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List Of Lists I'd Like To See
- Words you think are in the dictionary, but aren't. (outed, audiophilia, website, etc...)
- Careers ruined by cell phone cameras.(ex. Michael Richards, Michael Phelps?)
- All-Time Hollywood sluts.
- Unwritten Rules. (example: more than 30 lbs. overweight - no donut eating in public!)
- Most efficient "energy drink". (Most bang for the legal buck.) DONE! but I forgot to record the link.
- One "best" quote from every American president while in (or after) office.
- American Presidents portrayed in film and the actors who portrayed them.
- Politicians (besides Jimmy Carter) who have done more for humanity AFTER their term than during.
- A good list of cross-genre inspirational songs. See cmonsters version of this list HERE.
- Best "hero rides off into the sunset" moments from film.
- Top 25 Worst Ways to End a Film (examples: Easy Rider; No Country for Old Men.) More.
- Farts in movies.
- Best portrayal of a drunk in a motion picture. With sub-catagories for "humourous" and "pathetic".
- Top 50 Worst Cases of Chemistry Between Leading Actors in a Motion Picture. (see examples in posts below.)
- Top 25 Non-Political and Non-Religious Reasons Why This World Is Going To Hell In A Handbasket.
- Other Lists That Have As Peaceful An Effect On The Soul As Stumpyver.fo's "It's All Good" List.
- Listology's First 20 Members and Their First 5 Lists.
- Instances Of One Character Destroying An Otherwise Good Movie (ex. Chris Tucker: The Fifth Element, Bill Paxton: Aliens) See Sluggo714's version of this list
- 50 Best (Currently Available In Digital Form) Musical Recordings Made Prior To 1950.
- Suggestions For Visual Improvements To Listology (fonts, colors, layout, etc...)
- 25 Best Crying Performances in a Motion Picture - comedic or dramatic. (example: Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally" or Paul Giamatti in "Lady In The Water".)
- Best Portrayal Of A Bad Hangover in a Movie. (example: Gary Cooper & Walter Brennan in The Westerner.) (Not to be confused with #13 above.)
- All-Time Best/Worst U.S. Military Basic Training Movies (examples: Biloxi Blues, Full Metal Jacket.)
- Most Realistic "Hangings" Performed for TV or Film (examples: Deadwood, Sopranos, etc...)
- Actors Who Spent Their Entire Careers Playing Pretty Much The Same Character. (examples: Bruce Willis; Ben Affleck; Ward Bond; Gregory Peck)
- Official Index of "A-List" Actors.
- Official Index of "B-List" Actors.
- Famous "Brother/Sister" Actors. (examples: John & Joan Cusack; Julia & Eric Roberts)
- Movie Stars Who Started Their Acting Careers on TV Soap Operas
- Top 5 Match-Strikes from Film. (examples would be mostly from older westerns. Usually involving the "coolness" of the character)
- Chronically Disheveled Celebrities (Bad Hair) (examples: Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen, Tim Burton.)
- Best Opening Credits in a Motion Picture. (artistically speaking - not the scene, but the presentation of the credits and title.)
- Celebrity to Monster (Or How Lip Botox Can Make The Average Adult Turn Away In Horror) (ex. Priscilla Presley; Mrs. Dr. Phil, etc...)
- Child Stars With Higher IQs Than Their Adult Co-Stars. (ex. Michael Fishman (D.J.) from Rosanne; Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) - Star Trek N.G.)
- Careers That Have Ended With Bouts of Crazy Laughter. (ex. Howard Dean, Tom Cruise (what, too soon?)
- 100 All-Time Best Movie Title Screen Shots. Best place to look.
- Celebrities: Cute, Or Just Plain Ugly? (ex. Ringo Starr, Miley Cyrus, Barbara Streisand, etc...)
- Top 5 Worst Abuses of a Bomb Countdown Display. (ex. Stargate - approx. 30-120 sec. between ticks)
- Actors Who've Aged Well (and kept their salaries high) Onscreen. (ex. Kris Kristofferson, Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall)
- Things You Didn't Notice The First Time You Watched a Film. (ex. the growing absurdity of "Miller's Crossing". So good and serious the first time you see it.)
- Male Film Stars Who Have Done Full-Frontal Nudity For Their Audience - and if you must... The Most Impressive Of The Lot.
- Movies that use the "waiting at the bus stop, bus pulls in blocking shot, bus pulls away with or without person who was waiting." (ex. Ghost World, Manic)
- Top 10 Funniest "Sidekicks" from Film. (Not to be confused with equal-billing "buddy" movies.) (ex. Stumpy - Rio Bravo)
- Top 10 "Coolest" TV Sitcom Dads ~ 1949-2008. (ex. Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show; Bill Bixby - The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
- Best Trailers For The Worst Movies. (Polar opposites. Expectations squashed. Completely misleading. Take your pick.)
- Top 10 Most Realistic Gunfights from Film ~ Emphasis on Sound. (ex. Movie - Open Range)
- Your Top 25 Scenes or Sequences From Film. (Nice start HERE.) A good Listology example HERE.
- 10 Best Examples of Airborne Police Cars. (ex. Live Free or Die Hard, Bourne Ultimatum, Blade Runner, etc...)
- Movies Where the Male & Female Leads Hitchhike Together. (ex. It Happened One Night '34, The Postman Always Rings Twice '46, The Sure Thing '85, etc...)
- All-Time Best Sight-Gags.
- Same Title ~ Different Movie. (expand on THIS list.) ~ (My favorite: "The Patriot" : 1928, 1986, 1998, 2000)
- 5 Things Clint Eastwood Can't Do. (ex. No. 1. Act inebriated ~ from Two Mules to Gran Torino ~ worst job at acting drunk I've ever seen.)
- Back Listed: "Best Motion Picture Oscars to Ten" for every year prior to 2009. Good luck!
- BEST POLL: Best Picture Winner (from 10 nominees) For Every Year Prior To 2009.
- 20 Most Flagrant Abuses of Product Placement in a Motion Picture (Subliminal Or Not)
Feel free to give directions or start your own lists from my topics.
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Not that I've seen Tapeheads but Cusak and Robbins are good friends from way back. I'm surprised.
But just to get you started: Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra in Jungle Fever... or Robin Williams and everyone else in anything else that he's ever done.
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Oooh! Nice example! Actually, I've since read that Cusack & Robbins first became friends on the set of Tapeheads. I believe it was their over-the-top, badly improvised excitement that didn't work for me.
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The winner for number 14 is definitely Elijah Wood and Sean Astin in Lord of the Rings.
The unwritten rules one would be fun. I'd like to make that one, actually. Although I imagine it would rapidly degrade into a cynical attack on human nature and social convention. Or just get ridiculous, because there are way too many. Ie: has anyone ever written down not to jump on a table during a class? In a restaurant? In a store? At a friend's house? In a library? See the problem? Plus, many of these rules change from circumstance to circumstance and from place to place. Ie: racist jokes are a definite no-no...unless they're in the context of satire, or you're around very unoffendable people.
I think unwritten rules are unwritten because they're just too wishy-washy and circumstantial, and it would be impossible to write them out without having an absurdly complex legal document.
Plus many unwritten rules are written in some places. IE: no talking in a library is a common one, but some libraries actually write this out. And the fat people one you put as an example is only true in North America: in some countries, fat is beautiful, and eating a donut in public is a sign of affluence.
Dammit, I tried making it anyway, and it's impossible. It's a hopelessly large topic and it quickly turns into a legal document/nonsense list.
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The "Unwritten Rule" list wouldn't necessarily have to be serious. I know tongue-in-cheek is a hard concept to keep following and we all know the PC police are always scanning content with their slimy, itchy fingers - waiting for the opportune time to pounce on an otherwise good discussion - but I say, "What the hell!"
Let's keep it fun. If you (others) disagree with a suggestion - keep your fingers off the keyboard until you can think of a good counter-suggestion. One with some wit and a provable point. And just a wee bit of the afore mentioned "tongue-in-cheek."
I need some proof from this website that the message I posted in my profile yesterday really isn't true. That there is still life here to be discussed and not just droning lists after lists with no opine - just point, point, point, point, etc...
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I see your poin...er...idea.
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Lol..I would love to visit a country where eating donouts is a sign of affluence. But really, while making such a list, it doesn't have to be legal trash. You don't have to be politically correct in it. And a cynical attack on human nature is exactly what one would expect out of this list! And while making this list, we are considering the majority population here..For eg, "wear clothes is public"..Being naked in certain african countries is a necessity and tradition..See what I mean? I for sure would love to see one by you. Do give it a shot.
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OK. That'll take a while though, that's one I'm going to have to collect over time.
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What's the list look like for #5? I have a lot less time now, so I'm sleeping less, and energy drinks have helped me, but I have no idea what the best ones are...any idea??
#11: I think the worst ending ever is "40 Days and 40 Nights" (give me a break, it was on TV!) which ends with female-on-male rape with the man looking like the bad guy (really!) I never liked Vanilla Sky's ending either, but I've come around...
#21: Sofia Coppola anyone???
#28: Steven Seagal comes to mind right away. Would say the same for Chris Farley too, really (although he was hilarious).
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Sorry, but I rarely come by here anymore. The list I mentioned seeing that would fit No. 5 was a comparison to amounts of caffiene per ounce. I was on a friend's computer so I didn't save the link.
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I would especially love to see 14 (worst chemistry), 19 (listology's founding members), and 26 (basic training movies). Sadly, I am not qualified to rectify these ommisions...
Actually, I would nominate Kate Bosworth and Brandon Roush in the latest incarnation of Superman for some baaad chemistry.
Johnny Waco
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A good nomination. I agree.
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Angel Heart has a lot of #33.
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Cool list, Ambient. Did you change your font with the standard font tag?
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I suppose, but I'm not sure if it's the standard. Somebody else was using it so I hit the clone button and copied the html. The default font seems so small sometimes. I wish it worked on the titles, too. Ha! I just tried to cut & paste the html example and it wouldn't take. Duh!
Thanks for the compliment on the list. One of these days I may find the time to do them myself.
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I guess I'll try # 21. Ask for it by name! Or just look for it in my content page.....
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Best movie trailers of all time.
A few ideas:
Return of the King
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9.A good list of cross-genre inspirational songs.
Define inspiration. Because otherwise, I might be able to whip something up for you.
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Inspirational to the human soul. Without a definitive "God" ~ just to make it a little harder. But it'll be your list, so do as you please. I'll enjoy it either way.
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Thanks! I'll have to warm up Limewire later in the week and do some searching.
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I'd consider inspirational to be something that lifts you up, makes you want to try harder. To that end, for me its the theme from the film "Fame". I suppose the name of the song is also Fame, but I don't know.
What would confuse me is understanding what is cross-genre. But, since I'm not thinking of taking on the list, my confusion is irrelevant. I'm looking forward to your list.
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For #12, I submit the film which should get Best sequence is Blazing Saddles.
#10 All time best is Shane.
#34 If you can include lighters, the scene from The Usual Suspects is very cool.
#43 - Robert DeNiro, Tim Robbins, Meryl Streep, Glen Close
#46 - Harvey Keitel (The Piano), Richard Gere (American Gigolo)
#54 - No list of flying police cars is complete without The Blues Brothers. They were, after all, driving a former police car.
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I've considered starting these lists myself and letting people add as they choose, but the traffic is so dead on this website now, I never figured I'd get much input.
Your suggestions are all great by the way.
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How about 'movies with high expectations that fell flat'?. 'Love Guru'?. 'Pirates otc 3'? (it sold well, but wasn't that good).
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Good idea. Have a go at it. The problem from my point of view is the list would be neverending as I'm disappointed with 85% of what's released. I also carry a heavy lean toward Independent film with somewhat low expectation to begin with.
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For #6, my all-time favourite quote would have to be, "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix". - Dan Quayle (He was a vice-pres, but the quote is still priceless)
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this site is still screwed up
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The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
Analysis: Writing Style
Clinical, Journalistic
The very first sentence of the text clues us in: "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." The style appears totally barebones, without any overt emotion – no pleasure or kindness or regret. In this regard, it might be said to mirror the attitude of the villagers themselves, who for the most part see the lottery as a naturalized way of life, no more worthy of emotion than the flowers or the grass. The villagers express no overt sympathy for Tess, and neither does the story's narration. To us, this only serves to increase the horror of "The Lottery".

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"Go Home" UK winter tour 1999
|Day 1 & 2
Day 3 & 4
Day 5 & 6
Day 7 & 8
Day 9 & 10
Day 11 & 12 12
Day 13 & 14
Day 15 & 16
Day 17 & 18
Day 19 & 20
Day 21 & 22
Day 23 & 24
Day 25 & 26
Day 27 & 28
Day 31 & 32
|Day Twenty Nine - Hereford Dec 15th 1999
Still no word from Gary, Charlie has called and
called. There is no message left with Steve (our agent), no call to the club and no return
call to Charlie's cell phone. Today I arranged a trip to Gordon-Smith guitars outside of
Manchester. After a long drive north west we arrived at the small factory where these
excellent hand made guitars are produced. In addition to making 2 black GS2 guitars for me
20 years ago, Gordon-Smith guitars have been used by a number of ex UK Subs members
(Including Tez) and in addition they are used by Leather Face and the Buzzcocks among
others. They serviced my guitars and we talked about getting a custom built GS1 made for
Day Thirty - London Day Off Dec 16th 1999
Arrived back in London around 6:30. I couldn't sleep so a bit latter that morning I called Tommy Couch. He told me he could finish the tour. We have to assume Gary has quit as even back at Charlie's flat there was no message for us on the answer machine. For the first time in a few days I'm buzzing. Tommy is a great drummer plus he's very funny. The only down side is that now I'm the only drummer and Alvin, Charlie and Tommy don't drive. I caught a couple of hours of sleep then went to Acton to play Table Tennis.


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From high schools to the professional ranks, no athlete is immune to it.
That's why Sikeston High School coaches take extra precautions in making sure their athletes are in no danger out on the practice fields during the dog days of August.
"It's always a concern," said Sikeston football coach Jerry Dement. "The welfare of your players is the primary concern for any coach. It's not any hotter or more humid than it's ever been in Southeast Missouri at this time of the year. You always have days where it's miserable -- it's August and it's always been like this. You just have to use common sense and give them extra water and try to avoid the hottest parts of the day. You've got to know when to back off and when to give extra water."
Football is the most susceptible to heat-related problems with the equipment players are required to wear. When a football player has on full pads, from helmets, to shoulder pads and jerseys to the pants, which are stuffed with pads, an athlete is required to carry a lot of extra weight.
"Obviously wearing all that gear during this time of the year is tougher," said Dement. "Football is for the toughest kids. They have to wear all that gear, especially the helmets. You just have to keep the communication lines open with the kids. Ask them how they're feeling and make sure they are aware of things."
But football isn't the only sport that can be dangerous. Sikeston's softball and soccer teams also practice in the heat. While those sports don't require the athletes to wear heavy equipment, the danger is just as real.
"You just have to be aware of your surroundings and what the kids are going through," said Sikeston soccer coach Derrick Long. "You have to give them more water breaks and more rest and let them sit in the shade a little bit. It's not bad though. I don't mind it. You can sit them down in the shade and do a lot of your technical stuff, talk to them and get a lot of that out of the way. Then when it gets cooler we can start working more."
Long said in his coaching career he's never had a problem, but that doesn't make him any less concerned about it.
"We've been pretty lucky," said Long. "I tell them right off if they start getting light-headed or if anytime they need to go over and get a drink to just let me know because you hear of things going on around the world every year with somebody getting injured or dying. That's just the worst thing that could ever happen so if we don't go into that first game in the best shape as we would've if it were cool, it's not the end of the world. We're just trying to get in the best shape that we can and take a lot of water breaks."
On the softball field, Bulldog coach Tiffany King tried to beat the heat by having early morning practices.
"We were having practices early in the morning before the heat hit, but now that we're having afternoon practices we just try to keep them hydrated as much as possible and giving them drinks every 20 to 25 minutes," said King. "I let them know that if they need a drink or they're feeling weak that they can go hydrate and sit in the dugout."
But King also stresses the importance of staying hydrated away from the practice field.
"When we were having two-a-day practices I informed them how important it was to make sure that after morning practice they just didn't go home and sit in the air conditioner all day and then come back out into the extreme heat," said King. "I tell them to drink Gatorades and stay away from sodas so they can keep their carbohydrates up and to watch what they eat for lunch."
But for Dement, keeping kids safe from the elements involves much more than coaches looking after them, but making sure the kids are educated in the matter.
"The main thing is you have to educate your kids about hydrating themselves all day and not just during practice," said Dement. "They have to fill their bodies full of fluids all day."


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What was the first man made signal to leave earth, and how far has it traveled by now?
The first intentional wireless transmission of a signal was most likely done in an experiment performed by David Edward Hughes around 1880. Some of that energy might have left the earth (however, the Ionosphere do block some signals, we are not sure whether or not that transmission really could have made it out to space), and if so have been traveling through space ever since, some 132 years or so. As it turns out, radio signals travel with the speed of light, so it will have traveled 132 light years by now, or about 30 parsecs. That's 1.2298 x 1015 kilometers, or 7.6420 × 1014 miles. Or about 30.68 billion times around the equator. Sounds like a lot, but our galaxy is a whopping 100,000 to 120,000 light years in diameter. However, the signal will have passed a lot of stars already, many which are known to have planets, such as Gliese 674, Gliese 832 and Gliese 876. It passed Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, only about eight and a half year after being transmitted.
The first radio broadcast that was intended to be sent to extraterrestrial civilizations was transmitted on November 19, 1962 by a Soviet planetary radar. The transmitted message was "MIR" (means "peace" and "world"), "LENIN" and "SSSR" (Acronym for the Soviet Union). This message is commonly referred to as The Morse Message. Having traveled for a little more than 51 years, which means it has traveled little more than 51 light years or 4.8248 x 1014 km, it will have traveled past the stars we mentioned in the first paragraph.
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About the Book
"Exceptional. Mystery, crime scene drama, and more than enough romance to keep the heart pumping blend seamlessly into an enthralling read that kept me glued to the pages."
—Kim Harrison
"A delectably dark paranormal thriller. I've always been a fan of Pettersson's work, but she knocks it out of the park with this one."
—Kelley Armstrong
Vicki Pettersson, author of the New York Times bestselling Signs of the Zodiac urban fantasy novels, breaks out with The Taken. The first book in her sexy, supernatural noir mystery series, Celestial Blues, The Taken features a former p.i.-turned-fallen angel and a beautiful, tough Las Vegas reporter—the most unorthodox pair of avengers since Jeaniene Frost's Cat and Bones—joining forces to confront a terror that threatens to wreak murderous havoc in both the mortal and the immortal worlds. A dark and delicious mix of noir mystery, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance, The Taken is a must-read treat for the insatiable fans of Nalini Singh's angel books, and for the many, many readers who have made Kelley Armstrong, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Laurell K. Hamilton fantasy superstars.
Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was back when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Fifty years later, he's an angel, but that doesn't make him a saint. One small mistake has altered fate, and now he's been dumped back onto the mortal mudflat to collect another soul—Katherine "Kit" Craig, a journalist whose latest investigation is about to get her clipped.
Bucking heavenly orders, Grif refuses to let the sable-haired siren come to harm. Besides, protecting her offers a chance to solve the mystery of his own unsolved murder—and dole out some overdue payback for the death of his beloved wife, Evie.
Joining forces, Kit and Grif's search for answers leads beyond the blinding lights of the Strip into the dark heart of an evil conspiracy. But a ruthless killer determined to destroy them isn't Grif's biggest threat. His growing attraction to Kit could cost them both their lives, along with the answer to the haunting question of his long afterlife . . .
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Critical Praise
"Pettersson hits every note in the familiar duet of a 'reticent, complicated, darkly sexy man' and a luscious, plucky 'girl reporter'.... The resulting irresistibly good yarn proves that there's still plenty of room for brilliant innovation in urban fantasy." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A sure bet for urban-fantasy readers of all types, but especially fans of Carrie Vaughn, Jim Butcher, and P. N. Elrod." — Booklist
"Intriguing mix of paranormal, romance and mystery with just enough suspense!" — Suspense magazine
"Pettersson's amazing new series is off to a rocking start with this compelling read." — RT Book Reviews (top pick)
"Exceptional. Mystery, crime scene drama, and more than enough romance to keep the heart pumping blend seemlessly into an enthralling read that kept me glued to the pages. I can't wait for the sequel." — Kim Harrison
"A stylish, atmospheric mash-up of rockabilly and angelic affairs quickly reveals itself to be so much more: THE TAKEN proves that Pettersson is not afraid to explore the darkest corners of the human heart – and that her gift for redemption is unsurpassed." — Sophie Littlefield
"A delectably dark paranormal thriller. I've always been a fan of Pettersson's work, but she knocks it out of the park with this one." — Kelley Armstrong
"The Scent of Shadows is a bold concept, skillfully developed. The ugly grit and intoxicating glitter of Vicki Pettersson's world of Las Vegas is the perfect mirror for her character, Joanna Archer, whose hard past flows into her unimaginably chancy future." — Kim Harrison on The Scent of Shadows
"From the one-damn-thing-after-another school of unputdownable books, The Scent of Shadows rockets into the air and explodes like fireworks, with nonstop bursts of action and imagination." — Diana Gabaldon on The Scent of Shadows
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper Voyager
- On Sale: 06/12/2012
- Pages: 432
- List Price: 4.99 USD
- BISAC1: FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal
- BISAC2: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
- BISAC3: FICTION / Romance / Paranormal / General


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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) – A court in Pakistan has formally indicted former military dictator Pervez Musharraf over his failure to prevent the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the public prosecutor in the closely watched case said on Tuesday.
"He should be tried," the prosecutor, Mohammad Azhar, told reporters after a brief hearing in the city of Rawalpindi during which the three charges of murder, conspiracy to murder and facilitation of murder were read out to Musharraf.
Musharraf, who made no public remarks during his appearance, CLICK HERE


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Scene Tags
Due to scene rules, whoever releases the first Telesync has won that race (for example). But if the quality of that release is fairly poor, if another group has another telesync (or the same source in higher quality) then the tag PROPER is added to the folder to avoid being duped. PROPER is the most subjective tag in the scene, and a lot of people will generally argue whether the PROPER is better than the original release. A lot of groups release PROPERS just out of desperation due to losing the race. A reason for the PROPER should always be included in the NFO.
In the case of a VCD, if a release is subbed, it usually means it has hard encoded subtitles burnt throughout the movie. These are generally in malaysian/chinese/thai etc, and sometimes there are two different languages, which can take up quite a large amount of the screen. SVCD supports switch able subtitles, so some DVDRips are released with switch able subs. This will be mentioned in the NFO file if included.
When a film has had a subbed release in the past, an Unsubbed release may be released
A limited movie means it has had a limited theater run, generally opening in less than 250 theaters, generally smaller films (such as art house films) are released as limited.
An internal release is done for several reasons. Classic DVD groups do a lot of .INTERNAL. releases, as they wont be dupe'd on it. Also lower quality theater rips are done INTERNAL so not to lower the reputation of the group, or due to the amount of rips done already. An INTERNAL release is available as normal on the groups affiliate sites, but they can't be traded to other sites without request from the site ops. Some INTERNAL releases still trickle down to IRC/Newsgroups, it usually depends on the title and the popularity. Earlier in the year people referred to Centropy going "internal". This meant the group were only releasing the movies to their members and site ops. This is in a different context to the usual definition.
Straight To Video. Was never released in theaters, and therefore a lot of sites do not allow these.
*WS* for widescreen (letterbox)
*FS* for Fullscreen.
A recode is a previously released version, usually filtered through TMPGenc to remove subtitles, fix color etc. Whilst they can look better, its not looked upon highly as groups are expected to obtain their own sources.
If a group releases a bad rip, they will release a Repack which will fix the problems.
A film can be nuked for various reasons. Individual sites will nuke for breaking their rules (such as "No Telesyncs") but if the film has something extremely wrong with it (no soundtrack for 20mins, CD2 is incorrect film/game etc) then a global nuke will occur, and people trading it across sites will lose their credits. Nuked films can still reach other sources such as p2p/usenet, but its a good idea to check why it was nuked first in case. If a group realise there is something wrong, they can request a nuke.
NUKE REASONS :: this is a list of common reasons a film can be nuked for (generally DVDRip)
** BAD A/R ** :: bad aspect ratio, ie people appear too fat/thin
** BAD IVTC ** :: bad inverse telecine. process of converting framerates was incorrect.
** INTERLACED ** :: black lines on movement as the field order is incorrect.
Dupe is quite simply, if something exists already, then theres no reason for it to exist again without proper reason.


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Special teams have been a big part of the problem for the Sharks as of late, but Saturday night they were also a big part of the solution.
Yes, San Jose did commit the cardinal sin of giving up a short-handed goal. But the penalty kill was a perfect 2 for 2, and a power play tally by Patrick Marleau held up as the winner as the Sharks came away with a closely fought 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at HP Pavilion.
The win, however, may have come at a price.
Marty Havlat, who was the focal point of much of the game as he scored only his second goal of the season and then committed the turnover that led to the short-handed goal, wasn't around at the finish. With 9:27 left in the third period, he jumped over the boards, landing awkwardly, crumpling to the ice, then keeping his weight off his left leg as he headed to the locker room.
"He got hooked up on the boards," coach Todd McLellan said after the game. "Other than that, I can't give you an update right now."
Joe Thornton also scored for the Sharks against veteran netminder Nikolai Khabibulin, and Jordan Eberle and Ryan Jones got the puck past Sharks goalie Antti Niemi, who made 23 saves to improve his record to 13-6-3.
The win gives the Sharks four points one-third of the way through their six-game homestand.
Acquired from the Minnesota Wild as a scorer, Havlat had gone 17 games without a goal until 8:36 of the first period when he and Michal Handzus skated in all alone on Khabibulin. Handzus slid the puck back to Havlat at the crease, and he had no trouble redirecting it into the open side of the net.
And, no, it wasn't a case of Handzus trying to help a teammate end a goal drought.
"You don't think on the ice like that," Handzus explained. "Obviously I know when you don't score for a lot of games, you're kind of gripping your sticks. But it was a pretty fast play, and you usually go by instincts."
Eberle turned veteran defenseman Colin White inside-out before beating Niemi with 2:44 left in the opening period to tie the game, and the teams also traded goals in the second.
The Oilers were killing a hooking penalty to Eric Belanger when a drop pass from Jason Demers to Havlat ended up being stripped away by Jones, who scored on the resulting breakaway at 5:28.
McLellan called the turnover a "two-man responsibility. It was the passer and the receiver."
Later in the second period, the Sharks scored their first four-on-four goal of the season when Thornton -- who was charged with four giveaways in the first period -- made up for it by taking a pass from Marc-Edouard Vlasic and shoveling the puck under Khabibulin at 14:33 to make it 2-2.
In the third period, both of San Jose's special teams came through.
When Edmonton defenseman Theo Peckham went off for interfering with Thornton, McLellan mixed things up by adding Jamie McGinn to a line with Pavelski and Marleau.
"I'm looking for guys that want to outwork the penalty kill right now, and I think Jamie's prepared to do that," said McLellan, whose usual forwards on the power play were an unimpressive 2 for 35 at that point.
But McGinn's hard work behind the net got the puck to Pavelski, and he sent it across the crease to Marleau, who netted his 12th goal of the season -- and team-high fourth with the man advantage -- at 6:11.
"We were trying to simplify things and get shots through and get people to the net," Marleau said. "It was nice to finally get one."
Less than three minutes later, Demers was sent off for holding Oilers defenseman Tom Gilbert, but this time the NHL's least-successful penalty kill came through.
"I think our penalty kill is slowly getting there," McLellan said. "We'll tinker around with it some more -- different pairings at different times. But two nights in a row it came up big in the third period and allowed us to win."
"It's always frustrating," he said of being sidelined, "and it's even worse when you're losing."
Murray, who usually watches the first period from the workout room and then heads to the stands, said it can also be nerve-racking.
"I don't get nervous when I play," he said, "but I get nervous in the stands, which is the weirdest feeling."
Murray has been out since blocking a shot in a 5-3 loss to the Florida Panthers on Dec. 3. He said there's no timetable for his return.
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Two layer cakes and lots of icing add up to a Sprinkles cake that's sure to bring smiles to the faces at your next party.
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Tint one can of the vanilla frosting a pale blue. Spoon 1 cup of vanilla frosting into a resealable bag. Tint 1/2 cup of the remaining vanilla frosting violet and spoon it into a resealable bag. Divide the remaining frosting into four small bowls and tint these orange, pink, yellow, and bright blue. Spoon each of these into a resealable bag.
Trim the tops of cakes to make them level. Place one cake layer on a serving platter and spread 1/2 cup of the light-blue frosting on top. Arrange the second cake layer on top. Cover the entire cake with a smooth layer of the remaining light-blue frosting. Refrigerate the cake for 30 minutes to firm it.
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The cutest Koala you've seen on a cupcake!
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Nancy B. Allen joined the provost's office in 2005. She serves as the liaison from the provost's office to the schools in areas of faculty diversity and faculty development. She is also a professor of medicine.
Allen received her bachelor's degree in biology from Wellesley College (1974), and a medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine (1978). She completed an internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at Duke, and then joined the Duke faculty in the Department of Medicine (1982), rising through the academic ranks to full professor (1999).
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby Chapter 8 Summary
- Gatsby waits all night but nothing happens. (Good call, Nick.)
- The next morning, Nick warns Gatsby that he should go away for a while. Gatsby can't imagine leaving Daisy at this moment, so he stays.
- Nick tells us that this was the first moment he learned of Gatsby's history – the history he revealed to us back in Chapter Six.
- But we get a few more details, courtesy of the Nick grapevine:
- Daisy was the first "nice" girl Gatsby had ever known or met. His initial plan was to get some backseat action, but then he accidentally fell in love. (It happens.)
- There's a great discussion of class and wealth here. Gatsby felt uncomfortable in Daisy's house – she was simply from a finer world than he. When he finally "took" her (in the sexual sense of the word), it was because he wasn't dignified enough to have any other relationship.
- Nick reveals that Gatsby misled her, too, making her believe he was in a position to offer her the safety and financial security of a good marriage, when in fact all he had to give was some lousy undying love.
- In the war, Gatsby did well for himself (medals and such). He tried to get home as soon as the war was over, but through some administrative error or possibly the hand of God, he was sent to Oxford.
- Meanwhile, Daisy got tired of waiting for him and married Tom (right after the drunken sobfest we heard about earlier).
- Gatsby, desperate, tries to figure out what will happen "now." He tries to reassure himself that Daisy does still love him and that the two of them can live happily ever after.
- In an ominous moment, one of Gatsby's servants details that he's going to have the pool drained. Gatsby comments that he hasn't used the pool all summer.
- We suspect that's going to be come important in about half a chapter.
- As he leaves, Nick reveals his feelings for Gatsby when he says, "They're a rotten crowd […]. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." And YET, Nick reminds us that he "disapproved" of Gatsby "from beginning to end."
- Once he's at work, Jordan calls him on the phone. They are both sort of cold to each other. Their status just changed from "in a relationship" to "it's complicated."
- No, wait, they are both now officially "single." Nick is just sick of the entire crowd and doesn't want to have anything more to do with them.
- Back to the Myrtle death story. We find all of this out from Nick who found out from Michaelis (or possibly some other intermediary):
- Wilson, in the midst of his grieving, revealed that he had recently started to suspect his wife of having an affair. He had found an expensive dog collar in her room (from Tom) and huge bruises on her face one day (also from Tom).
- Wilson came to the sudden conclusion that whoever was driving the car was the same man having an affair with his wife.
- Before she died, Wilson had taken his wife over to the window and told her that she couldn't fool God – that God was always watching. Conveniently, the large eyes of T.J. Eckleburg emerged visible from the fog.
- And that's the end of that menacing little story.
- Back in present time, Wilson goes on a crazy vengeance mission to find out who owns that yellow car. He, of course, ends up at Gatsby's house.
- Gatsby, meanwhile, has decided that it's time to use that pool of his.
- Shots are fired.
- Nick ends up at Gatsby's house, and together with the staff discovers that Wilson has shot Gatsby and then himself. Both are dead.
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Gordovskyy, M. and Jain, R. (2008) Amplitude suppression and absorption of p-modes in magnetic flux tube. The Astrophysical Journal, 681 (1). pp. 664-671. ISSN 1538-4357Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
The interaction of p-modes (acoustic waves) with a magnetic flux tube is investigated. A set of linearized MHD equations is solved numerically in a two-dimensional domainwith cylindrical geometry. Thewave functions for p-modes are calculated in and around magnetic flux tubes using eigenfunctions from the unperturbed solution as a boundary condition. The amplitudes of the oscillations are found to be suppressed in the magnetized region with the suppression decreasing with depth. It is also found that the absorption of p-modes strongly depends on the degree l as well as the flux tube radius and the magnetic field strength. Convergence of magnetic field may be necessary in order to fit simultaneously the observed phase shifts and absorption coefficients.
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Even James Gunn Thinks This Is How GotG Should Have Ended
The How It Should Have Ended guys have gotten their hands on Guardians of the Galaxy to the delight of everyone, including director James Gunn, who wrote: "Haha! I love these. Having a 'How It Should Have Ended' is better than winning an Oscar." Doesn't this mean they should direct GotG2? Or at least the last bit?


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Brethren Christian's 'The Music Man' marches to success
Professor Harold Hill steps off the train in River City, Iowa, a place where his reputation has not preceded him. With a "revolutionary Think System" and a degree from Gary Conservatory's "gold-medal class of '05," he seeks to sell instruments and uniforms for a boys' band. By the time the orders arrive, he and the money will be long gone. Harold Hall isn't a professor at all ... he's a con man.
Brethren Christian performs a rousing rendition of "The Music Man." The students bring the story of a traveling salesman caught between love, money, and exposure as a fraud, to life with strong vocals, high energy and a talented student orchestra.
Brennan Lund steps into the shoes of Harold Hill with electrifying charisma. Quick-talking and smooth, Lund whole-heartedly embraces the role of shady con artist. His clear, rapid-fire delivery of the song "Trouble" rallies the community against the moral pitfalls of the new pool table while his expressiveness in "Till There Was You" reveals a completely different side of his voice and character. Lund is quick to turn up the charm with Harold's public persona, but beneath the mesmerizing bravado is a remarkably subtle performance.
Opposite Lund is Jordan Thomas as Marian Paroo, the music teacher and librarian. Thomas' sweet, pure voice is beautifully highlighted in the wistful 'Goodnight My Someone' and the conflicted emotions of "Will I Ever Tell You."Her Marian starts out strong-willed and independent but softens as she falls in love.
Harold's ally in River City is Marcellus Washburn, a former con man. Played by Jake Roque, Marcellus supports Harold perfectly. As Lund sings "The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl," Roque matches him as an animated and comedic dance partner. Roque takes center stage in "Shipoopi," in which he showcases his polished vocals and dancing skills.
Erik Alkire does a brilliant job with the lighting. His use of color embodies the nostalgic feel of the early 1900s and indicates the time of day. The lighting also suggests the mood of each scene, particularly the rosy, romantic glow bathing Marian and Harold. Easily tackling the score, the River City Pit Band provides stellar accompaniment and infuses the show with the energy and excitement that live music brings.
Brethren Christian's "The Music Man" is a stirring production about second chances. Cast and crew skillfully perform the classic show and march to success.
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Obama to Appear on O'Reilly Factor Thursday
Susan Davis reports from St. Paul, Minn., on the presidential race.
Barack Obama will appear on Fox News with conservative Bill O'Reilly on Thursday, the same night John McCain gives his acceptance speech at the Republican convention here. What a coincidence!
The first-time appearance by the Illinois senator on O'Reilly's show will likely be a ratings draw, although it will not go head-to-head with McCain's speech.
Obama's interview will air at 8:00 p.m. EDT, while McCain's speech will air after 9:00 p.m.
O'Reilly will sit down with Obama Thursday in York, Pa., where he plans to question Obama on his "political career, domestic issues and foreign policy in Iran and Iraq," according to a statement by the network, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal.
Obama's appearance will pique the curiosity of Republicans and Democrats alike as it comes on the heels of a story in Vanity Fair that discloses a meeting earlier this summer between Obama, Rupert Murdoch, and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to discuss, in part, the relationship between the Democratic nominee and the network often scorned by Democrats.
Ailes told The Washington Post that he told Obama the network was determined to be fair but would not be "in the tank" for his campaign, and pressed Obama to appear on his network.


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In what has become a rite of spring, CBS on Thursday announced it has renewed 18 series for next season. Eighteen appears to be Nina Tassler's lucky number, as this marks…
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Top comedy earns another long-term pickup
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STOCKTON - Work expected to begin in fall would rebuild, repair, repave and otherwise provide a smoother ride on Highway 99 from Hammer Lane north to the Sacramento County line.
Recently allocated $32 million from the California Transportation Commission, the project covers about 73 miles worth of lanes in both directions.
The project includes overlaying the roadway with rubberized hot-mix asphalt concrete, upgrading guardrails and adding pedestrian curb ramps, according to the California Department of Transportation.
The funding is part of $1.3 billion in funding approved by the state commission last week, according to Caltrans. About $541 million of it is part of a "fix it first" strategy of maintaining the state's existing 50,000 lane miles of highway. Those highways carry 35 million vehicles a year, and maintenance needs outpace funding, according to Caltrans.
San Joaquin County was also allocated $4 million to maintain bridges along Interstates 5 and 205 and Highways 99 and 4.
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The art and craft of editing documentary films is the topic of the third installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' four-part seminar series "Perspectives on Editing," which will be held on Tuesday, October 6, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
"Perspectives on Editing: Editing for Documentary Films" will be hosted by Academy Film Editors Branch governors Donn Cambern (The Last Picture Show, The Bodyguard) and Mark Goldblatt (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers).
Special guests will include Kate Amend (The Long Way Home, Jimmy Carter Man from Plains), Joe Bini (Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man), William Cartwright (The Making of the President 1960, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision) and Brian Johnson (Buena Vista Social Club, Fighting for Life). Like in the other installments in the series, the evening will feature film clips and an open discussion between the special guests and members of the audience.
The final session in the series will take place on Wednesday, October 14, and it's titled "Anne V. Coates: Profile of an Editing Master." The evening will feature a discussion with Anne Coates, who won an Oscar for editing Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Coates has received four additional nominations, for Becket (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Out of Sight (1998).
Tickets for each evening of "Perspectives on Editing" are $10 for the general public and $7.50 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets may be purchased by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or online at www.oscars.org.
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We have forgotten in America that a democracy is the most difficult kind of government to maintain. It is the hardest kind of government under which to live. It is hardest to maintain because of the widespread political corruption to which it so easily lends itself. Our drift today toward complete totalitarian bureaucracy is one that threatens immediately the very freedoms for which our own boys are dying.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
Source: A Room with a View, ch. 2, 1908.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
WHAT IF DR. SEUSS DID TECHNICAL WRITING? by Bill Bercu If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash! If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and go and tell your mom.
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
David Garrick (1716 - 1779)
Source: Prologue to the Gamesters.
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
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A visit to a women prison in a Baghdad neighborhood has revealed that Iraqi authorities are paying lip service to human rights and rule of law.
The visit by Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi found the jail over crowded with many women afflicted with contagious diseases due to lack of medicine and medical care.
"The tour has exposed a difficult and tragic situation in the whole process, starting with detention and ending with the horrific conditions of the prison," a statement by Hashemi's office said.
The prison is in the neighborhood of Kadhimiya and is believed to hold mainly Sunni Muslim women.
Many of the prisoners, the statement said, were detained because their husbands or sons were suspected of having links to forces resisting U.S. occupation.
"This means if anything that the women are taken hostages to exert pressure on their husbands who are wanted by the authorities," the statement said.
There were teenage women among the prisoners some of whom had spent several years behind bars, the statement added.
One women prisoner, Suaad Aziz, had told Hashemi that she was arrested while looking for her son who had disappeared for more than one year.
"I was a principal of a school in the Amiriya district of Baghdad. They have sentenced me to death and no one has ever asked me a single question why I was here," the statement reported Aziz as saying.
Thousands of Iraqis languish in scores of prisons in Iraq. U.S. troops have their own jails which they have constructed specifically to detain suspects. Iraqi authorities run their own prisons.
There are more than 30,000 Iraqis in jails run by the U.S. and Iraqi government and most of them have been incarcerated merely on suspicion and held without trial.
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Female Prisoner at Abu Ghraib Recounts Her Experience
"Maj Gen Taguba says he described to Mr Rumsfeld what he termed the "torture" of "a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum," the magazine reported.
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STURGIS, S.D. – A 2014 Harley-Davidson Street Glide customized by the Sturgis Buffalo Chip's Student Build Challenge received first place in the High School Build Open Class at the 27th annual Donnie Smith Bike Show on March 30.
The Sturgis Brown High School students had been working steadily since Jan. 6 under the instruction of the industry's top professionals in order to complete customizations in time for the unveiling. The finished bike features a fully overhauled and customized motor for increased performance, a lowered stretched body and an eye-catching graffiti-themed paint job.
"The motorcycle these students created has absolutely blown away my expectations for this year's bike build project," said Rod Woodruff, president of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip. "Moreover, these young students created a machine that wowed the industry's top builders at the Donnie Smith Show. That's something the students, the school, the community and all those involved in the Student Build Challenge should be very, very proud of."
2014 marked the first year the Student Build worked on a new-year motorcycle sponsored by Black Hills Harley-Davidson, and the students found customizing a brand new Street Glide to be one of their largest hurdles. The Motor Company had made drastic changes between the 2013 and 2014 models, which meant most of the custom parts for the bike had yet to be created.
This was also the first year the bike build program placed the same focus on the motorcycle's performance as it did its appearance. The bike features a Trask turbo system with a 10:1 compression ratio, Dave Mackie Engineering hemi Harley heads, CP Carrillo dome pistons and performance parts from Feuling Parts. The class anticipates that together these parts will work to produce 175 horsepower once the motorcycle has enough miles on it to safely run a dyno test.
"If somebody's a motorhead, they're going to get really excited about the performance of this motorcycle," says Student Build Challenge mentor, Keith Terry of Terry Components. "Those who care more about how the bike looks will love it too. We've got both elements going for our bike this year."
The students created a longer, lower-sitting motorcycle, replacing the 19-inch front wheel with a 26-inch from R.C. Components and swapped the standard black seat for a buff leather seat made by Howard Knight. Finally, the students took the bike to Ian Strachan Designs to give it a striking Ferrari-red graffiti paint job.
"It was hard for some of the students to comprehend just how amazing the end product was going to be," says Sturgis Brown High School instructor, Chad Hedderman. "But once everything came together and the students stood next to their bike at this renowned bike show, it finally hit them that they were part of something really big."
The next stop for the award-winning bike is the Black Hills Motorcycle Show in Rapid City, SD, April 12-13. The bike will later appear in Easyriders Magazine, where it will receive its own photo spread and feature-length article. On Aug. 4, the bike will be auctioned off during the Sturgis Rally in support of the Buffalo Chip's 7th annual Legends Ride charity event.
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Three years ago, Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard debuted BalletNext. For the troupe's first two seasons it was not clear why, apart from the fact that both principal dancers were at loose ends. Wiles had left American Ballet Theatre in her prime; Askegard had just retired from New York City Ballet. The new ensemble may have boasted live music and excellent dancers on loan from major companies, but the programmes seesawed between gala fare and second-rate premieres. This year, though, Wiles – now alone at the helm – has given BalletNext a reason for being: Brian Reeder.
Unlike Christopher Wheeldon or Alexei Ratmansky, this New York freelancer, also in his 40s, is not well known among ballet aficionados. He has choreographed for ABT, but more often for its junior company and other, regional troupes. And though all three of his pieces for BalletNext featured semaphoring arms and women rising into multiple turns without preparation or a partner's support, such propensities hardly count as a signature style. Nor does Reeder have a preferred mode: the 2012 Picnic tells a story while the two premieres do not. But what does distinguish him is how wisely he has absorbed the many influences in his long career as a dancer – for no less than NYCB, William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet and ABT.
For Picnic, based on the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock, Reeder transferred the frenzy that razzle-dazzle fouetté turns usually cause the audience to the dancers themselves: these schoolgirls were whipped up. And when maiden Wiles lay out flat in Jens Weber's arms, both the joyful lovers' reconciliation from Frederick Ashton's Dream and the chilling moment in Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer when a woman stiffens like a corpse in her lover's arms came to mind. Reeder fused them into a single feeling – a dangerous joy. And you did not have to recognise the allusions to appreciate it.
The choreographer is not above gimmicks, but each dance's accumulating mysteries emerged not from his smoke and mirrors but from the elusiveness of complex form. Each dancer seemed to forge her own path, even while she shared steps. Reeder captures today's exhilarating eclecticism. BalletNext indeed.
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Battle Labs were created in response to the factors and implications of a changing world, strategy, budgetary reality, and a need for a new way of doing business. Battle Labs have quickly demonstrated their value as places where new concepts and technologies can be investigated for their implications on the battlefield, in the areas where warfighting appears to be changing most dramatically.
Following are overviews of Battle Lab concepts and their corresponding Operational Capabilities Requirements. Purpose of these overviews is provide insights on the battlefield dynamic each Battle Lab is charged to investigate, that Battle Labs' vision of future warfighting, and their perspective on operational capabilities required to fulfill the vision.
The process of developing Operational Capability Requirements (OCRs) is as follows:
a. Operational Capability Requirements are statements of capabilities required for the Army to fulfill the vision articulated within the Army Modernization Objectives. TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5 and the Battle Lab Concepts.
b. One set of OCRs are written for each Battle Lab and encompass the battlefield dynamic for which the Battle Lab is responsible. Scope of the Battle Labs OCRs include the horizontal capabilities required of the force as well as relevant branch contributions to these capabilities. OCRs state required and desired capabilities across the full dimension of operations.
c. OCRs are a set of brief statements which break out required capabilities into discrete subsets, the aggregate of which, if fully attained, permits the Army to fulfill the National Military Strategy of winning quickly and decisively, while minimizing casualties.
d. OCRs are derived within the framework of historical lessons learned from operational experiences as well as the opportunities provided from technology exploitation.
e. OCRs are to encompass needs of the force stated within CINCs Integrated Priority List (IPL); however, given the lack of singular, analytically defined threat, OCRs are to also include a vision of desired capabilities emanating from technology opportunity.
f. Objective of the OCRs are to focus the Army S&T community towards capabilities which will provide technological superiority over any potential adversary. Technological superiority is required despite the potential that adversaries may have access to some state-of-the-art, high technology capabilities available in the world market.
g. Applications:
(1) Operational Capability Requirements are used within the Army Science and Technology Master Plan (ASTMP) process to provide a warfighting focus to technology base funding.
(2) OCRs articulate required and desired capabilities to the materiel developer community internal and external to the Army.
(3) OCRs are employed in Battle Lab S&T Reviews as the yardstick for assessing the warfighting merits of individual science and technology efforts and the total Army S&T program in aggregate.
(4) Perceptions of shortfalls derived from Battle Lab S&T Reviews should generate dialogue with the materiel developers to confirm or resolve the perceptions. Confirmed shortfalls should be considered in budgetary, planning, and programming reviews by the material developer. Shortfalls which exceed Army resource capabilities can be identified to industry to permit discretionary industry investments in needed areas.
(5) OCRs are employed in the Army Science and Technology Objectives (STO) process as the yardstick of warfighting merit. Candidate efforts selected as Army STOs within this process are published in the Army Science and Technology Master Plan as the most important S&T objectives for the Army R&D community. Army STOs receive senior Army leadership oversight and have priority for resourcing.


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Deloitte's deep regulatory influence
Is Deloitte the Goldman Sachs of the accounting industry?
Few audit firms have been as controversial recently as Deloitte. Just look at the tension over the recent PCAOB rebuke of the company's audit quality, which was deemed shoddy in several areas. One the surface, it might look like the PCAOB was tough on the Big Four audit firm. But you also have to realize the report took four years before it was made public, which generated controversy in and of itself.
Bloomberg raises a related issue, reporting that, "There was another important story, however, that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board kept hidden: Three of its five board members had recused themselves from participating in meetings or discussions this year concerning Deloitte, because of past or current ties to the firm. The board members--Lewis Ferguson, Jay Hanson and the board's chairman, James Doty--were appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in January. Doty had been a partner at the law firm Baker Botts, where Deloitte is a client. Ferguson was a partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, which also represents Deloitte. Hanson, a former partner at the accounting firm McGladrey & Pullen LLP, has a daughter who works for Deloitte in its Phoenix office."
This is hardly an ideal situation--a majority of the board is not in position to act on one of the biggest firms it regulates. There may well be other conflicts that would reduce the involvement board members when it comes to other Big Four firms as well. You have to wonder whether the SEC took this into account when it nominated members. This is certainly an interesting revolving door in reverse problem that needs to be worked out. At a minimum, the PCAOB needs to reconsider its policy of not making recusals public. This is just too ironic for an entity that considers transparency a major goal.
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Meeting Times: Every Tuesday at 9PM in Midtown Room 201 or Westside Ballroom
Website Address: http://clubs.wcsu.edu/sga
The Student Government Association is the sole governing body over all student clubs and organizations. Your SGA provides numerous services to the entire WCSU student body. Many are direct support to the student body, as well as representing your interests within policy making bodies on and off campus. Your elected SGA officials are committed to providing all students an opportunity to make the most of your time at WCSU. Below is a list of services SGA consistently provides to the students we represent. · Your Student Government Association meets bi-weekly to ensure the interests of all students are addressed. At these senate meetings all proposed legislation is voted on, funding requests for various organizations are voted on, and policies debated to ensure the students are always offered the best in extracurricular enrichment. Any student is welcome to attend these meetings. Students are encouraged to add their voice to any discussion by the SGA. Furthermore, all students are entitled to address the Senate on any matter they would like discussed. · Your Student Government Association has four standing committees formed for the sole purpose of dealing with routine student matters. These committees are charged with proposing legislation to the Student Senate to address needs, changes, challenges, injustices, and other matters brought up by the student body. In addition to these standing committees, your SGA often forms ad hoc committees to address specific issues concerning students which fall outside the scope of the standing committees. All of the standing committees generally meet bi-weekly and ad hoc committees meet at various times until the charge of the committee is achieved.
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ORAN - Geraldine Teresa Schaefer, 73, died at 10:25 p.m. Nov. 15, 2001, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau.
Born Aug. 4, 1928, in Commerce, daughter of the late James B. and Minerva J. Stallings Reed, she retired as a machine operator for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in St. Louis and was a member of Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Oran.
On Dec. 7, 1985, she married Elmer Joseph Schaefer who preceded her in death on May 1, 1997.
She is survived by two sisters, Louise Hunt of Pocatello, Idaho, and Lorena Green of Cahokia, Ill.
One son, five brothers and five sisters also preceded her in death.
Friends may call from 8:30 a.m. Monday until service time at 10 a.m. at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran. The Rev. John Harth will officiate.
Burial will follow in Guardian Angel Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Jim Edmondson, Ralph Heisserer, Kenny Schlitt, Sam Felter, Lee Schlitt and Douglas Felter.


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WESTPORT — The second annual Klean Out for Kids yard sale, held July 12 at Westport High School, drew more buyers, offered more items for sale and raised more money than the inaugural event of one year ago.
Young and old, and everyone in between it seemed, came to the sale in the high school gymnasium, a fundraiser for the community-based Westport Education Foundation. Clothing, antiques, housewares, furniture, books, CDs/DVDs, toys, art, jewelry and even a clothes dryer and full shower enclosure found new homes.
The event also bolstered Westport's strong sense of community, as individuals and local businesses donated their time, trucks, storage space, food and water to make the yard sale a success. High schoolers lent a hand by running a car wash on site, as well.
The money raised will directly benefit the students of the Westport Community Schools, funding the 12 enrichment grants that have been awarded to Westport schools (more than $15,000) for the first half of the upcoming academic year.
The grants support such efforts as Destination Imagination, the fourth and fifth grade math teams, a Westport River field study, the grades seven and eight Science Fair, the Investment Club, the Art Club, SAT prep, Chrome books for pre-AP eighth graders, a student-run DECA store at the high school, which is a national association of marketing students, and many more programs.
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