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text: United Boeing wins big 737MAX order from United By Ashley Gross • Jul 12, 2012 Boeing had a triumphant announcement today - a big order from United Continental for its 737 narrow-body airplanes, which are made in Renton. United is buying 150 737s, Boeing's popular single-aisle jet. Two-thirds of those planes will be the newest version – the 737MAX, which Boeing announced last August. Boeing was rushing to catch up with its rival Airbus, which had already announced hundreds of orders for its new narrow-body plane, the A320neo. Randy Tinseth is a vice president of marketing for Boeing.


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New balance brings another smashing new pair to balance out your daily life and merge it with fitness and a beautiful shape. the New Balance Women's The 1615 Shoes.
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Moments in Panama
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Winners Top the Podium in Panama
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The PKRA 2014 Tour Kicks-off at Nitro City
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Day 4: The "Trick of the Day" Crew Takes to the Pool
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2013 Resolution: Find Smart Ways to Spend & SaveKatherine Stone
I have only a few resolutions this new year, one of which is to find smarter ways to spend and save money.
I recently learned to do something called comparison shopping. Have you heard of it?
In the past, I would see something I liked and then panic and buy it tout de suite at full price, afraid that they'd run out of whatever I wanted before I had the chance to get it. Needless to say, that approach has never been good for my finances.
In the last couple of months I've learned to watch prices for the things I need to buy like a hawk. I continually check websites, other stores that sell similar items, make notes, wait for sales and hold out for the best prices. I recently moved into a new house, and I was able to get many of the big ticket things we needed to buy at great discounts, including everything from curtains to a new sofa. I have no idea why I didn't do this sooner. I feel like an idiot for ever having bought things at full price.
Now I can't stand purchasing something and finding out a couple of weeks later I could have gotten it cheaper. ARGH! I want to press the "unbuy" button, but they don't have that yet. (Still waiting for the "unsend" button too.) I could flagellate myself for losing that $50 I could have saved on this or that, since I happen to be very good at self-flagellation. There is, however, an attractive alternative. I could just buy everything with a Citi card.
With the Citi Price Rewind program, when I buy an item entirely with a Citi card, they'll track online prices of it for 30 days after the purchase, and if they find a price difference of more than $25, I can apply for a refund. (To learn more about exactly how the program works, click here.) This means I can stop fretting about whether I should have worked harder to find better prices on all of those expensive gifts for Christmas or the household items I need. A little less work and worrying for me is a good thing, especially since one of my other, even more important resolutions for 2013 is to JUST RELAX ALREADY!!
With even just a $25 Price Rewind refund I could start the year off right with a week's worth of free lattes (shows you where my priorities are). I'd sit back each morning, sip my latte and laugh haughtily at the poor souls who pay full price for things.
A big thanks to Citi Price Rewind and Shop with Points for sponsoring this campaign. Click here to see more of the discussion.
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Another iconic, blue-chip automaker has joined the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is a strong advocate of renewable energy – both here in the U.S. and around the world – and is working with SEIA and others to further the deployment of solar energy in America.
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Global Energy Company E.ON Joins SEIA Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, DC – As a strong supporter of solar, global energy company E.ON has become one of the newest board members at the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). E.ON is an international provider of energy solutions and ranks as one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies, as well as one of the world's leading renewable energy companies.
SEIA Welcomes Raghu Belur of Enphase Energy as New Board Member
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has welcomed Raghu Belur of Enphase Energy (NASDAQ: ENPH) as a new board member. The leading global microinverter company joins a long list of industry leaders that are focused on efforts to ramp up the use of solar power in America, which benefits both the U.S. economy and the environment.
SEIA Applauds California Legislature for Support of Solar
WASHINGTON, DC – Carrie Cullen Hitt, SEIA Senior Vice President of State Affairs, released the following statement today, applauding the California Legislature for its continued support of solar deployment statewide:
Solar Plane Pioneers Team Up with Google
The company behind Solar Impulse, the first solar airplane capable of flying day and night without using any fuel, is partnering with Google to help promote its goal of circumnavigating the globe in 2015 using only solar energy.
Large solar array planned for Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
According to Ken Gray, the Rates and Renewables Branch Chief at the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency, Tyndall AFB, Fla., the array has to be built and generating electricity by the end of the year.
Solar panels sales energized by lower prices, rebates
A combination of federal and state tax credits, plummeting equipment prices and an environmentally savvy population has led to a dramatic increase in the number of Wilmington rooftops outfitted with solar panels, according to local installers.
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Aiming to create green jobs and make solar energy more affordable for homes and businesses, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a series of bills into effect today, August 17.
U.S., Facing Drought, Wants More Clean Energy, Poll Says
Three out of four Americans think the U.S. needs "to start focusing more" on clean-energy sources like wind and solar that require less water than conventional power generation as the country faces its most widespread drought since 1956, according to a think-tank survey.
Solar Company Adding 1,000 Jobs in Riverside, California
A company that markets solar panels and has a very bullish outlook about the future demand for its products is relocating its operations to a historic but long-abandoned Riverside building and hopes to employ as many as 1,000 people there, a spokesman said Wednesday, Aug. 15.


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O'Reilly Concludes "Any Rational Muslim Is Not Going To Take Offense At The Words 'Islamic Terrorism'"
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A Breitbart News column attacking Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is being criticized for, in the words of one critic, going "full anti-Semite."
Stephen Bannon, who took a temporary leave of absence as chairman of Breitbart News to work as the Trump campaign's chief executive, described the site as "the platform for the alt-right." The "alt-right" is a rebranding of the white nationalist movement, and a part of the conservative movement that opposes immigration and embraces racism, sexism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and anti-Semitism.
The column, written by Matthew Tyrmand, who is Jewish, describes Applebaum as a "Washington Post columnist and political revisionist" who is "on the warpath against the rising populist forces doing electoral damage to her establishment friends and allies across the world." Discussing Applebaum, Tyrmand adds, "hell hath no fury like a Polish, Jewish, American elitist scorned."
Applebaum criticized the Breitbart.com piece for being "full of obvious falsehoods, bizarre claims and convoluted chronology," adding, "but the alt-right doesn't believe in fact-checking either."
The piece has been condemned by several writers and columnists on Twitter, some of them from conservative outlets.
New York Post columnist John Podhoretz said the column was "disgusting" and described Matthew Tyrmand as a "foul, rotten human being."
Tablet Magazine's Yair Rosenberg said, "Breitbart goes full anti-Semite," and later wrote, "Today's anti-Semitic Breitbart eruption is a reminder that a vote for Trump is a vote for mainstreaming anti-Semites."
Wall Street Journal opinion writer Sohrab Ahmari said Breitbart "goes full Daily Stormer," a reference to the notoriously anti-Semitic white nationalist website. He also said, "Breitbart is increasingly indistinguishable from outlets on the white-power fringe."
Columnist Jamie Kirchick described the column as an "anti-Semitic attack" and "anti-Semitic filth."
Commentary's Ben Cohen said the piece was an "anti-Semitic screed" in a "Nazi rag."
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Fox News is providing a platform for conservatives to spread misinformation about refugees and stoke anti-Muslim fears following a series of apparent terror attacks around the country. Fox's open-door policy for fearmongers is in keeping with the network's disconcerting history as a source of Islamophobia and anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment after terror attacks at home and abroad.
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the September 17 bomb explosions in Manhattan and Seaside Park, N.J.; a suspect was shot in a stabbing spree the same day in Saint Cloud, MN. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said, "We have every reason to believe this was an act of terrorism," referring to the two New York area bombings, and ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Minnesota mall attack.
President Obama advised that "the press try to refrain from getting out ahead of the investigation" and warned against the dissemination of "false reports or incomplete information" -- a warning Fox News ignored as it hosted a series of guests who peddled anti-Muslim talking points and xenophobic rhetoric.
During a segment that led off with Fox host Ainsley Earhardt asking, "Is the Somali refugee crisis now a terror crisis?" Fox contributor Pete Hegseth warned of the "incubation" of radical Islam in "radical mosques" in Minnesota, claiming that "the problem is that a lot of those communities have not assimilated the way we would want them to." Hegseth then proclaimed that there "is a terrorist recruitment problem in Minnesota." Hegseth regularly fearmongers on Fox's airwaves about terror and the "concerns about integration" of Muslims.
Jim Hanson, executive vice president of the anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy, argued for heightened policing of Muslim communities because the New York attacker was "conducting jihad" and "saying Allahu Akbar." Hanson also baselessly speculated that the Chelsea neighborhood of New York was targeted because it "is a prominently gay area" and claimed that "there's a decent chance that this might have been another attempt to attack the gay community." Hanson has regularly appeared on Fox to spread fears about Islam and terror.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appeared on Fox & Friends to fearmonger about refugees and immigration, claiming that President Obama's policy of "letting people in by the thousands and tens of thousands" will lead to terror attacks "happen[ing] perhaps more and more all over the country."
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump and a Fox regular, exploited the attacks to call for surveilling the Muslim community, adding that it "is absolute nonsense" to say that going "into these communities" for that purpose is Islamophobic. Flynn suggested that heightened surveillance of Muslim communities doesn't occur because of "political correctness" and that "political correctness kills. It will cause death." Fox has a record of responding to terror attacks by pushing profiling and mosque surveillance, which have been found to be ineffective and, according to the ACLU, lead to stigma, interference with religious worship, fear, free speech violation, and damaged relationships with law enforcement.
Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich claimed that the government is letting refugees come "into the country unvetted from terrorism hotspots all over the world," even though the United States has a rigorous and stringent vetting process for refugees and immigrants.
Fox News consistently turns to fearmongering, anti-Muslim narratives after terror attacks, adopting racially charged rhetoric and recycling distorted lies about Muslims and refugees. Fox hosts and guests exploited the European refugee crisis and used the Paris terrorist attacks to stoke fears about admitting refugees into America; conservatives used Fox to advocate for profiling Muslim Americans following the San Bernardino, CA, shooting; and right-wing pundits twisted the Brussels attack to whip up anti-Muslim fears.
Self-Described "Racist" Trump Donor: "Jews Have To Leave America"
The campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump accepted donations from Michael Polignano and Peter Brimelow, white nationalists who both manage virulently racist publications.
Polignano is the managing editor and webmaster for Counter-Currents, a website and publishing company that publishes white nationalist and pro-Hitler material. Polignano describes himself as a "racist" ("a badge of honor") and has written that "Jews have to leave America" because they are a "major cause" of America's problems; claimed there's been "more than a century of lies about the Civil War and Reconstruction, and more than half a century of lies about the Third Reich and World War II"; claimed blacks are inferior to whites; and cited David Duke as an inspiration for his work.
Brimelow is the editor of VDare.com, a white nationalist and anti-immigrant website. The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that he is "one of the leading voices in the anti-immigrant movement" and his site "publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right."
Members of the "alt-right" and white nationalist movement have been heavily supporting Trump's campaign. Trump and his campaign have engaged in a courtship with white nationalists that includes appearing on white nationalist programs, refusing to denounce them, and retweeting their accounts. Trump running mate Mike Pence recently refused to call former Klan leader David Duke "deplorable" -- a move that brought praise from white nationalists.
Polignano has donated a total of $214.12 this election cycle to Trump's presidential campaign, according to Trump's Federal Election Commission filing. Polignano's ties to the white nationalist Counter-Currents are readily apparent -- Trump's FEC report listed Polignano's employer as "Counter-Currents Publishing" and his occupation as "managing editor" and "webmaster."
Polignano wrote on his personal Facebook page in May that he's "visiting Trump Tower again on Monday to purchase more Make America Great Again hats" and offered to buy the hats for his "European comrades" who could not legally purchase them because "the hats qualify as a campaign contribution":
The Trump campaign transferred $4.80 Brimelow had donated to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee -- the joint fundraising group between the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign -- to its campaign coffers in July.
Joint fundraising committees agree to split the proceeds of donations; in other words, the $4.80 the Trump campaign received is only a portion of what Brimelow donated overall. (It's not immediately clear how much Brimelow donated, as the joint RNC-Trump committee's quarterly deadline filing is next month.)
Brimelow is listed as being a "journalist" with News Corp. in the required FEC disclosure information. Brimelow previously worked for the News Corp.-owned financial site MarketWatch. Brimelow did not respond to email requests for comment about his donation or clarification about why he listed News Corp. as his employer.
The Trump campaign accepted a $250 donation in September from white nationalist leader William Daniel Johnson and returned it after Media Matters and People for the American Way criticized Trump. Johnson was also selected as a convention delegate by the Trump campaign but resigned following media exposure.
The Washington Post reported in March 2015 that Counter-Currents "exists to advance the books of noted neo-Nazis and the creation of an all-white nationalist state." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, wrote that Counter-Currents is a "pseudo-intellectual white nationalist website and publishing house that caters to 'academic racists.'"
Polignano wrote in his 2010 book Taking Our Own Side that "high testosterone production also means that Black men are more prone to aggressive behavior" and "Compared to Whites, Blacks also have lower IQs and levels of empathy, weaker senses of personal efficacy and responsibility, greater propensities to sociopathy and psychosis, fewer behavioral inhibitions, greater impulsiveness, higher sexual activity and lower parental investment, etc."
In 2003, Polignano first proposed creating "a White People's Party," which "would have a single goal: to protect and advance the interests of Whites in today's multicultural, anti-White America. … The White People's Party would not accept the membership or support of Jews and non-Whites. We would not work for their interests, and we could not expect them to sincerely work for ours."
He wrote that he is happy to be called a racist and does "not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor" (emphasis in original):
"You'll be smeared as racists."
Of course we will. We are racists. But we do not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor. Race is real. Different races are genetically capable of different ways of life, just as different breeds of dog are genetically capable of different ways of life. American civilization cannot be maintained by replacing Whites with non-Whites anymore than poodles can replace sheepdogs and chihuahuas can replace sled dogs. Racism is an objective and enlightened viewpoint, and we will not apologize for it.
Polignano claimed that "Jews have to leave America" because "they are a major cause" of America's problems:
Any organization that does not explicitly exclude Jews will end up being dominated and subverted by them. No sense letting them put their noses under the tent.
That is why Jews have to leave America. They dominate the leading institutions of our culture: the political parties, the news and entertainment media, the arts, the education system, banking and finance. And they subvert these institutions to pursue Jewish interests at the expense of White interests. They are not the sole cause of America's problems, but they are a major cause, and there is no way to save this country without first taking them on.
Polignano wants to "end non-White immigration completely, deport all illegal non-White immigrants, and then repatriate all non-White immigrants who have arrived since 1965, as well as their descendants." He also wants to "make sterilization, birth control, and abortion available to non-Whites free of charge" and "ensure the freedom of Whites to own guns while restricting the freedom of non-Whites."
He also wrote that there's been "more than half a century of lies about the Third Reich and World War II" and that his proposed "White People's Party" would accept the support of Nazis and Klansmen:
The party I propose would not be affiliated with any other pro-White group, including National Socialist and Klan groups. We would neither endorse nor condemn such groups, and we would gladly accept their support, as we would gladly accept the support of all pro-White individuals and organizations.
It is hard enough to persuade people that the White race is in danger and that Whites must rally to protect themselves. It would be harder still to combat more than a century of lies about the Civil War and Reconstruction, and more than half a century of lies about the Third Reich and World War II. Fortunately, it is not necessary.
But we'll still be smeared as Nazis and Klansmen. Our enemies will call us every name in the book. But, unlike conservative and libertarian cowards, we'll make no special effort to avoid or refute such smears. Such efforts are pointless, because our enemies will not be concerned with justice or accuracy. Besides, those who hesitate to defend ideas merely because they are shared by unfashionable individuals clearly lack courage and conviction.
Our standard response to all attempts to discredit us in the public mind by linking us to Nazis, the KKK, and other demonized groups would be: "To the extent that Nazis and Klansmen support our pro-White agenda, that is to their credit." We will never apologize for pursuing what is right and good.
Polignano wrote in the preface of his book that one of the high points of his life "was when David Duke invited me to speak at the International European American Unity and Leadership Conference held in New Orleans on Memorial Day weekend, 2004." Polignano also thanked Duke and other white nationalists for having "helped make these essays and this book possible."
The Polignano-managed Counter-Currents publishes content that celebrates Hitler and Nazis. It distributes the work of the late William Pierce; The New York Times wrote that Pierce "built an organization of young supporters for George Wallace for president into the nation's largest neo-Nazi group." Counter-Currents distributes the work of Savitri Devi, who "devoted her life to Nazism" and Holocaust denialism.
Counter-Currents Editor-in-Chief Greg Johnson is a neo-Nazi. In an essay headlined "The Burden of Hitler, 2014," he lionized Hitler for having fought "for our race as a whole":
It is contemptible, because it is essentially an attempt to curry favor with our enemies and pander to ignoramuses and fools by throwing a loyal white man under the bus. And make no mistake: Adolf Hitler, whatever his faults, was a loyal white man who fought and died not just for Germany, but for our race as a whole.
Jews are promoting conditions that are leading to the genocide of the white race. They are not doing this out of "self-defense" against Hitler's aggression, since they were doing it when Hitler was just a common soldier in the Great War. Indeed, the truth is that Hitler did whatever he did in self-defense against Jewish aggression — the same Jewish aggression that we are suffering today in a much intensified form.
The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that Brimelow's site VDare.com is "an immigrant-bashing hate site that regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right." SPLC added that Brimelow is "himself an immigrant (from England), a fact that he regularly brings up when he worriedly notes that his son, with his 'blue eyes' and 'blond hair,' could grow up in an America in which whites have lost their population majority. For Brimelow, immigration itself is not the problem — it's the influx of non-whites that is destroying America." From the group's profile of Brimelow:
A former editor at Forbes magazine and past columnist at the conservative National Review, Peter Brimelow is one of the leading voices in the anti-immigrant movement. Interestingly, he is himself an immigrant (from England), a fact that he regularly brings up when he worriedly notes that his son, with his "blue eyes" and "blond hair," could grow up in an America in which whites have lost their population majority. For Brimelow, immigration itself is not the problem — it's the influx of non-whites that is destroying America.
Brimelow's racial views about America first gained attention in 1995, when he published Alien Nation, a book that argued that America is historically white-dominated and should stay that way. The book was written in a genial style and was careful to treat black Americans as part of the polity. Although the book was well reviewed in some places, it included strong veins of racism and xenophobia. Brimelow described the role of race as "elemental, absolute, fundamental." He said that white Americans should demand that U.S. immigration quotas be changed to allow in mostly whites. He argued that spending tax dollars on anything related to multiculturalism was "subversive." He called foreign immigrants "weird aliens with dubious habits." At one point, he wrote that if one enters an Immigration and Naturalization Service waiting room, just like walking into a New York City subway, "you find yourself in an underworld that is not just teeming but also almost entirely colored." By 1997, Brimelow was warning that by 2008 the GOP would no longer be able to compete in presidential elections because the racial makeup of the electorate would be changed by non-white immigration.
Brimelow has repeatedly praised Trump throughout the presidential campaign. He applauded the Trump campaign for hiring Breitbart News chief Stephen Bannon, stating that "Breitbart emerged as a nationalist site and [has] done great stuff on immigration in particular." After Trump attacked an American-born judge for his Mexican heritage, Brimelow wrote: "Diversity is not strength, and it above all is not an impartial judiciary."
In December, he wrote a fundraising appeal praising Trump for running "on the patriotic immigration reform issue." Brimelow wrote that VDare has "defended Trump on Hispanic rapists (they are a problem), black-on-white crime (he's right), ending Muslim immigration (it's legal), ending birthright citizenship (it's legal too), etc. etc."
It's been one year since news figures seized on the story of Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim American child in Texas who was taken from his school in handcuffs for bringing a "suspicious" homemade alarm clock to class. Last September, Fox News' coverage of Mohamed's arrest revealed a long-held tendency to selectively invoke the language of "school safety" to conveniently push conservative stances on immigration, national security, LGBT rights, and guns, while ignoring threats to the safety of the most vulnerable populations in our schools.
When Fox News talks about "school safety," the ensuing conversation is exactly what you'd expect from a network with a median viewer age of 68 and a prime-time viewership that's only 1.1 percent black. For Fox and its viewers, a predictable line exists between those individuals worthy of protection and those who represent perceived threats. Here's what we've seen on Fox since Ahmed's arrest made headlines last fall.
In September 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at his Irving, TX, middle school and brought to a local police station in handcuffs after he was reported for bringing a "suspicious" homemade alarm clock to his classroom. In the weeks of national media coverage of the incident that followed, Fox News figures dismissed Mohamed's traumatic experience and used the incident to justify profiling.
The network aired segments vilifying the child, claiming that progressives were hypocritical or willfully exploitative for suggesting Mohamed's arrest was influenced by Islamophobia, and hyping so-called connections between Mohamed's family members and terrorists. The Five co-host Greg Gutfeld summarized this convoluted position: "Try bringing a clock that looks like a bomb to the White House. Actually, no, don't try it; you've seen what they do to people who jump fences. So why is this school's safety a joke, but President Obama's isn't? Because for [Obama], and the media, the story fits the assumption of an America that hates Muslims. Yup, it's our fault for reacting when a kid brings a wired-up box to a place filled with kids in a state where terror has occurred."
According to a survey conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, classroom teachers are reporting more incidents of identity-based bullying and fear particularly among students from immigrant and Muslim families, a trend that appears to be connected to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric -- which Fox News has actively legitimized for years. A California study released just months after Mohamed's arrest found that the majority of American Muslim students in the state reported experiencing physical and verbal bullying because of their faith in 2014. An in-depth report from The Guardian explained the trend:
Words are the most common weapon of school bullies, but in the past month, anti-Muslim sentiment in schools is increasingly manifesting in physical attacks, particularly against girls who wear the hijab. On 19 November, three boys allegedly beat up a sixth-grade girl wearing a hijab, calling her "Isis". A 2014 study by Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) study found 29% of students who wore hijab experienced offensive touching or pulling of their scarves.
Fifty-five percent of Muslim students surveyed by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) last year reported that they were bullied at school in some form because of their Islamic faith. That's twice the national percentage of bullying reported by all students, regardless of their religion. According to the CAIR survey, verbal harassment is the most common, with non-Muslims calling Muslim students terrorists or referencing bombs. But physical assaults also occur.
These incidents are taking a psychological toll on Muslim youth. "At a crucial time in their identity development, they're suffering from chronic trauma," says Dr Halim Naeem, a psychotherapist and president of The Institute of Muslim Mental Health. Dr Naeem says that in the past few months alone, he has seen increased cases of depression, anxiety, image issues, paranoia, and substance abuse among Muslim American youth. In the short term, the constant stress wreaks havoc on students' immune systems and destroys their focus, disrupting learning ability.
In the wake of recent mass shootings, Fox News figures voices have repeatedly pushed arming educators or allowing more guns in schools as a way to improve student and teacher safety, and irresponsibly spread dangerous misinformation about school safety best practices. Immediately following the 2012 mass shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Fox News began calling for teachers to be armed -- even as school security experts, educators, and others argue that bringing guns into schools would make classrooms more dangerous and worsen learning environments for students. When a Texas school district moved to arm some of its teachers in 2014, the network devoted at least two segments to celebrating the decision and pushing the long-debunked myth (peddled by the NRA) that "a good guy with a gun" would prevent mass shootings. Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade praised the initiative: "If you want to drop your kid off and know that they are going to be protected, you know at least in that school they are going to be protected." Last year, Fox & Friends co-hosts again demonstrated a misguided understanding of school safety when they encouraged young children to physically confront gunmen, rather than first try to escape, and then hide -- and only confront the guman as a last resort -- as experts advise in the event of an active shooter situation.
As the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, wrote back in 2014, educators have long expressed an overwhelming desire to keep firearms out of classrooms and to strengthen gun violence prevention measures. Research has shown that greater access to guns in general creates greater risk for accidents and misfires. Gun access corresponds with increased risk of homicide, and gun-related deaths in the home are now the second most likely cause of death for children and teens. There's also little evidence the presence of armed security staff in schools makes them any safer. Advocates are pushing for better training and reformed responsibilities for these positions to emphasize restorative justice and de-escalation techniques, as well as student and community needs, in order to combat current racial disparities in schools' use of armed security officers.
Fox News figures have been instrumental in pushing the right-wing myth that gender-inclusive bathrooms in schools allow adult men to prey on children. The network has routinely either fearmongered about schools' efforts to make their bathrooms safe for all students to use or mocked inclusive bathroom policies altogether. More than two years after Media Matters first debunked the "bathroom predator" myth, Fox News continues to push dangerous rhetoric about nondiscrimination policies. In April, Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt hyped the disingenuous claim that nondiscrimination laws could lead to "a grown adult man" with "bad intentions" sneaking into "the little girls' bathroom." In May, Sean Hannity mocked inclusive bathroom policies on his radio show, proposing "liberal bathroom areas" where "you can have all the transgendered back-and-forth that you want." In June, Tucker Carlson called the Democratic National Convention's gender-neutral bathrooms "disgusting."
After speaking to officials at 23 school districts and four universities that allow transgender students to use facilities that correspond with their gender identity, Media Matters failed to find any evidence of incidents of inappropriate bathroom behavior. Law enforcement experts and people who work with survivors of sexual assault have referred to this persistent myth as "beyond specious" and "the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
In fact, school officials and educators' groups continue to support efforts to boost nondiscriminatory bathroom policies and have pointed out the need for LGBT students to have these types of basic protections. Research shows LGBT students overwhelmingly report experiences of bullying in schools today, and efforts to distract from the needs of LGBT students with fearmongering and mockery certainly don't help. In its guidelines for supporting transgender and gender diverse students, the American Psychological Association recommends that schools provide accessible facilities that match a student's gender identity as one way to address the high rates of victimization and hostility transgender students report. In fact, opposition to nondiscrimination policies can further stigmatize and single out transgender students, leading to more reports of bullying and an increased risk of suicide. Advocates for survivors of sexual assault have also pointed out that perpetuating the "bathroom predator" myth can have dangerous consequences: Relying on stereotypical predator imagery to talk about sexual assault diverts attention and resources from finding solutions to keep women and girls safe.
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Republicans are attempting to scandalize Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's remarks that "to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of [Republican nominee Donald] Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," referring to people with bigoted views whom Trump has uplifted. But her remarks are backed by polls finding that significant numbers of Trump supporters hold such deplorable views. Further, there have been numerous instances of racism and sexism at Trump rallies; Trump has successfully courted the racist white nationalist/"alt-right" movement, and Trump's own campaign manager once referred to his supporters as "downright nasty."
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Over the last few months, the so-called "alt-right" has become one of the most prominent factions of the conservative media. The movement's leading outlet is Breitbart News, whose chairman, Stephen Bannon, has just become the CEO of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
In many ways the "alt-right" is a rebranding of classic white nationalism for the 21st century. As BuzzFeed described the movement: "In short, it's white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times: 4chan-esque racist rhetoric combined with a tinge of Silicon Valley–flavored philosophizing, all riding on the coattails of the Trump boom."
The "alt-right" opposes diversity and immigration, arguing that those policies are a form of "white genocide." It embraces racism, sexism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and anti-Semitism and sees its goal as usurping the traditional conservative movement, which it views as feckless and weak, in favor of a brand of nationalism.
With the ascension of Trump, the "alt-right's" chosen candidate, as the nominee of the Republican Party, its mission is all but accomplished.
The following is a survey of the key concepts of the "alt-right," the major figures and media outlets in the movement, and reaction to the "alt-right."
Key Concepts
Key Players
Richard Spencer, The "Alt-Right's" Racist Founder
Stephen Bannon And Breitbart News
Reactions To The "Alt-Right"
Traditional Conservative Pushback And Support
A popular concept with the "alt-right" is the idea of "white genocide," a conspiracy theory claiming that efforts to increase diversity (often via immigration) are actually attempts to decrease the white population. The Anti-Defamation League notes that the alt-right favors "propaganda on subjects such as immigration and 'black crime' as 'evidence' of this ostensible ethnic cleansing of whites."
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, a leading Trump supporter, has invoked this notion on her Twitter account, writing, "'Diversity' = nonwhite; 'White supremacist' = Not anti-white." Coulter has also cited the work of the white nationalist site VDare.com and its editor, Peter Brimelow, in her anti-immigration book Adios America. The book has been praised and promoted by Trump.
In January, Trump retweeted a post from a Twitter account with the handle "WhiteGenocideTM" and a feed that CNN.com described as "largely a collection of retweets about violence allegedly committed by African-American suspects and anti-Arab posts." It was one of several instances of the candidate reposting material from white supremacists.
The alt-right also launched a hashtag campaign on social media, #BoycottStarWarsVII, protesting the casting of African-American and female actors in the lead roles of the latest film in the George Lucas franchise. One Twitter user wrote, "#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide." "The Force Awakens" went on to become the highest grossing domestic film of all time.
Mother Jones noted that The Investigative Fund, a nonprofit that supports investigative reporting, conducted a Twitter analysis and found that "While only 5 percent of key influencers using the supremacist hashtag #whitegenocide follow the National Review, and 10 percent follow the Daily Caller, 31 percent follow Breitbart."
The alt-right has branded conservatives who deviate from their racist and sexist message as "cuckservatives," a melding of the words conservative and cuckold (the husband of an unfaithful wife). The New Republic explained, "The term has emerged out of the white supremacist movement as a term of abuse for white conservatives deemed race traitors unwilling to forthrightly defend the interests of white America."
National Review writer David French was attacked by alt-right supporters for having adopted an Ethiopian child. He notes that he was given a "'Cucky' award for adopting a black child."
Breitbart News defended "cuckservative" as "a gloriously effective insult," while conservative radio host Erick Erickson said, "The people who use the term 'cuckservative' are racists, not conservative, and not Christian."
The New Yorker reported that the term "alt-right" was coined by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who "described the movement in December as 'an ideology around identity, European identity.'" The Anti-Defamation League described Spencer as "a symbol of a new generation of intellectual white supremacists" who "runs a variety of ventures that promote racist ideology."
Spencer has said, "There are races who, on average, are going to be superior."
Spencer is also the president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist "think tank" that held an event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., this March focused on Trump. He told the local CBS affiliate that Trump is "energizing" the white nationalist movement and argued, "He's fighting for us. He's saying we're going to be great again. We're going to win again. And there's this implicit identity to this. There's this implicit nationalism."
Spencer founded the white nationalist websites Alternative Right and Radix Journal. One writer at Alternative Right wrote that "low-IQ Mexican immigration is the greatest threat to America," and that "we should be heartened that white teenage girls aren't passing themselves around in black neighborhoods."
Spencer said Breitbart News "has elective affinities with the Alt Right, and the Alt Right has clearly influenced Breitbart" and described the site as a "gateway" to that movement's "ideas and writers." He described Bannon's new role in the Trump campaign as "a good thing" for white nationalists.
Bannon told Mother Jones that Breitbart News is "the platform for the alt-right."
Bannon took over as chairman of Breitbart News after the death of founder Andrew Breitbart. The site has taken a rabidly anti-immigrant tone, often hyping "reports about crime involving immigrants, with headlines that sound like they came from tabloids" and attacking Republicans who favor immigration reform. Vox notes that "Breitbart essentially functioned as an anti-immigration pressure group, signaling to Republican leaders that any deviation on immigration would earn them the wrath of the base."
The site has also pushed a white nationalist viewpoint in articles on race and religion. It described the shooting of a white reporter and her white cameraman as a "race murder" and published an article titled "Political Correctness Protects Muslim Rape Culture."
Bannon wrote a column on the site accusing the "left" of engaging in a "plot to take down America" by focusing on police shootings of African-Americans. Breitbart also attacked Pope Francis for supporting refugee migration by invoking Camp of the Saints, a book described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a novel that "depicts an invasion of France and the white Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees, characterized as horrific and uncivilized 'monsters' who will stop at nothing to greedily and violently seize what rightfully belongs to the white man." SPLC notes that the novel is "a popular book in Alt-Right circles."
Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has made his mark as a stridently anti-feminist provocateur. He declared his birthday to be "World Patriarchy Day" and encouraged his followers to "cat-call at least five women" and to tell a woman, "This isn't going to suck itself." He attended a protest against sexual assault and held a sign that said, "'Rape culture' and Harry Potter. Both fantasy."
In a Breitbart piece on the "alt-right" he praised the movement for its "youthful energy and jarring, taboo-defying rhetoric that have boosted its membership and made it impossible to ignore." He dismissed the movement's racial undertones, writing, "the alt-right's young meme brigades shock older generations with outrageous caricatures, from the Jewish 'Shlomo Shekelburg' to 'Remove Kebab,' an internet in-joke about the Bosnian genocide."
Discussing Islam, Yiannopoulos said, "There is a structural problem with this religion that is preventing its followers from assimilating properly into Western culture. There is something profoundly antithetical to our values about this particular religion."
In July, Twitter permanently suspended Yiannopoulos' account after he led a harassment campaign against actress Leslie Jones, who is African-American. As BuzzFeed reported, many of the tweets "decried Jones for being black and a woman."
American Renaissance is a white nationalist online magazine, published by Jared Taylor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Taylor "believes black people are genetically predisposed to lower IQs" than white peoples and that black peoples "are sexually promiscuous because of hyperactive sex drives." Taylor has appeared on talk shows to attack the legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen."
Taylor described himself as a Trump supporter and told ABC News, "Sending home all illegals -- the huge majority of whom are nonwhites -- and putting even a temporary halt on Muslim immigration are in the interests of whites, whether Trump thinks in those terms or not." Taylor also recorded a pro-Trump robocall for a white nationalist super PAC.
American Renaissance also hosts conferences that have featured speakers including Richard Spencer and that are attended by white supremacists like former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
VDare.com is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as "an anti-immigration hate website" with a white nationalist ideology. SPLC adds that the site "regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites." The site was founded by Peter Brimelow, who argued that his contributors are "not white supremacists" but "aim to defend the interests of American whites." He also is the president of the VDare Foundation, "a nonprofit that warns against the polluting of America by non-whites, Catholics, and Spanish-speaking immigrants."
SPLC has pointed out that "Brimelow spent much of 2009 pounding the white nationalists message that the Republican Party would do better to spend its time attracting white voters rather than by reaching out to minorities."
Jared Taylor has contributed to VDare.com, where he wrote, "Our rulers and elites welcome replacement by aliens, they vilify our ancestors and their own, they sacrifice our interests to those of favored minorities, and they treat the entire history of the West as if it were a global plague of rapine and exploitation. This is a disease that is killing us, and we must fight it head on."
VDare.com was featured at the Republican National Convention when a tweet from the outlet was put on screen in the arena during the roll call vote for Trump's presidential nomination.
The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, headed by Andrew Anglin, describes itself as "the world's most visited alt-right web site." The website regularly defends Adolf Hitler, attacks "kikes," and has a section documenting the purported "Jewish Problem."
Anglin attacked a GQ reporter for a piece he deemed unfair to Melania Trump, telling his followers to "go ahead and send [the reporter] a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty kike trickery." She then received a barrage of anti-Semitic messages and death threats, which she described as "the most obscene, anti-Semitic stuff I have frankly ever seen directed at me in my life."
"The Political Cesspool" is a white nationalist radio program hosted by James Edwards that wishes "to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility." The show was given press credentials by Trump's campaign for a Tennessee campaign rally and was given "all-access" credentials to the Republican National Convention, where the show interviewed a Trump adviser and Republican congressmen. Edwards also interviewed Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr., who agreed with Edwards' contention that the media is "the enforcer of political correctness."
The Right Stuff is an anti-Semitic blog with an affiliated podcast called The Daily Shoah. The site is run by Mike Enoch, who has said the core principle of the "alt-right" is "ethno-nationalism, meaning that nations should be as ethnically and racially homogeneous as possible."
The site created a meme called the "parenthesis meme" in which Jewish names are surrounded by parentheses, often in order to target them for online abuse on social media: "(((name)))"
According to the Right Stuff's editors, this was done because "all Jewish surnames echo throughout history." They add: "The inner parenthesis represent the Jews' subversion of the home [and] destruction of the family through mass-media degeneracy. The next [parenthesis] represents the destruction of the nation through mass immigration, and the outer [parenthesis] represents international Jewry and world Zionism."
The Anti-Defamation League has added the symbol to its online database of hate symbols. According to CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, "The echo symbol is the online equivalent of tagging a building with anti-Semitic graffiti or taunting someone verbally."
Enoch said Breitbart "is the closest thing to sympathetic to our position that is out there in the mainstream."
Mike Cernovich is an "alt-right" activist who operates the website Danger & Play.
The site publishes numerous articles, essays, and audio recordings that attack feminists, "SJWs," (social justice warriors) and disputes the validity of date rape claims. Some headlines from Danger & Play include "Matriarchy has Created a False Rape Culture" and "Feminists Don't Care About Rape."
On his Twitter accounts, Cernovich has dismissed the possibility of date rape, writing, "the hotter the sex, the more closely it resembles rape," "the only rape culture is Muslim rape culture," and asking "why should I care when women are raped?"
Cernovich has promoted the false rumor that Hillary Clinton is suffering from health problems and also promoted a long-debunked conspiracy theory that Clinton aide Huma Abedin is affiliated with Islamic radicals.
Traditional conservative outlets and figures have pushed back some on the "alt-right" movement.
Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat described the "alt-right" as "racist pro-Trump Twitter accounts and anti-P.C. provocateurs." The Federalist wrote that it's "a mix of old bigotries and new identity and victimhood politics adapted for the straight white male." In National Review, David French wrote of the "alt-right": "Many of them are unapologetically white-nationalists, hate interracial adoption and other 'race-mixing' practices, and think about the issue of immigration primarily, if not exclusively, in racial terms."
A contributor to Spencer's Alternative Right site, Jason Richwine, co-authored an immigration report at the conservative Heritage Foundation, which later disavowed him when writings he had made mocking the IQs of Latinos surfaced. Breitbart has recently highlighted Richwine's work, and Bannon praised him on his radio show.
The alt-right has also found some support from mainstream conservative outlets. After conservative writer Ben Shapiro described the "alt-right" as a "national, populist movement that is shot through with white supremacism" and "anti-Semitism," Fox News correspondent Doug McKelway defended the movement by claiming it's "much more" than that.
Similarly, last year Rush Limbaugh told a caller who spoke about the "alt-right" movement in Europe, "There is a thriving youthful conservative emergence happening in this country. They may be borrowing from what's going on in Europe."
The cumulative effect of the rising popularity of "alt-right" media on the right, along with Bannon's position leading the Trump campaign, means that a movement that was recently on the fringe is becoming central to conservative politics.
The Washington Post reports that Trump's decision to hire Bannon was the latest sign for white nationalists that "their worldview was gaining popularity and that the old Republican Party was coming to an end." The paper added that Trump's electoral "strategy now resembles the alt-right dream of maximizing the white vote — even as polling shows his standing with white voters falls short of Mitt Romney's in 2012."
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Following reports that Fox News contributor Bo Dietl's contract has not been renewed, Media Matters takes a look back at Dietl's history of rampant anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, sexist, and racist rhetoric.


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Germanic Genealogy
Vocabulary for Finding Your Germanic Roots
Part 3: Old Occupations A-B-C
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Previous sections of our German Genealogical Glossary covered first and last names, plus general vocabulary related to Germanic genealogy and related resources. In this section you'll find a German-to-English glossary of common professions found in old Germanic family-history documents (marriage licenses, birth/death certificates).
A German-English glossary of German words referring to occupations and professions (Berufe) common in former times. Most of these words will not be found in modern German dictionaries.
Alte Berufe: A
Aalrep/Ahlrep eel fisherman (who uses an Aalreif to catch them)
Ackerknecht farm hand (in service to the farmer)
Ackermann farmer (in service to the lord of the manor)
Ader/Aderlasser barber (Barbier) who did bloodletting from veins (Ader)
Altwender tailor or old clothes merchant
Ammann an official, clerk
Aschenbrenner charcoal maker (for glass-making)
Asenmacher frame-maker (Rahmenmacher)
Auer clock maker (Uhrmacher)
Alte Berufe: B
Backmann baker (Bäcker)
Balbierer barber
Barbier barber
Bauer farmer, peasant
Baumeister estate owner; supervisor; architect (modern meaning)
Beseher lower customs official
Besemer broom maker, broom seller
Beutler bag or glove maker
Bierspünder beer tester, taster
Binder cooper or house painter
Bolzdreher crossbow bolt maker
Borngräber well digger
Böttcher cooper
Bletzer cobbler, shoe repairman
Bubenmeister school teacher
Büttner cooper
Alte Berufe: C
Caffamacher satin weaver
Clausurmacher latch or belt maker
Conterfeiter portrait artist
Creutzschmied swordsmith (for dagger or sword handles)
NOTE: Older German documents are usually written in the old Sütterlin script that is difficult even for contemporary Germans to decipher and you may need help, even if you can read German. (See the article German Roots: A Personal Search for sample documents in Sütterlin.)
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The Ducks are playing the wrong Dakota. They host South Dakota in 66 days, Saturday night at 7:30 in Autzen Stadium, but the Coyotes were 4-8 last season and won just one game the year before that.
Meanwhile North Dakota State has won three straight FCS Championships, 15-0 in 2013 including a season-opening upset victory over Kansas State, 24-21. They stampeded Colorado State in 2012, Minnesota in 2011, Kansas in 2010. These Bison shoot back. They're 43-2 since 2011, the best record over that time span in either division.
Photo left: Coyotes in action against the Kansas Jayhawks last fall, a game they lost 31-14 (John Rieger-USA TODAY Sports images).
Fortunes at USD may be looking up however. Last year they hired alumus Joe Glenn to be head football coach, and he's quickly transforming the culture. Glenn won three small college national championships of his own in previous stops at Northern Colorado and Montana with a streak of 14 straight winning seasons, making the playoffs 10 times before taking over at his alma mater.
In 2010 the Coyotes beat Minnesota, and in 2011 they bested Eastern Washington. They're no Appalachian State, but the Ducks chief opponent in this season opener is themselves: if they truly want to compete for a conference and national championship, they have to demonstrate a week-to-week commitment to the values that built their success. They can't be like, whatever about any opportunity to play football. Michigan State comes to town in week two, and the only way to be ready for the Spartans is to execute and play with discipline against South Dakota.
Glenn graduated his best player, linebacker Tyler Starr, the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive MVP in 2013, 9th in the voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, drafted in the seventh round by the Atlanta Falcons after a school record 23 career sacks. He led all linebackers in the cone drill at the NFL combine. Two other players, cb Jarrid Bryant and center Cody O'Neill, were picked up as free agents. The Ducks have be attentive: there's some NFL talent on the South Dakota team, and there's no faster way to make a name for yourself than by clocking Marcus Mariota in the open field. The visitors will be pumped for their trip to Autzen. It's been the rallying cry of their winter and spring workouts. There's a "Beat Oregon" countdown clock in their locker room.
As an FCS school South Dakota is limited to 63 scholarship players, but the 2014 roster boasts five offensive linemen that are 300 pounds or more, and senior defensive tackle Adam Praska tips the scale at 6-4, 320. Junior defensive end Drew Iddings is 6-6, 285, seventh on the team in tackles last year with 51.
Glenn's Coyotes are disciplined and good citizens. A full 35 earned Missouri Valley Football academic awards, achieving a G.P.A. of 3.0 or greater. In May they hosted a women's clinic for the community along with their coaches, 80 women visiting the 10,000 seat Dakota Dome to run blocking and agility drills and learn about the game.
It wasn't always that way before the veteran coach took over. In November of 2012 four former Coyote players and one current member of the roster were indicted by a federal grand jury for a tax fraud conspiracy. They stole identities and filed tax returns, receiving over $500,000 in refunds before being caught by the IRS.
In the Spring Game quarterback Kevin Earl went the distance, tossing 17-of-35 day for 335 yards and four touchdowns and three interceptions, as the USD offense topped the defense 48-21. The running game couldn't get going though. Tailbacks Trevor Bouma, Jordan Roberts, and Khorey Kilgore managed just 38 yards on 28 attempts.
Things may be a little more difficult against Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and the Oregon secondary.


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Twitter Tag Line: Walt Disney's wondrous 1940 experimental feature remains a transfixing piece of cinema 70 years later.
New Features Unique to Blu-ray: "The Schultheis Notebook" details the animation techniques; two audio commentaries on 'Fantasia,' one featuring the assembled thoughts of Walt Disney; two more audio commentaries on 'Fantasia 2000'; plus the short film 'Destino,' a collaboration between Disney and Salvador Dali, and an 82-minute doc on that collaboration.
Transfer/Audio: "Both Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 look fantastic, and Disney has done a wonderful job of ushering each one into the 21st century. Animation enthusiasts and Vault collectors will be exceedingly happy with the treatment each one has received." (Blu-ray.com)
Replay Value: Endless. Really. The episodic structure means that you can go directly to whichever sequence strikes your fancy and/or mood at the time. Because there's no dialogue -- only spoken introductions -- it's tempting to throw it up as background eye candy and listen to the orchestral score, though the distractions on offer may keep you from getting any real work done.
One Caveat: Supplemental features from previous DVD releases, totaling 304 minutes, are only available via "Disney's Virtual Vault," accessed via BD-Live.
Further Reading: "Behind the Scenes: 'Fantasia/Fantasia 2000' Blu-ray." (Moviefone) "O.K., Hippos, Grab Your Tutus." (Dave Kehr, New York Times) strong>For the Newbies:
'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'
Twitter Tag Line: Nicolas Cage plays a modern-day wizard who battles ancient foe Alfred Molina while teaching gifted young Jay Baruchel to follow in his magical footsteps.
Why See It (Again): Discounted Blu-ray players were a hot item on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and if you finally picked one up, congratulations! If you're hesitant about plunging into the wonders of classic films spruced up for Blu-ray, we'll help you get over that. For example, 'Fantasia,' covered above, is great place to start.
If you prefer a modern version of one of the episodes in 'Fantasia,' however, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is the way to go. Bonus for buyers: you can get a combo pack with a DVD version and, for a few dollars more, a digital copy, which makes the upgrade path easier. Unless you're pre-sold on the movie, though, you'll want to rent it rather than risk a blind buy.
What to Look (and Listen) For: "The entire image is just stunning to look at. This is one of those video presentations you'll want to play over and over for friends in order to show off [your] home theater. ... Colors are bright and bold. Primary colors shine magnificently on screen. Even the special effects look polished and real." (High-Def Digest) "Disney's aggressive, reality-warping DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track is just as extraordinary as the film's video transfer. ... Its sonic goods captivate from beginning to end, far more than the film itself." (Blu-ray.com)
Further Reading: "Not really about storytelling as much as it is about marketing. It's not about "what happens next" as it is "how much stuff can we cram in there, and how well can we sell it?" (Jeffrey Anderson, Cinematical)
Coolest Special Feature:
Twitter Tag Line: Walt Disney and Salvador Dali team up.
Details: With a dearth of interesting special features this week, we decided the coolest thing to highlight would be this short film, just 7 minutes in length, which is only available in high-definition as part of the 'Fantasia / Fantasia' Blu-ray combo packs. Our own Monika Bartyzel called it "one of the most amazing things" she'd ever seen.
"Dali began working on the animated project while under contract for Walt Disney Pictures for eight months in 1946," wrote Eric Kohn for Cinematical. He "only managed to complete fifteen seconds before heading off to place his focus elsewhere. Disney released a completed version of Destino in 2003 (which screens at MOMA in a room with original Dali sketches). The newer film integrates computer animation, suggesting Dali might have enjoyed the prospects of twenty-first century technology."
Most Intriguing Rental:
'Kill Zone' (Ultimate Edition) [AKA S.P.L.]
Twitter Tag Line: An invigorating, flat-out brilliant collection of action sequences enliven a standard cops 'n' criminals Hong Kong flick.
Why Seek It Out on Blu-ray: Hong Kong action movies were in a slump when 'SPL: Sha Po Lang' emerged in 2005 to kick-start a mini-revival. Veterans Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung know how to fight good on camera; newcomer Wu Jing showcased his martial arts skills. Director Wilson Yip staged the action scenes in kinetic fashion and gave the proceedings a glossy, stylish look.
Why Rent and Not Buy: The high-def transfer "fails to impress in any way," says High-Def Digest. "Slight amounts of noise turn quickly into uncontrollable barrages, coating scenes in a way that cannot be missed. Skin tones are random, sometimes accurate, sometimes a bit yellow. Detail levels are consistently subpar."
Further Reading: Cinematical Seven: Best Donnie Yen Fight Scenes. (Alison Nastasi, Cinematical)
Also consider:'Make-Out with Violence.' If your interests extend to dead ex-girlfriends who become zombies, have we got a movie for you! Truth be told, it's a lyrical drama that consistently plays against expectations, which makes for a unique and sometimes breathtaking experience. To read more, check out thoughts from our own Scott Weinberg (scroll down), Jen Yamato and yours truly, in an article in which I named it one of the best of the decade. The only reservation concerns the Blu-ray transfer; you can read more at DVD Beaver.
Recent Theatrical Releases, Now on Blu-ray:
'Knight and Day.' Tom Cruise, who may or may not be a rogue spy, kidnaps civilian Cameron Diaz; much running and shooting ensues. Directed by James Mangold. "It's a calculated, artificial formula for box office success barely disguised as a story." (John Gholson, Cinematical)
'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.' The third installment in the popular series about sparkly vampires finds Kristen Stewart dithering between Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. "It still isn't great, and there still isn't much crossover appeal, but it's easily the best of the three films so far." (Eric D. Snider, Cinematical)
'Going the Distance.' Drew Barrymore and Justin Long flirt, fret and joke about a romance separated by 3,000 miles. "An intermittently funny romantic comedy that piles on obscenities and sexual innuendo in a desperate attempt to be hip and relevant." (My complete Cinematical review.)
'Vampires Suck' (Extended Bite Me Edition). From the people who brought you 'Epic Movie' and 'Disaster Movie.' "Almost bad enough to make me pity the Twilight film series for being the subject of such limp, toothless mockery." (John Gholson, Cinematical)
Further Reading: New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of November 30. (Moviefone)
Disney animation set to classical music include Mickey Mouse as "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Read More
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Make-Out With Violence
Patrick and Carol mourn the loss of their friend Wendy until they discover her animated corpse. Read More
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Fantasia 2000
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and seven new works are set to classical music. Read More
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Yesterday we told you that the Pagani Huayra supercar wouldn't arrive on American shores until 2015 or later. Today, however, Pagani told us it "cautiously" promises that the $1.2 million supercar is on track to launch here in early 2013. The Huayra was originally slated to arrive in the U.S. by mid-2012.
The car was held up because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration denied Pagani's request for exemption from certain airbag regulations. Back in 2008, Pagani had applied for an exemption from rules that would require the Huayra to include so-called advanced airbags. Advanced airbag systems use a range of sensors to tailor airbag deployment forces depending on the weight of passengers. Because such systems are very expensive, NHTSA gives some manufacturers of low volume cars, including Spyker and Bugatti, exemptions from the rule. That helps the companies save development money on limited-run exotic cars.
On July 29, Pagani finally heard that NHTSA was denying the company's request for an exemption to the airbag rule. Rather than fight the judgment, Pagani decided to develop an advanced airbag system for the American-spec Huayra. Doing so means the Huayra can still be sold on our shores; Pagani says the car "had from the start the U.S. market as a key goal."
Now all we need is $1.2 million…
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EAST LANSING — Michigan State failed its first big test of the season last Saturday at Notre Dame.
It was a reality check for a Spartans team that had finally crept into the Top 25 rankings, debuting at No. 24 in the USA Today Coaches Poll before the Irish scored a 17-13 victory in South Bend, Ind.
It was a game that, played 10 times, Michigan State (3-1) would have won seven times in my estimation. This is so largely because the Spartans would not have called for a freshman receiver to throw a deep pass off a jet sweep handoff more than once.
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio probably still wonders how he could go with such a call with a first down at his own 47 with the scored tied at 10-10 in the third quarter.
With that, we'll turn our attention to the Spartans report card through four games. It's not a midseason report card, it's a trimester report card headed into Michigan State's next game (Oct. 5 at Iowa.)
I've already referred to the Youngstown State game as a take-home quiz of sorts in a previous report card. Apparently, Connor Cook forgot some of the answers he displayed against the Penguins when he played the Irish, particularly when it came to running for free yardage. It's hard to grade Andrew Maxwell and Tyler O'Connor, as neither have really received enough reps to know what they could do. Damion Terry has been absent (he hasn't yet appeared in a game.)
Jeremy Langford has displayed some signs of becoming a good — not great — tailback. Nick Hill get an "A" for effort. Riley Bullough hasn't really had plays called to his bulldozing strengths. Fullback Trevon Pendleton has been as impressive as anyone. Another position where a true freshmen who could help is absent: Delton Williams and Gerald Homes both are in the "wait until next year" mode.
There's just no way to put a smiley face on this position, which has averaged approximately four dropped passes per game. Other than Macgarrett Kings Jr., no one seems capable of stepping up on a consistent basis. Bennie Fowler has played better of late, offering some hope, but it's been a tough season for Aaron Burbridge and Keith Mumphery. Mumphery doesn't seem to be completely healthy. The tight ends are beginning to emerge, with converted end Jamal Lyles finding his way and sophomore Josiah Price showing some great hands. The receiving corps is a group that will improve because, well, they can't get much worse.
The offensive tackles have been somewhat shaky, but the interior offensive line has been having its way. Jack Allen's return was a lift, Blake Treadwell has been steady, as has Travis Jackson. Versatile Dan France isn't dominant, but he's adequate. Jack Conklin has had his freshman moments, but overall he has played well. Same with offensive tackle Donavon Clark. Some impressive spot duty from Connor Kruse.
This unit has passed all tests so far, with Shilique Calhoun showing up in the right spots at the right time, while senior defensive tackle Tyler Hoover has been the main catalyst, batting down passes and forcing fumbles. Marcus Rush has put forth another blue-collar effort, and Micajah Reynolds and Damon Knox have provided some punch. Mark Scarpinato has also been effective inside, as has end Denzel Drone.
Still the best unit on the football team, with middle linebacker Max Bullough anchoring the group and playing flawlessly. Jairus Jones really provided a boost, and he will be missed while out with the knee injury he survived in the first quarter of the Notre Dame loss. Taiwan Jones stepped up on the passing downs in his absence and is anxious to prove he can be a three-down backer. Other than getting called out by Pat Narduzzi for his Youngstown State game efforts, Denicos Allen has been his ornery self. Ed Davis continues to get praise from Mark Dantonio, while Kyler Elsworth remains perhaps the most dependable backup at any position on the team.
Darqueze Dennard is still looking for his first interception, but has played like the future pro that he is. Trae Waynes enjoyed two very strong games but has been beaten a bit more than anyone expected the past two games. Kurtis Drummond, with his soaring interception and TD return, has found the limelight to his liking. Isaiah Lewis is coming off meniscus surgery that forced him to miss the Youngstown State game and most of the loss at Notre Dame. RJ Williamson has been adequate in Lewis' place, but is not the hitter Lewis is. Demetrious Cox has yet to live up to his billing.
Punter Mike Sadler gets an "A,'' but other specialists have struggled. This is a group that should show the most improvement the remainder of the year, as freshman kicker Michael Geiger showed some mettle with two field goals at Notre Dame including a 43-yarder into the wind. Kevin Muma is excellent on kickoffs, but he missed a couple of field goals within 30 yards to lose the place-kicking duties. Andre Sims Jr. lost his punt returner duties with two fumbles, opening the door for Macgarret Kings Jr. to get himself on the field with the punt return unit. Nick Hill has had a couple of poor kick returns. The return game really needs some juice.
Hard to grade this spot. Pat Narduzzi has obviously done a tremendous job with the defense, and Mark Dantonio continues to be one of the best coaches in the Big Ten. That said, Dantonio's handling of the quarterbacks can and will be second-guessed until Connor Cook proves he can provide consistent production, and of course, that's dependent on the receiving corps catching the football. It's easy to second-guess personnel decisions, but hindsight is always 20-20.
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Anti-Semitism is widespread throughout the Arab and Muslim world, manifested in many segments of society. The following report is the latest installment in ADL's ongoing series presenting selected anti-Semitic expressions in the Arab and Muslim world. This report includes examples from January through April 2007. As in recent months, newspapers continued to feature anti-Semitic caricatures and themes that include conspiracy theories of Jews plotting to control U.S. foreign policy and dominate the world, demonic images of Jews and Israelis, and depictions of the stereotypical Jew (big nose, black coat and hat, skull cap, etc.).Newspapers continued to run cartoons and columns that denied or downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust, perhaps in response to Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust Commemoration Day, in April. Additionally, many newspaper articles and cartoons accused Jews of using the Holocaust to justify the persecution of others and depicted Israeli soldiers as Nazi thugs.This report also examines the anti-Semitic material in the Arab media related to two current events. First, following the airing of the documentary film, "Shaked Spirit," on Israel's Channel 1 in March, in which Israeli soldiers admitted to killing Egyptian POW's at the end of the Six-Day war, Egyptian newspapers ran cartoons and articles that accused Israelis of committing massacres on par with Nazi atrocities.Second, Israel's plans to construct a ramp at Mugrabi Gate, one of the entrances to the Muslim holy sites at Al Aksa compound in Jerusalem, led to a wave of cartoons and articles in February accusing Israel of attempting to destroy an Islamic holy site.All material in this compilation was translated by ADL from the original Arabic or is otherwise from English language sources in the Middle East.
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Men tend to put off health care when it costs more, study says
MINNEAPOLIS -- As high-deductible health insurance becomes more common in the United States, it may be causing men to make fewer trips to the emergency room -- even when they have dangerous conditions such as kidney stones or heart trouble.
Men whose employers switched to such policies cut their ER use by nearly 20 percent the first year they were covered, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota and at Harvard Medical School.
They said it was "concerning" that ER use dropped just as sharply for severe conditions -- such as an irregular heartbeat -- as for minor conditions, such as a sore throat.
"Men who transition to (high-deductible plans) may forego needed care in the immediate term, resulting in delays or increased severity of illness when care is later sought," they wrote. The study was published in the online journal Medical Care.
Women scaled back ER visits for minor complaints but not for severe conditions, according to the study, the first to break out gender patterns as they relate to high-deductible insurance.
The study adds to a growing debate over whether raising consumers' out-of-pocket health-care costs leads people to scale back unnecessary doctor visits, as intended, or to skip needed medical care.
Insurance policies that require consumers to pay more out of pocket have spread rapidly.


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An infant with clinical features of Potter and Turner syndromes at birth was found to have a translocation of a portion of the long arm of a Y chromosome to a 21 chromosome, and only one X chromosome. The infant had bilateral dysplastic kidneys and hypoplastic lungs and suffered spontaneous rupture of the heart and pneumothoraces. Except for gonads with persistent sex cords and a solitary degenerating follicle, the genital organs were female. The sexual differentiation is compatible with the theory that the short arm of the Y chromosome is mainly responsible for male differentiation but implies that the long arm is not without effect on gonadal development. The occurrence of severe renal abnormalities in an infant with a sex chromosome abnormality may be more than coincidental.
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FORMER president Nelson Mandela, who died in Johannesburg on Thursday, is being honoured by the Western Cape provincial government in Cape Town this week with evening laser projections of his face on Table Mountain.
The display will run every night until December 16. It will be most visible from 9pm and switched off at midnight.
The provincial government said the iconic mountain was a significant landmark for Mandela during his years of imprisonment on Robben Island.
"While the apartheid authorities tried to break the spirit of Robben Island prisoners, Madiba and his fellow freedom fighters were inspired by one of the Cape's iconic natural wonders to resist those attempts," it said.
It quoted Mandela's words: "During the many years of incarceration on Robben Island, we often looked across Table Bay at the magnificent silhouette of Table Mountain. To us on Robben Island, Table Mountain was a beacon of hope. It represented the mainland to which we would one day return."
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape said on Monday it would lay wreaths at correctional centres where Mandela spent part of his 27 years of confinement.
He was initially incarcerated at a maximum security prison on Robben Island, transferred to Pollsmoor in 1982 and finally in 1988 to Victor Verster prison, now known as Drakenstein correctional centre, where he spent the three years before his release in 1990.
Cape Town remembers
The City of Cape Town has been hosting various events to honour Mandela since his passing last week. Most of the events have been centred on the Grand Parade on Darling Street in the city centre, where Mandela made his first speech after being released from prison in 1990.
The city said 26,000 coupons had by Monday been collected for its own Mandela tribute event, at the Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday.
The city has introduced a coupon system for entry into the stadium, for the safety of attendees. A maximum of five coupons are available per person, free of charge, on presentation of a valid driver's licence, identity document or passport, at Computicket stands, Shoprite and Shoprite/Checkers outlets.
City spokeswoman Priya Reddy said coupons were still available and members of the public are encouraged to collect their coupons "to mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Tata Madiba", adding: "The city urges residents to only come to the stadium event if they have their coupon."
The coupon also allows free access to public transport into and out of the city from noon onwards, on the MyCiTi bus service, Golden Arrow Bus Services and Metrorail. Roads around the stadium will be closed and it is anticipated that there will be traffic congestion.
The official memorial service for Mandela will be held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Mandela will be buried in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, where he grew up, on Sunday December 15.