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Discussion in 'Mass Effect' started by Robbie922004, Feb 22, 2012.
Just wear a burqa and you're fine to go. Unless you're in France.
Attracts too much attention. My scarf, fake mustache, sunglasses, and ushanka do the job just fine.
Do you speak in an accent?
I pretend I'm deaf and in a hurry.
So, you just kinda grunt at people and scuttle away?
Like a tall and fashionable jawa.
Sounds like quite the life you lead. All you need is a quirky midget sidekick to carry your bags and you're all set.
They like to be called little people, not midgets. Made that mistake once. My shins still haven't fully recovered.
Watch it at the 55 seconds mark.
Shooting that scene must have been hilarious.
Have you seen Boston Legal? If not, you should. Like, you really should. Really.
The show aired at my bedtime back then so I was never able to watch it.
Oh, you poor bitty baby. Watch it now.
Where can I find it? I'm up for some downtime.
Hurry up and tell me before I have to start working again.
Get to it, ho. Get to it and ascend to a higher plane of existence.
My dad used to watch Boston Legal so I would watch it with him every once in awhile. I thought it was a pretty good show, but definitely not the type of thing I'd watch by myself at that age. Back when I used to watch a lot of crap. I suppose that can join my rather long list of TV shows I need to watch. By the time I finish one show, I find like 3 more that I need to watch. It just never ends, does it?
Lol! I know how that is. I watched Boston Legal off & on. Betty White, William Shatner, & James Spader are all hilarious on there. I'm trying to get my Sister into shows I like & liked. Right now I'm trying to get her to watch Six Feet Under. She looked at me like I was crazy when I told her she would love the show about a Funeral home. But it's a good show. Also trying to get her to watch The Walking Dead & Spartacus as well.
How old is your sister?
You forgot the face_mischief.
No, I didn't.
@JWB82 vs @Astus_01 will now duel to the death over his sister's honor.
I'm Smoke you noob.
Since you chose Reptile.
stupid refresh time
I still win. You think she would go with the man who killed her favorite brother? Lol!
First time in Afterlife.......need a drink.
No sex, I just cleaned the bar.
I would have ways of 'convincing' her.
Drugs don't count as convincing.
Tell that to Rohypnol.
Is she cute?
Close your eyes, take a sip of this drink and you'll be able to see her.
I'm wearing a chastity belt so don't get any funny ideas.
You're chastity belt is made out of paper though.
I've checked.
My grandma told me it was made out of dolomite.
I'm pretty sure she got that mixed up with vegemite.
Don't eat my belt.
I'm a rare breed of Australian. One who detests vegemite.
Change your icon back.
Don't take that tone with me, loose lips.
I don't- are you coming on to me?
Don't worry about the dizzy feeling. It's just from the drink, it will wear off in a couple of minutes. Honest.
My dad warned me about boys like you.
Your dad groped you inappropriately tho.
Hah! Nice try Social Services. Didn't work last time and it's not going to work now.
One day, your guard will be down and you tell everything in a moment of vulnerability. One day.
Hey CT.
Been playing Halo 4 all week. Great stuff.
Also I've bought 15 blu-rays this week already lol
Oh, hey stryder25.0 but stranger25.0 seems more appropriate.


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Offshore Funds Take Flight Again
After more than three years of dodging declining markets, money managers greeted a surprisingly bullish second quarter with sighs of relief. With the Iraq war officially over and the memory of SARS fading, markets everywhere moved up smartly. Indeed, every one of the 500 mutual funds managed outside the U.S. and tracked by BusinessWeek's quarterly Offshore Funds Scorecard finished the quarter with positive returns. And more than 96% turned in double-digit gains for the quarter ended June 30. A look at the funds' 12-month performance, of course, is more sobering: Only five of the top 25 had positive returns over a yearlong period. That's a reminder that quarterly performances can vary widely.
In the latest quarter, German and European equity funds came out on top, with funds focusing on German stocks taking six of the top 10 spots in the ranking. Biotech and European small-company funds also did well. Capital outflows from the U.S. certainly helped buoy the performance of non-U.S. markets: In the first five months of this year, U.S. investors snapped up $25.5 billion in foreign equities, mostly in Europe and Asia outside of Japan, says Morgan Stanley.
The gold medal went to DG Lux Lacuna Apo BioTech, the best performer among the 500 funds, clocking a sizzling 57.66% return. Although run jointly from the German town of Regensberg and Zurich, the fund, like most of its biotech counterparts in Europe, profited by investing in the red-hot American biotech industry. The fund holds 75% of its investments in small and midsize companies based in the U.S., and it doesn't plan to tinker with that strategy. "Investors who are interested in growth must sooner or later invest in biotech, where share prices are growing an average of 30% to 35% per year," says Christian Pistor, manager of research at four-year-old Lacuna, which has a total of $170 million under management.
Offshore funds are typically based in tax havens such as Luxembourg and the Isle of Man and cannot be marketed to U.S. residents because they don't file reports with the Securities & Exchange Commission. But they represent the collective judgment of fund managers from around the world. Standard & Poor's, like BusinessWeek a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, did the number-crunching for the scorecard.
The biggest surprise of the quarter was the sudden thaw in the three-year Teutonic freeze. German markets have been among the worst global performers since 2000. But this year, they staged an impressive comeback, with the DAX blue-chip index jumping 13.38% so far this year and 40% in the second quarter alone. "There have been a few glimmers of hope [for] the economy," says Frederic de Merode, a portfolio strategist at Fidelity International in London. "Business confidence is beginning to pick up and unemployment is falling after rising for a year."
Some would say German equities had nowhere to go but up. They were 75% off their highs of spring, 2000, before the recent bounce. That made the stocks appear pretty cheap to value investors. Throw in some encouraging noises from Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Berlin is getting serious about structural reforms of labor laws and pensions, and the story starts to look promising. No one is saying that the German economy is out of the woods yet, but there has been enough encouraging news to entice buyers back into the market. Indeed, total monthly equity turnover on German stock exchanges jumped 22% in June, to $91 billion, according to the Deutsche Borse Group in Frankfurt.
Beaten-down German blue chips have attracted the lion's share of money. Markus Zipperer, who manages No. 6-ranked CS EF (Lux) Germany fund at Credit Suisse AM Funds in Frankfurt, tapped into Deutsche Telekom for its high cash flow. He also maintained his holdings in Siemens, whose stock soared, along with other stocks in the tech sector. Across Europe, many of the best-performing funds invested in telecom and Internet stocks, which may have hit bottom. Investors say these companies were helped by the combination of strong cash flow and a weak dollar. Many small-cap stocks also rode the coattails of bigger stocks that rose. "After the Iraq war, the big-cap stocks were the first to move," notes Ed Burke, fund manager at the INVESCO UK Equity Fund. "But then the initial leadership in the market was reversed" as small caps advanced.
Guido Marveggio, portfolio manager at the No. 2-ranked Special Europe Stock Fund run by Julius Baer in Zurich, saw his small- and midcap-heavy fund soar 47% in the second quarter. Among the best performers: German telecom firm freenet.de and Internet service provider T-Online International. But while Marveggio is optimistic about certain stocks, he's only cautiously positive about small caps as a whole. "After this rebound, the potential is not that large anymore," he says. "If the U.S. is not growing [strongly], Europe will have to struggle."
Success in biotechnology, of course, depends on factors other than the performance of national economies. With huge research costs and little revenue, small biotech stocks typically live or die by the government drug-approval process. Top-ranked Lacuna scooped up shares in U.S. biotechs last fall -- a time when risk-averse investors were giving them a wide berth. Lacuna's bet paid off in the second quarter, when the Food & Drug Administration cleared six new drugs -- three of them made by leading picks of the fund. These included Houston-based Tanox Inc. and San Francisco-based Genentech Inc., both of which make Xolair, an asthma drug; Novato (Calif).-based BioMarin Pharmaceutical, which produces Aldurazyme, an enzyme- replacement therapy to counteract a life-threatening disease called MPS I; and Livingston (N.J.)-based Columbia Laboratories, manufacturer of testosterone enhancer Striant. All told, Lacuna's portfolio, which holds 80% of its investments in biotech companies and 20% in medtech companies, paid off in spades. "When a drug receives approval, small and midsize stocks valued between $250 million and $1 billion can see revenues grow by 100% in a year," says Pistor.
The stellar second-quarter returns weren't limited to small biotechs. No. 4-ranked Fortis L Equity Biotech World C gained 39% in the second quarter and 21% in the past 12 months investing in mostly large-cap biotech stocks. Fund manager Gerd Philippaerts likes that these stocks march to their own beat. "Unlike technology companies, these do not depend on the [economy] to have a high-growth profile," he says. Philippaerts is bullish on Genentech, which has made great strides in cancer research. Philippaerts also is a fan of Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its new bone marrow cancer-fighting drug Velcade, which was approved by the FDA in May. Talk about big bets: Millennium, Genentech, and Amgen account for 27% of the Fortis fund.
In Asia, the big question is whether Japan is back as an investment destination. The Nikkei 225 is up 12.08% this year, and some analysts still see many Japanese stocks as undervalued. "Japan Inc. has slowly but steadily restructured and reduced its cost structure, which will lead to better earnings," says Shigeda Kouda, manager of Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Japan Fund. But the view of Japa-nese markets is mixed. "Stocks are cheap in Japan, but cheap doesn't mean value," says David Herro, manager of the Kansas City (Mo.)-based Oakmark International Fund. He notes that average return on equity for Japanese companies is 6% to 7%, compared with 13% to 14% for Europe and 15% to 16% for the U.S.
After getting hammered in the first quarter, Korean stocks rebounded strongly, with the Kospi index finishing up 31.3% in the three months ended June 30. The award for the most impressive comeback goes to Jardine Fleming's Korea Fund. It was the scoreboard's worst-performing fund in the first quarter, when it lost 19%, but it roared back with a 36.95% return, ranking No. 11 this quarter. The fund's two largest holdings are Samsung Electronics Co. and steel company Posco, both of which have benefited from strong exports to China.
As always, the fortunes of offshore funds are tethered to the world's major economies and equity markets. There's growing concern that currencies in Asia are being held artificially low by their central banks to pump up exports. If they are allowed to appreciate against the dollar, Asian exporters' earnings could plummet. Plus, with a strong euro chipping away at corporate profits in Europe, markets may have a difficult time keeping up the momentum. The upshot is if there are no signs soon of a broad-based economic recovery, fund managers may have to start running for cover all over again.
By Frederik Balfour in Hong Kong, with Gail Edmondson in Frankfurt, Laura Cohn in London, and Irene M. Kunii in Tokyo


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North Branch resident Jennifer Thyng displayed her vocal prowess Jan. 30 at North County Coffee in North Branch as part of the Arts RX Concert Series organized by We R Able, an area organization that provides accessible programs for adults with disabilities ages 14 and up and the general public.
Guests enjoyed a supper before the music began, and during the meal they completed part one of an evaluation project using a colored chart with squares of "winter" colors, on which they checked off how they felt at the start of the evening. Part two began after the music started when they were directed to look at the chart again and checked off what colors represented how they felt about the songs.
Making a quilt of colored paper squares was part three. Each person took the colors they had chosen related to the music and added them to a group quilt, showing how the entire audience felt about their arts experience.
Thyng, who grew up in Grasston and Braham, got an early start in vocal music when she sang at church events and participated in school theater productions. Life has brought a variety of musical opportunities for her, and she has sung the national anthem at major sports events around the U.S.
Guests were invited to sing along, clap and dance to her music, which included high-energy tunes to invigorate everyone at the beginning and soothing, calming music to send them on their way home.


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>_> well I don't see them often, but my bad
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>_> well I don't see them often, but my bad
hm well my friend who hacked my wii for me says that I should try to play games with Force NTSC on
he's also already played a burned game on my wii by turning force ntsc on and without using those...
Ok, I recently downloaded Wii Sports (PAL) and burned it onto a DVD-R using imgburn. This is my first time trying to play a downloaded game on the wii.
I popped it in my wii and opened Gamma Back...
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|From: Jakub Piotr Cłapa (jpc at pld-linux.org)
Date: Sat Nov 24 09:14:42 EST 2007
Day wrote: > I have an interesting and curious question: > > Is it possible to define define-syntax using Scheme (without using any > higher macros, just scheme itself)? Maybe you are looking for defmacro.ss from mzlib [1]? Even without this AFAIK define-syntax accepts any one argument function. This argument is a syntax object which can be transformed into datum if you don't mind the lack of higiene. [1] http://pre.plt-scheme.org/docs/html/mzlib/mzlib-Z-H-18.html#node_chap_18 -- regards, Jakub Piotr Cłapa
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to another look at Egypt.
The Obama administration has voiced concern over violent crackdowns and arrests in that country following the military ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi in July. The armed forces, headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, declared that they were handing over power to civilian leadership and appointed an interim president, who, in turn, picked a prime minister and cabinet members.
Many suspect, however, that the military is still calling the shots.
So, who is in charge of Egypt?
PBS NewsHour chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner put that question to the country's interim prime minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, earlier today in Cairo.
MARGARET WARNER: Prime Minister Beblawi, thank you for having us.
Now, an issue what Washington and Cairo seem at odds on right now is the way your government came to power, essentially as the result of the military deposing the elected president of this country, Mohammed Morsi. By any known definition, is that not a coup?
INTERIM PRIME MINISTER HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI, Egypt: If you take a single element, picture, and not seeing the whole picture, you are failing to get the reality.
As a matter of fact, it started with an uprising of millions in the streets. And then the army just responded to an appeal of the people. And it's exactly, almost exactly the same as happened with the previous regime, Mubarak. So I don't see a great difference technically speaking.
And I would see that it would have been very bad if we had let down those people.
MARGARET WARNER: And you don't think the army helped engineer these protests in any way?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: I don't think so. I don't think so.
If the army can move and mobilize millions, it must have magic to be able to convince young people, old people, women to take street for such a phenomena, I would imagine.
MARGARET WARNER: I would like to ask you now about the crackdown that has occurred since Morsi was deposed, starting with the fact that an estimated 1,000 people have been killed, most of them protesters at the hands of the security forces.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent investigation into what really happened. Is there going to be such an investigation?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: We are. The government, we are asking to form an independent investigation, and this is to our benefit.
Of course, we look to the authorities to take their calls. But we would like, for the benefit of history, to form an independent investigation to give a recommended description of what exactly happened. This is — we are doing it because we need it.
MARGARET WARNER: Now, also, some 2,000 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, mid-level members, have been detained without charges. You were quoted last month as actually calling for banning the Muslim Brotherhood. Really?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: No.
I always said that the Muslim Brotherhood must respect the rule. This movement is acting as either a party, political party, and political parties shouldn't mix — use their religion for political objectives. If they are promoting ideas for welfare and this kind, they should abide by the law to make clear their financial resources, to be subject to observation and control, like any social society. We will go by the law.
MARGARET WARNER: Now, yesterday, your religious affairs minister announced that more than 50,000 clerics, "unlicensed" — quote, unquote — would be silenced, would be banned from preaching.
Is there a danger that, if more Islamist thought and activity is driven underground, that it will simply generate terrorism?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Absolutely.
I am very aware that the way to deal with political Islam is not to repress them and to push them underground, but to make sure that they abide by the law, and to make sure that you — we know exactly what they are saying in public, not under the ground. So this is exactly what we think. MARGARET WARNER: And so now you're under this state of emergency. The police have sweeping powers. There are reports that the public prosecutor is now looking into charges against many liberal — liberals who were active in the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak.
Is there an effort now to go after liberal critics of this military — at least military-appointed government, of which you're a part?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Not at all.
As a matter of fact, we were looking forward to end the emergency by the end of the month, but then we were surprised — actually, not surprised by the action, but by the magnitude of the explosion.
MARGARET WARNER: And by explosion, you mean the assassination attempt on the interior minister?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Yes, exactly, which showed us that the situation is — still needs to be under control, and most probably we will extend the emergency for a month or two.
But we are forbidden by law to extend it more than three months, unless we have a referendum.
MARGARET WARNER: Can you guarantee that liberal critics of the military and of the military-appointed government are not going to be harassed or prosecuted?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: I can't say I guarantee, but I will do anything to fight any liberal who is taken because of what he is thinking, of his opinion. This is definitely something I will think that this is not accepted, and I will fight it.
MARGARET WARNER: How much control does the civilian government that you head actually have over the security service?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: A great deal of power, and at least we have the power to say, sorry, we will not continue.
MARGARET WARNER: So you have the power to say no?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Of course.
MARGARET WARNER: And does the president, Mansour, have any control at all over General al-Sisi and the armed forces?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: I assure you that we are going by the law.
And the president is assuming his role as head of the country. The cabinet has all of the authority to dealing. Al-Sisi, General al-Sisi, is a member of the cabinet, and I can tell that you he is a very disciplined member of the cabinet.
MARGARET WARNER: Now, in the United States, the president has the power to fire, replace the army chief of staff, the head of the armed forces. Does the president here, this current president, have that power?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: The president of the republic has all the prerogative of a president, of a head of a state.
MARGARET WARNER: Even though that general is the one who appointed him?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: It is not yet put to the test, but, definitely, there is no evidence of the contrary.
Legally, this — the power of the head of the state is secured. We haven't seen that he was denied by this, and I'm sure that, if the need comes, he will use his power.
MARGARET WARNER: So, can you assure the world that in the next seven months, which is when your road map, your self-imposed deadline is up, that Egypt will once again have a fully elected, freely elected civilian democracy and the army will return to the barracks for good?
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: Definitely, we owe this not only to the world. We owe it to our people.
We said, when we came, we came for a transitional period. We know a transitional period is by definition temporary. But we are fully aware that it's very important. And we would like to be up to our promise to our people.
MARGARET WARNER: Prime Minister Beblawi, thank you so much.
HAZEM EL-BEBLAWI: You're most welcome. Thank you for coming.


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Monthly Archives: January 2002
See you in court: Agricultural society files suit to settle fairgrounds dispute
AKRON - The Summit County Agricultural Society has gone to court seeking a temporary restraining order preventing an eviction and the seizure of personal...
Dairy Channel: Reduce manure phosphorus to improve dairy profits, protect water resources
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, and a member of OSU's DairyExcel team, writes about reaching the goal of reducing excess feeding of phosphorus and nitrogen in the forms of protein and non-protein nitrogen for dairy cattle.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Jan. 31, 2001
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Read it Again: Week of Jan. 31, 2001
Each week "Farm and Dairy" takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Fonder fumes
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about her recent discovery of the benefits of skunks.
Grazing conference tailored to dairies
The first North Central Ohio Grazing Conference is scheduled Feb. 1 at the Mt. Hope Auction Barn.
Version of Uncle Tom's Cabin found
The serialized story was discovered preserved in the attic of a Brunswick, Maine, home.
USDA offers sustainable farming grants
Individual producers can apply for SARE grants up to $6,000 and up to $18,000 is available for groups of three or more.
Urban wildlife topic for 2002 Ohio wildlife diversity conference
The annual event is March 13, and is open to the public. It is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
Surveys find acceptance of pasteurized cider
Cider taste tests on consumers over a three-year period have revealed that consumers have a split opinion on what a good cider should taste like.


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THE PHILANTHROPIC Mayor of Marlow used Saturday's Town Regatta reception to announce the charities she will support over the next twelve months as she begins her second term in office.
Mayor Brown has nominated the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust (TVCAA) and Marlow Opportunity Playgroup as the two causes to benefit from her mayoral fundraising.
And this year's nomination includes a personal commitment to the air ambulance after popular Marlow postwoman Susan Theobald was rescued after a traffic collision in February.
She said: "Thames Valley Air Ambulance are always on hand to support us in Marlow, especially with the Regatta and other events if things go wrong.
"Also, they helped my post lady when she was in an accident on Little Marlow Road so it's a personal thing for me."
"I chose Marlow Opportunity Playgroup because they provide the only child care of its kind in the whole of the south East of England. They need £35,000 a year to keep it running and if they want to look after more children, they need more money than that. It's very important, I think."
Marlow Opportunity Playgroup, now based in Wooburn Green, provides specialist care for 22 children, some of them severely disabled.
And TVCAA, which provides emergency cover to three counties, relies on donations to keep its helicopter in the air 365 days a year.
Last year, the mayor chose to support Marlow Age Concern and Marlow Rowing Club, with the causes sharing the £20,000 fundraising kitty.
With this year's charities chosen, Mayor Brown's first fundraising event the 'BBO Big Band Summer Bash' is scheduled for the July 5 at 7:30pm.
Funds raised with be donated to All Saints Church and the mayoral charities.
The BBO Big Band is a Marlow-based big band swing music ensemble, which has raised over £330,000 for various causes since forming in 1986.
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I use Views JSON Query module and everything fine I have results on a table from my remote site json.
But I want to alter my "query" and the idea is to use a page call variable (like http://www.nomsite.com?param=value) to alter my query before the execution. I try it to use hook_views_query_alter() or hook_views_query_substitutions () but, not works in a query like json call, who is a web link. Using dpm($view) in hook_views_pre_render(&$view) I can see that my link is in ->query->options['json_file'] and I try to modify this value in query_alter but nothing happens.
Someone have an idea how I can do that ? querry_alter not works with Views JSON Query plugin ?


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A ROYAL Marine serving with the Norton Manor-based 40 Commando unit has been killed while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
To read updates on the tragedy as they become available, click here.
A statement released on Wednesday evening (October 24) said the serviceman had died alongside a soldier from 3 Medical Regiment while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.
Spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Major Laurence Roche, said: "I am extremely sorry to announce the deaths of a Royal Marine from 40 Commando and a soldier from 3 Medical Regiment serving with Task Force Helmand.
"This is dreadful news for all of us serving in Afghanistan. Our sincere condolences go to their families, friends and colleagues at this time of grief."
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The popular fan-run Stargate convention, Gatecon, has been an annual highlight for many fans worldwide for the past nine years. This year the show will be taking a break, and GateWorld has the lowdown.
"Our decision to not hold the next Gatecon till 2010 is more of a positive than a negative," Allan Gowen, co-founder of Gatecon LLC, told GateWorld. "With the current world economic status it is making it harder and harder for people to attend conventions.
"Even though the economic crisis only became evident in 2008, we started to see it's effects as far back as 2005. Attendee numbers started to drop at the conventions and we would constantly get emails and messages from people who couldn't attend simply because they couldn't afford it."
Do not despair! GateWorld has learned that there are plans for Gatecon to return to Vancouver in 2010 for their 10th anniversary show. "By holding it in summer 2010 it gives everyone over a year and a half to save and make plans for annual leave," Gowen said.
Fans may not realize the scope in planning a half-week event like Gatecon. In many respects it is a full-time job almost all year around to plan and coordinate, even among a group of dedicated organizers.
"We haven't had a break in nine years," Allan told us. "It will be good to sit back this year and not have to worry about running a convention for a change. Even though the convention only happens over one weekend, for us it's a year-long job and it literally takes over your life in the four to six months leading up to the convention."
A charity-driven event, Gatecon has raised over a quarter of a million Canadian dollars since its inception, the bulk of which has gone to the Make-A-Wish Foundation dedicated to brightening the lives of children with various medical concerns and disabilities. Last year Gatecon dedicated its convention to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, pulling in around $30,000 to its cause — which Allan says is a typical amount for one of their conventions.
"It was my first outing," Anderson said at the closing ceremonies. "I mean, Avalon was Avalon. It was great meeting everybody but I felt a little confined. This was fun! So much so that I'd be willing to do this again!"
GateWorld asked Gowen if Richard had anything to do with Gatecon not returning in 2009. "It has been difficult to get hold of Richard for a definite answer about this year," he said," but we had made our decision about 2009 well before our cut-off date for the hotel and guest confirmations."
Don't think the Gatecon team is going to sit back and turn into couch potatoes! "Over the next few months I am going to be going back and re-visiting the footage from past Gatecons," Allan said, "and also taking my first look at some footage from our 2005 convention that was thought to be lost to the world."
Gowen plans at looking to develop re-releases of past DVDs with brand new content, and free-to-view video clips on Gatecon's new Web site, all of which will be developed in the next couple of months.
Stay with GateWorld for an exclusive, hour-long documentary on Gatecon 2008 arriving very soon!
Well they would probably get more people to go if they didnt charge so much… I understand they have to pay actors and running cost but still its very expensive.
Yeah I was gonna go a few years ago till I found out how much it cost
I would love to go to one of these conventions but it's too far away for me and too expensive!
same as above, well i can save up more now to go1
I have only attended 1, in 2004, but I can tell you it was worth every penny I spent. The Gatecon people do an absolutely incredible job.
I hope to be able attend in 2010.
It will give me more time to save up :)
I can inmagine that its a lot of work and I give my compliments for those who are involved with Gatecon. I do understand how much work it is to make it right and running with everything. Yes the crisis brough a lot of nasty things for us. I cant visit these Gatecons either way to expensive.I'm glad Richard Dean Anderson was on Gatecon last year, and I'm glad he had such a blast he will do it again. Hopefuly in 2010 he will be there again. But I read in the article dated Januari 26th '09 about Daniel may appears in Universe premiere. He also told something about the starting date when they gonna film the 3rd Stagate movie with a more Jack 'O neill in it.
here's a quote of that artice.
Shanks also offered an update on the status of the third direct-to-DVD movie for the SG-1 team, and confirmed his involvement in the project. That film is likely to film this summer alongside the first Atlantis movie
So if they start filming this summer it maby to short to have another Gatecon because there all filming movies.
And there for 2010 is a much better time and they have teir 10th anniversary show as well.
Maby this is also one of the reason for no Gatecon 2009. But I'm looking forward to 2010.
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For accountants, change is coming; there's no escaping it. The government's PTA rollout and cloud accounting eclipsing traditional accounting will force accountants to re-evaluate the service they offer. According to Nelson Da Silva, Receipt Bank's UK country manager, if practitioners want to build a sustainable practice, "the time to do something is now".
The positive effects of change emerged as a theme at the 'Future Proof your practice' session at last September's Practice Excellence Conference, where Da Silva hosted a panel which included Karen Reyburn, Rachel Carr, and Practice Excellence winner Sharon Pocock.
Reflecting back on the session, Da Silva warned practitioners still in denial about how the profession has changed. He said: "In every other industry, those who hesitate close up and go".
To avoid certain closure, Da Silva advises practitioners to be "purposeful" if they want to survive the change. "Sitting around waiting isn't the solution," said Da Silva.
Da Silva offered some sobering words for practitioners still burying their heads in the sand. He said: "The sooner you can accept change and embrace the positives, the sooner you can have purpose in building your business that has a future. This is the only way you can look at it."
The session's panellist Rachel Carr, Business Checkmate's director, echoed this sentiment. Rather than approaching the uncertain future with fear, Carr believes accountants should stride forward and grasp the opportunity by wielding positive change. She told AccountingWEB: "As growth entrepreneurs we need to get comfortable with the concept of being uncomfortable and by this I mean, be fearless in our pursuit of business excellence and tenacious in our desire to step outside of our comfort zone."
One way practitioners can create instant change and build for the future is by focusing on their clients. "It's all about the client and the type of experience you can offer, and how you can shape that using everything you have got to hand," said Da Silva.
Challenge the status quo
Carr also proposed that by bringing your personality to the fore, you can be your own agent of change: "There is no better time to challenge the status quo than right now; in business terms this means we need to keep adapting and striving to differentiate ourselves. Being brilliantly unique has to be both a survival skill and a success skill for all businesses in 2016."
Continuing on this theme, Carr said in the words of Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead: "We do not merely want to be the best of the best; we want to be the only ones who do what we do."
Practice Excellence attendees learned many more lessons during Receipt Bank's session and were receptive about embracing change, which suggests many accountants are building for the future. "As Sharon Pocock was talking, and Rachel and Karen, you could see a lot of heads nodding," recalled Da Silva.
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It is the time of year again for Crusade For Children roadblocks in the county. It is, however, with great regret and heavy hearts that the Milton Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department will not be doing a roadblock this year.
Our members enjoy doing this detail every year, so this was a very difficult decision for them. But, with work ongoing on the Milton-Madison Bridge and traffic flow uncertain because of that, our main concern must be with the safety of our firefighters and the traveling public.
I want to thank the people of Trimble County for electing me as your new Circuit Court clerk. I am humbled and honored to have your support and trust. I am looking forward to the new duties and responsibilities I will face when I take office in January, and I will be working hard in my new position to make you proud.
I wish to let everyone know that the Bedford Cemetery policy states that NO flowers or other items can be placed on the ground during the mowing season from April 1 to October 1.
Please DO NOT decorate the Bedford Cemetery for Memorial Day until Wednesday afternoon, May 23. This will give the mowers time to mow and weed-eat. It is hard to mow around things on the ground.
What do you look for in a candidate for a public office? I look for a variety of things.
I as a citizen of Trimble County, Ky., object to the issuance of a modification of permit LRL 2008-600. This objection deals with the waste soil part of the permit.
The proposed lake site to be filled with waste soil is adjacent to Trimble County Water District wells that supply drinking water to Trimble County, Ky.
All citizens of Trimble County should be concerned about outside companies trying to use our town as a dump site for garbage, coal ash, sludge, and anything else! As a citizen of Trimble County, Ky., I object to the issuance of permit LRL-2008-600. Filling Liter's Quarry, located at Wise's Landing in Trimble County, with sludge from the Louisville Water Company presents many significant concerns.
Among these concerns are:
A note to the people of Trimble County: My name is Billie Jo Jones. Some of you may remember me. I served the people of Trimble County as Family Court Deputy Clerk for seven years and very much enjoyed my job.
I had the pleasure of working with Stacy Bruner. I am encouraging all voters to get out and vote on May 22, 2012 for Stacy Bruner as our new Trimble County Circuit Clerk. She is experienced. Stacy served as Deputy and then Chief Deputy in the Circuit Clerk's Office. She knows the job and what it takes to do it right.
On behalf of Trimble County Project Prom I would like to thank those who donated to us. Whether it was through a donation of money, items or time we appreciate all that was given to make this event such a success.
I would especially like to thank the Project Prom Committee and the dedication they have brought to this committee. Many were new to this committee this year and they were fantastic workers. Without a committee this event would not be possible.
On April 14th, Bob's Bunch Battling ALS held a fundraiser at the Morgan Community Center. The benefit was a huge success raising $15,545. The money raised will be used for research to find a cure and patient services.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Arkema Carrollton Plant and its employees for their support for my family. I was employed at this company for more than 25 years before I left to work home health full time. My brother-in-law was diagnosed with ALS three years ago and my family has been very active in fundraising for this non-profit organization to search for a cure, buy equipment and provide support for people affected by this terrible disease.
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There are very few foods in this world that I truly hate, but one of them is grape jelly. I think it's fake-tasting, too sweet, and lacking in any true grape flavor. I cringe when my toast comes with those little purple packets at restaurants, and I prefer my peanut butter sandwiches with strawberry jam. And yet, the concord grapes looked so beautiful (so autumnal!) at the farmers' market this week I just couldn't resist buying bunch upon bunch.
Guess what? Homemade concord grape jam tastes nothing like the sticky-sweet supermarket kind. It has a deep, concentrated grape flavor, and is equally tart and sweet. As it was bubbling away on the stove, I couldn't help dipping my spoon into the pot again and again just to taste. This from a woman who once wrote off a brunch spot with perfectly poached eggs because they only stocked grape jelly.
Since grapes naturally have a lot of pectin, it's not necessary to add any to this recipe. Just make sure you cook your jam to the gel stage and it should set nicely. Don't be intimidated by having to separate the grape skins from the pulp. It's actually quite simple. Just pinch the grape between two fingers and it should pop right out.
A jar of this jam would make an excellent fall harvest-inspired gift. Try it sandwiched between peanut butter cookies or swirled into banana bread batter.
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I had a very short, very simple page called Ideal Hardware Store. It was not a long article, but it got very good responses from those I showed it to. The article was tagged as NRV, and I was informed by the NRV policy that I had a week to update it before it would be reviewed for deletion. I was fully intending to update it and make it into a full length article. However, three days later, without any warning, Olipro deleted it. I posted a message on Olipro's talk page politely asking him what the fuck he was doing, and have been patiently waiting for a response. It has now been six days and I have heard nothing. Olipro seems to have disappeared. This is extraordinarilly annoying. I want my article back, damnit! TV4Fun 15:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
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OTTAWA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Canadian Industry Minister Christian Paradis on Monday acknowledged the possibility of extending the Dec. 10 deadline for deciding on CNOOC Ltd's bid for Nexen Inc but said he was not trying to send a signal on the deal.
Paradis repeatedly told reporters he would not speculate on the timing of his decision on whether to approve the Chinese company's offer, or a bid by Malaysia's Petronas for Progress Energy Resources Corp.
But when a journalist pointed out the Dec. 10 deadline for deciding on the CNOOC offer, Paradis said: "This is a deadline that could be extended, but once again, I won't speculate and ... I don't want to send a signal. When the decisions are made and are ready to be announced, this will be done. Don't interpret anything from what I'm saying here."


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Let's see... I'm open-minded, easy-going, joke-loving, shy, smart, and probably a few less appealing adjectives but I'll omit them from this list. I'm supposed to make myself look good here ^_^
Not a party animal, I prefer hanging out with friends, taking a trip somewhere, go for a walk or cuddle with my significant other over smoke-filled party rooms (No matter how cheap the alcohol is). Well there's hardly any places that let you smoke indoors, but let me ask you this, does the smell of sweaty partygoers make it better? I think not...
Guess I should add a bit to this... further descriptions are in order maybe, although it's better if you come and talk to me. I'm a bit of an anime fan, movies are also a big part of my life. My culinary preference goes to japanese food although asian food in general has my vote. I like to cook as much as I like videogames and spend quite a bit of time on the net, partly because of work (I wuz a webmaster for my school, and now work as a Biotech Engineer for EPFL) and partly because I like to know what the latest gizmo or piece of design furniture around is or if Chuck Norris came back to life by roundhouse kicking the Creator.
Recently, I've acquired a fondness for cocktails. But not that sweet syrupy stuff they serve you nowadays, the old-school ones, before they chopped half the ingredients off and doubled the sugar. For example did you know that the Singapore Sling - A nicer refreshment than, say, the everywhere-present Mojito - was cut short of 3 ingredients over the course of its life? The new one tastes of cheap fruit juice laced with lab ethanol but the previous one, oh, the previous one, so interesting and full!
I love irony and sarcasm, but I'm still usually quite a nice person... no really, I swear... sometimes...
Hope to find some interesting people I can talk to, make friends and even maybe meet them in real life (Audible gasp, what a concept!)
Soy un Suizo quien vivió en Venezuela y a ahora de vuelta a Suiza (Bueno, ya van 10 años pero bueno...).
Cuidense todos!
Je suis un ingénieur en biotechnologie à l'EPFL à Lausanne. Je cherche à faire des nouvelles rencontres et des sorties!
Un petit intello doux attentionné, voire même chiant, avec de la conversation et une myriade de défauts aussi normaux que drôles, alors laissez-moi un message.
Au plaisir!
I am hopelessly romantic, geeky, and rather shy
I worked on the characterization of an artificial gene expression control system based on Acetaldehyde (It's a gas, in case you were wondering). And as any Masters Project, I couldn't get it to work even if my life had depended on it... Though that didn't matter. We didn't get quite along with my supervisor and I ended up getting kicked out of the lab.
As faith would have it, I then worked in a Proteomics Core Facility (Where they study proteins, you should open Wikipedia if you feel a bit lost, nowadays scientific studies have too many buzz words anyway) and helped develop a protocol for sample preparation for mass spectrometry analyses (Wherein we shoot tiny amounts of ionized protein into a big arse electric and magnetic field and see how long it takes for them to splatter onto a detector, now who says science is boring).
After that proved to the people in charge that it wasn't my incompetence, I found an amazing professor who took me into the field of Systems Biology (Where you model the f*** out of biological processes in-silico - Yay! More buzzwords -), a field I had never even studied!
"You work on an exploratory project for me so that 1. My PhD students don't waste time on it if it's not worth it and 2. I give you your Masters" A great philosophy. Turns out the project was well worth it and earned my masters a Prize and everything. For the technically inclined, it involved a Monte-Carlo simulation using a modified version of Gillespie's Algorithm to evaluate the effect of queueing of ribosomes on the rate of protein translation. If for some obscure reason you want to know more about it, feel free to ask, though we should probably discuss movies or something like that on a website like this...
And after that I found a job as a Software Developer and consultant in image processing and light microscopy. Been there for about 2 years now and still enjoying it very much. Though the pay will certainly make me want to go elsewhere soon enough!
Accommodations-wise, I'm living with my significant other in an awesome flat in downtown Lausanne. Before that, I used to live in a flat with two guys (harr..harr, no there was nothing kinky going on... although it would have been nice *_*), then with two girls, then with two guys again (Still nothing kinky).
I'm also caring for a cat, my cat (Well, technically the BF cares for the little monster too). Lady Leilani Kahlua von Lausanne. We got her about 4 years ago with my two first guy flatmates. Not exactly one of the finest examples of feline stamina but awfully cute and friendly. Bit of a whore if you ask me, but the cute kind...
Oh and I'm currently playing Supreme Commander, Assassin's Creed 1,2,3, whatever umber they're at, Mass Effect, Batman, Arkham Everything and watching not nearly enough anime and TV Series in general...
Also, I find that I have reached a point in my life where I have accumulated enough knowledge that I can rationalize my way out of almost anything that I do. I do this, of course, to make people laugh.
Also I have a knack for misunderstanding what people are saying (( "Can you get me a glass of water?" can become "Could you lend me a classic quarter?")) Friends call it the "Panda interpretations", and I like it!
They also notice that I'm way much cuter with very short hair or a cap on, this is probably from the receding hairline (Daaaaaamn you, genetics!)
I'm also building up a sense of fashion (t-shirt and jeans worked well for 13 years, now I want to try something more... recherché :-P)
Also, about two minutes into a conversation, their Geek Alarms go off. Some run, some hide. The bravest stand their ground and those become good friends ^^
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Song Of Fire and Ice
The Selfish Gene
Voodoo Science
Why We Get Sick
The 5th Element
La Cité de la Peur
Good Night and Good Luck
The Emperor's New Groove
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Garden State ::swoons:: Zach Braff I love
The Devil Wears Prada
Ghost in the Shell
I'm a Cyborg But That's OK
Anything by Miyazaki or Steve Odekerk
Battlestar Galactica
House, M.D.
3rd Rock from the Sun
How I Met Your Mother
Firefly "Take my love, take my land..."
Dead Like Me
Pushing Daisies
*Music*: Pretty much anything *except* rap or hip-hop
*Food*: Sushiiiiii ^_^ Indian food, Chinese food. I also like to cook
Kino's Travels
Last Exile
Full Metal Alchemist
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Many more than I'm willing to bother you with ^^
Exams (Not really, I don't have exams anymore but I get awakened at least once a year from a nightmare where I didn't study enough for an exam I had forgotten about... Geez brain, that happened once, let it go!),
General daydreaming too (Like Pinky in (duh) Pinky and the Brain)
... and sex ¬//¬
Usually I have this '6 months rule' where something I suggest or do seems like a bad idea or uninteresting to other people. After 6 months (average statistic with 95% confidence), they will realize my idea was actually good and go with it.
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Wednesday, 24 April, 2002, 16:03 GMT 17:03 UK
NHS negligence: Reducing the bill
If the government wasn't already planning to tackle the financial impact of clinical negligence on the NHS it will certainly have to now.
The cost of compensating patients and their families for medical errors and mistakes is spiralling rapidly.
In 1998, the estimated cost of settling claims was a sizeable Ł2.3bn. However, the latest figures show that by April 2001 that figure had increased to a very substantial Ł4.4bn - representing 8% of the total NHS budget.
A more litigious society combined with record pay outs by courts are being blamed for the relentless rise.
Slow progress
The government has pledged to tackle the problem. However, progress has been slow.
The Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Sir Liam Donaldson is carrying out a review of the current system.
He is expected to outline an alternative method for dealing with cases and compensating patients and their families in a White Paper later this year.
Sir Liam is understood to be considering a number of schemes aimed at capping the annual cost of clinical negligence cases.
These could include a 'no-fault' compensation scheme or a fixed fees system under which claimants would be paid a set amount for errors or mistakes.
However, there are fears that these alternatives rather than capping costs could actually lead to an even higher annual bill for the health service.
Dr Francis Szekely, senior medical claims handler at the Medical Defence Union, which insures doctors against medical malpractice claims, said no-fault schemes in New Zealand and Finland had proved expensive.
"The problem is that people generally think that 'no-fault' schemes are a panacea for many of the current problems. They are not.
"When you get down to the nuts and bolts, it is immensely tricky."
There are also fears that 'no-fault' schemes can encourage patients and their families to sue.
"Patients almost expect a pay-out if anything goes wrong," said Dr Szekely.
High legal costs
One of the key areas Sir Liam and colleagues are examining is reducing the legal costs associated with compensation claims.
A report by the National Audit Office published in 2001 found that cases can drag on for years - five and a half years on average - significantly adding to the final bill.
In fact, the NAO report found that in 44% of cases the final legal bill was substantially higher than the final compensation award paid to patients or their families.
Key to reducing these costs is making the process faster. Sir Liam is also looking at ways of ensuring patients are not forced to take legal action in order to get an adequate response or apology from the NHS.
Steve Dewar, of independent health think-tank The Kings Fund, believes that a quick response can stop patients from seeking legal redress.
"If people believe that things will go on as they are and if they do not get the response they feel they deserve then they will decide to take a case against the NHS.
"We believe that if the NHS could get better at handling complaints and dealing with complaints more swiftly this would go a long way."
Improved response
The Kings Fund wants the health service as a whole to improve the way it deals with complaints.
The current process is complex with different organisations dealing with different types of complaints. There is also limited co-operation between the various bodies, such as the General Medical Council, Health Ombudsman and NHS.
The Kings Fund believes a 'clearing house' should be established to decide which organisation handles which complaints.
"We think the health service could deal with complaints much more effectively," said Mr Dewar.
"For example, the GMC receives thousands of complaints about doctors. However, between 70% and 80% are sent back because they do not fall under the GMC's remit.
"Instead of this, we believe that the complaint should be forwarded on to the relevant body and in that way patients might feel that their complaint is being handled properly."
The Department of Health is acutely aware of the shortcomings of the current system.
A spokesman has acknowledged that fundamental reform is needed.
He said: "The current system is slow and bureaucratic and doesn't work for either patients or for NHS staff.
"We need a faster and better system, not only to reduce costs, but to make sure the risk of mistakes happening again is minimised."
It is hardly surprising then that the government's White Paper is eagerly awaited.
There is a strong determination within government that the extra billions being spent on the NHS over the coming years are put to best use.
Clearly, paying high legal bills and avoidable compensation do not fall in this category.
See also:
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Q&A: The NHS clinical negligence bill
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Guilt-ridden after bungling an emergency call six months earlier, 911 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) resolves to never fail a caller again. It's a determination that's soon tested when the murderer strikes again.
In a 911 response centre in Los Angeles, Halle Berry is a seasoned operator haunted by the one life she failed to save — a teenager killed by a generic movie psycho six months earlier. When she improbably crosses paths with the murderer again in an identical situation, the well-worn road to redemption stretches predictably out before us. Loaded with dim-witted developments, The Call is derivative, formulaic tosh that could easily have been written for Sandra Bullock in the mid-'90s. By the time the cliché-packed final act rolls round, you'll wish you'd hung up ages ago.
The kind of clichéd nonsense so common in the mid-'90s, it's a throwback - and not necessarily in a good way.


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Do Polls Create Momentum in Political Campaigns?
We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby increases her lead in expectation: polls create momentum. When campaigning is very effective and the race is very close, a second type of equilibrium may exist: the trailing candidate outspends and overtakes his opponent. Regardless of the type of equilibrium, polls have a tendency to decrease expected total campaigning expenditures by amplifying ex-ante asymmetries between candidates and thus defusing competition. When candidates care also for their vote share in addition to having the majority, candidates' incentives crucially depend on the distribution of voters' candidate preferences.
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Shabbaz Palaces,
Black Up
Sub Pop
Hip Hop and EDM (electronic dance music) have undergone serious transformations in the last few years (especially the last five or so). As the result they've been overly classified, thereby overly fragmented. It's in our nature to try and label things (in this case I'm referring to art) so that we may more easily explain them; pigeon-hole them, and create identifications. Sometimes I feel these actions only detract from the mysticism in the creative process itself; that things simply are what they are. Nonetheless, we end up with countless genres and sub-genres (house, tech-house, electro-house, dub-step, hip hop, rap, gangsta rap, East and West Coast rap, etc.). Unfortunately, this can happen to any genre that continues to evolve. As artists strive to find new sonic territory, armed with new beats, melodies and rhythms to juxtapose (not to mention new technology, which opens doors never seen or heard before) different voices emerge as the result of this exploration. It's the artists that do not concern themselves with the various labels and fragmentations that tend to stand out. Shabbaz Palaces new album: Black Up is a perfect example of the exploratory spirit that makes hip hop so exciting to listen to and also difficult to quantify.
I guess, in a way, I have also been trying to quantify the sounds of Shabbaz Palaces. It is my job here after all: To try and paint a literary picture of this music that has found a special place in my heart over the last couple of weeks. This time it's been difficult, and I think perhaps that is a compliment. I've been more concerned with listening than classifying. I find this record perfect for the car and for at-home listening. Their beats are twisted, the basslines slamming, and the production feels refreshingly new and provocative. This provides the perfect sonic backdrop for Ishmael Butler's smooth lyrical flow. His words are like butter. Those familiar with Digable Planets (his former band) will understand this characteristic—it was the musical staple that helped raise the awareness of their name so fast many years ago (as well as numerous licensing deals, resulting in spots that sliced and diced their music into unfortunate commercial fodder). Black Up sounds like an answer to that perhaps unwanted transition from underground hip hop band to commercial foghorn. Synth pads float next to grimy beats and plush choruses (a word used perfectly in the lyrics of the album—so I thought I'd steal it for this review).
This music just feels like now, and that may sound like a silly Zen Buddhist cop-out, but it is the first thing that comes to mind when I'm listening to this record. It's like a jolting collision of James Blake, Odd Future, and classic Boogie Down Productions and the native tongue movement of the 90's. I've stated this elsewhere (I believe on Audioevo.org) but I think it describes their vibe so well I cannot come up with something to supersede it, and so I am going to repeat myself for the sake of trying to describe this mesmerizing musical effort: This is hip hop for the disenfranchised.
There is always a point in every style of music where the envelope is not only pushed, but tore wide open. Shabbaz Palaces, to my ears, have done so on Black Up. If you are into hip hop culture (and it's not merely a genre—it's a way of life, those who live it understand) you need to check this album out, and do it soon.


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Law in its Own Right
By Stuart Toddington, Henrik Palmer Olsen
What, precisely, is the relationship between legality and morality? Does legal validity rest upon moral validity? Are legal obligations moral obligations? For some years now schools of jurisprudential Naturalism and Positivism have become increasingly ambiguous in their responses to these questions. Olsen and Toddington argue that equivocation on the central issue here - that of obligation - has brought legal theory to the point where leading legal positivists and natural lawyers no longer retain significant differences. Instead, they allege, we are left with the remnants of what has always been, philosophically, a phony war.
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Federal appeals court asked to uphold anti-soring regulations
The Humane Society of the United States has formally flagged its support for new anti-soring regulations introduced by the US Department of Agriculture, which are being challenged through the courts.
The challenge prompted the society to file a friend-of-the-court brief.
It is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold the regulations, which require uniform mandatory minimum penalties for violations of the Horse Protection Act.
The district court in Texas previously ruled against the plaintiffs and upheld the regulations.
The Horse Protection Act prohibits the showing and transporting of horses who have been "sored" – an illegal practice involving the application of caustic chemicals and the use of other painful training methods to force horses to perform an artificially high-stepping gait for show competitions.
Horse industry organizations are the industry's self-policing groups that operate alongside the USDA to conduct inspections at Tennessee walking horse competitions.
The USDA finalized the uniform penalties regulations in 2012 and were met with a lawsuit from a horse industry organization, SHOW Inc, and two participants in horse shows.
The appellants in the current appeal include the individual horse-show participants but not SHOW. Their arguments have already been rejected by the district court.


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Religious orders in Australia weighed in today on the ouster of Bishop William Morris, expressing their members' distress at the loss of a pastor who had a deep connection with his people and asking pointed questions about the process that led to the pope's decision to force him to retire.
The assessment -- which came in a letter signed by Josephite Sr. Ann Derwin, president of Catholic Religious Australia, and sent to the country's apostolic nuncio -- says that members of religious orders, many of whom work in Morris' diocese of Toowoomba "are especially distressed at the loss of their pastor, a man they believe to be solicitous of all Christ's faithful entrusted to his care -- especially the needy and marginalized."
"They and the people with whom they minister are left with an abiding sense of disempowerment and confusion," the letter continues.
CRA is the public name for the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes. Its membership is representative of more than 180 congregations of sisters, brothers and priests living and working throughout Australia.
The organization's executive group -- consisting of Derwin, Divine Word Missionary Fr. Tim Norton and Mercy Sr. Marie Duffy -- says in a separate letter to Australian religious congregation leaders that they were present throughout a week-long meeting of the Australian bishops as they "grappled with their response to the situation."
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That meeting saw the bishops produce a letter yesterday to Toowoomba's apostolic administrator, Bishop Brian Finnigan, in which they said they would continue "discussion of the process and the decision which it produced" during their ad limina visit to Rome later this year. Bishops are required to make the visits every five years to report on the state of the church in their regions.
In the letter to the nuncio, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, Derwin writes that she is advancing three questions that are being asked as a result of conversation with religious throughout the church in Australia:
First: "How can all in our church be heard and empowered by our ecclesiastical leaders and processes when private and confidential opinions are given such importance?"
The question refers to the confidential report done by Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, who conducted an apostolic visitation and submitted a written report to Rome that has never been made public. Morris has said he thinks the document should be made public and that the people in Toowoomba deserve to know what judgment was made about their diocese.
Derwin notes that letters of pastoral support for Morris have been sent to Rome by all pastoral leaders and members of the Toowoomba Diocesan Pastoral Council and by the majority of the priests of the diocese.
"We wonder how the words of this group were heard in this process," she writes.
Second: "How is the decreasing availability of the Eucharist, 'the source and summit of our lives,' to be addressed into the future?"
Because of the size of the diocese of Toowoomba, and its rural nature, the sacraments are available to some only on a monthly basis, Derwin said -- adding that the situation will only get worse as the number of priests continues to decline.
"Bishop Morris, aware of this situation, suggested the need for conversation. What is the message of our church in these difficult circumstances?" she asked.
Third: "What do we say to the people who have lost an inspirational shepherd and pastor at a time that the people most need him?"
Derwin recounted that Morris -- whom she described as "vigorous in promoting prayer and ecumenical dialogue" and "tireless" in pressing for professional standards in ministry -- was particularly active in accompanying rural Australians who in recent years suffered through the effects of drought and "dramatic floods that have taken a high toll in lives and property."
She said the Australia, where many are leaving the church, needed bishops "who are first and foremost pastors" in order to bring people back to the church.
A third letter, similar in content to the one addressed for Lazzarotto, was sent to Archbishop Philip Wilson, president of the Australian bishops' conference, with the hope that the questions outlined would be carried to Rome during the ad limina visit.
Copies of the letters mentioned in this report are here:
- Letter to Australia's religious congregation leaders
- Letter to Archbishop Wilson
- Letter to Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto
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12 Stars You Need to Know in 2012
Each new year produces a handful of it-girls and men of the moment, and we here at Hollywood.com like to get ahead of the game by letting you, our loyal readers, know who's going to be a big deal. 2012 sees a gaggle of films big and small hit theaters, and with them an army of actors working hard to make the most of their packed schedules. Some are big-screen veterans, others are relatively new to showbiz, but all of them are must-know names.
*This list was compiled based on the amount of films/projects each actor is a part of that will release in 2012, factoring in the size of the film(s) and their overall celebrity status.
Cooper had a hell of a 2011, with The Hangover Part II and Limitless proving him a major box office draw and those dreamy eyes helping him join the ranks of People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. So what does the New Year have in store for him? No less than four films: David O. Russell's new comedy The Silver Linings Playbook, in which he works with an eclectic ensemble including Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles and more, the action-comedy Outrun, the dramatic thriller The Words (which co-stars Olivia Wilde and his new girlfriend Zoe Saldana) and The Place Beyond the Pines, the new film from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance. All the while he'll be shooting Paradise Lost, an epic FX-driven actioner from I, Robot director Alex Proyas.
This Aussie became the superhero-du-jour thanks to his breakout role as the God of Thunder in Marvel's Thor earlier in 2011, and he's capitalizing on his newfound fame in a big way. He'll reprise the part in May's The Avengers, and has one-of-two titular roles in one-of-two anticipated Snow White adaptations (Snow White and the Huntsman) in June. Additionally, a pair of pictures he shot long ago will finally hit theaters – first the horror-thriller Cabin in the Woods, followed by the remake of cult favorite Red Dawn. Add in Ron Howard's Rush, which he'll begin shooting this January for an early 2013/late 2012 awards run and you're looking at one of the most exciting careers to follow!
Tatum made our list last year thanks to a packed schedule including The Dilemma, The Eagle, The Son of No One and more, and 2012 is just as busy for the young A-lister. In January, Steven Soderbergh's Haywire will finally hit multiplexes (in which he has a bit part) and we could see his ensemble drama Ten Year go wide at some point, but even if it doesn't he's got plenty of major motion pictures to promote. First will be the romantic drama The Vow opposite Rachel McAdams, followed soon after by Sony's 21 Jump Street reboot. On June 29th, he'll release a pair of very different movies – Paramount's G.I. Joe: Retaliation and his second collaboration with Soderbergh, the male strip flick Magic Mike. But the best is yet to come, as he'll star in Moneyball director Bennett Miller's new drama Foxcatcher opposite Steve Carell, due in 2013.
As stated in the introduction, this list is about both seasoned cinematic figures and rising stars, and was there anyone who had a more impressive year than newcomer Ms. Chastain? I think not. With films as wide ranging as Texas Killing Fields, The Debt, The Help and The Tree of Life (among others) she solidified herself as a dramatic force to be reckoned with in 2011, and the future is bright for the 30-year-old starlet. She'll reunite with director Terrence Malick for his new, untitled romantic drama and also has a role in John Hillcoat's anticipated prohibition thriller Wettest County opposite Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. Additionally, she'll star in a horror flick called Mama and a star-studded drama titled Tar with James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and more.
Here's an example of a longtime film hero hitting it hard in 2012. While this isn't the first fiscal year in which Willis has released multiple movies, it's without question the busiest frame in his career. He's slated to appear or star in no less than seven films, including big-budget blockbusters like G.I. Joe Retaliation and The Expendables 2, smaller action-thrillers Looper and The Cold Light of Day and more artful projects like Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and Stephen Frears' Lay the Favorite. He'll also turn up in the 50 Cent-produced thriller Fire with Fire and will shoot the highly-anticipated A Good Day to Die Hard and videogame adaptation Kane & Lynch throughout 2012. Not bad for an elder statesmen.
Though he's best known as a modern TV icon thanks to his Emmy-winning role in AMC's Breaking Bad, Cranston has been incredibly prolific on the big-screen in recent years. He appeared in six films in 2011, including Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, Contagion and Larry Crowne, and has five major productions on the horizon in 2012. In January he'll play an authoritative figure in Lucasfilm's long-gestating wartime action flick Red Tails, followed by a turn in Disney's mega-budgeted John Carter. He's also got a part in Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages adaptation and a villainous role in Sony's Total Recall remake, and is currently filming Ben Affleck's CIA drama Argo, set to hit theaters in September.
The former High School Musical star has been trying to establish himself as more than just a pretty face for some time, and 2012 could be a pivotal year in his career. He dabbles in commercial and independent fare next year, with starring roles in Universal's Dr. Seuss adaptation The Lorax and Warner Bros.' Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One as well as parts in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts. He's also going to appear in an untitled ensemble drama alongside Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham and Clancy Brown.
We've had to wait until 2012 to finally see Baldwin's return to TV, and, lucky us – we'll also be treated to about five film roles from the beloved entertainer. He's got parts in all kinds of movies, from indie comedy AmeriQua to indie drama Lucky Them, and even big studio flicks like Rock of Ages and DreamWorks Animation's CGI spectacle Rise of the Guardians. But his most interesting project in unquestionably Nero Fiddled, Woody Allen's new Rome-set romp, which will likely premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Biel is best known as a maker of mainstream movies (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The A-Team, Valentine's Day), but 2012 will see her release a diverse slate of films. She's got one of two female lead roles in summer actioner Total Recall, and will play a pivotal part in Gabriele Muccino's new dramedy Playing the Field. In addition, she's got a horror thriller titled The Tall Man in the can, and is preparing to film a pair of pictures that could screen next year – The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes. With any luck, we could also see the long-delayed David O. Russell political rom-com Nailed (in which she plays the female lead) release, but I'm sadly not holding my breath. And if she ends up wedding Justin Timberlake (as engagement rumors started swirling around the web earlier this month), it's going to be a landmark year for the former 7th Heaven star.
This young talent has been on the rise for awhile, and with a resume that includes work with Robert Zemeckis, Jon Favreau, Paul Weitz and Lisa Cholodenko it's a wonder he hasn't been propelled to the spotlight sooner. In 2012 he has five films to release, and by the time the year is over he'll likely be a household name. First he reprises his role from 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, then appears in an anthology film that sports a directing roster including Benicio del Toro and Gaspar Noe. March sees him starring in one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year – The Hunger Games – while he'll then appear in the art-house drama Carmel opposite Alfred Molina and Hayden Panettiere. Finally, he'll star in MGM's Red Dawn remake in November, and by that point he'll probably have already cornered several major films for his future.
When is Franco NOT one of the busiest entertainers in showbiz? The Oscar-nominated actor and noted workaholic has been laboring at ludicrous speeds as of late, and his 2012 schedule is packed with somewhere between five and seven films that you'll probably never see including drama Maladies (with Catherine Keener and David Strathairn), thriller The Stare (opposite Winona Ryder), the fore mentioned ensemble drama Tar, the Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace and another porn-centric drama called Cherry. All the while he'll be shooting a documentary and filming projects for release in 2013. The man is a machine.
Finally, here's yet another example of career resurgence. Goodman's been working incredibly hard over the past few years and has been a part of some of the most acclaimed pictures of 2011 – Kevin Smith's Red State and awards' hopefuls The Artist and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Next year, however, is a whole other animal, as he appears in five movies including indie dramedy Thicker, dark comedy Spring Break '83, Focus Features animated fantasy ParaNorman, and a pair of important dramas from Ben Affleck (Argo) and Robert Zemeckis (Flight). In between pushing those pics, he'll be shooting the Coen Bros. new flick Inside Llewyn Davis and Pixar's anticipated prequel Monsters University. Walter Sobchak is back in the building people.


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Confirming news of the nuptials, a representative for 'The View' adds that the talk show co-host will talk about her wedding to Steve Janowitz on the September 6 episode.
Joy Behar has finally tied the knot with her boyfriend of 29 years. The co-host of ABC's "The View" exchanged wedding vows with Steve Janowitz in a private ceremony in New York City on Thursday night, August 11, a spokesperson for the show confirmed to PEOPLE.
The representative didn't provide further details on the nuptials, but did note that Joy will talk about it on her daytime talk show. "She will discuss it on Sept. 6 on The View when the show returns for the 15th season," so said the rep. The 68-year-old is currently on her honeymoon with new husband Steve.
Joy and Steve have been together since the early 1980s. The host of "The Joy Behar Show" announced her engagement to the man she referred to as her "spousal equivalent" in 2009, before calling it off later that year. "Actually, I got cold feet again, so I don't know what I'm going to do," she admitted at the time.
The "Hall Pass" actress isn't the only host of "The View" getting married this week. Her co-host Sherri Shepherd will walk down the aisle to wed television writer Lamar Sally on Saturday, August 13 in Chicago. Style Network will document the moment for the "Wedding Fabulous: Sherri Shepherd Gets Married" special, which will air at 9 P.M.on September 13.