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Is the Bible anti-abortion?[1]
The increasingly irrelevant Fox News Channel continues to drift away from the conservative movement, this time by dropping Sarah Palin. [2] Hey, maybe Fox will hire Hillary Clinton to replace her???
The March for Life Friday confirmed that hundreds of thousands of teenagers will brave the bitter cold to stand up against abortion. The future is pro-life indeed.
Occupy Wall Street failed![3]
Sign the petition to stop Darwin Day from being officially recognized by the U.S government.[4]
The organizers of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show ruined it this year. They banned certain types of gun from the show. Result: more than one-third of the intended exhibitors boycotted the show, forcing Reed Expositions to cancel it. Read here for full details: [5]
"What difference does it make?" asks Hillary Clinton. Here's what difference it makes. [6]
A documentary film entitled Martyred in the USSR which covers the persecution of Christians and Jews under militant atheism is being released in October of 2013.[7]
In order to cover production costs, they are seeking donations and funding.[8]
A trailor of the movie is available at: Martyred in the USSR
Apple's stock drops 10%, as its gimmickry begins to fade. [9] Turn to what never fades: the Bible.
A BBC documentary on the creationism "conspiracy" fails.[10]
Why was the film crew so hostile and afraid to interview scientists who doubt evolution?
Not even the singing of the National Anthem by Obama's performer was real at the inauguration: "She did not actually sing," confirmed U.S. Marine Band spokeswoman Kristen DuBois about Beyonce, who reportedly lip-synched her own voice. [11]
Another valuable history lesson about the Second Amendment and our right of self defense. [12]
Not a joke: liberal Joe Biden is preparing to run for president. [13] Well, at least he doesn't always read from a teleprompter!
Fraud, lies, and deceit in Doe v. Bolton, the other half of the decision that "legalized" abortion. [14]
A lawyer gives a needed lesson in Constitutional law as it applies to Barack Obama. Hint: he is not a natural born citizen. [15]
Life: an insurmountable problem for atheism. [16]
40 years of Roe v. Wade: The "pro-abortion generation of the 1970's got it wrong. In attempting to correct gender ... they set into motion the ultimate act of discrimination – abortion. Instead of glorifying motherhood, they pitted the mother against her child, creating an endless cycle of selfishness, pain, and deceit."
How the Gospel of John tells us that Jesus is God: What it means to us, by Bishop Bert [17]
Russia gives a big NYET to homosexuality. Russia moves to enact anti-homosexuality law nationwide [18]
Why is Andrew Cuomo so outraged over guns? After all, abortion kills far many more children than gunfire ever did. [19]
This is pathetic: Tom Brady, favorite of the lamestream media, is humiliated by the Ravens and resorted to a dirty tactic as he slid in cowardice. [20] The NFL needs Tim Tebow more than ever.
Best of the public sends the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl, with adoption success story QB Colin Kaepernick having another stellar game and Gore (Frank, not Al) gaining yardage. [21]
Conservapedians look forward to hearing the pro-life truths of Alveda King, niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King. [22] Will you be attending the March for Life this year?
"I have no use for money. This is God's work," declares Bill Gates.[23] Wait, wasn't Gates supposed to be an atheist???
MSNBC reports Creationism spreading in American schools thanks to vouchers; teacher's unions receive another big loss. Creationists are expanding outreach to young people in 2013. [24]
The lamestream media print thousands of words about the passing away Saturday of baseball great Stan Musial, yet no mention of how he was a devout Catholic.
Pop goes the Darwinism higher education indoctrination bubble evolutionist weasels! [25]
"...18% of 165 private universities and 15% of 127 public universities project a decline in net tuition revenue… Nearly half of the schools surveyed...reported enrollment declines this fall".
"Moody's downgraded its outlook for all of higher education, issuing an across-the-board negative verdict." [26] Liberal promotion of the Worst College Majors has led to inevitable decline.
Helping to collapse Darwinism with Germanic efficiency means never having to say you're sorry. [27]
Little interest in Obama's inauguration: "organizers were still trying to get at least two restaurants ... on the inaugural parade route to be rented out," and many do not want to donate. [28]
"ACLU drops challenge to Kansas abortion law," after a court had issued a key ruling against the attempt to overturn the good law. [29]
"Where is Larry McDonald: the credible reports until 1995" by Bishop Bert [30]
Governor Chris Christie says the NRA was "reprehensible" in their advertising??? He doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word. [31]
The New York Times "wrote about the Fighting Irish linebacker Manti Te'o's girlfriend at least five times in recent months." [32] How many other hoaxes does the Times write about??
No surprise here: Lance Armstrong "didn't seem contrite. ... Armstrong didn't so much engage in the interview as endure it." [33] When someone doesn't believe in God, then it's very one-dimensional indeed.
When will American and European Darwinism collapse? How fast will they collapse?[34]
The benefits of a worldwide coalition of creationist organizations and creationists will be seen in 2013. [35]
This is pathetic: Obama cannot even persuade enough Senate Democrats to support his demands for gun control. [36] Maybe Obama can find support in communist countries???
Religious researchers say there will be approximately 4,000,000 less atheists in the world and about 352,969,000 more Christians in the world by 2025.[37]
Also, the New Atheism movement is in decline. [38]
Is the United Nations UN-American? A Tea Party activist shows why. [39]
Liberal claptrap of global warming has consequences: "Britain is braced for 40 hours of snow with icy winds as gas companies warn that tens of thousands of people will see their heating fail." [40] What, wind turbines won't be enough???
"As many as 100 hostages are being held" and "there may be seven or eight Americans among them" in Algeria. [41] Some hostages have been freed.
A desperate Facebook evolutionist engages in denialism. Unable to refute the clear evidence for creation and adequately address the 15 questions for evolutionists. [42]
A creation vs. evolution debate challenge gauntlet is thrown down!
An aside: Why are many young people obsessed with Facebook doing poorer in school?[43]
Robert S., who is a grassroots supporter of the Question evolution! campaign. wants a "coordinated Question Evolution! Day." Question Evolution! Day will be held on February 12. 2013.[44]
Watch this video: Question Evolution! Day - February 12, 2013.
Bad news for the future of liberal claptrap about global warming: "Satellite-based temperature readings more accurate" than surface thermometers, and temperatures in 2012 in "Europe, Asia and Australia ... were cooler than average." [45]
A learned man lays out the history of the decline of America under Progressivism and Progressive Presidents, from Wilson to Obama. He then suggests that Israel might redeem America at the end. [46]
Second GOP congressman suggests impeachment over executive action for gun control. [47]
Obama issues 23 executive orders to impose gun control, "in an effort to go around Congress wherever possible." [48]
"A. Lincoln, few words/E. Everett, many words. E. Everett who?" by Bishop Bert [49]
In 2013, Germanic efficiency will be employed to advance anti-Darwinism and young earth creationism.[50]
Evolutionists, have you ever seen a BMW on the autobahn? Get out of the way! Young earth creationism will stop for no man!
Will God-denier Lance Armstrong apologize to those he sought to destroy "for the simple fact that they told the truth about him"? [51] Less liberal denial by the lamestream media would also be welcome.
A germ with seven motors in one! Over the last two decades, scientists have uncovered some of the amazing machinery in microscopic living cells.[52]
An activist calls on county sheriffs to do their Constitutional duty. [53]
"Love those smoothies now, liberals? " [54]
What? Liberal journalists who are proudly anti-gun don't want signs on their property advertizing that? [55]
Conservapedia proven right, again: God-denier Lance Armstrong, overpromoted by liberals but recognized as an Overrated Sports Star here, finally admits what he denied for years about doping. [56]
Colin Powell stripped off his mask before the Mainstream Media last Sunday. The results were ugly as sin. [57]
Another Christian YouTube creationist (Hugenex2000) and creationist blogger joins the Question evolution! campaign.[58]
He is an American creationist personally referred to the campaign by the prominent Canadian creationist Ian Juby! Worldwide cooperation among creationists is building just like Ian Juby predicted![59]
Launching and managing the world's largest grassroots campaign against the weak ideology of Darwinism. [60]
Members of the discovery engine StumbleUpon have recommended Conservapedia's abortion article.[61]
How many people will be made aware of Conservapedia's abortion article due to the expansion of Conservapedia Pro-life Project in 2013?
The Mainstream Media have just stepped in it. The first burglary has already happened to someone on an interactive map of all gun permit holders in his county. What will the liberal lions have to say about this? [62]
In the Aaron Swartz tragedy, "the government took the position that any guilty plea by Swartz must include guilty pleas for all 13 charges and the possibility of jail time .... Otherwise the government would take the case to trial and seek a sentence of at least seven years." [63]
So why aren't Democrats criticizing the Obama Administration more about this overzealous prosecution, rather than focusing on MIT??
Best of the public quarterback Colin Kaepernick -- an adoption success story -- breaks records in leading the 49ers to a huge victory. [64]
Our prayers are for the family and friends of Aaron Swartz, who was reportedly being victimized by a "disproportionately aggressive and punitive" federal prosecution that sought an imprisonment of decades and a $1 million fine for making scholarly journal articles available to the public. [65]
Which law officer stands between "King" Obama and his goal of dictatorship? The sheriff. An activist calls on citizens to vote for "Constitutional" sheriffs. [66]
Conservapedia proven right in predicting that Tim Tebow's replacement by Overrated Sports Star Peyton Manning was a mistake. Manning threw two interceptions to enable a weaker opponent to win, in a game Tebow won last year against a stronger team. [67]
"Possible NYT layoffs rattle media." [68] People aren't buying liberal claptrap as much anymore.
Setback for liberal denial: Lance Armstrong, promoted by God-deniers, will reportedly finally tell the truth. [69]
Largest pro-evolution website gives key information on defeating Eastern European Darwinism.[70]
Christian creationism vs. Islamic creationism - Christian creationism will win! [71]
Jesus and Creation Ministries International vs. Allah and Adnan Oktar - Jesus and Creation Ministries International wins!
London Darwinism is falling down, falling down, falling down. My fair lady! [72]
Remember atheists, staunch UK atheists converted to Christianity in 2012.[73] Atheism is weak. There is really no match between biblical Christianity and atheism.
Cut your risk of catching the flu this flu season by about 50%.[74]
Is it becoming impossible for a conservative to get a fair chance in the increasingly liberal NFL? Reports emerge that the New York Jets never gave Tim Tebow a real chance in practice, and now his hometown Jacksonville team makes an unusual announcement indicating they won't give him a chance either. [75]
The gun control battle got a little hotter this week. See how hot: [76]
Why the fiscal cliff deal solved nothing, and the true goal of the Obama administration. [77]
Dr. John Lennox pummuled the agnostic Richard Dawkins in a debate. A review of his new book.[78]
Lennox vs. Dawkins debate.[79]
Liberal double standard: After campaigning for months pretending there is a "War on Women," Obama appoints only white men to top Cabinet positions. [80] If Mitt Romney had done that, the liberal media would be howling in protest.
BBC forced to admit global warming "static": [81]
Mark Twain once said that there are lies, d____d lies, and statistics. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the gun control debate. [82]
Conservapedia proven right, again: The fifth straight loss by the 15-20 L.A. Lakers -- who feature two Overrated Sports Stars -- virtually ensures they will not even make the playoffs. [83] Maybe the Obama Administration can appoint the liberal has-beens to posts?
The YouTube Christian Djw0071 asks evolutionists: "Can evolution explain mind?"[84]
Judging from the mindlessness claptrap of evolutionists, it doesn't appear as if it can!
Three days of hearings about Young Mass Murderer James Holmes, yet not a word about "why": [85]. The public should learn how much time he was spending playing video games.
A Question evolution! campaign blog has now received over 300,000 page views. Why is belief in biblical creationism poised for tremendous growth? [86]
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. A parental rights activists warns of a double threat: from the United States government and the United Nations. [87]
Values do matter ... even to some members of the media (baseball writers): Steroids-era baseball stars denied election to the Hall of Fame. [88] You won't find any of them on our list of Greatest Conservative Sports Stars, either.
As the Federal Gun Control Task Force ramps up its bully pulpit activities, it's worth remembering how gun control got started, and why the Constitution still forbids it. [89]
Conservatives run negative ads against RINO Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell due to his fiscal cliff deal. [90] McConnell is up for reelection in 2014.
Why is young earth creationism so exciting and atheism so boring? Why is the young earth creationist Rachel McDonald so excited?[91]
The web traffic of Creation.com is being ramped up before the release of the much anticipated Question Evolution! Campaign book for middle school students. [92]
Will the all-out-assault on evolutionary belief occur in 2013?[93]
How fast is the world's population growing? [94]
When you do the figures, it confirms the biblical truth that everyone on Earth today is a descendant of Noah's sons and daughters-in-law.[95]
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati: Firefly lanterns inspire LED lenses. [96]
The liberal media go along with the communist cover-up about Hugo Chavez, despite how he likely died in a Cuban hospital in December. [97]
The Second Amendment does let private citizens arm themselves as well as the government. And for good, solid historical reasons. [98]
Sports commentator who questioned RG3's "blackness" is not being renewed by ESPN. RG3, a phenomenal black quarterback, is rumored to be a Republican -- but does that detract from his "blackness"??? [99]
"The Courage of sticking to it: On the March with the IDF" [100]
"The equine name for liberal stupidity" [101]
You guys voted for it!
Obama supporters are in a state of shock: their paychecks just got smaller. [102] They shouldn't be so angry. After all, they wanted it this way.
The "cleansing" of Elizabeth Warren's Wikipedia page: [103] "The net result of this effort is that there no longer is a Cherokee Controversy subsection, and the entire discussion of Elizabeth Warren's claim to be Cherokee are three sentences meant to present Warren in the most favorable light possible"
RG3, the star rookie quarterback who publicly thanks God during NFL games, was done a disservice by his own coach. [104]
Fox News pundits try to push the Republican Party further away from social conservatism, by overhyping Chuck Hagel and foreign policy. [105]
Democrats seek to hike taxes by $1 trillion this year. [106]
Inefficient government regulations and "tree huggers" are causing an explosion of the deer population in Mississippi. There is now one deer for everyone one-and-a-half people in Mississippi and the deer are moving into populated areas.[107]
On a related note, the recognized degradation of the deer genome is in the opposite direction (i.e. downhill) to what's needed for primordial sludge to have supposedly turned into a series of other organisms which turned into deer.[108]
NCAA champion wrestler Congressman Jim Jordan -- one of the Greatest Conservative Sports Stars -- criticizes the irresponsible fiscal cliff deal: "This is crazy. It's about time we cut up the credit card." [109]
In addition to Roman parallels, Communist parallels, especially to their utopian promises, are useful to remember. [110]
Obama's Religion shines in his pick of Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense, to the ire of Democrats, neocons, and homosexual agenda backers. [111] Hagel voted against the Iraq War and has criticized homosexuality.
Liberal claptrap: the lamestream media use the upcoming Notre Dame-Alabama championship game as an opportunity to publish criticism of conservative social values held by the Catholic Church. [112]
Conservapedia proven right, tragically: "Connecticut town to burn violent video games as Sandy Hook returns to school." [113] Yet liberal denial about the harm of video games continues.
Chinese atheists/Darwinist leaders are getting even more desperate. Arrests and detentions of Christians was up 130% in 2012.[114]
China's communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong is known to have regarded Charles Darwin and his disciple Thomas Huxley as his two favorite authors.[115]
Complacent, egotistical and unrealistic evolutionists vs. hardworking, humble and realistic creationists - biblical creationism will continue to prevail in the world.[116]
"Equine Assisted Psychotherapy": Christendom needs to stop horsing around with homosexuality and rip out pro-homosexuality ideology at its roots.[117]
But there is one thing for certain partner, John Wayne was not gay!
A chilling side-by-side of factors at work in ancient Rome before its fall, and America today. [118]
Leave it to a liberal Democrat to spout off on the need for everyone else to pay higher taxes, while avoiding them himself. [119]
Gun control in Obama's back yard means a sky-rocketing homicide rate, including five murders this year alone. And it's only January 4th! [120]
"Note to Conservatives: Never Stop Fighting for Individual Liberty." [121]
A Question evolution! campaign online forum is now fully up and will be filled to the brim with people committed to defeating Darwinism.[122]
Pulling out all the stops in the Question evolution! campaign in 2013 and helping Creation.com break the Alexa 40,000 barrier by January 1, 2014.[123]
Evolutionists, mark down the date of January 1, 2014 on your calendars!
Why has suicide increased exponentially throughout the world? [124]
One thing for certain - biblical Christianity, young earth creationism and conservatism are not causing the increase! Excellent graph showing church involvement rates and suicide rates.
"So easy, a caveman did it!" [125]
Communist Hugo Chavez may be "kept alive by life support machines" and might be "in an induced coma in Cuba." [126] Or, similar to the liberal denial about Fidel Castro, Chavez may have died last month and leftists are lying in saying he's alive.
"The Russian ramming attempt and three brave sailors: The hunt for KAL 007" by Bishop Bert [127]
The gun control battle is joined. Those who disdain the Second Amendment throw civility to the four winds, while the people arm themselves. [128]
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey and Representative Peter King of New York shouldn't be so outraged over the Hurricane Sandy funding bill. It was indeed loaded with pork, the relief money would never have flowed right away, and besides, each man could have done more about the situation, but hasn't. [129]
Compromise often produces tragic results, and will again this time. So says this Tea Party activist. [130]
Are communists resorting again to liberal denial, as they have about Fidel Castro? Hugo Chavez "has not been seen or heard from since a Dec. 11 surgery for an undisclosed type of cancer." [131]
2013 is starting off to be a BAD year for Darwinism. Study shows that the world's biggest pro-evolution website is driving away newcomer editors. Also, a video shows that the evolutionists at Wikipedia are clowns! [132]
A liberal columnist is so full of hate for supporters of the Second Amendment that he proposes killing them. [133]
About 77% of American households will face higher federal taxes in 2013 under the agreement negotiated between President Obama and Senate Republicans, estimates the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington research group. [134]
Using your God-given talents in 2013. [135]
"CBO: 'Fiscal cliff' deal carries $4 trillion price tag over next decade." [136] Government spending will actually increase under the deal, which also increases taxes.
The final installment in the "Obamacare Dead on Arrival" series. [137]
Homosexuality is reportedly on the increase in Kabwe, Zambia and residents have called on police to curb the vice. Night club owners are being asked to bar a group of known sodomites from entering their premises before people's morals are compromised.[138]
Eight questions to any person who advocates gun control as a way to keep society "safe." [139]
"Fiscal cliff deal meets resistance in GOP House"; Rand Paul voted against it in the U.S. Senate. [140]
A lawyer sets out a documented case: Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen. Nor can Congress arbitrarily make him one. [141]
As the NFL demands more political correctness – refusing to play Tim Tebow and having "moments of silence" rather than prayer – its television ratings decline. [142] Why bother watching its liberal style playoffs?
"Becoming anti-abortion: a personal odyssey" by Bishop Bert [143]
A reply to the gun control agenda. [144]
Pro-life movement continues to advance: Texas court rejects attempt to block Texas law defunding Planned Parenthood. [145]
A troubling disdain for success: "The left in this country — aided by the old-guard press — is peddling the fallacy that all our economic woes are the result of the wealthy not paying their fair share of taxes. Financially successful people are vilified as the new enemy of the middle class. We were a happier people when as a nation we admired success and emulated the successful. Striving for something better was an equal-opportunity aspiration. The political right can't seem to overcome its crippling public relations deficiency and rekindle our national ethos. Merely surviving is not a way to live and certainly not the American way of life." [146]
A family-owned American company takes the same stand that Saint Peter, and Saint Paul after him, had to take. [147] While a Tea Party activist writes a legal analysis that the lawyers for this company might use. [148]
Time, eternity and the beginning of the universe. [149]
As the fiscal cliff negotiations stall, "Obama governs 'like a visitor from a morally superior civilization,'" observes the New York Times columnist David Brooks. [150]
The Obama-supported change in Egypt has resulted in a collapse of the value of its currency: "Egypt pound hits record low under new currency regime." [151]
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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the National Corn Growers Association and the American Soybean Association announced this week that Commodity Classic and the AG CONNECT Expo and Summit will be held in collaboration with one another beginning in 2016.
Classic is a joint venture of the National Corn Growers Association and American Soybean Association, with the National Association of Wheat Growers and the National Sorghum Producers participating as affiliates.
AG CONNECT is owned by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
The 2014 and 2015 Commodity Classics will go on as planned, with the first joint show scheduled for March 3 to 5, 2016, in New Orleans. More about the new venture is available at www.commodityclassic.com/news-and-media/convention-news/article/2013/10/commodity-classic-and-ag-connect-launch-collaboration.

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Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie (UK - BD RB)
Marcus tags along for the Doctor's experiment and wishes he hadn't...
Based on the long running cult TV show, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, upgrades to the big screen and Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) continues to subject Mike Nelson and his two robot buddies, Crow and Gypsy, to the worst movies ever made, this time it's Universal's This Island Earth.
Those who do not know what Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is or have never seen it, it's essentially as simply as that synopsis above. There's some madcap introduction with the mad doctor telling us what his experiment is and then we cut to Mike and the muppet-esq robots on their "space station" tinkering about before they are forced to go and watch the film. Then while the film is running we have silhouettes at the bottom of the screen that show Mike and the robots watching the film and they make comments about what we're seeing. That's all there is to it and if like me that is a baffling concept for a movie, you'd be right.
I can't lie, there's a certain likeable charm to the set up here. Its super low budget, the simplest set up of all time and so goofy I can understand its appeal but for me Mystery Science Theatre 3000 isn't the sort of thing that makes me laugh and if it was it would be a far sharper, funnier approach than what this movie provides.
The idea of two robots and an everyday Joe watching a movie and poking holes it in, on paper sounds great but it's so drab here. Long gaps of silence then the odd comment or chuckle highlight the obvious issues with the film they are watching but it's never enough to really work for me. This feels like a boring commentary track for the most part, the gags are pretty lame, the observations never all that funny and the madcap breaks we have between seeing the film that are set on the space station are very much a glossy version of the TV show roots of the project and again, not all that funny.
I'll chalk this one up to me missing the boat. I'd not seen Mystery Science Theatre before, though I had heard a great deal about it. Sitting down to watch this review disc felt like I was about to step into a realm of fandom and kick myself for missing out on it, sadly despite my best intentions, this is a cult favourite I just don't get.
Given the low budget nature of the movie and the 1996 release, MST 3000 actually looks pretty bloody good. Sure it's coloured like Batman and Robin, with ultra bright blues, reds and greens and of course it's lit like any low rent TV show from the 90s but there's a strong transfer here, with nice edges, good detail and a nice bit of lighting. Yeah, it shows off the cheapness but it's not like the film makers were ever trying to hide that.
All that said, the image has some grain to it in places, a few soft areas to the frame and it certainly has that 90s TV to movie upgrade look but it's never that bad. Of course the elements of This Island Earth look like an old B movie should but even that gets a bit of a boost from the HD upgrade.
The audio track is a little more basic. There's the odd increase in volume to add to the excitement of going in to watch the old film but there's very little going on here besides dialogue. Even so there's a nice divide between This Island Earth and its three viewers and there's a genuine sense the trio are sitting in front of the main features audio, so that all works quite nicely.
Sadly all you get here is a five minute featurette (which gives a brief history of the show) a trailer and a still gallery.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 wasn't really for me despite wanting to like it more than I did. The extras are thin, so that holds this release back from being a fans delight somewhat but the video and audio departments are great considering the low budget nature of the movie.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
Great film of a great show.
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The show is better that 'The Film'.
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 28th May 1995
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: N/A
Extras: Featurette, Trailer, Stills Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jim Mallon
Cast: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson and Jim Mallon
Genre: Comedy
Length: 74 minutes
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STOCKTON - Fewer repeat offenders now qualify for a harsh third-strike sentence after California voters passed amendments Tuesday to the state's three-strikes law.
STOCKTON - Fewer repeat offenders now qualify for a harsh third-strike sentence after California voters passed amendments Tuesday to the state's three-strikes law.
But the state's death penalty stays on the table, voters decided, even as executions remain stalled by ongoing legal battles in the courts.
Proposition 36 - an easing of the three-strikes law - was supported by an overwhelming 68.6 percent of voters.
Under the new provisions, a felon with two previous strikes is hit with a third strike only when the third offense is a serious or violent crime; when any of the strikes are considered a "super strike," including murder, rape and child molestation; or when the third offense is identified as an exception to the nonserious and nonviolent list of specific felonies, such as a qualifying statutory rape charge, San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Robert Himelblau said.
Prisoners whose third strike would have been lowered by the amendment can now petition for new sentences.
But Himelblau said the new conditions complicate the process of charging criminals even further and increase the possibility for appeals.
"It's just one of those things where you're going to have to figure out what they're actually facing, so you're going to need, like, a little worksheet," Himelblau said. "There also might be some clerical headaches."
Another potential problem prosecutors foresee is that the language used in the legislation might conflict with language commonly used in litigation. The result might be more issues raised on appeal over the law's intent by sometime next year.
"It eats up a lot of resources," Himelblau said. "There's always funky writing in these laws, and they always cause some headaches.
"I mean nitpicky, little things."
California expects about 2,800 inmates who were sentenced under the old three-strikes law will file petitions to receive shorter sentences.
Local judges will have jurisdiction in deciding who should be resentenced, but district attorneys may choose to show that the inmate should stay locked up if that person continues to be a danger to society, Himelblau said.
California's law was viewed as the toughest in the 24 states that have a three-strikes laws. It was the only state to impose 25-years-to-life sentences on a third strike for a nonserious or nonviolent felony, such as shoplifting.
County Public Defender Peter Fox said the amended law provides fairer sentences and applies to about 34 prisoners from San Joaquin County already serving long terms for nonviolent crimes.
"It isn't fair to send someone to prison for a nonserious, nonviolent offence," he said.
The Public Defender's Office challenge is locating former clients who may meet the criteria for reduced sentences.
"The attorneys who've been around for 20 years, they remember these people," Fox said. "So we've started to list the names. Some of the clients have written us letters."
Odds are, Fox said, some of the inmates looking to petition were not represented by the Public Defender's Office at trial. Some will write their own request for a hearing, and it will likely end up in Fox's office anyway.
"It's not that much work, because it's not that many people," Fox said.
San Joaquin County prosecutors have tended to offer deals to third-strike offenders with nonviolent, nonserious offenses, and the local court also has supported the idea of loosening the penalties on those convictions.
"The San Joaquin County court has evolved to recognize that it's an injustice to send people to life for a nonserious, nonviolent crime," Fox said.
Fox is, however, disappointed the measure to repeal the state's death penalty failed at the ballot.
Proposition 34 would have converted the death sentences of the 727 death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but on Tuesday, it was shot down 52.8 percent to 47.8 percent. Proponents had argued that halting executions would save California millions of dollars.
"The death penalty is broken anyway," Fox said.
California has executed only 13 inmates since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, mainly because it takes decades for a death row inmate to exhaust his or her appeals.
Adding to that, executions have been stalled by ongoing litigation since Stockton's Michael Morales, convicted of murder and rape, challenged the state's three-cocktail lethal injection method seven years ago.
And, Fox said, there is a shortage of appellate lawyers who take these types of appeals. "They can't pay people enough to do it," he said.
Himelblau said prosecutors never thought the bill would pass.
"It never polled in a way where the death penalty looked like it was getting overturned," he said.
Yet he agrees with Fox that the death penalty system isn't working.
"We're executing less than one person a year since it started," Himelblau said. "We have appeals still sitting in the Ninth Circuit (Court of Appeals) 25 years after the offense or more.
"If we were to execute a person a day," he added, "it would take us two years (to clear)."
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Vittorio's Mistress by Kimberley Reeves – $1.50
Make her fall madly in love with him and then dump her, that is the plan. Dante Vittorio has never forgiven Paige for ripping his heart out when she left him four years ago, and now that she's back, Dante is out for revenge.
Paige is shaken to the core when she runs into Dante unexpectedly, and despite the fact she's still in love with him, she refuses his invitation to pick up where they left off. But Paige is harboring a dark secret and she'll do just about anything to keep Dante from finding out, including giving in to blackmail and becoming his mistress for one month.
High Stakes (Book One) (Nashville Nights Next Generation) by Cheryl Douglas – $2.99
Former party girl, Alisa Turner, made a deal with her daddy, Trey. He'll provide the seed money for her new business venture as long as she promises to stay out of trouble. Too bad her good intentions tumble 30,000 feet when she meets a sexy stranger on a flight to sin city.
Hotel mogul, Liam Bryson, has never believed in love at first sight, but when a sexy little siren twenty years his junior tempts him into a night of high stakes Blackjack, he's suddenly playing for keeps.
Alisa wakes up in Liam's bed the next morning, cursing Tequila and the five carat diamond on her left hand. She demands an annulment before her over-protective father finds out she reneged on their agreement, but her new hubby isn't prepared to let her go without a fight.
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Loving him couldn't be worse than losing him. Could it?
Candace Andrews has had enough of pleasing others. In an act of birthday rebellion, she sets out to please herself—by walking into the tattoo parlor owned by her cousin's ex-boyfriend. All she wants is a little ink, and Brian's just the guy to give it to her.
As soon as she submits to his masterful hands, though, the forbidden attraction she's always felt for him resurfaces…and she realizes the devilishly sexy artist could give her so much more.
Sweet, innocent Candace is the last person Brian expected to see again. She's everything he's not, and her family despises him. He doesn't need the hassle, but he needs her, and this time no one is taking her away. Not even those who threaten to make his life a living hell.
Backed into a corner, Candace faces the worst kind of choice. Cave in to those who think Brian is a living nightmare…or hold her ground and risk it all for the one man who rocks her world.
Warning: This book contains explicit sex, naughty language, tattoos aplenty, family drama, a hot rock concert…and a bad boy hero who's pierced in all the right places.
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Katelyn Jacks was used to being front and center as a model. But she never had to confront the Keeneston Grapevine! After retiring from the runway and returning to town to open a new animal clinic, Katelyn found that her life in the public eye was anything but over. While working hard to establish herself as the new veterinarian in town, Katelyn finds her life uprooted by a storm of love, gossip, and a vicious group of criminals.
Marshall Davies is the new Sheriff in Keeneston. He is also right at the top of the town's most eligible bachelor list. His affinity for teasing the hot new veterinarian in town has led to a rush of emotions that he wasn't ready for. Marshall finds his easy days of breaking up fights at the local PTA meetings are over when he and Katelyn discover that a dog-fighting ring has stormed into their normally idyllic town. As their love struggles to break through, they must battle to save the lives of the dogs and each other.
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It has dogs. I can't resist.
Doggy do-gooder Julie Shields has one month to save two delinquent poodles from becoming doggies of divorce. A self-proclaimed born-again virgin with a biological clock running out of juice, she also needs to find a husband. When hunky pilot Nick Worthington arrives at the Abilene airport to fly her to Waco, he sends Julie into a tailspin. But he also may be a drug trafficker and smuggler of illegal aliens. Not only that, he's involved with another woman. Julie's quest for a suitable husband leads to several misfires. Only Nick leaves her panting for more. Will she have to put a choke chain on him before the month is out?


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The grading of NFL draft classes immediately following the event truly is a subjective enterprise. We won't know for years how Eagles coach Andy Reid, general manager Howie Roseman and company fared with this year's group. In fact, Reid may not even be coaching in Philadelphia by the time a final grade can be assigned.
The delay of free agency makes the task even more difficult. The Eagles will surely add another cornerback once they are permitted to do so. I'm not sure if it will be Nnamdi Asomugha -- age and contract demands could thwart that -- but there will be someone.
But you can evaluate a class based on need and whether the Eagles effectively filled some glaring holes on their roster. Just because there will eventually be free agency and trades, it doesn't mean the Eagles will get their man/men. So they had to be protective and get a starting-caliber cornerback, another pass rusher and a big run stopper. And they just didn't. They did a fine job addressing some of their lesser needs in the final day of the draft, but they failed to get a slam dunk in the first three rounds and that's disconcerting.
Grade: C+.
Danny Watkins, G, Baylor (1st round, 23d overall): Watkins upped the "C" to a "plus." Really, the only knock against the kid is his age. He's 26, the same age as Mike McGlynn, the Eagles offensive lineman he could be competing with for the right guard spot. I spoke to a number of Watkins' coaches at Baylor and they stressed that he doesn't have the normal wear and tear of a 26-year-old offensive lineman. While that may be true, he still has an extra four years of walking this earth. I think the fact that Reid overlooked Watkins' advanced age tells you something about his desire to win sooner rather than later (read: three years left on his contract). All that being said, Watkins really is a mauler and fills a need inside if the Eagles really plan on moving Herremans to right tackle, which I think will happen. The one thing that Baylor coach Art Briles said to me that really resonated was when he spoke about the way Watkins walks. He struts with confidence and his chest barrelling out. It's really in stark contrast to, say, a Winston Justice, who doesn't always seem comfortable in his frame.
Jaiquawn Jarrett, S, Temple (2d, 54th): I would have rather seen the Eagles get a cornerback or defensive lineman at this point, but Roseman said most of the top guys at that position were gone by the latter of half of the second round. Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't get one in the first round. The Eagles needed a big hitting safety. Jarrett, from what I've been told, can really bring it. Quintin Mikell was a solid run-stopping safety for several seasons, but he wasn't an assassin. Kurt Coleman plays with reckless abandon but his size keeps him from being an intimidator. Jarrett will get every opportunity to start immediately, but he has serious cover deficiencies, as one coach who watched extension tape of him told me. That means a great deal of responsibility will rest on Nate Allen's shoulders in centerfield. Can the second-year safety handle it?
Curtis Marsh, CB, Utah State (3d, 90th): Most elite starting cornerbacks in the NFL are drafted in the first round. Asante Samuel was a fourth round guy and it's a snub he used to motivate him. Marsh, though, wasn't expected to be drafted until the third day. A converted running back, he's only played cornerback for two seasons. And yet, Reid said Marsh wasn't a project. If Marsh is the starting cornerback at the start of the season I'll eat my pencil. Trevard Lindley came into the NFL last year having played cornerback for years and by the end of the season still didn't have a grasp on the finer points of the position. Marsh, who was second team all-WAC as a senior, didn't appear on the scene for many until he performed well at the combine in February. Sounds like a reach.
Casey Matthews, LB, Oregon (4th, 116th): In many ways, Matthews isn't like his brother, Clay. He's nowhere near as big, is more of an inside linebacker rather than an outside one and he's simply doesn't have Clay's talent. Reminds me of when the Phillies signed pitcher Mike Maddux. Eagles fans seemed to like the Matthews pick because they knew the name. Bloodlines can help. But I had Matthews pegged to play inside linebacker in a 3-4 rather than outside in a 4-3, where the Eagles envision him playing. They do need help at linebacker and a fourth round pick on a legacy prospect isn't the worst idea.
Alex Henery, K/P, Nebraska (4th rd, 120th): I really liked this pick. If Henery is anywhere near as good as he showed in college the Eagles will have their placekicker for the next decade. That's 12,000 more points than they'll probably ever get from, say, Riley Cooper. So a fourth rounder sounds about right, although some feel it's a stretch for a kicker. Henery has some big shoes to fill if you're talking about David Akers' regular season success. He shouldn't have a hard time matching Akers in the postseason, though. We'll see if the kid has the moxie to make big kicks at big moments. But with Akers' age and contract situation it was the right move to make.
Dion Lewis, RB, Pittsburgh (5th, 149th): Getting LeSean McCoy's "little brother" in the fifth round was a sound pick. Ten years ago, a barely 5-foot-7, 190-pound running back doesn't get drafted at all. But with today's offenses more spread out, the little guys have room to roam. And Lewis is the type of scatback that can be a nice changeup to McCoy's fastball. I like Jerome Harrison as the second tailback, but his free agent status -- he could be unrestricted -- made it necessary that the Eagles draft a running back.
Julian Vandervelde, G, Iowa, (5th, 161st): My exposure to draft prospects is usually limited to the Senior Bowl and the combine, but I do get to watch a number of Big Ten players because of my interest in Penn State. Vandervelde is one of those players. I can recall the Hawkeyes often running behind Vandervelde on the right side and through gaping holes, although that might have had as much to do with the Lions' defensive line. Vandervelde is another of Roseman's valedictorian selections. He's small, which would seem to fit in with Howard Mudd's preference for nimble linemen, but isn't especially athletic. This pick is kind of a head-scratcher to me.
Jason Kelce, C, Cincinnati (6th, 191st): Kelce is more in the mold of a Mudd guy. He's nearly the same size as Jeff Saturday -- 6-1, 282 -- Mudd's center for many years with the Colts. That doesn't mean Kelce will be the next Saturday, but he's a development-type center that could replace Jamaal Jackson in a few seasons. I thought maybe A.Q. Shipley was that center. I do know that Shipley has shed some pounds this off-season to perhaps be more appealing to Mudd.
Brian Rolle, LB, Ohio State, (6th, 193d): Rolle could be the steal of the Eagles' draft. He's a shade under 5-10, and barely 225 pounds, but he made plays at the highest level in college football and that should account for something. Some see him as a possible in-the-box safety, but I still think he's a weak-side linebacker. The Eagles have to hit on a linebacker at some point, right? Right?
Greg Lloyd, LB, Connecticut (7th, 237d): At this point in the draft, you're just shooting darts blindfolded. Lloyd's father, Greg, was an outstanding pass-rushing linebacker for many years, so bloodlines had to play some part in this pick. Lloyd was also there this late because of a 2009 knee injury (cue the-Eagles-only-draft-players-with-knee-problems chorus).
Stanley Havili, FB, Southern Cal (7th, 240th): Havili fits the Eagles' needs: A fullback that really isn't a traditional fullback but more of a specialty running back. In Havili's case, he's a pretty good pass-catcher out of the backfield which would suit the Eagles' offense. Leonard Weaver isn't expected to be back next season (or ever, for that matter) and Owen Schmitt could use some competition.


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Speculation over the leadership of Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has re-emerged, with the Liberal opposition saying senior minister David O'Byrne is preparing a challenge.
Deputy Liberal leader Jeremy Rockliff says a call by Young Labor for Greens leader Nick McKim to be sacked from cabinet represents an attempt to destabilise Ms Giddings' leadership.
The state's Labor youth wing says Mr McKim, who is Tasmania's minister for sustainable transport, should be sacked over his handling of a six-week industrial dispute involving bus drivers.
Mr McKim is one of two Greens ministers in Ms Giddings' ALP-Greens power-sharing government.
"Young Labor is doing the bidding of the factional heavyweights, the leadership of the Labor Party, most notably those supporting David O'Byrne," Mr Rockliff told reporters in Launceston on Thursday.
Mr Rockliff said Mr O'Byrne had been preparing a challenge with volunteers phoning more than 3000 voters in the minister's electorate.
"They're a divided, dysfunctional rabble and David O'Byrne would not be doing this polling if he wasn't very concerned and dissatisfied with the leadership of Premier Lara Giddings," Mr Rockliff said.
Mr O'Byrne said he was merely asking voters their opinions on issues and was not polling, ABC radio reported.
He was previously forced to rule out a leadership tilt in December 2011.
The ALP is languishing in the polls, with Ms Giddings' rating as preferred premier consistently in the low to mid 20s.
Mr McKim has refused to intervene in the bus drivers' pay dispute, which resulted in stand-downs on Wednesday, arguing it is a matter between employees and the state-owned transport company Metro.
Mr O'Byrne, a former union boss, disagreed with the shut-out, along with several other state Labor MPs and federal member Julie Collins.
The talk has fuelled speculation of a cabinet split over the issue, with the Liberals suggesting Ms Giddings has sided with her Greens colleague Mr McKim.
Mr McKim has denied there is tension in cabinet over the issue.
However, former Labor premier Paul Lennon was installed as a mediator in the bus dispute on Thursday, apparently without Mr McKim's knowledge.
Mr Lennon and Mr McKim are old foes in the battle over the pulp mill proposed for northern Tasmania by fallen timber giant Gunns.
The Greens minister said he would welcome a facilitator respected by both sides in the dispute.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is instituting new approval and citation rules for his staffers and researchers in the face of accusations that he plagiarized material from several sources for speeches, a newspaper column and his book.
An adviser confirmed the move as Paul looks to stem the fallout, which includes the Washington Times canceling his column.
Paul initially tried to downplay revelations first reported by MSNBC that he had used material from Wikipedia — without attributing it — to describe the plot of a sci-fi movie in a recent speech. Since then, more accusations have surfaced about his writings having similar or identical language to other publications without attribution.
In an email Wednesday, Paul adviser Doug Stafford said that the senator "relies on a large number of staff and advisers to provide supporting facts and anecdotes — some of which were not clearly sourced or vetted properly."
Stafford said Paul's office now plans to make footnotes available on request, and will seek to make attribution to other people's work more complete.
Paul, who initially said he wished he could challenge his critics to a duel for questioning his honesty, remained defiant about the sudden attention to the provenance of his public pronouncements.
"What we are going to do from here forward, if it will make people leave me the hell alone, is we're going to do them like college papers," Paul, who is considering a presidential bid in 2016, told The New York Times.
While mistakes had been made, he said, they had "never been intentional."
The Washington Times launched an internal review of columns and op-eds written by the senator after the website BuzzFeed reported that Paul had included word-for-word passages from The Week magazine in a recent piece about mandatory prison sentencing.
The paper published a correction to the Sept. 20 column and editor John Solomon said in the paper's story about the decision that the "we expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material."
Dan Stewart, who wrote the article for The Week, said he wasn't offended by the material being lifted for the Paul column.
"Paul's error, in this instance at least, seems to be one of laziness rather than malfeasance," Stewart said in an article posted on The Week's website Wednesday. "If he or his ghostwriter had simply used the details of what I'd written, rather than the sentence structure and wording, I wouldn't be writing this right now."


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STEWART AIRPORT — A current Stewart International Airport airline and the carrier that launched commercial passenger service there are talking merger.
STEWART AIRPORT — A current Stewart International Airport airline and the carrier that launched commercial passenger service there are talking merger.
And the head of the Stewart Airport Commission is hopeful that if the merger goes through, it will mean good things for Stewart — especially if the old American Airlines route to Chicago could be revived.
American, which filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2011, is considering merging with U.S. Airways.
American became the first airline to offer regular commercial passenger flights from Stewart, with daily flights to Chicago and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. It remained until September 2007, when its regional affiliate, American Eagle ended service at Stewart, saying its planes were needed in more profitable areas. It was still offering daily flights to Chicago at the time.
U.S. Airways, which has four daily flights from Stewart to Philadelphia, was one of the first airlines to follow American's lead and come to Stewart, in early 1991.
Stewart Airport Commission Chairman Jim Wright said the Chicago flights usually seemed to be full, so it was a bit surprising when the airline pulled out.
"For a number of years we've lacked the ability to fly to the west," Wright said.
The only westbound flights these days are Delta's three daily trips to Detroit, where passengers can catch connecting flights to other locations.
The airlines are not commenting publicly beyond a handful of press releases and other postings on their websites.
In a letter to employees last week, American Chairman and CEO Thomas Horton said they expect to complete the merger evaluation process "in a matter of weeks."


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Updating a previous item, The Oakland Tribune's Joe Stiglich reports 10 players were cut Sunday, March 13. Players reassigned to minor league camp included P's Joe Bateman, Vinnie Chulk, Gabe DeHoyos, Fautino De Los Santos, Willie Eyre and Pedro Figueroa; C Max Stassi; 1B Sean Doolittle; 2B Adrian Cardenas and SS Josh Horton.
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The Oakland Athletics have invited 20 non-roster players to spring training, according to MLB.com's Jane Lee. Among those on the invitation list are OF's Matt Carson, Jai Miller and Michael Choice; C's Anthony Recker and Max Stassi, SS Grant Green, 2B Jemile Weeks, 3B's Wes Timmons and Andy LaRoche, SS Josh Horton; RP's Fernando Cabrera, Vinnie Chulk, Gabe DeHoyos and Willie Eyre; and P's Joe Bateman, Danny Farquhar and Yadel Marti.
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The San Diego Padres have assigned Ps Gabe DeHoyos, Will Inman, Matthew Latos, Oneli Perez and Nick Schmidt to their minor league camp, according to USAToday.com.
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In the coming decades ahead, we'll likely augment our minds and explore not only a different kind of "human experience", we'll likely explore the further reaches of sentience and intelligence itself, and it's a process that I believe is starting now.
My TEDx video below is an attempt to encapsulate my argument for the inevitability of transhumanism in 15 minutes – including some of the forces that might most strongly encourage its adoption. My more complete thoughts (albeit drafted originally back in 2013) are in the full blog post that follows.
There's much to be said about how different we've become from the society of even 30, never mind 300 years ago. Hunkered over our desks or our iPhones, heads buried in a dozen screens per day, there's plenty of research to suggest that we're losing vital skills and capacities that our ancestors might have taken for granted (
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On the other hand we very well may be freeing up cognitive "space" for more complex and varied tasks, and adapting to a world where handling a hundred data streams is hardly a choice anymore. In addition, technology might beargued to afford us more freedom to pursue our highest callings (as we see them), and explore new and rich elements of life. We may be putting up with a lot more "beeping" in our rooms and in our pockets, but no longer are we trapped on a provincial farm or in a hot and noisy factory to generate an income for ourselves .
We may be losing some faculty of memory by using a search engine as opposed to a library, but we also have the video, audio, and text information of the world at our very fingertips – making memory potentially less relevant. We probably have weaker shoulder muscles because we don't harvest our own crops and wash our clothes on stones. Whether technology is influencing the human condition in a positive or negative way is in large part a topic that's debatable – but where technology seems to be taking us in the future may not be.
The true overlap of technology and psychology isn't something exogenous – that is, it is not about our external interaction with technology, or "tools" that we pick up and use. The actual overlap happens when technology and psychology literally intersect. When our technology becomes endogenous – or forms an inner part of us – we will have gone beyond an increase in our capacities aided by gadgets, to a literal change in our human condition itself. The technologies of brain-machine interface, nanotechnology and
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One referenced project pulled together fluid experts, including some who were expert in the numeric modeling related to computational fluid dynamics, in a team with computer scientists. Essentially, it turned out that the computer guys did not know enough to weigh in as much as they would have liked. Thus, their role, to their chagrin, many times was "mere" programmer.
Some knowledge-based engineering projects experienced similarly that there is a trade-off between trying to teach programming to a domain expert versus getting a programmer to understand the intricacies of a domain. That, of course, depends upon the domain. In short, any team member has to decide which side of the coin to spend one's time.
The International Society for Technology in Education has a brochure detailing an "operational definition" of computational thinking. At the same time, the ISTE made an attempt at defining related skills. [11]
A recognized skill is tolerance for ambiguity and being able to handle open-ended problems. For instance, a
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In advanced modeling, with the requisite computational support such as knowledge-based engineering, mappings must be maintained between a real-world object, its abstracted counterparts as defined by the domain and its experts, and the computer models. Mismatches between domain models and their computational mirrors can raise issues that are apropos to this topic. Techniques that allow the flexible modeling required for many hard problems must resolve issues of identity, type, etc. which then lead to methods, such as duck typing. Many domains, with a numerics focus, use limit theory, of various sorts, to overcome the duck test necessity with varying degrees of success. Yet, with that, issues still remain as representational frameworks bear heavily on what we can know.
In arguing for an object-based methodology, Peter Wegner [12] suggested that "positivist scientific philosophies, such as operationalism in physics and behaviorism in psychology" were powerfully applied in the early part of the 20th century. However, computation has changed the landscape. He notes that we need to distinguish four levels of "irreversible physical and computational abstraction" (Platonic abstraction, computational approximation, functional abstraction, and value computation). Then, we must rely on interactive methods, that have behavior as their focus (see duck test).
Participants requested an app with more detailed sample meals for both trigger and nontrigger days, as they feared erroneously consuming trigger foods on a nontrigger day. Focus group participants were also concerned about the assumption that trigger foods result in symptom onset within 4 hours. The majority of survey respondents (80%) did however agree that their symptoms occurred within 4 hours after eating. Participants were also concerned that trigger foods could result in symptoms lasting longer than 24 hours. They were also wary of foods being categorized either too broadly or narrowly (e.g., testing "nuts" vs "almonds"). These concerns suggest additional design opportunities such as experimenting with different symptom onset periods or iteratively categorizing foods.
Seventy percent of participants in our survey selected breakfast as their preferred test meal. Focus group participants shared part of their rationale behind this preference: they thought breakfast would be the most feasible mealtime to eat the same type of food and drink for the duration of the study, unless the trigger food was an unconventional breakfast food (e.g., alcohol). Participant response to our framework's requirement that independent variables being controllable and actionable therefore influenced test meal preferences. Further exploration should be conducted to determine how this influence might affect the framework's efficacy.
Focus group participants were concerned about inconsistent symptom ratings over time. The symptom scales allowed "too much room for interpretation." They expressed the desire to customize symptom scales to be personally meaningful. We explored this issue further in the survey. We first asked the survey participants to generate their own custom scale with labels, then offered them a selection of four scales to choose from: 7-point with labels, 5-point with labels, 5-point with only endpoint labels, and 3-point with labels ( Figure 5 ). Participants developed custom scales ranging from 4 to 10 points. Fifty-seven percent preferred one of our predefined scales over their custom scale whereas 25% preferred their custom scale. Of the 57%, 47% preferred scale 6b.
Although focus group participants felt they could adhere to self-experiments, most preferred shorter 8-day study, even when told that a longer 12-day study would likely result in higher confidence levels. In the survey, 83% said they would be "extremely likely" or "likely" to complete an 8-day study without giving up or missing days, compared to 67% for a 12-day study.
All focus group participants preferred the frequency visualization over the standard and daily visualization designs (refer to Figure 3 ). However, participants also wanted access to the standard or daily visualizations. Participants felt the calendar associated with these could help them recall details of individual measures and events leading up to them. For all visualizations, participants valued seeing individual data points, as each represents a specific measure to which they could relate. Because data corresponded to each individual, and not to a group of other IBS patients, participants felt more trust that summary statistics described their situation. Participants with stronger backgrounds in statistics preferred interpreting the graphs over the summary statistics because the graphs allowed them to better identify and understand the impact of outliers. All participants expressed a desire for an easy way to share and communicate results with their healthcare providers.


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All of the exotic animals, including a pride of 24 lions, at a private zoo in Cairns up for auction will be given new homes.
The owner of the Shambala Animal Kingdom says if a new owner wishes to maintain the site as a zoo provisions will be made for some animals to be kept.
But Elaine Harrison says she expects all the animals will be sent to new homes, most likely an international conservation and breeding program, and the business will be sold as a vacant lot at the December 15 auction.
Ms Harrison bought the business, formerly the Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve, earlier this year but cites family and health reasons behind her decision to sell.
She said it was unlikely the site, which has struggled to remain viable since opening as the Mareeba Wild Animal Park in 2004, would continue to operate as a zoo.
"Not unless someone like a Clive Palmer comes along," Ms Harrison told AAP on Wednesday.
"The animals' welfare is the main priority and they will be looked after completely."
RSPCA Queensland spokesman Michael Beatty said the financial burdens of private zoos often made them an unviable business.
He said the society wasn't expecting the current business to be salvaged.
"It's a very expensive thing to do to run zoos like that," Mr Beatty told AAP.
"If there was some way of setting up a bond before somebody took it over but you're talking about a huge amount of money. It's a very difficult subject.
"We would certainly not support anyone else, for example, who was trying to set up another zoo somewhere in Australia."


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Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 - 242 pages
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Run a Faster Pacerun at the faster pace. You can start out slow to warm up, run a portion of your run at the new pace and then slow down to your normal pace. Be careful, though, that you don't overstride. Run such that you feet always hit the ground under your body rather than in front of your body. I refer to this form of speed training as a "low-level" form of speed training, because it doesn't put an awfully large stress on your body. I like to use this as my first attempt to increase my speed. Running a faster pace for longer distances can put a large stress on your body.
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Intervalsinterval. In running intervals, the runner runs a specified distance at a very fast pace and then follows that with a rest period of slow jogging. This sequence of fast-pace/rest-pace is repeated a number of times. The length of the interval is short enough that the runner can complete it in 2 pr 3 minutes. In doing this, the runner is pushing his or her body into the anaerobic level in which the runner isn't getting enough oxygen; because of this lack of oxygen, the runner doesn't run long intervals. The rest period is long enough that the runner's heart rate comes down significantly. Through running intervals, the person's body becomes used to higher levels of lactate and to having an oxygen debt.


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Categories: Estate Planning/Elder Law Law Practice Skills
Instructor(s) Erlanger, Howard
The three-credit version of "TNE I" will be roughly similar in content to the two-credit version. It will be a survey course on the legal and policy aspects of transmission of property, usually at death. It will cover such topics as intestate succession (dying without a will); wills; trusts and will substitutes; limitations on the disposition of assets and the impact of the Marital Property Act; powers of attorney and end-of-life decision making; and basic tax issues in the taxation of gifts and transfers at death. The third credit of the course will allow for elaboration of how TNE law plays out on the ground, and for additional emphasis on legal skills. There will be a couple of exercises involving interviewing or other activity outside of class, and there will also be an optional opportunity to develop these activities into a paper that would satisfy the upper level writing requirement, for those who are interested. (Participation in the optional writing exercise would not affect the grade in the course.) Students who take the three-credit version of TNE I will remain eligible to take TNE II or any other advanced course in the TNE / Estate Planning curriculum.


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New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access
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MetaModel offers a common domain model for the "datastore" domain. For example, the library provides domain objects such as Table, Column, Query, and DataSet that can be used to query the datasource or even build or alter the structure of the datastore. This model allows you to create and manipulate SQL queries via JDBC against relational databases. It also provides the same query capabilities against CSV and Excel files.
MetaModel's query engine is entirely object oriented. This allows the specification of queries using Java objects instead of arbitrary or potentially error-prone literals. It also provides a level of type-safety in creating the queries.
In discussing the usefulness of the MetaModel library, Sørensen said
[I]t enforces a better way of interacting with your data, based on accepted standards and type-safe query-writing. The framework is small and simple, yet powerful, making it easy to use and easy to learn.The project site claimed that the overall goal for MetaModel is to provide a Java API that allows:
- Traversing and building the structure of datastores.
- Executing datastore-neutral queries in a SQL-like manner.
- Provide datastores that do not support queries with a query engine.
- Implement this system for JDBC databases, CSV files and Excel spreadsheets.
- Split single queries into multiple ones that yield the same collective result, enabling powerful performance optimization and grid execution for heavy work loads.
MetaModel is not equivalent or a replacement for an O/R mapping tool. It may provide a simpler way to implement database interactions than using straight JDBC.
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Differences compared with other ORM tools
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Re: Differences compared with other ORM tools
Kasper Sørensen
1. Hibernate is an O/R mapping framework which means that the "input" in Hibernate is your domain model - an object-oriented model of your domain that you wish to map against a database.
2. MetaModel on the other hand is NOT an O/R mapping framework. It is in itself a domain model for the datastore domain. What this means is that it's appropriate to use MetaModel for applications that have the datastores as the domain itself. This is why it's called "MetaModel" - it's a "model of (data) models". You would typically use MetaModel for applications that should work across different datastores (ie. database clients, ETL-tools, database analyzing applications etc.), for example DataCleaner.
It would be interesting if it supported SQL/PSM
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On the other hand, if MetaModel could be used to specify the algorithms inside stored procedures, and then it could, from the same source code, generate stored procedures in standard SQL/PSM (for DB2), PL/SQL (for Oracle), TSQL (for SqlServer), then it could be used as a fundation to really revolutionize database development (for example, as an engine for an True Relational To Pseudo Relational Mapping like Dataphor or Rel
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Re: It would be interesting if it supported SQL/PSM
Francisco Jose Peredo Noguez
Basically what we have here is an object graph that represents a particular DDL or DML expressions. Why is all that code written by hand and not automatically generated? or is it? and if it is automatically generated... wouldnt it be possible to apply the same algorithm for SQL/PSM? After that it would be a matter of using the Strategy pattern to create different algorithms to generate SQL/PSM (for DB2), PL/SQL (for Oracle), TSQL (for SqlServer), etc.
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Also, SQL is unfortunately not a single grammar, there are lots of dialects and a lot of work has gone into making it compliant with those. MetaModel only contains a subset of the functionality of all SQL dialects and we are continously expanding this functionality but every time we add a new piece of functionality we will make this work uniformly across all supported datastores (for example we are currently investigating how various datastores convert dates to year-numbers, some databases use the YEAR(MY_DATE) function, others EXTRACT(YEAR from MY_DATE) and of course CSV, Excel and XML files don't have this function natively which is why we will also add a java-based query post-processing to match a year-extraction function. I hope this serves as a meaningful example of the challenges (and promises) of MetaModel.


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GE Aviation in Hooksett gets Defense Dept. boost
The Department of Defense has again expanded a manufacturing contract with General Electric, this time by a little over $67 million.
The GE Aviation factory in Hooksett will get about $12 million of the contracted work.
The order is a $67,141,518 modification to a fixed-price contract previously awarded to GE Aviation by Naval Air Systems Command. The modification provides money for the manufacture of 18 F414-GE-400 turbofan jet engines and 24 devices for EA-18G "Growler" electronic warfare aircraft.
Previous modifications to the contract with GE Aviation announced in September and November for $327 million and $197 million respectively provided funding for a total of 134 F414-GE-400 turbofan jet engines and other devices.
"It's a firm, fixed-price contract that gets updated about every three years," said Hooksett GE Aviation Plant Manager Doug Folsom. "We're in the middle of a three-year contract, about one year into it. This is an upgrade to that contract. Essentially, they're saying 'we know we asked for X-amount of engines, but we now need 18 more.'"
The Hooksett plant will manufacture compressor blisks, compressor stators and tubes for the engines. It is the only site in the world certified by the military and GE to make the parts for the F-414.
"You have to be certified by the military to produce that hardware, and obviously we have our own internal certifications within GE," said Folsom. "Whenever (GE) sells any F-414 engines or parts, they have to get made in Hooksett. No one else is certified."
Folsom is aware that if the plant wants to keep such a distinction, it must remain nimble.
"We have to continue to be cost-competitive and quality-competitive in order to not give them any incentive to qualify another source," he said. "We continually take productivity out of the costs of those engines. Last year, our compressor blisk costs were 6 percent lower than the prior year. We're continually innovating and looking for ways to take costs out."
The F414-GE-400 engines are to be installed in Navy Boeing F/A-18 "Hornet" multi-role fighter jets. GE is the sole designer and manufacturer of the F414-GE-400 engine.
The production lot is scheduled to be completed in March 2015. The work from the September modification is scheduled to be completed June 2014.
Along with Hooksett, 59 percent of the work order will be performed in Lynn, Mass., 12 percent in Rutland, Vt., and 11 percent in Madisonville, Ky.
GE Aviation is one of the state's largest employers, with more than 720 workers. While GE Aviation does manufacture components for commercial aircraft, defense contracts are a major source of revenue, particularly for the Hooksett plant.
"Military projects make up over half our volume here in Hooksett," said Folsom. "They're a major customer of ours. ... We've been building components for the F-414 since its inception back in the 90s. We're doing somewhere on an average yearly basis of upwards of $30 million a year in terms of F-414 hardware."
F-414 work alone makes up about 15 percent percent of the plant's work, with about 100 of 750 workers dedicated to manufacturing the components.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (June 18, 2011) — The LA Galaxy may have been missing both Landon Donovan and David Beckham, but they still ran out comfortable 3-1 winners over a 10-man Colorado Rapids at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night.
The defending champions saw their 10-game unbeaten streak snapped thanks to an own-goal from Drew Moor, a wonder-strike from Juninho and a late insurance goal that iced the victory for LA.
Colorado seemed to have the bulk of possession in the first half-hour but it was the Galaxy who took the lead against the run of play. In the 25th minute, Miguel López placed a deft ball behind the Rapids defense for Chris Birchall, who was able to cross into Moor's path.
The Rapids defender, who scored the winner in stoppage time last week against Portland, was unable to control the cross, turning it into his own net from close range. The Rapids players complained that the ball had gone out of play before Birchall was able to get his cross in.
Moor almost made up for that mistake with a strong close-range header from a corner in the 41st minute, but could only head it over the bar. A minute later, it was 2-0 as LA midfielder Juninho picked the ball up and placed a right-footed cracker from 25 yards out into the corner of Matt Pickens' net.
Rapids coach Gary Smith made an aggressive lineup change at halftime, bringing on Omar Cummings for his first action since suffering an ankle injury on May 4. That gave Colorado three forwards on the pitch, with starters Conor Casey and Caleb Folan.
The old combination of Cummings and Casey proved fruitful in the 64th minute as the Jamaican dribbled into the penalty area and hit a low, right-footed shot against the post. The ball rebounded into Casey's path and he tapped into the empty net to bring the Rapids to within one.
But their rally was stopped short 10 minutes later as Folan was red-carded for a harsh challenge on Juninho. The Galaxy capitalized in the 80th minute as second-half substitute Barrett latched onto a cross from Todd Dunivant inside the penalty area to seal the game.
With the win, the Western Conference-leading Galaxy improve to 9-2-7; they next travel to California rivals San Jose on June 25. The Rapids, meanwhile, drop to 5-4-7 and have not won at home since April 3. They next travel to Columbus on June 26.
Scoring Summary:
LA -- own goal (Drew Moor) 25
LA -- Juninho 3 (unassisted) 42
COL -- Conor Casey 3 (Omar Cummings 2) 64
LA -- Chad Barrett 4 (Todd Dunivant 3) 80
COL -- Sanna Nyassi (caution; Reckless Tackle) 36
COL -- Caleb Folan (ejection; Serious Foul Play) 74
COL -- Pablo Mastroeni (caution; Dissent) 81
LA Galaxy -- Josh Saunders, A.J. DeLaGarza (Gregg Berhalter 83), Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant, Chris Birchall, Juninho (Jovan Kirovski 81), Mike Magee, Michael Stephens, Juan Pablo Angel, Miguel Lopez (Chad Barrett 61).
Colorado Rapids -- Matt Pickens, Kosuke Kimura, Tyrone Marshall, Drew Moor, Danny Earls, Wells Thompson (Quincy Amarikwa 85), Pablo Mastroeni, Jeff Larentowicz, Sanna Nyassi (Omar Cummings 46), Conor Casey, Caleb Folan.
Referee: Hilario Grajeda
Referee's Assistants: Bill Dittmar; Mike Rottersman
4th Official: Daniel Fitzgerald
Attendance: 18,277
Time of Game: 1:54
Weather: Partly Cloudy and 82 degrees


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This term is going to be even MORE fun as I'm teaching another independent study, this time over Science Fiction and Fantasy. I'm also teaching a general Introduction to Lit class, which is a whole section of students--not an independent study.
Wanna know what I've decided to terrorize my students with??! Check it out...
Introduction to Literature:
Short Stories and Essays:
- "Coming to an Awareness of Language" by Malcolm X
- "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
- "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
- "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates
- "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
- "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
- "Today's Demon: Magic" by Lynda Barry (comic)
- "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
Poetry for Intro to Lit:
- The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats
- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
- "Totem" by Ted Hughes
- "Jilted" by Sylvia Plath
- "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
- "my old man" by Charles Bukowski
- "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
- "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
- "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
- "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
- Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare
- "Tyger! Tyger!" by William Blake
- "Howl" by Allen Ginsburg
Last, but certainly not least, I'm debating about the "drama" section of the course. The textbook has Antigone by Sophocles and A Doll's House by Ibsen. I've read both, I loved both, and I've taught A Doll's House to death. I would prefer to buy the class copies of Proof (probably can't afford it!). I'm also just not sure Antigone will "play" very well for this bunch. To be announced!
And for the Science Fiction and Fantasy class, we're reading a butt-load of fairy tales I won't list, but the short stories are:
--Excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
--Excerpt from We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
--"Mars is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury
--"The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
--"All You Zombies--" by Robert Heinlein
--"The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley
--"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler
Honestly, I haven't read all of these yet. Most, but not all. I've taken some recommendations from a colleague who taught this course last term and is a heavy-duty sci-fi reader. I also have a bunch of others marked in the textbook like Geoff Ryman's "Dead Space for the Unexpected," but I plan to gather a bit more feedback and do a bit more of my own reading in the coming days.
If you were teaching your own Introduction to Literature or Science Fiction and Fantasy sections, what would you add to the reading list?