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Area Obituaries
Frances Phillips Perine, 63, of Choctaw Bluff died April 1, 2006 at her residence.
She was born Sept. 11, 1942. She was a member of New Canaan Baptist Church where she sang in the choir. She had worked as cook at Jackson Health Care.
Survivors include five sons, Gus Freddie Lee Perine Jr., Patrick (Brenda) Perine, all of Jackson, Edmond Carter Jr., LuDary Perine, Christopher Paul Perine, all of Mobile; five daughters, Debra (Wayne) Bettis, Chrissy (Gregory) Daffin, all of Mobile, Judy Perine, St. Stephens, Margaret Perine, Rosetta Perine, both of Jackson; three brothers, Houston (Marzell) House, Jim Larry (Mildred) House, all of Jackson, O'Neal (Velma) Finch, Gosport; one sister, Lois Ann House, Jackson; 11 grandchildren.
Visitation will be Friday, April 7 from 6 until 8 p.m. at the chapel of the New Canaan Baptist Church. Another viewing will be Saturday, April 8 at 1 p.m., one hour prior to the service at 2 p.m. at the chapel of the New Canaan Baptist Church in the Choctaw Bluff Community of Jackson with Rev. Van Williams to officiate. Burial will be in the New Canaan Church Cemetery. Andrews Funeral Home of Jackson will direct.
Zebedee T. Snell Sr., 58, of Suggsville died March 24, 2006 at his residence. He was born Nov. 22, 1947.
Survivors include two sons, Zebedee T. Snell Jr., Albert Snell, both of New Jersey; one daughter, Vanessa Snell, Atlanta, Ga.; two sisters, Rebecca Snell, Betty Dennis, both of Suggsville; five grandchildren.
The service was April 1 at 2 p.m. at the Cedar Fork Baptist Church in Suggsville. Burial was in the Cedar Fork Baptist Church Cemetery. Jackson Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Willie Clyde Williams, 48, of Coffeeville died March 26, 2006.
He was born Sept. 5, 1957. He was a member of C & J Holiness Church of God of Keonton.
Survivors include his wife, Julia Mae Williams, Coffeeville; three sons, Fredrick Williams, Willie Clyde Williams III, Dexter "A.J." Williams, all of Coffeeville; one adopted son, Reginal Tate, Morvin; five grandchildren, nine sisters, Elizabeth Williams, Bernice Thomas, Shirley Collins, Tina Washington, Vera Williams, all of Coffeeville, Clara Williams, Alice Dickerson, both of Grove Hill, Venita Law, Mobile, Kimberly Cade, Morvin; step-father, Clayton Law, Coffeeville.
The service was April 1 at 1 p.m. at the Union Baptist Church of Coffeeville. Burial was in the Coffeeville Cemetery. Jackson Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Joe Mack Bolen 68, of Coffeeville died March 30, 2006 at his residence.
He as born Nov. 2, 1937. He was a member of the New Faith Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Air Force. He was a retired electrician.
Survivors include his wife, Louise Bolen, Coffeeville; one sister, Martha (Wayne) Courtney, Coffeeville.
The service was March 31 at 11 a.m. at the New Faith Baptist Church. Burial was in the Coffeeville Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.
Nina Garris McKee, 75, of Leroy died April 3, 2006 in a Shelby County hospital.
She was born Sept. 18, 1930 in Marengo County. She was a member of the Pine Grove United Methodist Church. She was a retired bookkeeper for Jackson Hardware Company.
Survivors include her husband, Jesse L. McKee, Leroy; one son, Daniel L. McKee, Leroy; one daughter, Mary Edna "Jack" Cartee, Leroy; two brothers, Joe Ray Garris, Jack Donald Garris, both of Foley; one sister, Shirley G. Coxwell, Pachutta, Miss.; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.
The service will be Thursday, (today), April 6 at 11 a.m. in the Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Leroy with Rev. Rod Curry to officiate. Burial will be in the Pine Grove Methodist Cemetery. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson will direct.
Active pallbearers will be Daniel Ashley McKee, Jason Massey, Johnny Hicks, Joe Ray Garris Jr., Johnny Garris, Gerald Miller, Claude James McKee, Rusty Cox and Butch Coswell.
The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the American Diabetes Association or the Pine Grove United Methodist Church Building Fund.
Dorothy Jean Bedwell Hodge, 63, of Grove Hill died March 27, 2006 at Jackson Medical Center.
She was born April 9, 1942 in Coffeeville. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include two sons, Bruce L. Finney, Brewton, Kevin D. Hill, Grove Hill; one daughter, Debbie Green, Livingston, Tenn.; one brother, Luther O. Bedwell, Grove Hill; fiance, W.C. Rodgers, Jackson; a special friend, Robbie Rodgers, Jackson; two grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Raven Elizabeth Baugh.
The service was March 29 at 2 p.m. at with Rev. Mark Lambert officiating. Burial was in the New Prospect Cemetery in Coffeeville. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Active pallbearers were Donnie Williams, W.V. Bedwell, Dewayne Bedwell, Dean Bedwell, Bobby McClure and Eddie Lovelace.
Honorary pallbearers were W.C. Rogers and Robbie Rodgers.
Carolyn Parker Lewis, 80, of Sweet Water died March 27, 2006 at Baptist Medical Center, Montclair in Birmingham.
She was born Nov. 4, 1925 in Thomaston. She was a retired school teacher. She was a member of Paynes Chapel United Methodist Church.
Survivors include one son, Alex Lewis, Lucedale, Miss.; one daughter, Lynn L. Woo, Chelsea; special family friend, Carl "Tippy" Butler, Sweet Water; six grandchildren.
A graveside service was March 28 at 2 p.m. at the Paynes Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery with Rev. Rick Slingluff officiating. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Paynes Chapel United Methodist Church.
Active pallbearers were Walter Crim, Charles Beverly, Stratton Lewis, Gene Parker, James Whitley and Sonny Bedsole.
Infant Logan Mark Sims, of Thomasville died March 30, 2006 at his residence. He was born Feb. 3, 2006 in Demopolis.
Survivors include his father, Charles Alexander Sims, Thomasville; his mother, Crystal Dawn Champion, Thomasville; one brother, Hayden Alexander Sims, Thomasville; one sister, Alexis Paige Champion, Thomasville; two grandmothers, Mabel Jean Champion, Mary Carol Sims, both of Thomasville; one grandfather, Mark Sims, Thomasville; step-grandmother, Robin Sims, Thomasville; two great-grandmothers, Deloris Loftis, Doris Mae "Dot" Champion, both of Thomasville; great-grandparents, Jimmy and Juanita O'Bryant, A.L. "Red" and Madelyn Sims, all of Thomasville; one great-great-grandmother, Jimmie Smith, Tuscaloosa.
A graveside service was April 1 at 11 a.m. in the Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Thomasville with Rev. Philip Craddock officiating. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Roderick "Bit" Allen, 27, of Lower Peach Tree died March 28, 2006 in Mobile. He was born July 26, 1978.
Survivors include his mother, Barbara Morrissette, Thomasville; father, Jimmie (Francis) Davis, Lower Peach Tree, finance', Tiffany Jones, Lower Peach Tree; two children, Romeo, Jayline Allen, Lower Peach Tree; two step-children, Zakiyah Jones, Kelderius Jones, Lower Peach Tree; five brothers, Fredrick Allen, Clifford Allen, Thomasville, Barron Allen, Camden, Anthony Cheeseboro, Christopher Cheeseboro, North Carolina; two sisters, Shirley Taylor, Sunny South, Jennifer Powell, Lower Peach Tree; four uncles; 13 aunts; 10 nephews and five special friends.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Judy Lee Allen.
The service was April 1 at New Moriah Baptist Church with overseer, Raymond McConnell. Burial was in the New Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery. Reese Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Active pallbearers were Douglas Tate, Kerne Crawford, Dewayne Myles and Flexis McCaskey and Terry Dumas.
Ola B. Morrissette, 80, of Chance died March 22, 2006 in Mobile. She was born Jan. 16, 1926.
Survivors include three sons, Eddie James Stabler, Charlie Lee Stabler, Mobile; Fancy Morrissette, Chance; four daughters, Pezzie Dotson, Betty Patrick, Chance, Margaret Stabler, Raleigh, N.C., Kathy Mitchell, Montgomery; one Godson, Cecil Mabien, Packer's Bend; one brother, Freddie Lee Kidd; one sister, Annie L. Welch, Chance; one aunt; and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins, other relatives and friends.
The service was March 25 in Mobile with Rev. A.L. Allen officiating. Burial was in the Chance Baptist Church Cemetery. Reese Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Active pallbearers were nephews.


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On Friday, George Will wrote a harrowing column about the Justice Department's prosecution — courtesy of the Environmental Crimes Division — of Nancy Black, a marine biologist. Black captains a whale watching ship. Finding herself under investigation for "harassment" of a marine mammal, the alleged harassment consisting of whistling at whales to keep them near the ship for a while, she submitted a tape of the incident. Black edited the tape slightly to highlight the whistling, according to Will. The feds found no harassment, but indicted Black for editing the tape, calling this a "material false statement" to federal investigators.
They also charged Black with feeding killer whales. But, according to Will, what Black actually did was photograph the killer whales eating a whale they had already killed. Her only contribution to the feast was to cut a hole in one of the floating slabs of blubber and, through the hole, attach a rope to stabilize the slab while a camera on a pole recorded the whales' underwater eating.
Will notes that the federal persecution of Black has crippled her scientific career, cost her more than $100,000 in legal fees so far, and might see her sentenced to 20 years in prison. What is going on here?
Will sees this horror story as an illustration of overcriminalization seeping into law, especially federal law. He points to Harvey Silverglate's book, "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent," which argues that the mad proliferation of federal criminal laws — which often are too vague to give fair notice of what behavior is proscribed or prescribed — means that "our normal daily activities expose us to potential prosecution at the whim of a government official."
Will isn't wrong and neither is Silverglate. But Bill Otis at Crime and Consequences sees an additional, and I believe more salient, culprit — the infusion of ideology into criminal law and, in particular, the infusion of political correctness.
Sprawling criminal statutes are, to be sure, the necessary backdrop to what is happening to Ms. Black. But the real driving force is PC — a hodgepodge of supposedly enlightened and "compassionate" liberal causes. As we now see, these causes are to be advanced, not, as always promised, by education (since actual education would be the end of them), but by the snarling threat of jail.
Ms. Black's journey to Kafkaland is what happens when political correctness and its entourage of slogans (here, the slogans of fruitcake environmentalism) take over criminal law. What her case most reminded me of was the Duke lacrosse prosecution, another episode in which political correctness (there, fruitcake feminism combined with racial pandering) brought about the indictment of three Duke lacrosse players (all white and — even more sinfully — from well-off families) for a non-existent rape peddled by a drunken stripper.
In Ms. Black's case, the entry of PC ideology into law gets illustrated by the fact that an environmental "offense," if that's the right word, gets pursued to the ends of the earth, far beyond what any non-PC prosecutor could think it's worth to public order. This could not happen unless environmentalism had become a PC Holy Cow — just as the Duke lacrosse hoax could not have happened unless White Guilt had become a PC Holy Cow. If prosecutors had used traditional, neutral standards to evaluate either case, both would have been dumped in the round file.
Moral of story: Keep politically correct ideology away from criminal law. When we learn this lesson, the hazards of the sprawl of federal criminal law, while still worrisome, will look and be considerably less ominous.
Overzealous prosecutors are a standard hazard in criminal law. Normally, we associate such overzealousness with the ambition and ego of given prosecutors. But I doubt that this sort of traditional overzealousness would have landed Nancy Black in her current fix. Only nutty left-wing ideology could have produced that nightmare.

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Incarnate 365 Lyrics
Imprisoned on this dying shell,
Escape is inevitable.
Light burns bright
Beneath these eyes,
More than mere flesh lies salvageable.
Imaginations, indefinite neglect,
worst type of crime of all.
Child's mind, all the time,
before you become, your own, evil.
Thrown away tomorrows
Scattered along the sides of the road,
The nights lied awake plotting,
The demise of a love.
You will never know.


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Pacman/Pacnew and Pacsave
Getting Started
When pacman removes a package that has a configuration file, it normally creates a backup copy of that config file and appends .pacsave to the name of the file.
Likewise, when pacman upgrades a package which includes a new config file created by the maintainer differing from the currently installed file, it writes a .pacnew config file. Occasionally, under special circumstances, a .pacorig file is created. Pacman provides notice when these files are written.
.pacnew file may be created during a package upgrade (
pacman -Syu,
pacman -Su or
pacman -U) to avoid overwriting a file which already exists and was previously modified by the user. When this happens a message like the following will appear in the output of pacman:
warning: /etc/pam.d/usermod installed as /etc/pam.d/usermod.pacnew
.pacsave file may be created during a package removal (
pacman -R), or by a package upgrade (the package must be removed first). When the pacman database has record that a certain file owned by the package should be backed up it will create a
.pacsave file. When this happens pacman outputs a message like the following:
warning: /etc/pam.d/usermod saved as /etc/pam.d/usermod.pacsave
These files require manual intervention from the user and it is good practice to handle them right after every package upgrade or removal. If left unhandled, improper configurations can result in improper function of the software, or the software being unable to run altogether.
Package backup files
A package's
PKGBUILD file specifies which files should be preserved or backed up when the package is upgraded or removed. For example, the
PKGBUILD for
pulseaudio contains the following line:
backup=('etc/pulse/client.conf' 'etc/pulse/daemon.conf' 'etc/pulse/default.pa')
Types Explained
The different types of *.pac* files.
For each
backup file in a package being upgraded, pacman cross-compares three md5sums generated from the file's contents: one sum for the version originally installed by the package, one for the version currently in the filesystem, and one for the version in the new package. If the version of the file currently in the filesystem has been modified from the version originally installed by the package, pacman cannot know how to merge those changes with the new version of the file. Therefore, instead of overwriting the modified file when upgrading, pacman saves the new version with a
.pacnew extension and leaves the modified version untouched.
Going into further detail, the 3-way MD5 sum comparison results in one of the following outcomes:
- original = X, current = X, new = X
- All three versions of the file have identical contents, so overwriting is not a problem. Overwrite the current version with the new version and do not notify the user. (Although the file contents are the same, this overwrite will update the filesystem's information regarding the file's installed, modified, and accessed times, as well as ensure that any file permission changes are applied.)
- original = X, current = X, new = Y
- The current version's contents are identical to the original's, but the new version is different. Since the user has not modified the current version and the new version may contain improvements or bugfixes, overwrite the current version with the new version and do not notify the user. This is the only auto-merging of new changes that pacman is capable of performing.
- original = X, current = Y, new = X
- The original package and the new package both contain exactly the same version of the file, but the version currently in the filesystem has been modified. Leave the current version in place and discard the new version without notifying the user.
- original = X, current = Y, new = Y
- The new version is identical to the current version. Overwrite the current version with the new version and do not notify the user. (Although the file contents are the same, this overwrite will update the filesystem's information regarding the file's installed, modified, and accessed times, as well as ensure that any file permission changes are applied.)
- original = X, current = Y, new = Z
- All three versions are different, so leave the current version in place, install the new version with a
.pacnewextension and warn the user about the new version. The user will be expected to manually merge any changes necessary from the new version into the current version.
If the user has modified one of the files specified in
backup then that file will be renamed with a
.pacsave extension and will remain in the filesystem after the rest of the package is removed.
When a file (usually a configuration found in
/etc) is encountered during package installation or upgrade that does not belong to any installed package but is listed in
backup for the package in the current operation, it will be saved with a
.pacorig extension and replaced with the version of the file from the package. Usually this happens when a configuration file has been moved from one package to another. If such a file were not listed in
backup, pacman would abort with a file conflict error.
Locating .pac* Files
Arch Linux does not provide official utilities for
.pacnew files. You'll need to maintain these yourself; a few tools are presented in the next section. To do this manually, first you will need to locate them. When upgrading or removing a large number of packages, updated *.pac* files may be missed. To discover whether any
*.pac* files have been installed:
To just search where most global configurations are stored:
$ find /etc -regextype posix-extended -regex ".+\.pac(new|save|orig)" 2> /dev/null
or the entire disk:
$ find / -regextype posix-extended -regex ".+\.pac(new|save|orig)" 2> /dev/null
Or use locate if you have installed it. First re-index the database:
# updatedb
$ locate -e --regex "\.pac(new|orig|save)$"
Or use pacman's log to find them:
$ egrep "pac(new|orig|save)" /var/log/pacman.log
Note that the log does not keep track of which files are currently in the filesystem nor of which files have already been removed.
Managing .pacnew Files
There are various tools to help resolve .pacnew and .pacsave file issues. The standard diff utility (alternatively, colordiff) provides an easy way to compare the files. The pacman package includes a tool, pacdiff, which helps to sort through such files. Finally, the pacnews bash script provides similar functionality. Both pacdiff and pacnews use vimdiff to compare and edit .pacnew and .pacsave files.
Once all existing
.pacnew files have been located, the user may handle them manually using common merge tools such as vimdiff, ediff (part of emacs), meld (a GNOME GUI tool), sdiff (part of diffutils, or Kompare (a KDE GUI tool), then deleting the
.pacnew files afterwards.
A few third-party utilities providing various levels of automation for these tasks are available from the community repository and the AUR.
- pacmerge-gitAUR - CLI interactive merge program
- Vimdiff - a type of Vim specially designed for merging files
- Dotpac - Basic interactive script with ncurses-based text interface and helpful walkthrough. No merging or auto-merging features.
- pacdiff - Very minimal and undocumented CLI script. Part of the pacman-contrib package in the
- pacdiffviewer - Full-featured interactive CLI script with auto-merging capability. Part of the yaourtAUR package.
- diffpacAUR - Standalone pacdiffviewer replacement
- Yaourt - A package manager that supports the AUR repository. Use
yaourt -Cto compare, replace and merge configuration files..
- etc-updateAUR - Arch port of Gentoo's etc-update utility, providing a simple CLI to view changes, interactively edit and merge changes, and automatically merge trivial changes (e.g. comments.) Unlike some others above, this uses your preferred text editor rather than forcing you to learn a new one.
- pacnews-gitAUR is a simple script aimed at finding all
.pacnewfiles, then editing with
vimdiff. It differs from the below script using
Using Meld to Update Differences
Using meld in a loop can be used to update configuration files. This script will loop through the files one by one then prompt to delete the
.pacnew file.
#!/bin/bash # Merge new *.pacnew configuration files with their originals pacnew=$(find /etc -type f -name "*.pacnew") # Check if any .pacnew configurations are found if [[ -z "$pacnew" ]]; then echo " No configurations to update" fi for config in $pacnew; do # Diff original and new configuration to merge gksudo meld ${config%\.*} $config & wait # Remove .pacnew file? while true; do read -p " Delete \""$config"\"? (Y/n): " Yn case $Yn in [Yy]* ) sudo rm "$config" && \ echo " Deleted \""$config"\"." break ;; [Nn]* ) break ;; * ) echo " Answer (Y)es or (n)o." ;; esac done done
The above script uses GNOME's
gksudo for graphical sudo permissions. Use
kdesu for KDE.
- Arch Linux Forums: Dealing With .pacnew Files


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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 600 business organizations, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Apple to McDonald's, have sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) pressing him to move on immigration legislation this year.
The 636 groups said "failure to act is not an option" and implored Boehner to move on legislation to fix the immigration system.
Immigration legislation has stalled in the House. Boehner and GOP leaders unveiled a set of principles last month, but rank-and-file members have shown little inclination to tackle the divisive issue in an election year.
Boehner blamed distrust of President Barack Obama among his GOP caucus for the House's unwillingness to deal with the issue.
The letter was signed by 246 businesses from around the country and 390 business associations.


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Puppets, drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, costumes and screenings: MoMA celebrates Tim Burton with more than seven hundred works.
The exhibition explores the full range of his creative path, from early childhood artwork, revealing that Burton's dark, quirky, Pop-surrealist themes in film carry over to his rarely-seen drawings as well, all personal marks of the man's distinctive viewpoint.
A custom 2010 weekly planner was published by Moleskine in a limited run and given out to guests during the opening events. The book features Tim Burton's signature and the MoMA logo embossed on the cover and a unique paperband with the names of several of the director's films.
The retrospective will be at MoMA until April 26th.
This MoMA collaboration is part of the Moleskine Special Projects, to which a new section of our website is now dedicated.


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Modern Family: Season 3 (US - BD RA)
Gabe spends another season of good natured laughs with ABC's hit show...
I believe my thoughts on the second season of ABC's Modern Family still hold true for the majority of this third season. It's still an uncommonly strong show that makes great use of middling and ultra-popular sitcom tropes. Measuring this season against the previous two proves difficult, as the show has a rare consistency that sort of slides the three seasons into one mega-series in my mind. For the sake of time, I'm going to focus briefly on a handful of the 24 episodes available on this three disc collection and offer a link to that previous review for deeper analysis.
Episode 1: Dude Ranch
The series' three families open the season with a trip to the Lost Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they attempt to bond via horseback riding, cattle herding, and skeet shooting, led by a cowboy named Hank (Tim Blake Nelson). This isn't the season's strongest episode, thanks to redundancies, but quickly quashes some of the most tired plotlines early, specifically Clair's (Julie Bowen) borderline cruel disapproval of Haley's (Sarah Hyland) on-again/off-again boyfriend Dylan Homes (Reid Ewing). I appreciate this episode most for making Mitchell's (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) prissiness genuinely funny and pairing him with little Luke (Nolan Gould). Odd pairings almost always work in the show's favour.
Episode 3: Phil on a Wire
Phil watches James Marsh's Man on a Wire and become obsessed with the idea of becoming a tightrope walker. Meanwhile, the eerie bond between Jay and Stella the dog continues to unnerve Gloria (Sofía Vergara), Claire tries to teach the girls a lesson in compromise, and Mitchell decides to support Cam's juice fast. This is the first genuinely great and genuinely touching episode of the season, due mostly to Phil's underlying B-story. I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point Phil (Ty Burrell) became my favourite Modern Family character. I'm not sure if I actually identify with his bright-eyed childishness or just wish I did.
Episode 7: Tree House
This is a textbook three-story episode, though the writers don't really do much to interlock or cross the narratives. After seeing how much fun friends Shorty (Chazz Palminteri) and Bonnie (Jennifer Tilly, who is looking good) are having salsa dancing, Gloria harangs Jay, who is too self-conscious to take her out with them. Meanwhile, Cameron bets Mitchell and friends that he can successfully pick up a woman at a bar (Leslie Mann) and Phil tries, in vain, to builds a tree house for Luke. Note: this is only the second episode in the season to feature a black character – Kevin Hart (that's four all-star cameos in one episode!) is introduced as the Dunphy's neighbour, Andre, who actually shows up again in Plains, Trains and Cars.
Episode 10: Express Christmas
Modern sitcom Christmas episodes are always a weird balance of genuine sentiment and tongue-in-cheek references to that sentiment. Express Christmas is an effective use of genre conventions, and is, in the end, both genuinely touching and mock-touching at the same time. Here the extended family realizes that they won't all be in town for the coming Christmas, inspiring Phil to invent 'Express Christmas' where everyone will quickly gather all necessities for a family celebration in a matter of hours. From here, the episode separates the cast into unlikely pairs, which, again, is basically a series trademark and a consistent source of unlikely laughs. Scene after scene of the destruction of precious, irreplaceable items is a little too painful, however.
Episode 15: Aunt Mommy
This episode has the courage to deal in a unique aspect of the supposed 'modern family' that doesn't quite fit the Disney/ABC status quo – pseudo-incest. After a night of overindulging in alcohol, Claire, Phil, Mitchell, and Cameron make a weird, though sort of logical, child-rearing choice – Claire will donate the egg and carry Cameron's baby. This way the new child will genuinely have both Pritchett and Tucker DNA. The writers do a good job embracing both the freakshow nature of the decision while not selling the sentiment short, ultimately having their cake and eating it too. I'm hopeful that this represents the show's future willingness to deal in less politically correct arenas.
Episode 16: Virgin Territory
Ignoring the dull and predictable B-story concerning Mitchell and Jay awkwardly interacting following a golf snafu, this episode stands apart with a really cute A-plot concerning Alex accidentally revealing to Phil that Haley is no longer a virgin on a trip to the American Girl store (or the Modern Family universe equivalent) to repair Lily's doll. The obvious subtext is the joke here and it really works. Meanwhile, Luke and Manny jealously set a trap for Lily, which Cameron springs and injures himself. Or so it seems. In reality, Cameron fakes the injury as an excuse to snoop around the Dunphy household to find Tupperware he swears Clair has borrowed and never returned. This additional subplot continues the theme of characters with ridiculous pride.
Episode 23: Tableau Vivant
Watching the season all in a row, it is clear that the writers were definitely in a rut in terms of story and character development, but Tableau Vivant is another good example of weaknesses turning into strengths, as yet another series of accelerating arguments explode into yet another blow-out and still manages to be funny. There's an expert quality to the turning of the screws, no matter how expected and redundant. The whole thing is also rather cheekily punctuated by the bickering family unit reenacting Norman Rockwell's famous Thanksgiving painting 'Freedom from Want' for Alex's art final. That's the kind of subversive thing I hope to see more of next season.
There isn't a whole lot of difference between this third season and the second season Blu-ray I already reviewed, which is, of course, not surprising. Modern Family is reportedly shot using both Sony CineAlta and Arri Alexa digital HD cameras, both of which make for a consistent 1080p, 1.78:1 Blu-ray image. Everything is still largely shot using bright, soft lighting rigs that pretty accurately evoke natural sunlight with just enough oomph to let the audience know they're watching something 'fun.' The characters do take a trip to a dude ranch and Disneyland this season, which offers up a bit of differentiation in terms of basic visual make-up, but for the most part even these new locations are more of the same. The image's utter clarity is its most outstanding trait, including sharp, lifelike textures, intricate wardrobe patterns, and busy backgrounds. Episode 11 even pokes a little fun at the broad difference between SD and HD video when Phil flashes back to his stint on an early '90s game show. The faux-vintage footage features heavy blooming and strobing effects. The palette this season appears ever so slightly warmer in general, leaning a bit more towards red and pink base hues rather than yellows. These warm hues often cut quite sharply against the richer greens and blues. This eclectic palette remains pure and clean. Some of the night shots, especially those in moving cars (which may have been filmed while the actors are actually being moved throughout the city, rather than on sets), feature some issues with edge enhancement and some flattened chunks of grain (I'm thinking some DNR was used). Edge enhancement also appears to have been minimized, compared to the previous season's release.
And once again, Modern Family does little to extend beyond the basic aural expectations of an average television sitcom and mostly embraces its mockumentary concept in terms of sound design. The majority of sound comes directly from the front center channel as if it has been captured by the handheld camera's microphone (which it probably was). A few instances stand apart from the average and give the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track a reason to employ the extra channels. Express Christmas features a bunch of subtle, realistic ambient noise while Claire and Haley shop in Target, as does the largely outdoor-set Dude Ranch. Election Day features a subplot involving Cam and Mitchell driving around town with a loudspeaker on their car that creates a solid directional echo effect. Disneyland is probably the most aurally busy episode overall, featuring all the swirling sound one would expect of the Disney theme park, including a particularly aggressive series of roller coaster scenes brimming with LFE rumble and directional movement. Besides the main title theme and any music that happens to play on-screen where the characters can react to it (there's a cute kitchen tango between Cam and Gloria in Me? Jealous?), there isn't really any score to the series, even during the establishing shots.
The extras this time around are pretty paltry for a full season release, but perfectly entertaining. Disc one starts things off with a deleted/extended scenes reel (6:30, HD), Destination Wyoming behind the scenes featurette (9:40, HD), A Day on the Set with Ty (5:40, HD) featuring Ty Burrell running us through his workday (on an episode directed by Brian Cranston, of all people), and The Adventures of the Modern Family Kids (3:40, HD). Disc two continues with another deleted scenes reel (9:00, HD), A Modern Family Christmas behind the scenes featurette (6:00, HD), Driving Lessons behind the scenes featurette (3:00, HD), and footage of Ed O'Neill getting a star on Hollywood Boulevard (16:50, HD). Disc three ends things with yet another deleted/extended scenes reel (7:10, HD), Modern Family Goes to Disneyland Resort featurette (3:10, HD) with the cast and crew, and a gag reel (9:00, HD).
Modern Family soldiers on as one of the most consistently amusing shows on television. It's not as unique, touching, or hilarious as Parks and Rec or Community, but it's great proof that sometimes the oldest tricks in the book still work and that family-friendly entertainment isn't a comedic vacuum. This season three Blu-ray release follows almost every expectation set by the previous season's release, including a strong, sharp picture, a solid, understated DTS-HD MA soundtrack, and a pleasant, but short series of behind the scenes extras.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 18th January 1995
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Deleted and Alternate Scenes, Destination Wyoming, A Day on the Set with Ty, Adventures of the Modern Family Kids, A Modern Family Christmas, Driving Lessons, Ed O'Neill Gets a Star, Modern Family Goes to Disneyland Resort, Gag Reel
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Various
Cast: Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons
Length: 515 minutes
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I'll pass about one week in Paris this summer, and I want to visit some of its bookstores. I've already got some addresses of big ones as Glbert Jeune etc., but I would also like some smaller but more specialized ones, in Greek and Roman classics and Christian works of course. Second hand bookstores will especially interest me.
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***1/2 (out of four)
Aside from "Newsies," I don't prefer musicals. I still know a good one when I see it, and the first big-screen musical version of "Les Miserables" is a very good one.
The first-time-ever nature of the musical adaptation—Victor Hugo's classic 19th century novel has been adapted as a movie and TV show about 500 times, most recently in the average 1998 edition—more than justifies its existence. Director Tom Hooper's decision to film the performers singing live, as opposed to the ultra-artificial, over-produced "Glee" style, works wonders for intimacy. As the characters sing nearly all the verbal communication, the performances in "Les Miserables" explode with feeling.
Well, not quite all of them. Russell Crowe makes a mild Inspector Javert, largely because the warmth of his singing voice dilutes the character's rigidity into compassion. He's a less-than-firm foil for Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), the legendary, long-incarcerated hero who spends his life working to redeem incidents of theft after a priest refuses to turn him in. Going from gaunt and bearded to his usual dignified self, Jackman's an excellent navigator of Valjean's journey, and the marvels don't stop there. Anne Hathaway, very good though occasionally a little too actress-y as single-mother-turned-prostitute Fantine, delivers a show-stopping "I Dreamed a Dream." And you can actually hear hearts shatter in the theater during Samantha Barks' rendition of "On My Own," chronicling Eponine's unrequited love for Marius (Eddie Redmayne, bringing strength to a role that needs it as he leads protests and falls for Fantine's daughter, Cosette [Amanda Seyfried].)
The first third of this two-and-a-half-hour film moves swiftly, muting emotions amid a pace that flows from one song to the next to the next. Yet if you think a musical can't make you feel something, or if on-the-nose lyrics can never resonate, "Les Miserables" is the movie to change your mind. Whether it's Hathaway registering Fantine's anger as hope tears into nothingness or Redmayne and Barks collaborating on the gorgeous "A Little Fall of Rain," it's hard to deny several moments that showcase the musical form in top condition.
After all these years, "Les Miserables" resounds as people are challenged to move within different eras of their lives, through rights and wrongs, lessons and atonement. That many will die for a cause is 100 percent clear. What I have still wonder, though: Why doesn't Jean Valjean ever find a significant other? You'd think the mayor would have plenty of pull in town.
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WonderCon 2013 kicks off Friday. Click through the gallery for Hero Complex's top programming picks. (Los Angeles Times; Sony Pictures; Warner Bros.)Link
In what is sure to be a colorful presentation, Guillermo del Toro shows off the latest footage from "Pacific Rim" -- his July 12 action film about an epic battle between alien kaiju and giant robots piloted by humans. 11:30 a.m. Sat. in the Arena. (Warner Bros.)Link
Scott Snyder's New 52 "Batman" run with artist Greg Capullo has not lacked for ambition – or fan fervor (or torment for Bruce Wayne) – in its "The Court of Owls" and Joker-rific "Death of the Family" sagas. Up next: "Batman: Zero Year," a look at how Bruce became the Bat in DC Comics' New 52 continuity revamp. The Eisner-winning writer, above, will offer a look at that year's sure-to-be-eventful calendar. 5 p.m. Fri., Room 207 (DC Comics)Link
Capcom's anticipated game "Remember Me" stars Nilin, a memory hunter, in a sci-fi action game set in a "Blade Runner"-like Paris. Combat has earned comparisons to "Batman: Arkham City," but Nilin's main weapon is her ability to enter an enemy's mind and trick her targets into going mad. The game's creative team shows off gameplay footage and answers questions. 3:30 p.m. Sat., Room 300DE. Capcom is also hosting an overview panel 11 a.m. Sat. in Room 300AB and another panel on the art of its video games at 1:30 p.m. Sun. in Room 300DE. (Capcom)Link
"Superman: Unbound," the latest DC Universe animated feature film, is based on the 2008 DC release "Superman: Brainiac." Supes is voiced by Matt Bomer ("White Collar"), and Brainiac is voiced by John Noble ("Fringe"). Catch the movie premiere followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers. We're told there will be prizes. 6 p.m. Fri. in the Arena. (Warner Bros.)Link
At first, many Spider-Man fans liked writer Dan Slott. Then Peter Parker died, and Slott was decried by some as a villain on the level of a Doc Ock. Now, several issues into "Superior Spider-Man," he seems to have won readers' confidence back. You can ask him how he's dealing with the whiplash. 2:30 p.m. Sun., Room 300DE (Marvel)Link
Although it's not part of the official WonderCon programming lineup, Hero Complex would be remiss if we did not mention our early screening of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle's "Trance," starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. The free screening at the UltraLuxe Anaheim Cinemas at GardenWalk in Anaheim will be followed by a Q&A with Boyle. Sat. 7:30 p.m., 321 W. Katella. (Susie Allnutt / Fox Searchlight)Link
Enjoy (if that's the right word) some exclusive footage from director Fede Alvarez's upcoming remake of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult horror film "Evil Dead" in a blood-rain-free environment. Alvarez, producers Bruce Campbell and stars Jane Levy and Jessica Lucas are on hand for questions. 2:30 p.m. Sat. in the Arena. (TriStar Pictures / Sony)Link
Bring the kids along to a screening of "LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Superheroes Unite," sure to be a fun-filled, family-friendly flick. A discussion with the filmmakers and actors follows. 2 p.m. Sun., Room 300AB. (Warner Bros.)Link
The cast of History's new adventure saga "Vikings," where millions are turning for their vicarious marauding fix, sails in for a morning raid of discussing the characters, taking questions, and previewing an upcoming episode. Please, do not plunder the panel room. 10:30 a.m. Sat., Room 300DE. (Jonathan Hession / History; Associated Press)Link
Whedonites rejoice! Director Joss Whedon and "Much Ado About Nothing" cast members (Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Sean Maher and Fran Kranz, among others) are bringing their Shakespearean adaptation to WonderCon. 11 a.m. Sun. at the Arena. (Lionsgate; Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)Link
Ann Nocenti, who in the late '80s brought a brighter outlook and progressive politics to Marvel's oft-depressing "Daredevil," has returned to comics and is now writing DC's "Catwoman" and "Katana." What's she planning for those sharp women? She'll answer questions from DC co-publisher and superstar artist Jim Lee. 4 p.m. Sat., Room 203 Jim Lee has a spotlight panel 11:30 a.m. Sat. in Room 300DE. (DC)Link
Eli Roth is leaving the dank torture chambers of "Hostel" behind for his latest effort. He's executive producing Netflix's newest original series, "Hemlock Grove," a murder mystery set in a quirky small town. But don't think Roth has tamed his instincts at all. This series promises to be just as brutal as anything he's done. Roth and his fellow producers, as well as members of the cast will be together to talk about the show. 6:30 p.m. Fri., Room 300DE (Matt Carr / Getty Images; Netflix)Link
John Layman is scripting comics about two very different detectives – one takes a bite out of crime with his "cibopathic" ability to see the history of what he eats, the other favors a batarang. The Eisner-winning co-creator of "Chew" and writer of "Detective Comics" and "Mars Attacks" has titled his spotlight panel "Despair With Layman!," but that won't be the prevailing emotion if he brings a chog. 10:30 a.m. Sat., Room 213. (Image Comics)Link
"Battlestar Galactica" alumnus Richard Hatch (above right) is a staple at comic conventions. This year, he's sharing some tips to give you an edge in your next acting audition or role-playing game. 6 p.m. Fri., Room 210BCD. (Frank Ockenfels / Sci Fi Channel)Link
It's common advice from professionals to fans looking to break into comics: self-publish to get noticed. Of all the I-want-in and how-to panels at WonderCon, none may be more insightful than the one featuring longtime indie successes and Eisner winners Jeff Smith ("Bone," "RASL"), above, and Terry Moore ("Strangers in Paradise," "Rachel Rising"). 12:30 p.m. Sun., Room 208. Moore also has a spotlight panel at 4:30 p.m. Fri., also in Room 208. Smith has a spotlight panel at 5 p.m. Sat. in Room 203. (Scholastic)Link
No, Chali 2na, left, and Dan The Automator are not names from the legions of lesser-known Avengers. Be serious. The alternative hip-hop figures and other panelists discuss how the music's culture and comics have influenced each other in visual aesthetics, storytelling attitude and more. 7 p.m. Sat., Room 210A. (Universal; James Patrick Dawson / Coachella)Link
Many convention attendees come in costume. Show off yours or simply enjoy everyone's handiwork (and performances) at the annual Masquerade. 8:30 Sat. at the Arena. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)Link
There may be more costumed characters across the street from the Happiest Place on Earth than in it this weekend as thousands of sci-fi, fantasy and comics enthusiasts arrive for WonderCon 2013, which kicks off Friday at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Run by the organizers of Comic-Con International, WonderCon is in many ways a junior sibling to that massive pop-culture expo in San Diego, featuring panel discussions for blockbuster films, popular television shows and comics creators, not to mention portfolio review for aspiring professionals, book signings, a cosplay masquerade and plenty of geek-friendly shopping on the convention floor.
This year's WonderCon programming lineup includes panels for Guillermo del Toro's robots vs. kaiju film "Pacific Rim," the Sam Raimi- and Bruce Campbell-produced "Evil Dead" remake and Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," among others. Click through the gallery above for Hero Complex's top picks for WonderCon this year.
It's WonderCon's 27th year and its second turn in Anaheim after renovations at San Francisco's Moscone Center forced the convention out in 2012 and scheduling conflicts this year delayed the expo's return to its Bay Area roots. Some fans lamented the move (born in Oakland, WonderCon is a Bay Area tradition), but David Glanzer, spokesman for Comic-Con International and WonderCon, said the Anaheim event last year was "surprisingly successful."
"I say 'surprisingly' because any time you mount a show in a new venue in a new city, you never really know what to expect," Glanzer said. "But the turnout was great."
Fans showed up in force, with just shy of 40,000 people attending the 2012 convention, Glanzer said.
"And the response was pretty good too," he added. "Anaheim is a great city. There's a lot stuff here in terms of hotel rooms, restaurants really nearby, Disneyland is right across the street. … It really is a good destination."
The show was rebranded "WonderCon Anaheim" to differentiate it from its Bay Area incarnation, and should the convention return, it probably will be called "WonderCon San Francisco," Glanzer said. The distinction could pave the way for twin conventions in the two California cities.
"I don't know that we have the resources to do that, but I have to tell you that is something that has certainly come up," Glanzer said. "To be very, very honest with you, we haven't thought that far in advance, but I will say that that is a question that has come up, and at some point we're going to have to address it…. One of the things that we've discovered is that there really is an appetite for a show in Anaheim. A lot of people that we heard from were first-time attendees who had not even been to the San Diego show or other conventions. That's pretty exciting — introducing new people to what we think is a really great convention."
Glanzer said he's expecting a similar turnout this year, despite the Easter holiday weekend, noting that three-day badges and Saturday-only badges sold out. Parking, which proved a hassle for many attendees last year, is expected to be better this year because WonderCon isn't sharing the Anaheim space, as opposed to last year, when cheerleading and women's volleyball events were simultaneously held in the convention center. Young women in cheerleading uniforms posed for pictures with passing Stormtroopers and superheroes.
"I had never seen so many women coming up to costumed guys asking for photos — it was amazing," Glanzer said, laughing. "It's an event that is very welcoming. You had these women who I don't know that you'd ever have expected to see them at a convention, but by the end of the weekend, a lot of them had bought badges and were walking the floor. I don't know that these people would all get together on any other weekend during the year."
— By Noelene Clark and Blake Hennon | @LATHeroComplex
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Michael Vick was on the field for six plays in the preseason game against Jacksonville. Here are the situations and the results:
* Ball on Philadelphia 27. 14:49 left in first quarter. Second and 10. Donovan McNabb lines up wide right, Vick lines up in shotgun. Three-wide receiver formation with DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and Kevin Curtis. Jackson lined up in backfield along with LeSean McCoy. Vick completes shovel pass to McCoy for gain of 4 yards.
* Ball on Philadelphia 33. 12:18 left in first quarter. First and 10. McNabb out of game. Vick in shotgun. Fakes handoff to McCoy and runs left where he is stopped by DE Derrick Harvey after gain of 1 yard.
* Ball on Philadelphia 45. 10:32 left in first quarter. Second and 8. Vick lines up in left slot. DeSean Jackson lined up wide left and Kevin Curtis wide right. McNabb faked a quick pass to Vick and handed the ball off to McCoy, who gained 6 yards. But play was wiped out by holding penalty on Brent Celek.
* Ball on Jacksonville 27. 7:40 left in first quarter. First and 10. McNabb out. Vick lines up in shotgun. Four wide receivers. Curtis and Jason Avant on left side and Hank Baskett and Jackson on right side. Vick completes 13-yard pass to Baskett at Jacksonville 13.
* Ball on Philadelphia 28. 3:00 left in first quarter. Second and 10. McNabb out. Vick lines up in shotgun. Four-wide receiver set with Maclin, Jackson, Curtis and Avant. Vick completes quick screen to Jackson on right side, but Curtis missed his block on CB Sean Considine and play went for no gain.
* Ball on Philadelphia 20. 12:36 left in second quarter. Second and 15. McNabb lines up wide left. Maclin and Jackson also in game, along with McCoy. Vick completes pass to McCoy for 2-yard gain.
"It was great to finally get out there and get my feet wet and get a feel for the game again," Vick said in a postgame news conference. "It felt the same, it was almost like riding a bike, you never forget to do it."
Vick was pleased with the feeling of playing in an NFL game again. "Right now, I'm humble," Vick said. "I just want to learn and improve my skills as a quarterback. I sat on sidelines today and thought about how many different things we can do. It was almost scary … I can do it all. I did it before and I can do it again. When I get myself into tip-top shape, the sky's the limit."
Vick was received warmly by the fans at the Linc. "I can't explain the feeling," Vick said. "It was unbelievable, the way that I was embraced and the warm welcome. It was awesome. It was an awesome feeling."
Coach Andy Reid also was pleased with the reception his controversial quarterback received. "I thought he reacted well [to his first appearance]," Reid said. "I didn't see anything negative. People were excited to see him back in there."
Asked during the game about how Vick was used, McNabb said: "We got it out there so people now have to gameplan for it. We tried some different things out. Did it throw some things off? Maybe. But this is what the preseason is for, for us to clean things up and throw some different things out there that we may or may not run during the year. Again, it kind of goes back to getting back to the fundamentals and cleaning that up."


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The way Alex Benepe remembers it, his roommate's idea to make quidditch more than a broom-riding fantasy confined to books and the big screen began as only a passing thought as they stared out their dorm window at the vast field known as "Battell Beach."
He and Xander Manshel were freshmen at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2005, staring at the field ironically named in the chilly, landlocked state. Manshel was bored with the Sunday tradition of bocce ball and was looking for a change.
"We were really lucky. It was really the perfect place to start quidditch," Benepe said.
Now, eight years later, the fictional game once only played by characters in the popular "Harry Potter" books is played at more than 1,000 college campuses on three continents.
Manshel scribbled down a makeshift rulebook based in part on the books and elements of lacrosse, rugby and dodge ball. Intramural matches began at Middlebury in 2007.
Benepe founded the International Quidditch Association three years later, and the game is now played in North America, Europe and Australia. He is now the IQA commissioner.
Saturday and Sunday in Kissimmee, IQA will host 80 teams and more than 1,600 players for its annual World Cup event. The first three were at Middlebury, and the past two were held in New York.
Of more than 300 active co-ed teams globally, about 250 pay team dues of $150 to IQA and travel for matches.
That's quite an evolution from its ragtag beginnings, Benepe said: Garbage cans once served as hoops, with some players fashioning capes out of towels taped to their shirts.
"One guy wore his high school graduation robe. Another kid thought you had to bring your own broom, and he couldn't find one. So he grabbed a lamp from his dormitory and was running around on a lamp. It was real thrown together," Benepe said.
Not anymore.
Now players spend anywhere from a few hundred bucks for basic equipment to several hundred for the top-of-the-line stuff at the World Cup.
Also, the majority of teams competing at this level have official uniforms names paying homage to the book series, like the Silicon Valley Skrewts and the Melbourne Manticores.
Spectators will find many of the same features from the books. Players throw balls or "quaffles" through ringed hoops for points and even can chase and capture the "snitch" to end matches.
And in case any Harry Potter diehards are wondering, yes, all the players also must maneuver around on broomsticks during gameplay. Much like the ability to dunk a basketball is restricted to a gifted few, however, real-life quidditch players have yet to take flight.
As far as the players, there are those like Brian Nackasha, a 26-year-old beater for Brevard Community College's team, who said he listens to the Potter books daily on audio.
But the game isn't just embraced by "Harry Potter" enthusiasts. In fact, there are several players at this weekend's event who consider themselves novices and just enjoy the athletic aspect.
"We have people on our team that have never read the books or seen the movies, so it travels the whole spectrum," said University of Ottawa team founder Clare Hutchinson. "Quidditch is not necessarily all about Harry Potter anymore."
Hutchinson, 22, said she never played any team sports before quidditch, only previously participating in things such as skiing and horseback riding. She and her teammates even reorganized their final exams just to participate in the World Cup.
She said the camaraderie is worth it, though.
"We've deferred dozens of exams for this trip," she said. "We had to make personal and academic sacrifices to make that choice, as well as the financial expense. ... People are really surprised at the seriousness we take it at."
For now, the IQA remains a nonprofit group and remains in contact with representatives for "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling to ensure no trademarks are violated.
Although IQA has been approached by some corporate entities about possible sponsorships, he said the aim is to make sure the group doesn't lose its grassroots appeal.
"The sport has really changed a lot of people's lives for the better," Benepe said. "People are turning into lifetime friends. I'm now good friends with people who have been playing quidditch for five or six years.
"It's really like one big family."
Follow Kyle Hightower on Twitter at http://twitter.com/khightower.


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Coaches, Mini-buses and Econovans
If you were framing a market on who's the best coach in the NRL, Wayne Bennett would be the clear favourite, but what would be your pecking order behind the clipboard king?
Our competition is representative of the three types of rugby league coaches - the Head Coach (career coach with a proven track record), the Mini-bus (an under-performing coach) and the Econovan (rookie coach with minimal experience).
In my ranking of the NRL coaches, I have based my the criteria on the players at the club during their tenure, their achievements at both club and representative level.
1. WAYNE BENNETT. Won six titles in 20 seasons with the Brisbane Broncos and has had an immediate impact at the Dragons. Must be said had star-studded rosters throughout his tenure. Bennett loses points over his average Origin record and the fact he was at the helm when Australia was belted by New Zealand in a Tri-Series final. Ironically, he redeems points for his role as assistant to World Cup-winning Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney.
2. BRIAN SMITH. This may surprise, but Smith's record is very impressive. He has longevity but more importantly he gets results. Did incredibly well in England with unfashionable club Hull finishing runner-up twice in the three years (1988-89). Inspired St George to over-achieve twice in the 1990s to reach the grand final, losing on both occasions to Brisbane sides brimming with Queensland Origin players and one of NSW


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Monday, August 8, 2016
A landmark report by The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), written by a panel of scientists, concluded that 30-40% of all cancers could be prevented by changing our diet and exercise habits. The recommendations of the AICR report are summarized in the following Diet and Health Guidelines for Cancer Prevention:
Choose a diet rich in a variety of plant-based foods.
Cooking meat, fish, and poultry at high temperatures, especially over an open flame, causes carcinogenic substances called (heterocyclic amines (HCA) to form on the meat's surface. Other cancer-promoting substances called (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons)(PAH) form when fat drips into the fire, causing smoke and flames to reach the food.
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So do we have to sell the grill and never enjoy another Saturday evening of grilling with friends and family? NO! But you can grill more safely by following these tips from the AICR:
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Star Fruit is a member of the Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel) family. Star fruits are cooling and can taste from sweet to sour. They help clear excess heat from the body and are a yin tonic, detoxifying and diuretic. They are used to treat arthritis pain, cough, diarrhea, fever, hangover, hemorrhoids, hiccups, indigestion, kidney and bladder stones, mouth sores, and toothache. They are a source of beta-carotene, vitamin C, and potassium.
Look for even colored firm fruits without brown spots. Allow ripening at room temperature, and when their fruity aroma and golden yellow color manifests, they can be refrigerated for up to a week. Eat by themselves, in salads, desserts, sherbets, as a garnish (great for the winter holidays), in jams, puddings, chutneys, to float in punch bowls, or juiced.
The leaves are applied topically as a poultice to treat swellings and injuries. Star fruit juice has been used to remove stains from linens and for polishing brass.


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This Mother's Day is dedicated to our mothers and grandmothers and the world of women who encircle, influence, love and guide us– whether they breastfed us or they didn't.
Our mothers are an irreplaceable soft-landing and a rich resource for us as we gain our footing and learn to mother on our own. They are a vital link. But breastfeeding can be a sore subject and a loaded trip down memory lane for mothers who didn't breastfeed. This Mother's Day we begin a healing cycle for the Booby Trap of the broken circle of inter-generational breastfeeding support.
As they relive new motherhood through us, our mothers hear the advice to breastfeed. Often, deep-seated — even long-ago buried — feelings surface about not breastfeeding themselves, about being told not to bother breastfeeding, about having had the chance stolen from them through routine hospital protocols that bound breasts and administered shots to shut down lactation. We want our mothers to know that we neither judge nor blame them for their decisions; we understand that like every mother, they did what they thought was best based on the information and influences upon them at the time.
And like seatbelts, sunscreen, and car seats, we simply want their help in using the better information we have now, to move forward together toward greater health and thriving for us, our children, and their grandchildren. We know that in order for that to happen, we must first provide a healing zone and a forum in which compassion reigns and they are honored, heard, and accepted. A long-overdue, much needed dialogue is about to begin.
My own mother did not breastfeed me or my brother. She was told that formula was just as good, that she needn't be tied to the house (those were the days of Women's Liberation), and that being a "cow" wasn't cool. She was young. She was impressionable. She had no role-models. Only one friend had breastfed and that woman was a token hippie and her decisions labeled accordingly. I, on the other hand, don't know where I got the idea that breastfeeding was the way to go, but I always knew that I would. And to my mom's credit, she never questioned my decision. In fact, she was quite positive about it. Then, as my son (and later daughter) and I, made our way nursing, the magic began to happen and my mom couldn't help noticing the many pluses that breastfeeding conferred on us all. She referred to my relationship with my babies as "exquisite," marveled at their undeniably content dispositions, and claimed that "breastfeeding meant extra hugs" for grandma! And it did. Having witnessed all of this, she also began to see that she had been robbed of a precious opportunity of her own and said so.
But she didn't delve any deeper into her own feelings (or at least didn't express this to me) until recently. I am a young breast cancer survivor (both sides affected, both removed) and a serial overcomer of a lifetime of chronic health conditions. In December 2010, I wrote a post entitled The Cracks in the Foundation in which I candidly discussed how the many layers of stress our bodies endure from birth – artificial baby milk, processed and artificial foods, foods laced with pesticides, hormones and chemicals, toxins in our air, water, products, homes and landscapes — are causing epidemic levels of disease. I juxtaposed all this against the intended norm of health and wellness that breastfeeding (and the experience that goes with it) plus a greener, cleaner environment can provide. I also verbalized that I was not casting blame on the child-rearing decisions of my parents who I knew loved me.
The below is what my mother wrote to me privately as a response to that post. She's agreed to share it in the hopes that more moms and their daughters can have this conversation, too. We both hope that it opens the door to a new relationship between you and your mother; you and your relatives; you and your sisters. Honor each other. Support each other. Rebuild the Circle. Happy Mother's Day.
Hi my precious child: I am writing this in a "healing garden" on the oncology floor where [my cousin] is hospitalized. He is out of the room, at a test, and there is a large-screen computer empty and waiting for me to read your brilliant and heartfelt post on something bigger than my Blackberry. There are no accidents in any of this, I am sure.
I read every word, twice, and am overcome by emotion. The people passing by me must naturally assume that my loved one's condition here has affected me deeply, and of course they are right. Only it is not [my cousin], but you I am thinking of. The conflation of his cancer, and his highly troubled life, fits well into the theme of your blog – I would guess he started life on the bottle, too, and went on to face addictions, abandonment, and so many hurts that were too much for his fragility as well. I only know that I have a chance today to let you know that I celebrate your mind and soul that in synthesis, and with Bettina, have created a health policy that incorporates love, forgiveness, compassion, rationality, optimism, nurturance, and kindness to promote for everyone the lifetime benefits of breastfeeding.
I personally feel every one of those emotions in the communication you sent. I would add that I missed the skin-to-skin bonding that the act of breastfeeding gives so uniquely. I did experience closeness and hugging and swaddling, but not that most intimate act of baby to nipple and the thrill of knowing that I used my body to deliver what it can do best. Perhaps my love of running is tied into the achievement I felt in sport where my body did work with natural perfection to let me run fast, long, and often win races. I never thought about this analogy as apt for me, but it is: the athlete's triumph in physical performance is much what a woman feels in natural childbirth and in successful breastfeeding. I know that you did experience this wondrous feat, and your love of running might include its reoffering of what ended when [your last child] matured from breast food to table.
My appreciation of how you expressed yourself to the "parents who raised and love you" is boundless. I need to digest more, to take this with me inside and bring it back out, to tell you more about what has lifted, for your words are uplifting and releasing. I have been given the best gift of all by you.
Thank you and deepest love, Mom.
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My attempt at transferring a video to the Clix2: I downloaded an MP4 file from youtube and tried to drag it onto the Clix2 in the My Computer page. I thought this might work and that I wouldn't need to convert because Clix supports mp4. A message said it would transfer the file but it would not be useable - it would only be transferred for storage purposes. I clicked OK and that appears to be what happened - it will not play.
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Get crazy about Peg Solitair? - this games offers different modes for every skill level. In the easy mode, you play on the classic board with different configurations (classic, cross, pyramide, .... etc). You enter the hall of fame if you get the best time with 1,2 or 3 pegs left. To switch between board setups, just hit the next or previous button or tap the name of the game to get a dialog to select the game you want. In the hard mode, you enter the hall of fame only if your last peg ends at the special marked position (some of the games require 2 pegs to be left in specific locations).
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Select a 2013 GMC Yukon trim level
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The GMC Yukon is virtually unchanged for 2013. A new color, Champagne Silver Metallic is available and the transmission has been given a slight recalibration to improve engine braking.
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Towing and hauling ability; ride and handling; quiet, refined interior; available luxury features; available 9-passenger seating; hybrid drivetrain available
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The Yukon and Yukon Hybrid are all sturdy full-size SUVs, oriented toward carrying heavy loads of passengers or cargo and towing large trailers, such as those used for boats or horses. Both available V8 engines provide strong performance, while the Yukon and its big brother, the Yukon XL, handle much better around town than their size might suggest. Ride quality and interior refinement are other high points. In addition, the Yukon Hybrid remains one of the most efficient full-size SUVs yet it is still fully capable of hauling heavy loads.
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In the first of a hopefully-ongoing series in which MMA fighters instruct you on how to do things you'll never actually have the opportunity to do, here's Strikeforce heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum taking us through the triangle/armbar he used to defeat Fedor Emelianenko back in June. (Props to Ruben Vera for putting this together.) Despite Werdum's accent and liberal interpretation of the word "back," the dude seems like a great instructor. If you live near Huntington Beach, why not drop by Kings MMA and say hello?
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What if rap was high school? Who would the cool kids be? What would Kanye West say and do in class? How would rappers interact with one another? As it turns out, Twitter knows the answers to all of those age-old questions! On Monday, a #WhatIfRapWasHighSchool hashtag broke out on Twitter and started trending almost immediately. And, people came up with some really funny material. So, we decided to collect some of the best ones to put together a list of The 30 Funniest Tweets Using The #WhatIfRapWasHighSchool Hashtag. Educate yourself by clicking through them.


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Chris O'Neill, the tight end who was asked by Al Davis to move inside to linebacker only to waived before camp began, could be in uniform Saturday against New Orleans.
At least that is what O'Neill, a Boise State product, told his local paper.
No word on who will be cut to make room for O'Neill on the 80-man roster.
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UPDATE: Girlfriend of Dover murder suspect indicted for hindering investigationBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
April 10. 2013 9:52PM
The girlfriend of murder suspect Seth Mazzaglia has been indicted on three charges for allegedly thwarting the investigation into the killing of Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott.
Katherine McDonough, 19, of 314 McKinley Road in Portsmouth, was indicted on charges of witness tampering, hindering apprehension and conspiracy to commit hindering apprehension.
The charges were made public Wednesday afternoon, just days after a grand jury in Rockingham County returned the indictments. Prosecutors first arrested McDonough on Christmas Eve on two counts of hindering apprehension for allegedly lying to investigators regarding her whereabouts and interactions with Marriott Oct. 9.
Marriott, a University of New Hampshire sophomore, was murdered that same day in the Dover apartment that McDonough and Mazzaglia lived in on Mill Street.
The charge of witness-tampering alleges McDonough encouraged a woman named Roberta Gerkin on Nov. 7 to tell investigators that she did not enter the Dover apartment on the night of the murder. She had that conversation with Gerkin at an undisclosed location in Portsmouth.
Defense lawyer Andrew Cotrupi said the indictments come as no surprise to McDonough, and that he and his client will "work hard" to minimize the pain during the legal process set off by the indictments.
"I think this is going to be a very long and very painful experience for everyone involved and she hopes to minimize any future difficulty or harm on the Marriott family," Cotrupi said on Wednesday.
Mazzaglia, 30, of Dover has been charged with second-degree murder in Strafford County for killing Marriott by either strangling or suffocating her, according to prosecutors. He is being held without bail at the Strafford County jail in Dover on the murder charge, but has not been indicted. A grand jury in Dover is expected to convene on April 18, and prosecutors have filed no new motions in public to extend their deadline to seek an indictment, according to courthouse staff.
McDonough allegedly agreed with Mazzaglia on Oct. 12 to give state police a false alibi, according to an indictment. Those statements were given to investigators somewhere in Newington. Marriott's disappearance set off a massive search on land and water by her family, friends and several law enforcement agencies. Her body has not yet been found.
The UNH sophomore was last seen leaving one of her classes on the Durham campus. She lived with an aunt and uncle in Chester, and told her family that she planned to visit friends in Dover and would return later in the night. For several days, investigators focused their search on the waters of the Piscataqua River near Pierce Island in Portsmouth.
George Thompson, a lawyer representing the victim's family, said in a statement that Marriott and McDonough met when they both worked at a local Target store, and "that the betrayal of that friendship contributed to Lizzi's death and the disappearance of her body."
He said the Marriott family hopes the state Attorney General's Office is able to press more charges against McDonough, "that carry a more significant criminal sanction than those contained in the current indictment(s)."
"It is the family's opinion that Ms. McDonough, or any other individuals who are ultimately found to be involved with Lizzi's homicide or the conspiracy to frustrate the investigation of the homicide, bear both a moral and legal responsibility for Lizzi's death as well as the family's ongoing anguish over their inability to provide their daughter with a proper burial," Thompson said.
McDonough is currently free on $35,000 bail. She is charged with three Class B felonies, each punishable by up to 3 1/2 to seven years in state prison.
New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent Gretyl Macalaster contributed to this report.


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A Multigenerational Group Show Reinvigorates the ZERO Movement, Starring Carol Bove
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Heinz Mack lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he constantly experiments with the effects of light and color. Regarding light as his central artistic theme, Mack works across many mediums—painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and interiors—which use light to explore reflection, movement, and structure. Mack studied painting at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts and received his philosophy degree from Cologne University in 1956; shortly after, he co-founded Group Zero—embracing a clean slate approach to design—alongside Otto Piene. In his early work, Mack created monochrome paintings of black or white parallel lines, followed by explorations of luminosity and movement through light reliefs and light cubes made of polished aluminum. In large-scale, environmental works, Mack has created light rotors, pillars, and columns, such as the columns he placed in the Sahara desert or his "light-and-movement" room for Berlin's 1970 German Industrial Exhibition.
German, b. 1931, Lollar, Germany, based in Mönchengladbach, Germany
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FACT show multicast egress ports
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Note: This command is not implemented in the FACT Alpha II release.
To show the egress ports that forward multicast traffic to each specified destination port, use the show multicast egress ports command.
- show multicast egress ports [chassis | chip] [to multicast-groups] [guids]
Syntax Description
chassis (Optional) Shows only switch chassis egress ports. chip (Optional) Shows only the egress ports for each InfiniBand switch chip. to (Optional) Identifies the destination set. multicast-groups (Optional) Shows only the egress ports to the specified multicast groups. guids (Optional) Shows device GUIDs.
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- The default view is the chassis view. If multicast-groups is not specified, egress ports for all multicast destinations are shown.
- The following is sample output from the show multicast egress ports command, and it shows the egress ports used for each multicast group:
fact> show multicast egress ports MGID ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:01, lid 49153: egress-port -------------------------------- switchB/1/7 MGID ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff, lid 49152: egress-port -------------------------------- switchB/1/7 MGID ff:18:a0:1b:00:00:00:00:00:00:05:ad:00:02:80:da, lid 49154: none found
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:01 AM
HAVANA — U.S. lawmakers confirmed on Wednesday that they visited an American man whose detention and long sentence in Cuba has hampered efforts to improve ties between the countries, but they gave no details on his condition or what was said.
The seven-member delegation led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, also met with Cuban President Raul Castro and other senior officials.
Leahy said Wednesday that the two sides "discussed the continuing obstacles and the need to improve relations," adding that a rapprochement "is in the interest of both countries."
The meeting was also covered in the Cuban press, with a front-page photo of a smiling Leahy and Castro seated at a small table in front of a thick clutch of palm fronds.
Leahy and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Gross' home state of Maryland, met with the 63-year-old on Tuesday, likely at a military hospital where Alan Gross has been held since his arrest in 2009.
Asked at a hotel where the delegation was staying about the meeting with Gross, Leahy said only that they had had a long discussion.
Gross is serving a 15-year-sentence for bringing communications equipment to the island illegally while on a USAID-funded democracy-building program.
Leahy did not comment on Gross' physical condition. The American has lost more than 100 pounds in prison since his arrest and is suffering from several chronic ailments.
Leahy said upon his arrival in Cuba on Monday that nothing would make him happier than to leave with Gross on the plane, but he also added such a result was highly unlikely.
Cuba has been visited by a parade of American officials over the years, including former President Jimmy Carter and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and all have left empty-handed.
Leahy himself led a similar congressional delegation in 2012, meeting with Gross and Castro as well on that trip.
Cuba has voiced an interest in freeing Gross, but only if Washington agrees to consider releasing five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States.
One of those men completed his sentence last year, but must serve three additional years of probation before he will be allowed to return to Cuba.
The congressional delegation also includes Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich,; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., along with Democratic Reps. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Van Hollen.
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