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Games Inbox: FIFA realism, portable Metal Gear, and Assassin's Creed theorising
Today's evening Inbox calls for a Marvel vs. DC Universe mash-up and enjoys some more video game inspired music videos. To join in with the discussions yourself simply email us at
Football extraAs a fan of the FIFA series I assume that EA are currently hard at work on FIFA 12 to be released, as usual, in October this year. Famously the new games are full of loads of 'new features' and gameplay tweaks each year, however even fans such as me can admit that these changes amount to not very much (I personally am a mug who is happy to splash £40 each year just for new kits and players).It strikes me, however, that instead of making all these changes in an effort to produce a 'new' game this year, which we all know is just an update, there are plenty of changes that I as a football fan would love to see that surely wouldn't be difficult to implement, and would help make FIFA 12 more realistic than constantly making slight adjustments to the passing system each year.So how about these for starters: if a player is injured in the game, allow the player to kick the ball out of play. Then the opponents would have the option to return the ball, and if they don't they are met with boos and harsh words from the commentator.Another example would be booking players for dissent, by that I mean playing on after the whistle (e.g. when offside), kicking the ball away when a decision goes against them, or encroachment at a free kick. The game allows us to do these anyway but with no consequence.It would also be good to see players booed by opponent fans if they tackle someone too hard or booing a former player, e.g. Liverpool fans boo Torres. And speaking of fans, they have been the same 8-bit Mega Drive cardboard cutouts for so long, is it too much to ask for a bit of work to be done on them now?None of these changes I've suggested are game changing, but I feel they would help make the FIFA series more realistic an immersive to fans like me.NevermindPortable GearI remember playing the Game Boy Color version of Metal Gear Solid, it was an original story I think and it played just like a home console version. Even though the graphics weren't as good it still gave me that immersive feeling of Solid Snake, even down to the codec sounds, it was awesome. The people saying that Metal Gear Solid 4 won't feel or look as good on a handheld should do one. Kojima San knows what he's. I may have to get a 3DS and an NGP because as good as Metal Gear Solid 4 was, Snake Eater is by far the best game in the series and I would love someone to contest that.yobro03 (gamertag)GC:We think you forgot to finish a couple of sentences there, but we get the gist of it. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on PSP was also very good.Late Night MassRecently completed Mass Effect and loved it. What a game! Can't remember the last time I spent the whole night playing a game. Went straight out and got Mass Effect 2 (£7.99 at Argos by the way!) So there goes my spare time again and probably more sleepless nights!Nersan84 (gamertag)/nersan (PSN ID)
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It's just a theoryI just finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood last night, what a brilliant game! I did start to read the inbox message which had to be toned down as not to spoil the ending but quickly scrolled on. Tell you what though, even if the spoiler had been left in I'd still be confused about the ending. Can always count on Google though to find some extravagant theories and debates. Has there been any news on where the next one will be set yet?!Bazwardo08GC:Not yet, but there definitely is a new game of some sort planned for this year.Egyptian magicRE: Gill C. I too loved Exhumed! Think it was my first first person shooter as well, although mine was on the Sega Saturn. I loved it! Those little red jumping spider things… the wolf-headed guards and the giant wasps! The upgrades were good too, 'The Mask of Sobek' for breathing under water, sandals for high jump… loved them. I would also like a remake 'cos I'd love to play it again. Inbox magic, what do you say?GremlinSmashing ideaIt's always confused me as to why Nintendo never released a DS version of Super Smash Bros. Jump Ultimate Stars was good, but just didn't hit the spot like Smash Bros. does. I sincerely hope that a 3D version will strive at some point. I've whored Brawl to the point of near exhaustion and Ineeds me a new fix.By the way, you're completely right, 3DS is an appalling name. It's still better than Wii though.Ryan ChambersManual supportRE: Pobious. Your problem with FIFA sounds like the same trouble that I have on my PlayStation 3. I have problems connecting to head-to-head but no trouble on team play 1 vs. 1. And it's caused by my NAT type 3 settings (my router security). It mentions all about it on page 15 of the FIFA manual, plus you can read all about it online.Another one is Red Dead Redemption, when I first got the game I could play online with friends, but after a month or so I couldn't connect with them. Try a wired connection instead of a wirelessconnection, that worked for me on FIFA but not on Red Dead. I hope this helps you.rael1974 (PSN ID)The dream crossoverNow, I love the Marvel Vs. Capcom franchise but seriously when are we (if ever) going to see Marvel Vs. DC Universe (in the Marvel Vs. Capcom style, not Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe). Surely this is what every Marvel and DC fanboy (like me) really wants to see and would sell by the bucket load?! Inbox magic do your thing.Geoff BlairGC:It's more like corporate lawyers do your thing, but one day… who knows.Game musicInteresting reading about all the various game-related music videos. DiscoMike1 got it right about Super Furries in Actua Soccer 2, they were a playable team – which was pretty damn cool.A couple more music videos sprung to mind for me; the rather brilliant The Early Sheets by Norwich band The Lost Levels ( video here ) and, a bit more famously, Circuit Breaker by Mark Ronson, which is a tribute to NES-era Zelda games ( video here ). Hope some readers enjoy them as much as I do!Mr PricklepantsInbox also-ransRE : skipsville 1977. Fair play…but as a proud owner of an Amstrad CPC 464, the space bar was exactly where it should be!PJ If video games were real .ClashcityrockerIn Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 how can you be expected to beat Galactus? That's just foolish, he's the Devourer of Worlds. Lives off the energy and life force of Living Planets. What use is a well executed combo going to be against that?LG 360 baybGC:Amaterasu is a goddess you know.Here's a little Nintendo princess girl time giggle for you.unkle73This week's Hot TopicMaybe it's people planning for their summer holidays, but for the last few weeks the Inbox has been filled with reminisces of great British arcades.So for this week's Hot Topic we're going to try and lance the nostalgia boil properly, by asking you about your favourite coin-op and what your fondest memory of playing it is. What are some of your most treasured arcade memories from growing up and which games made the biggest impressions?What locations are still going that you'd recommend and do you think the arcade business still has a future? Also, if you could have your own dream arcade collection what five games would be top of your list?E-mail your comments to: firstname.lastname@example.com The small printNew Inbox updates appear twice daily, every weekday morning and afternoon. Letters are used on merit and may be edited for length.You can also submit your own 500 to 600-word 4Player viewer features at any time, which if used will be shown in the next available weekend slot.If you wish to vote in the Readers' Top of 2010 simply send us an e-mail with a list of your three favourite games of the year so far. Please vote only for games released in the UK during 2010.


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Federer sweeps Davydenko in bright pink
With the sun setting at the end of a torridly hot day at the Australian Open, Roger Federer ensured he made the most of a favorable evening draw.
Wearing bright pink shoelaces, Federer advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Russian Nikolay Davydenko on Thursday.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion was a winner of sorts before he even stepped out at Rod Laver Arena, having received the luck of the draw - a 7 p.m. start time after the worst of the 100-plus-degree heat had subsided.
"I'm very happy to have played so well against him," Federer said of his 18th win over Davydenko in their 20 matches.

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The first day of Prince Charles's three-day official visit was spent meeting some of America's wounded warriors at a British Embassy reception thrown by the USO and British Forces Foundation in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night.
As outlined by the British Embassy, the event "was designed to celebrate the work of the USO and BFF [British Forces Foundation], who share a mission dedicated to lifting the morale of troops and military families worldwide, and to begin a partnership dedicated to improving the quality of life of British and American troops and military families."
During his remarks, the Prince said, "I've been enormously impressed by those from Walter Reed hospital here. I am looking forward to linking between the USO and the BFF learning examples of best practices.
"Nothing is to good for our wounded men and women and we owe them an unmeasurable and unpayable debt. They go out every day not knowing what will happen …. To our families who provide the moral support without whom none of this is possible. It is a remarkable opp to express our thanks to them."
Prince Charles also used the event to promote the Marshall Scholarships program, which gives American students a chance to do graduate work in the United Kingdom. His Royal Majesty also made time to visit Common Good City Farm in downtown D.C. on Tuesday to support his push for environmental sustainability before heading over for an afternoon function at the Supreme Court.
And what of that event last week that got a little bit of attention, as well … something about one of his sons getting married? No canned or candid quotes could be elicited as the Prince did not take any questions from the press during his Tuesday appearances.
Click here to view a video report from Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. and read about his stateside agenda at The Wall Street Journal.
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Getting inside madmen's heads is all the rage. This isn't to say it's news, exactly criminologists, detectives, and sundry monster-chasers have been doing it forever. Think: Sherlock Holmes, Ann Rule, Clarice Starling, Mulder, anyone tangling with Freddy Krueger, Millennium's Frank Black, the interchangeable women on Profiler, first-person-shooter games, even Spock, tripping on the Vulcan Mind-Meld. With all this history to live up to, as well as contemporary, high-tech competition, the generation next of criminal-mindfuckers has to be tres cutting edge to get any action at all.
Enter The Cell, Tarem Singh's film about an imagined technology that allows users to enter other people's minds, virtual-reality style: "you don't just observe, you participate." If this sounds familiar, well, it is. Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) in Strange Days and Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer) in tv's VR5 were traversing frontal-lobal synapses five long years before The Cell. In this rendition, Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) has to wear a special sensory catsuit though even that's old; recall a similar deal for Jobe (Jeff Fahey) and Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) in 1992's Lawnmower Man. Still, Catherine's outfit is sexier as well as scarier: deep red, rubbery, almost amphibian-looking. While in this suit, she must hang from wires and wear a bizarre computer-circuitry rag over her face. Like most every object in the film, including Lopez, the strange gear looks pretty fabulous (I saw a girl Lopez fan wearing a version of this suit on MTV's Total Request Live this week: as street wear, it does seem extreme, and sweaty). It goes without saying that you shouldn't go prying into the gear's logic or science. But then, The Cell doesn't pretend to do anything other than what it does: mess with your mind something awful. Watching this movie might give you a headache.
The Cell
Tarem Singh
Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne-Jean Baptiste, Dylan Baker
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The set-up is actually simple, as these things go. The emphasis is on images throbbing, creepy, brilliantly colored. Catherine is a psychologist with a "gift" for empathy (read: Deanna Troi with bite). She doesn't get out much. In fact, she and her team, Miriam (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Henry West (Dylan Baker), spend nearly the entire film inside the Campbell Center, a lab compound. Here Catherine takes psychotropic drugs and uses a "brain-mapping device" to rifle around inside the head of the team's only client, a boy comatose after nearly drowning (his filthy rich parents subsidize the research).
This rifling looks terrific: when you first see her, Catherine rides a ravishing black horse across the burnt-orange sands of a desert inside the kid's mind (i.e., as far from water as possible). The colors are hard and surreal: against the blue sky, Catherine's white-white dress, with a feathered bodice, looks almost like wings atop her black horse. Dismounting, she starts walking: the aerial shots are incredible (her teeny white-gowned body walks endlessly across miles of dunes, emptiness all around her) and Howard Shore's score screaming vocals and Middle Eastern instrumentation becomes intense, harsh, alarming to ears used to typical movie soundtracks, rising strings and melodies. You might anticipate such striking visuals from Singh, who directed the 1991 video for REM's "Losing My Religion." And from here, the metaphors only become darker and more complicated, drawn from a range of cultural sources, biblical, mystical, mythological, artistic, and s&m-fantastical: imagine What Dreams May Come meets Faces of Death meets Tomb Raider.
Alternating with these bizarre shots of the team's "good" work, you see shots of sick-fuck murderer Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio, the best glowerer in the business: see Full Metal Jacket and Men In Black) doing his very bad work. Under the watchful eye of his spooky albino German Shepherd (your surrogate? you hope not), Carl gazes longingly at his young woman victim, floating dead in the glass cell where she has recently drowned. He drains and treats the body, turning her into a "doll," painted and pale, and then suspends himself over her corpse, using hooks he has implanted in his back (hooks like those in the Re-Search wild-piercings books). Already, you see the similarities between Catherine and Carl: both in suspension, both yearning to save and be saved.
Using a basic Ted-Bundyish ruse, Carl kidnaps another woman, then (oops!) lapses into a coma, due to his peculiar kind of schizophrenia. Yadda yadda: Catherine is asked by the FBI Agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughan) and Agent Gordon Ramsey (Jake Weber) to penetrate Carl's mind and discover the whereabouts of the kidnapee, whose cell is scheduled to flood in a few hours. He's a maniacal, dreadful individual whose psyche is sure to be gruesome and dangerous. How can she refuse? The rest of the film tracks Catherine's efforts to reach the "little boy" version of Carl, trapped inside and alongside the large monstrous version, and surrounded by memories of an abusive father who beat, burned, and river-baptized him so fervently that the boy nearly drowned. A pattern emerges: water water everywhere, equally a means to ruin and salvation.
Be that as it may: Catherine suits up and gets inside these memories, complete with shadowy A-frame house, besieged mom, horridly sliced-up horse, and collection of women-as-dolls in display cases (including some modeled after famous art, like Degas' "Dancer"). Catherine is appalled but also intrigued: she goes in deeper. That Catherine will be caught in a tussle between little boy Carl and serial killer Carl is foregone, as is the fact that she will learn something about her own dark side and need Peter's ineffectually gung-ho help while inside Carl's head.
The movie doesn't get much past its spectacular-nightmare imagery: plot and characterization are plainly secondary, except as they might affect what you see on screen. Still, this very lack raises a good question: what is character or plot in a film if not an occasion to illustrate visions in filmmakers' heads? We're mostly used to watching movies with narratives conflicts, crises, resolutions but this needn't be the only reason to watch them. We're used to gauging films by how "realistic" they seem. But what can this mean, in the context of an explicitly imaginative experience, where what you understand to be "real" is abandoned from shot one: reality isn't even a point of departure here, it's more like a quaint notion, something lost long ago, like, say, religion. On one level, you can see how all this would be fascinating to a film director wanting to expand the possibilities of digital representation: forget Antz, Final Fantasy, Buzz Lightyear, or even Simone (Al Pacino's upcoming CGI co-star). Movies don't need to be about stories anymore (how pedestrian); they can concoct and reflect and distort, they can play games or be games. They can refigure reality, re-present it so that you only half-recognize it, make you believe you recognize it. It's on you to keep up.
Carl the character has "no reality," only a consummately warped imagination. (As a cultural product, he's a function of multiple cliches and stereotypes the atrocious childhood, the psycho dad, the incomprehensible religious rituals however real they might be at any given point in his (or our collective) consciousness. According to The Cell's made-up and self-fabricating experts, he's "an idealized version of himself, a king in his kingdom." That is, he's a character, hypothetical, and the film treats him as such, just as it treats Catherine and the doctors and the federal agents, as compilations of common movie-character traits. So, Catherine makes the correct decisions (even when she's decked out as the Virgin Mary quite the trip), Miriam is comforting and wise, macho guy Peter barks orders to his minions, reveals his own banal backstory (as a DA, he lost a child-killer case on a technicality), and eventually cozies up to Catherine (who has a dead brother in her background). They're all wounded, sad, and angry, all looking for redemption. And the film doesn't pretend to give it, to them or to you.
In other words, unlike standard serial killer movies like Silence of the Lambs or The Stranger Beside Me, or even gutsier ones like Summer of Sam, The Minus Man or Felicia's Journey, The Cell is not the least bit inclined to make sense of itself. Sure, you get the requisite race to rescue and race to put right as sort of parallel climaxes, but neither is particularly interesting and certainly neither has a clear moral ground. For The Cell, the serial killer's mind is the hook, not the point. A potential point never rally determined might be Catherine's mind, the do-gooder's intentions and motivations, but even these ideas are left waysided and disjointed (by design or bad filmmaking? and does it matter?). Maybe there's something else at stake. Carl, understandably upset at Catherine's intrusion, roars the film's best question: "Where do you come from?" Where indeed? You watch with your own backstory, but do you know (or care) how that affects your watching, how it becomes your reality?
Still, such questions no matter how splendid and stimulating don't take away from The Cell's many faults as a regular movie. Fed-boy sidekick Ramsey's description of the denouement fits the whole shebang: "I'd say pretty fucking strange is par for the course." It's infuriating and boring, predictable and incoherent, brutal and romantic. And it's looking like movies to come.
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Microwave Minestrone Recipe
"This hearty soup is packed with vegetables and pasta," remarks Emma Magielda of Amsterdam, New York. "By the time I set the table, it's ready."
- 1 cup each sliced carrots, celery and zucchini
- 1/2 cup diced sweet yellow pepper
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 can (15 ounces) cannellini or white kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) beef broth
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 cup medium pasta shells, cooked and drained
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1. In a 2-qt. microwave-safe bowl, combine the carrots, celery, zucchini, yellow pepper and onion. Drizzle with oil; toss to coat.
- 2. Cover and microwave on high for 3 minutes. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on high for 9-11 minutes. Yield: 5 servings.
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1 cup: 220 calories, 4g fat (1g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 765mg sodium, 39g carbohydrate (7g sugars, 7g fiber), 9g protein.
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"I've made this soup a number of times, although I prefer to use a dutch oven and not the microwave. I double the recipe and then add another cup of beef broth and a 12-oz. can of V-8 juice, as I like more broth than it has as written. I also prefer small pasta shells. When I can't get cannellini beans, I substitute Great Northern beans. I use olive oil and often add several cloves minced garlic. This will make about 12 one-cup servings. Lovely, fresh Italian taste!"
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Since opening in September 2010, guest have been blown away by the Lake House. One couple commented "it's like a decompression chamber for stress – you simply feel your body relax". Six individual suites share a fully staffed boutique hotel with bar, dining room, lounge, swimming pool and lake…
The spa includes an indoor swimming pool, sauna and hot tub with distinct advantages. Even assuming the Lake House is full, it is shared at most by 6 couples; more often than not, you will have it all to yourself as residents tend to use the facilities at different times during the day (the pool, sauna and hot tub are open from 8am until 8pm). Also, as with the rest of the house, the spa overlooks a stunningly beautiful private lake surrounded by woodland. Our delightful therapists can be booked for fantastic treatments in the privacy of your room.
Quiet, untouched, and devoid of traffic or people, whether sitting by the fire in the lounge, or in the cedar wood hot tub, Champagne in hand, or in the swimming pool, the view instils a sense of peace and calm.
Set within 100 acre of grounds, the viewpoint "Cat's Crag" has 360 degree Lakeland views with a herd of wild deer living nearby. Alternatively the walk around the lake and the gardens can absorb a morning. For the more energetic, there are some beautiful runs and bike trails, coarse fishing for the initiated, even a swim in the lake, or just mess about on the water in one of our rowing boats.
Decompression chambers should not be left before the treatment is complete, and whilst the entrance gates stop no one from leaving, many guests choose not to. For many, a good book, a comfy chair by the fire overlooking the lake is simply enough. The Lake House is particularly ideal if you are considering arriving by train as a car is not needed and the Lake House is only a short taxi ride (20 mins) from Oxenholme (just 2.5 hours from London). Our complimentary chauffeur drives guests to the main hotel and back for dinner.


text: Hi all - my first post on Android forums which I have so far found very helpful for Android-related issues! My Galaxy S2 on T-Mobile in the UK has been working fine until the ICS update. Noticable problems I began to experience with it were a huge increase in battery drain and background RAM usage, and that I was not receiving some, but not all, of my texts and calls. I know this as my poor girlfriend keeps complaining I wasn't getting back to the texts she sometimes sends several times a day! I know the issue may be similar with calls, as I was sent a message on Facebook from a friend asking me to call her back, thought I had not received no call from her on my phone and nothing from her showed on the call log. The problem with texts seems to be worse (though I cannot know for sure) and is apparently without pattern. After calling Samsung, they advised I perform a factory reset, which I did. It solved the battery life problems but not the main issue the texts I'm not receiving. I am interested if anyone else has this problem on their S2 following the update, especially as the problems with ICS seem to vary hugely with each individual phone. More importantly though, if anyone has a solution to this problem (and to fixing all the ICS bugs, though maye that's asking too much ) as an alternative to sending my phone back to Samsung for 7-10 days, I would be very grateful! Cheers!


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This article is the examination of Sermon 228 (227 of the English version) of Nahj al-Balāgha, in which Ibn Abi al-Hadῑd, a prominent seventh century exegete of the Nahj al-Bālagha, strongly argues that the narration of the Imam (A.S.) was in praise of the second caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattāb.
On a pleasant evening, there was an announcement in the sisters hostel which brought about a breath of joyfulness among the students, causing them to rush to sign their names to register for the Rāhiyān-i-nūr trip. This was an opportunity to travel to junūb, the south of the Iran which shared a border with Iraq, to witness the place of difā'-i-muqaddas (the "holy defence").
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Based on the concept of divine grace, prophets need to be sent by Allah (SWT) for the actualization of the goal of creation. The prophets of Allah (SWT) are men of honour, integrity and outstanding characters,
Certain names bear a significance that far transcends the particular persons, places, or objects they denote. A prime example of such a name—arguably, the most outstanding example—is Husayn.
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Now seven months pregnant, the Duchess of Cambridge might have expected all eyes to be on her sizeable bump.
But windy weather and her flimsy outfit had other ideas. Kate was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up her £38 polka-dot dress, drawing attention instead to her thighs.
The royal mother-to-be was caught out by the wind as she arrived at the wedding of friends Willian van Cutsem and Rosie Ruck Keene, in south Oxfordshire, just over a week ago.
Whoops: A seven months pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was hit by an unfortunate gust of wind which blew up her skirt and exposed her thighs
Seemingly unaware that her skirt had blown up, revealing her shapely legs, she gripped her black and white fascinator rather than her hem, laughing as she did so.
It happened as she walked towards St Mary the Virgin Church, in the village of Ewelme in the Chiltern Hills, on Saturday, May 11.
The duchess appeared not to have learned her lesson from the last time she wore the Topshop dress, when she suffered a similar wardrobe malfunction.
Having fun: The royal couple arrived separately at St Mary the Virgin Church, in the village of Ewelme in the Chiltern Hills
She was forced to hold down the back of the black and cream outfit as she arrived at the Hertfordshire-based Warner Bros Studios with Princes William and Harry, last month.
The High Street bargain sold out within hours of her wearing it, but the dress may not get a third showing after proving unsuitable for the gusty British weather once again.
Kate attended the wedding with Prince William, who arrived separately and was believed to have been an usher, wearing the same morning suit, blue striped shirt, and dark red tie as the groom.
Gusty: The wind in Oxfordshire first showed the Duchess's growing bump before it lifted her flimsy dress, although Kate didn't seem too worried as she walked with a male companion
Arriving alone: Kate attended the wedding with Prince William, who arrived separately and was believed to have been an usher
The couple have known the van Cutsem family for many years and the groom's niece, Grace, was a flower girl at the royal wedding.
Kate's embarrassing moment, reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe in film The Seven Year Itch, was one of several for the duchess.
In July 2011, during a North American tour, her cream and navy cable-knit Alexander McQueen dress was whipped up by the wind as she met wellwishers in Charlottetown, in Canada.
On that occasion she was wearing a cream slip, which protected her modesty. She was not so lucky four days later as her yellow Jenny Packham dress flew up on the tarmac at Calgary airport, briefly revealing her underwear.
But the duchess, who is expected to give birth on July 13, handled all the mishaps with her usual poise.
The exact due date had been shrouded in secrecy, but close friends of the royal couple discussed at a barbecue hosted by a family friend that Kate expects to go into labour on July 13 – during the Queen's Coronation Festival.
For the first time, 50 per cent said Charles would be a fitting monarch in the YouGov poll, up 13 per cent from May last year. The Prince of Wales was seen as making a positive contribution to the monarchy by 60 per cent of voters.
The poll showed, for the first time, a majority believe the Queen should abdicate if she becomes too ill to fulfil her duties.
Happy couple: Kate and William were at the wedding to support Willian van Cutsem and Rosie Ruck Keene
Troubles: Kate also had problems on her North American tour with William in 2011, when the wind blew up her dress twice in four day
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But the happy couple's choice of toast was more suited to The Only Way is Essex than its higher-class Chelsea counterpart.
Guests toasted the bride and groom with Smirnoff Ice, a vodka alcopop flavoured with lemon, and knocked back gin shots before the service, according to onlookers.
The Duchess of Cambridge's little sister attended the wedding of Verity Evetts and Christopher Buchanan at the Church of St Peter and Holy Cross, Wherwell, Hampshire.
Showing off her famous figure in a skin-tight pale pink £370 Tory Burch Adelaide dress, she looked stylish and svelte as she posed for the cameras.
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The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards is sure to be filled with plenty of buzzy moments, but one hot topic is already the talk of the town. In a conference call with the media, Primetime Emmys executive producer Ken Ehrlich and CBS executive Jack Sussman answered questions about this year's telecast, giving behind-the-scenes insight into what promises to be an extra special night with the stars. But the questioning kept coming back to the producers' unique decision regarding the show's popular "In Memoriam" tribute.
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While Ehrlich promised that the Emmys will continue with the traditional "In Memoriam" segment that viewers have grown accustomed to, this year producers made the controversial choice to select five media standouts to recognize in a special way.
Jonathan Winters, James Gandolfini, Jean Stapleton, Gary David Goldberg, and Cory Monteith will be remembered via tributes from their TV co-stars and close friends (that would be Robin Williams, Edie Falco, Rob Reiner, Michael J. Fox, and Jane Lynch, respectively). And Ehrlich admits he knew the decision would create controversy.
"It's an extension of the "In Memoriam" piece we've done for years. ... No matter what we do, there will be people who feel we had other options and could have done other things," he said. "There was a limit to what we could do. … In all candor, this becomes a producer's option. And in this case, we selected these five knowing certainly others could be treated this way. But these were the five we chose."
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The choice of Monteith (the "Glee" star was only 31 when he died last summer) over late TV legends like Jack Klugman and Larry Hagman was one that Ehrlich had no trouble defending.
"Cory's appeal is to a different generation," he said. "At 31, he passed away under very different circumstances. It was important to be responsible to the younger viewers to whom Cory meant perhaps as much as these other individuals meant to their own generations."
Speaking of tributes, this year's Emmys will also feature a tribute to "Behind the Candelabra" subject Liberace, as well as what Ehrlich called a "tent pole" moment of the show that will touch on two big events that occurred 50 years ago: the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Beatles landmark appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
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"Much more than a TV event, it was the first time the country mourned collectively on the death of president," Ehrlich said, before noting that two months later the Beatles American TV debut was "to a real extent, the beginning of a time we were able to celebrate … two incredible events that tied us together because of TV."
But don't be scared off by what sounds like a somber tone to this year's Emmys theme. "I don't want to overemphasize these pieces we've talked about," Ehrlich said. "An awards show, like television, needs to have a balance."
To help balance things out, spunky singer Carrie Underwood will be part of the segment, and Sussman promised: "She's going to be singing Beatles music."
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So with all of these extra segments, is there a chance the show might go on … and on and on? Awards shows have a history of running overtime, but Sussman thinks this year's Emmys can definitely stick to the three-hour time limit.
"We will ask people to be sincere and concise," he said. '"Our job is to keep the show moving."
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The festive season is sometimes referred to as a time of contemplation, so I got all thoughtful and pensive on Friday evening.
That was the day my club, Borussia Dortmund, turned 99 years of age and launched what will be twelve months of celebrations to mark our centenary. The main event on Friday was a service at the Trinity Church, as this parish in a roundabout way spawned the club. The highlight of the service was supposedly a suffragan bishop blessing the club's flag.
I say "supposedly" because while I hung around the church and took part in a guided tour, I didn't stay around for the service itself. In part because I felt the whole hullabaloo was quite cheeky of the church.
After all, the club that was celebrated with this service only exists because the church was vehemently opposed to football and for all practical purposes forced those who loved the game out of the parish and into the formation of their own, renegade association.
The local chaplain railed against football from the pulpit and ordered the members of the parish's sodality (some kind of low-scale YMCA) to stop playing. He even gate-crashed the club's foundation meeting to save all souls present, which led to fisticuffs and the interesting sight of a chaplain sporting a shiner. This in turn started a full-blown feud over the next years. Think sawn-off goalposts and services intentionally scheduled to coincide with games to force people into choosing between secular fun and salvation.
Well, maybe I'm too harsh on the church here. Perhaps what smacked of co-opting the club and re-writing its history was in fact just a gesture of atonement. Be that as it may, it got me thinking about how much we really know about our football history and how much we really care about it. And, to finally get to the point, where and how we present it.
Earlier in the day, Borussia Dortmund had proudly opened its museum, the "Borusseum". As much as I welcome this, isn't it a bit strange that it took us 99 years to get something like that off the ground? Oh, we've had a museum before, but that was a modest collection of display cases well-hidden at the rear of the main merchandise store. Not more than an afterthought, really.
Being so sluggish when it comes to portraying the past is not unusual. In fact, it appears to be the norm. After years and years of planning and debating, scheduling and more debating, spin-doctoring and further debating we still don't have a national football museum in Germany. Perhaps a decision will at very long last be made in January (Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen are now the final two candidates for the museum's site). But I wouldn't bet on it.
And it's not as if such negligence is a German phenomenon. When England's national football museum was opened in Preston, reports referred to it as "the world's first major football museum". And that was in 2001 - no less than 129 years after the first international was played. To put this into perspective: the World Rugby Museum in Twickenham dates from 1996, the British Golf Museum in St Andrews opened in 1990, the NFL's Hall of Fame was established in 1963, there is a national horse racing museum in Saratoga Springs since 1950 and baseball fans got their Cooperstown shrine as early as 1939.
Even if the reports that claimed the Preston museum was the first big one solely devoted to football were wrong (there is a Museo del Calcio in Tuscany since March of 2000), it indeed seems the game is strangely slow in documenting the past. After all, even proud Brazil got its Museu do Futebol, located in São Paulo, only three months ago.
Pelé, who opened the museum in September, was quoted as saying: "There are lots of great museums in the world - the Louvre, Madam Tussaud's - but no museum dedicated to football." While he was slightly mistaken about that, it's certainly not as if football museums exist in abundance.
When the Preston museum published its annual report in mid-2006, a chapter headed "Shared Vision" said: "The National Football Museum has also advised the projects to establish national football museums in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Korea and Uruguay." Brazil seems to be checked off now, but that still leaves many tradition-laden footballing countries without a commemoration centrepiece.
You could be forgiven for thinking we don't really care about football's history. The Munich-based company that captured the 1954 World Cup on film destroyed the spools only a few years later because it needed storage space. The original Jules Rimet trophy vanished from the headquarters of the Brazilian FA in 1983. In 1996, three English companies bought the ball used in the 1966 World Cup final from Helmut Haller and put it on display at Waterloo station - a blunder, considering the ball bore the signatures of the men who played in the final and quite a few of their contemporaries.
According to Mark Bushell, spokesman of the museum in Preston: "The ball was left in direct sunlight and all the signatures faded."
Despite these and other mishaps, there are still tons of things left that are worth displaying and preserving, many of them stockpiled by private collectors. And the public is interested in seeing them.
Eight years ago, there was a spectatcular exhibition in Oberhausen to celebrate the German FA's centenary. It ran for five months and attracted more than 215,000 visitors, or roughly 1,250 per day.
On the day I went there, the place was absolutely packed. And even the kids were fascinated. They may not have known why there was a crossbar hovering over their heads (the very piece of wood Geoff Hurst's shot hit in the 101st minute of the 1966 World Cup final), but they sure liked the multimedia stuff.
I have no idea where all those wonderful exhibits are now, probably gathering dust in dark basements or back in the homes of the people who provided them. It's really about time we find a permanent place for them, so I hope 2009 will begin with the German FA's long-awaited decision about and commitment to a national museum.
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Carey, who is just a sophomore, led all running backs in the nation in 2012 with over 146 yards per game and added 20 touchdowns to that as well. He twice broke the 200-yard barrier in his final three games, including an astounding 306-yard- five touchdown effort on Nov. 10 against Colorado. With a big game on Saturday against Nevada in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, Carey could firmly cement himself right into next season's Heisman discussion.
Stedman Bailey – WR, West Virginia
Bailey, WVU's leading receiver this season with over 1,500 yards and 23 TDs, is just a junior, but will likely enter this year's NFL Draft; and wisely so. His teammate Tavon Austin gets all of the attention for his dual-threat abilities, but Bailey is as reliable as any receiver in today's game. In Bailey's three years at WVU, he has piled up 3,097 yards receiving and 39 TDs; some of the greatest three-year numbers of any receiver in college football history. Bailey could put up another impressive performance against a susceptible Syracuse pass defense in this year's New Era Pinstripe Bowl and could wind up getting drafted as high as the end of the first round in this year's NFL draft.
David Fales – QB, San Jose State
The junior signal-caller for the Spartans was one of the major surprises in college football this year. Fales completed a higher percentage of his passes than any other starting QB in college football with 72.1 percent, all while throwing for 3,798 yards and 31 TDs to boot. It remains to be seen whether or not Fales can continue to put up these types of numbers and whether or not his team can build off of this year's success, but he will certainly get the chance in 2013 and could even be a sleeper Heisman candidate like Case Keenum was for Houston a couple of years ago.
Tajh Boyd – QB, Clemson
The junior Tigers QB, who will likely declare for the NFL Draft was once again stellar this season — his second great campaign for an up-and-coming Clemson program. Boyd threw for 3,550 yards and was tied for sixth in the nation with 34 touchdown passes thrown. He has now thrown 67 touchdown passes in his last two seasons. Boyd's downfall when being evaluated by NFL scouts could be his 13 interceptions, but if looked at carefully, it is clear that most of those INTs came in garbage time with Clemson leading big late in games. The junior signal-caller could be one of the most underrated players going into April's draft.
Arthur Brown – LB, Kansas State
Brown was the senior defensive leader for a solid Wildcats unit in 2012. He led the team in tackles with 91 on the year and also had two interceptions, using his tremendous athletic abilities to elevate himself and get to broken up passes. He has also been the vocal leader of a defensive unit that has helped the Wildcats win 21 games over the past two seasons and is finally living up to his pre-collegiate hype after transferring from Miami. Brown is not as disruptive as linebackers like Jarvis Jones or Manti Te'o, but is probably more athletic and gets from sideline to sideline better than either of them. A good showing versus an athletic Oregon team in this year's Fiesta Bowl could bode well for his NFL Draft stock come April.
Joseph Randle – RB, Oklahoma State
The Cowboys' success usually gets attributed to their QBs and their passing game, which is fair. However, Randle has made people aware of the OK State running game the last couple of years and truly made it as much of a threat as anything else that they do. Randle surpassed the 1,200-yard barrier for the second consecutive season in 2012 and has now racked up 3,020 yards rushing and 40 TDs in his Cowboy career and has been the most consistent force for their offense during that span. Another solid performance in this year's Heart of Dallas Bowl against a struggling Purdue program should vault Randle firmly into a first or second day selection in 2013's NFL Draft.
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It looks like Kutcher was back to work late Thursday afternoon when his soon to be ex-wife spoke to the Associated Press to reveal she and her husband would end their marriage, after just over six years. The split comes after months of speculation that Kutcher cheated on Moore with Sara Leal, a 23-year-old blonde he allegedly had a fling with back in September.
The somber looking 33-year-old was photographed with some crew members, drinking coffee outside the soundstage where his CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men," is filmed.
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More Precious Metal Previews from 2010-11 Panini Gold Standard Basketball
Even as collector anticipation continues to swell for the late-May release of 2010-11 Panini Gold Standard Basketball, we wouldn't be doing our jobs correctly if we didn't do everything in our might to heighten those golden hopes.
Perhaps these new pre-production images — courtesy of the Panini America Routing Table — will do just that.
Last week we shared with you some early glimpses of some of Gold Standard's decadently ornate insert sets. And prior to that, we provided a behind-the-scenes look at how the product's unique packaging came about.
Today, we bring to you even more gilded greatness, including a few of the base card fronts — along with their splendid backs — and a handful of as-yet-unseen insert designs.
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April 7, 2011 12:05 pm
SWEET Blake Griffin card! I also like the back of these cards, looks like certificate borders, nice 🙂
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CJ permalinkApril 7, 2011 12:12 pm
Looks nice. I wonder how much those Griffin/Walls will fetch on the secondary market.
And I'm not sure if it's because I'm a Nuggets fan, but the crossed pickaxes on the 'Gold Mining' design reminds me of Denver's alternate logo.
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Yeah to see a coach card in there, are there many of them?
Steve Ibarra permalinkApril 7, 2011 5:25 pm
Those cards look amazing
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Where are the Kobe Autos????? It said months ago they.were shipping!! What's the deal?
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Senate Opens Debate on Bipartisan Immigration Package
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RAY SUAREZ: Now, Congress and the immigration debate, making illegal workers legal. We start with NewsHour congressional correspondent Kwame Holman.
KWAME HOLMAN: Several Republican senators came to the floor this afternoon to pledge they will not support an immigration bill that looks anything like the much-celebrated bipartisan compromise reached last week by their colleagues.
Alabama's Jeff Sessions.
SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R), Alabama: The time is right for comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate, however, in my view, is not ready for debate today. The plan as we are moving today is unwise.
KWAME HOLMAN: In fact, the massive immigration proposal unveiled Thursday by senators from both parties has come under sharp criticism on several fronts. For instance, many of those advocating strict border enforcement as a priority believe offering a path to citizenship to the 12 million immigrants now in this country illegally amounts to amnesty.
House Republican Brian Bilbray of California spoke on CNN yesterday.
REP. BRIAN BILBRAY (R), California: The worst thing you can do if you try to control the illegal immigration is reward 12 to 20 million illegal aliens with citizenship and permanent residency.
KWAME HOLMAN: Immigrants' rights advocates also are unhappy with two other components of the plan. One would skew the method by which green cards are awarded, favoring those with advanced skills, college degrees, and English-speaking ability over those with traditional family ties.
Cecilia Munoz, vice president of the National Council of La Raza.
CECILIA MUNOZ, National Council of La Raza: The categories that they're proposing to get rid of are the categories that allow Americans, like me and you, to bring in their adult children and their brothers and sisters. And I'm really not sure that it's politically wise to say to the American people, "Total strangers are of more value to us than your own children, your own family members."
KWAME HOLMAN: The pro-immigrant community also takes issue with the plan's guest-worker program, which would allow temporary entry by 400,000 foreign nationals annually, but with no path to citizenship.
Meanwhile, some employers argue the plan would require them to verify — using a government database — that all of their employees are legally eligible to work in the United States. Current penalties for employing undocumented workers would be increased.
But late this afternoon, Colorado Democrat Ken Salazar came to the Senate floor to plead with his colleagues to give the compromise bill a chance.
SEN. KEN SALAZAR (D), Colorado: At the end of the day, this bipartisan proposal, which we have put on the table, will allow us, first of all, to secure our borders. It will allow us to make sure that we're enforcing our laws here in the United States of America. And, third of all, it will deal in a realistic and humane manner with the economic realities that face our businesses and our workers here in America today.
KWAME HOLMAN: Senators will be given the chance to change provisions of the bipartisan immigration plan through amendments debated and voted on throughout the week.
The path to citizenship
RAY SUAREZ: Now, two views on what may be the major sticking point in the compromise immigration bill: the path to citizenship.
Angela Kelley is deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, which promotes immigration. And Jessica Vaughan is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates reduced immigration.
And, Angela Kelley, this afternoon's debate featured many senators just calling this flat-out an amnesty bill. Is it?
ANGELA KELLEY, National Immigration Forum: No, Ray, I think it's actually not an amnesty. I think it's an answer. I think it's a solution that's long overdue to a pressing domestic problem.
We have 12 million people here living in the shadows. And in today's post-9/11 world, it is simply not tenable to not know who's in this country. We need a solution, where people will come forward, where they will register, where we will have a chance to screen them, make sure that they're working. And over time -- and it's a long path -- where they show they're learning English about learning about this nation's history and civics, give them a chance to belong.
We think it's the only solution that makes sense, because, clearly, they're not going to leave the U.S. They're making contributions. So we think that lawmakers are onto something. We welcome the debate and expect that there will be a resolution this year.
RAY SUAREZ: Jessica Vaughan, is this an amnesty bill?
JESSICA VAUGHAN, Center for Immigration Studies: Oh, of course it's an amnesty. It provides instant amnesty to people who have been living here illegally for years, and to about 12 million of them, at least. So it's most definitely an amnesty. It gives them exactly what they came here to get, permission to work here, live here, get a library card, get a driver's license.
RAY SUAREZ: But as Angela Kelley pointed out, it is a long road. It does bring forward, so you know who they are and where they are. And there are some penalties built into the proposals that the proponents say makes this not just a free pass, a ticket into the country, but a process.
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Well, there's not much process, because the illegal aliens who are living here now would gain instant probationary status, legal status. So they get to keep doing what they're been doing all this time.
A broad definition
RAY SUAREZ: In the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the last time we tried to handle this problem, it wasn't an expansive definition of who could stay and who could apply. There were some pretty specific requirements put down, including five years demonstrable residence in the United States. But this time, they've used a very expansive definition of who can stay and when you stop the clock.
ANGELA KELLEY: Yeah, I think lawmakers are actually trying to capture as big a universe as they can of people who are here illegally, because lawmakers know that we need a practical, workable solution that brings as many people as possible out of the shadows for our nation's security sake and for our stronger economy, so we know who's here.
RAY SUAREZ: So they're saying that more expansive definition is a necessary part for this thing to work?
ANGELA KELLEY: Absolutely, Ray. If we say arbitrarily five years back, you can be part of the program, but the next day, if you're after that cut-off, you can't be, then that means that we've got millions of people who are going to be outside the program. We've tried that, and it failed.
Clearly, we need to be tough. We need to know who is in this country. This isn't an instant green card giveaway. This is a very long and tough road.
The information we get on these people is who is here. The information we get is taxes that they have to start paying. The information that we get puts them on the road on residency, over an eight-year period. Some will begin to get green cards. They won't all have them for 13 years.
But what we get is security in knowing who's in this country. What we get is knowledge that they're being taxed. What we get are employers who are going to have to follow the law and can't circumvent and start hiring illegal people. It is an extraordinary possibility now that lawmakers are on the brink of finally having a handle on who's in this country.
What's the alternative, Ray? We deport 12 million people? We spend $240 billion a year over the next five years to do that? That's more than the DHS budget.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, let me ask Jessica Vaughan what the alternatives are.
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Well, this bill certainly isn't a good choice whatsoever. It doesn't provide us with anymore safety or security in the country. All it does is legalize 12 million people who are here illegally. It supercharges illegal immigration and provides us with huge, new guest-worker programs.
It's not what the American people want at all, but the American public...
Making it harder to work legally
RAY SUAREZ: Well, taking a look at that broad capture of the 12 million people, with very few restrictions that are on them in order to stay, what would your organization have done differently in addressing this very large group of people?
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Well, what we need to do is make it impossible for illegal aliens to find work legally. And we need to cut off the job magnet and eventually people -- and make it impossible for people to get driver's licenses, to live here as if they were legal.
If we simply enforce the laws that we have on the books already -- and that doesn't require any new legislation -- people are eventually going to give up and go home on their own. And that's what the American people most definitely wants to see happen.
RAY SUAREZ: So you're saying, reduce the number of people first, and then address them through some package?
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Right. All we need to do is enforce the laws that we have, and we'll see a big difference in the size of the illegal community.
RAY SUAREZ: Angela Kelley, why not do that?
ANGELA KELLEY: Yes, I have to respectfully disagree. That's what we've been doing for the last dozen years. We have more boots and binoculars at the border than we've ever had, and we have the biggest undocumented population we've ever had. We have more employers...
RAY SUAREZ: No, but to be fair, Jessica Vaughan is not saying that it's Border Patrol agents that are going to do this. It's going to be life in America where it's just not easy to be here illegally anymore, and people will, in effect, self-deport. They'll take themselves home.
ANGELA KELLEY: Yes, I understand the tactic, and I can tell you that it doesn't work. In Virginia, people can't get driver's licenses, so they go to Maryland. In one town in Dallas, Texas, they just passed an ordinance saying that you can't rent an apartment, so they'll just go to the next town to rent an apartment.
I mean, what we have right now is a crisis in the localities, because you've got 50 different states trying to come up with 50 different laws. And it's at the states and localities where we really need to have a uniform immigration policy coming from the federal government so that we know who's here, so that we have a transparent system.
We have much to gain by registering these people. We have much to gain by making employers follow the law. And Congress is on the brink of addressing this very important domestic problem with a solution.
With all due respect to your other guest, what has been tried for the last many years has failed. There is no solution on the books that we could just enforce our way out of the problem somehow. We can't keep throwing money at the problem.
Instead, what we need to do is be real, that we've got three million U.S. citizen kids with one or two parents that are undocumented. We have 5 percent of the U.S. workforce that is undocumented. We have folks that are in construction, in landscaping, probably working in this building, taking care of our elderly, taking care of our babies. And it is time that we know who they are, we start making sure they pay taxes, and over time give them a chance to belong.
States, cities pass tougher laws
RAY SUAREZ: Could you really deal with the problem, as you both see it, by simply making this a more inhospitable place to be for people who are working in the country illegally?
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Absolutely. That's what's happening already, because the states and localities who are frustrated with the federal government's failure to address the problem. And I disagree: We haven't tried enforcement yet. We haven't tried it for many years.
They're starting to enact laws on their own in ways that they can use their own authority to make a difference in the problem. And it's starting to work, from what we've heard.
This proposal is neither practical, nor realistic, nor even tough. It doesn't make us any more secure, because all we're going to know about the people who gain status is what they tell us. We're not going to have any opportunity to actually screen people, to see if they even qualify. It's completely unrealistic to think that the agency that's going to have to process all of these applications is going to be able to do it.
I mean, last year was a banner year, in terms of production for USCIS, the immigration agency that processes applications. And they were able to do 7 million applications last year. We're talking about having -- they're going to have to process, not only 12 million illegal aliens who get instant amnesty, but also the at least 400,000-some additional green cards, and probably 400,000 or 500,000 additional guest workers each year.
RAY SUAREZ: Let's quickly look at the family unification part of the bill. If you allow all the people who are here already to stay, and follow with what's proposed in the package, how many more people are we talking about eventually getting here, children, parents, siblings?
ANGELA KELLEY: The people in the future will actually be very limited, because they eliminate many of the family categories. So who will be able to come in the future are spouses, and minor children, and some parents, parents of U.S. citizens and spouses of minor children of U.S. citizens. Spouses and minor children of green card holders will have a long wait. The other family categories will be eliminated, so it will be the closest of family members.
RAY SUAREZ: And how many extra people are we talking about, beyond the 12 million, if we follow that formula?
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Well, there are about -- we're probably talking in excess of 7 million people who are now on the waiting list who have family members already here who have applied for them, but demand far exceeds our capacity and the number we've decided to accept in our regular immigration program.
So there are more than 7 million people, we believe, that are attached to those applications. And we've got to wait for those people to be processed before any of these changes, this so-called rebalancing, would even come into effect, so that's eight years down the road, if it happens at all.
RAY SUAREZ: We'll be looking at many other component pieces of this proposal. Jessica Vaughan, Angela Kelley, thank you both.
ANGELA KELLEY: Thank you.
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Thank you.


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Remember that people may not even be aware that they have HIV.
HIV is transmitted through infected blood and body fluids. When caring for patients:
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Vitamin C is an antioxidant, which is a class of molecule that is known to help prevent cancer by removing oxygen-free radicals from the body. However, researchers in the United States have recently discovered that taking a vitamin C supplement while undergoing chemotherapy may actually reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.
Such forms of cancer that may be affected by vitamin C include mesothelioma, lung cancer, and many other types of cancer. Patients going through mesothelioma treatments should especially be concerned because attaining positive results from any kind of therapy is hard enough as it is.
The study was carried out by Dr Mark Heaney and colleagues of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, and was recently published in the journal Cancer Research.
To get these results, the researchers took human cancer cells and grew them in vitro with vitamin C, and then added chemotherapy drugs to see if the addition of vitamin C had any effect.
What they found was that when vitamin C was added, the chemotherapy drugs killed between 30% and 70% fewer cancer cells than when vitamin C was not added.
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The chemotherapy drugs used in the experiments were Cisplatin, doxorubicin, methotrexate, vincristine, and gleevec. All of these drugs work in different ways to kill cancer cells. Of the results, Dr Mark Heaney said, "The vitamin C didn't neutralize the effects of the chemotherapy drugs, but it blunted their effects. Vitamin C is something everyone needs to have in their diet or you can develop scurvy. But I don't recommend taking supplemental vitamin C during that period of time that my patients are receiving chemotherapy."
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I'm 24, 5'9 and 145 lbs. I have two children whom I breastfed, I've totally deflated. I want to be a D, I have seen 2 PS and both said I would need silicone to fill out my "deflated look." Neither could really explain to my why saline wouldn't work, just that they suggested silicone. So my question is will saline work, what CC should I suggest? I've had saline in my head, that is why I ask..
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Saline or Silicone for Deflated Breasts
Photos alone will not be able to answer why gel is a superior choice for you. There may have been some objectives that you indicated that suggest that gel is a better fit. The example Dr. Pousti provided about feel is one example. Or, upon physical examination, there may have been concerns about rippling.
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Belfast City Council increases arts funding 27%
Belfast City Council is to increase its spending on the arts by 27% after agreeing a £4.1 million funding package for more than 50 companies and venues as part of a new three-year support plan.
Almost £1.4 million will be distributed annually from 2013-16 – compared to just over £930,000 per year in 2010 to 2012 – through the council's Core Multi-Annual Funding scheme which will also see the number of organisations receiving core funding increasing more than threefold from 16 in previous years to 52.
The move is being seen as crucial to realising Belfast's newly published Cultural Framework plan and is intended to complement a wider £150 million investment programme in the city over the same period. The council says the increased funding will help support more than 400 jobs and 4,000 arts workers in the city.
Targets in the Cultural Framework include increasing audiences and growing visitor numbers by 10% each and generating £8 in income for every £1 invested in the sector.
Alderman Christopher Stalford, chairman of the council's development committee, said: "The Council is very proud of the contribution arts and culture makes to the city's quality of life and economy, and that is why we committed to investing £4.1 million in the sector over the next three years.
"Arts and heritage are valued for enriching quality of life and creating wealth, and the city's culture and creativity should be renowned throughout the world. The achievements of the cultural sector working in partnership with Belfast City Council and key stakeholders have provided a firm base to establish Belfast as a creative and cultural city."
Applications were received from 68 organisations requesting funding of almost £2.4 million in total. The 52 successful applicants – who include the Lyric, Tinderbox, Kabosh and Bruiser theatre companies, the Grand Opera House, arts centres, dance, circus, music and community groups – are expected to receive an average 72% of the amounts requested.


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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Hooked Up, Amber Rose Hints
Did they or didn't they?
Back in summer 2010, Kanye West filmed a cameo with Kim Kardashian on Kourtney and Kim Take New York -- and unconfirmed rumors claimed the reality starlet, 31, hooked up with the rapper, 34.
VIDEO: Watch Kim and Kanye flirt
At least one person -- Amber Rose, West's ex -- seems to suggest the fling was for real. During a live Tuesday appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, the famously bald/close-cropped model, 29, played it extremely coy when asked about the alleged Kim/Kanye hookup.
Smiling broadly, Rose wouldn't answer outright. "I mean, Come on, like, you know," she told Wendy Williams, giggling. "Come on! We'll keep it cute."
PHOTOS: Bittersweet! Kim and Kris Humphries' wedding album
Rose was much more direct talking about her own dalliance with Reggie Bush, Kardashian's very serious NFL beau of two years. She shot down talk that she and the Miami Dolphins running back, 26, were the cause of his final March 2010 split with Kardashian.
PHOTOS: Kim and her sisters sex it up on the beach
"I'm not a homewrecker," Rose said. "I broke up with Kanye and [Reggie] broke up with Kim. We met after," she explained. (Rose and West called it quits over summer 2010.)
PHOTOS: Kim and Reggie's best moments
"We were both going through a hard time. We were each other's rebounds. It was brief, it was nice, he was a great guy!"
But these days, it's all about another rapper -- Wiz Khalifa -- for the stunning model. "I want to be with him for the rest of my life," she gushed, noting that they're not married or engaged yet. "I never did [believe in marriage] until I met him. I never thought it would happen for me!"
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