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DeSean Jackson has been pretty consistent with his comments this offseason when asked about Donovan McNabb.
He is excited about the Eagles' young nucleus on offense, believes the team will have success with Kevin Kolb and predicts that the Birds will surprise some people who are expecting a drop-off.
Now, depending on how you look at his comments, either he's strongly backing Kolb and management, or he's slighting McNabb.
Jackson's most recent comments came in The Sporting News. He told the magazine he was "very happy with the decision" to trade McNabb.
"I don't think we lost anything, even with McNabb being gone," Jackson said.
Yesterday, at Redskins minicamp, McNabb was asked to respond.
"It's so wild when people get to talking when you're not there, but when you're there everybody loves you," McNabb said, according to the Associated Press. "So I guess people will go deeper into it than I will. I'm a Redskin, no longer an Eagle. I had 11 great years and I'm moving on with my life, so whoever may say things when I'm gone, more power to them, but it's not making you look like a bigger man."
McNabb's right that everyone should move on. Will the debate ever end? Of course not. But at this point, we've heard from everyone on the Eagles' roster and front office. I wonder how many times Jackson has been asked about the McNabb trade this offseason. What else can he say at this point?
The truth is McNabb and Jackson were a great fit for two seasons. McNabb had the arm and know-how to get the ball downfield, as the Eagles evolved into a big-play offense.
And Jackson had the speed and ability to get open downfield that the Eagles lacked for most of McNabb's tenure here.
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Matt Joseph's 'Best of 2005'
Matt counts down his selections for the best region one DVD releases of 2005
That doesn't mean, however, that things didn't look too great for the format as the year progressed, and it wasn't until the fourth quarter of this year that studios started pumping out the best releases (sort of saving the best for last so to speak, finishing the year off as strong as ever). Right around October, I started thinking about what I might include in an article covering the best releases of the year, and trying to come up with five releases that I thought were worthy or recognition, let alone our customary ten titles, seemed like a lost cause at best. Then it seemed as if some magical forced opened the curtain that was hiding all of the good stuff and week after week found some new gem sitting on the shelf and discounted for quick sale. Yes, that juggernaut of capitalism known as the Christmas shopping season came in full force this year, and thankfully too, as I was about to write the year off as far as quality, theatrical film DVDs go.
So, as you read on and most assuredly armchair quarterback your way through this article, you can rest assured that DVD is not dead, nor is it entering into some dramatic death throws either. As it happens, I ended up having a far more difficult time picking ten titles out of all this year's quality releases than this time last year, and looking towards the future you can bet that companies will continue to bring out quality DVDs of newly released movies along with all the special editions of this and collector's sets of that. But I'm getting ahead of things, and looking back on 2005, every one of my choices for this year's best region one releases contain video transfers and audio tracks that are well above average, include plenty of those special features that folks like, such as audio commentaries and behind-the-scenes featurettes, and above all, are movies that deserve the treatments they received. So, without any further ado or the requisite drum roll, here are my choices for the best region one titles of 2005…
10) Sin City: Recut, Extended, Unrated
The first release this year of Sin City from Buena Vista Home Entertainment featured an outstanding video transfer and audio to match making it one of the best releases to DVD this year presentation-wise, but the single-disc package featured little else besides. The new, two-disc set released in December did a lot to remedy the lack of supplemental features on the first release and is outstanding overall, but I still had a difficult time including it in my top ten as I abhor the tactic of releasing a stripped down DVD first, followed by a feature-packed set only months later. In the end though, I can't deny the fact that the second release is one of this year's standouts as it includes one of 2005's best films with everything that made the August release so good and excellent features such as commentary tracks, an alternate cut, and a wealth of behind-the-scenes featurettes this time around, so grudgingly it makes it into my top ten, but it should have been the first and only edition of the film released to home video in 2005.
9) The War of the Worlds: Special Edition
Not every special edition has to carry a hefty price tag, and Paramount Home Video's relatively low priced, all-new special edition of George Pal's science fiction classic really lives up to the too often thrown around word special. Not only has The War of the Worlds been given a beautiful video transfer that brings the Technicolor process used in the picture's filming to life, but in addition to the standard, mono soundtrack found on every home video release of the film, Paramount has also included the film's original stereo soundtrack that, up until just recently, had been thought lost to the ages. Also included on the disc are a host of extras, including audio commentary from stars Gene Barry and Ann Robinson on one track and commentary from Joe Dante and film historians Bob Burns and Bill Warren on a second, more informative one, a couple of featurettes on the making of the movie and writer H.G. Wells, trailers, and the 1938 radio broadcast in its entirety. Whether or not you have the first, featureless release of the film on DVD from Paramount, you need to treat yourself to picking up this disc, which is a classic sci-fi lover's dream come true.
8) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
Fox Home Entertainment once again rolled out the red carpet for Star Wars this year with a two-disc treatment for Revenge of the Sith that was nearly perfect. The video transfer is possibly the best I have ever seen for a live-action film, and the included Dolby Digital track is reference quality for the format. Leaving off right were the DVD of Attack of the Clones left off, the special features on the set are outstanding overall, with the highlight of the set being the featurette 'Within A Minute' that showcases everything that goes into creating one minute of Sith during the climactic battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan. Personally, I think the whole prequel trilogy was a missed opportunity that failed to capture what made the original movies so special, but whatever one may think about the new movies or this final instalment in particular, no one can deny that the treatment given to these films on DVD over the past few years has been nothing less than spectacular. Best of all though, is that with the release of this movie to DVD everyone can enjoy all six films in the comfort of their own homes.
7) Titanic: Special Collector's Edition
I think I may be one of a handful of people that never got around to seeing James Cameron's Titanic on the big screen back in 1997, so maybe my opinion of the movie is diminished by not having seen it the way it was meant to be seen, but I've always thought it was a good movie but not the great one that people all over the world regard it as. One thing's for certain though, it deserved much better than the disc released six years ago from Paramount, and this year the movie received the treatment fans all over have been clamouring for with a multi-disc set chockfull of extras and improved video and sound. Out of all the upgrades from the previous edition, the two best are the new anamorphic widescreen transfer that is leaps and bounds better than what came before and the commentary track from James Cameron himself that is a real treat.
6) The Wizard of Oz: Collector's Edition
Warner Home Video once again proved that they know how to treat classic films the right way with the release of a three-disc set for one of the most magical and endearing motion pictures of all-time, The Wizard of Oz, back in October. The new video transfer and 5.1 audio track are both excellent, and the set manages to include everything that came with the 1999 release of the movie to DVD over its three shiny platters along with enough additional material such as deleted scenes, featurettes, and vintage films to put a lot of newly released films coming out on DVD to shame. The real treats on the set, however, are two of the disc's alternate audio tracks—feature commentary with film critic and historian John Fricke that comes supplemented with interview excerpts from various cast members and second, an isolated music track that you won't be able to resist singing along to as Dorothy and her companions skip down the yellow brick road towards the Emerald City.
5) Gladiator: Extended Edition
Now here's the kind of double-dipping I don't mind—the original release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator on DVD was one of the format's first blockbuster titles, featuring an excellent presentation as far as the video transfer and audio tracks are concerned and a plethora of extras packed into the two-disc set. Now, five years later, DreamWorks has revisited the film in the form of a fantastic, three-disc set that any fan of the Academy Award winning film shouldn't go without. The region one edition of the set includes both the theatrical cut of the film and a new, extended cut that actually makes the movie a richer and fuller experience, an excellent video transfer and audio tracks (even though the DTS track from the first release is mysteriously missing), and enough extras to keep anyone's fingers and thumbs dancing about their remote controls. The standout feature included in the package is Ridley Scott's second stab at recording an audio commentary for the film, only this time for the extended version and accompanied by the film's Oscar winner for Best Actor and first time commentator, Russell Crowe.
4) The Fly: Special Edition (1986)
David Cronenberg's best horror film got its much deserved due on DVD back in October with this exceptional, two-disc set from Fox Home Entertainment. Easily outdoing the featureless first release of the film on DVD, the new package includes not only a new video transfer of the film, but also gets an upgrade in the audio department with a great DTS 5.1 track as well to go along with its long list of extra features. Among the generous offering of supplements, Cronenberg once again provides an informative and entertaining commentary track for the film, and the second disc's documentary, 'Fear the Flesh: The Making of The Fly, is bested only by the documentary included with my pick for this year's second best title. Better still, the special edition release was brought out simultaneously with an excellent treatment for its unfortunately, inferior sequel, The Fly II, which too contains an improved presentation over its previous release and close to the same amount of quality extras that the first film received.
3) Kagemusha/Ran: The Criterion Collection
Yeah I know, I'm cheating a little bit here by combing two DVDs released months apart as the third best release of 2005, but there is little coincidence that The Criterion Collection chose to release both films to DVD this year as rarely have two different films been so inseparable. In the 1970s, legendary director Akira Kurosawa's career had hit rock bottom and he couldn't pull together the financing to finish his 1980 samurai epic Kagemusha. Seeing it as an opportunity to help a director who had influenced their own careers so much, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola used some of their new found clout in Hollywood to get Twentieth Century Fox to give Kurosawa the money he needed to complete the picture. The result was a film of sweeping and epic proportions, and more importantly a resurgence in the career of Kurosawa that would see him direct four more films until his death in 1998, including my own personal favourite of all his films, the King Lear inspired Ran. The Criterion Collection first released Kagemusha to DVD back in late March of this year in the form of a two-disc set featuring an outstanding, re-mastered video transfer of the film and an equally great audio track with improved English subtitles that also included a host of supplements and printed material to round out the package for its very first region one release. Ran had previously seen two releases in region one prior to this year, both from Fox Lorber Home Video, but neither release comes close to The Criterion Collection's November release that mirrors the previous package with its restored video and audio and host of extras. If you've yet to discover Kurosawa's films for yourself, there is no better place to start than with these two DVD releases.
2) King Kong: Collector's Edition (1933)
In addition to Fox Home Entertainment's special edition release of David Cronenberg's The Fly, the other title I was hoping and praying would get a release in last year's 'Best of' article was the original King Kong, and Warner Home Video pulled out all the stops in making sure that the great ape received a proper debut on DVD. The video and audio have been completely restored, looking and sounding marvellous in comparison to years of watching highly edited and dirty prints of the film on home video and television all of my life, and the special features are nearly an eighth wonder themselves. Visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen and Star Wars veteran Ken Ralston provide a great commentary track that also includes excerpts from interviews with producer Merian C. Cooper and star Fay Wray, and the Kong-sized documentary, 'RKO Production 601: The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World', is worth the price of the set all on it's own as producer Peter Jackson and various colleagues reconstruct the making of the classic film and actually recreate a missing scene from the movie using the same equipment and techniques as effects wizard Willis H. O'Brien did to create Kong nearly eighty years ago. As great as the movie and Warner Home Video's package is overall though, it still comes in at number two on my list to…
1) The Incredibles
Oh come on now, don't act so surprised, Frozone. Disney and Pixar's The Incredibles was one of last year's best films, let alone the best Pixar has created to date, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment's DVD is an absolute blast in and of itself. The video and audio on the disc are as perfect as anything you'll ever put into your DVD player, and the included special features are from top to bottom as informative about the making of this wonderful movie as they are just plain fun—heck, I'll even go as far as to say that The Incredibles is the best first issue DVD set that any company has ever produced. I could reap all of the praise in the world on the set, but ultimately the best thing that can be said about it is that I don't mind the six year-old repeatedly putting it into the player to watch over and over again, nor can I blame him…I've caught myself doing the exact same thing on more than one occasion.
So there you have it, my list of this year's top region one releases. As I previously stated, there were plenty of great releases this year, and while titles such as Batman Begins: Deluxe Edition, War of the Worlds, and The Fifth Element: Ultimate Edition were all very fine releases, the exclusion of a commentary track made them ineligible for my list. You may or may not agree with that, but the first extra I search out when scanning the back cover on every DVD I look to purchase is some sort of commentary track, and I feel cheated every time an otherwise good package doesn't have one. Before I head off, I'd like to single out a few other titles besides those just mentioned in my top ten that made firing up my entertainment centre and writing for this site so worthwhile this year— The Val Lewton Collection, Donnie Darko: Director's Cut, the Toy Story 1 & 2 Collector's Sets, The Big Red One: The Reconstruction, The Frighteners: Director's Cut, Team America: World Police, Land of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut, Heat: Special Edition, Ben-Hur: Collector's Edition, and last but not least, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Have a great New Year everyone, and may only the best lay ahead for one and all.
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Published: March 7, 2008
From Cleanup to Campus: Local Groups Sign on to Hanford Master Plan
RICHLAND -- After the clean up, Hanford might look more like a commercial campus.
The sites got a history of creating jobs and money for the region.
Thousands of people pump out plutonium everyday at Hanford.
No one quite knows the day when workers will be done cleaning up, or when they'll be done getting a paycheck for the job.
But community leaders are not waiting around.
They're making sure when the dirty work's done at Hanford, how ever long that may take, that there's still something at the site to bring in bucks, creating jobs, and keeping Hanford on the map.
Friday, three local groups put pen to paper to create a master plan for the area.
"This is a great and a good day for out entire Tri Cities District Board as well as our community stakeholders," Diahann Howard said, economic development director for the Port of Benton and executive director of the Tri Cities Research District.
Leaders have a plan to drive Hanford - and the Tri City economy at large - into the future.
It's called the Tri Cities Research District.
Think corporate campuses like Microsoft or Nike Town: a research campus with high-tech labs, office buildings, shops, restaurants, even condos.
"This is an asset for the entire community and we just need to be able to tell our story better," Howard said.
"That's exactly the time of thing that will serve our campus well," Vicky Carwein said, Chancellor of WSU Tri-Cities.
Friday, the Port of Benton, Solaris Group and Battelle signed contracts for the master plan.
They called in a Portland-based architect company to design and build-up the nearly 400 acres of undeveloped land.
"It was important for us to have that over-arcing umbrella agreement to make sure what we do is unified, tied together," Howard said.
"We are just so thrilled and excited to be within the footprint of that district," Carwein said.
Reps from Solaris said it's crucial to sign-off on a master plan before they can entice other companies to move to the district.
None of the groups would reveal just who those companies or amenities might be.
That's why the plan is now on the fast track.
But here is still a lot of work to be done for the district.
Planners have to figure out what each parcel of land is zoned for.
Then they can decide where all the offices, homes and restaurants can go.
Builders estimate they have about a million square feet of space to work with.
And they estimate that the new complex could offer up about 20,000 jobs.
Community leaders plan to reveal the master plan in six months.


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Blob Mckenzie wrote:Detroit was the BEST drafting team from about 89 - 2006 bar none and it isn't even close. Since then, sure they don't have a ton in their pipeline but they aren't exactly devoid of talent either. A couple of lucky picks years ago ? Wake up man . They built their nucleus with superb drafting and supplemented their team with a few high priced UFA.Fred wrote:
Detroit is NOT overloaded with prospects it's a fantasy repeated over and over by media & fans....like sheep. They had a couple of lucky picks years ago but since then have wasted a lot of picks. Most of it was covered up pre Cap days by buying players...no more. I'm going to be interested to see how they do without Lidstrom playing 25 minutes a game.
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/team ... 05492.html
Blob I don't believe that. If you study there picks you'll see for every lucky late pick there was 5 terrible picks made ahead of the lucky ones. No one wastes picks like Detroit did. If the lucky picks were so sure fire star players they don't leave them and allow every other team take a swing at them. Look at their draft in 1994 they took Tomes Holstrum in the 10th round the 9 picks before him I don't believe one played in the NHL. In 1989 they took Lidstrom in the third round but took Sillinger and Boughner in rounds 1 & 2 both destined for the HHOF. Look at the names of the no name players Detroit has drafted. Plus if they were so good how come with the same scouts they're now drawing a blanks. We'll have to disagree on this. Read the names of the picks it's like a who's who of poor drafting


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Best books of the decade
Harry Potter did not make my list. There. I said it. I read every last one of the wizard's adventures, I swear, but now the whole experience is kind of a blur of Quidditch and complicated potions. And while there is no denying their influence on book publishing, I can't very well list books I can barely remember. There are, undoubtedly, plenty of other books I have forgotten, or just never got around to reading. Some I couldn't shoehorn in; several books of poetry I remembered came just before the new decade, so there's no verse on my list. And, so: no more equivocating, no more excuses. This is my list of books from the past 10 years – in chronological order – that I can't forget.
'White Teeth'
Zadie Smith
An epic novel about race, class, and gender seemed the perfect way to start the decade (the century even!) in publishing. Despite its astounding geographic, historical, and cultural range this debut novel is most remarkable for the affection with which the author treats all of her characters and which, in turn, makes them so delightfully human.
'Interpreter of Maladies'
Jhumpa Lahiri
Before American readers were treated to a welcome deluge of Indian and Indian-American fiction, there was Lahiri's exquisite collection of stories of immigration and assimilation. Many of the stories take place in Boston and Cambridge; after reading Lahiri's story "Sexy'' I took my husband to the Mapparium at the Christian Science Center and asked him to whisper to me from across the bridge.
'A HeartbreakingWork of Staggering Genius'
Dave Eggers
Before James Frey and company sullied the reputation of the whole genre, Eggers strove for painstaking authenticity in his hyperbolically titled memoir. The book's success launched Eggers and his literary magazine McSweeney's into a different orbit. Eggers opened writing and tutoring centers for children around the country, including one here in Boston, started a fantastically imaginative publishing imprint, and just this year two of his screenplays made it to film — "Away We Go'' and "Where the Wild Things Are.'' On newsstands now (if you can find a copy): McSweeney's version of an old-fashioned broadsheet, the "San Francisco Panorama.''
'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'
Michael Chabon
This big, juicy historical novel has it all — war, romance, magic, superheroes. Cousins Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay team up to create a comic book hero, the Escapist, who, among other feats, pummels Hitler. Chabon's novel certainly had a hand in lifting comic books and graphic novels out of geekdom and into the realm of literature.
'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide'
Samantha Power
In this powerful call to action, Power examines the history of genocides in the 20th century and condemns the United States for failing to act. Her stern interventionist talk stirred controversy and led, eventually, to an advisory spot on the Obama campaign. Her political career was temporarily derailed after she called Hillary Clinton a "monster.'' Power apologized and this year joined the White House, where she now sits on the National Security Council.
'My Name is Red'
Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdag Goknar
This murder mystery, set in 16th-century Istanbul and narrated by some unlikely characters – among them a tree, a gold coin, red ink – opened Americans' eyes to Turkish luminary Pamuk before he won the Nobel Prize in 2006. In 2005 Pamuk emerged as an important political voice after he spoke frankly about the Armenian genocide and subsequently faced criminal charges in Turkey.
'The Known World'
Edward P. Jones
In the tradition of artists with mind-numbing day jobs (like Wallace Stevens, the insurance agent-poet), Jones was an editor at a tax journal for almost 20 years. After Jones lost his job in 2002 he began to write this gorgeously stylized novel about slavery full time. Thank God he was fired.
Marilynne Robinson
During the 25 years between the publication of her first luminous novel, "Housekeeping,'' and this, her second novel, the gossip was that Robinson was blocked and obsessively revising her first. This book, an epistolary novel written from an aging father to his young son, quieted the rumors immediately.
'The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'
Michael Pollan
Without stunts or scolding Michael Pollan changed the way (some) Americans look at frozen dinners and Chicken McNuggets. At least until their next road trip.
Robert Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Divided into five sections and just shy of 1,000 pages — "2666'' is the funniest and most tender apocalyptic book you'll ever read. The tortuous paths in the labyrinthine plot all lead to a brutal center — a collection of unsolved murders based on real serial killings in Mexico. Readers should cherish every page; Bolaño, a Chilean ex-pat, died in 2003 at age 50.


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Buy a back brace at the same time I had a 11x14 for a while. Fun to work with. Not fun to carry!
I wish Astia was still in production.
Hum... I have a few concerns that have prevented me from moving forward:- Annoyance of having to load sheets of film,- Lack of suitable scanner at the moment. The Creo seems to be the only option able to tap into the resolution potential, but their drivers don't work with recent iterations of modern OS,- Weight indeed,- Cost of the whole operation.Cheers,Bernard
I am going back to film as I found a good deal on a Tango drum scanner. I have a large collection of film to scan.The way I look at it when a potential buyer of one of my film based photos is standing there in the gallery looking they are not thinking "gee, if that was just captured with a digital camera instead of film I would have bought it". I was using a Contax 645 a few years ago so I will probably go back to this camera.Mike
I still prefer the look of film, especially Portra, scanned well it's really nice.I shot some aerials on a Rolleiflex last year. A month or two back a Architect ordered 3 images from my site of over 10,000 online pictures. I mentioned to them that they had chosen 3 film images. They said they liked the look better, it looked sunnier.If I could turn the clock back and stop digital from being invented we would all be richer and valued.I bought a Linhof 5x7 last year, I'm still to give it a real go. I still own 3 Pentax 67 plus lenses, 2 Rolleiflex, 1 Minolta Autocord, 1 Razzledog, 1 Plaubel peco 5x7 and others.Plus lots of Canon digital and L lenses.Apart from anything else film is actually fun.
I've really started to fall in love with Portra 400 lately. And of course Velvia 50 is just amazing. Nothing like having Lightroom and Photoshop built right into your camera for $7.99 a roll.
Thing about Velvia 50, you'll spend more time in PS than you thought.Rob C


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J.K. Rowling Asking Booksellers for Help in Case of Young Madeleine
Jul 16, 2007
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is continuing in her efforts to help locate a young girl from the UK who went missing from her family while on holiday a few months ago. The case of four year old Madeleine McCann has generated world wide response, including early response from Jo who donated a large sum of money to a reward fund. Now J.K. Rowling is asking booksellers to display a poster of the missing child when they sell Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this weekend. From a press release, Jo is quoted as saying:
"I fervently hope that posters displayed prominently in shops all over the world when the new book comes out will help find Madeleine McCann and will raise the profile of the many other missing children in different countries."
There had been earlier talk of including a bookmark in the novels about the young missing British child, but the plans for that were scrapped reports the International Herald Tribune "because Rowling and her publishers "feel that they have a responsibility to protect younger readers and not to expose them to certain issues without their parents' compliance." The title of the book also made it inappropriate, the statement said. "
You can read more about the case of missing Madeleine McCann via this link, and also on Jo's official website.
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The lectures will consider the structure of definitions in the theory of individual Weierstrass elliptic functions, paying as much attention as possible to uniformities as the function, or its associated lattice, varies. The setting will be that of an o-minimal expansion of the real field, and one will interpret therein the elliptic function on a semi-algebraic fundamental parallelogram. This will give o-minimality results, and with more work model- completeness results (related to work of Bianconi). The main novelty will be decidability results for some special elliptic functions, modulo a conjecture of Andre in transcendence theory. The proof will be analogous to that of Wilkie and the author for decidability of the real exponential. Peterzil and Starchenko began the model theory of families of elliptic functions, and showed in particular that this is interpretable in an o-minimal theory, so is certainly not undecidable in any Godelian way. I will outline what one currently knows about the problems of model-completeness and decidability for families of elliptic functions.
1.Bianconi, Ricardo. Some Results in the Model Theory of Analytic Functions, Thesis, Oxford ,1990. 2.Bertolin, Cristiana. Periodes de 1-motifs et transcendance (French) [Periods of 1-motives and transcendence], J. Number Theory 97 (2002), no. 2, 204--221.
3. Gabrielov, Andrei. Complements of subanalytic sets and existential formulas for analytic functions. Invent. Math. 125 (1996), no. 1, 1--12. 4. Gabrielov, Andrei; Vorobjov, Nicolai. Complexity of computations with Pfaffian and Noetherian functions. Normal forms, bifurcations and finiteness problems in differential equations, 211--250, NATO Sci. Ser. II Math. Phys. Chem., 137, Kluwer Acad. Pul., Dordrecht, 2004.
5. Macintyre, Angus; Wilkie, A. J. On the decidability of the real exponential field. Kreiseliana, 441--467, A K Peters, Wellesley, MA, 1996. 6. Peterzil, Ya'acov; Starchenko, Sergei. Uniform definability of the Weierstrass p Functions and Generalized Tori of Dimension One, to appear in Selecta Math.
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- contains nag screens during launch end exit of the demo. The exit screen will, after clicking or pressing a key, automatically open the game's official website at www.battlefront.com/afghanistan in your default browser. The exit screen automatically closes after 1 minute .
Combat Mission Afghanistan is the first collaboration between Battlefront and a third party studio to create a completely new game in the Combat Mission series. CM Afghanistan is a standalone game and not an expansion, and does not require any of the other games to play!
CM Afghanistan is not just a mission pack: based on the latest CM engine in development, the game includes all new artwork, terrain, new units, new weapons, and new nations! Players are able to take command of Soviet or DRA (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan) Army units as well as mujahedeen guerrilla forces.
But it doesn't end there. CM Afghanistan introduces completely new features to the series, such as:
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The two stock campaigns cover two periods of the Afghan wars - the beginning phase (1980-1982) and the later years of highest activity and most intense hostilities, 1985-1987. The tactics are different for these periods – during the first stage of the war, the mujahedeen forces attempted to fight against the Soviet Army and the Army of the DRA (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan) on "equal footing". Later on, the mujahedeen realized that these tactics would not lead to success and they turned to guerrilla actions.
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Ten stand-alone missions round out the stock missions, and include escort duties, clean-up operations, ambushes and night time assaults in the Helmand, Kunduz, Parwan, Nangarhar, Beglan and other provinces between 1981 and 1988.
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The two top men leading development on Naughty Dog's The Last of Us have spoken of the pressure they felt being responsible for creating another hit franchise from the Uncharted developer.
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A new private soil-testing laboratory began operations this fall in Iowa (based in Ames), and it tests for most nutrients using non-dried soil samples. This has generated many questions concerning the procedure and interpretations of test results because the common lab procedure for most nutrients is to dry and grind soil samples before testing them.
The idea for testing non-dried soil samples is not new, explains Antonio Mallarino, Iowa State University agronomy professor and soil fertility specialist. It has been known for decades that drying soil may affect the extraction and measurement of certain nutrients, especially potassium or K. However, drying soil is commonly done by labs because it used to be a more practical sample handling procedure, and it standardizes soil moisture across all conditions.
Iowa State University research during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly greenhouse trials but some field trials, had shown that testing non-dried (field-moist) soil samples provided a better estimate of K fertilizer needs than testing dried samples, but both procedures provided similar estimates for phosphorus or P. Therefore, testing field-moist samples was adopted by the ISU soil and plant analysis laboratory, and it was the standard procedure for testing soil for P and K during the 1970s and 1980s.
Attitudes about handling and testing moist soil samples have recently changed
ISU discontinued the field-moist soil testing in 1988 (Mallarino was a graduate student at the time); not because it was a bad procedure but because no other lab adopted it and only ISU soil test interpretations were based on moist testing. The ISU lab made that decision even though Iowa research had shown the moist test was better for K, and it was among the tests recommended for the North-Central region by the NCR-13 committee (North-Central Regional Committee for Soil Testing and Plant analysis). Since ISU discontinued moist soil testing in 1998, the NCR-13 committee dropped the procedure from its soil-test methods publication.
"The general attitude about moist soil handling and testing changed considerably this year, when the private lab that began operations in Iowa developed a machine that easily handles moist samples and makes implementation of this procedure as practical as the common dry method. Or even more practical because it avoids drying and grinding samples," says Mallarino. "This laboratory has been conducting soil testing research with Iowa soils since last year, some in collaboration with ISU."
Field research conducted during the 1990s showed much variability and uncertainty with K soil testing due to several reasons. "So a portion of research my graduate students and I conducted since the early 2000s has focused on studying again if testing field-moist soil samples for K is better than testing dried samples," he says.
What the updated ISU research shows for testing moist vs. dry soil samples
The amount of extracted K is lower for the moist test than for the dry test at values usually optimum for crops or lower, but the difference decreases as levels increase, notes Mallarino. At extremely high levels, the moist test values can be higher than the dry test values. However, the moist and dry tests result in approximately similar values for P (by the Bray-1, Olsen, or Mehlich-3 methods), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) (by the ammonium-acetate or Mehlich-3 methods), pH, and buffer pH (by the SMP or Sikora methods). Figure 1 shows, as an example, comparisons for K and P extracted by the Mehlich-3 method from moist and dry samples.
Results from more than 300 field-response trials for corn and soybean confirmed that the field-moist test for K is better. Figure 2 shows the relationship between soil K measured by moist or dry tests and the relative yield response of corn and soybean to K fertilization. The graph for the dry test shows the current ISU interpretations for K, and further information including recommended fertilization rates is available in Extension publication PM 1688, A General Guide for Crop Nutrient and Limestone Recommendations in Iowa. The graph for the moist test shows the interpretations that ISU suggested for this test in the late 1980s. The fertilizer rate recommended for the Medium class used at the time was the amount to maintain soil-test values based on K removal, which in concept is similar to current Optimum class for the dry test. The old moist test classes relate to the recent yield responses almost exactly as they related to yield responses from research conducted during the 1980s (not shown).
Additional information and results will be presented at the North-Central Extension-Industry Soil Fertility Conference in Des Moines (November 14-15, 2012), the ISU Extension Integrated Crop Management Conference in Ames (November 28-29), and other ISU Extension conferences and workshops during the coming winter.
This fall the NCR-13 regional committee will publish an updated sample preparation chapter of the soil-test methods publication that includes the moist procedure, says Mallarino. The ISU interpretations and fertilizer recommendations for the moist test will be developed in the future, as results for several ongoing field trials become available and can be merged with previous results. Interpretations for the moist test for P using Bray, Olsen, and Mehlich-3 (colorimetric or ICP procedures) should be similar to those for the dry test, since data already showed similar test results. The interpretations for the moist test for K likely will be similar to those suggested by ISU in the 1980s.


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Henry Cavill looks dapper while filming scenes for his new movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on Thursday evening (September 19) in London, England.
The 30-year-old actor was joined on the set by the film's writer and director Guy Ritchie.
Here is the movie's synopsis: In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Cavill) and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
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Scott Wilson, 44, is best known on the University of Florida campus for teaching the popular online History of Jazz elective. But the UF assistant professor also directs the university's Jazz Band
Jazz is more than Frank Sinatra.
It's more than an easy-listening radio station and elevator music, and more even than Scott Wilson's jazz course. That's what he tries to teach his students, anyway.
Wilson, 44, is best known on the University of Florida campus for teaching the popular online History of Jazz elective. But the UF assistant professor also directs the university's Jazz Band and designed and built the jazz minor at UF almost entirely by himself.
Wilson said he wants students to learn to appreciate jazz, which he said is the basis for much of today's popular music.
"Lady Gaga is one of the jazz artists," he said. "She sang with Tony Bennett; she got her start in New York in jazz clubs as a jazz singer."
Wilson himself used to think jazz was just saxophones and Frank Sinatra. He didn't listen to or play jazz growing up — in the 1980s, he was hooked on hip-hop.
But when he went to UF to study voice, Wilson found himself listening to jazz at someone's house. He fit in with the college jazz lovers, people who practiced music all day and loved beats.
He started to see jazz as "hip-hop with harmony."
Then he joined the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha and a jazz band, which began a 10-page list of accomplishments, including a bachelor's degree in music education and two master's degrees from the University of North Texas — one in jazz studies and one in music education.
He has performed with dozens of prominent jazz musicians, including trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, percussionist Gregg Bissonette and saxophonist Sam Rivers.
He served as a music consultant at Orlando's Walt Disney World and musical director for Universal Studios Japan.
These are the kinds of jobs he wants his students to get, too.
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The students are the first ones to say Wilson pushes them. Mark Doerffel, 37, has been a teaching assistant for several of Wilson's classes. History of Jazz is intended as an easygoing elective, something that won't overwhelm non-musical students.
But jazz minor classes are just the opposite — they require "a certain degree of mental toughness," Doerffel said. A jazz ensemble rehearsal might include six to eight pieces in 60 minutes.
But that's what they need, so that's what Wilson is going to give them. His goal is to give students the skills they need to be marketable in the real world. He might stop a rehearsal to point out a successful student and talk about what has led to his or her accomplishments.
He wants his students to have the tools they need to get jobs, he said. They could work at theme parks, play in bands or create music for television, films and video games.
Jazz knowledge gives them the foundation for a range of styles, said jazz graduate assistant Kevin Hicks, 27.
"A classical player wouldn't be able to go out and play the same gig," he said.
With that in mind, Wilson built a jazz minor that is attracting talent to Gainesville.
Ben Grier, 22, is one example of that. He grew up listening to 1930s jazz, and he wanted to study music in college and pursue a music career with his tenor saxophone.
He was looking at schools such as Florida State University and the University of North Florida. Then Wilson called him and invited him to sit in on a jazz ensemble.
When Wilson started teaching at UF in 2009, Grier said, that changed everything. And his mentor always has more ideas developing.
"It's ridiculous," Grier said. "I don't think he even sleeps."
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Whether he is performing or teaching, Wilson rarely takes a break. He never stands still. When he plays the trumpet, he leans back to wail and then bobs forward, tapping a foot and maybe adding a hip wiggle.
When he counts to lead in to a UF Jazz Band song at practice, "one, two" becomes "a-one, mmmm, mm-mm-mm-mm." His fingers tap his trumpet, even when he isn't playing.
Sometimes he hugs it to himself, but he still taps his feet. He might take a breath and tug at his collar once during a nearly two-hour set when he plays with the band Mindwalk each Wednesday at 101 Downtown.
Wilson stops moving only when he pauses to watch the other band members or to introduce them and tell his audience what they are playing.
He might have a big name at UF, but Wilson doesn't act like it with a group.
"Nobody actually tries to take the lead," said Tom Young, 47, a former History of Jazz student who has attended the 101 Downtown concerts every few weeks since he finished the class last semester.
He and his partner, Katherine White, 60, buy the band members a few rounds of drinks, swapping jokes between songs. He likes jazz and blues, and she was more into pop and classical, until they started listening to Mindwalk and White realized she had more eclectic tastes than she'd thought.
It's an idea Wilson comes back to, especially in the class that has landed him 658 students this semester. Jasmine Vecchio, 19, reflected on that between songs at a Mindwalk performance Wednesday night. Students are required to attend a jazz performance during the semester.
"I'm actually starting to like jazz through the class," she said. "I didn't really listen to it before."
Wilson might have undermined his own lesson, though. Now, Vecchio enjoys music by Frank Sinatra.


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Date: May 16, 2013
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, announced this afternoon that Priests for Life has launched a project to expose Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen, and the evidence that he is killing babies born alive, and violating numerous other laws. We are calling for a full-scale investigation by Texas state authorities.
"The Harris County, Texas, District Attorney has already opened an investigation; we are sending out an action alert to the Attorney General to take swift and thorough action until this abortionist is stopped," Fr. Frank explained.
"As we have said, Kermit Gosnell is not the exception in the abortion industry; he is the norm. As we have seen countless cases in the past, we expect to see many more in the future. And each of them should prompt us all to action.
"Priests for Life is working in partnership with Life Dynamics and Operation Rescue on highlighting the atrocities being committed in Karpen's clinic and elsewhere. We have set up the web site TexasGosnell.com to provide vital information about the ongoing investigation and how people can support it."
The investigation was prompted by video testimony from three of Karpen's former employees, who describe the truly horrific conditions at the clinic and the brutal murders of newborn babies there.
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Homeopathic medicines are often effective in treating the acute symptoms of a sore throat, though professional constitutional care is usually necessary to cure chronically recurring sore throats. Children with much pain from a sore throat or those who have difficulty opening their mouth or swallowing should receive a culture to determine if they have strep.
ACONITUM: Consider this medicine during the initial onset of the sore throat. The symptoms come on suddenly, often after exposure to a cold air. There may be some burning in the throat and a red, dry, swollen throat.
APIS: These children have a red, inflamed throat with swollen tonsils, which is aggravated by warm drinks or food and relieved by cold drinks or sucking on an ice cube. This remedy should be considered when the throat hurts even when the child isn't swallowing. The throat not only looks red, it looks shiny. There is dryness in the throat with a burning, stinging pain. They have constrictive feeling in the throat. The inner and outer throat is swollen, and the uvula which hangs from the upper throat is also swollen. These children may have a sensation of a fishbone caught in the throat and may have difficulty swallowing. They may experience hoarseness in the mornings and cannot stand to have anything around their neck.
Arsenicum: When children have a burning pain in the throat that is relieved by warm food or drinks and aggravated by cold food or drinks, this medicine should be considered. The child's condition may begin with a nasal discharge and then go into the throat. The pains are usually worse on the right side. There may also be dryness of the mouth with a great thirst for frequent sips of water.
BELLADONNA: This medicine is the most common remedy for acute tonsilitis. It is also commonly given at the early stages of other types of sore throat. The tonsils are noticeably red, usually scarlet red. There are burning pains and a constant desire to swallow, despite the fact that it hurts to do so. There is a constricting feeling in the throat, which causes difficulty even swallowing water. They have a tendency to desire lemons or lemonade. There is a tickling in the larnyx. If these children have a fever, it will usually be a high one. Characteristically, their head is hot, though their extremities are cold.
Ferrum phos: This remedy is common for acute, non-violent tonsillitis. The inflammation does not begin suddenly, and the pain is not severe. The throat is red and swollen, especially on waking. They have pain on swallowing, usually a burning pain, which is better from cold applications. They may also have hoarseness. This remedy should be considered for sore throats in children who sing a lot.
Hepar sulph: When children experience a sensation as though there was a stick in the throat, or when a sore throat starts after the child is exposed to cold, this medicine should be considered. The tonsils are enlarged, and they have throbbing pains. There is usually a radiating pain to the ears on swallowing. Hot drinks provide some relief. These children are hypersensitive to touch and cold and are highly irritable.
Ignatia: The distinguishing symptom of children who need this medicine is sore throat pain that is relieved by swallowing foods and is aggravated by empty swallowing (Lachesis children also have this symptom). These children may experience throat pain even when they don't swallow. They tend to have a lump in the throat, sometimes related to the suppression of some strong emotion. They sometimes have hoarseness or a complete loss of their voice. An emotional state is also evidenced by their tendency to take deep breaths or to sigh frequently.


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Older News » Mosquito-borne diseasesLast updated 10:56 AM on 15 September 2011
NSW Health is warning parents and school communities about a range of health risks associated with mosquito bites.
There has been a significant increase in the numbers of mosquitoes in some parts of NSW following recent heavy rainfall and flooding.
Mosquitoes can transmit a number of viral infections, including Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus, and a large number of these infections have been reported in 2011.
A rarer but more serious mosquito-borne infection called Murray Valley encephalitis has also been detected in western NSW.
School students who live in western NSW, or who plan to travel west of the Great Dividing Range on school camps or excursions, should take particular care to prevent mosquito bites.
Mosquitoes are most active around dusk, in the first few hours of the evening and again at dawn.
Rivers, creeks, wetlands and recently-flooded land allows mosquitoes to breed. People living near or visiting these areas need to be especially careful.
Prevent mosquito bites
NSW Health suggests the following ways to reduce the risk of mosquito bites:
- Cover up when outside and mosquitoes are active – particularly around dawn and around dusk. Wear light-coloured, loose-fitting long pants and sleeves and covered footwear.
- Use an effective personal insect repellent on all exposed skin. The best mosquito repellents contain diethyl toluamide (DEET) or picaridin.
- Reapply personal insect repellent according to directions as protection wears off. The stronger the concentration of an insect repellent, the less frequently it will need to be applied to stop mosquito bites. Repellents containing low concentrations of DEET or picaridin provide shorter periods of protection and need to be reapplied more frequently.
- Mosquito coils or plug-in vapourising mats are effective when used indoors. Devices that use light to attract and electrocute insects are not effective.
- Ensure houses are fitted with flyscreens on the doors and windows to prevent entry of mosquitoes.
- When camping, use flyscreens on caravans and tents or sleep under mosquito nets.
It is likely that the risk period may extend through until Easter.
Find out more information about mosquito-borne infections:
- contact your local public health unit
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Flatscreen TVs increasingly come loaded with extras; four or five HDMI inputs are de rigueur, video-capable USB ports are becoming common, and it's even possible to bag wireless home networking and limited internet browsing.
Sharp has eschewed all of that on its latest LCD TV and continues to concentrate on keeping the price as low as possible in the belief that most TV buyers just want two things: a flat screen and a good price.
That's exactly what's on offer from the 32-inch LC-32LE600E, but it's also got something very special up its sleeve: an LED backlight. And here that new technology is going for a song.
Excluding the fact that it uses an all-new (certainly at this price) Full Screen LED backlight (more on how that differs from other LED backlight TVs in the Value & Ease of use section), Sharp's LC-32LE600E LCD is bereft of almost all distractions.
Selling on Sharp's website for £749, we spotted the LC-32LE600E for as low as £450 via a cashback deal. If that's a mighty tempting price, do allow for some surprising omissions that you may or may not be able to live without.
Just two HDMI inputs adorn the rear, with a third on a side panel – that's the fewest we've seen for some time. It also lacks a USB slot or any form of home networking (such as Digital Living Network Alliance, or DLNA), so it's just not possible to get MP3, JPEG or DiVX video files into the LC-32LE600E.
More surprisingly, given that the LC-32LE600E is aimed at mainstream consumers, is that it's not particularly slim. It measures just over 9cm in depth, but Sharp hasn't abandoned aesthetics altogether in its quest for the best possible picture/price equation.
A feather-light TV, from the front the LC-32LE600E sports a slim, gloss black screen surround and silver strip beneath that constitutes an interesting, though muted, new look for Sharp LCD TVs.
It's also worth mentioning that the LC-32LE600E has several 'eco' features. If used, Sharp claims that its 'standard' and 'advanced' power saving modes can allow the set to consume 40 per cent less power than normal LCD TVs.
If you like the sound of this LED TV, but would prefer a slightly more comprehensive version, head for Sharp's LE700E Series, which features 100Hz processing to rid the screen of any motion blur (although this can introduce other video nasties).
Like the LE600E Series, it's available in 32-inch, 40-inch and 46-inch sizes, and adds a 52-inch version.


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Man shot during argument in Aberdeen
Daniel Morris flown to Shock Trauma
Man shot during argument in Aberdeen
Daniel Morris flown to Shock Trauma
A 26-year-old man is in serious condition after being shot in the stomach in Harford County over the weekend.
Police said Daniel Morris, of Elkton, was shot around 6:20 p.m. Saturday during an argument with another person at the Perrywood Apartment Complex in Aberdeen.
Morris was flown to Shock Trauma.
So far, there's no word on what sparked the argument or a description of a possible suspect.
Anyone with information should call the Harford County Sheriff's Office at 410-836-5428 or submit a tip online at tipsubmit.com. Officials are offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information that could lead to a conviction.


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April 01. 2014 8:56PM
Acworth man hurt in crash
Acworth firefighter recovering from crash
— A local man was seriously injured Tuesday when his truck went off Hill Road and down an embankment, state police said.
Michael Blake, 65, was heading south on Hill Road in his 1986 GMC pickup truck about 8:20 a.m. Tuesday when he lost control, hit a guardrail, went over the guardrail and down an embankment. The cab of the truck detached from the frame and rolled farther down the hill and Blake was trapped inside, police said.
Police said the crash appears to have been caused by defective equipment, but did not elaborate.
He was rescued by firefighters and flown to Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center in Lebanon for treatment of what police said were serious injuries.


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What if your whole career was built on a lie, and you had to keep inventing new lies almost daily to sustain your momentum? That's the stressful situation faced by overly ambitious, young New York Times reporter Jay Burnett, in Gabe McKinley's stylish new play "CQ/QX."
Based on the true story of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at the Times in 2003, the Atlantic Theater Company's dynamic, intelligent production opened Wednesday night off-Broadway at The Peter Norton Space.
McKinley is a former news assistant at the Times who overlapped with Blair's tenure over five years there, and his hands-on experience and ability to write forceful, crackling dialogue give the play an authentic air.
Tony Award-nominated David Leveaux, who recently directed Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" on Broadway, keeps up a fast pace, yet lets the telling drama of each scene play out, sometimes non-verbally. A cacophony of ringing phones, newsroom loudspeaker and shouting editors energizes scenes where the staff is on deadline, while quieter scenes occur in places like privileged offices lined with photos of Pulitzer Prize-winners, the now-quaint "smoking room," or a bar frequented by the reporters.
Kobi Libii gives an engaging portrayal of Burnett, at first eager and conscientious, as the young black man joins the Times with the 1998 intern class. His editor on the Metro desk, Ben (given a principled, no-nonsense presence by Tim Hopper) notices sloppiness with regard to detail almost immediately and offers important advice about factual writing. "Did you CQ it?" he asks Jay using a journalism shorthand, then explains, "Cadit Quaestio. The question falls. The facts have been checked." He also reminds Jay that "We are writing the first draft of history, respect that."
But Jay is impatient for success, and his work, while talented, often requires CX (correction), although he expresses admiration for old-school journalism. "I like those old ways. Hounding. Getting the story. Work hard, play hard," he recites to Frank, (a very effective Larry Bryggman), a veteran newsman with 43 years at the Times who feels he's been put out to pasture.
Soon Jay is plagiarizing others' work on the Internet, fabricating quotes and using his cellphone and laptop to pretend he's reporting from major story locations, all without leaving his Brooklyn apartment. Increasing use of cocaine and alcohol don't help his rationality.
Arliss Howard is suave and manipulative, in full-blown Southern gentleman mode, as newly promoted executive editor Hal. His deputy and Jay's mentor, Gerald, is played with well-honed repressed anger by an imposing Peter Jay Fernandez. One of the first black men to reach top management levels at the newspaper, Gerald has no idea what Jay is really up to. Racial tension will explode in a recriminatory scene between Hal and Gerald after Jay's house of cards collapses, and Jay will use race as a shield against his detractors. (Hal and Gerald are based on real-life former Times editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd.)
David Pittu wears an air of idealistic pride as the Times' publisher, called only Junior, (based on real-life Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.,) whose family has run the paper for generations. The cast is rounded out by Steve Rosen and Shelia Tapia, capably enacting a couple of fellow interns who become Jay's friends and portray the honest route to journalistic success that he might have taken.
David Rockwell's flexible set flashes with well-chosen projections of actual Times headlines, while sliding panels that change color to denote different locations, (a seductive red for the bar, for instance) echo the Renzo Piano-designed horizontal rods on the Times' real-life new skyscraper. The newsroom background is all gray, a nod to the paper's nickname, "the Gray Lady," which Hal claims is because of "the gray writing. Dull and lifeless."
The hubris, the competition, deadline pressures and political scheming by senior editors all make for compelling drama, as McKinley builds to the inevitable discovery of Jay's deception, which taints the newspaper's reputation and causes collateral damage to those who championed him.
McKinley provides an affecting story of a man who became a self-destructive machine, while Jay's motivation for continually lying remains ambiguous, almost as if he didn't really understand it himself.
"CQ/QX" is in an extended run through March 11.


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Court Reverses Philadelphia Monsignor's Conviction
Decision Dismisses Criminal Case Against Msgr. Lynn
A landmark criminal conviction of a Roman Catholic monsignor imprisoned for his handling of sexual-abuse allegations was overturned Thursday by a Pennsylvania appeals court.
A three-judge Superior Court panel ordered the release of Msgr. William Lynn, the first U.S. Catholic official ever convicted of a criminal charge related to the alleged coverup of sexual abuse of minors by other priests.


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Kevin G. Lynch, PhD is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, where he is the Director of the Biostatistics and Data Management Core of the NIDA P60 Center for Studies on Addictions (PI: O'Brien). He has a Secondary Appointment in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UPMC.
His methodology research is in the area of latent structure models: mixture models and diagnostics for mixture structure, models for zero-inflation and latent class models for longitudinal data, and models of causal inference. His collaborative research is concerned with applications of statistical methods in Psychiatry, particularly the use of causal inference in mediation analyses, latent variable models in diagnosis, the analysis of longitudinal studies of treatment and continuing care with non-compliance and missing data, and applications of psychometric models to substance abuse instruments. In particular, he has worked with Dr. Alterman on on several psychometric analyses involving factor analyes, structural equation models, and parametric and nonparametric item response theory, including studies of the Addiction Severity Index (versions 3, 5, and 6 and the ASI-Lite), the revised Treatment Services Received form, the California Psychological Inventory, the Alcohol SIP, and the development of a Drug SIP.
His professional memberships include the American Statistical Association, the Biometric Society, and the Classification Society of North America. He serves as a Consulting Editor for Statistics for the Journal of Bipolar Disorders, and for Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
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Image: Appleby's Asian Leaf Litter Toad Leptolalax applebyi
Appleby's Asian Leaf Litter Toad, Leptolalax applebyi, is a new species of frog from central Vietnam named after Robert Appleby, a generous supporter of biodiversity conservation and scientific capacity building in Asia. Discovered by Dr Jodi Rowley and her Vietnamese colleague Cao Tien Trung, this tiny two-centimetre frog spends most of its time hiding under leaf litter, and was only discovered after hours searching the forest floor for a faint cricket-like calling heard intermittently in a small patch of forest.
Rowley, J.J. L. & T. T. Cao. 2009. A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa.2198: 51–60.
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- Quang Nam Province, Vietnam
Check out the video story on the Wall Street Journal about the discovery of Appleby's Asian Toad by Jodi.
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BARSTOW, Calif. - California's High Desert has become home to countless veterans over the years. But what are the chances of three friends from two Texas cities no more than 150 miles apart joining the Corps in 1947, coming to Barstow in the 1950s, and remaining there for more than 60 years?
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Hi again, guys.
I'm currently playing with several of the firewall distros and today came across a problem I don't know how to handle correctly.
I first noticed the issue with Endian (which has a set of pre-defined firewall rules), but after adding some basic rules to Vyatta (namely blocking all outbound TCP except for http(s), IMAP(s), POP3(s), SMTP, DNS), hit the same query.
One of the sites I visit is https. I was having difficulty connecting to it. Upon examining the logs, there were some outbound TCP SYN requests that were being blocked, destined for ports 843 and 32256/32257. Allowing these ports out cured the problem.
For future reference, though, rather than open ports (which could vary by the look of it), I was wondering if it was OK to, say, allow all outbound SYN requests from the lan? Or SYN requests for established connections only? Or am I paving the way to vuln city?


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World energy consumption will rise 56% in the next three decades, driven by growth in developing countries such as China and India, the Energy Information Administration said.
Demand will increase to 820 quadrillion British thermal units in 2040 from 524 quadrillion in 2010, the EIA said in the International Energy Outlook 2013, with the two Asian countries accounting for half the gain. One quadrillion Btu is equal to 172 million barrels of crude oil. China's energy consumption will double the U.S. level by 2040.
"Rising prosperity in China and India is a major factor in the outlook for global energy demand," EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski said in a news release. "This will have a profound effect on the development of world energy markets."
Demand in countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will increase by 90% through 2040. Use by OECD members, including the U.S. and Japan, will grow 17%.
Use of petroleum and other liquid fuels will grow to 115 million barrels a day in 2040 from 87 million in 2010. Liquid fuels will account for 28% of demand in 2040, down from 34% in 2010.
Brent Prices
Brent crude will average $106 a barrel in 2020 and $163 in 2040, valued in 2011 dollars. Brent, a gauge for more than half the world's oil, averaged $107.83 this year through yesterday.
Brent for September settlement slid 40 cents, or 0.4%, to $106.79 a barrel at 10:25 a.m. New York time on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, fell $1.10, or 1%, to $104.29 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
U.S. oil production climbed to 7.56 million barrels a day in the week ended July 19, the most since December 1990, the EIA said yesterday in a weekly report.
A combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unlocked supplies in shale formations in North Dakota, Texas and other states. Rising output helped the U.S. meet 89% of its energy needs in March, the highest rate since April 1986, EIA data show.
"Advances in technology make liquids production in previously inaccessible regions increasingly feasible," the EIA said. "An important example of the potential impact of technological advances is the rapid growth of U.S. shale oil production in recent years."
World Shale
World shale oil recoverable resources are 345 billion barrels, according to the EIA.
The report also made these predictions:
- Fossil fuels, including oil, natural gas and coal, will supply almost 80% of world energy through 2040.
- Natural gas use will grow 64%, faster than any other fossil fuel. Consumption will be 185 trillion cubic feet in 2040, up from 113 trillion in 2010.
- Renewable and nuclear, the fastest-growing sources, will increase by 2.5% a year.
- Coal consumption will rise 1.3% a year to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040 from 147 quadrillion.
- Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase 46% to 45 billion metric tons by 2040.
- Net electricity generation will almost double, rising to 39 trillion kilowatt-hours from 20.2 trillion.
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