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NOTE: This spoiler was sent in by Kaci.
The movie starts out with Drew (Ben Afflek) character wowing a bunch of ad execs with a promotional idea for spiked eggnog. Then it cuts to that night with his girlfriend. He presents her with two tickets to Fiji. She's disappointed because she was expecting some kind of proposal. She gets upset and starts asking questions about why she's never met his family, says that he's not serious about the relationship, and then walks out on him.
The next day, he's at work and tells his secretary to send her a gift to win her back. He realizes that he's going to be alone for Christmas so he starts calling up all the people in his address book. No one wants to have him over for Christmas.
He ends up running to the airport to catch the shrink of his girlfriend as he's trying to leave on a plane with his family. The shrink tells him to write down his grievances on a piece of paper, and then burn them at a place that reminds him of his childhood.
So he drives out to the suburbs and pulls up to a house. He gets out and starts hugging trees and saying things like "This is it!". Inside the house, the parents Mr. Valco and Mrs. Valco (James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hara) are arguing about the son spending too much time on the computer. They see him kneeling down on the sidewalk and light something on fire. The dad walks out and hits him over the head with a shovel.
Cut to inside the house. The family is standing around wondering if he's dead. He comes to. He gets a tour of the house. They let him stay for dinner. They ask him to leave. Once outside, he turns back around and starts banging on the door. The dad opens it up and he offers to pay them $250,000 to pretend to be his family for the holidays.
A lawyer comes and they sign legal papers. He makes them go tree shopping, and the dad has to wear a Santa hat. The sister Alicia (Christina Applegate) comes home and has no intention of adopting this new brother. She demands that they kick him out.
At dinner, Drew shows up with an old man and says that he is the Grandpa. He's a local theater performer who Drew hired to fill the role. Grandpa hands out tickets to his upcoming performance of Scrooge. They all sit down and have dinner. Drew pulls out a script and gives copies to everyone and asks that they all read through the scene. Everyone gets annoyed.
They all go shopping the next day. They get a group Santa picture together. Then Mr. Valco tells Drew that he and his wife are thinking about separating and having him there is making things worse. Drew tells him to go out and buy something for himself that will make him feel better. Then he tells the wife that he's going to set up a private photo shoot and have her all dressed up. Something just for her. She's so happy she cried. At the shoot, she's dressed in leather and a ton of makeup. She seems to be having a great time.
Drew gets the son and sister to go sledding with him. The old hill is now too small so he charters a helicopter and carries them to the top of a mountain. The brother says no way. Alicia says that he never had any intention of going down in the first place. They sort of dare each other into getting on the sled. Then they go screaming down the mountain. At the end Drew and Alicia crash and start laughing. They almost kiss but Alicia sneezes.
They both get colds and spend the afternoon talking and watching TV. She tells him about a time when she was 9 and saw a tree covered in ice. It was beautiful and she always wished she could live that moment again.
He confides that he never lived in that house. His father walked out on them when he was little. His mother worked in a diner and he spent every Christmas alone.
Later on, he takes her outside. He had the tree covered in ice and flew in a bunch of dancers and singers. There are lights and music and statues. It's all very gaudy. She gets offended because it's so over the top.
Meanwhile, the girlfriend is talking with her parents. She got the gift (a diamond bracelet) that his secretary sent her, and she wants to make up. She calls and says that she wants to meet his family. She tracks down where he's staying and shows up at the house.
Drew had just told the family that he was leaving. But now he is forced to offer more money to have them pretend to be his family in front of his girlfriend, and her parents.
The old man playing Grandpa couldn't show up, so his understudy comes over. He doesn't fit in as well with the family and everyone is starting to ask questions. Alicia comes home and apologizes to Drew. She kisses him. As soon as she leaves, his (ex) girlfriend walks in and they end up kissing too. Alicia sees him.
She decides to get even. She plays along with the family, making cutting remarks and finally causes Drew to lose it. He rants about how they were just making out in the kitchen. Then he tried to cover by saying they're a very affectionate family.
Meanwhile the son is upstairs. "Grandpa" had come in while he was looking at porn and they found a website that was posting the pictures that Mrs. Valco had gotten taken. She didn't know they were being posted in that way, of course, but the son is frozen in shock. The whole family (girlfriend and her parents included) come walking in and see the screen. Everyone freaks out. The parents of the girlfriend finally say that they've seen enough and they all storm out. Then Mr. Valco storms out saying he's staying at a hotel.
Drew goes back home to his huge empty apartment. Mr. Valco shows up. Drew stills owes them money. Drew writes a check and then they talk about how Mr. Valco wishes that he didn't separate from his wife. Drew mentions that he still has the ticket to the performance of Scrooge. They go, not knowing if his family will be there. They are. Mr. Valco and Mrs. Valco make up.
Drew hooks the brother up with a cute girl in the audience. When he goes outside, he finds Alicia. They kiss and make up. The ex and her parents drive by and witness it, in all it's open mouthed glory.
They speed away into the night.
The End.
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David Segall teamed up with industrial designer Alex Chatham to recreate the ancient drinking horn for the 21st century. How? by replacing bovid horns with BPA-free plastic and funding the product through Kickstarter. Plus there's also the fact that it will hold 24 ounces of modern booze, as opposed to whatever swill they drank back in the day.
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Based on geometric intuition from the previous example, we can understand the famous Weierstrass' theorem (11,12) which guarantees the existence of maxima and minima. It states:
Every function which is continuous in a closed domain possesses a maximum and minimum Value
either in the interior or on the boundary of the domain.
 The proof is by contradiction.
  A continuous function of n variables attains a maximum or a minimum in the interior of a region, only at those values of the variables for which the n partial derivatives either vanish simultaneously (stationary points) or at which one or more of these derivatives cease to exist (i.e., are discontinuous).
The proof involves examining the Taylor Series expansion
at the points where the partial derivatives either vanish or cease to
  As we have seen, it is not necessary for all stationary points to be local maxima and minima, since there is a possibility of saddle or inflection points. Now we need to develop procedures to determine if stationary points are maxima or minima. These sufficient conditions will be developed for one independent variable first and then extended for two and n independent variables, using the same concepts. Once the local maxima and minima are located, it is necessary to compare the individual points to locate the global maximum and minimum.
To develop criteria establishing whether a stationary point is a local maximum or minimum, we begin by performing a Taylor series expansion about the stationary point xo.
y(x) = y(xo) + y'(xo) (x - xo) + ½ y''(xo) (x - xo)2 + higher order terms
Now, select x sufficiently close to xo so the higher order terms become negligible compared to the second-order terms. Since the first derivative is zero at the stationary point, the above equation becomes
y(x) = y(xo) + ½y" (xo) (x - xo) (2-1)
We can determine if xo is a local maximum or minimum by examining the value of y"(xo), since (x - xo)2 is always positive. If y"(xo) is positive, then the terms ½y"(xo) (x - xo)2 will always add to y(xo) in equation (2-1) for x taking on values that are less than of greater than xo. For this case y(xo) is a local minimum. This is summarized in the following:
If y''(xo) > 0 then y(xo) is a minimum
y''(xo) < 0 y(xo) is a maximum
y''(xo) = 0 no statement can be made
If the second derivative is zero, it is necessary to examine higher order derivatives. In general if y''(xo) = ... = yn-1(xo) = 0, the Taylor series expansion becomes
If n is even, then (x - xo)n is always positive, and the result is:
If y(n)(xo) > 0 then y(xo) is a minimum
y(n)(xo) < 0 y(xo) is a maximum
the point is or is not an extreme point, according as the first non-vanishing derivative is
of even or odd order. If it is even, there is a maximum or minimum according as the
derivative is negative or positive.
Example 2-1
y(x) = x4/4 - x2/2
y'(x) = x3 - x = x(x2 - 1) = x(x - 1)(x+1) = 0
Stationary points are x = 0,1,-1
y"(x) = 3x2 - 1
y"(0) = -1 maximum
y"(1) = 2 minimum
y"(-1) = 2 minimum
y'(x) = 5x4 = 0 stationary point is x = 0
y"(x) = 20x3 y"(0) = 0
y"'(x) = 60x2 y"'(0) = 0 no statement can be made
y(4)(x) = 120x y(4)(0) = 0
= 120 y(5)(0) = 120 n is odd, and the stationary
To develop the criteria for a local maximum or minimum for a stationary point xo(x10, x20) of a function of two variables, a Taylor's series expansion is made about this point.
where the subscripts x1 and x2 indicate partial differentiation with respect to those variables and evaluation at the stationary point.
Again we select y(x1, x2) sufficiently close to y(x10, x20) so the higher order terms become negligible compared to the second order terms. Also, the first derivatives are zero at the stationary point. Thus equation (2-3) can be written in matrix form as:
In matrix-vector notation the above equation can be written as
where Ho is the matrix of second partial derivatives evaluated at the stationary point xo and is called the Hessian matrix.
The term in the bracket of equation (2-5) is called a differential quadratic form, and y(xo) will be a minimum or a maximum accordingly if this term is always positive or always negative. Based on this concept, it can be shown (1) that if the following results apply xo is a maximum or a minimum. If they do not hold, xo could be a saddle point and is not a maximum or a minimum.
An illustration of the above results is given in example 2-2. The term in the bracket of equation(2-5) is an example of a quadratic form. It will be necessary to describe a quadratic form briefly before giving the sufficient conditions for maxima and minima for n-independent variables.
To perform a similar analysis for a function with more than two independent variables, it is necessary to determine what is called the sign of the quadratic form. The general quadratic form (1) is written as:
where aij are the components of symmetric matrix A, e.g., aij = aji.
It turns out (1) that we can determine if Q is always positive or negative, for all finite values of xi and xj, by evaluating the signs of Di, the determinants of the principal submatrices of A.
The important results that will be used subsequently are:
The result of the previous two sections can be extended to the case of n independent variables by considering the Taylor series expansion for n independent variables around stationary point xo:
Again select x sufficiently close to xo, so the higher order terms become negligible compared to the second order terms. Also, the first derivatives are zero at the stationary point. Thus, equation (2-8) can be written in matrix-vector notation as:
The second term on the right hand side of equation (2-9) is called a differential quadratic form as shown below.
We can now use the same procedure in evaluating the character of the stationary points for n independent variables. For example, if the term containing the Hessian matrix is always positive for perturbations of the independent variables around the stationary point, then the stationary point is a local minimum. For this differential quadratic form to be positive always, the |Ho| > 0 for i = 1,2,...n. The same reasoning can be applied for a local maximum, and the results for these two cases are summarized below:
The proof of this theorem employs arguments similar to those given above.
The following example illustrates these methods.
Example 2-2
The flow diagram of a simple process is shown in Figure 2-2 (2) where the hydrocarbon feed is mixed with recycle and compressed before being passed into a catalytic reactor. The product and unreacted material are separated by distillation, and the unreacted material is recycled. The pressure, P, in psi and recycle ratio, R, must be selected to minimized the total annual cost for the required production rate of 107 pounds per year. The feed is brought up to pressure at an annual cost of $1000P, mixed with the recycle stream, and fed to the reactor at an annual cost of $4 x 109/PR. The product is removed in a separator at a cost of $105R per year, and the unreacted material is recycled in a recirculating compressor which consumes $1.5 x 105R annually. Determine the optimal operating pressure, recycle ratio, and total annual cost; and show that the cost is a minimum
Solution: The equation giving the total operating cost is:
Equating the partial derivatives of C with respect P and R to zero gives two algebraic equations to be solved for P and R.
Substituting to determine the corresponding total operating cost gives
C (P,R) is a minimum if
Performing the appropriate partial differentiation and evaluation at the stationary point ( P = 1000, R = 4) gives
Thus, the stationary point is a minimum since both determinants are positive.


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Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been receiving some online hate that is now being investigated by Capitol Police and the FBI.
The angry threats started October, 14 on Twitter. The threats came from the account of a man who claims to be a veteran who lives in New Jersey.
The tweets contain foul language that blames Cruz for the government shutdown. One tweet calls on people to hang Senator Cruz by his genitals if he tries the shutdown tactic again.
The threats don't appear to be affecting the Senator's schedule though. Senator Cruz spoke Saturday at the Texas Medical Association conference in Austin and is still planning on speaking at a city candidate forum here in Houston on Monday.


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When Der Arnold's character — the improbably named Gordon Brewer — loses his passport in Collateral Damage, someone did him the favor of shaving a couple of years off his age for the insert shot of the document. Too bad, it never occurred to anyone in the make-up department to do him a similar favor. It's not the only problem with his latest offering. Let's face facts: Arnold is just too damned old to be believable as Mr. Action Hero — a fact more than borne out by the frequent obvious use of a 20-odd-year old stunt double. Making matters that much more painful are some of the lamest CGI effects ever to disgrace the screen, attempting to bamboozle us into believing that Arnold can lick his weight in wildcats. (I have never seen anything — at least this side of a Godzilla movie — as hokey as Arnold bobbing around in raging CGI waters). Warner Brothers probably did Schwarzenegger a favor by deciding that it was an inappropriate film to release a few weeks after the events of Sept. 11, but they'd have done him a bigger one had they shelved Collateral Damage permanently. Whatever else it is or isn't, the film is a classic example of a performer running back to the safety of the tried and true — a lame-brained attempt to return to Arnold 101 after the critical drubbing and lackadaisical box office of The Sixth Day. The Sixth Day may not have been very good, but at least it tried to do something a little different. Collateral Damage clings to the familiar, in complete denial of its star's age and anything approaching originality or believability. When Collateral Damage opens, we find Arnold the fireman (yes, he plays a fireman this time) rescuing an old lady from a burning building with typical Schwarzeneggerian heroics. Ah, but this is mere set-up. Within 10 minutes, we've been introduced to his family — the requisite gorgeous 20-something wife and 10-year-old son — and managed to have them killed off by a terrorist's bomb when they stop for a hot dog at a sidewalk cafe. (I'm often warned about the dangers of eating hot dogs, but as an object lesson, this seems extreme.) None too surprisingly, Arnold can't get no satisfaction from the feds as concerns getting justice for his dead loved ones. So he opts to head for Colombia to take matters into his own hands (yes, this does start to sound like the testosterone-soaked version of In the Bedroom — as well as the plot of a lot of other Arnold actioners). From here on, the film is a preposterous ragbag of improbable Arnold derring-do, unwieldy plot contrivances, cardboard characters, outbreaks of absurdity (hands up, everyone who really believes that Colombian terrorists off their screw-up lackeys by forcing king snakes made up to resemble coral snakes down their throats?), bits of other movies and explosions — lots and lots of explosions. The problem with this is that it quickly hits the ho-hum factor, especially since the only surprises are the few minutes you might spend wondering just what the devil Elias Koteas, John Turturro and John Leguizamo are doing in this movie. (At least they're smart enough to absent themselves from most of the proceedings.) There were chances for some political observations in the story — especially as concerns the role of the CIA in the plot — but either they were just missed, or there was no way Conan the Conservative was getting within a hundred miles of that idea. In the end, Collateral Damage delivers a lot of things blowing up, a handful of unintentional amusement and very little else.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2007 -- (Extensions of Remarks - January 12, 2007)
* Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I find it no coincidence that as we were preparing to deliberate federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, a study was released that announced a breakthrough in the form of amniotic-fluid stem cell research. These stem cells do not present any ethical controversy and have already shown more promise than embryonic stem cells.
* Federal funding already goes to research and development for embryonic stem cells. The NIH currently spends $40 million for such studies. It spends $600 million on stem cell research in general. In fact, nearly $3 billion has been spent on all stem cell research over the past six years.
* Much of this research, like the amniotic fluid stem cell research, is without the ethical dilemma, and has simply proven to be more effective.
* Researchers have expended years of time and energy trying to develop a single treatment or cure for any disease from embryonic stem cells to no avail; and actually finding adverse consequences like tumors at the implantation site. But adult stem cells have already provided us with treatment options for 72 diseases. Adult stem cells have shown a real return on the American people's investment.
* We have seen results from adult stem cells and should continue to support and subsidize progress in this field. And, as I mentioned a moment ago, there is a new option in the form of amniotic stem cells which has already shown great promise and even more success than embryonic stem cells.
* The face of this debate has already changed in the short time since it came before us last summer; and while this latest discovery provides hope, it should also act as a warning. A warning that we cannot make rash decisions which cost not only federal dollars, but also human lives.


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Varsity Theater
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I photographed the remains of the Varsity Theatre late last year. Check out some of my pictures and a short write up of the theater at: After the Final Curtain
The Varsity is seen at 12:40 in the below History of Evanston link on YouTube. (The Valencia at 10:37 & 11:09) Film by Ron & Sydney Crawford. Narrated by Byrne Piven of Evanston's Piven Theatre.
A long time ago, after the final showings on Friday and Saturday nights, many moviegoers would then head for either Cooley's Cupboard or the Coffee Room.
Oil on canvas Varsity painting added, copyright Don Elmi via the below website. Many other theatres featured in it as well. Copy & paste to view.
1970 lobby photo added, photo credit and courtesy of Mary Gilbert Albrecht, pictured in her uniform
After reading about this historical theatre it is a shame that the interior was gutted….Evanston's loss!
Just saw on FB an interior photo of this theatre under After the Final Curtain. Will this theatre be restored as it has an awesome exterior.
You would have to copy and paste it into your browser, starting from the end of the link so my sentence above it doesn't highlight. Or just scroll back to 08/06/07 in the comments, and click on the link HowardBHass posted originally that says Behind The Gap.
Link won't open on this site.
This link was posted back in 2007. It has photo's of the dormant balcony area.
I drove by yesterday with a friend from Chicago. I wonder how much was left upstairs in the balcony? From the alley, you can see that all the fire escapes have been removed, and many of the exits are bricked up. You can still see a few metal doors just begging to be opened by us urban explorers. No way for the employees of that Gap store to explore. From what I recall, the stairs leading up to the balcony were just inside the front doors in the lobby. And those are gone as well. All retail space, except maybe far back, the stage area is still there. No need to dismantle it. Too expensive. Just wall it up. It was a grand place to see movies!
Discussion continues. This has been tossed around for enough years now that I think they'll eventually make something happen. As long as I've been alive Evanston has had a large arts contingent.
Here is a report prepared for the city by some consulting firm in July, 2011. In it they discuss reactivating the balcony space for theater use while keeping stores in the ground floor:
The YouTube is now my second Varsity Theater. Because of the YouTube, there are now perhaps millions of younger people who are eagerly rediscovering the Golden Age. Thus, it would seem that the Varsity Theater could be reopened, showing only Golden Age motion pictures. Sample list:
Casablanca, Funny Face, You Were Never Lovelier, The Red Shoes.
It seems like there's been consistent interest in restoring the Varsity over the last few years. Every time I think the subject has died down I hear from someone that it is being dicussed again by people who seem to matter. I'd love to see the project come to pass. But what would they do with it?
Such a sad story.
Wow, seeing those pics of The Varsity brought a tear to my eye. I worked at The Varsity, The Valencia, and The Coronet theatres from 1974 to 1978. I would love to see the glorious Varsity open it's doors once again! Big thanks to my friend Dave Zornig for calling this site to my attention.
A 3/26 Geneva was installed in the theatre in 1926.
Northlight spent a good deal of money to remodel the Coronet. It was a very nice facility. They even put blue neon "Northlight" panels on either side of the marquee. I'm not sure why they eventually left. My best guess is parking.
Tribute from The Golden Age:
The Varsity Theater wasn't made for Hollywood. Hollywood was made for the Varsity Theater.
That is pretty neat about that guy that took all those images, I never knew it was one guy.
Anyway, as for the Varsity, this is very similar to what happened with the RKO Madison Theater in Ridgewood, NY, in which the theater survives above a fake ceiling and the orchestra level used for retail. The Gaumont Theater in Manchester England also had a smilar fate, with a nightclub opening on the main level, and a fake ceiling put in. That one however was completely demolished in the end.
The Coronet did become the home of Northlight for a few years.
I don't know why I remember this, but I think NorthLight Theatre had something to do with trying to resurrect the Coronet Theatre at one time too. I seem to remember their name on the marquee.
Hopefully more will come out of this venture than sadly didn't, over there.
It will be interesting to see how they are able to reconfigure some type of entrance on Sherman Ave. And not just some side door in the alley.
Since the stage is towards the back.
Some of the previous pictures posted showed that the back half of the auditorium, ceiling, and possibly balcony space had all been encapsulated. Awaiting just this type of project.
Looks like it might be reopening…
R.I.P Varsity


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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today introduced the industry's first high-current light-emitting diode (LED) driver that enables dual LED operation for the camera flash function in portable multimedia devices. The LM3553, a member of National's PowerWise(R) energy-efficient product family, drives one or two high-current LEDs in series in handheld devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones, portable scanners and medical strobe lights.
National's LM3553 flash LED driver is a fixed-frequency, step-up DC-DC converter with two regulated current sinks, driving loads up to 1.2A from a single-cell Li-Ion battery. Using the driver's adjustable over-voltage protection circuitry allows designers to drive two high-current LEDs in a series configuration, which maximizes the illumination-to-power ratio. The LM3553 can drive the camera in a high-power flash mode for still photography or a low-power torch mode for video recording. To configure the driver to fit their application, designers can use the adjustable 128-flash current levels and 16-flash timer durations via an I2C compatible interface. The LM3553 also features built-in time-out protection to protect the flash LEDs in case of an error condition.
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| Drug Approvals: Circumstances under which an active ingredient may be simultaneously marketed in both a prescription drug product and an over-the-counter drug product
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| A. Should FDA initiate a rulemaking to codify its interpretation of section 503(b) of the action regarding when an active ingredient can be simultaneously marketed in both prescription drug product and an OTC drug product?
| I feel the Food and Drug Administration should immediately approve over-the-counter (OTC) sale of emergency contraception - with no prescriptions required for any age group. This obviates the need for any new rulemaking. Two advisory FDA committees, after extensively reviewing data in December 2003 found that emergency contraception was safe and effective and consequently recommended OTC approval. That was almost 2 years ago. More than 70 professional medical and public health associations including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Adolescent Medicine have endorsed EC access for women of all ages. The American Academy of Pediatrics has urged its members to "help ensure that all adolescents have knowledge of and access to contraception, including barrier methods and EC supplies.
When the age restriction was suggested at the December Advisory Committee meetings, the FDA staff noted then that it has been the policy of the Division of Reproductive and Urologic Drug Products to make no distinction between post-pubescent adolescents and adult women insofar as contraceptive use is concerned. The Advisory Committee members then rejected the age restriction proposal.
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|B. Is there significant confusion regarding FDA's interpretation of section 503(b) of the act?
| By considering a limit to access based on age, the Food and Drug Administration has created unnecessary confusion over what should have been a clear-cut decision to approve over-the-counter sale of this safe and effective emergency contraception.
|C. If so, would a rulemaking on this issue help dispet that confusion?
| A proposed rule with its lengthy comment and review process is being suggested only to drag out the time period before a final decision on EC - OTC is made. It is totally unwarranted.
| A. If FDA limited sale of an OTC product to a particular subpopulation, e.g., by making the product available to the subpopulation by prescription only, would FDA be able to enforce such a limitation as a matter of law?
| Although some non-medicinal products have age limitations such as alcohol, tobacco, and the nicotine patch, asking for identification in this case is both burdensome and unnecessary. It is an unacceptable intrusion on personal privacy with regard to medical care. Limiting sale of emergency contraception to young women is unfair, and it is simply inappropriate to deny young women the means to prevent pregnancy when it is safely available. The FDA's job is to determine safety and efficacy, not to serve as a parent or to determine what is morally appropriate for another human being.
|B. If it could, would it be able to do so as practical matter and, if so, how?
| Such a move would be intrusive for all young women who would be required to show personal identification as a proof of age. The suggestion of federal enforcement brings to mind federal agents pursuing 16 year olds concerned about an unintended pregnancy who in the act of obtaining emergency contraception are breaking a federal law. The absurdity is hard to exaggerate.
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| This latest tactic to further delay making the correct decision to approve universal, over-the-counter availability of emergency contraception is an insult to all women. It further discredits the Food and Drug Administration as a responsible, professional science-based organization. The proposal to restrict access of EC ? OTC to women 16 and under makes no rational or practical or medical scientific sense. Determination of the safety and effectiveness of emergency contraception, with the added public health value of preventing unintended pregnancies ? no matter the age of the woman - should be primary criteria for making this decision. What could possibly be the public health value in restricting access to adolescents ill- prepared ? emotionally and physically ? to carry a pregnancy to term? We agree and the data indicate that access to emergency contraception will not encourage promiscuity or that EC would lessen the routine use of contraception.
Some 39 nations have made emergency contraception available without prescription and 8 states in the U.S. have now adopted a process to streamline access to emergency contraception. The FDA's delay and ill-advised intention to restrict access to women 16 and younger is unacceptable and intolerable. Please make the decision to allow emergency contraception to be available to all women of all ages with no restrictions. There is no scientific evidence that supports further delay or restriction of this product.


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According to a new study in the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, one in three young women are using withdrawal — aka "the pull out method" — as a regular form of contraception.
Withdrawal requires the male to pull his penis out of the female's vagina (hopefully) before he ejaculates during sex, thus minimizing chance of pregnancy. While this is not an ideal method of birth control, it's apparently pretty commonplace — and surprisingly, considered by some experts to be almost as effective as condoms.
Investigators found that 31 percent of the survey participants (sexually active U.S. women, focusing on 2,220 participants between the ages of 15 and 24) have used withdrawal as a form of birth control at least once. Of those who used it, about 21 percent became pregnant unintentionally compared to only 13 percent of women who used other forms of birth control.
While you're obviously less likely to get pregnant if your partner pulls out than if he doesn't, this method doesn't protect against STDs— or your crippling post-sex fear that "maybe some semen got up there."
I want to know, do YOU regularly use the pull out method as your only form of contraception?
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The big playground scuffle is finally – and sadly – over. Dave and Nick meanly ganged up on Gordon, who went running home in tears to Mummy (Scotland). Where are we going to gather round shouting "fight, fight, fight" now?
Here, weirdly: the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Lancashire, as featured in Behind the Scenes at the Museum (BBC4). So maybe the stakes are more modest – control of a quaint northern transport museum, rather than a quaint northern European country. But all the right ingredients are here. Two men, both passionate in their convictions, battle for power. The boss – Stephen, an NHS manager by day – is an architect of change. Alan – retired tax inspector and chairman of the once powerful Friends of the Museum committee – sees no reason to change a thing. Coalitions are formed, meetings are held in secret (sometimes inside the Popemobile, the museum's prize exhibit) and reputations are sullied as the tricks get dirtier.
The museum is next to the derelict site of one of the Leyland Motors factories, and the parallels are uncanny. Management (Stephen) is at loggerheads with the union (Alan and his committee), and this threatens to undermine the whole future of the company (museum). Orders (visitors) are at an all-time low, and history is painfully repeating itself.
In the end Stephen the moderniser, with his ambitious plans for fund-raising and carnival days, prevails. And Alan is nowhere to be seen, banished, left behind, soon to be forgotten. Also missing is his vintage Foden double-decker bus (top speed 36mph).
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I simply don't get All at Sea (ITV1). Two boats – a rough old trawler and a sleek 1960s motor launch – take on crews of minor celebrities in Falmouth. Richard Madeley, off Richard and Judy, is one of them. There are five others, so three on each boat. Then they set sail and travel along the south coast. One team does a spot of mackerel fishing and visits Pendennis Castle. The other team – Richard's – visits his own country bolt-hole, and tries out clay pigeon shooting. And that's kind of it, really.
Erm . . . hello? So no competition then, even though they've divided into teams? No opportunity to get transferred from the smelly old trawler to the luxury motor cruiser through cunning or dirty tricks? No ritual humiliation of the minor celebrities, which surely is the point of minor celebrities? No keel-hauling, walking the plank, scurvy (celebrity scurvy – there's an idea for a show)?
It would seem not. It's just Coast with a bunch of minor celebrities. Even they don't seem to understand, and hang about on deck not really knowing what to do with themselves. It's like the beginning of an idea for a show, and nothing else. And someone went and put it on the telly by mistake, before it was finished. Duh! Next week the same people are doing the same kind of thing, but on different boats and a littler further along the coast. Can't wait. Maybe, when they get to Beachy Head, they'll all jump off.
No matter – here's a lovely new episode of The Simpsons (Sky1) to cheer everyone up. This one belongs to Homer, as lovely episodes of The Simpsons generally do. He swallows his iPhone, learns Spanish (improbably), wins the lottery and lets everyone down, big time. Especially Marge. But in spite of his stupidity, laziness, selfishness, his general crapness as a human being, he demonstrates his total devotion to his family. Especially Marge. Lovely.


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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 67, Chapter 9, relative to the Tennessee State Revenue Sharing Act.
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The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations shall utilize such funds for an annual inventory of statewide public infrastructure needs pursuant to Title 4, Chapter 10, Section 109. In order to accomplish this inventory, the commission shall annually contract for the services of the state's nine (9) development districts and shall compensate each of the development districts at a rate of five cents ($.05) per capita or fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), whichever is greater. The per capita amount shall be based upon the population estimates reported by the United States Department of Commerce, United States Bureau of the Census or its federal functional equivalent. If, in any year, there are funds remaining after the allocation provided for in subdivisions (b)(1), (b)(2), and (b)(3), then any remaining funds, not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the total of such impact funds per year, shall be allocated by the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Such funds shall be used for studies and research pertaining to state-local fiscal relations including state-shared taxes, education finance, the property tax, fiscal impacts of policy changes, and issues related to changing federalism including federal devolution, block grants, preemptions, mandates, and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. If, in any fiscal year, the total amount of funds allocated is less than the total amount of funds available, any remaining funds shall be distributed in the same manner as the funds in subsection (a).
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: German vending machines to sell gold!
Shoppers in Germany will soon be able to buy gold as easily as bars of chocolate after a firm announced plans to install vending machines selling the precious metal across the country. The company, based near Stuttgart, hopes to tap into the increasing interest in buying gold following disillusionment in other investments due to the economic downturn.
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The exercise is not the first time Russian and Chinese forces have trained together, but it is the first time the exercises have been held in Russia and they are by far the largest to date.
Officials say future exercises will grow both in scale and frequency.
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To lay down the procedure for receiving the samples in microbiology lab.
It is applicable to microbiology lab.
Head of Department
5.1 Water Samples
5.1.1 Microbiology personnel shall perform the sampling and collection of the samples required for microbiology and chemical testing.
5.1.2 After collection of the samples microbiology personnel shall allot the A.R No in the respective register.
5.1.3 Samples shall be transferred to the respective testing area.
5.2 Finish and In Process samples
5.2.1 The finished and In process samples comes into in quality control lab through quality assurance department shall be received by microbiology personnel and the allotted A.R No is entered in the respective register.
5.3 Raw material (API / Excipient)
5.3.1 The chemical / microbiology personnel shall perform the sampling of raw material (API / Excipient). The shall be received by microbiology personnel and the allotted A.R No is entered in the respective register.
5.5 Miscellaneous samples
5.5.1 The miscellaneous samples such validation samples, hold time samples and primary packaging samples are received in microbiology lab through quality assurance department or sampled by microbiologist.
5.5.2 After receiving the sample the entry is done in the miscellaneous register and A.R No is allotted and the samples are distributed for testing.
5.5.3 Allot the Analytical Report No. (AR. No.) as per the SOP.
5.5.4 Enter the detail of the sample and A.R No in Annexure.
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Looks awesome man ^ my only suggestions are less cuts in your letters, seems kinda over the top. Maybe you were going for a more tore up look because of the dog, idk. And also the dog's front legs seem a tad bit too pigeon toed, ya know?
Looks awesome man ^ my only suggestions are less cuts in your letters, seems kinda over the top. Maybe you were going for a more tore up look because of the dog, idk. And also the dog's front legs seem a tad bit too pigeon toed, ya know?
@cred thanks for the crits man. I wss proud of both of those thought those were probably my best yet. I feel ya on the s I knew it soon as I did it
dank that is dope i gotta try that
F.Y.E. KRU (Fuk You Expekt)
good shit Dank
working on my lines, need new pens.
cred, don't get stuck on connections. to be honest you aren't really there yet, doesn't mean you can try it but you shouldn't be doing them on every piece, nah mean?
also you should of leaned the top of the E to the left
i like that one more than your others though, because you didn't do unnecessary extension on the left leg of the R, looks a lot better. keep it up, man
fuck you rib.... i realize.
Dope dank, really like that dog haha. Reminds me of the dog from Tom and Jerry, except more brown.
And MN Nice that's nicer then usual, although I don't like the T covering the Y so much.
Flick for talkin, crits are always welcome.
Fucked up the M on the first one and the N on the second :/
F.Y.E. KRU (Fuk You Expekt)
something i did at work today
I was trying to take suggestions from a pic a posted a couple days ago. tried a little more letter definition. I know my shading is messed in places. the second pic is an 'S' I want to incorporate into it..feel like it has more style.
.lets just get to the violence.
@Asis13 That stuffs pretty good bro, loving the shading, don't see so much of that ah.. Good stuff keep it up =)
Some feedback? Thanks in advance.. Says "Sketch" But kinda stuffed up the k... Trying to get into characters, so all crits welcome, just keep in mind, it my first character.
@shearz - thanks dude. ill keep posting pics as i update. i like your style but the letters need more spacing i think. sweet character idea but im lost on whats happening with happening with that can and the face/ mask look a little outta shape. but i dig where its goin
.lets just get to the violence.
yeah e and r i still gotta fix up abit but what do you guys think, i wanna paint this on a freight
sketched this in like two minutes this morning
Thanks guys. I'll be working on this style a bit and post something up again by the end of the week. Djing tonight!!! Droppin' some DNB. Super stoked.
hoooly shit man.... why do u post here? lol thats at LEAST intermediate, wouldnt get deleted from the big boy thread either.... ur shit always has a clean concept and i can tell its well executed...
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International Music Journalist Stephen Dowling Shoots with the LC-A+2012-05-07 1 7 Share Tweet
Stephen Dowling is a professional photojournalist based in London. He has photographed the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Ash, Calexico, and the mighty Bon Iver. In between shooting cool bands backstage, he also writes for the BBC. We couldn't resist finding out more so we gave Stephen an LC-A+ and made him our LomoAmigo of the month. Read on to find out more.
What is life like for a professional journalist?
Hectic. The way in which news reaches the people who read it has changed incredibly over the last 10 years. I did my journalism training back in New Zealand in the early 1990s. The paper I worked for had only just introduced computerised printing and colour photos. It seems like the Dark Ages now.
When I started, you covered the story – an interview or an event – and came back to the paper to write it up. Now, you have to be tweeting what you're doing and the likelihood is you're penning something for a website before you write it up for the paper. And if you're freelance – which I am – a great deal of people are expecting you to do things for free. Writing might be worthless now in our digital age, but it should never be worth nothing.
What's been your favourite assignment/piece?
In 2001, I went to Cuba to write a piece on the Manic Street Preachers for the Independent. I've been a music journalist for a lot of my career, and the Manics were one of the bands which inspired me to become a music writer. Sitting in the garden of the Hotel Nacional interviewing James Dean Bradfield a few hours after the show was a fantastic moment.
What do you hate most about your job?
I'm freelance, so I'm sometimes waiting around for money. I do most of my work for the BBC which is a great place to work. I'd never pretend that getting up at 5 in the morning for an early morning shift is a pleasurable experience, however!
You recently wrote a piece for the BBC about Instagram, and mentioned the Lomo LC-A as a creative alternative. Is it your favourite camera?
It's one of them, for sure. I bought my LC-A in 2000 in a great little camera shop – now sadly long-gone – called The Clock and Camera Shop in central London. I'd seriously got into photography a few years before, but had just started shooting on an old manual camera (a Praktica MTL 5B).
Seeing as I have about 40-odd old cameras, however, picking a favourite can be difficult. I shoot a lot on screw-mount cameras – Pentax ESII, Voigtlander Bessaflex, Zenits of various marques, Chinon Memotrons – so I always make sure I've got one of them to hand if I'm out and about.
But I still have my Lomo and its younger brother the Lomo LC-A+, and love them both.
Which is your favourite LC-A+ photo from your archive?
There's a picture I took at Latitude Festival in the UK last year, outside a tent selling bubble makers. I used some Precisa film and cross-processed it. The resulting picture looks really weird thanks to the trails made by the bubbles.
If you could cover any event in history or the future, with your camera and your notebook, what would it be and why?
When John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together for the first time as The Quarrymen. Right down the front!
Where can we read your work and see your photography?
I have a LomoHome (stephen73) but the vast majority of my pictures can be seen on my Flickr. I've embarked on a project which I'm hoping to turn into a book called 36×36; sets of 36 pics on 36 different cameras, which has got me shooting on all sorts of old cameras, expired film, different film stocks. It's a good way to try new things.
I also have a website: stephendowlingphotography.com, and a photoblog which I'm using to keep a record of my adventures with film and a Facebook page.
What's coming up next in your world?
I'm taking a bit of time off in the summer after doing some work for the BBC; some photography and travel writing in Montenegro, and a comedy blog I've created with a friend from New York. When I'm not bashing away on a keyboard or taking photos I also write songs with a mate who's a songwriter based in Nashville. Hopefully, there'll be another trip to the US in the coming months in a possibly misguided attempt to become a country hit writer. I grew up on a farm, so it must be in the blood, right?
You can read Stephen's BBC article about photography here.
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Fun LORD OF THE RINGS and HOBBIT Art by Otis Frampton
Check out this set of fantastically cool Lord of the Rings and Hobbit art created by artist Otis Frampton. I'm a big fan of this artist's style, it's just really fun. Over the last couple of weeks he's been creating these pieces to celebrate the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He created them as Facebook cover and header images, so if you want to use them on your own page, you can. All the artist asks is that you source him.
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One Down, One To Go? Britney Spears Near Judging 'X Factor'
If the rumors prove true, "The X Factor" producer Simon Cowell's restaffing job seems one-third done.
Entertainment Weekly reports that at long last, Britney Spears has entered "final-stage" negotiations that could land her alongside returning judges Cowell and Antonio "L.A." Reid when the 2011 prime time hit returns this fall. Early reports have her nailing down a $15-million deal but EW hasn't suggested how many seasons it might entail.
In perspective, that's reportedly just above what Jennifer Lopez makes judging network rival - and Cowell's own former home - "American Idol".
Cowell cleaned house this past January when it went public Jan. 30 that judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul had been given their walking papers, along with host Steve Jones. Since that time, week after week gave the "X Factor"-judge rumor mill name after name that might take a seat beside the two successful executives. Candidates included both Mariah Carey and Beyonce Knowles - both of whom Cowell nixed personally claiming the demands of new motherhood ruled both out; Madonna, who Cowell immediately deemed too expensive; Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry, both with personalities that seemingly lit the Brit's interest; and even the late Whitney Houston, whose rumored candidacy made headlines a mere afternoon before she was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel room on Feb. 12.
If nothing else, give Spears a hand that she's even under such reportedly serious consideration. It seems but yesterday - OK, so mostly circa 2008, but time flies - that she was but another pretty blonde stack of tabloid cannon-fodder destined for the "Cautionary Tale" file. But the iconic pop star of the late '90s and early 2000s has seemingly traveled great lengths getting her proverbial shit together, including her third-time's-a-charm engagement to boyfriend Jason Trawick and narry a peep including "Britney Spears", "exhaustion", "rehab" and/or "police report" in the same sentence.
She's now seemingly more on the way to the "Cleaned-Up Act" file - here's looking at you, Linds - than that of "The E! True Hollywood Story".
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At 02:39 PM 10/23/00, Joe Smith wrote: >Any loop detector that is not based on the list name is doomed to failure. Well, just trapping ANY x*loop header certainly stops loops! It also stops a bunch of autoresponders that follow the convention of putting loop headers in. This is the first time I've seen an ISP put them in every message sent by every client, and I deliberately set my lists up to look for ANY variant of x*loop because I've seen a bunch of them and they were ALL automated messages. If I make my server only trap headers added by my server, then I don't catch vacation autoresponders and badly behaving routers. (Yes, I look both in the headers and the message body...)


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I casually read Halvar Flake's post speculating on the nature of the DNS flaw this evening. Everyone and their brother appears to be in panic mode over this, but I was blown away by the simplicity. Halvar might have missed a small detail or two, but apparently, he got it more or less correct. But there must be more to it than this, right?
If not, then could it be that such an obvious flaw has been overlooked for more than twenty years because it's so ridiculously simple? Everyone that should have known and/or fixed this missed it due to it's simplicity, yet someone with an inquiring mind yet little knowledge of DNS can figure it out because they have no prior experience with the protocol? If you had detailed this to me a few months ago, I would have probably said that there's no way it would work, simply because it's so, well, simple. Surely, it couldn't be possible. But apparently it is, and using the dig test from dns-oarc.net, Neal Krawetz found that quite a few provider DNS servers are still unpatched.
Frankly, I'm not sure whether I should be shocked or start looking for Alan Funt hiding behind a plant.


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