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Can you tell me at what point it is stopping at? End of rinse, end of drain, end of wash......Start of spin, etc.?
at nearly finished final spin
Thank you, XXXXX XXXXX the unit actually spinning or does it happen just as it is starting to spin?
it is spinning and doing all the rest of the wash fine,
The problem is in the timer circuit. Replacing the timer should resolve the problem. Timers are not so expensive as to warrant replacing the whole unit.
If it is digitally controlled please provide the units model number and I will see what a new control board will cost. They can get real expensive, and it might be better to get a new unit.
Please let me know if you have any other immediate concerns.If not please select a positive rating at this time. Doing so will not close your question, and after you rate my service you may ask any followup questions you like. All at no additional charge.Thank you for the opportunity to serve you. Best, Smitty**How to rate your expert**
Sorry, since I began this questioning I turned the washer on and it filled but turned off as it tried to start...so now it is not working at all. So is it still same issue?
Yes it did, I moved the washer cycle on manually by a click or two, reset the power and turned it on.. so far it is working again. I don't know the model number. I should be able to get it repaired. I am elderly and can't physically move it out to see the numbers. Thanks for your help. carol
Im sure that you can, Carol. The timer is an easy repair for a good service person.
It seems like the unit is arcing at the timer contacts and that is causing it to trip the breaker.
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Centrists weaken Netanyahu's grasp
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged weakened and facing a redrawn political map on Tuesday when Israeli television projections showed a surge for a new centrist party, Yesh Atid, in Israel's elections, making it a key element of a coalition.
Netanyahu's ticket combining his rightist Likud party with the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu faction won 31 parliamentary seats, according to the projections, a sharp decline from the combined 42 seats held by the two parties in the outgoing 120-member legislature.
The faction remained the largest in parliament, but its shrunken size meant that Netanyahu will be more dependent on smaller coalition partners to cobble together a parliamentary majority.
In a message on his Facebook page after the projections were announced, Netanyahu said he would begin "efforts to put together the widest government possible," indicating that centrist parties would be invited into his coalition.
The surprise result, according to the projections, was the surge to 19 seats of Yesh Atid, or There is a Future, a new centrist party. Its leader, Yair Lapid, a former television anchorman, based his campaign on a demand to end the exemption of tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from compulsory military service so they can pursue religious studies with government stipends.
Lapid's campaign for equal service and easing the burden on Israel's struggling middle class resonated with many secular Israelis who pay high taxes and serve in the military. He has also called for a resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians.
"The message is that there is a new agenda," said Ofer Shelah, a Yesh Atid candidate, on Channel Two television.
"Lapid will determine how Netanyahu's government will look," said Amit Segal, Channel Two's political reporter, adding that Netanyahu "will now have to pay a heavy price."
The opposition Labor Party, which polls had predicted would be the second-largest faction, slid to third place, with 17 to 18 seats, according to the projections. Its leader, Shelly Yachimovich, has vowed not to join a government with Netanyahu.
A religious nationalist pro-settlement party, Jewish Home, which surged in the polls, was projected to win 12 seats, making it another potentially crucial element in a governing coalition.
"We've returned to the center of the political map," said its leader, Naftali Bennett, who extended the party's appeal to secular Israelis. Bennett opposes a Palestinian state and has called for annexation of most of the West Bank.

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"My neighbor, whom I've never introduced myself to, is my 6 a.m. source of entertainment. I have to be up for work, and without fail at 6:15, he stalks out of his house in a shortie bathrobe that barely ties around him, snatches up the newspaper and his three large dogs inevitably start barking their heads off. He raises the paper into the air and shakes it, and yells, 'Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Damn dogs!' and stalks back into the house. I always make sure I'm on my front porch for the morning show." — E. Taisey, Boise
"I live on a first-floor duplex with my roommate and we are lucky enough to have a backyard. While doing the agonizing weed work, we hear a voice from the second floor saying, 'You ladies need any help?' We met our neighbor Tim and his friend, who helped cut weeds, take out the trash and welcomed us to the neighborhood with home-cooked dinner in the same evening! We have been friends ever since." —Melissa Rivera, New York
"My family lives next to a nice retired couple whose one fault is that they call the city to complain about everything, so when we put a shed in our backyard, you can guess what happened. We asked our adjacent neighbors if they were O.K. with the shed, but the retired couple lives across the street and looks into our backyard from the side. The shed was on the opposite side of our backyard from them, but apparently they didn't like the view ... So the city came, and told us that the shed was a legal structure but too close to the fence. So we moved it to the only other spot available in our yard — the fence that faces the neighbors who complained. For some strange reason they don't stop by to say hello anymore." —Fredrik Johansson, Pleasanton, Calif.
"We have two little girls (3 and 21 months). Our neighbor's youngest child is now 14. So he was nice enough to give us their free-standing treehouse. It was a mutual favor: We got a free treehouse, and he got the privilege of getting it off his hands." —Jim Pemberton, Minneapolis
"My neighbor is named Stan, and he's actually a handyman! He is the best neighbor ever. Everyone on our street says they sometimes consider moving, but can't because they don't want to leave Stan. He knows everything about everything, especially fixing stuff around the house and how to keep your lawn green and healthy and he even patiently lends tools to everybody. His favorite dessert is lemon meringue pie and I think I'll get him one this weekend." —Cassi Fredricks, Fargo, N.D.
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Album Rating: 4.0Yeah it was much better than I thought it would be.
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Album Rating: 4.0This is actually an amazing album, part 2 more so though, just slightly. Good review too
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Album Rating: 3.5I'm not the devil but I won't be yah hero
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Album Rating: 3.5It ends how Part 1 begins
Album Rating: 4.0It does. Do me a favour is such a kick ass song.
Album Rating: 3.5I will burn alive in the HOUSE OF GOLD AND BONES.
Album Rating: 4.0Everything comes full circle.
Album Rating: 4.0Do Me a Favour was the perfect single
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Album Rating: 4.0It has a very Sin City feel to it, which I love.
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PITTSBURGH-Andrew W. Lo, one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2012, will present Carnegie Mellon University's sixth Nash Distinguished Lecture in Quantitative Finance. His lecture, titled "Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer," will be held at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27, in Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall), on CMU's Oakland campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lo will discuss his theory that financial engineers can use the same techniques that were devised to open up large amounts of money for mortgages - and that led to the current financial crisis - to provide billions in funding for biomedical research. Lo argues that current methods of funding biomedical research don't provide sufficient financial resources to find cures for some of the most pervasive diseases, like cancer. He and his colleagues propose that financial engineers can harness global markets to create pools of funding through a combination of public and private investment and long-term debt.
Lo is the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Laboratory for Financial Engineering, the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a principal investigator at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1984, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School from 1984 to 1988. He has published numerous articles in finance and economics journals, and has authored several books, including "The Econometrics of Financial Markets," "A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street," and "Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective." He is currently a co-editor of the Annual Review of Financial Economics and an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Computational Finance. He also is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a consultant to the Office of Financial Research, a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Economic Advisory Committee, Moody's Academic Advisory and Research Committee, the New York Fed's Financial Advisory Roundtable, and founder and chief investment strategist of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, an investment advisory firm in Cambridge, Mass.
This biennial lecture is named after John F. Nash, Jr., who in 1948 earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon, and his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1950. In 1994, Nash, along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. This work, sometimes called the Nash Equilibrium, has greatly influenced research in economics and finance.


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Jets QB Mark Sanchez has two AFC title game trips and a 4-2 playoff record to his credit in two NFL seasons.
But he says he has a little more work to do -- particularly controlling his emotions -- if he's to make good on Jets coach Rex Ryan's guarantee that New York is Super Bowl bound after the 2011 season.
"I think I'm fortunate enough to be on a very good team to help my development early. But right now the name of this game and this next season -- third year, fourth year, fifth year coming up -- is just being more consistent," Sanchez said on NFL Network's NFL Total Access on Wednesday.
He specifically cited his struggles after the Jets' 45-3 loss to the Patriots in the 2010 regular season, a game both teams entered with 9-2 records and the AFC East crown on the line. The Jets also lost the following week to Miami after getting blistered by New England.
"Going through rookie year, going through a slump towards the middle part of the year, this past season going through two games -- the Patriots Monday night game and then the Dolphins game right after that, we lost two in a row -- where I wasn't really myself after that Patriots game, I let it get to me a little more than I should have," said Sanchez.
"And those are the kind of things -- growing pains -- you learn these first couple years playing, and now it's about getting rid of those negative emotions, moving on and getting ready to play each and every week and staying consistent."
Despite his ups and downs in the regular season (19-12 record, 70.2 QB rating), Sanchez's passer rating in postseason is 94.3.
"The best part, I think, about my game personally has been the playoff performances, knowing that it's win or go home. And we've done it just about every time except for two tough ones, so -- those are the ones that'll keep you up at night, and the ones that keep you fighting through to keep playing," said Sanchez.
"I'm excited to make another step."
He also shared his thoughts on several other topics:
As for the prospect of future appearances on HBO's Hard Knocks?
"I'm OK," Sanchez smiled coyly, indicating one round of Hard Knocks was enough.
"It was really fun. I know it won some Emmys, I believe. ... Rex should've won all of them."
Told the 2010 installment of the show featuring the Jets won four and that Ryan was present to accept the Emmys, Sanchez cracked, "Did they have a free snack?"
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Barlow shines as hot Kings dine out on the Crocodiles
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Sydney turned on the heat as the Kings thrashed Townsville in yesterday's NBL game at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
As the mercury soared into the mid-30s, it seemed as though the Crocs were on vacation as their defence crumbled against the Sydney onslaught.
The Kings recorded their highest score and biggest winning margin of the season to improve their record to 5-2, while the Crocs dipped to 4-3.
Young Sydney forward David Barlow scorched the Crocs by recording an NBL career high of 24 points and missed only one of his 11 field-goal attempts as the Kings shot 59 per cent.
A lighting problem delayed the start by 15 minutes, but Townsville were in the dark for most of this one-sided contest.
The game was locked at 21-21 halfway through the first quarter, but an 11-1 run helped Sydney establish a 34-24 advantage at the first break.
The Kings then established margins of 21 and 33 at the last two breaks.
Townsville contributed to their downfall with a dismal tally of 25 turnovers, which Sydney converted into 34 points.
Veteran forward Ben Knight provided the early spark for Sydney, scoring 13 first-quarter points and nailing all six of his field-goal attempts.
However, Sydney's scoring load was evenly spread and even early foul trouble for centre Rolan Roberts couldn't slow the Sydney juggernaut.
Barlow and Knight headed the Kings scoresheet but they had eight men in double figures, with Roberts and guard Luke Kendall scoring 15, guards BJ Carter and Jason Smith (both 14), CJ Bruton (13) and Mark Worthington (11).
Boom youngster Brad Newley topped the Crocs' scoresheet with 21, 13 of them in the last quarter, but made only seven of his 21 field-goal attempts. Big men Larry Abney (20) and Casey Calvary (16) were the visitor's only other significant contributors.
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Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann have always enjoyed making games. Growing up in Germany, the brothers picked up programming skills creating such things as fast-food restaurant simulations on older Atari consoles and Commodore's Amiga.
Fast forward to 2008, where the Hoechsmanns were focused on genome research. Matthias was studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz, examining microorganisms living in extreme environments. Thomas was working on acquiring his Ph.D in the same field.
Then they were introduced to the "Jesus phone."
"When the iPhone was there, we realized there is an opportunity to bring our games to the masses," says Matthias. The brothers dropped research and went full-time into game development.
Their first project was a prototype Thomas created in his free time that eventually became the iOS hit Zombie Smash. Published by Zynga, it requires players to flick zombies before they invade the safe house. Although zombies could be shot, picked up like rag dolls and slammed into the ground, players couldn't hack and slash their way through undead hordes.
Enter Zombie Swipeout, the second game from the Hoechsmanns, which launched this week. It's Fruit Ninja, only with zombies flying onto the screen instead of bananas.
"We looked at that category of slicing games, and there's so much stuff," says Thomas. "We wanted to come up with something new that brings the category forward, that adds new elements."
Swipeout features one mode in which players have 75 seconds to rack up as many points as possible by slaying zombies. However, if you accidentally kill the hero, Joey, the game ends.
Players pick up point multipliers by performing moves such as lopping off heads or knocking out several zombies at once. As players progress, they rack up experience to unlock items such as machetes, swords and baseball bats.
The game also features heavy social elements, as players compete with friends to top their scores. "You can see your friends (and) interact with them," says Matthias. "They're not hidden. It's at the center of the game."
Their approach to game development hasn't changed since their Atari and Amiga days. "We work in a similar way now (as) we did back then," says Thomas. "We come up with some mechanic and just work the game around it, and work through many iterations before we find our path."
Although they no longer study microorganisms, Matthias says many of the principles still make sense for their game development careers. "We also had passion for research," he says. "I didn't feel quite ready to break up with that. Everything we learned, we can apply it. We didn't feel like we have to trash anything we learned."
Now running Zynga's mobile branch in Germany, the Hoechsmanns seem happy with their career switch. "Sometimes, if you believe in something, you just have to do it," says Matthias.
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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Article from The Chronicle, December 9, 2005, (One year later what has been achieved?)
More than 200 college presidents, provosts, chief information officers, and other top academic leaders gathered here this fall to talk about the role of technology in colleges and universities and its effect on teaching and learning.
The Higher Education Leadership Forum was organized by The Chronicle and Gartner, a technology research and information company, to bring academic and technology leaders together to look at how technology is shaping colleges and universities, for good or ill.
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Technology has altered almost every aspect of higher education, from libraries to teaching to student life. But in many ways we have only seen the beginning of the changes technology will bring.
Over the forum's two days, participants delved into many crucial questions about what higher education should be in the age of high technology.
Speakers and panelists looked at the big picture, at times asking the audience to reconsider the very mission of higher education and how technology fits into it.
Just because the Internet gives scholars and students access to "our own virtual Libraries of Alexandria" does not mean that education and research are improving, said Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, in a keynote address.
"We should not perpetuate the myth that technology is only a benign force," he said. He expressed concern that "we have all become too complacent about the far-reaching impact of technology on all our lives."....


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Every time there is a hurricane, drought, flood, etc…, or when a daily, weekly or annual temperature breaks a record certain scientists take the opportunity to opine, that while this or that particular record heat wave or hurricane can't be tied to global warming, its is the kind of pattern that the models and theory suggest should occur, and, that we will almost certainly see more of the same in the future.
Where are these scientists when record low temperatures occur or when a tornado or hurricane season (or several) pass with record low events. Silent — when facts don't fit the theory, hide.
In Dallas, we hit a record low and had the first ever recorded temperature in the 30's in May of 2013. In fact, record lows and late, heavy snow falls are going on all over. In addition, after a high tornado year in 2011, we had a record low year for 2012 to 2013. This doesn't disprove global warming theory, but it sure should raise some questions for those who year after year, despite the mounting contradictory evidence, claim that humans are causing catastrophic climate change is a fact — the science is hardly settled.


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Grocery Store Launches "Man Aisle" In Dopey Publicity Stunt
Great publicity stunt, Westside Market NYC! You've launched a thousand feminist blogs into a tizzy about the "man aisle" in your grovery store, which is stocked with everything a dudely dude would need on a grocery trip. All the food groups: booze, barbecue sauce, chips, and razors. The store's CEO George Joskowitz told New York Post he was inspired to create a "man aisle" after reading an ESPN study that found 31 percent of men are grocery shopping for their families, up from 14 percent in the 1980s. (Thirty-one percent? That's all? I dunno, those numbers sound really off.) And you know what families need: booze, barbecue sauce, chips, and razors. Joskowitz bragged that "you can pretty much stand here [and] not move two feet" to get all your shopping done. Unless you need things like milk, eggs and cereal. Or diapers. Or go on a tampon run for your hormonal girlfriend who is back at the house sobbing into her stuffed animals. Because let's face it, guys. That's the only reason you'd be a woman's domain in the first place, amirite? [New York Post]


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I have no idea if anyone has already mentioned this but on pg. 388 the dogs name changes from risky to ricky. and i quote:
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I don't know if this'll make sense but I've been straightening my hair for like 6 months. I'd been straightening my hair for most of my life but last summer and fall I went curly then I reverted back to my old ways. Now that it's summer again I wanna go curly again, but I'm feeling discouraged because my hair isn't what it used to be.
I know it's going to take time for my hair to "transition" I guess, but for now I need help on what to do. I have 3c/4a hair and I deep conditioned it with Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition's deep conditioner, rinsed it out like an hour later and I noticed the problem... My ends are curling ok but like the top layer of my hair feels dry and mushy? and its poofy. In fact my hair is just frizzy and poofy once its dried and even when I get out the shower, my hair feels dry even though it's wet.
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Usually every W Hotel has a bar dubbed Living Room, and the South Beach outpost is no different. And though we've stayed at other W locations around North America, we've yet to find one with a lobby bar scene that's as chic as our local one. Beautiful women? Check. Power players? Check. Well-versed bartenders? Check. Excellent cocktails? Check. In fact, it's hard to believe that with so many lovely things surrounding you that the cocktails are still the star here. Concocted by noted mixologist and author Scott Beattie, the drink menu features creatively crafted libations that are meant to be sipped, not chugged. Complex flavors reveal themselves as they touch your tongue and slowly make their way to the back of your throat. Some of our favorites include the Hemingway daiquiri (aged rum, agricole blanc, fresh lime and grapefruit juices, simple syrup, maraschino liqueur, and bitters) and the Miami Manhattan (whiskey, bourbon, sweet vermouth, Angostura bitters, and old-fashioned bitters), which revamp classic cocktails with fresh flavors and give their syrupy impostors the boot. All cocktails cost $16 but are well worth the price. Plus, the W's masculine yet inviting setting means you'll never want to leave.
How do you know when an art gallery has catapulted into the art-world stratosphere? When collectors from Miami, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris quickly buy out its entire stock at a major art fair. That was exactly what happened to Spinello Projects at the Volta New York fair, where major collectors plunked down serious cash to pluck 25 of Farley Aguilar's atmospheric paintings off the Spinello booth walls within two hours of opening its doors, to the delight of Anthony Spinello and his rising art star. Spinello, who has experienced a meteoric rise since he became a dealer in 2005, heads one of only two local galleries invited to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach the past two years running. It's no accident. The dealer has demonstrated a keen eye for spotting talent and represents locals ready to burst onto the national stage, from Aguilar to Santiago Rubino, Sinisa Kukec, Agustina Woodgate, Typoe, Manny Preires, and Antonia Wright. The main reason: He inspires fierce loyalty. For Spinello, the program he runs is a passion. He can often be found at his artists' studios or his gallery working elbow-to-elbow with the talents on their projects. Spinello has become known not only for producing edgy, thought-provoking, and seamlessly organized exhibits, but also for assembling a stable that functions as a family network of supportive talent rather than a roster of individual egos. In a business known for ruthless competitiveness, that level of loyalty is an all too uncommon trait.
During the past five years, Jillian Mayer has catapulted to national prominence as an artist and filmmaker who creates uncanny works that employ a postmillennial techno approach while blurring identities and parsing pop cultural memes. She burst onto the scene with her 2010 Scenic Jogging, in which the artist raced after bucolic screen-saver images projected onto Wynwood warehouses. That piece later won the Guggenheim's YouTube Play biennial, where it earned Mayer raves. The next year, Mayer followed with I Am Your Grandma — a viral, deliciously creepy gem in which she sings as the bizarre granny of her future progeny; it has earned 2.6 million YouTube views and counting. She also released Giving Birth to Myself, which headlined her solo show "Family Matters" at the David Castillo Gallery with a disturbing meditation on maternity where the sweat-soaked talent re-emerges as a baby slathered in acid-green slime. In 2012, Mayer and frequent collaborator and founder of the Borscht Film Festival, Lucas Leyva, snagged national headlines after their film The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke screened at Sundance and earned the duo inclusion in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." Last year, Mayer's clever How to Hide From Cameras, a YouTube makeup tutorial on how to remain anonymous in an increasing surveillance state, was a finalist at the Museum of Contemporary Art's popular Optic Nerve video fest, while her film #PostModem, yet another collaboration with Leyva, screened at Sundance. These days, not only is Mayer riding a hot hand, but the wildly creative artist has also proven herself a chameleon-like changeling who's startlingly at ease with forever reinventing herself.
David Beckham is smitten with the idea of constructing a new Major League Soccer Stadium at PortMiami and calls the site perfect because it reflects a city that "is all about the water, all about the culture." Becks is right. For evidence, simply visit the planet's most popular port to discover Coral Reef City, Bhakti Baxter's first large-scale public artwork in Miami. For his eye-popping project, part of Miami-Dade County's Art in Public Places program, the homegrown artist created site-specific designs for the port's toll collection booths that reference the site's unique role as gateway to the tropics. Baxter collaborated with Coral Morphologic, a Miami-based scientific art endeavor led by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay to create the 18 unique designs that wrap each individual toll booth. Each delivers a stunning vision of our vibrant local sea life. To accomplish the feat, Baxter and his collaborators enlarged macro photographs of corals that inhabit the waters in and around Miami, creating a striking synergy between nature and art that captures our town's appeal as a pulsating paradise. The resulting explosion of the brilliant, rainbow-hued colors of the soft corals (technically known as zoanthids) delights not only the likes of Beckham and the millions of other visitors passing through on cruise ships, but also locals, who rarely get a chance to behold the mystery and beauty of the creatures populating our coastline.
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Survey Data and Short-Term Forecasts of Swedish GDP Growth
In this paper, the author evaluates forecasting models for Swedish GDP growth which make use of data from Sweden´s most important business survey, the Economic Tendency Survey. Employing nine years of quarterly real-time data, an out-of-sample forecast exercise is conducted. Results indicate that the survey data have informational value that can be used to improve forecasts, thereby confirming the empirical relevance of survey data for GDP forecasters.
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- Sydney C. Ludvigson, 2004. "Consumer Confidence and Consumer Spending," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 18(2), pages 29-50, Spring.
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Let's test the proposition on one proposed innovation that holds well-known status in the battle between sceptics and Greens: solar power. Critics say solar power stops where the sun doesn't shine.
Yet what if innovation can detach solar from its reliance on green credentials? If you look at solar power from entirely another perspective, it makes enormous financial sense for a growing part of our population, independent of its sustainability.
Emerging "solar plus storage" technology for homes and small businesses offers a new investment class that is more profitable than BHP Billiton shares and safer than bank shares. Tosh? Let's see.
The first great law of technological change is that the existing players, no matter how big or how successful, universally fail to make the change to new disruptive technology.
At the moment we see newspapers and recording industries being undermined by the internet. In the past, railways and steamships yielded to aeroplanes and cars.
It will happen in the electricity industry, too. No matter how many times they are warned, they will still be shocked to discover their bread and butter business is disappearing, just like the traditional telcos were shocked when punters abandoned landlines.
When you buy electricity for your home it costs about 23¢ to 27¢ per kilowatt hour, plus supply charges. But the wholesale price of power at the power station is only about 3.3¢. So the distribution increases the cost 800 per cent or more.
The problem is not one of supply but distribution. And most of the money needed for the power industry in the next 10 years is not for generation, it is for wires.
Even climate-change sceptics would agree that large bits of Australia are very sunny. In many locations the cost of carbon-neutral solar power from the sun falling on the roof of an Australian home is cheaper than electricity coming down the wire.
This is because the price of solar panels and storage batteries is falling rapidly, in part due to technology but also thanks to increased supply and the exchange rate. It just depends on how you look at cost.
An enormous number of our investors are, or will become, self-funded retirees in the next 10 years, needing safe, high-yielding, inflation-proof investments.
If you buy property you have to face the prospect that Australia's property market is unlikely to continue to grow at its recent rate. And it is unlikely BHP will always enjoy such halcyon commodity prices and terms of trade.
One thing we can say for certain is that power prices are going to rise. The other great certainty is tax.
So our self-funded retirees have to invest their lump sum and first pay tax on the dividends, then pay their power bills. If your power bills are $1000 a year and you pay them with after-tax money earned from BHP dividends today, you need $47,000 of BHP shares. And if the price of iron ore in China falls, you will need even more shares to pay the bills. Investment property returns are not much better.
A sensible option might be to take some of this lump sum and invest instead in solar panels, whack them on your roof and put a battery in your garage. Two kilowatts of solar panels on your roof in most parts of Australia will make $1000 of power a year.
These panels cost a lot less than $47,000 of BHP shares – and when the price of iron ore falls in China, you don't care. When the price of conventional power rises due to inflation (and it is predicted to skyrocket), you still don't care.
Let's say you can install two-kilowatt panels with batteries for $15,000. An investment of $15,000 will save you $1000 in power bills a year. This is a 6.7 per cent return, but you don't pay tax on savings so you would need to earn 9.5 per cent on shares or rental property to match this rate (if you are paying 30 per cent tax).
To match this, your BHP shares would also have to yield 9.5 per cent (instead of 3 per cent), with dividends increasing at the same rate as electricity prices. That's not going to happen.
These calculations assume no bounties, no feed tariffs, nothing. If these extras are available, they simply make the economics better. Happily, all this saves the planet since solar power is essentially free of carbon emissions. You can have your cake and eat it too.
This kind of direct action has three huge benefits: it reduces household CO2 emissions to nearly zero at zero cost; it takes load off the grid, so saves the nation money; and it future-proofs one small aspect of retirement. It just needs an innovative approach to market design and secured financing that seems beyond some of today's business leaders.
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Sewickley farm market builds on sense of community
Lynn and Deron Tatala sat on a curb at the farm market at St. James Catholic Church in Sewickley, enjoying a lunch of hot Greek foods from the Little Athens Catering stand.
The Moon couple had been meaning to stop by the market for years and recently decided to venture over with their 4- and 7-year-old children after swimming lessons at the Sewickley Valley YMCA.
"It was fabulous," Lynn Tatala said. "It was really great."
That's the general impression visitors and vendors have about the farm market, which marks its 10th growing season this year, said Rob Jancart, deacon at St. James, who runs the market in the parish parking lot between Broad and Walnut streets.
Since starting with 10 vendors in 2005, the market has sprouted into a much larger, diverse marketplace.
Vendors sell seasonal fruits and vegetables, flowers and shrubs, cheeses and wines, mushrooms, breads, pastries, oils, condiments, wool and llama fur, ethnic foods such as pierogies and pasta, and meats such as premium-aged beef and salmon.
"It is a farmers' and early merchant market — the ones that have the harvest that they are trying to make," Jancart said.
Regardless of the weather, the market runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting the first weekend in April and not ending until the last Saturday before Thanksgiving.
One of the longtime vendors has been Dillner Family Farm, where shoppers browse peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, sweet peas, blueberries and sugar snap peas, among other produce.
What you'll find depends on what's in season, said Jane Dillner, who operates the West Deer farm with her husband and four children.
Making a choice could be the hardest part. Dillner said the stand sells more than 110 varieties, including fruits, vegetables, herbs and fresh brown eggs.
"It's a Saturday morning. People are looking for fresh produce for the weekend," Dillner said.
Jancart said the market started as an outreach of St. James to the public as a way to build on the notion of community. He said he thinks the market has become popular over the years because of accessibility — walkable to many residents and not far off of Route 65.
Deron Tatala said he likes knowing the vendors and the goods are locally sourced.
"I like to support the little guy," he said.
For Betty Starn's Bakery, another longtime vendor, it's the loyal customers who keep Betty and Bill Starn coming back.
"We've watched the kids grow up. It's just amazing," said Shirene Starn, whose mother, Betty, makes the variety of homemade sweet breads, pies, strudel, turnovers, doughnuts and other pastries, as well as roasted vegetable flatbreads, and pepperoni and cheese rolls.
If a child comes around, Betty Starn of Patterson Heights most likely will offer a homemade doughnut.
Starn has been asked to make pastries for special occasions, such as weddings and baby showers.
"They call, they touch base with us over the winter, so it's like family," she said.
Barb Levosky of Leet has been coming to the farm market for years, and stopped in for greens. She plans to return for tomatoes and corn.
"It's nice that they have it. I like the fact that you can get produce from local farmers," she said.
Visitors to the market often run into people they know. Sometimes, they congregate over lunch in wicker chairs on the nearby lawn. Others stop for quick chats between browsing.
"It's a good thing for the community of Sewickley to have it," Sewickley resident Robert Glenn said.
One thing vendor and manager of the Pittsburgh-based Mediterra Bakehouse Andrea Sustarsic said she likes most is the strong sense of community.
"All of the farmers know each other and we like to swap stuff," said Sustarsic, who sells artisan breads and pastries.
Sustarsic has been coming for five years and knows her customers well, too, she said.
Whether it's chocolate croissants, sourdough bread, a rosemary olive oil baguette, or something else, she remembers what her regulars want when they approach her booth.
"That's another thing I love about the market is having things memorized for people, just knowing what people like," she said. "You get a great clientele."
Larissa Dudkiewicz is a contributing writer for Trib Total Media.


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Kamut Buttermilk Bread Machine w/Pumpkin and Sunflower seeds
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The Lord gave me this Kamut Buttermilk bread machine recipe which is my favorite! I love to bake bread with kamut flour and paired it with buttermilk. It is so delicious and yummy. These two ingredients together are just unique...just perfect! The kamut is an ancient strain of wheat that is relative of durum wheat. The kernels are extra-large and very hard. They absorb liquid very slowly. It has a buttery, nutty, sweet taste. Kamut is believed to be of Egyptian origin. Compared to common wheat, Kamut is richer in protein (by between 15% and 40%), minerals such as magnesium and zinc, Vitamin Bs and Vitamin E and unsaturated fatty acids, but contains a little less dietary fiber. It is easy to digest and is generally well tolerated by those with a sensitivity to gluten. Kamut flour is not refined or bleached, and thus retains all its nutritional qualities. It can be substituted for wheat in any recipe and is used to make bread, cookies, crackers, cakes, muffins, crepes, pasta and breakfast cereal. The difference will be Kamut's special taste: nutty, sweet and buttery! So, next time you have a recipe that calls for whole wheat flour just try sustituting it with Kamut. Blessings!
- 1 1/8 c
- buttermilk
- 2 Tbsp
- walnut oil (our any vegetable oil you like)
- 1 Tbsp
- molasses
- 1 Tbsp
- honey (till it overflows a little over)
- 1 1/2 c
- kamut flour (bob's red mill)
- 1 1/2 c
- pillsbury bread flour (with ascorbic acid, a dough conditioner)
- 1 Tbsp
- vital wheat gluten (it makes a high-rising, light-textured loaf) i use the hodgson mill vital wheat gluten, since it comes fortified with vitamin c for extra punch)
- 1 1/8 tsp
- add some additional vital wheat gluten (since i am adding wheat and oat bran that can cut the gluten)
- 1 1/2 tsp
- salt
- 1/2 tsp
- wheat bran
- 1/4 tsp
- oat bran
- 1/8 tsp
- ginger (it helps with the rising of the bread; works very good with your yeast)
- 1/3 c
- mixed pumpkin and raw sunflower seeds
- 2 1/2 tsp
- active dry yeast
How to Make Kamut Buttermilk Bread Machine w/Pumpkin and Sunflower seeds
- 1Placed all the ingredients in the pan of your bread machine according to the order in your manufactures's instructions.
- 2Set crust according to your choice. I used dark but medium is recommended.
- 3Set your bread machine for 1.5 lbs.(loaf size)
- 4Set and program your bread machine for a basic or whole wheat cycle. (I use a basic cycle since it works better with my bread machine)
- 5This recipe it not suitable for use with a delay timer, since it uses fresh buttermilk. I use a light buttermilk for this recipe.
- 6Press start on your machine. Keep the pumpkin and the raw sunflower seeds when the bread machine beeps, between the knead 1 and knead 2. (In my bread machine it is during the knead 2)
- 7Keep an eye while the dough is forming during the knead 1. Use a rubber spatula for mixing the flour all together near the blade when going on with this cycle.
- 8Touch slightly the dough with your hands to see if it will need some extra teaspoons of water, since the kamut flour absorbs water very slowly and you may need to add some. If it is needed, just start adding 1 teaspoon at a time and check the dough. The dough must look soft but compact, not wet or sticky.
- 9Kamut flour turns your bread with a very unique delicious nutty, buttery, sweet taste. The crust color will be golden. If you don't have kamut flour at hand, you can always substitute it with an equal amount of whole wheat flour or spelt flour.
- 10When the machine beeps during the knead 2, add the seeds.
- 11The bread machine will keep with its cycles, rising periods and finally its baking time.
- 12When baking cycle ends, immediately remove the bread from the pan and place it on a rack. Let it cool to room temperature (almost for an hour) before slicing.
- 13After the bread has been cooled for 1 hr., I place it in a plastic bag slightly sealed (loosed). It keep my bread moist! I let it stand at the kitchen for awhile since it helps the bread with its freshness, moisture and softness.
- 14Kamut bread is really delicious! Enjoy this bread with your favorite butter or jelly. You can eat it for breakfast or dinner. Blessings!
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Course/Dish: Other Breakfast, Other Breads
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Heirloom Lettuces with Benne Seed Dressing
This easy, deliciously nutty salad features a vinaigrette made from toasted benne (a.k.a. sesame) seeds.
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- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon benne (sesame) seeds (2 1/2 ounces)
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground white pepper
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- 2 pounds heirloom lettuces, torn into bite-size pieces
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 375°. Spread the benne seeds on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes, stirring once, until browned and fragrant. Transfer 1/2 cup of the seeds to a mini food processor and let cool; reserve the remaining 1 tablespoon of seeds for garnish. Add the lemon zest and juice and 1/4 cup of cold water and puree until a paste forms. With the machine on, drizzle in 1/2 cup of the olive oil. Season the dressing with salt and white pepper.
In a medium skillet, melt the butter in the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the panko and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and white pepper; let cool completely.
In a large bowl, toss the lettuce with the dressing and season lightly with salt. Sprinkle the toasted panko on top, garnish with the reserved 1 tablespoon of toasted benne seeds and serve.
Make Ahead
The dressing can be refrigerated overnight.


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- 2 medium golden beets (3/4 pound), tops discarded
- 2 medium red beets (3/4 pound), tops discarded
- 3 tablespoons pine nuts
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon chopped dill
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon chopped mint
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 cups packed baby arugula
- 3/4 cup fresh ricotta cheese
Preheat the oven to 400°. Set the beets in a small baking dish, add 1 cup of hot water and cover with foil. Bake for about 45 minutes, until the beets are tender when pierced with a knife. Drain and let stand until cool enough to handle. Using a paper towel, rub the skins off the beets. Cut the beets into 1/2-inch dice.
In a small skillet, toast the pine nuts over moderate heat until golden, about 4 minutes. Transfer the pine nuts to a small bowl.
In a large bowl, gently toss the beets with the scallions, olive oil, vinegar and 1 tablespoon each of the dill and mint. Season with salt and pepper. Add the arugula and toss to coat. Transfer the salad to plates. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the ricotta over each salad and season the ricotta with pepper. Sprinkle with the pine nuts and the remaining 1 teaspoon each of dill and mint. Serve at once.


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June 27, 2013
A cement truck flipped on its side and into a construction trench near a west Greeley neighborhood this afternoon, causing a hectic couple of hours as crews called in a heavy tow truck to upright the 44-ton load.
Greeley Police responded to the 2500 block of Reservoir Road at about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday after the driver of the cement truck attempted to back into an area where cement had been removed, said Greeley Police Sgt. Susan West. The incident was in a construction zone where the city is working on a pipeline project.
The truck rolled onto the driver's side, but authorities said the driver climbed out unharmed.
West said the cement could not be removed from the truck, which is why it took several hours to lift it back up. May Martinez Hendershot, who lives directly in front of where the truck tipped over, said authorities told her the cement had nearly solidified on one side.
No one was cited in the crash, but Dale Lyman, division chief for the Greeley Fire Department, said a fire truck and a city vehicle got into something of a fender bender while maneuvering through the scene. He said the crash resulted in minor property damage.
Hendershot said her family didn't hear the cement truck fall, but they did hear the screech of metal on metal when the fire trucks "kissed," as she said.
She said her 8-year-old granddaughter took on an entrepreneurial spirit during the incident, setting up a lemonade stand for construction workers and firefighters. She made $14, Hendershot said.
She said she was appreciative of construction crews, who were sure to clear out her front driveway by the end of the day. The commotion to make for quite the exciting afternoon, Hendershot said.
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In an ideal world we would all accept the way we look, and the need for makeup would be non-existent. However, people really care about how they are judged on by their looks. Here are 51 examples of how makeup makes a massive difference to the way we look.
1. It makes her look totally different, look at those eyes!
2. It's the little details that make the biggest impact
3. Simple but effective
4. That lipstick totally changes her S-Factor
5. The second image doesn't even look real
6. A pretty effort for a special occassion
7. She looks healthier and happier
8. She just looks beautiful
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10. The lashes add a lot of impact
11. Subtle changes but she looks amazing
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15. Once again, the eyelashes make a big difference in the eyes
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17. Bride looks gorgeous on her big day
18. The makeup here is amazing
19. Strange but it just shows the difference
20. It really compliments her well
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22. Another stunning bride
23. DIY Makeup
24. Before and After … just look at the eyes and hair
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26. Step by Step to get a natural beautiful look
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30. She looks more colourful in the second image
31. Ready to get married
32. Those extra eyelashes bring out the eyes
33. Hardworking mom's need makeovers too
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DANIEL Anderson's black-and-white rules on obstruction are designed to cut out any grey but will leave the NRL red-faced.
The code's director of referees has decreed that contact between a defender and any attacking player not carrying the ball will be deemed obstruction and punishable by a penalty.
It doesn't matter whether the contact is 20 metres away from a try-scoring play, or that the decoy runner did not impede the defence in any way. Both circumstances occurred in a round-three game when a try by Melbourne's Cooper Cronk was disallowed because a straight-running decoy, Bryan Norrie, made contact with Canterbury's Martin Taupau defending his line. Norrie's decoy run near the ruck was at least 20 metres from the point where Cronk decided to slice through the Bulldogs' defence and score.
Norrie did not take out any defender who could have helped stop the try. The try was scored because Cronk promoted hesitation in a left-side defence, which was uncertain whether he would run or pass.
But contact is the key. There was a soft collision between Norrie and a Canterbury ruck defender and the try was disallowed and the Storm were penalised.
Imagine a grand final or a State of Origin match being lost on such a call! The contact only became an issue because the video referee reviewed the try. Referee Ben Cummins was about to award the Cronk try when the pocket referee, Chris James, asked Cummins to refer it upstairs. Anderson's rigid rule on obstruction raises the possibility of two counter-tactics.
Firstly, a team could gamble on an obstruction play to split the line early in the tackle count, to give them the option of capitalising on the disassembled defence on the next tackle. Under the new interpretation, we can expect teams to get away with line breaks via shepherds but not tries. Suppose the exact same play involving Cronk and the Norrie collision was staged on the quarter line.
Cronk makes a line break and is tackled just short of the line and Melbourne score on the next tackle and the try is awarded.
Imagine the pressure and scrutiny on the referee when the opposition protest about the earlier collision at the ruck.
It's too late for the match referee to go to the video referee. The questionable play occurred in the tackle before the try. He can't go to the video referee if the ball is in play. Rather than relieve pressure on the referee, Anderson's dictum will add to it, exposing centremen to rants about obstruction in the lead-up to tries.
Secondly, defenders are likely to take dives whenever an attacker brushes by them, especially close to their line. The defender will take the odds his ploy can stop a try and win a penalty. Given the difficulty all teams have in carrying the ball away from their goal line, a penalty in this territory is golden. The NRL is determined to tilt the balance to attack in today's game, seeking more tries.
Yet the obstruction rule will undermine the essence of attack – creativity. We already complain there are not enough planned moves from tap penalties and scrums.
The only attack the rule makers are promoting are faster play-the-balls, dummy-half runs and hit-ups against a back-pedalling defence.
Sometimes, brilliant attacking plays fail because a defender does not do what is expected. It's not as though he made a "good read" on a possible obstruction play but simply that he got in the way and collided with a member of the attacking team. Under the Anderson rule, this is a penalty. Dumb defence should not be rewarded at the expense of creative attack.
The new interpretation on obstruction has eliminated the grey areas and, with it, commonsense.
Referees appear determined to enforce it. St George Illawarra's Brett Morris was denied a try against Canberra when the "obstruction" was more distant than in the Melbourne versus Bulldogs game.


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'United 93'
April 29, 2006
Just minutes prior to the screening of
United 93 there was a lot of
chitchat among the film critics
anticipating at best an awkward and
misguided attempt to present a very
personal and unpleasant American
At worse, some of us feared such a film
would sensationalize and exploit the
lives of the heroic passengers doomed on
Flight 93. Just making the movie seemed
undignified. In short, it's a film many
people would prefer not to see depicted
on the big screen, now or in the near
future. With little faith in Hollywood
to treat this open wound of a memory
with accuracy and dignity, it was a
relief to see that we were wrong.
When the movie ended, it was a solemn
moment. Moviegoers quietly filed out of
the theater. Few words were exchanged.
We paid our respects by our silence. You
could feel a shared sense of awe and
admiration among the audience for that
group of average people flying
helplessly to a destination that would
result not only in their own deaths but
the tragic demise of hundreds of other
innocent Americans as they executed a
daring plan to overcome four fanatical
Director Paul Greengrass' effort far
exceeded our expectations, replacing
skepticism with appreciation. I can't
imagine any other director taking on
this project and delivering such a
powerful, riveting film.
Greengrass explores the story of United
Flight 93 from beginning to end via four
vantage points: the air traffic control
tower in New York; FAA headquarters in
Virginia; NORAD, a military surveillance
installation in Colorado Springs, Colo.;
and from inside the aircraft.
As the first hijacking unfolds, air
traffic controllers are so surprised
they assume it's a technical glitch and
are slow to respond. Soon a second plane
is hijacked, drawing the attention of
FAA command central director Ben Sliney.
Sliney's performance is solid, real and
convincing. That's because in real life
Sliney was director of the FAA during
9/11, and plays himself.
What makes this film work is that
director Greengrass wisely chose
virtually unknown actors to play the
roles instead of stars like Harrison
Ford and Bruce Willis. Viewers feel like
they're watching real people with all
their strengths and frailties. And, by
including a handful of the actual
players that lived through that infamous
day, like Sliney, the story plays out in
real time with believable characters.
Knowing the outcome of Flight 93,
I was surprised to feel a sense of dread
whenever the camera returned to the
cabin of the aircraft. I actually felt
relief when the scene switches back to
FAA headquarters to witness an army of
bureaucrats scrambling to keep up with
the seemingly uncontrollable events and
shocking scene of a smoking World Trade
Center on CNN.
One poignant moment in the film takes
place in the air traffic control tower
in New York City as controllers stand in
stunned silence watching a second
aircraft plow into the second tower of
the World Trade Center. They're in a
state of shock. No one knows what to do.
Slowly and somewhat ineptly officials
begin to take action.
The lack of preparedness in our military
response is presented by the commander
of NORAD, who scrambles Air Force
fighters to intercept the hijacked
planes, only to discover later the
fighters lacked weapons or flew off on
standard preplanned flight paths in the
opposite direction of their intended
targets. It was a unbelievably sobering
One of the best films of the
year. Not easy watching.
However, it's a respectful
tribute to the brave men and
women who dared to resist
terrorism. Bad language in
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the end and is brief.
An unflinching
documentary style
dramatization of the
hijacking of United
Flight 93 on 9/11 is
inappropriate for
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than 14. For those
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compelling history
lesson. Rated R for
language and some
intense (but brief)
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The Hague (AFP) Sept 12, 2012
Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected anti-EU extremism in favour of pro-European pragmatism on Wednesday, electing centrist parties that will remain committed to debt-busting austerity.
Exit polls said that the ruling Liberals picked up one more seat than rivals Labour, while the anti-Islam PVV party of firebrand politician Geert Wilders suffered a humiliating defeat after changing tack to attack Brussels.
If confirmed the result would mean that current premier Mark Rutte would be called upon to form a new coalition that would keep the eurozone's fifth largest economy closely allied with European economic powerhouse Germany.
The exit polls by Ipsos Synovate said Rutte's VDD would win 41 seats in the new parliament, the PvdA Labour party of former Greenpeace activist Diederik Samsom 40 seats and the more hard-left Socialist Party 15.
That means that if the two main parties agreed an alliance, the VDD and Labour would have 81 seats, a majority sufficient to form a government in the 150-seat parliament.
Wilders' PVV was set to win just 13 seats, almost half its previous tally of 24, exit polls said.
"That result shows a very large support in the Netherlands for Rutte's policy," VDD Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal told AFP at a victory party in The Hague.
"It shows that making savings is the right course... The results shows that the Dutch are good allies of the Germans," he said.
With Rutte expected at the party later in the evening, Rosenthal said the failure by former ally Wilders showed the Dutch were not extremist.
"It s very explicit that the Dutch don't like a very extreme European stand. We're a member of the EU and we should stick to it for many years to come," he said.
Wilders, who brought down the last government in April after refusing to approve an austerity-driven budget, is not expected to play any role in this coalition.
"I'd rather have stood in front of you with good news," a visibly shaken Wilders told his party's gathering in The Hague. "In Brussels they are having a party... That's a pity."
"Tomorrow we will lick our wounds," he said. "This is not the end of the struggle."
The PVV vowed to pull out of the euro and the EU itself if they came to power. But many Dutch voters and the political mainstream decided that Wilders was simply unreliable.
Fiscally prudent Rutte's government has been allied to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, while Samsom's calls for stimulus echo those of France's Socialist President Francois Hollande.
Both parties had lashed out at the EU status quo during campaigning, but the Dutch export-based economy could not afford to call into question membership in the bloc, where it sends 75 percent of its exports.
Many Dutch citizens are fed up with bailing out indebted eurozone members while swallowing their own budget cuts, but voters had nevertheless been expected to shun anti-EU parties for the mainstream.
"It seems it will turn into a great result," Labour Party chairman Hans Spekman told an excited crowd at the Paradiso Theatre in central Amsterdam, where party leader Diederik Samsom was expected later in the evening.
Opinion polls before voting started had predicted that both the Liberals and Labour would send around 35 MPs each to the 150-seat lower house.
Despite a campaign dominated by anti-Brussels rhetoric, the election will almost certainly result in a centrist coalition government that will remain committed to austerity and staying in the EU.
The eurosceptic Socialist Party led by Emile Roemer, won the same 15 seats it had in the last election in 2010, reflecting unease at purely austerity-driven policies.
The Socialists' score was much less than polls in August, which had predicted the hard-left party would be the overall winner.
Roemer's popularity ebbed in recent weeks after Samsom seized the initiative in a string of televised debates during which Roemer was perceived as hesitant.
Official result predictions are to be announced later on Wednesday with final results to come from the Electoral Commission on Thursday, but it will take weeks if not months for a new coalition to be formed.
The news came on the same day as a key ruling for the eurozone's future: the top court in neighbouring Germany approved a new European firewall for ratification by parliament that is seen as a crucial crisis-fighting tool.
Echoing Dutch calls for a change in the EU dynamic, Commission President Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday that a "federation of nation states" was now required "to win the battle against nationalists, or extreme populists."
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