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About Theater LeagueTHEATER LEAGUE, founded in 1976, is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, civic performing arts organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in the communities it serves with the thrill of live! theater. Presenting national tours of Broadway musicals in performing arts centers around the country, Theater League provides an important cultural resource to more than 35,000 season members and 250,000 patrons each year. Theater League presents National Broadway Tours and professional touring productions to the following communities:
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OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR) Given Average Rating of "Buy" by Brokerages
OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR) has earned an average recommendation of "Buy" from the eight ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12 month price target among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $14.89.
Several brokerages have recently issued reports on OSUR. Stephens reissued an "overweight" rating and issued a $19.00 price target (up previously from $14.00) on shares of OraSure Technologies in a report on Tuesday, July 11th. Jefferies Group LLC boosted their price target on shares of OraSure Technologies from $16.00 to $19.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, June 28th. Canaccord Genuity boosted their price target on shares of OraSure Technologies from $15.00 to $18.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, June 28th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised shares of OraSure Technologies from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and set a $18.00 price target for the company in a report on Saturday, May 6th.
OraSure Technologies (OSUR) traded up 0.95% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $19.19. The stock had a trading volume of 999,279 shares. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $15.30 and a 200 day moving average price of $12.00. The company has a market cap of $1.11 billion, a P/E ratio of 36.76 and a beta of 1.56. OraSure Technologies has a 1-year low of $6.23 and a 1-year high of $19.28.
OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 3rd. The medical instruments supplier reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.04. OraSure Technologies had a net margin of 22.57% and a return on equity of 16.06%. The company had revenue of $32.55 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $31.19 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.04 EPS. The firm's revenue was up 11.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts forecast that OraSure Technologies will post $0.43 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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In related news, Director Michael Celano sold 44,962 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $14.95, for a total value of $672,181.90. Following the transaction, the director now owns 38,117 shares in the company, valued at approximately $569,849.15. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, SVP Mark L. Kuna sold 36,413 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $15.11, for a total transaction of $550,200.43. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now owns 92,904 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,403,779.44. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 1,220,134 shares of company stock worth $18,789,795 over the last 90 days. 7.80% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Eqis Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of OraSure Technologies during the second quarter worth approximately $371,000. State of Alaska Department of Revenue raised its position in shares of OraSure Technologies by 85.1% in the second quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue now owns 11,401 shares of the medical instruments supplier's stock worth $196,000 after buying an additional 5,241 shares during the period. Fisher Asset Management LLC raised its position in shares of OraSure Technologies by 35.5% in the second quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 682,480 shares of the medical instruments supplier's stock worth $11,780,000 after buying an additional 178,886 shares during the period. NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. bought a new position in shares of OraSure Technologies during the second quarter worth approximately $329,000. Finally, Bank of Montreal Can raised its position in shares of OraSure Technologies by 102.8% in the second quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 143,295 shares of the medical instruments supplier's stock worth $2,472,000 after buying an additional 72,644 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 88.23% of the company's stock.
OraSure Technologies Company Profile
OraSure Technologies, Inc (OraSure) is involved in the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of oral fluid diagnostic products and specimen collection devices using its technologies, as well as other diagnostic products, including immunoassays and other in vitro diagnostic tests that are used on other specimen types.
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The search for planets outside our solar system is a major focus for the astronomical community. Over the past decade, a number of high-contrast imaging techniques have been developed to enable direct detection of these exoplanets, overcoming the challenges of imaging extremely dim planets circling bright stars in distant solar systems. Of extreme importance to nearly all of these new instruments and techniques is the need for unprecedented optical contrast and resolution, which in turn requires active, precise control of the imaging wavefront and compensation of any wavefront errors.1–3
Adaptive optics (AO) has become indispensable as a means to compensate for wavefront errors (aberrations) introduced by atmospheric turbulence in large ground-based telescopes. AO also corrects for alignment and polishing errors of optical components in space-based astronomical instruments with sub-nanometer precision. The AO process measures the aberrations, however small, and corrects for them by changing the shape of a deformable mirror (DM) in the optical system to adjust the wavefront. The resulting gains in resolution and contrast have led to exciting recent advances in the observation of exoplanets, characterization of planetary rings and atmospheres, and study of galactic structure.
Microelectromechanical systems- (MEMS-) based DMs are an emerging class of wavefront correctors used in an expanding field of applications including biomedical imaging, microscopy, pulse shaping, free-space laser communications, and astronomical imaging. These DMs are manufactured using a process similar to that of integrated circuits (polysilicon surface micromachining). They are extremely lightweight and compact, consume very little power, and can assume shapes with sub-nanometer precision and repeatability without hysteresis, making them ideal candidates for space-based operation. In addition, they are economically scalable to arrays of thousands of actuators, which is needed for both ground- and space-based imaging.
We have supplied these MEMS DMs to the AO community for over a decade and have been advancing our DM technology to suit the needs of astronomical telescope users. We have developed DMs with continuous facesheets and piston-only mirror segments as well as tip-tilt-piston mirror segments, using highly reliable electrostatic actuators with up to 6μm of stroke and 4092 actuators (see Figure 1). Our MEMS DMs have been used in many AO testbeds for astronomical imaging systems, and have been demonstrated in on-sky operations at the Nickel 1m telescope at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, CA—see Figure 2—in the Visible light Laser Guidestar Experiments (ViLLaGEs).4, 5 The 3.5μm stroke, 140-actuator DM used in this instrument can provide precise atmospheric wavefront compensation owing to its ability to correct for high spatial frequency aberrations with sub-nanometer precision at rates >2kHz. It demonstrated diffraction-limited imaging in the R through I bands in both open- and closed-loop operation. This system, which resides permanently at the observatory, has demonstrated the robustness and feasibility of the use of MEMS DMs in astronomical AO.
A 4092-actuator continuous facesheet DM with 4μm of actuator stroke and a full active aperture of 25.2mm was developed for the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), in which the DM will be used to correct for high-order aberrations induced by the atmosphere. This high-contrast imaging instrument will be deployed in the Gemini South Telescope—see Figure 3—in 2012, where it is expected to image planets and achieve a contrast of 10−7 at separations of 0.2–1arcsec from the parent star. Owing to its high-precision wavefront control, the GPI will be able to produce diffraction-limited images for light with wavelengths of 0.9–2.4μm. This precise control is the result of new technologies and algorithms developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the GPI instrument, including spatially filtered wavefront sensors, Fourier transform wavefront reconstructors, and a high-precision interferometric calibration system, as well as the high-order wavefront compensation provided by our MEMS DM.6
NASA is working on a number of potential space telescope projects to further push the ability to find extrasolar planets. Locating instruments outside of Earth's atmosphere allows for better imaging, which supports the goal of finding an Earth-like planet capable of supporting life. The compact size, light weight, and low power consumption of our MEMS DMs make them enabling components for high-contrast imaging systems in these projects. Both our 1020-actuator continuous facesheet device and 331-segment tip-tilt-piston device—see Figure 4—are currently in testbeds where they have demonstrated contrasts as high as 1.3 x 10−6 from 1.2–2.0λ/D and 2×10−8 from 2.0–3.5λ/D (where λ is the wavelength and D the aperture).3 For example, the high contrast imaging test bed at NASA Ames Research Center uses a phase-induced amplitude apodization coronagraph in which shaped mirrors are used to mitigate undesirable diffraction.3 The result is improved light-gathering capability (∼100% throughput) and better angular resolution than that obtained by classical techniques using apodization masks. The DMs in these test beds are used to correct for nanometer-scale residual phase errors and alignment errors in the optical system.
We currently have two projects with NASA to further enhance the ability to image in space using MEMS DMs. The Advanced THousand-Element Nuller-Application (ATHENA) DM Project will expand the size of our tip-tilt-piston device to 1021 segments with 3063 actuators for NASA's visible nulling coronograph instrument for imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets.7, 8 The other NASA project will produce low-power high-precision electronics capable of 40pm wavefront control. Combined, these advances will represent a leap forward in the ability to achieve high-precision wavefront control with low power, lightweight equipment.
Steven Cornelissen is vice president of engineering and has been active in MEMS DMs research for adaptive optics in microscopy and astronomical imaging for many years. He has been involved in product development and commercialization efforts and led multiple research and development contracts involving advanced optics for astronomical applications.


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Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner: Sydney Q & A Session
Spending the Memorial Day weekend in the Land Down Under, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were hot on the promotional trail over the past few days.
On Monday (May 31), the Bella Swan babe and her Jacob Black co-star stud got dressed up to attend "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" Live Q & A at Luna Park in Sydney, Australia.
Seeming to be having a marvelous time, Kristen and Taylor joked around while answering queries about their characters and the upcoming vampire flick's latest installment.
The previous day, Miss Stewart and Mr Lautner fit in a little sightseeing, as they hopped aboard a watercraft while sharing a harbour cruise.
Meanwhile, the "Twilight" twosome will next be heading off to Seoul for more press duties slated for June 3rd.
Enjoy the pictures of Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in Sydney (May 30-31).
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School reopens on 05/06/17(Monday) for M1,M2,F2,F3(new admission) & Grade I.
School reopens on 01/06/17(Thursday)for M3,F3(old admission),Grade II-X & XII. Dispersal at 01:45pm till Ramadan ends.
We regret to inform you that today & tomorrow (22.5.17 & 23.5.17) there will be no distribution of uniform for Grade III & IV due to some unavoidable circumstances. Another date for distribution will be informed through SMS. Inconvenience is regretted.
Issue date of uniform for Montessori & Foundation will be on 18th May 2017 at respective campuses between 9:30 am and 3:00 pm.
Issue date of uniform and books (2017-18) is as follows Gr I & II : 19th & 20th May, Gr III & IV: 22nd & 23rd May, Gr V & VI: 24th & 25th May, Gr. VII & VIII: 26th & 27th May at respective campuses between 9:30 am and 3:00 pm.
RIMS is hosting a one- day Science Exhibition on 28-02-2017 (Tuesday). Parents are cordially invited to come and encourage our students.
RIMont Fest was held at our Mattannur Campus today, 28th January 2017.
RIMS- Xpress was successfully flagged off today.
Commences on 25 Jan 2017.
Christmas vacation will begin on 25th December 2016 for all classes.School will reopen on 3rd January 2017
We hereby solicit your gracious presence on our Annual Day Celebrations on 23rd & 24th December 2016 .
Dear Parent, Today (6-12-16) will be a holiday for school as declared by Government due to the demise of the Tamil Nadu CM. Regards, Principal
RIMS celebrated the Kerala Piravi Day with great vigour.
Parent Consultation for Grades I- XI was held on 26th & 27th Oct 2016
SA 1 commenced for all classes on 20/09/16.
Vacation for all students from 10/9/16 to 18/9/16. School reopens on 19/9/16. Happy Holidays...
RIMS wishes all the teachers a very happy teachers' day.
FA II for the academic year 2016-17 commenced on 25/08/2016.
First field trip of this academic year was to the Fort St. Angelo today.
Students of all classes will showcase their talent in various events like Elocution, Recitation, Light Music, Folk Dance, Classical Music, Digital Painting, Anchoring, Mono Act, Essay Writing, Versification, Power Point Presentation, Poster Designing, Collage making etc.
On the 70th Independence Day, RIMS is celebrating the joy and happiness of free India. Wish you all a very happy Independence Day
Karate classes for the academic year 2016-17 commenced on 10th August 2016.
Parent Consultation and Open House to be held on 30th July 2016, 1st Aug 2016
Mr. Shiju C., Assistant Commandant, B.S.F inaugurated our Integrity and Heritage Club today.
We hereby announce the Investiture Ceremony of 2016-17 to bestow deserving young talents of our School with the responsibility of leading their School from the front with their commitment, confidence and competence.
Ceremony to be held on 25th July 2016 ay 2:30 pm
FA I for Grades I - X begins on 14-07-16 (Thursday).
School will remain closed for Eid. Holidays from 05-07-16 to 08-07-16. Reopening on 11-07-2016 with regular timings.Eid mubarak.
Our heartfelt thanks to all the doctors for the care they provide everyday. Happy Doctors' Day
In the true spirit of the Holy Month of Ramadan, we concluded our Outreach Programme on 20.6.16. We are happy to inform you that we have distributed a total of 375 kits. We thank all our parents and students for supporting this holy endeavour through their generous contributions.
Grades I-V (Mon-Fri) : 9:00 am to 1:30 pm; Grades V-X (Mon-Sat) : 9:00 am to 1:30 pm
Books, uniform and shoes distribution for Montessori, Foundation and Grades I to IV starts on 23.5.16 at 10:00 am.
As per the District Collector's orders classes for Gr. IX & X will start on 23.5.16 (Monday) at 9:00am.
Results of the following Grades to be announced as follows.
Grades I & IX: 4th April 2016;
Grades II,V & VIII : 5th April 2016;
Grades III & VII : 6th April 2016;
Grades IV & VI: 7th April 2016;
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Students can dial a toll free number 1800 11 8004 from any part of the country which will give centralized access to CBSE helpline. While the general queries will be answered by the operators, students will be connected to the principals or counsellors in case of exam related anxiety or stress. The tele helpline will be operational from 08 AM to 10 PM from 1st February to 22nd April 2016 on all days.
For On-line counselling firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com can also be contacted.
Rims International School wishes you a very Happy Republic Day
FA4 Examination begins on 20.01.2016
Career Guidance Session for Students & Parents of Gr.IX & X by Mr .Ameen-e- Mudassar B.E.CGC.IAEVG (Canada) on 18.01.2016 at Main Campus
Parent Consultation for Grade I-IV on 18.01.2016 at Town Campus between 2 pm to 4 pm
Parent Consultation for Grade I -X at Main Campus on 18.01.2016 between 2 pm to 4 pm
Gr 1 - Thalaserry Overburry's Folly
Gr 2 - Dharmadam Island
Gr 3 & 4 - Sargalaya
Gr 5,6&7 -Wayanad
Study Tour for Gr.6&7(Boys) to Mysore on 08.01.2016
Annual Day Celebration on 16.01.2016 .Ms.E.P Latha (Mayor,Kannur) has consented to be the Cheif Guest of the day. Mr. Dhanesh Babu ( Councilor , Kannur Corporation) will be gracing the occassion.
Annual Day Celebration for Sr.Girls (Gr. 5 th to 10 th at Campus on 14.01.2016. Ms. Roshni Khalid will be gracing the occassion
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What Should I Do If I'm Being Stopped by a Police Officer
Students often make a difficult situation even worse by responding inappropriately when confronted by a law enforcement officer. We want to help you understand what to do when stopped by the police in an effort to help them reduce potential problems. At some point in your FMU career, you may be stopped and questioned by a police officer, either on campus or off. This could happen for a variety of reasons:
It is natural for students and others to feel confused, anxious, or even a bit angry if they are confronted by police. Law enforcement officers may be anxious as well, as they never know when a "routine" matter can get out of hand or create a risky situation, particularly after dark. The best advice for students in this situation is to cooperate fully with police. Law enforcement officials suggest the following things for people to try to remember when stopped by police:
If you are a student, you are required by FMU policy to carry at all times and present your FMU Identification Card to any University Official upon request. University officials include FMU police officers. You can locate the policy in the Student Handbook under FMU (ID) Card Services.
If the officer is investigating a crime or complaint, they may also ask reasonable questions to help them determine whether a crime has occurred or a complaint is valid. We encourage you to do your best to answer the questions the officer poses. Refusal to answer questions may prevent an officer from clearing you of suspicion and unnecessarily prolong the situation.
Ordinarily, a police officer may not detain you for more than a reasonable length of time. There are exceptions however, which would occur under very unusual circumstances such as public disorders, large-scale emergencies or major crimes/incidents.
If an officer asks to take you somewhere else, you may ask if you are being placed under arrest. If you are not under arrest, the officer should explain why he or she feels you need to be moved. You may refuse to go, but this may lead to an arrest or an additional charge based on the specific circumstances. If you are placed under arrest the officer must tell you with what crime you are charged.
If during any encounter with a Police Officer, you feel the officer has acted unprofessionally or treated you rudely, you may file your concern to a supervisor. If this is the case, please stop by the Campus Police office during normal working hours and ask to speak to a Campus Police supervisor.
On the other hand, if you have observed an officer act in an exceptionally professional and admirable manner and you would like that officer to receive public and professional recognition, please contact a Campus Police supervisor in person or by phone. We appreciate all feedback.
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History of the Filipino People (book)
The book History of the Filipino People, first published in 1960 was authored by Teodoro Agoncillo, a respected historian and late professor at the Department of History of the University of the Philippines. Joining the ranks of numerous other books written on the subject, this book aimed to correct the existing interpretations on Philippine history, which mostly emphasize the history of Spain and Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines rather than the history of the Filipinos themselves.
Target Audience
Primarily, the book catered to the students of the University of the Philippines at a time when the Church leaders were trying to gain influence on the curriculum of the public school. The latest editions, one in 1990, however came out for the use of other Philippine universities. It propagated the study of Philippine history from the Philippine point of view. Until today, the book continue to educate Filipinos as it remained be reprinted and in use.
Present Implications
However, though respected the book and its author was, it continues to also be examined for its unique historiography. The book was written at a time before citing sources was a required standard to establish credible written historical works. Teodoro Agoncillo, the author, happened to have kept to himself the sources of his information regarding the history of Filipinos. His work was not contrary to the still accepted Philippine history but he included details that were not unacceptable yet were needed to be verified.
The History of the Filipino People is a book that did not only tell of Philippine history through its pages but also reflected the state of Philippine publishing, historiography and politics in the latter half of the twentieth century. The changes that the book went through, in terms of co-authors and number of chapters for example, showed also the development in the way the history of the Philippines was written.
- Teodoro Agoncillo's History of the Filipino People (Accessed on December 21, 2009)
- History of the Filipino History Book by Vernon Totanes (Accessed on December 21, 2009)
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The Atkins diet phenomenon, described as dangerous by some doctors, is about to boom in Australia when a host of products and supplements hit supermarket and health food store shelves.
Atkins Nutritionals, the marketing arm of the dieting giant which sells everything from chocolate bars to chips, has confirmed plans to launch in Australia but refuses to say when.
The news has worried some health professionals who say foods such as those pushed by Atkins are not a passport to weight loss and are more likely to make the company richer than consumers thinner.
Next week Atkins will launch a new $45 kit including recipe cards, a card deck, motivational CD and a dining out guide. Its supplements and foods can be ordered over the internet and are available in one chain of health food stores.
"This is not an exclusive arrangement and plans for broader national distribution through other retail outlets are currently in development," an Atkins Nutritionals spokeswoman said.
The products are widely available in Britain and the US. But health experts are concerned about plans to branch into the Australian market with the high protein, low carbohydrate diet.
Australian nutritionist Rosemary Stanton say it increases the risk of heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases by focusing on fatty meats and cheeses and by reducing the amount of cancer protecting nutrients in fruits and certain vegetables.
The US-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has begun an internet campaign against the diet. "The seriousness of the reported health problems highlights the importance of tracking the impact of the use of these potentially risky diets and the need for research into the health consequences," it says on the web site.
The group has claimed the diet could have killed one teenage dieter in 2000 who died of heart arrhythmia.
It is 30 years since Dr Robert Atkins first published h is Dr Atkins' Diet Revolution book.
But it was not until 1997 when the New Diet Revolution book began a five year run on The New York Times bestseller list that the diet began to take an almost cult-like following.
National Heart Foundation chief executive Maurice Swanson said the diet was directly linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, which were among Australia's biggest killers.
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Last week the Global Language Monitor came out with its list of the 'top' words of 2009. I'm not sure if they mean most used, most interesting, most frequently seen online—for a linguistics site the word 'top' is ironically vague! For all I know, the entire site could be a precocious eighth-grader clicking away in his parents' rec room.
Nevertheless, GLM claims the top 15 words of 2009 are:
Odd list, don't you think? Are these the top words being used in Congress? I agree about 'Twitter'—condensing one's life into 140 characters can be challenging, but it is a craze. Even above 'Obama,' you ask? Well, this is America. We're lucky the president came in at No. 2—something like 60 percent of Americans don't know who the vice-president is. 'H1N1' is not really a word, and for sure more people are going the politically incorrect route and calling it swine flu
'Vampire' I can see, but more people are probably saying Edward. Next year, between Taylor Lautner and Benicio del Toro, I predict 'werewolf' will make the list. '2.0,' again, not a word. Let's group 'stimulus,' 'deficit,' 'healthcare,' 'transparency,' 'outrage,' 'bonus,' 'unemployed' and 'foreclosure' into one big lump—because they're all coming in the same conversation, be it liberal or conservative.
Now 'hadron' comes in at No. 5. I'm not 100 percent certain of this, but isn't the hadron collider that thing in Switzerland where scientists are attempting to create a black hole and/or learn about the origins of the universe? Have you ever used the word hadron? Ever heard it come up in conversation? Most of my cocktail party conversations revolve around fall programming and Albert Pujols. Maybe I'm traveling in the wrong circles.
Finally, we have 'cartel.' It's more used than 'climate'? It's more used than 'hip hop'? 'Facebook'? 'Google'? 'Insurance'? 'Thriller' 'Megaplex'? 'Flimflam'? 'Fish bait'? 'Potato chip'? Well, there are a lot of them, and they do come in two varieties: oil and drug, both very serious. Plus it's fun to say. It just sounds powerful. I would like to be in a cartel—it's just cooler than being in a syndicate or in organized crime. Well, I better wrap it up. I have to go pick up my own little cartel at school.


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Louisville, Ky. • Russ Smith scored a career-high 31 points to help No. 5 Louisville cruise past Missouri-Kansas City 99-47 on Saturday.
Smith was 12 of 18 from the field and 3 of 5 from 3-point range in surpassing his previous high of 30 against Kentucky last season. He led Louisville (8-1) in scoring for the sixth time in nine games.
Luke Hancock added 15 points and six rebounds, and Montrezl Harrell chipped in a career-high 14 points with seven rebounds for the Cardinals, who shot 56 percent in winning their third in a row. All but one player scored for Louisville, which posted its highest point total this season.
Louisville's defense stifled Missouri-Kansas City (4-5). Besides forcing 24 turnovers leading to 35 points, the Cardinals held the Kangaroos to 27 percent shooting, including 4 of 27 in the second half.
Louisville also outrebounded UMKC 47-33.
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Elba Island is situated approximately 85 miles (137 kilometers) southwest of Florence and 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of the national capital Rome.
If you love long beach walks, head to one of the scenic beaches in Elba Island. Fetovaia Beach and Procchio Beach are two of the more well-known spots for sunbathing in this region. Lacona Beach and Cavoli Beach are the other fine beaches in the region.
Elba Island is filled with cultural triumphs and oddities; you'll find loads to explore behind the doors of these popular museums. For a complete day of culture, see the Napoleon Villa, the Napoleonic Museum of Mercy and the Faunistic Museum, three recommended museums for those with inquiring minds.
A few hours exploring the watery worlds of the Elba Island Aquarium will reignite the sense of wonder in even the most jaded traveller. Relax as tropical fish glide by and learn about the importance of marine conservation.
Enjoy the fast greens and challenging fairways at Acquabona Elba Golf Club, one of the premier golf courses around Elba Island. Grab your chequered pants and clubs and hit the greens, then finish the day in the clubhouse with a few drinks and laughs with golf-obsessed locals.
If you're vacationing in Elba Island let the kids loose at Porto Azzurro Diving Center. Don't pass up the opportunity to visit this whacky and educational attraction, offering hours of laughter for the young and the young at heart.
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- Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Player of the match
ODI debut
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
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Scorecard Summary
- Shahid Afridi40 (40)
- Ahmed Shehzad43 (81)
- NW Bracken2/31 (10.0)
- DE Bollinger5/35 (7.4)
- MJ Clarke*100 (122)
- SR Watson*85 (140)
- Shoaib Akhtar2/42 (7.0)
- Ahmed Shehzad0/0 (0.0)
A thumping in the end. 197 on this pitch, one felt, was still competitive but it took a lot of grit and concentration from both these batsmen to pull it off quite comfortably in the end.
Australia were under pressure, down two wickets for just three runs. But Clarke and co were determined to finish the series off here, after that superb comeback in the previous game where Pakistan were on top for a good part of their innings.
Clarke was rarely beaten early in his innings, and was particularly brilliant against spinners against whom he used his feet superbly. He charged down the track to anything that was pitched up, and nudged, tickled and dabbed his way to a determined century.
Watson was a bit of contrast, particularly against spin, missing attempted pulls and cuts on numerous occasions but the presence of Clarke helped him, and he too gradually began to open up, getting periodic boundaries to ensure the Pakistanis could never sense a chance.
Australia have proven deserved winners after three consecutive wins while the promise shown by Pakistan, under adversity, in their victory in the first game, sadly for them, didn't reach its desired end. We'll get you the details from the presentation shortly.
Doug Bollinger is the Man of the Match for his five-wicket haul.
Bolly: "It was pretty hot, but I really enjoyed it. I tried to swing the ball, and bowled at a good pace. It worked really well."
Younis: "We committed the same mistake as we did earlier, not scoring much after winning the toss. They won easily in the end. Clarke and Watson had a fantastic partnership, and that's what we've been missing. We will tey our best for the next game and play for our pride."
Michael Clarke: "Bolly bowled brilliantly. Our bowlers stood up once again. Watson played brilliantly upfront. We worked hard, had a good partnership and it worked beautifully. Few cramps along the way, but it worked fine in the end."
Thats all we have from here folks. The series is sealed 3-1, but there is still a matter of a dead rubber on the 3rd of May. Join us then. Thanks for your feedback. Cheers!
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- MJ Clarke100 (122b)
- SR Watson81 (138b)
- Shoaib Akhtar7-0-42-2
- Saeed Ajmal10-1-20-0
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|JR Hopes
|A Symonds
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|NM Hauritz
|NW Bracken
|SR Clark
|DE Bollinger
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Location: Public television, Statewide, Maine
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STATEWIDE, Maine — The film "Kids of the World" will have its television premiere at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 22, on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network's Community Film Series. Despite a title that suggests a global setting, the movie was filmed entirely in Lewiston's Kennedy Park.
"The kids chose the title," said the movie's director, Craig Saddlemire. "Even though they all share this communal place — the park — I think they wanted a title that reflected their global identities. And the stars of the movie really are from all over the world — Florida, Puerto Rico, East Africa. We put their ideas into a script and made a movie out of their experiences and ideas."
The movie is a product of a two week summer camp that was hosted by the Downtown Education Collaborative on Lisbon Street.
"The purpose of the camp was for the youth to explore forms of creative expression through arts and crafts, storytelling, and performance," said Sherry Russell, executive director of DEC. "We wanted to offer them different ways to explore their feelings and ideas, and have something to share with the wider community once the camp was over." Summer camp staff were Karen Ogg, art teacher at Franklin Alternative School in Auburn; Tony Damiano, staff at the Downtown Education Collaborative; Sarah Vazquez, community organizer; and Craig Saddlemire, local videomaker.
"This is my favorite way to make movies, through collaboration and self-representation" said Saddlemire, who has been making videos in Lewiston since 2005 with his production company, Round Point Movies. "Major Hollywood movies so often star the same people and are told from a very narrow perspective. This project was the opposite. We asked the youth to imagine themselves as the stars of the story. They told their stories through writing, drawing pictures and improvisation. I took all of their ideas and focused them into four separate stories that all take place in Kennedy Park and all interweave into one complete script. But all the major themes and ideas came from the group."
The soundtrack to the movie features music by Portland hip hop artist Sonya Tomlinson — stage-name Sontiago — who also led two workshops for the camp on spoken word poetry.
"Kids of the World" also has been screened at the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, Maine International Film Festival and the New England Online Film Festival.
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Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The 109,000 acre (170 sq mi, 441 km²) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet Command and the United States Army Accessions Command.
For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S. Army Armor Center and the U.S. Army Armor School (now relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia as a result of BRAC action), and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the M1 Abrams main battle tank. The history of the U.S. Army's Cavalry and Armored forces, and of General George S. Patton's career, can be found at the General George Patton Museum on the grounds of Fort Knox.
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Though the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was formed almost 40 years to organize conservative state legislators and allow them to share and replicate one another's legislative ideas — and has been "soliciting more input from private sector members" about what is good for them for more than 20 years — it wasn't until recently that it attracted almost any scrutiny for its promulgation of everything from Stand Your Ground laws to voter ID to business-friendly tort reforms. That increased scrutiny may have just started to get costly for ALEC.
According to National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" on Thursday, beverage behemoths Coke and Pepsi have both dropped their memberships to the conservative lobbying organization. The advocacy group Color of Change began a call-in campaign on Wednesday threatening a boycott of Coca-Cola and its products. The company announced within hours that it will not be renewing their membership in ALEC.
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if i am falsey accused of a situation and am recieving both threatening and harassing text message from an employee while they are off duty but an employee none the less, regarding the establishment in which they work and where the situation occured......can legal action be taken? ive spoken with the establishment regarding their employee and the defamation/slander that is also being construde towards me by other individuals, the establishment wants nothing to do with the situation and claims they are not responsible for their employees off property.......do i have a legal case(s)??
I do not practice law in Florida however the rules of "defamation" are pretty much the same. Your question is a bit to oblique for me to give you a direct response. In general however you are not being defamed unless someone says untrue things about you TO OTHERS. Saying it to you is not defamation. In addition, these defaming statements must be believed by others and you must be damaged in some way.
Additionally, the workplace is not responsible for the actions of their employee when she is off duty and not at the place of employ. If she is using their establishment to make the calls that may change things but if she is standing there, using her cellphone then they are no more liable than if she were standing in a park.
Now to look at what is really going on, you are being harassed. You need to take the texts to the police and ask them to back off this person. Assuming there isn't further damage you probably do not have a civil case but this person can be arrested for harassing you by phone if she does not stop.Ask a similar question
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Summertime, Legislation is Easy...
In July, the Eugene City Council passed a set of laws explicitly targeting student parties. Where were the students?BY DAN ATKINSON
When Ordinance 20160 was introduced to the Eugene city council on June 28, 1999, one could look into the window of a dorm room on Agate Street and have a clear view out the door, across the hall, and out the window of the opposite room. And when the Council approved it by a 6-1 margin on July 26, one could ride a bike down 13th Street on campus, blindfolded, without any fear of injury.
Ordinance 20160, which became effective August 26, struck a number of blows to the party culture surrounding UO. First, it raised the maximum fine for a Minor in Possession (MIP) offense from $100 to $250. Second, it introduced new laws prohibiting both possession of an unlabeled keg of beer, and false swearing on a keg receipt. Finally, it made illegal the act of allowing minors to consume alcohol on one's property, or to remain on one's property after consuming alcohol.
Throughout the three times the city council discussed the ordinance, the debate came back time and again to how it would affect students at the UO. When the ordinance was first brought before city councilors, it contained a specific reference to the UO "in the very beginning of the ordinance," city councilor Betty Taylor recalled for the Commentator. "It said something like, 'Because of problems at the University of Oregon'" So why was the ordinance passed during the summer, when more than two-thirds of all UO students were gone?
The most obvious answer, in this paranoid age, is that the city wanted to sneak the law into the books while no one was looking. They wanted to run the city machinery when it would be most free from the hindrance of those pesky "public input" wackos. While a lot of circumstantial evidence supports this theory, let us consider other explanations. Gary Papi, a city councilor who listed "public safety and positive youth activities" as his special interests, defended the timing of ordinance 20160 in a city council meeting on July 12. He claimed, according to council minutes, "that alcohol-related offenses increased with better weather over the entire city." Councilor Papi could not be reached for clarification. Nevertheless, the numbers don't seem to support his claim.
First, a table of monthly DUII arrests for 1997 and 1998, available on the Eugene Police Department website (www.ci.eugene.or.us/DPS/police/Statistics/DUIIarr.htm), shows no increasing trend in the summer months-in fact the numbers seem completely random. If anything, there was a discernible drop in arrests from May through July in both 1997 and 1998.
Second, though the Commentator was unable to obtain monthly MIP statistics from the EPD, statistics available appear to dispute Papi's assertion for MIP's as well. Out of the 1,001 MIP's issued in Eugene last year, 872 were issued on or around campus. One might thus deduce that more than 85% of all MIP's were issued largely to UO students. During fall, winter, and spring, there are 18,000 of us here. During the summer, there are 4,000 at the most. You can sort out the specifics yourself. Even if alcohol offenses do increase during the summer months, that seems a fairly wispy justification for the enactment of laws meant to stand, through all seasons, from now on-especially since the city code wasn't officially changed until August 26. City Councilor Bobby Lee had another explanation for the timing of the legislation. "There was a move to try to push it to the fall," he told the Commentator. But? "The problem was Halloween. Once you pass a lawthere's a time lapse that you have to deal with, and people wanted that ordinance to be enacted well before the Halloween timeframe."
Halloween, for the past several years, has been the time when the kids go crazy and the cops get scared. The pre-Halloween tension at the October 20 meeting of the Campus-Community Relations Task Force was thick. Those in attendance-officers from EPD and OPS, University officials, student leaders, and representatives of the Greeks and the co-ops-struggled to take a "proactive" view of things and gingerly hung their hopes on David Spade's Saturday night show at Mac Court. ("Hopefully he, out of all people, maybe he can save us this Halloween," mused Lee. With some nudging he came to his senses: "Yeah, probably not. Yeah. That's right.") Nevertheless, when the talk turned to teargas and beanbag bullets, it was clear that Halloween would come down, once again, to a matter of law enforcement. And it would be a matter of law enforcement against students. By the way the riots have been handled, there seems to have never been any question that it was a UO-centered problem. Therefore, Ordinance 20160 is specifically aimed at UO students, just as the original draft said it was.
So where does this leave us? There are two equally disturbing possibilities. The legislation may have been pushed through during the summer to avoid student input. On the other hand, it may have been pushed through during the summer because it was targeted at a specific student "event," the annual Halloween mjlie, at the expense of student input. Whatever the case may be, the student voice has been completely ignored on a piece of legislation aimed directly at students. Indeed, the entire process was contained between June and August: it was introduced June 28, less than three weeks after the end of spring term. It officially became law August 26, one month before fall term.
Probably as a result, the only public input the city council ever received was from one woman, Cindy Noblitt. Noblitt, an activist who works for the public access show "Cascadia Alive!", may not have even shown up at the July 12 council meeting if she hadn't seen it on TV at Doc's Pad. "I was watching the meeting down at Doc's Padand I realized there was hardly anyone there; no one was there to talk about it," she told the Commentator. "I told [the council it] seemed to be timed such that students weren't going to be around to say anything about it."
Noblitt feels that her input made a slight difference: "It did raise a few questions in some of the councilors' minds." Whether influenced by Noblitt or not, 4 of the 8 councilors did have serious doubts about the ordinance. Lee, Gary Rayor, David Kelly, and Taylor were all concerned about the size of the proposed fines. Lee and Taylor both had a number of other concerns; at one point the July 26 council minutes said Lee "would find it hard to support the ordinance." Yet, out of those four dubious councilors, only one person voted against the ordinance. Could more student input have swayed opinion on the council? One can only speculate.
Former ASUO President Lee was not the one dissenting voter; he ended up voting for Ordinance 20160, despite numerous reservations. Though he favors education to stiff fines for alcohol offenses, he saw the ordinance as "an opportunityCertainly, I think students should be allowed to drink," he told the Commentator. "But there also has to be some balance to ensure that the safety of students is also protected." He didn't seem to have any problem with the timing of the legislation and the lack of student input. "I think, certainly students can still voice, and say, it's just too much, and always change it back." Editorial comments on the likelihood of that happening will be withheld. The councilor most disturbed about every aspect of the ordinance, and the one dissenting voter, was Betty Taylor. "I don't think it will prevent students from drinking," she told the Commentator. "What [it] will do is just hurt people who are barely getting byfor some people every cent counts when they're trying to barely make it through school. I just thought the penalty was too much."
Taylor especially objected to the timing, urging the council to wait until "the people most affected" were back in town. "I thought they should have a chance to know about and to speak about it. I think summertime's a bad time to doanything monumental without previous notice."
With Ordinance 20160 now in effect, the EPD has been stepping up its alcohol enforcement efforts. According to an October 14 memo from Sgt. Rick Gilliam to the Eugene Police Commission, the EPD has hired six overtime officers for weekend party enforcement, and will have additional staff working on Halloween weekend. In addition to breaking up parties, the police "are doing bar checks," according to the memo. "In the first three weeks of fall term, we have found minors at Wild Duck, Rennie's and Taylor's."
The stepped-up enforcement has paid off. During those first three weeks, officers have cited 196 minors for MIP's in the campus area. That's almost 200 in three weeks, compared to 872 during all of last year. Each of those citations has the potential to pay off by $250, instead of the old $100. Could this increased enforcement have any connection to the higher fines? Mere speculation. All we can say is watch out. And happy Halloween.
Dan Atkinson, a junior majoring in Journalism, is Managing Editor of the Oregon Commentator


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Khalifa arrested on pot chargeAuthorities say rapper Wiz Khalifa has been arrested in West Texas for marijuana possession.
The performer from Cannonsburg, Pa., was stopped at a checkpoint at the El Paso airport. El Paso police said that because Khalifa traveled without identification, a search was ordered, and Transportation Security Administration agents found a canister with marijuana.
He was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and was released after posting $300 bail. Khalifa was born Cameron Thomaz in Minot, N.D.
Actors had Cannes buzzing
CANNES, France (AP) – The 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped up Sunday, featured a number of remarkable performances, many of them from big-name stars. These were among the actors that had Cannes buzzing:
• Steve Carell: It was an open question which star of Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" turned in the most impressive performance: Channing Tatum as Troubled Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz; or Mark Ruffalo as his older sibling; or Carell, who with a prosthetic nose and grayed hair, caused the biggest stir at Cannes as the creepy multimillionaire John du Pont, who's obsessed with the other two.
• Kristen Stewart: In Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria," Stewart does more than wink at her fame. She's natural and intelligent in a way she hasn't been perhaps since the 2009 "Adventureland."
• Timothy Spall: Great artists have often been given majestic big-screen incarnations. In Mike Leigh's biopic of British master J.M.W. Turner, Spall takes another route. His Turner is a humble, grunting worker whose grand artistry hodes beneath his gruff manner.
• Marion Cotillard: In "Two Days, One Night," Cotillard proved that her stardom didn't interfere in telling a story about a working class woman trying to persuade her co-workers to vote against a raise that will eliminate her job.
• Robert Pattinson: The former "Twilight" star is beginning to put his teen heartthrob past behind him. He impressed as Guy Pearce's not-all-there companion in the Australian thriller "The Rover."
• Evan Bird: The 14-year-old Bird breaks out in "Maps to the Stars," playing a Justin Bieber-like child star with an ego far greater than his years.
'X-Men' excels at box office
"X-Men: Days of Future Past," with a $111 million box-office take, is projected to be the fifth best Memorial Day weekend debut in box office history.
1."X-Men: Days of Future Past," $111 million ($171 million international).
2."Godzilla," $39.4 million.
3."Blended," $18.2 million.
4."Neighbors," $17.2 million.
5."The Amazing Spider-Man 2," $10 million.
6."Million Dollar Arm," $9 million.
7."The Other Woman," $5 million.
8."Rio 2," $3.3 million.
9."Chef," $3 million.
10."Heaven Is for Real," $2.8 million.
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I would like a straight paddle like you're describing.
ZRE has broken me, even a 12oz paddle feels heavy now. Even when Im not racing, its just nicer to putz around with a sub 10oz paddle. The difference between my 11oz and 8.5oz is way bigger than I would have ever thought.
Maybe we start a petition for him to make a straight shaft/free style bladed paddle! I know its been desired in the past, but nothing has ever materialized. The freestylers are a quiet bunch apparently.
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Holmes's goal these days isn't fixing homes but building them right the first time: self-sustaining houses with their own sewage and grey-water collection, living roofs, radiant floor heating, solar-heated water. Last summer, Holmes spent 10 weeks working with the Brad Pitt-led Make It Right Foundation (they connected over a dispute about the foundation's name, a phrase Holmes had trademarked), overseeing construction on new eco-friendly homes in hurricane-ravaged parts of New Orleans. "We had the [power]meter running backwards and Brad was dancing in his shoes," Holmes recalls. As he warms to the subject, he gathers speed, detailing how houses can be built fire-resistant, airtight and mould-resistant. "Everyone's talking green," he says. "Well, let's really go green! Why don't we change the building process? If no one else is going to do it, I'm going to do it. Build a home that won't burn, won't mould, that's termite-resistant. There's a book, Cradle to Cradle, and I like that: like a farmer, take from the land and put it back ... lost where I was going with that." Then he remembers, and is off again on the horrors of deforestation and how there are (he looks it up on his iPhone) 256 trillion BTUs of solar energy striking the Earth right now and we're not harnessing that power, and what a waste that is.
"I'd love to be a developer," says Holmes. "To me, everything is simple technology. All we have to do is put it all together." So, in 2007, the Holmes Group partnered with Oko Properties and design consultants Baird Sampson Neuert to build an entire green community on a 100-acre site near Calgary-the first of three planned Holmes Homes developments in the area. The new houses will cost 15 per cent more than comparable-size homes, but buyer interest is nevertheless running high, says Quast. The Holmes Group's role is to oversee the construction of the houses and back the quality with a five-year warranty.
The real-estate project is his most ambitious new venture, but hardly the only one. Some of them have had rocky beginnings. Take Holmes's boots. The Holmes Group is on its second footwear manufacturer.
The workwear line has also hit some bumps: Richlu, the Winnipeg-based maker of Tough Duck jackets, overalls and other rough-wearing garments, was the Holmes Group's first licensing partner. Holmes insisted on having a say in the design rather than just attaching his name to existing products. But in stores, the Holmes overalls were surrounded by Tough Duck gear, and marketed as a premium version of the existing line. Quast says the workwear problems have finally been sorted out, and this spring, more than two years after the initiative started, the first shipments hit small retailers and chains across Canada.
Also in the spring, the Holmes Group launched a home inspection business, an arena that for years has drawn some of Holmes's most impassioned invective. The company has hired Darren Johnson, an experienced inspector, to run a pilot project in Guelph, Ont. There are more books coming, with one on green building planned for 2010. There's a newspaper column (usually typed by his PR co-ordinator after Holmes dictates it into a tape recorder while driving in his truck; he doesn't type). In April, the company agreed to team up with an independent publisher in Creemore, Ont., on Holmes Magazine-the minimal title attesting to the partners' confidence in Holmes's name recognition. All this, plus the launch of Holmes on Homes in the U.S., which requires him to find time for American media and public appearances.
As ventures multiply, the company, now 30 strong, intends to bring in consultants-specialists in the various businesses who, as Holmes likes to say, will make it right. Still, Holmes remains at the centre, and there's only so much of him to go around. "It's always been one of the challenges, that you're building the brand on the shoulders of a man who needs to sleep and eat," says Quast. "[Last season] we were killing Mike. He was not only there for all the shoot days, but had to go to press conferences, think about Holmes Homes, the new products, speaking engagements. He was working all the time." In her office, Liza Drozdov, Holmes Group's director of communications, has yearly calendars on a wall showing Holmes's schedule. Judging by the amount of red and green marker scribbles, 2006 was especially crazy-and those were just the engagements she booked. Holmes also has an agent for speaking gigs. Drozdov has been trying to book a vacation for him, but it keeps getting postponed. (As she's explaining the demands on his time, Holmes sticks his head in: "And I want to do the Mike Holmes cartoon, about me as a kid." He's serious.)Report Typo/Error
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Although Leslie Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and movies, he achieved his greatest success in the comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun series of films. His portrayal of serious characters unaware of their absurd surroundings gave Nielsen a reputation as a comedian. A series of later comedies attempted to emulate the popularity of his prior roles.
This paralleled the serious roles of his early career. A lead role in the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet and as the ship's captain in The Poseidon Adventure came long before Nielsen considered a turn to comedy. His deadpan delivery as a doctor in 1980's Airplane! marked a turning point in Nielsen's career, one that would make him, in the words of movie critic Roger Ebert, "the Olivier of spoofs".
Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan to Ingvard Nielsen, a Danish Canadian and Maybelle, who was of Welsh descent; he has two older brothers including Erik Nielsen who was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada during the 1980s. Leslie Nielsen studied at the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto before moving to the United States. Earlier, he attended Victoria Composite High School in Edmonton, Alberta. He also at one time lived in Thorhild, AB. The school's archives room has his year book photo there for posterity; oddly enough, his future plans say nothing of wanting to act but that he enjoys pipe trades.
Nielsen's career began in dramatic roles, with numerous appearances as a doctor, lawyer, or police officer. His distinctive voice narrated several documentaries and commercials. With a handful of exceptions, his early work as a dramatic actor was uneventful. All Movie Guide notes, "much of Nielsen's early work was undistinguished; he was merely a handsome leading man in an industry overstocked with handsome leading men.".
A notable exception was Forbidden Planet, the 1956 science fiction classic which was an inspiration for later films. Nielsen played Commander John J. Adams, the lead in the Shakespearean space opera based on The Tempest. Nearly two decades later, Nielsen would have another familiar role as Captain Harrison in The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
Nielsen claims appearances in over 1,500 television programs. His early television appearances include parts in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Studio One, and Wild, Wild West. Occasionally he landed feature roles. Disney's The Swamp Fox, a spin-off of the Davy Crockett series with Nielsen as Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, also featured his singing of the theme song. In 1969, he appeared as a police officer in The Bold Ones: The Protectors. Both shows lasted a single season.
Nielsen's breakthrough came with a supporting role in 1980's Airplane!, a parody of the popular Airport series of tragedy films. Nielsen played a doctor aboard an airplane whose crew has been struck with food sickness. His deadpan delivery contrasted with the absurdity surrounding him. When he is asked, "Surely you can't be serious?", he responds with a curt, "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." The comedic exchange was at #79 on The American Film Institute's list of Top 100 movie quotes.
Critics praised the movie, which proved to be a success with audiences as well. The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, decided to bring the slapstick style of comedy to television. They asked Nielsen to play the lead role in their new series, Police Squad! The series introduced Nielsen as Frank Drebin, a stereotypical police officer modeled after earlier detective series. Much like Airplane!, Drebin was a serious character whose one-liners appeared accidental next to the pratfalls around him. The show failed, lasting only six episodes after being juggled between time slots.
With the exception of Airplane!, Nielsen was not known as a comedian. His roles continued to be small and sporadic, such as Prom Night (1980) and Creepshow (1982), both horror films.
Six years after the cancellation of Police Squad!, the directors decided to make a feature length version for theaters. Titled The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, the film returned Nielsen to his role as Frank Drebin. The film involved a comical scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II through a hypnotized baseball player. Drebin, like the doctor in Airplane!, seemed unaware of the absurdity even when unintentionally contributing toward it. The movie was popular and well received by critics. Ebert's 3 ? star review (out of four) noted, "You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing." [5]
Two popular sequels followed, The Naked Gun 2?: The Smell of Fear (1991) and The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Nielsen remains open to the prospects of acting in a fourth Naked Gun, although doubts it will ever be produced. "I don't think so. If there hasn't been one by now, I doubt it. I think it would be wonderful."
Nielsen briefly appeared in the World Wrestling Federation in the summer of 1994. Capitalizing on his Frank Drebin character, Nielsen (as well as George Kennedy), were hired as "super-sleuths" to unravel the mystery of The Undertaker, who had disappeared at January's Royal Rumble event. At SummerSlam 1994, in a Naked Gun parody, they were hot on the case (in fact, they were literally standing on a case). Although, they did not actually find The Undertaker, the case had been closed (the literal case had been shut) and thus, they solved the mystery.
Nielsen attempted a variety of similar roles which never achieved the success of Frank Drebin. Many of the films emulated the style of The Naked Gun films, but with varying degrees of critical and commercial success. Indeed, many of the films were panned by critics. Most performed poorly.
Although The Naked Gun series parodied police dramas in general, Nielsen's later films focused on specific targets. Critics panned Repossessed (1990) and 2001: A Space Travesty (2000), parodies of The Exorcist and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both films attempted the absurdist comedy Nielsen is recognized for, but were poorly received. A Space Travesty, for example, remains a perennial entry on The Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 list. Even a leading role in a Mel Brooks' comic horror parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, failed to generate much box office excitement, although it did gain somewhat of a following on its later release to video, as did Wrongfully Accused, a parody of The Fugitive.
His attempt at children's comedies met additional criticism. Surf Ninjas (1993) and Mr. Magoo (1997) faced scathing reviews. Jeff Miller of the Houston Chronicle panned Mr. Magoo, a live action remake of the 1950s cartoon, by saying, "I'm supposed to suggest how the film might be better. But I can't think of anything to say other than to make the film again."
Nielsen's first major slapstick success since The Naked Gun came in a supporting role in Scary Movie 3. His appearance as President Harris proved popular enough for a second appearance in its sequel, Scary Movie 4. This became the first time Nielsen reprised a character since his numerous appearances as Frank Drebin.
Nielsen also hosted a series of golf instructional videos beginning with 1993's Bad Golf Made Easier. The videos were not serious, instead combining absurd comedy with golf techniques. The series were popular enough to spawn two additional sequels, Bad Golf My Way (1994) and Stupid Little Golf Video (1997). Nielsen also co-wrote a fictional autobiography titled The Naked Truth. The book portrayed Nielsen as a popular actor with a long history of prestigious films.


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st: RE: Compute Modus accross variablesCompute Modus accross variables
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st: RE: Compute Modus accross variablesCompute Modus accross variables
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I don't know of code for another way to do it.
I think the best way to do it without a -reshape- would be to write a Mata function. You'd need to handle ties in frequency with some recipe.
Christian Hunkler
I am looking for a command / ado that allows to compute the mode accross
variables, possibly also for strings.
E.g. if I had these data:
id var1 var2 var3
1 1991 1992 1991
2 1960 1961 1961
3 1920 1920 1921
I would like to compute a variable storing the mode across lines:
id mode
1 1991
2 1961
3 1920
I know this can easily done by some simple reshaping using -egen mode
by- collapsing and merging the data again, but we deal with pretty large
datasets (reshaping takes minutes) and we have to do this for a couple
of variables. And we have to do this for variables storing names (which
is possible with -egen mode by-).
Maybe there is something available to do this, I haven't found yet?
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Information about challenge exams relative to Academic and Online policy.
Delineation of policy.
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Challenge Exams
Challenge Exams have been developed for a limited number of 100 and 200 level undergraduate courses. These exams allow students to test out of a course and receive college credit on their Cumberland University transcript. Exams are linked to the course learning outcomes and objectives.
The school with academic responsibility for the course maintains a file of study materials for these exams. Study materials may be requested on the application to take a Challenge Exam.
Challenge Exams are restricted as follows.
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Donna Carr's Grade 4 class at New Minas Elementary had a special surprise on March 4. Children's author Allison Maher and Margie Brown of the Rotary Club of New Minas Sunrise dropped in for a visit and to present the class with a set of 10 copies of Maher's book, "Time Flies When You're Chasing Spies." The presentation was made possible through a donation from the Rotary Club, which is giving four local schools a set of books as part of a literacy project. – Kirk Starratt, www.kingscountynews.ca
Watch Gasland
A free screening of the movie Gasland is set for March 12 at the Edible Art Café in Greenwich.
It will start at 4 p.m. and will be followed by a community discussion. Space is limited.
Film society offerings
Fundy Film will screen Finding Vivian Maier on March 12 at 7 p.m.
A mysterious nanny, Vivian Maier (1926–2009), shot over 100,000 photographs that were stored away in lockers. Discovered decades later, they have posthumously revealed her to be among the 20th century's great street photographers. Through photos, films and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her, this intriguing documentary traces Maier's strange and riveting life, revealing her amazing art.
Then, Fundy Film will screen The Invisible Woman on March 16 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Based on Claire Tomalin's biography, this period drama is about the secret 12-year affair between actress Ellen (Nelly) Ternan and author Charles Dickens. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens' passion and his muse, secrecy is the price, and for Nelly, a life of "invisibility."
All screenings take place at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville. Tickets, $8, are available 30 minutes before screenings.
Weblink fundyfilm.ca
Screening Leonardo
The Acadia Art Gallery is presenting an art film on March 14, 7 p.m. Leonardo Live will give a behind the scenes tours of global exhibitions and artists. Da Vinci's historic exhibition was sold out in London and, due to the fragility of the paintings, the exhibition cannot tour. Captured live on the eve of the exhibition opening in London, Leonardo Live provides a high-definition walk-through of the exhibition, in-depth commentary about featured pieces and extra content.
The screening will be held at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville. Tickets are $15 for adults, $13 for Acadia University Art Gallery Members and $10 for children or students. Tickets are available through Ticketpro or at the Box of Delights.
Wolfville singer's new CD
Singer/songwriter Kimberly Matheson will present a CD release concert on March 15 at 8 p.m.
Her Just As I Am recording will be released at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville. Matheson will be joined on stage by the Hupman Brothers Band and Asa Brosius.
Sinfonia here March 16
The Acadia Performing Arts Series presents Atlantic Sinfonia on March 16, 7:30 p.m., at the Festival Theatre at Acadia. The ensemble's performance is titled Mozart and Friends and is based on the music of Catherine the Great.
While fostering the arts and education in Russia, she drew upon the ideas of writers, musicians and artists of the enlightenment in the 'the west', including many of the major composers of the day. The program will include works of the enlightenment that may have been heard in Catherine's court.
The music presented is from the repertoire of the traditional wind octet with bass, also called a wind harmonie. Groups such as this were part of courts throughout Europe in the late 1700s and were even found in North America in the emerging colonies.
Atlantic Sinfonia, a unique hybrid orchestra with an audience-friendly approach to classical chamber music, brings together some of the best professional musicians from the Maritime region. Under the artistic direction of Richard Hornsby, the group performs in 18th-century style, standing and performing without a conductor.
Atlantic Sinfonia is dedicated to introducing attendees to the great repertoire for small orchestra. Traditional pieces and crowd favourites are always on the program, but many will find they enjoy being introduced to new works as well.
Tickets are $26 for adults, $20 for students. For more information or to buy tickets, visit the Acadia University Box Office in person, by phone at 542-5500 or online at http://boxoffice.acadiau.ca .
At this concert, the Acadia Performing Arts Series will also be announcing its upcoming 2014-2015 season and subscriptions will be on sale.
Unique music theatre
On March 18 and 19, Edalene Theatre presents 'Jonesin' For Joss', a night celebrating Joss Whedon, with a live performance of two of his musical theatre creations: Once More With Feeling from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog.
These two hilarious fan favourites are fun and feature many family local faces. If you love Whedon, Buffy or Dr. Horrible, you don't want to miss this.
Tickets can be purchased by calling 697-2515 or emailing email@example.com
Performances will depend on the pre-sale of tickets, so order ahead.
Laugh with Panych
The Acadia Theatre Company is presenting the Morris Panych play, 7 Stories, March 19-22 and March 26-29.
The protagonist in 7 Stories is standing on the ledge on the seventh storey of a tall building, contemplating his death. He is interrupted by the colourful residents of the seventh storey, who are too caught up in their own lives to notice the man or question his presence on the ledge of the building. The play premiered in Vancouver in 1989.
This Panych comedy at Acadia University's Lower Denton Theatre is being directed by drama prof Bob Seale. It starts at 7:30 p.m.
Video art
The Acadia Art Gallery has lined up an interesting evening for March 20 with a roundtable on video art getting underway at 7 p.m.
Join special guests for a lively discussion around the creation, production and distribution of video art in the Atlantic region. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with Centre for Art Tapes.
Frankie Valli tribute coming
Oh What a Night will bring a musical revue to Wolfville on March 21.
Packed full of hits such as Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Working My Way Back To You Girl and My Eyes Adored You, the cast of this travelling production offers a high energy, must-see theatrical show.
Staying true to the original recordings, this tribute to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is intended to honour the talent of an American legend.
The show takes place at Convocation Hall at 7 p.m. Tickets: Acadia Box Office 542-5500.
New play at CentreStage
Opening this weekend is a play called Separate Beds.
Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise.
Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink are wined, dined and introduced to exciting people. When they meet the rich, seductive Blake and Beth, who still seem to have a perfect life together after 10 years of marriage, Twink becomes infatuated with the glamour of the other couple's lives and seeks to reignite the spark in her own marriage.
A Canadian dramedy written by award-winning playwright, M.J. Cruise and directed by Chérie Zinck, this play will appeal to adult as well as mature young adult audiences.
Cast Members include Trina Long, Mike L'Oiseau, Ross Chapman and Liz Stern.
Separate Beds plays in the Upstairs Performance Centre on March 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 and April 4-5, with 2 p.m. matiness on March 16 and 30. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Tickets are $15 adults/$12 students and seniors.
Weblink www.centrestagetheatre.ca
Good idea borrowed
The concept of a Night Kitchen series of musical showcase concerts is being transplanted to Belleville, Ontario.
An idea borrowed from the very successful Night Kitchen, which has been entertaining full houses in Wolfville for more than five years, three shows are set for The Pinnacle Playhouse in downtown Belleville. The first of the Night Kitchen Too series is March 15.
Gary Magwood suggested the idea after attending a few of these concerts while visiting Wolfville. The next Night Kitchen locally will be April 5.
In the galleries
-Artist Natalie Parsons will have her work at the Designer Café in Kentville until March 23.
- Acadia University Arts has a group exhibit of art work on display at Jack's Gallery at the Acadia Cinema Co-op/Just Us Coffee in Wolfville.The exhibit will conclude on March 23.
- Acadia Art Gallery Project 35: Volume 2, March 5 – April 16An itinerant video exhibition selected by 35 international curators.


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