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Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 12-27, as amended)
The Commission is charged under Sections 3, 7 and 8 of this Act with preventing and eliminating unlawful tying contracts, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and interlocking directorates. The statute was amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, 49 Stat. 1528, 15 U.S.C. §§ 13, 13b, and 21a, under which the Commission is authorized to prevent certain specified practices involving discriminatory pricing and product promotion
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. § 18a, as amended) (2001 Amendments)
This Act amended the Clayton Act by requiring companies to file premerger notifications with the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. The Act establishes waiting periods that must elapse before certain acquisitions or tender offers may be consummated and authorizes the enforcement agencies to stay those periods until the companies provide certain additional information about the proposed transaction.
Webb-Pomerene Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 61-66, as amended)
Under this statute, the Commission is responsible for receiving certain filings from export trade associations organized under the Act; investigating association operations that may adversely affect competition within the United States; making recommendations to associations for business readjustments deemed necessary to comply with the law; and, where appropriate, making recommendations to the Attorney General for law enforcement action.
Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (33 U.S.C. §§ 1501-1524, as amended)
Under Section 7 of this Act (33 U.S.C. § 1506), the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission provide reports to Secretary of Transportation assessing the expected competitive effects of proposed licenses for deepwater ports.
Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. §§ 2061-2169, as amended) Section 708 of this Act (50 U.S.C. App. §§ 2158, 2158a) requires the Commission and the Department of Justice to participate in developing, implementing, and monitoring voluntary agreements established by oil companies to deal with emergency domestic oil shortages.
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (43 U.S.C. § 1337)
Under Section 205(b) of this Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Commission, provides reports to the Secretary of the Interior respecting the expected competitive effects of proposed leases for the extraction of oil and gas from the Outer Continental Shelf.
Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Act (30 U.S.C. §§ 1401-1473, as amended)
Under Section 103(d) of this Act (30 U.S.C. § 1413(d)), the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Department of Commerce must provide the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission with an opportunity to review and make recommendations concerning the antitrust implications of proposed licenses for the extraction of minerals from deep seabed sites.
National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 (15 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4306)
This Act establishes certain protections for any joint research and development venture as to which a voluntary, prior written notification has been filed with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Specifically, in any antitrust suit brought under the Clayton Act relating to the conduct of such a venture, recovery by the plaintiff is limited to actual damages, interest, and reasonable attorney's fees. Subject to certain restrictions relating to the location of facilities and the nationality of participants, similar protections apply to joint ventures for the production of a product, process or service.
International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994 (15 U.S.C. §§ 46, 57b-1, 1311, 1312, 6201, 6201 note, 6202-6212)
The Act authorizes the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department to enter into mutual assistance agreements with foreign antitrust authorities. Under such agreements, U.S. and foreign authorities may share, subject to certain restrictions, evidence of antitrust violations and provide each other with investigatory assistance.
Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (codified at scattered sections of the U.S. Code, particularly 49 U.S.C. §§ 10101-11917)
Under Section 102(a) of the Act (codified in relevant part at 49 U.S.C. § 10706(e)(1)), the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is required to file with the Surface Transportation Board within the Department of Transportation periodic reports that assess and make recommendations concerning possible anticompetitive features of rate agreements among common carriers.
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003
(Pub. L. No. 108-173, 117 Stat. 2066, codified in relevant part at 42 U.S.C. § 1395w-101 note (section 110), 21 U.S.C. § 355 note (sections 1111-1118), 21 U.S.C. § 355(j)5 (section 1102))
Section 110 of this Act requires the FTC to study and to issue a report on differences in payment amounts for pharmacy services provided to enrollees in group health plans that utilize pharmacy benefit managers, along with recommendations regarding any need for legislation to ensure the fiscal integrity of the voluntary prescription drug benefit program. Sections 1111-1118 require agreements between brand-name and generic pharmaceutical companies regarding the manufacture, marketing, and sale of generic versions of brand-name drug products to be filed with the Commission and DOJ. In addition, it requires the filing of certain agreements between generic drug manufacturers if both have filed certain types of applications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the same brand-name drug product. Section 1102 further provides that the 180-day period of marketing exclusivity given to certain generic drug applicants will be considered forfeited if there is a binding determination in a FTC or DOJ action that an agreement with another applicant violated antitrust laws.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 (amending the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act) (Pub. L. No. 108-199, codified in relevant part at 16 U.S.C. § 1862)
Section 801 of this Act instructs the Secretary of Commerce to implement a cooperative program for crab fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, in which individuals receive processing quotas. The Act further specifies that it does not constitute a waiver of antitrust laws and instructs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the DOJ and the FTC, to implement a mandatory information collection and review process to enable the DOJ and the FTC to determine if anyone receiving a quota under the program has committed any acts that violate any of the antitrust laws.
Standards Development Organization Act of 2004 (codified to 15 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4306)
This Act amends provisions of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 to extend the same antitrust protections to standards development organizations (SDOs) while those organizations are engaged in standards development activity. The Act provides that the antitrust rule of reason applies to SDOs while they are engaged in standards development activities. The Act also gives SDOs the opportunity to limit their antitrust liability for standards development activities to actual, as opposed to treble, damages and provides special rules for attorneys' fees in any antitrust case challenging a SDO's standards development activity. SDOs must file a proper notification with the FTC and the DOJ to obtain the liability-limiting protections provided by the Act.
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (Pub. L. No. 109-417)
Section 405 of this Act creates a limited exemption from the antitrust laws for entities creating pandemic and biodefense drugs and vaccines, and requires the FTC and the Department of Justice to report bi-annually to Congress on the use of the exemption.
Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (Pub. L. No. 109-435)
Section 404 of this Act, among other things, makes the United States Postal Service subject to FTC enforcement under the FTC Act with respect to unfair methods of competition. The Act also requires the FTC to issue a report concerning federal and state laws that apply differently to the U.S. Postal Service with respect to competitive mail products and to private companies providing similar products.


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Terrell Owens will retire after 15 seasons if an NFL team doesn't sign him this season.
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On this day in history: the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Larry Bird, Terrell Owens and Aaron Carter were born.
When he was 11 years old, NFL superstar Terrell Owens made a shocking discovery. He learned that his mother had engaged in an affair with and gotten pregnant by the older, married neighbor who lived across the street when she was only 16 years old. It wasn't until Terrell was interested in his neighbor's daughter that he learned this man was his father as well. Though his father supported him financially, they never had a close relationship. To help Terrell move forward with his life, Iyanla arr
According to Iyanla Vanzant, 'relationships are the playing field of life.' She says NFL player Terrell Owens is currently 'a man down on every single field of his life,' financially, emotionally and spiritually. To help him rebuild, Iyanla meets him first thing in the morning on his own turf at his high school football field in Alexander City, Alabama. To show him the responsibility he needs to take, Iyanla throws flags on the field representing the various penalties he is currently facing. Wat
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Ryan's (Matthew Perry) show is rated #1 but even this new, exalted status does not provide the personal happiness he wants in his life. Lauren (Laura Benanti) explains that happiness comes from within and real joy can only be found by helping others. Ryan attempts to achieve inner happiness by helping Danny (Seth Morris) hook up with Sonia (Sarah Baker) but she fancies the stranger, Carlo (Ben Falcone) instead. Meanwhile Owen (Tyler James Williams) and Anne (Julie White) snoop around the house of the strange Mr. K (Brett Gelman) only to leave more disturbed than when they arrived. Also available on Amazon Instant Video and VUDU
Ryan's prideful indignation over having to read a live commercial for a male enhancement product causes him to stage a walkout, only to be replaced by Terrell Owens whom he just hired as a temporary assistant. Lauren obsesses over a single low group evaluation score and solicits help from George to find out who gave her the poor rating. Meanwhile Simone invites Ryan to a meditation center where he does everything but calm himself. And in group, it's Anne who helps put Ryan back on track with the truth. Also available on Amazon Instant Video and VUDU
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Jennifer Farley is one busy lady! Better known as JWoww, the Jersey Shore alum is diving her way into another reality show — literally. If you didn't get enough of Snooki's sidekick in Tuesday's Snooki & JWOWW season premiere, you can take the plunge with her in Fox's two-hour special Stars in Danger: The High Dive on Wednesday at 8/7c.
"I'm scared of heights and I'm scared of... read more
Watch out, ABC. Fox is going diving with the stars too.
The network will premiere Stars in Danger: The High Dive next month, a two-hour special featuring eight celebrities learning Olympic-style dives, both solo and synchronized.
A much-mocked 72-day marriage to Kim Kardashian gets you on the list of the 10 most disliked pro athletes in America. Kris Humphries — who also didn't exactly insinuate himself into the good graces of Kourtney & Kim Take New York viewers — ranks fifth in a survey done by Nielsen and E-Poll Market Research. read more
T.K. (Mehcad Brooks) and The New York Hawks have been fighting to make it to the Super Bowl all season long on Necessary Roughness. But when the team makes it to the playoffs in the season finale, the temperamental wide receiver will not only have to battle his own demons, he'll have to go up against... read more
Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco are going deep — on their own weekly talk show. "There are no topics really that are off-limits," Owens says of Versus' The T.Ocho Show, which pairs two of the most opinionated, controversial, in-your-face players in the NFL. "I think Chad is the louder of the two mouths — definitely when we have something to say it's heard."T.O., who joined Ochocinco in the Cincinnati Bengals receiving corps this season, isn't worried about the league taking offense... read more
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Microsoft takes measures to shield customer data from govt. snooping2013-12-04
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SAN FRANCISCO — March 28, 2012 — Michael Allison, IT administrator for the Hillcrest Family Health Clinics network in Central Texas, could see the future coming. The clinic network's IT systems were already processing half a million transactions per day for 200,000 patients across several facilities and towns. Federal privacy regulations, the ongoing push for providers to create uniform electronic health records and the increasing volume of patient data meant demands on the system would only intensify.
"In a clinical setting with hundreds of PCs and devices, hundreds of thousands of patient records, and dozens of providers, efficiently managing this much data is critical," Allison says.
Allison was convinced the clinic's technology should not just upgrade but evolve to become a true intelligent system, connecting locations and devices in the cloud to improve the ease and efficiency of care. After evaluating several solutions, he chose to build an intelligent system with Microsoft. Centralized data stores were consolidated on two machines running Windows Server Hyper-V, and clinics were outfitted with Windows Embedded Standard-based thin clients.
The new system has paid off for Hillcrest, eliminating mandatory downtime for system upgrades and significantly reducing unplanned downtime, reducing data traffic from 8 percent of the clinic network's bandwidth to 1 percent, and enabling broadband cost savings of 35 percent per year. Hundreds of peripheral devices used across a wide geographic area can now be managed remotely via the cloud. The system manages data across the clinic system — patient records, prescriptions, scheduling, billing, inventory and more. Allison can now access, manage and update devices from any location, without having to travel to distant sites.
"I can sit at my desk and run our whole system from my office without having to physically go to any one of our nine locations and do anything to the computers there," Allison says. "Everything worked as soon as we put it in; it all just worked seamlessly."
The system offers physicians and caregivers remote connectivity and quick access to current data within a security-enhanced framework. Hillcrest was able to recoup its investment within three years, and, best of all, it has been able to care for more than 1,500 additional patients per year.
"We've been able to refocus available funds onto new services for our patients," Allison says. "Our intelligent system strategy is an important part of our mission to provide the right care to the right patient, securely, consistently and efficiently."
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No one can join your goal and complete it for you until you actually start the goal yourself. It is extremely risky to start a goal a long time before you start to play. If he's willing to take that risk and comes out of it for the worse, then that's his choice. The other choice is to start the goal shortly before playing the game.
Obviously a restricted system to prevent unwanted joining like Casto said would be best, but unfortunately that doesn't exist at this time. So the only way to combat unwanted joins is to minimize the time other people can join and start goals shortly before playing the game.


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While news of the Geneva accords hit the headlines, a group of Palestinians and Israelis were trying to make a different kind of peace -- with the help of Buddhists in southern France.
Thich Nhat Hanh -- Vietnamese Zen master, poet and Nobel Peace Prize nominee -- has been inviting groups of Palestinians and Israelis to his practice center, Plum Village, in an effort to show them that Buddhist meditation can lead to inner peace as well as nonviolence between nations. The trips are largely underwritten by an American Jewish businessman.
Nhat Hanh preaches nothing less than personal transformation as the road to peace.


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The AML Geotechnical Services section provides drilling and geotechnical investigations for the abandoned mine lands (AML) program.
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Vicious Circle
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Carlos (Bradley Gregg) is an aspiring writer who has completed a novel of accomplishment. It describes the turmoil that drives inner city youths to join gangs, and presents what may be a viable solution to the social dilemma. But the publisher, Milo (Mark Gluckman), refuses to print the book, which would be difficult to market, and instead enlists the money-strapped Carlos to write a series of crass, pointlessly violent novels about gang warfare. The phenomenal success of the books gives way to a popular TV series that inspires the very gang violence Carlos abhors. Stricken by the dangerous ugliness he's created, and helpless to stop it, Carlos' conscious confronts him in the guise of the desperate gang members from his novel. They seem to be physically real, and they invade his life until reality blurs, but the danger remains genuine. ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi
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ER: Match Made in Heaven
With Weaver on suspension, the prickly Romano (Paul McCrane) is in charge of the ER. Carter (Noah Wyle) goes ballistic when he suspects that his patient is faking an injury. Abby (Maura Tierney) treats a woman with five children, who doesn't want the sixth baby on the way. Finch (Michael Michele) and Corday (Alex Kingston) exchange heated words over the treatment of a 16-year-old accident victim (Matt Doherty). And while Greene (Anthony Edwards) struggles to cope with his father's terminal illness, a remembrance of the late Lucy Knight unexpectedly materializes at the ER. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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This independent comedy-drama concerns George (David Morse), who works as a janitor cleaning up at a bar in a small town. While no one's sure if George is retarded, he doesn't seem to live in the same world as the rest of them; if he's not unintelligent, he is unfortunately gullible and trusting and lacks the ability to dodge around people's emotions in conversation. George has always thought of his birthday as his good luck day, so one year he decides to celebrate by taking a trip to Reno, and for a change George's hunch is right on the money -- he wins big and comes home with enough money to buy his own house and start his own cleaning business. George finds he's lonely in his new home, and he asks Angela (Nina Siemaszko), a young woman who works at a discount store, to move in with him. Angela doesn't care for her job and is desperate to get away from her harridan mother, so she agrees, though life with George proves to be both funny and troubling. George B. was shown in competition at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Fire in the Sky
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One of the most famous real-life UFO abduction cases on record becomes this character-driven drama from sci-fi screenwriter Tracy Torme. D.B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, a forestry worker who disappears one night during an encounter with a flying saucer. Authorities treat with skepticism the outrageous story related by the only witnesses to the event, Travis' five co-workers, who include his best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick). A state lawman (James Garner) finds a tabloid newspaper in the crew's pickup truck and quickly ascertains that tensions had arisen between Walton and a surly fellow logger (Craig Sheffer), leading him to conclude that a murder cover-up is underway. However, all of the men pass lie detector tests and the case becomes stalled until the shocking last-minute reappearance of Travis, who tells a literally fantastic story involving his whereabouts for the past week. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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O Pioneers!
Based on the Willa Cather novel, this Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm stars Jessica Lange as Alexandra Bergson, a single woman who inherits her family farm, much to the dismay of her siblings. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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The Fisher King
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Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his listeners. One fan in particular takes Jack's rants to heart and goes to a fancy restaurant with a gun, murdering innocent diners. Jack is so distraught at what his on-air suggestion wrought that he sinks into a three-year depression, drinking himself to sleep and mooching off of his girlfriend Anne Napolitano (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Oscar-winning performance), an attractive owner of a video store. Hitting bottom, Jack slumps to the river, prepared to commit suicide. To his rescue comes a crazed but witty homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), who tells Jack he's destined for great things -- all his has to do is find the Holy Grail (conveniently located in mid-town Manhattan) and save Parry's soul. He also wants Jack to help him out with the woman of his dreams, Lydia Sinclair (Amanda Plummer), a shy type who works at a publishing company. Parry was once a university professor became unglued by a tragic event in his past; Jack soon realizes that to save himself, he first must save Parry. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Eye of the Storm
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Eye of the Storm is the eerie and tragic story of two brothers haunted by their past. Steven (Bradley Gregg) witnesses the murder of his parents by robbers. Running from the killers, Steven falls from a window and is blinded. Ten years later, Steven and his brother Ray (Craig Sheffer) are managing the motel, that was owned by their parents. Marvin (Dennis Hopper), a drunken redneck, and his gum-chewing wife Sandra (Lara Flynn Boyle) check in with tragic results for all as their lives become entwined. Despite many implausible plot twists, director Yuri Zeltser puts all this together to produce a compelling thriller and gets strong performances from his cast, particularly Gregg, who is very convincing and poignant as the blind, younger brother. Eye of the Storm, given a theatrical release in Germany but released straight to video in the United States, is a small, well-made thriller, well-worth viewing. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
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John Larroquette starred with Kirstie Alley in this comedy involving a couple's troubles with their starter home. An array of obstinate houseguests refuse to leave and provoke the anger of all involved. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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Class of 1999
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Mark L. Lester's follow-up film to his Class of 1984 is a rancidly violent peek at a near-future high school world of terror -- The Jetsons meet The Terminator. In Lester's world, total anarchy rules (at least in Seattle). Classrooms are sinkholes of violence, and around the kill-zone high schools "Free Fire Zones" are set up that look like re-creations of Dachau. Rival youth gangs roam these areas with enough artillery for a second Vietnam War. The gangs' insane violence is exacerbated by a drug called Edge. When the Department of Educational Defense needs to supply new teachers, they look to a secret government agency headed by Dr. Bob Forrest (Stacy Keach) who sends new teaching recruits (Pam Grier, John P. Ryan, Joshua Miller) to the beleaguered high school. These novice teachers are not your ordinary teaching-college graduates, however. They are "tactical education units" -- cyborgs reprogrammed to teach readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic. If the students don't learn their daily assignments, they learn an even bigger lesson -- learn or die. The strict disciplinarian robots compel the student gangs to unite and fight the new educational menace. Under the leadership of Cody Culp (Bradley Gregg), who has just gotten out of reform school and has seen that there is more to life than killin' and cuttin' and Edge, the punks take up arms against the cyborgs who are invading their high-school turf. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the hands of bad guys and into the museums in which they belong. A grown-up Indy (Harrison Ford) reveals himself shortly afterward in a familiar classroom scene, teaching archeology to a disproportionate number of starry-eyed female college students in 1938. Once again, however, Mr. Jones is drawn away from his day job after an art collector (Julian Glover) approaches him with a proposition to find the much sought after Holy Grail. Circumstances reveal that there was another avid archeologist in search of the famed cup -- Indiana Jones' father, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery) -- who had recently disappeared during his efforts. The junior and senior members of the Jones family find themselves in a series of tough situations in locales ranging from Venice to the most treacherous spots in the Middle East. Complicating the situation further is the presence of Elsa (Alison Doody), a beautiful and intelligent woman with one fatal flaw: she's an undercover Nazi agent. The search for the grail is a dangerous quest, and its discovery may prove fatal to those who seek it for personal gain. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade earned a then record-breaking $50 million in its first week of release. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Dance 'til Dawn
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While at the high-school prom, a group of students find romance and fun, while their parents enjoy the same. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a suicide attempt. She is placed in a hospital psychiatric ward with a group of six other troubled teens who all dream about the same horribly burned man (Robert Englund) trying to kill them. Perhaps the most unusual thing about this picture, however, is the unexpected depth of sadness running through it. There are some achingly sweet moments in this otherwise frightening film which, though not disruptive, are impossible to analyze. The first and most bizarre of these is Heather Langenkamp's entrance, which inexplicably causes most viewers to get misty-eyed, and there are several similar scenes throughout the film. One answer can be found in the sensitive direction of Chuck Russell, who emphasizes the tragedy and utter hopelessness in these kids' lives and manages to wring some unexpectedly perceptive turns from his cast. This is a film in which a great deal of care was obviously lavished on individual scenes (the sets are outstanding) and performances. The results are well worth repeated viewings, and prove that sequels don't necessarily have to be inferior films. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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Stand by Me
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Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome consists of intellectual Gordie (Wil Wheaton), born leader Chris (River Phoenix), emotionally disturbed Teddy (Corey Feldman), and chubby hanger-on Vern (Jerry O'Connell). The boys' adventures en route to the elusive body are colored by the personal pressures brought to bear on all of them by the adult world. Richard Dreyfuss, playing the grown-up Gordie, narrates the film, while Kiefer Sutherland dominates every scene he's in as a brutish high-school bully. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Growing Pains: Be a Man
While the rest of the Seavers are visiting Maggie's parents Ed and Kate Malone (Gordon Jump, Betty McGuire), Mike (Kirk Cameron) is allowed to hold a party at home. Unfortunately, things get out of control, and what started as a "mild" affair is quickly upgraded to "wild." Meanwhile, the family is shocked to discover that Ed and Kate are about to be turned out of their house...and when Jason (Alan Thicke) offers to lend the couple the money needed to pay the bills, he's in for yet another shock. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax. Young sci-fi geek Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) (could he possibly be based on director Joe Dante?) would give anything to travel in space. Thanks to his computer-happy pal Wolfgang Muller (River Phoenix), Ben gets his wish, together with best bud Darren Woods (Jason Presson). In the Great Beyond, the boys encounter an extraterrestrial (Robert Picardo), whose knowledge of earth is limited to what he's gleaned from 1960s TV sitcoms (this is unusual?) Lots of outer-space fun ensues before the film's inevitable downward spiral. Moderately successful in theatres, Explorers had a healthy second life on video and cable TV, especially after director Dante rethought the film and rearranged a few scenes for better dramatic (and comic) impact. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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It's been over a month since the Goldstone Report was published on September 15, 2009. I've written about this topic in the Huffington Post, and since then a myriad of reactions and repercussions to the release of the report have occurred. We've learned for example that there was a conspiracy by the Palestinian Authority to prevent the report from being submitted to the UN, and that the Israeli government was preparing itself to fight war crimes trials. Just today, an article in Haaretz addressed this very thing:
"The prospect that Israeli officials could face war crimes trials abroad led the political-security cabinet on Tuesday to form a committee to deal with the international legal consequences of the Goldstone Commission's report on the Gaza war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who promised a lengthy battle to "delegitimize" the findings of the United Nations commission, also instructed government officials to draft proposals for changing international laws of war."
The coverage of the story has been all over the place – starting in Israel, where the lead investigator Richard Goldstone has been accused of anti-Semitism and of being out to get Israel, even though Mr. Goldstone is a South African Jew. Arab media has been celebrating the report and neglecting to mention that Hamas was also held accountable.
Last Friday, Al Jazeera's Listening Post aired a report exploring the 575-page hot potato- causing controversy with the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority and the global media. I was invited to contribute my two cents…the saga continues.


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Feb 14, 2009 09:30 AM | 47
CHICAGO—Fresh from adding a Grammy to his mantle Sunday, former vice president Al Gore told scientists gathered here for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to push administration officials and the general public for solutions to climate change.
"Scientists can no longer in good conscience accept this division between the work you do and the civilization in which you live," Gore said.
"Keep your day jobs, but get involved in the debate," he added.
In about a 45-minute speech, Gore reviewed the evidence for global warming, showing a set a slides that has evolved since An Inconvenient Truth. (A few of our Twitter followers—yes, we live—Twittered Gore's talk, so you can see the blow-by-blow here--pointed out that he had presented a lot of the slides at the recent TED conference.)
He began by noting a parallel between the mortgage crisis and global warming, saying the world has $7 trillion in subprime carbon assets that it can't get rid of.
This week, and 2009, he pointed out, was full of scientific anniversaries: Darwin's 200th birthday, the 150th anniversary of John Tyndall's finding that carbon absorbs infrared radiation (which allowed Tyndall to suggest the possibility of man-made global warming because of fossil fuel use), and Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism (which Gore called the "inconvenient truth" of the time). And he invoked Lincoln, who shared Darwin's birthday, likening the struggle to solve global warming to the fight against slavery.
The coal industry, and in particular its $500-million ad campaign supporting allegedly "clean coal" technology, came in for particular condemnation. (You can see a few of the ads in a 60-Second Science blog post.) Gore likened one of the ads, a lump of coal wearing sunglasses, to Joe Camel ads that targeted children.
As he talked of millions of "climate refugees" in low-lying areas of the world, Gore pointed out that the Maldives now has a budget line "to buy a new country." He drew a link between global warming and extreme weather, from hurricanes to droughts to wildfires, showing photos of the recent blazes in Australia (and the now-famous rescued koala.)
Gore used a dramatic video of scientist Katey Walter lighting a plume of methane gas bubbling up from a frozen Alaskan lake to introduce the idea of methane as a potent greenhouse gas. Methane emissions from such lakes is thought by many scientists to be increasing as the permafrost thaws, allowing organic material trapped in the ice to be converted by the lake's bacteria into the gas.
(But Gore didn't stick only to climate change. He also revealed that he's an iPhone fan. A few minutes into his talk, he had to turn the phone off. As he did, he told the crowd: "Anyone who hasn't switched to one, you really should.")
Gore--who didn't take questions after the talk, citing his schedule--seemed optimistic about the Obama administration's appointments to the Cabinet and other senior posts. "This is a moment in our history as a nation and in the history of the world's population that is without precedent," he said. A few minutes later, he said, "We as a species need to make a decision."
Photo of Al Gore speaking at AAAS, taken from an overflow auditorium, copyright Scientific American. Follow us on Twitter as we post from AAAS.
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Unfortunately, Gore is against the expansion of nuclear energy which Europe and Asia now fully recognize is the best solution to stopping global warming.
Marcel F. Williams
The UN IPCC is a political body spitting out reports that are designed to support a predetermined political agenda.
As for Al Gore:
Gores film An Inconvenient Truth is full of lies. Not exaggerations. Not errors.
Al Gore air brushed out the little ice age and the medieval warming periods from his graphs in AIT. We wouldn't want people knowing that the earth was two degrees celsius warmer than it is now during the medieval warming period. Somehow man survived without the use of central cooling. Gore left off the little ice age because he wouldn't want to demonstrate that the warming trend he talks about began at the end of an ice age.
He also stated that sea lever would rise by 20 feet by the end of the century. Even the UN IPCC (harldy conservative on this issue) estimates only 4 to 36 inches.
Gore also suggested that the Aral Sea has dried up because of global warming. In actuality it has been drained for the irrigation of cotton crops.
Gore claims that for the first time ever, a significant number of polar bears had drowned. First of all, they can swim around fifty miles. Secondly, the researchers at one of America's most respected think tanks the Competitive Enterprise Institute tracked down the study Gore was quoting and found that only four polar bears had drowned during severe storm conditions.
Furthermore, he quotes a quickly debunked paper suggesting there is a 100% consenus among scientists that athropogenic global warming is real. Here are a few scientists who must have missed the memo:
It is worth noting that a UK Court ruled that AIT contained many errors and should not be shown in public schools without a warning about the errors.
I find it interesting that Al Gore talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. He jets around the world in his private plane. He rides around in gas guzzling limousines, and has a compound so wasteful of energy that it needs its own power grid. His houseboat more than likely isn't that energy efficient either.
I suppose conserving energy and fighting global warming is for the little people. Let the peasants drive the small dangerous energy efficient cars, I'll drive what I want.
Al Gore was worth about $2 Million Dollars when leaving office and is worth over $100 Million now. He's laughing all the way to the global warming bank. It's a pity some are too gullible to see it. As one of my favorite SNL characters might have said "global warming has been bery bery good to him."
By the way, the flat earthers were the ones who refused to debate. "The debates over, we have a consensus." Sound familiar? If anyone is a flat earther, it's Al Gore.
Everyone who has seen An Inconvenient Truth should view The Great Global Warming Swindle in order to get a more balanced view of the true state of the science on this issue.
You may view it by visiting:
It is the first video listed.
Happy Viewing,
Dash RIPROCK III
Newsbusters is a Conservative Al Gore hate site, so it's credibility is already shot. It is amazing that all we see are comments skewering Al Gore and not about the science he speaks of. Very telling. The same old garbage from the same old people.
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The rhetoric about the so called errors in his movie and the shill that sued him debunked. He was supported by skeptics supported by the George C. Marshall Institute which has been supported by Exxon.
Also, Al Gore never stated in his movie that sea levels were going to rise by 20 ft as a fact. He stated that should the Antarctic ice sheet melt it could raise sea level by 20 ft. which has been corroborated by scientists. BIG difference.
I agree. There has been too much silence from the scientific community. The shills being paid by oil and coal companies have had too much power in shaping this debate and in minimalizing the urgency of what this planet faces to assuage their own greed. We need a more vocal scientific community speaking truth to the people and to governments about this crisis. It is too important to the survival of our species to remain silent any longer.
And just as a side note: Mr. Gore was awarded the Chairman's Image Award at the NAACP Awards Sunday. It was not a Grammy.
Anyone that sides with Al Gore is a fool. This guy is the BIGGEST political hypocrite that ever lived. He wants everyone else to do without while he pollutes 10 times the amount of anyone else. Flies in his personal jets, rides limosines & a Huge yacht he just bought. I know there are alot of Libs on this website & I don't mean to be combative. Why will this guy not debate his points to people that think differently than he does? If he had solid facts & Really believed what he preaches, he would debate. If nothing else but to shut up the people that don't believe him, but he won't. Why not?? Most people's memories are not that good either. In the 80's he and tripper tried to censor singers from certain lyrics in their songs, but this didn't go over very well. So now he's hanging on to this & making money off of it. If he really believed what he is trying to force upon everyone else, he wouldn't pollute like he does. In a legitamate debate he would be exposed for the Fraud that he truly is. "Don't do as I do, do as I say". What a jerk.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou seem to confuse the message from the messenger. Would you think that owning a garment of clothing that was made in a sweat-shop renders a person incapable of criticizing sweat-shops? Would it invalidate the criticism? In the realm of science hypocrisy doesn't degrade the viability of sound scientific investigation and the issues they pertain to, only the character espousing those issues. Regardless, there may be some logic to a hypocritical carbon footprint by Gore: that his message is better served (or lose the battle, win the war).
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAl: You're an idiot opportunist!
How's that for getting involved?
After reading these comments it's no wonder this world is going downhill. Just the same Conservative propaganda spewed everywhere any story about Al Gore is posted simply because they are upset he won't "debate" them. What whining crybabies.
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Article regarding the Maldives and their search for a place to go as sea levels begin to rise. This is truly a serious crisis and it is affecting real people. Bitching about Al Gore isn't going to solve it. It is pathetic that people constantly drone on and on on these websites about their petty political grudges while real people suffer the effects of climate change. This isn't about siding with Al Gore, this is about siding with the only planet we have to sustain us. Get your heads out of the sand and for once look around you. Everything he spoke of is happening now, is real, and has been corroborated by a consensus of scientists around the world.
However, since it cannot be disputed or refuted, the usual suspects revert to personal attack because that is all they have. As it is, firemen and climate scientists in Australia are also calling on the government to now take serious steps regarding climate change in Australia after the tragic wildfires that took over 180 lives. Extreme drought that has plagued Australia resulting in the "death" of the Murray-Darling River basin more than likely exacerbated the huge devastation when a fire was set. It is now incumbant upon governments of the world, scientists, and citizens to take a serious look at where this planet stands regardless of what you think is causing it. We are currently at 390 PPM; 450 is the tipping point. You figure it out.
And as for Al Gore making money off of this, he started alerting people to this threat to our planet thirty years ago when there was no money to be made from it and he has given much of it back to the cause. So really, those who would dare to attack him while more than likely supporting the last administration that wasted BILLIONS on an illegal war and a culture of corporate greed that landed us in this current economic crisis have little room to talk.
Oh, and I stand corrected. He did receive a Grammy for his audio version of An Inconvenient Truth. But he did also receive the Chairman's Image Award from the NAACP this past Thursday along with Dr. Wangari Maathai.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMr. Riprock above seemed to express my opinion of Al Gore very well.
I see that our views are " Conservative propaganda", not that it worries me.
To Gore supporters- Do you acknowledge that he flies around on his earth saving trips in his own Private Jet.
That uses up a lot of Carbon , but he buys carbon credits from a firm he owns. He is a good politician , he is fooling a lot of people, but it may not be for all the time.
Incidentally Mr. Earthlover, what is the reason for not wanting to debate the issue?
Could be that his statements could be shown to be bullshit.
Mr. Riprock above seemed to express my opinion of Al Gore very well.
I see that our views are " Conservative propaganda", not that it worries me.
To Gore supporters- Do you acknowledge that he flies around on his earth saving trips in his own Private Jet.
That uses up a lot of Carbon , but he buys carbon credits from a firm he owns. He is a good politician , he is fooling a lot of people, but it may not be for all the time.
Incidentally Mr. Earthlover, what is the reason for not wanting to debate the issue?
Could be that his statements could be shown to be bullshit.
If I may be permitted a further comment , there was an interesting statement I read recently.
It was from the US Meteorological Service , warning of the drastic effects of global warming, the Arctic ocean becoming ice free, polar bears becoming extinct etc.
It was dated 1922.
I can't understand how we haven't gone extinct.
Al has the 'right' to do whatever he wants, but if he's going to force his ways on everyone else, he should at least have to 'prove' his points. So far he has not, and if he isn't willing to debate someone, then he doesn't seem credible at all.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOh really, no one wants to debate Uncle Al about this? Where have you been? Here is just one incident of the dozens of debate challenges that Mr. Gore has declined.
You do know that the biggest factor that determines the Earth's temperature is the Sun, right? So I guess Harvard, that bastion of conservatism (you know like the President) is wrong about the Sun affecting the Earth's temperature. I have noticed that all of your posts are irrelevant to your arguments. Who cares who backed the Brit that is trying to stop Al's movie from being taught in schools, or how the theoretical rise in the oceans will affect some small nation? This is not proof of your arguments. Try using links to information that actually supports your suppositions.
I live in West Virginia where coal is destroying the state. They are destroying the land with mountain top removal, the water with mercury 2+, the air with tons of carbons and other deadly metals, and our health from breathing the polluted air - drinking the polluted water and living on the polluted land. If you want to see how destructive coal is, just visit West Virginia. West Virginia is #1 in chronic childhood diseases because of coal pollution and we are #1 in the nation in child abuse deaths because of the long term effects of coal smoke on the brain. Because of coal smoke, the children are born deformed and have IQ's of idiots. Our government is ran by these idiots and they believe with their whole being that coal is clean and will not harm anything. I pray every day that the feds will shut down the coal companies and bring the idiots who are destroying West Virginia to justice, but we have not had a president who could care less about an already dead state. I hope with all my heart that President Obama will come into West Virginia and stop all this senseless destruction.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt is the height of arrogance and ego to insist that the fleas on a dog control the dog.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAl Gore is a political buffoon, who like Rachel Carson of DDT fame, will have the blood of millions on his conscience when the global warming hysteria subsides and reasonableness returns to the debate. Respectfully, Albert
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAnybody who believes a politician is an imbecile. When a politician speaks, it's a good bet to believe the exact opposite.
Enjoy the jump lemmings.
SCIENTISTS are making these claims and they are coming true if people would only look beyond the bubbles they live in. Al Gore is simply the messenger. It would appear however, that people who are too lazy to take responsibility for their actions will look to any excuse to get away with doing anything at all. Truth requires responsibility which is why so many detest the truth. It means they will have toget up off their fat butts and actually do something besides whine and complain.
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Keep your heads buried in the sand. I'm sure your children and grandhchildren will thank you for it.
Climate skeptics are only part of the problem.
It is the purveyors of WAR FOR OIL that have the blood of millions on their hands, "Dr." Yeah, cough, "Dr."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGORE "Keep your day jobs, but get involved in the debate,"
The only ones that ever claimed the debate over were those in the Al Gore camp...remember after the last IPCC report for policy makers came out. The debate in the scientific community has been ongoing and the strongest scientific arguments are coming from those that see CO2 as a minor contributor to the global climate. The human and environmental tragedies are real, money should be spent to improve those conditions, but not at the detriment of those economies that can generate the aid. And - without padding the pockets of companies like GIM (http://www.generationim.com/)... please remember that the GIM business model was conceived by Enron.
GORES biggest disservice is that he invoked science as objective proof of the story he has cobbled together. Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in the history&When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists. - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
To read transcripts from the most recent debate in Poland please see:
GORE "Keep your day jobs, but get involved in the debate,"
The only ones that ever claimed the debate over were those in the Al Gore camp...remember after the last IPCC report for policy makers came out. The debate in the scientific community has been ongoing and the strongest scientific arguments are coming from those that see CO2 as a minor contributor to the global climate. The human and environmental tragedies are real, money should be spent to improve those conditions, but not at the detriment of those economies that can generate the aid. And - without padding the pockets of companies like GIM (http://www.generationim.com/)... please remember that the GIM business model was conceived by Enron.
GORES biggest disservice is that he invoked science as objective proof of the story he has cobbled together. Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
To read transcripts from the most recent debate in Poland please see:
I am tired of listening to both political sides of this issue. I want real debate so that we can determine what is correct and what is not. If Al and his supporters will not or cannot answer reasonable criticism, then they should simply shut up. I am reserving my opinion on this "climate change" matter until I can see definitive and substantial debate. Until then, I am not buying.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThese SciAm discussion boards seem to bring out the global warming conspiracy crowd in droves. Every article that reports on climate change immediately has 20 posts from people who clearly don't understand the science and even more clearly don't care. Somehow these people think that even if they can't contribute to the discussion, if they ridicule something enough that they can sway the discourse. I really wonder about the motives of some of these people.
Objectively, if Al Gore were wrong, a few generations down the road we still have green grass and we haven't exploited all of our resources yet. If the deniers are wrong, our descendents are paying for our mistakes. I know which side prudent thought would have me leaning and no amount of anonymous haranguing is going to sway me to ignore the evidence that is already there to see.
BTW, Gore is not a scientist so why would he be the one to debate the science? Why not take any of the experts up on the topic who are more than willing to defend their work. Methinks you don't really want to address the science and are trying to turn this into a "debate" on Gore's personality or a conflict judged by ridicule. Luckily the science continues and I hope that some of these researchers do start to speak up in the press instead of letting a vocal minority have carte blanche to sway the uneducated.
Al is right. We do need scientists from BOTH sides to debate the issue. Right now it is impossible to know which side is correct. The lefts attitude of 'I'm right, shut up' doesn't cut it.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWait, Al actually wants scientists to debate global warming! I thought scientists were considered Neanderthal if they didn't participate in the hysteria of the "settled science" of global warming - oops I mean climate change. Obviously I am in the pocket of "big oil" if I question the pseudo-science of man-made climate change - I just wish I would see one of those checks in my mailbox!!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFirst of all, why do the proponents of man-made global warming insist on calling those who question it "deniers" - talk about a non-scientific approach to dissent. I think I'll start calling the proponents "Chicken Littles". Second, you make the future look so "black-white" when it is really gray. The decision to follow the Chicken Littles of the world is loaded with negative unintended consequences. What if the technology to affordably eliminate the need for fossil fuels is 100 or 150 years away, no matter what the world spends - and in the meantime we reduce global GDP siginificantly - with the resultant deaths (starvation, disease) associated with lower GDPs. Or what if we choose "fixes" that result in more harm than good (like Ethanol, which has spiked global corn prices and caused needless starvation). Or perhaps governments throughout the world mistakenly see a climate disaster as a top priority, and thereby underfund REAL dangers like disease, terrorism, water shortages, etc.
Most importantly, when will the Chicken Littles of the world do a real world cost-benefit analysis of moving away from fossil fuels. If the world reduced its carbon footprint to 1970 levels tomorrow, the effect on the global temperature would be negligible even assuming the very suspect "climate models" are accurate, but at what cost economically?
I am wondering how many of those 7 Billion carbon credits Al Gore owns. It's no wonder he can use so many. If no one has to buy carbon offset credits will Al will be bankrupt? EM very interesting.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSorry 700billion (about, give or take a few)
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI thought that the debate was over? Why is Al Gore asking for scientists to debate again?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe Honorable Albert Gore is trying to get out a message supported by the best science available. If you believe that the Science in his presentation is false, then address it point by point and post it for peer review. Verbal debating would be a waste of Mr. Gore's time.
James W. Owen
A Believer
The Honorable Albert Gore is trying to get out a message supported by the best science available. If you believe that the Science in his presentation is false, then address it point by point and post it for peer review. Verbal debating would be a waste of Mr. Gore's time.
James W. Owen
A Believer
james w. the facts are, ice cores show co2 levels increase after temperature increase, not before. the present warm period is not as warm as long as the last. solar total output changes over many cyclic timings yielding warming in cool periods and cooling in warm. cold periods in cool and hot in warm. we were in a hot in a warm in a cooling period. we are now in a cooling in a warm in a cooling period. we will soon be in a warming of cooling in a cooling period. so that in 2 more years you will be able to point again to rising temperatures for 3 years and then the trend will be more consistatly down. this warm period(240 years) is as warm but shorter then the last ( 300years). instead of aquireing an opinion from sensationalism you should personally study all of the facts for your self and then make up your own mind. I may be a dumb old farmer but I have been studying all of the facts that effect weather and climate for a very long time and I would need a large book to explain all of the factors.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWait a minute! I thought Al said there was no debate!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisearthlover: I have a proposition for you. Al Gore has stated that earth's north polar ice cap will be gone in five years (about 4 1/2 years as of today). If Al Gore is correct, I will publicly state that he and not president Obama is the Messiah. If Al Gore is incorrect, will you publicly state that he is a political buffoon? Respectfully, Gortenbull
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThere is an inventor from Wisconsin who invented an all-electric car in the form of a Ford Ranger that was shown at the KARE 11 fair booth at the 2008 Minnesota State Fair.
It is capable of reaching 100 miles per hour in speed, has a range of 300 miles, charges in 10 minutes and is pollution free with only the pollution that is done to make the electricity to charge it.
The inventor of this invention has, to my understanding, approached Ford Motor Company with his invention. The Ford Motor Company, in my estimation, should latch onto this idea, pronto.
My understanding is there are members of Congress who are trying to shoot down this idea of an electric car.
Where is there any common sense in this country?
There is a solution now for co�/globel warming/drinkingwater/
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This is what everybody is looking forword to .
Greenpeace is already been contakt an many people .
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It would be a breaktrough right??,
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Hallo ,
I sent this mesage, look into this technologie www.keshetechnologies.com
This keshetechnologie has discoverd that from now on ,people are able to travel with gravety on board of a space vessel .
So people can live in space like on planet earth, and all the conditions we need as human beings .
This is not for in 10 or 50 years but availble NOW and everybody is sweeping it under the table.
Eveybody went to see the movi OF AL GORE,and everybody is aware that the co² and globel warming is a big problem .
There is a new technologie that has a working proof that it can clean up co² and in return produce drinking water,another big problem for a part of the world where drinking water is a matter of life and dead.
The reality is: this technologie is here, and also for a lot of medical problems there are solutions where the classiek medicin has no solution for now. www.keshetechnologies.com/medical.html
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There are no hostpitals and dokters in space and pharma industry and we can not take all this into space.
So people have to be able to keep themself healty or cure themselfs in a simple way.
If any where in the world somebody find the solution for gravety, it wil go publiek right?? and now thy stay silent?
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There is a way around this globel warming go and type on google keshe and go to keshetechnologies you find the right answer to sort globel warming.And also for co² problem.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou want to have some nuws from neuw people go on google and type keshe go to keshetechnologies and than you find the new way how or planet can be saved
Globel warming can be sorted and now not in 30 years
We have to make it right for or children now.
C De Roose
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Man allegedly hits Somerville woman with weed whacker
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (WHDH) -- A landscaper allegedly attacked a Somerville woman in her backyard with a weed whacker, leaving her arms covered with wounds.
Police said the Somerville woman was assaulted after asking the landscaper to back away from her garden Sunday afternoon.
"They asked him to move over there for the moment because there was stuff flying up and hitting them, and he kind of flipped out on them and got really mad," said Trevor, the woman's brother-in-law.
Trevor was home with family and friends when 50-year old Robert Tiernan was working on a neighbor's yard.
He says his sister-in-law argued with Tiernan because the woman and her family were getting pelted with rocks and dirt from the weed whacker.
Then Trevor's brother joined the argument. The victims say that's when Tiernan lifted the weed-whacker over the four-foot fence and swung it at them as the string was still whipping around.
"My brother's wife reached over and knocked it out of the way. And when she went to do this, he got her here…so she went over there -- she was really hurt," Trevor said.
The cuts cover her entire forearm. She was taken to the hospital, and got a handful of stitches.
Tiernan told police his foot got caught in the fence, and the weed whacker accidentally hit her.
"He walked away, we're saying, you're not going to run away from this. We don't want to fight you, we want the cops to arrest you. But you're not gonna walk away'" Trevor said.
Tiernan was confronted by Trevor's brother and a few friends -- they first threw a beer bottle at him, then cornered him on a neighbors porch.
"He got hit in the head a couple times and eventually the cops showed up," Trevor said.
Tiernan is facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Police are looking into whether they will pursue charges against the three men who retaliated against the landscaper.


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Common Sense Android App: Light Flow
If you don't own a Samsung Galaxy Nexus or HTC Nexus One, move along. I guess this app works for other phones in a limited capacity, but from what I can tell I would just as well skip it. However, if you have one of the two mentioned phones, this app is a must.
Light Flow lets you completely customize your build in multi-color LED for notifications. What it does is make sure that the LED blinks a specified color for any notification that your phone receives, that way you can tell exactly what kind of message is waiting for you even with the screen off. It supports all the built in apps like Voice Mail, Messaging, and Gmail, as well as third party apps like Foursquare and Tweetdeck. It can also activate the LED for low battery, no signal, bluetooth connectivity, etc.
This functionality should really just be built in, and is on some custom roms. To me, it is indispensable. You can pick it up in the Google Play Store for $1.99. There is also a "Lite" version that doesn't have as much third-party app support.


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The goal is to provide a simple but elegant interface that emphasizes efficiency when browsing your media. Important considerations are put on usability, performance, and providing the user with flexibility when it comes to customization. Rapier supports the latest XBMC features and new ones will be added in the future as long as it fits in with Rapier's design goals.
- Custom backgrounds for every category
- Fanart support
- Media flagging support for every view including the video player
- Support for studio logos
- Horizontal navigation system
- Mouse friendly design
- Uses the latest XBMC features for smoother animations and scrolling
- Flexible customization via skin settings
Missing studio logos can be added in media/studios folder. They will need to be renamed exactly to how it would show up in movie/tv show information for them to work correctly.
Rapier v3.06 (03-Jan-10)
* home: fixed when favourites dialog is activated via remote or keyboard and the current focused category is anything other than general, the general focus image appears and overlaps the current focus image
* general: replaced fonts that caused an increase in cpu usage making the skin sluggish in some areas
* gui: readjusted some layouts to look good with the newly added fonts
* general: new setting to show the database path, useful for editing submenu buttons
Rapier v3.0 (02-Jan-10)
* views: fixed studio icon not showing for movies wrap info view
* views: new sort by runtime option in menu bar for movies
* general: fixed after reloading the skin via shutdown menu, the menu will not appear again until xbmc is restarted
* general: updated breadcrumbs, they now more acurately reflect what node you are in
* gui: updated breadcrumb graphics
* gui: updated top bar graphics
* gui: updated menu bar graphics
* gui: modified bottom panel graphics
* gui: modified player control panel graphics
* gui: modified info panel label colours
* gui: fixed context menu texture alignment problem
* gui: updated dialog box graphics
* gui: updated radio button graphics
* gui: updated button graphics
* gui: updated fullscreen player seek bar graphics
* gui: modified some navigation sounds
* home: modified the order of the menu categories, videos now has the default focus
* general: fixed BackgroundDim include causing warnings in debug log
* general: modified dimensions of background art, visualisation, and video to conform to 16:9 aspect ratio
* views: modified cover border size for some views
* fullscreen player: new show finish time for videos
* fullscreen player: rearranged some labels
* home: new option for advanced home menu, clicking a category will bring up a sub menu with more options
* home: new option to customize the category sub menus
* home: removed sliding focus animation from sub menus
* gui: updated fonts for better unicode support
* views: updated layout and graphics for wide icon view
* views: modified item focus animation for movies fanart view
* views: new option to toggle fanart for episodes node
* music: fixed shuffle and repeat menu bar button not working in playlist window
* movies: updated media flag video source detection
* views: fixed no option to sort by playlist when in playlist nodes
* gui: moved file browser dialog scrollbar to the right side
* fullscreen player: updated slider dialog
* views: fixed library radio button text not showing in the newer svn builds
* fullscreen player: updated player control osd graphics
* home: new localized menu categories for all available languages
* home: modified the way a menu category has focus
* views: new view option to use posters instead of banners for tv show covers
* general: new music karaoke functionality
* general: new option to use artist fanart for background instead of visualization when music is playing
* general: new toggle background dim when video is playing
* views: new 3 view styles for wrap info view: 3d wrap list, flat list, and small flat list
* gui: modified control area panel graphics
* views: modified movies wrap info view media labels
* views: modified item focus animation for wrap info view small wrap list style
* views: new wrap info view for albums
* fullscreen player: fixed positioning of visualization select control
* home: removed icon shake animation when submenu is opening
* general: removed program button in settings
* general: fixed text not showing up in some scripts
* gui: new option to change the top bar from 4 differen't selections
* general: fixed menu bar is hidden in weather window when option to hide the media menu bar is selected in skin settings
* gui: removed 2 default background colour styles red and green
* gui: new default background image added to selection along with 2 colour styles black and blue
* gui: new option to change default background from 4 differen't selections
* home: new play disc button shows on the system tray when a disc is detected
* home: increased system tray area width
* views: fixed hide label option wasn't working for big icon view
* gui: updated buttons for settings and skin settings windows
* home: new option to use custom icons for each category
* general: new system info window
* general: new busy dialog
* general: new mpaa rating flags for all movie views and when looking up movie information
* gui: updated no focus button graphics
* music: new singles library option on top menu bar
* views: removed view options from skin settings window
* views: new view options drop down menu in media windows, shows context-sensitive settings for each view
* views: new list info 2 view for albums, movies, tv shows, and episodes
* views: new 3 view styles for list info 2: classic list, banner list, and icon panel
* views: new view option to use full plot instead of plot outline for movies
* views: new wall view for movies and albums
* views: new view option to disable cover dim for thumbnails view
* general: moved 'hide bottom pane white highlight' option from general to home section
* views: new view option to hide list shadow for wrap info view
* general: updated info panel labels in settings window
* gui: fixed 'add source' dialog bottom option buttons not positioned properly when in windows other than video files
* general: decreased screen dim when dialog or pop down menu is visible
* music: updated star rating graphics
* music: decreased size of star rating image in info panel and song info window
* general: modified settings profile window view
* music: fixed music now playing window default menu bar does not slide up when looking up song information
* general: new option to animate the custom backgrounds
* views: new view option to animate the fanart
* gui: updated player control focus buttons to be more noticeable
* gui: decreased the size of play, pause, and stop player control buttons
* gui: modified font styles, sizes, and colours
* general: added dialog boxes around information in weather window
* general: removed screen dim from weather window
* general: redesigned the credits window
* player: new rating flag for movies
* views: fixed sort order option in menu bar could not be reached
* views: increased width of some menu bar buttons
* general: fixed avatar alignment issues in login screen window
* gui: new skin theme colours available red, green, and orange
Download: Rapier v3.06
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Skilled Skinner Posts: 413 Joined: Jul 2008 Reputation: 25 |
2010-01-03 08:19 [RELEASE] Rapier 3.06
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2010-01-03 08:50
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Best skin got even better ! Thanks, scarfa !
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2010-01-03 10:03
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Very much appreciated. Rapier Is my skin of choice
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Fan Posts: 318 Joined: Dec 2009 Reputation: 8 Location: Bucharest, EU |
2010-01-03 11:31
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Possible bug: I have "Favorites" mapped on the blue button of a mce remote. Here what's happening when i press it...
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2010-01-03 12:25
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Galefury Wrote:Possible bug: I have "Favorites" mapped on the blue button of a mce remote. Here what's happening when i press it... Heres the fix. Overwrite the file in Rapier/720p with this. |
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2010-01-03 12:56
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Thanks, it worked. It wasn't a big deal, I just thought if it's a bug, you might wanna know, to fix it.
I have a small request, though. Is it possible that submenus for movies and tvshows to appear only when you press Up or Down and not how is it now ? Because I dont' use them very often and to access movies (and tvshows) I have to press each time twice. I hope it makes sense. Thanks. |
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2010-01-03 16:46
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thank UUU!!!!!!
this skin just keeps getting better and better!!! nice going! XBMC on HTPC with Ubuntu 12.04 connected to Amahi Home Server 750GB+1TB storage. XBMC is probably the best thing that ever happened to me...!!! You people Rock!!! HTPC: MB: Asus P5N7A-VM DDR: 2 x 1 GB Kingston CPU: Intel Core2DUO E8400 @ 3,0 GHz Coller: Scythe Shuriken |
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2010-01-03 17:48
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Congrats on the new release - looks great.
Not sure if this could get into v3 or maybe somthing for v4 - but is it possible to think "touch" a bit more into the skin? (one click only so left mouse button) It works pretty well as it is but it could get tweaked a bit. For instance - the left/right buttons in the home scroll they are tiny. Why not let them fill the bottom left/right part of the scroll? And scrollbars could also use an updown icon but placed like the scroll arows on a mac. (both in the same part of the scrollbar) Menus are not easy with one touch either and finally It is nice with the breadcrum bar but last I checked you can only click on the home icon. /needtotest
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2010-01-03 19:52
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Question for you concerning the submenu options in 3. What is the correct formatting for the submenu parameters as far as categories go. I'm having a few issues at the moment trying to format it correctly I think. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have 3 folders right now spread across 2 hard drives. 1 is called TV Shows 1 is called Shows 1 is called Anime I want to do a submenu with two buttons. First simply labeled as TV shows. I set the label as such. I set the parameter as TV Shows since that's what the category is defined as, but it doesn't show up anything. The second button I set as Anime and set the parameter to the anime folder. Anime shows up fine, though I still haven't figured out why no fanart ever seems to show up. Not the main issue though... Nothing under the TV shows submenu button shows up. I've set the category as TV shows but it just loads up Video>Library and nothing in it. I've checked and both tv show folders are listed, content is set correctly. Now, if I set the parameter to one of the show folders it works. But since I have two show folders that I want to be merged in the view under one button that isn't exactly what I need. Anyway, is there a way to do this that I'm not doing correctly? And at the same time I'm trying to avoid having the anime folder's contents mixed in with the rest of the regular TV shows' contents. |
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2010-01-03 20:45
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Great to see the playlist view is now available , alot of new features as well although the new font will take some getting used to(looks a bit stretched @1080p).
Thanks for another great release |
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Chevrolet Cameo, for sale in Arlington, Texas, for $32,500.
1955 Cameo 3100 - Restored
Most of the time you are either a truck person or car person. You don't see many people crazy about Camaros also drooling over every truck that rolls by. Well throughout the years there were a few trucks built that you just can't ignore. These will have even the die hard muscle car fan dreaming of classic pickups. The classic 55 Cameo is one of these models. These trucks had awesome body lines and some beautiful chrome. This cool restored Cameo is coated in the two tone Red and White that is specific to these models. The front and rear bumpers are nicely mounted in place and have a great finish. All of the other original style chrome and stainless are in place including that awesome grill. And they are very clean and shine like new. All of the correct trim and emblems are on the truck with the bowtie coated Red up front. One of the coolest features on any vintage truck is found in the back. Nowadays trucks are finished out with lined or painted beds that are there just to be beaten up. Well back when this truck was built it was all wood. The bed on this classic is done in a nice dark wood that has a beautiful shine. In between each board are polished stainless pieces that have a mirror like finish. The sides are all coated Red to continue that Red/White theme. Another couple of other neat features of the cameo trucks is the spare tire storage in the middle of the rear bumper and the retractable cable operated tailgate with dual latches. Red is also found on the cab framing the windows which are nice and clear. With that color combo the truck just wouldn't look right without Wide White wall tires. They have plenty of tread left and wrap the Red steel wheels with Chevrolet chrome hubcaps.
Under the nice white hood is a small block correct 265 cubic inch Chevy motor that runs very well. It starts up strong and has no problem moving this truck down the road. The engine compartment is nicely finished out being all painted in black. All of the bolts along the sides or front are either nicely polished or painted black. The large circle chrome air cleaner has a nice shine and looks great next to the billet A/C compressor and alternator. Everything is nicely done with even the battery nicely mounted in a polished frame. The 3 speed automatic transmission shifts nice and smooth and in perfect timing. And the power steering plus power brakes make the truck a pleasurable drive.
The interior is just as nicely done as the rest and has that great classic look. The dash and door panels are all very cleanly painted and have a great finish. The dash is topped with the original style chrome knobs and switches which look great in place. The A/C unit is mounted under the dash and blows cold with no problems. The tilt steering column is nicely polished and topped with an aftermarket red half wrap Billet steering wheel. The bench seat is two tone Black and Red vinyl that is very comfortable. The headliner is also done in a the original style red and is in great condition.
This is a great looking truck that needs nothing. There is no arguing that it has a clean appearance that you don't see with every pickup. The stance, color, body lines, and chrome all work perfectly together to make up an awesome classic look. These trucks are definitely sought after collectables that are increasing in value.
This rare classic truck is priced right at $36,000.00!
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"My Heart" is pretty strange and off-kilter song. On paper, the words could have come out of a Broadway show, but when you hear this song sung in a quivering, straining vocal, occasionally double-tracked in a way that feels slightly off, and played on that tack piano out of "Touch of Evil," it really gets under your skin after awhile. This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the CD where just about everything has something disturbing about it. On the title track, the immediate impact and tremendous loss of Cobain's death on his wife is surrounded in the most oppressive sound to ever grace a Neil Young record. He may have achieved greater levels of distortion elsewhere, but the dirge-like lyrics with the desperate, off-key chorus occasionally surfacing throughout the song makes this even more harrowing, the aural equivalent of a Franz Kafka novel.
I could go on an on (the ominous throb of the strange road epic "Trans Am", etc.) if I had the space.
But it's not all doom and gloom.
Read more ›On "Sleeps With Angels," Young and his legendary grunge compatriots, Crazy Horse, deliver a collection of songs that brilliantly blend the mellow harmony of "Harvest Moon" with grunge. Pearl Jam's fans and critics have proven that they only see black or white. They want rock out grunge or nothing. Similarly, when Neil teams up with Crazy Horse, fans and critics expect it to follow the model of their past outings like "Ragged Glory" or 1975's "Zuma." Critics have almost routinely panned Pearl Jam's more recent output for not following the precedent they set with "Ten," and it seems that Crazy Horse suffered the same fate with "Sleeps With Angels."
It is therefore no surprise that fans and critics either love or hate this album. "Sleeps With Angels" ranges from gorgeous piano ballads like "My heart" to raucous grunge knockouts like "Piece Of Crap." And on the tracks in between, both styles are combined into some of the most palatable "grunge" ever put to tape.
"Prime Of Life" showcases Young in a harmonious struggle with the flute, while the band rocks to an even keel that is not commonly found on many other Crazy Horse Albums.
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