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Providence Mayoral candidate Brett Smiley joins Bonus Q+A to talk about his campaign, his qualifications, his background, and other issues.
Brett Smiley, a candidate for mayor of Providence in 2014, joins Political Roundtable this week to discuss the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.; his campaign to succeed Angel Taveras; the passing of former secretary of state Susan Farmer; and a new poll showing Taveras leading expected Democratic gubernatorial rival Gina Raimondo.
Democrat Brett Smiley, who hopes to win the endorsement of Congressman David Cicilline for his 2014 Providence mayoral campaign, says the fiscal problems inherited by Angel Taveras in early 2011 are mostly due to state cuts in local aid under former Republican governor Don Carcieri.
Former attorney general Patrick C. Lynch, who now heads a legal and lobbying practice in Providence, is putting his support behind Brett Smiley's campaign to be the next mayor of Providence.
An educator who works in Central Falls has decided not to run for mayor of Providence. The decision by Victor Capellan leaves the field with just one Latino candidate.
Capellan is a longtime political activist who took steps to organize a campaign earlier this year. He said the demands of his job as a deputy school superintendent in Central Falls are why he's pulling out of the race.
Central Falls educator Victor Capellan has folded the tent on his 2014 Providence mayoral run, leaving Jorge Elorza as the lone Latino candidate in the race.
Capellan, a longtime political activist, says Elorza didn't encourage him to leave the campaign. Yet it's clear that the departure, coming on the heels of Ward 15 Councilwoman Sabina Matos' decision last week to seek re-election, accrues to Elorza's benefit.
The head of the Providence City Council says there aren't any easy answers for cutting high commercial taxes in the capital city. Providence has among the highest commercial tax rates in the country.
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has frozen the commercial tax rate in Rhode Island's largest city. But the cost of the tax is still seen as an obstacle to new development.
City Council President Michael Solomon says city officials are limited in their ability to improve the situation beyond trying to encourage a broader tax base.
Providence City Council President Michael Solomon, a likely candidate for mayor next year, joins Bonus Q+A to talk about school, the economy, the vacant Superman Building and other issues facing Rhode Island's capital city.
Two of the Democrats running for mayor of Providence next year are stepping up their campaign fundraising.
Roger Williams University Law School professor Jorge Elorza said he hopes to collect 30-thousand dollars by the end of the third fundraising quarter September 30th. Elorza said he hopes to collect 30-thousand to 40-thousand a month until the September 2014 primary.
Providence's current mayor, Angel Taveras, is expected to run for governor next year.
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A protester holding a banner during a rally in New Delhi, following the cremation of a gang rape victim. RIGHT: A father carries his daughter during the rally.
UN chief urges India to protect women
NEW DELHI: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Indian government to take action to protect women after a 23-year-old student died of injuries sustained during a gang rape here.
"Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected," Ban said in a statement in which he welcomed efforts by the government but called for "further steps and reforms to deter such crimes and bring perpetrators to justice".
The intervention of the UN takes the fallout from the incident to a new level and underlines the damage it has done to India's international image. The body of the victim was cremated according to Hindu rites in Delhi shortly after dawn yesterday. Friends said she was planning to marry the 28-year-old male friend she was with when the attack took place.
Figures revealed yesterday that despite 635 reported cases of rape and 745 arrests in Delhi this year, there has been only one conviction. The government has said it will bring in fast-track courts to accelerate the legal process.
Over the past 24 hours other reported incidents have included women attempting to take their own lives after being gang raped, the attempted murder of a rape victim in Rajasthan and an infant dying after a rape in Gujarat.
NEW DELHI: The victim of a gang-rape and murder which triggered an outpouring of grief and revulsion across India was cremated at a private ceremony yesterday as it emerged she was planning to marry in February.
The unidentified 23-year-old, the focus of nationwide protests since she was attacked on a bus in New Delhi two weeks ago, was cremated at a ceremony kept secret by authorities only hours after her body was repatriated from Singapore.
The funeral pyre was lit after traumatised relatives and friends said their final prayers at a ceremony in southwestern Delhi, according to mourners who revealed she had been due to wed a boyfriend who was injured in the same attack.
"They had made all the wedding preparations and had planned a wedding party in Delhi" for February, said Meena Rai, who was a close friend and neighbour. "I really loved this girl. She was the brightest of all."
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the main ruling Congress party, were at Delhi airport to console her parents as they arrived home on a chartered plane with their daughter's body at around 4 am (2230 GMT).
After initial treatment in a Delhi hospital following the attack, she was flown to Singapore on Wednesday night where doctors were unable to prevent a multiple organ failure. She was pronounced dead in the early hours of Saturday.
Her killing has prompted government promises of better protection for women, and deep soul-searching in a nation where horrifying gang-rapes are commonplace and sexual harassment is routinely dismissed as "Eve-teasing".
Several thousand people massed again yesterday in the centre of the Indian capital - some to express sympathy for the victim who had been out to watch a film with her boyfriend, others to voice anger at the government.
Stringent security measures that have seen government offices and other public areas sealed off in New Delhi to prevent protests have been seized on by critics as further evidence of an out-of-touch government bungling its response.
"We cannot understand the high-handedness of the police. This is our city, we should be free to move around and protest peacefully," 21-year-old protester Mahima Anand, who works for a multi-national company, said.
"She was not just one woman, she epitomises every Indian woman who has been wronged in some way or the other," she added from the Jantar Mantar area of Delhi, where protesters have been allowed to gather.
About a dozen protesters tried to break the barricades that riot police erected around the area, while a handful also threw stones and were immediately detained.
Waves of protests erupted across India after the attack on December 16 when the woman was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted with an iron bar, leaving her with terrible intestinal injuries.
Thousands took part in late-night candlelit vigils on Saturday after 80-year-old Singh, criticised for reacting slowly to the crime, led appeals for calm to prevent a repeat of the sometimes violent protests.
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also sent his condolences to the victim's parents and family. "Violence against women must never be accepted, never excused, never tolerated," Ban's spokesperson said.
As police said the six accused of murdering the unnamed woman could face the death penalty, there was widespread determination that the killing should serve as a tipping point for how the nation deals with violence against women.
"We are aware that this is not the first case, nor will it be the last case of gang-rape in India, but it is clear that we will not tolerate sex crimes any more," said Bela Rana, a lawyer who joined a rally in central Delhi.
But yesterday's Hindustan Times said more than 20 women had been raped in New Delhi since December 16 and the Press Trust of India news agency reported another alleged murder and gang rape yesterday in West Bengal.
According to police and prosecutors, the ordeal suffered by the victim of the Delhi crime began when six men lured her and her boyfriend onto a bus that they thought would take them home.
Instead the group, who had been drinking heavily, launched a savage attack lasting some 40 minutes that ended when the victims were thrown off the bus.
Protesters and the Indian media have demanded that the government unveil measures to make the country safer for women, while introspecting on how to uproot deep prejudice and misogyny in Indian society.
Initial government proposals include a public register for sex offenders and forcing convicted rapists to undergo chemical castration - the use of drugs to suppress sexual urges.
The government has already promised to bring in tougher sentences for the most extreme sex crimes and speed up a notoriously slow justice system that often fails to deliver timely verdicts.
Human Rights Watch called on the government yesterday to ban the use of the so-called "finger test" in which a doctor tests the laxity of a rape victim's vagina, apparently to determine if she is "habituated to sexual intercourse".
Such tests result in "unscientific and degrading findings" that often wrongly discredit complaints from women, the New York-based rights group said.


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OpenCL 1.1 Fully Backwards Compatible
The Khronos Group announces new features and enhanced performance for the parallel programming standard.
The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 1.1, a backwards compatible update that boosts performance in the parallel programming standard. OpenCL 1.1 efficiently shares images and buffers by linking event objects and fence sync objects, features memory object destructor callbacks and now allows for OpenCL commands to be enqueued from additional hosts.
OpenCL is a free programming standard designed from the ground up to optimize coding in muliticore processors. The project was created by Apple and submitted to the Khronos Group in 2008. The project now features the participation of more than 30 software and hardware companies including, ARM, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Apple and Toshiba. In addition to OpenCL, the Khronos Group is responsible for WebGL and OpenGL graphics standards.
Documentation, references and the specification and header files can be found at khronos.org/opencl/. A full list of new features for Open CL are attached below. (Source: Khornos.org)
- Host-thread safety, enabling OpenCL commands to be enqueued e from multiple hosts
- Sub-buffer objects to distribute regions of a buffer across multiple OpenCL devices;
- User events to enable enqueued OpenCL commands to wait on external events;
- Event callbacks that can be used to enqueue new OpenCL commands based on event state changes in a non-blocking manner;
- 3-component vector data types;
- Global work-offset which enable kernels to operate on different portions of the NDRange;
- Memory object destructor callback;
- Read, write and copy a 1D, 2D or 3D rectangular region of a buffer object;
- Mirrored repeat addressing mode and additional image formats;
- New OpenCL C built-in functions such as integer clamp, shuffle and asynchronous strided copies;
- Improved OpenGL interoperability through efficient sharing of images and buffers by linking OpenCL event objects to OpenGL fence sync objects;
- Optional features in OpenCL 1.0 have been bought into core OpenCL 1.1 including: writes to a pointer of bytes or shorts from a kernel, and conversion of atomics to 32-bit integers in local or global memory.
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- 7-Eleven Inc.
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The US convenience stores (c-stores) industry, one of the world's largest and fastest growing sectors, present lucrative investment opportunities for new players. Despite economic slowdown and financial crisis, the industry has showed a splendid performance in the past few years, with the number of convenience stores continuously rising. C-stores have greatly benefited from the growth of the overall retail industry. As per our latest findings, the consumers' increasing appetite for convenient shopping and soaring sales of low-priced non-traditional products have had a positive impact on the US c-stores market, which is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of around 11% during 2011-2014 to reach around US$ 856.5 Billion.
According to our latest research report, "US Convenience Stores Forecast to 2014", the US has a huge growth potential for the c-store industry as the rise in retail sales and large consumer base have given a significant boost to this sector, and the trend is expected to continue in future. Further, it is expected that the US working population will climb to the level of 211.9 Million by 2014-end, and this busy lifestyle of people will drive the country's c-store market. The study also revealed that socio-demographic shifts and economic environment will also act as market drivers.
In the US, the total c-store sales include motor fuel sales and in-store sales. It was found that the motor fuel sales held a major share in the total c-store sales during 2011. The industry is dominated by single store business, and at the state level, Texas, California, Florida and New York accounted for the majority of the total convenience stores' count during the same period. During our study of the industry trends, we observed that that the US c-store market is moving towards consolidation. The number of mergers and acquisitions in the sector will continue to increase. We have also discussed how the concept of mobile wallet and the expanding food services market will fuel the industry's growth.
In our comprehensive report, we also studied how the competitive landscape has been changing in the industry, and in which direction it is likely to move over the next few years.
We expect that a large number of companies will foray into the lucrative US c-store market with their diversified product portfolio, and this will lead the incumbent players to invest heavily in establishing their stores across different states of the country. Our report briefly covers the consumer behavior in the country, and it is expected that this research study will help clients align their business strategies as per the changing market dynamics." SHOW LESS READ MORE >
- 7-Eleven Inc.
- BP America
- Chevron Corp.
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
1. Analyst View
2. Research Methodology
3. Industry Overview
3.1 Definition of Convenience Store
3.2 Retail Sales
4. Market Drivers
4.1 Busy Lifestyle
4.2 Economic Environment
4.3 Socio-demographic Shifts
5. Industry Outlook to 2014
5.1 Convenience Stores
5.1.1 Top Ten States
5.2 Regional Analysis
5.2.1 Southern Region
5.2.2 Northeast Region
5.2.3 Midwest Region
5.2.4 Western Region
5.3 By Sales
5.3.1 Motor Fuel Sales
5.3.2 In-store Sales
5.4 Single and Chain Stores in Operation
5.5 Growth and Sales Analysis - By Company
5.6 Employment
6. Industry Trends
6.1 Private Labels Attracting Consumers
6.2 Reward Points Elevating Sales
6.3 Online Retailing a Hit
6.4 Youth Enjoying Frozen Beverages
6.5 Digital Signage Connecting with Consumers
6.6 Foodservice Market Growing Unprecedentedly
6.7 C-Store Industry Ripe for Consolidation
6.8 Mobile Wallet Gaining Momentum
7. Key Players
7.1 7-Eleven Inc.
7.1.1 Business Description
7.1.2 Recent Developments
7.2 Shell Oil Products /Motiva Enterprises LLC
7.2.1 Business Description
7.2.2 Recent Developments
7.3 BP America
7.3.1 Business Description
7.3.2 Recent Developments
7.4 Chevron Corp.
7.4.1 Business Description
7.4.2 Recent Developments
7.5 Exxon Mobil Corporation
7.5.1 Business Description
7.5.2 Recent Developments
7.6 Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
7.6.1 Business Description
7.6.2 Recent Developments
List of Tables:
Table 3-1: Structure of Convenience Storefront by Size and Operation
Table 4-1: Population Aged 15-64 Years (Million), 2009-2014
Table 5-1: Number of Convenience Stores in Southern Region (2008 & 2009)
Table 5-2: Convenience Store Saturation Figure for Southern Region (Average No. of Persons per Store), 2008 & 2009
Table 5-3: Number of Convenience Stores in Northeast Region (2008 & 2009)
Table 5-4: Convenience Store Saturation Figure for Northeast Region (Average No. of Persons per Store), 2008 & 2009
Table 5-5: Number of Convenience Stores in Midwest Region (2008 & 2009)
Table 5-6: Convenience Store Saturation Figure for Midwest Region (Average No. of Persons per Store), 2008 & 2009
Table 5-7: Number of Convenience Stores in Western Region (2008 & 2009)
Table 5-8: Convenience Store Saturation Figure for Western Region (Average No. of Persons per Store), 2008 & 2009
Table 5-9: Number of Single and Chain Convenience Stores (2004-2010)
Table 5-10: Top Ten Companies by Number of Convenience Stores (2011)
Table 7-1: 7-Eleven - Strengths and Weaknesses
Table 7-2: Shells Oil/Motiva Enterprises - Strengths & Weaknesses
Table 7-3: BP America - Strengths and Weaknesses
Table 7-4: Chevron Corp - Strengths and Weaknesses
Table 7-5: Exxon Mobil Corporation - Strengths and Weaknesses
Table 7-6: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. - Strengths and Weaknesses
List of Charts:
Figure 3-1: Retail Sales (Trillion US$), 2009-2014
Figure 3-2: Share of Convenience Store Sales in Retail Sales (2011)
Figure 4-1: Working Population (Million), 2009-2014
Figure 4-2: GDP per Head ('000 US$), 2009-2014
Figure 5-1: Share of Convenience Stores in Comparison to Other Similar Channels (2011)
Figure 5-2: Number of Convenience Stores (2007-2011)
Figure 5-3: Share of Top States by Convenience Store Count (2011)
Figure 5-4: Convenience Store Saturation Figure (Average No. of Persons per Store), 2007-2011
Figure 5-5: Convenience Store Sales (Billion US$), 2009-2014
Figure 5-6: Share of Motor Fuel and In-store Sales in Convenience Store Sales (2011)
Figure 5-7: Motor Fuel Sales in Convenience Stores (Billion US$), 2009-2014
Figure 5-8: Gasoline Sales by Product in Convenience Stores (%), 2010
Figure 5-9: Top Four States with Highest % of Convenience Stores Selling Motor Fuel (2010)
Figure 5-10: Top Five States with Lowest % of Convenience Stores Selling Motor Fuel (2011)
Figure 5-11: In-store Sales (Billion US$), 2009-2014
Figure 5-12: In-store Sales by Top Categories (%), 2010
Figure 5-13: Number of Employees in Convenience Stores (Million), 2007-2009
Figure 6-1: Number of Internet Users (Million), 2011-2014
Figure 6-2: Online Retail Sales (Billion US$), 2009-2014
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- Chevron Corp.
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
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I am so, so, SOOOO excited to be published once again, this time in the fabulous Minnesota Bride Magazine! Brides to be, and anyone in the industry, if you aren't reading this magazine, I'd recommend rushing out and buying a copy of this magazine as soon as possible! Minnesota Bride is one of my favorite magazines and a great resource for anyone planning their area in the great state of lakes! One of my goals for 2010 was to be published in this magazine and so I'm so thrilled to have THREE features in the Fall/Winter issue!
Isn't the cover fab?
First up, Jill & Matt's beautiful winter wedding was chosen to be featured! You can check out more of Jill & Matt's wedding photos here. Jill & Matt put a ton of time and effort into hosting a amazing affair with tons of beautiful details and I loved being a part of their big day.
My photographs were also featured for a great article on farm weddings. All of the photos featured are from Jess and Zach's gorgeous, rustic wedding at the Round Barn Farm in Red Wing, Minnesota last fall. I absolutely LOVE farm weddings, and if you're planning a wedding at the Round Barn Farm, I am dying to shoot there again! Jess was interviewed for this article and there is a ton of great advice, so pick up a copy of the magazine and read for yourself!
Lastly, I was interviewed for an article on boudoir photography, and my photos from Sandra's session were featured! Because of the private nature of boudoir sessions, I don't blog a ton of my work, but boudoir photography actually makes up a HUGE part of my business and I shoot a TON of boudoir sessions, so it was an honor to be interviewed. The article highlights a variety of FAQs about boudoir sessions and gives lots of helpful advice from women who have actually had boudoir photos taken and industry professionals. By the way, Hana from Mani Mela, is responsible for Sandra's hair and makeup, and boudoir clients or brides-to-be, if you're in need of an awesome hair and makeup artist that comes on site for you, I love working with Hana!
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It looks great Laura. Congrats on the features, you deserve it!
Nice job!!!! I'll have to go buy the magazine to read the article now =)
Way to go Laura - 3 times in 1 month!
ahhhh such awesome news!! You totally deserve it your work is flawless!
This is a great announcement- I am pumped for you! The details and pictures are perfect on each. I can't wait to pick up a copy :)
This is fantastic - way to go Laura!!
I am so proud to say that you were my wedding photographer, Laura! You are simply amazing!
Way to go girl!!! I know these were big things that you were aspiring for!! Way to go get it! Can't wait to see what is next for you!
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MUSKEGON, MI – The Community Foundation for Muskegon County celebrated a record-breaking year at its annual gathering which took place recently in Muskegon.
According to a press release, the CFFMC received more than $16 million in gifts and awarded $10 million in grants in 2013.
Among the projects to which money was contributed were the Muskegon Farmers Market, the Michigan Heritage Trail at Hilt's Landing and the long-term parking plan for Muskegon's downtown.
The Foundation also continued its focus on access to healthy foods by adding $64,000 to the Double Up Food Bucks program, which strives to make it easier for low-income Americans to eat fresh fruits and vegetables while supporting family farmers and growing local economies.
The development of youth was also a focal point for the foundation. Summer and after-school organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Pathfinders, the Muskegon Family YMCA, the Growing Goods program at Muskegon Public Schools and Club 188 at Mt. Zion Church of Christ all received support.
Youth employment at the United Way and DTE Foundation were also funded.
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In addition to a recap of financial support, awards and several scholarships were handed out at the annual gathering headlined by the awarding of the Patricia B. Johnson Award for Community Leadership and Innovative Grantmaking to Kathy Evans, program manager at the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission.
Evans received the award for her years of work cleaning up Muskegon Lake's shoreline. According to a release, Evans has brought in more than $25 million in federal and state grants to clean up Muskegon Lake's shoreline over the last 25 years.
According to the release, Grand Valley State University recently determined that the economic benefits of cleaning up the shoreline include a $12 million increase in property values, up to $600,000 in new tax revenue annually, more than $1 million in new recreational spending annually, nearly 65,000 annual visitors, $66 million in economic benefits over 10 years and 125 new local jobs.
Top scholarship awards were also awarded to Olivia Nelson, Samantha Swanson and Sydney Gordon.
Nelson, a Reeths-Puffer graduate, ranked third in her class, carried a grade-point average of 4.0 and an ACT score of 34. She was awarded a $25,000 Thomas and Geraldine Seyferth Scholarship. She will attend the University of Michigan to study Biomedical Engineering.
Swanson, a graduate of Ravenna High School, ranked top in her class with a GPA of 4.0 and an ACT score of 34. She was awarded a $10,000 Fred T. and Gladys V. Hawley Scholarship. She will attend Brigham Young University of Hawaii this fall to study Hospitality and Tourism.
Gordon, a graduate of Orchard View High School, ranked sixth in her class with a GPA of 3.9. She was awarded a $5,000 Ernest D. Moylan Scholarship and will attend Muskegon Community College to study nursing.
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ETRADE baby HERE
that the guy's bodyguards will not let let them get to you
while you are being raped in a bathroom--So
after, you go to the first Police car you see
to report a rape---
But, the guy
-ben Roethlisberger
-is playing
in the championship game today,
quarterbacking for the Steelers who I always liked
for Coach Bill Cowher's
Popeye face and the long haired Troy Polamalu, making the game exciting, getting Good Air--
finding that i am rooting against the steelers
Considering that Ben Roethlisberger
would appear to any reasonably-minded person
to be a bullying ungallant brute of a man,
who would do things to
a girl like your daughter
your sister
that will leave you wondering if you really are suppose to go hurt him, somehow...
is ben roethlisberger a rapist?
The court documents from the SECOND case of sexual assault are at the end of the post.
though, I want men to tell me
--if we put the Rape charge aside for a moment--
are we all ok, are you men all ok with this behavior
is Ben Roethlisberger the new OK?
Tell Me please!?
|Ben Roethlisberger twice
denies rape charges
victory comes. The big Payoff
You've heard it a million times but is it real
What if that
Is in fact the secret?
When you've been there, you might see the truth of it clearly.
Or you might not, if you are a self-centered youngster, a just-- waking- up juvenile, an impaired- vision tadpole who could not see the team effect as, he was preoccupied with looking at himself in the mirror. Or she couldn't stop looking at the stat book.
And likewise,
What if the way to succeed in life is not to focus on you and your needs and your lusts and your desires and your cravings and your hurts and your grudges and your image
and your Image
but Life Success came as a side effect of Beautiful, humble, gracious, generous, clean, open, truthful power and leadership?
Quiet leadership, active leadership, silent leadership, there are all kinds for all kinds…
And likewise,
What if the best most undeniably perfect way to find and mate with, partner with, learn to love and become a grown up in the world with; complete-- the best woman in the world or the best man for a lifetime
In fact
to be honorable and chaste and powerful and meaningful?
To be a Pure Force on the space in your world. To affect every one around you Up up Up
Not be a cool playah, walkin bad, embarrassing our father if he saw you act withat kind of pridefulness…
Embarrassing your Mother who only lowers her head and wishes you strength and manliness…
I speak as your sister or auntie-
Lusty little randy little billygoat stupid swingin your swagger Shakin yer baking Image management
What a loser…what a Loss to us
likewise the way to get rich is not to try to get rich but to do things Right-
What if those really are the secrets and all the "clichés" you've heard too many times to take it seriously—
Is the Truth obtained at Great Cost?
(What kind of man do you want to be? When you are 29 or 39 or 50, what are you really?
If you died tomorrow, what do folks say about you?
Who hurt less in life
In the hard places
What does our culture need?
How is Ben Roethlisberger a symptom and or consequense of our culture?
|Rape charges HERE
What kind of guy; Is Roethlisberger (earlier post here) actually the Kind of Man who goes into a bar and while a big body guards the door after he pulls or lures or pushed a young girl- he just met that night- into the bathroom and has sex with her?
what kind of guy, dad?
and then,—denies I think for the second time in the past few years that a Rape charge was truthfully leveled aginst him. He is saying,
no, i had legal consent. i acted honorably and legally.
Some women and men recognize this type of person.
It is hard to report a rape.
See Here
Or Here Or Here Or Here….
Tell me, men, what is the line?
Where are the masses of american men headed in terms of
what is ok for men to do?
Tell me about honor?
The press media coverage?
BTW,Who gets away with this,
who does not?
CAN THE MEDIA make us forget one man's sins and stone another in a whipped up frenzy of anger?
please tell me
Here is The actual report from the victim (23 pages)
Here is the initial report: click to enlarge
|click to enlarge
Curtis Kelly (K-State Basketball) got a 6 game suspension for accepting clothing from Dillards.
Ben Roethlisberger was also suspended for 6 games. reduced to 4??


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The state of exhilaration that a poor or homeless person feels when he or she finds $5 on the ground.
Wow! A quarter! This is like a mini-poorgasm!
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when a homeless person finds a dollar
Dude, the grossest thing happened the other day... I was out lunch with my G-ma and she gave a dollar to a homeless guy and he had a poorgasm all over her face... lets jus say it wasnt priceless... the napkins cost another two dollars
โดย Dark Mono 22 มีนาคม 2009
when you have as much money as MC hammer and the only thing left you can do is wank it to the beat of "nobody knows the trouble Ive seen".
I just caught Tony Danza having a poorgasm behind Wal-Mart.
โดย tom k 25 พฤศจิกายน 2003
When a male makes a failed attempt at making a woman orgasm.
Wes failed to make Emilie poorgasm with his two inch weenie.
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1. Feeling one has after screwing the poor.
George Bush gets lots of poorgasms with his "tax cuts".
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It's the feeling Tom K gets, at the first of the month, when he's taking his welfare cheque to KFC.
Example is too short eh? Well kiss my buttocks you stupid sluttocks!
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When a retarded person finds excitement out of something that is so 'poor' (not good). When experiencing a poorgasm the person will shout out 'Poor!!!' in an excited manner.
I have just died in diablo 2, POOR!!! (person experiences a poorgasm)
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One of the unintended, though predictable, consequences of the unprecedented rescue of the United States financial system is that there will be higher than average inflation figures for years to come. While it's been popular to dispute the reported Consumer Price Index (CPI), the reality is that the marketplace doesn't really listen to the reported stats. It reacts to reality. Your boss doesn't walk into your office and say "Oh, CPI says I need to give you an x% raise this year to maintain your purchasing power." and the grocery store doesn't increase the price of a head of cabbage a few cents every month because the BLS came out with another report.
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NEWS: Lil Wayne's (@LilTunechi) Obsession with LeBron Has Reached 'Stalking Status'?
The ongoing dispute between Lil Wayne and Lebron James boiled over Sunday Night when Weezy's entitlement issues reared its ugly head once again as he went on a profanity laced tirade aimed at the Miami Heat star and his teammates.
The Young Money rapper claims his issue with LeBron stems from not receiving respect from the MVP and the Miami Heat staff, and those close to LeBron have reached a similar reasoning, but they take it a bit further: They claim Lil Wayne is not only jealous of LeBron, but he is also obsessed with him.
According to a member of LeBron's inner-circle who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Lil Wayne over the years has continuously made efforts into building a relationship with LeBron, similar to what the MVP shares with Jay Z.
And this has included invites for concert appearances, birthday parties and video sessions, but LeBron through the years has respectfully declined. "LeBron is extremely busy, he respects Lil Wayne and his peers in the entertainment industry, but he just doesn't like to be bothered like that" says the source.
There has always been reports of Lil Wayne regarding his self-entitlement issues, and the obsequious flattery that his inner-circle showers him with on a constant basis only adds to his inflated ego. So when LeBron refuses to accept his friendship request, Lil Wayne doesn't know how to handle rejection and resorts to displaying childish temper tantrums. And that is seemingly the issue Lil Wayne has with LeBron according to the source.
A lot of it also stems from jealousy, no longer is Lil Wayne the top draw at events in Miami; Club Liv, the trendy hotspot on South Beach held a birthday party for Miami native DJ Khaled last year. A star-studded event that included P.Diddy, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and others. Usually, Lil Wayne holds top billing at Liv, not that night, as LeBron and his entourage of 12 entered the party, all eyes shifted away from the stage Lil Wayne was performing on and towards the 3-time league MVP and his crew.
Jealousy breeds contempt, and in an entertainment world that has unquestionably accepted the Lil Wayne mythology, LeBron's dismissal is seen as a form of disrespect to Lil Wayne.
Lebron is one of the few entertainers that transcends into different walks of life, he not only dominates the NBA, but he's become an ubiquitous corporate pitchman, so much so that every move is calculated by his public relations company LRMR, every appearance needs approval, and everything he utters is closely monitored by the corporate advertisers that dish out millions for him to endorse their products. And befriending a controversial rapper who was just released from prison just isn't productive for LeBron's image.
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Elvis Sinosic will return to the cage for the second time this year when he takes on English kickboxer Paul Cahoon at Cage Rage 24: Feel the Pain this Saturday at the Wembley Arena in London, England.
Sinosic is coming off of a TKO loss to Michael Bisping at UFC 70 in a fight that he nearly won with a kimura in the second round. Since then Sinosic has spent his time back in his native Australia, training and teaching while preparing for his fight against Cahoon this weekend.
"After the Bisping fight I went back to Australia and it was right back into training and teaching at my academy," said Sinosic. "Anthony Perosh as always has been helping me get ready for this fight. I've been working with Justin Stevenson and Gary Edwards. A couple of students too, Steven Micallef and Shane Nix, they've been helping me with a couple different things."
Cahoon, who currently trains with a Golden Glory team that includes Alistair Overeem, Gilbert Yvel, and Semmy Schilt, is also a threat on the ground as well - three of his wins have come by way of submission. However Elvis is confident that he'll be able to be successful wherever the fight may go.
"I feel that I have the ability to win the fight at any range," said Sinosic. "Wherever the fight goes, I'm comfortable. My plan is to feel out the fight from the start and then take it from there."
So what's next for Elvis Sinosic after this fight?
"Well currently this is a single fight deal with Cage Rage," noted Sinosic. "I haven't ruled out further fights with them. Right now though, I'm just focused on this fight. I'm not looking past it."
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I always liked mythology. During middle school and high school, I read tons of stories and poems that kept my interest in the subject. My favorite was "The Odyssey", a poem that introduced many interesting things, like Sirens, and Scylla, but also showed the power of family and fidelity. The story was about a man, Odysseus, who was thought to be lost after the Trojan War. Many men forced themselves into his household trying to pursue his wife, Penelope, who came up with elaborate plans to thwart them because she still loved her husband. During that time, he was adventuring home and running into snags setup by Poseidon. I'd tell more but that would give it away, it's best to read it yourself (or catch one of the many movies that were made).
Greek and Roman mythology, and history, is something most people don't realize can be seen everywhere in today's society. From names, to expressions, even the movies we watch have some kind of influence. Look at general naming schemes of most of the modern teams across many sports. We see some kind of Spartan, Griffin, or Trojan in nearly every state at the high school level. Everyday companies, like Amazon, or Nike, or Saturn, have names derived from old mythology. We use common expressions like "Trojan Horse" and "Achilles' heel" all the time in literature and movies, especially when in relation to competition, be it fighting or sports. Cupid, that we relate to love and Valentine's Day, is a Roman deity. It's hard to go a single day without hearing or seeing some kind of mythological influence somewhere.
One name derived from Roman culture is the Xigmatek Pantheon. The name "Pantheon" is actually a temple in Rome that is dedicated to the Roman Gods. In this instance, it is a rather impressive computer chassis. The Pantheon is a full tower that supports both mATX and standard ATX motherboards. Built into the Pantheon is a fan controller that features 2 independent controls that can manage up to 3 fans apiece. For expansion, there are four 5.25" bays with one that can convert to a 3.5" for special peripherals, like media card readers or drive trays. Internally, there are six unique removable HDD bays. The bays are front loading and the top two are hot swappable. There are 3 fans included for cooling. The front two fans are 120mm, while the rear is 140mm. All fans are white LED with a toggle switch for the lights on the top of the case. The Pantheon features cable management holes and a large tray cut out for easy CPU heatsink mounting. I/O includes two USB 2.0, a single USB 3.0 and an e-SATA port on the top. There is also room on the top of the Pantheon to expand the air cooling or install a large 240/280mm radiator for liquid cooling.
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Quite busy in the ER today, not insanely crazy like last week, but very steady. A decent day. I was neither vomited on, spat upon, or significantly bled on (nor any other bodily fluids).
I was awakened at 5am by hearing son #1 set the house alarm and tromp up the stairs...and he had taken my car out. I was somewhat surprised at that, needless to say, as he was planning to be in when I went to bed closer to 12 than I had planned. Turns out he asked hubby just before he went to bed at 130 if he could go hang at his buddy's house for a bit (in the neighbourhood), so at least he had permission. Still a bit odd...
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Now that I'm home, I have a glass of wine with a dish of lots of cheese, some rice crackers, and 2 pepperoni sticks. A lovely dinner.
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Imagine the number of songs that The Posies duo Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow have played together. It is immense.
Thinking back over two decades, it all began in 1987 in Bellingham as two friends playing songs in the basement just for the love of it. Perfectly timed, perfectly orchestrated musical big break and all these years later, what has consistently sustained the band through the stress, difficulties and a farewell tour, are those two friends and their songs.
At the end of the 90s, they were a beacon of the quintessential Northwest rock band. Major labels came calling sending the band into a mad spin of worldwide touring, national exposure, interviews on MTV, songs on the radio and CDs in record stores. But with the release of their fifth and seemingly final album at the time,ironically titled Success, The Posies put together a few U.S. shows with a sold-out romp of Europe and called it the farewell tour.
But somehow, they had to have known that wouldnt be the end.
The Posies have sold platinum albums, toured the world, collaborated with Burt Bacharach. Basically a musicians dream. One of The Posies songs was even covered by The Beatles Ringo Starr.
But what makes it even more of a success is that the genesis of it all was two kids making a demo tape in a home studio,at a time when two kids making a demo in a home studio wasnt quite so common.
Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, co-founders of the Posies, met in a music shop when they were in high school in 1980s Bellingham.
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Back then, The Posies were more of a concept than a band, Auer recalled.
But he and Stringfellow still made an album, well, we thought of it as an album, but really it was more of a cassette tape, Auer said.
They took the demo tapes out to record shops, distributing 20 at a time out of their backpacks on commission, and ended up selling hundreds through word of mouth and DIY ethic.
That caught some attention in the local music world, and through one of the bands connections, led to a release with the local label PopLama Records. Thats when the Posies became a band proper, employing a full lineup for live shows and eventually West Coast tours, while their songs were played on the radio and reviews started popping up in national publications like Cashbox and Billboard magazines.
That led to the next step, which was the major label feeding frenzy in the Northwest, Auer said.
The band signed with Geffen in 1989 and took flight.
20 years later
What kind of intrigues me is the 20th Anniversary part of the equation, Auer said. Im 38, still relatively young, and to have so much history with this band is something I am still processing.
He and Stringfellow werent even old enough to legally drink a beer when The Posies exploded, playing sold-out shows in bars and clubs across the country. That whirlwind carried through steadily over the better part of a decade, until in 1998 the band reached a tipping point of sorts. Personal differences and the stress of non-stop touring led to The Posies farewell tour.
Two years later, a label proposed to release a career-spanning compilation of the Posies previously unreleased recordings. That CD At Least At Last inspired Auer and Stringfellow to reach resolve and tour the world as an acoustic duo.
That in turn led to reunion and another full-length album,Every Kind of Light, in 2004.
Concert-goers can expect songs from all six Posies albums when they come to Bremerton May 15 for one of four full band shows in the Northwest celebrating the Posies 20th anniversary. Theyll also be jamming May 14 at Hells Kitchen, May 16 at Dantes in Portland and May 17 at Neumos in Seattle.
We will do what we do best, and probably better than we did it before! Stringfellow noted.
Even though its five months into the 21st year of the Posies, Auer and Stringfellow said this 20th anniversary tour seems right now somewhat like any other tour.
Its more a case of just doing what I do, living life and suddenly the time has gone by, Auer said.
It feels like just a number, in a way, Stringfellow added. To me, this band started yesterday, in my head. Those two decades have zipped by. I feel like Im just getting started.
The Posies will be playing one of four full-band Northwest shows to celebrate their 20th anniversary with local bands The Isms and Alligators at 9 p.m. May 15 at Winterland, 1220 Sylvan Way in Bremerton. Tickets are $12. Info: www.myspace.com/winterlandrocks or call the bar at (360) 479-5686. For more on the Posies, go to www.theposies.net.
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down south version of banging or awesome
That party was crunck.
автор: Phoebe Beaver 21 апреля 2005
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Getting High And Drunk At The Same Time.
Ey yo we got so CRUNCK last night.
автор: Big J 20 марта 2004
a mix of crazy and drunck
we was hellla crunck last night
автор: G-DOOG 22 декабря 2005
gettin sooo wasted that you think that it would be a cool idea to kill someone....but then you realize that your just an idiot!
Idiot: Dude i totally killed some bitch last night, it was so crunck.
Non-Idiot: What are you and idiot?!
Non-Idiot: What are you and idiot?!
автор: dyl0n 13 октября 2005
Its when u git relly crazzie. U no u crunck. Wen u go into da prty and just show off and have a good time.
Lil Jon and da Eastside Boiz got crunck i da club!!!
автор: Brittany K. 29 января 2005
What the crunk?
That's crunked up?
That's crunked up?
автор: Maximus Prime 1 апреля 2005
Beating the shit outta someone that's from Vancover (mainly cause he's asian) used mainly by gangsta's in Winnipeg.
yo get da mofo straight outta van-city n' crunck his asian ass
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The ARA Trinidad led Argentina's 1982 sea war against Britain, but has long been mothballed and used for spare parts to sustain what's left of Argentina's navy.
A navy statement said a pipe burst, flooding the ship below decks. Defense Minister Arturo Puricelli denied that cuts to the fleet's maintenance budget were to blame. He said negligence or "sabotage" were possible and demanded a complete investigation.
"When the president asks me, I'll be ashamed, frankly, to tell her that a boat sank while tied to the dock," Puricelli told Radio 10. "There has to be a well-founded reason for this."


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Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day Feb. 21, Yuba City
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Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day Feb. 21, Yuba City
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013; 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veteran's Memorial Cir, Yuba City
12:15 p.m. Registration
1 p.m. Welcome and Moderator; Janine Hasey, UC Farm Advisor, Sutter/Yuba/Colusa Counties
• Considerations when planting and pruning a new walnut orchard, Janine Hasey, UC Farm Advisor, Sutter/Yuba/Colusa Counties
• Optimum walnut canopies: spacing trees for both early and mature production, Dr. Bruce Lampinen, Pomology Specialist, UC Davis
• Managing Anthracnose Blight and Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis Cankers of Walnut, Dr. Themis Michailides, Plant Pathologist, UC Davis
• Laws and Regulation Update, Jan Kendel, Sutter County AG Dept
2:45 Break: Refreshments Courtesy of California Valley Nut Company
• Walnut Blight Session
• Control Materials Update
Dr.Jim Adaskaveg, Plant Pathologist, UC Riverside
• What happened in 2012? Rick Buchner, UC Farm Advisor, Tehama County
• Q & A session on Walnut Blight
• YOUR ASSESSMENT AT WORK: 2013 California Walnut State of the Industry
Dennis Balint, Executive Director/CEO, California Walnut Board/Commission
Jennifer Olmstead, Marketing Director, Domestic
Carl Eidsath, Technical Support Director
Adjourn 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by: University of California Cooperative Extension, Sutter/Yuba and Colusa Counties
Co-Sponsored by: Sutter County Agricultural Department
2.0 hours PCA credit pending and 3.0 hours CCA Credit approved
Parking at Veterans Hall: Parking is limited at Veteran's Hall. There is spillover parking at the Sheriff's Office on Civic Center Blvd. Please do not park in patient parking at Health Dept.


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Cairns Compact Marshall Islands Peer Review Underway
13 February 2012: The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) announced that, as part of the Cairns Compact on Strengthening Development Coordination in the Pacific, a peer review is underway in the Marshall Islands on national planning, budgeting, financial and aid management systems and processes.
The peer reviewers include representatives from the Governments of the Cook Islands and Vanuatu, as well as UN and PIFS staff.
The Cairns Compact is an initiative agreed by Pacific Leaders at the 2009 Pacific Islands Forum. It aims to accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by strengthening Forum Island countries' (FIC) leadership of their own development agendas and encouraging development partners to work more effectively together. The Compact establishes new review and reporting processes involving Forum countries, development partners and the Forum Secretariat, a key feature of which is the peer review of each FIC's national development plan.
In 2010, Nauru and Kiribati completed peer reviews, followed by Vanuatu and Tuvalu in 2011. According to PIFS, the peer review exercise aims to develop simple and practical actions, tailored to local capacity and based on regional experience, which can be implemented in the short- to medium-term to improve development coordination. [PIFS Press Release]


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Prolife advocates gathered in Germantown, Md., Friday to take part in "The Summer of Mercy 2.0," rally against LeRoy Cahart's late-term abortion practice.
Summer of Mercy's objective is to "bring awakening to our nation and end abortion," the organizers' website says.
Kelly Stauffer, a member of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, was one of the rally's featured speakers.
Years have passed since Stauffer had an abortion at the tender age of 14, but she still remembers the pain of that day.
"Hi," the 29-year-old began simply. "My name is Kelly Stauffer, and I lost my virginity at 13 years old."Click play to hear Stauffer's full testimony.
What followed was a pregnancy that, at the behest of her parents, doctor and pastor, ended brutally at five months gestation. Visibly emotional, she described to the audience her post-partum trauma.
"My body was very confused because I had gone through the whole process of having a baby, but I didn't have a baby to care for," she recalled. Kauffer added that afterwards she was "depressed. I was suicidal. I had no self-worth."
"Even though I know God forgives me, that pain will never go away," Kauffer said. "So that is why I am silent no more."
The Summer of Mercy leadership team announced Friday that prayer and witnessing, originally scheduled to end Sunday, has now been extended through Aug. 8.
"As men and women of faith, we are compelled to remain at our post. We will stay in Germantown begging for God's mercy, until the killing ends for good," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
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Description: Tintype, carte de visite style, in white mat with decorative border. Portrait of young boy, Allen Ashbey, with arm resting on table. Handwritten in pencil on back: "Allen Ashbey". Printed on back: "JORDAN'S/ New Style Pictures,/ Taken and Delivered in/ 15 Minutes, at 4-1/2 Main Street,/ New London, Conn.". 2 cent revenue stamp also on back, postmarked New London, Sept. 2, 1865.
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SDCC 2009: 'District 9' (p)reviewed
This is not a review of the film "District 9."
Although I did indeed see it on Thursday night as a precursor to an hour-and-a-half long intimate evening with Peter Jackson, I've been asked not to write a formal review of the film yet. So instead, what I'll offer up is a preview of the movie, some background on it, and a general reaction.
Neil Blomkamp was originally brought to Peter Jackson's attention by Mary Parent while she was working at Universal, and the idea was for Neil to direct "Halo" while Peter would produce it. Solid plan, until the co-financed film between Universal and Fox imploded, and suddenly Peter Jackson was left with a protoge but no movie for him to make.
Thankfully, Blomkamp's solution was to return to South Africa to make a small SF indie film based on some of his earlier short films. And the result is, in my opinion, an instant classic, a movie that had the same effect on me as the first time I saw Paul Verhoeven's "Robocop" in 1987.
Keep in mind... today, "Robocop" is respected and loved and acknowledged as one of the great SF films of the '80s. But before it came out, it looked like a joke. I was working at a theater at the time, and we made fun of that poster relentlessly. "PART MAN... PART MACHINE... ALL COP!" Oh, please. I went to a pre-release employee's screening just to make fun of the film... and then lost my mind. I ended up taking a good dozen people or so back to see it over the next few weeks, amazed by the film, and time after time, people flipped out for it.
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"District 9" is political and hilarious and gory as hell, sad and savage and visually dazzling. It is, in short, exactly what great science-fiction should be... it is a film of ideas, first and foremost, and since Blomkamp grew up in South Africa, I'm sure you can guess what sort of real-world ideas the movie might engage. The thing is... if you want to tune out all the social commentary, you're left with a truly incredible sf movie. But because Neil's own experience is so much a part of this film and the world he's created, the result is sort of devastating.
And the most remarkable thing about it is that "District 9" is a $30 million film that looks as consistently good as anything we've seen presented in Hall H this year. There's a potent reality to the aliens in the movie that works so effectively that 20 minutes in, I stopped thinking about the special effects at all. They simply work.
And if you're one of those people who coughs and mentions "Alien Nation" every time this film comes out, drop it. I can see the superficial resemblance, but that's exactly what it is. Superficial. "District 9" has more in common with Gavin Hood's "Tsotsi" than it does with "Alien Nation." There's an anger to the film that is genuinely impressive, and even when Blomkamp's loving the gore and ladeling it on, there are powerful moments of social obervation in the film that can't just be shaken off.
After seeing the movie, I joined a group of journalists at a hotel a few blocks away, where we sat down with Peter Jackson for an evening to talk about "District 9," "The Lovely Bones," "The Hobbit," and more. Part of the evening involved watching a four-minute preview of "The Lovely Bones," based on the novel by Alice Sebold. It looks technically dazzling, and there are some harrowing moments in the clips package. I still have no idea what to think of the film. I am looking forward to seeing Peter in "Heavenly Creatures" mode plus... well... heaven. The film looks gorgeous and strange and sad, and I'm more excited now than i've been since that project was announced.
Talking about "The Hobbit," Peter shot down every single casting rumor you've heard. Since there is no script yet and there's no greenlight, Peter emphasized that we're a long way off from hearing any casting at all. Makes sense to me, and frankly, I didn't go last night to ask him questions about all the films he might or might not make. This is Comic-Con. I want to know about "Tintin," maybe, but more than that, I like hearing about the film he's actually here to promote, the one that was shot on the RED Digital camera.
You'll hear more about "District 9" here on HitFix in the weeks ahead. Suffice it to say, I walked into Comic-Con unconvinced and I will leave Comic-Con evangelical. "District 9" is going to hit you hard, and it's going to laugh while it does it.
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USA Today had a nice write-up of the 2008 CMU football team, something you don't see them do too much for a MAC school. Dan LeFevour and Antonio Brown receive a lot of praise, as they likely are the two most dangerous offensive weapons in the MAC. While issues remain on defense, CMU should remain the clear front-runner entering the 2008 season with all their returning talent.
May 6, USA Today 2008 OUTLOOK: The Chippewas will be considered among the favorites again in the MAC as they try to attempt a rare three-peat as conference champions. They will likely have no trouble scoring points again with all of their top offensive weapons, including MAC Offensive Player of the Year, QB Dan LeFevour -- one of only two players in NCAA history to throw for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a single season -- returning. The Chips averaged almost 35 points per game in 2007, and if early signs are any indication, they could top that figure this season.
However, keeping teams off the scoreboard still might be an issue with the defense in flux, especially with significant losses at linebacker. Last season, the Chips' defense surrendered nearly 37 points per game and finished at or near the bottom nationally in most defensive categories. If the Chips can show even moderate improvement on defense, they might be unstoppable in their march toward a third straight MAC title.
SCOUTING THE OFFENSE: The Chippewas offense was one of the most lethal in the MAC last season. CMU averaged 447 yards per game in 2007, and with junior QB Dan LeFevour, a legitimate dark-horse Heisman Trophy candidate, returning along with the rest of the Chips' top offensive weapons, the offense could be even more dangerous -- a scary thought for the rest of the MAC. LeFevour alone accounted for nearly 4,800 yards of offense and 46 touchdowns, while WR Antonio Brown set a MAC freshman record last season with 2,267 all-purpose yards and set a school record with 102 receptions. With Brown returning along with junior WR Bryan Anderson, who had 1132 yards receiving, the Chips' offense is well situated for 2008. The running game received a boost in the spring with Carl Volny emerging while starters Justin Hoskins and Ontario Sneed recover from injuries.


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State Rep. Debbie Riddle.
The Austin American Statesman reports that State Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, filed a fifth immigration-related bill this session, this time targeting employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
The Statesman reported that she filed a bill that would make it a state jail felony "to intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly hire a person who is not lawfully permitted to be in America."
Riddle said in a statement: "Employers who reward and incentivize this illegal behavior are the primary culprit in the illegal immigration problem…Now they're going to have to think hard about whether or not it's worth the risk to them and their business when they make these hiring decisions."
The bill (and Riddle's other four, detailed below courtesy of the Statesman) prompted the leader of the local La Raza Justice Movement, Hector Chavana Jr., to issue this statement:
"Employers now have to take sides, and they will have to decide if they want to be on the side of those who would make them felons or those who are fighting for human rights and full documentation for workers," he wrote.
Chavana's press release charged that the package of bills that Riddle has sponsored "mirror much of what preceded Jewish internment in concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Harassment of school-age students, employers and municipalities were all part of the Nazi program as well as that of pro-apartheid South Africa."
Riddle's other bills:
* HB 17 which creates the offense of Criminal Trespass by Illegal Alien and allows state law enforcement to arrest those who are in the country in violation of federal criminal immigration laws;
* HB 18 which would deny state funding to municipalities that prohibit the enforcement of federal immigration laws;
* HB 21 which requires state agencies to report the cost of services the agency provides to illegal aliens; and
* HB 22 which requires schools to report the citizenship and immigration status of students to the Texas Education Agency.


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Can a COM DLL be statically linked with an EXE?
I have an EXE application that uses a COM DLL. Say App.EXE and COMComponent.DLL.
Usually whenever there is a change in the COM DLL I send the new COM DLL and EXE to the client and ask to register the COM DLL manually.
Now I am thinking of a way to send only the EXE with the DLL bundled with it so that client does not have to do any manual registration and but the EXE will use the latest COM DLL.
Is there any way that the COM component be bundled with EXE (like statically linking), so that the user need not
specifically update the component manually?
Or do I need to change the COM DLL to normal DLL and link statically with it?
Hope I could describe my problem clearly.
Re: Can a COM DLL be statically linked with an EXE?
No, and you wouldn't want to. COM relies on dynamic linking. If you don't want that, then rewrite the DLL as a static library (not DLL, because a Dynamic Linked Library is, as might be inferred from the name, Dynamically Not Statically Linked) and statically link it with the program.
But it sounds like you are trying to solve a different problem. Why would you want to link a com component statically with the application anyway? If it's just to stop the need to ask the client to register the DLL manually, then just create an installer that can handle new installations and updates. It's much nicer for the customer just to double-click an EXE and have it do everything. Arguably, if what the customer needs to do can be described, then it can be programmed into an installer.
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Gorgeous teaser trailer for 'How To Train Your Dragon 2' takes flight
As teaser trailers go, this one's kind of terrific.
So often these days, marketing feels like a blunt instrument designed to beat you into submission. "YOU. WILL. SEE. THIS. MOVIE. OR. YOU. ARE. A. LOSER." It's so aggressive that it can become numbing by the time a film finally rolls into theaters.
Here, though, there seems to be a trust that this moment is enough to remind us of the tactile pleasures of "How To Train Your Dragon" while promising that things have changed enough to warrant a new trip to the theater. The flying sequences in the first film, especially if you saw the film in a great 3D theater, were incredibly immersive and beautiful, and the way they both remind you of that while introducing this one new element is enormously effective.
I have no idea where the story's headed for the sequel. I know this is one of the films that Dreamworks plans to make a number of sequels to, like "Kung-Fu Panda," and as long as they put the same amount of effort and heart into each of the films, I'm okay with that. It is interesting to see how the studio's films are being sold now that 20th Century Fox is handling the distribution end of things. There's definitely a different tone to the ads than when they were at Paramount, which is to be expected. Not better, necessarily, but different.
Jay Baruchel, who killed it this summer in "This Is The End," is back for this sequel, and at this point, he's probably pretty comfortable with the character. After all, they've been doing TV episodes and specials non-stop since the first film was released, and at this point, the films are just one small part of the overall "How To Train Your Dragon" narrative.
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Dean DeBlois, who shared the director credit on the first film with Chris Sanders, is running the show this time, and I look forward to seeing this one with my sons, who loved the original, when it arrives in theaters next year.
Look for "How To Train Your Dragon 2" in theaters June 20, 2014.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio - New Indians center fielder Michael Bourn is alone in his confidence in Ohio State's basketball team -- at least in The Plain Dealer's small celebrity bracket contest.
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Many years, Ohio State is a popular pick in the annual contest featuring one athlete from each of Cleveland's pro teams and a former Buckeyes standout, as well as an "Average Joe" Cleveland sports fan.
Not so this year. Bourn is the only celebrity in the five-person field to pick the second-seeded Buckeyes to reach the Final Four. Not even former OSU football player Alex Boone slotted the Buckeyes past the Elite Eight.
Bourn has Ohio State advancing to the national title game and finishing as a runner-up to No. 1 Indiana in his bracket for the seventh annual Celebrity Bracketology Challenge. See his handwritten bracket above. Meet the other bracketologists at cleveland.com/marchmadness.
Round 1: 5 points for each correct pick.
Round 2: 10 points.
Round 3: 20 points.
Round 4: 30 points.
Round 5: 50 points.
Round 6: 100 points.
Tiebreaker: Most correct picks.
Prize: Winner will be invited back to defend his Celebrity Bracketology Challenge title next year.
Past winners
2012: "Average Joe" Cleveland sports fan Jeff Verdone of Euclid: 535 points.
2011: Former Cavaliers forward/center J.J. Hickson, 315 points.
2010: Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Cribbs, 290 points.
2009: Former Cavaliers guard Mo Williams, 470 points.
2008: Former Ohio State men's basketball guard Mike Conley Jr., 410 points.
2007: Former Browns quarterback Charlie Frye, 585 points.
"I've seen [Indiana] play a couple of times," Bourn said. "They've got size, they're athletic and they can handle the ball."
No. 4 St. Louis and No. 2 Georgetown round out his Final Four.
"There's a wild-card team every year and St. Louis is my wild card this year," Bourn said. "I hope they help me out. Really, I haven't been paying too much attention to college basketball this year, but this is fun to do every year."
Bourn is a big basketball fan, however. He also played point guard at Nimitz High in Houston.
"I really liked basketball more than baseball because that's where everybody went. No one ever came to the baseball games," Bourn said.
"Georgetown used to be my favorite team because Allen Iverson played there. Then I liked North Carolina for a while. I'll tell you what, I'll probably start rooting for Kentucky next year. They signed the Harrison twins from the Houston area and that's where I grew up."
So don't automatically expect another big run by the Buckeyes next year should Bourn win the bracket contest and accept the return invitation.
Plain Dealer reporter Paul Hoynes contributed to this report
About the Celebrity Bracketology Challenge: Some of Cleveland's biggest sports stars are competing in The Plain Dealer's seventh annual Celebrity Bracketology Challenge. See all five brackets at cleveland.com/marchmadness. Euclid resident Jeff Verdone, the "Average Joe" contestant representing all Cleveland sports fans, returns to defend his 2012 win. Verdone, 23, was randomly selected to participate last year from an online contest of 98 entries. Standings will be updated weekly.
2013 Celebrity Bracket Challenge Participants
• Michael Bourne, Cleveland Indians
• Alex Boone, San Francisco 49ers and former Ohio State star
• Trent Richardson, Cleveland Browns
• Alonzo Gee, Cleveland Cavaliers
• 'Average Joe' sports fan Jeff Verdone (defending champion)


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The Williamsport Symphony Orchestra's Billtown Brass group will present "A Summer Vacation Concert" at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 in the Brandon Park Bandshell as part of the annual "Pops in the Park" summer concert series. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the Loyalsock High School auditorium.
Rick Coulter is the founding director and conductor of Billtown Brass. Now in its thirteenth year, Billtown Brass has become a favorite among local music lovers. As a traditional British brass band, the group features 28 players and produces a big, vibrant sound. "Our sound has a good deal of heft," Coulter said. "We make a sizeable, glorious sound that gets everybody's attention."
The group's sound will be all the more attention-getting during their Pops in the Park performance because of the venue. "Brandon Park is such a great venue and the bandshell is a very good place for the audience," Coulter said. "They hear us really well. The shell was well-designed and it projects our sound; it acts like a megaphone."
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The Williamsport Symphony Orchestra's Billtown Brass group will present "A Summer Vacation Concert" at 7 p.m. Aug. 19 in the Brandon Park Bandshell as part of the annual "Pops in the Park" summer concert series. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the Loyalsock High School auditorium.
But it isn't just that the music will be loud or easy to hear. The nature of brass instruments means that brass bands can produce a range of sounds and moods, from subtle interludes to the rousing marches. "You put five brass players in a corner and they make a lot of noise," Coulter said. "People hear them, but it's also a pleasant sound. Brass, because of the nature of the tonality, is really a glorious sound. We have the potential to make a broad range of sounds because of the size of our instruments, from small to very large."
The instruments don't deserve all the credit, however. It's the musicians, after all, who are responsible for the sounds they produce. Fortunately, as Coulter said, Billtown Brass features some of the most talented musicians the area has to offer.
"Billtown Brass is a group that attracts the very best brass players in the region," Coulter said. "One of the reasons the band is so good is because of the dozen-plus people who just happen to live in this happy little valley of ours and are incredibly talented. We're blessed with a number of incredibly talented people in this region."
In terms of the show's theme, concertgoers should pack their bags and prepare to embark on a "summer vacation" across Europe and the United States. "When I was looking at the music, it occurred to me that we're going to take a musical vacation with this concert," Coulter explained. "We're going to take a musical getaway across the world."
This musical odyssey begins in Russia with a performance of "Festival Overture" by Dmitri Shostakovich, and continues through Spain with a Latin-flavored piece called "Valero"; Scotland and the Highlands with a traditional sword dance; England with a "Hymn for Diana"; France with military march by Camille Saint-Saens; and ends in America will a number of familiar favorites, including a jazz rag, a showtune, an Armed Forces Salute and, of course, John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever"-a must-have for any American brass band worth its salt.
Coulter said this program will be a varied and fun-filled show. "To put an hour-long program together for a brass band is different than putting together a symphony concert, where one piece of music might be an hour long," he said. "The Mahler First Symphony, for instance, is 54 minutes long, whereas this is 11 vignettes, each of which is four to six minutes long.
"We're going all over Europe and all over the range of styles. You may not like everything that's on the program, but you're going to like most of it. You're going to tap your foot and sing along in places. It's a program for summer enjoyment. The idea is for people to come to the concert and have a good time. You go out there and sit on your blanket and have something to eat and drink out in the park. It's a summer tradition."
As such, the Pops in the Park event has the potential to attract a greater audience than those who normally attend WSO and Billtown Brass concerts. Coulter said as many as 800 people have attended similar events in the past. Coulter hopes this year's Pops in the Park concert attracts at least that many people, if not more. He also hopes to see more concerts held in the Brandon Park bandshell.
"Since we have such a great venue in Brandon Park, it would be a shame to waste it and not use it," Coulter said. "We're always looking for program sponsors for both the WSO and the Billtown Brass so we can play more events like this. We'd love to play twice a summer."
In closing, Coulter spoke of the special moments that can only be experienced at live music events like the upcoming Pops in the Park concert. "There's something really special about live music," he said. "We need to continue that tradition. Unless you're at a live concert, you don't know when something special happened. Live music brings great enjoyment not only to me as a conductor and to the musicians performing, but also to the audience. That's a win-win-win situation."
For more information about Billtown Brass, visit www.williamsportsymphony.org/billtownbrass .html.


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Manchester City have again been linked with Napoli striker Edinson Cavani.
The 25-year-old Uruguayan tormented the Blues in last season's Champions League but signed a new deal with his Serie A club at the start of the season.
His deal includes a £51m buy-out clause and his agent Mino Raiola told the Sun: "For now Cavani will stay but I wouldn't be so sure about that once June arrives.
"I'm sure there are clubs ready to pay that. But only five clubs in the world can afford to do that - Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea and Paris St Germain."
Cavani has been in superb form again this season, scoring 20 goals including 14 in his last 11 matches.
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CBNNews.com - Power executives were still mystified Wednesday about how a glitch at a substation triggered a blackout that cut power to millions across south Florida.
The outages Tuesday spanned 300 miles of the peninsula but appeared to be concentrated in the southeast portion of the state.
Communities along the southwest coast, in the Florida Keys and as far north as Daytona Beach reported interruptions.
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While the outages cut power to 2 million to 3 million people at its peak, power was quickly restored to most parts of the state and authorities said no injuries were reported.
Only about 20,000 people were without power during the evening commute home.
The president of Florida Power & Light was puzzled by how the blackout happened, saying an equipment malfunction at an electrical substation should not have caused the outages.
None of the events should "have caused the kind of widespread outage that we saw," FPL President Armando Olivera said. "That's the part that we don't have an answer for yet."
At around 1 p.m. an equipment malfunction occurred at a facility that transmits power in Miami, setting off a series of events that caused power to go off in areas around the state.
The malfunction led to a fire at the facility, which in turn caused larger problems - disabling two power distribution lines between Miami and Daytona Beach, according to the power company.
Systems monitoring the power grid saw took action, automatically shutting down two nuclear plants at the Turkey Point facility south of Miami. A fossil fuel plant also went off-line.
In total, the state temporarily lost the ability to generate a total of 2,500 megawatts of power. That's about 5 percent of the total generating power Florida uses on a peak day according to Linda Campbell of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council in Tampa, which helps oversee the state's electricity supply.
Once that amount of megawatts was not available to the grid, FPL spokesman Randy Clerihue says the system had to shut off power until it could compensate for the losses.
It was unclear how much the shutdown of the facilities at Turkey Point contributed to the loss of power.
However, Florida Power & Light's Web site says that the two nuclear power plants generate about 1,400 megawatts of power, or more than half of the capacity temporarily lost on Tuesday.
Authorities said there were no safety concerns at the nuclear plant and the outages were not related to terrorism.
The initial outages affected about a fifth of Florida's population.
Source: The Associated Press
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