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Smurfs: The Lost Village
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|Joe Manganiello, Mandy Patinkin, Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson
|Kelly Asbury
|Movie Studio:
|Sony Pictures
|Other Genres:
|Adventure, Comedy
|Run Time:
|89 Minutes
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|In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller-coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
|Movie Link:
|Smurfs: The Lost Village
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Christian Radio
It's Martin Luther King Day here in the USA. But I can't think of anything related to MLK to say today.
So instead I'm going to try and write down my thoughts about the radio station I've been listening to in my car a lot lately, WCRF - FM 103.3 Moody Bible Radio Cleveland. Click on the link and you can listen too.
I found the station on a random scan of the radio after my car's computer was replaced and all my set stations were erased. Initially I just turned it on to chuckle at the absurdity of it. The very first thing I heard was a call-in show about the evils of pornography, how it destroys families and suchlike. It was better than MAD magazine! Or even CRACKED magazine!
But then as I listened more I started to understand the appeal of the station, and perhaps of churches and mainstream religion in general. Most of the time, when I tune in for a few minutes while driving somewhere what I'll hear will be mainly nice things. They talk about how to live a moral life, how to deal with marriage difficulties, how to just be excellent to each other and so on. Some of the advice is even kind of good. I listened to one guy talk about how he gave up watching football on TV and how much it improved his relationship with his family. Nothing so bad about that.
But then just when I think everything's okay, they start slipping in stuff that's either just plain mean or simply bat-shit crazy. And then ZING! they're right back into talking about how to be a good person. And I'm like, where did that come from?
I heard one guy the other day practically frothing at the mouth over some legislation in California mandating that history teachers teach about prominent gay and lesbian figures. Never mind that the idea of talking about gays and lesbians in history is kind of anachronistic since the very idea of defining someone as homosexual is a recent invention. Which is a whole other topic. No, this guy wasn't talking about that. He was raving on and on with a list of all the wholesome things that will be destroyed because of this new ruling -- the boy scouts, motherhood, apple pie, baseball, marriage (of course), kindness, home cooking, flowers, bunnies... It just went on and on until the person interviewing him had to get him back on topic. "So what you're saying is that children will not be allowed to question whether the villainous and evil acts of the homosexual are moral?" she said. "Oh yes! That's exactly right!" he replied and started ranting some more. I think from now on schools in California have to require bands of roving queers to ass rape third grade boys in gym class. Or something like that.
Four and a half minutes later we're back into relatively good advice about being decent to each other. Uh... what happened?
I think there's a large segment of the population who must see a connection between these things that I am unable to see myself. I'd also venture to guess that many of these people are unaware that there are any other sources of information about how to live a decent life than those associated with whatever religion they may have grown up with.
It's all very weird to me. But I think I understand part of the appeal of this stuff now. There are probably people out there who sincerely want to learn how to be decent human beings. Knowing of no other source of information on that subject, they get plunged into the bat-shit crazy stuff and end up associating being bat-shit crazy with being a good person. The mind boggles.
Then yesterday I was at Village Discount Outlet in Cuyahoga Falls ("East and West Coast Styles Arriving Daily!") looking for bell-bottom jeans and I found a book called Glorious Appearing: The End of Days. This is the thrilling conclusion to the Left Behind series. The Left Behind books are a series of novels about what the authors imagine will happen once Jesus gets around to fulfilling all those End Times prophecies he said 2000 years ago would happen before his own generation passed away. The books have sold truckloads! There's even a movie based on it starring Kirk Cameron.
The novels re-imagine the Book of Revelations as a kind of modern-day horror/science fiction story in which people vanish when God takes them up for being good Christians. In this book, the 12th and final of the series, Jesus at last reappears. He's a kind of Godzilla-sized rampaging monster who torches cites and "splays and fillets" (I swear that's a quotation from the book) those who oppose His wrath while He quotes His own words from the New Testament. I only read a few pages. But it's the most over-the-top wish-fulfillment fantasy you can imagine. You fuckers didn't believe us, huh? Well now here's Christ-zilla to give you what you deserve! Ha! Ha! Ha! See you in Hell, bitches!
Great stuff! I want to see that movie! But I figured the book wasn't really worth the 50 cents they wanted for it so I passed it up.
What to make of all this? I don't know. But it's really out there and there really are millions who believe in one variation or another of this kind of thing. Glorious Appearing was a New York Times bestseller. Hardcore Zen was not even close.
It's very easy for people who don't believe this stuff to make fun of it to other people who don't believe it, like I'm doing now. The existence of this stuff used to scare me a lot more than it does these days. I don't think it's inconsequential. But I also don't think there as many true believers in it as I once assumed. Probably most of the readers of the Left Behind books and listeners of Moody Bible Radio have plenty of doubts about what they hear. They may want to believe it a lot more than they actually believe it. Or they may tune in for the good advice about life and just ignore the rest.
Doubt may be our greatest friend in turning the tide. This is why I always fight against the sorts of Buddhism that tries to erase doubt from the picture. A few years ago a group called "e-sangha" issued an alert about me saying that I preached heretical doctrines denying the reality of reincarnation. But if Buddhism ever starts being the kind of thing where we need to be warned against those who doubt the literal interpretation of its scriptures, we're sunk. We might as well write our own Left Behind type books.
Hey maybe I'd finally get a best seller if I did that!


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I am Slovene: The bee buses of Slovenia
"Damien, a beekeeper near Maribor converted two buses into bee houses. Actually, this is a common Slovenian practice, one that sets their beekeepers apart from others. He uses the bee buses for tourism and honey production. You can see the chalk marks on each hive that tell him the status of the hive. He says many tourists (many Japanese) will meditate in his bee bus. He opens all the hives and people can sit inside the bus surrounded by the noise of the buzzing bees.
While I was interviewing Damien, a few other neighbor beekeepers arrived with news that their own hives were dying off that day. Damien was nervous that something also might happen to his hives. In the past few years colony collapse, and other forms of hive disturbance have been affecting Slovenian bees."


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This is my last regularly scheduled column for The Christian Science Monitor. [See editor's note at the end of this column.]
The column began 27 years ago, although my association – or perhaps it should more properly be called my love affair – with the Monitor goes back much further.
A lot has changed in the world, and a lot has changed with journalism, during that span of time. This is an occasion for retrospection.
I was hired by Erwin Canham, one of the most awe-inspiring editors of his day. After a spell in the Boston office, I was the Monitor's Africa correspondent for six years, then Far Eastern correspondent for six years, and eventually I became editor of the paper for nine years.
I left to run some small newspapers of my own, then was recruited for media-related roles in the Reagan administration. When the last one, at the State Department, ended, The Washington Post was talking to me about writing a column for them. But Katherine Fanning, then the Monitor's editor, flew down to Washington with Richard Nenneman, the managing editor, to persuade me to write a column for the Monitor. I needed little persuasion.
As a schoolboy in Britain, I witnessed the end of Nazi fascism in Europe; as a journalist, the waning of communism and the emerging conflict with Islamist extremism. A lot of misery is behind us, but wars and man's inhumanity to man still abound. However, the most dramatic movement of our times is the march of freedom through Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and now the Arab world.
Since 1908, national and international affairs have been chronicled, interpreted, and appraised by this remarkable newspaper launched by a remarkable woman, Mary Baker Eddy.
Founder of the Christian Science Church, she wrote that the Monitor's purpose was "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." That does not mean seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses. Where there is evil, the Monitor reports it. But the Monitor is intent on solutions and healing rather than despair.
Technology has transformed my profession of journalism. The printed newspaper is in eclipse and electronic delivery of news is instant and pervasive. The circulation of the daily print Monitor, once reaching more than 200,000 subscribers, has dwindled, and it is now a weekly magazine. But in March, the Monitor, with its website, CSMonitor.com, reached an audience of 10.3 million via the Internet.
We are swamped today with an avalanche of electronic and social media that can be positive or negative. Virtually anybody can get on the Internet chronicling truth or peddling fiction. The rush to immediacy can cause embarrassing mistakes. A famous football coach is declared dead before he is. A congresswoman is shot and declared dead when she is not. A popular governor is reported about to be indicted when she is not.
In the Atlantic magazine, author Nicholas Carr bemoaned his new addiction to the Net amusingly: "What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski."
We cannot overestimate the value of the Internet in triggering the assault on dictatorship that has, for example, encompassed the Arab world. Even a nation like China, that has sought to screen its population from the Web, is waging a fruitless campaign. International borders are porous in cyberspace.
The wise consumer of news on the Internet should rely on a trusted source that provides proven accuracy and thoughtful explanation and interpretation.
That is what the Monitor has been doing for more than 100 years.
John Hughes is a former editor of the Monitor.
This note from the Monitor's editor ran in the April 30 edition of the print Monitor Weekly:
The columns of John Hughes and Walter Rodgers have anchored the Commentary pages every other week since the Monitor Weekly was launched three years ago. As of this issue, we are saying goodbye to their scheduled contributions; instead, our editors will turn to them and a larger group of writers, depending on the expertise needed to tackle a particular topic. And talk about expertise!
Many of you knew Walt over the years as an intrepid correspondent for CNN, and before that ABC News and AP Radio. He was stationed in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Moscow, and covered conflicts from Sarajevo to Beirut to Tora Bora. As a columnist, Monitor readers know, he is not afraid to say what he thinks. His last regular column, for instance, takes a strong position against the belief that carrying firearms is a good idea.
And John Hughes? His is one of the most distinguished careers in journalism. A native of Wales, John was editor of the Monitor from 1970 to 1979, served as US assistant secretary of State and assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for his reporting on a coup in Indonesia and the government-backed killing of more than 200,000 people.
John also owned and ran a string of newspapers on Cape Cod before shifting to a diplomatic career. He ran the Voice of America, served as State Department spokesman, and chaired a presidential-congressional panel on broadcasting to the People's Republic of China before becoming editor of The Deseret News in Salt Lake City. He is now a professor of communications at Brigham Young University.
Like all journalists, Walt and John prize the front row seat to history that journalism gave them. As John puts it: "I can't believe I got paid to travel the world, interview everyone from presidents to kings, good guys and bad guys. It's a magical profession."
Walt sees things this way: "Journalism has been the best time in the world. Where else could I have met every American president since JFK?"
Thank you, gentlemen. Monitor readers have been enriched by your experience, your deft touch as writers, and your interesting observations. We hope to continue hearing from you.
– John Yemma, Editor


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[Hook: MDMA]
I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, ooh yeah
I'm on, I'm on, I'm on
I'm on (whoa) I'm on (whoa)
I'm on (whoa) I'm on (whoa)
I'm on
[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Uh, yeah, glitterati, big bodies and tall swings
Devil on me, Spitalfields and AllSaints
Playing field ain't levelling the lane
Throwing stones at your bones, kick pebbles at your pain
Swear they go hard, but they sold Jello in the paint
Trying to Carmelo but he can't
Lord have mercy
But we be having that jersey
Flowing so hungry, rapping that thirsty
Think fast, fast women, like Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Fast life like born on Wednesday
And died on Thursday
Fast money like Zakat al-Fitr, break fast
Slow my roll like brake pads
Cause if you run the light, they just might stop you niggas
Rodney King on the dome, just things that I'm on
[Verse 2: Trae Tha Truth]
Uhh, I'm on this one way, headed where the slums play
If I don't make it then somebody tell my son spray
Struggling first class, headed for the runway
Real nigga shit, I gotta make it one day
Sick of hard times so I tell em to fall back
Sitting in all white but the Phantom is all black
For everything I lost, tell em I want it all back
Everyone who left me for nothing, tell em to call back
They ain't authentic, tell them I don't even relate
Minus the love, they feel like I was something to hate
Tell them hate now, the world looking at 'em
They on the front row, everybody looking at 'em
I used to have dark nights now it's bright lights
Daytime bus pass now it's night flights
Had a poor man swag now it's priced right
Always wanted a piece of the pie now it's sliced right
Yeah, you can tell em I'm home
The streets in need of a king, you can tell 'em I'm home
Used to be at the bottom, tell 'em it wasn't for long
Now I'm always in the hood like I never was gone
I'm on, I told 'em I'm something they ain't gon' cut off
Try to hit the switch if you want I ain't gon' cut off
A 100 thousand volts, a true thing gon' shut off
Anything in the way is gon' get permanently shut off
[Hook: MDMA]
I'm on (whoa) I'm on (whoa)
I'm on (whoa) I'm on (whoa, ooh yeah)
I'm on
[Verse 3: Big Boi]
Never letting go, although sometimes I slip
Like banana peels for heels, my spill is so legit
Notice it every time I pick up the microphone and spit
Eyes wide, ears open like you on a doctor's visit
But this ain't physics or rocket science
This a little tune to keep you motivated and inspired
I am not a motivational speaker
But people get easily motivated when they hear B-I-G reeking
Havoc on the track boi, grab it hold it tight
My city, growl with me, hootie hoo'ing through the night sky
Butterfly bow tie, made my mark like the craters on the moon
Rocking alligator shoes, I'm on
[Verse 4: Wale]
You know me, cool breeze, a nigga high
Rather live alone forever than live a lie
I'm in the zone, foam pros keeping me comfy
Got squares, dark squares cover my luggage
I'm in love with some women, more in love with my mother
I'm in love with my God, less in love with this money
And my level is off, got a bigger cigar
Out in Vegas with broads, bout as thick as Toccara
My ambition is ammunition if this is war
They can't run, they can't run, this is a wall
Got forever endurance, forever under purists
I put my breath in this motherfucker, they better hear it
Good denim, bad women and better lyrics
My only dream to get rich and never marry
Give these niggas the pink slip when they appear
And I ain't tripping, my only competition's the mirror
[Verse 5: Wiz Khalifa]
Remember they used to be like, "Who is this?"
Now I'm up in this bitch, smoking weed out in London
They bringing me fish and chips, thought of this as a youngun
Who know this be the life that I really live?
Now I'm flying on trips, promoters and owners giving me gifts
Don't gotta shop, I ain't paying for shit
This Audemar on my wrist, got it harder than missed
Older people looking at me how I bought all of this
I say I got it from grinding, perfect timing
Started at the bottom, ain't afraid to climb it
Took something rough and turn it to a diamond, oh
It ain't come easy, had to find it
And now you can't say I got game cause I define it, uh
Nigga I'm on like the light on
And if I ever fall off, I'll be back on the same night
Me and my dogs, we on the same flight
Carefree I don't need to stress
Smoking Khaled, my weed the best
[Outro: MDMA, Wale, Wiz Khalifa & Big Boi]
Ooh yeah, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on
Wale, double M-G shit
Tahahahah, yeah, smoking while I'm rapping, biatch! Yeah
I'm on (whoa) I'm on (whoa, ooh yeah)
Ya got Lupe Fiasco, Trae tha Truth, and Big Boi, Daddy Fat Saxxx
I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on
"I'm On" is a song by American rapper Trae. The song features rappers Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, Big Boi, Wale, and MDMA.
"I'm On" originally appeared on Trae's album Street King only featuring Lupe Fiasco, Big Boi, Wale and MDMA. The song was later released on December 6, 2011 as a single adding Wiz Khalifa.


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Conflict in the West African state of Mali -- the continent's third-largest gold producer -- poses "manageable" risks for miners active in the country's south as Al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels remain confined to strongholds in the north while former colonial power France continues its offensive against militant bases, global risk consultancy Eurasia Group said Monday.
France, which has poured hundreds of troops into the Malian capital Bamako in recent days, carried out more air strikes on Monday in the vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist alliance grouping Al Qaeda's North African wing AQIM alongside Mali's home-grown MUJWA and Ansar Dine militant groups.
(Read More: Conflict Minerals in Your Mobile—Why Congo's War Matters)
"With France's robust intervention, which will include hundreds of troops for Bamako, and the forthcoming ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) deployment likely to be concentrated at the de facto border areas and in the south, it is highly unlikely that the recent Islamist incursion southwards will either take the capital or threaten still-remote gold fields," wrote Philippe de Pontet, Africa Director at the Eurasia Group in the report.
Though risks to gold producers like LSE and Nasdaq-listed Randgold Resources - which operates three mines in Mali and is the country's largest investor -- "are likely to remain manageable," de Pontet warned foreign mining companies may be targeted if militant groups retaliate in the aftermath of the French operations.
"As militants seek reprisals on intervention supporters and Westerners more broadly, though, kidnapping and other security risks could rise for miners and other foreign-owned businesses that could make attractive targets," he said.
Should France and its allies get mired in a drawn-out war in Mali, the country's deposits of gold- relatively isolated, for now at least, in the south - could inevitably become 'conflict minerals' with both the government and rebels exploiting low-paid often underage workers to extract ores at artisanal, or small-scale subsistence mines, using the proceeds to prolong armed conflict.
(Read More: What Are Gold Bugs Afraid Of?)
Evidence suggests these conditions are already standard practice in some parts of the country. In a 108-page report, "A Poisonous Mix: Child Labor, Mercury, and Artisanal Gold Mining in Mali," released in December 2011, Human Rights Watch said at least 20,000 children work in Malian artisanal gold mines under extremely harsh and dangerous conditions.
Figures obtained by Human Rights Watch from the Malian Ministry of Mines put the amount of artisanally-mined gold exported per year at around four metric tons, worth around $218 million at November 2011 prices.
Dominated by Gold
"Mali's mineral sector was dominated by the production of gold," wrote Yadira Soto-Viruet in the U.S. Geological Survey's 2010 overview of Mali's mineral resources. "No other mineral commodities were produced in significant quantities in the country, with the exception of rock salt and semiprecious stones."
Despite efforts to contain them, rebels launched a counteroffensive in Mali on Monday, seizing the central town of Diabaly and promising to drag France into a brutal Afghanistan-style war. "France has opened the gates of hell for all the French," said Oumar Ould Hamaha, a spokesman for MUJWA, which has imposed strict sharia, Islamic law, in its northern fiefdom of Gao. "She has fallen into a trap which is much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia," he told Europe 1 radio.
(Slideshow: The World's Biggest Gold Mines)
The United States, which has operated a counter-terrorism training program in the region, said it was sharing information with French forces and considering providing logistics, surveillance and airlift capability.
"We have a responsibility to go after al Qaeda wherever they are," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters heading with him on a week-long tour of European capitals.
Despite fears of escalation, Randgold Resources says it's "business as usual" at its Mali projects. It confirmed in a statement on January 14 that operations were normal at its Loulo-Gounkoto gold mining complex and its Morilla joint venture following the declaration of a state of emergency in Mali over the weekend as the joint French-Malian military operation against the rebels intensified in the north.
Morila, a joint venture with Africa's largest gold producer, AngloGold Ashanti, is 280 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Bamako, and Loulo lies in the west of Mali, bordering Senegal, 350 kilometers west of Bamako. Besides Morila, AngloGold is a joint venture partner with Canadian gold producer IAMGold in two other mines in Mali - Sadiola and Yatela. The Malian government holds up to 20 percent in all of these mines.
"The Randgold operations are in safe areas some 700 kilometres distant from conflict zones and have not been affected by any of the issues that have afflicted Mali over the last ten months, including the recent attacks by rebels in the north of the country," the company said in a statement on its website.
Nonetheless, Chief Executive Mark Bristow said the company was monitoring the situation closely and had put contingency plans in place.
"Should the current military build-up impact on logistics, both operations are well-stocked with fuel and other consumables."


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I've recently identified the biggest problem with the automotive hobby: you can't get rich doing it. Oh, sure, there are people who make money. But they're usually wealthy old men; the kind of wealthy old men who show up at car auctions with tons of cash and correctly pronounce the word "Bertone." Meanwhile, you and I, the automotive enthusiast middle class, are always getting stiffed.
This is very different from, say, the art world. In the art world, you can spend $84 on a painting at a garage sale and unload it six years later for $130 million, even if it resembles a flowerpot riding a beach towel through a drive-thru. And you can rest assured that these numbers are true, since I am a well-respected art expert who once visited the museum on College Night.
But car enthusiasts never receive such handsome returns. I know this because I constantly run across Craigslist ads for cars that no one wants, such as Acuras, where the seller says he invested "over $20,000" on rims, and paint jobs, and suspension parts, and an exhaust, but he is willing to part with the car for $1,100 and a couple of dime bags.
It's even worse if you go racing. What I have learned from my friends who race is that the cost of racing a car just a few times a month is roughly equivalent to the annual cost of operating an ocean liner, or a private jet, or Belgium. Consider all those tires, and brakes, and trips to junkyards on the sketchy side of town whenever they get some Miata parts.
But I have some good news for all you money-losing car lovers out there. Being the shrewd businessman that I am, I've developed a sure-fire way that you can get back all the money you spent adding neon lights to your Civic in high school. And it is: invest in SUVs.
Now, before I go into any sort of detail, I think it's important to mention here that I'm not talking about new SUVs. On the contrary, I have a fairly recent SUV, and it loses money at roughly the same rate as a compulsive gambler with a sizable heroin addiction.
No, no: you should put all your money into old SUVs. You know the kind I'm talking about: an SUV that will roll over if you attempt any sort of crazy maneuver, such as a right turn on red; an SUV where there's so much road noise that you can't talk to your passenger unless you're going through a school zone; an SUV that leaks rainwater on your face even if it isn't a convertible, and it isn't raining. In other words: an SUV with character.
Before I explain why this is such a good idea, I'm going to stop for a second to address your primary concern, which I imagine is something along the lines of: That sounds like the single worst idea I've ever heard! It's important for any shrewd businessman to persevere in the face of such criticism, which is why I've developed the following reply: Shut up, you weenie, I'm trying to make you money.
Old SUVs, you see, actually are a good investment. I first learned of this a few weeks ago when a friend asked me for advice about an International Scout. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Scout, imagine, if you will, a large brick with the handling of a brick and the braking of, say, a brick. There are also seats.
Now, I remember a time, just a few years ago, when the International Scout was just a cheap old SUV primarily used by homeless people for shelter during the winter. But this particular Scout, the one my friend wanted, cost nearly thirty thousand dollars!
If you check eBay, this sort of pricing isn't uncommon. A Scout in really nice shape can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000-plus. This is a vehicle that you and I could've bought, just a few short years ago, for approximately the same price as a partial set of used kitchenwear.
It's the same story with other old SUVs. Just ten years ago, the original Ford Bronco was generally agreed to be a rustbucket that couldn't get out of its own way. These days, it's still a rustbucket that can't get out of its own way, but now it sometimes costs twenty grand. And we've all seen what's happened to the FJ40 Land Cruiser market, namely that if you have an FJ40 and you put it on Bring a Trailer, you'll get $30,000, even if you've been using it as target practice since the hostages came home from Iran.
So I think we can all agree the message here is clear: buy old SUVs. And if the Scout, the Bronco, and the FJ40 are already outside your budget, consider slightly newer versions, which are already starting to see the same price increases as their predecessors. Sure, an old SUV may not be as fun as that lowered Acura with rims and an exhaust, but it could be worse. You could be investing in art.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He operates PlaysWithCars.com. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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Italian Easter Bread
Buona Pasqua! I've made this Easter bread for years for my kids. It's a sweet bread, made with milk and sugar and has an Easter Egg in the middle! There's a lot of Italian recipes for Easter breads, some are savory and some are sweet. This one is fun.
- 1 package Rapid Rise yeast
- 1.25 cups scalded milk, cooled to room temperature
- pinch of salt
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3.5 cups flour (approximate)
- 1 egg, beaten with 1 teaspoon of water
- 6 dyed Easter eggs
- sprinkles
tip: the Easter eggs do not need to be hard boiled. They cook when the bread bakes. I usually just dye the eggs right out of the fridge, without hardboiling them. Saves time. Just be careful they don't crack!
In a large mixer bowl, combine yeast, warm (not hot) milk, salt, butter, eggs and sugar. Add about half the flour and beat until smooth with dough hook. Slowly add the remaining flour to form a stiff dough. Don't worry about how much flour it ends up being, just keep adding until the dough is not sticky anymore. Knead until smooth with either dough hook attachment or turn out on floured board and knead. Place in a greased bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about an hour.
Punch dough down, divide into 12 pieces. Roll each piece to form a 1 inch thick rope about 14 inches long and, taking two pieces, twist to form a "braid", pinching the ends, and loop into a circle.
Place on a greased baking sheet or line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat. Cover and let rise until double, about an hour again. Brush each bread with beaten egg wash. Put on the sprinkles. In the middle of each bread ring, gently place an Easter egg, making an indentation with the egg.
Bake at 350 degrees until golden - about 20 - 25 minutes. Cool on rack.
** Note: For an updated version of this bread, see my most recent Easter Bread post. It's made with golden eggs and pearl sugar:
Another cute idea for Easter is making these Edible Egg Nests for your table:
You might also like to try Italian Easter Torta (Torta Pasqualina):


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Barron Gorge National Park
Rugged mountains, ravines, tumbling waterfalls, magnificent rainforest, rich and varied wildlife, easy access and a fascinating history make Barron Gorge National Park one of Queensland's most popular national parks. The park extends from the coastal lowlands to the elevated regions of the Atherton Tableland and lies within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
The Barron River dominates the park. Rising from the rainforests of Mount Hypipamee National Park, the river winds 60 kilometres across the Atherton Tableland. The river then enters the deeply-incised Barron Gorge, between the Macalister and Lamb ranges. The river falls 250 metres onto the coastal lowlands and flows to the Coral Sea. During the wet season, floodwaters regularly create a spectacular sight at Barron Falls.
The park is part of the traditional lands of the Djabugandji Bama (local Aboriginal people) who maintain a close spiritual connection with this country. Before Europeans arrived, Bama traversed this country, developing trails linking the coast to the uplands. These historic trails now form sections of a walking track network.
Walk the network of walking trails including the elevated boardwalk to the lookout over the spectacular Barron Falls. Raft or canoe down the river or picnic at Lake Placid.
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Trade Policy: So Far So Good?
Finance & Development,
There was no widespread resort to protectionism during the global crisis but there have been recent moves in that direction
THE sharp collapse in international trade between the second quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009 was the steepest decline ever recorded, even sharper than during the Great Depression of the 1930s. But unlike in the Great Depression, during the 2008 global economic crisis and its recessionary aftermath there was no widespread resort to protectionism by countries seeking to shield their industries at the expense of their neighbors.
Instead, monetary and fiscal stimulus programs—including support for specific industries such as automobile manufacturing—helped demand recover and led global trade to bounce back rapidly (see Chart 1). Chief among the factors that help explain both the depth of the collapse in trade and the rapid recovery are the international supply chains—which link many countries together in the production process and have been supported by the steady liberalization of trade in the past few decades. The emergence of a multipolar world economy, with demand in major emerging markets, especially China, helped revive trade.
But even if the overall level of protection did not increase substantially during 2008–11, many measures were imposed that discriminate against foreign suppliers, and there is evidence that protectionist pressures are growing, in part in response to appreciating real exchange rates in commodity-exporting nations and concerns regarding the impact of monetary expansion by advanced economies.
Active use of trade policy
Developing economies, especially larger emerging markets, were among the most active users of trade policy. According to monitoring reports issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO), 1,243 trade measures were imposed between the onset of the crisis in late 2008 and the end of the fourth quarter of 2011. About three-quarters of these restricted trade, while one-quarter reduced the level of import protection. The Global Trade Alert (GTA), a network of think tanks and institutes that collect information on trade measures, covers a larger spectrum of actions that may affect trade and reports 1,593 actions between November 2008 and November 2011, of which 1,187 discriminated against foreign suppliers and 406 were liberalizing. Policies were not monitored comprehensively prior to 2008, making it impossible to say to what extent these measures constitute an overall increase in trade policy activism.
The number of new protectionist actions peaked in the first quarter of 2009 and bottomed in the third quarter of 2010. However, recent GTA data suggest that protectionist measures are increasing again; protectionist actions in the third quarter of 2011 alone were as high as in the worst periods of 2009 (Evenett, 2011).
The Group of 20 (G20) advanced and emerging economies account for most of the trade measures, most of which did not involve tariffs, imposed since 2008. There has been no significant increase in the overall use of tariffs or temporary trade barriers, such as antidumping measures, aimed at assisting local firms injured by import competition (Bown, 2011). Such measures affected only about 2 percent of world trade (Kee, Neagu, and Nicita, 2010; WTO, 2011). The trend of gradual tariff liberalization observed since the mid-1990s has not been affected (see Chart 2).
Although the overall incidence of tariff measures has been limited, many countries have used nontariff measures, such as restrictive import licensing and local content requirements, that may have a greater impact. Henn and McDonald (2011) conclude that trade flows affected by restrictions decreased by between 5 and 8 percent relative to trade flows of the same product among partners unaffected by protectionist measures. At the same time, many countries undertook liberalizing trade policies and general fiscal and monetary stimulus measures that helped generate demand for imports.
Changes in responses
Countries can be grouped into trade policy activists and those that refrained from using trade policies. Active users—including such major countries as Brazil, China, and India—tend to pursue a mix of trade-restricting and trade-liberalizing actions. This helps explain why there was no significant overall net increase in levels of border protection and only a small overall impact on global trade. Instead of traditional trade policy instruments, major advanced economies such as those in the European Union and the United States relied much more on providing financial support to domestic industries. Because such support targets domestic firms, it can have a protectionist effect. The size of the associated distortions to international competition is not known, however. The extent of such support measures is much smaller today than it was immediately following the onset of the global economic crisis.
Production of manufactured goods is increasingly organized through global chains, with goods processed (value added) in multiple countries that are part of the chain. Plants in each country specialize in a specific process that culminates in a final product. This overall process, often called vertical specialization, means that a significant share of the price of an export likely reflects the value of a product's imported inputs. For the world as a whole, the import content of exports has been estimated to be about 30 percent (Daudin, Rifflart, and Schweisguth, 2011).
Gawande, Hoekman, and Cui (2011) show that the intensity of vertical specialization helps explain the stable or declining tariffs in 2009:
• Higher tariffs are a tax on downstream processing parts of the chain, so importing governments have an incentive to keep tariffs low.
• Trading partners want countries producing the inputs they use to keep trade costs low—including through low or zero tariffs. This benefits the exporting countries that are further down the chain and those that produce the inputs through higher overall exports (sales of the final product).
• Countries that are members of deep free trade agreements—such as Mexico (the North American Free Trade Agreement) and Turkey (a customs union with the European Union)—or that have bound their tariffs in the WTO, such as China, were much more constrained in their use of tariffs than were other countries.
These findings do not mean that governments do not face pressure to assist domestic firms and industries. What they do mean is that incentives to use traditional trade policies such as tariffs differ across countries and regions. Some parts of the world—Europe, North America, and much of east Asia—are so interconnected and integrated that trade policy no longer is a very useful tool to assist domestic industries, even in the face of a massive external demand shock. This also explains the widespread use of financial support measures in the European Union and United States. But other regions—parts of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa—are much less integrated into international value chains, so their governments may support the use of trade policy instruments to shelter domestic industries from foreign competition.
Cloudy horizon
There are two clouds on the trade policy horizon. The first is the increasing use of measures to protect manufacturing activities in countries such as Brazil that are less integrated into global value chains and that have experienced appreciating real exchange rates. The second is the increasing prevalence of measures to restrict the exports of agricultural products and natural resources—which hurts trading partners. In both cases governments tend to use nontariff measures—such as subsidies, import and export bans, discriminatory public procurement policies, and increased licensing or product inspection requirements—which are generally less transparent than tariffs and often generate greater distortions.
WTO and GTA data suggest that a little less than half of all nontariff measures imposed since 2008 are quantitative. About one-third have been imposed on exports (WTO, 2011). The objective of such measures is generally to lower domestic prices to the benefit of households (in the case of food products) and local industries that process the materials. China, for example, has imposed restrictions on exports of certain minerals and raw materials.
The number of "buy national" measures (including local content and national preference incentives) increased significantly in 2011, especially in emerging market G20 members. Russia, for example, has imposed import quotas and local content requirements on food items and automobiles. Brazil increased taxes on motor vehicles with less than 65 percent local content that do not originate in Mercosur (Brazil's common market with Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay). Brazil also recently renegotiated a trade agreement with Mexico to impose a quota on the value of permitted exports of cars to Brazil for a three-year period and has indicated that it may raise tariffs on selected products. Argentina has increased the use of nonautomatic import licensing, a process under which import approvals are discretionary. (WTO rules require a decision within 60 days.) Argentina also introduced reference prices for many imported products and now conditions import authorization for some goods on offsetting exports. Indonesia also introduced nonautomatic licensing requirements for imports of household appliances, textiles, footwear, and certain food products, some of which may be imported only through designated seaports.
The recent trend is worrisome. Protectionist measures divert attention from the underlying local cost factors that make it difficult for industries to compete, and prevent rather than support vertical specialization, which has proven to be a driver of growth in east Asia, eastern Europe, and Mexico. Although the pressures generating protectionist actions in a number of emerging markets are in part the result of macroeconomic policies implemented by other countries, raising the level of trade protection will hurt both the countries that impose the measures and their trading partners, reducing growth prospects overall at a time when the world economy needs to generate and sustain higher growth.■
This article draws on "Taking Stock of Trade Protectionism Since 2008," by Mohini Datt, Bernard Hoekman, and Mariem Malouche, published by the World Bank in the December 2011 issue of Economic Premise.
Bown, Chad, ed., 2011, The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers (Washington: Center for Economic Policy Research and World Bank). See also www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6914
Daudin, Guillaume, Christine Rifflart, and Danielle Schweisguth, 2011, "Who Produces for Whom in the World Economy?" Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 1403–37.
Evenett, Simon, 2011, Resolve Falters as Global Prospects Weaken: The 9th GTA Report (London: Center for Economic Policy Research).
Gawande, Kishore, Bernard Hoekman, and Yue Cui, 2011, "Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis," Policy Research Working Paper 5862 (Washington: World Bank).
Henn, Christian, and Brad McDonald, 2011, "Protectionist Responses to the Crisis: Damage Observed in Product-Level Trade," IMF Working Paper 11/139 (Washington: International Monetary Fund).
Kee, Hiau Looi, Cristina Neagu, and Alessandro Nicita, 2010, "Is protectionism on the Rise? Assessing National Trade Policies during the Crisis of 2008," Policy Research Working Paper 5274 (Washington: World Bank).
World Trade Organization (WTO), 2011, Report on G-20 Trade Measures (Geneva).


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A Vietnamese boy . . .
An alluring Chinese girl . . .
The execution ground in Hanoi at the turn of the 20th century . . .
The boy witnesses the beheading of his father and sets out to recover his head.
He vows to find an auspicious burial site to inter his father's body and then find the traitor who sold his father to the authorities.
On this quest, the entire world will shift.
By twist and turn, he falls in love with a Chinese girl who works in an opium den in Hanoi only to find out a crushing shock that sends him spiraling downward.
His employer, the most enigmatic, most influential entrepreneur, has the answer for his problem.
When the boy faces the truth about the girl he's madly in love with, and the employer whom he considers his surrogate father, he knows he has only one answer. . . .
From this backdrop . . .
FLESH takes you to the darkest side of life . . .
Where human relationship could take a sharp turn from killing for revenge to forgiving for the sake of humanity . . .
Where romance could bring you the bleakest love . . .
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Women and Fashion In the Digital Age
The Women and Fashion In the Digital Age infographic from Digital Surgeons breaks down how much a women spends on each item. This infographic also creates categories for each woman based on her style sense.
A household CPO (Chief Purchasing Officer), women dictate trends across fashion and media. Let's take a look at where she's spending her time & money.
Good data and simple graphics that add context to the numbers. Love the icons and silhouettes and the minimal color palette. Simple character illustrations like these keep the focus on the data, and not the illustrations. However, there are two major infographic design lessons that can be learned form this design.
First, shading portions of odd shapes is always tricky, so in this design the shaded shopping bags and bottles don't actually match the data. The reader's eye sees the area of the colored shapes, and this is usually straightforward when working with basic shapes like rectangles and circles. However, even with simple circles, the designer can't just calculate the height of shaded regions like a bar chart. That only works with rectangles, because the area is directly proportional to the height. The math to calculate the correct area of a circle segment requires a little more math from geometry. There's no clear formula to calculate the area of a wine bottle or a shopping bag, so the designer had to take their best guess.
Second, big fonts are not data visualizations! I hate to see values on an infographic that aren't visualized. They provide no context for the readers, and are perceived as less important than the numbers that are visualized. The job of a good infographic is to make information easier to understand, not just to share information. Even simple bars under each component of a woman's outfit in the first section would have helps make the data meaningful to the audience.
You won't find a link to this infographic on the Digital Surgeons home page, so the infographic image file itself should include the URL back to the landing page in text. That way readers that see this infographic on other sites can make their way back to the original, full-size version. Many sites that post infographics, don't link back to the original like I do. Don't make it hard for your audience to find your infographic!
Thanks to Peter for sending in the link!


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Sytri wrote:Bah. Reading misses out on city status again.
Originally, to become a city, you needed a Cathedral. I think that rule still applies.
It's not commonly known, but a cathedral isn't defined as a building: it's the throne within the building that's important. So all you need to do is find a friendly bishop, and assign a chair in a church to them. That church then becomes a cathedral, and bam, city status.
Incidentally, the principle is related to the chairs you hear about in Universities (e.g. Stephen Hawkins formerly held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge.)


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This is an important milestone in Spartan's growth strategy.
-Paul Lem, M.D., CEO of Spartan Bioscience
Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
Spartan Bioscience, the leading point-of-care DNA testing company, today announced that it has submitted a 510(k) pre-market notification application to the FDA requesting regulatory clearance for its Spartan RX CYP2C19 genetic test.
CYP2C19 is an enzyme that metabolizes commonly-prescribed drugs, including antiarrhythmics, proton pump inhibitors, antidepressants, and antiplatelet drugs. About 30% of Caucasians, 40% of Africans, and more than 50% of Asians and Indians carry CYP2C19 gene variants that reduce response to drugs metabolized by CYP2C19.(1,2,3,4)
"This is an important milestone in Spartan's growth strategy," said Paul Lem, M.D., CEO of Spartan Bioscience. "The United States is the world's largest market for genetic testing."
About the Spartan RX CYP2C19
The Spartan RX CYP2C19 is the first point-of-care DNA test in medicine.(5) It identifies carriers of certain CYP2C19 genetic mutations in 1 hour. These mutations are carried by approximately 30 percent of the world's population. Currently, genetic testing is performed in central labs and it takes up to seven days to get a test result back. The Spartan RX CYP2C19 has CE IVD Mark regulatory approval for Europe and other countries recognizing the CE IVD Mark. Spartan Bioscience is working towards FDA 510(k) clearance in the United States. For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.spartanbio.com/products/spartan-rx
About Spartan Bioscience
Spartan Bioscience is the leader in point-of-care DNA testing. The Spartan RX is the first complete sample-to-result, point-of-care DNA testing system in medicine. It is a fully integrated DNA collection, extraction and analysis platform, with an intuitive interface that is easy to operate—no laboratory training required. For the first time, healthcare providers and their patients can get DNA results on demand. For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.spartanbio.com.
The Spartan logo is a registered trademark of Spartan Bioscience Inc.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Have a cow? Win a wife!
This is a cute story from my family tree…
"William Cogswell, when a lad, was out from home by the highway, where some men were trying in vain to relieve a cow who had become choked with a potato. There stood by, also, a young girl, eight or ten years old, who watched with interest every effort made. When all experiments failed, and it was suggested that only by someone thrusting his hand down the cow's throat would the cow be saved, she at once said, "My arm is small; I can do it best; you hold her mouth." They did so, and she drew out the potato, to the great relief of the poor cow and all present. The young lad said to himself, "That young miss, by and by, shall be my wife." Her name was Martha Emerson; and thus the name of Emerson came into the Cogswell family."
The William Cogswell mentioned in the story is nephew of my ancestor John Cogswell, who was born about 1622 in England and lived in the Chebacco Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He arrived in the New World aboard the "Angel Gabriel", which shipwrecked in Maine. William Cogswell, the nephew, was born in 1659, and he finally married little Martha Emerson in 1685.
My Cogswell lineage:
Generation 1: John Cogswell, born about 1592 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England, died on 29 December 1669 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; married on 10 September 1615 in Westbury Leigh to Elizabeth Thompson, the daughter of William Thompson and Phillis (maiden name unknown). He arrived in New England in 1635 aboard the Angel Gabriel.
Generation 2: John Cogswell, born about 1622 in England, died on 27 September 1653 on a ship returning to America; married to unknown. His wife died young, leaving him with three children who he put into guardianship with his brother William, father of the William in the story above. He left for England and died on the return trip to America.
Generation 3: John Cogswell, born 1650 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, died in 1724; married on 22 July 1674 in Ipswich to Margaret Gifford, daughter of John Gifford and Margaret (maiden name unknown) born about 1653 in Ipswich,
Generation 4: John Cogswell: born 6 September 1683 in Ipswich, died on 3 May 1719 in Ipswich; married in 1708 to Sarah Brown, daughter of John Brown, and she died 15 July 1753.
Generation 5: Martha Cogswell, born on 1 Jan 1718/19 in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, died 23 December 1809 in Ipswich; married on 1 March 1747/8 in Ipswich to John Andrews, son of John Andrews and Elizabeth Wallis, born 1717 in Ipswich, died on 3 May 1779 in Ipswich.
From here my line switches to the Andrews family of Chebacco Parish/Essex, Massachusetts for the next three generations.
For more information:
This except is from "The Cogswells in America" book originally published in 1884 by the Rev. E. O. Jameson and long out of print. This book was updated with the new book "Descendants of John Cogswell 1635- 1996" by Donald J. Cogswell, Family Line Publications, 1998.
See my blog posting on November 20, 2009 "The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 5: The Shipwreck of the 'Angel Gabriel'" for the story of the wreck of the Angel Gabriel in Pemaquid Maine.
https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/cogswells-grant/ The Historic New England webpage for the 1728 Cogswell's Grant home at 60 Spring Street, Essex, Massachusetts. It is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and was deeded to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
Looking for more cow stories?
Cow Story #2 Another Cow, a Salmon and Sam Adams
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Have a cow? Win a wife!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 3, 2010, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/have-cow-win-wife.html: accessed [access date]).
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that is indeed a cute and endearing story. And for me, a collector of love stories from here and there, it is definitely a "keeper" of a love story.
This is neat story! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Keep those ancestor stories coming!
Bill ;-)
Author of "13 Ways to Tell Your Ancestor Stories"
What a lovely story! Makes me smile this morning!ReplyDelete
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The University of Alabama hosted plenty of elite prospects in Tuscaloosa on Saturday for the annual rivalry game against between the Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers. Players also committed to other schools wanted a closer look at the defending national champions.
The University of Alabama hosted plenty of elite prospects in Tuscaloosa on Saturday for the annual rivalry game against between the Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers. Players also committed to other schools wanted a closer look at the defending national champions.
Several in-state players have visited the Capstone more than once this fall, including Dee Liner, a five-star defensive end and Auburn commitment from Muscle Shoals High School; Johnathan Ford, a three-star running back and Vanderbilt commitment from New Hope; and Jonathan Cook, a three-star cornerback and Nebraska commitment from Spanish Fort.
Liner did not comment on the situation on the Plains after Auburn's firing of coach Gene Chizik, or his interest in Alabama. A Tide commitment in the class of 2014, who was at the game Saturday, thinks Liner might flip his decision.
"I didn't hang out with anybody other than Dee Liner," Bo Scarbrough, a four-star running back from Northridge, told The Tuscaloosa News. "We just talked about football. They're in the state semifinals. I kind of think he's going to come to Alabama. He's going to mostly Alabama games, and he's committed to another school."
Jason Smith, a four-star athlete from McGill-Toolen in Mobile, made his second visit of the season to Alabama. The Auburn commitment plans to return for an official visit.
"The visit was good," Smith said. "It was my first time bringing my whole family to Alabama. They liked it. My mom's still in love with Auburn, though. I am going to try to make her happy. I had gone up earlier in the year for the Ole Miss game. The coaches said they were glad to see me. They want me to be a part of Alabama football. Coach Saban said they would have a special package just for me. They want to use me like the guy at Texas A&M (Johnny Manziel). He said they need someone in their offense like me."
Marquez White, a three-star cornerback and Florida State commitment from Northview High in Dothan, was in Tuscaloosa to experience the in-state rivalry.
"The visit went really good," White said. "It was my first game. I have never been to an Alabama game before. I just fell in love with it all. It was a good game, but it really wasn't. Even for as cold as it was out there, the atmosphere was really intense. What stood out to me was how all the Alabama players stuck together. The walk-ons were with the starters. Everyone was just together. You can tell they all work really hard as a team."
Marlon Humphrey, a 2014 five-star cornerback from Hoover, is a frequent visitor to UA. Todd Kelly, a 2014 four-star safety from The Webb School in Knoxville, Tenn., was also on campus. Kelly has been to Tuscaloosa several times. His father played for Tennessee and his sister is a cheerleader at Alabama.
"Down there everyone knows it is all about winning," Kelly told Rivals.com. "They focus on the SEC championship, but mostly winning the national championship. Them winning the SEC championship is expected every year; that's how they view it. That's one thing I absolutely notice. Me and Marlon Humphrey are pretty cool. Every time I go down there I always see him there, so we have gotten to be pretty good friends."
Plenty of in-state uncommitted 2014 prospects were unofficial visitors, including Racean Thomas, a four-star running back from Oxford; E.J. Moss, a four-star athlete from Ashville; Ronnie Clark, a four-star safety from Calera; Chris Knowles, a wide receiver from McGill-Toolen; and T.J. Posey, a linebacker from Gadsden City.
The Tide staff also welcomed several out-of-state targets, including Cameron Robinson, a four-star offensive tackle from West Monroe High School in Louisiana. Robinson is one of the Tide's top lineman prospects in the class of 2014.
"The visit was fun," Robinson said. "I was able to speak with some of the coaches and watch the game. The atmosphere was great. They have a great fan base.
"The game wasn't too close. I thought Alabama was going to win, but not as big as they did. It's a rivalry. They got on them early. They didn't let up. I said before, Alabama has hands-down best offensive line in the nation. They didn't disappoint. They took care of business."
Kain Daub, a four-star linebacker and former LSU commitment from Sandalwood High School in Jacksonville, Fla., made his first visit to Tuscaloosa. Daub has high interest in the Tide. He is a teammate of DeMarcus Walker, who is a UA commitment in the class of 2013.
Other top underclassmen included Andy Bauer, a four-star offensive tackle and Missouri commitment from DeSmet High School in St. Louis; Nick Chubb, a four-star running back from Cedartown, Ga.; Donell Stanley, a four-star offensive tackle from Latta, S.C.; J.C. Hassenauer, a center from East Ridge High School in Woodbury, Minn.; Ross Pierschbacher, a four-star offensive tackle from Cedar Falls, Iowa; and Foster Sawyer, a quarterback from All Saints Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas.
TideSports.com has complete daily coverage of more high school players talking about the Iron Bowl, the SEC Championship Game and other players who are considering flipping their commitment to Alabama.
Join TideSports.com this week for three online chat sessions: Cecil Hurt on Tuesday from 5-6 p.m; Andrew Bone on Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. and Chase Goodbread on Thursday from 8-9 p.m.
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Take a minute, if you will, to consider the prominence of time travel as a theme in the arts. You don't have to be a brilliant but evil scientist huddled in a secret mountaintop laboratory, rubbing your hands together and cackling with glee as you contemplate flipping the switch on a time machine fueled by lightning bolts and filched uranium, to understand this essential truth:
Time travel captivates the imagination.
That, you scoff, is hardly news. H.G. Wells published "The Time Machine" in 1895. "Doctor Who" has been giving geeks the vapors since its 1963 inception. "Groundhog Day"(1993) is a perennial favorite. In 2003, Chicago writer Audrey Niffenegger had a hit with her novel "The Time Traveler's Wife." Computer games such as "Chrono Trigger" and "Timesplitters," introduced in 1995 and 2000 respectively, use time travel to get the action going.
But it is worth burning up a bit of that precious and non-renewable resource — time — to reflect on how contemporary creators have spruced up and redeployed this chestnut of a theme.
Time travel is not just for sci-fi fans anymore. It's gone mainstream — and in the process, it has acquired a poignancy and profundity that belie its roots in the "Gee whiz!" category of narratives.
Among the most celebrated books of 2011 was Stephen King's "11/22/63," which follows an ordinary man who travels back to 1963 in hopes of stopping the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
"I went down with my left foot," recalls King's appealing narrator, Jake Epping, of his step backward through time, courtesy of a storage room in a dilapidated diner. "Went down with my right foot again, and all at once there was a pop inside my head, exactly like the kind you hear when you're in an airplane and the pressure changes suddenly. The dark field inside my eyelids turned red, and there was a warmth on my skin. … I opened my eyes. I was no longer in the pantry. I was no longer in Al's diner, either."
Instead, our hero finds himself tumbling back through time, determined to trip up Lee Harvey Oswald before that history-changing homicide.
The 2011 film "Source Code" also uses time travel for more than just the sugar rush of a cool plot point. Colter Stevens, played to wide-eyed, crumple-browed perfection by Jake Gyllenhaal, returns again and again to a train headed to downtown Chicago — and to the moments just before that train is destroyed in a fiery explosion. The mission is not just an ingenious hook; the film ends up exploring issues such as loyalty, sacrifice and friendship.
Fox's new time-traveling series "Terra Nova" was canceled recently, but producers expect it to show up on another network given its nifty premise: sending people back to the Stone Age.
And for those who wish time travel could be more than just wishful thinking, last year the University of Chicago Press published "Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space," a marvelously accessible book by Allen Everett and Thomas Roman, physics professors who know the facts and the formulas behind a journey out of the now.
"Over the past several decades," they write, "the possibility that superluminal travel and backward time travel might be possible, at least in principle, has become a subject of serious discussion among physicists. … As far as time travel into the future is concerned, it is well understood in physics — and has been for the good part of a century — that it is not only possible but also, indeed, rather commonplace. … Forward time travel is, in fact, directly relevant to observable physics, since it is seen to occur for subatomic particles in high energy accelerators."
If it works for protons, why can't it work for people? Alas, the bugaboo is the energy required to move larger masses, because the necessary oomph to — for instance — relocate your boss into the year 2245 "requires amounts of energy which are at present prohibitively large."
Time travel makes a splendid theme for novels, movies, TV shows, comic books and computer games because it taps into our inner geek as well as the very core of what makes us human. We love gadgets and gizmos, but we also love our parents and our children and our friends, and time travel offers the tantalizing possibility of righting past wrongs, of seeing once again those who have died and whose losses still fill us with acute sadness.
At the death of a loved one, we desperately want to go back in time; we wish for one additional minute before she or he took that last breath, so that we can say, one more time, "I love you." That sort of yearning makes time travel not just an aspirational technological marvel; it makes for a deeply serious emotional connection between souls present and gone.
Which is not to discount the sheer fun of the time travel theme. The trilogy of" Back to the Future" movies (1985, 1989, 1990) is deliciously inventive. Two of the best episodes of two classic sci-fi TV series, "A Stop at Willoughby" (1960) in" The Twilight Zone" and "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967) instar Trek" turn on time travel. The brilliantly zany novels of British author Terry Pratchett look at time travel upside-down and inside-out.
"Hyperion" (1989), the first of an exquisite series of speculative novels by Dan Simmons about a future civilization and a place called Chronos Keep, "a grim, baroque heap of sweating stones with three hundred rooms and halls, a maze of lightless corridors leading to deep halls, towers, turrets," describes the horrifying fate of flying backward through time — growing younger and ever more helpless, pulled relentlessly toward oblivion.
In the end, of course, all works of art are about time travel, no matter what else they may seem to be about. They handily transport us somewhere else — and they do the same for their creators, too. As Tony Judt wrote in "The Memory Chalet" (2010), the memoir published shortly after he died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the act of writing is itself the ultimate time machine: "The faces return, the sepia photographs come back to life. … The past surrounds me and I have what I need."
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Rihanna is being sued by a funeral company that claims she stiffed them on the bill for her grandmother's services.
RiRi was incredibly close to her gran Clara 'Dolly' Braithwaite, who died in June 2012, so she made sure to send her out in style. The body was shipped to Barbados for the funeral, and Ri arranged for a party to celebrate her life, which included tents, screens, floral arrangements and more.
The company that put together the festivities claims that it came with a $150,000 price tag, but RiRi only settled a quarter of that bill and refuses to pay up. According to TMZ, the lawsuit says that RiRi deemed the final cost exorbitant and doesn't want to pay the balance because of that.
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Bread and Jam for Frances: An Appreciation
Apologies for the long gap between posts – I have been writing offline, and this winter is making me want to just…blergh. There are no words.
Yesterday, in Entertainment Weekly, I read an appreciation of the great Harriet the Spy as it marks its fiftieth anniversary. I loved that book as a kid, and it will be one I will be sure to read with my boys, not only because it's amazing, but because it also provides them with a great example of a heroine, as I want to encourage them to read books about the other sex as well.
The article also pointed out that Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban and illustrated by Lillian Hoban, another story with another smart, crotchety heroine, is also turning fifty this year. And I just wanted to take a moment and profess my love for Frances.
I loved this book as a child, mostly because of the description of the elaborate lunches Albert and Frances (after she gets over her thing about bread and jam) have. They made me pine for a doily under my bologna sandwich, and wish I liked hard-boiled eggs so I could eat a lunch that came with it's own miniature salt shaker —
"What do you have today?" said Frances.
"I have a cream-cheese-cucumber-and-tomato sandwich on rye bread," said Albert. "And a pickle to go with it. And a hard-boiled egg and a little cardboard shaker of salt to go with that. And a thermos bottle of milk.
And a bunch of grapes and a tangerine.
And a cup custard and a spoon to eat it with.
What do you have?"
The whole book is so elegant and funny, with Frances' silly, proto-sarcastic made-up songs that she uses to express her displeasure, and baby sister Gloria who "liked to practice on a green bean when she could." It captures the essence of childhood, when you are figuring out how the world won't always bend to your super-sized will and expectations. And it handles a parenting quandary so cleverly, without preaching: if Frances will only eat bread and jam, then that's what she shall have…until she can't take it one moment longer. I wish I could be so cool as these cartoon parent badgers.
What I am
Is tired of jam.
Even if I find myself in the middle of a hurry-up bedtime at the end of a very long day, and just want to whip through some board books instead of tackling some of the more wordy, ponderous books in our collection (because sometimes, like this New York Times writer, I'm Tired of Reading Out Loud to My Son, OK?), I will always stop for Frances. She's always fun to read. And Russell Hoban seems to be the predecessor of another great writer of complicated, endearing young females, Kevin Henkes (Chrysanthemum, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Julius, the Baby of the World). Hoban and Henkes, both men, write as though they must have had little daughters they love and understand well. And my boys love these books as much as I do, and face many of the same travails.
So to celebrate fifty years of Frances, I'm going to have a special lunch. Maybe my cracker-loving sons will take a note and join me:
"I have a thermos bottle with cream of tomato soup," she said.
"And a lobster-salad sandwich on thin slices of white bread.
I have celery, carrot sticks, and black olives,
and a little cardboard shaker of salt for the celery.
And two plums and a tiny basket of cherries.
And vanilla pudding with chocolate sprinkles
and a spoon to eat it with."
Girl, you deserve it! Happy birthday, Frances!


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Clark School hosts PowerMEMS 2009 attendees for luncheon, lab tours
As part of their conference program, attendees of the 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2009) spent time on the University of Maryland campus Dec. 3. They were guests at a special luncheon in the rotunda of the Jeong H. Kim Building as well as tours of six Clark School laboratories related to their field:
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The MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab, directed by Reza Ghodssi
The Micro Reacting Flow Lab, led by Christopher Cadou
The Nano-Bio Systems Lab, directed by Gary Rubloff
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The PowerMEMS 2009 conference was chaired by ISR Director Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR). More than 180 visitors from all over the world attended the conference, from universities like Tokyo University, Tohoku University, Seoul National University, Stanford, MIT, UC-Berkeley, Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, EPFL, Freiburg University and more.
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Intelligent transport systems and services are the subject of the 13th ITS World Congress in London. There, from 9-12 October 2006, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is presenting a series of lectures and an exhibition showcasing a selection of its transport research projects.
DLR is using an experimental driving simulator to demonstrate its work in driver assistance systems aimed at providing greater on-road safety. Greater transport efficiency should be achieved through the methods being presented in London, based on both terrestrial and satellite traffic data capture. With its 2Indicate system, DLR is presenting a software package for the digital design of displays for different modes of transport. The exhibition stand in the ExCel Exhibition and Conference Centre in London, Stand F17, is also providing information on DLR expertise in transport applications for Europe's satellite navigation project, Galileo.
DLR is also conducting research in Brunswick into driver assistance systems to provide more on-road safety. The Human Machine Interface Lab (HMI-Lab) being exhibited in London can be used to investigate new assistance functions in a flexible and cost-effective way. During the ITS World Congress, visitors are able to test for themselves how an assistance system can use special inhibitors or superimposed images on the display to prevent driving too close to the vehicle in front. But communication between vehicle and driver is not just via visual or audible information; it also takes place via tactile interfaces, the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal.
The work on assistance systems is also supported by 2Indicate software developed at DLR's Institute for Flight Systems Engineering so as to create digital displays in helicopters. CoEDIT, an application based on 2Indicate, allows dynamic cockpit scenarios to be created. New information display methods can be produced in a very short time, including odometers and traditional tachometers to innovative displays for driver assistance systems. The software enables researchers to identify the best kind of display for the various kinds of important information needed by the driver.
DLR uses a two-kilometre speed and test track in Berlin to trial sensors and new, flexible methods to capture traffic position under realistic conditions. Radar and video detectors are used to measure the reactions of drivers to changing conditions, and climate, weather and visibility data is taken into account. The researchers at the ITS World Congress are explaining how the traffic data so obtained can be optimised.
According to experts, the European satellite navigation system, Galileo, has a great deal of potential when it comes to transport applications. With its EVnet experimentation and verification network, DLR is presenting a software and hardware environment in London, which allows complementary local systems to be developed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of satellite navigation systems via communications channels such as the Internet. These will support the introduction of high-accuracy and safety critical Galileo applications and services.
Twenty-five of a total 27 institutes and facilities are participating in DLR's transport research, the most recent business area of the German Aerospace Center. They treat traffic as a complex, integrated and interdisciplinary system. Once again, DLR is showing itself to be an attractive collaborator for manufacturers of motor vehicles, railway rolling stock and aeroplanes, as well as for service providers and governmental authorities and companies involved in the transport field.


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