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Kiko Martinez has vowed to stun the Belfast crowd and defeat Carl Frampton when the pair clash on February 9.
Martinez defends his European super-bantamweight title against the undefeated Northern Irishman in the latter's home town.
The Spaniard has promised to take the favourite into the trenches in what promises to be a mouth-watering clash.
"I feel I will win by knockout, or they'll stop the fight cause of the beating I'm going to put on him, that's how I see it in my mind," said Martinez.
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Pastrana gets stuck; Brack wins X Games Rally Car Final
In the final event of X Games 15, Kenny Brack of Sweden managed to steal the gold from defending champion Travis Pastrana. Midway through the race, Pastrana's car become lodged between the barrier walls. Understanding he had no chance of catching up to Brack, Pastrana ceded the race.
Only 25, Pastrana is one of the most decorated athletes in X Games history. This is his second year that he hasn't walked away with a medal since beginning to compete in 1999. On the other hand, Brack's win is quite the success story. Brack, who is a retired IndyCar driver, had never before competed in an X Games. At 43, Brack was one of the oldest competitors at the Games and is relatively new to rally car racing.
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Nutter Butter S'mores Magic Cookie Bars
First off, I'd like to send a big hug to everyone in Boston tonight. What a truly despicable thing to happen, and my thoughts, prayers, and sympathy is with all of you who may need it tonight.
In view of today's happenings in Boston as well as my recent move and unpacking frenzy, tonight's post will be (understandably, I hope) brief! Fortunately, all you need to know about this recipe is pretty basic:
These bars are an amalgamation of two of my favorite desserts from last year: S'moreo Magic Bars and Nutter Butter S'mores Ice Cream. And they are every bit as good as they look!
- 15 Nutter Butter Cookies (1 1/2 cups), crushed
- 3 Tbsp. butter
- 1 cup miniature marshmallows
- 1 cup Hershey Milk Chocolate bars, broken into pieces
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 10 Nutter Butters, crumbled
- 14.5 oz can sweetened condensed milk
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare an 8x8 baking dish by lining it with parchment paper and spraying lightly with a nonstick cooking spray.
- Pulse the Nutter Butter and butter in a food processor or blender until cookies are crushed and mixed well with the butter.
- Press the crumbs well into the bottom of the dish. Bake the crust for 10 minutes.
- Remove crust from the oven and top with marshmallows (FIRST), Hershey bars, chocolate chips, and crumbled Nutter Butters. Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes until the top is golden and edges are bubbly. It should feel somewhat set when you push it, even though it will be melted and gooey.
- Let cool completely before cutting and serving.
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32 Responses to "Nutter Butter S'mores Magic Cookie Bars"
I was just craving Nutter Butters! These bars look incredible omg. Prayers to Boston :(
Oh my gosh! Nutella, marshmallow, chocolate and nutter butters, I couldn't think of a better combination!
Anything s'mores is so great!
I've never had a 7 layer bar before and I've been wanting to try some and looking for the perfect recipe, so this post came at a perfect time! Nutter Butters and chocolate in a gooey bar form? Yes please!
What a fantastically delicious magic bar!
Oh my goodness…I haven't had nutter butters in forever, but I HAVE to make these! amazing pictures Ashton, and I hope you are getting settled:)
These look insanely gooey!
Hopefully you're having fun settling into your new home and have found your cookie sheets :)
Yum. Pinning.
Yeah, no disputes here! Love love love these, Ashton. Peanut butter + s'mores is such a winning combo!
We're having a party and I think these would be a great hit. All the right stuff to make a delicious bar. Hope you can drop by with the recipe. http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/whatd-you-do-this-weekend-11/
Totally amazing. And guess what dessert I was brainstorming yesterday afternoon? Yup. These. lol Yours are way better!
Holy cow! These look AMAZING!!! Love Nutter Butters and S'mores! What a scrumptious combo! Pinned ;) Thanks for sharing!
PS: Wanted to let you know I included your scrumptious bars in a blog post today as one of my favorite pins of the week!
… Thanks again for sharing! Have a lovely day :)
This just looks so incredible, I seriously almost have no words. What a great combo! So sticky and gooey and delish looking!
Wow, these look so good. Can't wait to make them :-)
These look so good, Ashton! All the layers, flavors, gooey factor. Everything is a big win in these babies!
Oh man, these look amazing!! Any tips for a Nutter Butter substitute? I live in Canada and don't have easy access to them. :(
Just pinned, my kids will love these!
Oh WOW! I have to try this… Thanks for sharing.
Maybe I did something wrong but at 38mins at 350 the whole dish is bubbly and chocolate is melted everywhere. Ideas?
Your photos look like your chocolate is intact, mine spread everywhere and was impossible to remove from the paper. I guess I'll keep trying! =)
I have the mini (bite size) Nutter Butters. Any idea of how much I should use for each section of this recipe?
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Interesting, thanks for sharing.
In "Genghis Khan, and the Making of the Modern World" Jack Weatherford (p.87) writes the following about the Mongol army's diet:
"The Chinese noted with surprise and disgust the ability of the Mongol warriors to survive on little food and water for long periods; according to one, the entire army could camp without a single puff of smoke since they needed no fires to cook. Compared to the Jurched soldiers, the Mongols were much healthier and stronger. The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones. Unlike the Jurched soldiers, who were dependent on a heavy carbohydrate diet, the Mongols could more easily go a day or two without food."
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
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Did you guys see the Bizarre Foods episode in Mongolia? They roasted a cow and went straight for the subcutaneous fat. They eat a TON of dairy. Overall, it seemed all very primal.
Interesting people. I really enjoyed Conn Iggulden's historical novels about them, too. He's in the Bernard Cornwell class as a writer, and his research is accurate, too.
That's not quite right, of course. The public still has a kind of "protein mythology". "Protein" was all the rage back in the early part of the 20th century; it's stock has gone down since, but it's never quite disappeared from the public consciousness. The Mongols had more than adequate supplies of protein in the diet, which is good, but people in the modern West don't go short of protein, but do have problems with their teeth. What's most important for teeth and bones is an abundant supply of the right minerals in the diet and plenty of fat-soluble vitamins to enable you to use those minerals. They'd get those from their high fat consumption.[By] contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.
It's said that an important source of vitamin C for the Mongols was tea (imported from China) - the leaves and all being consumed.
The WAPF has some interesting notes on the Mongols' diet, as they have on so much else. I thought their lack of "hygiene", commented on in old Russian sources quoted by the WAPF writer, specially interesting. Cleanliness didn't worry them, but because their ecosystem worked and their animals were grass fed (which makes the dung less offensive and even slightly antiseptic), they didn't fall sick.
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Mongols! One of the few restaurants in my town where you can still get an (almost) primal meal is at Genghis Grill, which is a Mongolian BBQ place where you basically build your own stir fry and then they cook it for you. There is only once sauce that doesn't have sugar (asian chile) and they use canola oil, but it's a good place to get a treat and still almost be 100% primal by going out to eat.
On a side note, that movie Mongol is awesome!
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this!
I don't know why, but I have always been fascinated with Mongolia. Even as a little kid, I would ask my mom to point out Mongolia on the globe (remember those globes we used to have in school?) and found Mongolian horses (which look different from other horses!) so interesting.
I have a rare blood type, and it's said that the only people who have this blood type on the planet are all descendents of the Mongols. (Which is hilarious if you saw me -- they don't come more honkey-lookin' than moi!)
I will definitely be checking out that historical fiction (love the genre) mentioned above.
Roger, I've also put 2 and 2 together and figured out that Mongolian Grill is a good eating out option for us primal types. I'm always on the scout for restaurants.
I carried the first three around with me - couldn't put them down.
These looks amazing, and the reviews are through the roof! There is a neat little 2-1/2-minute interview with the author over on amazon.com. These go to the top of the pile. Thank you!
Great post as I find the subject interesting as well. I also enjoyed the Bizarre Foods episode in Mongolia as well!
You'll never see the light if you're in someone else's shadow, or said another way, life is like a dog sled team, if you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes
I also, I have to admit, found the full thing on Youtube. It was really interesting show. Still a lot of meat and fat and full-fat dairy eaten over there - and, unsurprisingly, I'm not sure I saw any fat people. The fattest person around looked to be Andrew himself.
The fried curd was interesting. Like rock, the presenter said, and you need good teeth to chew it. He also said the warriors used to carry bags of it. I can see that: it would be highly calorific and too dry to go off easily - a real iron ration.
I was assuming the black airag was only mildly alcoholic, but according to a travel site I found:
http://www.discovermongolia.mn/count..._beverage.htmlAirag has included 7-8% of alcohol. So you will drink a lot of airag maybe you hang over.
Maybe, indeed.


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You have to wonder whether a seat in the Iowa Senate is really worth the degrading level of desperation that both candidates are showing in District 37.
The Register's Jennifer Jacobs reports this morning that Democratic incumbent Staci Appel has engaged in a barrage of personal attacks against her GOP opponent, Rep. Kent Sorsenson. He's apparently had a checkered past that has given her plenty of material. Candidates who stoop to personal attacks risk looking desperate and turning off their own supporters who can't stomach more negative campaigning.
She's also paid for a TV ad that accuses Sorenson of letting dangerous abusers buy guys to kill women and kids. Sorenson voted against a bill banning gun ownership for anyone who is subject to a protective order or has been convicted of a domestic violence crime. The ad is unfair in characterizing the vote's motivation as a desire to sell guns to dangerous abusers.
Sorenson, meanwhile, bought up a bunch of Internet domain names containing Staci Appel's name, including StaciAppel.com. The site is now being used for misleading attacks on Appel. That kind of thing is pretty common and has happened on the other side of the aisle. It's also a deliberate attempt to mislead voters, which is unfair. The Legislature should strongly consider making such deception a violation of campaign ethics laws.
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Law enforcement agencies, neighborhoods and communities nationwide will be celebrating the 15th annual National Night Out (NNO) next month. NNO is designed to heighten drug and crime prevention awareness, generate support for local efforts and strengthen community and police relations.
From 7 to 10 p.m. on Aug. 4, residents throughout King County are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police.
King County Sheriff's office would like to arrange for patrol officers and storefront officers to visit those neighborhoods that would like to organize a neighborhood gathering. Anyone interested in sponsoring such an event may call Officer Mark Childers at (206) 296-4480 or Officer Ken Williams at (206) 296-2744.


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When using them one important thing you will want to learn how to do is blend base coat through a blend panel to insure that the new colour you're spraying looks the same as the old colour on your car.
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Spraying down your base colours are very easy to do just as long as you know the basics about the colour you have selected to use. Make sure when spraying with base coats you do a few more coats then needed. Why? Because alot of base colours a very transparent, meaning they do not cover well and require more coats then usual. It helps to have bright lighting to make sure you can see if the colour has covered fully. Common transparent colours are bright reds.
If you're wanting to paint your car silver or any other colour with alot of metallic in it, you're going to want to use the basecoat clear coat system. This is because silvers and colours with metallic in them require a few coats to be sprayed called technique coats or dust coats. This will make the metallic in the paint sit nicely and look even instead of looking all blotchy and streaky. You can still use a 2k colour system to paint silvers but I don't recommend this for beginners because it's the hardest 2k paint to spray.
Basecoats are the only paint that can be sanded 5 minutes after spraying if you have a slight troubled area. Note: Only wet sand using water with p600 grit sandpaper or higher. Remember it's normal for base coat paint to go dull and have no shine in between coats. Thats what the clear coat is for.


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Hi LAB readers! I'm Amber, lover of peanut butter and anything pink! A diagnosis of severe IBS and celiac disease doesn't hold me back from enjoying food that's delicious and nutritious, which is why I started my blog Eats and Exercise by Amber. On my blog I show that people with dietary limitations can still eat deliciously with a little creativity! In addition to my love of food and fitness, I'm passionate about the promotion of positive body image. I believe in order to be healthy you must first be happy, which comes from self love. I hope that you enjoy my post today!
You're sitting at your desk, whether it be at work or home, and you feel completely drained. As if sitting at your computer or even standing for the duration of your work day was equivalent to an intense sweat session at the gym. This happens to me all the time and I am left feeling lethargic and unmotivated – both my brain and my body. This is especially true in the wintertime because the weather and lack of sunshine can leave you feeling rather sluggish!
The cure to combat this fatigue (also known as the mid-day slump)? GET UP, STRETCH, AND MOVE! Whether you want to or not, I promise it will work AND is good for you!
Known as NEAT, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, a fancy term for the calories burned through non-exercise activities such as walking, taking the stairs, or standing while on the phone as opposed to sitting. Current research at the Mayo Clinic has found that by simply getting off your butt and moving around more, you can burn up to an additional 800 calories a day! Extra calorie burn is great, but the real benefit is that you're saving your life by simply getting up and moving.
Results from studies done by the American Cancer Society showed that sitting for extended periods of time can shorten your life, even if you exercise! EEK! Scary right? Even more motivation to get off your butt and get moving whenever you can throughout the day! Read more about the study here or this CNN published article which is a bit easier to understand.
GET UP! Close your eye, take a few deep breaths, raise your arms on the inhale, and lower them on the exhale. Feel awkward doing this in front of your coworkers or peers? Then (as silly as it sounds) try it out the next time you use to the restroom. It's amazing how much of a difference some deep breathing can make – it wakes up your brain! Plus, you'll get in some extra movement when you walk to the bathroom.
Got time and room for a little something extra? STRETCH! Stretching feels good and sends blood flow to your brain and muscles. It also helps your body to wake up! When I'm walking up and down the stairs at school, I always do a quick hamstring stretch on my way up (if the hallways are empty). And if you've been sitting at your desk all day, it's especially important to remember to stretch your shoulders and neck.
Most importantly, MOVE! Move as much as you can. Here are a few suggestions, but I encourage you to get creative because the possibilities are endless.
- Opt to take the stairs instead of the elevator and/or escalator
- Use a copier, water fountain, or restroom, that's farther away from your desk
- Take a lap around the office or school before stopping by the break room or bathroom
- Park your car farther away from the entrance
- Sneak in some squats
- Stand instead of sitting while talking on the phone
- Do calf raises or leg raises while waiting for copies to print
- Have a 60 second dance party
Warning: All of this movement may cause increased happiness and infect those around you!
Thanks Amber for taking the time to guest post and sharing this important information! As a teacher, I spend a majority of my day on my feet, but when I worked in the event industry I spent most of the day sitting at a desk. I frequently went for a walk during my lunch break, but didn't move much otherwise – when there's work to be done I want to get it done as quickly as possible! Taking the stairs rather than the elevator, using a bathroom/water fountain on another floor, or going for a walk during your lunch break are all small things but they quickly add up!
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- October 06, 2003
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Season of Change
Nine Years After It All Began, Jennifer, Lisa, David, Courteney, Matt and Matthew Prepare for An Emotional Final Year—and Life After Friends
The year is 2013. Courteney Cox Arquette Arquette, once best known as Monica on Friends, has been crowned the new Martha Stewart. Her TV sibling, David Schwimmer, is an acclaimed director. Lisa Kudrow, who played flaky Phoebe? She's PTA president of her son's high school, while Matthew Perry (a.k.a. Chandler) recently completed The Whole 19 Yards. Then there's the pitter-patter of little Pitts echoing in the Hollywood Hills, where Jennifer Aniston is keeping house with the sexiest husband alive, Brad Pitt. As for Matt LeBlanc, well, he's still playing Joey Tribbiani.
Far-fetched? No more so than the real-life rocket ride experienced by the Friends over the past decade. Before the NBC series about love, life and lattes became a grande-size hit after its 1994-95 debut season, the cast was largely unknown—not to mention poor. LeBlanc has joked that he auditioned for the series with $11 to his name.
A decade later the super sextet have moved on—and up—with Emmys, marriages, kids and movies. Now, as the show enters its 10th and—they swear—final season, the Friends cast is readying for a teary-eyed goodbye. "It's bittersweet," says Schwimmer. "We're all having a great time now, but I think we're definitely going to be feeling some sadness." With just 18 new episodes this season, the cast will wrap filming in January (the finale airs in May). In the meantime, People takes a look at how our Friends have changed—and where they go from here.
The TV flops Ferris Bueller and Muddling Through
Married to Brad Pitt since 2000
Giving birth to daughter Emma (on-again, off-again love Ross is the dad)
Gearing up a production company with Pitt; an untitled comedy with Ben Stiller in '04
Just because you couldn't see Brad Pitt at the Emmy awards in L.A. on Sept. 21, don't assume he wasn't there. In fact he was—just um, not for anyone's eyes but his wife's. Although her famous husband was a plane ride away filming the epic Troy in Los Cabos, Mexico, "I actually have a picture of him," Aniston said after the ceremony, "on my underwear."
How's that for keeping the flame alive? Three years after their extravagant Malibu wedding, the Pitts have established themselves as Hollywood's most blissfully-in-love golden couple—and Aniston, 34, has emerged as Friends' biggest breakout talent, earning critical acclaim (in 2002's The Good Girl) and box office success (this spring's $242 million-grossing Bruce Almighty). But to truly appreciate how far she has come, consider that prior to landing the role of material girl Rachel, Aniston's most memorable big-screen turn was playing second fiddle to a demonic elf in 1993's Leprechaun. Even Aniston herself marveled at her change of fortune when Friends bowed 10 years ago. "It's a range of emotions," she said at the time," from excitement to fear to 'Am I fooling everybody?'"
A decade later, the Emmy-winning star is now ensconced in the $13.5 million Beverly Hills mansion she 1 and Pitt recently renovated—though this summer she has spent most of her free time visiting Pitt on the Troy shoot in Malta and Mexico. Until he returns later this month, "any time I have off, I go to Mexico," says Aniston. "It's good for me, 'cause I love chips and guacamole."
Of course, when the Pitts finally are reunited, the big question is: When will they start a family? In the past, Aniston has said that she wanted to wait until the completion of Friends, and with the series about to wrap, the wait may soon be over. Though Aniston, who is known as the weepiest and most sentimental Friend, may want to consider stashing tissues now. "We're sad," she told Ellen DeGeneres last month. "We've all cried. We don't know what it's going to be like. Like we didn't know what it was going to be like when we started, we have no idea [what it will be like at the end]. We're all gonna be blithering idiots."
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MOMENT Tying the knot with Chandler (Matthew Perry) in the seventh season
Joining Arquette to produce Mix it Up, a home-improvement show, for cable's WE
The difference between Friends and real life? "Monica cleans because she needs things to be perfect," Cox Arquette, 39, says of her neatnik alter ego. "I am cleaning because people are coming over and I don't want the sawdust from the drill to be on the couch." Now the serial home renovator (she has owned seven homes in 10 years) is putting her hobby to work producing Mix It Up, a series premiering Oct. 22 on Women's Entertainment network that will help couples meld diverging decor tastes. Her coproducer is her husband, whose quirky passions (like a bobblehead-doll collection) didn't exactly fit with her sleek style. Is mixing love and work stressful? "Stress and relationships go hand in hand anyway," says David, 32. "But for us, it brings us closer, if anything. It makes me feel good seeing her enjoying herself so much."
Not that she won't miss Friends. "It's going to be very emotional," Cox Arquette says of taping the final season. Strike that: "It's gonna be awful." Fortunately, she'll leave with a solid movie resume (including the Scream flicks) and close pals, especially Aniston and Kudrow. And a rewarding marriage with plans for a family. "Someday he is going to make the most amazing father," she says of Arquette. "They have complete trust and they make each other laugh, and they were friends first," says a friend of the couple's. "They approach things differently, but when they have to come to a compromise, they both agree. They always come together in the same place."
Played dumb on Married...with Children
Wed Melissa McKnight in May; expecting a baby
Kissing Rachel in last season's finale
His own Friends spinoff, Joey
There are perks to that sky-high salary. When it comes time for diaper duty, LeBlanc joked before the Emmys, "I'm going to hire someone to do my part of that." Unlikely. LeBlanc, 36, who's expecting a baby with model McKnight, 38, in March, is already a hands-on parent to Tyler, 12, and Jacquelyn, 8, McKnight's children from her previous marriage. "He's completely a dad to them," says a friend. With the coming addition, "he's very excited." He's almost as pumped about Joey, a better bet than the Married spinoffs (anyone remember Vinnie & Bobby?) he graced before Friends. So far, "I know I'll be in it, but that's about it," LeBlanc said. Meanwhile, the lowest-key Friend blows off steam dirt-biking at his ranch north of L.A. Says his pal: "He doesn't need to be out in the spotlight."
Played Ursula, the ditzy waitress (and Phoebe's twin sis), on Mad About You
Married to French ad exec Michel Stern; they have one son, Julian, 5
Being a surrogate mom for her brother's triplets
This fall's Wonderland with Val Kilmer
Like her free-spirited alter ego, Lisa Kudrow is terrible at keeping secrets—which is why she has no idea how Friends will end. "The smartest thing is, 'Don't tell me—it's too easy for me to blab,'" she says. Still, Kudrow is pleased with the evolving maturity of Phoebe, who looks to be settling down with Mike (Paul Rudd). "I'm happy to see her straightening out," says Kudrow.
Phoebe may have taken a while to grow up, but not Kudrow, 40, who says that when the show wraps she is looking forward to "commitments with my son's school." She also plans to continue working. With big-screen hits ('99's Analyze This) and misses (this summer's Marci X) under her belt, she hopes to do more films—"any story that's told well"—but not TV. "The TV audience knows me as Phoebe," she says. "It's hard for them to swallow me as another character."
A guest appearance on NYPD Blue and the sitcom flop Monty
Dating Playboy model Carla Alapont, 25, for more than a year
Ross's long-anticipated first kiss with Rachel
WHAT'S NEXT? Producing and directing in film, TV and theater
Yes, Ross has been very, very good to him-$1 million-an-episode good. But for David Schwimmer, playing lovelorn paleontologist Ross Gellar for the past nine years has not been without exasperation. Like, for instance, when he turned up at Northwestern University in May to raise money for Lookingglass Theatre, a Chicago company he helped found pre-Friends. Before he could make his speech, the students began pelting him with questions about Jennifer Aniston's kissability and Matt LeBlanc's wedding. "There was kind of a tension in the air," says Chris Jones, a Chicago Tribune arts reporter who has known Schwimmer for almost 10 years. "He wanted to be seen as himself, and there was a faction that night that saw him as a character."
It's a problem that's not likely to go away anytime soon—which is why, perhaps, Schwimmer aims to focus on more behind-the-scenes work. "I hope to be directing, acting, producing," Schwimmer, 36, said at the Emmys. Not that the star, who has directed Friends and will likely do the same with LeBlanc's spinoff Joey, plans to ditch his alter ego entirely: "I'll probably bring the character to [Joey]."
Guest appearances on Beverly Hills, 90210, Growing Pains and Who's the Boss?
Dating fashion student Rachel Dunn
Waking up in the same bed with Monica after Ross's wedding
The Whole Ten Yards with Bruce Willis
Until two years ago, it was hard to read about Perry without encountering words like trouble, rehab, even car crash. Now the operative words are mature, hardworking—and happy. Perry, 34, who guest-starred on The West Wing in April, just wound up a London stage stint with Minnie Driver in Sexual Perversity in Chicago—and took time to root for old pal Jennifer Capriati at Wimbledon. He's shooting a sequel to The Whole Nine Yards, his 2000 odd-couple guy movie. His romance with Rachel Dunn, whom he took to the private post-Emmy Friends party, is approaching the one-year mark. As for his up-and-down history, "he is completely past that," says a friend, "and is looking and feeling terrific."
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EMMYS: Are Some Shows Too Raunchy?
Adam Buckman is a contributor to AwardsLine.
Viewers have embraced a certain degree of raunch in their TV comedies, but the Emmys have not quite caught up with them.
Though there have been exceptions in recent years – with nominations and scattered awards going to some of TV's more adult-oriented comedy series, such as Curb Your Enthusiasm or Nurse Jackie – the lion's share of Emmy attention continues to be paid to mainstream comedies on broadcast television, even though some of them, too, have pushed the content envelope in recent seasons.
Producers of some of TV's raunchier comedies say they'd love Emmy recognition, but they're not holding their breath. "I think it would be a huge honor obviously to have that sort of recognition," says Danny McBride, co-creator, executive producer and star of the decidedly off-color Eastbound & Down on HBO. "Eastbound & Down is of a very crude nature, and the comic sensibility is dark. I don't think you really see shows of that nature awarded in that way," he said.
In the series, McBride plays a tactless, foul-mouthed former pro baseball player who offends everyone he encounters. Nevertheless, as in past seasons, Eastbound & Down is being submitted for Emmy consideration.
But McBride may have a point about where the Emmy emphasis usually goes. Sitcoms on the traditional broadcast networks – shows such as Modern Family (ABC), 30 Rock (NBC) and Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS) – have won the best comedy Emmy every year since 2001, the year HBO's Sex and the City won the top comedy award and became a notable exception for cable TV. The network sitcoms also dominate in the acting categories with top honors there going to the likes of Jim Parsons for The Big Bang Theory (CBS) for the last two years and, before him, two consecutive wins for Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock. The top comedy actress award has been slightly more generous to cable comedy, with Edie Falco of Nurse Jackie and Toni Collette of The United States of Tara – both on Showtime and two of TV's more permissive comedies – winning best actress Emmys (in 2010 and 2009, respectively).
And while cable comedies such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage on HBO and comedian Louis CK's Louie on FX have received nominations in various categories in recent years, Emmy wins have been scarce for the cable coms (with the notable exception of Jeremy Piven's multiple wins as best supporting actor for Entourage).
Whether or not the cable comedies suffer at Emmy time because their four-letter words and adult subjects are a turn-off to voters remains an open question, especially since the comedies on the broadcast networks – from the The Big Bang Theory to Two and a Half Men (CBS) – often traffic in similar material. One new sitcom that's being submitted for Emmy consideration this year even has the word "bitch" in its title. And though the word isn't spelled out in the title for ABC's Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, the title, and the show itself, might not appeal to Emmy voters, the show's creator, Nahnatchka Khan, acknowledges. "It could potentially be an issue for some people," Khan concedes. "Maybe they won't give it a chance because they are offended by the word 'bitch.' "
Other than possessing a potentially offensive word in its title, and some sexual content in the show itself, Don't Trust the B—- is in every other respect a traditional broadcast TV sitcom.
But these days, TV comedy comes in a variety of forms and styles. So-called traditional sitcoms with 22-episode seasons – and filmed with either one camera (such as the docu-styled Modern Family, The Office or Don't Trust the B—–) or three (such as The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls and many others) – are one thing. The comedies on more-permissive basic cable and anything-goes pay cable are pushing the envelope not only with their subject matter, but with the very style in which they are produced. Just about the only thing some of the cable comedies have in common with the traditional sitcoms is their half-hour length.
"We're in a category with a lot of shows that tend to 'reset' each week," notes Eastbound & Down co-creator Jody Hill. "And we do a comedy show that's essentially structured like a giant movie, and here's a character that you kind of have to follow along each week," he said of the ex-ballplayer McBride plays on the show.
The showrunner on one basic-cable comedy is at pains to even categorize his show, which tells the story of a man (Elijah Wood) who believes his neighbor's dog talks to him. The scenario of the show – Wilfred on FX – requires that one of the show's lead characters be played by a man (Jason Gann) in a dog costume. And inevitably, the "dog" is a rough-around-the-edges personality who, because he's a dog, talks clinically and candidly about a variety of bodily functions, from the sexual to the excretory.
"We call it a situation-psychodramedy," showrunner David Zuckerman said, "because we have some fairly deep and complex stories, but we also have a guy in a dog suit doing crazy things."
Zuckerman said he hopes the voters considering Wilfred for Emmys will overlook the show's more pungent subject matter in favor of focusing on the craft involved in making its scenario credible. "If our show wasn't lit and shot properly, it would be easy to dismiss the show," he said. "We have a guy in a dog suit," he noted. "It could have looked like ALF."
An article custom made for it can't mention five seasons of "Californication"? No EMMY love, even in it's heyday. Tom Kapinos and David Duchovny rock.
What about It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia? While not as fresh as it's earlier seasons, it's still a hilarious show. They've been knocking it out for 7 seasons and are headed into it's 8th.
The 3 male leads ought to have various awards and nominations for writing that series, as well as playing the hell out of those characters, along with Danny DeVito.
Hear, hear!
I don't know how Wilfred slipped into this one.
But yeah, as much as I hate McBride in most of his work, he absolutely nails the Kenny Powers character. Don't care what you think of the show overall, but he's clearly deserving of an Outstanding actor nomination.
Parsons is definitely great, and really the closest thing we have to a Michael Richards/Kramer on TV right now (not to say he's that close), but again, the idea of him winning over someone like Louis CK is crazy. When it comes to believability, the cable/premium shows just do it so much better.
Lets not forget 'Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
Funniest show in years, but will never be nominated
Wilfred "slipped" in because it should be noted. What fantastic half hour of comedy and hopefully Emmy will get off their high horse and see the show for what it is. A one of a kind buddy show that has heart.
Wake up already!
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It's a Western New York regret, up there with No Goal and Wide Right. No one who remembers Crystal Beach can ever get over the loss of the Comet.
The sprawling wooden coaster, built in 1949 and designed by Herbert Schmeck of the Philadelphia Toboggan Co., would lift you far over the beach – and then drop you in a fast free-fall that made you feel as if you were weightless.
When Crystal Beach closed in 1989, everyone wondered what would happen to the Comet. It was bought at auction by Charles Wood, the owner of Six Flags Great Escape, in Lake George. At the time, Wood also owned Fantasy Island, the amusement park on Grand Island. And so for a few years he stored the great coaster there, in pieces. Alas, he moved it to Lake George, where it reopened in 1994. And that was the end of Buffalo and the Comet.
Or was it?
What a lot of people do not know is that there is a Comet here. It is at Martin's Fantasy Island. It is called the Silver Comet.
The sign looks like the one you remember, with "Comet" in vertical, colored letters. The station's wooden floors and worn paint make you feel you're back at Crystal Beach – more than you would probably feel at Lake George, where the sign and the station are completely different.
Martin DiPietro, the park's owner, commissioned the Silver Comet not as a copy of, but a tribute to, the Crystal Beach Comet. He bought a vintage-style train from the Philadelphia Toboggan Co., now called Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters and manufacturing only trains, and had the coaster built by Ohio-based Custom Coasters International.
The Silver Comet, which opened in 1999, has a drop much like the old Comet's and zooms you forward at the same speed – 55 mph. Both Comets are hybrid coasters, with a wooden track on a steel frame.
Coaster-net.com calls it "one of the best, if not the best wooden roller coaster in New York." Coasterbuzz, another coaster site, considers the Silver Comet No. 82 in the top 100 coasters, both wooden and steel – beneath the old Crystal Beach Comet (No. 38), but above such cult destinations as the GhostRider at California's Knott's Berry Farm; the vintage Cyclone at Coney Island; and Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, which has a 90-degree drop and speeds of 148 mph.
"It is a great ride and you will LOVE it to death," ran one Coasterbuzz comment on the Silver Comet. "I can't believe I waited three years to ride such a wonderful masterpiece."
The massive new coaster with an old coaster feel isn't anything anyone would have predicted. Only one thing is more preposterous than what DiPietro did, commissioning a new Comet.
That is the weird fact that many locals don't seem to know it exists.
Post a picture of the Silver Comet on Facebook, and your friends will think you are at Lake George. The grief over the old Comet continues with no one mentioning the new one. I am a case in point. I loved the old Comet and, like everyone else, wept when it left. Recently, when I found myself at Fantasy Island for the first time in years, I looked up and –
"What's that?" I said.
'A well-kept secret'
Maybe it's that people still think of Fantasy Island as a kiddie park. Perhaps people are so sad over Crystal Beach that they think they can't care about any other coasters.
But there might be a simpler reason why the Silver Comet is a mystery to many. DiPietro, in his mid-50s, is undeniably publicity-shy.
"I am a true introvert," he told The News years ago, and it seems he was honest. Unable for weeks to reach him, I went to the park and chased him down in person. It took some doing. When we finally sat down together in front of the quaint Sweet Shop, it was like meeting the Wizard of Oz.
On that warm afternoon, it felt as if Fantasy Island wanted to maintain its sleepy equilibrium. They have their original Model T cars, with their real gas pedals, and the 1962 trains, made by the Herschell Carrousel Co. On the fanciful Wild West Main Street, actors still put on a show every night. You can linger by a priceless huge fish, and hear an unhurried, probably long-dead actor telling you the story of Pinocchio.
DiPietro cited, with pride, the park's rides for grown-ups.
"When we got the Mind Warp, it was the first in North America," he said. "I still don't think there's another."
But his heart is with the past. He went through a lot of trouble and expense to buy back the Blue Goose, another Herschell ride original to the park, after Wood, the Comet buyer, took it away. He had hoped that the Comet could stay at Fantasy Island, and hated when Wood took that away too.
About the Silver Comet, he conceded, "It's a well-kept secret."
He spent between $3 million and $4 million on the Silver Comet, designed by Custom Coasters International. The Ohio firm, which went bankrupt in 2002, had a brief but glorious run.
"They made some great coasters," said Wade Abbott, the state regional representative for American Coaster Enthusiasts.
One of the Silver Comet's engineers, Larry Bill, teamed up with other engineers to found a new coaster company, the Gravity Group. It built the 6,422-foot Voyage, rated by some as the best wooden coaster in the country.
Korey Kiepert, an engineer at the Gravity Group, was familiar with the Silver Comet project. Although it's audacious to try to re-create a historic coaster, it's not unusual, Kiepert said. His firm was contracted, for instance, to re-create the Zippin Pippin, a Memphis coaster Elvis loved.
The Silver Comet, like the great coasters of the past, took intense work.
"It takes us the better part of nine months or longer to do the engineering for the rides," said Kiepert, who treasures, in his office, a sheriff's badge Fantasy Island gave him as a souvenir. "Every ride we work on becomes a big part of our life during that time."
A galaxy of Comets
The Philadelphia Toboggan Co.'s Herbert Schmeck must have devoted a great part of his life to the Comet. Not just ours, either. He left a trail of them.
Our Comet, as old-timers will tell you, was remade from recycled remnants of the Cyclone, a vicious knot of crazy twists and turns that proved just too dangerous. The Crystal Beach Comet, with a height of 95 feet and a drop of 87 feet, is a sprawling, horizontal model known as "double out and back." Schmeck designed it to hug the shore of Lake Erie.
Another Comet, still running in Hersheypark in Pennsylvania, is also a double out-and-back, with a height of 84 feet and a 78-foot drop, and crosses a river.
A third Schmeck Comet still operates in Waldameer, in Erie, Pa. Opened in 1951, it's a junior ride, with a 35-foot drop. And Schmeck designed yet another Comet for Forest Park Highlands in St. Louis, Mo. Opened in 1941, it had a 500-foot tunnel. It was scrapped in 1966, after the park burned.
A Comet in Lincoln Park, Mass., a classic opened in 1946, was made by a different company. There is a galaxy of other smaller coasters, many still running, also called the Comet.
A tangled situation involves a Giant Coaster that Schmeck helped design, that opened in 1917 at Paragon Park in Hull, Mass. (Crystal Beach's Giant Coaster, also called the Junior Coaster, dated from 1916. It was burned after the park closed.)
Paragon Park's Giant Coaster was 98 feet tall and, when it opened, was the tallest coaster in the world. In 1968, it received replacement trains from the Comet being scrapped in Forest Park Highlands. The trains read "Comet." Now this old survivor is restored and is a popular draw at Six Flags America in Maryland. It has been renamed the Wild One. But its longtime fans still recall it as the Comet.
Old coasters can be scary. A YouTube commenter writes of the Wild One: "Last time I was on that one it was really rough … looks like it's about to fall apart also haha."
Someone replies: "LOL did you read the description? This thing was made in 1917 LOL."
New wooden coasters might lack that fragile feeling. But they have different charms.
DiPietro has noticed that his coaster feels faster than the old one.
"It doesn't have that slow time," he said. "It's just a more constant ride. It's a faster ride, all the way through."
Kiepert said that's because it's newer. He also points out that the Silver Comet doubles back on itself, ratcheting the train through sections of track. What you see affects the speed you feel.
"Space Mountain only goes 30 mph, but because it's in the dark and stars, it feels much faster," he says. "I think that's true of wooden roller coasters – as you go down the hill, if you go through structures, there are these elements coming toward you, and they feel they're going to hit you."
The Silver Comet, also an out-and-back, has 2,800 feet of track, while the Crystal Beach ride had 4,100 feet. The old Comet, Kiepert says, offered more time than the Silver Comet for riders to relax and enjoy the view. "It was a good ride, and sometimes you want to catch your breath and take a look at the park. Nowadays, we have high hills, maybe swoop through a curve – it's a different philosophy from back in olden days."
The buzz bar
Crystal Beach was one of a wave of amusement parks that closed in the late 1980s, victims of their era. The number of parks, the wide array of Comets, passionate and nostalgic riders, and parks' carnival-barker claims add up on the Internet to a lot of misinformation.
The Great Escape website brags that the Crystal Beach Comet "used to be the much-feared Cyclone." It simply used the Cyclone's steel.
An article on About.com states matter-of-factly that the Crystal Beach Comet was "bigger and wilder" than the Cyclone. It may have been bigger, but it was certainly not wilder. (You can ride the Cyclone virtually on YouTube, which should put to rest any doubts.)
A fan posting a video of the Lincoln Park Comet writes that it is that Comet that is now at Great Escape.
The rumors and conflicting claims speak of the glamour of the old wooden coasters.
People struggle to describe a wooden track's elusive feel. DiPietro came up with "clickety-clack."
"I don't know," he said. "It's just a lot more fun."
Wade Abbott, the coaster expert, understands.
"There's complete sensory involvement," he says. "There's the visual angle, and the smell, the smell of the grease on the track going up the hill, the sound of the anti-rollback devices clicking up the lift hill, the trains running in the background, and, of course, the feel of the motion as you're going down the hill racing through the course."
Abbott has ridden 335 roller coasters. Among them is Kingda Ka, which he said is swift and fun, "a big kick in the pants." He has ridden the old Comet, now that it is near his Albany home, and the Silver Comet. He likes both.
He admires the Silver Comet's Philadelphia Toboggan Co. train. "They're my favorite wooden coaster trains. I personally like the old design – the shape, the size, the sound of them."
Abbott appreciates how riders of both Comets can feel free instead of being, in coaster lingo, "stapled in." There are no shoulder harnesses. You buckle a seat belt, and wait for the staff to fasten a "buzz bar" (so called, Abbott said, because it buzzes as it goes up and down) over your lap.
Some riders grow impatient as the attendants move down the train, securing every passenger. One who does not is Michael Moran, a local coaster maven.
"What impressed me from the get-go was the ride operators' dedication to safety," Moran said. "It was nice to be told not to put the lap bars down, because the ride operator would do it for us. They also only allowed a queue of six or less for the coveted front and rear cars."
It shows the Silver Comet's low profile that Moran, though he lives and breathes roller coasters, rode the ride for the first time just a few weeks ago, as part of his fundraiser, "Roller Coaster Crawls to End Alzheimer's."
"I'm glad I did," he said.
The mist from the falls
For anyone who remembers Crystal Beach, the Silver Comet can be sweetly disorienting.
The train rounds a curve and begins climbing, with that clickety-clack sound. At the top of the hill, of course there's no Lake Erie. But Niagara Falls is within view. "You can see the mist," DiPietro said.
From the top, looking down, the track seems terrifyingly concave. Then comes the fall.
You know how the Comet's hill made your body lift off the seat? It is what coaster fans call "air time." That is what you feel now. Down you go, with everyone screaming, and then up a sharp incline, and around. Plunging down hills, whipping around bends, the train seems to be picking up speed. Toward the end comes a vicious curve, flinging you against the side of the car.
Disembarking, ask yourself: Are you still bitter over the Crystal Beach Comet?
If the answer is no, enjoy your new happiness, and you might have time for a ride on the Crazy Mouse before it's time for the Wild West shoot-out.
If the answer is yes, consider the case of the Lincoln Park Comet.
Lincoln Park, near Boston, closed in 1987. Its Comet was simply left to rot. The lift hill collapsed in 2005 during a snowstorm. The rest of this once-grand coaster was finally demolished in 2012 to make room for a housing project.
Now that's tragedy.
Our old Comet, in contrast, is safe and sound, and not even far away. And we have another one, right here. You might like it better.
Michael Moran did. The coaster connoisseur gave the Crystal Beach Comet a B plus. The Silver Comet rated a prestigious A minus.
"What really surprised me was the immediate first drop of 82 feet after the ascent. No turn around, no pause, just up the hill and straight down!" he wrote in his notes. "The Silver Comet is a very fast coaster and its twists and turns are spine jarring, but not to the point of painful. The speed attained was stated to be 55 mph and it sure felt it around some of the turns.
"It boasts a similar number of drops that give the rider pockets of air time, but the twists and banked turns of the Silver Comet just make it seem faster and more intense."
On his Facebook page, Moran simply told it like it was.
"Awesome ride!" he wrote.
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It is no surprise that the recent increase in teen birth rates has given birth to renewed criticism of President Bush and the administration's support of abstinence programs.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, preliminary statistics show that between 2005-2006, the birth rate for teenagers 15-19 rose 3 percent, from 40.5 live births per 1,000 females in 2005 to 41.9 in 2006.
This increase, the first since 1991, according to the CDC, has been attributed - in part - to the failure of abstinence programs, which have long been supported by conservatives and the Bush administration.
Dig into the numbers, and the reasoning behind the criticism proves invalid.
Here's an eye-popping statistic: Single mothers gave birth to more than half of all babies born in New Mexico in 2005 - 50.8 percent.
That is an alarming number that should raise a red flag.
Oklahoma's percentage of live births to unmarried mothers was 39.1 percent in 2005, while Texas' was 37.6.
When more than half of all births are to single mothers, states face significant problems.
Poverty, education, health care and a lack of suitable male role models can cause serious problems for single mothers, not to mention the disadvantages to children.
The news is good closer to home, though.
Potter County, which has ranked high traditionally in the state in teen birth rates, actually saw a significant drop.
In 2002, Potter County was 12th in the state in total births to teens 17 years old and younger. In 2005, the county dropped to 94th.
Why the difference?
Community-based social programs that include the participation of schools and families have played a positive role in Potter County.
However, rather than blame abstinence programs for the national increase in teen birth rates, it would be more accurate to focus on societal conditions.
In New Mexico's case, the teen birth rates for minorities, primarily Hispanics (57 percent to 31 percent for Anglos), are greater than for other demographic groups.
This is because of cultural norms, religious norms and the long-ago displaced stigma attached to unwed, teenage mothers across all races.
Realistically, it makes little sense to blame abstinence programs for an increase in teen birth rates when America's obsession with sex is painfully apparent on television, the Internet, magazines, books, radio ... yes, sometimes even in the newspaper.
Despite these troubling statistics, there is evidence that progress can be made in preventing teen pregnancy.
What works in one community may not be as successful in another, but to place the blame on one part of the solution - abstinence programs - smacks more of politics than progress.
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Fifteenth- and 16th-century European explorers helped to transform cartography during the Age of Discovery. Rather than mapping newly discovered worlds, Blaise Agüera y Arcas is out to invent new ways of viewing the old ones.
Mr. Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps, the online mapping service that is part of Microsoft Corp.'s Bing Internet search engine. Bing Maps does all the basics, like turn-by-turn directions and satellite views that offer a peek into the neighbor's backyard, but Mr. Agüera y Arcas has attracted attention in the tech world by pushing the service to do a lot more.
He helped to cook up a technology that allows people to post high-resolution photocollages that explore the interiors of buildings. For New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, for example, 1,317 still images dissolve into each other, giving an online visitor the sensation of touring the Greek and Roman art wing. By dragging a mouse, the viewer can circle a marble statute of Aphrodite and zoom in on the exhibit's sign to read that the statue, Venus Genetrix, was created between the first and second centuries A.D.
For a user who wants to check out a particular street, Mr. Agüera y Arcas has devised an elegant visual transition that provides the feel of skydiving to the ground. He says that these transitions will become even better over time. "I want this all to become cinematic," he said.
Mr. Agüera y Arcas, 35, imagines these projects from a cramped office on the 22nd floor of a new high-rise in Bellevue, Wash., facing the jagged geography of the Cascade Range. One wall is covered in chalk notes and equations. He messily applied a coat of blackboard paint to the wall himself because he dislikes the odor of whiteboard markers.
"Technically, I don't think I was supposed to do that," said Mr. Agüera y Arcas. With short-cropped hair and a scruffy beard, he has the appearance of a graduate student.
When he's brainstorming, Mr. Agüera y Arcas paces his office, talking to himself out loud. He said the process "doesn't look very good," but the self-dialogue is essential for working out new ideas. "First you try to beat something down and show why it's a stupid idea," he said. "Then you branch out. What's the broadest range of solutions I can come up with? It's all very dialectical. You kind of argue with yourself."
He often shares "new pieces of vision," as he calls these early-stage concepts, in presentations and documents that are distributed to other members of the team. Mr. Agüera y Arcas, who manages about 60 people, said the most stimulating meetings he has are "jam sessions," in which people riff on each others' ideas. "Without all of that input, I don't think I would be doing interesting things on my own," he said.
Prototypes, he said, are crucial. These include everything from crude bits of functional code to storyboard sketches. Mr. Agüera y Arcas demonstrated one such prototype: a short video, done with a designer, that shows a street-level map in which typography representing street names is upright and suspended off the ground so that it's easier to see.
"Presenting an idea in the abstract as text or as something you talk about doesn't have anything like the galvanizing effect on people or on yourself," he said.
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• Though Mr. Agüera y Arcas has assumed greater management responsibilities over the years, he still considers it vital to find time to develop projects on his own. "You see people who evolved in this way, and sometimes it looks like their brains died," he said.
• He is a coffee connoisseur, fueling himself throughout the workday with several trips to a café downstairs in his building. Because he can't always break away from the office, a gleaming chrome espresso maker and coffee grinder sit in the corner "for emergencies," he said.
• He finds driving a car "deadening," so he takes a bus to work from his home, reading or working on his laptop during the commute.
• When he was young, Mr. Agüera y Arcas dismantled things both animal and inanimate, from cameras to guinea pigs, so that he could see how they worked.
His most productive moments often occur outside the office, without the distraction of meetings. After he has dinner and puts his two young children to bed, Mr. Agüera y Arcas says he and his wife, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, often sit side-by-side working on their laptops late into the night.
He finds unlikely sources of inspiration. Mr. Agüera y Arcas once cobbled together software that automatically clustered together related images on a photo-sharing site, with the goal of creating detailed 3-D reconstructions composed of pictures from many different photographers. The software was inspired by research he had read about how ant colonies form the most efficient pathways to food sources. He used the software to build a 3D view of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple.
Another time, he stumbled on a project inside Microsoft's research group called WorldWide Telescope that offers access to telescope imagery of the universe over the Web. Now when Bing Maps users are viewing a location at street level, they can gaze up at the sky to see constellations appear overhead. (Microsoft is testing this and other features on an experimental version of its site before rolling them out to a wider audience.)
Mr. Agüera y Arcas draws from an eclectic set of skills and interests. The son of a Catalan father and an American mother who met on an Israeli kibbutz, he learned how to program computers during his childhood in Mexico City. As a teenager on a summer internship with a U.S. Navy research center in Bethesda, Md., he reprogrammed the guidance software for aircraft carriers to improve their stability at sea, which helped to reduce seasickness among sailors.
He studied physics, neuroscience and applied math at Princeton University but stopped short of completing his doctoral dissertation. Instead, he chose to apply his quantitative skills to his long fascination with the Early Modern period of history, devoting several years to analyzing the typography of Gutenberg Bibles from the 1450s using computers and digital cameras.
During his research—which cast doubt on Johannes Gutenberg's role in creating a form of type-making commonly credited to him—he had to create software that was capable of displaying extremely high-resolution images of book pages on a computer screen. That technology inspired him to create a startup, Seadragon Software, that he sold to Microsoft in 2006; its technology is used in a Microsoft program that lets consumers interact with high-resolution images on Bing Maps.
Though his work has helped to build buzz for Bing Maps, Mr. Agüera y Arcas concedes that the site lags its big rival, Google Maps, in some areas. Google has photographed many more streets and roads than Microsoft has for its street-level views. He said that competition with Google is a stimulus for innovation in the maps category, but he avoids doing direct clones of new Google Map features.
"You can always be inspired, but the moment you start copying, you guarantee you will never get ahead," he said.
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Derek Jeter, Justin Bieber and Carmelo Anthony have taken Tuesday's B/R Swagger Buzz by the horns, and the tenacious buggers don't seem very willing to give it up any time soon.
Well, that might be the worst lead-in ever written, but oh well. What's done is done.
In any case, were you at all curious what Yankees owner Hank Steinbrenner was talking about when he talked about some of the players being "too busy building mansions and doing other things, not concentrating on winning" last season?
Well, maybe it had something to do with Jeter's 30,000-square foot mansion that is currently under construction in Tampa, Florida. For now, let's just say I'm merely throwing it out there.
There's also some Carrie Underwood news, and for better or worse, Justin Bieber is now very much a concern of the sports world. Alas, I suppose that this is bound to be the case forever now that Biebs is a Celebrity All-Star Game MVP.
Indeed, he was very much a fixture of the NBA's All-Star Weekend, and there's a funny story floating around that he may have tried to put the moves on Rihanna.
Meanwhile, did you hear that Carmelo Anthony got traded to the New York Knicks? I know, a real shocker—and we're certainly going to discuss it.
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PITTSBURGH - What if Major League Baseball threw an all-star game and no one came?
It seems like it's getting close to that scenario with all the refusals associated with this year's game.
They told Pirates pitcher Kevin Correia a week in advance that he was on the stand-by list for a spot on the team.
They got enough cancellations that Correia got his invitation and became the third Pirates player to make the team. Originally, there was just one, closer Joel Hanrahan.
The good thing about that is the selection still means something to first-timers like Correia, Hanrahan and Andrew McCutchen.
It seems to mean little to those who have made the trip before, which is why they feel so comfortable sending their regrets.
The All-Star Game has evolved, and not for the better.
Once there was a genuine rivalry between the American and National Leagues. Before free agency, players - especially stars - remained with their teams.
Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson were American Leaguers.
The National Leaguers were Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson.
When an All-Star was traded from league to another, it was big news. Frank Robinson and Jim Bunning were among the Hall of Famers who made that move.
Today, players move freely. There are inter-league games every year.
Those dream match-ups that could happen only in a World Series or an All-Star game before might happen now in a Wednesday game in June now, thanks to inter-league scheduling.
Baseball has changed. In some ways, it's much better. But the All-Star Game has certainly been diluted.
Now the Monday home run contest might be a bigger deal than the game. People are interested in oohing and aahing as batting practice lobs disappear into the stands.
Even though MLB has tied home field advantage in the World Series to the All-Star result, no one seems to care.
The New York Yankees, a pretty good bet to reach the Series, are the ones skipping the All-Star Game.
MLB tries to dress it up with gimmicks and special TV angles, but it's mostly a snooze. Usually the ratings reflect that.
If some of the best players don't care enough to show up, why should anyone care about watching it?
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One who caters greatly to one side, with a fanatical zeal usaully.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Rob Bliss, whose company Rob Bliss Creative now splits time between Grand Rapids and Chicago, recently released another YouTube video. This one is featuring Amtrak.
The video, a Gangnam-style dance tour of Amtrak facilities and many of the landmarks in the city of Chicago, features Markus Shields a local freelance choreographer who was also featured in a dance tour video of the Grand Rapids JW Marriott.
According to the information on YouTube, Shields is giving college students and alumni from Michigan a tour around Chicago. There are links included on the video's page that offer 20% off of trips on Amtrak to and from Michigan and Chicago. The video is shot by Kevin Budzynski of local film company WhiskeyNeat.
RELATED: Gains on Amtrak's Grand Rapids-to-Chicago train far outpace other Michigan routes.
The video, released six weeks ago, is sponsored in part by the Michigan Department of Transportation Office of Rail. There is also a link included on the video's page to receive more information on Michigan's Accelerated Rail program.
While it is reported in other publications that the video had hit 400,000 views, the only link to the video found was posted by username ChicagoGangnamStyle and currently has fewer than 100,000 views. No listing of the video is found on either Rob Bliss Creative's or Amtrak Official's YouTube channels.
Previous videos from Bliss including the Grand Rapids Lip Dub and the Statewide Singalong reached 2 million views in very short periods of time. Currently, Bliss's latest video with the Clark Retirement Community in Grand Rapids rides the wave of the "Harlem Shake" video craze and has passed 600,000 views in two weeks.
While the Amtrak video isn't enjoying the same successes as previous Bliss videos (Gangnam-style appears to have finally run its course), there's no denying Budzynski's camera work and Shields's spot-on parody of the song's creator Psy as he horse-dances and spins his way around Millennium Park, Union Station, Shedd Aquarium and many more recognizable Chicago landmarks.
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Survivors include his parents; two brothers, Miguel Campos Jr. and Carlos A. Campos, both of Perryton; and a sister, Michelle A. Campos of Perryton.
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H. Lundbeck is buying a £10.3 million (about $16.11 million) stake in Proximagen as part of an agreement to develop therapeutics for certain CNS diseases. The firms inked a strategic partnership agreement that they say is aimed at achieving their collective strategic and growth objectives in drug development for CNS diseases.
As part of the deal, a steering committee involving experts from both companies will focus on developing three of Proximagen's programs. The focus will be on identifying novel therapies for diseases such as epilepsy, pain, and inflammatory disorders. Lundbeck will also receive certain negotiation rights in relation to these programs.
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Proximagen has clinical-stage programs in CNS-mediated obesity, epilepsy, depression, Alzheimer disease, and Parkinson disease. In preclinical testing, the firm is evaluating candidates for a variety of infllammatory conditions like RA, ulcerative colitis, and pain, as well as for the treatment of cancers like glioblastoma multiforme.
Lundbeck has a number of marketed products including the antidepressant Cipralex™, the Alzheimer disease therapy Ebixa®, the Parkinson disease drug Axilect®, along with Serdolect® for the treatment of schizophrenia, Circadin® for insomnia, Xenazine® for Huntington disease-associated chorea, and the oral antiepileptic Sabril®.
The firm's mid-to-late-stage in-house and partnered pipeline is headed by Clobazam, a GABA enhancer that has been filed for approval as a treatment for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Phase III-stage products include the alcohol dependence therapy nalmefene and the antidepressant LuAA21004. An intravenous carbamazepine for the treatment of epilepsy is also in Phase III development along with the plasminogen activator desmoteplase for the treatment of stroke and the antipsychotic candidate Zicronapine. The antidepressant Lu AA234530 and Alzheimer disease candidate Lu AE58054 are in Phase II trials.
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Events at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1 New inductees. The 2013 class is featured within the Hall of Fame exhibit. You'll find an electric guitar from Nancy Wilson of Heart; a bass from Rush's Geddy Lee, Emmy Awards won by Randy Newman, the jacket for Public Enemy's Flavor Flav, Quincy Jones' score for "Thriller" and more. The exhibit runs through March.
2 U2: The hype and the feedback. An academic conference that explores the music, work and influence of U2 includes speakers Steve Averill, Bill Carter, Jim Henke, John Gorman and others on Friday and Saturday. It's pricey ($249) but includes meals and exclusive tours. See www.rockhall.com for registration info.
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Euphemism for a whorehouse, bordello, brothel, also house of ill fame. See cathouse.
A "professor" sells snake oil at a carnival, or plays piano in a house of ill repute.
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Hidden cameras on trams are the latest weapon in taxi war
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- November 20, 2012
TAXI operators have turned their attention to a controversial new target - trams.
Lobby group Victorian Taxi Owners has sent every Member of Parliament a comparison of the two modes of transport, saying the government's attention should be on fixing the tram network rather than the cab industry.
Trams are branded insulting and second rate as passengers are depicted crammed together, eating and with their feet on the seats.
The Melbourne icons are also labelled distasteful and dirty, with pictures of graffiti on windows and worn-out seats.
In comparison, cabs are branded inviting and clean.
Yarra Trams hit out at the comparison, calling it unfair, while taxi tsar Prof Allan Fels slammed the lobby group for hidden-camera tactics that shamed people using public transport.
"We believe that it does not represent the views of a majority of tram or taxi passengers," spokesman Adam Woolcock said.
The government will table Prof Fels' report and its response in coming weeks.
Victorian Taxi Owners founder Richard Joseph, who owns three cab licences and created the comparison, said he felt there had been "a bit of a witch-hunt against the taxi industry".
He said the comparison showed the industry didn't provide a substandard service and wasn't in decay.
"We deliberately went out and wanted to show first-hand what a lot of tourists would experience of Melbourne," he said.
Prof Fels said the hidden-camera attack was proof that taxi owners believed they were innocent and passengers were the problem.
"The taxi industry is trying to dig its way out of a hole by blaming trams for the position they have got themselves into," he said.


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