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This week's five new shows come from just three networks, with USA unveiling it's all-new Thursday night lineup and FX debuting two new comedies in the 10 p.m. hour the same day. Lifetime rounds out the group with a new drama on Sundays. Here's a look:
"Rush," 9 p.m. Thursday, USA
"Rush" sounds a little like "Royal Pains" crossed with "House," but that's not necessarily a bad thing, especially if you dig either of those shows.
Like "Royal Pains," the title character in "Rush," played by British actor Tom Ellis, lost his hospital job because of a decision he made and then became a freelancer, though instead of a concierge doctor, he's a "medical fixer," charging hefty, cash-only fees to clean up medical messes that Los Angeles' elite would rather the world not know about. Like "House," he's no squeaky-clean professional; he's a pill-popping partier whose own life is a mess. That behavior may change, though, when an old flame (Odette Annable, "Cloverfield") reappears in his life.
"Satisfaction," 10 p.m. Thursday, USA
"Satisfaction" is USA's steamiest drama yet; it's all about sex and desire — for love, excitement, fulfillment, meaning and feeling alive.
In it, Neil (Matt Passmore, "The Glades") and Grace (Stephanie Szostak, "Iron Man 3") are in a stagnant marriage, unsatisfied with their relationship despite seemingly having it all. When Neil discovers Grace has been hiring a male escort (Blair Redford, "Switched at Birth"), he becomes one himself to try to understand his wife's motivation.
"Married," 10 p.m. Thursday, FX
Despite spinning off FXX in September, which focuses primarily on comedy, FX is keeping its two newest sitcoms to itself. First up is "Married," which follows a long-time married couple relying on their bond to get them through the pitfalls of parenthood. Nat Faxon ("Ben and Kate") and Judy Greer ("13 Going on 30") star with Jenny Slate ("Saturday Night Live") and Brett Gelman ("Go On") co-starring.
"You're the Worst," 10:30 p.m. Thursday, FX
On the other end of the relationship spectrum from "Married," this sitcom follows two anti-relationship thirtysomethings with toxic personalities — a self-involved writer and a self-destructive beauty — as they fall in love and attempt a relationship. It stars English actor Chris Geere and Aya Cash, who played Leonardo DiCaprio's assistant in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
"The Lottery," 10 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime
Lifetime goes a little darker than usual with its latest drama, a medical thriller set in a post-apocalyptic future where women have mysteriously stopped having children. With humanity facing extinction, a doctor (Marley Shelton, "Eleventh Hour") and her team miraculously fertilize 100 embryos. The government, led by the U.S. Fertility Commission director (Martin Donovan, "Weeds"), intervenes, seizing control of the lab, holding a national lottery to determine the surrogates and setting off a battle for control over the embryos.
Series premieres: "Untold with Maria Menounos," 8 p.m. Thursday, E! (pop culture and celebrity news); "Dating Naked," 9 p.m. Thursday, VH1 (nude dating on a remote island); "#CandidlyNicole," 10 p.m. Thursday, VH1 (Nicole Richie's life); "LeAnn & Eddie," 10:30 p.m. Thursday, VH1 (celebrity couple LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian); "Flipping the Block," 9 p.m. Sunday, HGTV (teams compete in a condo renovation project); "Food Fighters," 8 p.m. Tuesday, NBC (amateur cooks versus professional chefs; hosted by Adam Richman); "BAPS," 10 p.m. Wednesday, Lifetime (a group of affluent black friends in St. Louis).
Season premieres: "Don't Be Tardy...," 9 p.m. Thursday, Bravo; "Cedar Cove," 8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark; "Hotel Hell," 9 p.m. Monday, Fox; "Face Off," 9 p.m. Tuesday, Syfy; "Who Do You Think You Are?" 9 p.m. Wednesday, TLC; "Bring It!" 9 p.m. Wednesday, Lifetime; "Restaurant: Impossible," 10 p.m. Wednesday, Food.
Timeslot change: With "Face Off" returning, "The Wil Wheaton Project" moves back to the 10 p.m. Tuesday slot on Syfy.
Season finales: "Bet on Your Baby," 8 p.m. Saturday, ABC; "Xtreme Waterparks," 8 p.m. Sunday, Travel; "Endeavour," 9 p.m. Sunday, PBS; "Returning to Amish," 10 p.m. Sunday, TLC; "Ladies of London," 10 p.m. Monday, Bravo; "The Real Housewives of New York City," 9 p.m. Tuesday, Bravo; "Little Women: LA," 10 p.m. Tuesday, Lifetime.
Special: "Kids Choice Sports 2014," 8 p.m. Thursday, Nickelodeon (awards show hosted by Michael Strahan).
Of note: Will Ferrell guest stars on "Welcome to Sweden," 9 p.m. Thursday, NBC; "History Detectives" looks into the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, 9 p.m. Tuesday, PBS; the Top 48 are revealed on "America's Got Talent," 8 p.m. Wednesday, NBC; "My Wild Affair" explores the story of Chantek, an orangutan raised as a human child, 8 p.m. Wednesday, PBS.
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ALMEIDA FILHO, Naomar de. The concept of health: blind-spot for epidemiology?. Rev. bras. epidemiol. [online]. 2000, vol.3, n.1-3, pp.4-20. ISSN 1415-790X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1415-790X2000000100002.
In this paper, the author evaluates the proposition that the concept of Health is a blind-spot for epidemiologic science, arguing that there is no logical basis for a negative definition of Health, neither at the individual level nor at the collective level. He also briefly analyzes the attempts of producing an epidemiology of health symmetric to the epidemiology of risks, as well as the econometric approaches that reinforce and complement the epidemiologic repertoire for the measurement of health. Due to its growing importance in the definition of budgetary policies in health, the author focuses in more detail on the DALY approach, considered as a prototype of the new generation of health indicators. Finally, recognizing the failure of methodological proposals for a direct evaluation of levels of collective health through unified indicators, the author concludes with an evaluation of the current prospects for Epidemiology in order to integrate the complex object of Health in its theoretical and methodological agenda.
Keywords : Health concept; Epidemiology; Epidemiological theory; Health indicators; DALY; QALY.


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While millions of fans watched England's opening World Cup match at the weekend, one West Norfolk supporter has been enjoying a very different view of the tournament.
That's because Claire Jermany, from North Wootton, is working as a volunteer during matches at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, including the final on July 13.
Her first assignment was Sunday's match between Argentina and Bosnia-Herzegovina and she admitted there was some envy of her role among family and friends.
She said: "My dad in particular is very jealous. They're really happy for me though, and will be looking out for me on tv at the games."
Claire is one of 14,000 volunteers who are working in Brazil during the tournament. Her role is as a spectator services volunteer, greeting fans in and around the Maracana stadium.
She said: "We have been told we are the 'face of the World Cup' and it's our job to give information, be friendly and generally help the spectators."
And she is particularly excited to be working at the final.
She said: "I couldn't believe it when I got my schedule through and saw July 13 on it. The atmosphere is going to be incredible, especially if Brazil get to the final."
And she is confident that protests during the run-up to the tournament will not overshadow the competition itself.
"I believe Brazil's love of football will preside over any negativity in the next month, especially if they go far. Fingers crossed it's all OK anyway."
Claire, a former pupil of the King Edward VII School who graduated from the University of Nottingham last summer, said she was inspired to volunteer after the London Olympics, which she watched while studying in the United States.
She said: "I saw all the volunteers having an amazing time. I thought, the next big sporting event, I will be part of! I did a lot of volunteering at university – working on committees, organising events and had done Duke of Edinburgh at KES, but nothing on this scale."


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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag on Friday met with his Kosovo counterpart Hajredin Kuci as part of visit in Pristina.
Bozdag pays a visit in Kosovo for a series of formal talks and the inauguration of historical sites renovated under grants by Turkey's international cooperation and development agency, or TIKA.
Speaking in a joint press conference after the meeting, Bozdag said Turkey attached great importance to Kosovo's independence, sovereignty and its territorial integrity.
"Turkey considers tensions in north Kosovo as a threat to the peace and stability of the region. And the region would gain a lot from the settlement of those tensions in cooperation with the international community," Bozdag said.
Bozdag said dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade made significant contributions to the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
"Tensions in Kosovo's north make no good either to Kosovo or to Serbia and they pose a great threat to entire Balkans and Europe," Bozdag said.
Kuci, on his part, said that Kosovo was grateful for the support TIKA extended for the development of his country, adding that cooperation with Turkey was of utmost importance for Kosovo.
After his meeting with Kuci, Bozdag participated in a meeting to promote projects carried out by TIKA for the renovation of Ottoman-era historical sites and buildings in Kosovo.
"One of the most important things that keeps a nation together is their cultural identity. The Ottoman artifacts here is the land title of our past in Kosovo and the land title of Kosovars," Bozdag said.
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Chen Shi-Zheng is a New York-based theater director.
Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Manchester International Festival in June–July 2007. In 2008 he directed the premiere production of Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera.


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Though NSIDC no longer distributes the DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperature data on CD-ROM, this documentation is retained for users who have previously acquired the data via CD-ROM. The following sections provide more information regarding these data on CD-ROM:
For full documentation on this data set, refer to the DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures user guide document.
The directory structure of the CD-ROM is described in the next section of this document, File Naming Convention.
Brightness temperature files on the CD-ROM are named according to the following convention and as described in Table 1. Note: The file naming convention includes the directory path.
|4-digit year
NORTH: Northern Hemisphere, azimuthal
SOUTH: Southern Hemisphere, azimuthal
GLOBL: full global, cylindrical
|Enclosing 5-day pentad directory where ddd is the 3-digit day of year
L: 25 km resolution
H: 12.5 km resolution, for 85 GHz only
|3-digit day of year
|Direction of pass (A: ascending, D: descending)
|Channel and polarization (19H, 19V, 22V, 37H, 37V, 85H, or 85V)
|Identifies this as a gzipped file
Time files on CD-ROM are named according to the following convention and as described in Table 2. Note: The file naming convention includes the directory path.
|4-digit year
NORTH: Northern Hemisphere, azimuthal
SOUTH: Southern Hemisphere, azimuthal
GLOBL: full global, cylindrical
|Enclosing 5-day pentad directory where ddd is the 3-digit day of year
|25 km resolution
|3-digit day of year
|Direction of pass (A: ascending, D: descending)
|Indicates the contents are time data
|Identifies this as a gzipped file
Error in CD-ROMs Produced Before 09 August 1995
r = R/C * lambda * cos(30) + r0 s = R/C * sin(phi) / cos(30) + s0
The correct equations are:
r = r0 + R/C * lambda * cos(30) s = s0 - R/C * sin(phi) / cos(30)
Full time series of the data are available via FTP as processing is completed. See the SSM/I-SSMIS Data Availability Web page for specific dates by platform. After January 2005, data are no longer distributed via CD-ROM. Instead, data are made available on our public FTP site as the data are produced.
A TOOLS directory accompanies the data on CD-ROM that includes gzip utilities, routines for IDL users to display and manipulate images, and C and FORTRAN routines for use in converting grid row/column coordinates to latitude and longitude. The TOOLS directory contains three subdirectories: GZIP, IDL, and SOURCE. A description of each subdirectory follows.
Note: Due to the file naming convention, some file names will exist on at least three separate CD-ROMs, one for each projection and more for separate years (for example: L213A37H.GZ). If you plan to use data for the same dates from more than one projection, reproduce the year and the NORTH-SOUTH-GLOBL directory structure on your machine; or change your local file names so that they are unique.
The /TOOLS/GZIP/ directory contains four subdirectories: MSDOS, SGI, SOURCE, and SUN. The SUN and SGI directories contain copies of the latest available GZIP Unix source code, one for Sun platforms and one for SGI platforms. The MSDOS directory contains a self-extracting archive file for DOS (PC) systems. The copyright and distribution information are in the file /TOOLS/GZIP/README.GNU.
Note: You may also obtain GZIP directly over the internet from GNU's GZIP Web site.
Note: For help on using gzip, enter the following at the command prompt:
gzip -h
If you do not already have GZIP, copy and execute the file /TOOLS/GZIP/MSDOS/GZIP*.EXE on your machine. It will create a set of files and documentation for you to use for installation on your platform.
If you do not already have gzip, follow these steps to install it:
Once gzip/gunzip are installed, users with IDL need only set the environment variable EASE_GZIP to the location of the executable on the local file system. The IDL EASE Tools will do the rest.
Once you have obtained a copy of gzip (which includes gunzip after installation), follow these steps to begin uncompressing the .GZ files:
Users who currently have IDL should read the file /TOOLS/IDL/README.IDL, in addition to reading the information in this file. Unix users with IDL can now read data directly into IDL from the CD-ROM, performing gunzipping and byte-swapping on the fly, using the latest version of the ssmi_read procedure (included in ssmi.pro beginning with revision 3.1 of that file), included in the IDL EASE tools.
The IDL directory contains routines for IDL users to display and manipulate images in IDL. These routines contain several updates to the Prototype Version 1.0 tools, including the new grid definitions. Prototype versions of the tools should be replaced with these new ones.
Note to IDL users: the IDL tools included on the CD-ROMs will uncompress gzipped files on the fly on Unix platforms. If you plan to use IDL to read and manipulate these data, consider using this capability to bypass the need to copy and uncompress data to your hard drive via GET_EASE_DATA.CSH. See the SOURCE Directory section below for more information about GET_EASE_DATA.CSH.
The SOURCE directory contains C and FORTRAN subroutines for the family of EASE-Grids to convert between grid row/column coordinates and latitude/longitude coordinates. The SOURCE directory also contains a file called GET_EASE_DATA.CSH, that is an example of a C Shell script that may be used and/or tailored to the user's system to gunzip and byte swap a number of data files at one time.
The /TOOLS/SOURCE/GET_EASE_DATA.CSH script takes two input arguments:
Each uncompressed data filename will consist of the filename base from the CD-ROM, with no extension. For example, entering the following command at the command prompt:
get_ease_data.csh '/CDROM/1979/NORTH/D001_005/L002/37H*' ./
will uncompress to the files:
which will be write-protected in the destination directory. This
script may need some adjustment on different platforms, but may prove
to be a useful tool during the tedious process of extracting
compressed data from the CD-ROM. The user should
verify, before running GET_EASE_DATA.CSH, that enough local disk space
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Local resident and Azusa Pacific University student Olivia J. Hartzler made the academic dean's list at APU. Hartzler is honored for a fall semester 2011 academic standing of a 3.5 or better GPA.
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The Hunger Games was, to put it mildly, an enormous hit for Lionsgate, and promises to be another powerhouse franchise along the lines of Harry Potter and Twilight. And like Harry Potter and Twilight, the director apparently isn't the most important person involved. There's a good chance that Lionsgate won't renew Seabiscuit director Gary Ross's contract to direct the upcoming sequel, Catching Fire. The issue? Money, of course.
Gary Ross was always an unexpected choice to adapt The Hunger Games, since his previous features – Pleasantville and Seabiscuit – were both nostalgic, critically-acclaimed melodramas as opposed to sci-fi action movies. That sensibility served him well for The Hunger Games, which has already grossed $373 million worldwide (and counting), but he's an A-lister who demands an A-list salary. His $3 million fee (plus 5% of the backend) for The Hunger Games was considered rather modest, for Ross at any rate, and now that the film is a bona fide blockbuster he's negotiating for an increased payday. Hollywood Reporter reports that Lionsgate is playing hardball, since the cycled directors on other popular franchises – again, like Harry Potter and Twilight – has lessened the value the industry places on a single creative vision in a franchise whose direction has been predetermined by already-popular source material.
Lionsgate is expected to either pony up or fire Ross outright since they've already staked out a November 2013 release date for Catching Fire. Further complicating matters, Jennifer Lawrence is also contracted to appear in X-Men: First Class 2, which is also gearing up production, and her contract with Fox would supercede her contract with Lionsgate, potentially delaying Catching Fire. The Hollywood Reporters insiders seem to believe that Lionsgate will eventually acquiesce to Ross's demands, but technically speaking, there's nothing stopping them from mixing it up a bit next time. The fact that Ross was only contracted for one film seems to imply that Lionsgate was considering that course of action all along.
CraveOnline will be back with more Hunger Games news after we order our own powdered wigs.
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With girls soccer season underway, here are five questions about local teams?
1. Can Citrus Valley win a third consecutive CIF-SS championship?
Perhaps the question should be whether Citrus Valley can make an impact in the state tournament.
Of course, winning a third consecutive CIF championship is a close second. The Blackhawks appear to be strong again this season after going 26-1-1 last year on the way to the CIF-SS Division 6 title. They lost six seniors, but the nucleus of last years team remains intact.
Theres no where else to go, but to stay where we are, Citrus Valley coach Jacob Geverians said. It sounds like it would be easy to do it again because we did it last year, but winning a CIF championship only gets harder each time you do it.
Something that will make things easier for Citrus Valley is the return of two players who missed last season with torn anterior cruciate ligaments senior forward Darrian Gonzalez and junior midfielder Ashlee Smith. They figure to give the Blackhawks a boost and will certainly be hungry for a ring after watching from the sidelines last season.
Loren Landrus, the Division 6 Most Valuable Player last season, returns along with senior forward Ariel Vinson with hopes of another long postseason.
Citrus Valley is hoping for an invite to the state tournament this season after being denied one last year. It went after claiming the CIF-SS Division 7 championship two years ago and lost in the first round.
2. Will a Baseline League team make another deep playoff run?
Two years ago, it was Los Osos that claimed a CIF-SS championship. Last year, Rancho Cucamonga knocked off the No. 2 seed on the way to the quarterfinals of CIF-SS Division 1 and the Cougars werent even the league champion.
During its run to the CIF-SS Division 2 championship two years ago, Los Osos had to go through a Baseline League foe in the semifinals. Upland came out on the short end of a 4-0 contest then, but the Highlanders responded by winning the league last season. Upland lost an overtime game in the first round of the playoffs last year while Rancho Cucamonga made a deep playoff run.
3. Who will win the Baseline League?
Defending league champion Upland graduated Mexican national team member Tanya Samarzich, who is a freshman at USC, but the Highlanders return plenty of talent.
Rancho Cucamonga, which finished three games behind Upland in league play last season, graduated two of its best players to college soccer programs. But the Cougars bring back what coach Chris Van Duin estimates is a roster with at least five Division I players, four of whom are already verbally committed to schools.
Los Osos, which fell off last season but made the playoffs courtesy of an at-large selection, has new stability having hired coach Diego Back after CIF championship coach Mychal Armstrong was fired during the season last year.
Los Osos probably has multiple Division I players with national team potential, Van Duin said. This league is good top to bottom. No matter how good your talent is, it just gives you a chance to compete.
4. How will Chino Hills respond coming off its best season?
Chino Hills had perhaps its best season last year, claiming the Sierra League title, earning the No. 2 seed in the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs and reaching the quarterfinals.
The Huskies play in a competitive league against programs the likes of Claremont and Ayala which have had plenty of success in recent years, but the Huskies bring back a solid group led by last years leading scorer, Ashley Gonzales. The senior striker had 31 goals and 13 assists last season, but Chino Hills will be without Mimi Rangel, the graduated Sierra League offensive MVP.
Chino Hills is off to a 4-0 start this season having already defeated several quality programs.
5. Will San Dimas avenge last seasons stunning semifinal loss?
San Dimas was eight minutes from playing for a CIF championship last season.
In its second consecutive trip to the semifinals, the Saints held a 2-1 lead on eventual CIF-SS Division 6 champion Citrus Valley, which rallied for an improbable victory capped by a header in the 78th minute that found its way between three San Dimas defenders.
San Dimas returned most of the nucleus of last years team, headlined by Valle Vista League MVP Daisy Duran. Along with fellow senior Morgan Quaternik, the two will make up a strong midfield. The Saints defense is expected to be stingy with the return of senior goalkeeper Britain Chaputa and defender Taylor Sunga, who started last year as a freshman.


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I'm think the manual transmission and ABS are the biggest problems to date on the 2002 WRX and I think with all the forum members working collectively, we could figure out some solutions. One of the problems in this board is we don't analyze the information that we know and do anything with it. There is too much opinion, hear say, and emotional responses when we need facts.
We know that the ABS is touchy on the WRX, more so than at least any other car we have driven from what I've read. What can we do about it? Pull the fuse, Complain, or work with the service departments or tech reps to address the problem. We need more people to take their cars in and re-create the problem and report back to the I-club with factual documents, not "a service tech drove my car and said that's weird". Maybe we need better sensors or an ECU reprogramming, but nothing will be done unless the majority gets involved.
The manual transmission...this seems the main problem of the WRX for most. We have reports of syncros failing, clutches shuddering, popping out of gear, internal components breaking. We also have hearsay of secret internal memos from SOA to dealers, people claiming denial of service, and SOA repairing some problems under warranty with new revised parts. Many posts about problems contradict other posts and then we have personal opinion that starts flame wars over driving style or abusing the transmission. We really do need more facts: service records, scans of these secret internal memos, and most of all!!! The part numbers of these new "revised" parts. If they have the same part number, the "lot" number should be different. How about some digital pics of these parts showing the difference. I think if we can condense some of the problem posts and eliminate the flames and opinions and stick to facts and findings, things would improve for everyone with a Subaru.
I know I've had my share of rants and complaints. I even tried to inform I-club members about my 02 sensor problems that led to a settled Lemon Law claim to the dismay that many people months later are claiming they are on their 5th, 6th, or 7th sensor. So far, I'm very please with my WRX and I couldn't see me in another car at this point in my life. I'm sorry that some of you, especially some of you that purchase your very first car are going through these problems. Some people are jerks and make your problems seem to be less than they are. However, being without your car, getting poor service, or just having a bad auto experience when your paying far more than an entry level car can really drain you emotionally and waste a lot of time.
I hope someone with the writing skills to formulate some real data can come to our aid and get some actually useful material documented.
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Number 1 Girl has basically gone and found the perf crop top. Keeping it simple with plain white, it's cropped enough to show a bit of skin, but it's not the kind of short that's gonna get you side-eye on the bus.
Number 2 Those boots though! Worn with your fave skinny jeans, pointy ankle skimmers in a light shade are a super fresh way of embracing spring without getting cold feet.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:
- We compiled Best of the Year lists from some very special guests. You can check them all out here.
- Lostprophets vocalist, Ian Watkins, is being held in custody for alleged sex offenses.
- In other news of band members getting in trouble with the law, Bury Your Dead guitarist, Eric Ellis, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for gang activity.
- Against Me! are, once again, looking for a new drummer as Jay Weinberg announced his departure this week.
- Jason Heller wrote a piece for the AV Club about what it's like to grow up with Jawbreaker.
- Rancid released a brand new song.
- The Punknews staff teamed up to share our stories and memories of the late, great Joe Strummer to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his passing.
With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.
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Keys of Light
By Dan Chadburn
Label: Self Released
Released 8/25/2015
Keys of Light tracks
1. Tacoma Morning
2. Beyond The Rain
3. Keys of Light
4. Tyler's Tribute
5. Diamond in the Sky
6. Chesapeake Sail
7. My Irish Love
8. To The Heavens
9. With You Always
10. Matthew
11. Paul's Prayer
12. Colour My World
It was a pleasure to discover the music
My introduction to Dan Chadburn was the title track off his new album Keys of Light. I featured the track on one of our sites (RateThe Tracks). What happened while listening to that song turned into quite an eventful experience. I was feeling so sad that my little girl was all grown up, and had left home. What I realized after I had shed my tears was how healing that was to be able to feel those powerful emotions then let the music take me and heal my soul.
Great music carries a message with it however creating instrumental music is more difficult for people to find something that moves them. I have heard some amazing music this year and that is my honor and privilege to do so. This is why I can appreciate and respect incredibly talented artists like Dan Chadburn. The keyboards and orchestrations throughout Keys of Light are like a soundtrack to heaven. If this is the kind of bliss that awaits us after we leave our bodies and become pure light then we are in for an amazing journey ahead. This is music for the living and it will make you feel so many things, and it can be very healing if you want to take the time to listen to it all.
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Andrew Sachs' granddaughter reckons prank calls controversy got out of hand
Georgina Baillie has forgiven Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for their Radio 2 prank calls.
The pair caused a storm last month when they boasted about how Russ had slept with the Satanic Sluts dancer in lewd answerphone messages left for her actor grandfather Andrew Sachs, 78 – then broadcast.
Jonathan, 47, has been suspended by the BBC for 12 weeks without pay and Russell, 33, has resigned.
But Georgina, 23, reckons things have got out of hand.
'I was really angry when I said I wanted them both to be fired,' she tells Channel 5. 'But now I think it's way out of proportion what's happened.
'I don't hate either of them. I think they're really talented comedians and I think a world without Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand would be a very sad, dull place.
'They made a mistake and they apologised to my granddad which was very important to me. I hope that everyone can move on and that we can forget about this.'
Meanwhile, Georgina is being lined-up to appear on the new series of I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!
'We try to be as topical as possible and feature high-profile people who are in the news,' an insider tells the Daily Express.
'This year Georgina is on our hot-list. Andrew Sachs' name was mentioned too. She would probably go in as a surprise addition to the camp towards the end of the first week.'


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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
38 mistakes
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas
Continuity mistake: When Kelly comes to make a proposition to Mulligan, the sun is on Mulligan's back. When both are in the shot from Kelly's view, both are in the sunlight. Then at the, "I need an authorisation" reverse shot, they are both in the shade, these 2 scenes are obviously shot at two very different times.
Factual error: Oddball tells Kelly their commander had been trying to get them killed ever since they landed at Omaha (beach). Oddball's tanks are part of the U.S. sixth Armored division (the Super Sixth, as the unit shoulder patch on his jacket indicates) which actually landed at Utah beach on July 18, 1944.
Revealing mistake: Blank firing adaptors are visible on the bow machine guns of Oddball's Shermans as they shoot up the rail yard.
Revealing mistake: When Kelly is using the gold bars to persuade the others, he hands them over. There is obviously no weight as e.g. Crapgame's hand doesn't drop when taking it.
Continuity mistake: When Kelly visits Mulligan he is carrying a bottle of whiskey, he then visits crapgame who gives him a bottle of whiskey, which suggests that the scenes are the wrong way round and Kelly was originally meant to visit crapgame first.
Continuity mistake: As the squad are taking a break on top of a hill, just before the fighter-bomber attacks them, Corporal Job is distributing ammo and Jonesey can be seen walking past in the background with four boxes of K-rations. A moment later, Crapgame and Jonesey are sitting together sharing the contents of the boxes. After Crapgame goes to the jeep for some water, the shot cuts to Kelly sitting by a tree. Jonesey walks up to Kelly with a message from Big Joe - carrying four unopened K-rations boxes.
Continuity mistake: Big Joe gets out of his jeep, salutes Captain Maitland, and converses about the upcoming time off for the men. Behind Big Joe is one of his half tracks and he is on Maitland's right. The scene cuts and Maitland's "liberated" yacht is behind Big Joe and he is directly in front of Maitland.
Factual error: As Oddball and his motley crew depart with the "purchased" Tiger, Moriarity is standing up in the hatch, fiddling with his cap. Since this is the driver's position, and very cramped, either he is straddling the driver's shoulders, or driving with his feet.
Factual error: The sniper rifle used in the film is a Russian Mosin and were never used by the allies. They should have had a Springfield sniper rifle. The Americans would have had no occasion to "exchange" weapons with Russian soldiers until the end of the war, when they met on the Elbe River.
Continuity mistake: When Kelly asks Little Joe for the brandy to interrogate the German officer, he is handed a square bottle with a short neck. In the next shot, as they sit down for their "friendly drink" Kelly sets down a round bottle with a long neck.
Factual error: During the scene where Clint Eastwood is trying to convince Don Rickles to join in the heist, there is a box of Almond Joy candy bars behind Don's head. They weren't introduced until 1946.
Factual error: Almost all the German soldiers in the movie are armed with MP-40 SMGs. In fact, most German infantrymen during World War II were armed with Mauser rifles. MP-40s were only issued to squad leaders and officers.
Factual error: Near the end of the movie the general and the army convoy drive through the town and are stopped by all the celebrating going on. If you look at all the cheering villagers, you can see they are dressed in modern (for 1970) clothes and have hairstyles that were not around in the 1940s.
Continuity mistake: While Big Joe is talking down to the Captain in the boat, Joe is blocking the stairs to the upper deck with his whole body. As the Captain moves up the stairs, Joe is off to the Captain's right. When the Captain emerges from the lower deck, Joe is dead center of the Captain and then moves out of the Captain's path.
Continuity mistake: Two of the German SS Tank officers are walking together through the streets of Clairmont chatting. In the first scene with them, the officer on the left carries the rank of 'Obersturmführer,' denoted by his lapel badges, and the officer on the right has lapel badges showing him to have the rank of 'Sturmbannführer' (although both officers' shoulder badges show no correlating rank to their lapels). However, in the second scene with the same two officers still walking and chatting, the officer on the right has been demoted as he is now showing the rank of 'Untersturmführer.'
Continuity mistake: After Cowboy spots the Tiger coming down the street the scene changes to a view of the three soldiers running from away from the bank from the viewpoint of the Tiger. The Tiger's turret is facing the soldiers. In the next shot the Tiger is shown in the distance with its barrel pointing straight forward. In the next shot, the turret is facing the fleeing soldiers again.
Continuity mistake: At the end when confronting the last tank to get the bank doors open, Oddball, Big Joe, and Kelly line up in an alley as if they are directly facing the tank and start walking forward. In the next shot, which is wider and much farther away, you see that they are actually walking down a curved alley and can't see the tank until they come all the way around the corner.
Character mistake: In the scene where Crapgame is sitting in the back of the truck at the end, when the men are loading Kelly's squad's take after splitting with the Germans and Oddball, Crapgame asks Fisher to verify his calculations. There are 125 boxes of gold left valued at $8,400 per box. Fisher says that they are worth $10.5 million, and each of the twelve men in the squad will get $875,000. The actual amount (125 x 8400) is $1.05 million, making a per man take of $87,500. He's off by a factor of 10 one way or another.
Factual error: During the discussion between Crapgame and Kelly in the supply depot, just after Crapgame realises that snatching the gold from behind enemy lines would be "the perfect crime", a jet airliner can be heard flying overhead. Jet aircraft were in use by the Luftwaffe - but only on their side of the lines with the exception of a few recon and bombing missions at the front, specifically on the Remagen bridge in March of 1945, months after the movie's timeframe.
Factual error: The "BAR" carried and fired in the movies is actually a FN-D Model that was never issued by the US Army in WWII. It was developed post war in Europe. Also the Thompson machine guns and the 1919A4s are all firing at a accelerated rate of fire, much faster than normal. This can be attributed to the weapons being blank adapted.


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Purdue's Carter out for season with knee injury
Purdue senior guard Sterling Carter will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.
Carter tore his anterior cruciate ligament and his medial and lateral meniscus in his right knee during the second half of the Boilermakers' game at Nebraska last Saturday.
"We are obviously disappointed for Sterling and really feel for him," Purdue head coach Matt Painter said. "It's very unfortunate to see his collegiate career end like this. Sterling gave all he had for the program this year and did everything we asked of him since his arrival last summer."
Carter played in all 27 contests this year, starting five, after transferring from Seattle University last summer. He averaged 4.8 points per game, but scored a season-high 19 points in Purdue's 82-64 rout of Indiana February 15.


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TV Today: "Frosted Pink"
TV Today: "Frosted Pink"
Throughout Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I've been writing about people in the entertainment industry who have been making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. So I wanted to make sure to mention "Frosted Pink," a TV special airing today on ABC designed to raise awareness of all women's cancers.
The event features musical performances, appearances from cancer survivor Sharon Osborne and other celebrities, and figure skating exhibitions from star athletes including Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi. Yeah, I know, the figure skating's a little random. But there's a great slate of musical performers lined up, including Joss Stone, Olivia Newton-John and Heart. I'm especially intrigued by Shades of Pink, a chorus made up entirely of breast cancer survivors, whom you can see backing Stone in the picture above.
I'm glad ABC is devoting some of its broadcast time to raising awareness of breast cancer and all cancers that affect women. The special airs from 4 to 6 p.m. EDT (check your local listings in other time zones) and will be repeated on the Style Network throughout October.


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RED YARN PRODUCTIONS (http://redyarnprojects.blogspot.com/) will be weaving Food Day messaging about healthy, sustainable and affordable food into this week's performances for young children! RED YARN PRODUCTIONS is partnering with the PORTLAND ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS to help spread the good message of Food Day.
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Announcing the 21 July 2009 meeting of the Open Accessibility (A11y) Workgroup. Please note that the 21 July 2008 meeting will be held at a special time, to accommodate essential participants; the call will commence promptly at 1200h UTC; you can find your time zone using the Fixed Time Clock. Please RSVP, as it will help us start the meeting without unnecessary delay. Information about meeting logistics, including dial-in and IRC information, follows the agenda.
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Grace Smith, 98, died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001.
A native of Elbert County, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the late O.E. and Maude Viola Smith. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Marion Fowler, and a son, Orville W. Gaines. She was a homemaker and prepared income-tax returns for many years. She was a member of New Bethel United Methodist Church, Rock Branch Community.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at New Bethel United Methodist Church with the Revs. Nancy Morgan and Harold Huff officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, Superior Court Judge Joseph Gaines, Athens, and Benson Gaines, Crawfordville; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at Hicks Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to New Bethel Baptist Church.
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Since the 1970s, various bishops from Brazil had been asking
the Legionaries to found in their country: they offered seminaries,
parishes, chaplaincies, and they backed up many of their petitions
with recommendations from nuncios such as Archbishops Rocco and Furno,
who urged them to consider the future that Brazil would
offer to the Church. But the Legion did not yet have the
resources to meet those needs. In the early 1980s,
various Legionary priests began learning Portuguese in preparation for a
future foundation in Brazil. On July 25, 1985, the
congregation´s first Brazilian house was founded in Rio de Janeiro.
Cardinal D. Eugenio de Araujo Sales welcomed the Legion with
open arms. In May of 1986 the Legionaries founded a
community in Ponta Grossa, and on March 10 of 1987,
they founded their novitiate in Curitiba. Other foundations soon followed.
The first was in Porto Alegre, RS. On
August 19, 1991, the recently named Metropolitan Archbishop, Dom Altamira
Rossato, CSSR gave his permission for the foundation of a
center for apostolate within his Archdiocese. This center was established
in early 1992 with Fathers Arturo Díaz, Salvador M. Calderón
and Guillermo Ortega LLCC. In 1993, Fr. Héctor
Manuel Gómez Preciado and Br. José Luis Laris (now a
parish priest in Brasilia) established a center in the city
of Belo Horizonte, working apostolically in the local Catholic university.
In 1995, the community of Brasilia was founded. Immediately, arrangements
were made to be able to follow through on the
initiative of Cardinal José Freire Falcão, who had asked the
Legion to build a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe
in that city. This shrine was inaugurated on December 12
of 1999 and today also functions as a parish. Since
then, Legionary seminaries were established in Curitiba 1997, São Paulo
1998, and Porto Alegre 1999. In the year 2000, at
the request of numerous Brazilian bishops, the Legion of Christ
founded the Maria Mater Ecclesiae Seminary for the formation of
diocesan priests, provisionally located in the novitiate of the congregation
in Sao Paulo. In August of 2005 the seminary was
moved to its definitive campus. It currently has more than
130 seminarians studying their propedeutic year and their courses of
philosophy and theology. In the year 2006, the first 24
seminarians were ordained and a notable increase of students is
expected in the next few years. Since their
arrival to Brazil, the Legionaries also established the Regnum Christi
apostolic movement in accordance with their charism and with the
consent and blessing of the bishops in the various cities.
In the past few years it has grown considerably and
has extended to other cities of the country: Fortaleza, Recife,
Campinas, Junjai, Joinville, Caxias, Bagé, Pelotas, and Ijuí. At present,
these cities do not yet have Legionary communities stationed there.
In the past few years, the Legion of Christ and
the Regnum Christi apostolic movement have developed their apostolates. There
are schools in Río de Janeiro and Curitiba, and the
first Mano Amiga school (for the underprivileged) was opened in
Sao Paulo in 2006. The youth apostolates include
Gente Nueva, Soñar despierto (Making Dreams Come True), and Gaudium.
Apostolates for families include Family Mission and the Pilgrim Virgin.
In the area of evangelization, there is Youth for the
Third Millennium, School of the Faith, and a catechetical program
called Catequese Bom Pastor. In the area of social work
with the disadvantaged, the outstanding apostolates are Tertio Millennio and
Helping Hands Medical Mission, ANSPAC, and "Estenda sua mão" (Extend
Your Hand). In addition, there is a widespread network of
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Just came across this when looking for a way to change the server settings as I use my Sky Router as a backup measure (i.e. it's set up, ready to go, but for the moment, just serves the internet over one of the Ethernet ports via a better router and wireless network in my house).
Anyway, as there doesn't seem to be a way to sort the DNS settings on the router itself, I would suggest the following to those who are looking to use OpenDNS (which is why I'm looking to do it).
Disable the Wireless network on your Sky Box and plug in a cable DSL router (i.e. a router that doesn't have ADSL on it, but has an ethernet internet port for connecting to a router - or one that has that ability (some have multiple options to allow for failsafe - but anyway)). Google "wireless cable DSL router" and look in the shopping section for an idea of them.
Setup the new router as per the manufacturers instructions and connect the new router to the Sky Box by the ethernet port. Now, assuming you've turned off the Wireless on the Sky Router (found under setup on the Sky router interface (192.168.0.1 from your computer normally unless you've changed it)) when you connect up the new router, this should be the only thing that is supplying internet into your home and you should be able to change the DNS settings on the router (make sure of this before you buy it just in case, but most of them you can do) and that way anything that is passed through the new router, even when it heads out on the Sky connection will use the new DNS settings.
Ok, so it's a bit of a hassle and might cost you £20-£30, but if it's to use OpenDNS or such services for the protection of your family when browsing online, it's money well spent IMHO.
Of course, if Sky had any nouce about them, they would simply give an option to use either their own DNS servers or the OpenDNS servers, even if they don't allow full customisation of them, especially with all the recent news about eSafety for people at home. It would just make a lot of sense as far as I see.
There are some routers out there now which fully intergrate with the OpenDNS service (Google OpenDNS Router to find some examples - a lot of NetGear ones now do - just makes it easier if you're a bit green on the techy front, though OpenDNS offer a lot of assistance and walk throughs on their own site too.
I'm sorry Stacie, but being able to change the DNS servers is a basic function of all routers. It is not a matter of Sky "implementing" it. In fact you have done just the opposite and gone to the trouble of removing that feature from your "router". I mean, can you even call it a router any more when all these basic features that all routers should have have been removed?
I suspect Sky do this as a cheap and lazy way to censor the internet on their network. Most of their customers will not know what DNS is, let alone know how to change their DNS settings. By locking those people to Sky's own DNS servers, Sky can implement some rudimentary website blocking at their end by refusing to provide DNS responses for certail web addresses.
To anybody else still struggling with this, just do what I do and remove the Sky Router from the DNS equation all together. Keep your Sky Router in place as the internet connection device (which avoids breaking any of Sky's Ts & Cs), but buy yourself another router with an ethernet WAN port (cable routers are good at this, no need for ADSL on this). Connect an ethernet cable from the Sky Router to the new routers WAN port, and turn off the wireless on the sky router. Give the new router a static IP address in the same range that your Sky Router gives out, and set the DMZ address of the Sky Router to that static IP of your new router. Set the DNS servers on your new router to whatever you like.
Now connect all your PC's to your new router, and enjoy a much better experience. You'll find the new router to be much more configurable than the old one as you can change the DNS settings as we're discussing here, you can also use it's much better port forwarding options. Enjoy
I not only wanted to monitor childrens access, but having taught Computing from 3 year olds to Udergraduate level I know I and you cannot stop 13 to 30 year olds hacking systems. Once I have openDNS I can monitor in real time anything on my system and when it is being used incorectly. It is very tempting to use another router to bridge the LAN or to buy a dual band router to improve the wireless and streeming capabilities.
Please reconsider ASAP
28-12-2012 12:09 AM - last edited: 28-12-2012 12:12 AM
Why have Sky still not explained why they do not implement this basic funtion.
With a miriad of different gadgets in peoples houses all running differing OS's, being able to use Familyshield by OpenDNS, is the only practical way of protecting my children online, short of banning them completely.
Sky, this is a setting on every other router known to man kind, explain to us why you do not allow your customers the ability to use their own DNS settings please.
You have no valid justification for hiding the setting at all other than the fact that you want all the outbound traffic to use your own DNS servers.
What's worse is you send twitter customers to this post when asking about it.
Infact it evens says in the router itself:
Display the Routing Table
This operation will display the internal routing table. This information is used by Technical Support and other staff who understand Routing Tables.
I have yet to find a member of the support team who understands routing tables
Hi All,
We don't offer this option as we cannot offer any advice for customers who encounter an issue with their router if it's not Sky supplied.
06-03-2013 10:08 PM - last edited: 06-03-2013 10:09 PM
Seriously Sky, this is a terrible position for you to take. Why can I not change the DNS settings, on your Sky supplied router, so that I am in control of what websites are accessed from within my house? The advice to change individual DNS settings on PCs is daft, especially given the ubiquity of tablets and the like. When my children's friends come round, I can't change the DNS settings on their iPads and laptops. I either say no to them using my network or have little to no control over what sites they can access. Not only is it not good enough, your position is positively irresponsible.
06-03-2013 10:24 PM - last edited: 06-03-2013 10:25 PM
Maybe we should start a tabloid shock campaign - "Sky bosses exposing kiddies to sick filth online"
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In the age of designer denim and t-shirts, many yearn for the glamour of yesteryear, when dressing-up seemed a national pastime. Well, that's what Hollywood sold to the masses and the result was indeed beautiful, glitzy and, of course, glamorous!
Last week, Eva Longoria celebrated her birthday in style and opted for old-Hollywood glam with a 1920s themed birthday bash! She looked great and so did her guests. Is retro "it"?
Maybe, she's onto something, The Great Gatsby is getting a reboot and a new film version is coming; and we'll see more 1920s inspirations both on and off the runways and fashion magazines soon. It shall happen! Think back to the mid-1970s, everything went flapper; Hollywood went Flapper-Prohibition crazy.
Hollywood bred privilege and allowed actors to do what regular folks wouldn't dare do normally, dressed for the camera 24/7. In retrospect, Hollywood always influences. It's all about the actors and their get-ups. Just check out the celebrity magazines near the check-out line. Let's face it, we're human…beauty matters. Beautiful people are made for watching. Beautiful people with beautiful clothing are made for dreams.
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Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture Series
The Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture in Religion has been established by the faculty of the Department of Religion, Florida State University, in memory of our late colleague. Tessa Bartholomeusz (1958-2001) came to Florida State as assistant professor in 1993, following an appointment at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis and the completion of a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991. She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1997, and to full professor in 2001. While at Florida State, Professor Bartholomeusz established a reputation as a leading interpreter of Buddhism through such works as Women Under the Bo Tree (Cambridge, 1994), Buddhist Fundamentalisms and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka (State University of New York, 1998), In Defense of Dharma (Curzon Press, 2002), and numerous articles in scholarly journals. Professor Bartholomeusz also received a number of awards for teaching at Florida State University, served as treasurer for the American Institute of Sri Lanka Studies and as the book review editor for the Journal of Asian Studies. The Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture is supported by the Department of Religion through its account at the Florida State University Foundation. Anyone wishing to join in supporting this project is invited to contact the Department of Religion at 850-644-1020, or to speak with one of the faculty.
Past Lectures
April 5, 2012, Dr.Liz Wilson, Professor of Comparative Religion, Miami University,The Buddha's Mother as Feminist Conundrum:Exploring the Death of Gautami
March 3, 2010, Dr. Luis Gomez, the University of Michigan "Distorted Views: Buddhism with a 'Self'. The Inversion of Traditional Doctrinal Categories in the [Mahāyāna] Mahāparinirvāna Mahā Sūtra."
April 3 , 2008 Dr. Janice Willis, Wesleyan University, "'What Caste Are You?': Reflections on a Journey East"
April 2, 2007 Dr. Jacqueline Stone, Princeton University, "Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan"
January 13, 2006 Dr. Phyllis Granoff, Yale University, "Just Follow the Cow Tracks: Concerns of a Medieval Jain Monastic Group"
March 3, 2005 Dr. Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, "Cosmopolitan Buddhism & Colonialism: A View From Colombo"
October 27, 2003 Dr. Donald Swearer, Swarthmore College, "Religion and Globalization: A View from Thailand"
April 1, 2003 Charles Hallisey, Amherst College, "The Problem of Justice for All: Buddhism, Civil Society, and the State in Contemporary Sri Lanka"
March 4, 2002 Dr. Chandra de Silva, Old Dominion University, "Crossing Boundaries: The Indo-Portuguese Religious and Cultural Encounter"


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One week before the opening of Sony Pictures Hollow Man, a couple of hundred entertainment reporters were given the chance to interview director Paul Verhoeven and star Kevin Bacon, live, from the comfort of the scribes own living rooms, or offices, or wherever they happened to be at 11:20 a.m. Saturday morning, Pacific Standard Time. At the appointed hour -- with Verhoeven and Bacon seated before a camera in a room at the Four Seasons Hotel in L.A. -- all the press had to do was log on to iJunkets.com, download the necessary video-conferencing software and type in questions to get real-time responses. Reporters didnt even have to take notes, as transcripts of the discussion and broadcast-quality footage of the complete roundtable interview were furnished free by iJunkets within the next 48 hours.
Billed as the first-ever, fully interactive online film press junket, the event represented only a small part of a more traditional press offensive organized by Sony Pictures, even as it pointed to a new advance in Hollywoods ever-expanding efforts to annex the Internet to its sales forces. Nonetheless, many of those invited from both online and traditional media outlets opted to pass on this groundbreaking event.
Some people chose not to attend because they knew they could just download the material later and they didnt want to work on a Saturday, says iJunkets founder Mark Weinstock, who estimates that some 85 reporters -- including someone from The Wall Street Journal -- did participate. We were like, Come on, arent you supposed to be journalists?
Coming from a seasoned pro such as Weinstock (before he brought the iJunkets concept to the Web-design a firm DNA Studio, which runs the site, he was the director of marketing for Fox Searchlight Pictures), the question seems, at best, naive -- or, at worst, calculated. After all, whats journalism got to do with it? One of the most notorious aspects of entertainment reporting, film-press junkets are carefully orchestrated, PR-driven schmooze fests that can last anywhere from an afternoon to a whole weekend. During that time, a studio and its publicity arm often treat invited members of the press -- many of whom are flown to the event at the studios expense -- to hotel rooms, buffets, advance screenings, exclusive access to stars in the form of brief one-on-one interviews or roundtable discussions, and bags and bags of promotional swag.
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Reporters pretend that none of this affects the angle or tone of their reviews, but on a fundamental level, access is granted at the expense of a certain degree of journalistic control. If you want to come back to the trough -- and for a lot of regional media outlets, junkets are their only means of covering Hollywood -- you have to behave.
Of course, the rise of the Internet and its unruly movie-fan sites (with their insider moles and unauthorized copies of scripts and test-audience surveys) had given Hollywoods more paranoid control freaks a new reason to sweat. That is, until they realized that all they had to do was invite the more influential of these upstart critics to the party. (Can you say, Aint it cool?)
But wining, dining and corralling hundreds of journalists on a regular basis doesnt come cheap, and there will always be those toner-stained wretches who slip through the cracks. Which is where iJunkets comes in.
Press junkets are really expensive to put on, and theres a tremendous amount of online press out there who are really difficult to reach, says Weinstock. I just thought, Wouldnt it be great to get these people original content at a reduced cost. And the studios dont have to worry about anything. We run the site, we moderate the interviews, we do the taping, we release the material.
And theres the problem. For all Weinstocks talk about the liveness and interactivity provided by iJunkets CUSeeMe software, with its mere half-second feed delay, the Hollow Man junket was nothing if not canned.
Acting as moderator, Weinstock decided which questions would be posed to the talent, then handed the sanitized queries to a professional voice actor who read them off-camera. Weinstock admits there were questions that he refused to pass along during the roundtable because he felt they were too invasive or otherwise inappropriate. There were questions that used bad words, or wanted to know about Kevins relationship with his wife or his full-frontal nudity in Wild Things, he says, adding that there wasnt time to get even all the legitimate questions answered.
Of course, iJunkets question-vetting was not too much of a departure from the traditional junket, where its not uncommon to be told by a flack that you cant ask a certain question. The real-life junket people also control the cameras and sometimes refuse to turn over tape to reporters who go off the reservation.
However, during the iJunkets conference, the major Web portals -- Yahoo, Lycos, MSN.com, Excite and About.com -- were immune to these kinds of vulgarities. Before the roundtable, each of the sites reporters had been granted a one-on-one, five-minute interview with exclusive-use rights. And they didnt have to go through a moderator at all. So while Weinstock likes to point out that iJunkets provides a greater number of media outlets with access to stars, the company clearly finds some outlets more worthy of access than others. (Again, this is no different than real-world junkets, which give the Katies and Matts of the world time and access that Beat Reporter Boy from the Podunk Press will never see.)
Unfortunately, this reporter was unable to get access at all during the online junket. Plagued with technical problems, I frantically tried to get in touch with someone at DNA or CUSeeMe, but no real-time tech support was available from either. I could only imagine what provocative, insightful insider banter I was missing. The following Monday, Weinstock apologized for the difficulties -- apparently only one other journalist had failed to get onto the site. Weinstock and his staff made certain that I could download the unedited footage of the roundtable later that afternoon. And, as it turned out, I hadnt missed much: Kevin, what was it like working with such an opinionated director? and What distinguishes Hollow Man from previous [invisible-man films]? was the level of softball inanity that prevailed. At one point, Bacon appeared visibly upset that he had been asked, If you could turn invisible, what would be the first thing youd do? Not answer that question, he snipped back.
Bacon had no problem fielding the first question, which was about the nature of the interview itself. This kind of situation is exciting, he responded. I can see something like a junket ending up being mostly Internet-driven eventually.
But given just how perk-addicted much of the mainstream entertainment press has become, there would probably be a wholesale, open revolt if the studios put an end to the traditional press-junket circuit. In the case of iJunkets, convenience and access are the perks used to entice lesser-known Web sites hoping to lure visitors with high-profile celebrity names. But caveat emptor: You pay for that access by accepting whatever prepackaged tripe the studios choose to shove down your bandwidth.
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The Associated Press is reporting that scientists are concerned over a decline this year in the number of nests along the Texas coast for the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the most endangered sea turtle in the world.
The decline in nests could be linked to the five-fold increase in sea turtle strandings in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster. Data from the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network indicates that between 1986 and 2009, an average of nearly 100 sea turtles were found stranded annually in the oil spill area. Since the spill, each year roughly 500 sea turtles have been found stranded, most of which were the Kemp's ridleys.
Doug Inkley, senior scientist for the National Wildlife Federation and lead author of the report Restoring A Degraded Gulf of Mexico: Wildlife and Wetlands Three Years into the Gulf Oil Disaster, said today:
"Sea turtle strandings skyrocketed to about five times the historic level ever since the oil spill began, most of which were Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Although most of the stranded turtles were young, the BP oil disaster is one of the likely suspects for a decline in nests. We must hold BP accountable for their reckless behavior and we need to use the funds resulting from the disaster to restore sea turtle habitats."


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ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO – Peyton Manning seems to be having a lot more fun this summer.
He's still grinding through training camp like always but he's also showing a loosey-goosey side that he rarely flashed in Indy or in his first two seasons in Denver.
One morning, he's doing a dorky dance to "Rocky Top" during stretch time at Broncos headquarters — dancing like nobody's watching even though he knows everybody is.
Another day he's taking snaps from Brandon Stokley's 10-year-old boy on the side during special teams drills.
Or letting his twin toddlers tackle him after a practice at Sports Authority Field.
His latest let-your-hair-down moment came when the Broncos blared "Football Fantasy Football" on the loudspeakers an hour after his latest rap video with brother Eli came out. He played right along with the razzing, swaying and strutting while limbering up.
Left guard Orlando Franklin, who made a cameo appearance along with Louis Vasquez and Ryan Clady as Peyton's posse, called Eli Manning the better rapper.
Either way, "I don't think Jay-Z and Kanye West have anything to worry about, let's put it that way," Peyton Manning said Tuesday.
Asked if the gaudy chain around his neck in the video was his own, Manning said, "That was a prop. Eli brought his own (bling). It was very disturbing that he had it in his wardrobe. Mine were all props. Not sure on the offense linemen. I think Clady and Vasquez and Orlando had some props as well.
"We had a good time. We were down in New Orleans. And of course, Eli and I, any chance we have to be together it's enjoyable. But Eli had three of his offensive linemen as well, so you can imagine how many laughs were taking place kind of in between takes," Manning said.
"Orlando has been on me for a while to get him into a commercial," Manning added. "So, I thought those guys did a good job. They looked the part, looked tough there. And like I said, we had a lot of laughs."
That seems to be a theme for Manning this summer.
Entering his third year in Denver, there is no longer any mystery about his health like there was in 2012 when he was coming off a year's sabbatical following neck fusion surgery that led to his tearful departure from Indy.
He's thrown 100 touchdown passes and gone 28-8, including the playoffs, since trading the blue and white horse shoe on the side of his helmet for the orange-mane mustang.
Coming off a 43-8 blistering by the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl and with camp closed to fans this summer because of a $35 million construction project, many expected Manning to be even more doggedly determined to slog through training camp.
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Broncos safety Rahim Moore said that while Manning is showing his softer side, he remains the hardest worker on the football field, celebrity or not.
"Our quarterback is so famous," Moore said. "He's a class act. He's one of those guys who you're just blessed to be around his presence. So, we all know what comes with this situation.
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COLUMBUS — The city Parks and Recreation Department wants to spend $455,000 to cut down thousands of ash trees threatened by the emerald ash borer as part of the city's ongoing efforts to stop infestations of the beetle.
The money, included in the 2008 parks department budget proposal submitted to city finance officials Friday, would be the first step in a 10-year, $6 million plan to remove as many as 11,775 ash trees lining city streets, said parks department director Alan McKnight.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture stopped eradication efforts of the beetle in 2005, after federal budget cuts.
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Under the proposed plan, the city would hire an arborist and buy equipment to help survey trees and plan for ash tree removal, and then pay contractors to start removing trees next spring or summer, McKnight said.
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An infested tree can die in as little as three years.