don't get all, "Serves you right," with me.) Seriously, y'all, keep an eye out for danger from above, and let me know if you need anything.
NOTE: MrB read this and asked me, "So what are we supposed to do? Walk around staring up at the trees?" I said, "I don't know. Just BEWARE, okay? BE! WARE!" And definitely don't go to a park.
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I am so glad to hear about your situation and your parents. What about your sister's family? Sorry, I'm being nosey, but I can't help myself. Y'all keep safe. I think your advice about trees is stupendous.
Not to laugh at danger, but this post is funny. I'm glad you all are safe, just remember if you need to get out of there, get out!
Your story reminds me of the floods that happened in Nashville. The DH and I were down in the worst of it while it was happening. We were staying in a hotel for a convention and of course didn't think much of the rain/wind. We didn't have the money to stay another night and took off.
Somehow our google maps had taken us in the back way to the hotel and so we back tracked the same way we came in without thinking. Turns out anyone trying to leave the front way got their cars flooded out and stranded. Then we managed to take high roads all the way back home, but it was like driving through a post-apocalyptic world until we got out of Nashville.
Thanks for keeping us updated on the situation. Wishing you and everyone in the affected areas the best. If you have a weather radio, keep that thing on as much as you can.
Glad to hear you're doing okay Wendy and hoping that it stays that way. So strange and unfortunate to see so many people in potential danger.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who actively plans the fate of those around me. I'm always looking around on public transit and thinking, "I want that beefy guy on my side when the zombies attack, but that beyotch will need some serious slapping." Now going to add "who to eat first" to my planning, bwa ha ha!!
In all seriousness, glad to hear you are doing fine now that the bulk of Sandy has passed NYC.
And sometimes everything is going along as it should, mother nature is behaving and suddenly you fall into a pile of clean garbage 😉
Dear W
I hope you will stay safe and retain power.
Keep us updated!!!
You have survived a lot of near misses.
After growing up in Miami and living in Orlando when we had 4 hurricanes come through in 6 weeks, I'm glad to hear all is okay. During the Orlando storms we were without power for over a week in August and it was sweltering. Our cinder block house had no airflow and got so humid the floorboards warped. Ugh!
In NC, our house has lots of large old trees right next to it and I fully expect to have one fall into the house or crush my car. I'm a bit paranoid when it gets really windy.
Love the elevator story. We've totally planned who's got skills and who is going to have to go in our neighborhood if there is ever an apocalypse. I started archery this year, but that or may not have had a little to do with it. ; )
Stay dry and charged up and be careful walking the pups. I'm sure that will be the pits!
Glad you are safe. Nice to be able to check in with favourite peeps during natural disasters via blogs. I wish everyone was as considerate as you. Tell me, how far up the island was flooded? Xx
Sending you all lots of love, hope you still have power and are doing Ok. Xxxx
Let's hope that's as bad as it gets and you don't have to stick 2 dogs and a cat under your arm any time soon. Stay safe and take care.
Wendy you sound like you have a cool head in an emergency! I want you on my team when the apocalypse comes. Keep safe.
Hi my dear-have been thinking of you at this time and so pleased to read your post-please keep safe and sound and hope your family keep safe and well too xxx
Note to self: Do not get stuck in an elevator with WendyB. If I do, eat her first.
I am so glad to hear from you. My oldest, The Costume Technician, lives in Brooklyn but works in Manhattan. But not for the next day or so at least. I will be thinking about you and everyone suffering the consequences of Sandy, and hoping you get power back soon.
So glad to hear that you and your parents are well.
I know these are dangerous days, but I can't help laughing at the cannibal story! Do you often say what others are merely thinking? Go Wendy!
Glad you had/have power. Me too!
Ah yes, I remember the blackouts of '77 and '03 well. Dan was in the city for days in '03 rescuing people from elevators. (Of course I was proud of him for being so diligent, but wanted him home with us! yes I'm a selfish bitch.) Also remember Gloria (when I decided that of course I should walk from my apt on Ave B to Danceteria — 21st and 6th — to see one of my fav bands only NY appearance ever!) Actually that wasn't too bad from what I recall, but then again I was young and stupid. I also recall the earthquake around the same time as Gloria. My kitty Jezebel would not let me sleep waking me right before it hit. Living in one of those lovely alphabet city tenements, I thought too many trucks went by fast. And I got phone calls every hour from my mother asking why I was sleeping through an earthquake — um because it was like any other day the building would tremble, & I worked nights and needed sleep! Oh goddess remember the Nor'Easter last Halloween? Crazy! I hope your parents get their power back asap. We were lucky, no outages on our side of the street (weather witching comes in handy), opposite side and blocks all around us are out as well as the towns around us. We did have some nasty felled branches that fell into the neighbours driveway, thank goodness they weren't out walking Oscar the pug, or Doug their newborn baby as it could have been fatal — that sucker was HUGE! At least I won't have to buy firewood this year! I was super worried about everyone in the city, my friend in a high rise was flipping because the windows kept rattling. Apparently there is no power below 14th st as well. I'm glad you're all safe, and loved your story! Maybe now everyone will take my zombie apocalypse prep seriously, it comes in handy in any disaster! XXX
Take care of your precious self!
Thanks for the report and update, and the fab stories. AND so happy you are okay. xo xo
Okay I would have died in that elevator, I'm already claustrophobic so there would have been two panicked women on that elevator with you. So did this experience make AnneMarie go into labor any earlier than she otherwise would have?
Glad to hear your all okay and that you have power.
Ha! I love the elevator story.
So glad you & yours are safe – thanks for the update, and that priceless elevator story! You kill me.
NYC and I are on some kind of perfectly phased incident warp in which an event of massive proportions occurs there at the same time I face personal heartbreak, e.g., my Dad dying right before 9/11 and our two cats going missing just when #sandy hit NYC and environs.
I'm glad you and your family and friends are ok.

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"Danny brings a breadth of experience in improving nuclear fleet performance and sustaining excellence," Southern Nuclear CEO Stephen Kuczynski said in a statement.
In Alabama, the Southern Co. subsidiary operates the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan.


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|A letter to the Googles, From (Mini) Me
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Dear Google, I'm a fanboy. I admit it. A skeptical fanboy, but a fanboy nonetheless. You've got some smart cookies over there. So why do you let so many sites get away with murder?
I spend all my time with clients counseling good practices, link growth through great content, focus on quality not quantity, blah blah blah. I'm like Matt Cutts' Mini Me. Then you let someone with a pile of spammy links and a site that looks like it was optimized in 2000 climb to #1.
No problem, I tell the client. They'll get theirs. Google will catch up with them. And a month passes. Two months. Three... Nothing. Nada. So, guys, throw me some love? It's kind of, you know, embarrassing.
Here are some random examples that make me question my faith in you, justice and liberty for all data. You don't need to slam 'em. Just explain to me how they got where they are, and why they aren't getting slapped around:
Example 1: Mahalo
Aaron Wall's pointed it out. Danny Sullivan tied Matt Cutts up in knots with it at SMX in 2008. Mahalo shows an endless list of ads and scraped search results with zero added value if you search on, say 'bicycle racing'. If you search for a more popular topic - say, 'facebook login' - you get a page that talks about everything Facebook except logins. Mahalo changed the article title, page title tag and a few other headings on the page to optimize for 'Facebook login'.
It's like slapping a Porsche sticker on a Pinto and hoping you get away with it. Of course, Mahalo does. So, Google, if your number 1 priority is relevance and happy users, why would you ever rank this site? For anything? More to the point: If I built a site that used these kinds of strategies, you'd ban me so fast the universe would forget I ever existed. Moving on...
Example 2: Vitamin C FoundationA 'foundation' web site that's a unique non-profit, insofar as they're dedicated to selling you their unique Vitamin C formula. They rank #4 for 'Vitamin C' on Google.There's spam, and then there's fraud. This web site skirts the far edge of both, suggesting, without actually saying, that:
Then they link to PRNewswire press releases as their medical evidence. I didn't even look at their link profile or site setup. I'm not even going to give a nofollow link to their all-bold-text web site.
How the hell did you give this site a top 5 ranking, beating sites like WebMD and Ohio State?! Quality content, my ass. Next...
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Lousy link profiles. Lousy onsite SEO. Duplicate content. And tons of complaints. Soooooo, you're ranking them top 10 because... Yeah. I dunno either.
I'm not asking for perfection
I know there are a lot of web sites out there. I know most of them are utter crap. But Google, could you maybe clean up the top 15 or so? Or at least the top 5, so I don't feel like swallowing my tongue every time I look at the rankings?
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text: It was a somewhat surprising outcome when it was announced that the Baltimore Ravens had elected to release veteran S Bernard Pollard this offseason. Pollard was a reliable, effective player for them, and they were in danger of losing fellow S Ed Reed to free agency (a possibility that has since become reality). Nevertheless, Pollard was left to explore his value amongst the 31 other teams, and according to ESPN's Josina Anderson, Pollard has chosen the Tennessee Titans.


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Having absorbed a direct hit by losing the Catholic 7 group of schools over the weekend, Big East commissioner Mike Aresco is about to go into a battle mode with a series of moves designed to not only reinvigorate his embattled league, but also put it in position to emerge as a viable 6th conference that could sit at the table with the five so called Super Conferences–the Big 12, Big 10, ACC, Pac-12, and SEC.
According to sources in the Big East, Arseco and company are planning on exploring the following moves.
1. Sell the name ""Big East"" to the basketball schools after getting some assurances from the NCAA that the cost of losing the Big East name will not cost them too much in the lucrative NCAA basketball tournament. If the name is sold to the new Big East, the old Big East will petition the NCAA to get a 32nd guaranteed spot for its champion.
Aresco is unlikely to do this until after next season since the Big East name still has a guaranteed BCS bowl slot for one more year if it can maintain its composition.
After the bowl games are played next season, then the old Big East can fade into oblivion in terms of its name.
Aresco's contention is that a basketball league with Connecticut, Cincinnati, Memphis and Temple has a decent foundation to build.
2. Give East Carolina full membership (the original deal was football only) which would give the new league an Eastern group of Cincinnati, UConn, South Florida, Temple, East Carolina, Central Florida, Tulane and in 2015 Navy.
Form a western group which would include Memphis, Houston, SMU, Boise State, San Diego State and either Air Force, BYU, Nevada, UNLV or Fresno. The capacity to expand to as many as 16 teams remains on the board, although the plan now is go into increments as teams change, going from 12 teams next season to 14, 15 or 16 teams in the following seasons.
In basketball, the all sports group would be all of the schools in the Eastern Group other than Navy, as well as Memphis, SMU, and Houston. That would be a 10 team league which could work perfectly in terms of scheduling. But additional teams (UMass) could be considered.
Aresco could also include all of the western teams in an all sports division of Memphis, SMU, Houston, Boise State, San Diego State and then any number of the other group from BYU, Nevada, Air Force, Fresno State and maybe even UNLV.
Aresco's plan is keep the Big East together as it now stands for one more season in football and basketball, which would be a bridge year between new television contracts involving old and new teams.
The 7 Catholic schools have expressed a desire to leave as early as next season, but the most likely compromise that will be worked out is to give the Catholic schools the name Big East, collect a minimal exit fee which would then allow both leagues to begin operation on July 1, 2014, with new identities and focuses.
"Everyone is trying to make this as amicable a separation as possible," said one Big East source familiar with the discussions "The Catholic schools were uncomfortable with the way the wind was blowing with more changes that seem to be coming and everyone understands that. It was just time to move."
The moves the Big East and the Catholic schools make will come in increments, with a series of announcements and decisions being made over the next several weeks.
East Carolina being granted a full membership will be one of the first steps. The Big East naming issue will be the next move. Aresco's league might come up with a hybrid name such as Conference America, which more truly captures the wide geographical and television footprint it wants to create.
Aresco wants to move quickly and decisively on these moves to assure such incoming conference members such as Boise State and San Diego State that the future with a new conference is a risk worth taking.
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Of course we remained friends after the frying pan incident. He became roommates with Rob, who was like Rik in many ways, minus the self-destruction, emotional issues, and violent tendencies. The three of us attended — or if I'm not mistaken, organized — the first ever Amnesty International Vegas chapter meeting.
Eventually I visited a friend in San Francisco, and felt like Dorothy discovering the Emerald City. It was a city for people like me (and Rik), where progressive thinking and diversity — ethnic, religious, culinary, and political — ruled. I couldn't move here fast enough.
Oddly, I could never convince Rik to visit me here, let alone make the move he said was inevitable. He was stuck in Vegas, a place that so outraged him, with it's crudeness and vapidness. But he stayed. Maybe he needed the fight, to always be at battle with something (in this case, a town). Or maybe, more likely, Rik was simply too inert at that point to do something about the things that aggravated him in life. It was easier to rant than to change his situation.
Over the years, he grew bloated from the beer; gone were the chiseled features, replaced by a weathered face. His hair grew wild and gray, and he had a beard. He looked like Jerry Garcia, after being out at sea for a year. The only place for which he would leave his tiny cluttered apartment was a local "British Pub" within walking distance, resplendent with video poker games at the bar and waitresses best described as Hooters girls in leiderhosen (remember, we're in Vegas). We stayed in touch via email, until it became difficult to stay in touch with Rik. Correction: it became annoying.
With the internet, Rik had at his fingertips access to way too much information. Lots of information he thought you must read and act upon. He also had way too much free time to find all this information. After a while, I'd just hit delete. I know I wasn't the only one.
He moved to Ruth, Nevada, a town as small as a town gets. He got as far from society as he could afford to go. He sounded happy (very relatively speaking) the last few times I spoke to him. I sent him an email in November 2012, a simple "Still out there?" No reply.
Back to that text my brother sent. It said Rik died on December 16, 2010. Rik's been dead over two years and none of us knew. Sadly, none of us were surprised. He had a drinking related brush with death five or eight years ago, and I honestly have no sense of time right now when it comes to Rik. I found the online announcement, which supplied only date and place of death (and they called him "Richard" -- no one called him "Richard"). I was disgusted — yes, disgusted — to learn that there was no obituary for him. His parents died years ago. He'd long been estranged from his siblings. They weren't even mentioned, nor was the son he learned he had fathered six years after the child was born. He died alone.
So now, I will write his obituary. Here's my tribute to Rik; July 1959 - December 2010; Ruth, Nevada:
Rik was the smartest guy in the room. He was also the most passionate, and outspoken, and annoying guy in the room. He could really be a pain in the ass. But it always came from a good place, and that was just Rik. He was a great, loyal friend.
Rik stood for fairness and freedom, compassion and kindness — yes kindness. Despite the bitter rage with which he spoke about (or to) those he believed were in the wrong, or mocking those who stood for things he abhorred, Rik was the kindest soul. He was not the most tolerant soul. He had no use for ignorance or hypocrisy, betrayal, or greed. He had high moral standards when it came to how the world should be and how people should treat all living beings and the planet. Perhaps too high, for he was constantly infuriated that governments, employers, leaders and lovers could behave so badly. Eventually he got away from it all and moved to to the fringe of society. And now, he's free of all the pain and suffering he found so unacceptable in the world; as well as his own.


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Michael Douglas has revealed that Marvel Studios will have an "Ant-Man" panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, and that he will be on the panel, which takes place on July 26, 2014. Douglas has the role of Hank Pym in the movie. In addition, Douglas has confirmed speculation that there will be an "Ant-Man" sequel. On July 8, 2014, I was part of a roundtable interview that Douglas did with journalists in New York City to promote his romantic comedy "And So It Goes." He made several comments about "Ant-Man" during the interview.
Douglas expressed disappointment that director Edgar Wright has left the "Ant-Man" movie. Wright's departure from "Ant-Man" was announced in May 2014. In a joint statement, Marvel and Wright (who helped develop the "Ant-Man" movie since 2006) said Wright leaving "Ant-Man" was due to "differences in their vision of the film." Wright, Joe Cornish and Adam McKay are credited as a co-writer of the "Ant-Man" screenplay.
Peyton Reed has replaced Wright as director of "Ant-Man," which is scheduled for release on July 17, 2015. (McKay had been in talks to direct the movie after Wright left the project, but McKay dropped out of the discussions and decided to make "Ant-Man" screenplay revisions instead.) Douglas confirmed reports that "Ant-Man" begins filming in August 2014 in Atlanta.
Paul Rudd stars as the title character in "Ant-Man." Other announced cast members include Evangeline Lilly, Patrick Wilson, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña, Kevin Weisman and Matt Gerald. Douglas had this to say about working with Rudd: "I'm looking forward to it."
Douglas further commented on being in "Ant-Man," which is the first superhero movie that he has done in his Oscar-winning career: "I'm so excited. It's a Marvel Comics movie. They actually pay you really well. There's going to be a sequel. It's got some humor to it and some interesting effects, to say the least."
As for Wright parting ways with the "Ant-Man" movie, Douglas said: "Yeah, he's a wonderful talent. It was very disappointing, yeah. It was a big disappointment and more so for him because he had a lot of years invested, and he was really the one initially who got them to even consider it with the screenplay that he wrote.
"I'm not the producer on it. I'm an actor for hire. And Marvel certainly has a pretty amazing track record, rightly or wrongly, so I think it just was that kind of combination where although they like the idea of the individual and somebody with Edgar's individual spirit and everything, maybe just collided with an operation. I think they're all on relatively decent terms."
During the interview, Douglas had this to say about his first-ever appearance at Comic-Con: "I'm going to Comic-Con. I'm even dragging my son [Dylan]. I'm taking him out of camp … But we've be back here. I've got to give a cancer speech on Sunday morning [July 27, 2014. Marvel's [Comic-Con panel] is ... on Saturday night [July 26, 2014], so we're going to fly all night back and drop him at camp like at 5:30, 6 in the morning in the Adirondacks, and come down and talk to 2,000 head and neck surgeons." (Douglas survived tongue cancer in 2010.)
As previously reported, Marvel will also have a Comic-Con panel for "Avengers: Age of Ultron" on July 26, 2014. The panel's participants have not yet been officially announced, but are expected to include Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and writer/director Joss Whedon.


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Tigers Tame Wildcats 21-14
Courtesy: BCUathletics.com
Release: 09/22/2012
By Dan Ryan
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A big early deficit and giving up a special teams touchdown were too much for Bethune-Cookman to overcome Saturday as Tennessee State downed the Wildcats, 21-14 before a Municipal Stadium crowd of 9,461 on Hall Of Fame weekend.
TSU's Trabis Ward had 154 yards rushing and two early touchdowns, and Daniel Fitzpatrick's 40-yard blocked field goal return gave the Tigers (4-0) a 21-0 second quarter lead.
Bethune-Cookman (2-2) scored 14 points in the final 1:03 of the opening half to make it a ball game again, but the two defenses played to a second half scoreless stalemate.
This was the third time this season the Wildcats have fallen behind by at least two scores -- and the second consecutive week an opponent has scored a momentum-changing special teams touchdown.
"Once again, we did not executive. We did not follow through and we did not finish," said B-CU Head Coach Brian Jenkins. "I have to step back and evaluate a lot of things, beginning with myself. One thing I don't want to do is take anything away from Tennessee State. My hat's off to [Head Coach] Rod Reed and his staff and players for a job well done. They were the better team today."
B-CU was inside the TSU 30-yard line on multiple occasions and scored just once.
Quarterback Quentin Williams put the Wildcats on the board with a nine-yarder to Preston Cleckley with 1:03 remaining in the first half, capping off a crisp 53-yard drive.
LeBrandon Richardson then put B-CU within one score when he scooped up a TSU lateral and returned it 47 yards for a touchdown to make it a 21-14 game.
After a short TSU punt, B-CU got to the Tigers 14-yard line in the third quarter on the strength of a 15-yard Isidore Jackson run, but the drive stalled on fourth down.
The Wildcats couldn't produce a potential scoring drive in the fourth. In the first quarter, the Tigers used an 80-yard catch-and-run from Michael German to A.C. Leonard to set up Ward's first score.
Richardson gave B-CU an early scoring threat when he recovered a fumble on the Tigers 33, but Sven Hurd's 32-yard field goal missed wide right.
Ward gave TSU a 14-0 lead with 9:39 in the second quarter with a six-yard run.
Later in the half, D.J. Howard's interception and 30 yards of TSU penalties put B-CU at the Tigers 18, but Antonio Harper blocked Hurd's attempt, and Fitzpatrick picked up the loose ball running for the touchdown.
Williams was 9-of-17 for 79 yards for B-CU. Jackson rushed for 65 yards on 16 carries and also caught four passes for 17. Jarkevis Fields had a career-high 14 tackles for the Wildcats, while Richardson and Nesly Marcellon posted nine each.
The Wildcats travel to Hampton to face the Pirates in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game next Saturday at 6 p.m. at Armstrong Stadium.
NOTES: The seven-point margin of defeat was actually the lowest of the Brian Jenkins era. The previous low was eight in a 26-18 loss to South Carolina State at home last season. The other five were double-digit setbacks. ... Eddie Poole's receiving streak improved to 27 games with his two catches ... D.J. Howard's interception was the fourth of his career and marked the 11th straight game B-CU has registered a pick ... with today's performance, Isidore Jackson moves to ninth on the All-Time Career Rushing Yards list with 1,715, surpassing Ricky Cliatt (1976-79) ... Jackson also lept onto the top ten Career Attempts list, debuting at eighth with 335 carries, ahead of Cliatt and Wayne Allen (1972-74) ... Jackson currently is in a tie with Allen with 17 for Career Rushing Touchdowns ... in addition to a career-high for him, Fields' 14 tackles were a B-CU high this year ... B-CU has been outscored 42-7 in the first quarter on the season and has outscored opponents 41-31 in the second quarter


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Citi 2013 Global Healthcare Conference
February 25, 2013 11:05 AM ET
Daniel Junius – President and CEO
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I would point you to our regulatory filings about risk associated with investing in ImmunoGen. We see ourselves as being on the forefront of developing therapies that we think will be transformative in terms of how cancer is treated and we had a major event on Friday.
This is the first public forum at which I am able to say that we have a compound that's been approved by the FDA for treatment in patients. Kadcyla was approved, it's a compound in development by Roche for HER2-positive breast cancer. I will spend more time on that later.
In addition to being simply watershed event for the company and for the technology, obviously from an economic standpoint it affords us the opportunity, both to be realizing milestones within the transaction and generating significant royalty revenue over the life of this particular compound.
Beyond that, we are in the process of moving forward on proprietary programs. We have three compounds in development today. We have a fourth that we expect to go in the clinic over the course of 2013 and more that we are working on pre-clinically.
We do that in an environment where we think we have sufficient resources to take our clinical compounds through to proof-of-concept. We have over $200 million in cash as of our last reporting period, no debt. And the opportunity to generate additional cash from other partnerships we have with major companies who are advancing compounds in oncology.
Let me start and talk a little bit about Kadcyla for a number of reasons. One the brand name is, at this point three days old. We think it's the start of a, what will be a new era in HER-2 positive breast cancer is treated. There is considerable efficacy that's been demonstrated through the clinical study, the process, as well as improvement in terms of tolerability for patients.
Importantly, it's the first antibody drug conjugate to be approved for a prevalent solid tumor and that's important because, 90% of all cancers are represented with solid tumors. So having a compound that's shown the benefit that we've seen with Kadcyla through clinical studies and getting it approved makes that a very significant event.
And from the management standpoint, I reference to revenue implications, but obviously from a technical standpoint this represents a new threshold of validation. I think that there had been technical validation as people looked at the data that was being generated through the various clinical studies but getting regulatory approval represents an entirely new threshold of validation.
As I said, Kadcyla is now approved for marketing in the US. It will be approved to treat HER-2 positive metastatic breast cancer for patients who have failed in earlier therapy of Herceptin Plus a Taxane and what that represents, it will include some patients who would have received that therapy Herceptin Plus Taxane in the adjuvant setting, if they progressed while on therapy or within six months.
So that would open up some first line metastatic patients to receive the therapy. But then for those in second line or later metastatic, they would all become eligible because the assumption is, they would have received Herceptin Plus a Taxane when first diagnosed with metastatic disease.
So the data that Roche has indicated would say that it's at least 14,000 patients would immediately become available and importantly for late-stage patients, today who have no other targeted therapy available and then for some percentage of first line metastatic patients.
I talked about efficacy plus tolerability, what we saw in the EMILIA study which was the data that supported the filing was a significant improvement in both progression free survival and overall survival. The overall survival benefit was adding six months to overall survival versus the control of taker of Tykerb plus Xeloda, plus a more favorable safety profile and that you saw about two-thirds of the grade-3 in greater adverse events versus the control arm, as well as events that led to a reduction in dose or drug discontinuation.
The compliance rate in the study with T-DM1 and that was called then was almost 100%, 99.9% with 90 plus percent for Tykerb compliance, but only 77% complaint with Xeloda. So I think that that's reflective of the tolerability with this particular compound versus the standard of care for those patients.
The Kadcyla approval is the first step in what we see as a broad registration pathway that's being undertaken by Roche. This particular patient population really does represent a new segment for Roche for HER-2 positive breast cancer patients and that these are patients who failed in earlier Herceptin-based therapy.
For those who are currently receiving a Herceptin plus Taxane or even a Herceptin plus Taxane plus Perjeta therapy, there is a study underway that will read out in early 2014 that would make it – assuming the data supports it and there is approval you would have T-DM1 or Kadcyla available for all first line metastatic patients.
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Water and Energy International
Year 2011, Volume-68, Issue-11 (November)
Print ISSN : 0974-4207
Online ISSN : 0974-4711
Table of contents
From Editor's Disks
From Editor's DisksV. K. Kanjlia
Water & Energy International
Energy Section
Trends in Power Transformer TechnologyM. Vijaykumaran
Case Studies on Power Transformers - Power Grid ExperienceS. Victor P. Selvakumar, S.K. Mishra
(B) DGA of Bushings - Power Grid ExperienceS. Victor P. Selvakumar, S.K. Mishra
(C) FRA Case Study -Power Grid ExperienceS. Victor P. Selvakumar, S.K. Mishra
Partial Discharge Monitoring and Location in Power Transformers using UHF TechnologySudhanshu Gupta
Water Resources Section
Multifunctionality of Irrigation Water: External Benefits Beyond Food ProductionDeepak Kumar Das
Dam Safety in India: An OverviewDr. B. Ravi Kumar Pillai
Water & Energy Research Digest
Renewable Energy Section
"Algal" Biodiesel: Future Prospects and ProblemsA. Roy Choudhary, R. Karmakar, K. Kundu, V.R. Dahake
Instrumentation in Earthen Dams - Case Study of Urmodi DamM.S. Mundhe, M.S. Bendre, A.N. Mhaske, B.A. Dhage
Statistical Data
Water Resources
Statistical Data: State-wise Ultimate Irrigation Potential
Far & Near in Water and Energy
Energy Section: Distribution
DHBVN new power supply schedule
Energy Section: General
Indicus Analytics: India's Gridlock
Minister of state for power visits NHPC projects in WB
Energy Section: Generation
NTPC Synchronizes 2nd unit of IGSTPP, Jhajjar
Energy Section: Tariff
Power Tariff to rise 20% each year: CERC
Energy Section: Transmission
Powergrid demonstrates robotic technology
Energy Section: Nuclear
Industry divided over new nuclear liability Rules
Water Resources Section: News
Minister of water resources & parliamentary affairs pawan bansal inaugurates IITF pavilion with theme save water! secure future
Rare isotope helps track an ancient water source
Time to change mindset of regional leadership
Time for action to revolutionize water agenda
Water & Energy Abstracts
Aysén-SIC HVDC Transmission System: Planning StudiesG. Olguin, J.C. Araneda, R. La Fuente
Hydrogenerator as a Black-starter for a Power Plant. Protection RequirementsS. Wróblewska, H. Dytry, W. Szweicer, M. Niedzwiedzik, Z. Lubosny
A Novel Transmission System Planning Method Combining Market Simulations and Load Flow Calculations for Identifying Bottlenecks in Systems with Large RES PenetrationP.G.H. Jacobs, C.P.J. Jansen, R. Van Offeren, E. Pelgrum, A.R. Ciupuliga, A. Mahes, M. Gibescu
Powergrid's Experience in Evolving Architecture Needs in System Control & Operation; Present & Future ProspectsN.S. Sodha, A. S. Kushwaha, A. K. Mishra, Dr. Sunita Chohan
Analysis of Socio-environmental Costs in the Operational Phase of Hydropower Projects in BrazilAndré L. Mustafá, Mirian R. Nuti
Research on the Wave-front Correction Coefficient used in the Flashover Experiment of Switching Impulse in 1000 kV and 750 kV Transmission LineL. Liu, Y. C. Yuan, J. Y. Guo, C. Deng
Experience of Reliability-based Demand Response Implementation in KoreaJ.K. Park, Y.T. Yoon, H.C. Lee, T.h. Yoo, J.W. Noh, C.H. Lee, Y.S. Yoo
Optimal Demand Side Response for Electricity Balance Control in MicrogridM. Koshio, M. Nonaka, S. Nakamura, K. Nakao, D. Sato
Comparison of Implicit and Explicit Connection of Fast-and Slow-flowing Components of a Water SystemA. J. J. Vergroesen, N. C. van de Giesen, F. H. M. van de Ven
Resolution of Freshwater and Saline Water Aquifers by Composite Geophysical Data Analysis MethodsG. K. Hodlur, Ratnakar Dhakate, T. Sirisha, D. B. Panaskar
Fluid Flow Interactions in Ogun River, NigeriaAmartya Kumar Bhattacharya, G. Akin Bolaji
Critical Shifting of Bhagirathi- Hugli and Erosion Problems of Nabadwip of Nadia in West BengalSupratim Karmakar
Intermittent ReservoirInflow Prediction using Stochastic and Genetic Programming ModelsAlka S. Kote, V. Jothiprakash
A GIS Based Approach for Erosion Hazard Mapping of Umkhen Sub Watershed of Kopili River Basin in Northeastern Region of IndiaB.C. Kusre, R.R. Haque, S.C. Patra, D.C. Baruah
Assessment of Erosion Potential Area in Diyung Watershed of Kopili River Basin in Assam using Terrain Based IndicatorsB.C. Kusre, R.R. Haque
Biodiesel from Waste cooking Oil for Power GenerationM.P. Sharma, S.N.V. Rama Anusha Mandavavilli
Assessment of Stabilised Soil Strength with Geophysical MethodsHelen Ahnberg, Martin Holmen
Water Scarcity and Climatic Change in India: The need for Water Demand and Supply ManagementRathinasamy Maria Saleth
CBIP News Letter
Proceedings of Two-day Interactive Workshop on "Technology Trends in Power Transformers" 11 & 12 November, 2011
New Technology
New solutions for future Dams
The future of hydropower for energy generation and storage
New labyrinth weirs triple the spillways dischargeF. Lempérière
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When Usher showed up on Tuesday's "TRL," he wasn't just there to promote his just-released new album, Here I Stand. He was there to actually take a stand.
During a segment of Tuesday's show, Usher launched into an impromptu rant that found him dismissing reports that he and his wife were separating, defending his marriage from naysayers and calling gossip about his personal life "trash." Members of the studio audience gasped and shouted their approval.
"I love my wife very, very much," he said. "There was a little rumor earlier this week about us separating. It ain't true. We in love. Get outta there," he said, raising his left hand and showing off his wedding band. "Matter of fact, I'm tired of people continuing to talk so much trash about me, know what I'm saying? And my relationship.
"My wife is not 40 years old. I love her to death and I'm a black, strong man in America standing up for my people — as a man to my wife, to my son, to my family ," he continued, removing his sunglasses and talking directly into the camera. "I'm making a stand that a lot of us should make. I coulda been like any other man who has a child and live with that woman and continue to just play the game. … I'm trying to do it the right way. This is the way your supposed to do it! Pay attention, fellas."
Usher then turned his back to the camera, while the studio audience applauded wildly. "TRL" host Damien Fahey then attempted to continue with the segment, only to be interrupted as Ush began part two of his verbal assault.
"And my wife had nothing to do with me firing my mother — nothing like that, that's trash," he said, referring to his mother, Jonetta Patton, ceasing to be his manager last year. "I hear y'all talking crazy out there, she's a beautiful black woman. Stop. Stop talking. And I love her. Stop it."
With that, Fahey threw to Usher's "Love in this Club" video, all while the crooner insisted, "I'm not done … can I say something else?"
However, his broadside may not have had the intended effect. Within hours, many of the sites Usher targeted were already comparing his tantrum to Mariah Carey's infamous 2001 "TRL" meltdown, in which she bum-rushed the show, handed out frozen treats from an ice cream cart and performed and impromptu striptease, all while then-host Carson Daly looked on in befuddlement.
Still others — primarily fansites like UsherForever.com — called the tirade another example of Ush's wife Tameka having him under her thumb.
"What a damn fool. If he is a grown-a– man like he say he is then he needs to shut the f— up," one commenter wrote.
"Ursh STOP defending ur wife, it's getting old," another added. "The more you talk bout haterz the more your album will be collecting dust on the shelves. But this is the man you've become or should i say the man ur wife has made you into. You'll end up eating all your words soon than later."


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River Deposits on Mars
Smithsonian's Stars Lecture Series
Presenter: Sharon Wilson Purdy
Saturday, January 25, 2014
5:15 pm
Albert Einstein Planetarium
Museum in Washington, DC
4:00 p.m. Discovery Station (in front of Welcome Center)
5:15 p.m. Lecture in the Albert Einstein Planetarium
6:30 p.m. Telescope observing at Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory, weather permitting
Alluvial fans provide evidence for water-related activity. Recent studies on Mars suggest they are younger than previously thought, providing new insight into the late-stage climate and habitability of the planet.
Smithsonian's Stars lectures are suitable for ages 13 and up.
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Cosmonautica nominated for best simulation game
posted on 13 November 2014 by Public Relations
We're happy to announce that Cosmonautica is nominated for best simulation game at the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2014 [German Developer Award].
And of course we're looking forward to the award show in Cologne :)
Congrats to all the other great nominees.
Cosmonautica now available on Steam
posted on 17 September 2014 by Public Relations
Cosmonautica is now available on Steam.
You can purchase the game there or directly on our page via the humble widget.
More stores will follow as soon as possible.
We've won the Project Anarchy challenge!
posted on 15 July 2014 by Public Relations
Wooohooo :))
Since last week it's official. We have won the Havok Project Anarchy challenge. This challenge was some sort of a huge test for us. It has proven that we can deliver the same experience on tablets as on PCs.
We've been working with Havok technology before Project Anarchy came along, so we adapted pretty quickly. Anyways, we're totally recommending Project Anarchy as an alternative for upcoming developers. Great tools and top-notch support makes this toolset stand out.
It was an awesome experience for us and we've gained valuable feedback from the challenge judges and the fine folks at Havok.
We're super happy and excited for the upcoming weeks with gamescom and so on.
Stay tuned for more info on Cosmonautica.
Your Chasing Carrots team
Games regulars' table #2 / Stuttgart
posted on 16 June 2014 by Public Relations
On 4th of June we held the second games regulars' table at our studio. And despite the rainy weather we decided to have a BBQ.
We had great conversations with colleagues and friends from other studios and game related institutions, like Studio Fizbin, Navel, Grandé Games, HdM, SAE and so on.
The next regular's table will follow soon and if you are a working with games and are interested in participating contat josef [at] chasing-carrots.com.more...
Cosmonautica has been Greenlit!
posted on 17 May 2014 by Public Relations
Because of your great support Cosmonautica has been Greenlit on Steam in no time :)
Thank you very much!
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A series of four life-sized sculptures of abstract running figures by Purchase student Andrew Fennell is the newest addition to the outdoor sculpture collection at Purchase College.
The four, bright red, running figures on a hillside have become a striking gateway for campus visitors as they enter the Plaza or visit The Performing Arts Center.
The work, Interpretations of Movement in Red, is a study of human movement and Mr. Fennell's senior project as a student in the School of Art+Design at Purchase. Made of 6 ½ foot steel pipe sections, the works depict a figure running in four stages in sequential time frames. Each figure was made to the proportions of Mr. Fennell's body and each stage depicts a specific body movement.
The sculptures were first on view as part of Mr. Fennell's senior project exhibition and the College has since acquired them.
A native of Rhinebeck, N.Y, Mr. Fennell grew up on a 500-acre communal farm on the Hudson River surrounded by musicians, poets and artists who lived in 20 barns and small houses on the property. His passion for artistic expression was instilled in him at an early age by his father, a sculptor, and his mother, a painter.
Puppetry was an early influence and after interacting with the Bread and Puppet Theater and Superior Concept Monsters, he made large scale puppets for the Greenwich Village Halloween parade, demonstrations and environmental theater. He also worked on performance pieces.
When he decided to become a sculptor, movement became his sculptural language. It represented life and unrestricted freedom. "In life everything has its own unique characteristics and patterns of movement,†he said. "Each movement of the body can be as distinguishable as a fingerprint.â€
Mr. Fennell will graduate from purchase this month and plans to return to the Rhinebeck area and begin his career as an artist.


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This afternoon political parties joined Mr Key is calling for
an immediate ceasefire and a long-term solution between
Israel and Hamas -- though Mr Key said further action such as
sanctions was unlikely.
He said most of the 1300 people killed in fighting between
the two regions were civilians.
"These are people that just can't get out of harm's way. I
think for most people watching this they would just say it's
"You've got young children, you've got families - this is a
situation which has to end and common sense has got to
His comments followed reports of further attacks on UN-run
schools in Gaza where displaced people were seeking refuge.
Amnesty International described the latest school bombing --
which killed 20 people -- as a possible war crime that
required independent investigation.
United Nations officials said it was a disgrace to the world;
the UN said it told Israel the position of the school 17
times to ensure it was not targeted.
The strike is the sixth attack on a UN-run school in Gaza
since Operation "Protective Edge" began on July 8.
Asked about the apparent targeting of schools, Mr Key said:
"If they are, it's very worrying. I don't have all the facts
… but I just know well over 1300 people have lost their
lives. It's a blot on the world as we currently know it and
it's got to end."
He said Israel's argument that people could get out of harm's
way if they were given notice was "a bit flawed in its logic"
because most of the affected people were refugees who had
nowhere to go.
But he stopped short of singling out Israel for condemnation,
saying that both sides needed to cease their attacks and find
a long-term solution.
"People can say disproportionately … Israel has better
capability and more force. But in principle both sides really
have to stop."
Labour's foreign affairs spokesman David Shearer, who used to
work in Israel for the UN, said Israel's attacks were
disproportionate and indiscriminate.
Gaza was essentially a prison camp for Palestinians with 40
per cent unemployment, collapsed infrastructure and food
shortages, he said.
"These conditions will inevitably sow the seeds for further
conflict if they're not resolved.
"It is not normal for 1.6 million Palestinians to be
blockaded into a narrow strip of land, a situation that aptly
fits its description as the largest prison camp in the
Green Party global affairs spokesperson Kennedy Graham called
on the Government to condemn Israel and consider expelling
its ambassador to send a strong message.
"We understand that the Israel-Palestine situation is highly
complex and that Israel has certain rights as a UN member
state, but its bombardment of Gaza in the past few weeks
violates the laws of humanity and has to stop."
Dr Graham was meeting with Israeli ambassador Yosef Livne
tomorrow to convey his views.
The attack on the UN school came a day after the Gaza Strip's
sole power plant was struck and badly damaged.
Philip Luther, Amnesty International director of the Middle
East and North Africa programme, said there was no
justification for targeting a civilian structure.
"The strike on the power plant, which cut off electricity and
running water to Gaza's residents and numerous hospitals, has
catastrophic humanitarian implications and is very likely to
amount to a war crime."
Mr Key said it was difficult to impose sanctions unless the
UN Security Council made a resolution.
Asked about the US role in the conflict, he said Barrack
Obama's administration appeared to be "more reserved" in its
support of Israel compared to previous administrations.
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Rob, And while you're waiting for that bite, you can research
the history of Israel. There you will find that the Israelies
have lived in the area for centuries and therefore have as
much right to the land as any other.
It was the western world, along with Russia, that decided
boundaries after WW2. Just how many Palestinians or any other
of the Arab nations for that matter, do you think would have
survived the Nazi onslaught without protection from the UK,
NZ and others?
Not many, I would suggest. The Palestinians' problem is they
refuse to sign any peace deal like Egypt and Saudi Arabia
have. They have no one to blame for what they are receiving,
than themselves.
If Australia took over NZ 50 years ago, pushed you out of
your home, forced you to live on Stewart island, crammed in
another million and a half people, progressively broke all
international treaties in order to take more of your land,
and all the while BBQed and drank beer on your back lawn ...
by now you'd be more than a little peeved. Stick to cars
Rat1512: Australian's can count their lucky stars then? And
by that I mean lucky we don't have an elaborate system of
tunnels under the ocean whereby we can infiltrate and cause
mahem, murder and abductions at will. The can also count
themselves lucky we don't have a seemlingly endless suply of
rockets we can fire at them, hundreds a day, at will.
There is one big difference though. As New Zealanders, we
would not be ignorant enough to think that by hiding our
fighters and weapons in UN compounds and schools, that the
enemy would not come looking to destroy anything and
everything in the area, when the location was
At the end of the day, if the Palastinians don't like what
they are getting as retribution for the actions of Hamas,
they know where the solution lies.
Then, imagine the best. The United Nations militarily
blockade NZ by sea, an international defence shield, flying
in all the needed personnel and supplies to our women and
Finally our PM is speaking out against the slaughter of
Palestinian children. Is that because our elections are just
around the corner?
Just imagine, that Australia launched an attack of this scale
in New Zealand.
That 1300 people were killed, that 63500 were injured, that
1.8 million of our fellow citizens just had our only power
station blown up, we had no running water, no sewage system,
no electricity, no food, few medical supplies, and our
borders had been closed for 7 years.
That corriander, tampons, crayons, pencils, lipstick and
coffee were deemed illegal imports for the past 7 years,
along with 4000 other household items. That every hour of
every day meant continual suffering at the hands of
Just imagine that. And the world did nothing, nothing at all,
to ease our burden, to lessen our pain.
And the attacks are relentless, and Australia's politicans
are calling for genocide, to exterminate New Zealanders.
the world did nothing.
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Officials in Finney County and Garden City are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency over a new flood plain map that would affect large swaths of downtown.
The officials, plus three property owners in the southwest
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They're seeking a preliminary injunction against FEMA to block the
agency from implementing the new map on Sept. 25.
FEMA unveiled the updated map last year and has refused the
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Last month, Lionsgate and WWE Films announced that former WWE Champion Kane would be reprising his role of Jacob Goodnight from the 2006 film 'See No Evil' in a sequel. In a press release, they said that 'See No Evil 2′ will be written by Nathan Brookes and Bobby Lee Darby for identical twin horror directors Jen and Sylvia Soska. Since then, Michael Eklund from other WWE productions 'The Call' and 'The Marine 3: Homefront' has been added to the cast, but now, two more actresses with some horror movie experience have joined in on the fun.
Danielle Harris from the original and remake 'Halloween' franchises and Katherine Isabelle from 'Ginger Snaps' and 'Freddy Vs. Jason' are the newest additions to the horror sequel that will see the psycho killer prey on some med students. Isabelle has worked with the Soskas before in their second film, 'American Mary'. There's no word on who exactly the pair of actresses will be playing, but I'd guess that they'd be among the med students getting picked off my the Big Red Machine's cinematic persona.
"See No Evil 2' revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell Hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as the deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one."
I thought that "See No Evil" was a decent film when I first saw it, I haven't watched it again since the day I bought the DVD, but I know that it has gotten mixed reviews. However, just by adding Danielle Harris and Katherine Isabelle to the cast, they've already improved on the original.
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It would be nice to have a feature that suggested courses for you to take based on what others are taking that have finished or are doing the courses you have. For example, if you just finished course "animals" and most people that have done that course do "jobs" the suggest feature would suggest you do "jobs" next.
Or it might suggest courses based on the fact that another course shares some of the words you already know.
I know this might involve some heavy affinity analysis, but it would be pretty cool.
I think rather than a topic suggestion (which would make it necessary to tag courses), markings on frequency in a language should be used.
Let's say you just learned some bird names, some transportation nouns and some medical terms, along with the vocab of the two textbooks you use, you could "fill the gaps" with a deck generated specifically for you by estimating your vocab size and use the words not in any of your lists, within this range.
With a frequency list, the vocab database and a decent script, words could be flagged in a heart beat. You can generate lists of any size picking unused words from that pool for the optimal way to broaden your understanding - and deepening it over time, as you progress.
If a user could also flag words as "I know this and see it often enough, so I don't need to see it here on memrise", you can then go through vocabulary in a much more meaningful way.
Why would I want to "learn" and repeat "hello" over and over again? I don't even have to see it every 3 months, because I actually do use the language.
That's what I'd do.
I was just trying to think of something a little easier to implement as the first generation of the tool. Although, you could create frequency lists by looking at how many people have learned a particular word. The more people that have learned it, the more frequent it is assumed to be. Then you could you use that to generate the lists you are talking about.
Do you know of any good frequency lists for Japanese? I haven't been able to find any. I know you can pretty easily find English ones though.
Just load up ANKI, there you go. Core 1.000, 2.000, 6.000, 10.000 ... there should be a 20.000 somewhere on the net, too. The only problem with these lists is the material they're based on (mostly newspapers), so what you learn will be useful, but probably not the same people use on the street. That's why I plan to build up the Jpod list after I finished the C6K.. to fill my gaps :)
Hmm.. Not sure which is easier to implement TBH.
I was talking about something a little more granular, I know about the Kore lists, but in order for the suggested courses to work well, it would have to be something a little more exact, don't you think? Not everybody is a big studier like us. They would want something a little more bite-sized, like what are the next 100 words that are most common for example.
Again, I think this could be pulled from the data that is available on memrise. The more people studying it should be equal to how useful the word is and thus how often it is used (at least by the people on memrise).
Hmm.. you have a point there. Then again, this only works if many people learned a lot of words. I tested a few lists and abandoned them again shortly after, but some people have gardens with 50 lists, each only partially learned.
Now, for a topic like "Japanisch", with roughly 30 users and 2 sets, such suggestions are just not feasible - English rules this world with an iron fist, and even the default display settings are biased towards this, here on memrise. If you are to search for your TL through your mother tongue, you'll have to figure out where the site hides them ;)
I do like the idea of 100 word minisets generated by memrise. There must be ways to somehow deal with the problems related to that.
WE actually were just discussing how to implement this kind of thinking based on frequency data, and were running up exactly this issue. For French, Spanish, German, English and Chinese we can do ok on the frequency data (though the data is always a bit messy, it is good enough). For other languages is gets harder. If we could get data for a good number of languages, then it would make it easier to spend the time implementing it.
So any suggestions would be very welcome!
Best wishes
I know there are "official" frequency lists for Japanese (as official as that can possibly be), based on newspaper articles.
The University of Leeds has put up quite some frequency lists for various languages (including Japanese, also a Kanji frequency list) in sorted order here:
Just found out they used the internet as the corpus for determining frequency - that's great news!


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"Although the corals are small and the community at such depth only consists of few species, it shows that there are viable communities living down there. The corals were attached to the rock surface and were certainly not individual corals which have fallen down to this depth," says team leader Dr Pim Bongaerts from the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.
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In a report on NBC news in Los Angeles yesterday, Wednesday, February 19 (see http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Markets-Cited-for-High-Risk-Violations-246071781.html), it was revealed how low some local food store chains have sunk in their dealings with the public. El Super, which is found in communities such as Panorama City in the San Fernando Valley, East Los Angeles, and other low-income areas, has been endangering the health of their clientele. For those who rely on food stamps, WIC, or who exist paycheck-to-paycheck, it's of great importance to have access to food of good quality. Shoppers at El Super certainly won't find it in these outlets.
Their own employees, members of United Food & Commercial Workers, along with consumer advocate groups, have told NBC that the chain is regularly marketing merchandise that has exceeded the expiry dates. Items such as eggs, baby food, dairy products and meat are being sold that are up to a year past the "best before" date stamped on the packaging. While it may be true that certain products, especially those that are dried or frozen, are still safe to use for a time following any such dates, there are substances which are liable to spoil easily and should never be used let alone sold when they are that old. Certainly, there are some advocates of selling expired foods quickly at deep discounts but in such cases, the items are not those which are unsafe due to their age and ingredients. Others, like those which are highly perishable or contain eggs, meat or dairy products, are liable to fast spoilage and should be discarded.
Some of the groups involved in checking up on El Super include the Consumer Federation of California and the East LA Community Corporation. They have been working on an investigation of these transgressions of food safety since November of 2013, and have found appalling circumstances where people are sold goods that are allegedly dangerous to eat because of their age.
LA County's Environmental Health inspectors had found, when they inspected the El Super stores, that some of the outlets had unsanitary conditions, such as dirty work surfaces, and improper temperatures for food storage. However, the store management has denied that the accusations of expired food sales are valid. They insist that the union is making false claims as part of a vendetta against them during labor negotiations.
When NBC's reporters checked several of the stores, they did, however, find validity to the complaints of expired food being sold. A check of the Panorama City store by this writer for the Examiner today, however, found that all the expired products have been removed—which backs up the statements made by the news team which returned to the same stores and found none of the same items available. Apparently the evidence has been removed; however, readers are able to draw their own conclusions. If the reporters, not just union members, found expired foods for sale one day and none are anywhere in sight only twenty-four hours later, does this sound like management is scared of being caught in violation of health laws? Or does it seem likely, as they insist, that the workers invented the story to cause trouble?
Taking advantage of people by unfair marketing practices such as exorbitant prices is one thing. To deliberately, knowingly sell food to the public, especially for children and infants, that is hazardous to their health, which may cause illness, is unconscionable. El Super deserves to be fined heavily for such flagrant disregard for their customers' safety. All their ill-gotten gains should be taken and redistributed to community health organizations who are actually concerned with the safety of the poor. It takes a truly Machiavellian mindset to purposely set out to sell unsafe food to those who can least afford any kind of nutrition in the first place.
For information on food safety here in Los Angeles County, you can check out http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/report/phreports.htm.