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July 2, 2012
Fernando J. Corbato, a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL, has been honored by the Computer History Museum as a 2012 Fellow. Corbato was recognized at the Computer History Museum in Mountainside, CA, event on April 28, 2012, for his role as a pioneer of timesharing and the Multics operating system. [This article was posted by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, July 2, 2012.]
Corbato has achieved wide recognition for his pioneering work on the design and development of multiple-access computer systems and timesharing systems, which allowed many users to share the resources of a single large computer. He was associated with the M.I.T. Computation Center from its organization in 1956 until 1966. In 1963 he was a founding member of Project MAC, the antecedent of CSAIL. An early version of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was first demonstrated in November 1961, at the M.I.T. Computation Center. In the fall of 1963, after further development, the system began daily operation at Project MAC.
Out of the CTSS experience, further research and development began of a new system, Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). Multics became available for general use at M.I.T. in October 1969 and a Honeywell product in 1973.
Fernando Corbato received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1956 in Physics. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1962, promoted to Professor in 1965, and was Associate Department Head for Computer Science and Engineering from 1974-1978 and 1983-1993. In 1990, Corbato received the ACM Turing Award for his work on modern operating systems.
The Computer History Museum Fellow Awards have honored distinguished technology leaders who have changed the world with their accomplishments. The award recognizes each Fellow's role in the advancement of computing history, as well as the impact of their contributions.


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Wisconsin Football Experience JCC Camp Visits Camp Randall Stadium & Lambeau Field
July 3, 2013
By Asher Zaitz, 2013 Milwaukee JCC Maccabi Delegation Star Reporter
Camp Randall Stadium and Lambeau Field; both are two well-known Wisconsin football stadiums. This past week our very own JCC Wisconsin Football Experience Camp had the opportunity to tour both stadiums, and I was invited to come along. Let me introduce myself. I am Asher Zaitz, and I am this year's Star Reporter for the Milwaukee Delegation at the JCC Maccabi Game in Austin, TX. A Star Reporter's job is to provide the official news coverage of the JCC Maccabi Games. I, along with other young aspiring reporters, will be at the Games this August learning skills in reporting and multimedia production, so joining our JCC Wisconsin Football Experience Camp was a great way for me to kick off my Star Reporting.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, the campers and I boarded a bus to Madison, WI, and we were all very excited to see Camp Randall Stadium, home of the Wisconsin Badgers. To get us in the football mood, we watched the football movie, Remember the Titans (which instantly became one of my favorite movies). After a quick stop at a local Madison park for lunch, we finally arrived at Camp Randall Stadium. We were a little early, so as a group we walked through Wisconsin-Madison's campus. The campus was beautiful, but we were ready for some football and our tour of Camp Randall Stadium.
In the first part of our tour we went to the suites on the opposite side of the field where the "W" for Wisconsin was facing. Our next stop was an area that held all the trophies Wisconsin has won throughout their history, including replicas of the Heisman trophies won by Alan Ameche in 1954 and Ron Dayne in 1999. The last (and my favorite) part of the tour was when we walked out onto the field through the team's tunnel and ran around the field for a while. It really was a once and a lifetime experience, and everyone had a great time. Before I knew it, we were back on the bus home, where we continued our football fun by watching the football movie We Are Marshall.
The next day, the campers and I were off to the land, the myth, the legendary Lambeau Field. Our football movie watching continued with the movie Invincible, the story of Vince Papale. The anticipation was mounting, and after what felt like an all-day drive, we made it to Lambeau Field. We ate lunch outside the stadium near the historic Lambeau and Lombardi statues (where we all took pictures of course), and then our tour began. We saw the suites, walked through the stadium, and took a lot of pictures. Like the day before, we also walked out of the Packer's tunnel and took in the glory that is Lambeau Field. After the tour, we went downstairs to see the Packers Hall of Fame which included all four, real-deal Lombardi Trophies. After a great two days at two Wisconsin football stadiums, our Wisconsin Football Experience Camp journey was over, but for me, the road to Austin had just begun.
Check out a few snap shots of the JCC Wisconsin Football Experience Campers at both Camp Randall Sadium and Lambeau Field below.
Looking at the stadium from the suites.
Checking out the Wisconsin Badger Trophies.
On the way out through the tunnel.
Out on the field.
We made it to Lambeau Field
Looking at the stadium from the suites.
About to walk through the Packer's Tunnel.
Almost on the field.
Hanging out on the bleachers.
Group with the Lombardi Trophies.

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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- The South African golf tournament that billed itself as among the richest outside the United States, and a challenger to some of the world's top events, was postponed indefinitely Friday after organizers failed to secure sponsorship.
South Africa's Sunshine Tour said that the Tournament of Hope, which was to have prize money of $8.5 million, won't have its inaugural event in late November as planned and had been "put on hold for the foreseeable future."
The Sunshine Tour said it had been "unable to fulfill the expectations of potential sponsors for various reasons beyond its control."
The weakening of the South African currency "added more pressure to the budget," it said.
The event was to be co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour and the International Federation of PGA Tours, the organization that takes in all the major golf tours including the PGA Tour.
"It is deeply regrettable that we have had to take this decision," Sunshine Tour Executive Director Selwyn Nathan said. "However, we as a tour cannot be associated with an event that cannot deliver all of our sponsors' expectations at a fair price and therefore puts them and us at risk."
The Sunshine Tour now is trying to combine the tournament with the Nedbank Golf Challenge invitational at Sun City, which is Africa's richest tournament and played at a similar time of year.
The Tournament of Hope originally advertised itself as the richest outside the United States alongside the WGC-HSBC Champions in China. Its promised prize money would have been more than all four majors and on a par with the WGC events. Only the Players Championship is richer with prize money of $9.5 million.
But the event also was undermined and troubled by confusing and inaccurate announcements since the idea was first launched in 2011. The former head of the Sunshine Tour initially said it would have a $10-million prize fund, making it the richest tournament anywhere, and also would have WGC status.
Organizers tempered those expectations last year with a reduced prize and said it would not be the fifth WGC event. But it would be played in South Africa for the next 10 years, they said, starting this year.
It is now uncertain whether it will ever get off the ground.
"We will continue to work with the international federation (of golf tours) to implement suitable guarantees to sponsors who commit to the event, which will allow us to move forward to the first staging of the Tournament of Hope," Nathan said. "We look forward to making further announcements in due course that will provide clarity on the way forward in order to deliver this world-class event."


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LONDON — Mark Carney may find himself dropped into an old-fashioned British bear pit when he crosses the pond this summer to become the next governor of the Bank of England.
Canada's top banker will get a foretaste of public life in the city that still styles itself the banking capital of the world when he is examined for three hours on Thursday by the British Parliament's Treasury Select Committee. It is not a U.S.-style confirmation hearing, which sometimes are quite hostile. It is expected to be a gentler three-hour inquisition, which for the first time ever, a governor-designate must endure.
The looming monetary policy question of the moment is whether Carney will tip his hand to the 13 MPs on the committee about exceeding the Bank of England's long-standing two-per-cent inflation target, which he hinted at in December and then appeared to backtrack a bit. The other part of this equation is how much money he thinks should be pumped into Britain's wobbly economy to stimulate growth and avoid a triple-dip recession that many economists believe is looming and could last well into next year.
The bank's first foreign governor will also surely be asked about interest rates, the rate of the pound, which has been forecast to decline, Prime Minister David Cameron's government's stark austerity budgets and plans announced Monday to give the bank's governor sweeping powers to prevent the most egregious, casino-like excesses of the country's leading banks.
At a time when the British economy is contracting, most ministries are slashing their budgets by 30 per cent again this year and the armed forces is being hit with cuts of historic proportions, it is inevitable that Carney will get questions about the tone he is setting, having been poached from Canada for what amounts to nearly $1.37-million a year at Tuesday's exchange rate.
As has been noted by British national newspapers, that will make the Harvard and Oxford man from Fort Smith, N.W.T., the world's highest-paid central bank chief, with almost double the salary and other perquisites of Sir Mervyn King, whom he is to succeed.
Carney's "package," as executive compensation is usually called in the U.K., includes a housing allowance of $391,000 a year. That is a staggering sum compared with whatever the Carneys have been paying to live in Ottawa's upscale Rockcliffe Park. But even in southern England's stratospheric housing market, that kind of dosh will pay for an extravagant pile in Mayfair or posh digs in the Home Counties.
Of greater interest to Canadians is whether the parliamentarians ask Carney about his political ambitions back home. It may come up because he specifically asked for a five-year term as governor, rather than the usual eight years. Such a timeline might not be enough to turn around the British economy, but it would put Carney in the frame to oppose Stephen Harper as leader of the Liberal Party some time after Canada's next federal election.
Few of these questions would probably have arisen in the past. The Bank of England was a gentleman's club cut off from the thrust and parry of Parliament and constant media attention. But with Europe's sordid books casting such a pall everywhere and Britain doing not that much better economically than Greece, Spain and Portugal, it has suddenly become a vastly different world. The level of interest in Britain about what Carney says and does cannot be underestimated.
Adding to this toxic mix, the proverbial Sword of Damocles now hangs over Cameron and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. They are under tremendous pressure from their Conservative Party to reverse the economic slide before general elections fixed to take place in 2015. Meanwhile, the U.S., with which Britain is forever comparing itself, seems to finally be doing a little better. So, of course, are Canada, Australia and much of Asia, leaving many here bewildered and wondering if Blighty can ever catch up.
Hailed by the media as international banking's "rock star," its "messiah" and its "white knight," the 47-year old former Edmonton Journal paper boy and Edmonton Oilers fan arrives at a time when the public has great expectations and is fed up with austerity, frugality and Europe. A key issue will be how much leeway the incoming governor is given, and whether — and to what degree — he may try to reflate the economy. He is expected to demand that banks stop dipping into their retail banking operations to finance their adventures, but it is thought unlikely that he will wage a public war against bank executives who have been on their back heels for several years.
There is great potential for Carney to be heroic in his new job. But riding in with a handsome salary and other emoluments when the huge bonuses that bank executives have been getting have been under intense scrutiny brings its own perils. How will Carney and his wife, Diana, who is said to be an environmentalist and a bit of a leftie, take to the tabloids peering in their kitchen window, snapping pictures of their cars and parsing their private lives and those of their daughters?
Or, as the Telegraph put it Monday: Carney's "wife's jaunts to the supermarket on her bike will no longer be possible." It promises to be a circus unlike anything they have had in Canada.
If Carney stumbles out of the gate, he could quickly be attacked as a greenhorn. Left unsaid in Britain, but nevertheless often still a factor, is that Carney, with his flat mid-Atlantic accent, is a colonial. We are not talking about how the Brits treated colonials at Gallipoli or Dieppe. But as Sir Mervyn sniffed a few weeks ago, there is a different matrix in Britain than in countries such as Canada.
"If things go badly, they'll shout, 'Who the f— is he?'" a supremely well-connected British friend told me the other day. "Carney had it easy managing the Canadian economy at a time when there was a resource-based boom in trade with China and Asia. He had no experience of a banking crisis or of that other terror, which is runaway inflation."
There is also the not-so-small matter of Carney being an outsider to an institution where many of the personal loyalties and sympathies of senior officials will still be with those he pipped for the job.
The sense in London is that Carney's record in Canada, as good as it is, does not mean much. Mentioned more often have been the years that he spent with Goldman Sachs and his current chairmanship of the G-20's Financial Stability Board. That is what gives him credibility, which was reinforced by the good reviews he got for his performance at last week's global business gathering in Davos, where he was described as calm and authoritative.
Carney is younger and better educated than the grey men who usually run the Bank of England. He is also famously well spoken, thoughtful and dynamic. These are precisely the reasons why Cameron chose him for such a powerful job at such a volatile time.
Thursday's appearance before the Treasury Select Committee is of crucial importance because it offers Carney a chance to create a good first impression as a bit of a radical — but not too much of a one — who can rescue a wounded economy and restore confidence in the Bank of England.


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Doctor Who: Series 5 - Volume 4 (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros check out the final quartet of episodes in Series Five...
After encountering the Silurians for the third time and seeing another companion die, the Doctor will soon meet another legendary figure from Earth's history, will face living in a flat by himself and will ultimately confront what lurks inside the mysterious Pandorica…
Vincent and the Doctor
Following the loss of Amy's fiancée, Rory, the Doctor takes Amy (who has had all memory of her beloved erased and is now completely oblivious to her recent bereavement) to an art gallery, where a painting of a church by Van Gough depicts a mysterious figure with burning eyes. A bell rings in the back of our time-travelling friend's mind, and is sure he might have encountered their like before…
The Doctor and Amy rush back to 1890 to question Van Gough himself as to the nature of the creature, instead discovering a man who is a shadow of his former self and near the end of his life. Whilst they try and get some sense out of the down-and-out artist, the Doctor and Amy realise that bigger things are afoot than Van Gough simply going off the rails—the mysterious figure in the painting is actually a rampaging monster that threatens to destroy anything in its path.
Tony Curran is great as Van Gough—aside from really looking the part, he paints (pun intended) the artist as a deeply-flawed character but one who ultimately wants to enjoy life even though he was haunted by the black clouds of depression and alcohol. Curran had such a raw deal with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as he played (an) Invisible Man, which meant not only was a saddled with a Cock-er-ney accent, but you didn't get to see his face properly, so it's nice to get to see him really show his worth here.
It was pleasing to see actor Bill Nighy in a nice cameo as Dr Black, who shows the Doctor, Amy and others around the museum at the start of the episode. Nighy was being heavily touted for the role of the Doctor, and in a piece of casting to rival The Curse of the Fatal Death, Nighy finally found himself in Doctor Who. The casting of Nighy in this story was almost certainly as a result of Richard Curtis penning the episode. Our enduring memory of Mr Nighy was when we were being "zombified" in the makeup trailer on Shaun of the Dead, and Nighy walked in wearing a white coat and hilariously 70's glasses. We thought he was playing some kind of "boffin" in the film, but they turned out to be his real specs, and the coat was to protect his wardrobe. Oops.
In the funeral cortège, we thought we saw a face from the past, and was only watching the end credits which confirmed we were right. Ms Chrissie Cotterill, whom we remember fondly from the 80s' C4 series Prospects, plays the mother of the dead, and was quite an alarming experience to see how the ravages of time have affected her. It could be worse: look how long Gary Olsen has been dead.
Whilst it's a fun ride, when Vincent and the Doctor is over there is a feeling that you have been manipulated—the final scene in the museum was intended to be poignant, but the heavy use of emo music just renders the sequence intolerable to all but the emotionally constipated (which is appropriate really, seeing as Richard Curtis' rom-coms are aimed at similarly afflicted people); instead of being a thought-provoking coda, it just pushes bile up into your throat.
As is becoming commonplace in Nu-Who, there is a repetition of themes to be found, and this one is the power of art. Not on an emotional level, but on an almost metaphysical one. In The Shakespeare Code, the Bard is able to banish the invading evil though his written word, whilst here Van Gough can visualise the Krafayis on his canvas, using his abilities to lead it into the climactic church showdown. It's a nice way to express the shockingly under-appreciated medium of classical art, but once more might be construed as too often.
This might be a result of us having an aversion to said work of Richard Curtis, or at least the rom-coms which have given him a very comfortable life. We have stated before that we consider that particular genre to be the lowest form of cinema, with no ideas or outré concepts to challenge the brain, only existing to make it easier to get girlies to assume a "Y"-shape position after the movie. It was Curtis' Love Actually which opening with the contentious gambit of: "When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge—they were all messages of love…". Jesus.
The rear-view mirror device that the Doctor uses to see the Krafayis is pretty naff and brought back shuddering memories of the 3D glasses and vacuum-cleaner thing that David Tennant had strapped to his back in the two-part finale of series two—however, it was with great relief that Matt Smith didn't sing some of the Ghostbusters theme song in this story.
Vincent and the Doctor seems like another example of New-Who where the story was originally a character piece and the only monsters to be battled were ones that existed in the mind, but the Krafayis just seem like they were included in a later draft of the script and harkens back to the days of John Nathan-Turner, where every Doctor Who story had to have a "monster" in it—Peter Davison's finale, The Caves of Androzani was nearly ruined by having a silly monster in it. This also happened with series three's The Lazarus Experiment and the "must have a monster" dictate is even more obvious here, which is frustrating, as the episode could have existed perfectly well without it. We can safely say that a form of Gene Roddenberry/Fred Freiberger disparity is in effect here.
The Lodger
The Doctor is unceremoniously thrown out of the TARDIS and finds himself in a park in Colchester. Amy is stuck inside the TARDIS, as mysterious force has locked it in time-loop and the Doctor has to become a lodger in a house whilst he works out what to do about his present predicament. This everyday mundane existence is not quite as routine as it appears, as previous tenants in the flat are inexplicably disappearing within the house.
The Lodger is a very entertaining change-of-pace story that comes at the point in the series that had previously been used for "Doctor-Lite" episodes—Smith will probably develop enough clout to demand one for series six—but the Doctor is the central character here and the nature of the story allows Smith to stretch a little by showing the Doctor in situations that are ordinarily be (pardon the term) alien to him. Seeing the Doctor playing football with a pub team is a little bizarre, but seeing as Matt Smith was a promising footballer before injury forced him to rethink his career path, it all works out and he gets to show his stuff on-screen.
Continuing the New-Who trend of casting comedy actors in dramatic roles, The Lodger sees James Corden in a relatively straight role. To be fair, he's not too bad in this, but we have had an intense dislike of him since his ghastly collaborative efforts with Matthew Horne. With the domestic nature of the project, it would have been easy to have let Cordon milk the situation for his usual brand of comedy, but has been tamed by a combination of directorial sensibilities and the good work of Corden himself. Yeah, that really sticks in the throat.
There are shades of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, with various characters drawn to strangeness lurking in the attic of a communal house. Sure, Pinter's magnet for weirdness is a mentally-retarded guy looking for company, but as we are in Doctor Who territory, it won't be much of a spoiler when we say that they go down the Sci-Fi route of having a time machine lurking on the highest floor of the residence. What should have been a surprise reveal of said device isn't, as anyone watching the show now knows what to expect, and this might be a good indicator that the programme might need to go on hiatus for a while. Still, Star Trek: The Next Generation did variations on this kind of plot twenty years ago, but it is still nice to see it being done over here, even though the concept might not be as fresh as it once was.
It might be a touch nerdy to say this, but when the reveal of the alien spacecraft happens near the end of the story, our hopes were raised a little by the fact that it looks more than a little like the Jagaroth ship in the classic Tom Baker story, City of Death—it obviously was our overactive imaginations being engaged in "wishful thinking mode", but never mind...
As we have already said, The Lodger is an interesting change-of-pace, that provides that same kind of light relief that the average Doctor-Lite stories offer just before diving headlong into the final story of the series.
The Pandorica Opens
From various points in history, there are signs that something big is going to happen. Significant historical figures know that something is coming—Van Gough, Churchill, Elizabeth the 10th. River Song is languishing in prison until she receives vital news and engineers her escape.
Van Gough's painting depicts the TARDIS exploding and River Song leaves a message carved on one of the oldest cliff-faces in the universe for the Doctor, along with a set of temporal co-ordinates.
The TARDIS materialises in 102AD and The Doctor and Amy encounter Roman soldiers; they eventually meet Cleopatra, who turns out to be River Song masquerading as the Egyptian queen and together they realises that the Pandorica, a prison, is located beneath Stonehenge and they set off to find it.
When discovered, the Pandorica attracts ships from many of the races that have fallen afoul of the Doctor over the years, all of whom hover over Stonehenge in the night sky. All hell eventually begins to break loose and River Song is catapulted forward to 26th June 2010, which just happens to also be the base code of the universe. The Roman soldiers are revealed to be Autons, along with one particular soldier, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Rory, who desperately tries to get Amy to remember him. Will she be able to remember him and get her beloved boyfriend back, or will she have to make do with a plastic substitute?
The Pandorica Opens is an enjoyable romp that sets up the last episode in the series quite nicely; there are times when so many elements are introduced and so much is going on that it threatens to tip over into the Russell T Davies school of first-part-of-the-end-of-series-closer writing, but thankfully, it is reigned in and builds to a climax and a shock revelation that most clued-in Doctor Who viewers saw coming a mile off.
The concept of a zombified Cyberman stalking the unwary at Stonehenge is creepy and the manner in which the sequence is executed is to be commended, as it finally starts to restore an element to the Cyberman that RTD had obliterated when he redesigned them for New-Who. Executive Producer (we steadfastly refuse to use that idiotic American term "Show-Runner") Steven Moffat has always preferred the Mondas Cybermen and even though this story uses one of the camp New-Who Cybus Industries ones, he at least doesn't have it marching like one of the Village People and exclaiming "delete, delete!". Thank God.
The location filming at Stonehenge really augments the sense of wonder to this story; The Pandorica Opens represents the first time that the production has ventured outside Wales for extensive location work (other episodes of New-Who have had London footage, but this was mainly confined to second-unit work and some small scenes with the principles) and the results are handsome. The continuation of the scenes set at Stonehenge, but shot away from the monument match up perfectly and the viewer feels as though the real Stonehenge was used throughout.
The production tried to keep some of surprise appearances as just that—surprises. Doctor Who fandom has a way of ferreting out information and more leaks appear than a South American drug informant—there were indeed leaks, but we resisted looking at them, as we wanted to be surprised. We were expecting some big-name cameos or faces from the past, but all they really turned out to be were characters from previous episodes in this series, who obviously all shot their appearances for The Pandorica Opens whilst filming their main stories.
Speaking of surprises, the whole concept of bringing back Amy's fiancée Rory from the dead was almost as foregone a conclusion as pitting Stephen Hawking against Mike Tyson in a thirteen-round pugilism bout. It was screamingly obvious that Rory was going to reappear in some capacity for the final story, but this is done so in a more inventive way than many would have given credit; having Rory return as an Auton and not entirely human was an interesting idea, and having him wrestle with his new Nestine side adds an extra edge to the drama, particularly when incorporated into the multiple cliff-hangers that occur at the end of this episode. The Amy/Rory shock cliff-hanger is far and away the strongest part of the climax and the site of the Doctor being seemingly done away with for all eternity pales in comparison to what happens between his assistant and his recently-deceased assistant.
Matt Smith's "rock star" moment, where he addresses all of the hovering ships above him, with various searchlights flashing around him is more than a little camp, and seeing as he's at Stonehenge, the rock group that it's most reminiscent of is Spinal Tap. We'd have been so happy if he'd have proven that banshees reside at that particular monument, and that they do live comfortably.
The whole idea of having many of the Doctor's adversaries forming an alliance in order to get rid of him once and for all falls squarely into the category of "fan-wank"—there has been much speculation as to why such-and-such a race would ever agree to join when such-and-such is a part of it, and that sort of thing. Too much brain-power has been expended upon trying to think of a reason that would fit in with it—the concept of intelligent design is easier to swallow—but the simple answer as to why so many races would be in the Alliance is because the costumes were hanging in the back of the wardrobe...
The Big Bang
Continuing straight on from the end of the previous episode, all of the elements that have been slowly building up throughout this series have come into play and things look pretty bleak for Amy, who has just been killed by her Auton replica fiancée, Rory and also for the Doctor, who has been imprisoned in the Pandorica, seemingly forever. Silence has indeed fallen as the stars in the sky explode, leaving only Earth in the middle of a black void.
However, back in 1996, young Amelia Pond has been exercising her creativity once again, drawing a picture of the night sky, but there are no stars in the her sky. At a museum, Amelia comes across the Pandorica and it opens, revealing her older self—very much alive. Not only that, it seems that he plastic lover Rory has taken a leaf out of Marvin the Paranoid Android's book and has been waiting around for centuries, waiting for Amy to re-emerge. Along with Rory, the museum has another mysterious sentinel—a stone Dalek that turns out not to be quite an inanimate as first thought.
Steven Moffat likes his cryptic three-worded warnings—[/i]"count the shadows"[/i] was used in series three's two-part story Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead and running all the way through series five, there has been the portentous "silence will fall".
Having the base code of the universe the same date as the broadcast of the final episode of the series (26062010) is pretty cool in the run up to the final episode and is involving during the broadcast, but the novelty is lost when watching it afterwards. That's the trouble when something's of the moment, the moment is glorious, but it dates faster than anything that doesn't try hard to be topical or current—it's very much like watching repeats of Have I Got News For You on Dave. Still, I suppose you could just jump in the TARDIS and travel back in time to watch it again and again just to get that same sensation.
There are a ridiculous amount of twists and turns in this two-part story, with most of them happening in The Big Bang, as there narrative hair-pin bends and all manner of surprises that build to what is quite possibly the most satisfying climax to a series of New-Who—usually, the first part of a two-part finale is more enjoyable, but this story bucks the trend, delivering a latter episode that manages to wrap everything up without seeming particularly trite or contrived. Steven Moffat carefully built the structure of the story-arc and increased the sense of tension as series five went on and actually delivered on the premise. It could be argued that this is the first two-part finale that actually feels cohesive and not one where the writer was not entirely sure how to end things
The performances in the two-part finale are as good as usual, with Smith and Gillan's chemistry very much in evidence. Smith spends some time of this story sporting a fez and trying to convince those around him that "fezes are cool"—Sylvester McCoy wore one (albeit briefly) over twenty years before in Silver Nemesis, and if you want to get somewhat anal, the Eighth Doctor also sported that most popular of North African/Middle-Eastern headgear in Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game.
Arthur Darville is also very good as Rory, the loyal returned-from-the-dead-well-sort-of fiancée, who adds a more human side to the story (funny really, seeing as he is now no longer a member of the homo sapien species).
It was great to see young actress Caitlin Blackwood back as Amelia Pond, and playing such an integral part in the story—she was wonderful back in The Eleventh Hour and was arguably more fun to watch than the older version of her character.
Alex Kingston is more bearable than usual as River Song, but whatever merits her performance has in this story, it is somewhat overshadowed by the impressive backside she has, which is augmented by what looks like a pair of jodhpurs. OK, we're Doctor Who fans, but we're also unashamed arse-men, too...
Things end on a happy note, as the wedding that had been mentioned, alluded to, thrown out of the window and seemingly postponed indefinitely finally goes ahead and there is a nice collection of items that are gathered together for the "something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue". The schmaltz factor rises alarmingly during this scene, but given all the dramatic events that have taken place between Amy and Rory over the course of this series, a wallow in sentimental slush can be forgiven. The story concludes with what is almost certainly the set-up for the Christmas special, which involves an Egyptian goddess on the Orient Express in outer space—we're hoping that this is just a throwaway thing, as it sounds awfully trite, but only time will tell...
Doctor Who: Series 5 Volume 4 has pretty much the same look to it that the previous volumes had; they're bright and colourful, with a reasonably high amount of detail—obviously, they can't compete with the Blu-ray copies, but they're still pretty good.
Much like the others in the series, the audio is a fairly solid Dolby Digital 2.0 affair, with clear dialogue, sporadic spot-effects and a not-inconsiderable amount of low-frequencies now and again.
The Monster Files: Continuing 2Entertain's policy of having some sort of extra feature on their individual Series 5 discs, they have seen fit to present the viewer with another brief Monster File, which this time looks at the Alliance. This ten-minute look at who is in the Alliance has Executive Producer Steven Moffat confirming that the deciding factor behind who was in the Alliance was simply which costumes and outfits were available at the time, and yet straight after Moffat admits this, fellow Executive Producer Piers Wenger immediately comes out with the sort of bullshit that Moffat just exploded. The Cyber-head and Rory the Auton are also discussed in this entertaining, but also pretty empty Doctor Who Confidential: Cut-Down Cut-Down.
Doctor Who: Series 5 Volume 4 is possibly the most consist volume in this series; Vincent and the Doctor was patchy, but reasonably enjoyable; The Lodger offers an interesting change-of-pace, whilst still offering a mystery to be solved and The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang presents a fitting conclusion to the first series with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the lead roles and Steven Moffat in the captain's chair.
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LOL! Very good!
Still, the confirmation that next year they're doing something a little different with the scheduling (breaking it up into two smaller series, one in the spring and the other in the autumn with a cliff-hanger in the middle) is a possible indicator that someone felt things needed shaking up after six years.
The Wilson Bros
Still, the confirmation that next year they're doing something a little different with the scheduling (breaking it up into two smaller series, one in the spring and the other in the autumn with a cliff-hanger in the middle) is a possible indicator that someone felt things needed shaking up after six years.
The Wilson Bros
"and this might be a good indicator that the programme might need to go on hiatus for a while". I think we both know someone who would pitch a fit if he read a statement like that :D
It just sounds like a dumbing-down of language or at least terminology - as if "executive producer" was too difficult to spell (or read). It also just seems like an Americanism where the TV industry thought it had too many syllables, so they'd come up with a term that had three instead of seven.
With regard to the location work, we are well aware that the production filmed outside the UK, but were referring to filming outside of Wales where it was almost impossible for somewhere within a short hop of Upper Boat to double for a foreign location.
Other than that, we hope you enjoyed the review!
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With regard to the location work, we are well aware that the production filmed outside the UK, but were referring to filming outside of Wales where it was almost impossible for somewhere within a short hop of Upper Boat to double for a foreign location.
Other than that, we hope you enjoyed the review!
The Wilson Bros
What's so idiotic about the term 'show runner'? In a world where the broader audience has no idea what a producer and director do, is using a clear, simple, creatively-appropriate term really all-the-way-up-there idiocy?
Especially since 'executive producer' covers a multitude of possible roles - from simply being the contractual right of the commissioning channel exec, or the nod to a previously-important and now not-involved big name of the franchise (Burton on Batman Forever, say), to being the person who is both the approver of final content and/or the instigator of all key story elements.
I'm not seeing the idiocy.
> The Pandorica Opens represents the first time that the production has ventured outside Wales for extensive location work
Well, unless you count significant chunks of overseas shooting done for Vincent and the Doctor, Vampires of Venice and Fires of Pompeii.
Especially since 'executive producer' covers a multitude of possible roles - from simply being the contractual right of the commissioning channel exec, or the nod to a previously-important and now not-involved big name of the franchise (Burton on Batman Forever, say), to being the person who is both the approver of final content and/or the instigator of all key story elements.
I'm not seeing the idiocy.
> The Pandorica Opens represents the first time that the production has ventured outside Wales for extensive location work
Well, unless you count significant chunks of overseas shooting done for Vincent and the Doctor, Vampires of Venice and Fires of Pompeii.
I was very dissapointed in series 5. So many of the episodes were weak and forgettable. I expected better from Moffat.
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 6th September 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: The Monster Files
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Catherine Moorshead, Toby Haynes
Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Tony Curran, James Corden, Alex Kingston,
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 195 minutes
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Given the development of stock market pricing over the past few years, and especially since the spring of 2011 when all of our key indicators peaked on the long-term cycle, we are increasingly wondering if the current stock market could be moving toward another one of those historic, and seminal, moments.
Market Overview – What We Think:
- Minor Cycle has begun to look increasingly vulnerable to extent we suspect "spiky" upside nature of index pricing is unsustainable considering fact all cycles from Minor to Major are historically "Overbought."
- Some have pointed out that Dow Theory confirmation generated on January 18 is very positive development, but it's important to remember one previous Dow Theory confirmation that was generated on September 3, 1929 at precisely the high (381.71) of the bull market begun several years before. That high was no exceeded for the next 25 years.
- In spite of bullish price "tendencies" since November lows, uptrend initiated in March 2009 is mature and could very likely be much closer to an end point than not. In fact, upside "measured move" targets calculated on a variety of cycle points suggest that on average S&P, Dow 30, NASDAQ, and VAY could be within 10% of ultimate highs in this bull trend.
- So long as pricing and indicators are not in synch on upside as they were from March 2009 until May 2011, lingering long-term doubts will persist, and we will continue to wonder how much longer this market will be able to shake off unfavorable indicator divergences.
In the accompanying chart that includes Monthly Cumulative Volume as applied to both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, first note the price patterning in both issues over the past 13 years and since the tech sector bull market high in early 2000. First there was the pullback to the 2002 lows. Then came the rally into the 2007 highs that were followed by the 2008/2009 bear. Next was the March 2009 low and the subsequent bull that is still in effect. But notice something else. Index pricing in both issues bears a striking similarity to a massive Head and Shoulders top with a Left Shoulder, a Head at a slightly higher high, and a developing Right Shoulder.
Daily S & P 500 with Cumulative Volume (CV)
Weekly S & P 500 with Cumulative Volume (CV)


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Physical contact with soil, natural waters, sunlight, and fresh air is healing. When stress has built up to the danger point, a trip to the ocean or mountains, or even a walk around the block, is often all you need to restore perspective. Beyond that, contact with nature keeps you apprised of your place in the ecological system. Many of nature's forces are stronger than an individual human, just as many species are more vulnerable than humankind. This humbling perspective keeps the big picture in mind.
Henry David Thoreau
Start Today
Here are some simple ways to connect with nature again:
* Go barefoot. Feel the grass or the gravel or the hard-packed earth under your feet. Wade in a rain puddle, or walk barefoot in the snow for a new sensation!
* Grow plants or flowers and let your fingers touch the earth.
* Keep living green plants and flowers around your house.
* Get outdoors, if only for a few moments a day. Let the sunlight touch you and warm you. (For longer periods in the sun, be sure to wear protective clothing and hats.) In the heart of a city, it is still possible to find green zones.
* Listen to the sounds of nature—the wind blowing, rain falling, birds chirping—even in the midst of an urban environment.
* Prepare your meals using fresh and raw foods whenever possible, or bake your own bread. Carefully handling the fruits of the field reminds you of your connection to the earth.
* Practice the Native American way of adapting yourself to nature, rather than trying to make nature adapt to you. For example, avoid dependency on air-conditioning in hot weather. In cold weather, keep the heat in your home at 68°F (20°C) or lower.
* When you are around young children, use language that communicates a healthy respect for the power of nature and a sense of awe at its beauty and mystery. Avoid teaching them that soil is dirty or that any
creatures (even so-called vermin) are bad.
* Exercise outdoors as much as possible. Take a hike. Go for a bike ride instead of driving your car to the corner store. Rollerblade in the park, or get a group of friends together for a ball game or a kite-flying party.
* Plan your vacations for maximum enjoyment of the outdoors (with minimal environmental impact). Even a one-day family trip with a picnic can be a tremendously healthy break in your normal routine.
John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., acknowledged as a key founder of the wellness movement, established the first wellness center in the U.S. in 1975 and created the Wellness Inventory (the first wellness assessment) as a whole person intake for center clients. His Wellness Energy System (represented as the 12 dimensional wellness wheel), is the whole person model upon which the Wellness Inventory is based and is even more relevant today, 40 years later. He is co-author of the classic Wellness Workbook with Sara Regina Ryan (Ten Speed Press). The online version of the Wellness Inventory may be accessed by individuals at (www.WellPeople.com)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police officers are being trained to use combat-style trauma kits to help victims of gunshot wounds and other emergencies.
Training is underway this month using gear borrowed from the Fire Department, but 8,000 trauma kits are on the way to officers, said Police Foundation Executive Director Cecilia Glassman. The not-for-profit foundation raised more than $350,000 to pay for them, and all officers will receive them once they've completed training.
"The LAPD is a first responder, and there's a lot of times when there is an incident where the officer (or civilian) has been shot, so there's trauma, but the area is not secured ... and the paramedics are not permitted to enter, so they must administer first aid, life-saving techniques," Glassman said.
The Associated Press has reported that a security screener fatally shot in last year's shooting at Los Angeles International Airport received no medical aid for 33 minutes. He was instead wheeled out by airport police to paramedics who weren't allowed to enter because the area had not yet been declared safe.
Officials are reviewing what discussions went into that determination as part of an extensive ongoing investigation. The Fire Department has escalated its efforts to tactically train paramedics to enter such dynamic, less secure zones because of the Nov. 1 shooting.
Because police are often the first to reach an injured person, California law requires officers to have first-aid training in the academy and refresher courses afterward. However, an audit last year found that only 250 out of nearly 10,000 LAPD officers had received refresher training.
The trauma kits will include standard first-aid items as well as advanced tourniquets and "compression bandages to control arterial bleeding in extremities," Glassman said. "It's much more the type of material you would have, unfortunately, in a war zone."
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Thai-Style Savory Leaf Wraps
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Delightful sweet and spicy spinach leaf wrap filled with coconut, dry roasted peanuts, chopped dried plums, dried shrimp and chiles, topped with a Cilantro Lime Sauce.
Cilantro Lime Sauce:
1 large clove garlic, chopped
1 red Thai bird chile, chopped
1 shallot, sliced
1⁄4 cup lime juice
1⁄4 cup nam pla
(Thai fish sauce)
2 tbsp. chopped cilantro
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. water
36 spinach leaves (about 3-4 in. each), stemmed
1⁄2 cup toasted unsweetened coconut
1⁄2 cup unsalted dry roasted peanuts
1⁄3 cup finely diced fresh ginger
1⁄3 cup chopped pitted dried plums (prunes)
2 shallots, cut into 1⁄4-in. dice
1 lime, cut into 1⁄4-in. dice (including peel)
1⁄4 cup small dried shrimp
4-5 fresh Thai bird chiles or
3 serrano chiles, cut crosswise into thin slices (seeds removed for less spicy dish, if desired)
1⁄3 cup cilantro leaves
1. For Cilantro Lime Sauce: Using a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and chile to form a paste; transfer to glass jar with lid.
2. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and shake until blended and sugar is dissolved.
3. For Wraps: In center of each spinach leaf, place a small amount of coconut, peanuts, ginger, dried plums, shallots, lime, dried shrimp, and chiles.
4. Top with cilantro. Drizzle with Cilantro Lime Sauce. Fold to form small pocket and serve.


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Chinese Domain Buckles Under One-Two DDoS Punch
Aug 27, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Chinese websites with the ".cn" domain name extension fell on Sunday to a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, the state-run China Internet Network Information Center reported.
Two attacks reportedly were launched -- the first at midnight on Sunday and the second at 4 p.m., according to this translation of CINIC's post.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched DNS security-specific contingency plans, and CINIC apologized to users.
CINIC described the second attack as the largest DDoS attack it has faced so far.
The Mysterious East
Just what happened in China is not quite clear.
"We have nothing official as far as our intelligence or validation of the attack," said David Fernandez, director of PLXsert, the security engineering and response team at Prolexic, a firm specializing in securing clients against DDoS attacks.
"There isn't a tremendous amount of detail available on this attack yet, probably because of the control that China has over their media," Alex Cox, a senior researcher at RSA FirstWatch, told TechNewsWorld. "We at FirstWatch are tracking it a part of our typical threat landscape overview."
The Mechanics of a DDoS Attack
DDoS attacks aim to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its users. Typical targets are sites or services hosted on high-profile Web servers, such as banks or credit card payment gateways, but government and corporate sites have become fair game of late.
DoS attacks are typically launched by saturating a server or computer with so many external communications requests that it is either dramatically slowed down, or cannot respond to legitimate traffic.
In DDoS attacks, several systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a target system.
Facts About DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are becoming larger and lasting longer, Prolexic has found. In Q1 2013, the average DDoS attack consumed a record bandwidth of more than 48 Gbps. This went up to more than 49 Gbps in Q2 -- a year-over-year increase of 925 percent.
Average packet-per-second volume in Q2 was 47.4 Mpps, 45 percent more than the 32.4 Mpps logged in Q1 and 1,655 percent more than in Q2 2012.
The number of DDoS attacks in Q2 2013 was 33 percent higher than in Q2 2012.
"We believe DDoS attacks will increase in size and complexity," Fernandez told TechNewsWorld.
Technology, falling bandwidth prices, and the increasing sophistication of attackers are contributing to that growth.
DDoS attacks have become a primary cyberattack method, Fernandez remarked.
In March, for example, Dutch Internet service provider Cyberbunker launched what was claimed to be the largest DDoS attack ever, at the Spamhaus Project. This slowed down the entire Internet.
In some cases, DDoS is used as a diversion for other types of attacks, Fernandez said.
A Clear and Present Danger
DDoS attacks can take various forms, RSA FirstWatch's Cox pointed out.
Attacks on DNS infrastructure are typically high-bandwidth, launched either through botnets or other hacked infrastructure, Cox said. In some cases, attackers use amplification, multiplying traffic and directing it at a target, because DNS infrastructure is typically protected from run-of-the-mill attacks.
Or, hackers could launch application-layer attacks or exploit zero-day flaws, Cox continued.
Recently, large-scale DDoS attacks have been political or hacktivist-related, Cox commented. DDoS attacks are also used by cybercriminals as weapons against each other.
Governments and corporations are equally at risk of DDoS attacks.
"In some aspects, governments' IP is no more secure than that in the private sector," Prolexic's Fernandez said.
Arming Against Attacks
"You don't want a single point of failure in any institution," Fernandez said. Governments and enterprises "should have backup plans to defend against various types of attacks."
Enterprises and governments should ensure that applications are developed using a security-focused software development lifecycle, Cox suggested. This is especially important with critical applications or Internet-facing systems.
Organizations should have plans in place for DDoS mitigation, but "a high-bandwidth DDoS [that's] botnet-based can be very difficult to defend against," Cox continued. "Often victims have to weather the storm until the attack subsides."


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Agricultural runoff into the Chesapeake Bay has become a high-profile issue given the Bay's proximity to the nation's Capitol. Fortunately for farmers, not all environmental organizations have the same view of the controversy. The Environmental Defense Fund's Suzy Friedman's provided the EDF's take on it during an interview at Commodity Classic. Friedman was a speaker at the Ag Issues Forum, sponsored by Bayer CropScience, at this year's event in Nashville.
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Event: Bollywood bigwigs queued up at polling booths to cast their votes for the elections held in Mumbai.
Guest List: Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Amrita Rao, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Eesha Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kunal Kapoor, Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar, Govinda, Arbaaz Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Gulzar, Poonam Sinha, Sonakshi Sinha, Vatsal Seth, Jaya Bachchan, Bhagyashree, Priya Dutt, Manyata Dutt, Uday Chopra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Kunal Kohli, Kunal Deshmukh, Jugal hansraj, Aditi Govitrikar, Rakesh Roshan, Suresh Oberoi, Meghna Gulzar, Yash Chopra, Mohit Suri, Subhash Ghai, Suneeta Rao, Himalaya
Date: 30-Apr-2009
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Dissident to Statesman: A Celebration of Vaclav Havel
Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) went from satirizing Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders to become the first president of the free Czech Republic. Kansas City's Czech and Slavic community celebrates Havel's life with ethnic food and drink and a performance by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre of Audience, Havel's one-act comedy. Audience skewers daily life (in this case a meeting between a brewery worker and his boss) in a totalitarian society.
Co-sponsored by the Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic, the Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic, the Czech and Slovak Club of Greater Kansas City, and the Missouri Humanities Council.


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Natural Gas Has Trouble Staying Above $3.00
Most markets today are at a virtual standstill, with the biggest movers this morning being cocoa, soybeans, and sugar. All three of these commodities markets are down more than 2% today as of this writing. After a monster run-up throughout most of 2012, soybean futures are now carving out a range-trade between $16 and $18. Cocoa futures are experiencing profit taking after a very bullish August and early September. We don't believe cocoa is starting a new bear move, we expect cocoa to be neutral to bullish in the near term. Sugar futures jumped up to 21¢ after finding a recent low at 19¢, and are now in a range between those two prices. Overall, we see all markets waiting for more definitive U.S. economic news and everyone is watching how the European sovereign debt situation unfolds.
We noticed a potential bearish head and shoulders pattern in natural gas forming (see chart below). Natural gas tried to sustain a rally above $3.00 this month, but could not do it and is now well below that level, currently trading at around $2.87. If this pattern completes successfully, we look for a downside target to be touched at around $2.35, 50¢ below where the market is at today. We see support at $2.75 and then $2.65 for this market. It is interesting to see that the affiliated markets of heating oil and crude oil both have staged bullish moves over the past two months, while natural gas has been very volatile but unable to sustain a move above $3.00.


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I've always thought something like this would be awesome to have for the Predators sooner or later, looks like it finally happened.
Via the Nashville Predators PR Department:
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 23, 2013) – The Nashville Predators announced today the formation of the Nashville Predators Alumni Association. Several former Predators, who now call Middle Tennessee home, have been designated to serve as the Association's inaugural board. Stu Grimson will serve as the Association's President, J-P Dumont was named Vice President and Dan Keczmer and Jayson More will serve as Secretary and Treasurer respectively.
Serving as an extension of the Nashville Predators family, the Association was formed with some of the following goals in mind: promotion of educational programs for deserving young men and women, support of fellow Nashville Predators alumni and fostering a continuing interest in youth and amateur hockey throughout Middle Tennessee. Also serving on the Association's board are Nashville Predators Sr. Director of Broadcasting, Bob Kohl, and Director of Hockey Operations, Brian Poile.
"There are a growing number of Predators alumni who now call greater Nashville their home," Association President Stu Grimson said. "With that in mind, it made perfect sense to formalize our group in order to impact our community for the better while providing a network of support for past Predators players."
Numerous alumni have been active over the past few seasons at a wide range of Nashville Predators initiatives including patient visits at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, hosting an Alumni Game vs. the St. Louis Blues Alumni, attending the Gnashvegas Casino Gala and Predators Wine Festival, attending off-season events like the Skate of the Union or dropping by Bridgestone Arena on game nights to sign autographs for fans. Some other active alumni include Tom Fitzgerald, Jamie Heward, Cale Hulse, Greg Johnson, Cliff Ronning, Scott Walker and Jason York.
"Given the tremendous growth of our organization, this was a logical next step to the evolution of our franchise," Nashville Predators CEO Jeff Cogen said. "Our alumni have made the Nashville Predators what they are today and we look forward to keeping those former players part of the Preds family with the formation of the Alumni Association."
Moving forward, the Alumni Association will be active participants in multiple areas of the organization, including hosting Season Ticket Holder events, interacting with sponsors and suite holders, participating in youth hockey and fan development programs and speaking engagements."


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Media Contact: Joanna Norris, Associate Director
Department of Public Relations
(904) 620-2102
The Employ Florida Banner Center for Creative Industries
in the Division of Continuing Education at the University of North Florida will be offering Guerrilla Social Media Marketing, a no-nonsense, powerhouse course, for new and experienced social media managers from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, at University Center on campus.
Social media creates a unique dialog between a company and the end user, building the need for new tactics like guerrilla social media marketing, which generates powerful word-of-mouth marketing by creating innovative, attention-grabbing communications in the digital world.
"What sets this course apart from other social media courses is that it teaches users how to combine the timeless principles of guerrilla marketing with the latest social media applications and networks," said Sheila Green, course instructor and president of Green Productivity Solutions.
"We pride ourselves for our entrepreneurship in Jacksonville and throughout Florida," said Kristin Kristen, Banner Center for Creative Industries program manager. "We devised this course to meet the needs of small business owners and large firms who want to leverage their message across all social media platforms to stimulate action, and this course does just that."
The Guerrilla Social Media Marketing course is one of many new courses offered by the Banner Center in an effort to
provide a trained workforce for the expansion and sustainability of Florida's creative sector.
For registration or more information about this course or other courses offered through the Banner Center for Creative Industries, contact UNF's Division of Continuing Education at
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Of the approximately 1000 wine cellars standing here before World War II, nowadays about 500 are in use. Two rows created in the mid 1800's are protected heritage sites.
Etyek Cellar Festival 25-27 September
The cellars of Etyek play host to the best Hungarian vintners every year. The Cellar Festival is principally a gastronomic event, but the two-day series of programmes also includes other forms of entertainment, as well as musical and cultural events. The organisers make sure that there is lots of activities for children, too.
Website: www.kezes-labos.hu
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Quinn Asking Supreme Court To Back Him In Lawmaker Pay Dispute
Gov. Pat Quinn has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to hear his appeal of a ruling that his veto of money for lawmaker salaries was unconstitutional.
Attorneys for Quinn filed a motion with the court Wednesday. They say the case deserves an ``expeditious and conclusive'' ruling by the state's highest court.
Quinn vetoed money for paychecks in July because he was angry legislators hadn't addressed Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension crisis.
House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton sued, saying his action was unconstitutional.
Last week, a Cook County judge agreed and ordered the state to immediately pay lawmakers.
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Japanese expatriate painter who applied French oil techniques to Japanese-style paintings.
He attended the Imperial School of Fine Arts in Japan and was a success immediately after he began painting, and the emperor bought him some works of art in 1911. Despite his following, three years later, Foujita moved to Paris in 1913 because he felt he could learn more in that fertile artistic community. He became the friend of many of the great forerunners of modern Western art, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amedeo Modigliani. It was there that he pioneered the technique of using stamped impressions of color along with brush strokes on his canvases. He lived primarily in France but made periodic trips to Japan. He traveled extensively and took inspiration from each trip, blending elements in a seductive style that meshed Japanese tradition with Occidental modernism. Foujita was a success in France and lived there for most of his life, returning to Japan only for three years during World War II, becoming ...(PLease Login to see the complete biography.)
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: More people joining push for Bradley to run for governorBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
August 31. 2013 11:35PM
GOV. JEB? More Republican leaders and operatives are talking up the idea of state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, running for governor instead of the U.S. Senate next year.
"Jeb should run for governor" was a top subject of conversation at last weekend's wedding reception for strategist Jim Merrill and state Senate staffer Kristy Roney. It has been more broadly under discussion for several weeks.
Bradley isn't talking, but we're told he is listening and considering.
He is in a holding pattern now, again focusing on what he calls his "day job" in the state Senate, working on a "seamless transition" as colleague Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Morse, R-Salem, takes over from Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, as Senate president this Tuesday.
After that, we're told, there will be a stronger push to get Bradley to challenge Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Although it's difficult to unseat a first-term governor who has no glaring flaws, top Republicans believe it's a more winnable race for Bradley than unseating U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
They say he has intimate knowledge of state issues and that he is a consensus builder.
The thinking is that Bradley would likely get strong support from the Republican Governors Association, now headed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and next year led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Both are in the presidential mix, and the thought is that they would see to the RGA helping Bradley financially and would also campaign for him, much like then-Miss. Gov. and RGA Chairman Haley Barbour helped John Stephen against John Lynch in 2010.
In last month's University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll conducted for WMUR, 58 percent approved of Hassan's job performance. Just 18 percent disapproved and 24 percent were neutral or did not know enough to say.
Some Republicans believe these numbers are soft. They note the poll finding that 45 percent believe she should be reelected and a combined 55 percent think someone else should be elected or are unsure.
State Republican Chairman Jennifer Horn said, "If this is what (Bradley) decides to do, I think he'll make a very strong candidate.
"I'd compare his experience and qualifications to Gov. Hassan's any day. His experience compared to Governor Hassan's experience is an argument I think we can win," Horn said.
Others say that if Bradley were to lose a close race to Hassan in '14, he'd be in a prime position to run again in '16, when Hassan might be moving on to take on Kelly Ayotte in a U.S. Senate battle royale.
Bradley would not hint as to his thoughts, or perhaps he did."I'm flattered by all the people talking to me. We are trying to get around the state and talk about the (state) budget, which essentially was our (Senate Republican) budget," Bradley said.
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INNIS FOR SENATE? If Bradley shifted to the governor's race, we hear there is a lot of talk about Daniel Innis, dean of the University of New Hampshire business school.
Innis last month said he was looking at Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter's 1st District seat in Congress.
But with former Rep. Frank Guinta leaning that way, Republicans believe Innis would have an uphill climb in a primary.
Guinta told us in July that he will announce his plans in September, and his former chief of staff, Ethan Zorfas, said Guinta will, in fact, run.
Republicans believe Innis would have a much better chance of defeating conservative Karen Testerman and former state Sen. Jim Rubens in a Senate primary.
But what about taking on Shaheen?
That's a tall order, but with his strong background in business and as business school dean - and the fact that he is a gay married man - Innis would be an interesting national media story and possibly draw strong fundraising.
If the National Republican Senatorial Committee saw him emerge as a strong challenger to Shaheen, it would presumably add New Hampshire to its list of targeted races.
State GOP leaders say Innis has the potential to broaden the appeal of the party and signal that it is time to move past the same-sex marriage issue.
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RUBENS REVS UP. Rubens, meanwhile, continues movement from exploratory to full-fledged candidacy.
He's hired a general consultant, James Basbas of Altos Political of Bedford.
That is a division of Altos Marketing, a digital agency with a diverse portfolio. The company worked with Ovide Lamontagne's campaign for governor, the Republican State Committee and the conservative issues group Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire.
Basbas has 15 years' experience with political campaigns in New Hampshire. He was director of online communications for John Stephen's 2010 campaign for governor.Rubens continues speaking statewide. He will be at the Salem Republican Committee Labor Day Picnic on Monday and will be at the Rockingham County Republican Committee on Wednesday. Next Saturday, Sept. 7, he will speak at the Carroll County Republican Lobster Bake in Wentworth and the Seacoast Republican Women's Chili Fest in Stratham.
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POLITICAL WEDDING. Dozens of prominent Republicans were at Squam Lake last weekend for the Merrill-Roney wedding.
Among those on hand were Bradley, Bragdon and Morse, RNC Committeeman Steve Duprey and former House Speaker Douglas Scamman Jr. and his wife, Stella.
The wedding planner for the event was state Sen. Jeanie Forrester.
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MORE SCOTT BROWN. Former Mass. Sen. Scott Brown, on stage with rock band Cheap Trick at the Hampton Beach Casino a week ago, will appear at the Nashua Lion's Club anniversary dinner on Sept. 14, and on Oct. 6, he will be featured at a fundraiser for the conservative advocacy group Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire in Portsmouth.
The event will precede the New England Patriots' game and is being called "A Patriots Tailgate with Scott Brown."
Hosts are Portsmouth business executive Dan and Renee Plummer (she is a GOP activist who served on the Republican National Convention rules committee a year ago) at their home at Harbour Place. Tickets are expected to be priced at $75.
Brown has ruled out a run for Mass. governor, but continues to draw interest about a possible run for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire next year, which he has not ruled out.
He has a vacation home in Rye, but would have to establish residence to try to unseat incumbent Shaheen.
Republican insiders have no idea what Brown's plans are.
"He is out on his own doing his own thing," said one activist. "He enjoys the attention and likes to go to events. He's making lots of money at the (Nixon Peabody) law firm and from his Fox News contract."
This will be the "Citizens" group's first of two fundraisers in a week. It has one Oct. 12 in Manchester featuring Louisiana state Sen. Elbert Guillory and, tentatively, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
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POIGNANT REMINDER. On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte cheerfully Tweeted out:
"First day of school for Kate and Jake. Exciting day! Wishing all NH kids and their parents a great school year."
It was accompanied by a photo of her kids in their best school clothes.
"Aww. Your kids are too cute," came one reply.
"Awesome," was another.
But then came one from Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung.
"@Kelly Ayotte: my mom doesn't have a first day of school this year. Let's have dinner & talk about how to reduce #GunViolence."
Lafferty last April confronted Ayotte at an Ayotte town hall meeting over her vote against expanded background checks for firearms purchases and has become an advocate on the issue.
Ayotte spokesman Liz Johnson said, "Senator Ayotte has met with Ms. Lafferty and other family members of Newtown victims, and she has personally expressed her deep sympathy for their loss."
Ayotte met with Lafferty and other Newtown family members in Washington and recognized her at the Warren event and took her question.
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KEY COMMITTEE. RNC member Duprey has been named to a special rules subcommittee reviewing the presidential delegate selection calendar and debate schedule.
Duprey sees no controversy on the horizon regarding the state's 2016 first-in-the-nation primary, already provided early voting status in an RNC rule. He says that if there is any sentiment toward making changes, it is more likely directed at Iowa, which has become less reflective of GOP sentiment.
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. His Granite Status column, which he began writing in 1982, is updated regularly on UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. He can be followed on Twitter: @jdistaso.


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Reference and User Services Association (Group M) Create recruitment videos
A 2007 Emerging Leader project (Project CC)See: http://wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders/index.php/Project_CC was to create a recruitment video. We propose this year to build on that and to create additional recruitment videos for librarianship and RUSA. With the experience of the first group as our guide, at least two videos to be displayed on YouTube, librarycareers.org, and other appropriate outlets will be created. One video would be aimed at getting people interested in librarianship and one would be aimed at getting people to join ALA/RUSA
Expected Outcomes
New recruitment tools for the association and the profession would be created. The Emerging Leaders would have the opportunity to produce, edit and promote the product
Group Members
Kathy Buchsbaum
Beth Cackowski
Sol Gomez
Sally Ma
Neely Tang
Mentor: Dave Tyckoson
Kathy Buchsbaum- is the Community Library Manager at Cambria Heights, which is part of The Queens Library. With a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a MLIS from San Jose State University, Kathy enjoys combining performance with Library Science.
Beth Cackowski is the Project Coordinator for QandANJ.org, New Jersey's 24/7 Virtual Reference Service. Beth graduated with a BA from Rutgers University and an MLIS form Clark Atlanta University. Her current focus is on QandANJ.org's biggest users: teens!
Sally Ma is a Youth Services Manager for Fairfax County Public Library and a Research Associate for Fitzgerald Information Services. She graduated with a BA from Cal State Long Beach and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Neely Tang is a Business Research Specialist for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. She graduated with a BA from Drew University and an MLIS from University of Pittsburgh. Neely is also proud to be a 2005 ALA Spectrum Scholar.
Sol A. Gómez Branch Manager, Pima County Public Library, Arizona
Team Roles
Sally Ma Gmail & Snapfish reader Lead for the Poster Project & much much more
Kathy BuchsbaumUpdate wiki/RUSA blog with team progress Monitor the work of the team & much much more
Beth CackowskiKeep in touch with Mentor & ALA contact Person ListServe writer & much much more
Sol A. Gómez Head writer Video Editor & much much more
Neely Tang Findings writer (if necessary) Video Editor & much much more
Status Reports
January 2008 Status Report
Meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting was a blast! We really got down to work and made a plan to accomplish our video goal for inspiring future librarians!
Here is what we accomplished in January 2008
• Meet & greet at ALA Winter Meeting
• Timeline for out video
• Divided up responsibilities
• Neely set up our G-mail and Snapfish account
• Sol wrote a draft of our letter requesting photos
• We all reviewed the draft
• Final version of the letter was group approved
• Beth wrote up our list-serve blurb
• Everyone went forth and posted the blurb to list-serves and forums
• Sally started organizing the submitted photos on Snapfish
• Beth contacted Connie Paul for a official letterhead, only received a logo
• Sally made a "official " letterhead that the group decided to use
• Neely organized an excel spread sheet of names of libraries for everyone to get address
• Everyone is searching for addresses/e-mail to send out requests for photos
• We continually make contact with each other and on our way to a successful video
To come in February 2008
• Mailing out letters and getting responses • Picking music • Sally organizing more photos • Working on the script • Keeping up our conversation to make an inspiring video!
-Feb 6, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum
Here is what we accomplished in February 2008
February 2008 Status Report
Getting down to work! Sending letter getting Pictures!
• Mailed out letters • E-mailed out letters • Getting pictures • Sally is working on putting the pictures in snapfish • We continually make contact with each other and on our way to a successful video
To come in March 2008
• Continue to get responses • Picking music • Sally organizing more photos • Working on the script • Keeping up out conversation to make an inspiring video!
-March 13, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum
March/April 2008 Status Report
Two months of many personal changes for the group.
Kathy moved from CA to NY and is now a Community Library Manager with the Queens Public Library Neely will be leaving Orrick and moving to Ithaca NY where she has accepted a position at Cornell's University Management School Library. Sally has accepted a new position as Youth Services Manager for Fairfax County Public Library. Sol was named one Library Journal's Movers and Shakes.
As for the project we are trying to begin the final wrap up. Beth is using Flickr to find more photos. We e-mail and snail mailed many letter to libraries but didn't have the best luck. Sol has taken additional pictures in AZ for the videos and Sally continues to update snapfish.
The Group still needs to make final photo selections.
But Beth has done a draft of the video.
Once the final selections are made Neely will soon start working on the first video and Sol will soon begin the RUSA Video.
The group decided the video will be 25-30 seconds in length and we will use quotes as well as photos and at the end of the video we will have a special thanks slide to say thank you to everyone!
Sally will start making the poster project.
And by next month everyone in the group should be viewing the video.
The group is on track!!
To come in May 2008
Finish it!
-May 6, 2008 Kathy Buchsbaum


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"I look forward to the advances that will be made in the next few years, to re-shape the Supreme Court and to pass more legislation to end the barbaric violence of the abortion procedure in America," said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life.
"As President Bush has said, we must make room for the unborn child. All across America, I have met countless voters who elected him precisely for that reason. They understand that no society can be just, and no social program effective, if we cannot even protect our own children," Fr. Pavone said.


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The Valparaiso Cerro Abajo (Down Hill) in Chile is, without a doubt, the craziest race we've ever seen. The twisting downhill course launches bike riders through the old cobblestone streets of Valparaiso at breakneck speeds.
But they don't just ride down the streets. That would be too easy. No, they ride down the sidewalks next to those streets, down staircases, off balconies, up walls, and basically anywhere that is dangerous, challenging, or scary. Oh, and try not hit the occasional stray dog that wanders in front of your path.
Judging from this insane first-person video, simply finishing the race makes you the winner. (Though the actual winner this year was Filip Polc of Slovakia.) Check out the video below and see more photos from the event here.
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Event Type: Atlantic City History
Age Group(s): All Ages
Date: 9/1/2018
Start Time: All Day
The Atlantic City Free Public Library has on display a new photograph exhibit that features the neighborhoods of Atlantic City.Get parking information and directions to the library
The exhibit, "48 Blocks of History," features photos, including aerial pictures, of South Inlet, Northeast Inlet, Bungalow Park, Back Maryland, Venice Park, Westside, Downtown, Ducktown, Chelsea, Lower Chelsea and Chelsea Heights. It is located on the first floor of the Main Library and can be viewed during normal library hours through August.
Many of the photos come from the library's Atlantic City Heritage Collections. The library created the exhibit in conjunction with 48 Blocks, a citywide celebration of arts and history, held in June. The exhibit was funded in part by 48 Blocks. Call (609) 345-2269 for more information.
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The Crestview Public Library has been celebrating National Poetry Month. If you have been reading our column or following us on Facebook, you have read about some of our events.
The Crestview Public Library has been celebrating National Poetry Month. If you have been reading our column or following us on Facebook, you have read about some of our events.
On April 18, we celebrated National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Library staffers submitted poems, or collected friends� poems, and we made scrolls and tied them with different-colored ribbons so poems could fit in the recipient�s pocket. We distributed the poems to all library patrons.
Brightening our visitors� day with some inspirational, funny or fun poem is our way of making each person�s visit to the library special. We also presented a display of poetry books that adults or children would enjoy. Two of my favorites for children are my Staff Picks for this week.
�Stepping Out with Grandma Mac� by Nikki Grimes
Author Nikki Grimes writes insightful poems about her grandmother, a modern woman who is not the type to stay home and bake cookies. Her grandmother is ready for adventure � not a rocking chair. This is a must-read.
�Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a Celebration of Poetry with a Beat� by Nikki Giovanni
This anthology teaches children about rhythm and elements that make up hip-hop, rap and African-American poetry. Kids will enjoy the rhyme and rhythm. A CD is included with poems spoken by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooksand others.
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The latest installment could well be Romero's masterpiece. Taking full advantage of state-of-the-art makeup and visual effects, he has a more vivid canvas at his disposal, not to mention two decades worth of pent-up observations about American society.
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Romero's newest is a horror movie for hard-core fans of the gory and the gruesome and a classic genre film for genre aficionados.
In Land of the Dead there are virtually no good parts. The movie is listless and uninspired.
It's fairly solid fun, though, without breaking any new ground, just as January's remake of "Assault on Precinct 13" was.
Romero finds still new and entertaining ways for unspeakably disgusting things to happen to the zombies and their victims.
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Vintage Romero – bloody, grisly, and not for kids.
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Parents need to know that this zombie movie is relentlessly, though resourcefully, bloody, and not for children. Parents should be aware that it follows in a tradition largely established by director George Romero, aiming for innovative uses of grisly special effects makeup with a focus on loose body parts, vicious dismemberments, and exposed viscera. (Aficionados of the genre will appreciate the outrageousness.) When they aren't killing or eating each other, characters smoke, drink, dress scantily, do drugs, prostitute and pimp, and use foul language.
Messages: Human villains dedicated to cruel class system, with zombies exploited as entertainment.
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Sex: References to prostitution, night club sexuality, lesbian kissing.
Language: Harsh language to indicate fear, aggression,and macho posturing.
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