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Scifi Diner Conversations 12 – The Stargate Universe Cancellation, The Various Christmas Specials, and I09's Best and Worse SciFi of the Year.
Tonight Miles and Scott have with them special guest and original SciFi Diner Don. They discuss the Stargate Universe Cancellation and listeners thoughts on it. They also talk about the Warehouse 13, Eureka, and Dr, Who Christmas Specials. They end their discuss talking about iO9's Best and Worst Movies on 2010 and basically end up declaring the list a train wreck. Let us know your best and worst SciFi movies of 2010. We have included i09's list just for fun,
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Best and Worst Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies of 2010
The Last Exorcism
The "found footage" horror/disaster movie is fast becoming a cliche, and tons more are on the way. But there's still room for a clever, exciting take on the genre, as proved by this film about a preacher who decides to prove that exorcisms are fake — so he invites a documentary crew along to document the trickery, as he does one last exorcism on a disturbed girl. Only one problem: the preacher leads the slick city film crew into a situation that's a lot more messed up than the usual small-town case of madness. And our post-modern evangelical preacher quickly finds himself out of his depth. The progression into horror feels logical and unforced, as everybody grapples with what to do about this poor disturbed girl — never allowing themselves to think her possession could be real. Our original review is here.
Let Me In
The Swedish vampire movie Let The Right One In was one of our favorite movies of 2008, and we were dreading the inevitably dumbed-down U.S. remake. But then something weird happened — Matt Reeves' remake won us over with its intense creepiness. This was not a warmed-over, smoothed-out, homogenized, mainstreamed and supersized reimagining for U.S. audiences — if anything, Reeves' determination to capture the spirit of the original novel cost him audiences in the U.S. At least, there were tons of people walking out of preview screenings during the intense emotional scenes between Abby the permanently pubescent vampire girl and Owen, her new friend. Gorgeously bleak and disturbing, this film isn't so much about seduction of an innocent as it is about the ways Owen is already alienated from a brutal world that makes life with a vampire seem preferable. Our original review is here.
Another film that was just too creeptastic for a lot of audiences. Vincenzo Natali's thriller about a genetically engineered monster girl is as much about an unethical family unit as it is about unethical science. In fact, just like Last Exorcism and Let Me In, this film is about a girl who's just not… normal, and what to do about her forms the crux of the narrative. This time, the girl is named Dren, and she's an animal-human hybrid, who develops a weirdly intense, sexualized relationship with her "parents," played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. There are some serious stumbles in the film, including some stuff that feels thrown in for pointless squick factor, but the central relationship, between Dren and Polley's character, feels raw and true. Our original review is here.
The Crazies
A remake of a little-known George Romero film, about a military experiment that turns a town full of people into violent lunatics, this should have been a forgettable mess. But some smart storytelling choices on the part of director Breck Eisner, including focussing in on the survivors in the town, turned this into a thrilling action-horror masterpiece. The pacing is really nifty, and instead of just piling on scene after scene of someone creeping around a deserted silo waiting to get attacked, or fighting off mobs of lunatics, the film seems to take great care with its scares. Every fight scene, every scary bit, seems well thought out, and by the time we come to the challenge of figuring out who's infected among our heroes, we've actually gotten deeply invested in their survival. This is a nice tutorial on how to do an apocalyptic movie right. (Read our original review.)
Superhero movies have long since become overrun with cliches, and the kind of wish-fulfillment that borders on the psychotic. So it's especially refreshing to see such a batshit insane, irreverent, and above all ultra-violent take on the genre. Dave Lizewski, the earnest teenager who wants to become a superhero, is a stand-in for the audience, and his utter masochism — and the joy he gets from encountering and fighting actual evil — are captivating. But the film's great joy is the creation of Big Daddy (Nic Cage) and his pink ninja daughter Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), who's one of the all-time great film creations. Years from now, people will be talking about how this film helped transform superhero movies. (Here's our original review.)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The year's other great comic-book movie was also genre-defying and relentlessly inventive, using the tropes of video games as well as comic books to tell the story of Scott Pilgrim's courtship of Ramona Flowers, which involves defeating her seven evil exes. Director Edgar Wright exaggerates the already intense video game motif in Bryan Lee O'Malley's original comic, and amps up the sense that Scott Pilgrim's whole life is a video game. There's hardly a moment in this heavily stylized film that doesn't feel fresh or surprising, thanks to a cavalcade of Bollywood motifs, flashbacks, video game sounds and other pop culture motifs. Watching Wright experiment on film is as much fun as watching Scott Pilgrim level up. Here's our original review.
Most Hollywood sequels suffer from a swollen budget and a shrunken sense of storytelling. But Predators gets its priorities right, with a low-budget, back-to-basics approach. This is just a tremendously well-made action movie, in which every piece feels as though it's been thought through carefully, and blurry visuals and quick cuts are kept to a minimum — in fact, there's not much CG effects at all. The central twist this time around is that humans are brought to a "game preserve" planet to be hunted by the Predators, instead of the Predators coming to Earth to hunt, and this change means the main characters are trapped, even if they escape their pursuers. Both the Predators and their human prey are trying to get a step ahead of the other, and neither side behaves idiotically. Adrien Brody and Alice Braga manage to infuse their potentially cliched characters with enough personality and conviction that we actually care whether they survive. All in all, this is a rock-solid action movie, and an example of a sequel that builds on the original in a smart way. Read our original review.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
This should have been the most boring of the Harry Potter movies, since it adapts the first half of J.K. Rowling's notoriously slow-starting final Potter book. Instead, it's widely being regarded as the best of the Potter films — a movie that stands on its own as a great film in its own right instead of just a movie adaptation of a successful book. Director David Yates picks up two strands in the original book: Harry Potter and his friends on the run, grappling with very adult relationship conflicts in the wilderness; and Voldemort consolidating his power and creating his ultimate wizard-supremacist regime. The result is intense, action-packed… and very, very dark. We're not in Hogwarts any more. Read our original review.
Toy Story 3
Another great example of a sequel done right — Toy Story 3 takes the themes of the first two movies and moves them forward in a clever way that you'll keep thinking about long after you leave the theater. Oh, and if you don't bawl like a little baby in the movie's final moments, then your heart has been eaten by Satan and/or you're a Borg drone. Once again, the film is about the relationship between toys and their owner, in a fantasy world where toys come to life whenever people aren't looking. The toys' owner, Andy, is headed off to college and he plans to put (almost) all of his toys in the attic — but the toys get donated to a day-care center instead, where they discover the dark side of being possessions, and become trapped in a kind of caste system enforced by the treacley Lotso Huggin' Bear. In the end, the toys find a perfect solution to their dilemma, and we learn once and for all that their love for each other will always be greater than any owner's love for them. It's amazing how moving a saga about pieces of plastic can be.
People tend to talk about Christopher Nolan's latest movie as a kind of puzzle-box — as if it's full of mysteries and ambiguities, or it's terribly confusing. (I've been guilty of this myself.) But it's really a pretty straightforward movie with an ending that tweaks you a bit. What is fascinating about this film, and what we found ourselves debating for hours and days after seeing it, is the character of Cobb and his demons. Cobb is presented as a kind of thief, but he's actually more like a con man — even before he takes the assignment to plant an idea in someone's head. And Cobb's marriage is the one relationship he can't con his way through, because his wife's already dead and she's now just a figment of his own mind. This might be the most intimate movie Nolan has done in ages, but it's also a brilliant action movie, with justly famous sequences like the zero-G hotel hallway fight. It's a reinvention of the Ocean's Eleven movies through the lens of a carefully constrained surrealism, and more than any other film this year, Inception will live forever. (Check out our review.)
Honorable mentions: We're still not sure if it was fantasy or just a movie about hallucinations, but we really liked Darren Aronofsky's The Black Swan. We also wanted to give a shout-out to How To Train Your Dragon. And we still like Hot Tub Time Machine, a cute slice of retro-1980s comedy goodness.
Alice in Wonderland
The marriage of Tim Burton and Disney could have been interesting, if Burton's gothy weirdness had been allowed to dominate. But apart from a fascinating frame story in which the grown-up Alice is pressured to get married, this film mostly descends into Disney-style sweetness, and Burton's nastiness is pushed to the sidelines. Burton seems to have substituted CG effects and silly visuals for actual personality or story, and Helena Bonham-Carter is insipid and unmenacing as the Red Queen. The film tries to be about Alice's journey to true heroism, but this mostly consists of dull characters floating around her and smiling vapidly in approval while she hefts her vorpal sword. (Here's our original review.)
The Wolfman
We were excited to see Universal reviving the classic monster movie, with Benicio Del Toro as the wolfman and Anthony Hopkins as his evil father — but sadly, this ended up being much more of a cheesy B-movie with daddy issues. A troubled production — including a last-minute change of directors — led to a movie that's both bland and all over the place. Even Hugo Weaving, channeling Agent Smith as an investigator sent from Scotland Yard to hunt down the werewolf, can't bring life to this cheesetastic mess. Our original review is here.
An action movie about angels coming to chastise the human race — sounds good on the face of it, right? Too bad this movie totally fails to follow through on the awesomeness of its premise. Instead, we get trapped in a diner with a group of totally cliched characters, plus the angel Michael (Paul Bettany) who is determined to save a small child from his angelic brothers. You wait in vain for the cool battle sequences, but instead the film drags on with dull conversations between characters we don't care about. When the action does arrive, it's ineptly shot and instantly forgettable. What is it with action movies that don't deliver thrills or, you know, fun? There were a lot of those this year. And Legion was like the heraldic angel of the action-movie crapocalypse. Check out our original review here.
The Lovely Bones
If there's a theme to a lot of the movies we hated this year, it's excessive reliance on gorgeous CG imagery that leaves the audience feeling numb. And Peter Jackson, who used CG to legendary effect in the Lord of the Rings movies, gives in to the lazy use of CG overkill in his adaptation of Alice Sebold's acclaimed novel. After the pure, innocent Susie Salmon falls victim to the pedophile serial killer George Harvey, the movie just sort of falls apart as Jackson tries to smother us with painterly imagery of the afterlife, and we stop caring what's going to happen to her. Instead of facing up to the horror of what happens to Susie, the movie decides to try and balance it out with a flotilla of computer-generated butterflies. A bravura turn by Susan Sarandon as the chain-smoking grandma who steps in to try and solve the Salmon family's problems can't rescue the movie from imploding. Our original review is here.
Iron Man 2
The original Iron Man was one of the best superhero movies, and it remains one of the best-told origin stories of all time, thanks to a hefty dose of body horror and Tony Stark's confrontation with the evils he's helped to cause. The sequel, by contrast, is just sort of a mess, and is a bad sign for the future of big-budget superhero romps. The film wastes too much time advertising the upcoming Avengers team-up movie. And meanwhile, Tony Stark, who was enjoyably flawed and complex in the first movie, just becomes kind of a tiresome dick this time around. (Although he does have a few epically funny lines.) There are a couple of great action scenes, notably the racetrack sequence, but the film drags for about an hour with nothing much happening. A subplot about Tony suffering radiation poisoning is built up, only to be resolved in a totally silly fashion. The internet is full of rumors that both director Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. were unhappy with how this film turned out, and it's easy to see why — they're both capable of much, much better. Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come. Here's our original review.
Tron Legacy
This film seems to be dividing audiences — a lot of people really seem to like it a lot. For us, though, this film is emblematic of the trend towards unimaginative sequels that throw more money at the screen but don't add anything actually cool. The film is basically a note-for-note remake of the original Tron, in which the same things happen in the same order — except that it's much, much slower. While the film itself tries to copy the original Tron as much as possible, it takes place inside a copy of the original Game Grid built by Kevin Flynn, so the film is literally about what it is — a derivative sequel. There's no suspense, no tension, no action, and not much in the way of fun. Instead, the story grinds to a halt while the characters explain to us that something interesting did happen, but it was a long time ago. The film sputters to life a few times, when Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen have a few cute moments each. But most of the time, Tron Legacy remains inert and every moment feels just as exciting as every other moment. True to its name, the Tron sequel is too concerned with the legacy of the first movie to focus on being a fun action-adventure movie. More here, in our original review.
The Book of Eli
This movie takes us through a dead wasteland full of wrecked cars, in which small men like Carnegie (Gary Oldman) reign over the ruins. It's not a bad setup for a movie, but Eli never quite gets off the ground — apart from a few scenes where the nomadic Eli (Denzel Washington) takes on a dozen men and kills them all, the movie is as dusty and devoid of life as the world it's depicting. Even though civilization has collapsed, Eli still has handi-wipes from a KFC, and an iPod — but for some reason, the most printed book in human history is impossible to find. The first half of the film feels like it's going to be a sturdy post-apocalyptic romp, but the second half turns into a dull examination of the power of the titular Book — and after a while, you'll wish you'd stayed home and read that book, or any other. (Here's our original review.)
Jonah Hex
Josh Brolin as a scar-faced gunslinger, Megan Fox playing a Wild West hooker, a horse with gatling guns strapped to it — it seems impossible that this film could lose. Sadly, though, the makers of this DC Comics supernatural Western decided to turn it into a saga about preventing terrorism, in the shape of John Malkovich trying to destroy the U.S. government with dragonballs. Every time you think this film is about to do something awesome, the action grinds to a halt so we can have another flashback about how bad the bad guys are and how sad Jonah Hex is about what happened to his family. For an 80-minute movie, this film spends way too much time looking back and brooding. As silly and dumb as this film is, it doesn't manage to revel in its own pulpiness, but instead tries to make us care about dragonball terrorism. Just say no to dragonball terrorism metaphors, people! Our original review, for your reading pleasure.
Given that this film came from the Strause brothers, makers of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem, we shouldn't have hoped for much. But the cool-looking visual effects, showing people being scooped up into the sky by alien ships, made us raise our hopes in spite of ourselves. We shouldn't have — the actual movie, in which a collection of stereotyped characters meet for a party and then are terrorized by brain-sucking aliens, is a pointless disaster. The alien-invasion movie cliches hit us one by one, including the guy punching the alien in its carapace and the characters deciding they should leave the city. It's all so pointless and rehashed from earlier films that when an actual new plot twist arrives in the final moments of the film, you feel like weeping for joy. Here's our original review.
The Last Airbender
Based on the classic television show, M. Night Shyamalan's movie had amazing material to work with, and it took a lot of work on Shyamalan's part to drain all of the life and fun out of that material. Part of it is the fact that he tries to compress an entire season of a television show into a single movie — but that's not the only problem here. The bigger problem is that the fun, engaging characters from the television show become dull mannequins here, trudging through one set piece after another without any conviction or energy. And like a lot of other terrible films this year, Shyamalan bombards us with so much CG cheese and bad 3D that you feel apathetic pretty quickly. Stuff just sort of happens in this movie for no reason, and since the characters don't seem to care, we're not sure why we should either. I wish I could say that Inception is emblematic of the state of movie-making circa 2010, but unfortunately it's closer to say Last Airbender is: pointless, overblown and mind-numbing. (And here's our original review.)
Runners up: Nightmare on Elm Street 3D, After.Life, Monsters, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, When In Rome, Gulliver's Travels.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online courses that are reshaping higher education.
The American Council on Education announced Thursday that it is recommending degree credit for five courses offered by Coursera, a Mountain View-based company that provides "massive open online courses" from leading universities.
Many colleges and universities use the association's recommendations to determine whether to grant credit for nontraditional courses.
Molly Corbett Broad, the council's president, said the decision is "an important first step in ACE's work to examine the long-term potential of MOOCs and whether this innovative new approach can engage students across the country and worldwide."
Over the past year, dozens of leading universities have begun offering free, digital versions of their most popular courses, allowing tens of thousands of students to take a class at the same time. But so far, few institutions have offered degree credit for them.
Allowing students to get credit for the massive online courses could help make it easier to earn a college degree, said John Aubrey Douglass, a higher education researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
"As long as we can assess and ensure quality, it's providing one more way that students can receive an education at an affordable cost," Douglass said.
The American Council on Education, which represents U.S. degree-granting institutions, is recommending credit for five entry-level classes: Algebra and Pre-Calculus from the University of California, Irvine; Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University; Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach from Duke University; and Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania.
The courses themselves are free, but students seeking credit will need to pay between $100 and $190 to verify their identities, take exams monitored by webcam and receive transcripts with the council's credit recommendations.
Ultimately, the institution where the student wants credit will decide whether the units will count toward a degree.
"There are many working adults today that do not have a college degree. I hope the convenience of an online class can be a first step for many of these adults to go back to school to earn their degrees," Andrew Ng, a Stanford University researcher who co-founded Coursera, told The Associated Press.
Coursera, which now offers more than 200 open courses from 33 institutions, plans to seek the council's credit recommendations for more classes in the future, Ng said. Many of the courses are automated and require little oversight from instructors.
The announcement comes less than a week after Coursera suspended an online course offered by Georgia Institute of Technology because of technical troubles. The course, which was about how to run an online course, will be offered again at later date, Ng said.

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Grappling Industries MANHATTAN: November 17, 2018
Location: Baruch College
Doors Open @ 7:30am | Event Starts @ 9am
FORMAT and PROTOCOL: Grappling Industries tournaments follow Round Robin formatting meaning that all adult competitors get 4 matches for signing up for a division that fills up to 5 competitors. That means if you compete in both Gi and NoGi, you could get 8 plus fights. This allows you to compete against so many different people, giving you the experience you deserve! All Grappling Industries events follow the traditional points structure but without advantages! We are also very legal submission friendly!
RULES and GUIDELINES: http://grapplingindustries.com/rules/
DIVISIONS: http://grapplingindustries.com/divisions/
We do not take late registrations or registrations at the event!
Early Bird Registration 1 or 2 Divisions – (Register before November 3 at 11:59pm) $79
Late Registration 1 or 2 Divisions – (Register before November 13 at 11:59pm) $99
Per Absolute Division – $20
Spectators - $15 at the event
Event Tees or Hats - $20 at the event
COMPETITOR LISTS: Competitor Lists will be live throughout the registration process and can be viewed by checking out the registrations tab on the event page. Do not hesitate to register early. In the event that we are unable to find you fair matches, we will issue you a full refund.
CHANGING DIVISIONS: You will have until 5pm the day after registration closes to make any changes to your registration. You can make these changes by logging into your account and modifying your registration details. After this change deadline, your registration will become locked in, and there will no further changes allowed. We reserve the right to merge you after change deadline if you are alone in your division into another fair division if available.
REFUND POLICY: We issue refunds for an event registration until the early bird date. From the early bird date to the change deadline, only credits will be issued for future events. After change deadline, there will be no refunds or future credits issued. Refunds and Credits can be gotten by logging into your account and cancelling your event registration.
BRACKETS and SCHEDULE: 48 hours prior to the tournament, the event brackets and tentative schedule will be released. You will be able to locate both on the event page brackets and schedule tab. All Grappling Industries tournaments feature 2 amazing large 50" inch TVs displaying the LIVE schedule by bracket and LIVE schedule by match order happening on each mat. You can also tell when your matches are coming up by checking the tab on your mobile device during the competition. We will also make a courtesy call for you on the microphone to come to the mat if you also haven't already presented yourself for the bracket. Please be at the mat on time for your matches.
WEIGH-INS: Takes place on the day of the event. You must weigh-in anytime up to at least 60 minutes before your scheduled division start time. You do not have to weigh-in with your gi on. You only need to weigh-in once if competing in several divisions. You must make weight for your division or else you will be disqualified. You only need to weigh-in once if competing in several divisions. We ask that you make sure to be present in the venue at least 60 minutes prior your division start time as well in case we are able to get head starts on certain division.
COACH CHAIR and CROWD CONTROL: We will have 1 chair on each side of every score table, 1 for each coach of the competitor on the mat. The only other people allowed within the barricades during the tournament are the competitors on the mat having their match and the competitors on deck.
MEDALS and PODIUM PHOTOS: Beautiful gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded to all podium finishers. During the post-week of events, we will upload an album of an event's podium photos to our Facebook page. We will have a TV at the medal podium displaying who is currently on the podium, and which division's podium finishers are next to go o up on the podium.
MEDIC ON HAND: There will be a trained and professional medic on sight. We have reached deals with several national companies specialized in event medical services that we can trust with the safety of our competitors whether they need ice, get injured, or need advice on previous injuries.
WARM UP MATS: We try our best to always provide a warm up mat area for our competitors during tournaments. In cases which events reach close to or full capacity, we could be restricted from having the floor space to create a warm up area for our competitors.
TV SCOREBOARDS: Grappling Industries scoreboards are best in the game. Competitor's name, team, and flag are displayed, along with the match's division and match number.
BEST OVERALL TEAM: Team standings, points, and medal counts are live updated to and readily available on the results tab of the event page. We will have a TV at the medal podium displaying the live team standings as they transpire throughout the event.
FASTEST SUBMISSION: Aim for the top of the event leaderboard with your name and time. We track how fast you submit someone. We record the top 10 fastest submission times at each tournament and post the leaderboard post-week of the events.
DIVISION RESULTS: Division brackets along with their final placements are live updated to and readily available on the results tab of the event page.
RANKINGS: We track rankings for both competitors and teams by the Annual Season and by Overall Lifetime. Competitor rankings are categorized by genders, ages, weights, and belt or experience. Team rankings are categorized by team points and medal count.
BLACK BELTS and MMA PROS: As an appreciation for their time invested and commitment to our sport as a martial artist, we give free registration to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts and professional mixed martial arts fighters looking to compete in our tournaments. Email us with credentials at firstname.lastname@example.com
WORK AT THE EVENT: We are always looking for experienced referees, event staff, and competitors to help setup! We pay competitively, and at longer events also include snacks and meals for day of workers. We trade free registration to compete in exchange for 3 hours maximum of light work during the set-up phase of the event the night before tournaments. Email us to apply at firstname.lastname@example.com
INDIVIDUAL LIFETIME PASS: Compete for the rest of your life at any Grappling Industries tournament. You will have created for you your own lifetime pass coupon code to register with fees waived every event of ours. $700 USD. Email us to purchase at email@example.com
GYM LIFETIME PASS: Your gym gets 1 fees waived registration per each Grappling Industries tournament in the world! Transferrable student to student, 1 competitor from the gym can compete at a Grappling Industries tournament fees waived! $900 USD. Email us to purchase at firstname.lastname@example.com
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CloseTrak LLC, a provider of real estate title and closing services, is in expansion mode.
Attorneys Robin Hogue-Hughes, Kevin Hudson and Stephen Johnson recently joined CloseTrak. The additions come as the Bartlett-based closing and title company expands into East Memphis and Collierville.
CloseTrak is opening its newly renovated offices at Ridgeway Center, 5860 Ridgeway Center Parkway in East Memphis. CloseTrak also recently opened a satellite office in the Law Offices of Mitzi Johnson, at 185 N. Main St., suite 102, in Collierville.
To provide a wider range of services to CloseTrak's clients, Hudson and Greg Ziskind have formed Hudson Ziskind PLLC, which will also be located in the Ridgeway Center. Hudson Ziskind PLLC will focus on commercial transactions, commercial litigation, construction litigation, landlord-tenant law, probate and estate planning and counseling lenders on structuring secured loan transactions.
Arkansas-based retailer Sissy's Log Cabin is coming to Laurelwood Shopping Center.
The store will move into newly created space between James Davis and Talbots Petites. It will offer custom jewelry design, onsite designer watch and jewelry repair, diamond jewelry, engagement and bridal rings, designer lines and a space designed exclusively for Rolex.
Since 1970, Sissy's Log Cabin has been a family-owned and operated jewelry store in Arkansas.
Construction will start immediately and the new store should open by late summer.
Bernd Meibohm, associate dean for research and graduate programs and professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, had the findings of his latest research published in the February issue of biomedical sciences journal Nature Medicine.
The article, titled "Spectinamides: a new class of semisynthetic antituberculosis agents that overcome native drug efflux," discussed significant breakthroughs in tuberculosis research.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that, if not treated properly, can be fatal. Globally, at least one person is infected with TB each second, and someone dies of TB disease every 20 seconds. Approximately one-third of the world's population is infected with TB, and TB bacteria can become resistant to the medicines used to treat the disease.
The research is a collaborative effort of Meibohm's research team and investigators Richard Lee of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Anne Lenaerts of Colorado State University and Dr. Erik Böttger of the University of Zurich.
Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages rose for a third straight week as new data showed a surprisingly strong pace of new-home sales last month. Rates still remain near historically low levels.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate for the 30-year loan increased to 4.37 percent from 4.33 percent last week. The average for the 15-year mortgage rose to 3.39 percent from 3.35 percent.
A report Wednesday from the Commerce Department boosted expectations that the spring home buying season will be solid enough to lift the overall economy.
Sales of new homes rebounded in January to the fastest rate in more than five years. The strength in purchases followed a slowdown that had been linked to higher mortgage rates and severe winter weather.
Mortgage rates have risen about a full percentage point since hitting record lows roughly a year ago. The increase was driven by speculation that the Federal Reserve would reduce its $85 billion-a-month bond purchases. Deeming the economy to be gaining strength, the Fed proceeded last month with planned reductions of its bond purchases, which have helped keep long-term interest rates low.
The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits rose 14,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, though the broader trend in applications remained stable.
But the four-week average was unchanged at 338,250, the Labor Department said Thursday. Applications are a rough proxy for layoffs. The average is not far above pre-recession levels, a sign companies are laying off few workers.
Economists said that winter storms two weeks ago may have caused some people to delay submitting their applications until last week, temporarily boosting the figures.
"Other evidence continues to point clearly to reasonably robust labor demand so we very much doubt the underlying trend in claims is picking up," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in a note to clients.
Applications have been mostly steady in recent weeks, even though hiring faltered in January and February. That suggests employers may be reluctant to add many jobs, but they aren't worried enough about future growth to step up layoffs.
Nearly 3.5 million people received unemployment aid in the week ending Feb. 8, the latest data available. That's about 25,000 fewer than the previous week.
Harsh winter weather has chilled hiring in recent months. Employers added just 113,000 jobs in January. That followed a gain of only 75,000 in December. Those figures are about half the monthly pace of the past two years.
Integrity Oncology Foundation, a part of Baptist Medical Group and a major player in the Baptist Cancer Center, has been recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The QOPI Certification Program provides a three-year certification for outpatient hematology-oncology practices that meet the highest standards for quality cancer care.
According to Dr. Stephen B. Edge, director of the Baptist Cancer Center, certification by the ASCO QOPI program is a key component in helping to assure high-quality cancer care. Edge added that this national program, first proposed by Dr. Joseph Simone, who later became Baptist's first Cancer Center director, sets high standards for demonstrating and maintaining quality.
A proposal that would prohibit the use of drones to conduct video surveillance of outdoorsmen in Tennessee without their permission has passed the Senate.
The measure, sponsored by Republican Sen. Mike Bell of Riceville, was unanimously approved 31-0 on Thursday.
Bell says his legislation would be added to the state's current law that protects hunters or fisherman from harassment. He said the law should be updated as technology changes.
The companion bill is scheduled to be heard next Tuesday in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.
Last year, the Tennessee General Assembly passed and the governor signed a measure to ban most warrantless surveillance by unmanned drones in Tennessee.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner says he will not seek re-election.
Turner told members of the House of Representatives on Thursday that he will retire at the end of the year after serving 14 years in District 51, which covers the areas of Old Hickory, Madison, east Nashville, downtown Nashville and Germantown.
Turner has served as caucus chairman since 2009.
Last month, Democratic State Rep. Charles Curtiss stepped down after serving for 19 years. Curtiss announced in October that he wouldn't run again for his District 43 seat that includes Grundy, Warren and White counties.
Paragon National Bank has taken the initial steps toward switching from being a nationally chartered bank to one with a state charter.
A change to a state charter would have no effect on Paragon customers or day-to-day operations, according to the bank. Paragon CEO Robert Shaw suggested it's more about preferring a different regulator.
In a statement released about the move, Shaw explained that a state charter gives Paragon two advantages – a regulator based in Tennessee "who fully understands our market," and "a level playing field with our peer institutions, virtually all of whom are state-chartered."
Paragon also has announced its intent to form a holding company to own the bank. The official name of the holding company will be Paragon Financial Solutions, and will be regulated by the Federal Reserve. The holding company's only investment would be Paragon National Bank, and it would have the same board members as that of Paragon National Bank.
Memphis-based IMC Cos. has acquired the marine drayage division of Norfolk, Va.-based D.D. Jones Transfer and Warehouse Co.
D.D. Jones is a family of distinct logistics companies serving the Norfolk port community and shippers in the larger Mid-Atlantic region since 1928. The company provides distribution, warehousing, trucking and transportation, and specializes in serving high-volume shippers.
As part of the acquisition, IMC will add 50 drivers and equipment from D.D. Jones, including 31 trucks and 27 trailers.
The transportation and logistics operation, team members and equipment from D.D. Jones will be folded into the current operation of Norfolk-based Atlantic Intermodal Services, a member of the IMC Cos. family of brands.
Mark George, chairman of IMC Cos., said the addition of D.D. Jones would help IMC strengthen its position in the region.
"This acquisition was highly strategic in nature," said George.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been awarded $393,750 in grant funding to aid work related to autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.
The grant comes through the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
For more than 60 years, NAID research has led to new therapies, vaccines, diagnostic tests and other technologies that have improved the health of people in the United States and around the world.
The Association of Fundraising Professionals will host its monthly luncheon meeting Tuesday, March 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Children's Museum of Memphis, 2525 Central Ave.
Dick Hackett, CEO of the Children's Museum and former mayor of Memphis, will be the featured speaker. Hackett will present "Success Breeds Success," highlighting how leaders across all sectors of the economy can work together to improve the community and its institutions and organizations.
The event is open to both AFP members and nonmembers. Cost is $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers. Visit afpmemphis.org to register.
Fairview Middle School will be renamed Maxine Smith STEAM Academy when it debuts in August as an optional school.
Shelby County Schools board members unanimously approved the name change Tuesday, Feb. 25, in honor of the late Memphis City Schools board member, NAACP executive secretary and civil rights icon.
The school at Central Avenue and East Parkway is to become an optional school with a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics – or STEAM – curriculum.
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp., and Stephanie Clark, Baptist's system director of customer experience, each won third place in the eighth annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.
Baptist earned its award in the Customer Service Innovations category. Clark won her award in the Customer Service Leader of the Year category.
More than 1,500 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year's competition, an increase of 36 percent from a year ago.
The Tennessee Bar Association has released a handbook to help the state's senior citizens better understand things like federal and state benefits and new health care laws.
The Legal Handbook for Tennessee Seniors was released on Monday and is available for free downloading at the bar association website. Printed and electronic copies on flash drives also are available from the bar association while supplies last.
Some of the specific issues addressed by the handbook include applying for benefits, understanding tax and housing laws, protecting pensions and retirement accounts, preparing wills and powers of attorney, and selecting assisted living facilities or home health care providers.
The bar association is offering presentations on the handbook across the state. More information is available at tba.org.
U.S. banks' earnings rose 17 percent in the October-December quarter from a year earlier, as losses on loans fell to a seven-year low and banks set aside less to cover losses as well as legal costs.
The data provides fresh evidence of the banking industry's sustained recovery more than five years after the financial crisis struck. Still, the government says banks continue to have difficulty increasing revenues, and are relying on setting aside less for loan losses to boost earnings.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Wednesday that the banking industry earned $40.3 billion in the final quarter of 2013, up from $34.4 billion in the same period in 2012.
For all of 2013, bank earnings increased 9.6 percent to what the agency calls a record annual level of $154.7 billion. It exceeded the previous record earnings of $145.2 billion in 2006.
The number of banks on the FDIC's "problem" list fell to 467 in the final quarter of 2013 from 515 in the third quarter.
Banks' losses on loans dropped 36.7 percent to $11.7 billion, the lowest level for a fourth quarter since 2006, the FDIC said. The largest decline came in home mortgages, which posted a 57.7 percent drop in losses.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said the latest results showed "a continuation of the recovery in the banking industry." At the same time, he said, the industry still faces challenges including only modest growth in lending, narrow profit margins and a decline in mortgage refinancing business as long-term interest rates have risen.
A proposed August referendum for dropping residency requirements for county government jobs and Shelby County Schools jobs was voted down by the Shelby County Commission Monday, Feb. 24, on the first of three readings.
The proposal by Commissioner Terry Roland would put to voters the idea of dropping any residency requirement in the county charter. The requirement covers not only Shelby County government employees but Shelby County Schools employees. It became an issue during last year's schools merger because Memphis City Schools did not have a similar residency requirement.
Under recent commission rules, if an ordinance fails on first and/or second reading it still advances to third reading.
In other action Monday, the commission approved a resolution urging the Shelby County Schools board to re-evaluate any school closings plan that includes Westhaven Elementary in Southwest Memphis.
Clothes Mentor will open a Cordova location at the Commons at Dexter Lake March 20.
The women's resale store chain based in Minnesota, which also has stores in Nashville and Clarksville, is leasing 5,000 square feet at 1717 N. Germantown Parkway, suite 101.
Clothes Mentor offers women's apparel, shoes, purses and accessories for as much as 70 percent below store prices. The store began buying women's gently used and new clothes Jan. 20.
Clothes Mentor will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
U.S. consumer confidence fell slightly in February over concerns about the near-term outlook for business conditions and jobs.
The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index dipped to 78.1 this month, down from 79.4 in January.
"Consumers believe the economy has improved, but they do not foresee it gaining considerable momentum in the months ahead," said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.
Consumer sentiment is closely watched for indications about how it will impact consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
Views about current conditions increased for the fourth consecutive month and now stand at the highest level in almost six years. But the index that tracks consumer expectations dipped slightly, pulling the overall reading down.
Amna Asaf, an economist at Capital Economics, said the small decline in February likely reflected the bad weather that much of the country has had to endure this winter. She said it also could have been a delayed reaction to the tumble the stock market took in January. But with the stock market now rebounding, she predicted confidence will rise as well.
"The improving fundamentals suggest that a rebound (in confidence) is just around the corner," she said.
The Economic Club of Memphis has a new executive director.
Laurie Tucker, former senior vice president of marketing for FedEx Services, has been tapped by the club's board and started Feb. 27.
Tucker at FedEx led rebranding initiatives and critical go-to-market strategies including "positioning the company as a powerhouse in e-commerce through automation and online solutions," according to the club.
She also serves on the board for Iron Mountain Inc., the University of Memphis board of visitors, the Fogelman College of Business and Economics executive advisory board and the Blues Foundation. She also has co-founded Calade Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy.
Past the halfway mark for the current school year, St. George's Independent School students, their families and the school's staff continue toward a goal of 1 million service minutes this school year.
The effort began in August during the school's in-service faculty training day, when faculty and staff joined fourth and ninth graders in their annual work packing meals for the needy.
Outreach International received the more than 20,000 meals for distribution.
St. George's does not have a community service requirement for graduation. School leaders say it's designed to put an emphasis on meaningful contributions instead of hours toward a goal.
The Shelby County Trustee isn't accepting payments this tax season made with American Express.
Because of ongoing negotiations between a third-party vendor and American Express, the trustee's office said it isn't yet able to process property tax payments using American Express. The reason the trustee's office is spreading this news is that 2013 tax bills and brochures indicated the office would be able to accept American Express in anticipation of an agreement being signed.
In a statement, county trustee David Lenoir said, "We regret the confusion and inconvenience for Shelby County taxpayers who had planned to make their payments using American Express and have learned they cannot. We made a mistake and I'm sorry. We anticipate having an agreement with American Express in the future but don't have a firm date at this time."
Taxpayers can make payments using Visa, Discover and MasterCard credit cards, as well as paper checks, e-checks and cash.
The Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board is sending to the Memphis City Council a new rate structure for streetlight service fees that would keep apartment and residential non-apartment rates the same, while setting a new single rate for commercial properties large and small.
The existing rates distinguish between small and large commercial properties based on their frontage. The rate for small commercial properties is $6.48 a month, and for large it is $19.07 a month.
The utility board proposed setting a single commercial rate of $8.65 a month while keeping the apartment unit rate at $1.08 a month and the residential non-apartment rate at $4.32.
The recommendation goes to the council next month for approval.
The rate change was prompted by calls by some council members for exemptions in areas that don't have streetlights and for planned unit developments that pay for their own streetlights. Other council members said the purpose of the fees is to pay for streetlights used by citizens no matter where they might live. They argued there should be no exemptions.
The rates must generate $12.9 million in revenue to pay the cost of the equipment and the electricity used.
The ninth annual Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence conference will be held Thursday, May 1, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Temple Israel, 1375 E. Massey Road.
The keynote speaker for this year's event, themed "The Dynamic Power of Networks," will be Anasuya Sengupta, vice president of grantmaking at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco.
Early bird registration (by April 1) is $99 for members. After April 1, members pay $120. Nonmembers and walk-up registrants pay $160. College students with valid ID cost $50.
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Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. is turning to soul music, a network of churches and staff at local emergency rooms to urge more African-Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
March 31 is the last day of open enrollment for getting Obamacare for 2014. Wharton, speaking on a conference call arranged by the White House, said the city is making a coordinated final push to get people to enroll in a health plan before the deadline.
Pastors are talking to their congregations, and emergency room workers are telling uninsured patients about new insurance options. A new ad campaign featuring a reworked version of the Teddy Pendergrass soul hit "Come Go With Me" will urge people to get enrolled. Wharton says 88,000 Memphians lack insurance.
Dr. Karen C. Johnson, professor and interim chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Science Health Center, has received $1.6 million to fund the observational phase of a national diabetes study.
The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Study, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, began in 2001 to examine whether weight loss and increased physical activity would prevent cardiovascular events in those with type 2 diabetes.


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A body camera is a small, battery-powered camera worn by police officers on their uniform that records both video and audio.
Body cameras will be worn on the upper torso of the officer's uniform. Each camera comes with three mounting options. The style of uniform worn by the officer will dictate which mounting option is used and how it is placed.
Body cameras are another tool for the City of Lakeville Police Department's promotion of an honest, transparent and inclusive government. Benefits include increased transparency, improved behaviors, faster resolution of complaints, providing evidence, and improving communication and skills training for officers.
A federal grant will assist in operational costs for the first three years of the program. The program will cost $74,000 annually.
Squad car cameras are still important and complement the use of body cameras. Squad car cameras can provide an overall view of a situation compared to the view of a body camera and could possibly capture events that a body camera could not. The use of both platforms increases the likelihood that incidents are recorded and provide the best documentation of the situation.
Peace officers that have a legitimate, law enforcement-related reason can view the video. If there is a legitimate, specified law enforcement need, LPD can share body camera video data with another law enforcement agency with a request made in writing.
Generally, most body camera video data is "nonpublic" data. The video data is presumptively private and can only be accessible to a person that is on the video. If the video is part of an active criminal investigation, the data is all confidential, even to the person on the video. If the video contains several people, permission needs to be granted by all involved people before the data is released. If an involved person does not consent to the release, they can be "redacted" from the video by having their face blurred and their voice distorted.
Any individual or entity whose image or voice is on the video is considered a data subject.
Yes, per Minnesota statute (13.82, subd. 15), a law enforcement agency can release nonpublic, private or confidential video if it will aid in the law enforcement process, promote public safety or dispel widespread rumor or unrest.
Per Minnesota statute (13.825, subd. 2(5)(b) a law enforcement agency may redact or withhold access to portions of data that are public when the data is "clearly offensive to common sensibilities."
Officers shall activate their body cameras when responding to all calls for service and during all law enforcement-related encounters and activities, including but not limited to pursuits, investigative stops of motorists and pedestrians, arrests, searches, suspect interviews and interrogations, and during any police/citizen contacts that becomes adversarial. However, officers need not activate their cameras when it would be unsafe, impossible, or impractical to do so, but such instances of not recording when otherwise required must be thoroughly documented.
When officers determine that there is not a law enforcement need for recording, they may deactivate their body cameras.
Officers have no affirmative duty to inform people that a body camera is being operated or that they are being recorded. Officers may elect to notify people they encounter that a body camera is being operated if it is felt that doing so may deescalate an encounter.
The request should be considered while taking into account dignity of the subject being recorded, legitimate law enforcement need and privacy.
Yes, locker rooms, dressing rooms or restrooms unless a criminal offense has occurred in these areas. Officers will attempt to take precautions to protect the dignity and privacy of all persons.
The data is very safe and is subject to very strict rules and regulations set forth by the FBI. The data is encrypted and stored off-site from LPD.
The Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes: 13.825 Portable Recording Systems
No, the body camera system is specifically designed to prevent the user from altering or deleting recordings.
Per Minnesota Statute 13.825 all portable recording system data must be maintained for at least 90 days, and active or inactive criminal investigative data must be maintained for at least one year. The General Records Retention Schedule for Minnesota Cities includes additional minimum retention periods, like seven years for Use of Force.
Officers are expected to activate their body cameras if it is safe and practical to do so. However, it is recognized that officers must also attend to other primary duties and the safety of all concerned, sometimes in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving. Any time an officer fails to activate their recorder, they will need to articulate the reason why. An officer that fails to activate their body camera without a justified reason may face discipline.
Access to body camera data shall be limited to the employee who captured the video, supervisory personnel and command level personnel, along with others deemed by the chief of police to have "need to know" or "need to access," such as case investigators and Records Unit personnel. In addition: body camera video shall be available to approved personnel within the offices of the Lakeville City Attorney and Dakota County Attorney's Office. Prosecutors or their designee may authorize protected access to specific cases with body camera video.
Yes. Officers will use the video to further assist in preparing a police report, giving a statement, or providing testimony in court.
Yes, outside of criminal investigative data, body camera video is private data, which means the subject of the data may view the recording. If the subject requests a copy of the data, the law enforcement agency must redact the data on other individuals who do not consent to its release. The identity of an undercover law enforcement officer must also be redacted for their protection. Minn. Stat. § 13.825, subd. 4.
Yes. When an LPD officer activates their body camera, it will capture the previous 30 seconds of video, the audio may or may not be buffered.
Yes. We are working with the school districts on educating and receiving input with regards to this policy. A uniformed officer may have their body camera activated if they respond to an incident at a school. Video may be released to: shared with other law enforcement for legitimate purposes with a written request, prosecution and courts and any person or agency, if the agency determines that the access will aid the law enforcement process, promote public safety or dispel widespread rumor or unrest.
All uniformed members of the police department are assigned a body camera.
Detectives will utilize body cameras.
The body camera policy and records retention schedule are posted on our website. The records retention schedule can also be found on the Municipal Clerks and Finance Officers Association of Minnesota's website (PDF).
The camera has a 12-hour battery life and recording options from 420p standard definition to 1080p high definition. Data is stored on the camera during the officer's shift. The video is uploaded, and the camera's battery is charged when the camera is "docked" at LPD at the end of the officer's shift.


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"Is America Going Under?" asks the hand-wringing wackaloons over at the Christian Worldview Network. Well, yes, guys, it has been. But remember who's been in charge the past eight years: an extremist, Christian fundamentalist gang of right-wing thugs who view the Constitution as a list of bothersome technicalities to be skirted around, who honestly think their military misadventures in Iraq (which have all but broken our military) are part of a battle between Biblical notions of Good and Evil, and who have been supported by a mob of like-minded religious ideologues who look upon the prospect of total holocaust in the mideast as ultimately desirable, as it will prompt the Second Coming and the Last Days all the much sooner. If people who view the end of the world as if it were a party they can't wait to get to seem scary as shit, that's because they are.
I suspect, however, that the Christian Worldview goons see the decline of America in a slightly different light. And they've compiled all their paranoid lunacy into a "new, free, full-color magazine" that apparently explains "how America's rejection of a Biblical worldview is leading to our demise and how every Christian must respond."
This just looked like such a heaping, juicy helping of red meat that my mouth began watering right away. Hey, it was free. So I sent off for one. Look forward to seeing it, ahem, dissected here very soon.
Here is some of the entertainment promised within.
- Reinventing A Stormy History: 25 Worldview Similarities Between America Today and Nazi Germany and How Christians Must Respond (Wow, Godwinning right out of the gate!)
- Five Consequences Facing America For Rejecting God As Found in Romans, Chapter One
- America's Unknown Revolution That Robbed You of Your Liberties and What Must Happen to Get Them Back (Which liberties, you wonder? Me too. We'll see.)
- Obama, Liberals and Political Correctness Which is Really Cultural Marxism (Do these clowns even know what Marxism is? I suspect they're just throwing it out because their ill-educated sheep will react with, "Hey, wasn't Marx that commie guy?" and then go "Ooo! Bad thing!")
- How Politicians Pervert the Law and Liberty is the Casualty (Which politicians? Do you think they mean Republicans? No? Gee, what makes you think that?)
- How Humanism is Leading to Judicial Tyranny (Translation: "Waaaah! We can't get our way all the time! Waaaaah! Want my bwanky!")


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The CBS drama "Battle Creek" portrays Battle Creek police officers on the small screen. Photo via battlecreekmi.gov
Battle Creek is becoming a star magnet.
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CBS' new police series "Battle Creek" is being filmed in Los Angeles, but its cast is making pilgrimages to Battle Creek to soak up the atmosphere.
Kal Penn visited, going on a ride-along with officers and observing in the squad room.
Josh Duhamel planned to take a red-eye flight Friday to gather his own impressions of Battle Creek, he told a TV critics' meeting Thursday. He's traveling solo, leaving wife Fergie and their baby behind for the weekend, the actor said.
He should receive a warm welcome: Penn said everyone he met was "super nice" and excited about the series created by Vince Gilligan ("Breaking Bad").
"Battle Creek" stars Duhamel and Dean Winters as odd-couple law enforcement partners.
Marinating idea
Gilligan, who came up with idea more than a decade ago, was asked if he could have imagined that his five years spent building AMC's "Breaking Bad" into a hit could have led to the revival of his dormant script.
"Yes, I saw it all coming," Gilligan said, tongue firmly in cheek. Then he got serious.
"Not even remotely did I see the success of 'Breaking Bad,'" he said.
When he came up with the idea for "Battle Creek" 12 years ago, "I thought I'd be lucky if I wasn't living in half of a double-wide."
"Battle Creek," which also features Janet McTeer, Edward Fordham, Jr. and Aubrey Dollar, will air in mid season.
Because Gilligan's attention is being consumed by the "Breaking Bad" prequel, "Better Call Saul," David Shore ("House") was brought in as the showrunner.
It was the combination of Gilligan and Shore that helped sell him on the show, said Winters, whose credits include "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and the "Mayhem" character in TV commercials for an insurance company.
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Shore put him on the spot, saying Winters was initially reluctant to sign on to a network series.
"I had a terrible experience the year before and I said, 'Never again,'" Winters said, not specifying the program or the details.
Duhamel, who spent five years on the TV drama "Las Vegas," said he was aware of how much commitment a series can require. That didn't deter him, he said, but he had to make sure he was excited about the project and the people he'd be working with.
Taping the show in L.A. was a bonus.
"I have a little one now and wanted to be there as often as I can," Duhamel said of his nearly 1-year-old son, Axl Jack.


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I am grateful that I have done all that I can to guide my daughter in spreading her wings and become the beautiful woman she is today. She is loving, kind and considerate of others. On this day she has taken on the challenge of preparing the feast...yes she has learned to cook in true foodie style...sometimes a little by osmosis and sometimes by sheer talent and intuitiveness. She is attending university to become a dietician so has plenty to teach her mom as well.
Today I am sharing with you my favourite pumpkin pie recipe. I don't recall where the recipe came from after a number of years, but I can attest to the fact that it adds a welcoming end to any holiday feast. For L'il Burnt Toast it just wouldn't be October without pumpkin pie somewhere along the road. You can find my recipe for Cinnamon Streusel-Nut Pumpkin Pie in a past post.
Let me share these other pumpkin recipes with you:
Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting
Pumpkin Creme Brulee
Pumpkin Cheesecake with Walnut Topping
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There is a new exercise to practice the conjugation of a selection of verbs. There is a verb of each regular conjugation, deponent verbs and some irregular verbs.
There is a new exercise about verbs. You must write in Latin the next verb forms:
In the exercise of vocabulary, and when you have selected verbs, only the infinitive will be requested.
At the home of the web there is a direct access to the dictionary.
Write the word in Latin or English and click the right button. The search will bring you to the dictionary where you can see the result.
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Former President Jimmy Carter was no doubt minding his own business, which these days usually means being some place in the world doing good works, when his name came up in the 2012 presidential campaign, and not in a good way.
Talking to reporters Monday in New Hampshire, the unofficial GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, uttered Carter's name in defending himself against Democratic attempts to raise doubts about whether Romney, like President Obama, would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said after a campaign event, giving the 39th president a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.
Romney and conservatives have pushed back hard against the Obama campaign ad released Friday that credits the president with decisively ordering the Navy SEALs into action to take out American enemy number 1 last May.
The ad questions whether Romney would have done similarly based on a 2007 comment of his. During that presidential campaign he said: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
For what it's worth PolitiFact has weighed in on the controversy. It concluded that the Obama campaign's intimation that Romney's words would lead one to doubt his desire to get bin Laden was "half true."
PolitiFact, the journalistic fact-checking operation, based this on the Obama campaign's failure to credit to Romney a later clarification he made at a Republican presidential debate in which he said he would, of course, go after bin Laden but that the war on terror was bigger than the terrorist leader.
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Locally, Sequestration Would Cancel Contracts, Jeopardize Facilities
By Jennifer McDermott
New London Day
February 27, 2013
Furloughs possible for sub base, National Guard
If Congress does not act to prevent the automatic spending cuts set to begin Friday, more than half of the Connecticut National Guard's full-time soldiers and about 1,300 workers at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton may be furloughed.
At Electric Boat, executives have to figure out what they would do if the Navy delays or cancels contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to repair two submarines and build a second attack submarine in 2014. The repair contracts could create hundreds of jobs in the trades at the Groton shipyard.
On Tuesday, the Connecticut National Guard continued to work on a plan to deal with sequestration, while EB was waiting to hear from the Navy about what cuts have gone from likely to definite.
Military personnel will not be furloughed. But of the Connecticut National Guard's 1,100 full-time employees, 650 are civilian military technicians, and 576 of them could have to take one day off a week, without pay, starting in April, which is effectively a 20 percent pay cut.
Eighty-six technicians work at the 1109th Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group in Groton. If they don't work a full week, it will take longer to repair helicopters at the facility, said Col. John Whitford, the Guard's spokesman.
The Guard is facing about a $30 million cut, and the accounts for training and for equipment and facilities maintenance would be hardest hit, Whitford said. The annual budget from the federal government is $300 million.
Out-of-state annual training would stop. Fifteen units with 1,300 soldiers are planning to train out of state this year. They would have to train in Connecticut, but units that are already scheduled to train in Connecticut are using the facilities here.
The impact of the cuts would not be felt right away, Whitford said, but he is worried that over time, the cuts could degrade the Guard's readiness. It could get to a point where the Guard's equipment would not be ready for missions, he said. In his two years in office, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called on the Guard during five declared disasters.
"When looking at these cuts, something has to give," Whitford said, adding that the units deploying on federal missions would train and maintain equipment as planned.
Sub Base Furloughs, Cuts
Like the Guard, the submarine base was preparing Tuesday for furloughs and deep cuts in funding for maintenance and upkeep.
About 1,300 civilians work across a range of departments on the base, from security and maintenance to Morale, Welfare and Recreation, housing and the Navy Exchange. The base has not received the final word as to who would be exempt, said Christopher Zendan, the base spokesman, but the current guidance states that most civilians would be furloughed.
The government is operating on a continuing resolution, which keeps funding at last year's levels. The Navy has said that if Congress extends the resolution for the rest of the fiscal year, bases will receive 10 percent less money for upkeep and half as much to maintain their facilities. Two demolition projects in Groton worth $13 million would be canceled and a civilian hiring freeze would be implemented.
Additional cuts would affect training, travel and purchasing, and the base can't award contracts for new construction, support and services. The commissary may close for an additional day each week and there could be fewer morale programs, Zendan said.
The base may become less efficient as a result, Zendan said, but it would continue to provide for the nation's defense.
Coast Guard, EB
The Coast Guard has no plans to furlough civilian employees, according to Lt. Paul D. Rhynard, a spokesman. Rhynard said the budget cuts would affect all Coast Guard activities, but he wouldn't speculate on specific units, including the Coast Guard Academy.
"Our approach is to allocate funds and resources to prevent disruptions and preserve the most essential operations," he said. "That said, maintaining workforce training and operational proficiency is a major priority in our planning process."
At EB, spokesman Robert Hamilton said the company is waiting to hear from the Navy. Defense Department program managers recently were given permission to talk about sequestration with contractors.
The Navy has said publicly that sequestration would force it to delay repairs to the Groton-based USS Miami, which was severely damaged in a fire at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, in May. EB received a $94 million contract in September to begin the repairs.
The Navy said last week it likely would not purchase a second Virginia-class submarine in 2014 and would cancel a $45 million job to repair the USS Providence at EB if Congress does not agree on a new budget. EB has been working on a concept for module with missile tubes that could be added to Virginia-class submarines to boost firepower. That also wouldn't move forward until a budget is passed.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, met last week with the Metal Trades Council, which represents about 2,500 EB employees.
"It has been a tough 20 or so years for a lot of these guys, who have been there when production and repairs were cut so strongly after the Cold War," he said. "We're really on the cusp of a new era, and now it's all being put into disarray."
EB planned to hire about 350 people in the trades in the coming months to work on the Miami and the Providence, Kenneth DelaCruz, president of the Metal Trades Council, said.
"Now there's a dark cloud hanging over us," he said, adding that some people have been hired and are in training but the rest of the new hires are on hold.
The potential loss of the second submarine in 2014 is the biggest concern, DelaCruz said, since hundreds of people will work on each shift when construction is at its peak. Hundreds more work on projects at the public shipyards, and it is unclear how they would be affected if civilians in the shipyards are furloughed.
"Hopefully, they figure this thing out and Monday is just another Monday for us," DelaCruz said. "But we are very, very concerned."