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NEW HAVEN -- World No. 13 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 19 Andrea Petkovic, and No. 24 Svetlana Kuznetsova have been awarded wild cards into the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline US Open Series to be held August 15-23, 2014 at the Connecticut Tennis Center, it was announced today by Tournament Director Anne Worcester.
Cibulkova reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 in the world earlier this year after a fantastic start to the season. She won in Acapulco, reached the finals at the Australian Open and Kuala Lumpur, the semifinals at Miami and the quarterfinals at Indian Wells. She will be making her third straight appearance at the Connecticut Open and sixth overall, with her best result coming in 2010 when she advanced to the quarterfinals.
Petkovic boasts two WTA Tour titles and a French Open semifinals appearance this season. The German claimed victory at Charleston and Bad Gastein, giving her four WTA titles for her career, and her French Open effort marked a career best performance at a Major. Petkovic will make her second straight visit to New Haven and fourth overall.
A two-time Grand Slam Singles Champion and two-time singles runner up, Kuznetsova won the US Open in 2004 and was a runner-up in 2007, and won the French Open in 2009, with a runner-up showing in 2006. The Russian has also had plenty of success in New Haven, winning the Connecticut Open in 2007 and making the semifinal in 2006. The former World No. 2 will make her fifth appearance in New Haven. The tournament has one final main draw wildcard to distribute.
"Adding Dominika Cibulkova, Andrea Petkovic, and Svetlana Kuznetsova gives the Connecticut Open 11 of the top 25 ranked players in the world, and strengthens an already tremendously talented player field that has won a combined 18 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles," said Worcester. "Svetlana is a Grand Slam Champion and Dominika and Andrea have had marquee performances at Grand Slams this year."
The player field is headlined by defending Connecticut Open Champion Simona Halep (No. 2), 2014 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova (No. 4), 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Genie Bouchard (No. 8), and four-time Connecticut Open champion Caroline Wozniacki (No. 12).
Wild cards into the qualifying draw were awarded to Americans Danielle Collins, Nicole Gibbs, Grace Min and Caitlin Whoriskey, Romanian Sorana Cirstea and Israeli Shahar Peer. Collins, a sophomore this past season at the University of Virginia, won the NCAA Division I singles title, becoming the first women's singles champion in the school's history. Gibbs was a former standout at Stanford who turned pro in 2013 and also has four career ITF titles, including one this year. Min advanced to the main draw at Roland Garros and has won two ITF titles this season, bringing her career total to five. Whoriskey, from East Sandwich, Massachusetts, played No. 1 in both singles and doubles for the University of Tennessee, reaching a top 10 national ranking in both, and won the Ocean State Open USTA Tennis Tournament at Bryant University earlier this summer to secure her wildcard. Cirstea, a former top 30 ranked player, advanced to the quarterfinals in Dubai and Pattaya City this year. Peer, a former top 20 ranked player, has six career WTA titles on her resume.
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We still don't know if they'll get to play the series finale between the Braves and Giants today here at AT&T Park, but they're going to wait as long as possible, since Atlanta doesn't have another trip back here this season.
The weather is a particular shame because the Giants have a bunch of players from the 2000 team here for a reunion in honor of the 10th anniversary of the first regular-season game at AT&T Park.
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By Liana B. Baker and Alistair Barr
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online games developer Zynga Inc scored badly as it went public on Friday, dashing hopes for the year's hottest tech IPO, as investors frowned on its over-reliance on Facebook, dimming growth prospects, and outsized control by CEO Mark Pincus.
Zynga's stock fell 5 percent below its $10 initial public offering price to close at $9.50 on Nasdaq on Friday, dealing losses to IPO buyers used to racking up gains on a stock's first day of trading.
Investors had eagerly awaited the IPO as a way to get a slice of Facebook's growth before the leading social networking website goes public, possibly in 2012. Zynga makes money on Facebook by selling virtual items such as jewelry and poker chips in its games.
At least one analyst said on Friday that some investors may have been turned off my Chief Executive Mark Pincus' large voting stake and control over the company. He has a special class of shares that grants him 37 percent voting power even though his equity stake is much lower, and public shareholders will have less than 2 percent of votes.
"We believe that having a CEO/owner-controlled board is particularly dangerous for investors in young companies," said Cowen and Co analyst Doug Creutz.
Creutz, who has a neutral rating on the stock, added that history is full of examples of CEOs who have built young companies but cannot manage them when they mature.
Asked about his voting shares, Pincus told Reuters he decided to retain such huge control over Zynga because he believed from the start that he was the best person to lead the company.
"Investors who want to see the company deliver long-term value are going to be better served by the fact that I can continue to ensure the company keeps its focus on the long term and we don't let short-term swings and opportunities reduce that," he said in an interview.
Based on Friday's closing share price, the value of Pincus' holdings fell to $1.05 billion from $1.1 billion at the IPO price.
Friday's flop stunned investors who had expected a strong showing because the company is profitable, unlike other recent high profile Internet IPOs such as Groupon and Pandora.
"I was stunned when I saw this. This is a disaster for them. The way you're supposed to price deals is to give investors a 15 percent IPO discount to compensate them for the risk of backing a relatively new company," said Dan Niles, chief investment officer of AlphaOne Capital Partners, who did not buy shares.
"It makes me wonder about the underlying health of the market. IPOs like this can change the whole tenor of the market," he added.
Investors said Zynga's stock performance could hurt other private companies in the pipeline such as Yelp and even Facebook. Some investors regard Zynga's IPO as a proxy for Facebook, because 95 percent of its $828 million in revenue in the past nine months comes from Mark Zuckerberg's social network.
"Now we have an exciting IPO and people don't want it and that's a big concern for when Facebook comes out," said Jeff Sica, president and chief investment officer of SICA Wealth Management.
The cooling off in the IPO markets could hurt Facebook's estimated $100 billion valuation, BGC analyst Colin Gillis said.
Zynga's reliance on the platform was supposed to attract investors looking to bet on Facebook's growth. With Facebook's IPO expected to be at least several months away, Zynga is one of the few indirect ways to bet on the website's future.
Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of the revenue Zynga derives from the social network, which features more than 222 million monthly active Zynga users.
Zynga CEO Pincus said he was looking beyond the share price drop and said the company went public at the right time.
"We're going to focus on the products and business results we deliver in the next four to eight quarters and hope the stock market values and appreciates that as they see us deliver it," he said.
In San Francisco, hundreds of employees got to work early to watch Pincus ring the bell to open Nasdaq trading and wore T-sirts saying "I love play" featuring the ZNGA trading symbol printed on the sleeves. Cinnamon buns and hot cocoa were served before the ceremony.
The company, which competes with Electronic Arts, sold 100 million shares of Class A common stock at $10 per share in the IPO, roughly 11 percent of its shares on a diluted basis, at the top end of the $8.50 to $10 indicative range.
The IPO values Zynga at $8.9 billion. In November, the company had been valued at roughly $14 billion, according to an internal estimate in a regulatory filing.
But that lowered valuation may still have been too rich for some, said Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia.
Zynga's near $9 billion valuation is less than videogame maker Activision Blizzard Inc's $13.6 billion and higher than Electronic Arts Inc's $6.7 billion. In the last four quarters, Activision and Electronic Arts generated more revenue than Zynga.
Analysts and investors have also expressed concern over how it profits from less than 3 percent of its players who buy items in its free games.
Plus, its reliance on Facebook appears unhealthy to investors who want to see Zynga diversify its revenue sources. Pincus on Friday said the company's 13 million daily users of its mobile games is a good start, and doesn't trail its daily users on Facebook, which are at 40 million, as much as people assume.
Yet Zynga's growth rate of bookings - the money it makes up front when users buy items, is slowing - which most analysts said is a red flag and could hurt Zynga's future revenue.
Zynga is the second online games company selling virtual items to slip in its trading debut this week. On Wednesday, Nexon Co shares fell following its $1.2 billion IPO, which was Japan's biggest offering this year.
At $1 billion in proceeds, Zynga's IPO is still the largest from a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc raised $1.9 billion in 2004.
(Reporting By Liana B. Baker in New York and Alistair Barr in San Francisco)
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I Wake Up Screaming/1941/Twentieth Century-Fox/82 min.
In the Neglected Works of Noir department, "I Wake Up Screaming" from 1941 is just crying out for attention.
Director H. Bruce Humberstone made a fun and taut whodunit that's also a treat for the eyes. The film stars Betty Grable (singer, dancer and pin-up legend in her first dramatic role) and Carole Landis as sisters Jill and Vicky Lynn, who quickly shed their homespun sensibilities as they fend for themselves in New York City, Jill working as a stenographer and Vicky waiting tables.
Naturally, it's only a matter of time before the fine-boned fair-haired creatures are discovered. Vicky's in the spotlight first after PR guru Frankie "Botticelli" Christopher (Victor Mature) stops into the diner one night with some friends and decides, as he puts it, to make her The Next Big Thing. (At one point, Frankie asks how expensive she is; she replies he couldn't afford her. To circumvent censors, that risqué line was reportedly added while shooting.)
Frankie's pals Jerry (William Gargan), Robin (Alan Mowbray) and Larry (Allyn Joslyn) also jockey for her attention and lend their support to her quest to be a model/actress. But, just as she's about to jet off to Hollywood for a screen test, Vicky is murdered, and all her pals are under suspicion as is the creepy clerk at her apartment building, Harry, played by noir great Elisha Cook Jr.
Matching Cook's seediness is hefty Police Insp. Ed Cornell (Laird Cregar). Cregar caught critics' attention with his dark, skulking, mysterious presence; his name is probably a hat-tip to writer Cornell Woolrich.
Also, look out for "Black Mask," the famous pulp magazine, for sale on a newsstand.
As the story unfolds, a romance develops between Frankie Christopher and Jill, and the movie proceeds at a nice clip, clocking in at 82 minutes. "I Wake Up Screaming" makes significant strides in noir style and technique, though it rarely gets credit for its achievements. One of the films that eclipsed it was director John Huston's mightily famous "The Maltese Falcon," also from 1941. A big-budget release from Warner Bros., the now classic movie is often cited as the first film noir.
"I Wake Up Screaming," a much smaller project than "Falcon," was the first film noir made at Twentieth Century-Fox. Humberstone incorporated arresting compositions and lighting – note the dramatic, single-source lighting in the police interrogation room scenes. The scene in which Cornell pays Christopher a night-time visit virtually defines noir, with its exaggerated shadows, grim faces, a black cat and a neon sign in the distance. Edward Cronjager was director of photography. Noir czar and author Eddie Muller points out in his excellent DVD commentary that, in visual terms, "The Maltese Falcon" is pedestrian compared with the creativity in "I Wake Up Screaming."
Additionally, scriptwriter Dwight Taylor conceived the story as a series of flashbacks – a hallmark of film noir storytelling – though Steve Fisher's pulpy novel is not structured that way. And, long before it became common for actors, Cregar hung out with L.A. police to lend realism to his performance. The score is interesting too – featuring "Over the Rainbow" as well as "Manhattan Street Scene," which was also used in "The Dark Corner." ("I Wake Up Screaming" was remade in 1953 as "Vicki," starring Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters and Elliott Reid; it was directed by Harry Horner.)
So why did "Screaming" get such short shrift? Well, it wasn't a prestige picture and, while Humberstone made the best of this low-budget B movie, it's tough to compete with John Huston, one of Hollywood's finest talents ever. Also, "I Wake Up Screaming" contains a generous dollop of fluffy romantic comedy, which pairs a bit uneasily with the sly, wry humor and cynical entanglements of film noir at its grittiest. Btw, I love the scene where Frankie and Jill take a dip in a public pool – both flaunting their great shape, of course – Frankie puffing away merrily on a cigarette.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that "I Wake Up Screaming" has a happy ending. Sadly, though, two of its actors died not long after the movie was released. In 1944, Cregar's promising career was cut short at age 30 when the Philly-born actor had a heart attack, likely spurred by crash dieting for a part. Four years later, Wisconsin native Carole Landis, 29, died of a drug overdose. Her career had dead-ended and she was in bad shape, having been dismissed by the industry as a pretty airhead.
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Rapunzel is one of the leading organic food producers in Europe. It all started very small: In 1974, Joseph Wilhelm and Jennifer Vermeulen started a self-sufficiency commune on a farm with a small natural health food store in the city of Augsburg in Bavaria.
From these humble beginnings an international company with more than 300 employees developed during the last 40 years. The idea behind it all remained the same throughout this time: to manufacture certified organic, natural and untreated, vegetarian foods.
The very first Rapunzel products were nut spreads, dried fruits and muesli. Today the product range includes more than 450 different products. In addition to nut spreads, dried fruits and muesli, the current product range also comprises pasta, cooking oils, chocolate and coffee. Half of all Rapunzel products are manufactured or processed in Legau in the Allgäu region.
Product quality comes first at Rapunzel. Therefore, the quality assurance team holds a key position in the company. The inspection of the raw materials already begins on the field. Upon arrival at the Rapunzel headquarters all incoming raw materials and products are tested and subjected to additional analyses performed by external, independent laboratories.
Since in the early days the personal contact with the suppliers and long-term partnerships have been very important for Rapunzel. On-site visits, advisory services for farmers provided by employed agricultural engineers and the lively exchange between the suppliers and Rapunzel ensure the high quality of the raw materials. The result is transparency – from the field to the table.
Social justice, fair prices and reliable conditions for the raw material suppliers: In all its projects around the world, Rapunzel adheres to these principles. In the early 1990s we therefore launched our own fair trade program, the HAND IN HAND program. The Rapunzel HAND IN HAND symbol stands for fair trade and organic agriculture in so-called developing countries. Products such as coconut chips from Sri Lanka, coffee from Tanzania or cocoa from Bolivia are examples for guaranteed fair trade quality.
The ideals and goals of Rapunzel have remained the same for more than 40 years – only the dimensions have changed. Today Rapunzel summarizes its company philosophy with the slogan "Organics with love".
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CAVITE, Philippines -- Manila's Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle challenged Sisters of Mary, Brothers of Christ and the thousands of students celebrating Monsignor Aloysius Schwartz's 20th death anniversary Friday to emulate the example of love and humility of their founder and to keep his legacy alive.
Later, almost like a pep rally for the nuns and priests, Korean students of his schools beat drums and banged gongs in a musical number for the Tribute Concert for Fr. Al after lunch that day.
Schwartz followed Christ and worked to uphold the value of human dignity in his various projects, Tagle said in his message at the end of the thanksgiving Mass on Friday at Girlstown gym in Silang, Cavite, south of Manila. He said the priest's efforts to build children's villages were motivated by a deep love for the poor.
Born in Washington D.C., on Sept. 18, 1930, "Father Al," as Schwartz is known here, reportedly entered St. Charles seminary in Maryland at 14 years old and finished his Bachelor of Arts degree at Maryknoll Seminary College in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He studied theology at Louvain Catholic University in Belgium and became exposed to poor sectors in Europe, including rag-pickers' camps, and nurtured a deep devotion the Virgin of the Poor in Banneux, Belgium.
Shortly after being ordained a diocesan priest in 1957, he left to take up an assignment in Busan, Korea, as the East Asian country reeled from the Korean War (1950-1953). He established Boystown and Girlstown in Busan in 1962, providing education from kindergarten through technical and vocational courses as well as junior college for more than 1,000 of the most underprivileged children. He founded the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of Mary in 1964 to "serve the poorest of the poor."
Schwartz also built hospitals for indigent patients and hospices for the homeless, handicapped, elderly men, mentally challenged children and unwed mothers. In 1981, he founded the priests' congregation Brothers of Christ.
When he was given the Asia's premier prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, in 1983, his citation said Schwartz raised three-fourths of his annual budget of about $8 million at the time.
Cardinal Jaime Sin, then archbishop of Manila, reportedly invited Schwartz to help the Philippines church's apostolate to children and youth. About 30 percent of the 98 million Filipinos live below the poverty line, and 26.5 percent of children under 5 are malnourished, Save the Children reports. "Education is the only hope for children to break free of poverty," the Sisters of Mary maintain.
Schwartz's health deteriorated after he was diagnosed with the terminal illness Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1989, but he was able to establish Boystown and Girlstown in Mexico. In 1992, just before he died, he named Korean Sr. Michaela Kim his successor and director of his charity programs. She was named Superior General after he died on March 16, 1992.
Children, women religious, priests and guests joined in prayer and offered flowers during the blessing of his tomb in the Girlstown compound, where participants from the Philippines, Korea, Guatemala and other countries released balloons and butterflies before Friday's Mass.
In his message after Mass, Tagle also urged the more than 2,000 high school girls present to search for true meaning and purpose in life.
"What are you living for?" he asked them.
He said they must have a deeper purpose than just getting a job or earning money. He also reminded them to "keep in mind your dignity as a woman." Be humble and compassionate when you graduate and succeed in life, he said. Do not be proud and look down on those who didn't go to school.
He also encouraged the male students from Boystown to search for deeper meaning in life, avoid jumping into marriage and to remember to respect women. He invited them to consider joining the priesthood.
The case for sainthood
Monsignor Jesus Romulo Ranada of Novaliches diocese, who wrote a book on Schwartz, said in his homily that in Rome, Augustinian Recollect Fr. Samson Silloriquez, main postulator of the cause of sainthood of Schwartz, was submitting more reports.
The Manila archdiocese received approval from Rome for the cause for beatification and canonization of Schwartz on May 20, 2005. The position paper for the heroic virtues of the servant of God was submitted to Rome in January 2009, and further research was done.
However, Ranada said it could take a while before a response arrives. He cited the pile of causes for beatification of other people, saying those with reported miracles are likely to be taken up first.
Schwartz used to tell the sisters that his wish for the Sisters of Mary was to "show to the world your love for one another, and when you love one another, that would be enough to sustain you," Ranada said. "He used to tell the Sisters of Mary, The Virgin of the Poor would help you."
Ranada added, "Now, 20 years after Father Al's death, the Sisters of Mary have continued his work not only here in the Philippines, Korea and Mexico, but also in Guatemala and Brazil."
He said during his research, he found youths in various countries speaking with great gratitude to Schwartz, even though they had not met him. He credited the sisters with "conveying Father Al's love for the poor" to today's students.
Children's villages
Sisters of Mary villages in the Philippines offer live-in secondary education with intensive vocation training for boys and girls 12-18 years old who come from the "poorest of the poor."
Two Girlstowns and two Boystowns in the Philippines have dormitories, workshops for sewing and other vocational skills, classrooms, auditoriums, swimming pools, basketball courts and other facilities on sprawling lots.
Reizque Palo, a graduate who was at Friday's Mass celebrating Schwartz, told NCR she joined Girlstown because her family has eight children and her father could not send them to school on a temporary driver's wages.
"Homesickness was the toughest battle for me," she said. Now a wife and mother, she praised the program for giving "a lot of time to study."
After graduating from high school at 17, the sisters helped train her to sew garments, but pulled her out when they learned the salary she received was low. They found her another job as a secretary, where she worked for six years. Nuns and teachers at the Mass were Girlstown students.
Relevant mission response to poverty
Is this institutional approach relevant and helpful in solving poverty at its root?
"I know some people would say the approach of the sisters does not address the structural roots of the problem, but I beg to disagree," Tagle told NCR. "First of all, mission is not a one-dimension reality. It is a multifaceted reality. There is proclamation, there is prayer, there are relationships, there is advocacy, there is all of these things."
He said no one person can claim he or she "can encompass the totality of mission. In the same way, no single group in the church can claim that they have all the secrets for mission. Mission is complex as it is, and its different layers must be an ecclesial event."
He stressed that the way Schwartz and his collaborators, the Sisters of Mary and the Brothers of Christ, handle mission is specific to their charism.
"What they are doing is definitely a contribution to the totality of mission, and they're dealing with specific groups of people in need of urgent response," he said.
"If you look closely at the roots of poverty, you cannot deny that it's not only structures or systems that have given rise to poverty, but there's lack of human development, lack of education, lack of access, lack of love, lack of caring and the basic respect that is due to the human person -- these are the things that make them poor."
Tagle said poverty is usually gauged only according to quantitative measures, such as amount of money one has or earns.
"But there are also social and cultural roots of poverty," he said. "These are the things this type of educational approach gives to the children and the poor. So, it is mission and it is providing in a way a response to the so-called structural evils leading to poverty in that specific dimension."
"To cite Pope Benedict XVI in his first encyclical, he said even if we have complied with all the demands of justice, people will still look for love," Tagle said. "People will still hunger for love. So our fight against dehumanizing poverty should not be reduced to providing all the opportunities for earning money and for employment. All of these are good, but let us also give love."


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Concept art of a holographic star field filling a cavernous alien spaceship for "Prometheus." Director Ridley Scott returns to the universe of "Alien" in a tale of human beings seeking out the origin of life - and coming face to face with death.
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The scene as it appears in the film, as a humanoid robot discovers a holographic mapping system aboard an alien spaceship.
For "Prometheus" production designer Arthur Max (a two-time Oscar nominee, for "Gladiator" and "American Gangster") had to both extrapolate a believable technology for late-21st century human space travel and also design technologies for a civilization much further advanced. "You're trying to create not only an incredible world but also inspire the possibility of what could be real or imagined, known and unknown," he said. "We don't make documentaries!"
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Director Ridley Scott on the set of "Prometheus," with Noomi Rapace.
Although the film is not specifically a prequel to Scott's 1979 horror classic, the story is set in the same universe as "Alien," in the decades preceding that film's events. Here, a scientific expedition to a far-off world uncovers not only evidence of an advanced civilization (dubbed the Engineers) but also the product of their genetic experiments.
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The spaceship Prometheus features top-of-the-line technology in interstellar travel, and is designed to explore and land in any hostile environment or terrain.
Much was extrapolated from technologies currently in use or being developed by NASA and the European Space Agency. Max also consulted with the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in California.
"It gave us a certain amount of technical information, but then you also layer that with a kind of style which very often [portrays] another aspect of the story," he said.
Left: Concept artwork of the spaceship Prometheus, which Max called "a Cadillac of the skies."
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The spaceship Prometheus.
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A concept drawing of the spaceship Prometheus preparing to land.
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The scene in the finished film.
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"Prometheus" landing on an alien world.
"We always knew we would be landing in a hostile environment, worse than you can imagine on Earth - toxic atmosphere, unstable terrain," said Arthur Max. "We designed the Prometheus to deal with anything; it has a very complex landing system and levelling system, and it had every technology you could want for space exploration and exploitation."
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The film boasts what Max calls "a very eclectic design, overlaying high technology and very archaic discoveries of an unknown culture that's probably many thousands of years ahead of us."
For inspiration Max looked at the "heightened drama" and alien landscapes of Chesley Bonestall (left) and the scientific detail of Robert McCall's paintings for NASA, as well as classical sculptures of antiquity.
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The Prometheus crew goes on an EVA to an alien pyramid. It took 11 weeks to construct the crew's vehicles which could be driven on hostile terrain.
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That country's lush mountains and waterfalls were also the backdrop for the movie's prologue which mirrored the Greek myth of Prometheus, a god who gifted mankind with fire and was punished for it.
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The human crew of "Prometheus" must stay in suspended animation during the two-year-long journey - watched over by a human-like robot.
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Arthur Max also visited an experimental robotic medical trauma unit being developed for the military, which aided his design of the "med pod," a robotic chamber in which a patient could undergo surgery or other medical treatment.
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Logan Marshall-Green and Noomi Rapace aboard the spaceship Prometheus in a scene from the film. The ship's two-tiered bridge featured a wrap-around glass cockpit.
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Logan Marshall-Green aboard the spaceship "Prometheus."
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Accommodations on board the Prometheus for executives of Weyland Industries, the corporation driving the expedition, are the height of luxury - and a far cry from the grungy space tug Nostromo in the original "Alien."
Left: Charlize Theron as Vickers, a Weyland executive overseeing the expedition to an alien world.
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Vickers' quarters featured a virtual wallscreen environment (which shows scenes of nature or films, like a 3-D "Lawrence of Arabia"), designer furnishings, and a robotic medical pod for emergency surgeries.
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Charlize Theron filming "Prometheus."
The highly-detailed sets were constructed on five sound stages at Pinewood Studios in England. The "007 Stage," one of the world's largest, still was not large enough and had to be expanded.
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Also constructed was the massive alien compound (referred to as the Pyramid), with corridors opening onto ever-more mysterious chambers.
"Prometheus" shares more than a little DNA with the 1979 film "Alien." Production designer Arthur Max said director Ridley Scott wanted to do something that in an indirect way pointed to where his "Alien" began. "So in a way it was designing in reverse, and reconstructing what he and [concept artist H.R.] Giger had done originally.
"Ridley wanted something that was really turned the page on it. He didn't want limitations or restraints."
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A chamber inside the alien Pyramid in "Prometheus."
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The new film suggests the identity of the "space jockey," whose fossilized remains were discovered in the original film.
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Below: The remains of the "space jockey" aboard an alien spacecraft are discovered in "Alien" (1979). Above: The alien craft as depicted in "Prometheus."
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Filming "Prometheus." It was Ridley Scott's first film shot on digital, and in 3-D.
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A mural inside an alien compound depicts a horrific creature, inspired by H.R. Giger's original "Alien" designs.
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Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green in "Prometheus."
The space suits by costume designer Jandy Yates (an Oscar-winner for "Gladiator") followed Scott's demands to avoid "puffy" NASA-style suits. Yates' suits were lightweight and flexible, with an outer suit and an inner suit of Neoprene, and a globe-shaped helmet with no blind spots (something Sigourney Weaver would have appreciated in the original "Alien"!). The helmets contained nine working video screens, lights, oxygen supply, fans, and HD cameras with transmitter and recorder.
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"You're trying to create not only an incredible world but also inspire the possibility of what could be real or imagined, known and unknown," Max said. "I think the history of film has always been about that. It uses the technology it has to expand what's possible in the imagination of the audience. And we tried to do that in 'Prometheus' more so than I think in any other project, because with science fiction there really are no boundaries.
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A scene from "Prometheus."
"Prometheus": Designing the future
- Interview with production designer Arthur Max
By CBSNews.com senior editor David Morgan
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The ADT Corporation (NYSE: ADT) announced that Michael Geltzeiler will join the company as its chief financial officer. Geltzeiler is currently the chief financial officer and group executive vice president at NYSE Euronext. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext five years ago, Geltzeiler served as president for school and educational services at the Reader's Digest Association, and was the organization's chief financial officer and senior vice president from 2001 to 2007. He also served as chief financial officer of marketing services, corporate controller and chief financial officer for the EMEA region at ACNielsen Corporation, and in a variety of senior finance positions both in the United States and abroad at Dun & Bradstreet.
Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN) announced that Stephane Biehler is joining Morningstar as chief financial officer. Biehler has served as chief accounting officer and corporate controller for NYSE Euronext since 2007. Biehler worked for Archipelago Holdings in Chicago as corporate controller from 2004 to 2006 and joined NYSE Group in 2006 as controller when the firms merged. He started his career at Deloitte, where he worked for nine years.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) announced that executive vice president and chief financial officer Darren R. Wells has been named president of Goodyear's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) business unit. Laura K. Thompson, vice president of finance, North America, will succeed Wells as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Wells has been Goodyear's executive vice president and CFO since October, 2008. Previously, he served as senior vice president of finance and strategy and, prior to that, senior vice president, business development and treasurer. Wells joined Goodyear as vice president and treasurer in August 2002. Thompson has been vice president of finance for the company's North American business since 2011.
CareCloud announced that it has hired R. Scott Lentz as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining CareCloud, he served as CFO of Aprima Medical Software, Inc., PracticeOne, Inc., and Picis, Inc., as well as COO of Streamline, Inc. He is currently an advisory board member to WorkersCount, Inc. and Cyber Holdings, Inc. Mr. Lentz began his career in the military, serving six years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Walton Group of Companies announced the appointment of Robert Laak as Chief Financial Officer for Walton Development and Management (WDM). Mr. Laak most recently served as Corporate Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions, for Meritage Homes Corporation. Mr. Laak also served as Corporate Vice President for Finance at Meritage where he led company real estate and joint venture financing activities.
Osmotica Pharmaceutical Corp. announced the appointment of Kenneth Gayron as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Osmotica, Ken was Vice President and Treasurer of Sensus. Prior to becoming a Corporate Financial Officer, Ken was an Executive Director with UBS Investment Bank and CIBC World Markets. Previously, Ken also served as Treasurer of Nuance Communications.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that it has named Robert L. "Skipp" Swayze as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Swayze was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Dallas-based Gardere Wynne & Sewell, where he served from 2006 to 2013. Before that, he served in a variety of finance and management functions for Fulbright & Jaworski, Perkins Coie, Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (today part of DLA Piper) and Baker & McKenzie.
Florida East Coast Industries announced the addition of Jason Bewley as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of All Aboard Florida. Mr. Bewley was Vice President of Corporate Finance for World Fuel Services. Previously, Mr. Bewley was Senior Director of Finance and Investor Relations for AirTran Airways and a member of the finance management team at Universal Orlando.
Akebia Therapeutics announced that it has appointed Jason A. Amello as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Amello previously served as Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of ZIOPHARM Oncology and as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Genzyme Corporation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Amello spent 10 years in the business advisory and assurance practice of Deloitte.
ZS Pharma announced that Todd Creech has joined the company as chief financial officer. Prior to joining ZS Pharma, Creech was CFO and vice president of business development at Sarcode Biosciences prior to its acquisition by Shire Pharmaceuticals in August 2013. Previously, Creech was CFO of Sirion Therapeutics. Earlier in his career, Creech worked at NovaQuest. Prior to that, he co-founded Centice. Additionally, Creech has more than 10 years of experience consulting with biotech and high-tech companies while employed at SRI International and Andersen Consulting.
DCB Financial Corp. (OTC: DCBF) announced the appointment of J. Daniel Mohr as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mohr most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alliance Financial Corporation since 2006. Prior to 2006, he served in various executive-level positions with Partners Trust Financial Group, Inc. In addition to his banking experience, he also served as a Senior Auditor with KPMG, LLC.
American DG Energy Inc. (NYSE: ADGE) announced the appointment of Jesse T. Herrick to the position of Chief Financial Officer at American DG Energy and EuroSite Power Inc. Prior to joining American DG Energy, Mr. Herrick served as Managing Director at Scarsdale Equities LLC, and previously held a senior equity analyst position for Merriman Capital. Mr. Herrick previously worked as an engineer for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and ATK Space Systems.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX) announced the appointment of Brian McKeon to serve as the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2014. McKeon will join the Company after having spent the past six years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Iron Mountain. Prior to joining Iron Mountain in April 2007, McKeon served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at The Timberland Company, a position he held from March 2000 to April 2007. Prior to joining Timberland, he held several finance and strategic planning positions with PepsiCo, Inc., from 1991 to 2000, serving most recently as Vice President, Finance at Pepsi-Cola, North America. Prior to joining PepsiCo, McKeon worked as a strategy consultant with the Alliance Consulting group and as an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand. McKeon has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since July 2003. In his Board capacity, he served as Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Compensation Committee. In connection with his appointment as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, McKeon has resigned as a member of the Company's Audit Committee and Compensation Committee, effective October 11, 2013, and has resigned from the Board of Directors effective upon
Axion Power International, Inc. (OTC: AXPW) announced the appointment of Stephen Graham as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He succeeds Charles Trego, who resigned for personal reasons and was elected to the Board of Directors by the shareholders at the Annual Shareholder Meeting on September 26. Mr. Graham was most recently Executive and Financial Consultant with CMF Associates LLC. During his tenure with CMF (2012-2013) he served as Interim CFO for a renewable energy company, and acted as onsite due diligence officer for the private equity firm that provided the company's financing. Prior to his service at CMF, Mr. Graham was with Associated Materials LLC from 2009 to 2012. His tenure with this $1.2 billion building materials company included the positions of Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary and Chief Financial Officer. He served at Wastequip Inc from 2008 to 2009 as CFO. From 2001 to 2008, he was Executive Vice President and CFO of Shiloh Industries. Prior to that he held positions at Republic Technologies International Inc., Dura Automotive Systems Inc., Truck Components Inc., and Grand & Toy Ltd. He began his career in 1982 at Magna International.
Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX) announced that Terry W. Rathert, a Newfield founder and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), will retire in 2014, after more than 25 years with the Company. The company intends to appoint Lawrence S. Massaro to succeed Rathert as Executive Vice President and CFO effective November 11, 2013. Rathert will serve as special advisor through August 2014, assisting during this transitional period. Massaro has been a member of Newfield's management team since March 2011 as Vice President, Corporate Development. Prior to joining Newfield, he was a Managing Director at JP Morgan in its oil and gas investment banking group. He has held a number of management and professional positions at various companies including Amerada Hess and British Petroleum.
Affinia Group Inc. has named Steve Klueg chief financial officer as veteran CFO Thomas Madden announces his plans to retire December 31, 2013. Steve Klueg comes to Affinia from his post as chief financial officer of ReCommunity Recycling. He additionally served as vice president and treasurer for World Fuel Services Corp. He also held assistant treasurer positions at Ingersoll-Rand and SPX Corporation
Dice Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) announced that John Roberts has today joined the company as Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Michael Durney who became the Company's President and CEO on September 30, 2013. Most recently, from 2011 Mr. Roberts served as Chief Financial Officer of BrightLine. Earlier in his career, he was a key leader in scaling the operational and financial performance as the CFO of Right Media, which was ultimately sold to Yahoo!, and served as the Chief Financial Officer of two public companies, Arbinet-thexchange, Inc. from 2004 to 2006 and Razorfish, Inc. from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Roberts started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served for more than a decade ultimately becoming an Audit Partner.
AppDynamics, Inc. announced that Walter Berger, recent CFO of IBM-acquired SoftLayer, has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Walter was CFO of SoftLayer, which was acquired by IBM earlier this year. Prior to that, he has been CFO of Leap Wireless, CBS Radio, Emmis Communications and LG&E Energy.
Apigee announced that Steve Valenzuela has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO). Valenzuela joins Apigee from Citrix, where he served as vice president of finance and operations for the mobile platforms group. Prior to Citrix, Steve was CFO at Zenprise, where he played a key leadership role in the successful sale and integration of Zenprise into Citrix. He also served as CFO for Rainmaker Systems, and as CFO of PlanetRx. Before this, Steve was the CFO of LinkExchange, which was acquired by Microsoft. Earlier, Steve held financial leadership roles at Tandem Computers, Atari and Intel.
AllSector Technology Group, Inc. announced the appointment of Stephen Walsh to chief financial officer. Walsh comes to AllSector from Visiting Nurse Service of New York, where he served for 15 years — most recently as director of IT finance. Prior experience includes PharMerica, Inc., Olsten-Kimberly Quality Care, and United Hospital.
Echo Automotive, Inc. (OTC: ECAU) announced that Todd Lawson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Echo Automotive, Mr. Lawson served as Chief Financial Officer for SNTech, Inc. Previously, Mr. Lawson was Vice President of Finance at 41st Parameter. Mr. Lawson also served as CFO of Vcommerce Corporation, and held senior financial positions at Primarion and Vivid Semiconductor. He began his career at Ernst & Young LLP.
Spherix Incorporated (NASDAQ: SPEX) announced that it has hired Michael Pollack to serve as its Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pollack is currently a partner at KBL, LLP and serves as the head of its Corporate Finance Group and Public Company Reporting Group.
Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBIO) has hired Robert E. Gagnon as Chief Financial Officer, effective as of the date of HBIO's planned spin-off of Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc., or HART, which is anticipated to be November 1, 2013, or the Distribution Date. From October 23, 2013 until the Distribution Date, Mr. Gagnon will initially serve as HBIO's Executive Vice President – Finance. Mr. Gagnon was recently Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Clean Harbors, Inc. (NYSE:CLH). Prior to this, he served in progressive executive positions at Biogen Idec, Inc. Earlier, he worked in a variety of senior positions at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Thomas McNaughton, who has served as Harvard Bioscience's Chief Financial Officer since November 2008, will resign from that position effective as of the Distribution Date to retain the role of Chief Financial Officer at Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc. ("HART").
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp®) (NYSE: LH) announced that Brad Hayes, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, plans to retire in 2014. The Company expects that Brad will continue in his capacity as CFO through the first half of 2014, unless a successor is named and the transition is completed before that time.
Chemung Canal Trust Company (CCTC) announced that Karl F. Krebs has joined the bank's management team as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer. Mr. Krebs was also appointed Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Chemung Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: CHMG), CCTC's parent company. Mr. Krebs began his career in 1982 and most recently served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Financial Institutions Inc./Five Star Bank, in Warsaw, NY. He is a Board Member of the Buffalo Museum of Science and a past member of the Board of Trustees of the New York State Bankers Retirement System, where he also served on the group's Investment Committee. During his banking career he has held management positions at: Goldome Bank, Key Corp, National City and HSBC before joining Financial Institutions/Five Star.
Verengo Inc. announced that Michael Hansen has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Hansen worked for six years as the Divisional Vice President of Finance for Smith's Interconnect. More recently Hansen was CFO of RAE Systems Inc., where he helped in the successful sale of that company to Honeywell.
AquaMost, Inc. announced the appointment of Mark Henrickson as Chief Operating Officer. Henrickson has served as the company's Chief Financial Officer since March 2012, will continue in his CFO role as well. Prior to joining AquaMost as Chief Financial Officer, Henrickson spent four years at Broadwind Energy, Inc., most recently as Director of Finance. Earlier in his career, Henrickson was an equity research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co; he began his career at Deloitte.
CSM Corporation has named Chris Fodor chief financial officer for the real estate development and management company. Ms. Fodor was previously the highly successful vice president & chief accounting officer for CSM Corporation. Prior to joining CSM Corporation, Ms. Fodor served in the role of principle for Entero, one of Minnesota's top IT and Finance staffing firms. She also held the title of senior director financial planning and analysis for Buffets, Inc., of Minneapolis.


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Anthropologists at the University of California Los Angeles are one step closer to unlocking the not-so-secrets of one of America's least invisible groups, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Ten years ago, researchers from UCLA's Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) spent a week hanging around the homes of 32 middle class American families, recording an insane amount of video of average citizens "living their lives" and "doing them." Anthropologists have spent the decade since then trapped in what must feel like the most boring Bravo marathon ever, reviewing that footage.
Here's what they've found: American kids have just got that "wow" factor that makes them eminently, irrefutably more watchable than their international peers.
Or, anyway, they've got helicopter parents and serious dependency issues:
"[Lead Anthropologist Dr. Elinor Ochs ] noticed that American children seemed relatively helpless compared with those in other cultures she and colleagues had observed."
Whereas, in other parts of the world, kids "were expected to contribute substantially to the community," by, say, scaling tall trees to harvest food or hauling their weight in firewood, American children's contributions seemed to extend no further than just being their beautiful incompetent selves.
"...The U.S. videos showed Los Angeles parents focusing more on the children, using simplified talk with them, doing most of the housework and intervening quickly when the kids had trouble completing a task."
Luckily, it's not all bad news. The footage revealed that asking children to perform a task almost inevitably led to heated negotiations between parents and their offspring, practice which will serve America's children well during their future participation in strategy-based reality television competitions.
To be eligible for observation, families had to own their homes and consist of two parents and two or three children, at least one of whom was between the ages of 7 and 12 years old. About a third of the families had at least one nonwhite member (holla if you heard me). Two families were headed by same sex couples.
To close, here's a great line that makes the middle class sound really sexy:
"In about 75% of the families, the mothers came home first and began to 'gyrate' through the house, bouncing between the kids and their homework, groceries, dinner and laundry..."
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Ever since I tried this beer, I'd been looking for it everywhere.
It's called Aooni ("Blue Demon") or India Pale Ale. I tried it at one of the parties, and I thought it wasn't bad. It's a 7% strong beer that's quite easy to drink.
I managed to find it in the Tokyu supermarket in Aobadai. I went in at opening time. If you've ever been there then, it's the strangest experience. Walking past EVERY aisle I got bowed to by ALL the staff.
It was so awkward. It happened so much it felt like they were taking the piss. I've noticed the same thing happen at department stores at closing time as well. To give you an impression what it felt like, watch this video.
On this second tasting, this beer didn't appeal to me all that much. It cost close to 300 yen, but I think the much cheaper Suntory draft 8% Strong tastes not a whole lot different, and an extra 1% makes all the difference ;)
Likely this will be the last time I get this, AND the last time I go to a supermarket at opening time.
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Posted by Jimmy In Japan at 12:55 pm
2 comments:
- Adam Smith Lieberfarb said...
You need to give this IPA a second chance but be sure to pour it into a glass first, mate! This brewer also makes my current favorite pale ale, Yona-Yona Ale. I can't get enough of it in this weather. If you like stout, then try Tokyo Black from the same brewer. My beer-festival buddy swears by it.
- 30 June 2011 at 09:33
- Jimmy In Japan said...
Ao Oni is getting much easier to find these days. I see it in my local supermarket now. I'm more often drinking the evil chu-hi mixes. There's a 9% Sparx chu-hi now! If I get back to beers, I'll give these a try!
- 1 July 2011 at 12:41
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Bukit Tinggi Horse Trails and Rabbit Park
Now some of you might already be bored with my Bukit Tinggi entries, but I promise this will be the last one alright?
So, besides the boring Japanese Village, two other not-so-attractive attractions in Berjaya Hills, Bukit Tinggi are the Horse Trails and the Rabbit Park.
Let's start with the Horse Trails.
Obviously, it's place where horses are kept. The entrance fee is RM2 per person.
You get to see horses.
Horse riding activity is available, but with a fee. It can be as cheap as RM25 for a 10 minutes ride, and up to RM650 for a picnic ride during peak-hours.
Pricey huh?
So if can't afford that or you think it's not worth the money, you can spend time with the horses.
And tie braids on their mane. Still boring.
Next, the Rabbit Park.
Obviously, again, it's where the rabbits are kept. Entrance fee is RM3 per person.
After paying the entrance fee, you'll be greeted by a huge wall with drawings of cute happy rabbits.
Make you look forward to seeing those cute happy rabbits right?
So you head over to the open rabbit area.
But you see…
Non-smiling rabbits.
Rabbits know no racism. Can human be like that as well?
Couple rabbits.
While the rest are free to roam, this unfortunate rabbit is caged.
Lonely rabbit.
Touch also it doesn't move. It feels fluffy!
Conclusion – the rabbits are lazy bunnies. They won't move, unless they get chased by little kids.
Basically it's totally a place for kids to see and chase cute rabbits. I, as a grown boy, don't feel excited at all.
It would have been great if these bunnies are around…
Hot sexy Playboy Bunnies! Too bad it's just an imagination.
So the place was really boring. While waiting for the shuttle bus, I had to entertain myself with a mini playground within the Rabbit Park.
Rabbit Park is boring! The see-saw is so much fun!
Rabbit Park is boring! The slide is so much exciting!
Rabbit Park is…
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Washington, D.C. - At the end of 2011, an important charitable giving incentive – the IRA Rollover – expired amidst congressional wrangling over budget priorities. In advance of a Senate hearing earlier this week on a number of expired tax provisions, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) vowed "to find a bipartisan path forward," adding that "it is critical to extend these tax provisions early in the year to maximize their effect and provide certainty for the 2012 tax year."
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The IRA Charitable Rollover provision has spurred new and increased giving to orchestras and thousands of other nonprofit organizations, supporting the valuable public benefits nonprofits share with their communities. On December 31, 2011, the IRA Charitable Rollover expired along with a number of other tax provisions. The IRA Rollover allowed donors 70 1/2 and older to make up to $100,000 in charitable contributions directly from their individual retirement accounts (IRA), without paying taxes on the withdrawal.â¨â¨
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Jamal Murray
"Imad is a hard and dedicated worker and made camp worthwhile. It was definitely a good experience for me and brought out all the best players from the region trying to make a name. It definitely helped me make a name and started the recruiting process with me."
Nik Stauskas
"Attending camp and having the guidance of Imad showing players the ropes, while teaching them new things is a special thing. They should definitely take advantage of this camp and opportunity."
Corliss Williamson
"Imad is a hard worker on and off the court. He puts in the time to make anything he is involved with successful. He always strives to make people around him better and is seeking to lead whenever the opportunity arises."
Garret Siler
"Imad is a great player as well as a great leader on and off the court. Playing with him has shown me that hard work and having a true desire to work on your craft can take you far. He is a type of person that leads by example and works hard to complete any task at anytime. His success will translate to his programs with youth in our communities."
Mike Harris
"Imad is a hard worker whom I've been impressed with over the past few years. The one thing that I really noticed about him is he realizes everyone has room for improvement including himself so he is willing to put in the extra work and that can carry over to a very successful person and player. I've seen him grow as a player so I can only imagine the things that he has done to help the young kids in his area. Imad is the true definition of the saying "hard work pays off."


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Today, (June 25) in 1840, the city of Leipzig unveiled a new statue of Gutenberg (pictured on the right) to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the cultural and religious revolution caused by the first printing of Gutenberg's Bibles in the 15th century. The city asked Felix Mendelssohn to compose a piece for a gala concert in Leipzig's St. Thomas Church featuring the church choir and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Mendelssohn wrote his Symphony No. 2, entitled "Lobgesang," or "Hymn of Praise," for this occasion. It is modeled on Beethoven's Ninth, opening with purely instrumental movements, and concluding with a finale for vocal soloists and chorus. Mendelssohn's text was taken from Martin Luther's translation of the Bible. Since the premiere was intended for St. Thomas Church, where J. S. Bach once worked, Mendelssohn concluded his symphony with a fugue.
I don't think the San Antonio Symphony has ever played this work before, but Sebastian Lang-Lessing has programmed it for April 8 & 9, 2011 with the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers. When "Lobgesang" was first played in England, the audience spontaneously rose for the final chorus, as they traditionally do for Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah." The biggest difference between Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 is the amount of vocal writing. Beethoven's revolutionary work is about 40% choral, while Mendelssohn's is 61%.
So, Happy 170th Birthday "Lobgesang." San Antonio will have to wait until April to celebrate.
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Thursday, July 1 at 7:30 pm at the Coker United Methodist Sanctuary
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Beinfest addresses reports of job status on radio
MIAMI -- Marlins president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest on Tuesday addressed reports about his job status in a radio interview.
During his weekly segment on the "Hochman and Zaslow Show" on 790 The Ticket, the Marlins flagship station, Beinfest responded to stories that he recently met with team owner Jeffrey Loria to discuss his future.
"A lot of things are out there. I'm not going to respond to them," Beinfest said. "Let's face it, this hasn't been pleasant, I don't think for Jeffrey or for the organization, the last couple of weeks reading all these things."
Beinfest has been heading the personnel department since Loria assumed ownership in 2002 and is under contract through '14.
Also on Tuesday, Beinfest gave credit to first-year manager Mike Redmond, who has had the task of molding a team that has used more than 20 rookies.
"I think Red has done a good job," Beinfest said. "Coming out of Spring Training, we were extremely challenged. We knew that we were going to be overmatched right out of the box. But I think the guys played hard every day. I think that's a good way to evaluate him."
Beinfest noted the players were prepared and played hard on a daily basis.


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Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - How To
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
Finding Your Family on the Internet: The Ultimate Guide to Online Family History Research
A book by Michael Otterson.
Genealogists Question and Answer Book: Solutions and Advice for Maximizing Your Research Results
A book by Marcia Yannizze Melnyk.
The Board for Certification of Genealogists' Genealogical Standards Manual
A book by the BCG.
The Genealogist's Companion & Sourcebook
A book by Emily Anne Croom.
The Genealogist's Handbook : Modern Methods for Researching Family History
A book by Raymond S. Wright, III.
The Handybook for Genealogists
A book by Everton's.
The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy
A book by Val D. Greenwood.
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
A book by Emily Anne Croom.
Unpuzzling Your Past : A Basic Guide to Genealogy
A book by Emily Anne Croom.
From Google Books, full copies of each issue from Jan-Feb 1994 - Vol. 12, No. 1 through Mar-Apr 2010 - Vol. 28, No. 2.
Books We Own - Genealogy, General Reference
Find a book from which you would like a lookup and click on the submitter's code at the end of the entry. Once you find the contact information for the submitter, write them a polite request for a lookup. Be sure to follow the Tips for making a request
Family History Notebook is a powerful, new online resource for family history enthusiasts. This suite of tools provides the ability to: A) Organize family history tasks to-do and track what has been done previously, B) secure local family history content (images/documents) on a remote server or easily add new content such as audio or video interviews using the optional smartphone app. C) users can choose to easily share details or content with family or friends. Family History Notebook customers can easily collaborate to achieve the most effective result.
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Genealogical books, video tapes, seminars & lectures by Dr. George K. Schweitzer & Ruth Schweitzer Pratt.
Genealogical.com - Guides and Manuals
The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer
By Elizabeth Shown Mills. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer
By Elizabeth Shown Mills. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer's Guide to the Research Process
By Elizabeth Shown Mills. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
Genealogy Standards: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
A book for sale from Amazon.com. This new edition of the official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists provides a standard by which all genealogists can pattern their work. Chapters include: The Genealogical Proof Standard; Standards for Documenting; Standards for Researching; Standards for Writing; Standards for Genealogical Educators; Standards for Continuing Education.
Pajama Genealogy Research System by Robert Ragan
Genealogy and family history research method; unique genealogy home-study course on CD.
QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer
By Elizabeth Shown Mills. For sale from Genealogical Publishing Company.
This book is designed to help genealogists of all types and at all stages in their search. There are several hundred tips, tactics, and online web links provided to help the beginner find the right path to get started or the experienced researcher to jump ahead to the next level.
An outstanding how to magazine written for family researchers by people who share their interest in genealogy and family history. Formerly Family Chronicle Magazine.
How To » Publications, Software & Supplies
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See also: Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.


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Gold futures are now seeing their largest jump in speculative net long positioning due to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's views on a third round of quantitative easing and the announcement of a 100 billion-euro lending plan for Spain, ETF Securities said Monday in its Precious Metals Weekly report.
"Although Fed Chairman Bernanke's testimony to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week was noncommittal on the potential for QE3, bargain hunters appeared to take price weakness as an opportunity to accumulate net long gold futures positions at the fastest pace since December 2008, surging 28%," ETF Securities reported.
In addition, the eurozone's weekend announcement that it has agreed to lend Spain 100 billion euros, or $125 billion, to rescue its collapsing banking system contributed to the rise in gold futures in line with a rally in other risk assets on Monday morning, said report authors Martin Arnold and Nicholas Brooks.
Net longs in gold still remain near end-2008 lows despite the sharp lows, although China gold imports have surged beyond 65% in April to 103 metric tons, a record monthly level, according to the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department.
Malcolm Gissen, a gold bull and registered investment advisor who co-manages the San Francisco-based Encompass Fund (ENCPX), confirmed that both gold futures and gold sales in China are skyrocketing.
"Gold prices look attractive now," said Gissen, who had already read the ETF Securities Precious Metals Weekly report, in an interview on Monday with AdvisorOne. "Prices are comparatively low, and there are many factors that favor higher gold prices ahead. We're seeing national governments buying more gold than they have over the last several years. So far this year, for example, we're seeing Russia and Mexico buying gold. As countries become concerned about the U.S. dollar and economy long term, I believe that we're going to see more buying of gold commodities."
A devaluation of the dollar as well as the euro also is in the cards, Gissen predicted, and as people have less confidence in these currencies, they will tend to invest in gold.
The U.S. will see gridlock after the elections unless the Republicans make a clean sweep in the presidency with Mitt Romney along with both houses of Congress, he added. "We're going to see terrible gridlock, and that's a positive for gold. I also think we're going to have higher inflation ahead in the United States, which is also a positive for gold."
As for China's April gold import rise of 65% from March, Gissen noted that the Chinese government is allowing its citizens to buy more gold in more different places than in the past.
"China has been loosening up regulations to allow its people to buy gold," he said. "As China develops a middle and upper investing class, those people want to hold gold. As a result, last year China overtook India as the No. 1 consumer of gold. Historically, Indians as a society have placed great value on gold, which made them the top consumers in the world, but that is no longer the case."
Read PIMCO's Gross: Focus on Short-Term Securities, QE3 Is Coming at AdvisorOne.


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It might be sacrilegious to accuse Berkshire Hathaway of false advertising, but its spring gathering of shareholders is hardly an annual meeting. No, it's a pilgrimage.
Money managers, advisors and investors from all over the world descended upon Omaha, Neb., this weekend to take in the words of wisdom from the world's most famous investor, Warren Buffett.
More than 18,000 people crammed into the CenturyLink Center—with many thousands more watching on big screens in adjoining rooms—as the 81-year-old Buffett and his right hand man, 88-year-old Charlie Munger, answered more than 50 questions from shareholders and analysts during an eight-hour marathon session.
Count Timothy Vick, Chicago-based senior portfolio manager of Sanibel Captiva Trust Co., as one of Buffett's disciples. This year's meeting was his 13th.
"For as little as one Berkshire share, you can listen to the best investor in the world take questions for hours on end and give home-spun advice on how to become a better investor. It's hard not to take away some bit of advice that will help you personally as an investor," he says.
Berkshire's shares (BRK.A) were trading at $122,888 on Monday afternoon.
Vick, whose private wealth management firm manages $600 million, says he follows Buffett's buy and hold strategy very closely and he comes to Omaha to "recharge my batteries."
"Sometimes you can get caught up too much in the hype of the market. It's good to go back and listen to some sensitive thinking," he says.
The fact that Buffett doesn't make himself as available as the leaders of other public companies does make the Berkshire meeting an even more critical date on the calendar. "You've only got one chance a year to hear what's on his mind," says Vick.
Vick will get absolutely no argument from Martien van Winden, founder and manager of Hoofbosch, a Dutch investment fund. He considers the Berkshire annual meeting the "best one-day economic seminar in the world."
"Buffett and Munger, they know what they are talking about. Most of the analysts, central bankers and politicians, even the world famous, are talking [BS] most of the time," he says.
A longtime devotee, van Winden doesn't invest in Berkshire shares, but he implements Buffett's way of thinking into his own investment strategy. He only invests in a small group of solid companies in Switzerland, the U.S. and the Netherlands.
"For 364 days of the year I hear all kinds of [BS] about how to invest. One day a year I hear very serious talk. I do not agree with everything both guys tell me. I do not invest in financials, for example, and I invest [some] in gold, but I take their comments very, very seriously," he says.
Being a value investor like Buffett isn't always easy but listening to arguably the top tandem of all time is like getting an annual "booster shot," says Hardev Bains, president and portfolio manager of Lionridge Capital Management, a Winnipeg, Canada-based asset management firm.
"The news you read is really focused on the short term and short-term factors. One has to be emotionally vigilant that we're not getting caught up in the psychology of the masses," he says.
"When the market is zigging and you're zagging, that can be very tough emotionally. (The Berkshire meeting) is an oasis of rational thinking."


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No clue, but that's okay because this recipe's so simple you don't need to know how to spell. (well, okay, you need to know how to read, but they're simple words...)
- 3 cups fresh blueberries
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 1/3 cup orange juice (we used the pulp-free kind)
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour (I'd like to try this with wheat flour next time)
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Do This
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
- In a largish baking (8" square or whatever you've got that's similar), mix blueberries, 3 tbsp sugar and orange juice. Set aside.
- In another small bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream the butter and 1/2 cup sugar. For the non-cooks, creaming just basically means mixing it well until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla extract, then gradually add the flour mixture, stirring until the ingredients are combined. Don't over-stir.
- Drop batter by rounded tablespoons over blueberry mixture. Try to cover as much of the blueberries as possible.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until top is golden brown and filling is bubbly.
- Eat warm with a scoop of ice cream!
Love that! And I bet you will too.....


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Russia, Turkey downplay Syria differences
The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Monday downplayed differences over the Syrian civil war, saying they shared the common goal of trying to end the humanitarian crisis there and hailing their countries' booming trade ties.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, one of Syria's few remaining allies, said he understood Turkish concerns about its border security after Syrian shells hit Turkish territory in recent months.
But he warned that Turkey's request that NATO deploy Patriot missiles on its border with Syria could escalate fears of a wider conflict. Turkey and its Western and Arab allies are calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
"We share Turkey's concern about the developments on the border," said Putin. "But we are calling for restraint because increasing (military) potential will not settle the situation but create the opposite effect."
After meeting Putin in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish and Russian foreign ministers will work together more intensively on the Syrian problem.
Russia has blocked tough action against Syria with its Security Council vote at the United Nations, while Turkey has urged the establishment of an internationally protected buffer zone for civilians in Syria.
Putin and Erdogan emphasized the blossoming economic ties between their two countries, saying they should aim for bilateral trade to triple to $100 billion a year. Russian and Turkish officials signed 10 agreements on trade, energy, finance, banking and other issues.
Putin, who was making his first trip after a two-month hiatus that raised concerns about his health, showed some rigidity in his movements but no sign of pain or difficulty.
He walked past television cameras and climbed the podium without showing discomfort, and seemed at ease turning around in his seat and shaking hands with officials during the signing ceremony.
His spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, shrugged off a question about whether the president felt any negative effects of air travel, saying Putin was fine.


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Ikea "make room for your life" by Mother
AgencyMother London
SectorRetail brands
Ikea's new TV spot by Mother looks at how good storage can improve life at home. The ad, which launches on Saturday and runs until 23 March, showcases the retailer's storage ranges and sees a couple being kept apart in their home by mountains of clutter. It is inspired by the insight that poor storage doesn't just cause mess and clutter but also affects relationships in the home. The spot features a cover version of the Bee Gees track Living Together by the band An Escape Plan. The campaign comprises 60- and 30-second versions of the ad, outdoor and press activity, two online documentaries and a full-length music video available on the brand's YouTube channel. The TV ad was directed by Adam Berg through Stink.


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Author(s): Patrick Evans
`All the time on the island there had been something she was looking for. She knew she had to keep this in mind, and that she'd know what it was when she found it. Whatever it proved to be.' It's 1956 and Iola arrives on the island of Ibiza, on the fringes of Franco's Spain, with little more than a Spanish phrasebook and an imagination shaped by literature and movies. Soon she meets a fascinating American photographer who falls in and out of focus: is he really a photographer, and who exactly is the German doctor he keeps asking her about? Nothing is stable or quite as it seems, and the mysterious doctor, when he appears, takes Iola for a picnic on a salt island, where she is brought close to a brighter, harsher reality. Salt Picnic is a beguiling novel about mistranslation, fantasy and the historical echoes of ideology, by the author of Gifted and The Back of His Head.
Shortlisted for Ockhams Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize 2018


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MusicHi, welcome to my blog. I'm a musician from Tel Aviv and I sometimes write about the music that inspires me in some way, cross genre. Stick around and please do visit my Soundcloud page to listen. Enjoy, Yair Yona.
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So This Is Post Rock Ha? Couple Of Words About Carta's Second Album
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text: As we've discussed previously, the German heavy metal band (get it? GET IT?!) Compressorhead consists of four robots who perform blistering rock songs, including this recent live cover of AC/DC's hit "TNT." After all the advancements in robotics over the years, it's nice to see we're actually getting somewhere worthwhile. Now, when the robot apocalypse comes, at least we know it'll have an awesome soundtrack.