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In 2007, Bernie introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, which would have required broadband service providers to adhere to neutrality provisions and other regulations.
In 2006, Bernie introduced the Network Neutrality Act, which also would have enforced net neutrality on broadband providers.
A: Bernie believes space exploration is beneficial and exciting, and is generally supportive of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), but when it comes to a limited federal budget, Bernie's vote is to take care of the needs of struggling Americans on this planet first. Bernie says, "I am supportive of NASA not only because of the excitement of space exploration, but because of all the additional side benefits we receive from research in that area. Sometimes, and frankly I don't remember all of those votes, one is put in a position of having to make very very difficult choices about whether you vote to provide food for hungry kids or health care for people who have none and other programs. But, in general, I do support increasing funding for NASA."
Is this the best our country can do? No. We can and we must do better. That's why we need to invest at least $1 trillion over five years to rebuild America. This will not only make us safer, more productive and more efficient, but it will generate income and create jobs--lots of jobs. The estimate is that this $1 trillion investment will create and maintain 13 million jobs--which is exactly what our economy needs. We have ignored our infrastructure crisis for too long. The time to act is now.
There's a reason that investing in our infrastructure has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support in Congress. It's a good idea. This funding should receive the highest priority.
It's high time we stopped bailing out Wall Street and started repairing Main Street.
Opponent's Argument for voting No (Cnet.com): Online retailers are objecting to S.743, saying it's unreasonable to expect small businesses to comply with the detailed--and sometimes conflicting--regulations of nearly 10,000 government tax collectors. S.743 caps years of lobbying by the National Retail Federation and the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represent big box stores. President Obama also supports the bill.
Proponent's Argument for voting Yes: Sen. COLLINS. This bill rectifies a fundamental unfairness in our current system. Right now, Main Street businesses have to collect sales taxes on every transaction, but outbecause -of-state Internet sellers don't have to charge this tax, they enjoy a price advantage over the mom-and-pop businesses. This bill would allow States to collect sales taxes on Internet sales, thereby leveling the playing field with Main Street businesses. This bill does not authorize any new or higher tax, nor does it impose an Internet tax. It simply helps ensure that taxes already owed are paid.
Opponent's Argument for voting No: Sen. WYDEN: This bill takes a function that is now vested in government--State tax collection--and outsources that function to small online retailers. The proponents say it is not going to be hard for small businesses to handle this--via a lot of new computer software and the like. It is, in fact, not so simple. There are more than 5,000 taxing jurisdictions in our country. Some of them give very different treatment for products and services that are almost identical.
Veto message from President Bush:
This bill lacks fiscal discipline. I fully support funding for water resources projects that will yield high economic and environmental returns. Each year my budget has proposed reasonable and responsible funding, including $4.9 billion for 2008, to support the Army Corps of Engineers' main missions. However, this authorization bill costs over $23 billion. This is not fiscally responsible, particularly when local communities have been waiting for funding for projects already in the pipeline. The bill's excessive authorization for over 900 projects and programs exacerbates the massive backlog of ongoing Corps construction projects, which will require an additional $38 billion in future appropriations to complete. This bill does not set priorities. I urge the Congress to send me a fiscally responsible bill that sets priorities.
Founded in the spring of 1996, the Congressional Internet Caucus is a bipartisan group of over 150 members of the House and Senate working to educate their colleagues about the promise and potential of the Internet. The Caucus also encourages Members to utilize the Internet in communications with constituents and supports efforts to put more government documents online. The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee and the Internet Education Foundation host regular events and forums for policymakers, the press, and the public to discuss important Internet-related policy issues.
A bill to facilitate nationwide availability of 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services & volunteer services. Congress makes the following findings:
Introductory statement by Sponsor:
Sen. CLINTON: In the immediate aftermath of the devastation of September 11, most people did not know where to turn for information about their loved ones. Fortunately for those who knew about it, 2-1-1 was already operating in Connecticut, and it was critical in helping identify the whereabouts of victims, connecting frightened children with their parents, providing information on terrorist suspects, and linking ready volunteers with victims.
Every single American should have a number they can call to cut through the chaos of an emergency. That number is 2-1-1. It's time to make our citizens and our country safer by making this resource available nationwide.
Sen. DORGAN. "The issue of Internet freedom is also known as net neutrality. I have long fought in Congress against media concentration, to prevent the consolidation of control over what Americans see in the media. Now, Americans face an equally great threat to the democratic vehicle of the Internet, which we have always taken for granted as an open and free engine for creative growth.
"The Internet became a robust engine of economic development by enabling anyone with a good idea to connect to consumers and compete on a level playing field for consumers' business. The marketplace picked winners and losers, and not some central gatekeeper.
"But now we face a situation where the FCC has removed nondiscrimination rules that applied to Internet providers for years. Broadband operators soon thereafter announced their interest in acting in discriminatory ways, planning to create tiers on the Internet that could restrict content providers' access to the Internet unless they pay extra for faster speeds or better service. Under their plan, the Internet would become a new world where those content providers who can afford to pay special fees would have better access to consumers.
"This fundamentally changes the way the Internet has operated and threaten to derail the democratic nature of the Internet. American consumers and businesses will be worse off for it. Today we introduce the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to ensure that the Internet remains a platform that spawns innovation and economic development for generations to come."
Congressional Summary:Disapproves the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 22, 2008, relating to broadcast media ownership. Declares that the rule shall have no force or effect.
Proponents' Argument in Favor:Sen. DORGAN: The FCC loosened the ban on cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations. We seek with this resolution of disapproval to reverse the FCC's fast march to ease media ownership rules. The FCC has taken a series of destructive actions in the past two decades that I believe have undermined the public interest. [Now they have given] a further green light to media concentration.
The FCC voted to allow cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the top 20 markets, with loopholes for mergers outside of the top 20 markets. The newspapers would be allowed to buy stations ranked above fifth and above.
The rule change was framed as a modest compromise. But make no mistake, this is a big deal. As much as 44% of the population lives in the top 20 markets. The last time the FCC tried to do this, in 2003, the Senate voted to block it.
This rule will undercut localism and diversity of ownership around the country. Studies show that removing the ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership results in a net loss in the amount of local news produced in the market as a whole. In addition, while the FCC suggests that cross-ownership is necessary to save failing newspapers, the publicly traded newspapers earn annual rates of return between 16% and 18%.
This Resolution of Disapproval will ensure this rule change has no effect. This is again a bipartisan effort to stop the FCC from destroying the local interests that we have always felt must be a part of broadcasting.
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Of our 650 MPs only 192 are women and 458 are men. We want better gender balance!
Women are the majority in life but a minority in Parliament. 50:50 Parliament is a cross-party campaign calling upon party leaders and Parliament for solutions to get more women into Westminster. They have the power to sort it out.
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Of the 650 seats in the Commons women hold 192 and men 458. So men outnumber women by much more than 2:1. There are 266 (140%) more men than women. Today there are still more men in the Commons than there have EVER been women MPs.
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Monojoy Mukherjee, the son of (late) Joy Mukherjee, recently chanced upon an old bill from Film Centre, which in turn led to him discovering his illustrious father's unreleased film titled Love In Bombay.
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England won by 8 wickets against Sri Lanka in the second and final Test match of the Just Retirement Series at Colombo. England's win had leveled the series 1-1 and grabbed their first win of the winter season. Andrew Strauss and his men remain on top of the ICC test ranking by sealing a victory against Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka was 218/6 at stumps on Day 4 and was leading by 33 runs with Mahela Jayawardene (55) and Angelo Mathews (3) still at the crease. Jayawardene and Mathews tried to play defensively against English bowlers and put up a seventh wicket partnership of 23 runs. Sri Lanka lost 6 wickets by the end of Day 4 and had to put up some decent score on the board for England to chase.
Graeme Swann's offbreak pitched outside off stump and bounced off Jayawardene's (64) gloves into the hands of Alistair Cook in the middle of the pitch. Once again Swann provided England with the turning point to take away the game from Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka was 238/7 and had a lead of 53 runs when Jayawardene left the crease. Swann made sure that he got rid of Prasanna Jayawardene before he got comfortable at the crease and pose the similar threat he did at Galle in the second innings. Swann's 6-106 became his 13th five wicket haul in an innings, as he grabbed his career best of 10 wicket haul in Test matches.
Mathews tried to play out the England's bowling attack as he scored some vital runs on the board for Sri Lanka, as England's target to chase. Mathews was dropped at two different opportunities (at 3 and at 12) and he posed some threat to England's bowling attack- it was Steven Finn who wrapped things up for England by dismissing Mathews (46) who clobbered a delivery off of Finn straight into the hands of Strauss at midwicket. Sri Lanka was bowled out for 278 and setting a target of 94 runs for England to chase.
Tillakaratne Dilshan's (1-43) dismissal of Strauss (0) but Cook and Jonathan Trott played sensibly to put up a second wicket partnership of 31 runs. Rangana Herath (1-37) got rid of Trott (5) giving some frail hope to Sri Lanka defending meager 94 runs target.
But Kevin Pietersen's (42) and Cook's (49) third wicket partnership of 66 runs took England towards their first victory of the season. Pietersen's 151 runs in the first innings and 42 runs in the second innings made a world of difference to England's victory.
England had learnt from their prior mistakes and improved their game remarkably in the second Test, unfortunately for Sri Lanka the batting line up did not provide the much needed support to seal the series and bowlers Suraj Randiv and Herath did not pose similar threat to the English batting line up as they did in Galle during the first test.
Jayawardene was the highest scoring batsmen in the Test series with his 354 runs in four innings. England simply dominated the second Test from Day 2 and allowed little room for Sri Lanka to improvise and come on top.
Mahela Jayawardene: "We knew it was going to be tough coming into the second match and we think we made quite a few mistakes. Against a team of this quality and with their fans, it was going to be tough. This has been the largest following for an English touring side, so it's been good, I've enjoyed it. We needed to pick up three or four wickets up front but Alastair played very well and KP finished it off. It's disappointing. But thank you, from Sri Lanka, and we'll see you again."
Andrew Strauss: "Yeah, absolutely, it was was amazing to have that support away from home. In the end it seemed like a comfortable victory but we had to work hard. Jimmy Anderson was superb on an unresponsive wicket, Graeme Swann was outstanding and Kevin Pietersen took the game away from them. At the top of the order it was all very stodgy, then Kevin came in and showed us how to play. It was good to get a few runs, I would like to have got more but winning the match was the most important thing. Still No. 1 for a while yet."
Man of the Match Kevin Pietersen: "Definitely, it's always nice to get some runs. It's been a tough winter for the batters but the hard work we've put in paid off, we deserve this one. The practice and hours you put in, when you're in some sort of nick you've got to try and get some runs ... and when it's 40-42, I can't block too many!"
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The Homeland Security Department's Cyber Storm exercise earlier this year uncovered critical problems with the government's ability to handle large-scale cyberattacks, from difficulties with coordination to problems with information sharing. For many in industry, those results are not surprising.
The findings in the official report on the exercise, released Sept. 13, "affirm what many of us already knew was a problem," said Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.
The problems that Cyber Storm illuminated are familiar, but the reasons for them are not so clear. Analysts and industry representatives disagree on the reasons for the government's poor performance and the benefits that could be gleaned from the experience.
Cyber Storm was a $3 million, four-day tabletop exercise conducted in February by DHS' National Cyber Security Division. Its goal was to test whether the nation's critical infrastructure could withstand major cyberattacks. Cyber Storm involved more than 100 public and private agencies and corporations in more than 60 locations in five countries, making it one of the largest cybersecurity exercises ever conducted.
Kurtz called for programs that mitigate attacks, adding that the government should develop an early warning system. Such programs are considered essential for improving security. He said Cyber Storm revealed poor leadership as one of the biggest problems because it led to a lack of coordination.
"The government has shown little strategic direction of leadership when it comes to ensuring the resiliency and integrity of our information infrastructure," said Kurtz, who praised Greg Garcia's appointment to DHS' long-vacant position of assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications.
But Alan Paller, director of research for the computer security certification firm SANS Institute, disagreed with Kurtz's assessment.
"There is a belief among some circles that this is a policy and process problem when the reality is that this is a people and technology problem," Paller said.
He emphasized the importance of spending more money on protecting critical infrastructure by adding employees.
"The essential problem is there aren't enough people who are technically skilled and trust each other," he said.
Almost all the experts said the exercise was beneficial for different reasons.
Tiffany Jones, regional manager for North and Latin American relations at Symantec, said the most important lesson from Cyber Storm might be finding out what could go wrong in a real attack.
"A lot of people forget that the reason why the exercise exists is to identify where the problems are," she said. "The really important thing isn't the results of this Cyber Storm but the results of the next."
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Men into Space
|Men Into Space
William Lundigan as Edward McCauley.
|Also known as
|Space Challenge
|Science fiction
|Created by
|Lewis J. Rachmil
|Written by
|Jerome Bixby
Stuart J. Byrne
James Clavell
Meyer Dolinsky
David Duncan
Sidney Kalcheim
Robert Warnes Leach
Ib Melchior
Marianne Mosner
Michael Plant
Francis Rosenwald
William Templeton
Arthur Weiss
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|William Conrad
Alan Crosland, Jr.
Walter Doniger
Alvin Ganzer
Jack Herzberg
Herman Hoffman
Nathan H. Juran
Otto Lang
Lee Sholem
Herbert L. Strock
|William Lundigan
Tyler McVey
|Theme music composer
|David Rose
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Maurice Ziv
|Sol Dolgin
Lewis J. Rachmil
|Edward Cronjager
William P. Whitley
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|30 minutes
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|Ziv Television Programs
|MGM Television
Peter Rodgers Organization
|Original network
|Picture format
|Audio format
|Original release
|September 30, 1959– September 7, 1960
Men Into Space is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS. The syndicated series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The series' star, William Lundigan, played Col. Edward McCauley.
Men Into Space was not set in a specified era, but clues dropped in the scripts indicated that it took place between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, with the first Moon landing happening somewhere around 1975. Props were occasionally futuristic (such as a forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs), but the show's Earthly clothing and environs, including automobiles, telephones, and other machines, were decidedly 1950s. The program aired in the year just prior to the beginning of manned spaceflight, with Vostok I and the Mercury program launching manned spacecraft in 1961.
Men Into Space was somewhat unusual for a TV action series in that it had numerous recurring characters, but only one protagonist, Col. Edward McCauley (William Lundigan), who was in all of the 38 series' episodes. Tyler McVey appeared in seven episodes as Major General Norgath. Ron Foster appeared five times as Lieutenant Neil Templeton. Joyce Taylor had a recurring role in eight episodes as Col. McCauley's wife, Mary McCauley.
McCauley was a sort of "everyman" character who was viewed in the show as the most experienced and illustrious astronaut. As depicted in the scripts, the low-key but decisive McCauley was ubiquitous, assigned to every important space mission over at least a decade, including the earliest manned flights, the first flight to the Moon, many additional lunar landings and Moon base construction missions, construction of a space station, and two flights to Mars (neither succeeded, and folklore has it that plans for a never-aired second season would have focused on further missions to Mars and beyond).
In many episodes the astronauts were faced with accidents or technical problems that required innovation. The program was not idealistic; missions sometimes failed and astronauts sometimes died. For example, a scientist-astronaut stricken with a coronary thrombosis while exploring the Moon was not expected to survive the G-forces of the return flight, so his comrades stowed the space-suited patient in a steel drum filled with water, to cushion him during launch. A "Space Race" episode involved spacecraft from the USA and the USSR starting out almost simultaneously on the first Mars mission, with the American spacecraft aborting its effort in order to rescue the Soviet crew after their spacecraft experienced problems.
The series included an episode whose plot essentially paralleled the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission's explosion in space more than a decade later and another that was an uncanny foretelling of the accident that befell the real Gemini VIII mission in 1966.
Scripts often considered the human factor, and while action was the show's forte, humor and romance were part of the mix. Men Into Space predicted women astronauts and scientists and married couples in space.
Men Into Space was advertised as being (for its era) an extremely accurate preview of manned spaceflight, based on scientific studies and buttressed by technical assistance from the USAF's ballistic missile and space medicine offices. The spacecraft designs, however, veered inconsistently between early 1950s Wernher Von Braun concept vehicles, and later, totally scaled-down spacecraft proposals.[clarification needed] Visual backdrops and conceptual designs of spacecraft, space stations, and a Moon base depended somewhat on contributions from notable astronautics and science fiction artist Chesley Bonestell. The series also availed itself of extensive documentary footage of early missile launches, notably the Atlas missile.[1] It evoked the earlier Disney space exploration documentaries, which in turn owed their look and feel to a widely read, early 1950s series on the subject in the old Collier's Weekly magazine, where Bonestell's art also held sway. At one point in production, a scale model and poster of an Atlas derived design missile with the series spacecraft as the payload was built, with publicity photos of Lundigen holding the model in front of the large poster.[2] Several scenes used footage from the cancelled Navajo missile program to depict spacecraft landings on a desert runway. The distinctive design of the X-10 Navajo (different from the close up depictions of the series spacecraft) can be seen in the desert landing sequences X-10 Navajo missile.
Prediction of today's technologies[edit]
Men Into Space, later syndicated again as Space Challenge, used for its plots many technical and human problems anticipated by engineers and planners. For example, the show depicted attempts to refuel spacecraft by tanker in orbit, construction of a space telescope, an experiment to dispose of high level atomic waste by launching it into the Sun, the search for life-sustaining frozen water on the Moon, and exploration and destruction of an asteroid whose orbit threatened Earth.
In two different episodes, the series even speculated about exo-fossil extraterrestrial life discovered while exploring a distant asteroid and about ancient Earth-orbiting spaceship debris belonging to a non-human, space-faring civilization.
Although the series was modestly budgeted, it was cleverly mounted with what, for its era, were good special effects helmed by Louis DeWitt. Even decades later, the series can still be appreciated for its attention to detail and accurate physics.
Scientific accuracy[edit]
A narrator explained in nearly every episode why the astronauts needed magnetic boots to walk in or upon their free-falling spacecraft, how a jet thruster backpack could propel an astronaut through the vacuum of space, why a wrong angle of attack could doom a spacecraft upon atmospheric re-entry, and so forth. The spacecraft in the program were shown gliding to a powerless landing on a dry lake bed, just like the real Space Shuttle nearly 25 years later. Footage of these landings used documentary film of the X-10 Navaho cruise missile landing at Edwards AFB.
On the other hand, dramatic license held sway on the episode soundtracks, which repeatedly depicted sound in the airless vacuum of space: airlocks hummed, rockets roared, explosions boomed, and footsteps on the Moon's surface could be heard. Another thing that the show got wrong was that the spacesuits worn by the actors clearly did not inflate when exposed to the vacuum of space, as they do in actual space walks. [3]
Production notes[edit]
The program was produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., whose other notable series included Sea Hunt. The theme and recurring background music were written and conducted by David Rose. The series was produced by Lewis J. Rachmil.
Among the guest stars was Keith Larsen of the CBS series Brave Eagle and The Aquanauts. Joyce Taylor played the role of Mary McCauley in the series, but Angie Dickinson plays the role in the original pilot episode. Other guest stars include Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Joe Maross, Gavin MacLeod, Donald May, Harry Townes, Whit Bissell, Simon Oakland, Warren Stevens, Murray Hamilton, Brett King, Robert Reed, William Schallert, James Drury, James Best, Nancy Gates, Allison Hayes, Bek Nelson, Werner Klemperer, Paul Burke, Denver Pyle, and Marshall Thompson.
Spacesuit costumes and special-effects footage of space vehicles (shot with miniature models) were later re-used in The Outer Limits and in the science fiction film The Phantom Planet. The spacesuits also bore a strong resemblance to the spacesuits worn in the first half of the one-season comedy series It's About Time. The pilot episode used real, high-altitude pressure suits developed by the United States Navy, but most of the space suits used in the series were US Air Force designs.
In the UK the series was shown as a children's series on the BBC in an early Saturday evening slot that would later be filled by Doctor Who.
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West lake is a rip off i worked so hard to pay a car i purchased.. Wich by the way broke down a year aftr the purchase. Well point being i did everything to boost up my credit and at the end of the day they didnt report it. I called and i got them to report .. When i checked the amount they only reported $900 when i paid a little over $8000.00 .. Dont buy from them if you need credit they suck at this department. With the payment and everything was ok but reporting wise they are a RIPOFF
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Now that my account is being handled by some Card Processing Center with a P.O. Box in Hicksville, NY.; I am getting late fees.
I do not appreciate this. My card is no longer active on there part, and Spiegel's is still sending me there catalog. For what? They have closed my account.
If FCNB cannot find a better processing company,I shouldn't have to pay for there problem or mistake. My payment's have not been late before and it's not my problem if this company cannot process any faster.
The last payment I sent took 21 days for it to hit my bank account. I don't believe it is the post office. The rest of the bills I mailed had cleared my bank, and some of these I didn't mail for about 5-7 days after I mailed my Spiegel's bill and it still had not cleared.
I tried calling there customer service 4 times. The first time was when I got notice of problems with the company. The wait time for a CSR was 60 minutes. The second time there was no CSR at all and the only thing you could do was listen to the voice menu, about balance, payment or write in for anything else, it provided you with an address. The third time, it gave me a new phone number that was not an 800 number, making this a long distance call. The fourth time I called the (516) area code and received a voice message once again, not being able to speak with anyone.
I decided to write them a nasty letter, but this website is better
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My interests are broad, from exoplanets to fundamental physics and my current focus is on precission techniques and data analysis for extra-solar planet detection. I participate in the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search where I created the data reduction pipeline and the calibration for CAPScam. I recently started working on Doppler spectroscopy, in particular, on precision techniques to obtain precise radial velocity measurements on cool stars.
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Anglada-Escudé, G.; Tuomi, M.; Gerlach, E.; Barnes, R.; Heller, R.; Jenkins, J. S.; Wende, S.; Vogt, S. S.; Butler, R. P.; Reiners, A.; Jones, H. R. A. A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ 667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone, 2013, A&A 556A, 126A
Anglada-Escude, G.; Butler, R. P.; Reiners, A.; Jones, H. R. A.; Tuomi, M.; Jenkins, J. S.; Barnes, J. R.; Vogt, S. S.; Zechmeister, M. Surfing the photon noise: New techniques to find low-mass planets around M dwarfs. 2013, AN 334, 184A
Reiners, A.; Shulyak, D.; Anglada-Escude, G.; Jeffers, S. V.; Morin, J.; Zechmeister, M.; Kochukhov, O.; Piskunov, N. Radial velocity signatures of Zeeman broadening. 2013 , A&A 552A, 103R
Anglada-Escude, G., Rojas-Ayala, B., Boss, A. P., Weinberger A. J., Lloyd, J.P. GJ 1214 reviewed : Trigonometric parallax, stellar parameters, new orbital solution and updated bulk properties for the super-Earth GJ 1214b. 2013, A&A 551A, 48A
Weinberger, A. J.; Anglada-Escude, G.; Boss, A. P. Distance and Kinematics of the TW Hydrae Association from Parallaxes 2013, ApJ 762, 118W
Tuomi, M., Anglada-Escude, G., Gerlach, E., Jones, H.R.A, Reiners, A., Rivera, E.J., Vogt, S.S., R. P. Butler Habitable-zone super-Earth candidate in a six-planet system around the K2.5V star HD 40307
Anglada-Escude, G. and Tuomi M. A planetary system with gas giants and super-Earths around the nearby M dwarf GJ 676A. Optimizing data analysis techniques for the detection of multi-planetary systems. 2012, A&A 548A, 58A
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This paper outlines the way in which a plot-device, which for the sake of convenience we shall call the 'ambiguous oracle' in Acts 1.6–8, controls and influences the narrative, creating coherence and enabling interpretation. The paper begins by looking at the current interpretation of the verses, and argues that it is not sufficient to explain the narrative configuration at various points, before going on to suggest an alternative interpretation, in which the misinterpretation of the oracle by the Apostles leads to the fulfillment of the Divine will. This interpretation finds strong support in literature contemporary to Acts.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- Another stand-out week on the baseball diamond for Sean Rubalcaba may have given him his most prestigious award yet.
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Reviews of shows from the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts and other local venues published by the Los Cerritos Community News. The writer and paper are in their twentieth year of covering these events.
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"My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre - as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field." George Sanders in "All About Eve"
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Los Lobos and Ballet Folklorico Mexicano: the Wolf Has Survived and Then Some at Cerritos
By Glen Creason
Time does fly when you are having musical fun and it has been twenty-six years since I first saw Los Lobos perform their unique mixture of Mexican traditionals, R & B, old style rock and Latin-tinged blues. On an ideal winter's night in Cerritos the old boys showed once again that they are great talents with plenty left in the tank during a two hour feast of music and dance. While they are a bit more low-key and possess the wisdom of many shows they still play with a spark that demonstrates their love for the old music. As if the band is not good enough they came with the magnificent Ballet Folklorico Mexico who provided visual dazzle to the lively acoustic portion of the concert. The show was a steady flow of folk dances from different states of Mexico interspersed with mostly Spanish language sones that sounded just as sweet as when they were first put on vinyl back in the day before file-sharing and phone staring. I helped the entire experience that the audience was so wonderfully behind the band, sometimes singing lyrics and reacting to the old favorites that hit the spot developed in the 20th century when we were just a bit younger. These included "Cascabel," "Sabor a Mi," "Cancion de Mariachi," and a taste of "La Bamba" that caused veteranos y veteranas to stir in their sections. The dancers never failed to increase the temperature in the big hall performing joyful steps from Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Chiapas, Chihuahua and Sonora while donning native costumes of the regions.
The second half of the program was even more rewarding musically with some great old memories from the best of Los Lobos like "Anselma," "Volver," "Las Pistola y El Corazon," "Saint Behind the Glass," and a strong finishing shot of a high octane "La Bamba" followed by the evergreen "Guantanamara" that stayed in the hearts and minds of the packed house. The young dancers kept up the visual energy with an opening in Aztec regalia for "Aquila Blanca," "Mictecacihuatle," and "Tonantzin" celebrating life in flowers and love plus "a good death" exemplified by a couple of muertos who danced together. Yet, on this night the happy crowd was filled with life and love and maybe a few spirits from the old country.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Johnny Mathis Christmas December 18, 2015
Christmas the Johnny Mathis Way at Cerritos
By Glen Creason
There are a select few that are born to sing Christmas songs that make the heart glow with holiday happiness and Cerritos was lucky enough to experience one of those over the yuletide weekend. Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Ella Fitzgerald and Johnny Mathis fill the season's juke boxes and the last in the list was first at the Performing Arts Center on Friday before a packed house of happy folks filled with good cheer and musical memories. While there are many a middle-aged American celebrating this year that are alive thanks to the romantic moods created by a Johnny Mathis album, the man himself seems hardly have aged, especially his sweet and gentle voice. He was relatively casual, wearing an elegant black tuxedo without neck ware in the first half, and then turning to off-white without tie in the second half of the show. To make the evening even grander he had a full orchestra surrounding him and his own quartet that really brought the old chestnuts to a brilliant shine, complete with backup singers and two tall fir trees on stage.
The concert was mostly Christmas song-candies including classic Mathis renditions of "Winter Wonderland, " "Happy Holidays," "Caroling, Caroling," "Most Wonderful Time of the Year," a rollicking "Sleigh Ride," and the perfectly appropriate "A Child Is Born" that rang true across the great hall. Of course, with a repertoire of sixty years on stages Maestro Mathis had to please his fans and performed many of the big ones like "It's Not for Me to Say," "Chances Are," "Misty," and the gorgeous "the 12th of Never. He also stretched it a little with the newish "We Need a Little Christmas, " and "Sending You a Little Christmas" along with a surprising finishing kick of a lively Brazilian medley that included "Mas Que Nada," "Manha de Carnaval" and "Brazil" that got the audience warmed up before departing into the Winter's night.
The show was broken up delightfully by comedian Brad Upton who kept the large crown in stitches with a clean but absolutely hilarious set highlighted by clever jokes about marriage, children and aging which seemed to resonate with the happy Boomers attending.
Monday, December 07, 2015
The Ten Tenors December 6, 2015
Ten Tenors Turn Cerritos Toward a White Sort of Christmas
By Glen Creason
It might seem odd that a group of singers from Australia would kick off the holiday festivities at the Performing Arts but there was nothing ordinary about the very big and very good Christmas songfest by the Ten Tenors at the Performing Arts Center Sunday evening. This is a polished group with harmony and dance moves as tight as the tuxedos the handsome gents wore for the action-packed show before a full house. For the most part the ten Aussie blokes made some old Christmas chestnuts shine up nicely with the strength of ten shades of tenor voice. There were the standards like "Joy to the World," "Adeste Fidelis," "Walking in a Winter Wonderland," "the Christmas Song" and "Sleigh Ride," that put the place in a merry state of the season. Just to mix it up the Ten men threw in some "Four Seasons" songs from "the Jersey Boys" and native pop like "Down Under," the Men at Work evergreen alongside a sweet "Waltzing Matilda." They even finished the first set with a Michael Jackson medley complete with a spirited "Billy Jean."
The second half of the show returned to a more sacred side with some secular exceptions. The Christmas tunes sounded excellent as done by the assorted tenors, sometimes in solo but mostly in perfect ten part harmony. While the young men's appearance pleased the ladies in attendance they could all sing beautifully. While the theme was Christmas there were some lesser known treats such as "Thousand Candles," "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" that worked very well times ten. In the season, there were old favorites like "Little Drummer Boy," "White Christmas," and a rousing "O' Holy Night." However there were two non-yule show-stoppers in "I Would Do Anything for Love" which never sounded better and Queen's "Somebody to Love" that got some gray Cerritos heads to nodding in rhythm. The show ended with a trio of encores, highlighted by a wonderfully pure "Amazing Grace" but even then the crowd cheered for more from the lads from down under.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Mummenschanz November 22, 2015
Mummenschanz Enchants at Cerritos
By Glen Creason
I knew it might be tough to describe the matinee "Mummenschanz" concert at the Performing Arts Center when I counted at least one hundred exclamations of "whoa!!" by the silver-haired lady in the row in front of me. It is understandable since the show is so unique and so mind-boggling that it is hard to describe without repeating ad nauseum adjectives like astonishing, bewildering, brain-addling, dreamlike, crazy unreal, flabbergasting, incomprehensible, otherworldly, redonkulous, surreal, uncanny and lots more. When the performance ends and only four individuals unmask and stand at center stage it is the greatest shock of all since virtually the entire audience is lead to believe there is about one hundred people creating the creatures who undulate, float, scamper, bounce, ooze, cavort and utterly delight an audience that covers the age spectrum from toddlers to senior citizens who say whoa a lot. Would it make any sense if I listed the menagerie created by Mummenschanz? A golden blob, a green split pea with a big red tongue, a hose with a big red ball, toilet paper headed lovers, a puzzle face, ever-changing clay visages, a purple tubing worm and a dozen more of these thingamajigs that elicited whoas and wows and excited shouts from the many kids in the audience. There were floating, iridescent rugs, inflatable silvery bags at war, a flying yellow stick figure, a battle of big heads; eyes become big faces and a big golden blob that threatened to engulf the front row. The troupe has been perfecting this act since 1972 and the creativity and use of movement in the act is pretty much impossible to do justice to with words but very, very entertaining to see in person. All of this is performed against a black backdrop and the creatures created seem completely independent of human manipulation which is pushed to the shadows to increase the illusion. When the show ended there was a standing ovation with kids bouncing up and down and folks in my generation raising up as quickly as we could to salute a job done marvelously.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Ramsey Lewis and John Pizzarelli March 20, 2015
By Glen Creason
It was almost like the Performing Arts Center was built for the concert there on Friday night with two of the best musicians ever to stand (or sit) on the stage playing the music of one of the greatest Southern California based musicians ever to sing a sweet note. The truly great pianist Ramsey Lewis and the jazz-master John Pizzarelli make for a perfect pair to express the wonders of the intimate but exhilaratingly expressive Nat King Cole songbook that filled the hall on this evening with really memorable playing. Maestro Lewis has a talent so rare and refined that he can say a lot with little waste as he did for the show opening introduction to "Route 66" that seemed to cover every mile from Kingman to Pasadena. He looked dapper, like he had just came from the barber shop on his way to church but the man's hands are ageless and when he explored "Hit That Jive Jack" playing the melody with his right hand and accompanying himself with his left the big Steinway & Sons grand piano just connected hearts all over the hall. On the other hand, John Pizzarelli not only played his Moll seven-string guitar like a master but provided the art of witty patter and a knowledge of Nat King Cole-iana that is encyclopedic. This thorough musicologial wisdom allowed the show to rise far above any tribute program by mixing the chosen material between the familiar and beloved like "For Sentimental Reasons," "Sweet Lorraine," "Unforgettable" and "Straighten Up and Fly Right" to the delightful, forgotten gems like "Hit That Jive Jack," "The Best Man," and "Baby Baby All the Time" that turned out to be the peak performance in an evening of very tall musical mountains. It certainly helped that the masters Lewis and Pizzarelli were ably abetted by the brilliantly inventive Joshua Ramos on bass and rock steady Charles "Rick" Heath on drums with both men keeping the sound pristine and perfect for the understated but perfectly pronounced vocals that Nat King Genius used to croon. Not only did the packed house get to enjoy some of the best playing ever in Cerritos, they left whistling great tunes and learning a lot about the labels, the songwriters, the history of each song and plenty of laughs along the way. This was an experience that would lead any music lover into thanking their lucky stars that they were able to see and hear, in person a true genius of the piano with a master of the jazz guitar while enjoying music that will live until the polar ice caps melt.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
It's Magic March 15, 2015
It's Magic…it really is
By Glen Creason
It is difficult to describe something that isn't there as in the end result of many magic tricks but then again I have been writing reviews that sometimes disappear for quite some time now. Yet what was there on a Sunday in Cerritos was an embarrassment of magician riches all appearing and disappearing on the stage at the Performing Arts Center much to the delight of a pretty good-sized crowd that admired legerdemain and prestidigitation times five. This magic show as about a straight forward and simple as it comes except for the "tricks" that unfolded without as much as a hiccup during the full ninety minute banquet of old-fashioned magic the way they have been doing it at the Magic Castle in Hollywood for sixty odd years. There were half a dozen remarkable magic acts that were completely different except that they followed the rules of the art form so well not a soul in the audience had a clue as to how they were accomplished. Comedian Matt Marcy hosted and was spot on perfect, adding to the fun without ever staying too long or taking the show too seriously. Parts of the delight of any such show are the "volunteers" and at Cerritos there were many who will remain anonymous here even though they served well at this matinee.
There was Mystina, the lone lady on the bill who used her graceful dancer's physique to distract and perform in both black light and footlight including some amazing stuff with scarves and newspapers that were shredded or were they? Illusionist David Zirbel stood tall with some fine work with rings, and barrels full of beautiful magician's assistants who appeared unscathed and disappeared quite magically. Suave Danny Cole's wardrobe was elegant and changing before our very eyes much to the amazement of those even a few feet away. The two-time magician of the year was flawless and in the grand tradition made it look effortless. For comedy relief juggler-comedian Dan Raspyni knocked out the house mostly with his self-effacing humor and use of audience participators while actually juggling like a thirty-year seasoned pro. Finally and certainly the grand finale was Mark Kalen and Jinger Leigh who performed classic illusions with aplomb and some wry humor. This did involve sawing ladies in half, swords passing through same and even levitation alongside the levity. A terrific show and now the disappearing review.
Saturday, March 07, 2015
Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story March 6, 2015
Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story Turns Back the Cerritos Clock
By Glen Creason
On a weekend when the clocks spin forward it was ironic that the musical on the Center for the Performing Arts stage spun it backwards delightfully fifty-six years. The show that came here was top-rate with nostalgic sets and costumes, a solid sound system and strong performances from all over the cast. Certainly, many in this well-seasoned Cerritos audience remember hearing Buddy Holly's irresistible sound coming out of their car radios back in those cruising days but to hear the songs live with modern technology was lots of fun and achingly evocative of a time we still cherish. As far as this production went on Friday night at Cerritos Todd Meredith as Buddy stood tall in his acting and playing to the point where you caught a glimpse at the young man who captivated America for a couple of years in the early days of rock and roll. The beauty of Holly's amazing gift however is that his uncanny ability to write pop hooks with simple, straightforward lyrics allow them to survive to this day. Every song played in this show was a winner, each a half a century evergreen hit. It helped this Buddy that he was surrounded by a fine supporting cast including Steve Steiner as High-Pockets, Jenny Stodd as the bereaved Maria Elena, Marianne Depietro in several roles, the acrobatic Bill Morey as bass-man-showman Joe B. Mauldin and Nathan Yates Douglass as the put-upon Norman Petty. Special mention should be made of the truly sensational efforts put forward by David Reeve throughout in his dancing and singing along with Eddie Maldonado who absolutely lit up the stage every time he gyrated upon it including two show stopping numbers "Shout" with Reeve and a super-heated La Bamba that would have Richie Valens smiling from beyond. Truthfully, Reeve and Maldonado took a good story with memorable songs and turned up the heat and added some chile to the banquet. Yet, the real megastar of this show is the music of Buddy Holly who was a true genius of popular music, creating great stuff record after record after record until his young life was snuffed out in that terrible plane crash in Clear Lake Iowa back in 1959 on the day the music died. This show makes sure the audience gets to remember why Buddy Holly brought rock and roll into the 60's with songs like "That'll Be the Day," "Peggy Sue, " "Words of Love," "Every day," "Well Alright," "True Love Ways," It's So Easy" and the true to the spirit "Rave On."