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Intermediate station of the chair lift – Ufun 'Putschtschi - Tåll - Farbrånda - Undar t Måårtscha - Boort - Bånn - Hendar t Herli - Ender See - Schwårz See - Üssar See - Wolfschtååful - Ferder - Bosco Gurin
With the chair lift one reaches comfortably and easily the starting point of this hike at 2000 meters above sea level. En route, an unbelievable density of species can be admired. The mountain slopes above Bosco Gurin are characterized by the greatest variety of insect species and a myriad of roses. On the hike one repeatedly encounters regions that in the past were populated by the Walsers. A further highlight of the hike is the three lakes, which are perfectly embedded within the landscape.
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One measure of the dramatic progress in next-generation sequencing is that scientists no longer want to talk about advances in instrumentation. They would prefer to talk about other issues, including sample prep and analysis.These timely topics and more will be discussed at the upcoming "Genomic Research" conference, organized by Select Biosciences.
"The sequencing instrument companies have done a very good job speeding up the sequencing machines," says John Langmore, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of Rubicon Genomics. "And now it's up to everyone to speed up the sample preparation, speed up the analysis, and also focus the sample preparations on specific clinical samples that are of utility, and focus the informatics on getting the right information from the samples out quickly."
Scott Diehl, Ph.D., agrees that the collection of raw sequence data is no longer the rate-limiting step of NGS research. Dr. Diehl—director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics and Complex Disease Research at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey—believes that the biggest upcoming challenges of clinical research will be (1) gaining the cooperation of the huge numbers of test subjects necessary to understand complex multifactorial diseases and (2) balancing these subjects' right to privacy with the need to analyze their genomes and medical histories in great detail.
"It's really a cultural challenge as much as a technological challenge in order to gain the fruits of these amazing advanced technologies," he says.
Dr. Diehl points to the decades-old needle-in-a-haystack problem of finding single disease-causing mutations amidst an entire genome. Beginning in the 1980s, researchers successfully uncovered the mutations responsible for such disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, neurofibromatosis, and Huntington disease.
"We said, 'OK, this works great for simple single-gene diseases; let's apply it to more complex conditions,'" Dr. Diehl says.
"And to make a long story short, initially using family-based linkage studies and then later using population-based case-control studies of various diseases, we found lots of genes, but...even adding them all up, they only explain a relatively modest portion of the inherited component of the diseases. And so this leads to the conclusion that there must be hundreds of needles we need to find to fully explain the causes of complex diseases."
To understand how dozens or hundreds of genes interact with each other and the environment in conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and mental illness, Dr. Diehl says, "We ultimately need to build up registries of millions of people who are tracked over decades in order to tackle the biostatistical analysis." The recent genotyping study of 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members is a step in this direction, he says.
Engaging the public on such a large scale will require a massive education and outreach campaign, including frank disclosure of possible threats to privacy. "We need to build safety and privacy protection mechanisms, but sooner or later major genetic databases are likely to get hacked and put out onto the web," Dr. Diehl concedes.
While Dr. Diehl hopes to analyze large populations of subjects, Marek Malecki, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at Western University of Health Sciences, is working on populations of cells within an individual—cancer cells, in particular.
A basic problem with cancer is that different tumor cells develop different mutations, leading to distinct subpopulations within the tumor. "Tumor growth is propelled by many different clones with different properties," Dr. Malecki notes, "and when you deal with a heterogeneous tumor, then basically it's very hard to apply a one-size-fits-all therapy or diagnosis."
But what if you could capture, sequence, and treat each specific clonal subpopulation? That is one of Dr. Malecki's long-term goals. To sort out different populations of normal cells and tumor cells from clinical samples, he and his team have created a panel of BioTags and OncoTags—synthetic antibodies that recognize specific structural variants of cell-surface proteins (e.g., EGFR) often mutated in cancer cells.
Dr. Malecki's vision is that once the tumor cells are sorted into different clonal populations, they could all be sequenced via NGS and subjected to test treatments. Treatments that appear effective against isolated cancer cell populations could then be administered to the patient as targeted personalized medicine.
One advantage of an OncoTag-based approach, Dr. Malecki says, is that it preserves cells' viability better than fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) and other existing methods, thus facilitating clonal expansion for profiling of the genome, microRNA, and transcriptome, as well as for testing of targeted therapies. Regardless, the sequencing of the many subpopulations of a tumor is only feasible because of high-throughput NGS.
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Nevada Wolf Pack football is in Chris Klenakis' coaching blood.
"Having been born there, I know the pulse of northern Nevada," the former Wolf Pack assistant coach said Tuesday. "I know the lay of the land. I appreciate the culture of the area. Every program has challenges and I know what the challenges are for Nevada football and how to make them work."
Klenakis, who has spent the last three seasons coaching the Arkansas Razorbacks' offensive line in the Southeastern Conference, wants to be considered for the Wolf Pack's head coaching vacancy.
"It's extremely important that the tradition of Wolf Pack football that coach Chris Ault built be continued," Klenakis said. "I grew up with that tradition. I was part of it for 16 years (1990-99 and 2004-09). You don't replace tradition. And you can't buy tradition. You have to earn it. And I know how Coach Ault built that tradition."
The 48-year-old Klenakis is one of the original architects of the Wolf Pack's pistol offense. He was part of Ault's staff when the offense was created after the 2004 season. He then took the offense to Arkansas and helped blend it with Bobby Petrino's passing game.
"We had the best of both worlds," said Klenakis, who says he gets requests from coaches all over the country to come and teach them the finer points of the pistol.
"We had the great downhill running stuff that we did at Nevada and then we were able to combine it with Bobby Petrino's passing game, which is the best passing schemes in the nation. After I got here in 2010, by the next year every school in the SEC started running some form of the pistol the next year."
The pistol would definitely remain a staple of Wolf Pack football if Klenakis took over the program.
"It's amazing how this offense has taken off around the country," he said. "No matter what game you watch on Saturday, you see it., And now you are seeing it on Sundays (in the NFL)."
Arkansas, competing against some of the best defenses in the nation in the SEC, was eighth in the country in total offense in 2010 (489.3 yards a game) and 25th in 2011 (445.8). They fell to 51st last year but still averaged 420.2 yards a game.
The entire staff at Arkansas was replaced after the 2012 seasons because of the scandal involving Petrino last spring. John L. Smith, another former Wolf Pack defensive coordinator (like Petrino), was the interim coach this year as the Razorbacks went 4-8.
"Coach Smith did an outstanding job of keeping the team together," Klenakis said. "I was so proud of our kids in our last game. We had LSU, one of the best teams in the nation, on the rope. (LSU would win 20-13). That was a testament to our kids and our coaching staff. That showed tremendous character. Nobody was happy with the wins and losses but it was an amazing year because of all the things we had to fight through.
"The thing I learned from this year is how important it is for everyone, the players and the coaches, to stick together and remain focused. We were already a very close knit group and we grew even closer. You know, if you stick around in this profession long enough, you are going to hit adversity. It's how you deal with adversity that counts. Last year made me a better coach."
Klenakis has also coached at Central Missouri (2003) and Southern Mississippi (2000-02) as an offensive coordinator. In Klenakis' final season at Nevada in 2009 the Wolf Pack led the nation in rushing (344.9 yards a game) and was second in total offense (505.6) and sixth in scoring (38.2).
The Fallon native has always been known for his tireless enthusiasm and never-ending work ethic. He has sent 15 offensive linemen to professional football, including the Wolf Pack's Deron Thorp, Mike Rockwood, Shahriar Pourdanesh, Tony Moll and Harvey Dahl.
In an interview with Razor Vision Productions just after he arrived at Arkansas, Klenakis talked about his coaching philosophy and influences.
"Each day you have to have a plan," Klenakis said. "There's always something to do everyday, something you have to accomplish. Even if you're on vacation, you can do something simple like write a letter to a recruit. Somehow, some way, your thoughts and your mind has to be always (on coaching)."
When asked what is the one word that best describes him as a coach, he answered quickly, "Focused."
"I always have a play for every single day," Klenakis continued. "I think that you have to get better each and everyday. When you wake up in the morning you have to have a structured plan. What are you going to get done that day and how are you going to get it done? I always tell my players, 'How are you going to hit a target if you don't know what you are aiming at?' I always tell them, 'There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Don't waste any of them.'"
He said he learned that philosophy from Chris Ault.
"The thing I learned from Coach Ault most of all is his organizational skills," Klenakis said. "He was phenomenal how detail oriented and focused he was every single day. Even little things like making phone calls. He'd start by calling the East Coast in the morning and then move to the West coast. Every little detail was accounted for. The way he held everyone accountable and demanded everything be done the right way, that's what he reinforced with me that I will never forget."
Klenakis played college football at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., under legendary coach Bob Petrino Sr.
"He was the one who influenced me to go into coaching," Klenakis said. "That's the one who gave me a lot of inspiration to do this."
Petrino Sr., who is in the NAIA Hall of Fame, also coached his sons Bobby Jr., and Paul. Bobby Jr., now the head coach at Western Kentucky, was the Wolf Pack's defensive coordinator under Ault in 1994. Paul Petrino and Klenakis were both on Petrino Jr.'s staff at Arkansas before Petrino left the program last April.
Paul Petrino is now the head coach at Idaho. Also on that Idaho staff is former Las Vegas High, UNLV and Arkansas coach Kris Cinkovich. Cinkovich, like the Petrinos and Klenakis, is a former Carroll College player.
The last three years at Arkansas, Klenakis said, transformed him as a coach.
"I remember when I was a young coach at Nevada, I'd watch the Alabamas on TV and think about what it would be like to coach in the highest level of college football like that. It's as close to the NFL as you can get.
"You know, when I went out recruiting for Arkansas, I'd always tell the kids, 'The three toughest conference's in America are the AFC, the NFL and the SEC.' You just don't have any margin of error in the SEC. One or two plays can cost you the game. And it's like that no matter who you play. You have to come to work everyday and you grind and grind each and everyday."
Klenakis also offered his recruiting philosophy on Razor Vision Productions.
"In addition to their size, the strength, their athleticism and their flexibility, I also look at the intangible," Klenakis said. "How tough are they, not only physically but mentally? Can they think on the run? You don't have to be book smart but you have to be reactionary smart. I look for that mental toughness and work ethic and that desire to be great.
"I've had a lot of guys who were below average athletes and below. But some of them still went on to the highest level (NFL) because they were so mentally tough. Their desire and work ethic was unbelievable."
Nobody has ever questioned Klenakis' work ethic and desire.
"Nevada is my home," Klenakis said. "I spent 16 years coaching there. I have a lot of pride in the school, in the football program and the community and the whole region. That's where I grew up as a coach. I was 4-years-old when Chris Ault was a member of my father's staff (Tony Klenakis, who coached the Greenwave from 1966-81) at Fallon High. I can still remember watching Coach Ault as a young man coaching that season on the sideline. So I grew up around the game of football.
"I embrace the challenge of Wolf Pack football. I have the foundation of that program with me and now I have the advantage of coaching in other places, too.
So I would come back to Nevada a much better coach than when I left."


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INWOOD — The Blue & Gray Chorus of Inwood invites men who like to sing to join them for the Christmas concert Dec. 9 at Musselman High School.
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MARTINSBURG — Members of the Belles of Berkeley Chorus, a prospective chapter of Sweet Adelines International, have begun rehearsing for its annual "Holiday Harmony" show which will be Dec. 18. All women in the community are invited to sing with the chorus for this event. Rehearsals are from 6:45 to 9:15 p.m. every Tuesday at Trinity Episcopal Church. There is a $7 refundable music fee.
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LOCKPORT – Christopher A. Porter, one of four men convicted in connection with the theft of $102,000 in cash from an elderly Niagara Falls couple, was sentenced Wednesday to one to three years in prison for violating the terms of his probation.
Porter, 21, of Welch Avenue, Niagara Falls, had been placed on probation in 2010 after pleading guilty to third-degree burglary. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Porter was fired from a job recently for stealing; Porter said it was really for letting others steal and leave the store without stopping them.
The money was stolen from a file cabinet in the basement of the 28th Street home of a relative of the owner of a check-cashing business. The other three defendants also went to prison.


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This year's National Public Works Week poster shows a vision of public works in the future with artwork by Laura Smith.
The future of our communities is truly public works: not only through innovation, invention, and maintenance, but also with investment. The way to ensure a productive and safe future for communities around the globe is to invest today in the infrastructure that is tomorrow's world.
Dimensions of the Poster are 20" x 30"


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5 Self-Improvement Techniques That Actually Make You Dumber
The more we learn about the human brain, the more we realize that it's an asshole clear to the core. On one hand, it pushes us to constantly improve ourselves so we're not murdered for holding the species back. On the other, it punishes us for attempting those improvements by turning us into hopeless morons. Let me make it perfectly clear that I'm not saying to avoid self-improvement ... but I think it's important that you're aware of the many ways your brain will be a merciless dick to you if you try.
#5. Thinking of Yourself as Naturally Gifted Takes Away Incentive to Work
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If there's one thing that watching every superhero movie that comes out has taught me, it's that believing in yourself is the only thing you ever need to do to solve problems. There is literally nothing more important. How does Spider-Man get over his lost powers in Spider-Man 2, the best superhero movie ever? By believing in himself. What does the young Professor Xavier need to do to succeed in X-Men Babies Meets X-Men All Grown Up? "Hope again"; that is, believe in himself. How does Superman gain the courage to punch a spaceship into the sun and then smash Metropolis into a bloody pile of concrete and bone marrow? Well, he was probably going to do that anyway, but not if he didn't believe in himself first.
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"I can do this! And if not ..."
Yes, that confidence is important. If there's one thing all children deserve, it's being called great.
The Terrible Truth:
Encouragement ... is awful? Yes, but there's something of a caveat here: Some kinds of encouragement are good, because painting that fence pure black or pure white is idiotic. Still, other kinds of encouragement will reduce you to some kind of lumbering dummy dum-dum. So how do you tell the difference?
It's simple: Praising someone for doing a whole bunch of work or putting a ton of effort into something will help them succeed. Praising them for being "a natural" or "gifted" doesn't. It's pretty easy to see why: When someone tells you "Good job for working hard!" your mind connects the praise to the hard work, which makes you want to work harder. Being praised for being a perfect little slab of brilliance that burps symphonies and sweats champagne makes you feel like your very existence is an accomplishment, and that you'll just naturally keep creating greatness no matter what. And that's how supertwats are made.
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"My job experiences are: fisherman, hobo, and bar back. But, I believe I can be
a reporter for a Pulitzer-winning newspaper. How hard can it be?"
People are born with natural abilities, sure, but mastering something takes a metric fuckton of effort in virtually every instance, ever. Telling people they're naturally good at something perpetuates the illusion that success can just spontaneously appear in an effort vacuum. Telling people that they're gifted or a "genius" makes them feel good, but hell, so does heroin.
What I'm saying is that telling your kids that they're naturally good at something is just as bad as giving them heroin.
#4. Always Being Available Means You Never Get Anything Done
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Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, building a relationship, or participating in a costume orgy, communication is important. Beyond the obvious bare minimum required to accomplish each of those tasks, it's generally understood that increasing communication has a direct correlation to increasing the quality of the output. So quickly and punctually answering emails from your bosses will make promotion more likely, while describing exactly how you like your butt tickled with a peacock feather hat will result in far more satisfying genital sparring -- whatever the implication of that description may be for you.
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"No, I want you to use the Downton Abbey Maggie Smith voice, not the Harry Potter one. There's a difference."
The Terrible Truth:
There's a twist here: A distraction, even a brief one, can decrease your brain's ability to process information by as much as 20 percent. However, waiting for an interruption that never comes actually improves your productivity.
But really think about that -- being available all the time means your email alerts are always popping up in the bottom right corner of your screen, because like hell you're going to mark sale alerts from Steam and GoG.com as spam. And even when you're away from your computer, your phone is making a helpful little noise to let you know that an email came. There's no avoiding it, which is why a study found that distracted workers cost businesses an average of $10,790 per worker every year.
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Uh, unless they're reading a list-based comedy website. Then they get back to work smarter and sexier.
I gotta say, of all the studies in this article, this is the one we're all the least likely to take to heart. Hell, I stopped to read an email from my editor while I was writing this entry, because my phone made the special noise I have reserved for when a Cracked editor emails me. And it shows: When I typed "xenomorph hiss site:youtube.com" into Google, the sun was shining outside and there was hope in the world. Now, the part where Hudson freaks out and 15 different kinds of porn later, I've completely forgotten what I'm even writing about.
#3. Dieting Puts Your Brain on Hunger Strike
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Wait a minute ... how can this possibly be bad? Everyone knows the food corporations give so few shits about our well-being that we're practically drowning in their high fructose corn syrup bukkake. And on top of that, everyone knows that Americans are the most disgustingly obese people to ever exist in the history of the world, with skyrocketing rates of heart disease and diabetes. So how can watching what we eat have any negative effects?
The Terrible Truth:
Obviously watching what you eat is good, but counting calories and keeping an eye on the scale can get your brain's neurons all tangled up. Dieting can "problematize" a part of your brain, which is awesome because a) "problematize" is a word that we can all use in casual conversation now and b) it helps explain why fat is incurable. Changing your body size means being hungry forever, and since your stomach is never going to stop sending teams of insurgent revolutionaries to try to forcibly oust the oppressive regime of your brain, your brain is going to have to constantly divert resources to its Royal Guard so they can keep committing war crimes against the restless populace.
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Your body is Game of Thrones, and "dinner is coming."
And the difference is huge: They compared the brain power of Indian sugar cane farmers during harvest (when they're effectively rich and can eat however much they want) and pre-harvest (when they're basically poor and eating just to subsist), and they found the IQ difference to be around nine or 10 points. Being hungry -- the default state for everyone on a diet -- has the same effect on your intelligence as losing an entire night's sleep or headbutting a garbage truck in half.


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Bond reduced for Millcreek dentist jailed in drug probe (Updated: 1:35 p.m.)
Bond was reduced this morning for a Millcreek Township dentist jailed on charges of illegally obtaining opioid pain medication.
William Kevin Mahoney, 52, of the 6100 block of Echo Hill Road in Fairview Township, was arraigned Thursday night by North East District Judge Scott Hammer on eight felony counts of acquiring or obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deceit and/or subterfuge. Hammer set bond at $100,000 Thursday night, but he reduced it this morning to 10 percent of $50,000 at the request of Mahoney's lawyer, according to court documents.
It was also stated in court documents that the bond reduction was requested so that Mahoney can go to rehab in Chicago.
Agents with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control filed the charges on Thursday and served a search warrant at Mahoney's dental practice in the 3900 block of Caughey Road late Thursday afternoon.
Mahoney is accused of obtaining hydromorphone from a pharmacy in Millcreek Township by using prescriptions written on his prescription pad. The prescriptions stated that the medication would be used during a dental procedure at his office, but Mahoney stated that he did not dispense all of the medication to the patients and used it on multiple patients not on the prescription, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case.
See Saturday's Erie Times-News and GoErie.com for more coverage.


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on December 4, 2012 - 1:00 AM
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For the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2012 has been a year of monumental celebration and change.
The gallery, which officially marked the 150th anniversary of its founding on Tuesday, is preparing for the departure of director Louis Grachos at the end of the year and the arrival of his yet-to-be announced successor shortly thereafter. The gallery has hosted a trio of ambitious exhibitions celebrating its accomplishments across the past century and a half – "The Long Curve," "Wish You Were Here" and the ongoing "Decade," which runs through Jan. 6.
This week, the gallery unveiled one last project meant to commemorate its 150th. "Universals Albright-Knox 150," a participatory art project featuring 150 distinct paintings commissioned by the gallery and spearheaded by the artistic team of Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, has been on view in the gallery since Tuesday. The artists will give a talk at 7 tonight in one of many events during the gallery's free M&T First Fridays program, running from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today.
For the exhibition, the gallery chose 150 Western New Yorkers to participate in the early stages of the team's artistic process in May. Each participant filled out a questionnaire, chose a color scheme and certain other visual elements and were interviewed and observed by the artists. Later, the artists created 150 unique paintings made with pure pigment airbrushed across a piece of paper, each one based at least in part on a single participant.
The paintings will be incorporated into a sculpture that the artistic team will complete and the gallery will acquire in 2014. It's part of the ongoing "Universals" project, which aims to unite "the museum, the community, and artistic methodology in a context of participation, exchange, and collective creation."
Albright-Knox curator Holly E. Hughes, who oversaw the project, said that it deals with notions of identity. It echoes other participatory projects the Albright-Knox has commissioned, including Byron Kim's 2008 piece "Synechdoche," which was based on the skin tones of the gallery's board members and serves as a kind of commentary on race.
"They're really exploring identity and the concept that someone's identity isn't just their face. It's their gestures, it's the jewelry they wore that day," Hughes said. "If it's a woman, what color [are] her nails painted? If it's a man, does he wear his watch on his right-hand side or his left-hand side? It's about that signature. It's about every detail of our being that makes us who we are."
Beyond merely creating representative abstract paintings based on input from participants, the project explores the notion of collaboration – what it means to fold the experience of another person, or an entire group of people, into your own. And it's also an argument for a new kind of abstraction, Hughes said, and about where the abstract art form goes from here.
The First Friday event also features art classes for kids, tours and an 8:30 p.m. concert with the Albrights for $10.
What: "Universals Albright-Knox 150"
When: Through Dec. 30
Where: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Ave.
Tickets: Free today, otherwise $5 to $12
Info: 882-8700 or www.albrightknox.org


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5 Movies Plots Given Away by the Characters' Names
Names can influence our lives in profound and amazing ways. They can determine how much money we make or how attractive we appear to other people, while the more unpronounceable ones can even pose a serious choking hazard to children under 3 and the elderly. (Hope you feel better soon, Grandpa.)
But when it comes to fictional names, their main power is being able to spoil your favorite films harder and faster than "Rosebud McItwashissled." That's because screenwriters absolutely love putting tiny clues into the names of movie characters that flat out tell you what's going to happen with the plot, like how ...
#5. The Name of Nicolas Cage's Character in Face/Off Revealed How He Was Going to Die
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In the 1997 installment of John Woo's dove fetish infinite-logy, commonly known as Face/Off, Nicolas Cage plays insane terrorist Castor Troy, who plants a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles. Then, to make sure no one can get any information about it from him, he strategically almost dies and falls into a coma. This leaves FBI Special Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) with no choice but to have Troy's face transplanted onto him so he can trick Castor's brother, Pollux, into unwittingly giving up the device's location.
What follows is a typical action movie roller coaster: Things go tits up when Troy wakes up, staples Archer's face to himself, and convinces everyone that he's the real thing, then the tits go down again when the original Archer finds and murders his evil doppelganger with a spear gun.
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"It literally kills me to do this, but ..."
Why We Should Have Seen It Coming:
Wait, "Pollux"? That can't be a real name. That sounds more like a rejected bee-themed supervillain from Captain Planet. In reality, the Troys' monikers are a reference to Castor and Pollux, two brothers from Greek mythology who make up the Gemini constellation, which is Latin for "twins." In the movie, Troy and Archer sort of become each other's twin, and suddenly, BAM, you're in John Woo's symbolism land!
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Hope you brought an umbrella.
Castor and Pollux were also brothers of Helen of Troy and the protectors of sailors, which featured prominently in the movie finale when Archer chased Troy in a speedboat.
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More importantly, though, according to the ancient Greeks, Castor met his end after the Gemini bros got into a feud with their cousins, Lynceus and Idas, which ultimately led to Idas killing Castor ... by impaling him with a spear. Then, a few centuries later, John Woo took that idea, added "gun" to the end of it, and had his ending to Face/Off, which the more observant audience members could've guessed the second the name "Castor Troy" was first mentioned in the film.
Now, I'm not saying that this has somehow ruined Face/Off for anyone, because you can't really spoil the crazy-awesome spectacle of that scene even if you know about it in advance, but ... it's like this: If you tell someone that they're going to see naked people later tonight, they'll still be happy when it happens, just less than if you'd handed them a pair of binoculars and simply pointed them at the right house.
#4. The Surname "Hayes" Lets You Know How American Beauty Will End
DreamWorks Pictures
When you think about it, the plot of American Beauty revolved almost entirely around Kevin Spacey's penis: His penis gets ignored by his character's joyless wife, which causes him to fantasize about doing various penis-related things to teenager Angela Hayes (the rose petal girl from all the posters), and then Spacey and his penis die after being shot by Chris Cooper.
DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by Mr. Garrison.
But of course that's just me being my childish self. American Beauty was ultimately about the culmination of Lester Burnham's midlife crisis and his obsession with a sexualized child. That's why it wasn't really a spoiler when he told us at the beginning that he was going to die, because while that does happen, it doesn't really capture all the nuances of the movie's complex, real ending.
Why We Should Have Seen It Coming:
You know what did capture those nuances, though? Angela Hayes' surname, because "Hayes" sounds just like "Haze," as in "Dolores Haze," the titular character of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, which immediately draws plenty of weird parallels between the novel and the movie.
DreamWorks Pictures
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
This may require further research.
Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a literary scholar with two failed marriages under his belt and very cruel parents, who kidnap-adopts (kidnopts) a sexualized child because she reminds him of his first love. Similarly, Lester Burnham is a magazine executive in a failing marriage who turns a sexualized child into a symbol of the life he thinks could finally make him happy. Unlike Humbert, Lester eventually sees Angela for the kid that she is, but his obsession still leads to someone getting shot to death. In the movie, that someone is Lester, who gets killed by his neighbor Colonel Frank Fitts for not returning the secretly gay Fitts' advances.
This bears some resemblance to a scene in Lolita where Humbert shoots a man named Clare Quilty for kidnapping Dolores and doing weird things to her. (So ... he pretty much shoots him for plagiarism.)
DreamWorks Pictures
MGM, Turner Entertainment Co.
Both endings deal with the same bizarrely specific formula where a sad middle-aged man lets his sexual frustrations escalate until he ejaculates lead into a guy whom he believes took advantage of him. Also, there's an underage nymphet involved in it somehow, which you can apparently spoil with a simple spelling variation of "Haze," just like the movie did.
#3. In Inception, Ariadne Had to Be the One Who Ends Up Saving the Day
Warner Bros. Pictures
Christopher Nolan's dream-heist movie Inception has a rather complicated story, to say the least, and to say the most: When I watched it on Japanese TV, there was a small text in the corner letting the viewers know which level of the dream world the action was taking place in.
Warner Bros. Pictures, TV Asahi
To me it just proves that the only true international language is "not getting the entire plot of Inception on the first viewing," which also made it impossible to guess what was going to happen next in it ... unless of course you guessed that Ellen Page's Ariadne would be the one who guides Leonardo DiCaprio's Dom Cobb to limbo and helps complete the titular inception on Cillian Murphy. Then you were right on the money, together with anyone else who figured that out thanks to their knowledge of Greek myths.
Warner Bros. Pictures
So, are we totally sure that Ariadne's last name wasn't "Troy" or something?
Why We Should Have Seen It Coming:
In Greek mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with a warrior named Theseus, and helped him defeat the half-man, half-bull Minotaur. She did it by giving Theseus some thread so he could navigate the Labyrinth and kill the beast without getting lost in it, which is subtly referenced in the movie when Cobb first meets Ariadne and fucking asks her to draw him a maze.
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To which she NEVER replies "This is bullshit!" Talk about a wasted opportunity.
Consequently, when Cillian Murphy's Robert Fischer gets shot in the dream world and falls into limbo, an infinite area of his subconscious mind, it is Ariadne who convinces Cobb to go down there and look for him. Once they reach limbo, it's once again up to Ariadne to rescue Fischer and bring him back to a higher dream level so the rest of the team can implant the idea in his head that he should dissolve his company and then go put on a rubber bat costume.
But in order to save Fischer, Page's character first had to save Cobb by shooting his imaginary dream wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), which is just another way of saying that Inception's Ariadne ended up protecting a guy lost in a maze from being killed by a fantastical creature whose name starts with an "M." Man, no wonder John Woo only gave the movie 6 out of 10 doves. He must have seen that ending coming a mile away.


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We have heard a lot about Gen X and Gen Y so we are no going to rehash a dead horse. But did you know that the oldest X'er has turned 50, and that both X and Y generations are moving into leadership positions in real estate with a vengeance? They already impact the real estate workforce. We detail how you should learn to play in this new sharing economy.
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Beautiful and cozy pre-war studio
Size450 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Indoor fireplace
- Hot tub
- Towels
|jefferson ave, 11216-1703 Brooklyn, United States
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|Calendar updated
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It is conveniently located in Brooklyn's historic Bedford Stuyvesant. Close to restaurants, cafes, art galleries, groceries, boutique, and beauty spas. It's just minutes away from Prospect Park, museums, theaters, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, and Downtown Brooklyn. 15-30 minutes away from all Manhattan arts, entertainment, sports, Ideal for weekend getaways, extended layovers, business or group travelers, couples, family, and short term lodging.
House rules can not be broken or it will result in the guest being asked to leave and a lost of the guest deposit.
No smoking of any kind which includes cigarettes and any tobacco products is to be used in the apartment. Guests can smoke outside of the building but not on the stairs because the smokes reenters the building and the other apartments in the building.
No drugs or any kind is allowed in the building
No candles or any lit material is allowed in the building
Only renters and their guests are allowed in the building. Vacation renters are not allowed to let anyone in the building that is not a guest of the renters. Any one stating they are from a utility company must contact the owner but can not be allows in the building.
The apartment is intended for vacation renter and is not to be use as a party spot or any other comical use.
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|$ 21 AU per guest/night extra
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I booked this studio for the 30th of July 2015 for me, my husband and my son. The host Stephen sent his friend Daphne to open the studio for us, but when we got there we noticed that the studio was really dirty, needing a lot of conservation, lights were broken, window so dirty you almost could not see through it, the mattress was incredibly old, not to speak about the dirty third bed which mattress was impossible to sleep so bad it was its condition!
Daphne was very very nice and called the host on her own telephone and put us on line. Stephen did not wanted us to stay for only one night because he had somebody interested on the studio for the next day, so we agreed together that we would not stay and he would refund us through Paypal.
Wimdu could check the veracity of these facts simply calling Daphne which phone number is on my Wimdu's inbox, on my talks to the host Stephen.
But know he does not answer my phone calls or inbox contacts. I have opened a dispute through Paypal but they did not ask me for any proof and denied to give me back the $242, giving the success of the cause to WIMDU!
Accommodation is spacious and comfortable., But looks shabby.
Distance to subway about 10 minutes walk.
Landlords are friendly people.
The district is reasonable.
Not really a must.
Accommodatie is ruim en geriefelijk., maar ziet er armoedig uit.
Afstand tot subway ongeveer 10 minuten lopen.
Verhuurders zijn vriendelijke mensen.
De wijk is redelijk.
Niet echt een aanrader.
A couple of days before arrival, the owner asked us if we'd be okay to stay at another place. Didn't say why, but as the 2nd appartment was closer to Prospect Park and shops plus restaurants, we were okay. The appartment had enough space for the three of us (couple with small child) and was very close to the subway. It was clean and the other people living in the same building were friendly. The only disadvantage for us was that it didn't have a dishwasher.
I'd recommend this to others- don't expect a palace but a convenient place to stay.
I enjoyed this apartment very much during my stay in NY. It is a good location - close to the subway, shops and bars; the neighborhood is nice and feels safe. The study has all the conveniences one might need, while giving a taste of old Brooklyn from the 30s. It is not big, but seems more spacious than on the photographs. Some parts are slightly used, but the apartment is renovated and beautifuly arranged (there is no exaggeration in the way it is described - it is really cozy and finely designed). The hosts are very friendly, and so are the people arround. For me and my family it was more than a place to stay - a true enrichment to our experience of New York.
Netter Vermieter und gute Lage. Das Zimmer ist vollkommen in Ordnung. Der Treppengang ist etwas in die Jahre gekommen.
Très bon spot! Stephen et Yelma sont adorables et très disponibles. Seul "hic" visiblement très courant à NYC: A notre arrivée nous avons été informés d'un sur-booking, et Stephen nous a proposé de loger 2 nuits (sur les 7 prévues) dans un hotel proche de là. Geste commerçant après avoir regagné le studio: 1 bouteille de vin. Le studio est relativement spacieux et dispose de toutes les commodités nécessaires (Wifi, TV), mais ce que nous avons le plus apprécié, c'est le quartier qui est à la fois typique de Brooklyn, safe quelle que soit l'heure, et stratégique (métro à 5 mn de marche). Si nous devions retourner à NY nous retournerions che Stephen et Yelma.
Después de reflexionar sobre la conveniencia de dejar mi opinión sobre mi estancia en este apartamento, he decidido, finalmente, exponerla con objeto de que esta crítica se valore como una llamada de atención a futuros inquilinos y, también claro está, a los arrendatarios; Stephen y su mujer fueron agradables y serviciales con nosotros, pero lamentablemente su apartamento carecía de la limpieza, mantenimiento y presencia que cabía esperar. Por no decir, la presencia de roedores en el baño, cosa que mi marido me confesó a la vuelta para no incrementar mi malestar.
Ottima ospitalità! Stephen e la sua famiglia non ci hanno fatto mancare nulla.
Abbiamo alloggiato da loro per più di due settimane, durante le quali abbiamo visitato in lungo e in largo tanto Manhattan quanto gli altri distretti di NY.
Vicino alla metro, l'appartamento è un ottimo punto di partenza per qualsiasi spostamento perché la zona è molto ben servita e collegata.
Ottimo anche per gli spostamenti a piedi nelle zone più caratteristiche di Brooklyn.
La struttura avrebbe bisogno di qualche opera di manutenzione, mentre all'interno si sente la mancanza di un aspirapolvere.
A parte questo, consiglierei questo alloggio e, se dovessi ritornare a NY per un lungo periodo, lo prenoterei nuovamente.
Stephen und seine Frau waren sehr nette und fürsorgliche Gastgeber. So liehen sie uns z. B. einen Adapter für das Telefon, ließen für die Gäste Getränke im Kühlschrank und gaben Tipps, was man in Brooklyn machen könnte.
Das Apartment war sehr groß und in einer netten, ruhigen Umgebung, wo es viele kleine Läden gibt, um sich was Kleines zu essen zu kaufen.
Bis zur U-Bahn sind es 5-10 Minuten zu Fuß und mit dem Express 20 Minuten nach Manhattan. Allerdings hat es die U-Bahn nicht so mit der Pünktlichkeit und Häufigkeit. Man sollte auf jeden Zeit für die Fahrt einplanen.
Alles in einem kan ich die Unterkuft empfehlen!
First, the neigberhood! Amazing, its just after that we realise it was in the childhood of our favorite hip hop artists. The owner was friendly and easygoing, she gave us all the indications that we needed. Métro station by 10 minutes walks. If you dont wanna return un Manhattan for the dinner, you can have wathever you want for good restaurants, less than 15 minutes walk. The only bad comment i can say is that the appartement miss some finished on the details like paint and materials... Overall it was just what we need for 2 nights. I would come again for sure, more for the environnement itselfe than the appartement who was actully great but mot more than that for the price.
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Barnard hosts the fourth annual global symposium in Mumbai, showcasing the work being done by some of the most exceptional women in India.
Barnard's Global Fellows run leadership sessions for high school girls in Mumbai.
Blogger Julie Zeilinger '15 talks to Chelsea Clinton on "The Digital Lives of Girls" panel during the Women in the World Summit
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27th annual Farm Aid concert draws sold-out crowd
Concert about more than just music
The 27th annual Farm Aid concert was held in Hershey Saturday. The concert helps farmers across the county keep their land by awarding modest cash grants.
Close to a dozen performers, including Farm Aid founders Willie Nelson and Neil Young, performed. News 8 caught up with a farmer from Lebanon.
"It's exciting. We are getting good exposure; a lot of people are getting to see the system. People from out of the area are getting to see this, and they are really amazed that we can grow things without soil and we are just using water and nutrients to get these wonderful plants," said Aubrey Hanford from Second Sun Hydroponics.
More than 29,000 tickets were sold, making it a sold-out show.
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ROCKFORD — Illinois Secretary of State police will patrol the parking lots at CherryVale Mall this weekend to crack down on holiday shoppers who violate disability parking laws.
Last year, more than 160 citations were given out over the Thanksgiving weekend to people who illegally parked in handicapped parking spaces or misused disability placards. Drivers face fines of up to $1,000 for violations.
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Repairing the deteriorated concrete at 39-year-old Ralph Wilson Stadium will cost $4 million to $5 million in order to keep the stadium in shape for the next 10 to 15 years, an engineering study has concluded.
The damage is "not severe," the county's public works commissioner said Thursday, but close to a third of the concrete frames that hold up the upper deck have "minor to medium" deterioration from water and salt that have seeped in over time.
"The concrete's condition is appropriate for a stadium that old," said Erie County Public Works Commissioner John C. Loffredo. "It's not extreme in either way, good or bad. It's appropriate."
The $4 million estimate surprised County Legislator Timothy R. Hogues, D-Buffalo, who said he had anticipated a higher estimate.
"Some of the calls I've gotten from constituents were concerned about the actual safety of the structure and the age of it," said Hogues, who is chairman of the Legislature's Finance and Management Committee.
Erie County hired the engineering firm DiDonato Associates to assess the condition of the concrete as county officials negotiate a new lease with the Buffalo Bills that could call for renovating the county-owned stadium in Orchard Park.
The study showed that about 70 percent of the concrete frames that hold up the stadium's upper deck are in good shape but that the remaining 30 percent will need repairs, Loffredo told legislators Thursday. Those repairs, he said, would put the structure "in reasonable shape for another 10 to 15 years. Then you have to look at it again."
The county is exploring options for the concrete work, Loffredo said, but that decision likely would be made in conjunction with lease negotiations. The county is in three-way talks with the Bills and state officials over renewing the team's lease after it expires in July 2013. "We're looking at the options," Loffredo said of the concrete work.
"It's kind of tied in to the lease talks and putting improvements in the stadium. It would have to dovetail with that."
The Buffalo News has reported that the Bills are seeking stadium renovations estimated at $200 million to $220 million and that state and county officials have pressed for a commitment to keep the team in Western New York.
Those in the community who have been pushing for a new stadium in downtown Buffalo were eagerly awaiting completion of the study. Major players in the lease negotiations, however, have called the proposed outer harbor stadium a nonstarter. Others, Hogues said, have questioned whether it's worth investing public money in the NFL's sixth-oldest stadium.
The DiDonato study has not yet been released, but Loffredo gave legislators an update in a budget hearing Thursday.
Deterioration of the stadium's concrete is caused when salt used to de-ice the upper deck in the winter and water seep into expansion joints and into the concrete below, Loffredo said. Some of the recommended repair work would include sealing and waterproofing those areas to prevent more erosion in the future.
The county has periodically hired engineering firms to assess the condition of the concrete and has done work to repair the structure in the past. The latest study, which was estimated to cost the county up to $210,000, updated the previous assessments.
The work recommended by DiDonato was in line with what county officials expected, Loffredo said. He compared the needed repair work with that done on a bridge to keep it structurally sound over time.
"It's nothing that you would say, 'That's it, end of life, we've got to walk away, we've got to look at something else,' " Loffredo said. "No."
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Well, I can honestly say that I am already feeling more comfortable at Perkins than I ever felt at Maurice's. I mean, fist of all it's nice to not have to push credit cards on anyone. And everyone at Perkins is SO helpful, whereas at Maurice's it sometimes felt like you had to figure out everything by yourself.
I worked from about 3:30 to 8:30 on Friday night and was in again from 8:30 to 3:30 on Saturday morning. I was a little freaked out about Saturday morning because most of Perkins' breakfasts come with all these different sides and it's hard to remember what goes with what. However, I made it through without too many issues and ended up making about $16 an hour. Not too shabby, definitely more than I was making at Maurice's!
Saturday night Dustin, Ryan and I made steaks with baked potatoes and salad for dinner. It was AMAZING. I can't believe I ever didn't like steak (like I've mentioned, I'm a picky eater and I tend to go through food phases so I had a phase where I HATED red meat). Dinner was awesome AND it was the first thing I'd eaten all day. Have I mentioned I'm NEVER hungry when I work?
On Sunday we had a sibling Disney movie marathon day. We made frozen pizzas and tater tots (our movie marathon staples), had beer and whine and watched Disney movies. It was pretty awesome. We ended up watching Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Lady and the Tramp, The Sword in the Stone and Aladdin. Is it cool or not that I still remember most of the words to the songs in Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin? Those are some of my favorites.
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- Police responded to the 100 block of East Fourth Street at 2:06 p.m. Tuesday and met with the driver of a Columbiana County Educational Service Center bus who was having problems with the children on the bus. An officer spoke to the children and got them in their proper seats. The officer followed the bus and one male student was dropped off and the other children appeared to be staying in their seats.
- A barking dog was reported at 12:50 p.m?Tuesday in the 800 block of North Ellsworth Avenue and taken inside by its owner.
- A woman was reported down at 9:26 a.m. Tuesday at South Madison Avenue and East Pershing Street and was found at the northeast corner in need of medical care. EMT Ambulance responded, along with the fire department. The woman reported she fell and struck her head. She was taken by EMT to Salem Community Hospital.
- Police were called at 11:59 a.m. Tuesday to the Salem Computer Center on Second Street where the owner reported a man came into the store making false claims about the computer they had worked on for him. He and the staff did not want the man in the store, so he was asked to leave and officers told him not to come back.
- Police were called for an alarm at Family Dollar, 239 W. State St., at 7:14 a.m. Tuesday and the alarm company said contact was made with a person who provided an improper pass code. Officers found the building secure and no answer at the door. Phone contact could not be made.
- Police located two dogs at large that reportedly chased two paper carriers in the 500 block of East Perry Street at 6:05 a.m. Tuesday. An officer found the dogs in a yard, but when he attempted to exit the cruiser, the Rottweiler and the Labrador mix would not allow him to get out. The humane officer was contacted but the dogs left the area.
-An anonymous caller at 11:56 p.m. Monday reported a possible intoxicated driver in a white truck traveling east on East State Street from South Union Avenue. The vehicle was not found.
- Police were called for a reported assault at 11:27 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of Washington Avenue where the victim reported being in a physical confrontation with his roommate. He was told his options.
- Suspicious persons were reported in the 600 block of West Wilson Street at 8:59 p.m. Monday, but no one was found.
- A juvenile was charged with domestic violence and taken to the Tobin Center after police were called to a residence in the 800 block of West Pershing Street at 6:43 p.m. Monday when a woman and her juvenile daughter had an argument over homework and it turned into a physical confrontation.
- A Jennings Avenue resident reported striking an unknown object in the 200 block of South Ellsworth Avenue at 6:21 p.m. Monday, saying he was unsure what it was, but it ran off, possible being a deer. The vehicle sustained minor damage.
- Becky Pezzano reported Monday someone other than a tenant was throwing their trash in the dumpster she has at a rental property. Pezzano found an item of trash with the name and address of Robert White, North Jefferson Street, who police called and left a message with.
- A Sherman Street resident reported Monday someone stolen three stainless steel LED lights from his lawn.
- A Saltwell Road woman reported Monday she was purchasing a TV through a TV store in the county. When she went to make arrangements to have the TV delivered, the store owner said he changed his mind and then began calling her names.
A West Spruce Street woman reported Monday her sewer had backed up in her basement, and the utilities department was advised.
- Katie Elkings, Canal Fulton, was eastbound on state Route 14 at 2 a.m. Monday and slid off the road on heavy ice. No citations were issued.
- The fire department was called to stand by while crews fixed a downed electric line on Lower Elkton Road at 8:25 a.m. Monday.
- A South Main Street man reported at 4:42 p.m. Monday he found a bicycle in his yard.
- An East Woodland man reported at 10:11 p.m. Monday his juvenile daughter was receiving harassing phone calls.


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Foolage is the the doing of something foolish, And using the power of the internet, we add age instead of ish. Foolage is also the name of the website Foolage.com, Home to Animal Crossing-Inspired Videos and comics, Amongst many other things.
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A 59-year-old Briggsdale woman died in a crash Tuesday evening, the Weld County Coroner's Office reported Wednesday morning.
Sharon Davis was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which was on Weld County Road 74 near Weld 83, or about 10 miles southeast of Briggsdale. Davis was eastbound on Weld 74 when she lost control of her vehicle, which rolled and crashed. The crash occurred about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Peg + Cat = Hilarious Adventure
PEG + CAT is a new preschool series that follows the adorable, spirited Peg and her sidekick Cat as they embark on adventures, solve problems and learn foundational math concepts and skills. Best friends Peg and Cat find themselves in the middle of a messy, funny challenge in each episode, but as obstacles test their problem-solving skills, they improvise, brainstorm, make mistakes, and never give up. They use math to tame their wild and wacky world, proving once again that math is empowering and cool.
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Each half-hour episode of PEG + CAT features two eleven-minute adventures designed for a preschool audience 3-6 years old. Season one contains 40 episodes.
Each episode features a story in which Peg and Cat encounter an unexpected challenge that requires them to use math and problem-solving skills to save the day. The series models 21st-century skills such as resilience and perseverance, and demonstrates the importance of math skills.
Season one features Peg + Cat (and friends) visiting more than a dozen different worlds and singing 80 original songs. Join a downhome jamboree on The Farm, sway to the tropical sounds of Pirate Island, jam with the jazzy Three Bears trio in the Magical Forest, and groove to the far-out world of the Purple Planet.


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MORGANTOWN - Old-timers in the Clarksburg area will tell you that Bob Secret was a four-sport superstar at Washington Irving High School in the late 1950s.
At 6 feet and 200 pounds, he excelled in football, basketball, track and field, and baseball. But things did not work out well in college for Secret.
He was one of three outstanding athletes in West Virginia's Class AAA schools who were named All-America in both football and basketball as schoolboys. The others were Ron "Fritz" Williams of Weirton and Randy Moss of DuPont.
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In 1960, Secret was runner-up to the legendary Jerry West for the West Virginia Amateur Athlete of the Year Award.
"That was certainly very nice," he recalled recently. "So was getting a trophy from the Morgantown Touchdown Club."
Secret still resides in Clarksburg, where he has been retired since 2007. He has had cancer for about four years, but he's thankful that it now is in recession.
Secret, who recently turned 70, and the former Sharon Tiano have been married 43 years. They have two grown daughters.
Dr. Ashlee Barkley is a medical doctor, and Dr. Tara Seckman is a dentist. Both are West Virginia University graduates and practicing in the Clarksburg area.
"We are very, very proud of both daughters," Secret said. "They keep me going."
He went through a lot when he was active as a young athlete.
Secret went to Notre Dame as a football recruit. But he admittedly got into a little trouble there and left. Then he came to WVU, and even scored a touchdown in the first half of the Gold-Blue Spring Game. But he didn't play any in the second half and did not receive a scholarship.
So he transferred to Salem College and finished his studies for a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Eventually he earned a master's degree from WVU.
He served as an assistant coach at Clarksburg's Victory High School for four or five years.
Before graduating from high school, Secret played in the football and basketball North-South all-star games and enjoyed both very much. He also had an opportunity to play baseball with the Little Pirates in Pittsburgh.
"I roomed with Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh's son and we got along very well," Secret remembered. He played shortstop and centerfield, and baseball was his favorite sport.
He was a halfback in football and a guard in basketball.
Secret also was a backfield coach in football at Salem College for a few years. Then he wound up teaching there for 20 years before retiring.
"I've been through a lot of disappointments over the years," he said. "But I really don't have any regrets. I loved playing all my sports most of my life."
Fred Wyant, WVU's great Academic All-America quarterback from 1952-55, never saw Secret play. But the two have become good friends.
"I do know his history as a four-sport standout," Wyant said. "It's obvious he never gave up, never quit in what he went through.
"He just kept moving ahead. Most people would have given up if they went through what Bob Secret did."
Wyant said he last saw Secret at an American Legion tournament in Morgantown a couple years ago. They found a lot to talk about.
Secret, whose cousin Pete Secret lettered in 1966-67 as a WVU quarterback, is a nephew of the legendary Timbuck Shields.
Shields, a Clarksburg native, coached and later served as principal at Flemington High School. Paul Popovich was one of his prized basketball and baseball players.
After two years as a two-sport WVU standout, Popovich starred as an infielder in baseball's Major Leagues for several years.


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Cicely Berry: Director; Chris Dyer,Designer; Richard Haddon Haines as Lear; Amanda Root as Cordelia; Donald Cooper : photographer; : courtesy of ahds.rhul.ac.uk; Designing Shakespeare Collection.
"Chris Dyer's splendid, stark grey set consisting of a stairway behind a simple grey dias which dramatically splits asunder for the heath scene forms the perfect setting for such a challenging interpretation." Ann McFerron, Time Out 20.9.89
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The next Science Café will be held this Friday, February 25 at noon in the User Support Building's second floor conference room. Bring your lunch and enjoy café-style snacks while listening to these speakers present their research:
The management board of lightsources.org, the international group of synchrotron/FEL communications and public affairs officers, met last week during the AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss new ways to better serve the light source user communities and promote their scientific successes to the media, educators, students, and the general public. To better serve its audiences, lightsources.org will be sending out a brief survey at the beginning of May to assess the usage of the site and the digital and media needs of the user community. Visit lightsources.org and give us your feedback!
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Not that anybody was surprised, but the Bills were in perfect harmony after the victory over the Jaguars. The franchise receiver zipped his lips about the play calling, and the franchise quarterback wasn't forced to explain why he played like a backup. The defense and special teams were exceptional.
The Bills allowed themselves to experience the euphoria that comes with winning because, yawn, winning doesn't come easy in the NFL. Sure enough, after trampling a pathetic 2-9 Jacksonville team, they took turns singing verses from the same old song along One Bills Drive.
We'll start with the lead vocalist, George Wilson: "We cannot worry about the past at this point. We just have to focus on the next game, the next play, the next series."
Kyle Williams: "I am not worried about a month ago. Obviously, yes, we wish this would have happened earlier and we could have played this well earlier. But the only thing I can control is what is in front of me."
Mario Williams: "What happened before is the past and we just have to keep pushing."
OK, let's talk about the future. Let's face reality, too.
Generally, players are wired into the present and the idea they should keep competing until someone tells them to stop. The 24-hour rule gives them a day to enjoy victory or bemoan defeat before their mentality shifts to the next opponent. They're not thinking about the future beyond Sunday, and that should not change.
For everyone else, starting with Buddy Nix, the future means spending the final four games figuring out who deserves a paycheck beyond this season. Forget overcoming the math and making the playoffs. The idea that the Bills would accomplish anything of consequence in the postseason is a pipedream.
The Bills are 5-7, ninth in the conference and a tiebreaker behind the embarrassment known as the New York Jets. Buffalo still hasn't won a road game under Gailey over a team that finished with a winning record. Reaching the playoffs is one thing. The real reach is thinking they would beat a playoff team on the road.
Buffalo's victories this year have come against opponents with a combined 17-43 record. None has a winning record. One was against Arizona, which has lost eight straight. The Bills' losses are against teams with a combined 54-29-1 record, including a blowout loss to the Jets. Another was at home to Tennessee, which is 4-8.
That's reality.
St. Louis is coming to town this weekend with a 5-6-1 record overall, a 1-3-1 record on the road and a 0-3 record against non-conference teams. The Rams are precisely the kind of team that allows the Bills to create a false sense of hope en route to another mediocre 7-9 record and the 13th pick overall.
The Bills, incredibly, are still in the hunt for a playoff spot with four games remaining while riding another one-game winning streak. They likely would need to win at least three of the final four games to reach the postseason. It has happened only twice under Gailey. Both were part of a three-game streak last season en route to 6-10.
But that's in the past, right?
This is about the future.
I'm not suggesting the Bills should tank the season. Please, spare me the bit about the Bills trying to win every game because they're so competitive. If anything, they're delusional. If they were that competitive, they wouldn't have rolled over earlier in the season or, more importantly, been rolled over.
The Bills haven't found the answers, so let's look for them. Nix needs to find out who can play, starting with receiver Marcus Easley. He looked dangerous in the open field, so he belongs on the field. Tarvaris Jackson should get a start at quarterback. Maybe he can challenge Ryan Fitzpatrick next season to back up the first-round pick.
Rookie David Snow made his NFL debut Sunday after replacing injury-prone center Eric Wood, who is sidelined again. Rooks Ron Brooks and Nigel Bradham have fared well and should improve with experience. Maybe the same is true for two young veterans in the secondary, Da'Norris Searcy and Crezdon Butler.
Why not play them?
Let's be honest, whatever the Bills have done for years hasn't worked. At worst, they would lose a few football games and miss the playoffs. At best, they would win a few games and make the playoffs while discovering several players who perform better under game conditions. They would become part of the future.
And the Bills could change their tune.
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Located in Buffalo's 14208 ZIP code is a "charming, stable" middle-class neighborhood filled with houses that were constructed in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
They were designed in the Victorian, Queen Anne Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman architectural styles.
Many of them sell for as much as $100,000 and were constructed by prominent Buffalo developer William P. Volgamore.
This is Hamlin Park, home to 2,800 East Side residents, mostly African-American. It is also the East Side's first local historic residential district and now a state historic district. And, backers say, it's well on its way to becoming the East Side's first national registered historic district, as well.
This week, the state designation was approved by the state Office of Parks Recreation & Historic Preservation and it should be signed by the commissioner in a matter of days, making Hamlin Park homeowners eligible for tax credits to help them take care of their properties.
From there, an application goes to the National Park Service for federal historic designation, which could bring more tax credits to help both homeowners and business owners preserve what one preservationist calls the "golden period" of black middle-class community building in the 1960s and 1970s.
And that's what many neighbors are hoping for.
Decades ago, the neighborhood became Buffalo's first historic district on the East Side, meaning rules apply as to how work can be done on the properties. However, the city designation includes no incentives or assistance for homeowners, said Stephanie Barber, president of the 400-member Hamlin Park Community and Taxpayers Association.
"In order to get those things, we needed state and federal designation," she said. "That was the whole thing. If you do improvements to your house, you should get some of these benefits. It takes a lot to keep these old houses going."
The rules on how work can be done are the same at all levels, Barber said.
But if the neighborhood gets listed on the state Register of Historic Places, homeowners can receive 20 percent tax credits from the state on upgrades and projects on their homes, including heating, plumbing, furnaces and roofing, explained Michael Puma, project manager at Preservation Studios, which works with owners, developers and municipalities to develop historic preservation projects.
Commercial properties – both business and rental properties – listed on the national register basically would be eligible for 40 percent tax credits – 20 percent from the state and 20 percent from the federal government, he added.
Bounded by Humboldt Parkway, Jefferson Avenue, and East Ferry and Main streets, Hamlin Park is not much different from the Richmond Avenue community on the city's West Side, said Tom Yots, executive director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara.
"It's a stable community," he said. "The neighborhood is just as historic in Hamlin Park as in Richmond. They have the same value in history. The houses have the same integrity. The only difference is the houses on Richmond are huge. Hamlin Park has charming houses that have been kept up."
About 2,800 people live in Hamlin Park, making it "a fairly big district," Barber said.
For the survey part of the designation application, Puma, a graduate of the University at Buffalo's department of architecture and planning who is in the process of purchasing his first home on Beverly Road, walked practically every street in the district and spoke to about 1,200 residents.
Many of the single- and multi-family dwellings were custom-built between roughly 1912 and 1918 and were designed by Volgamore with about a half-dozen design variations, Puma said. Some of the columns were made of wood, others wrought iron. There were bay windows, flat windows and some windows with leaded glass.
The first residents were German, Jewish and Irish. In the late 1940s, a large migration of Southern African-Americans moved to industrial cities in the north like Buffalo, Puma said.
"It was the African-American place to move after" World War II. "People had money from working in factories," Yots said.
It became a "whole golden period of black middle class" in the 1960s and 1970s.
To counter the period of "disinvestment" that followed, resources are needed to preserve, appreciate and develop Hamlin Park. It has a certain workmanship, a certain story behind it that makes it a treasure, specifically as an African-American community that represents that whole golden period of black middle class life, said Terrence Robinson, founding and current trustee of Preservation Niagara.
Creating a pool of money validates and recognizes the significance of the community, he said.
About two years ago, the Hamlin Park group partnered with Preservation Studios and the Preservation League of New York State with the help of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, Yots said. Preservation Buffalo Niagara hosted public meetings on behalf of the Hamlin Park neighborhood group and was the local sponsor for the district's historic designation nomination, Yots said.
Yots' son, Jason, an attorney and the chief executive officer of Preservation Studios, saw the project as a community service, and his law firm provided the research, writing and submission of the nomination document for Hamlin Park on a pro bono basis.
He also received about $10,000 in grants from the state's Preservation League and the City of Buffalo to help pay for the survey and to hire some administrative people. Otherwise, the process would have been too cost-prohibitive for the Hamlin Park group, Tom Yots said.
"People were protecting and preserving their properties, but they were not getting benefits," Tom Yots said. "It was getting overlooked."
Not anymore.
Douglas Pressley of Beverly Road has lived in Hamlin Park most of his life, and Danny Harris, who owns three properties on the block, welcome the incentives that come with historic designations. "Now we can get some help too." Pressley said.
In addition to Hamlin Park, five other sites in Western New York were added to the state register of historic places this week. They are Buffalo's E.M. Hager & Sons Co. Planing Mill, 141 Elm St.; the Buffalo Zoo Entrance Court; the Meldrum-Edwards Building, Pearl Street; the Town of Tonawanda Municipal Building in Kenmore; and the Herschell-Spillman Motor Co. Complex in North Tonawanda.
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Virginia Madsen's dream home comes complete with hardwood floors and evil spirits in 'The Haunting in Connecticut.' Plus, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller won't let a little World War ruin their gluttony in 'Edge of Love.' a href="http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-haunting-in-connecticut/35584/main">'The Haunting in Connecticut'
What It's About:Virginia Madsen finds the dream home for her and her family -- well, besides the fact that it's already inhabited by evil spirits stranded in the netherworld between life and death. (And also the fact that said spirits "want her son.")
It's Kind of Like: 'Poltergeist' meets 'Amityville Horror' meets countless other haunted house movies
What Critics Say: Critics were terrified by 'Connecticut' -- though not in the sense its filmmakers would probably hope. It registered a scarily low 18 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with many blasting its lack of both originality and frights.
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What It's About: A couple of carefree gals (Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller) in the inner-circle of poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) refuse to let the onset of World War II interfere with their fun-filled quest toward BFF-dom.
It's Kind of Like: A third-rate 'Atonement'
What We Say: You have to wonder if Knightley and Miller made this uninspired and dull low-budget drama solely for the chance to party with each other for a few weeks. OK, so that's a bit cynical: It probably has more to do with the fact that Knightley's mom wrote the script (true). Mr. Skin fans will enjoy the occasional Knightley nipple sighting; otherwise don't expect much beyond the quality and production values of a BBC teleplay.
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'Van Wilder: Freshman Year'
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Throughout the year, Ojai hosts a steady stream of cultural events, culinary delights, concerts, and festivals. Check out what's happening in Ojai California, as well as at Ojai Valley Inn & Spa.
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Explore the town of Ojai on a luxury town bikes courtesy of The MOB Shop Bike Kiosk located next to the Golf Pro Shop. Bike rentals are available daily on a first-come, first-serve basis. Bike rentals begin at $17 for a half day rental with price increasing based on length of rental and type of bike. In addition, The MOB Shop rents Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes and Electric Bikes from their downtown location and conducts regular group rides from their shop. For more information, please contact our Guest Experience Concierge.


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My favorite magazine is Vegetarian Times. Although I am sometimes here & there with my meat eating, I love vegan recipes as I have to avoid dairy and egg while I am still breastfeeding Gray. When the new Vegetarian Times is in my mailbox, I get so excited and usually start my grocery list as I read along.
In the current issue is a quick & easy Penne with Caramelized Cauliflower. Mmmm... it's really good. Gray likes it, too (that's his chubby little hand sneaking in the photo above.)
I love to cook and bake things that I am proud of, and then must take a picture to record such artistry!
You don't have to be a vegetarian or vegan to appreciate these yummy dishes. My favorite brownies are still these fudgy treats.
Grab VT at your local bookstore or the best deal I've seen on a subscription is through Best Deal Magazines- just $4.69 for a year !!
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Right at the end of the otherwise Italian Veddasca valley, where the little river Giona flows down to the Italian part of Lake Maggiore, at a good 930 m, lies the only Swiss village, Indemini. Set amid unspoilt scenery and vast chestnut woods, this traditional village at the southern foot of Monte Tamaro enjoys a particularly sheltered, sunny location.
It is only since the end of the First World War that a beautifully scenic winding road on the Swiss side has led from Vira over the Neggia Pass (1395 m) to the border village (you can go by post bus). At one time the inhabitants in remote Indemini supplemented their meagre income from farming by smuggling. There is a permanent exhibition of photographs in the local museum in Indemini that tells the story of how hard those times often were.
In more recent times, the sympathetic development of tourism has stopped people moving away from the village. On hot days, idyllic places by the stream tempt visitors in for a swim. Cheese is made in the surrounding mountain huts. Today, Indemini has numerous holiday homes in its renovated stone houses and even in winter attracts nature-loving visitors who are seeking peace and quiet. The area is particularly popular in autumn when the chestnuts are ready.
The countryside around Monte Tamaro is popular with walkers and bikers. The nearby top of the Neggia Pass is the starting point for short walks to the top of the Tamaro at 1961m or the Gambarogno at 1734 m. From the Gambarogno there are spectacular views of Lake Maggiore and the Alps; the most famous thing about the Tamaro, apart from the fantastic panoramic view from the highest peak in the area, is the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, designed by leading architect Mario Botta. A beautiful ridge-top walk links Monte Tamaro to Monte Lema (cable-car from Miglieglia in the Malcantone region).
- Picturesque village – with its stone houses built of local grey gneiss, the appearance of Indemini is remarkably unspoilt.
- Monte Tamaro – about 1.5 hour's walk from the Alpe di Neggia (or by cable-car from the Ceneri Pass). The church of Santa Maria degli Angeli by Mario Botta is near the Alpe Foppa.
- High-altitude walk from Monte Tamaro to Monte Lema – one of the best walks for views of the foothills of the Alps anywhere in Ticino.
- Chapel on the Sant'Anna Pass – on the historic pass over to Lake Maggiore you'll find this little chapel where the hermit's cell is still used as a refuge by walkers.


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That's doubtful. Ouellet played the least last night out of all the defencemen. He will be better served playing top minutes in GR.
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Quincey was the best defenceman on the ice last night. Seems to be embracing the adversity and increased role quite well.
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Whitsundays Sailing Adventures offers the most diverse range of quality crewed sailing holidays in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. From Stylish Classic Cruising to Performance Sailing, Reef Diving, Whitsundays Sailing Adventures has got it all.
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