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Vaguely ethnic and generically masculine, Freddie Prinze Jr. is the reigning king of Hollywood teen flicks. Hes so synonymous with the genre -- Down to You, Head Over Heels, Boys and Girls, Shes All That, I Know What You Did Every Summer of Your Life -- that even movies hes in that arent officially teen fare, like Wing Commander, become Teen Beat Cinema simply by virtue of his being in them. Hes that much of a boy, and the latest in a long tradition of non-threatening, essentially asexual teenage idols whose personas whisper softly of sex but contain no proof that they can actually follow through. Except that Prinze doesnt even have the whisper. At a moment when 7-year-old girls emulate the virgin-ho chic of Britney Spears as they shriek for NSYNCs bump and grind, when adolescents drink, drug and fuck like First World sailors docked in Third World ports (or assume the burdens of the world with bottomless despair), Prinze, actor and sanitized emblem of todays teen, is a complete blank, one whose permanently dimpled smile and pretty-boy jock outlines suggest hes never even been remotely aware of what real struggle, sexual or otherwise, means.
The absence of offensiveness, or even the possibility that he might one day offend, makes him appealing to the industry because it makes him a safe commodity. But it also means hes incapable of either stoking fantasies or sustaining those that are projected onto him, and thats the problem. Movie stars dont have to know how to act or have the most savory of personalities; they dont even have to be conventionally beautiful; but they do have to connect with our dreams of the world and ourselves. What makes a bad actor like Keanu Reeves (to whom Prinze bears a faint resemblance) resonate, sometimes powerfully, is a sexual vibrancy that spills over category confines of manwoman, gaystraight. You either want to fuck him or be him -- or both. Reeves, as with all real stars, strokes our libido because he taps into longings at our core. Prinze doesnt spill and he doesnt penetrate. Resolutely male and unwaveringly hetero yet absent that ineluctable spark of the true star, he rests lightly on the surface of possibility and desire like a piece of tasteful costume jewelry.
As it turns out, Prinzes best performance to date hasnt been on the big screen, but on television. A year ago, he hosted Saturday Night Live and did a withering parody of Enrique Iglesias, complete with the singers silly hand gestures (wildly splayed fingers, dramatically extended arms) and overblown smoldering eyes. It was an ethnic cipher satirizing a cultural cliche, and it was stingingly funny. It was also interesting because the sketch raised the ghost of Prinzes late father by evoking not just his work but his demons as well. Prinze Sr. committed suicide at the age of 22, when his son was 10 months old. According to his friends, the father was conflicted about his identity (he was of Puerto Rican and Hungarian Jewish parentage). Some have even suggested that he wanted to be white. Its ironic, then, that the man who was the great brown hope for many sired a son whose career is based on just how whitebread he is. Even more than those gorgeous dark eyes, a de-ethnicizing all-access pass (the stuff of assimilationist wet dreams) seems to be the most significant gift the father bequeathed to the son.
Americas race problem, of course, remains not one of blackness or brownness but whiteness, which, hip-hop resilience and Latino music crazes be damned, continues to be the standard of beauty, desirability, viability. J. Lo shares peroxide with Lil Kim, Shakira and Beyonce, and they all blow da fuck up. (Prinze, by the way, sports blond hair in the a upcoming Scooby Doo flick, a career misstep whose cartoon dimensions might well be a natural fit for the actors limited talents.) The current advertising and music-video fetish for mulatto bodies -- warmly honeyed skin and naturally crimped (not kinky) hair -- isnt a celebration of diversity but a way to locate whiteness in the stew of merging races. Its a way to soothe us all, not just white folk, who, as any random rap video on BETs playlist proves, arent alone in needing reassurance.
Prinze is just ethnic enough to have flava (poco picante), but not so much that he doesnt blend effortlessly into the airless films in which hes starred. (In his latest, Summer Catch, he plays an aspiring baseball player.) Theyre movies in which the whitest of white folk (Claire Forlani, Monica Potter, the ubiquitous Julia Stiles) are at the center, with quirky white folk as secondary characters and people-of-notable-color as tokens. The world depicted in these films marks a victory for lip-service progressiveness, comatose consciousness -- its what multiculturalism has become in practice. In order for his films -- and by extension, Prinze himself -- to serve as testaments to colorblind art and existence, they must remain aggressively bland, unremarkable. Prinzes career, built on his mediocre-at-best craft and zip personality, reveals as much, if not more, about the state of Hollywood -- and, by extension, America itself -- than a host of incendiary movies or nationalistic rap records. Hes a shining example of the American success formula: bleach, blend, prosper.
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Premier Levi Eshkol today publicly rejected any idea that there might be any change in the United States attitude toward Israel. He said that Israeli-United States relations were based on a wide range of matters, and that an attitude on one point did not necessarily symbolize any basic change in relations.
The Premier expressed this view at the annual Israel Press Luncheon commemorating the United Nations resolution on the partition of Palestine which resulted in the creation of the Jewish State. The one point to which he referred was understood to be the United States resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly reviving a 1948 Assembly resolution proposing repatriation or compensation for the Arab refugees, Israel vigorously opposed the resolution because it failed to mention the possibility of resettlement or reintegration of the refugees in the Arab countries.
The Premier also rejected any suggestion that there was deterioration in Israeli-French relations, saying they were as they had always been. Replying to questions, he said that Israel now deserved, as in 1947, positive recognition by all nations, including the Soviet Union. He said Israel still awaits and hopes for a change in the Soviet attitude toward Israel.
Referring to the UN debate on the Arab refugees, he said that there had been no retreat in Israel's basic position in regard to Arab relations when Israel indicated readiness to negotiate with the Arabs separately on the refugee issue. The main point, he said, was that Israel wants to sit down at the same table with the Arabs to negotiate, and that this readiness should be recognized by the Arabs.
He also answered questions about incidents by Orthodox zealots, and said that his Government would follow to the letter the "status quo" in religious controversies. He put special stress on the need for general calm and for playing down what he called "differences." Declaring that all such issues could be resolved in a "good atmosphere," he added, however, that the basic lines of his coalition government included opposition to compulsion of any kind, including religious compulsion.

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EDITORIAL >> Huckabee self-destructs
He will not be Arkansas second president or even his partys nominee.
That is a crass way to think about the tragedy in Tacoma, Wash., where an ex-convict from Pulaski County who had been freed from a life sentence by Huckabee executed four young police officers who were having coffee before beginning their patrols.
But there is an insatiable desire to assess accountability when these things happen, and our former governor cannot and did not escape his large share of it.
Huckabee survived Wayne Dumonds murders and made himself the knight of the powerful religious wing of the Republican Party, but the blood of six innocent people cannot be charmed away.
(You remember Wayne Dumond, who murdered two women in Missouri after Huckabee made him eligible for immediate parole from Cummins Prison.)
Huckabees boss, Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, can explain to him how this works. Ailes, the media consultant to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, came up with the Willie Horton ads, which doomed the presidential campaign of Gov. Mike Dukakis in 1988.
William Horton (Ailes changed his name to Willie so that people would know that he was a black man) committed rape and robbery while he was on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison.
They tested that knowledge in focus groups and found that it turned voters against Dukakis, so they saturated the airwaves with ads of a black man walking through swinging cell doors.
Dukakis didnt personally furlough Horton. Huckabee personally granted clemency to Dumond, Maurice Clemmons and others who resumed their criminal careers. There is a sympathetic and tragic side to Huckabees own fall. He never wanted or expected the men he liberated 167 in his 10 years as governor to resume their crime sprees.
He acted always out of Christian charity, he said. He said he knew that the politically safe thing to do was to rarely use his clemency power, as Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker and Mike Beebe seldom did, but the Bible instructed him to be compassionate and to forgive.
We never quarreled with his compassion but with his judgment. If a convict could get the governors ear and convince him that he had found Jesus and turned his life around or he could get a preacher to intercede with the governor, he was apt to go free.
Clemmons, who killed the four officers in Tacoma, wrote Huckabee in 2000 that he had discovered Jesus and he prayed that God would move the governor to reduce his 108-year sentence to time served.
Huckabee never said whether he sought Gods guidance, as he often did, or whether he assumed that Clemmons had gotten through to God. Cell conversions have a magnificent history in Arkansas.
Many will remember James Dean Walker, Arkansas most celebrated criminal before Dumond. Walker, a Las Vegas thug, was in Pulaski County on some criminal errand in 1963 when he killed a cop after a chase down Hwy. 165 toward England.
He found Jesus in prison, developed a big ministerial following and while on a prison furlough to witness for Christ he escaped and started a new life of crime in California.
We would be more sympathetic if Huckabee had followed the biblical injunctions about bearing false witness and accepting blame as devoutly as he did those about charity and forgiveness.
Instead, as he did with Dumond, he blamed everyone else: the boards he appointed that recommended clemency for Clemmons and carried out the governors wishes, prosecutors, the Pulaski County judge who supported Clemmons plea over the objections of victims, the prosecutor and the parole administrator, and judges in the state of Washington who let him go free in the midst of a crime spree.
To tell his side, Huckabee on Monday arranged to go on the Bill OReilly show, where his friend questioned him ever so gingerly. He fudged the details, claiming that Clemmons had gotten those 108 years in prison for only two crimes (there were eight).
He explained that he had been moved by Clemmons account that he was only 16 when he did some of the stuff and that he had turned his life around. He said he grieved for the families of the dead officers, but OReilly would not let him accept responsibility, not a bit.
OReilly said it was the fault of prosecutors and the judges in Washington who let him go free on bond. He was furious with them. It was the failure of the criminal justice system in two states, Huckabee said.
Thats it! The system is to blame. So now Huckabee can wash his hands of it and continue his book tour.


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Thirty Two stretches the term B&B to the very limits, but that's because it's really a front for something else.
The town's all a-twinkle when Clare and I arrive at tea time, the Christmas lights are up. Clearly, coloured bulbs are too common for Cheltenham's ladies - the trees along The Promenade are illuminated only with chic white light.
There's an undeniable and uncharacteristic buzz about the place, however. Exactly one year ago, former magazine fashion editor Lulu Anderson and partner Cosmo Fry chose Cheltenham for their second budget boutique hotel, Big Sleep (Guardian, Saturday December 9 2006), followed in summer by Hotel du Vin, opening its ninth property close to the famous Promenade. Somewhere in between - both in terms of price and location - is Thirty Two.
"You'd never know this was here unless you were looking," says Clare of the entrance (just a number and a small intercom) to this gracious white townhouse.
"Guests like to pretend they live here when they step out of the front door," says Jonathan Swindell, one half of the partnership that owns Thirty Two, taking us past a Chinese hall table - on which a metal candle-holder is burning something very nice - and up a red-carpeted staircase to the sitting room. Wow. It's the width of the building with two floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the glittering trees along The Promenade, but not just the Georgian proportions that have momentarily stunned us into rare silence. We've disappeared into a room set for contemporary design. Button-back chairs covered in powder blue satinised wool are positioned just so at a coffee table neatly stacked with papers and books, by Andrew Martin, David Hicks, or from sexy New York publisher Taschen. Over there's a champagne velvet Knole sofa placed squarely before a fireplace in which modern gas flames flicker, flanked by Perspex console tables and shiny chrome urns. Off this room, through matt grey wooden doors - maybe 15ft tall - is a dining room. It's sort of muted peacock blue, with Danish G-Plan rosewood chairs at an oval table. A matching pair of giant brown and blue lights suspended over the table illuminate the scene. It's very modern with a hint of Asia and light touches of American deco.
Up another floor and our twin room is equally stylised: more custom-mixed mushroom but with hints of pink and oyster taffeta and chambray in the sitting area, plumped up beds, and through double doors, a bathroom with fireplace, fantastic window and marble-tiled wet room. It's a shame to mess it up - but soon we've added fake fur coats and nylon rucksacks.
While Clare's in the bath with a cuppa, I'm downstairs on the sofa sipping a drink. Much later, after dinner in the Hotel du Vin's brasserie, we scoop up the candle from the hall to scent our sleep, confessing to its relocation next morning when Jonathan brings smoked salmon and scrambled eggs to us in the peacock blue room.
"They're called Vie Luxe. We're importing those," he says. In fact, everything we see is for sale. Thirty Two's double life is as a showcase for Swindell and partner Jonathan Parkin's interior design business. By the time you read this they will have opened a showroom, on the ground floor, which will undoubtedly have Cheltenham's ladies slipping through that unmarked door faster than you can say lunch.
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Along with coffee/tea in a common area, this smoke-free hotel has a 24-hour front desk and a picnic area. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include ATM/banking services.
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"Would you like to meet Jimmy Fallon at a bar Friday night?"
Honestly, I was planning on making pasta, watching Dollhouse and turning in early. But when I heard the late-night host would be dropping by a local bar to hang out and buy patrons a round of drinks, I decided to embrace the opportunity.
The scene outside Whiskey River at around 9:30 p.m. was more chaotic than I anticipated. Photographers clogged the doorway. A swarm of college-aged dudes cheered and played beer pong in the back.
Fallon, however, didn't seem rattled. He was kind enough to sit down with me for a few minutes to chat and answer some Pop Candy readers' questions. Topics ranged from music to mayonnaise:
Me: So, I'm a blogger. Do you read a lot of blogs?
Fallon: It's becoming harder and harder to read blogs now because I don't really have the time, but I used to go to Digg, Boing Boing, Huffington Post, Daily Beast. And now and then I'll go to Engadget or Gizmodo.
A lot of those are pretty tech-heavy. Do you read any music blogs?
Pitchfork every now and then. I love just to get just the news faster than I can read a newspaper. And now that I've got the Kindle, I've got the New York Times on there and it's becoming all digital.
I have several reader questions to ask you ...
Oh, I love it! Let's go.
Ask him if he has any theories about Lost. -- Jody S.
We had a guy whose theory is it's all Walt's dream in his mind and it's some weird military experiment.
Yeah, that would be the biggest letdown ever.
I don't know. What would pay off? It's such a good show that nothing would really pay off. But J.J. Abrams is brilliant, he'll figure something out.
Maybe ask him if he likes cake ... -- Lauren G.
Are you talking about the drug?
What? No, real cake! She wants to know about the craziest birthday cake you've ever received.
OK. I love ice cream cake. Every birthday since I was probably 15 I've gotten a Carvel ice cream cake. My parents always get it. I love the center, it's got -- I used to call them coffee grinds as a kid, even though it's not coffee at all. It's like a fudge middle with these chocolatey ... so good. I do it every year.
Did he ever consider having a sidekick like Carson and Conan? -- Dennis S.
Yes, I did. But I have all the guys in The Roots who I can talk to, and I also have (Steve) Higgins, my announcer. And on top of that I have the guests. So I have a choice of almost 15 people, you know.
Will he be performing any musical numbers with The Roots? He can carry a tune, and it would be awesome to see him jam out with them. -- Nickie F.
I don't want to be such a big ham, you know? I'd rather let my guests shine, as opposed to me. It's a different job for me, I think, being a host, because I'm not the center of attention. Hosting a party is all about making the guests entertained, making sure everyone has fun. That's what my job is.
By the way, what will you be drinking this evening?
Beer. I've heard a lot of beer pong is in my future.
What kind of beer?
Probably, you know, Bud Light Lime. That's my beer of choice these days. (Laughs) It's refreshing. It's got a little citrus twist.
Do you play any musical instruments other than guitar? -- Isitdown
I try to play harmonica.
Who taught you how to play the guitar?
I learned when I was 12 or 13. I took lessons from this guy Bill Fledging. He used to come to my house and teach me, and then after two years I got tired of him. But after two years, you kind of understand all you need to know. Like, all I know is bar chords, so all my songs are bar chords.
But I love listening to music, I love parodies. I used to listen to Dr. Demento on the radio, and a lot of song parodies (like) "Weird Al" Yankovic. So I would get songs and I'd rewind the tape and play them just to learn the chords, and then I'd just write a parody of them.
What is the biggest suprise so far in having your own talk show? -- mmoddo
How much work it is. For the hour I'm doing it, I can't believe I'm getting paid to do it. It's the best thing in my whole lifetime to ever happen. But the work leading up to it is crazy. Every hour's packed -- you work at night. You work Friday nights. You work on Saturdays. But it's all satisfying.
Why doesn't he like mayo? -- Bianca L.
Blech. It's disgusting. I don't like the word "tangy," really. It's "tangy" and has "zip." I don't like that -- adding "zip." It looks like pus to me. Sorry to gross you out.
My wife thinks it's because when I was a little kid my head got stuck in a fence -- I had this wrought iron fence in my backyard -- and I couldn't get out, I was crying. And my mom and my grandparents came and tried to help me and they didn't want to cut the iron, so they smeared my head with mayonnaise. It was the middle of the summer, and I squeezed my head out. So my wife thinks that's why I hate mayonnaise, but I think it's just because I think it looks like pus.
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This right here.
I don't believe you, but thank you. And before we go, can we just talk about Morrissey for a second? I thought he was great on your show.
He was the greatest of all time! So nice, and he looks phenomenal. And he was so shy, and he was exactly what you want Morrissey to be. I love him. He rocked. And it's the only time anyone has brought a gong to our show.
So cool. Have fun tonight, and thank you.
Whitney, it was a pleasure.
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Favored General Jack made easy work of the $204,600 Centaur Stakes for 3-year-olds July 2 at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino, drawing off to a three-length victory on the turf.
Several horses that have performed well recently in graded stakes will meet June 15 in the $200,000 Centaur Stakes for 3-year-olds at one mile on the grass at Indiana Downs.
Keiichiro Yasuda trains Japan's Dasher Go Go, in Singapore for the Kris Flyer Sprint.
Last year's Japanese sprint champion Curren Chan returned to form March 25 when she captured the $2.47 million Takamatsunomiya Kinen (Jpn-I) at newly renovated Chukyo Racecourse by a neck over San Carlo.
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Twelve hours after the historic 1-2 finish by Japanese horses Victoire Pisa and Transcend in the Dubai World Cup defending champion Kinshasa no Kiseki captured the Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse March 27.
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A small, homemade bomb exploded outside a Planned Parenthood office in Wisconsin on Sunday night, prompting a federal investigation and the swift condemnation of violence by a Republican presidential candidate ahead of the state's primary on Tuesday.
The attack took place at about 7:30 p.m. local time in Wisconsin, causing a small amount of damage to the building in the town of Grand Chute, about 30 miles southwest of Green Bay. No one was injured.
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CHAVASCO, Jorge Kleber et al. Evaluation of the allergenicity of spore and mycelia extracts of Pisolithus tinctorius. Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo [online]. 1997, vol.39, n.5, pp.245-252. ISSN 1678-9946. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651997000500001.
The antigenic and allergenic chemical analysis of spore and mycelia extracts of Pisolithus tinctorius was carried out. The spores were collected from basidiocarps in plantations of Eucalyptus spp and the mycelia from culture in MNM medium. With basis on the fungus growth curve, the mycelia masses were obtained after 10, 20, 30, and 40 days of incubation, which correspond, respectively, to the beginning, middle and end of the log phase, and beginning of the decline phase. The mycelia masses, together with the spores, were submitted to the action of three extractors (Coca, Tris-HCl, and ammonium bicarbonate). The contents of carbohydrates and proteins were determined. The SDS-PAGE electrophoretical analysis revealed separate fractions in these extracts, besides common fractions, in function of cultivation time and extraction methods. The selected extracts for the allergic tests were the ones with the highest number of fractions. The prick-tests were conducted in 374 patients rural workers, eucalyptus plantation works and college students. The positivity to the "prick test" with the antigenic extract of P. tinctorius was, respectively, 3.78%, 28.20% and 6.40%. Most prick-test positive patients (82.75%) also presented symptoms of respiratory allergy (asthma and rhinitis). There was no reactivity difference when the spore and mycelia extracts were employed. The analysis of the positive patients sera revealed the presence of IgE specific to the P. tinctorius antigens. Since Pisolithus tinctorius is found as mycorrhyza of Eucalyptus spp, and this plant is used in reforestation in most countries, the importance of that fungus should be regarded as a possible cause of respiratory allergies, especially in occupationally exposed workers
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Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, & Li, Yuefeng (2012) Personalized recommender systems integrating tags and item taxonomy. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 10(3), pp. 277-289.
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Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Tjondronegoro, Dian W., & Christen, Peter (2012) Time-aware topic recommendation based on micro-blogs. In 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2012), 29 October-2 November, 2012, Sheraton Maui, Hawaii.
Bhuiyan, Touhid, Xu, Yue, Josang, Audun, Liang, Huizhi, & Cox, Clive (2010) Developing trust networks based on user tagging information for recommendation making. In Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2010 LNCS, Springer, Hong Kong, China, pp. 357-364.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, & Li, Yuefeng (2010) Mining users' opinions based on item folksonomy and taxonomy for personalized recommender systems. In Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.
Liang, Huizhi, Hogan, Jim, & Xu, Yue (2010) Parallel user profiling based on folksonomy for Large Scaled Recommender Systems : an implimentation of Cascading MapReduce. In Proceedings of 10th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, IEEE, Berlin.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Li, Yuefeng, & Nayak, Richi (2010) Personalized recommender system based on item taxonomy and folksonomy. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management & Co-Located Workshops, ACM, Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, pp. 1641-1644.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Li, Yuefeng, & Nayak, Richi (2010) Connecting users and items with weighted tags for personalized item recommendations. In Proceedings of 21st ACM Conference on HyperText and HyperMedia, ACM, Toronto.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Li, Yuefeng, Nayak, Richi, & Shaw, Gavin (2010) A hybrid recommender systems based on weighted tags. In 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2010), 29 April-1 May, 2011, Renaissance Columbus Downtwon Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. (Unpublished)
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Li, Yuefeng, & Nayak, Richi (2009) Tag based collaborative filtering for recommender systems. In Proceedings of Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology : 4th International Conference, Springer, WaterMark Hotel & Spa, Gold Coasts, Queensland, pp. 666-673.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, & Nayak, Richi (2009) Personalized recommender systems integrating social tags and item taxonomy. In 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, IEEE Computer Society, Milano, Italy, pp. 540-547.
Liang, Huizhi, Xu, Yue, Li, Yuefeng, & Nayak, Richi (2008) Collaborative filtering recommender systems using tag information. In Li, Y, Pasi, G, Zhang, C, Cercone, N, & Cao, L (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 59-62.
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Liang, Huizhi (2010) User profiling based on folksonomy information in Web 2.0 for personalized recommender systems. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.


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20 Years of Rare Tomb Raider Images
July 14, 2016 - In celebration of Tomb Raider's 20th anniversary, developer Crystal Dynamics shared a treasure trove of rare development assets.
A History of Tomb Raider's TV Commercials
November 4, 2015 - With Lara Croft's next journey right around the corner, we look back at the advertisements for her adventures.
The Redemption of Lara Croft
November 4, 2011 - From her 1990s heyday through a difficult second decade, Lara is back. IGN takes a look at how Lara fell and how she bounced back.
IGN Presents: The History of Tomb Raider
February 29, 2008 - It was a man's world. But it was nothing, not one little thing, without a woman and her guns. Lara Croft is the First Lady of gaming, the face on a fifty billion dollar franchise, a character so iconic she handily eclipses the very games that feature her. She's a beacon for post-feminist independence and a sophomoric pin-up fantasy, all in one ass-kicking, mouth-watering package. Sex, danger, mystery... Lara carries it all, and she does it all with English class. Because past the magazine covers, commercials, comic books and Hollywood blockbusters, Lara's just a simple girl who's happiest when crawling through a crumbling Aztec temple loaded with instantly lethal booby-traps. Her adventures might be straight out of the best pulp cliffhangers, but when Lara Croft leapt her first bottomless chasm, the future had arrived, and every other blood-and-guts action hero had catching up to do. This lady was no tourist.
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June 14, 2007 - Seeing a beloved franchise crumble into a defunct mishmash of horrid ideas and misconstrued concepts seems to happen all too often in this day and age of money grabbing bottom-liners. A great game is relatively easy to create in comparison to what it takes to sustain that greatness throughout an entire series. Some franchises are great at keeping a high level of quality, whereas others take a swan dive into the shallow end of the pool. It might not be so bad when a company makes a one-hit-wonder that then flops, but when a series has been in our hearts for generations of systems and then takes an incredible downturn in quality, that's when we have to turn our hateful gaze to the publishers responsible. We're usually not in the business of calling people out for shoddy development jobs, but in some cases, an exception must be made. In this article we'll detail some of our most beloved series that have taken a grave turn for the worse, and then tell you how future installments can right the ship. And yes, not even Electronic Arts will be spared this time around.
Warner Bros Invests in SCi, Eidos
December 15, 2006 - The Hollywood movie-making company Warner Bros. today announced it has made a 10.3 investment in SCi, the small but aggressive English company that less than two years ago bought Tomb Raider-publisher Eidos. As part of the strategic partnership, SCi gained rights to a handful of classic TV properties including Batman, Looney Tunes, many Hanna-Barbera titles and The OC.
Tomb Raider: Legend Review
December 13, 2006 - Lara Croft is a British countess, but she acts like the Prince of Persia. The Tomb Raider series has always had a lot in common with the platforming adventure gameplay of the Prince of Persia games, and that connection has been even stronger in Lara's 2D appearances on the Game Boy. Her last outing, 2002's Tomb Raider: The Prophecy, was displayed from an overhead perspective. The similarities weren't so strong. But here she returns to her roots. Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara's first portable title in over four years, has her side-scrolling, ledge-leaping and wall-jumping all over again. It's a clone of Prince of Persia's classic platforming design to be sure – unfortunately, Lara's imitation doesn't live up to the example of her idol.
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Houston Ballet II Dancer Joel Woellner Wins Two Prizes at Prix De Lausanne Ballet Competition
Shelly Power, Academy Director commented, "This competition is different from others because students are seen not only on stage in their variation performances but also in daily classes in both ballet and contemporary. Coaching is another area the jury observes and evaluates how a student might grow as a professional. Joel did an amazing job as noted by the judges in all areas but especially in coaching as he demonstrated his ability to adapt to a variety of styles and repertoire which is imperative for a long and diverse career."
A native of Sydney, Australia, Mr. Woellner is studying full time at the Houston Ballet Academy in Houston, Texas U.S.A. and is member of Houston Ballet II. He received a full scholarship with Houston Ballet as a result of his participation in the Finals of Youth America Grand Prix, 2011 New York. Joel has qualified for the semi-finals of the Prix de Lausanne in both 2012 and 2013. He has competed in many ballet competitions and eisteddfods, Welsh festivals of literature, music, and performance. Some of his achievements include: 2011 Alana Haines Australasian Awards - 1st Runner-up B group. 2010 Finalist Senior Ballet Scholarship Sydney Eisteddfod. He will perform as part of Houston Ballet's Academy Spring Showcase at Wortham Theater Center April 26-27, 2013. Tickets may be purchased by calling 713 227 2787 or by visiting www.houstonballet.org.
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1.0 Project Background
In order to achieve the objectives of this project, it has been divided into three phases, shown in Figure 2.1. Phase I focused on defining an approach for assessing infrastructure health, with a focus on pavements and bridges. In Phase II the approach will be finalized and tested via a pilot study on a sample corridor. Phase III is centered on a national meeting to review the project results and discuss the preferred methodology and next steps. This report marks the completion of Phase I (as illustrated by the red arrow in Figure 2.1).
Figure 2.1 Project Milestones
As part of Phase I, three formal project meetings were held. On October 14, 2010, a Project Kick-off Meeting was held at FHWA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Discussion focused on the project scope and expectations. On December 14, 2010, Project Meeting #2 was held with a focus on preparation for Technical Working Group (TWG) Meeting #1, which occurred on February 4, 2011. Discussions at all three of these meetings shaped the results and direction of Phase I (Sections 2.2 and 2.3 respectively). For more detailed notes on the discussions of each meeting, refer to the meeting minutes.
It is anticipated that the TWG will provide input throughout this project. In many cases, personnel responsible for pavement and bridge management are the best source of information regarding the health and performance of these assets. The TWG members will be asked to identify data that they consider in assessing the overall health of pavements and bridges. The TWG also will provide input regarding the criteria for classifying asset condition as good, fair or poor and information they use to make this determination. The recognition and inclusion of the types of information practitioners use to make assessments of health will be vital to establishing credibility and buy-in for this effort.
FHWA has worked with AASHTO to assemble the TWG to:
- Provide input on the assessment methodologies;
- Provide necessary data and support for the pilot; and
- Meet with the project team to review pilot results.
The TWG includes the following representatives from six State DOTs and AASHTO:
- Ms. Judith Corley-Lay, North Carolina DOT;
- Ms. Joneete Kreideweis, Minnesota DOT;
- Ms. Mara Campbell, Missouri DOT;
- Mr. David Huft, South Dakota DOT;
- Mr. Steven Krebes, Wisconsin DOT;
- Ms. Daniela Bremmer, Washington State DOT; and
- Mr. Matt Hardy, AASHTO.
Three of the DOTs (Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota) maintain a portion of the I-90 corridor selected for the pilot study, which is described below.
Based on the project understanding, literature review, guidance from FHWA, and input from the TWG, several findings regarding asset condition and health have emerged. These findings are summarized below, organized by the two parallel tracks of the project - categorizing asset condition as good/fair/poor, and assessing overall health.
Defining Good/Fair/Poor
The approach being implemented through this project for categorizing asset condition as good/fair/poor requires two separate steps:
- Define definitions for good/fair/poor. By design, these definitions relate solely to the condition of a pavement or bridge, and do not consider other factors such as safety, capacity, etc. In addition, they are metric-neutral, meaning that the definitions will remain constant regardless of the metrics selected in step 2.
- Define condition metrics and thresholds that can be used to systematically categorize assets based on these definitions. It is anticipated that as new data and modeling capabilities become available, these metrics will evolve.
Based on proposed FHWA definitions and input provided by the TWG, the following definitions have been advanced as part of this project:
- Good condition - Pavement and bridge infrastructure that is free of significant defects, and has a condition that does not adversely affect its performance. This level of condition typically only requires preventive maintenance activities.
- Fair condition - Pavement and bridge infrastructure that has isolated surface defects or functional deficiencies on pavements; or minor deterioration of bridge elements. This level of condition typically could be addressed through minor rehabilitation, such as overlays and patching of pavements that do not require full depth structural improvements; and crack sealing, patching of spalls, and corrosion mitigation on bridges.
- Poor condition - Pavement and bridge infrastructure that is exhibiting advanced deterioration and conditions that impact structural capacity. This level of condition typically requires structural repair, replacement or reconstruction.
These definitions can also be presented in a tabular form, as shown in Table 2.1.
|Typical Work Required
|Good condition
|Fair condition
|Poor condition
These definitions are intended for use by FHWA and State DOTs. They provide a single scale for subsequent measure and threshold discussions. Ultimately, they may need to be simplified for public consumption. In addition, if they are presented to the public, care should be taken to consider potential legal consequences of certain terms.
Ideally, the overall use of these definitions would be considered when finalizing them. For example, if the objective is to hold DOT's accountable for achieving good/fair/poor targets, then there may need to be more technical scrutiny and consensus building than if the main objective is to provide a nationwide reporting mechanism. However, it is unclear at this time how the good/fair/poor definitions may be used by Congress in the next reauthorization, and the focus at this time is on providing a national reporting mechanism.
The definitions and metric thresholds (discussed below) are not meant to vary by functional class. These differences would be addressed during a subsequent target setting process, e.g., where a target could be defined as the percent of a network (or portion of a network) that is in good condition.
Pavement Condition Metrics
Based on the work conducted in Phase I of this study, it is recommended that the following three options for pavement condition metrics be explored during the pilot in Phase II.
Pavement metric option #1 - IRI. There is momentum for IRI to be the initial basis for a national pavement performance measure. For example, IRI thresholds for good/fair/poor are currently being developed as part of NCHRP 20-24(37) G. (At this time, NCHRP 20-24(37) G is still ongoing. Therefore, all references to that work in this document should be considered to be in a draft stage.) These thresholds (which are presented in Table 2.2.) are consistent with the thresholds recommended in a recent FWHA report called, Baseline Performance Data for Federal-Aid Performance Framework, and with the thresholds used in the FHWA's Condition and Performance (C&P) Report.
|Threshold in C&P Report
|Draft Threshold from NCHRP 20-24(37) G
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|Not Acceptable
|> 170
Pavement metric option #2 - New Metric Based on HPMS 2010+ Data.
Although there is interest in IRI as an initial national indicator, there are recognized limitations with using a single indicator to measure pavement condition. IRI is a measure of pavement roughness not of overall condition. Many States DOTs combine ride/roughness data with distress data to represent overall pavement condition. However the details of this approach vary considerably across the country. As part of the pilot study, the project team will investigate using the distress elements required as part of HPMS 2010+ to develop a similar type of combined measure. For example, the new metric could involve a combination of IRI, rutting, faulting, and cracking. Potential issues on using this type of HPMS-based measure include:
- HPMS 2010+ pavement distress data is reported only for HPMS sample sections.
- HPMS data are only collected in one direction (e.g., east and south).
- Some DOTs are investigating the use of transfer functions to convert their existing data into the required HPMS 2010+ format. However, the validity of this approach has not been widely studied.
- It is anticipated that there is a significant range in how DOTs are collecting HPMS 2010+ condition data. IRI and rutting may be the most consistently collected across agencies.
These issues have been flagged for consideration during the pilot.
Pavement metric option #3 - New Metric Which Incorporates Structural Response. A significant benefit of Options #1 and #2 is that they are possible with existing data, or data that is expected to be available shortly through HPMS 2010+. However, neither option provides a comprehensive view of pavement condition. A more comprehensive pavement metric would also consider the structural response of the layered system. Therefore, as part of this study, the project team will explore opportunities and potential challenges of using state collected falling weight deflectometer data (if available) and deflection data collected with a Rolling Wheel Deflectometer as part of the good/fair/poor assessment in combination with options 1 and 2, presented above.
Bridge Condition Metrics
Three options for bridge condition metrics have been identified for consideration during the pilot.
Bridge metric option #1 - Structural Deficient (SD) Status. SD status is determined by FHWA based on NBI data submitted by State DOTs. A bridge is classified as SD if:
- The condition of its deck, superstructure, substructure, and/or culvert is rated 4 or less (on a ten-point scale), OR
- Its structural condition or waterway adequacy is rated 2 or less.3
3FHWA Non-regulatory supplement for 23 CFR 650.409, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/fapg/0650dsup.htm
SD status is being explored as a potential national performance measure through NCHRP 20-24(37) G, and will be evaluated as part of the pilot for this study.
Bridge metric option #2 - NBI Ratings. While SD status is a widely used measure of bridge condition, it is binary (a bridge is either SD or it is not). The ideal metric for bridge condition would be a numeric index that allows for specifying different levels of urgency for addressing a bridge need. For example, the NBI dataset includes ratings for deck, culvert, superstructure, and substructure. These ratings range from 1 to 9. Previous FHWA efforts and a recent comparative analysis study of bridge conditions conducted though NCHRP 20-24(37) E used the following thresholds to categorize bridges as good/fair/poor:
- Good - Minimum rating ≥ 7;
- Fair - Minimum rating is 5 or 6; and
- Poor - Minimum rating < 5. This approach will be explored during the pilot study.
Bridge metric option #3 - New Measure Based on NBI Ratings. Another option for combining the NBI ratings described above is to include additional ratings in the calculation (e.g., inventory load rating and water adequacy rating) and to calculate a weighted average. Each rating would be weighted by its perceived importance to overall bridge condition. This approach is similar to the bridge Health Index metric used by the Pontis bridge management system. During the pilot, the study team will explore options for a new bridge metric that is based on the weighted average of NBI ratings for deck, superstructure, substructure and culvert, inventory load rating, and water adequacy rating. This new metric could be reported on a 1-100 scale, with thresholds established for categorizing bridges as good/fair/poor.
Overall Health
The health assessment is intended to provide a means for FHWA to examine the overall health of specific corridors and respond to requests for information. It will enable FHWA to examine health across States in a consistent manner. State DOT's may also be interested in the health assessment if they would like to know the condition of pavements and bridges in adjacent States, or if they would like to use the data to augment their agency-specific pavement and bridge data.
Several DOTs already compile and report information related to infrastructure health. While the FHWA can learn from these by reviewing existing reports and dashboards, the overall intent of this effort is to develop an approach that can be applied across States. Therefore the approach must be feasible solely with national data sets.
The vision for the health assessment has two components. The first is the ability to develop reports that summarize overall health and identify potential warning signs. The second component is a tool that enables users to review metrics and examine detailed data.
In developing the project approach, the FHWA and the project team narrowed down several options, coming to the following conclusions about the details of the health assessment:
- Scope - The pilot study will be conducted on an Interstate corridor, but the methodology should be applicable for the entire National Highway System or any other defined roadway network for which the required data is available.
- Scale - Data should be available by highway segment and flexible for analysis purposes. For example, FHWA would like the option to look at a segment of highway through an urban area, look at a segment of highway across an entire State, look at a segment of highway across multiple States, or examine overall network conditions of several (or all) States.
- Timing - The methodology will focus on a current snapshot of conditions/health, and where possible anticipate near term issues.
- Issues to address - The initial effort will focus on system condition, building on the pavement and bridge metrics used to categorize assets as good/fair/poor. It will include other data and metrics where available. For example, asset characteristics and usage may help to provide context and identify red flags. Specific factors identified for consideration include truck weight or truck type, age, output from the FHWA's Pavement Health Track Tool, and the financial demands of maintaining the asset. The health assessment methodology will enable future consideration of additional factors such as operational performance and transportation impacts.
Although potentially useful for DOT's, one concern with the proposed health approach is that they may be put in a position where they have to explain the differences between the results from FHWA's health assessment approach and their own. This issue will be explored further in Phase II of this project.
In addition to finalizing the metrics and data used for the health assessment, a key step in Phase II will be the development of an algorithm for combining these elements. For example, one option is to develop an index which assigns relative weights to each included metric. Another option is to base the assessment on independent thresholds, where any individual threshold could result in a lower overall health.
The display of the health assessment will also be critical to its success. Figures
2.2 and 2.3 represent two sample displays developed for illustrative purposes as part of Phase I.
Figure 2.2 Sample Health Display, Part 1
Figure 2.3 Sample Health Display, Part 2
The objective of the pilot program that will be conducted in Phase II of this study is to test the methodologies described above for categorizing assets as good/fair/poor and assessing overall health. As part of the pilot, the study team will compile and compare three data sets for a multi-state, Interstate corridor: 1) data from State DOT databases, 2) HPMS and NBI data submitted to FHWA, and 3) data collected in the field as part of this effort. These data will be analyzed in order to address the following issues:
- Consistency between the three data sets listed above. Table 2.3 illustrates how these comparisons could be reported.
- Consistency in data between State DOTs.
- Implications of the use of automated data collection techniques.
- The validity of proposed methodologies, including algorithms for calculating the new measures, good/fair/poor thresholds, and the health assessment approach.
|State DOT Data
|Data Submitted to FWHA
|Data Collected in theField by Project Team
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|Metric Option #1
|Metric Option #2
|Metric Option #3
Pilot Corridor Selection
As part of Phase I, potential pilot corridors were evaluated based on consideration of a number of criteria, including the following (more details of the corridor selection process are available in a Phase I project memorandum, dated December 29, 2010):
- Do not consider I-95. The FHWA has conducted a previous data compilation pilot on the I-95 corridor.
- Adjacency. Ideally, the three States would be adjacent. However, this was not mandatory.
- Data compilation expediency. To ensure adherence to the overall project schedule, a major consideration was the extent to which data is readily available. For bridges, the potential good/fair/poor approaches rely on NBI data, which is readily available from all DOTs. Therefore, the data expediency considerations focused on pavement data. The potential good/fair/poor approaches for pavements rely on HPMS 2010+ data. Therefore, the pilot States should have already submitted HPMS 2010+ files to FHWA. In addition, to minimize data compilation requirements, the pilot selection focused on corridors solely owned and operated by DOTs, as opposed to a combination of DOTs and toll authorities.
- Overlap with the TWG. Include a representative from each pilot State on the technical working group.
Figure 2.4 provides a geographic view of four potential pilot corridors that were considered.The I-90 corridor through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota was selected because HPMS 2010+ data is available in all three States, and because no portion of it is operated by a tolling agency. Figure 2.5 illustrates the pilot corridor in more detail. For more details on the proposed approach to the pilot data collection and data gathering effort, refer to the Phase II work plan in Section 3.0.
Figure 2.4 Pilot Corridor Candidates
Figure 2.5 I-90 Pilot Corridor


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a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Jan 3, 2012 at 8:26 am
What's the difference between reporting and opinion at the Pleasanton Weekly? A reporter reports and a columnist offer's his opinion. At least that's how I thought it worked. A reporter urging voters to do something isn't appropriate, and you are doing the community a disservice by apparently not knowing the difference.
a resident of Parkside
on Jan 3, 2012 at 8:53 am
Bill, in any case, despite your ignoring that editorializing is commonplace nowadays in all forms of media, this tax needs to go away as it was originally intended.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 3, 2012 at 10:17 am
While I agree with the writer's sentiments this shouldn't be titled as "reporting". File this under Op-Ed or something.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 3, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Agree with Tim Hunt.
Do not vote to give these idiots anymore money. They have wasted almost 200 million dollars on the 680 Express Lane fiasco. CalTrans wanted to install a northbound carpool lane on the Sunol grade. If this project would have been kept, we would have had carpool lanes southbound and northbound in 2005, the 680/84 interchange wouldn't be screwed up, and we would have money left over to actually fix the potholes on 680 southbound between Pleasanton/Sunol Road and Hwy 84 interchange.
Now we are stuck with a toll road that is a money pit for the taxpayer, a northbound carpool lane that will not be built until 2014, if ever, and a highway interchange that is so screwed up, it makes any benefits of the Express Lane negligible. To top it off these directors instructed CalTrans to turn on the metering lights which did not help the freeway traffic any, but caused huge backups of traffic on the local city streets.
Let CalTrans do the job they were hired to do. Get rid of these transportation councils which do nothing but suck up taxpayer money and cause needless delays in beneficial projects.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 4, 2012 at 10:15 am
I sure hope that Tim Hunt writes a few funny articles. i rest my case...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 4, 2012 at 10:40 am
Poor Tim, cholo always has to have the final word.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 4, 2012 at 12:20 pm
you sure know how to tease a person!
a resident of Castlewood
on Jan 9, 2012 at 7:28 am
Oh come on Timmy.. locked to registered users! You have the authority to block or eliminate messages that dont agree with your GOP ways!.Give us all a break: you are reporting the Fox way. Fair and balanced as long as it conforms to your views. Please please dont give us any of your Jesus fairy tale stuff.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jan 9, 2012 at 10:16 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Yea, come on Mr. Hunt, can't we exploit your labor to moderate all posts for free so we don't have to do the work of starting our own anonymous blog to have our views heard?
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jan 9, 2012 at 10:53 am
I'd have to agree that posting a story and locking it to only registered users is not really a blog. So far, his posts slide off page one of the topic list rather rapidly. Either Tim is posting an opinion for only the few to comment (and then, really, he's just wanting to tell us what he thinks) or he can open it up and even comment on our comments. The latter would be more interesting. With his history as a community member, he certainly knows the players. I would think interest in his "blog" will disappear entirely if it's essentially a one way street.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I'm glad to see Stacey and kathleen spoke up. I early on eagerly endorsed Tim blogging. Then, I'm sure it was because of the pathetic Cholo problem, they switched to registered....so I thot well I don't even bother reading things I can't comment about......freely..
I prefer anon, mainly because I won't be sterotyped.. Many of the more ignorant and petty today, jump to conclusions if you take a position on X something, then obviously, you're X on something that your're a Z. I will not be lumped with people I don't like, because I might agree on one issue.
So, I don't know how or why the 'registered' is not 'up' today..But, that's a step forward....IF you want participation. It had been announced that Tim would be 'blogging', not serving as 'editor' or 'contributor'. Hopefully, this will work out and we can develop informed discussions, i.e.....exchange of 'information' is quite valuable, 'opinions'? not so much !
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jan 9, 2012 at 6:17 pm
To Welcome, This particular topic is about Tim, not by Tim, so there are no restrictions. His two posts are still locked as far as I know.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 9, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Oh NO ! ! Well,like I said, If I can't be 'engaged', why bother.
a resident of Birdland
on Jan 11, 2012 at 5:52 am
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