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Discrimination in Education
Various federal laws prohibit discrimination in the realm of education on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin, and other protected categories. Federal laws that ban education discrimination include Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and various other statutes. While these federal laws apply only to schools that accept federal funding, this includes the vast majority of K-12 and higher education institutions.
FindLaw's Discrimination in Education section provides a general overview of these federal laws and applies them to real-life situations. Articles cover such as issues as the rights of limited-English proficient students and how to file a complaint for alleged education discrimination.
What Constitutes Education Discrimination?
There are a number of ways an individual may be discriminated against in an educational setting, mostly centering on the issue of inclusion or parity among the various protected classes. For instance, schools may not deny enrollment to members of a particular race; must be accessible to students with disabilities; and must provide equal opportunities to both genders, including athletic participation.
Education Discrimination: Key Federal Laws
As with most laws protecting the rights of historically marginalized individuals, discrimination in education has been chipped away through an incremental succession of laws. While some of these laws address overt discrimination, others address and try to fix inequities inherent in the system.
Below are brief summaries of the main federal laws prohibiting discrimination in educational institutions receiving federal funds:
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: Commonly referred to as simply "Title IX," this law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender (addressing such as issues as harassment and participation in athletic programs)
- Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974: Requires schools to take "appropriate action" to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by students, among other protections
- Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities (including provision of special education services, accessibility, and availability of auxiliary aids for impaired students)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Requires free access to public education to children with special needs, requiring an individualized education for each student with special needs
Filing an Education Discrimination Complaint
Most of the above laws are enforced by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). To file a complaint, submit (either in written form or online) your contact information, a general description of the discriminatory act, as well as the name and location of the educational institution. The time limit for filing a complaint is typically 180 days.
An overview of education discrimination and the laws prohibiting it. Learn about the organizations responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination laws, Education Amendments of 1972, and more.
A number of federal laws protect individuals from being discriminated against in education. This article provides links and information on the Education Amendments of 1972, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and more.
A collection of commonly asked questions about education discrimination. Find answers to your questions about how the Civil Rights Act applies to education, the Equal Education Opportunities Act, and more.
The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 prohibits discrimination based on age in any programs or activities that receive federal funding. Learn about the how to file a claim under the Act and more.
In this section, you'll find a wealth of information on racial harassment in education, the rights of limited-English-proficient students, federal regulation on race discrimination in education, and more.
If you feel that you or someone you know has been discriminated against in an educational matter, one of your options is to file a complaint with the federal government. This article explains the process involved.


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For many of us the recent flurry of heavy snow showers have caused a headache when trying to get to school or work and a number of minor accidents on the roads.
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Horncastle News reader Charlotte Jones sent in this photograph of her two-year-old daughter Matilda , taking her bear, Bertie out for a spot of sledging in Woodhall Spa last week.
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The ESPN Junior 300 for the Class of 2015 was released Tuesday and two things are certain: No. 1 Urban Meyer hasn't lost his recruiting touch and No. 2, the two-time national champion still loves to recruit Florida.
Of the 54 scholarships Ohio State has offered out among the 18 states and Washington D.C., 53 names appear in the first edition of the 300.
Of those 53 names, 15 belong to Floridians as George Campbell, Torrance Gibson, Jacques Patrick, CeCe Jefferson, Jeffrey Holland, Sherrod Pittman, Jake Fruhmorgen, Martez Ivey, De'Andre Johnson, Jordan Scarlett, Kendrell McFadden, John Burt and Devante Peete hold offers.
Meyer didn't forget about his own state as Eric Glover-Williams, Jerome Baker, Justin Hilliard and exchange student Hjalte Froholdt all appear on the list as well. Incidentally, the four Ohioans with offers from Ohio State are tied with Georgia for fourth-most among OSU offers. Virginia and Texas are just ahead of them with Florida firmly in the lead.
Meyer knows his way around the top 10 as well as offers have gone out to No. 1 Jashon Cornell, No. 3 Campbell, No. 4 Mitch Hyatt, No. 5 Ivey, No. 6 Tim Settle and No. 9 Terry Beckner.
The surprise of the bunch comes from Virginia as Settle joins Garrett Taylor, Jahvoni Simmons, Ricky DeBerry, Matt Burrell Jr. and Jaason Lewis with offers from Ohio State. All appear on the ESPN 300 and the sextet is part of a group of 13 Virginians on the list.
As they usually do, Florida has the most ESPN 300 selections with 40 names and is followed by Texas (38), California (33) and Georgia (29).
Ohio came in with 15 juniors on the list. Froholdt is the highest ranked player among Ohioans at No. 14 and falls behind only Trenton Thompson, Settle and Daylon Mack among defensive tackles in the nation.
Glover-Williams comes in next at No. 29 overall and is ranked the fourth-highest athlete. Hilliard ranks in at 145th overall, is seventh in Ohio and is the eighth-best outside linebacker in the nation. He'll play a hybrid linebacker/safety this season for Cincinnati St. Xavier. Baker is ranked No. 157 overall, is eighth in Ohio and is the ninth-best linebacker in the nation.
Ashton White (Washington D.C./Friendship Collegiate) is the only junior with an Ohio State offer who doesn't appear in the ESPN 300.


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Julie Stalmer 5:30 p.m., Sept. 22
Word comes from our crime-fighting daily paper that the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) board might have actually approved raises for its now-ex president Carolyn Smith, practically doubling her pay in the decade and a half that she was the heart and soul of SEDC.
Smith's attorney submitted a document as part of a "paper trail" that might prove that her raises were legal. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune this morning, the current lawsuit by Ian Trowbridge contends that there is no authoritative paperwork to show any SEDC board approval in its agendas or minutes of any raises beyond her original salary of $82,639.
Smith's reported salary (without disputed bonuses) this year was reportedly $172,000.
Additionally in dispute is Smith's severance pay for termination "without cause", computed on the remaining months of her contract at the time of termination. Questions surround the two months she remained in office that are arguably not part of the severance pay period, as there apparently is no record that those two months were not paid as the regularly-salaried chief executive of the controverisal corporation.
This writer wants to see the SEDC board members testify that they actually were informed and voted for each of the disputed raises... or not. Without their verification that any payraise paper trail was not simply cooked up at the last minute, that paper trail is as meaningless as the pretty SEDC post cards Smith had mailed out to area residents on a regular basis.
For something totally different...
Where in anything under the National Response Framework or the National Strategy for Homeland Security gave SDG&E authority to unilaterally decide it could shut off power to paying customers, including several water districts, during high wind conditions... WITHOUT informing local emergency planning commissions of the potential hazard to public safety of those shutoffs?
Something about this reminds me of Assistant United States Attorney Melanie Pierson's words on "corporate arrogance" in her prosecution closing arguments during United States v. SDG&E (round 1 in 2007, new trial pending on appeal).
For the results of her closing arguments, see http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cas/press/cas70713-SDGEVerdict.pdf.
For some background on emergency planning considerations, try to pass the final for FEMA's IS-235 course Emergency Planning at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is235.asp. If you are a City of San Diego employee, then please avoid getting your final answers from your co-workers.
I actually encourage anybody who is a US citizen to take the FEMA Emergency Management Institute independent study courses. Even if you aren't a US citizen, you will find this information useful in dealing with the public debates on emergency planning that most likely involve your tax dollars and your future evacuation plans.
Most of those courses actually state that the final exams are open-book/open-note tests, so no cheating is necessary. This makes sense because emergency managers ought to have position-related job aids on hand during an emergency, so that they aren't just making things up during a catastrophe but are relying on previously-made emergency plans for an effective response: in that sense, the testing conditions match real-incident working conditions.
I have my own portal to FEMA's entire course list for free at http://cemis.stickywebs.com, but nothing is stopping you from taking the free courses (if you are a US citizen) directly at http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp (or go to http://training.fema.gov/IS/searchIS.asp?keywords=PDS if you want FEMA EMI Professional Development Series certification as a potential volunteer coordinator.)


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A CD burner in my computercheap and reliable. Still looking for the best compilation and editing software.
Have you purchased a CD recorder for your audio system or computer?
We reported recently that audio CD recorders are becoming hot items with consumers. How about with you?
CD recorder or MiniDisc recorder? The music recorded will be strictly for playback on my laptop, in the car, or on a portable, so I'm having trouble making a format choice. MiniDisc is ahead in the primaries; the final choice comes in March.
I use CD read/write for data backup on my Mac G3, hence writing CD-ROMs (data and audio) comes free. I'd recommend this approach over a standalone recorder, as it is possible to make compilations from CDs (e.g., for car use) very easily using Adaptec Toast and Jam programs. I also intend archiving analog audio material direct from LP turntable and audio cassette, and indirectly from my DAT recordings (e.g., off-air from Tuner). I could easily convert to MP3 if I can tolerate the loss in sound quality, or wish to send samples to my friends via the Internet.
I have had one in one of my computers for the past 2 years(SCSI CD-R & SCSI CD). When making digital direct recordings (CD to CD) with no conversion the copy does sound different. I'm still not sure which sounds better. For compilations while driving, CD-R's sure beat tape.
I record amateur performances on Mini-disc, and make copies on my PC CD Read-write for friends. I wish I had purchased the mini-disc several years ago, but I believed older Sterephile opinions that they were non-fi. Mr Fremer has since confirmed what I hear, the MDs are quite good and an excellent portable recording medium. The microphones are $2 Panasonic electret condenser capsules, powered by the recorder which I buy from digikey electronics.
Funny, I was just using pricewatch.com to search for a Matrox CD-R... Looking forward to making custom CD's. Especially since multichannel DVD-A and multichannel SACD are still far away...
I have "invested" in a harmonkardon, But some say that consumer products are not the best to use, as they will/might not work in other brand name recorders. They suggest using a comercial product. Others say that by the third generation it is ok and that the power of the laser is all matched by a minium power requirment in all consumer products. I have not had any problems thus far. Has anybody else?
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The Patriots' running game was better than expected in the first preseason game on Friday night. Meanwhile, Tom Brady was, well, Tom Brady.
Brady played just two series against the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday, but that's about all he needed to show how far this offense has progressed already.
Stevan Ridley started the night off with a bang, running off for 62 yards on the first play of the game and following it up with a one-yard touchdown run soon after. But Brady took control immediately thereafter, pounding away at the Eagles' secondary and building on his chemistry with some of his new receivers.
Brady found Danny Amendola on a quick out route for his first completion of the night, showing off the impressive connection the two have developed already with some impeccable timing. He then turned his attention to the rookies, hooking up with undrafted Kenbrell Thompkins on four of his next five dropbacks and second-round pick Aaron Dobson on the other.
Thompkins, who has been excellent throughout training camp, ran smooth routes and found space in the defense consistently, and Brady rewarded him by looking his way time and again on the drive. The duo didn't blow the doors off of Lincoln Financial Field or anything, but they connected for gains of six, four, seven and six, including a key conversion on third and four to really set the drive in motion.
Dobson also made some waves with Brady on Friday. The big receiver ran a nice route down the middle of the field and created space away from a pair of defenders, coming back to the ball on a button-hook and hauling in the pass for a 23-yard gain. Similar to Amendola, the timing on the route was perfect as the ball reached Dobson just as he turned to look for it.
Neither Thompkins or Dobson scored on the drive, though, instead leaving that honor to Shane Vereen. The third-year running back split out wide at receiver and ran a corner route to the back of the end zone, pulling down a lofted ball from Brady just inside the white chalk on the sideline.
Brady finished the night, completing 7 of 8 passes for 65 yards and a touchdown, but the story was buried well beneath the numbers. The timing and precision of his passes on the night made it seem like Brady was already in midseason form and that he's been working with these receivers for closer to three years than three months.
There is still a lot of work to be done and adjustments to be made with the receivers. Dobson needs to create more space and Thompkins has to work on gaining yards after the catch, just to name a few. But seeing Brady find a rhythm with his receivers in game action rather than on the practice field was definitely an encouraging sign.
It's still only preseason, but this passing game is already light years ahead of where we thought it would be by now. And Brady deserves the credit.
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Well, this probably isn't an entirely accurate representation of what is going to be on Illud Divinum Insanus, but what we have is one classic Morbid Angel track and a techno remix. I'm very satisfied!
"Nevermore" is pure classic Morbid Angel. The main riff has a choppy, Heretic feel to it, and I mean that in the best possible sense. The pre-chorus is angry, Possessed/Slayer sounding, and then the chorus comes in with a rather catchy vocal hook. And that really reminds me of what I missed about Vincent's work with the band: his vocal patterns. He even throws in some quasi Peter Steele choral vocals, which gives a nice twist to the music. The break down is nice, and so is the solo...nothing super spectacular, but solid.
Musically, nothing is flawed. Vincent sounds pretty much exactly the same as he did on Domination and the live album, Entangled In Chaos. Perhaps a little bit more caustic. But still powerful. In fact, I'd say that he sounds better than he did on Domination. Trey is Trey...if you liked him before, you'll dig him here. Tim Yeung fills Pete's place quite well, although his drumming feels slightly different.
Classic Morbid Angel. Nothing less, nothing more. Personally I love Morbid Angel, and they sound much more inspired than they have on the previous two albums. It doesn't eclipse Formulas and what came before, but it's solid.
If I've got one gripe, that would be the production. Erik Rutan's squeaky clean production robs the drums of their nastiness. Covenant had an awesome drum sound. They should have aimed for that! But still, this is way better than the low-fi stuff that graced Heretic.
Now, the remix. It's done by Combichrist. If you don't like electronic, evil techno stuff, then you will hate this. If this appeared as the actual song on the album, I probably wouldn't like it, but as it is, I find it highly enjoyable. The sci-fi lyrics and robot vocals go perfectly with the whacked out keyboards and sound effects.
Well, I'm pleased. I'm happy to have my favourite band back, producing inspired music. I'm confident that the new album will rule, even if it does have new elements on it. At least with songs like "Nevermore," Morbid Angel is still keeping a strong link to their death metal past.


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OSAKA – Kazuto Ioka will defend his WBA light flyweight title for a third time against fourth-ranked Nicaraguan Felix Alvarado, his gym said Wednesday.
The fight will take place at Osaka's Bodymaker Colosseum on Dec. 31. WBA minimumweight champion Ryo Miyazaki, who is looking to move up to light fly, will fight Fahlan Sakkreerin Jr. of Thailand in a light fly nontitle eight-rounder.
Ioka faces a tricky opponent in Alvarado, who has an unbeaten record of 18-0 (15 KOs), but he said he hopes to rise to the occasion.
"I want to show Kazuto Ioka at his absolute strongest this year," he told a press conference.
Miyazaki, who has no immediate plans to give up his minimumweight belt, said, "This is an important fight leading toward the big ambitions I have.
"If I don't fight with the same determination as though it were a world title match, then there will be pitfalls."


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Created in the memory of \"ANZAC\", some of the most heroic, touching, memorable, heart wrenching and just plain amazing war pictures you'll ever see are captured on this historically significant documentary series.
Produced in 1961 using film shot by official war photographers provided by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, this 26 part series covers every major campaign the Australian troops were involved in during the war years – 1939 to 1945.
Introduced by former World War Two pilot, Bud Tingwell, \"ANZAC\" provides us with more than just a record of Australia's role in the Second World War. It leaves us with a legacy of images portraying the terrible realities of life and death on the front line.
Lest we forget.
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When a coach is clearly not focused on the long-term concerns of the program, it is dangerous. You can't keep a guy who is just writing a resume. Recruiting the following year could be disastrous.
While I certainly don't want to launch him without some plan for a viable successor, I just can't for the life of me accept that we're not ready again. OK, Swarbrick wasn't ready in late 2008 after he had been there a few months. He was a little bit ready in 2009 - kind of. He wasn't ready in Jan. '13 if Kelly went to Philly.
Shame the hell on him -- and on us -- if he's not ready now. Kelly would not be the only one we would need to launch.
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ATWT fave Jon Hensley (ex-Holden), who popped in to B&B back in May as Dr. Meade, Steffy's doctor in Aspen (who is really from L.A.), is returning to the fold beginning July 19. "Just wrapped my week on B and B, did 5 shows!" Hensley tweeted on June 8. According to online whispers, the good doc might be paired up with Steffy or Katie.
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The new websites make it so easy to post videos, that we're popping in some of our older ones here and there. Click though for the bra snappin' fun!
We found two opportunity to talk about Blow Up Love Dolls. Our parents are overjoyed. Listen to those fun bits after the jump.
Every day we try to give you three pieces of audio from the show. Today, we picked the bits by smell. Enjoy them after the click.
This is Stacia from Ooo La Lattes. Heathen goes for the "suck in the gut" move, I go for the "I'm just a friendly harmless old guy" move. Click through for a bigger pic and schedule.
Every day we try to bring your three clips from the show. It's a condition of our probation. Check 'em after the jump.
Yeah, some of you haven't been getting us for two years, but we still thank you for being there for us now.
Here's some stuff we did while the other kids were making macaroni art.
Actually the caption shouldn't be "Attention Whore", it should be "Attention, Whore". That comma makes all the difference. Three were arrested in a prostitution ring. Get the salacious details after the jump.
Despite that fact that the Heathen's voice sounds like a drowning man gurgling his last breath in sewer pipe, the Rock Show had a couple of things worth hearing. Put your earholes over some of the stuff after the jump.
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US fears over Syria military action
During the G20 summit in St Petersburg, Russia, US President Barack Obama repeated his belief that action is necessary following the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The president added he was confident of persuading the public and politicians of the need to act, ahead of next week's vote in Congress.
However there are dissenting voices in the US.
The BBC's Mark Mardell has met one Republican Congressman in Ohio, who has doubts about voting in favour of a military response.
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30, 50 next 200? The Student Debt Noise Brigade Grows
The Student Debt Noise Brigade is getting a great response and growing. Below is a great video of the last march. Join in on the next.
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A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling.
"They would say, 'We don't care what happened with your son, you have to pay us,'" recalled Reynoso, a gardener from Palmdale, Calif.
Reynoso's son, Freddy, had been the pride of his family and the first to go to college. In 2005, after Freddy was accepted to Boston's Berklee College of Music, his father co-signed on his hefty private student loans, making him fully liable should Freddy be unwilling or unable to repay them. It was no small decision for a man who made just over $21,000 in 2011, according to his tax returns.
"As a father, you'll do anything for your child," Reynoso, an American citizen originally from Mexico, said through a translator.
Now, he's suffering a Kafkaesque ordeal in which he's hounded to repay loans that funded an education his son will never get to use loans that he has little hope of ever paying off. While Reynoso's wife, Sylvia, is studying to be a beautician, his gardening is currently the sole source of income for the family, which includes his 18-year-old daughter Evelyn.
And the loans are maddeningly opaque. Despite the help of a lawyer, Reynoso has not been able to determine exactly how much he owes, or even what company holds his loans. Just as happened with home mortgages in the boom years before the 2008 financial crash, his son's student loans have been sold and resold, and at least one was likely bundled into a complex Wall Street security. But the trail of those transactions ends at a wall of corporate silence from companies that include two household names: banking giant UBS and Xerox, which owns the loan servicer handling the bulk of his loans. Left without answers is a bereaved father. Read more on the Huffiongton post this came from
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Video of a pots and pans ("casseroles") march on 6/13/2012 in Seattle by #MicCheckWallStreet (http://miccheckwallst.org) protesting student debt and rising interest rates. Police force them out of the road several times, but they persevere and complete their march against the rising costs of higher education.
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The major chemical spill in West Virginia is entering a contentious new arena: the courts.
"Freedom Industries, the company responsible for a chemical leak that ruined 300,000 West Virginians' drinking water, is facing several local and federal lawsuits for their screw-up," PolicyMic reported.
But there's a twist: The company may not be held accountable anytime soon. That's because Freedom Industries just went bankrupt.
"On Friday, Freedom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, revealing the company owes $3.6 million to its top 20 creditors and more than $2.4 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS," PolicyMic said.
The nature of the bankruptcy filing may allow the company to skirt some lawsuits for the time being.
"The filing puts a hold on all of the lawsuits filed against Freedom Industries. Since the leak last week, about a mile and a half upriver from West Virginia Water American's plant in Charleston, about 25 lawsuits have been filed against Freedom in Kanawha Circuit Court. The company also faces a federal lawsuit," West Virginia's Gazette-Mail reported.
The bankruptcy filing amounted to a search "for shelter in the face of liability lawsuits," according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
The filing also revealed that the company has some early ideas about how it will eventually defend itself in court, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The company "has a strategy for spreading the blame."
The strategy involves moving some fault onto the local water infrastructure.
"It is presently hypothesized that a local water line break [caused] the ground beneath a storage tank at the Charleston facility to freeze in the extraordinary frigid temperatures in the days immediately preceding" the leak, the filing said, according Bloomberg Businessweek.
But Bloomberg was not sure that claim would hold up.
"Hard to say if the court will buy that. Shouldn't steel tanks containing dangerous chemicals be able to withstand the consequences of winter weather?" the report said.
For more on the drinking water supply, check out Water Online's Drinking Water Analysis Solution Center.
Image credit: "An environmental enforcement boat patrols in front of the chemical spill at Freedom Industries," © 2014 iwasaround, used under an Attribution 2.0 Generic license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Let's face it, when a mainstream Hollywood film is made, closed minded,
money grubbing executives are the ones who ultimately ruin the product.
They value money and accessibility over making something that is risky
and potentially historic. This sort of mentality is really the only
thing that holds back "The Purge," and a common echo that will be heard
on this film's comment boards is the fact it had so much potential.
But even then that mentality could be reminiscent of the story at hand, where Ethan Hawke's character James Sandin makes boat loads of money (literally) but blinds himself to the actual truth of the annual Purge. Too bad the people making the film didn't have a realization to the truth and release their violent tendencies much like James Sandin. But either way, despite all of the punches that are pulled, the film brings up a lot of speculation that makes it more interesting to a sophisticated film goer even though it is advertised as your typical kill fest of the week. While popcorn movie watchers will watch for the violent implications, pretentious snobs like myself will find something much deeper, much more sinister. While the class warfare angle has been overplayed the last couple years, this film managed to turn the idea into actual violence. And while conservatives might just label this as typical anti-wealth liberal Hollywood trash, it is actually quite an allegory for 2nd Amendment enthusiasts and fiscal conservatism. "Purging" the poor has saved America, unburdening the country of "parasites" and in turn, has helped create a smaller and more efficient government (presumably) and allowing poor people like James Sandin unprecedented upward mobility through unfettered capitalism. I especially found it interesting when his neighbors turn on Sandin, once again showing classism-based jealousy is not just a poor/wealthy paradigm, but also an affliction that ensnares the upper crust.
While all of these things were there for the taking, the direction was what turned "The Purge" into another run of the mill pseudo horror film. I believe this is where too many people put there opinion into the fray. Imagine the response if the film had some of these scenarios: The people in the masks actually were the neighbors or Sandin was less virtuous, taking advantage of The Purge to make money and not giving a damn about the carnage or implied ethos, or maybe the homeless man they let into the house was truly guilty, an escaped murderer or child molester. The social implications could have gone any way, but even though the filmmakers took the easy way out, the ending still had some interesting implications at the end. I won't say The Purge is great, but at least it wasn't an unmitigated train wreck.
When I first saw the trailer for 'Miami Connection," my mind was
literally blown. I knew the 1980s was a wasteland of Troma garbage and
horrible B films, but this film had something more than your run of the
mill awfulness. It was epic. It was beautiful. It was bad 80s pop
music, complete with bad feel good lyrics you might see in some TV
show, the kind of song a writer comes up with on the spot because
that's what they think the "youth" music sounds like. Never mind the
bad acting, editing, and overall quality of the film transfer--that was
something I was expecting. What I wasn't expecting was the bad after
school special side- plots, the rampant homo eroticism, the most
bizarre and random gang of thugs ever assembled and the sheer 80s-ness
of the film. What I really loved was the over acting by the extras in
the film. They must have known that they would never get another chance
to be in a film, so they hammed it up for all to see.
Now I will remind you, if you aren't into watching films that are bad enough to make Mystery Science Theater 3000, then you surely will not get the sheer awesomeness of this awful movie. If you like straight comedy or action films, then I suggest you stay away and save your money. As for the rest of us, enjoy.
In all the years I've loved and enjoyed movies, one thing that has
become consistent with the current trend of filmmaking is the lack of
passion. We see tons of movies all the time that simply wish to make
money and bore us with their product tie-ins in tow. But Cloud Atlas,
thankfully, bucks that trend.
It is only fitting that a wonderful group of talented individuals congregated to make this film, beginning with the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Despite their two different viewpoints of filmmaking, combined to make a consistently beautiful piece of film that flows as perfectly as time itself. Never once did this film feel like a three-hour epic, much in the same way one can watch Magnolia and never feel like your time has been intruded upon. While the whole idea of connectivity beckons like any edict from a far eastern religion, it is done so in a way that allows us to see the obvious connections without noticing the lesser ones (staying for the credits certainly helped with that, though I wished they hadn't revealed those connections). Some might think the $100 million price tag is a bit much for a rather dangerous "art" film, I think the crew managed it quite well considering so many big movies need $150+ just to pay for the sound and visual effects. It comes as no surprise to me that X Filme was the primary production company, for the European filmmaking mindset (which isn't totally concerned with money) was far more suited for this production. I'm sure many will call it a failure due to the many years it will take to recoup the money, but sometimes, art needs to appreciate in order to make its money.
Cloud Atlas wasn't perfect, but the problems were purely nominal. I'm talking about the make-up, which was a no win situation from the beginning. You just can't make someone Caucasian look like a real Asian, and vice versa. I don't know, perhaps it would have been better to not change their appearance at all, possibly adding another layer of connectivity that is only obvious to the audience, a bit of dramatic irony so to speak. Either way, I was more than happy with the end product.
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I kept telling myself, that this is a bad franchise and my childhood
was raped and corrupted by the evil fascists that are Steven Spielberg
and Michael Bay. But like pretty light is to a moth, I felt compelled
to watch and once again stumbled into my own fiery death.
Dark of the Moon is filled with so much lunacy and idiocy, the numbing effect of this movie has created a generation of stunted, mindless zombies that continue to flock to this detritus and fill the coffers of evil, vile men that were once artists and created movies one could enjoy and not have their intelligence completely insulted. Bay used to make decent action films, and even The Island asked some heady questions between the explosions and chases. Now he is just a parody, and bad one at that. Spielberg should be even more ashamed with himself. He is plopping three horrible films on the public this summer (Super 8, Dark of the Moon, and Cowboys and Aliens) that lack any sense, logic or even a script. We are culpable in turning once talented men into black hearted corporate barons. These people don't even have to try anymore and people throw money into their laps.
The movie itself is an insult to film making in general, utilizing a plot that completely disregards the other two movies. But due to the disposable nature of the franchise and each of its chapters, very few people will care or even notice. The idea of a 50-year plan to attack Earth is ambitious in its scope, but all of the plot holes and inconsistencies from the first two movies coupled with bad clichés and stereotypes leaves a more savvy film goer a bit disillusioned. It all comes back to the idea that the movie is about explosions and robots on robot violence. Why don't they just do that instead of waste our time for two and a half hours with nonsense they pass off as plot.
The acting was bad, the action was overblown, and the film was littered with stupidity and scientifically incorrect moments (like buildings falling over and Shia LeBeouf surviving a harrowing ship ride that crashed and rolled but he miraculously survived) as well as other moments. I could keep going, but I'm getting a headache trying to wrap my head around this movie.
I'm done with this franchise. Plain and simple. Enjoy if you like people...I'm moving on.
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Being a Nickelodeon child of the mid-eighties, The Mysterious Cities of
Gold was quite the main stay for the four years it was on. I remember
enjoying it due to the fact it was styled after the likes of
Transformers, G.I. Joe, and a variety of other Japanese made cartoons
that used the more realistic vision of the human characters.
But on the other hand, it was the story that really set this show apart. I guess you could say it was revolutionary, especially since it was one continuous story and didn't have any product tie- ins. Plus, it was so unique from a cultural aspect, portraying the jungles of South America and utilizing Inca legend as opposed to the more Euro-centric choices that dominated the mainstream. The ideas were quite incredible, from a solar powered ship to the Olmecs being some weird, alien-like race made for some interesting viewing. Plus, throw-in the darker aspects of the story (abandonment, father-son relations, greed vs. the right thing) and you have a relatively complex show that was supposedly aimed for kids.
It was too bad we never did see the adventures of the other cities of gold like the end of the cartoon alluded to, but at least we got 39 episodes to fully appreciate.
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Sorry, I couldn't pontificate enough about the mess that was Southland
Tales. Sure, it was broad, intriguing and certainly strange enough to
be a cult classic, but the whole idea of a cult classic is that it
should have some semblance of being a good film.
Richard Kelly clearly made this movie for himself and for himself only. Sure, the movie cost very little to make, but I think most people would have put the money to better use. Its so self indulgent, so esoteric that the idea revolves in some alternate little world that only exists in Kelly's muddled mind. Where do you start?
Clearly, the whole alternate time line stuff did not fly with me. The primary idea of making a neo-futuristic movie is to put it in the future, not start it in the past. Its one thing to say that a nuclear war was started in Abilene, Texas, but it is another thing to say it started years before the suggested time line of the movie. Therein lies the first big problem with Southland Tales. There is no Urban Pacification Units, there is no USIdent and there is no weird scientist creating a new energy source to ween us off of oil. Now, if this movie was placed in the near future, like say seven or eight years from now, then the audience is instantly drawn into the fantasy and the impact of the images. Instead, the audience is lost and they know they are watching a movie.
Which leads to the casting of this farce. Could Kelly have gotten any more power mad from his past Donnie Darko success? The Rock? Sarah Michelle Gellar? Multiple Cast-offs from Saturday Night Live? More than half the cast was miscast in this film, especially Justin Timberlake and Many Moore. Why didn't Kelly realize this? Did he want to see John Larroqeutte and Kevin Smith in the same room just for the heck of it? What the hell was he thinking!
We move onto the directing. Everyone is forcing their lines out, like they have idea what's going on because the director is too busy counting his royalty cash from Donnie Darko. Kelly wrote some graphic novels to help supplement his main story, and the acting tin the film seems to mimic that of comic book acting. The weird expressions, the over the top facial ticks and the turn in characters that seem to sudden. This is a movie, not a comic book. Just because The Rock can stare off into the distance and squint really well, doesn't mean that is acting.
I could keep going? Like what the hell was the random Killers' video in the movie? Or why was Wallace Shawn the so-called creator of the new power source but Curtis Armstrong seemed to be more knowledgeable of it? And did we really need the stupid line "Pimps don't commit suicide."
To the haters out there, yes, I did understand the story. I got the whole Messianic connection of Roland Taverner and how the corruption of God and religion could lead to the eventual apocalypse, but do we really need these story archetypes. Kelly should have just stripped this sucker down and concentrate on making a movie rather than making some crappy student film.
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After some real clunkers (Intolerable Creulty, The Ladykillers and that
bad Superbowl ad), it looked like the Coens might slip into the
subconscious of Americana. But they came back with a vengeance in No
Country For Old Men. Tapping into their earlier, much darker work like
Blood Simple, Fargo and Barton Fink, they once again crated a work that
will nicely compliment body of work.
The truly brilliant detail in NCFOM was the story the Coens didn't tell. Sure, we are engrossed in a cat and mouse game between a simpleton and a cold-blooded sociopath, but it is the other little details that allows you to create your own conclusions about the characters and the story. Why does it seem that everyone is constantly running from the past? Why is Anton Chigurh such an introvert? And why did Llewellyn Moss give up his simple life so easily to essentially become a bum? These are all questions that are not asked but are created when watching this movie.
I especially like the fact that all of the characters back story was reveled more in their voices and dialogue rather than being explored through contemplation and back story. One example is Tommy Lee Jones, who's character is so devoid of strength and conviction that the horrors of the real world seem to shake him to his foundation. His retirement at the end only prove that he didn't have what it takes to take someone down like Chigurgh. This is where I believe the title's significance comes into play. His character, due to his gage, was no match for a man that was far more prepared than he.
But the most amazing aspect of the film was the Coen Bros. belief in leaving a lot of the story up to the viewer. In the end, the overall lesson is that money will corrupt any situation, much like the little boys at the end fighting over a bloody 100 dollar bill. This film is truly a revelation, and second only to There Will Be Blood as the best of 2007.
Call it socialist, anti-religion, anti-capitalist----whatever. There
Will Be Blood is truly the best movie to come out in a long time. Its a
rarity to see a film take a huge leap with such a stunning indictment
on not one, but two relevant institutions in current society. And it is
done so in a solid and deliberate manner which fully illustrates the
madness that is created by hate and greed.
There Will Be Blood hardly pulls any punches. Greed consumes all. The hopeful heart is easily manipulated. The quest for pomposity blackens the heart. Family is only relevant in comparison to the mighty dollar. There are all lessons that humanity must battle everyday, and Paul Thomas Anderson throws all of these struggles onto the shoulders of two men, Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. Both are manipulative, both talk of grander, more majestic worlds that stir the imagination, and both would seek untold riches at any cost. Its an interesting battle that the pair have for much of the film, fighting to gain a leg up on each other but also playing with the hearts and minds of those they directly affect. Some might call this a direct attack on the oil industry and Evangelical Christians, but the movie merely depicts both areas for what they truly---corruptible, just like everything else. Its a relatively fair statement, considering both Palinview and Sunday are much different and far more idealistic in their earlier depictions in the film.
Anderson's visual work was also quite astonishing, making the bleak landscapes a character unto themselves. He also made the movie work with a relatively unknown cast of actors, which gave the film so much more depth in its characters because you could believe them. Paul Dano's whiny Eli Sunday was a perfect juxtaposition to Daniel Day Lewis' Daniel Plainview. One uses his anger and hatred for power while the other uses manipulation and ignorance. And the even more interesting thing is that both statements could apply to either character.
There Will Be Blood is easily the best movie of 2007, much less of any decade. Go and watch it.
The Host by now means is an exceptional movie. For the most part, it
follows a lot of the same devices that have made bad American films
(Primeval for example) such unwatchable tripe. But at least with this
film, it takes on a few different conventions that allow us to enjoy
the film.
While the back story on the beast is a little ludicrous, we at least get to see what it looks like almost immediately. While an American version would certainly drag this type of imagery out, we get to see what the beast is quite early and quite often. From the first scene to the last, it is a pretty believably scary monster. Throw in the fact that this movie isn't sanitized for stupid teeny- boppers with its R rating, we get to see some true guts and blood.
A couple elements in the middle of the movie did drag on for a bit too long, but at least this type of scenes weren't used to build unnecessary build-up in the first half. I think a 7/10 is a good fit for this movie.
We all knew the Transformers would be well made, well crafted creatures
due to the utter genius that is Industrial Light and Maghic. But its
too bad the human element was what bogged this movie down.
Sure, we'll watch the movie, but there was just too much exposition and for us impatient, Ritalin-riddled miscreants of the world, it was excruciating. First of all, the script was pretty lousy. Now I know the guy who wrote this film supposedly wrote X-Men, but lets face it, that was a good seven years ago. There were plenty of things that could have been chopped out of this film. Now I understand the producers wanted to get a little titillation with Raechel Taylor and Megan Fox, but they were both dead weights to the movie and the movement. Without those two, we could get rid of Anthony Anderson, another waste of words, and maybe even expand Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson's roles. Either way, the female element in the film was completely useless. Let's face it, guys watched this cartoon growing up, and we want action, violence and lots of transforming. Who fricking cares if Shia LeBouf's character gets some action. Its completely irrelevant. It would have also been nice to see some conflict between Megatron and Starscream.
The only other thing I didn't like was the awful soundtrack. The strings portion of the film was pretty substandard, borrowing the most generic themes one could possibly imagine. Then there is the random songs and generic heavy metal they try to slip in. It was like the people who mixed the film took a lesson from the dopes that mixed Daredevil, which had an equally awful mixture of CD sales-friendly mixing.
But I digress. For those that had doubts about the transforming, it was put to rest rather quickly. Dazzling to say the least, it was as realistic as one could have hoped for, making the transformations rather cool. ILM must have put their best and brightest on this movie, because it certainly shows. This brilliance alone made up for the bad exposition and substandard characters.
I gave this film a "7" simply because it was entertaining, but they are gonna have to tighten up the screws for future sequels. People won't put up with unnecessary characters and bad music for very long.
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When Cheryl and Stephanie Dorman decided to go into business together, they said it didn't take long to get into making donuts.
Once the women found their location, a unit across from Peddlers Village that formerly housed a donut shop, the mother and daughter-in-law revamped the place and before long, reopened as Dorman's Donuts. They haven't looked back.
From the first day she opened for business, Cheryl said the shop, which offers cookies, muffin tops, sticky buns and signature hand-dipped donuts cooked when they are ordered, has been filling a need in the area.
"Me and my granddaughter were working when we opened," she said. "We were packed, but we got through, one order at a time."
These days, Cheryl said, she even dreams about donuts: one of the house specialties, the salted caramel donut, which is dipped in caramel and topped with pretzel pieces, came to her one night when she was dozing off.
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The business has been bustling from the start, largely because word seems to have gotten out in some circles, like the Cape Henlopen School District, where recent customer Pam Gallagher was tipped off about the donuts at work.
"I had in-service on Friday, and one of the guys was talking about it, so I figured I'd stop in this weekend," Gallagher said. "I got the salted caramel because I was told I had to do it!"
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TEL AVIV (Apr. 30)
There was no official comment in Israel today over the surrender of Saigon, acknowledged to be a major defeat for American diplomatic and military policies in Southeast Asia. But for average Israelis, discussing the event in their offices, on the streets and at meeting places, the fall of South Vietnam to the Viet Cong had gloomy implications for the integrity of American commitments to Israel which the latest reports from Washington have done little to dispel.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's reassuring words to America's friends at his White House press conference yesterday that the U.S. would stand by its commitments, had an ambiguous ring to many Israelis. Kissinger said "One lesson we must learn from this experience. (Vietnam) is that we must be very careful in the commitments we make, but that we should scrupulously honor those commitments that we make."
The fact that the Secretary offered that very general reply to a reporter's specific question as to whether the failure in Vietnam meant that the U.S. will never again come to the military or economic aid of an ally, such as Israel, was seen by many here as a deliberate evasion.
Israelis are frankly worried by mounting reports indicating that Washington intends to exert heavy pressure on Israel by denying it military and financial aid. The newspaper Maariv said in an editorial tonight that the tragic and to the chapter of American involvement in Vietnam brother's about a process of reassessment of relations between the U.S. and its friends and foe' alike throughout the world and the U.S. must define, quickly and clearly, what are the limits of its new commitments.
(The only Israeli leader to comment on the events in Indochina was Foreign Minister Yigal Allon who told a press conference in Paris that afternoon that both America and Western Europe should draw lessons from the Vietnam tragedy and help their friends and allies. He said he did not believe America would abandon its friends in Europe, Latin America or the Middle East because of what happened in Southeast Asia.)
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Hans Holzer, the world's most famous psychic investigator and the author of 26 books, presents a guided tour of over 50 haunted houses - from simple cottages and farmhouses to mansions and fortresses. Ghosts, according to the author, are the surviving emotional memories of people who have either died tragically or whose last moments on earth were especially unhappy or traumatic. Inevitably, when Professor Holzer enters a haunted house with a trained psychic, he is able to make contact with the ghost and help it to adjust to life in the hereafter. "Hans Holzer's Haunted Houses" lifts the veil of superstition and hysteria that has long covered these fascinating presences and reveals the true mysteries involved.
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Just when we thought we've seen every possible transformation that 2NE1 can go through, the popular group took it to another level and became 2D.
On September 19, fashion designer, Jeremy Scott tweeted, "WOW TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TOGETHER. 2NE1 & THE SIMPSONS."
In the photo attached, a hand holds up four characters drawn in unique style of the popular TV show The Simpsons. The four characters resembled the 2NE1 members in terms of fashion and hairstyles.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — I know it just rained, but one storm doesn't seem to amount to a hill of beans in this crazy drought we're having.
In today's Drought Monitor, the federal team tracking conditions around the country colored northwest New Mexico yellow, an indication of worsening conditions there. That makes 100 percent of New Mexico now abnormally dry or worse:
With the extraordinarily warm, dry March, the latest runoff forecasts for the state out this week are dismal as well. I'll have more on that later today, and in tomorrow's newspaper.


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Corporate America is under attack in the new thriller "The East."
Brit Marling ("Another Earth," "The Company You Keep") stars as Sarah, a government operative who gets sent undercover to track down a group of domestic eco-terrorists determined to bring down greedy and corrupt organizations. During her assignment, Sarah connects and begins to sympathize with members of the anarchist organization The East and starts to have difficulty differentiating the good guys from the bad.
"True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgard and Oscar nominee Ellen Page also star as members of the covert organization.
Page told CBS News that, while she understands the contempt many feel towards major corporations, she doesn't agree with the terrorist acts The East carries out in the film.
"There's a lot of validity to the anger that they feel, it's something I personally feel, but of course hurting people is not something I agree with," Page said.
Marling co-wrote the screenplay with the film's director, Zal Batmanglij. Marling and Batmanglij spent a summer together practicing an entirely "freegan" lifestyle (living without money and instead using food and resources that have been discarded) in preparation for this film. Marling also said that it was important for her to have relatable female characters in the story.
"Sometimes you go to the cinema, and you watch a film, and you just don't recognize any of the women. They don't act like your mother, or your grandmother, your sisters, your best friends, and it's like, 'where are women I see around me all the time?'"
"The East" opens in theaters on Friday.


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Instability of stock beta in Dhaka Stock Exchange, Bangladesh
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and extent of instability of capital asset pricing model (CAPM) beta in a small emerging capital market. Design/methodology/approach - Inter-period as well as intra beta instability are examined. Inter-period instability is examined by Mann-Whitney z-scores and Blume's regressions. Intra-period beta instability is examined using Bruesch-Pagan LM test and Chow break point test. Robustness tests are performed applying time-varying parameter models. Findings - Beta instability increases with increase in holding (sample) periods. There is evidence of inter-period as well as intra-period beta instability. Analysis of the full eight-year interval reveals a very high incidence of beta instability, namely, about 26 per cent of the individual stocks tested and about 31 per cent of individual stocks have structural break. The extent of beta instability does not significantly decline when corrected for non-synchronous trading and thin trading as represented by Dimson beta. However, the extent of beta instability is similar to that of developed market. Time-varying parameter model under Kalman filter approach using AR(1) specification performs better than any other models in terms of in-sample forecast errors. Dominance of AR(1) approach suggests that stock betas in DSE are time varying, and shocks to the conditional beta have some degree of persistence which ultimately reverts to a mean. This result is in contrast to the findings of Faff Research limitations/implications - This study covers only 110 stocks of Dhaka Stock Exchange. It can be extended to include more stocks. The study can also be done in other developing markets. Originality/value - While the issues of beta instability have been extensively explored for developed markets, evidence for emerging markets is less readily available. The present study contributes to the emerging market literature on beta instability by investigating the extent of beta instability and its time-varying properties in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh. Understanding the systematic risk behaviour of individual stocks in DSE is important for both local and international investors. With the saturation of investment opportunities in developed markets due to their high integration, and with the enhanced deregulation and liberalization of emerging economies, emerging financial markets like DSE provide suitable and a relatively safe investment environment for international investors and fund managers seeking global diversification for better risk-return trade-offs. When most of the world markets declined during the recent global financial crisis, stock prices in DSE experienced a continuous rise. This makes it more interesting as an emerging market to study beta instability.
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- Faff, R. & Brooks, R., 1996. "Further Evidence on the Relationship between Beta Stability and the length of the Estimation Period," Papers 96-10, Melbourne - Centre in Finance.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Lee Nguyen harbored no doubts as he stepped up to the penalty spot for a second time on the night. He simply could not afford them in this situation, though he could have nursed a few as he approached the decisive moment in New England's 2-1 victory over D.C. United.
United goalkeeper Bill Hamid staked out the critical mental advantage in this battle by stopping Nguyen's initial attempt after 57 minutes. Nguyen opted for a low shot to Hamid's right, but he recognized his mistake before Hamid prevented him from notching the equalizer.
"I was planning on going that side and he read it early," Nguyen told MLSsoccer.com. "Right in my mind, right in my half swing, I knew. I was like, 'Crap.' I couldn't change it in time."
Diego Fagundez blunted the impact of Hamid's save by registering the equalizer moments later to set up a grandstand finish. New England pushed forward with numbers against the entrenched United rearguard, and Nguyen drew his second penalty of the night when Lewis Neal felled him on the right edge of the penalty area with eight minutes to play.
The decision normally would have prompted some discussion about who should take the second penalty in the wake of the earlier miss, but Nguyen dispelled any and all doubt by grabbing the ball and shouldering the duties once more.
"I don't think he would have let anyone [else] take that PK," Fagundez said.
Nguyen's insistence placed him in a scenario where he needed to devise a profitable way forward at the second attempt. He received some sage advice from Revolution defender Chris Tierney as he pondered his approach to the potential game-winning kick.
"I knew it was a mind game after that," Nguyen said. "He read the first one. I was thinking about going down the middle after that. It was just great to have the confidence of my teammates and the coaching staff. Chris was confirming [it], [saying], 'Dude, think about going down the middle.' He had confidence in going down the middle. I was like, alright. That was all I needed. After that, phew."
The sigh of relief surged through Nguyen and his Revolution teammates after a laborious night against a resolute opponent. The end product, however, dispelled any lingering issues and ensured the Revs maintained their playoff push with maximum points at home.


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The US national team drew a remarkably familiar and frustrating fate in the FIFA World Cup draw on Friday in Brazil, drawing traditional European heavyweights Germany and Portugal and a pesky Ghana team that's knocked them out of the past two World Cups.
The USMNT were drawn into Group G – arguably the toughest group on the board when the draw was completed – and will open the tournament where they left off in 2010, against Ghana on June 16 in Natal, on the Northeastern coast of Brazil.
They'll take on Portugal on June 22 in the Amazon city of Manaus before wrapping up the group stage back against Germany on June 26 back on the coast in Recife.
Germany were ranked No. 2 in the world in FIFA's most recent rankings in November, while Portugal came in at No. 5. The US are ranked No. 14, and Ghana sit at No. 24.
"Obviously it's one of the most difficult groups in the whole draw," US head coach Jurgen Klinsmann told ESPN. "Having Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo and then Ghana, who has a history with the US, it couldn't get any more difficult or any bigger. But that's what a World Cup is about. It's a real challenge, and we'll take it."
The draw was a surprisingly familiar one for the Americans, who will take on Ghana for the third consecutive World Cup. The Black Stars defeated and eliminated the US during the group stage in 2006 in Germany and then posted a 2-1 win over the Americans in the Round of 16 in 2010 in South Africa.
"I think the memory will still be very fresh of the loss in the Round of 16 in 2010," US goalkeeper Tim Howard told USsoccer.com."I think that will help us more than it will them. We're a much stronger team than we were, and they'll know that going into the game. We'll look to set that result right."
The US also played Germany in the 2002 quarterfinals and the 1998 group stage, both losses. They played Portugal in the 2002 group stage and posted a 3-2 win to open the tournament en route to the only quarterfinals appearance in the nation's history.
"We're no underdogs," Klinsmann insisted to ESPN. "All the nations in the World Cup are big names, and they all deserve to be there. All the big nations are in there. And if you want to get into the top 10 one day or the top 12 in the world, then you've got to start beating them."
Ghana qualified for their third consecutive World Cup via a two-leg series last month against former USMNT head coach Bob Bradley and Egypt, while Portugal struggled in their UEFA group stage and needed to survive a two-leg playoff against Sweden last month to reach their fourth straight World Cup.
Star striker Cristiano Ronaldo scored all four of the team's goals in a 4-2 aggregate-goal win.
"Portugal had a little bit of trouble coming out of qualifying in Europe but that doesn't say much because there are so many good teams in Europe," US midfielder Michael Bradley told USsoccer.com. "For me, like I said, Ronaldo is the best player in the world right now. He has shown, even when you look at the two games with Sweden, that he has the ability to, in a way unlike any other player in the world, put his team on his shoulders and will them and carry them. We have, for sure, a lot of respect for their team and we know it will be really difficult."
Germany, meanwhile, enter as bona fide contenders to win their first World Cup since they won as West Germany in 1990, with Klinsmann scoring three goals in the tournament. They reached the semifinals in both 2010 and 2006 and lost the final to Brazil in 2002.
The US will travel 8,866 miles during the group stage, more than any other team in the tournament. The Americans will be based in Sao Paulo and face trips of 1,436 miles to Natal, 1,832 miles to Manaus and 1,321 miles to Recife.
Throw in a trip to dreaded Manaus - a site in the Amazon jungle with sweltering temperatures unparalleled in the other Brazilian host sites - and it's a tough haul for Klinsmann's group.
Map courtesy of FIFA
"We discussed before the draw that there would be some problems from an organizational and traveling side, and we hit the worst of the worst," Klinsmann told ESPN. "Going to Manaus? Every coach that I've talked to over the past two days said, 'Everything but Manaus.' And no, we get Manaus. But we'll prepare for it, and we'll be ready for it."
Said USSF president Sunil Gulati in a statement: "We've had a very, very good two years; the best two years in our history. It's a tough group, but they are all tough groups at some level. If you want to advance in the World Cup, you have to beat some good teams."
The USMNT's CONCACAF counterparts drew varying degrees of difficulty, highlighted by Mexico's draw into Group A with host nation Brazil. El Tri – who advanced via intercontinental playoff against New Zealand last month – will also play Cameroon and Croatia.
Costa Rica face a tough challenge in Group D with Uruguay, Italy and England, while Honduras face arguably the easiest road in Group E, with Switzerland, Ecuador and France.
Group B houses both the defending World Cup champions in Spain as well as the runners-up in the Netherlands, along with Chile and Australia.
Group C is led by Colombia, along with Greece, Cote d'Ivoire and Japan.
Argentina drew one of the easiest roads among the seeded teams in Group F, joined by Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran and Nigeria.
Belgium highlights Group H, along with Algeria, Russia and South Korea, the US team's opponent for an international friendly on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles.


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Listening: A narrative approach to everyday understandings and behavior
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- McCloskey, Donald N, 1983. "The Rhetoric of Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 21(2), pages 481-517, June.
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It's reported Parma will meet West Bromwich Albion to discuss Jonathan Biabiany on Saturday.
According to Tuttomercatoweb, the perfect opportunity will be around Parma's friendly match with Aston Villa in Birmingham this weekend.
There are rumours WBA have already put forward a €6m offer for French attacking right-winger Biabiany.
It is also suggested that technical director Terry Burton and scout Leonardo Masieri were in the stands during a friendly against Monaco to evaluate the player.
Still only 26, Biabiany is a Serie A veteran with experiences at Inter, Chievo, Modena, Sampdoria and now Parma.
He had also been linked with Juventus, Milan and Roma over the summer.