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If Jodie Foster never got the good parts how did she end up with two Oscars and making 15 millions dollars per movie at her peak? It just doesn't fit.
@ hippy chk….great points:)
Jodie might have wanted Erin Brokovich. I could see Julia thinking she could handle being Clarice (what a shitshow that would have been!)
Also, Jodie had a weird moment when she did at least one bad comedy (Maverick). Maybe she wanted My Best Friend's Wedding or something like that.
@Bee Haven
I refuse to wear high heels. I admire them on other women, though.
Dern..strike two
Doesn't leave much
Foster/roberts(Don't see it but)
did felicity huffman win an oscar? I saw a pic of her and william h. macy and he was holding her shoes
@Jennifer, nope, Laura Dern has not won an Oscar(nominated for Ramblin'Rose)
Dern doesn't have an AA does she?
I inevitably end up removing my heels at events such as weddings, christenings and the races. Fought the urge at a funeral last week. But damn, I love my shoes!
Ha! @ Tricia! Garden party. I like it.
Meryl Streep & Sigourney Weaver? I don't even know if they were there — just tossing in an answer!
[email protected].yeah,I realized JM never won(thought she did for shortcuts/Altman or boogie nights(only nomination)
I switched to dern….
Bit I for sizzle it's jodie…she has that kinda rep. She's private, but fierce when she wants to be
@Tricia It can't be Julianne Moore. She has never won an Oscar. Only nominated.
Re-read the blind. This is one of the few times Enty doesn't say Winner/Nominated. He only says Academy Award winners.
Nice try, tho. 🙂
I wish the other woman (who I hope was Robin Wright) had stabbed Julia with her stiletto.
…that bitch Jodi. The Beaver made her do it!
Also,re:other BI, she brought her wife Alexandra to Emmys -their First public appearance together,just saying.
Only 2 that work
(Both there).. Laura much more low profile than JF her whole career, they are peers…I can see Dern being up for The Accused and SOTL even
Well another idea if Enty is being loose with the Oscar winner label is Halle Berry and Angela Bassett.
We know Lange and Bates are friends!
Foster and Lange/Bates? Seems petty of her.
Maybe Julia and Julianne but again I find it hard to believe that Julia would care, or feel threatened by her.
And I agree Roberts doesn't fit in that she was never gonna be up for same roles as JF…pretty woman/the accused? Not so much…..
If sandy bullock was there I'd say definitely
Foster/bullock,,but she wasn't
@xach..she didn't want her lesbian cast of OITNB hitting on her wife! Lol
Foster attended the HBO Afterparty where Julia Roberts would've been for The Normal Heart. Surprising Jodie didn't go to the Netflix Afterparty. Hmm.
I guess Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts? But were they ever really competing for the same parts? In Jodie's peak Julia was still a huge star and burgeoning America's Sweetheart. But Jodie especially fits for the star who doesn't act as much.
Roberts and Berry.
It was a garden party…everyone took their shoes off lol!
Maybe weren't photographed,but whose gonna wear heels..especially in grass..the y set up a park/floral theme thang
Def. Foster, she doesn't work as an actress anymore really..Roberts does..that's why she was nominated…lol
Moore was there too..looking gorgeous.
And she is much more….lower profile and less on radar when they were competing for parts 20 years ago
Julia thought that the emmy's were all about her, she's fucking delusional. you could tell everyone hated her fucking guts.
Respectfully, I don't think they ever competed for the same parts.
Octavia spencer/ Halle Berry
oh,purpose of my post was to say Robin has NOT won an Oscar-darn
How about that HOT white backless jumpsuit sexy Robin Wright wore to the Emmys-niiice.
Felicity Huffmans husband is carrying her shoes in the emmy photos
I thought julias schticht was awful. And i dont get the signifigance of no shoes. What the hell is it u are trying to say??
Julia Roberts always has so much drama….
Wonder if Uma was around.
Def think it's Julia Riberts. Ah always takes off her shoes. I think she has a foot issue. Remember wheelchair and Geirge Clooney? Plus us amazons get uncomfortable towering over everyone when wearing stripper shoes.
Dunno if Robin won Oscar or not. But sounds like a good guess. She is tall too ((heels off.)
I smile just thinking about Robin Wright snubbing Julia Roberts
Did Robin win an Oscar though?
@Haywood, I like your Roberts-Wright guess. I'd take Robin in a role any day over Julia. She just keeps getting better with age.
It's all over the news that Julia showed up barefoot to the emmy's after party. I can't find who else showed up barefoot who is an A list.
Lets try J.R. and former close friend Robin Wright.
It happened t the HBO after Emmy party..everyone was there it seems..I think it's foster/Moore
I remember reading her say once she lost out to JF for silence of the lambs…which made it so interesting that she got the sequel
Jodie foster/Julianne moore
Well Julia Roberts is definitely one of them.
Julia Roberts and Annabeth Gish??
I hope not Jessica Lang and Angelica Houston.
…or would it be Julia Roberts and I have no idea.
She was wobbly on stage…totally her.
The person didn't have to be at Emmys…said Emmy party
Would have added Amanda Peet to the Julia guess but she's not an award winner…
Oh and I forgot Octavia S.
Roberts for sure only other winners there were Berry, Lange and Bates and I do not see them as going for the same roles as Roberts.


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TFC Splits Baseball Doubleheader
The Toccoa Falls College Eagles split a double header with Georgia Gwinnett College.
At home Saturday in games broadcast on AM 630 WNEG and wnegradio.com, the Eagles lost Game One to Georgia Gwinnett, the number six team in the nation in NAIA baseball, 8-1.
However, the Eagles came back to win the second game 7-4.
In the first game, the Georgia Gwinnett Grizzlies scored five runs in the fifth inning to pull away from Toccoa Falls.
Jake Fields led Georgia Gwinnett with a home run and three RBIs.
Alex Roberts got the win on the mound for the Grizzlies, while Zack Murdock took the loss in the first game for TFC.
Moving to the second game, Justin Key, A.J. Mussey, and Ronnie Stewart all hit home runs for the Eagles in the victory.
Key went the distance for TFC on the mound to pick up the win, while Sheldon Connor took the loss on the mound for the Grizzlies in the second game.
Toccoa Falls College is now 27-13 on the season, while Georgia Gwinnett is 44-9.
The Eagles are back in action at home today at 1 p.m. against Talladega College.

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A new research brief on the NCSC Web site explains findings about how new elementary school teachers decide whether to apply to charter schools when they begin looking for a job. The brief is based on the paper Charter Schools and the Teacher Job Search in Michigan by NCSC associate director Marisa Cannata, which explores the decisions that new teachers make as they move through the job search process.
The study collected responses from new graduates of teacher education programs as they entered the job market, applied for teaching jobs, and decided where to work. It produced several interesting findings:
- Few prospective teachers give equal consideration to charter schools and traditional public schools. Most teachers in the study avoided charter schools altogether or included them only if positions in traditional public schools were not available.
- Social and institutional factors influence job applicants' familiarity with, and openness to, working in charter schools. Prospective teachers favored schools that were familiar and personally relevant (e.g., they had contacts in the schools or lived in communities where such schools were located). Applicants who attended universities that authorized charter schools and who lived in communities with charter schools were more likely to include charters in job searches.
- Applicants had misconceptions about charter schools' public/private status and about their missions. Some said charter schools seemed more similar to private entities, making them unappealing to applicants committed to public education, while others thought charter schools served public purposes by educating predominantly low-income students. Prospective teachers who wanted to work in an urban school or who also applied to private schools were more likely to apply to charter schools.
- Applicants who end up in charter schools earn lower salaries and are less satisfied with their schools. Half the applicants hired by charter schools indicated that they planned to apply for another teaching job at the end of the school year, compared with 15 percent in traditional public schools. Even if these teachers did not follow through, the data suggest that those who landed in charter schools were more likely to wish they worked somewhere else.
The study used surveys, interviews, and binomial logistic regression to investigate why new teachers decide to apply – or not to apply – to charter schools. The researchers conducted a longitudinal survey of 160 applicants and more detailed interviews of a subset of 27 prospective teachers at several points during their job search. The interviews were coded to identify central themes in applicants' decision-making and experiences to identify patterns about why they did or did not consider charter schools. Those patterns became the bases for independent variables in a logistic regression model using data from the survey and application to at least one charter school as the outcome variable.
The brief includes a clearly written sidebar explaining the theoretical framework behind the study, labor market segmentation. The theory guides the study's development of a model for understanding the interaction between teachers' job searches and institutional structures and informal boundaries (such as social networks and preferences for working in a familiar setting).
Read more about teacher labor markets from the NCSC publications archive.
Teacher Working Conditions and Qualifications in Schools of Choice
The Qualifications and Classroom Performance of Teachers Moving to Charter Schools


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President Barack Obama to Impose Sanctions on Iran, Syria for Technology Abuse
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The order targets nations that use certain technologies like cell phone tracking and Internet monitoring/bans to impose an unnecessary level of authority on its citzens
U.S. President Barack Obama will allow sanctions to be imposed on foreign companies and individuals that use technology to aid autocratic nations in oppressing their citizens.
Obama will issue this executive order today at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The order targets nations that use certain technologies like cell phone tracking and internet monitoring/bans to impose an unnecessary level of authority on its citizens.
The executive order is specifically meant for Syria and Iran, where cells phones and the internet had been used by democracy advocates to organize the Middle East. However, security services in Syria and Iran have started to use such technology to
track citizens
and block access to the Internet.
The sanctions imposed on Syria and Iran will include financial restrictions and a visa ban on one Syrian individual, two Syrian "entities," and four Iranian entities. The word "entities" refers to either government agencies or private companies in Syria and Iran.
The Middle East isn't the only area where cell phone/internet tracking and bans are a problem. Earlier this month,
the Chinese sector of hacker group Anonymous
defaced and stole information from nearly 500 government and corporate websites in China. Anonymous China did this to rebel against its government for the amount of censorship it imposes on its citizens when it comes to social networking sites, news sites and file-sharing sites.
In the U.S., there are issues with
law enforcement using cell phone tracking regularly
on citizens, which is sometimes warrantless, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In addition, employers and educational institutions are closely monitoring social networks of employees and students in order to learn more about applicants and current workers/students.
For instance, the Maryland Department of Corrections had asked applicants and current employees to
provide their Facebook email and passwords for complete access
. Corrections officer Robert Collins complained to the ACLU, who stopped the practice. However, the Maryland Department of Corrections simply started asking applicants and employees to log onto their Facebook accounts themselves right in front of the employer for access.
A proposed bill back in March aimed to
stop employees from asking for such information
and access, but it was rejected in the U.S. House of Representatives. Another bill, which applies to Maryland only and aims to stop employers from
asking for social media passwords
, passed unanimously in the Senate and by a large number in the House of Delegates earlier this month.
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Description: An elderly client with a home in his name wanted to pass his home to his heirs without worrying about the time and expense of probate and the possibility that Medicaid will place a lien on his estate during his life, or recover from his estate after death. For a modest fee, we were able to shelter his home from Medicaid and pass his home free of probate expenses. Disclaimer: Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.


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New Look At Russell Crowe As Noah
The oldtrinos are mutating
Darren Aronofsky's Noah is much more than a 2012-for-biblical-times effects-fest. With the brainy New Yorker and Gladiator scribe John Logan behind the story, we're expecting food - sorry, manna - for thought, interspersed with plenty of big action beats.
The bonds of family are a thread that runs through Logan's work in particular, and this fresh patch of stills from the film assembles most of the Noah clan for us. Russell Crowe, of course, is the great boat-building patriarch, but we also meet his son Shem (Logan Lerman), grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins), and Shem's close confederate Ila (Emma Watson). Head to Fotogramas for the full Noah family album.
The eagle-eyed may have also spotted Ray Winstone in the mix. He plays an as-yet unnamed character who acts as Noah's enemy, causing the seafarer a degree of angst likely to be unrivalled in the history of massive global cataclysms. That said, we give him 10-1 against in the battle against biblical destiny.
Noah is out on March 28, 2014 on both sides of the water.


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In more recent years, the House of Representatives has risen a bit in stature, but only a bit.
More impressive still, unlike the rest of the Republican field, the former Pennsylvania senator has steadily grown in stature.
But I suppose Robert Kennedy, whom you knew well, was an example of a politician who grew in stature.
Since then, Miliband has grown in confidence and stature, and the Labour Party has continued to rise in the opinion polls.
Saujani is a woman, now 37, who is small in stature but fearless in taking risks.
And the King thought he had mightily grown in stature and thews.
He was a mason by trade, and was athletic and tall of stature.
They were hill natives, and shorter in stature than the river tribes.
His stature was lofty,—far above that of the common run of men.
In form and stature, he was modeled strictly after the heron.
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HGA Architects and Engineers (HGA) has completed the design for phase one of the new West Valley Campus at College of the Desert in Palm Springs, Calif., -- a project that sets new benchmarks for integrating sustainable design and high-performance building technologies into the academic curriculum.
"The College of the Desert's vision for a self-sustaining campus is to produce more energy than it consumes," said James Matson, AIA, vice president and director of HGA's Los Angeles office. "The plan emphasizes energy production along with substantial conservation and energy efficiency, waste recovery and biomimicry in partnership with green industries and educational initiatives. The campus will consider the site's unique ecology and natural resources to create a national model for sustainable research and teaching that supports the local economy and educational needs in the Coachella Valley."
The project will include 50,000 square-feet of academic space occupying several buildings clustered around a shaded courtyard. When complete in January 2015, this phase will include basic skills labs, culinary arts and a Desert Energy Enterprise Center (DEEC) that engages students in the engineering of solar panels and wind turbines. Currently at DSA for approval, the construction of the site work will begin in July, 2013.
"The overall design vision for this project is focused on making it a national model for innovate sustainable strategies," said Satoshi Teshima, AIA, LEED AP, project designer. "The result will be an iconic campus that not only serves as a landmark and gateway to Palm Springs, but reflects the city's history of mid-century modern architecture."
HGA is directing the master planning, programming, design and sustainability of the campus, which will become a national model for innovative sustainable strategies.
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Located at the northwest corner of Indian Canyon Drive and Tramview Road, approximately ½-hour drive from the Palm Desert Campus, the new community college campus will serve as gateway to the City of Palm Springs. The 119-acre campus includes a 59-acre tabular rasa academic campus designed by HGA; and a planned adjacent 60-acre "GreenPark" solar farm, which the college will lease to a third party to provide clean energy to Coachella Valley and a revenue source for the campus.
HGA's master plan identifies building orientation, campus circulation and growth over seven phases. The U-shaped academic campus wraps around the existing James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center, integrating community activity into the campus. The master plan aligns with the college's four educational "pillars" to promote business partnerships—Hospitality & Tourism, Media & the Arts, Allied Health, and Sustainability Technology. The campus includes 420,000 square feet of academic space and 230,000 square feet of leasable Public-Private Venture (PPV) space, which will serve as both academic buildings and incubator space for start-ups.
"The Research & Development facilities and Business Incubator programs will help generate revenue streams and offer real-world applications of state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies implemented in the college's academic curriculum," Matson added.
Design Details
The architecture reflects Palm Springs' midcentury-modern style while integrating ecological opportunities of the desert landscape through biomimicry, which incorporates sustainable processes from nature into the campus plan and architectural systems. The master plan addresses sun, shade, wind and biomimicry along an Arroyo, or dry riverbed, that winds through campus as the main organizing element. HGA is researching and testing integrated systems to improve building performance, including façades that minimize heat gain, energy-efficient mechanical systems, photovoltaic solar panels, storm-water reservoirs for evaporative cooling, shading and day lighting techniques, wind protection and desert landscaping with seasonal plantings.
"This project has forward-thinking goals that go beyond Net Zero Energy to embrace a Zero-Plus plan that creates renewable clean energy rather than simply uses less energy," said Patrick Thibaudeau, LEED AP, vice president of sustainable design at HGA. "The Zero-Plus plan targets five integrated sustainable goals—Zero-Plus energy, carbon, water, waste and materials. The plan emphasizes on-site electricity production through photovoltaic solar panels and establishes consumption targets to be less than or equal to available resources. As an educational model, the West Valley Campus is an opportunity to integrate local ecology, create innovative learning opportunities for students and bring together public agencies, the college and private industry to explore new approaches to sustainability."


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What seemed to be a fairly innocuous announcement, that the National Park Service was banning lead ammunition and fishing gear throughout the National Park System, has drawn the ire of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The announcement Tuesday by the Park Service will have relatively little impact on hunters, as most national park units ban hunting. But that didn't stop the hunting group from quickly criticizing the decision.
"The National Park Service's decision is arbitrary, over-reactive and not based on science," Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, said Wednesday. "Studies show that traditional ammunition does not pose a health risk to humans, or wildlife populations as a whole."
In Washington, the Park Service's acting director, Dan Wenk, said the desire to reduce lead in national park environments led to the ban.
"Our goal is to eliminate the use of lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle in parks by the end of 2010," said Mr. Wenk. "We want to take a leadership role in removing lead from the environment."
According to a Park Service release, "the new lead reduction efforts also include changes in NPS activities, such as culling operations or the dispatching of wounded or sick animals. Rangers and resource managers will use non-lead ammunition to prevent environmental contamination as well as lead poisoning of scavenger species who may eventually feed upon the carcass. Non-toxic substitutes for lead made in the United States are now widely available including tungsten, copper, and steel."
Mr. Wenk also said the agency would develop educational materials to increase awareness about the consequences of lead exposure and the benefits of using lead-free ammunition and fishing tackle.
Lead is an environmental contaminant affecting many areas of the world, including the national parks, the acting director said. Lead already is banned in gasoline, children's toys, and paint because of its effects on human health. In the United States, there is an accelerating trend to expand efforts to reduce lead contamination associated with firearms and hunting, he added.
California and Arizona have recently implemented mandatory and voluntary bans, respectively, on lead ammunition to facilitate California condor recovery. And Yellowstone National Park has had restrictions on lead fishing tackle for years to protect native species and their habitats.
Back at the shooting sports foundation, officials questioned whether the Park Service had made its decision to ban lead blindly, saying the agency "appears to have made its decision without requesting input from wildlife management and conservation groups, or ammunition manufacturers."
"There is no evidence of traditional ammunition harming humans or wildlife populations that would warrant this kind of drastic policy change," said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel.
The shooting organization added that traditional lead ammunition is "best suited" for dispatching wounded or sick animals or for culling operations. Lead ammunition costs less than the alternatives, the group said, and hunters are more familiar with its performance.
"Hunters also are agreeable to taking voluntary measures, such as burying entrails after field dressing game, to prevent scavengers from ingesting lead fragments," the group's editorial said.
Furthermore, the group said that:
Ammunition containing lead components has been the choice of hunters for well over 100 years, during which time wildlife populations in America have surged. While lead ingestion appears to occur in a small number of individual animals, overall populations are unaffected. Also, there has never been a documented case of lead poisoning among humans who have eaten game taken with traditional ammunition, and a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on North Dakota hunters who consumed game confirmed that there was no reason for concern over eating game taken with traditional ammunition.
Unfortunately, the park service's decision to ban traditional ammunition adds to the misinformation being circulated by anti-hunting groups to promote fear among wildlife managers and hunters about traditional ammunition. The park service's news release
makes erroneous comparisons between organic lead found in gasoline and the metallic lead used in ammunition. Banning lead in gasoline and paint was related to public health concerns because of the widespread nature of these substances and ingestion of paint chips by young children. These issues are not associated with lead in ammunition.
But at the Park Service, Acting-Director Wenks said the ban will benefit wildlife, humans, and the environment without harming hunters.
"The reduction and eventual removal of lead on Park Service lands will benefit humans, wildlife, and ecosystems inside and outside park boundaries and continue our legacy of resource stewardship," he said.


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How Honda Saved The American Drive-In From Extinction [Video]
The car brand showcases the successes of Project Drive-In through a video called The Reveal.
This summer Honda launched its Project Drive-In campaign, a movement to save drive-in theaters across America by helping them upgrade to digital projectors, which can cost at least $75,000 plus installation fees.
Project Drive-In lets people vote for the theaters they want to save on the project website. A campaign has also been launched on Indiegogo to allow people to donate and help raise funds.
Project Drive-In initially wanted to save five drive-ins, but they were able to save nine and documented the owners' reactions when they were told they won a digital projector for their drive-in theater.
Honda released the video, The Reveal, to show how crowdfunding helped save these local and mostly family-owned businesses.
The campaign will continue to raise funds to save more drive-ins by the end of the year.
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IT WAS a pretty wet and miserable Australia Day holiday but former prime minister Bob Hawke did not let that dampen his renowned good spirits. He and a gaggle of Australians gathered at Whale Beach to celebrate Australia Day and the 84th anniversary of the restaurant, Jonah's. When one guest said if next year's Australia Day is washed out, everyone should get the following day off work instead, actor Jack Thompson agreed: ''Next sunny day the nation should be on holiday. Sounds like a bloody good idea.'' But Hawke - who famously quipped that any boss who sacked someone for celebrating Australia's 1983 America's Cup win was a ''bum'' - would not countenance the thought of two days off work. ''Nope we can't have that. Part of the Aussie character is being able to cop things, too. So it may be raining but it's still Australia Day and you still get the day off, so cop it on the chin,'' he said. That sobering thought, strange as it was coming from the yard-glass guzzling former PM, was enough to make Thompson change his mind on the subject: ''You're right and if you think about it we are the land of drought and flooding rains. And we're just lucky we're inside watching the rains while poor Queensland is battling.'' The pair then celebrated their consensus by singing karaoke. Thompson offered up a rousing Clancy of the Overflow, while Hawke opted for an eerily operatic rendition of Waltzing Matilda.
Cheats memo worth copying
'Copycats beware,'' warns the NSW Department of Education's new back-to-school website. ''When kids copy, or plagiarise, someone else's original work and pass it off as their own, they're being dishonest, unethical and, in fact, they're cheating.'' It's a valuable lesson and one you might expect the NSW Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, to know well. But we couldn't help feeling deja vu when reading his recent pronouncements about the back-to-school site, which he reckoned ''will offer information about how families can best prepare for the new school year''. Curiously, the deputy director-general of schools, Greg Prior, said exactly the same thing a year earlier about the launch of the department's back-to-school phone helpline, which also offered ''information about how families can best prepare for the new school year''. In a media release on January 27, 2012, Mr Prior said: 'This can be an anxious time, particularly for parents sending their children to school for the first time, or who have children starting high school.'' In a January 21, 2013, media release, Mr Piccoli echoed his thoughts: ''This can be an anxious time, particularly for parents sending their children to school for the first time, or who have children starting high school.'' Roughly two-thirds of last week's media release bears striking similarities to the 2012 release, including a reference to ''dedicated staff'' who are on hand to assist parents. Compare the documents at smh.com.au/the-diary. The department's new website warns copycats can face penalties. But the minister's spokesman was keen for his boss to avoid detention. ''The lines about what information was available from the advice line and the website are factual, so it is not surprising they remain the same,'' he said.
The Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot almost stole the show at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts industry awards when he announced that, unlike Jodie Foster, Magda Szubanski and director Stephan Elliott, he was going back in the closet, reports Garry Maddox. ''It's been very over-rated and I haven't been invited to a single orgy,'' said the animator who famously mentioned his boyfriend when he accepted his 2004 Oscar for Harvie Krumpet. The awards luncheon, ahead of the main AACTA ceremony on January 30, turned into an early triumph for The Sapphires. Director Wayne Blair's comic musical, about an indigenous all-girl singing group in the 1960s, won five craft awards including best cinematography, editing, sound, production design and costume design. ''Oh my god, this is so cool,'' said cinematographer Warwick Thornton.The Sapphires only missed out on best visual effects, which went to Iron Sky, a little-seen Finnish-Australian sci-fi comedy about a Nazi strike on Earth from the dark side of the moon. In the television categories, actor-writer Adam Zwar and producer Nicole Minchin had a double win for light-hearted ABC1 shows. Agony Aunts won best light entertainment television series and Lowdown won best comedy series ahead of A Moody Christmas. Best documentary series was Go Back To Where You Came From. Producer Rick McPhee thanked SBS ''for having the courage to commission something so risky''.
Coalition apparatchiks have accomplished what no mere mortal has managed: putting Malcolm Turnbull in the shade. The opposition's flashy brochure, pictured, outlining its ''direction, values and policy priorities'' - imaginatively titled Our Plan - boasts a photo of its big hitters in a row. There's Nationals leader Warren Truss, the non-blinking Julie Bishop, the open-mouthed Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey (pre-gastric surgery) and a scruffy Andrew Robb. The Addams Family has got nothing on this motley crew. The pollies are sitting so close together the pic has either been photoshopped or they're sharing the same chair. Bishop seems to have sacrificed her left arm in a show of unity. But it's the shrunken chap cast adrift down the end of the table, in the shadow of the venetian blinds, who catches the eye. Turnbull seems to have lost several centimetres on his peers. Fittingly, he is sitting well left of centre.
SERVING your country is an admirable pursuit. But we wonder if some German male soldiers wish they'd gone AWOL before they started sprouting boobs on duty. Soldiers from an elite battalion have reported developing large mammary glands after performing drills at ceremonies. Many of the drills involve thumping a rifle against the left side of the chest, which has apparently stimulated the hormones that cause man boobs (or boob, as it were). Budding breasts - or gynecomastia - have been diagnosed in 74 per cent of the soldiers who raised concerns, the German Herald reported. ''There is a very significant link between the activity in the battalion and the development of the breast on the left side,'' the military's director of plastic surgery, Dr Bjorn Krapohl, said. The Australian Defence Force won't say if its male soldiers are similarly top heavy. Taxpayers footed a $633,000 bill for plastic surgery - including breast reductions and breast implants - on military personnel between 2007 and 2010, but it's not known how many of those patients were men.
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Posted on February 22, 2010There have been many articles written about Apple's plans to sell ebooks on the new iPad for around $14.99, which is $5 more than the average Kindle price of $9.99. The New York Times reports that it has uncovered a dirty little secret in Apple's deal with several major book publishers: if a book becomes a bestseller, the book's price may drop to $9.99.
Naturally, Apple refused to comment for the article. But publishers' general unhappiness with the price of ebooks may not be going away with the introduction of the iPad.[A]ccording to at least three people with knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because of the confidentiality of the talks, Apple inserted provisions requiring publishers to discount e-book prices on best sellers -- so that $12.99-to-$14.99 range was merely a ceiling; prices for some titles could be lower, even as low as Amazon's $9.99. Essentially, Apple wants the flexibility to offer lower prices for the hottest books, those on one of the New York Times best-seller lists, which are heavily discounted in bookstores and on rival retail sites. So, for example, a book that started at $14.99 would drop to $12.99 or less once it hit the best-seller lists.
Moreover, for books where publishers offer comparable hardcover editions at a price below the typical $26, Apple wanted e-book prices to reflect the cheaper hardcover prices. These books might be priced much lower than $12.99, even if they did not hit the best-seller list.
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With a reputation for being innovative and versatile, Dante Ariola made a name for himself directing commercials for the likes of Coca Cola, Nike and Lexus. What began as a substantial career in graphic design morphed into a myriad of film work, including music videos for bands like Cake and Cypress Hill, and a documentary short about wildlife conservationist Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, entitled "Man & Beast."
This month, he makes his feature film debut with "Arthur Newman," starring Academy Award-winner Colin Firth and Golden Globe-nominee Emily Blunt – two British A-listers sporting their best American accents here. Firth plays a washed-up golf star that fakes his own death and assumes a new identity, teaming up with a young woman (Blunt) that's also striving to escape her past. The East Valley Tribune recently caught up with Ariola, who chatted about the film, "Breaking Bad" and why this project seemed right for his debut feature.
Q: I understand that early in your career, you started out doing a lot of graphic design and music-related projects. Could you tell me about your transition into filmmaking?
A: Yeah I mean, basically what happened was I grew up in New York and when I first moved to LA, I had met some people in Cypress Hill and I winded up doing their logo. Then I kind of just fell into doing a lot of local design for a lot of bands. So basically I had a graphics business and then I got a call to do a commercial out of the blue and I've been doing that ever since.
Working in commercials, you do learn the craft of filmmaking and I've always been a film fan but I didn't really come to Hollywood to make a film. I was looking for scripts that spoke to me and this was the first one that really did.
Q: What was it about this particular script that appealed to you?
A: I liked the idea of a film that deals with themes of identity and kind of figuring out who you are, you know, and maybe taking escapism a little too far. I thought it was like, basically, if you had a genre, it'd be self-discovery but not like any other movie that I've seen. I felt like it had an interesting takeaway but it was just sort of framed in an odd way I hadn't seen before.
Q: Aside from the scope of "Arthur Newman" being much larger than that of your previous projects, what were some of the challenges you faced taking on a feature film?
A: I think with independent film, the biggest challenge is just giving actors space to really find these characters and find where they need to be in each scene. You're on a 30-day, pretty tight schedule, and I think the biggest challenge is to make sure the performers don't feel rushed, even though you are rushing.
Q: Were Colin and Emily already attached when you signed on or did they audition later in the process?
A: No, I was just starting to think about who could play Arthur and I knew that I definitely wanted an actor that had an inherent pathetic quality about him because the character is so flawed and almost unlikable at times. That's kind of what brought me to Colin and then just to find somebody that he'd have chemistry with.
The two characters are diametrically opposed in almost every way and definitely age being a part of that, if you know what I mean. I wanted to find someone where age wasn't the main driving factor. It's not a film solely about an older man and a younger woman, it's just another thing that makes these two people so different. In regular life they'd probably never be hanging out together, you know?
Q: How would you describe your experience working with them and what qualities they brought to the roles that others might not have?
A: I mean it was an incredible experience working with them. You know, I think we were all making movies for the right reasons and this project sort of spoke to everyone. They had their heads wrapped around who these characters were and how they changed, and they sort of cracked that. They definitely bring a lot to the table and have inherent acting ability, you know what I mean? They're a director's dream come true, really.
Q: Were there any films or filmmakers you watched while making "Arthur Newman" that maybe inspired you stylistically or tonally?
A: I mean I think tone is a big part of this film, but maybe just growing up in the 70's and 80's. That's kind of when I got into film, and you know, it's a little bit slower unraveling of a story, like how films like that used to unfold. I would have loved to see how Hal Ashby would have directed a film like this.
It's got a little bit of a timeless quality; it was written like 20 years ago and then kind of sat in the drawer. I would say just the pacing of it and the way the story and the characters kind of unfold, it has a little bit of an intentionally antiquated structure.
Q: Any films or television shows that you've enjoyed recently or would recommend?
A: I'm curious about what happens in the final episodes of "Breaking Bad." I've been so busy making this thing and working that I haven't watched as much as I want, but I'm waiting for that.
"Arthur Newman" opens in select theaters Friday, April 26. For more information about the film, visit http://arthur-newman.com/.


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What is an interactive whiteboard?
Interactive whiteboards include a number of widely used proprietary products on the market, such as Smartboard and Promethean ActiveBoard, purchased as a large interactive display system that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface where users control the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or other device. The board is typically mounted to a wall or floor stand. They are used in a variety of settings, including classrooms at all levels of education, in corporate board rooms and work groups, in training rooms for professional sports coaching, in broadcasting studios and others. Traditional whiteboard markers are NOT to be used on the special surface of an electronic interactive whiteboard.
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (
Renalase is a recently discovered protein, involved in regulation of blood pressure in humans and animals. Although several splice variants of human renalase mRNA transcripts have been recognized, only one protein product, hRenalase1, has been found so far. In this study, we have used polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based amplification of individual exons of the renalase gene and their joining for construction of full-length hRenalase2 coding sequence followed by expression of hRenalase2 as a polyHis recombinant protein in
Renalase is a recently discovered protein, which is likely involved in regulation of blood pressure in humans and animals [
According to information available in GenBank (
The transcript variant 1 (1477 nucleotides (nt)) contains seven exons and encodes a protein (hRenalase1) of 342 residues with calculated molecular mass of 37.85 kDa. This transcript variant was preferentially found in the glomeruli and proximal tubules, and also in cardiomyocytes, liver, and skeletal muscles [
The transcript variant 2 (2107 nt) contains five exons (2/6) identical to the transcript variant 1 and differs by the last, seventh, exon; it also has a single nucleotide substitution, which determines amino acid substitution Glu37→Asp in the first exon as compared to the amino acid sequence of hRenalase1. This transcript variant 2 encodes a protein (hRenalase2) of 315 residues with calculated molecular mass of 34.95 kDa. In the very first publication on renalase, an mRNA species of about 2.4 kb similar in length to the transcript variant 2 was identified in skeletal muscles [
However, except for hRenalase1, protein products encoded by corresponding renalase mRNAs have not yet been identified and their biological role remains unknown. It is possible that some results based on ELISA analysis of plasma/serum samples from renal transplant recipients [
The situation could be clarified by producing preparative quantities of renalase isoforms. However, the problem of producing these proteins even as recombinant proteins by means of the commonly used prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems is associated with difficulties in isolation of these scarce transcripts from human tissues/cells.
In order to overcome this problem, in this study we have generated full-length coding sequences of human renalase1 (as control for applicability of the selected strategy) and human renalase2 using human genomic DNA as a template and expressed corresponding hRenalase1 and hRenalase2 in a prokaryotic system. We also compared interaction of both renalases with polyclonal antibodies against hRenalase1. To date, this is the first report on synthesis and purification of hRenalase2.
Traditional cDNA cloning requires isolation and purification of large amounts of poly-A + mRNA from tissues/cells, which express a gene of interest. Isolation of mRNA of poorly expressible genes represents especially difficult task in the case of human tissues. So we have used another strategy for construction of the coding sequence of hRenalase2, based on assembly of individual exons (
Initially, seven individual exons of hRenalase1 have been amplified by PCR using human genomic DNA as a template (
Amplification of exons 1, 2, 4, and 6 (1ExRe1, 2ExRe1, 4ExRe1, and 6ExRe1 in
During the next step, all amplicons containing seven individual exons (
Subsequent joining of the amplified linked exons 1–2ExRe1 (236, bp) with 3–4ExRe1 (325 bp), and linked exons 5–6ExRe1 (370 bp) with exon 7ExRe1 (188 bp) was carried out by overlapping PCR using the amplified PCR products and corresponding outmost primers (
The complete coding sequence of 1/7ExRe1 (1061 bp) (
The resultant complete sequence of hRenalase1 contained the nucleotide sequence of seven exons (1/7) flanking OS-start and OS-end containing restriction sites for restriction endonucleases
The full-length hRenalase1 coding sequence was then inserted into the pET-28a(+) vector by
IPTG induction of
According to the computational analysis of the renalase gene (
Subsequent sequencing based on insertion of the pGEM®-T easy vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) carrying hRenalase2 coding sequence into
The full-length hRenalase2 coding sequence was also inserted into the pET-28a(+) vector by
IPTG induction of
Purified preparations of hRenalase1 and hRenalase2 have been tested for their interaction with sheep polyclonal antibodies produced against hRenalase1. Results of Western blot analysis clearly indicate that both renalases effectively interact with these antibodies (
There is increasing evidence that renalase may be involved in pathogenesis of various pathological conditions [
The goal of this study was to obtain a coding sequence of hRenalase2, a poorly expressed transcript of the renalase gene. Until this study, only one protein product, known as hRenalase1, has been found and structurally characterized [
Earlier, such an approach was used for effective assembly of exons into complete coding sequences directly from genomic DNA [
We have used this approach for sequential synthesis of individual exons with overlapping sequences directly from genomic DNA and used them without additional purification. This reduced both time and costs of the whole procedure as no kits for PCR fragment purification were needed. According to our data, the presence of contaminants from the previous step (amplification of individual exons) did not interfere with exon joining. The validity of this approach was originally tested using hRenalase1, which had been cloned and expressed in several laboratories. The resultant coding sequence of hRenalase1 assembled by overlapping PCR corresponded well to the nucleotide sequence available from GenBank (
Since hRenalase2 differs from hRenalase1 by the seventh exon (
The following reagents were used in this study: Pfu Turbo DNA-polymerase (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA), restriction endonucleases
The general scheme describing construction of full-length coding sequences of hRenalases 1 and 2 consists of two principal steps (
The human genomic DNA was extracted by the conventional method of phenol-chloroform extraction [
The exon amplification and subsequent assembly by overlapping PCR was performed in individual 500 μL tubes (Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) using a Tercyc thermocycler (DNA Technology, Moscow, Russia). Each exon amplification was carried out in the reaction mixture (final volume of 20 μL) containing 1× Pfu buffer, 50 ng genomic DNA, 3 μM of each overlapping forward (P-f) and reverse (P-r) primers (see
Re-amplification was performed in the same reaction mixture (20 μL) and using the same PCR cycling profile as above with only one exception: Genomic DNA was replaced by a PCR-amplificate (2 μL) from the previous PCR step.
The resultant full-length coding sequence (
The coding sequences of hRenalase1 and hRenalase2 were then excised from pGEM-T as a
The constructed plasmids pET-RenI and pET-RenII were transformed into
The overnight cultures were then inoculated into 200 mL of LB medium containing 50 μg/mL kanamycin in a thermostat shaker (Ecotron, Infors, Lausanne, Switzerland) at 37 °C and 250 rpm. When the cultures reached an OD600 of ~0.6, they were induced with 1.0 mM IPTG (final concentration 1 mM) and incubated for 4 h under the same conditions. Cells were harvested by centrifugation at 5,000×
The presence of the target product (human recombinant renalase1 or 2) was evaluated in the whole-cell lysates by 15% SDS-PAGE and visualized by Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 (Sigma, Moscow, Russia) staining.
The biomass obtained from 2 L of the culture medium (about 30 g) was used for purification of target proteins by affinity chromatography on Ni-Sepharose (10 g) (GE Healthcare, Stockholm, Sweden). Briefly, the biomass was resuspended using overnight shaking (120–160 rpm, Ecotron shaker, Lausanne, Switzerland) in 0.5 L of buffered solution of 8 M urea (Amresco, Solon, OH, USA) containing 0.1 M NaH2PO4, 10 mM Tris, pH 8.0. The resultant lysate was cleared by two sequential centrifugations for 30 min at 16,000×
Concentrations of the purified recombinant proteins were determined spectrophotometrically at 280 nm by using the molar extinction coefficients deduced from the amino acid sequences by the OMIGA 2.0 software (Oxford Molecular Group Inc., Oxford, UK) [
Western blotting was performed using the standard protocol described in [
In this study, we have used PCR-based amplification of individual exons and their joining by overlapping PCR for preparation of full-length coding sequence of humen renalase2 and its subsequent expression in
This work was supported by the State Budget and a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 11-04-01181a).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
The schematic diagram illustrating the construction of a full-length coding sequence of hRenalases. Step1: Seven individual exons of hRenalase1 (1ExRe1/7ExRe7) with overlapping sequences (OS) were amplified by means of corresponding forward (Pr-f) and reverse (Pr-r) primers; Step2: The amplified exons were sequentially linked together by overlapping PCR. (
Amplification of individual exons of hRenalase1. (
Joining of hRenalase1 exons into the full-length coding sequence. Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR products of hRenalase1 exons obtained during Step 2. The calculated sizes of the amplified exons (corrected for the presence of the OS sequences) were: 1—1–2ExRe1 (236 bp); 2—3–4ExRe1 (325 bp); 3—5–6ExRe1 (370 bp); 4—1/4ExRe1 (538 bp); 5—5/7ExRe1 (535 bp); 6—1/7ExRe1 (1061 bp). L—DNA ladder (50 bp, 100 bp, 150 bp, 200 bp, 250 bp, 300 bp, 350 bp, 400 bp, 450 bp, 500 bp); L-2—DNA ladder-2 (50 bp, 100 bp, 200 bp, 300 bp, 400 bp, 500 bp, 600 bp, 700 bp, 800 bp, 900 bp, 1000 bp).
Nucleotide sequences of hRenalase1 ORF available from GenBank (locus NM_001031709.1; upper sequence). hRenalase1 ORF (median sequence) obtained in this study by sequential exon joining, and amino acid sequence of hRenalase1 (lower sequence, a one-letter code). SNPs are shown in bold capital letters.
Expression of hRenalase1 and hRenalase2 in
Western blot analysis of hRenalase1 and hRenalase2 using sheep polyclonal antibodies against hRenalase1. (
Primers used for overlapping PCR.
|Primers forward (5′-3′)
|Primers reverse (5′-3′)
|1Pr-f: cgtcg
|1Pr-r: cctgagtcgtcagccttgtcc
|2Pr-f: ggacaaggctga
|2Pr-r: cgttggtgttttttggcataatg
|3Pr-f: cattatgccaaaaaacaccaacgtttttatgatgaactgttagc
|3Pr-r: ctgattctttcaagtaatgc
|4Pr-f: gcattacttgaaagaatcaggtgcagaagtctacttc
|4Pr-r: aggtggtgatgtcaccttg
|5Pr-f: caaggtgacatcaccaccttaattagtgaatgccaaaggc
|5Pr-r: ctatattgcgcttcttattatc
|6Pr-f: gataataagaacggcaatatagagtcatcagaaattgggc
|6Pr-r: cctgtgaatgtctccatttttgg
|7Pr-f: ccaaaaatggagacattcacaggttacaaatgctgctgcc
|7Pr-r: gaggag
|1PrRe2-r: cctgagtcct
|2PrRe2-f: ggacaaggctga
|7PrRe2-f: ccaaaaatggagacattcacaggtaccaagtgctggtgtgattc
|7PrRe2-r: gaggag
Substituted nucleotides in forward and reverse primers used for amplification of exons 1ExRe2 and 2ExRe2 are shown in bold capital letters. The nucleotide sequences corresponding to the
Purification of human polyHis-renalases 1 and 2.
|Protein form
|Purification step
|Volume (mL)
|Protein (mg)
|A280 nm
|Bacterial culture
|Crude extract
|Ni-Sepharose affinity chromatography
|Bacterial culture
|Crude extract
|Ni-Sepharose affinity chromatography
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Okay, so this weekend I had a craving to create a Cadbury Creme Cupcake. I adapted a recipe for the filling (mostly corn syrup and icing sugar), rolled it into balls and pushed them into the center of a chocolate cupcake before baking. Then I thinned the filling into a more icing like consistency and pipped the remainder into the open holes when it was finished baking.
Now the recipe turned out delicious, but technically speaking there must be a better way to create a hollow cupcake? In these a bunch of the felling melted and left a caramelized film of sugar on the bottom. Luckily it made the cupcakes extra gooey, but happy accidents aside, how would you do this properly?
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A venture capital and private-equity firm has sued Rizvi Traverse Management, alleging that Rizvi misled it about the commercial viability of the 2010 box office bomb Tekken. (Rizvi is the private-equity firm with multiple Hollywood investments: stakes in ICM, Playboy Enterprises, and Summit Entertainment.) Houston-based Small Ventures claims that Rizvi convinced it to invest more than $10M in the video game adaptation, falsely claiming that box office success was not critical because the money would be recouped from pre-sold foreign rights. Released in a handful of smaller foreign territories, Tekken has taken in less than $1 million. Rizvi co-founders John Giampatropni and Suhail Rizvi also were named in the suit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court in Houston, and seeks damages, restitution and legal fees. Small Ventures is represented by Gregory Casas of law firm Greenberg Trauring.
Venture Capital Firm Sues Rizvi Traverse, Claims It Was Taken On Indie Pic 'Tekken'
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Cung Le is awesome.
Agreed 1000%.
Big fan of the videogame franchise. The film? *barf*
Oh no… someone in hollywood lied about the potential money making ability of their movie. Imagine the can o' worms this would have if they won this case.
We bought a lotto ticket. We lost. So now we're suing.
We don't know how to read a script, we are illerate, we have no taste, so let's sue because a horrible script led to a horrible movie that bombed.
We didn't do our due diligence getting proof of the pre-sales, the movie bombed because it was awful, so let's sue now.
MORTAL KOMBAT, STREET FIGHTER, DOOM, SILENT HILL, HITMAN – all were such blockbuster hits that won ton of awards – who would have thunk TEKKEN would bomb and stink?
I'm sorry, but if you're going to invest in films, just like the stock market, you need a brain. You also need to be aware, like brokers, their all hustlers in the film business.
Actually, Mortal Kombat made money. It was the sequel which was a turkey. And Silent Hill and Hitman broke even.


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AXE SVN Sync is a PHP5 tool that mirrors two SVN repositories by reproducing each and every commit. It's useful when it's not possible to perform other mirroring or synchronization. It works on two working copies and advances the destination up to the source.
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In spite of its critical apparatus it does not differ in any respect from medieval miracle-mongering.
I have not embellished them with footnotes nor given them any other part of the panoply of critical apparatus.
The critical apparatus in Erasmus' possession was quite slender.
It was, however, the first edition ever published with a critical apparatus of any sort.
Again, Thackeray contributed the notes and critical apparatus to Cruikshank's version.
But in his lectures On Translating Homer he added a new resource to his critical apparatus.
An enlarged edition of the critical apparatus was published by Philip David Burk in 1763.


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If there were an undercurrent of indifference about delaying an NFL team to return to Los Angeles, it would probably come from the Concerned Citizens For Sunday Morning Quality Games Council. If one existed.
Having lived through the late '80s and early '90s, when the lack of sellouts for the Rams and/or Raiders home games meant blackouts and no third game to watch, the L.A. fan would be blamed for not supporting the local team. The truth is, the ownership rumblings of moving turned fans off quicker than they could turn off their TVs in the league's No. 2-sized market.
The Raiders regularly failed to sell out Monday night games at the Coliseum, resulting in an embarrassing ABC blackout - to a point at which the NFL just stopped giving the Raiders a home game on that night. Yet at the time, the league was seeing 30 percent of its games blacked out in local markets during the 1990s, and it was even higher in the '80s.
In the past few years, the San Diego Chargers have staked a territorial right to the L.A. market, but it ultimately is up to the local carrier - KCBS Channel 2 or KTTV Channel 11 - to decide whether to carry their contests.
In 2008, when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell paid a visit to the NFL Network headquarters in Culver City, we had the chance to ask him his take on the fear Southern California residents have about a team coming to L.A. affecting their Sunday morning viewership, and whether it was best from a TV standpoint not to have a team here.
"I've heard that theory and have seen it written before, but it's not backed up by the facts," he said. "First, our policies have been very pro-consumer and allowing people to see high-quality football. You look at the local markets and see a significant bump when a home team plays. Clearly that is a plus and I believe that would be the case here in Los Angeles if the city had a franchise.
"Plus as technology develops, (DirecTV's) `Sunday Ticket' is an example so people can see more than just what's on broadcast television and that's another benefit of the current policy."


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What happens if you get flu shot and H1N1 shot less than one month apart?
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What is the time span from receiving the seasonal flu shot to the H1N1 shot vaccine?
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H.R. 3306, To repeal the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program (2 comments ↓)
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H.R. 3306 would repeal the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program.
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NORMBENIGNNovember 17, 2011, 6:40pm (report abuse)
Do it now. We ought not wait for super committees, or total solutions. A few billion here and there, and pretty soon you are talking real money.
ELIZABETH MCCAFFERTYNovember 20, 2011, 12:37am (report abuse)
ATVs are a good idea.They do have limitations. Although I understand the loan ideas behind this, it only seems reasonable to end.
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DURSLEY'S David Stokes totally dominated category two on last weekend's Viking Motorsport/Links Electrical Mid Wales Historic Stages.
The Newtown and District Motor Club-organised event had attracted a very high quality entry of nearly 100 cars to the quaint Mid-Wales town of Newtown for Sunday's rally with just five stages making up the 55 competitive miles on offer in the classic Mid-Wales forests of Myherin, Tarenig and Hafren.
The event was round two of the WWRS RAC rally championship and the opening round of the British MSA Historic championship, which saw some crews registering to score points in both series.
Heavy overnight rain had left the stages extremely slippery.
But Stokes, with regular co-driver Guy Weaver on board the Draycott Bakeries and Ashmores backed Escort RS1600, was soon into his stride on the opening nine mile Pikes Peak test, stopping the clocks fastest of the category two runners, a lead he was never in danger of relinquishing all day.
He consolidated his lead over the eight mile Myherin stage, the new Pirelli tyres working very well.
After the first of two visits to the service area in Sweet Lamb, the daunting 17-mile Hafren North test lay in wait.
This was quickly followed by a further nine miles of Hafren South, before the second visit to service.
The Dursley driver increased his lead over the similar car of Simon Tysoe on the Hafren North test, but then incurred his only real problem of the day in Hafren South when transmission issues caused the car to cut out on the slow corners.
But sterling work by the service crew completed the job with 15 minutes to spare and sent them on their way to the final Pikes Peak test, this being a combination of stages one and two linked together with the final few miles on the downhill descent through a series of hairpin bends,
This was successfully negotiated and the crew returned victorious to Newtown in category two in both BHRC and RAC championships, and maximum points in both series.
They also finished an incredible 3rd overall, with the similar category two cars of Simon Tysoe and Warren Philliskirk finishing second and third in class behind Stokes.
Next on the agenda for Stokes is Rally North Wales in April, which uses more classic Welsh forests, this time in the shape of Dyfi, Gartheniog, Dyfnant and Aberhirnant from its Welshpool base.
Sunday represented a very good start to the championship, as the duo go in search of yet another historic title.


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Cheap Stocks to Buy Now: Iamgold (IAG)
Without a doubt, the most hated metals and mining sector has to be gold mining stocks. Faced with rising costs and falling gold prices, many of the precious metals miners have tanked, moving them into the cheap stocks category.
One of the more interesting bets could be mid-tier producer Iamgold (IAG).
IAG operates six different mines and its stock has fallen right along with gold prices. However, the junior producer does have a few aces up its sleeve.
First, it has a relatively low all-in cash cost of production for a junior miner — approximately $1,155 per ounce. The secret to that low cost is that IAG operates one of the world's three niobium mines. That element is used in everything from high-tension steel to superconducting magnets, and it provides a nice cushion to IAG's costs. With gold trading flat and slightly upwards, IAG is still profitable at these price levels.
Secondly, IAG holds plenty of reserves in the ground — the kind of reserves that a larger miner would want. Shares of IAG haven't been this cheap since before the Great Recession. That means a major miner could come calling and snatch up IAG stock before too long.


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For his next adventure, Sackboy has discovered a need for speed.
Sony has revealed the first details on LittleBigPlanet Karting, a PlayStation 3 racing title inspired by the creative platformer where players could design their own levels and share them with an online community.
The LittleBigPlanet series features levels akin to Super Mario Bros., where players hop between platforms as they move left to right.
Karting fine-tunes the approach with the addition of go-karts and levels presented in a three-dimensional space, as opposed to the 2-D levels available in previous LittleBigPlanet titles.
It also stars a new developer: United Front Games, which drew from their experience with PlayStation series ModNation Racers and insight from LittleBigPlanet creators at Media Molecule.
"We're huge fans of the franchise," says Scott Nielsen, executive producer at United Front Games, in an interview with Game Hunters. "Once we got an understanding of how (Media Molecule) went about creating the world and why they made decisions, the creative juices started flowing (as) to how we could break down that quirky nature and charming element of Sackboy ... and tie it into the karting genre."
The campaign stars Sackboy as he tries to save Craftworld through a series of traditional kart races, arena battles and other missions. Like previous LittleBigPlanet titles, Karting will allow players to create levels that fall outside the racing space. "It's whatever type of experience you can create and imagine," says Nielsen.
Users can also customize Sackboy as well as their go-karts.
LittleBigPlanet has followed the mantra of "Play, Create, Share," which encourages players to develop their own experiences and upload them to the PlayStation Network. Since the series debuted in 2008, more than 6 million levels have been shared.
"Six million levels is a testament to the rabid community ... and the amount of people interested in creating levels," says Kyle Zundel, senior producer at Sony Computer Entertainment of America. "But for those who aren't interested in that, it provides an endless experience."
Adds Nielsen: "The beauty is whether you're interested in creating (levels) or not, you still reap the rewards of what the level editor is capable of as a player."
The game debuts in 2012 for the PlayStation 3.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.


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Israel MUST rely on itself
Once again, during the year that is drawing to a close, there was no country that was more harshly criticized, no state that was more frequently condemned than Israel.
"The demonization of Israel increased during the past year," Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, told me.
As a direct result of continuously one-sided and often false media reports from Israel, a great deal of uncertainty has been created for many of Israel's friends. Here is the situation on the ground as I see it:
Illusion and reality
For decades, Israel has attempted to integrate itself into the Middle East. Politicians have long dreamed of the "new Middle East" as a zone of freedom and democracy. The facts that have been established in the meantime are sobering: The sweeping failure of the Islamic world to offer a better form of politics is alarming.
The belief that the challenge in Middle Eastern countries would end positively as a result of the mechanisms of democracy was an illusion. The developments did not have any positive consequences for Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's words in his explanation to me were, "The Arab rebellion has developed into an anti-Israeli, anti-liberal and, above all, completely undemocratic wave."
Peace with Egypt — quo vadis?
What has changed concretely is the situation in the Sinai. While just 10 or even five years ago, an average Israeli family could take a vacation on one of the peninsula's beaches, a series of terror attacks has shattered this possibility. Israel's former ambassador to Egypt, Zvi Mazel, explained, "Egypt has gone from being a military dictatorship to a dictatorship of Islamists."
The peace treaty with Egypt that was concluded by Menachem Begin 32 years ago withstood the change of regime after the murder of [Anwar] Sadat. It is extremely probable that it will also withstand the revolution of Tahrir Square because Egypt needs this peace no less than Israel does. Umpteen millions of Egyptians are unemployed, millions of university graduates cannot find work in their area of specialty, and the country is dependent upon the United States, which provides $2 billion a year in foreign aid. For this reason, the new regime in Cairo can't afford to clash with Israel, especially at this point in time, but the dangers for the future are great.
Putting the brakes on peace
Mahmoud Abbas has turned out to be a chief obstacle for any progress in the peace process. In comparison to Hamas, Fatah is regarded as the moderate wing of the Palestinian Authority. And not rightfully so.
As I know very precisely from research before the production of the film "One Day in September," Abbas had a central role in the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972. He does indeed act in a more charming and cultivated way than his predecessor, Arafat, but his political goals are exactly the same.
"Our goal has never been peace," said Kifah Radaideh, a confidante of Abbas in Fatah. "Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine." A new diplomatic tug-of-war at the U.N. with regard to the efforts by Abbas to receive nonmember status appears to be imminent.
Iran's most important ally
The civil war in Syria makes it clear how full of hatred the Alawites, Sunnis and Shiites are toward each other. Syria's president Bashar al-Assad is Iran's most important ally. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have their headquarters there, and the Damascus airport was the trans-shipment point for tens of thousands of rockets for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, emphasized, "The most valuable weapons come from Syria — not just in Lebanon, also in Gaza." It seems to be in Israel's interest to massively reduce Iranian influence on Syria. Israel's ambassador to the U.N. for many years, Dore Gold, stressed to me, "The old order will be replaced by chaos. Chaos never represents a positive opportunity." King Abdullah of Jordan formulated it this way: "Syria's chemical weapons could fall into enemy hands." This danger is concretely present, because according to Israeli estimates, Hezbollah possesses an arsenal of 70,000 rockets with which weapons of mass destruction can be used.
What about Jordan?
Jordan consists of a vague but totally real possibility for a new arrangement. There are voices in the Middle East that prophesy that King Abdullah's time will come after the end of Assad because the chances of a revolt by the Palestinians, who make up 70 percent of the population of Jordan, exist in concrete terms.
In Israel, the greatest supporters of the Hashemite monarchy and all those who consider Jordan to be a strategic asset for Israel also know that a change of regime could bring an anti-Israel government to power. Israel's friendship with the Hashemites has historically been based upon the mutual knowledge of the Palestinians as an adversary of both sides. If the circumstances change, then Israel's strategy would also have to change. Jordan could become another "Hamastan" and resort to weapons in the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict.
Aryeh Eldad, a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset, views this differently, and he explains in that regard: "That would be a way out of the impasse in which the Palestinians find themselves. They understand that in view of the internal problems of the Palestinian Authority and the endless postponing of elections, it is improbable that they will be able to found a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza with Jerusalem as its capital, but a viable Palestinian state could exist in Jordan." Parts of the West Bank could be incorporated into it.
Iran's nuclear arms
An Iran with nuclear weapons is one of the worst things that could happen to Israel. If the arming of Iran with atomic weapons is not stopped now, then we will find ourselves in a Middle East that is completely armed with nuclear weapons. Atomic capacities could fall into the hands of terrorists. The effects of such a development would be extremely serious.
"One single atomic bomb will be the final stroke on Zionist history," Akbar Rafsanjani, Iran's fourth president, has said. "In contrast to that, the Islamic world numbers 1.5 billion people and dozens of countries."
With full acknowledgement of the massive military assistance from the United States, Netanyahu emphasized that Washington's strategy of sanctions and diplomacy has come dangerously close to failure.
"Without the credible threat of a military intervention, diplomacy and other strategies with which the nuclearization of Iran is to be stopped or delayed would in any case be ineffective," explained Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin.
Only if the mullahs really believe that the U.S. will never allow Iran to develop atomic weapons would they be able to decide that the problems that are caused by sanctions are not offset by continued rabble-rousing propaganda against Israel.
Upon pressure from Israel, Obama finally ensured that if Israel refrains from an attack on Iran and if Iran crosses a certain red line, then the U.S. will actively react. In order for this policy to be effective, both Iran and Israel have to take this declaration seriously. No one disputes that an attack is to be considered only as the least of all means and even then, it would still be problematic. Israel would bear the brunt of an Iranian reprisal.
A stain on humanity
The most recent Tehran summit of 120 nations will go down in history as "a stain on humanity," as Netanyahu said.
Five kings, 27 presidents, eight prime ministers and 50 foreign ministers took part in the summit in Tehran. India, the world's most populous democracy, was present with 250 delegates, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Even U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to Tehran. In his speech there, he did in fact condemn "threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts, such as the Holocaust." But through his presence, he lent Iran legitimacy, instead of supporting the efforts at its isolation as an ostracized state whose regime serves as the starting point for global terrorism.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the conference, the top leader Ayatollah Khamenei once again delivered an anti-Semitic harangue in which he asked the world without restraint to "eliminate the cancerous tumor of Israel."
Pressure on Israel
These events during the year that is drawing to a close have emphatically underscored the futility of Israel's trust in the international community to be able to resolve potential conflicts. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the prominent role that Syria, Iran, Libya, Cuba and comparable dictatorships have taken on in the formulation of the policy of the U.N.'s so-called Human Rights Council.
We must resolve this New Year that Israel does not have to submit to pressure from those who have attempted to prevent it from taking the necessary steps to counter the threat to its survival. "We have learned from bitter experience that we have to rely upon ourselves," explained Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon. "We have to prepare ourselves as if no one else will stand up for us."


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In advance of her appearance at Club to Club this weekend, we take a peek into the Panorama Bar resident's record bag.
He's been a stalwart of the local scene for years, but with a hit single on Perlon, Amsterdam's San Proper is finally making waves in international waters.
RA's Grego O'Halloran takes stock of the season that was in one of the world's largest clubbing destinations.
The French Touch this ain't: RA's Derek Miller celebrates the unconventional sounds of the Circus Company imprint, one of Paris' finest labels.
A self-described gear geek, we catch up with the Chilean-born producer to talk shop upon the release of her new album for Wagon Repair.


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In honor of Canada Day and the Fourth of July, here…
The History of Aloha Shirts
This post marks the beginning of an ongoing series of posts about fashion history. We'll cover classic pieces, trends, or, as in the case of today's topic, a classic that is currently on trend.
Hawaiian shirts, known in Hawai'i as "aloha shirts," began as a product of the interactions among Hawai'i's many ethnic populations, and the shirts have reflected changes in Hawai'i's native and colonial populations since early in the twentieth century. Hawai'i is the only U.S. state without a white ethnic majority–in fact, the state has no ethnic majority at all.
Above: Details of Aloha patterns from the Museum of Hawaiian Shirts
The aloha shirt evolved from palaka, a Hawaiian corruption of "frock" that refers both to a textile (a checked cotton) and an article of clothing. These shirts were already a hybrid of Western button-front shirts and loose-fitting Filipino barong tagalog–a sheer, long-sleeved shirt worn untucked. The palaka cemented the construction elements of the classic Hawaiian shirt: the open collar, boxy shape, and straight hem.They were mass-produced in simple check patterns for plantation workers, usually in the checked cotton of the same name. But by the 1930s, local Chinese and Japanese tailors began making the shirts with Asian motifs in printed cotton and silk, making the aloha shirt further representative of Hawai'i's diversity.
Left: Historical photo of early palaka shirt [Source]
Right: Modern interpretation of palaka shirt [Source]
Before World War II, the majority of aloha shirts bore Japanese motifs on Japanese-made textiles, often kimono silks that were stocked by tailors on the islands; but since the war, native Hawaiian and "chop suey" (mixed ethnic) motifs have been the most popular, with Chinese and Japanese motifs trailing behind, occasionally experiencing brief, faddish resurgences (1). In the 40s and 50s, rather than repurposing existing Asian textiles, textile designers began creating prints especially for aloha shirts. As rayon quality improved, it became the textile of choice for many aloha shirt designers. Rayon shirts were called "silkies" because of their soft, smooth handfeel. Painter Eugene Savage Matson, designer and architect John "Keoni" Meigs, Elsie Krassas, and Bob Sato, among others, created recognizable (now highly sought-after) prints in the classic silky period.
Left: 'Silky' Pattern Detail [Source]
Right: 'Silky' Pattern Detail [Source]
Before the 1950s, aloha shirts were primarily worn by tourists and military stationed in the islands, though locals, called kama'aina, donned them for some special occasions. But Hawaiian businesses began to promote aloha shirts to kama'aina to improve sales. At first, the shirts became acceptable business casual, tucked in, during the heat of the summer in the 50s, then on Fridays, due to a campaign for state-wide "Aloha Friday" in the 60s. The American tradition of "casual Friday" stems from the migration of Aloha Friday across the Pacific to California in the 1960s and 70s. In addition to casual Fridays, kama'aina adoption of the shirts also had another major effect on fashion more broadly: the technique of "reverse print" was popularized by aloha shirt manufacturers. They made shirts with the reverse side of the textile facing outward to create a more muted print favored by locals.
In the time since, aloha shirts have fallen in an out of fashion outside of Hawaii, but they have lately resurged in popularity, with a large runway showing in s/s 2012 (Prada RTW led the pack in s/s 2011 with the now-infamous banana shirt), though many modern iterations eschew the classic palaka shape. A number of streetwear and fast fashion labels have followed the trend since (though skate-and-surf-aligned streetwear labels always have their share of aloha-style shirts). And the trend has shown surprising longevity, with a number of 2014 and 2015's s/s shows– including 3.1 Phillip Lim, Marc Jacobs, Dries Van Noten, Prada, MAN, and Yohji Yamamoto's Y-3– still referencing aloha shirts in the past year.
The dressed.so fashion community has been getting in on the aloha shirt action. That surprisingly cool aloha-print romper (a phrase I never thought I'd type) even cropped up in bhoka's TSwift inspo post. And here are a few fit pics from d.so users:
1. dynamite goes for the classic summer fit with white sneaks and light jeans–this floral shirt is not technically an aloha shirt, but the spirit is there. [go to dynamite's fit]
2. fuiste has a cleaned-up version of the aloha shirt fit. [go to fuiste's fit]
3. _beacon does a variation on the white sneakers theme [go to _beacon's fit]
Shopping List
Check out these made in Hawaii brands: Reyn Spooner, Roberta Oaks, Tori Richard, and Paradise Found (the makers of Tom Selleck's Magnum P.I. shirt)
Thanks to The Museum of Hawaiian Shirts for the use of their images.
References and further reading
- Arthur, Linda B. "The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i." Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture 4.1, 2006.
- Brown, DeSoto and Linda Boynton. Art of the Aloha Shirt, 2008.
- Moss, Gary L. "Designs from the Golden Age of Hawaiian Shirts." The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, 2003.
- Museum of Hawaiian Shirts
- Palaka: Historic Cloth of Hawaii
- (1) see Arthur 20-21
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