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I have had difficulties with the since it was published in 2004. The bishops were worried, understandably and appropriately, that the specter of prominent Catholics in public and political life dismissing the Church's commitment to human life, or paying lip service to that commitment while actively abetting its demise, might suggest that the Church's teaching in this regard was somehow optional. It is not. But, the core of our Catholic identity is doctrinal, not moral, a belief in the Trinity not a belief in the need to get one more conservative justice on the Supreme Court. Our morals are linked, bound, especially in the case of abortion, to our doctrines: Only in the light of Christ does the mystery of human kind become enlightened (cf. Gaudium et Spes 22), and in that light, we see that every person counts and that abortion is thus not merely a crime against a person but an insult to the Creator.
The key, controversial stipulation of "Catholics in Political Life" as it applies to the commencement wars is this: "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." Now, as is often the case, some on the left unfortunately accepted at face value the interpretation of these words offered by those on the right, feeding the narrative that an ascendant rightwing faction was taking over the Church. But, the words are more careful than some on the right suggest. I would submit that the qualifying phrase "which would suggest support for their actions" is more of a hurdle to the advocates of censorship than they would like to admit. In what way does having on campus someone who disagrees with the Church necessarily connote "support" for their views?
I would also point out that these sentences, no matter how frequently cited, applied not at all to the appearance of President Barack Obama at Notre Dame in 2009: The document is entitled "Catholics in Political Life" not "U.C.C. members in Political Life." I do think there is a difference, and an important one, in recognizing and honoring those who are not Catholics from those who are. The latter are a counter-sign to Catholic identity in a way that a non-Catholic can't be.
But, what I fail to see is how the document does not necessarily feed the idea that religion can be reduced to ethics, which is the first step towards secularization of culture. I do not see how we can say that it is fine to have a Baptist who denies the Real Presence at commencement but not a Methodist who supports abortion rights. Nor do I think we can draw neat lines of causality from people's public actions to their motivations. I know a gay couple that lived in accordance with the Church's teachings but nonetheless had to register for a civil partnership because one of them worked for the government and had great health care coverage and the other was self-employed and could not afford insurance.


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Johannesburg - The Public Protector's report on SABC acting chief operations officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng will be studied, the communications ministry said on Monday.
"We'll consider it and, if necessary, refer it to our lawyers as soon as we get it," spokesman Siyabulela Qoza said in a statement.
He said it was the SABC board which mainly needed to act on the Public Protector's findings, and the ministry would talk to the public broadcaster about it.
On Monday, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela criticised Motsoeneng and the SABC board over his irregular appointment and salary progression at the SABC.
Madonsela found former communications minister Dina Pule had interfered unduly in the SABC's affairs during her tenure.
"Her conduct amounts to abuse of power," Madonsela said.
She urged Communications Minister Yunus Carrim to take urgent steps to fill the "long outstanding vacant post of COO" with a suitably qualified permanent incumbent within 90 days.
She called on Carrim to establish why group chief executive officers at the SABC could not function, and left prematurely, causing financial and operational strains.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said earlier the public broadcaster would consider Madonsela's findings.
"We have just received the report today," he said in Johannesburg.
"The board needs to study the report, then we can communicate later what will happen because we only received it today like everyone else."
Madonsela found Motsoeneng irregularly and rapidly increased the salaries of various staff members, resulting in the state broadcaster footing an unprecedented salary bill escalation of R29 million.
"He unilaterally increased (the) salaries of Ms Motsweni, Ms Thobekile Khumalo, Mr Hannes du Buisson, and certain freelancers without following parts of the SABC personnel regulations," Madonsela said in the report.
Complaints against Motsoeneng were raised with Madonsela by former SABC staff Ä including former chief operations officer Charlotte Mampane and ex-SABC senior executive Phumelele Ntombela-Nzimande.
Motsoeneng was also investigated for fraudulently misrepresenting his qualifications to the SABC, including claiming that he had passed matric when he applied for employment.
Madonsela said allegations that Motsoeneng committed fraud by stating in his application form that he had completed matric at Metsimantsho High School in QwaQwa were substantiated. She said it was worrying that Motsoeneng's file disappeared at the SABC while he denied falsifying his qualifications.
Madonsela's report recommends that the SABC board institute corrective action against the "dishonest" Motsoeneng.
Du Buisson said he was offended by the allegation by Madonsela, as he had not worked for the SABC in the past 14 years.
"I am not employed by the SABC. I was employed there 14 years ago," he told Sapa.
"I am very offended by this statement by the Public Protector. That statement is tarnishing my reputation and name."
Du Buisson, who is president of the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union, said he had contacted Madonsela's office to demand an immediate correction. Madonsela's spokeswoman Kgalalelo Masibi could not be reached for comment.
The Democratic Alliance said the report confirmed that the SABC had been plagued by incompetence, corruption and cadre deployment for years, and called for Motsoeneng's immediate suspension.
"We call on Minister of Communications Mr Yunus Carrim, in his capacity as the shareholder's representative, to instruct the SABC board to immediately suspend Mr Motsoeneng and recruit, as soon as possible, suitably qualified and experienced group CEO and COO to head a crisis management team to stop the rot at the SABC," spokeswoman Marian Shinn said in a statement.
Motsoeneng should be removed from the premises and forbidden access to any SABC staff during the process of determining his possible permanent removal from the corporation, she said.
"He must also be forbidden to have contact with the SABC board, with whom he has an unhealthy close and protective relationship.
"Mr Motsoeneng has an extensive record as an unscrupulous character within the broadcaster's administration. Mr Motsoeneng used his political clout to collapse the last SABC board when it voted to remove him from the acting COO post. And it is unlikely that any of the current board would be serving if they were not indebted or in league with Mr Motsoeneng.
"The Public Protector's picture of Mr Motsoeneng's character and behaviour clearly shows that his continued presence at the corporation will continue to have a destructive effect on operations and personnel."
The Congress of the People called on the SABC board to fire Motsoeneng by the end of business on Monday.
"The Public Protector's finding that Mr Motsoeneng's misrepresentation of his qualifications is improper and constitutes a dishonest act must be acted upon immediately," spokesman Johann Abrie said in a statement.
"We urge the board to implement every single one of the recommendations without any delay and to restore integrity to the SABC."


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UBS has maintained a "sell" rating on
UBS analyst Dan Hurren says this development frees the company to broaden its strategy away from "premiumisation", where new or existing brands are positioned as premium or luxury in their category, as well as sell its problematic US business.
The search for a new chief executive will focus on those with deep wine industry experience who can develop solutions for the problematic commercial wine business, which appears to be declining faster than the premium segment can grow.
Hurren says UBS expects a restatement of earnings with scope for writedowns. Fiscal 2014 treatment of US discounts and rebates is likely to be addressed.
The now outgoing management would have found it difficult to support the sale of US assets, having made assurances that their operational turnaround was central to the future of the group, Hurren says.
A sale of the US assets could unlock an additional $340 million of value. However, it is not straightforward, given onerous supply contracts, a lack of willing buyers and weak brands.
TWE's earnings per share were 21¢ in 2012 and 2013, and are forecast to be 20¢ in 2014 and 19¢ in 2015.
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October 2, 2010 – New York Rangers 5 at Ottawa Senators 8 [Pre-Season Game: 6; Away Game: 3]
* The New York Rangers were defeated by the Ottawa Senators, 8-5, tonight at Scotiabank Place, to conclude their 2010-2011 pre-season schedule with a 4-2-0 record, including a 1-2-0 mark away from MSG.
* Todd White led the Rangers with two goals, registered a plus-two rating and won a team-high, eight face-offs in 16 attempts (50%). His second goal of the contest at 16:33 of the second period was the Rangers' third shorthanded tally of the pre-season, which ranks first in the NHL. White finished his pre-season campaign with four points (two goals and two assists) in four games.
* Ruslan Fedotenko tallied the only assist on White's second period shorthanded goal, and led the Rangers with a plus-three rating. Fedotenko was tied for sixth in the NHL in assists and ninth in points entering tonight's contest. He finished the pre-season ranked first on the team with six assists, seven points and a plus-five rating in five games.
* Rookie Derek Stepan extended his goal streak to three games with an even strength tally at 8:03 of the second period, assisted by goaltender Martin Biron (20 saves). Stepan finished the pre-season tied for first on the Rangers with three goals, and added two assists for five points in five games.
* Artem Anisimov recorded the Rangers' first goal of the game with an even strength tally at 11:23 of the first period, assisted by rookie Dale Weise who was recalled from Hartford (AHL) earlier today. Anisimov tied for first on the team with three goals in five pre-season games.
* Forward Mats Zuccarello notched his first goal as a Ranger at 6:13 of the third period following his recall from Hartford (AHL) earlier today. Zuccarello's goal was assisted by Tim Kennedy, who finished his pre-season campaign with two assists in four games.
* Brandon Dubinsky registered the primary assist on White's even strength goal at 3:11 of the second period, and led the team with five shots on goal. Matt Gilroy also assisted on White's first goal of the game, and finished the pre-season ranked second among team defensemen with three points (one goal and two assists) in five games.
* Forward Brandon Prust led all skaters with four hits in the contest, and logged 17:32 of ice time.
* The Rangers do not have practice scheduled for tomorrow, October 3. The Blueshirts next practice is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 4, at the MSG Training Center.
* New York will begin their 2010-2011 regular season schedule vs. the Buffalo Sabres, on Saturday, October 9 (7:00 p.m.), at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, marking the third consecutive season the Blueshirts will open the season on the road.


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Mother Jones Honors Disgraced Dan Rather
Just as the insistent MoveOn.org lobbying campaign for PBS tells you something about just whom PBS is pleasing, disgraced former CBS anchorman Dan Rather being sympathetically profiled for Mother Jones tells you that all Rather's patter about corporations ruining the integrity of the news has a ready audience on the hard left.
Mother Jones insisted "At 79, the former CBS anchorman is still kicking ass and winning Emmys." (Dan Rather Reports actually won a news Emmy in 2008, so someone is still trying to reassemble Rather's shredded reputation.) They also notice almost no one watches his HDNet show, but suggest that's a terrible shame. Freelance writer Jim Rendon recounted how Rather worked on a story about electronic voting machines, a favorite of the paranoid Janeane Garofalo left, that thinks both Gore and Kerry beat Bush:
The former CBS News anchorman is recounting a story he'd reported in 2007 about problems with electronic voting machines. "We found out that these wonderful, electronic, technological marvels were manufactured in what amounted to a sweatshop in the Philippines—the Philippines, exclamation point!" he says, in that ascending tone so familiar to generations of Americans.
That sounds a little insulting to Filipino-Americans, perhaps?
"The equipment wouldn't fit in its boxes, so the workers, two of them, had to put their feet on the thing and shove it into the box. They've got to get it in there, it's got to ship, and so they've got four feet in there pushing this thing." He lets out a laugh. "In some cases, the company's explanation of why ." these things are good fell into the category of 'If bullshit were music, these guys would be a full symphony orchestra.'"
That's rich. Dan Rather was a full symphony orchestra of journalistic fakery with the phony documents in the George Bush Texas Air National Guard "expose." If there were a shred of journalistic professionalism in that story, his colleagues would have stuck with him. Instead, he's exiled at HDNet. Rendon acknowledged the debacle, but sticks to the violins and sympathy:
"He was incredibly hurt and angry," says Jim Murphy, then his executive producer. Rather nonetheless agreed to stay on with the 60 Minutes crew. That, he says, is when he realized he was in trouble. He proposed dozens of stories but few were approved, and the handful that he completed aired in the worst slots. He believes that Viacom, which acquired CBS in 2000, was trying to push him off the show to curry favor with the Bush administration.
"The fact that he keeps making these claims is outrageous," says Jeff Fager, the show's executive producer, who keeps pictures of Rather on his office wall even though the two have barely spoken in years. (Rather sued CBS, in part to unearth evidence of Viacom's political meddling, but his case was dismissed in January 2010.) "I think he was distracted, and it was hard for him to focus on just doing stories," Fager adds. "There might be something to his crusade, that the conglomerates in media don't want to take the chance of investing in reporting because it is risky. But not this company."
"These are people that I worked with, I trusted, who came under extreme pressure," Rather responds when I bring up Fager's comment. "I'd like to think they did things they preferred not to do, such as say that I wasn't working hard or that the quality of my work was low. Jeff knows better than that." He pauses for a long time. "He'll have to live with his conscience."
Despite the troubles, it came as a shock for Rather when, in June 2006, the network declined to renew his contract. Even today, it takes considerable prompting to get him to open up about it. While invariably warm and polite, rushing to open doors for a reporter half his age, Rather harbors an old-school journalist's reluctance to color stories with personal sentiment, even when the story happens to be about him. "I felt like hell, of course I did," he finally admits. "I particularly feel bad for other people who lost their jobs." He adds that he was never bitter; he had a supportive family, freedom from financial worries, and a career that had long since surpassed his wildest hopes. But Mapes, his old producer, says Rather felt betrayed. "When you work for a company for that long," she told me, "when you cover everything from the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War, and then to find out that the company was not loyal back—that was really painful to him."
This is not the kind of parade Dan Rather would get from Mother Jones if the target of his phony-document story was Al Gore or Ralph Nader. But it is required for Rendon to get access to Rather and cash his freelance check.
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter is brought on late in the piece to lament that he has never written about Rather's show, since HDNet not only has few viewers, but are lame at public relations. Does Stelter really mean to tell the public that he doesn't write about anything unless publicists push him hard enough? It's more likely that unlike Rendon, he thinks Rather is damaged goods and doesn't deserve any puffery. That would also be the journalistically honorable position.
For his part, Rendon is still selling how Rather somehow isn't being exploitative by doing a story with an alleged victim of childhood sex abuse from a Catholic priest. (No sensationalism in that subject.)
BACK IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Rather is interviewing Don McLean, a real estate developer who was molested by two priests when he was 10 years old. Faced with lawsuits from dozens of abuse victims, the Catholic diocese in San Diego filed for bankruptcy protection. But a judge caught the church hiding assets, and Rather's reporting had uncovered a similar pattern in other dioceses. With McLean's wife and children looking on, Rather asks him about the church's response to his accusations, the property that the church had neglected to reveal, and how the abuse changed his life. But he avoids asking about the exact nature of the abuse. "He did come close to tearing up," Rather muses to his crew when we're all back in the car. "I hoped that he wouldn't. We've all seen, all provoked the archetypal tearful breakdown. We were not after that today."
Rather tends to avoid the cheap sensationalism driving today's news cycle. His story was fundamentally about accounting—and the church acting more like a big corporation than an institution of faith. That tension, not the titillating detail, is what interests him.
As if it isn't "titillating" to insist that the world's largest church tolerates pedophilia. It sounds very generous for Rather not to ask the alleged victim for specifics. But doesn't that suggest that he automatically believes the subject? And doesn't that suggest the usual anti-church bias? This is Mother Jones, so no one asks. Instead, we get sappy tributes to how hard Old Man Rather still works:
I heard his alarm sound at 6 a.m. through the thin hotel wall. He was on camera by 8 and then drove from interview to interview all day, never slowing down until 10:30 p.m., when he capped off dinner in Newport Beach with two scoops of ice cream and a yarn about crash-landing in a small plane in Alaska. It was an easy day, he quipped. "He's 79 years old and he's working at the same pace he did when he was 18," Peyronnin marvels.
Whether he's creating a symphony orchestra of BS apparently doesn't matter....as long as the symphony pleases the hard left.


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How do we decide if 150K Btu is properly sized for our house?
It sounds really high. Years ago furnaces were oversized and since then the thinking has changed. Now we are replacing many of the oversized units with a lower BTU rating with no issues. The best way is to have your contractor do what's called a heat loss calculation. This is done on software and takes into account windows, doors, insulation, climate, etc. Takes the guess work out of it.
Should we consider upgrading to a hi-efficiency unit? We will likely own this place for at least another 10 years before we down-size.
If you are only going to be in here 10 years, you may not get the full benefit of a higher eff unit. But, on the other hand, there are utility company rebates available which make upgrading more enticing.
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How about mid-eff?
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After the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire told this story with such energy and suspense, it was only a matter of time until someone decided to make a full-on adventure movie. And it's no surprise that the filmmaker turned out to be Robert Zemeckis, known for putting the seemingly unfilmable on the screen, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Forrest Gump to The Polar Express. So even if the film feels oddly artificial, this is a rousing, thrilling movie overflowing with cheeky energy.
At the centre of the story is Philippe Petit, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with a twinkle in his eye and a faintly silly French accent that works perfectly. In Paris, Philippe is working as a street performer when he sees a drawing of the planned Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center, and he immediately vows to put a wire between them and walk on it. Over the next few years, he recruits a team of accomplices, including his girlfriend Annie (Charlotte Le Bon) and his circus-performer mentor Rudy (Ben Kingsley). Then in Manhattan, they find some men (James Badge Dale and Steve Valentine) to help them on the inside. And in August 1974, just before the towers were finished, they set their elaborate plan in motion.
While other accounts of this story describe Petit's high-wire performance in words and grainy still photos, Zemeckis uses swooping camera movement and vertiginous angles to give the audience goosebumps as Petit elegantly walks back and forth more than 400 meters above the gawping crowd below. After the rousing caper that went on before, this sequence is exhilarating. And Gordon-Levitt plays it beautifully, channeling the man's mischievous passion into every step. This even helps the audience accept the silly narration segments, in which Petit describes the action while perched on the top of the Statue of Liberty with 1970s Manhattan in the background.
Continue reading: The Walk Review
Ben Schwartz - 53rd New York Film Festival - Opening Night Gala - 'The Walk' Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals - Manhattan, New York, United States - Saturday 26th September 2015
Philippe Petit is a young French high-wire artist, passionate about his tightrope dream and determined to find the perfect place to take the walk of his life. Soon he comes across the newly completed World Trade Centre's Twin Towers in New York; imposing edifices standing at more than 400 metres tall, larger than any man-made structures on Earth. After his first visit to the skyscraper rooftops, he knows he must do everything in his power to achieve this impossible dream - even if he risks death or prosecution in doing so. He hires some technically skilled friends who are willing to covertly set up the wire between the buildings and, after a few nervous doubts, injuries and complications with police, he takes the plunge and performs the most memorable high-wire act in history.
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On 7th August, 1974, one man chose to walk a high-wire between the two buildings of the World Trade Centre. Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an adrenaline junkie who loves to walk across the highest ropes he can, and coming from France to America shows him a new chance to start over, and break records. With the help of his team, he intends to set up something highly illegal and incredibly dangerous, to prove the possibilities mankind is capable of. But with this great feat set in motion, the question steadily begins to grow as to whether he will actually accomplish it.
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Ben Schwartz - Shots as Showtime celebrated the launch of new seasons Of TV shows "Shameless," "House Of Lies" and "Episodes" The event was held at Cecconi's Italian restaurant in West Hollywood, California, United States - Tuesday 6th January 2015
Ben Schwartz - Photographs as Showtime celebrated the launch of new seasons Of TV shows "Shameless," "House Of Lies" and "Episodes" The event was held at Cecconi's Italian restaurant in West Hollywood, California, United States - Tuesday 6th January 2015
French artist Philippe Petit made history in 1974 for his death-defying high-wire feat in New York, where he performed a series of tricks across a cable that was rigged between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Having been learning to command a tightrope since the tender age of 16, by the time he was 25 he was ready to shock the world with his extraordinary courage and ability in what was possibly one of the most dangerous stunts in human history. Not only that, but his walk actually turned out to be completely unauthorised; a feat of trespassing that took Philippe hours and hours of planning and careful deception. However, when it came down to it, seeing just how much he thrilled the crowd that gathered in the streets below, he was naturally let off all charges by an impressed judge.
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Ben Schwartz - 'The cast of Shameless and House of Lies were on hand to help out at the Greater Los Angeles house build for the Non profit organisation 'Habitat for Humanity' at Magnolia Blvd in Lynwood, California, United States - Saturday 25th October 2014
Judd Foxman thought he had the perfect life with an enjoyable job, a pleasant apartment and a beautiful wife. However, he soon loses it all after bursting in on his boss in bed with his wife after an apparently lengthy affair. Unfortunately, things only seem to get worse when his sister phones him to tell him that their father passed away. He has to return home to his mother for the funeral where he meets the rest of his siblings and several old faces, but while most of them are hoping to make a quick exit, their mother has other ideas insisting that they spend a week at home in mourning. As awkward as it seems at first, Judd soon finds his pain to be easing with the support of his family and he soon starts to wonder if he wants a simple home life at all.
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Whizzy and superficial, this isn't the most complicated animated film ever made, but it's a lot of fun if you can buy into its silly premise about a snail who moves at super-fast speed. Aside from its riotous sense of energy and thrilling action sequences, the script is also packed with enough deranged humour to keep the adults laughing along with the kids.
It starts in a normal garden, where Theo (voiced by Reynolds) dreams of racing his human idol, the Indy champ Guy Gagne (Hader). Theo even calls himself "Turbo", annoying his pragmatic brother Chet (Giamatti). Then a freak accident involving nitrous-oxide gives him lightning speed. In search of a chance to race, he meets another dreamer with a practical-minded brother: Tito (Pena) is a man who owns a taco truck with his grumpy sibling Angelo (Guzman). And it's Tito who works with local business owners (Jenkins, Jeong and Rodriguez) to help Turbo achieve his goal to enter the Indianapolis 500 and race against his hero. On the track, Turbo is assisted by a pit-crew of Tito's pet snails (Jackson, Rudolph, Dogg and Schwartz).
Yes, the plot is preposterous, but the script openly acknowledges the insanity of the "snail vs car" race, maintaining the dizzying size discrepancy as all of the characters are just as incredulous as we are. The filmmakers also create a hilarious snail underworld packed with running gags about the perils of being so little. Although they haven't included much slime, which is a strange omission for a movie aimed primarily at pre-teen boys. Still, each snail (and each human too) is such a bundle of big personality traits that we don't really mind the gender and ethnic stereotypes.
Continue reading: Turbo Review
Clearly something went horribly wrong as this thriller was being made, because despite a solid cast, gorgeous locations and an intriguing premise, the film is an incoherent mess. Sure, it looks achingly cool, but there isn't a single moment when the characters' motivations make any sense. And there's never a hint of suspense or danger.
It doesn't help that the set-up revolves around two of the least cinematic things on earth: finances and computers. Timberlake plays Princeton grad student Richie, who runs a gambling website to pay his tuition but loses his savings when another site cheats him. So he heads to Costa Rica to confront the online casino boss Ivan (Affleck). Impressed with his initiative, Ivan offers him a job, and soon Richie has more cash than he can possibly spend. But for some reason, all he wants is Ivan's colleague-girlfriend Rebecca (Arterton). Then a nosey FBI agent (Mackie) forces Richie to help him take Ivan down.
Director Fuhrman showed considerable promise with another renegade loner in The Lincoln Lawyer, but this film simply refuses to fill in enough of the gaps. Nothing that happens here is remotely convincing, as the characters are continually thrust into half-developed scenarios. Perhaps there's a more coherent longer version out there, because this one feels like it was edited with a machete. Even as a cautionary tale about the dangers of greed, this story has nothing relevant to say.
Continue reading: Runner Runner Review
Ben Schwartz - 2013 Showtime Emmy Eve Soiree - Arrivals - Hollywood, CA, United States - Saturday 21st September 2013
'Green Lantern' star Ryan Reynolds showed up at the 'Turbo' premiere in the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. He plays the title character in the hilarious animated flick; a snail who wishes to defy his nature and become faster than the speediest IndyCar racer in the world.
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Turbo has big dreams for such a small garden snail; dreams that stretch beyond his regular, sluggish, plant-pot dwelling life. He wants to become the fastest mover in the world, even faster than his favourite racing driver, and compete at the IndyCar races, but, as nature would have it, no matter how much training he does, he simply can't gather speed. However, one day, while gazing at the blurry flow of traffic on a highway, his wish comes true when he is sucked into the back of a vehicle and submerged in a tank of nitrous oxide. On making an escape, he finds himself glowing like a lightbulb and zooming past his inching friends a hundred times faster than he ever believed was possible. On his journey to speedy stardom, he meets Whiplash, Skidmark, Burn, Smooth Move and White Shadow; a crew of other racer wannabes who take him under their wings.
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Richie Furst is a Princeton student with a unique gift for mathematics. He uses his talent to play the odds on online poker sites but what's starts out as gambling for fun, turns into much more as he struggles to pay his school fees. He has one more chance to bring up his bank balance but finds himself busted out of a game (and the last of his money) despite his calculations telling him he should win. Determined to discover the meaning behind what he thinks is a scam, he visits the website's owner Ivan Block who offers him a job with a guaranteed 7-figure salary in just a few months. Unfortunately, he finds himself conned worse than he realised when he is kidnapped by an FBI agent for his apparent 'crimes' and uncovers the corrupt and often cruel operations behind Ivan and his company. Now his tuition fees are the least of his worries as he is now gambling for his life.
Continue: Runner, Runner Trailer
After the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire told this story with such energy and...
Philippe Petit is a young French high-wire artist, passionate about his tightrope dream and determined...
On 7th August, 1974, one man chose to walk a high-wire between the two buildings...
French artist Philippe Petit made history in 1974 for his death-defying high-wire feat in New...
Judd Foxman thought he had the perfect life with an enjoyable job, a pleasant apartment...
Whizzy and superficial, this isn't the most complicated animated film ever made, but it's a...
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Although US President
The latest jobs figures, released on Friday, show that the US unemployment rate fell to 7.8 per cent in September from 8.1.per cent the previous month.
The US unemployment level is back to where it was when Mr Obama took office in January 2009, providing his campaign with a handy fillip before the November 6 presidential election.
But his Republican rival,
Other commentators were also quick to point out the flaws in the latest jobs numbers. In the first place, there is a question over their reliability, particularly since non-farm payrolls – which are based on a survey of business – posted only a modest 114,000 gain, while the much more volatile household survey recorded a much more robust 873,000 surge in total employment
There's also the problem that the bulk of the jobs being created are part-time, rather than full-time. Indeed, in the past six months, 87 per cent of the total jobs created in the US have been for part-time workers.
There is also sobering news on longer-termed unemployment (those out of a job for six months or more). There are now 4.8 million longer-term unemployed in the US, who now account for 40.1 per cent of the total. This is an extremely worrying development, because as their skills atrophy, these people risk being shut out permanently from the jobs market. And youth unemployment, which is 23.7 per cent, is also unacceptably high.
But the biggest risk to the US jobless comes from the "fiscal cliff" – the $US1.2 trillion in spending cuts and tax increases due to come into effect automatically early next year unless Congress is able to reach a last-minute deal on reducing the budget deficit.
Unless such a compromise is reached, the long-term unemployed risk having their benefits severely curtailed at the same time that employers lose the benefit of the temporary $US120 billion US payroll tax cut.
At the same time, the steep spending cuts and tax rises that constitute the "fiscal cliff" could push the US economy into a deep recession, which would inevitably send the unemployment rate soaring.
In a recent note, US investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts that the most likely scenario is for the US Congress to allow the payroll tax cut to expire at the end of the year, and for emergency unemployment benefits to continue to be phased down. However, it believes that Congress is likely to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts, as well as introducing the tax cuts enacted as part of the Obama healthcare reform package. Under this scenario, it says, US economic growth is likely to slow to 1.5 per cent in the first three months of next year.
However, it points out that there is a risk that Congress may decide to block the Bush tax cuts for upper-income earners, at the same time that it completely cuts off emergency unemployment benefits. At the same time, there is a risk that if US politicians aren't able to reach an agreement for a few weeks in early 2013, in which case worries about the "fiscal cliff" could act as a drag down US economic activity. Under this scenaro, it predicts "a sharper slowdown in GDP growth to 1 per cent or less would likely result".
But Goldman's worst-case scenario is that Congress fails to reach a timely compromise, in which case the US would suffer both from automatic spending cuts, and tax hikes.
According to Goldman, "while the impact of such a failure – especially those related to confidence and financial conditions – is harder to quantify, just the direct fiscal effect would imply a GDP growth hit of around 4 percentage points in early 2013, and likely a recession".
Goldman notes that Congress has a deadline for resolving the "fiscal cliff" impasse, because it will have to reach an agreement on raising the US debt limit by early March. In addition, Congress will be anxious to avoid pushing the US economy into recession, and will also face considerable pressure on financial markets to resolve the situation.
But, it says, a fractious debate over the "fiscal cliff" could dent market, business and consumer confidence by the end of the year.
If Congress is able to reach a deal quickly, it says, this "uncertainty shock" could quickly reverse.
In the meantime, it warns, "the ride for both the financial markets and the real economy would undoubtedly be rocky."
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Strange Creek Singers Biography
This group was formed during the late 60s by Mike Seeger (15 August 1933, New York City, New York, USA). The rest of the group were Lamar Grier (banjo), Tracy Schwarz (b. Daniel Tracy Schwarz, 13 November 1938, New York City, New York, USA; fiddle/guitar/banjo) who had formerly been with Seegers New Lost City Ramblers, Hazel Dickens (b. Hazel Jane Dickens, 1 June 1935, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA; guitar), and Alice Gerrard (b. 8 July 1934, Seattle, Washington, USA; guitar). The name of the group was taken from Strange Creek, West Virginia, and they played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time musical styles, both traditional and contemporary. It was very much a hobbyists affair, given the commitments outside of the group of all concerned. Nevertheless, they toured both Europe and the USA, playing a number of major festivals in the process. Seeger is still recording, while Schwarz performs and tours with the Tracy Schwarz Cajun Trio. Dickens has also recorded solo.
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Origin Energy is preparing for its first senior leadership change since it was formed 13 years ago with chairman Kevin McCann expected to step down in the next 18 months.
The respected Mr McCann, 72, who also chairs
Both Mr McCann and chief executive
While Origin has never publicly discussed Mr McCann's plans, sources said his departure had been signalled in private conversations. The company's recent challenges after more than 12 years of double-digit growth meant there was pressure on Origin to start thinking for the first time about board succession.
In February, Origin downgraded earnings forecasts for the second time in three months and announced a cost blowout at its Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (APLNG) project in Queensland.
Origin has been preparing for board renewal for some time.
Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive officer
Other potential chairman candidates would be Reserve Bank of Australia board member
Proxy advisers and industry players said that while Mr McCann's and Mr King's tenures were longer than average, they still had the support of shareholders, given the company's track record.
However, the recent downgrades highlighted cracks in a strategy and concerns over funding the $24.7 billion APLNG project, they said.
Another issue facing Mr McCann in his final 18 months will be safety, following the death of two workers at an Origin-operated drill rig in Bass Strait in August last year.
A spokeswoman for the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority said the investigation into the accident was still being carried out.
A report into the matter is expected to be released in coming months, which will put safety at Origin in the spotlight.
Origin last month ruled out an equity raising to fund its APLNG venture, which is now expected to cost the company $24.7 billion.
First-half net profit fell 34 per cent and the company downgraded full-year forecasts due to challenges at its core energy markets business.
Origin has a 37.5 per cent stake in APLNG.
Weaker electricity demand and one-off impacts from unfavourable regulatory pricing decisions and the transition to new technology and systems hurt Origin's first-half earnings.
Origin plans to reduce staff numbers by 850 before the end of June.
Mr McCann , Mr King and Origin declined to comment on board changes.
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Michelle Hill, executive director of Empower Me Day Camp, accepted a check for $750 from Clark Boyd, president of the Rotary Club of Lebanon.
The donation helped underwrite the cost of the organizations annual Christmas Day Camp which serves more than 60 children from the community. The Rotary Club of Lebanon gives grants through its own Rotary Club of Lebanon Foundation. The Rotary Club of Lebanon meets weekly on Tuesdays at 12:30p.m. at the Lebanon Golf & Country Club.
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Installation is very simple for the SpinQ and requires minimal hardware to do so. For this installation I used the LGA 775 design, which is only composed of two metal clips which each house two push-pin devices. Simply attach the two brackets to the base of the CPU cooler via two small screws. Then apply a thin layer of the included thermal grease to the CPU cooler.
Then simple push the four push-pins into the motherboard, making sure that the heatpipes are on the opposite side the RAM. The push-pin design isn't the greatest design for support, but it certainly makes it easy if it works properly. Perhaps this push-pin design was pretty easy to use for me or maybe I'm just getting used to the push-pin design after doing so many in reviews.
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Reading some reviews on retail websites I found that some people though this CPU cooler was large, I didn't seem to think so as it's actually smaller, width wise, than other CPU coolers I've reviewed. It's about the average height of other CPU coolers, but it's nothing really to worry about.
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Fishery Economics and Game Theory
Game theory is an analytical tool for modeling strategic interaction between agents. Strategic interaction in fishery is interpreted as the harvest by one agent highly affects other agents' decision. This paper is a commented literature study on the fishery economics and game theory. It tends to describe how fishery models using game theory are build up. These models consist of an underlying biological models and the game-theoretical computational concepts. The paper then describes different types of fishery and how these types are related to game theory. Special features as externalities and irreversib le capital are discussed. The paper then presents two classic models of fishery economics using game theory. Two newer papers using game theory are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with ideas for further research.
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- Fischer, Ronald D. & Mirman, Leonard J., 1996. "The Compleat Fish Wars: Biological and Dynamic Interactions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(1), pages 34-42, January.
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Kleinschmidt Named Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Dymax
April 26, 2012
Dymax Corp. recently announced the appointment of Rob Kleinschmidt to the position of Eastern Regional Sales manager in the Field Sales Department. In his new position, Kleinschmidt will report to John Kyger, Sales manager for the Americas, and will call on manufacturers in states from Maine to West Virginia. Kleinschmidt previously held the position of Territory Manager at Dymax, and also spent many years as an application engineer.
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Artists in Action #78
In 1909, three years before Carl Laemmle founds the Universal Film Manufacturing Co, Bela Lugosi asks:
"Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?"
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"They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, 'We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept'."
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Perhaps Luke:7:33 might be more apt.
"For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil."
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Jesus H. Lugosi!
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First time cruise review: Norwegian Spirit Cruise Review by lgbill
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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: New Orleans
We chose NCL, because one of the things we do not like about traditional cruises are the "formal nights". I do not want to "dress up" while on vacation. NCL was just what we expected, dress up if you want, or wear your swim suit all week long. We did wear resort casual to the formal dining rooms two of the nights.
Embarkation was a breeze. We drove into the Erato Street terminal and Seacaps were right there and took our bags. The parking fee was $98, not too bad. We parked and went through TSA processing line, which took about an hour.
Our cabin was ready at 2:00 PM. First impression was small, and hard to maneuver in the bathroom. But again I have nothing to compare More it to. We did get used to it. The cabin was decorated nicely, if a bit dated, but the desk, table and chairs were pretty worn and need replacing. The Spirit was re-fitted this Winter, but I am sure it was only the common areas that got the attention. Balcony had plenty of room. Balcony railing glass had salt scum that spoiled the view, a recurring complaint I see in other reviews. I requested it be cleaned, but my apologetic housekeeper said it must be done by outside crew that rides in the maintenance basket. It was not cleaned on our trip.
Common areas were beautiful, and you can tell they work hard to keep everything spotless.
All food was very good, we did not eat in any of the premium restaurants. Wait staff was superb. Entertainment was also very good. The theater was just gorgeous. We are casino people, and the casino on board was nice. We always found a machine available, and I actually hit a Royal on video poker! Great bar crew in the casino.
We did three shore trips. Costa Maya - toured the Mayan ruins, was a great trip and great guide. Guatemala city tour - glad I went, but will never go back. St. Thomas de Castillo is a very poor area, and there is no "city center" that we saw. Belize - did the trolley tour and jungle bike ride. Recommend both. Belize I could see going back to visit again. Cozumel - no tour, just got off and went through the high-pressure souvenir shopping experience.
Debarkation, another hour of waiting in line. Decided to use the stevedore service which gets you through customs a lot faster. There were two customs agents for the stevedores, only one for the people carrying their own bags. So once you reach your luggage, it puts you right out the door, and he took the bags to my car and packed my trunk. I was so happy I tipped the guy a $20.
All considered, a great time. I would definitely do NCL again, but would chose another ship. Been there and done that! Less
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Berlin (Oct. 6)
Jewish displaced persons in Berlin boycotted last week a concert given by Yehudi Menhuin, well-known American violinist, especially for the DP's, it was learned today. Although his other concerts here were jampacked and received with tremendous enthusiasm by the occupation forces and the Germans alike, the auditerium was three-quarters empty when Menhuin played for the DP's. Out of 6,000 Jews in the city, only about 250 showed up and nearly half of these were children.
Leaders of the DP's said they had boycotted the concert because Menhuin has given several benefit performances for Germans, including one for a fund to buy instruments for the Berlin Philharmonic and the other for infantile paralysis victims. The violinist is reported to have visited the largest DP camp here after the boycotted concert and attempted to explain that for him music was "international." The DP's are said to have replied that they would not sanction anything which meant direct aid to Germans who had slaughtered their kin and who were still anti-Semitic.


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The pair who ended their romance after dating for almost seven years will rekindle their relationship in the recording booth.
Though Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri are no longer dating, they will still be spending some of their time together in the studio. The former lovers, who were revealed calling it quits in July 2009, are currently working on Janet's new studio album, producer Bryan-Michael Cox said.
"I'm producing Janet's album with Jermaine and it's going to be hot," the top-notch music maker told Rap-Up at the Christopher "Tricky" Stewart's pre-Grammys party on Friday, January 29. "That's all I can say so far."
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The country's largest infrastructure manager, IFM Investors, will seek to boost investment by Japanese pension funds in Australia as part of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's delegation in Canberra on Tuesday.
IFM chief executive Brett Himbury says the funds management giant wants to tap the shift among Japanese pension funds to globalise their asset allocation and expand into infrastructure.
"We are looking to entice Japanese capital out of the country as they seek to diversify the portfolios of their massive pension fund system, which is the second biggest in the world," Mr Himbury, who oversees the firm's $52 billion in assets under management, says.
Japan's pension fund system is worth about $3.5 trillion, second in size only to that of the United States, which is at about $9 trillion.
"We are unashamedly there trying to help them get interested in infrastructure around the world, particularly in Australia, consistent with the Australian government's asset recycling program," Mr Himbury says.
"Under the asset recycling model, governments privatise assets and use the proceeds to fund new infrastructure projects."
The Australian super system has about 10 per cent of its assets exposed to infrastructure; the rest of the world has about an 0.8 per cent exposure.
"If Japan was just to allocate an 0.8 per cent exposure to infrastructure, it would be in their funds' and members' interests," Himbury says.
Japan is home to the world's biggest pension fund, the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), which has $1.3 trillion under management. By contrast, the size of Australia's total superannuation industry is $1.55 trillion.
Mr Abe's government has put pressure on the GPIF to deliver higher returns and diversify its assets, by making riskier investments and moving away from the limited returns of Japanese government bonds.
Melbourne-based IFM, which set up an office in Tokyo in January, wants to manage the funds allocated to infrastructure by Japan's large, long-term institutional players.
"We are the biggest infrastructure investor in this country, so if they were going to come here, hopefully they would want to partner with IFM," he says. "In taking their first foray into the asset class (infrastructure) and one of their more significant forays into Australia you'd probably want to make sure you were doing that with a trusted partner that knew the local position well."
IFM is one of the country's biggest investment firms and oversees money on behalf of 30 industry superannuation schemes and offshore pension funds.
At a lunch with the Japanese delegation in Canberra on Tuesday, Mr Himbury will put the case for greater investment in infrastructure, particularly in Australia, and the role IFM can play.
IFM is also keeping an eye on the so-called "Abenomics" and the privatisation program in Japan likely to accompany that, with Mr Abe seeking to increase private investment in public infrastructure to slash government debt. Japan's Abe government appears to be keen to engage foreign investors to see what needs to be done to make the country a more attractive investment destination.
Mr Himbury said IFM was "trying to do what the free trade agreement is doing at a government and policy level, but at a commercial level".
The free trade agreement between Japan and Australia is expected to be ratified in Canberra on Tuesday.


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Back in the summer of 2003, members of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod sponsored a public forum with the memorable title, "Dissent=Democracy: A Teach-In on the 'New McCarthyism' ".
Speaking as panelists were historian Howard Zinn, authors Norman Mailer, Sebastian Junger and Marge Piercy, actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, director Andre Gregory and other left wingers. The event was organized by Jeff Zinn, son of Howard and a director at the Wellfleet theater.
Yet for a public gathering devoted to "dissent" and one equating it with democracy, something was conspicuously absent when it came to the panel -- dissenters.
Here's how it was described in a story that ran in the Cape Cod Times on Aug. 8, 2003 --
The high-wattage panel of writers, artists and performers (Jeff) Zinn pulled together for the forum, the proceeds from which benefit the theater, purposely does not include people from the political right.
"They've got their own forums," Zinn says. "I'm not required to provide balance; I'm not PBS."
Oh but you are, Mr. Zinn, more than you know. I so wanted to attend the "teach-in" (stay within the lines!) but couldn't find a barf bag of sufficient capacity to get me through all that consensus.
I was reminded of this example of liberal hypocrisy on Monday while listening to radio host Ed Schultz, the top-rated "progressive" talker in the country. Schultz is getting annoyed with Democrats he sees as too willing to cave to Republicans, such as Obama including tax cuts in his stimulus plan.
Expressing his irritation, Schultz said more than probably intended in describing how Democrats should govern --
Look, I'm just getting a sense that Democrats are afraid to be Democrats right now. They're afraid to tell Republicans that, you know, you can be in the meeting but shut up.
So much for being the party of inclusion. Agreed, not as priceless as excluding dissenters from a forum on dissent, but still, it's up there, and likely to resonate with anyone who's worked with similarly overwrought liberals.
Schultz often describes his show as "Where America Comes to Talk" and boasts of allowing people with all points of view to call in. But he often becomes bellicose and shouts at callers if they aren't receptive to his point of view. In other words, welcome to the meeting -- but shut up. Such an approach toward diversity of opinion is barely distinguishable from telling people of a different skin hue to sit at the back of the bus. And those deserving of the Schultz approach to governing represent, let's see, just under half the electorate.
Liberal media darling Rachel Maddow engages in a similar practice, such that she'd have been snug as a bug at the dissenter-free forum on dissent. When Maddow's MSNBC cable show began in September, it was refreshing to see conservatives appear as guests -- since Maddow rarely shares a microphone with them on her Air America Radio show.
Between the premier of Maddow's MSNBC show on Sept. 8 to the election on Nov. 4, conservatives or Republicans appeared 17 times, including seven by fellow MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan. Others included Libertarian candidate Bob Barr, Matt Continetti of The Weekly Standard, Republican congressmen John Culberson of Texas and Steve King of Iowa, former Bush speechwriter David Frum, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
But since the election, with Maddow apparently unburdened of the journalistic obligation for balance or even its facsimile, right-of-center guests have appeared all of three times on her MSNBC show -- former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chaffee on Nov. 5, Mike Huckabee on Nov. 20 and Buchanan on Dec. 17, nearly a month ago.
The demarcation may not have been the election, however. More likely it was this contentious exchange between Maddow and Frum on Oct. 13. In the two weeks that followed, only a single conservative guest appeared at her TV show, the ubiquitous Buchanan.
Maddow shows a similar aversion to callers on her radio show, going through all manner of machination to avoid them. In the spring and summer, Air America Radio host David Bender sat in for Maddow in the third and final hour of her show while she was called to frequent pundit duty on MSNBC's "Race for the White House." For reasons that defy explanation, Maddow would not take calls during the first two hours of the show but Bender would during the last hour.
The likelihood of Maddow dealing with questions out of right field from callers has diminished further since her MSNBC show began in September. Maddow's radio program shrank by an hour -- and the second hour is a rebroadcast of Maddow's MSNBC show from the previous night.
Not that any of this bothers Maddow's admirers, as shown by their year-end tributes in praise of her rapid ascension. One of the compliments I hear most frequently about her is that Maddow doesn't shout at her guests and treats them with civility.
Which is true -- unlike those bearish types over at Fox News arguing with guests whose opinions they don't share, thereby running the risk of viewers learning something in the exchange.


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text: Most mainstream politicians insist Islam is not being targeted. But a backlash erupted after the Court of Cassation ruled in March that Baby Loup, a private-sector day care operator that gets some state funding, unfairly fired a woman who wore a headscarf to work. The far-right railed at the decision, and even Interior Minister Manuel Valls expressed regret over it.Wading into the debate in a prime-time TV interview on Thursday, Hollande suggested new limits are needed on Muslim headscarves, saying that "when there is contact with children, in what we call public service of early childhood ... there should be a certain similarity to what exists in (public) school." "I think the law should get involved," he added. Many Muslims fear an encroaching Islamophobia, while proponents of such measures insist they counter extremism and act as a rampart to protect France's identity against inequality. Polls show that most French people support at least some restrictions on religious symbols. France, with an estimated 5 million-6 million Muslims whose families mostly have origins in former French colonies in north Africa, is at the forefront of addressing the challenges that many European countries are facing about how to integrate their sizeable ethnic and religious minorities on a continent where white Christians have dominated the political landscape for centuries. Bristling against stereotypes in many corners of the West that Muslims are closet radicals or even terrorists, leaders of the convention in Le Bourget preached peace and justice. And after prayers and praise of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, convention leaders led a song in Arabic in a vast meeting hall with thousands in the audience â¿¿ and some up on the dais waved French flags. In another convention hall, vendors offered items such as headscarves, sweet pastries or T-shirts emblazoned with the saying 'Don't Panic, I'm Muslim,' while mothers pushing strollers and others wandered through the crowd. Nearby, men kneeled in rhythmic unison for afternoon prayers. Several other stalls took up political issues such as support for Palestinians or war-weary Syrians.


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Penn Women's Golf - Fall Statistics (PDF)
PHILADELPHIA -The Penn women's golf team endured an up-and-down fall campaign to start off 2011-12. The Quakers struggled in their season-opening event, the Golfweek Challenge, which took place in Colorado and featured a number of highly ranked, national-caliber teams.
Penn returned to the region and put up a good showing at the Princeton Invitational, finishing fifth out of 12 squads. That was followed by a 14th-place showing at the 20-team Lady Pirate Intercollegiate, hosted by East Carolina, in early October.
The fall season ended on a definite "up" in mid-October. The Quakers participated in the Harvard Invitational which pitted the seven Ivy League programs against each other in a de facto Ivy League fall championship. Penn emerged victorious, as Isabel Han (t-4th) and Amanda Chin (t-10th) led the way at Boston Golf Club in Hingham, Mass.
Penn women's golf coach Mark Anderson sat down with the Penn Sports Network recently to recap the fall season, talk about the play of Chin the newcomer and how she fit into a pretty set lineup, and he gave us some insight into the team's plans during the offseason.
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London - Surgoens are the most accident-prone drivers, closely followed by other medical professionals, a UK study shows.
They have around a 36 percent chance of causing a road crash over a five-year period. Just behind are GPs with a 33 percent chance, health visitors on 31 percent and hospital consultants on 30 percent.
The safest drivers were found to be building society clerks who have only a 0.3 percent chance of being at fault for an accident over the same time period.
Typists, abattoir workers, car wash attendants and funfair employees also had excellent safety records.
Kevin Pratt, of MoneySuperMarket, the comparison website that commissioned the study, said:
"One industry dominates the top ten claims. It seems those who have the responsibility of saving our lives and caring for our health are the most accident-prone drivers."
Pratt added: "There is no doubt that surgeons, GPs and health visitors have stressful jobs, so lack of time or tiredness could mean these drivers are more likely to make an at-fault claim."
The report looked at nearly two million claims that had to be disclosed by drivers when they were looking to renew their insurance, or switch to a rival firm.
For every 1000 surgeons with a car insurance policy, 361 at-fault car claims had been made over the past five years.
For those who make a claim – whether at fault or not – the annual premium typically increases by £33 (R583) a year.
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Daily Dispatch: Federer Talks End of Year Plans
After clinching Switzerland's Davis Cup win over the Netherlands with a commanding performance against Robin Haase, Roger Federer spoke about his plans for the rest of the year.
"I need a holiday badly," the World No. 1 confessed. "I'm wounded, tired, exhausted. I need some time off right now, and then we'll see where I go from here. Nothing's been decided for the rest of the year. Even though there's a plan in place, that plan might change."
Federer faces an uphill battle in keeping his World No. 1 ranking through the end of the year. He has 3000 ATP ranking points to defend in 2012, while Djokovic needs to defend just 560. If Djokovic chooses to play even a moderately full schedule, he could overcome Federer's current 1335 point lead. So it's possible Federer will not play in Asia, though he had planned to add Shanghai this year, if he decides it is impossible for him to keep the top ranking.
While watching a Davis Cup dead rubber match on Davis Cup TV between Thiemo de Bakker and Marco Chiudinelli, who was inserted in the place of World No. 17 Stan Wawrinka, the commentator for the match apparently hadn't heard of the substitution, and didn't know who Stan Wawrinka was, because he spent the vast majority of the match calling Chiudinelli by Wawrinka's name.
For a set and a half, the commentator marveled over de Bakker's dominating play against the "World No. 17 player," and how it would be quite an upset if de Bakker were to beat "Wawrinka." Unfortunately for him, Wawrinka was actually sitting on the bench on the sidelines, cheering for his Swiss compatriot Chiudinelli.
During the first set, as "Wawrinka" struggled against the "much lower-ranked" de Bakker, the commentator speculated that perhaps "Wawrinka" was struggling against de Bakker because he wasn't motivated to win the match after Federer had clinched the tie for Switzerland.
When the second set reached a tiebreak, the commentator apparently realized the mistake, but instead of admitting he had been calling the player by the wrong name, he began calling Chiudinelli, "Switzerland," and "the Swiss." Although the match itself was a meaningless dead rubber, the spectacle of the commentator and his subsequent verbal calisthenics after realizing his mistake became one of the more entertaining things from Davis Cup weekend, albeit for the wrong reasons.
Tomas Berdych and David Ferrer closed out clinching matches for their respective countries, setting up a blockbuster Czech Republic vs. Spain Davis Cup final. Though the Spanish team holds a rankings advantage over the Czech Republic's players, the finals will be held on Czech home soil, so they will have the advantage of choosing the surface and the venue to suit their needs. Since the Spanish players prefer the slow clay, expect to see the tie played on a fast, hard surface, which Berdych prefers. Spain's Feliciano Lopez, a solid hard court player, could be a possible substitution for Nicolas Almagro, who is better suited to clay courts.
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Pulmonary Fibrosis
Scarring vs. interstitial changes
I had a cxr which showed intersitial prominence and a chest ct that showed bibasilar scarring vs interstitial changes. I had bilat pneumonia as a child. Could this possibly cause scarring or is it more likely interstitial changes since there is interstitial prominence on the chest film? I also have a low dlco. What would be symptoms of this worsening that would indicate further testing should be done? Thanks! Have a great July 4th!
Interstitial changes and scarring are hard to distinguish and in fact, overlap significantly. The best way to know about your situation would be an old chest X-ray that could let you know if this is new. If these changes are old then there would be less concern.
The major symptom to be looking for would be increasing shortness of breath or coughing. Your doctor would also listen to hear crackles on exam of the chest and the lung function tests would be useful. The low diffusion capacity is concerning, but not definitive by itself.
Mark D Wewers, MD
Professor of Pulmonology, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep
Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics
Environmental Health Sciences
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University