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Until now, "Serenity" has been the director's best-known entry into the movies, but that's all about to change. He wrote and produced the inspired, raucous horror flick "The Cabin In The Woods," which hits theaters on Friday, and tonight sees the world premiere of "The Avengers," the Marvel superhero team-up movie that is one of the most keenly anticipated films of the year, which Whedon has been entrusted with writing and directing. He's also got a screen version of "Much Ado About Nothing" -- starring several members of his regular ensemble -- in the can, and has penned the supernatural romance "In Your Eyes," which is currently filming.
And while his recent burst of activity may make him seem like a new kid on the cinematic block, Whedon's actually had a far wider-ranging presence in film for nearly two decades, one that often gets overshadowed by his work on "Buffy" and "Angel." He's had his hand in some huge movies in the past, as well as a number that never made it to the screen, and he even stepped behind the camera on some of the biggest TV shows around. Below, you'll find some highlights from the lesser-known areas of Whedon's career, and you can catch "The Cabin In The Woods" in theaters on Friday, and "The Avengers" on May 4th.
Whedon is known as a lot of things – visionary television pioneer, Internet nut-cracker (with his beloved and highly successful "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" web series), big old nerd – but few remember him as Oscar-nominated screenwriter. What was that nomination for, you wonder? His involvement in the script for Pixar's "Toy Story." The narrative of what happened with the "Toy Story" script and who contributed what is a long and knotty tale, but the short version is that in late 1993, the movie broke down. It just wasn't working – it was disjointed, unfunny, with ill-defined, unlikable characters and a story that didn't move as much as it limped along. The overlords at Disney (among them Jeffrey Katzenberg, who kept pushing for an "edgier," more adult version of the story) were understandably freaked. It's easy to forget that none of the Pixar guys had any real screenwriting or storytelling experience and were used to crafting narratives that were over in a matter of minutes. Disney hired a succession of high-profile screenwriters (including Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen) before Whedon was called. As he recounts in the book "Joss Whedon: Conversations," he had already been working at Disney at the time, and was brought over to try to untangle, simplify, and streamline (Whedon has claimed the script he was sent was in "shambles"). Most of his work had to do with strengthening and defining characters and situations in what was an inherently solid conceptual framework. Whedon went to Pixar for three weeks and ended up writing for four months. Among Whedon's contributions: the neurotic dinosaur character Rex; what Whedon points to as "the voice and sensibility" of the characters (keeping away from the plucky Disney characters of yore); the "Wind the frog" line; and, most critically, after Disney and Mattel failed to reach an agreement regarding the use of the Barbie character (in the Whedon overhaul, she rescued Buzz and Woody), the creation of the band of nightmarishly cuddly mutant toys. While Whedon admits to playing a "substantial part" in the first "Toy Story," he has never been invited back to work at Pixar. At one point he expressed concern over the company's lack of strong female characters, and claims that after Elastigirl's empowering speech to Violet in "The Incredibles" (which distills the core tenets of feminism perfectly in a movie about superheroes fighting robots), his wife turned to him and said it was written for him.
Three years before Whedon began to build his television empire with "Buffy," he sold two high-priced spec scripts entitled "Afterlife" and "Suspension." "Afterlife" makes the bold move of killing off its main character Daniel Hoffstetter, a married-to-his-work government scientist who is in his mid-fifties and specializes in doing important DNA research. Daniel soon awakens in a new, able body he's had his brain transplanted into, as a part of a CIA project known as The Tank, which consists of resurrected scientists who work on secret government projects. When Daniel escapes from the shackles of The Tank to reconnect with his wife, he finds himself in the body of a notorious serial killer known as the "Snowman." The rest of the script makes for a solid thriller as Daniel, battling the subconscious urge to go on a killing spree, eludes both members of The Tank and those who think he's the "Snowman" in a "Fugitive"-like race to reconnect with his wife. It showcases Whedon's ability to implant high-concept sci-fi and action with heart, like he later would in his similarly-themed TV series "Dollhouse." "Suspension" is a softer sell, basically falling into the category of a "Die Hard"-style flick with the story centering on terrorists seizing control of New York's George Washington Bridge during a hellish traffic jam. The John McClane-esque lead character Harry Monk is on his way back from spending 15 years in a New Jersey prison for shooting a cop, but finds himself working with the police in an effort to thwart the terrorist's plot. "Suspension" was acquired for a huge $1-million in 1993 from then 28-year-old Whedon, but not much has happened since. "Afterlife" was set to head into production with Sony and helmer Andy Tennant in 2000, who was then coming off "Anna and the King," but that film's failure seemed to kill the momentum. Whedon also sold a mysterious pitch called "Goners" to Universal back in 2005, a mystical fantasy thriller with a female lead named Mia, but the studio never pulled the trigger.


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Bounteous Misperceptions
The Bounty's captain was hardly the brute of lore—more just a bad boss who happened to have a spectacularly unsuitable employee.
On April 28, 1789, mutineers commandeered HMS Bounty, en route from Tahiti to the West Indies with a cargo of breadfruit (intended as cheap, nutritious fodder for slaves). Led by master's mate Fletcher Christian, they condemned the captain, William Bligh, and his loyalists to certain death by setting them adrift in a small boat in the middle of nowhere. The skeleton Bounty crew, after stopping to abduct their Tahitian paramours and seize a few slaves of their own, set course for the very edge of nowhere—way out there in the deep, uncharted Pacific blue.
In a fine and measured biography, "Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas," Anne Salmond penetrates the wooden world of the Bounty to show us a microcosm of British society at the time, with all its social, political and economic fermentation. This was an era, after all, when the debate over the rights of man versus the prerogatives of kings was much in the news, not least in America and France. Across the Atlantic, the Americans would go so far as to swear in their first president two days after the mutiny, and across the Channel, two and a half months after Christian dared overthrow his captain, a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille, hulking symbol of royal absolutism.
It is understandably tempting to interpret the struggle between Bligh and Christian in polarizing terms—Bligh as the paragon of deference to the state, Christian as the embodiment of freedom unfettered—but, really, this was a very English fight. In the matter of the mutiny on the Bounty, the traditionalists won an overwhelming victory.
Bligh made it back to Britain after an epic, 47-day, 3,618-mile voyage in a 23-foot launch that he navigated using only his incomparable seamanship skills. Scarcely a soul died under his stern command, testament to Bligh's paternalistic responsibility for the men's lives and his crew's obeisance to hierarchy. Fletcher Christian and his conspirators, by contrast, eventually settled on the paradisiacal Pitcairn Island, where life descended into a Hobbesian hell when the new inhabitants turned on one another. All but one of the British would be murdered. Meanwhile, those mutineers who had taken their chances by remaining on Tahiti were implacably hunted down by the Royal Navy and transported to Britain.
Some of these fugitives were hanged, but a few escaped the noose owing to some clever lawyering—by Christian's brother, Edward. It was he who created the myth of Bligh's savage "tyranny" aboard the Bounty, from which Fletcher understandably sought liberation. So potent was this image that the burgeoning Romantic movement sanctified Christian as a symbol of heroism and damned Bligh as a symbol of despotic rule. It is a view that continues to prevail, though Ms. Salmond does not share it: Bligh's "reputation for brutality," she admonishes, "was a triumph of rhetoric over reality."
Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas
By Anne Salmond
(California, 528 pages, $39.95)
The truth was rather more prosaic. Bligh's hydrographical and charting talents had once impressed even so exacting a sea dog as Capt. James Cook (a more enthusiastic flogger than Bligh, the author notes), but Bligh had been, I think, over-promoted. He "had a gift, almost amounting to genius, for insulting and infuriating his immediate subordinates," Ms. Salmond writes. More disconcertingly still, after yet another of his volcanic eruptions he would often suddenly slather miscreants with kindness. His was a temperament ill-suited to captaining a long-distance voyage. Bligh should have been given a mapping job at the Admiralty, not command of a vessel. As for Christian, he could not bear to be bellowed at and humiliated, making him an unlikely candidate for a successful naval career in any case; but when he put out to sea with Bligh, the voyage had all the makings of a high-seas human-resources fiasco.
In short, unlike the fall of the Bastille or George Washington's choice to be a president rather than a king, the Bounty affair proved inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. A freak event, the result of a clash of personalities, it remains nevertheless riveting owing to awe at Bligh's journey home and our empathy for the dilemma that led Christian to revolt. Small wonder that Hollywood, knowing a great story when it sees one, has made three movies—of varying factual fidelity—based on the Bounty episode, as well as a cartoon, "Mutiny on the Bunny," starring a certain Brooklyn-accented rabbit.
Nevertheless, Ms. Salmond periodically attempts to make Bligh's misadventures seem more portentous than they were by focusing on the ethnography of the Polynesian islands. To that end, she argues that Bligh's and the mutineers' interactions with the natives make this "an episode in the history of the world, not simply the history of the West."
Ms. Salmond here mistakes a forest for the (breadfruit) trees, equating the assuredly powerful impact that the arrival of the Bounty had on these isolated islanders with global historical significance. To reinforce this already dubious argument, she includes chapters on South Sea rituals that may be fascinating for specialists but for general readers may achieve the singular distinction of making even human sacrifice boring. Fortunately, most of "Bligh" does not suffer from such postcolonial anthropological overload, and when Ms. Salmond hews to the astounding story at hand, her otherwise old-fashioned biography is a model of depth, style and scope.
Mr. Rose is the author of "American Rifle: A Biography" and "Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring."

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Drift Station is thrilled to announce the release of FieldGuide: A Practical Handbook to Starting an Artist-Run Space. This 40-page book details how anyone with limited means and resources can start and run a DIY gallery and event space. Topics range from finding the right location to building walls, promotion, and fundraising. On Friday, September 7 from 7-10pm Drift Station will host a book release party for FieldGuide, where print copies will be available free of charge. A digital edition will also be released on September 7 for those unable to attend the release party.
FieldGuide is intended as a practical how-to manual, filled with information that was primarily gleaned from the mistakes and hours of trial-and-errors that come from first hand experience. We hope this guide will help offset some of those challenges and act as a catalyst for others to take over spaces all around the world and in whatever fashion they can. FieldGuide details how you can create exciting and challenging exhibitions, projects, and public activities, transforming communities into culturally rich and meaningful places to live and make art.


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Community Engagement at NDSU
At North Dakota State University we believe in the importance of our role as a land-grant institution to foster collaboration between the university and the larger community by engaging the university's academic resources in the enrichment of civic and community life. NDSU appreciates and embodies the Carnegie Foundation's definition of community engagement throughout the entirety of our programming:
The collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.
NDSU helps connect faculty and students with the community in a variety of ways including:
· Assisting in the development and implementation of service-learning courses
· Connecting the NDSU community to co-curricular volunteer opportunities
· Developing programming to facilitate civic dialogue regarding issues affecting the local, national, and global community
There is no right or wrong way to be an active citizen and NDSU encourages students to engage with the community in a variety of ways: from volunteering, to activism, and from service-learning to civic leadership. During the 2014-2015 academic year, NDSU students engaged in over 84,500 hours of curricular and co-curricular service, which saved the community $2,124,163.51. To view the complete report of Community Engagement efforts at NDSU during the 2014-2015 academic year, please download the 2014-2015 Community Engagement Report.
For More information regarding North Dakota States commitment to community contact:
Hailey Goplen
Assistant Director for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
Community Engagement Pages
• Civic Engagement
- Community Engagement Forum
- Community Leadership
- Sustainability Initiative
- Tapestry of Diverse Talents
- Poverty Simulations
• Service-Learning
- Community Partners
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After tornadoes ripped through the state of South Carolina during last
weekend's wild weather, many residents are wondering how they will begin to rebuild homes and businesses left ruined.
While dozens of homes were destroyed Saturday (3-15) by tornadoes, officials said hundreds more were damaged by hail and fallen trees.
The most damage occurred near Prosperity in Newberry County and Branchville, located in Orangeburg County.
Other counties with considerable damage include Kershaw and Allendale.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has surveyed those counties hit hardest by the storm. He has requested the Federal Emergency Management Agency survey the damage this week.
But Sanford has warned that there may not be enough damage to qualify for federal damage relief. He has said that residents may be able to apply for state money but that is also uncertain.
The National Weather Service confirmed 17 tornadoes touched down last weekend in South Carolina.
Since then, more than six-thousand insurance claims have been filed. Insurers estimate the damage is more than 30-million dollars.


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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that Istanbul (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan) and Madrid (Spain)* have made it on to the shortlist of cities bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games. The Candidate Cities were accepted from among five Applicant Cities, which also included Baku (Azerbaijan) and Doha (Qatar).
Please click here for the full report of the Working Group which made a technical assessment of the five Applicant Cities.
The IOC takes the opportunity to thank all the Applicant Cities for their hard work, dedication and support of the Olympic Movement.
The three Candidate Cities will now be requested to prepare their Candidature File with an in-depth description of their Olympic project. They will also prepare for the visit of the IOC Evaluation Commission. The Evaluation Commission will make a detailed technical assessment of each candidature and publish a report in advance of the 2020 Briefing for IOC Members in July 2013. The following timetable has been established for this phase:
Olympic Games Observers' Programme – London 2012
27 July – 12 August 2012
London 2012 debrief in Rio de Janeiro
November 2012
Submission of Candidature Files to the IOC
7 January 2013
Visits by the IOC Evaluation Commission to the Candidate Cities
February- April 2013
Report by the 2020 IOC Evaluation Commission
July 2013
2020 Briefing for IOC Members
Election of the Host City of the 2020 Olympic Games
7 September 2013
125th IOC Session, Buenos Aires
Please note: the Candidature Procedure and Questionnaire, which outlines the procedures, rules and deadlines to be respected until the election of the host city, as well as the in-depth questionnaire which Candidate Cities must respond to in their Candidature File, is available on the IOC website here.
The election of the host city will take place on 7 September 2013 at the IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Cities are listed in the order of drawing of lots
The two bid phases (Applicant and Candidate) were introduced by the IOC in 2000 to ensure that cities insufficiently prepared or considered not to have the potential to successfully organise the Olympic Games in the year in question, did not proceed to the second phase of bidding, thus ensuring significant cost savings both to the bid cities and the IOC.
As part of its mission to continually monitor and improve the bid process, the IOC recently brought forward some technical matters and questions regarding existing conditions that would not change between the two phases from the Applicant City questionnaire to the Candidate City questionnaire. Phase 2 has thus become a logical continuation of Phase 1, rather than a new start.
For more information, please contact the IOC Media Relations Team: Tel: +41 21 621 6000 e-mail: email@example.com, or visit our web site at www.olympic.org.
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Scene from the closing ceremony of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 28, 2014.
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Olympic Torch Relay discovers Carnival spirit
Reanalysis reveals banned substances in 23 "A" samples from London 2012
The IOC and WHO committed to fighting childhood obesity by promoting physical activity
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Barack Obama
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Spotlight: Obama Administration plans on-demand streams for his State of the Union addresses
The Obama Administration is targeting a new audience for the president's final State of the Union address Tuesday: cord cutters.
News Scan: Obama to ink cellphone 'unlocking' bill; EU okays Apple's $3B Beats buy; more
Check out the hottest mobile IT stories for July 28, including the Obama's impending signature to allow unlocking of cellphones, EU clearing the acquisition of Beats by Apple, problems still plague the Surface Pro 3, a new app store for SAP and the expected portion of M2M connections made up by telematics.
Obama confident NSA reform proposal provides security needs, privacy protections
President Obama will be proposing legislation that would end the bulk collection of phone data by the NSA and instead allow the vast database of phone records to stay in the hands of phone companies.
Spotlight: How big data reveals international relationships--these relationships may surprise you
You'll find interesting word clouds showing relationships associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama here...
Affordable Care Act website reportedly has rough first day
It was reportedly a rough first day for healthcare.gov and the state-based healthcare exchanges, but that should have been expected.
Even President Obama can't control content on the Internet
C-level executives and presidents alike are learning that matter how much they may want to control content on the Internet, it's just not possible.
Obama campaign first to accept donations via text message
President Barack Obama is poised to begin accepting campaign donations via text message, which could open the door to a flood of contributions from smaller donors.
Romney campaign to announce VP pick via mobile app
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is embracing mobile to announce his vice presidential pick. Romney's campaign released the "Mitt's VP" smartphone app for Apple's iOS and Google's Android, which promises to be the first place Romney will publicly announce his selection.
How mobile will impact the 2012 presidential election
A new factor is influencing the polls this year: The rising number of smartphone users (around half of adult Americans) who are reading political news on their phones, interacting with political apps and viewing mobile ads.
How wireless technologies will impact the 2012 presidential election
There is a new factor influencing the polls this year: The rising number of smartphone users (around half of adult Americans) who are reading political news on their phones, interacting with political apps and viewing mobile ads.


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This is more a generic question than a specific one. I'm trying to have a multi threaded environment that stays active so that I can just submit tasks and run them. I want to do this without the hassle of executing in a web server or application server. The idea was to use a java thread pool for this, but the issue here is that the pool stays open just until my main method finishes, after which obviously it closes and the program finishes. How can I prevent this from happening? I'm sure there are several options, some more naive than others (while true loops come to mind). Any ideas? Thanks.
How are your tasks being accepted?
In many cases I saw there was 1 thread waiting or polling from tasks and passing them on. This thread will keep your application alive and can also wait for some sign to shutdown the application and the wait for the current jobs to be finished and clean up.
All in all I find that the point where the hassle of dealing with these application lifecycle events exceed the hassle of deploying to a simple container like Jetty is easily reached. Especially for things running in the background I find a lot of value in a couple of silly JSP pages to verify it is still working (to integrate with our automatic monitoring) and getting some statistics.
Here is some code that I call at the end of my main() in some programs. If the user types "quit" on the command line then the program cleans up and then exits. Or else you can modify where if the user enters "action" to do something else.
Here is a sample I wrote for another post that allows you to gave a Thread Pool on another Thread that you can post messages to. The main() creates the Threads and also allows you to stop the Thread when you want. To stop main from finishing just eliminate the processor.stopProcessing(); line in main.
What you definitly can do is a loop something like this:
And if you wan't to stop the process you just kill it. Not an elegant solution, however.
Better would be, to listen on some port and wait till you get some command on that port:


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There's a lot on the line for both Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and "King Mo" Lawal when they meet in the Bellator Light Heavyweight Tournament finals
Emanuel Newton defeated "King Mo" Lawal for a second time on Saturday to win the interim Bellator Light Heavyweight title.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney promised several title fights would be part of the Rampage vs. Tito pay-per-view event slated for Nov. 2, and so far
People can talk about his initial Bellator upset, his decision to take on pro wrestling in addition to MMA, but for King Mo Lawal, it's
Megumi FujiiWomen's mixed martial arts pioneer Megumi Fujii on Saturday became the latest fighter to announce her retirement.
Muhamad "King Mo" Lawal moved on to the Bellator Summer Series Light Heavyweight Tournament finals on Wednesday night, while Renato "Babalu" Sobral called it a
The 26 fighters competing on the Bellator MMA 96 fight card tonight at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla., weighed in on Tuesday making
Bellator No. 1 lightweight contender Dave Jansen has withdrawn from his Bellator 96 challenge of champion Michael Chandler, who now gets a new opponent and
Bellator MMA returns to WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma on Wednesday, June 19 live on Spike TV.
Check out the Knockout Radio Podcast of the May 1 show with UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz, Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, Bellator fighter Seth
Bellator MMA 96 on June 19, 2013, rumored fight card and bouts.
Bellator MMA on Wednesday announced the first event of its 2013 Summer Series with lightweight champion Michael Chandler putting his belt on the line in
Bellator's debut show on Spike TV ended up as an almost flawless performance with both Michael Chandler and Pat Curran retaining their titles, while Renato
The Bellator 85 weigh-ins have been completed from Irvine's Bren Center in preparation for Bellator's Thursday night Spike TV debut.
Bellator MMA 85 on January 17, 2013, rumored fight card and bouts.
K-1 fighter Xavier Vigney blogs exclusively for MMAWeekly.com leading into his Sept 8 showdown with Seth Petruzelli
Daniel Straus stopped Marlon Sandro at Bellator 68 to capture the Season 6 Featherweight Tournament and earned a shot at the featherweight championship.
The Bellator 68 weigh-ins have been completed from Atlantic City, N.J., making the Season 6 Featherweight Final between Marlon Sandro and Daniel Straus official.
The 10th season of the Ultimate Fighter will go down as one of the highest rated seasons of the show with fighters like Roy Nelson,
Bellator Fighting Championships 68 on May 11, 2012, rumored fight card and bouts.
Top Canadian light heavyweight Ryan Jimmo is headed to the Octagon as part of the ever-expanding UFC on FX 1 fight card.
It seems like a lifetime ago that Pat Curran was known as 'Paddy Mike' and a prospect on the TapouT reality show, and the younger
Bellator 48 is taking place at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut this Saturday, and the official weigh-ins have just been conducted.
Bellator Fighting Championships 48 rumored fight card and bouts on August 20, 2011, at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The matchmaking for the UFC hasn't slowed down yet and the latest match-up will see Australian James Te Huna take on Ricardo Romero at UFC
UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami Date: November 13, 2010 Venue: König Pilsener Arena Location: Oberhausen, Germany gate: attendance: Fighter Awards & Bonuses ($60,000 each)
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If you missed an episode of the new MMAWeekly Radio podcast this week, check out what you missed with a round-up of the Weekend Edition
Karlos Vemola who was scheduled to take on Luiz Cane on the prelim show for UFC 128 is out of his scheduled fight with an
Ricardo Romero has a secret weapon heading into his sophomore effort in the UFC... Wall Street.


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The Nature Conservancy in Tennessee: Test Your Knowledge!
Quiz Instructions: To find out how much you know about our work, click on an answer. Our interactive quiz will tell you if you're right or if you're wrong. You may be surprised ...
When was the Tennessee Chapter founded?
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1978 | Correct
Our Tennessee Chapter was officially founded in December 1978, although the Conservancy had protected areas in Tennessee prior to that date. Learn more
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Name the public landholding that was NOT protected with help from The Nature Conservancy ...
Montgomery Bell State Park | Correct
Savage Gulf, Radnor Lake and the John Tully WMA were all acquired or expanded with land protection funds from The Nature Conservancy. Learn more
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In 2007, The Nature Conservancy and the state of Tennessee teamed up to protect 127,000+ acres in the biggest Tennessee conservation deal since the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Where did this project take place?
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The Connecting the Cumberlands project took place on the northern portion of the Cumberland Plateau. Learn more
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Baby Blues
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|Genre: Adaptation, Animated, Comedy
Summary:Based on the nationally syndicated comic strip of the same name, "Baby Blues" follows the exploits of the intrepid and well-intentioned Darryl and Wanda MacPherson, and their newborn baby Zoe. The MacPhersons are a career couple in their late 20s living in the suburbs. Their 8-year-old neighbor, hellion Rodney Bitterman, is a constant presence and Rodney's parents Carl and Melinda serve as examples for how not to raise a child. Rodney's siblings are 5-year-old Megan and 4-year-old Shelby. Further complicating the MacPhersons' lives are Kenny, Darryl's wiseguy co-worker, and Bizzy, Zoey's teenage, terminally hip babysitter, who is an indifferent student with a penchant for bad boys.


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It's a drag queen's world in Cher's new video, and don't you forget it!
What's better than Cher? More Cher! The six-decade diva has just released a new clip for her recent single "Woman's World" where, in a move straight outta the George Michael in "Freedom! '90" playbook, Cher doesn't even appear in her own music video.
Instead, she calls upon Willam, Chad Michaels, Shangela Laquifa Wadley, Alyssa Edwards, and Manila Luzon from "RuPaul's Drag Race" — some of whom you might remember from Lady Gaga's "Applause" lyric video — to re-create some of her most iconic looks as they lip-sync for their lives. YES TO ALL OF THIS THX.
Watch Cher's "Woman's World ('RuPaul's Drag Race' Remix)" video after the jump.
Before we dive into the video, let's make sure we've all got a good understanding of every Cher visual that RuPaul's talented drag queens are re-creating in the clip. It's important to know your pop diva herstory! Before Gaga, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Madonna, and probably even movable type itself — THERE WAS CHER. So, uh… ya know. #BowDown
1.) CHER'S "HALF BREED" VIDEO, 1973: Willam channels one of Cher's most memorable early performances.
2.) CHER'S OSCAR DRESS, 1986: Although she didn't actually win her Academy Award until 1988 for "Moonstruck," Chad still delivers an Oscar-worthy visual performance. Brava!
3.) CHER'S "IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME" VIDEO, 1988: We kinda think that Cher, portrayed here by Shangela, actually can turn back time, seeing as how she wore this same barely there outfit to the 2010 VMAs to present Lady Gaga with her Video Of The Year Moonman.
4.) CHER'S CHARACTER IN "MERMAIDS," 1990: If there were ever a person who could make "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" a drop-dead
gorgeous serious affair, it's Miss Alyssa Edwards. That look in her eyes, it just seethes with: "Back rolls?"
5.) CHER'S "BELIEVE" VIDEO, 1998: Manila, are you using that marabou boa-meets-PVC pipe headpiece this weekend? JUST WONDERING.
+ Watch Cher's "Woman's World ('RuPaul's Drag Race' Remix)" video.
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Impossible dream?
A vision worth fighting for
Dreamed any impossible dreams lately? What about changing our culture by turning three into four?
Right now, a variety of Christian publications exist at the media margins, sometimes occupying important niches. But I cannot think of any newspaper or magazine with a circulation over 200,000 that consistently supports a biblical worldview. The Wall Street Journal and several other newspapers partially do so on their editorial pages, but not in their general news coverage. Several style magazines emphasize traditionalism, but that's not necessarily biblical.
In other words, Christian publications are preaching to the choir, and I don't knock that: Singers who don't listen to preaching go off-key theologically. I also don't minimize the temptations that come with expansion attempts: Church growth is great, but the quickest way to achieve it might be to have shrine prostitutes ready to minister to attendees.
The ghettoizing of Christian publishing is fine within a separationist mindset, but it gnaws at those of us who still have hopes for biblical understanding transforming our culture. It doesn't require great prophetic ability to forecast the downfall of a culture in which its major publications all promote anti-biblical patterns of thought and action. Nor is it hard to see the gains that would come if a biblically oriented publication could somehow make a breakthrough into the general market, while maintaining its religious distinctives.
Let me bring this discussion closer to home. I'm 50 years old, and since I first became aware of weekly newsmagazines in 1960 we've always had a big three: Time (which now has a circulation of 4 million), Newsweek (now at 3 million), and U.S. News & World Report (now at 2 million). In 1990 I joined the board that oversees this magazine, which was struggling heroically but not gaining any traction. Virtually every meeting included discussion of whether to chloroform our equivalent of the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan, that wonderful institution in It's a Wonderful Life.
Now, much has changed. WORLD has 120,000 subscribers, which gives us a bigger circulation than The New Republic, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, and so forth. As far as I know, our little Building and Loan is now the fourth largest general newsweekly in the country. Obviously, we're still small in relation to Time and the other big boys, but it's time to ask the question: Over the next decade, with God's grace-we know that with Him, nothing is impossible-can we turn the big three into a big four?
The liberal media world sees that as unlikely and unhealthy. Some Christians also fear that a WORLD entry into the major leagues means we'll toss out our biblical saltiness along the way. Every change we've made in recent years has provoked among some readers concern that the end is near-but I gather from the letters coming in that our core subscribers generally consider us to be stronger than ever. To them I say: Please continue to pray for us, but don't worry as we reach out to non-Christian readers. We continue to believe in biblical objectivity, not neutrality. Our message will be sometimes overt and sometimes implicit, but we will always stand on biblical truth, for we can do no other.
Professionally, in my writing and editing, I've had two main dreams over the past decade. One was that compassionate conservatism would take root and begin to transform American culture and politics. That's now beginning to happen. I thank the many readers who have asked if I'm going to Washington to work in the Bush administration, and this column is my answer: No. The administration of George W. Bush's father was troubled by "the vision thing." This Bush administration won't be. All it has to do is perform, and capable people with governmental experience are ready to turn into reality what I and others have dreamed. WORLD will support the Bush administration when it does right, while remaining free to criticize wrong turns.
The other impossible dream involves WORLD itself. There's no way I can give up on the hope of three becoming four. Besides, the new Bush administration will have vast resources, but here I'm with, as Henry V put it, "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." I've worked closely with Nick Eicher and Mindy Belz since the early 1990s and most of our other key staffers since the mid-1990s, and I've never been with a finer bunch of people. Washington is tempting and journalism has its irritations, but to work with those you like, doing what you like, where you like, in the service of a possible dream, and to feel God's pleasure as you run-nothing could be finer.


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I am a Weekend warrior Recreational rider looking to upgrade but low on liquid assets and a buddy of mine has a stock 2006 Gary Fisher X-Caliber he hasn't ridden in a few years. It has been sitting in his garage gathering dust so he let me borrow it hoping to get me to buy it from him. It rides great for needing a derailer tune up and a new chain which he has a new chain that he never got around to putting on. I think I am going make him an offer. The problem is Neither of us know what it is worth now. It has some scratches and nicks but I am going to put more on it on the trails so that doesn't bother me. I just want to get a good deal and my buddy to recieve a fair price.
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However, there are a few truly pioneering companies who are thinking outside of the (pill) bottle by initiating creative competitive collaborations, or what I term "creallaborations." Creallaborations can be defined as potential game-changing partnerships with non-pharmaceutical organizations that complement, enhance, or help a pharmaceutical company reshape its competitive landscape or achieve breakthrough results. These alliances confer unique competitive capabilities or advantages that the company could not obtain internally, through unique expertise in efficiencies, processes, relationships, or technologies.
The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) partnership with the McLaren Group and the Teva-Proctor & Gamble joint venture are two recent examples which highlight the benefits of such creallaborations. With dramatically increasing competition and payer pressures, GSK realized that it could no longer depend solely on its traditional marketing prowess to gain competitive advantage. The company identified three new "winning market factors" essential to competing in the future: speed to market, market adaptability, and cost efficiencies. GSK then identified a potential partner which excelled in all three areas: the McLaren Group, a leading global Formula One racing car company. In September 2011, GSK CEO Andrew Witty announced a five-year partnership with McLaren to help GSK "innovate and rapidly respond to change and competitor activity...This partnership is another example of GSK looking outside its sector for inspiration and fresh perspectives on how we can achieve our strategic goals."
GSK plans to apply this powerful technology to significantly improve its global efficiency, productivity, and adaptability in supply chain management and clinical research. To help facilitate this knowledge and technology transfer, the two companies will jointly build and leverage the "McLaren GSK Centre for Applied Performance." The facility will train GSK employees to deliver world-class results across its 2,000 production lines in 80 global factories. In addition, the GSK nutritionals division will construct an all-new mission control facility at its London headquarters modeled after McLaren Racing's own Formula 1 race-strategy mission control center. The facility will help expedite management and decision-making for wholesaler stocking, inventory management, pricing, customer responses, and competitor activity. GSK will also evaluate how McLaren's system of in-car driver communications can be applied to modify and expedite clinical trials.
McLaren Group's Executive Chairman Rod Dennis summarized this approach by stating that "this all-new collaboration between McLaren Group and GSK—McLaren's first ever such association with a major pharmaceutical corporation—represents a strategic partnership that engages two great British companies at a variety of levels across a number of disciplines in a multi-faceted and ground-breaking way. Specifically, our intention is that GSK will harness McLaren's world-beating Formula-1 bred technology processes and operational dynamism, in order to enhance its performance across a wide variety of its divisions in a way that none of its competitors can match."


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I am a rather new user to Zimbra and am attempting to verify that the daily backup I am making will allow me to restore a system. I am following the OSE rotating backup script from this thread http://www.zimbra.com/forums/install...up-script.html and the backup is being produced. I have set up a test environment on another machine to try and perform the restore. I have been fooling around with this for awhile and am stumped as to why all the users are not being restored. I have 10 users on the system and only the first 5 are being restored. I am using Centos 4.5 and Zimbra 4.5.5 on both machines. The test machine only has 1GB of memory and I have assigned it a different IP address. I have configured the test machines DNS the same as the production machine with the exception of the different IP address of the test machine inserted in the config files in a split DNS format from the Wiki. When I do host command it resolves back to the internal IP address of the test machine. I used rsync to copy back my latest backup to /opt/zimbra. I then used ./install.sh and performed an upgrade. Attached is the log for this process. I did get a warning of port conflicts on 389 and two on 25 during the process which I accepted. The process continues on and at the end I can log on the the admin console but only have 5 of the 10 users. I have also changed permissions using /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms and chown -R zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/st* thinking that might be the issue but still no joy. I have not tried sending emails because the mta service is down but at this point I am more concerned about the missing users.
I also am unsure if this has any bearing on the problem but on the initial install of Zimbra I had made the mistake of creating the domain as mailhost.example.com and not the domain of example.com. I just went through and added this domain as well as another domain that will be receiving mail on this server and then deleted the mailhost.example.com domain. I also corrected the email address of everyone that had a mailhost.example.com domain. I see in the logs that it is trying to create email addresses for mailhost.example.com for admin users. With this issue I am also concerned going forward and trying to upgrade to newer versions if this will present a problem.
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I'm trying to do XHTML DOM parsing with JTidy, and it seems to be rather counterintuitive task. In particular, there's a method to parse HTML:
Node Tidy.parse(Reader, Writer)
And to get the <body /> of that Node, I assume, I should use
Node Node.findBody(TagTable)
Where should I get an instance of that TagTable? (Constructor is protected, and I haven't found a factory to produce it.)
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The star of the show: The medinilla
This intriguing, heavy tropical bloom figured prominently throughout the show, which, I'm sure, helped sales. I saw many a customer leaving with the telltale pink bag. These medinillas were in Landscape Ontario's collaborative space, which featured "a whimsical look at garden traditions and the progression of cultural design."


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American Idol: Paula Abdul's Painkiller Addiction
May 07, 2009 01:00 PM by Britteny Elrick
Paula Abdul is finally opening up about her 12 dependency on prescription medication. The performer has dealt with a fair share of rumors surrounding her sometimes unexplainable behavior on American Idol, and she is finally talking about it. Paula sat down with Ladies' Home Journal to talk about her struggles and triumphs over the years…
During the course of her career, Paula has suffered many injuries. When she was just 17, she suffered a horrible back injury while cheerleading and decided toopt out ofback surgery, which she was told might not fix the problem anyway. Her injuries continued as she got increasingly famous. Paula broke her leg during on-stage rehearsals in1991, followed by asevere car crash in 1992, where she incurred a neck injury. Then in 1993 she was involved in an Iowa plane crash, which left her partially paralyzed, and she needed 15 spinal surgeries to recover. Paula said of her injuries, "I'd been working nonstop. But she wasn't really living. I'm an old-school professional, never let them see you sweat."
All of this led to the fact that Paula was taking severe pain medication for several years until finally deciding to give it all up last November. She checked herself into a rehab facility and said, "I could have killed myself…. Withdrawal — it's the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating. But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been."
Paula is happy with her lifenow and looking for a fresh start. She plans on selling her home and traveling. "I went around the world on tour, but all I saw was the inside of my hotel rooms," she says. "I'm working on finding that guy," she says. "I'm just like every other girl who wants to find a soul mate and live happily ever after."
And despite all the rumors,Paula loves being ajudge on American Idol. Even though she tried to quit seven times on her first day, she remarks, "From day one Simon and I have had a love-hate relationship. He's like the brother I never had, or wanted. But I always knew the show was going to be a big success." Without Paula there would be a definite lack of compassion towards the contestants. She said,"It's been an amazing journey. American Idolhas been a gift. Nothing makes me happier than nurturing talent and seeing them rise and take flight. It's my true calling in life."
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The "favorite tags" list takes a very important and potentially very large real-estate on the screen. As an example, here's a screenshot of my current favorites on Gaming, which takes the entire area above the fold:
And that's not even counting the ignored tags!
Now, I realize that for some users having the favorite tags list readily available is apparently very convenient, and indeed on a larger site like stackoverflow browsing according to favorite tags is probably very common; but on the smaller sites I have a feeling it's pretty rare - I never do it - and this wastes a lot of screen real-estate in a way which seems awfully wasteful to me.
Is it possible perhaps to give registered users an option to hide this part, or maybe to change it to some sort of scrollable / expandable list?


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Sweetheart Scarf
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Pattern Number: L20596 Attach a ribbon to this scarf and create an elegant faux fur tippet to wear to all your special occassions.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data.
I does seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I
tune2fs back? Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode?
Ordered-data is safer than writeback, as writeback doesn't make any
guarantees about data at all. From the mount man page:
All data is committed into the journal prior to being written
into the main file system.
This is the default mode. All data is forced directly out to
the main file system prior to its metadata being committed
to the journal.
Data ordering is not preserved - data may be written into the
main file system after its metadata has been committed to the
journal. This is rumoured to be the highest-throughput option.
It guarantees internal file system integrity, however it can
allow old data to appear in files after a crash and journal
You should only use writeback on partitions where data integrity isn't
critical, IMHO. Writeback essentially only guarantees that you won't
have to wait forever for fsck, not that your data is safe or committed
As for extents, they aren't supported in ext3 anyway. You'd need to
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Following are moves you might have missed. Find out why shares of Boeing, Morgan Stanley and Green Mountain Coffee Roaster popped while Finisar and Kohl's dropped.
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Pops & Drops: Boeing, Kohl's, Green Mountain Coffee …
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Daily ETF Roundup: UNG Soars On Surprising Data, EWJ Falls On Japanese Budget
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A rally that drove major stock indexes up 7 percent this week stalled Thursday. Stock indexes ended slightly lower, a day after the market posted its biggest gain in two and a half years.
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Market Rally Stalls in U.S., Europe U.S. stocks fell slightly a day after a blowout rally, as an unexpected rise in jobless claims and reports that Germany would continue to oppose common euro-zone debt dampened investor sentiment.
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Interview: Keira Knightley
By Katey Rich 2007-12-06 19:46:59 comments
Shes ridden the high seas for her last few outings on-screen, but for Atonement Knightley more in the form of last years Pride and Prejudice: not only has she reunited with her director from that film, Joe Wright, but shes taking on yet another beloved period novel. Playing Cecilia Tallis, a young, rich woman in love with the son of her maid (James McAvoy), Knightley goes through the flush of first love and the horrors of World War II before all is said and done in this surprisingly twisty movie. She swears she doesnt try to only do period piecesshe tries to do parts with good female roles, and those happen to be the movies that have them. She also talks about some projects she has coming up, but fair warningnone of them will involve a pirate ship.
Did you do research to get into this glamorous period? Did you study Bette Davis.
I did. It wasnt Bette Davis thoughwell, its always a bit of Bette Davis. It was Greta Garbo quite a lot, with the smoking thing. Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn, I always go back to Katharine Hepburn. I love that jerky quality that shes got. The main inspiration for this was Celia Johnson from Brief Encounter, which I watched on a loop for about two months. I actually would be very happy to watch it on a loop forever. As a cast we all watched a lot of the David Lean, Noel Coward collaborationsIn Which We Serve and then Brief Encounter. We watched a lot of news footage from that time as well. Again, the accent is such a specific thing, and its completely lost to my generation. Its that British, 1940s stiff upper lip. Its the height of the stiff upper lip, really. We all wanted to watch it together so that everyone was on the same page. It wouldnt have worked if one person hadnt done it. We did a lot of research into the accent and finding exactly what we wanted and what part of it we didnt.
Can you talk about the chemistry between you and James? He had his comments, lets hear yours.
Well, I know what his comments are. I agree with him. I should imagine that he said something along the lines of Its our job. And it is. It was a fantastic script, a great director. We really got onI think he is a sensational actor, and working with him was really, really exciting. I think as far as chemistry goes, you can have the best actors together, and in fact they can be in love with each other, and for some reason you wont have chemistry on-screen. I dont think anyone ever knows what makes that final bit of chemistry work. Obviously it helped that we got on, obviously the scripts fantastic, so maybe thats the answer.
Did it help working with Joe again?
Yeah. I love working with Joe. I loved him the moment I met him. I think chemistry between actors is very rare on-screen, I think chemistry between actors and directors is even more rare. And we have really good creative chemistry for some reason, I dont know why. We speak the same language. I think very often acting is all about emotions. I think everybody intrinsically has the same emotions but we describe them differently. Sometimes on set that can feel literally like a language barrier. With Joe, we describe emotions the same. We kind of had our own language, and I understood what he wanted, which is always helpful.
What kind of movies do you enjoy?
Of this year? I just saw Michael Clayton, which I thought was wonderful. I though Tilda Swinton in that was unbelievable. I mean, all the performances were great. I loved Into the Wild. I thought that was a very inspirational film, and actually the director of photography for that who also did A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, is one of my favorites at the moment. That film I thought was wonderful. And Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose. I think thats one of the most extraordinary performances Ive ever seen.
Was it a challenge, playing a cold character like Cecilia?
I never saw her like thatI mean, yes she is, but I never saw her like that. I always completely understood it. I think thats why I fell in love with her from the moment I read the script, because I saw her so clearly. I think that very often in film you have characters that are black and white, and whats fascinating about her is shes probably a very good person, but shes behaving like a bitch. I think we all do. I think you very rarely see that. I just love the different layers of her.
What was the hardest scene to film?
I dont know. I dont know if hard is the right word. I think every film is always challenging, and should be. But because of this three weeks rehearsal we had, we were all so prepared. I wouldnt say that anything that stuck out in my mind as being particularly difficult. The one that I loved doing, found challenging and really exciting, was the Swallows tea shop, that was actually one of my favorites when I read the script. What they both want to do is pour out into this melodramaticthey want to say everything, but they cant. So it was a really interesting process of trying to think about all the things that wanted to be bursting out and then repress that, which was actually what we were doing in the whole of the film, because its all about whats not said as opposed to what is said. But in that one it was fabulous to keep that balance between being too melodramatic and too overemotional and keeping it in check.
How was working with Saiorsie Ronan?
Yeah, shes amazing. Shes 12 and shes got this thick Irish accent, and she comes out and shes got this pitch perfect 1940s British accent. I think whats incredible with Saiorsiethats not taught. Thats not taught. So where does that talent come from? It is extraordinary. People keep on saying What advice are you giving her? I would never dream of giving Saiorsie Ronan advice. Ill take advice from her.
You seem to like things from historical periods. Is there some fascination with history?
Ive always liked history. Ive always been fascinated by it. Its not particularly that Im going I want to do things that are historical. Its simply been the stories that have interested me. You know if I find a contemporary story that interests me Ill certainly do that as well. There are always much fewer good parts for actresses than there are for actors. Most of them that Ive read indeed have simply been period pieces as opposed to contemporary pieces.
Youve played so many great female partshow do you get such great roles?
I was very lucky with a lot of them, that they just happened to be the ones that I got. I was auditioning for lots of roles and they were the ones that they offered me. I think as a woman what Im interested in is seeing interesting female roles onscreen. Im not interested really in seeing women that are very much the secondary, token woman. which there always are, and thats fair enough. But as far as being a cinemagoer Im excited when I see female roles that have a bit of different layers to them, that can be something inspiring. I think thats important.
Did you talk to Ian McEwan about your chacter at all?
Not before. He came on set a couple of times. He was very nice. At the London premiere he came up to me and said Its interesting, it works so well, but you played it so differently than Id written it. And I thought No I didnt, I played it exactly Thats whats wonderful about the characters, is people have such different ways of seeing them. I obviously saw it differently than Ian McEwan saw it.
What are you working on now?
Ive just finished one called The Duchess, which is based on part of the life of the Duchess of Devonshire, who was a political hostess in the 1780s. Thats with Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling. Before that I was working on a film that my moms written about Dylan Thomas and a group of friends that surround him and an act of violence that happens. That was with Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys.
Would you do another Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
I cant imagine doing another one. That was an amazing experience, it really was, and totally extraordinary. But I think three for me is probably enough.
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May 04, 2012 07:00 AM by Gina Hall
Apparently there is bad behavior that even Snooki can't endorse. The Jersey Shore star lashed out at the tanning mom Patricia Krenticil who's recently been taking heat (and not the ultraviolet type) for putting her 5-year-old daughter in a tanning bed.
"That bitch is crazy," said Snooki on Extra! to the tabloid's host Mario Lopez. "You are not supposed to take kids in there. Everyone knows you are not supposed to take kids in there."
Snooki has not been a stranger to wild antics from walking around wasted on public beaches to talking extensively about poop. But Snooki has surprised the reality circuit as she's been promoting her new show "Snooki & JWoww" with her fiance, Jenni Farley. While the mom-to-be is no stranger to extreme tanning, but hasn't hit the bed since August. She's also not partying, drinking or going to clubs. MTV's little wild child is growing up.
She "really came into her own being pregnant," Farley, 26, recently told People Magazine. "Looking at your best friend and seeing that, you feel proud."
"I guess (pregnancy) has just made me more mature," she said to New York reporters recently. Her new show will follow JWoww and Snooki through her first trimester.
Meanwhile, tanning mom, Krenticil, was charged on April 24th when her daughter came to school with burns, as reported by NBC. The child said she went "tanning with mommy." Teachers called authorities on second-degree child endangerment charges. The child was featured on several news outlets and is now in custody of her father.
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