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A young Carrie Bradshaw, a DC Comics archer, and a beauty and beast are among the new faces you'll see on the CW next season: The network announced five new dramas Friday that include the "Sex and the City" prequel "The Carrie Diaries," "Arrow," and an update on the CBS drama "Beauty and the Beast" starring "Smallville" veteran Kristin Kreuk.
The network's other two new shows are the medical drama "First Cut" and "Cult," about a dark TV show that draws legions of violently obsessed fans.
Also read: Can CW's 'The Selection' Catch 'The Hunger Games'' Fire?
ABC has not yet announced whether it will greenlight a rival "Beauty and the Beast" pilot to series. That show is also called, perfectly enough, "Beauty and the Beast." Let the game of chicken commence.
Still uncertain is the fate of the "Hunger Games"-esque pilot "The Selection," which follows a young girl chosen to compete for the hand of a prince in a war-torn nation.
The series orders come as the young, female-skewing network tries to bounce back from a ratings slide this season. The CW argues that many of its fans watch its shows online, which has hurt it with Nielsen ratings.
Here are descriptions of all five new shows, as provided by the CW:
It's 1984, and life isn't easy for 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw. Since their mother passed away, Carrie's younger sister Dorritt is more rebellious than ever, and their father Tom is overwhelmed with the responsibility of suddenly having to care for two teenage girls on his own. Carrie's friends – sweet, geeky Mouse, sarcastic and self-assured Maggie and sensitive Walt – make life bearable, but a suburban life in Connecticut isn't doing much to take her mind off her
troubles. And even though the arrival of a sexy new transfer student named Sebastian brings some excitement to Carrie's world, she is
struggling to move on from her grief. So when Tom offers Carrie the
chance to intern at a law firm in Manhattan, she leaps at the chance.
Carrie's eyes are opened wide at the glamour and grit of New York City
– and when she meets Larissa, the style editor for Interview magazine,
she's inspired by the club culture and unique individuals that make up
Larissa's world. Carrie's friends and family may have a big place in
her heart, but she's fallen in love for the first time with the most
important man in her life – Manhattan.
The series stars AnnaSophia Robb ("Soul Surfer") as Carrie Bradshaw,
Austin Butler ("Switched at Birth," "Life Unexpected") as Sebastian
Kydd, Ellen Wong ("Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Combat Hospital") as
Mouse; Katie Findlay ("The Killing," "SGU Stargate Universe") as
Maggie Landers, Stefania Owen ("Running Wilde," "The Lovely Bones") as
Dorrit Bradshaw, Brendan Dooling ("An Elf's Story: The Elf on the
Shelf") as Walt Reynolds, Chloe Bridges ("90210") as Donna LaDonna,
Freema Agyeman ("Doctor Who," "Law & Order: UK") as Larissa Loughton
and Matt Letscher ("Brothers & Sisters," "Entourage") as Tom Bradshaw.
Based on the novels "The Carrie Diaries" and "Summer and the City" by
Candace Bushnell, THE CARRIE DIARIES is from Fake Empire in
association with Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Amy
B. Harris ("Sex and the City," "Gossip Girl"), Josh Schwartz ("Hart of
Dixie," "Gossip Girl"), Stephanie Savage ("Hart of Dixie," "Gossip
Girl"), Len Goldstein ("Hart of Dixie") and Candace Bushnell. Miguel
Arteta ("Englightened," "Cedar Rapids") directed the pilot, which was
written by Harris.
At long last, Emily Barnes feels like she is an actual grown-up. She
can finally put her high school days as the
geeky-girl-with-flop-sweats behind her; she's graduated from medical
school and is now a first-year intern at Denver Memorial Hospital,
where she'll have the chance to work with world-famous cardiologist
Dr. Gina Beckett – and where, not-so-coincidentally, her med-school
crush Will Rider is also an intern. So why does everyone keep warning
her that the hospital is just like high school? Emily soon finds out
the hard way – her high school nemesis, the gorgeous, popular
Cassandra Kopelson, is also just starting out at Denver Memorial, and
it seems like they're rivals all over again – not only as surgical
interns, but for Will's attention. Fellow intern Tyra Granger warns
Emily that the cliques at Denver Memorial are all too familiar: the
jocks have become orthopedic surgeons; the mean girls are in plastics;
the rebels are in the ER, and Tyra has her own awkward place as the
principal's kid – her father is the chief resident. Emily's the new
kid all over again, and it's just as awkward as high school. Only
this time around, Emily will have to balance the personal and
emotional turmoil of social politics with the high-stakes world of
life-and-death medical decisions. At least she has fellow intern
Tyra and nerdy-but-cute resident Micah, to count on as friends. Emily
is growing to realize that although she may be a geek, she may also
grow to be a great doctor, flop sweats and all.
The series stars Mamie Gummer as Emily, Justin Hartley as Will,
Michael Rady as Micah, Aja Naomi King as Cassandra, Kelly McCreary as
Tyra and Necar Zadegan as Gina.
FIRST CUT is from CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television
with executive producers Jennie Snyder Urman ("90210," "Lipstick
Jungle"), Dan Jinks ("Pushing Daisies," "Milk") and Bharat Nalluri
("Tsunami"). The pilot was directed by Bharat Nalluri.
Investigative journalist Jeff Sefton has learned to laugh off his
brother Nate's relentless string of obsessions, especially his latest
rant that a hit TV show intends to harm him. However, when his
brother mysteriously disappears, Jeff takes Nate's paranoia seriously,
and in the process uncovers the dark underworld of the TV show "Cult"
and its rabid fans. The only person who seems willing to help Jeff
with his investigation is Skye, a young research assistant for "Cult,"
who has also started to grow suspicious of the increasingly dark
happenings surrounding the show. The fictitious show, centered on the
cat-and-mouse game between charismatic cult leader Billy Grimm and
LAPD detective Kelly Collins, has become an obsession for its viewers
– and now some of its devotees seem to be taking their fixation to
deadly extremes in the real world. As Jeff and Skye dig deeper into
the fan world, they discover that the gruesome plot twists on
television are much more than fantasy for some very unfortunate
people. The hardcore fans of "Cult" would kill to see what happens
The series stars Matt Davis ("The Vampire Diaries") as Jeff Sefton,
Jessica Lucas ("Melrose Place," "Cloverfield") as Skye Yarrow, Alona
Tal ("Supernatural," "The Killing") as Kelly Collins and Robert
Knepper ("Prison Break," "Shameless") as Billy Grimm.
CULT is from Fake Empire and Rockne S. O'Bannon Television in
association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios,
with executive producers Rockne S. O'Bannon ("Farscape," "V"), Josh
Schwartz ("Chuck," "Gossip Girl"), Stephanie Savage ("Hart of Dixie,"
"Gossip Girl"), Len Goldstein ("Hart of Dixie") and Jason Ensler
("Franklin & Bash," "Hart of Dixie"). The pilot was directed by Jason
Ensler and written by Rockne S. O'Bannon.
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was
missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive
on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling
City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best
friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed
by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the
man he's become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions
he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation
with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with
those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow – a
vigilante – to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of
society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day,
Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer
he used to be – flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John
Diggle – while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to
under cover of darkness. However, Laurel's father, Detective Quentin
Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city.
Meanwhile, Oliver's own mother, Moira, knows much more about the
deadly shipwreck than she has let on – and is more ruthless than he
could ever imagine.
The series stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, Colin Donnell as
Tommy, Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance, David Ramsey as John Diggle,
Willa Holland as Thea Queen, with Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen and
Paul Blackthorne as Detective Quentin Lance.
Based on characters appearing in comic books and graphic novels
published by DC Comics, ARROW is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in
association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television,
with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("Green Lantern," "Brothers &
Sisters"), Marc Guggenheim ("FlashForward," "Eli Stone"), Andrew
Kreisberg ("Warehouse 13," "The Vampire Diaries") and David Nutter
("Smallville," "Supernatural," "Game of Thrones"). Melissa Kellner
Berman ("Eli Stone," "Dirty Sexy Money") is co-executive producer. The
pilot was directed by David Nutter from a teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg
& Marc Guggenheim, story by Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim.
Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide
detective. When she was a teenager, Catherine witnessed the murder of
her mother at the hands of two gunmen. Catherine would have been
killed too, but someone – or something – saved her. No one has ever
believed her, but she knows it wasn't an animal that attacked the
assassins…it was human. Years have passed, and Catherine is a strong,
confident, capable police officer, working alongside her equally
talented partner, Tess. While investigating a murder, Catherine
discovers a clue that leads her to a handsome doctor named Vincent
Keller, who was reportedly killed by enemy fire while serving in
Afghanistan in 2002. Catherine learns that Vincent is actually still
alive and that it was he who saved her many years before. For
mysterious reasons that have forced him to live outside of traditional
society, Vincent has been in hiding for the past 10 years to guard his
secret – when he is enraged, he becomes a terrifying beast, unable to
control his super-strength and heightened senses. Catherine agrees to
protect his identity in return for any insight he may have into her
mother's murder. Thus begins a complex relationship between Catherine
and Vincent, who are powerfully drawn to each other yet understand
that their connection is extremely dangerous for both of them.
The series stars Kristin Kreuk ("Smallville," "Chuck") as
Catherine, Jay Ryan ("Terra Nova") as Vincent, Max Brown ("The
Tudors," "MI-5") as Evan, Nina Lisandrello ("Nurse Jackie") as Tess,
Nicole Gale Anderson ("Make It or Break It") as Heather, Austin Basis
("Life Unexpected") as J.T., and Brian White ("The Shield," "The Cabin
in the Woods") as Joe.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is from CBS Television Studios with
executive producers Jennifer Levin ("Without A Trace," "Felicity"),
Sherri Cooper ("Brothers and Sisters"), Bill Haber ("Rizzoli & Isles,"
"Thurgood"), Paul J. Witt ("A Better Life") & Tony Thomas ("A Better
Life"), Ron Koslow ("Moonlight") and Gary Fleder ("Life Unexpected").


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So it's official: Obama picked a Catholic. Well, he picked a Senator that can burnish his foreign policy credentials, but Biden's Catholicism has to be considered a factor in the mix. Not only is Biden Catholic, he is a regular Sunday communicant at two parishes, despite his consistent pro-abortion voting record.
Now we are left to wonder whether the John Kerry Communion kerfuffle will make a return appearance in the 2008 cycle. John Allen of the NCR thinks it might, but I think the bishops learned a little lesson from 2004: By and large, Catholics don't want the Eucharist politicized, even over abortion, and especially when many Catholics have profound misgivings about the "prolife" record of the current administration.
Time will tell, but one thing is for sure: Some in the media will try to stir this pot. I'll be interested to see how Biden deals with it.
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June E. Bules Attorney General
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No. 50S03-0408-CR-382
Appeal from the Marshall Superior Court, No. 50D02-0208-FD-172
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More than 130 families coping with Alzheimer's disease will now receive much-needed support thanks to the Hilarity for Charity and Home Instead Senior Care Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Relief Grant Program.
Hilarity for Charity®, a movement established with the Alzheimer's Association®, led by actors and writers Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth Rogen to inspire change and raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease, announced the partnership with
Home Instead Senior Care® to offer grants for in-home care services to eligible U.S. and Canadian families in October of 2014. Today, the first grants were awarded to Alzheimer's families in need, totaling more than 6,000 hours of care.
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mother-in-law was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's at the age of 55. "It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers – husbands, wives, daughters or sons. Without professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself."
Grant recipients will be connected with a Home Instead franchise in their community, which provide a professional CAREGiverSM specially trained in how to most effectively and compassionately assist individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Grants range from short-term grants of 25 hours to long-term care, based on the need of the family.
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Research shows that family caregivers for the nearly six million North American's living with Alzheimer's disease today are in dire need of support. According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 70 percent of working caregivers make adjustments to their work schedule including taking leave of absences, and nearly 75 percent of caregivers report concern for their own health since they've prioritized the care of their loved ones and neglected their own health. The added stress puts family caregivers at higher risk for many chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, which occur at nearly twice the rate.
"My family is so fortunate to be able to provide the 24/7 professional care my mother needs," said Lauren Miller Rogen. "That care allows me to hold on to the precious moments I have with my mother so I can simply be a daughter and not just a caregiver. Our hope is that every family impacted by Alzheimer's disease can have those priceless moments, which is exactly why we created this tremendous program."
With no way to prevent, cure or slow the progression of Alzheimer's, Hilarity for Charity and Home Instead Senior Care have joined together to call for additional support for additional caregivers. Even those who did not receive a grant or have not yet applied are encouraged to seek out free caregiver resources available, including free caregiver trainings. Until there is a cure, there is care.
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annual Variety Show fundraiser in which nearly $1 million was raised in 2014. To supplement this funding, Canada- and United States-based Home Instead Senior Care franchise owners pledged more than 37,000 hours of in-home care services, valued at $740,000. Individuals living in Canada or the U.S. and providing care to the nearly six million loved ones in North America living with Alzheimer's disease are eligible to apply.
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Freud apparently never found an accurate answer to his oft-quoted and exasperated query "What do women want?" But a new survey from Schwab Advisor Services (SAS) provides insight into what women want from their advisors: investment performance.
The largest RIA custodian's first Women and Financial Independence study, released Thursday, found that among 500 HNW women (defined as having household investable assets of at least $1.3 million), a majority—58%—said that having "continuous, good investment performance" was most important to them, followed by "having a long-term financial plan," at 38%, while "having short-term financial gains" was picked by only 1%.
In an interview Thursday relating the first of the findings on the study, the SAS senior vice president of advisor technology solutions, Neesha Hathi (left), suggested that women investors are not that much different than men when it comes to the expectations they have of their advisors. "Women do care about the relationship and planning" aspects of their advisor engagements, she said, but "they care about performance just like their male counterparts."
Other findings in the study support the contention that both married and single women want a "collaborative relationship" with their advisor, even when they might not be the key financial decision maker within a couple. Women don't feel, Hathi said, that "I want to do this myself." Instead, they feel "I want to do it with my partner to get the best results." The study found that 88% of the respondents "wanted a say" in how their money is invested (75% of the respondents said they currently have an advisor).
That was one of the key takeaways from the study, Hathi said, suggesting that advisors should reconsider how they treat women as clients. "Many advisors focus on the relationship" when it comes to women clients, whether they be single or married, but the study found that women "want to be involved in the investments." Further, the findings support the fact that women don't constitute "some homogeneous population," Hathi said, but instead are members of "a hugely diverse swath of the population."
Among other key findings, almost 90% said they were indifferent as to gender of their advisor, Hathi pointed out, which "gets back to performance, and what any investor would care about." Speculating on the findings, Hathi admitted that such agnosticism regarding their advisor's gender might be due to female investors "not having much experience working with a female advisor" and said that at least anecdotally, Schwab found many of the RIA firms that custody with SAS are more interested in recruiting women into their firms. That's due partly to a desire to bring in more female clients, but also, Hathi said, because "they recognize that diversity in their firms will help them serve all their clients more effectively." The survey was conducted among 500 HNW women ages 30 to 70 between May 25 and June 4 by Koski Research.
Other findings of note from the study include that of those who said they had an advisor, 37% said they made the decision to hire an advisor jointly with their spouse or partner, 25% said they made the decision themselves and 21% said their spouse or partner made the decision. Of those women who are married or have a partner, 82% said they want advisors to direct conversation to both spouses equally. On referrals, 76% of respondents with advisors said they would refer their advisor to someone else.
Hathi said that as a technologist, she was particularly interested in another finding of the study: that "face time" is critical among these high-net worth women in establishing trust with an advisor. When an in-person meeting with their advisors isn't possible, regardless of their age women voiced a preference toward speaking by phone with their advisors over other electronic communication means.
"Technology can only take you so far," Hathi said, arguing that "it's not a replacement" for the in-person relationship.
Of these HNW women, 65% considered themselves financially independent, with Hathi noting that of the respondents, 49% of married women had their own individual investment accounts, separate from their retirement accounts. That, Hathi said, indicated "a paradigm shift—women are generating wealth now," whereas in the past they may have been more likely to become wealthy through inheritance, divorce or widowhood.


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Count UFC heavyweight Pat Barry among the growing list of fans of women's MMA.
And he better be, or things might just get a little awkward on the home front. Barry's girlfriend is up-and-coming prospect Rose Namajunas (1-0).
Namajunas made her pro debut earlier this year at Invicta FC 4 after going unbeaten as an amateur. Barry got a new experience cornering her – and went a little crazy watching what he believes is an athlete who is starting her career farther ahead, athletically, than where fighters started just a few years ago.
"I get to watch her invent punches and kicks and moves and when the game plan goes askew, how she can just invent a new route to take," Barry told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) in Las Vegas earlier this month. "I can't help but be a fan. It's really tough for me to sit there. I start crowd-surfing, eating popcorn, high-fiving people. It's exhausting."
The UFC ushers in a new era on Saturday with the first women's fight in its history. New women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey meets Liz Carmouche in the main event of UFC 157 in Anaheim, Calif. It's a fight that UFC President Dana White on Thursday said has had more media attention on it from more new sources than any other fight in company history.
The stakes are high, and there will be plenty of eyeballs on the fight – not just from fans, but from critics of women's MMA, as well.
Barry admits that many cultures might not be quite ready to watch two women beating each other up in a cage. Then again, he isn't quite sure why he fights, either. Rest assured, though, he believes women's MMA will continue to gain acceptance.
"The crowd a few years ago, and even still now, when they see two guys hit the ground, they don't know what they're looking at," he said. "They want to see drunk dudes in a bar punching and slapping each other. Now we see women fighting, and people are like, 'That's bizarre. You're not supposed to be doing that. Aren't you supposed to be like loving and puppy and have a baby? You're not supposed to be hitting each other – and especially with the fury that you're bringing with it. You're not supposed to do that.'
"That's why it's still new, and it's catching on and it's picking up. But as of right now, the majority of the world isn't giving women fights a chance – just yet. Because it's not natural for them. Really, it's not natural for (men), either. Fighting is just strange. Ten, 12 years into this, I ask myself on a regular basis, 'What the f— are you coing this for? This is just dumb.' But (women's MMA) is coming. It's growing."
Barry certainly is on board with it. Not just at the UFC level. Not just at the level of Invicta, where he'll get to see Namajunas fight again in April when she meets Kathina Catron at Invicta FC 5.
Hit the regional and local circuits, Barry said, and you'll get a quick study in what makes women's MMA exciting.
"I'll post this challenge to anyone," Barry said. "Go to a local show – not a big show – but go to a local show that's got 10, 12, 15 fights on the card and let it have one female fight on the card, and tell me that's not the most exciting fight of the night. And that's every time. You go to a local show, and whenever two ladies get in there and start fighting, the crowd goes crazy. They go absolutely insane."
It was Barry going insane when he cornered Namajunas the first time. The video of him yelling and screaming and bouncing up and down made the rounds on YouTube. And he'll admit it can be tough to watch – though he's not too worried about her.
In fact, he said as long as she keeps climbing the ranks, maybe one day the UFC will be in her future, the way now is for fighters like Rousey and Carmouche, Miesha Tate, Cat Zingano, Sara McMann and Alexis Davis, and soon to be others, as well. And then, he said, maybe he can stop fighting and ride her coattails.
"I'm a complete wreck when it's me fighting, but I think my motherly instincts come out (when Namajunas fights)," he said. "When one of your teammates or friends, or her, such a significant person, is locked in a cage with a bear, of course I want to get in there and do everything possible to protect her and keep her safe. But she's such a stud, I don't worry about her. That's probably the reason why I'm cornering her, but I'm sitting there talking to people in the crowd because I'm so confident in her ability and what she does. I don't have to pay much attention to it. She's a stud.
"That would be the best thing ever (if she got to the UFC). I can't wait till she starts taking over and I can go sit down and I don't have to do this anymore."
For more on UFC 157, as well as Invicta FC 5, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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I woke up, read some comments, and understood how to read Greene's explanation of the slinky behavior in the previous blog post so that it isn't self-evidently wrong. In fact, it's strictly right given some natural understanding and parameterization.
An effective partial differential equation describing certain variables in the falling slinky does resemble a wave equation with a very low "speed of signals" which is why I think it's right to apologize for the overreaction. Sorry, Brian, your comment may be read so that it conveys a true statement.
Every point of the slinky is indeed hovering in mid-air up to some point and this statement is exact in a good enough approximation of the problem. How does it work?
Before the slinky is released, each of its point is in equilibrium. It means that the total force acting on that point is zero. The downward gravitational force cancels the upward force trying to shrink the slinky, \[
F_{total}(z,t) = 0\quad {\rm for}\quad t=0.
\] The lower portions of the slinky are more compressed – less stretched – than the upper portions because there's a smaller force acting on them underneath. We may parameterize this shape either by a function \(z(\sigma)\) of an auxiliary parameter \(\sigma\) measuring the length along the slinky's circumference), or by a density function \(\rho(z)\) that tells us how much of the material is at a given height \(z\). These two functions are close to being "inverse to each other".
The question is what happens after the slinky is released. Let's describe the motion in terms of the function \(\Delta x(\sigma,t)\) that describes the position of the \(\sigma\)-th radian along the slinky circumference at time \(t\), minus the equilibrium value at \(t=0\). For all \(t\leq 0\), we have \(\Delta x(\sigma,t)=0\).
Because we subtracted the equilibrium value, the gravitational force acting on that piece of the slinky cancels against the force from the tension inside the slinky that existed up to \(t=0\). So the only force that contributes is the difference between the force from tension at time \(t\) minus the same force at \(t=0\).
The force from the tension is proportional to\[
\frac{\partial^2 \Delta x}{\partial \sigma^2}
\] Note that the stretched spring drags from both sides and you get some net force or acceleration of a given point of the spring if one side is more compressed than the other. The \(\sigma\)-parameterization has the advantage that we have a constant mass density per unit change of \(\sigma\) – every loop of the slinky has the same weight. For this reason, I do think that in these variables \(\sigma,t\), the variable \(\Delta x\) obeys the exact wave equation\[
\frac{1}{c_{slinky}^2}\frac{\partial^2 \Delta x}{\partial t^2} - \frac{\partial^2 \Delta x}{\partial \sigma^2} = 0
\] Here, the "speed" \(c_{slinky}\) is calculated from the spring constant and mass density of the spring. Because \(\sigma\) is the length along the circumference of the slinky, its values or changes are much greater than the typical changes of the height \(z\), especially when the slinky is compressed, and that's why a relatively high value of the speed \(c_{slinky}\) which measures the propagation of signals along the circumference \(\sigma\) translates to a much lower speed in the actual spatial \(z\)-direction.
So I believe that \(\Delta x\) obeys the exact wave equation in variables \(\sigma,t\), with a fixed value of the speed of signals. This wave equation is studied at many places of physics. The initial perturbation at one point, such as the release of the top of the spring, indeed propagate strictly by the speed that is bounded, so every lower point of the slinky has to wait before it starts to move at all, and the motion of the spring is strictly zero before the upper part of the slinky arrives, indeed.
Again, the speed of the waves moving along the slinky is basically constant as a function of the "circumference length" – the same number of loops is reached each second. This gets translated to higher speeds when the slinky is stretched, or a low speed when the slinky is compressed or flaccid. For the "released slinky" experiment, the speed of the waves in the real space is exactly low enough to be enough for the bottom of the slinky to wait for the freely falling upper portions of the spring to arrive.
This causal behavior is exactly analogous to that in relativity. If you only allow the slinky compression waves to send the information, Greene's comment is exactly right.
I would still not express it in the same words. Each point of the slinky is affected by both forces at all times and signals can propagate much more quickly in general. But when we only restrict the sending of the information to the slinky waves, it takes time for any point to learn that the situation has changed relatively to \(t=0\).
Note that I sort of needed to use the parameter \(\sigma\) and not the actual spatial coordinate \(z\) to get a stable enough speed of the signals. If you translated all the behavior of \(\Delta x\) and waves on it into the variables \((z,t)\), you would find out that the speed of the slinky waves is 1) dependent on how much the slinky is compressed at a given moment, as we mentioned, and also 2) the speed of the signals in the \((z,t)\) space is increased or decreased by the actual speed of the corresponding point of the spring. So of course, if you through the whole slinky against someone, you can get the information to her much more quickly than the speed of the slinky waves relatively to the slinky.
Also, I needed to use the difference \(\Delta x\) and not just \(x\) to get a simple wave equation and eliminate gravity. The corresponding equation for \(x(\sigma,t)\) would contain the extra gravitational terms whose irrelevance for the causal argument wouldn't be immediately clear. This gravitational term would be basically a constant term on the right hand side of the wave equation. Because this term has no \(\sigma\)- or \(t\)-derivatives, it doesn't change the limit on the speed of signals. (That's just like the fact that the massive Klein-Gordon or Dirac equation preserves the speed of signals just like their massless counterparts.)
A reason why I reacted intensely was the similarity of Greene's comment to a hilarious comment by a Czech philosopher about the "relativity of sound". The philosopher has argued that it's a discrimination to use the speed of light in special relativity and this choice only reflects our considering vision to be the most important sense. Blind people are governed by relativity with the speed of sound playing the role of the speed of light, he argued. ;-) Needless to say, I and a friend of mine asked him whether blind people are allowed to fly with supersonic airplanes.
The point of this story is that there is only one truly universal limitation on the propagation of signals, and it's given by the speed of light and relativity. Mathematically analogous equations may appear elsewhere – with the speed of sound which is 1 million times lower or the speed of slinky waves that is some 100 times slower than the sound in this setup – but claims about the impossibility to propagate information quickly in these situations must be acknowledged to depend on approximations and effective descriptions.


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Filipino Boxer and Cecilia Flores-Oebanda Featured in New Documentary 'The Fighters'
CNN Documents Manny Pacquiao, Human Rights Pioneer's Anti-Slavery Fight
The CNN Freedom Project has announced the premiere of "The Fighters," a documentary on the groundbreaking work of one of the world's most renowned anti-trafficking organizations and the help its founder received in combating modern-day slavery from boxing champ, Filipino congressman and outspoken Christian Manny Pacquiao.
"The Fighters," airing for the first time this weekend on CNN International in a two-part series based on nearly two years of investigative reporting, provides an in-depth look at how Cecilia Flores-Oebanda and her Philippines-based anti-trafficking organization, the Visayan Forum Foundation, work unceasingly to get the message out that "Filipinos are not for sale." Joining her in the fight is the Philippines' own favorite son Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, boxing champ and congressman of the country's Sarangani province.
In a riveting and provocative pre-screening of "The Fighters" shared with The Christian Post, CNN's Leif Coorlim informs viewers that many of the Philippines' more than 90 million residents, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, suffer from extreme poverty. A need for survival drives many Filipinos overseas with the hope of finding employment. Traffickers, looking to stuff their own pockets, sometimes pose as employment agents and trick women and children into sexual and bonded slavery.
If not victimized overseas in countries like the Middle East, Filipino women and children find themselves being bought for sex by Westerners on vacation or business trips at home.
"This is where many trafficking victims in Manilla often end up, on the streets or in areas where businessmen are known to unwind," program producer and narrator Coorlim tells viewers amid flashes of dark, blurry shots of the city's red light district (watch a video clip here). "Transactions between prostitutes and johns are done out in the open, even at popular cafes in Manilla's ritzy business district."
The Filipino government estimates that there are 800,000 people working in the illegal sex industry, with anywhere from 60,000 to 600,000 children caught up in the trade, according to the program.
In addition to featuring heartrending interviews with rape victims, some of them as young as nine-years-old, the documentary takes viewers on rescues and raids carried out by Flores-Oebanda's anti-trafficking team and local law enforcement. One such bust resulted in dozens of young women who believed they had been promised legitimate employment overseas breaking down in tears upon learning that their employment agent was believed to be a madam facilitating their sale into slavery or forced prostitution.
"The Fighter" takes an upbeat turn at the eventual introduction of Pacquiao, whose own background of extreme poverty compels him to act on behalf of those in need.
"If we're talking experience, my experience is deep and wide. That's one of the reasons why my heart goes out to help the poor," says Pacquiao in "The Fighter."
According to "The Fighters," Pacquiao's part in advocating against human trafficking mostly involves pushing legislative measures that would increase funding for related programs and, most off all, putting a popular face to the plight of modern-day slaves.
Flores-Oebanda, used to working tirelessly for years to help rescue victims of trafficking, welcomes the famed boxer's help, but cautions, "This may be the hardest or the toughest fight that he will wage in his entire life, because this fight goes beyond 12 rounds."
The Visayan Forum, an NGO founded by Flores-Oebanda in 1991, has been lauded worldwide for its commitment to defending and protecting vulnerable migrants, especially victims of human trafficking, with a notable record of saving more than 70,000 from the industry. The organization's groundbreaking work, however, was marred in 2012 when the USAID, the American organization that provides financial aid to foreign organizations, raided its offices on the premise of fraud and embezzlement. While the organization and its leader have yet to be officially charged with any crime, the mass publicized accusation, brought by a former employee of the Visayan Forum, may have already done damage. As "The Fighter" documents, after 20-plus years, Flores-Oebanda's work has been put in serious jeopardy, with the Visayan Forum weakened in its fight against human traffickers.
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Although her NGO's efforts to end the horrible trade that affects 20-30 million people worldwide have been dramatically slowed due to USAID rescinding its funding, the documentary shows that Pacquiao has vowed to remain standing by Flores-Oebanda's side.
"It's good for our country and good for the community," the boxer and politician says when asked why he has provided the NGO and its boss with financial assistance and support. "She's like the mother of the nation because she protected the children, the kids and the people who get abused. A few years from now, [when I am] not in boxing any more, my fight is to continue to support Cecelia, the Visayan Forum and, of course, to stop human trafficking."
"The Fighters" airs in two parts this weekend, the first on Friday, May 17, followed by part two on Saturday, May 18. Broadcast times, as well as more information on the documentary, can be found at http://edition.cnn.com/ASIA/the-fighters.
The new feature is one of more than 300 stories generated by The CNN Freedom Project, which highlights cases of modern-day slavery around the world.
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Precious in the sight of God is the death of His saints. Psalm 116
Christian persecution is a deadly worldwide plague.
The evidence of massive, international Christian persecution is abundant.
What, exactly, causes some groups of people to be so vociferous and ugly in their denial of Christian persecution? What would cause someone to stoop to the level of personal attacks against those who speak of Christian persecution?
These attacks, which are often slanderous, are crude attempts to silence those who would speak out for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ. Given what is happening, why would anyone do this?
I had a long talk about this with one of my sons a couple of weeks back, and he said something that I think is more pertinent than we would like to admit. People who do things like this are at one with the persecutors.
What he meant by this was that those who try to silence people who speak out for persecuted Christians are fellow travelers and enablers of the persecutors themselves. There is nothing new under the sun, and that is especially true when we talk about the great evil of violent persecution of whole groups of people.
The persecutors could not act without their enforcers in the larger world demanding and coercing the silence of those who would speak against them. Evil, like cockroaches, needs darkness.
That's why Hitler set up phony concentration camps to show the Red Cross. It is also why the Red Cross and the rest of the world bought it. No one seems to have questioned the rationale behind putting an entire population of people in concentration camps in the first place. Without that compliance, the lie would and could not have stood.
It's also why I get attacked just about every time I publish a post about the persecution of Christians. Persecutors always have their apologists. They need the darkness of obfuscation to continue their deadly work.
It is painful to be attacked, but in this case, it is also an honor. I would far rather be the person who gets attacked for taking a stand against the persecution of Christians than the person who does the attacking. They are a sad lot.
I regard these slurs and jibes as small attacks on me for doing my best to follow Christ. I am a little shy about saying this, because what I am doing by writing posts about Christian persecution is such a small thing that it embarrasses me. But by attacking me for trying, however feebly, to follow Christ, these people are giving me the Kingdom of Heaven.
So, what I will say to those who go at me personally for trying to speak out about the persecution of Christians is thank you. I forgive you from my heart for your attempts to harm me personally and I pray for you daily.
However, what I say to them about their support for the persecutors is shame on you. To use a quote from the McCarthy hearings of long ago: Have you no decency?
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Radovan, from "Hell's Pawns."
"A Lesson in Taxonomy."* While this is chronologically the first story, don't read it first. Read it after Prince of Wolves, or at least after "the Lost Pathfinder." Trust me on this. It's told from Varian's POV.
"Hell's Pawns." This novella originally appeared in the Council of Thieves Adventure Path. It's distinct from the other stories in that it's told only from Radovan's POV and in the present tense. It's the first story I wrote with "the boys."
"The Lost Pathfinder,"* The first installment of Paizo's free web fiction feature. Each week there's another free story chapter, complete with a painting. You can also buy the older ones in ePub format for your library.
Prince of Wolves was the first Pathfinder Tales novel. Months after I wrote it, I realized just how many elements it has in common with Black Wolf. I won't spoil them for you here, but if you dug one, you'll probably dig the other.
"A Passage to Absalom"* is a mystery set aboard a sailing ship. It bridges the events of Prince of Wolves and "Husks." This one is told from Varian's POV.
"Husks" is another novella, this time from the Jade Regent Adventure Path. It's my homage to my favorite samurai and yakuza films.
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"Killing Time"* is a nasty little tale set in Absalom, between the most recent two novels. It's not yet available in ePub format, but you can read it free like all the web fiction.
Queen of Thorns is the third Radovan & the Count novel, this time set in what Radovan calls "Elfland" and the count knows to be the elven nation of Kyonin. Even more than the previous novels, this one is inspired primarily by the Pathfinder setting rather than genre films.
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Oneida High School presents new twist on Broadway classic "42nd Street"
ONEIDA>> A historical piece of Broadway will be brought to the stage this weekend at Oneida High School with the presentation of "42nd Street."
The story of struggling Broadway artists during the great depression, "42nd Street" was a Broadway hit in the 1980's that was derived from a film. The show is considered a classic and has had several revivals on Broadway.
Director Julian Marsh struggles throughout the plot of "42nd Street" to put on a masterpiece, "Pretty Lady," despite the tough economic times he faces. Alantown girl Peggy Sawyer, portrayed by senior Kelly Downes, comes to Broadway to make it big making the tail end of the auditions.
"She's just an Alantown girl trying to make it in the big city," Downes said.
Through the trials and tribulations of the stage and the drama that encircles the cast, Peggy gets her shot. 42nd Street is Downes' eighth show at the high school and she said it has been challenging gearing up for the dancing parts.
"I've never had such a large dancing role, usually I have to focus on lines and singing," Downes said. "I have to worry a lot more about the dancing."
42nd Street has a lot of tap numbers, on the main reasons Director and Choreographer Brett Bogardus said she chose the show.
Billy Lawlor, senior Brendan Didio, is one of the leading tenors on Broadway and he makes it his mission to turn young aspiring starlet Peggy into one of his many conquests.
"He's a smooth-talking ladies man," Didio said. "He's very charismatic, much more so than the shy roles I'm used to." This will be Didio's eighth show at Oneida High School as well.
"Lawlor is kind of the leader of the cast. He speaks for them a lot while talking to directors, producers and writers," Didio said. "He's definitely one of the top-notch actors of the bunch."
Didio said that the end of the show will be interesting and people familiar with the original "42nd Street" will be pleasantly surprised.
"There's a new twist to the old 42nd Street," Downes said. "It's different from any version anyone has ever seen."
"It's going to be much different than any other version of the show," Didio said, "and it really characterizes the show as a whole."
Both Didio and Downes said that anyone who enjoys a good tap number will enjoy the school's version of "42nd Street," and the themes of struggle and following your dreams make it that much more appealing. "This was a fun show to be part of and watch," Downes said.
"This is one of my favorite shows," Bogardus said. She was part of a cast that staged this presentation in High School in 1994. "This is great musical theater, true Broadway-style, classic theater."
There will be an open dress rehearsal Thursday at 7 p.m. Tickets will be $7 at the door. The show will be presented Friday and Saturday in the High School Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Presale tickets are available for $8 by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com. tickets for the Friday and Saturday evening shows may also be available as long as the show doesn't sell out.


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Greetings, welcome to "Return of Alisia Dragoon!"
First and formost, the download is here:
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Screenshots are included below. It's a single player campaign built by me. Contains 6 Mission maps, 2 cinimatics maps, a boss/ending credits map and a bonus map.
Who is Alisa Dragoon?
"Alisia Dragoon" was a side-scrolling platform action game for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive released back in 1992. Being one of my personal favorites for that system, I decided to do bring justice to the series here in WC3. I tried to replicate as many aspects of the original as I could into this. Being its an action being converted to an RTS, naturually much of the original element is lost and new strategies take place.
Here was the story line for the original:
"As Baldour, the prince of all things evil, nears the end of his dormancy, the cocoon in which he rests is transported to Earth by his aide, Ornah. The world is still recovering from the devastating effects of Baldour's last visit.
Alisia Dragoon is the daughter of the magician who attempted to stop Baldour. When she was a child, Alisia's father was tortured to death before her very eyes. His final cries of agony ring in her ears even now. Inexplicably, Alisia's life was spared. She is now a woman with magical ability rivalling that of her father. "Baldour is going to wish he had killed me as well," she vows.
Alisia must find Ornah and the cocoon before Baldour awakens. Use her Thunder Magic to demolish enemies, and summon any one of the four friendly monsters to help you. If Baldour awakens before you can destroy the cocoon, there may be no tomorrow... "
The corse of the game naturually ends with Alisia defeating Baldour and restoring peace. My campiagn takes place a few years afterward. Alisia had retired to a secluded town where she hoped to live out her days in peace, but things carry on from there. The missions range from traditional RPG-style map to mini-game style, including AoS, air battles with arrow key movement, and 1 on 1 duels. The RPG maps are split into section, with each section guarded by a boss, who must be defeated in order to continue on.
The 4 pet monster helpers make a comeback. Some old, some new. Monsters can be toggled using the arrow keys. The monsters will follow the main character wherever she goes and offer their abilites, wether its attack, defense or restoration.
The download also contains a rom and emulator for the original Genesis version, for those who want to try it out. You can find out more about the original version here.
Thanks for trying out my campaign. Credits to all resourse makers are given during the ending credits.
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id say so far i like your work... however the cinematics are going way too fast for me to read
I think that overall the work is quite good. However, I must agree that the cinematics are way too fast to read.
There are some minor issues with doodads, such as Rocks that aren't properly levelled with the ground (in the prologue, as the camera climbs the hill) and throughout at least the first map, which I played (I can walk through lots of moss-covered rocks).
I like the spider models and skins very much--can I find the source easily by looking on your credits?
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Extremely difficult, I dont know, probably Im just too stupid, but when I played this I died after the first 2 encounters. Without cheats I couldnt even see the path were to go on, without searching forever. I played Blizzard Campaigns on Normal and they were NO problem. Why is this different? Ask urself.
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I have to say that I didnt like it and in fact deleted the campaign.
There were a few things at the mapdesign which should be changed. For example: I attacked the spider guards, which were my allies in the 1st mission. 1st mistake here is that I am allowed to do this and nothing happens at all and 2nd that I even got some gold when I destroyed one of their tents.
Also the story was bothering me. It's just outdated to tell 'a kingdom...' bla 'long ago' etc.
I know you're following a storyline but that's not interesting for the player. The action counts. So that's why I deleted it finally. Besides the mistakes of the design the enemies I could finally fight were this hard that I had to WAIT for manaregen of my priest & hero. (Also I was to greedy to spend some money on some more soldiers :p)
So all in all it was a bad start and it didnt get better. I didnt even complete the 1st mission because the waiting sucked and I didnt want to switch a cheat on to play the map without...
And... the skills of the hero were strange in some way. They dont work good together.
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- I really really really loved those creature models
- Nice cinematics, sadly the word go so fast as i have no time sight seeing the cool enviroment in the cinematics
- Overall good story line, thought it is outdated stuff as said by Mythrius about those *long ago* bla bla *a kingdom* bla bla
Poor stuffs :
- EXTREAMLY boring... the first mission i died few times, and it starting to freak me off and just typed whosyourdaddy
- Really lack of works on the main heroes, for almost 10 campaign mission, we use the same old tard over and over and over again... also, the items are from wc3, which is... nothing new...
- On the middle of playing, i was thinking : "wtf im playing ?"
well it is kinda sad with all those good models it turn out to be a boring game overall...
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In case anyone cares, there's a spelling mistake in the second to last pic. It should be fought, not faught.__________________
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13 levels - 60 M - still got stuck!?!?
I'm playing this version of return of alisia dragoon, 60 mega, 13 levels. In first level, after defeating the orc warlord (the base just before the mutant bat) i got the message "u can continue to next area", the exit gate from this encampent went down, but the one at the entrance of the encampent with the bat remained up, and i cannot continue. Any idea?
Also, any idea how to skip the looooooooooooooooong introductions? are REALY borring.
whoaaaaa its 60 MB i think its too big but any way thanks ON THE HARD WORK!!!! blizzard WC PATCH is not 60 MB__________________
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Well this is what i thought anout this. The PROS were 1. I pretty liked the story, auctually the only reason i auctually played was because of the STORY. 2. The models were excellent and went with the game. 3. I really liked the scorpion level were you were on the water and you were on the scopion and shot lightning bolts. Except make the lightning go faster, it kinda has a cooldown. The CONS were 1. REALLY REPEATATIVE, like you finnaly get to the end of the hill and then she says "oh, i frgot sumthing" then u have to go down the hill (10 mins) get the thing, then go to the hill again(another 10 mins.) 2. No custom spells, the only custom ones were the lock on lightning and i think another one(dont remember). 3. You always have the SAME chahracter with the SAME abilities. It gets kind of boring. You only get to use bout 1-2 other chars and even THEY dont have CUSTOM skills. 4. Not even custom items......5.I merely kept playing cause i wanted to see what happens next. 6. The game is a little hard and confusing. 7. You can't even skip the cinematic, and it exceptionally boring of you die and you have to WATCH it AGAIN. 8. DO i have to say any MORE?!?!
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So how do you guys play this game? It looks good and it !!PAWNZ!! my other RPGs!
And btw, 61.6 MB!!!??? That may PAWN my RPG for sure!
Are you alone in this project!?
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The campaign was good over all and there arnt very many finished campaigns out there that are acculy playable and interesting. This one was interesting and sort of playable. There was many good things in this campaign. In general the models fit in well and were all of good quality. The air ship was a very good example of this and was pretty cool even though it looked like u just gave it a bunch of atatchment points and put stuff on. The story was fine but the whole "Arch bad guy comes back" is way over used. The terrain was also good. Now for the bad things or the things i didnt like:
The maps were far far to hard. I couldnt even complete the first level (granted i didnt try very long). I would get killed by any creep groups with more then 8-10 units in them, especialy if they had a green demoness, and i couldnt beat the first (i think its first, the middile one with no boss any way) encampment and ended up having to leave my guys out side and run around with Alisia inside trying to burn all hte buildings down and i still coudlnt do that after 3 or 4 trys. I then saw dead ppl and was amazed at the amount of enemys and how strong they were. There definatly needs to be a difficulty setting or decrease the amount of enemy units/make it so you can get more. That was the other problem, you couldnt get very many units at the beggingin and either you couldnt get or couldnt get very many later on. As far as i can tell there are 3 1/2 -4 1/2 beatablt levels, those being, the villager rescure level, which i beat with 2-3 mintues to spare and 10 or so villagers to spare, the DotA level which you didnt have to do any thing on, but i attacked and got killed by a tower, maybe the cave level, and half the fortress attack level.
The thing that really really anoyed me the most about the models was Alisia's portarit's cheeks, they were round and shiny and didnt fit the rest of her at all. They made her look kinda chuby and like an 8 yr old. Another model that didnt really fit was the green demoness one, it didnt seem very "orchish". The skin was fine but the model didnt really match.
The abilitys werent very good, all but one that i rember were normal and entierly non-custom. The only custom one was the "lock-on" or somthing ability and all that happened with that is u decreased the number of targets, changed the damage (i think), the projectile, and the icon, and i think you used a skin for the icon. While thats not the end of the world and ive seen much worse before, it didnt look very good but at least you didnt use active buttons for pasive abilitys. The abilitys also tended not the fit the carachter and were to weak for the enemys you had to fight, this was especialy noticeable with Tau. While im on her, id like to mention that her "bladestorn" was aful, i dont know if its becaseu she dosnt have any attachmetn points or what, but ud use it and nothing would seem to happen. Ud have to check the enemys health to see if it did any thing and it was afully weak. The fact that abilitys only went up to level 3 didnt help either because it ment that you could never get them powerful enough to be able to do any more then moderate damage.
I noticed a few bugs, one of which really ruined the flying level. Every time i retryed i'd get in a bit and to some point (it wasnt the same point) and id do something (it may have been trying to attack when i thought i wasnt moving) and suddenly Alisia would turn around and fly back to the start and all i could do was make her turn a bit. There were some others but i dont rember them.
There was some other stuff but i cant think of it now. i might post it later if i think of it but ill probably end up being to lazy to.
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Originally announced as a strictly limited engagement through August 13, 2011, SILENCE! was extended numerous times by popular demand and transferred theatres twice, ultimately landing at the new Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square, which was constructed especially for the show. SILENCE! opened at Theatre 80 on July 9, 2011, and spawned a highly successful L.A. production starring Davis Gaines and Christine Lakin.
Winner of the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, Silence! The Musical is the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli. The show was selected by Time Magazine as one of the Top 5 Musicals of 2011.
In the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice faces her own demons while racing the clock to unlock Lecter's clues before another innocent girl is killed and skinned by Buffalo Bill. The laugh-out-loud raunchy satire, Silence! The Musical, features a singing chorus of floppy eared lambs narrating the action as Buffalo Bill gleefully dances a hoedown while kidnapping hapless Catherine Martin. Even Dr. Lecter, scary as ever, sings about the life he'd like to lead someday outside the prison walls.
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by Libby Sternberg, Center Right Side blog
Even though it's been weeks since conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh called a reproductive rights activist a "slut" and then apologized, the "war on women" has not subsided.
Good. It's high time that women on the right side of the political aisle joined the battle. And because conservative women's long-simmering outrage was ignited by the left's double standard in the Rush kerfuffle, liberals have been in the uncomfortable position of playing defense.
Sure, they've turned to an even more aggressive offensive stance (more on that in a bit), but at the outset, they were whipsawed by the reaction of conservative women who, after suffering through years of grotesque, highly misogynistic comments from liberal celebrity pundits, finally had the opportunity to present a litany of these offensive louts' language for all to see, saying, "Yeah, these filth-spewing commentators deserve the world's opprobrium–we're so glad you agree with us at last." Ahem.
(A quick aside: Politics ain't beanbag, and when I, and other women I know, speak of "offensive language," we're not talking about strong metaphors. We're talking about language that diminishes women to their sexual natures alone, language that is a variation on either "forget her ideas, she's one hot fox," or, "she's no more than a c***, so why take her seriously?")
The reaction to conservative women's pushback during L'Affaire Limbaugh has been amusing, to say the least. The standard liberal meme has been resurrected: liberal commentators, regardless of their offenses, aren't equal to Rush because of his huge audience and, oh, yeah, he is the titular head of the Republican Party anyway, you know. (Tell that to the various GOP presidential candidates who won the party's nomination despite harsh criticism from Rush.)
The audience measurement argument puts liberals in the embarrassing position of showcasing "their guys'" low audience numbers, though. Beyond what Nielsen statistics say about the appeal of liberal ideas on the airwaves, however, the question then becomes: exactly where is the cutoff that gives a commentator a pass in the use of offensive language? Is it 900,001 (Keith Olbermann could draw close to 900,000, after all.) How about 1,000,001? (Bill Maher can draw a million.) Even if liberal fellows don't understand the absurdity of that argument, most women, who've ever walked past a construction site to catcalls and whistles, do.
So, now that the hypocrisy has been exposed in the Rush brouhaha, the left has loaded other missiles in their Outrage Artillery to keep the "War on Women" battle alive to their benefit. They've been firing off shots about how conservative men want to control women's bodies (abortion, contraception, etc.). They are dragging out a list of state bills sponsored by conservatives that seek to either limit access to contraception or force women to undergo "invasive" testing before having abortions.
As to the contraception bills, from my knowledge these are a reaction to the HHS mandate dictating that all health plans must cover contraception and abortifacients, regardless whether the coverage violates the religious beliefs of the employers. So they are attempts, perhaps clumsy and (pardon the pun) ill-conceived, to protect First Amendment rights of free conscience. If the White House made a real accommodation with religious entities concerning these mandates, the reactionary bills would probably disappear in a snap. (And, no, the WH has made no accommodation–the same mandate language HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius advanced prior to announcing accommodations is still in the law.)
On to the ultrasound bills–there's been one in Virginia, but they're popping up elsewhere–proposed laws to force women seeking abortions to have ultrasounds first. I'm not keen on legislating medical practice, but I am sympathetic to the pro-life point of view, even if I don't entirely share it.
Pro-life advocates believe that abortion is murder. And just as activists such as George Clooney can't stand idly by while watching people be massacred in Africa, pro-life champions believe they, too, must do everything in their power to stop what they see as the slaughter of innocents.
I admire George Clooney, even without agreeing with him on all his stances, and would never disparage his well-intentioned efforts. Similarly, I admire pro-life activists, even if I don't agree with all their approaches. Can most liberals say the same?
In fact, the left's barrage of attacks on ultrasound bills has incensed at least one pro-choice supporter, who argues, quite persuasively, that using inflammatory language (such as "rape") to describe pre-abortion ultrasounds is harmful to women. Since the vast majority of abortion providers do these ultrasounds anyway prior to abortions, liberals are unnecessarily alarming women about their invasiveness and diminishing their value.
But that's the real problem with this whole "war on women" the left is using to try to score points against the right. It ignores the reality of women's opinions and lives just to trounce political opponents. It hides behind the skirts of women, in other words, to fire shots at adversaries, seeking to damage them in women's eyes.
The reality is that women are not of one mind on reproductive issues. Gallup polls show women fairly evenly divided on abortion, in fact, with 48 percent identifying themselves as "pro-life" and large majorities supporting some restrictions on abortions that liberals traditionally fight tooth and nail– things like parental consent laws for abortions for minor girls, for example. Ironically, I'm sure mothers who hold these beliefs would look at liberal opposition as something of a "war" on them.
But you rarely hear of these divided opinions when the High Dudgeon Industry has fired its first shots. In my cynical view, that's because those fueling the battle aren't really all that interested in listening to what women have to say after all…unless it can be used to defeat political opponents.
So, David Axelrod can blithely criticize Rush Limbaugh in one breath, while stammering sophistry about why Bill Maher's one-million-dollar donation to the president's SuperPac is okay because….well, because it's just too darn silly to even repeat here.
Don't be fooled, sisters. There might be a "war on women" out there, but it's coming as much from the left who want to silence the half of American women who don't agree with liberals on abortion policy. According to their "rules of engagement," these women–pro-lifers or their admirers– deserve to be called any name in the misogynist's lexicon.
Libby Sternberg is a novelist living in Pennsylvania. She is a past member of the Vermont Commission on Women. She runs a blog titled Center Right Side. This post originally appeared there.
This post was promoted from GreenRoom to HotAir.com.
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With other universities abandoning the Big East in droves, the conference's seven basketball-centric schools are considering their options for the future, multiple media outlets reported.
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ESPN.com reported that the sides merely initiated a dialogue and that no plan of action was put in place.
With Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Rutgers and Notre Dame (a football independent) all announcing their departures from the Big East, the remaining teams would stand to gain a windfall in exit fees. For that reason, the Sporting News wrote that it's unlikely that the seven basketball-focused schools would also abandon the conference.
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This confession comes at great risk to my otherwise unsullied reputation among my friends and family as "Tool Man."
Several years back I was standing in my driveway admiring my brand-new 20-year-old Porsche 912 (the four-cylinder version of the real thing). I had changed the oil, changed the plugs and wires, cleaned the metal mesh air cleaners and tightened everything in sight.
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Bad things happen to our friends and family and we want to help, but we don't necessarily know how we can and say "let me know if you need anything" to fill the void. Redditor usapeaches argues this isn't the right thing to say because you're actually burdening someone with the need to reach out to you for help. When someone needs your assistance and you want to offer it, be specific.
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