text: Exports Weigh on Corn, but Boost Bean Prices January 25, 2013 08:52 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Scott Harms, Archer Financial Services Email Agricultural commodity prices consolidated for much of the week with limited price change. Corn prices ended the week up just over $.06 per bushel, soybean prices were down just over $.10, while wheat prices firmed up nearly $.15. Preventing prices from moving above the recent highs of $7.35 basis, the nearby March 2012 corn contract has had weak demand from the production of ethanol, along with poor exports. This morning's weekly export report showed only 5.5 million bushels of old-crop corn was sold last week, well below the pace needed to reach the current USDA forecast. Also weighing on prices today are forecasts for favorable rains in Argentina and Southern Brazil for late next week. Spot soybean prices did rebound to close the week, as forecasts for heavy rain across Northern Brazil next week threaten to pose harvest delays. Also providing a boost was this morning's strong export sales report. Overall for the week soybean prices were lower as precipitation in South America is expected to improve overall crop prospects, providing added competition for the United States in the global marketplace. Since the January USDA report, spot soybeans have run into stiff resistance just above the $14.50 level. Wheat prices were higher this week, supported by a strong export figure this morning which showed nearly 24 million bushels of wheat was sold last week. In addition, forecasts for a continued dry pattern for the U.S. southern plains further diminishing U.S. winter wheat crop prospects. (click to see larger image) Back to news


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Nicki Minaj Goes Godzilla to Swarms of Fans in Japan
Nicki Minaj's brand has become a worldwide phenomenon and over in Japan, Team Minaj is definitely in full effect. Fresh off the news of her striking a multi-million dollar deal with Pepsi, Nicki arrived at Tokyo's International Airport to a swarm of fans greeting her. Accompanied by her hypeman Safaree, Nicki signed autographs and posed for paparazzi happily. Check out more photos of Nicki's arrival in Japan in the gallery.

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Cade Parker has had a passion for baseball as far back as he can remember.
He recalls first showing an interest in the sport when he was only 2 or 3 years old.
Parker, a junior shortstop on the Yreka Miners squad, is a player so committed to the sport, head coach Jason Freitas said, that he is the only player he has worked with who practices base running by himself, which shows his tremendous competitive drive to improve as a ballplayer.
Parker can be found year-round, even during holidays and weekends, doing something baseball-related, be it conditioning or picking up a bat and ball and working on his fundamentals.
Freitas said Parker is one of the hardest working ballplayers he has coached in his time as Yreka head coach.
"He has that desire to improve and always pushes himself to get better," Freitas said
This dedication has paid off handsomely for Parker, who recently made a verbal commitment to play baseball for Division 1 Sacramento State University. Since he is only a junior ,Parker can not officially sign with the team until next November.
"I'm really excited about it," Parker said.
When he visited the campus, Parker said, he was impressed with the school, the players and the coaching staff.
While Parker won't graduate until 2015, he felt that the fit was right for him and is pleased to have the chance to play baseball at a high level
Parker said he made a visit to the campus, which included watching Sac State play UC Davis in football on Nov 23.
During that game, Hornets head coach Reggie Christiansen offered Parker a chance to verbally commit to play baseball for the school.
"He told me he liked the way I played," Parker said. After talking with his parents and thinking the offer over, Parker made a verbal commitment to the team about a week later.
Parker had a strong season on the varsity team as only a sophomore last season. He earned honorable mention Northern Athletic honors while batting .322 with 28 hits and 31 runs for a squad that made the Northern Section finals in their division again last year.
This past summer, Parker played American Legion baseball for the South County Sun Devils based out of the Redding area along with teammate and NAL MVP Gabe Durney.
In early November, Parker attended a one-day baseball camp at Sac State, where he had a chance to show the coaches what he was made off. He did not let that opportunity go to waste, to say the least.
Freitas said Parker made a great impression on the coaches at the camp with his hustle and work ethic, athletic ability and baseball skills and knowledge.
Sac State is a blue-collar type of squad that likes tough minded players who live to play baseball and do the little things well. Freitas said he believes that Parker fits that mold of players they seek, which was a key reason they sought him out.
Last year the Hornets went 34-25 overall and are an up and coming program, Freitas said.
While excited about making the verbal commitment to the Hornets, Parker said that his main focus is to do what he can to help the Miners this season.
After coming very close to winning a section last year, he said he and his teammates are determined to do what it takes to return to the title game and this time win it all.
Freitas is ecstatic to have a player like Parker on the team for two more years. But when he hopefully does move on to Sacramento State he feels that Parker has what it takes to achieve at a high level.
"I think he'll represent us well," Freitas said.
One thing that Parker likes about playing for Sacramento State is that it is close enough so friends and family can watch him play. He added that he has received tremendous support and encouragement with his baseball career from his parents Jenny and Bob Parker and was grateful for all they have done for him.
Cade Parker earns offer to Sac State: Yreka High junior makes verbal commitment to play baseball for Hornets
Cade Parker has had a passion for baseball as far back as he can remember.


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WORCESTER � The city will have to find ways to reduce the cost of its health plans for employees and retirees in the coming years or face the prospect of significant penalties under the provisions of Obamacare.
The penalties would be in the form of a new so-called "Cadillac tax" the city would have to pay for having health insurance premiums that exceed the prescribed threshold called for under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Unless the city is able to get its health premiums below that threshold, it could be subject to taxes as high as $3 million annually, according to city officials.
City Manager Michael V. O'Brien said the city's health insurance expenditures are projected to grow 10 percent next fiscal year, after a 9 percent jump this year � in large part because of new federal and state mandates.
Those mandates, mostly ones called for under Obamacare, are expected to fuel an additional 9.5 percent increase in fiscal year 2016 and 9 percent in fiscal year 2017.
Included in those projections are fees and cost drivers that already affect the city's health plan costs, such as extending coverage for dependents up to age 26. The city previously only covered dependents to age 19 or to age 25 for full-time students.
Also, the city is now required to pay out of its health plan a new "reinsurance fee" of $63 per individual.
That alone has generated an additional cost to the city of about $600,000 annually.
Starting in fiscal year 2015, the city will also have to pay a fee of $1 per insured individual on a health plan offered by the city.
That money is to go into a research fund for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
That fee will double to $2 in fiscal year 2016 and then climb at the rate of medical inflation each subsequent year.
Combined, the fees and extension of health coverage to dependents up to age 26 will total about $1.5 million each fiscal year, compounded annually, in additional health insurance costs, Mr. O'Brien said.
The manager added that the city's health insurance rate projections do not yet recognize the impact of the so-called Cadillac tax that will apply to individual health insurance plans that cost more than $10,200 per year and family plans that cost more than $27,200 annually.
The amount of the tax will be calculated at 40 percent of the excess premium amount.
Most of the city's health plans are projected to exceed the threshold limits under Obamacare in fiscal year 2019, and some will even exceed the limit in fiscal year 2018 when the tax goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
Mr. O'Brien said a preliminary projection shows this new tax will cost the city nearly $1 million in fiscal year 2018 and $3 million in fiscal year 2019.
"The city, like all employers poised to hit these premium rate limits, will be pursuing avenues to reduce our health care premiums to attempt to bring our costs under these thresholds in the coming years," Mr. O'Brien said.
That, in turn, could very likely lead to changes in health plan coverage for employees and retirees.
City officials also emphasized that the Cadillac tax is not included in financial forecasts that have been put together on the impact it will have on the city's "Other Post-Employment Benefits," known as OPEB, for future municipal and public school retirees.
The city's unfunded OPEB liability already stands at $656 million, but with projected increases in city health insurance costs over the next several years that liability is also expected to grow.


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Live! with Kelly and…
Broadcasting & Cable is reporting who Kelly Ripa's (ex-Hayley) new permanent "Live!" co-host will be. There has been much speculation about who would take Regis Philbin's place after his departure last year and that person will reportedly be ex-NFL star Michael Strahan.
Strahan has guest hosted with Ripa 15 times in Philbin's absence. A former member of the New York Giants, he is also a host of "Fox NFL Sunday" and starred in the short-lived comedy "Brothers" on Fox. Although ABC has yet to comment, Strahan is expected to debut as Ripa's co-host on September 4.
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The order Lophiiformes contains a highly diverse array of marine fishes that are primitively benthic shallow-water dwellers, but have evolved to form several groups of deep-shelf and slope inhabitants as well as a highly modified assemblage of open-water, meso- and bathypelagic species. Commonly referred to as anglerfishes, the group is characterized most strikingly by the structure of the first dorsal-fin spine, typically placed out on the tip of the snout and modified to serve as a luring apparatus.
The order contains approximately 322 living species, distributed among 65 genera and 18 families. The families themselves are distributed among five suborders (Pietsch, 1984a; Pietsch and Grobecker, 1987): the Lophioidei (reviewed by Caruso, 1981, 1983; Caruso and Bullis, 1976), containing a single family, four genera, and 25 species of relatively shallow-water, dorso-ventrally flattened forms, commonly referred to as the goosefishes or monkfishes; the Antennarioidei, with four families, 15 genera, and about 54 species, nearly all laterally compressed, shallow- to moderately deep-water, benthic forms, with a host of common names including frogfishes, sea-mice, sea-toads, warty anglerfishes, and handfishes (Pietsch, 1981, 1984a, 1984b; Last et al., 1983); the Chaunacoidei or coffinfishes, two genera and perhaps as many as 14 species (Caruso, 1989a, 1989b) of more or less globose, deep-water benthic forms; the Ogcocephaloidei or batfishes, a single family of ten genera and some 67 species of dorsoventrally flattened, deep-water benthic forms (Bradbury, 1967, 1980, 1988, 1999); and the Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes, containing 11 families, 35 genera, and 162 species (Bertelsen, 1951, 1984; Pietsch, 1984a, 1999).


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Akron, OH — Metro Parks, Serving Summit County will allow hunting by bow and arrow or crossbow in select areas by permit this fall as part of its deer management program.
Each permit, determined by lottery Friday, July 27, is good for up to three adults
and three juveniles.
The areas included during the 2012-13 season are:
• Pond Brook Conservation Area in Twinsburg Township
• The Columbia Run and Wetmore conservation areas in Boston Township
• The Waldo Semon Conservation Area in Boston Township and Northfield Center
• Riding Run Conservation Area in Richfield, Bath, Cuyahoga Falls and Boston Township
• Two areas within Furnace Run Metro Park in Richfield
• The TenBroeck Conservation Area in Hudson and Streetsboro
• A conservation area in Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton
Lottery applications are available online (summitmetroparks.org) and in person
at three locations: Gander Mountain (330-405-2999), 2695 Creekside Dr., Twinsburg; Hadley's Sports Center (330-882-6060), 5676 Manchester Rd., Akron; and The Marksman (330-745-2000), 3017 Barber Rd., Norton.
Please call the ranges for hours.
Applications must be postmarked by July 16 and mailed to: Archery Program,
P.O. Box 5250, Akron, OH 44334. Lottery winners will be notified by August 3, and the individuals named on permits will have to pass an archery test.
Two box blinds will be installed in locations for hunters requiring wheelchairs.
Wheelchair-bound hunters may live outside of Summit County. All other archery
participants must be Summit County residents.
For details about the wheelchair-bound lottery, contact project manager Eric
Fitch at email@example.com, 330-753-5789 or 330-475-1473.
Up to three hunting permits will be assigned per location. All areas are remote
and have limited public access. Hunters must follow park rules and regulations and the hunting guidelines established by the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Hunting season is September 29 to February 3.
Regionally and throughout the state, changes in habitat and the elimination of
natural predators have allowed deer herds to grow to unnatural densities, threatening biodiversity.
In four previous seasons of the archery program, participants took 190 total
deer. Sharpshooters have culled 1,630 deer in the Metro Parks since 2004, and the venison has been donated to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank. Almost 8,000 pounds were donated last year.
Metro Parks, Serving Summit County manages 11,000 acres, including 14 developed parks, several conservation areas and more than 125 miles of trails, with 22.4 miles of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. Annual attendance averages 5 million visitors.


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Astellas Pharma Inc.: Announcement of Regulatory Submission for Mirabegron (YM178), a Treatment for Overactive Bladder, in U.S. and Europe
Aug 28, 2011, 08:00 ET
TOKYO, Aug. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo:4503, "Astellas") today announced the submission of a New Drug Application and Market Authorisation Application for mirabegron (generic name / code name: YM178) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency. The submissions were sent on August 24 and 26, 2011 (Europe and US, respectively). Astellas is seeking approval for this first in a new class of medicine for the indication of overactive bladder (OAB*) associated with symptoms of urgency, urinary frequency, and urge urinary incontinence.
Mirabegron is a once daily oral selective B3-adrenoceptor agonist discovered and developed by Astellas. The pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. and Europe met primary endpoints compared to placebo.
Astellas has been developing mirabegron as a global project. In Japan, Astellas was granted marketing approval under the trade name of Betanis® tablet in July 2011. Additionally, there is an on-going multiregional Phase 3 study in China, Korea, Taiwan, and India.
Astellas markets the OAB medication solifenacin succinate (known as VESIcare) in **67 countries/areas and has contributed to improving OAB associated symptoms.
*OAB is associated with symptoms such as urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia and urge incontinence. In the U.S. and Europe, >12% of adults and 30-40% of adults 75 years of age and over are estimated to have some sort of OAB symptoms (Wein AJ, Rovner ES. The overactive bladder: an overview for primary care health providers. Int J Fertil Womens Med. 1999;44:56-66).
** as of July 2011
About VESIcare
VESIcare tablets are indicated for the treatment of overactive bladder with symptoms of urge urinary incontinence, urgency, and urinary frequency. The recommended dose of VESIcare is 5 mg once daily. If the 5-mg dose is well tolerated, the dose may be increased to 10 mg once daily.
VESIcare is contraindicated in patients with urinary retention, gastric retention, uncontrolled narrow-angle glaucoma, and in patients with hypersensitivity to the product.
Angioedema of the face, lips, tongue and/or larynx have been reported with VESIcare. In some cases angioedema occurred after the first dose. Angioedema associated with upper airway swelling may be life threatening. If involvement of the tongue, hypopharynx, or larynx occurs, VESIcare should be promptly discontinued and appropriate therapy and/or measures necessary to ensure a patent airway should be promptly provided.
VESIcare should be administered with caution to patients with bladder outflow obstruction, decreased gastrointestinal motility, controlled narrow-angle glaucoma, or reduced renal or hepatic function. Doses of VESIcare higher than 5 mg are not recommended in patients with severe renal impairment, moderate hepatic impairment, or when administered with ketoconazole or other potent CYP3A4 inhibitors. Use of VESIcare in patients with severe hepatic impairment is not recommended.
In placebo-controlled studies, the most common adverse events reported by patients were dry mouth (10.9%, 27.6%, 4.2%), constipation (5.4%, 13.4%, 2.9%), blurred vision (3.8%, 4.8%, 1.8%), and dyspepsia (1.4%, 3.9%, 1.0%) with VESIcare 5 mg, 10 mg, and placebo, respectively.
The overall rate of serious adverse events was 2%. For the 10-mg dose, three intestinal serious adverse events were reported (one fecal impaction, one colonic obstruction, and one intestinal obstruction). For the 5-mg dose, one case of angioneurotic edema was reported.
For more information on VESIcare, please visit our website at: http://www.astellas.us/docs/vesicare.pdf
SOURCE Astellas Pharma Inc.


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Placido Flamingo is an operatic flamingo from Sesame Street whose performances at the Nestopolitan Opera are seen in the "Live from the Nest" series. He is based on the famous tenor, Plácido Domingo. Placido is proud of his talents and not averse to the sound of his own voice. The character was first introduced in Season 18, and helped to introduce classical music into the series.
Though retired in 1992, along with most of Richard Hunt's other characters, Placido Flamingo is still frequently cited in articles about opera appreciation, as an effective and influential early introduction to opera, ranking with the Bugs Bunny short What's Opera Doc? (1957).
- "The Bathtub of Seville"
- "The Bugs in Your Neighborhood"
- "The Dentist of Seville"
- "Don't Forget to Watch the Movie"
- "Italian Street Song": Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa leads a symphony of animals, and soloist Placido Flamingo, in the "Italian Street Song" from Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta (about a princess who trades places with her maid in order to avoid an arranged marriage).
- "Look Through the Window" with Plácido Domingo in Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting.
- "The Lost Toy Opera"
- "Naughty Door Opera"
- "Peligro"
- "The Perfect Thing"
- "The Spider's Feelings": An operatic retelling of "The Eency Weency Spider".
- "The Telephone of Brazil"
- "Up and Down Opera" with Ernie
Book appearances
- Grover's Overtures (1991)
- What Do You Do? (1992 edition)


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Scyliorhinus stellaris
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Squalus stellaris Linnaeus, 1758
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Possibly sometimes confused with the smaller Scyliorhinus canicula.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Ellis, J., Serena, F., Mancusi, C., Haka, F., Morey, G., Guallart, J. & Schembri, T.
|Dudley, S., Soldo, A., Francis, M. & Valenti, S.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
The Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) is a large-bodied catshark that occurs inshore and offshore in the northeast and eastern central Atlantic, over the continental shelf between southern Scandinavia and Senegal, and is also present throughout the Mediterranean. It is found at depths of 1-2 m to at least 125 m, but is most common in depths of 20-63 m, and in relatively shallow waters in northern areas of the northeast Atlantic. Around the British Isles, it is locally abundant in certain areas (e.g., the coasts of Pembrokeshire, Anglesey, Lleyn Peninsula and Cardigan Bay), but may be at risk from localised depletion. This species is fished by bottom trawls, gill nets, bottom set long lines, handlines and fixed bottom nets, and occasionally pelagic trawls. Although limited data are available on the exploitation and trends in abundance, declines have been indicated in the Mediterranean Sea, particularly around the Balearic Islands and in the northwest Mediterranean. The capacity for recovery of this species is affected by a low level of interconnectivity between isolated populations around islands far from the continental coast. Little information is available on its biology, however, it is a large bodied species and is likely more vulnerable to population depletion than the Smallspotted Catshark (S. canicula), which also occurs in the region. Given its large size, patchy distribution and evidence for declines in areas of the Mediterranean Sea, an assessment of at least Near Threatened is warranted. There is concern that it may qualify for VU A4bd in the future.
|Range Description:
|Northeast and eastern central Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: distributed from the Shetland Isles and southern Norway in the north, to Senegal in the south. Records further south in the Atlantic, to Gulf of Guinea and Congo may be misidentifications of Scyliorhinus cervigoni. It is found throughout the Mediterranean Sea, but does not occur in the Black Sea. (Compagno et al. 2005, Notarbartolo and Bianchi 1998, Whitehead et al. 1984, Fischer et al. 1987, Bauchot 1987, Serena 2005).
In the Mediterranean, this species appears to be more abundant in the eastern central basin (the Adriatic and Ionian seas and Albanian coasts) compared to the western regions (Baino et al. 2001). This species was not caught in the trawl surveys conducted off the coasts of Morocco, Spain and France. However, it should be noted that the bottom trawl net is not the most appropriate gear for sampling this species. It is common on rocky bottoms or coralline grounds to 400 m of depth but more common between 20 and 150 m in the coastal areas of the continental platform (Bauchot 1987). The mating and nursery grounds as well as the extent of this species' movements throughout the Mediterranean are not known.
It also occurs in coastal and shallow shelf seas of the Northeast Atlantic, from the Shetland Isles and southern Norway in the north, to north-west Africa in the south. Around the British Isles, it is uncommon in the North Sea, and more common off southern and western coasts. Areas where it seems most abundant include parts of the English Channel and Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay and around the Lleyn Peninsula and Anglesey (Ellis et al. 2005a). It tends to be most abundant on coarse and rocky inshore grounds, and such habitats tend to be under-represented in trawl surveys.
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Native:Albania; Algeria; Belgium; Croatia; Denmark; Egypt; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Libya; Mauritania; Montenegro; Morocco; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Senegal; Spain; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; United Kingdom; Western Sahara
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – eastern central; Mediterranean and Black Sea
|Additional data:
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|Scyliorhinus stellaris is less abundant than S. canicula (Compagno in prep).
This species was reported in only 34 of 6336 (1%) tows conducted during the Mediterranean wide trawl (MEDITS) survey from 1994-1999 (Baino et al. 2001). Its overall biomass was estimated to be 0.6kg/km², with a higher presence in the eastern central Mediterranean area (Adriatic, Ionian sea and Albania: 1.2 kg/km²). The GRUND project (1985-1998), a series of experimental trawl surveys carried out on the continental and upper slopes of the central Mediterranean, reported 19.42% presence of this species in 22 surveys in Italian waters. Given percentage presence, this species was the 18th most common species, with the first and second most common species being Galeus melastomus and Scyliorhinus canicula (respectively 84.30% and 83.88% presence in trawls (Relini et al. 2000)).
No accurate data on population size is available for the Northeast Atlantic, although S. stellaris tends to be caught in low numbers only during trawl surveys. The population may be fragmented, as there are certain areas where they are most abundant. This species is rarely recorded in trawl surveys over finer sediments of the continental shelf, and tends to concentrate on coarse, inshore habitats. Around the British Isles, such areas occur along the coastline of Wales (Anglesey, Lleyn Peninsula, Cardigan Bay, Pembrokeshire, Gower), south-western England (Devon and Cornwall) and also off the French coast (Brittany).
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|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is found at depths of 1-2 m to at least 125 m, but is commonest in depths of 20-63 m (Compagno in prep.) or 20-150 m with a maximum depth of 400 m (Bauchot 1987, Serena, 2005). Within the northern Tyrrhenian and southern Ligurian sea, S. stellaris is distributed from 55-409 m depth (Baino and Serena 2000). It often occurs on rough or even rocky bottom or surfaces with algal cover and in the Mediterranean it is apparently prefers coralline algal substrates (Compagno in prep.).
The maximum reported size for S. stellaris in the Mediterranean is 150 cm (TL), and with a common range of 40-55 cm (TL) (Bauchot 1987). Adults are common to 125 cm (Compagno in prep.). Males mature at 77 cm total length (TL) and females at 79 cm TL (Bauchot 1987).
This is an oviparous species, with a single egg laid at a time per oviduct (Compagno in prep.). The large thick-walled egg-cases (10-13cm long with strong tendrils at each corner) are deposited on algae in the subtidal or extreme lower intertidal zone in spring and summer (Compagno in prep.). Once the eggs are deposited they take up to nine months to hatch (Compagno in prep.) with hatchlings measuring 10-16 cm at birth (Tortonese 1956, Bauchot 1987, Compagno in prep.). Egg-cases are often laid on macro-algae in inshore areas (Ellis et al. 2005a).
The diet of S. stellaris mostly consists of crustaceans (including hermit crabs, swimming crabs, cancrid crabs and large shrimp), squid, octopi and other molluscs, a variety of bony fish (including mackerel, epigonids, dragonets, gurnards, flatfish, herring, small codfish and other demersal fishes) and other sharks (including Scyliorhinus canicula). Along the Tunisian coasts, S. stellaris is also reported to feed on cephalopods, teleosts and crustaceans (Capapé 1975). There was no seasonal variation observed in the diet of S. stellaris, however adults (both males and females) fed on more cephalopods and teleosts, and less crustaceans in comparison to that of juveniles (Capapé 1975, Ellis et al. 1996).
|Major Threat(s):
Overfishing, together with habitat degradation, seem to be the major factors responsible for the decline of S. stellaris in the Mediterranean region. In addition, the capacity for population recovery of this species is affected by a low level of interconnectivity between isolated populations around islands far from the continental coast. The true extent of the impacts of fisheries on S. stellaris populations throughout the Mediterranean is difficult to evaluate, partly due to the lack of species-specific reports. In many areas, for example the Balearic Islands fishery and in Italian waters, S. stellaris is reported together with S. canicula or even as "elasmobranchs".
Taken as bycatch of the semi-industrial fisheries of Spain, the Adriatic Sea, Sicily and Cyprus and also in artisanal fisheries elsewhere and is regularly present in fish markets in Malta, Tunisia, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey (Compagno in prep.). In European waters, S. stellaris is less important as a fisheries species than S. canicula, but is regularly taken in bottom trawls, gill nets, bottom set long lines, handlines and fixed bottom nets, and occasionally pelagic trawls (Bauchot 1987, Compagno in prep.).
Benthic trawl effort has increased both numerically and in technological terms in the shelf and slope area of the Mediterranean over the last 50 years. For example, effort in trawl fisheries in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) evolved from a small low powered fleet (total nominal horse power of 2, 700), increasing to a total nominal horse power of 19,940 hp (1974-1987). In a study of the long-term changes in groundfish diversity in the Gulf of Lions, Aldebert (1997) reports that there was a clear decrease in the abundance of this species since 1970. It was present in catches from the late 1950s to the 1980s and then disappeared from the catches after 1988 Aldebert (1997). Although not abundant, it seems that S. stellaris stocks have decreased in the Mediterranean.
A decline also seems to have occurred around Albania and the Balearic Islands: S. stellaris was frequently caught as bycatch by the bottom long-line and lobster fisheries, but catch numbers have decreased despite no change in the lobster fishing effort and equipment (G. Morey pers. obs.). Also of some concern is that the Balearic population has little connection with other populations of S. stellaris due the species' limited dispersal capacity. In the Balearic Islands S. stellaris was monitored from 131 hauls made between 40-1,800 m depth from 1996-2001 (Massutí and Moranta 2003), and while Galeus melastomus and S. canicula showed the highest abundances of all the elasmobranch species, S. stellaris was absent. Additionally, no specimens of S. stellaris have been captured during 12 trammel net surveys carried out in the Balearic Islands between 2000 and 2003 (Morey et al. in press). Current captures for this species in the Balearic Islands are sporadic. Fishermen report the species as common about 15 years ago, and abundant in lobster gillnet fishery, but becoming very rare to date (G. Morey pers. obs.). Jardas (1984) classified the species as rare in the western half of the Adriatic Sea in 1984, although S. stellaris does appear in trawl surveys carried out in 1948 and 1998 (Jukic-Peladic et al. 2001).
In the northeast Atlantic abundance data are insufficient to ascertain the current status, though due to its large size and patchy distribution, it may be at risk of localised depletion.
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|Ellis, J., Serena, F., Mancusi, C., Haka, F., Morey, G., Guallart, J. & Schembri, T. 2009. Scyliorhinus stellaris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161484A5434281. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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How Do You Treat Cold Induced Asthma?
I have cold induced asthma and every time I go for my walk and it is cold out I get this really bad cough. That is what my doctor called it, cold induced asthma. I am already taking 15mg per day of Prednisone for my RA. I know that sometimes oral prednisone is given for asthma. I am already on Prednisone,is there any other treatment? Is there any medication for cold induced asthma?
The cold air or sudden changes in the weather can trigger many people's asthma. Preventing these symptoms is part of an overall asthma treatment plan. Asthma can be difficult to diagnose and there are other diseases that can mimic asthma so objective testing, such as lung function testing, is required to help make an accurate diagnosis of asthma.
Prednisone is one medication for asthma that is usually used for sudden asthma attacks but given its many side effects, daily use is avoided as much as possible. Fortunately there are other medications that work very well for asthma and have allowed the majority of asthmatics to avoid the use of daily prednisone. An asthma specialist is often needed to assist with making a diagnosis of asthma and helping to choose the optimal treatment plan.
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There are so many combinations in stir fries that you really could make one every night and never get bored. Start with a protein – chicken, shrimp, beef, tofu, or whatever you like. You can usually buy precooked chunks of meat at your grocery store to save even more time. Add in an abundance of vegetables of every type and color for the best nutritional value – you can use fresh or frozen. Carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, onions, pea pods – whatever veggies you like. Most supermarkets now carry bags of fresh or frozen pre-cut vegetables specifically to add into stir fries. Don't overcook the veggies – they are best when there is a slight crunch left to them. Choose a low sodium sauce such as teriyaki or soy, or you can use heart healthy olive oil with seasonings like a blend of ginger, garlic, curry, or cayenne pepper to make it even healthier. You can add a wee bit of cornstarch if you like the sauce to be thicker. Serve on top of a bed of brown rice or whole wheat noodles.
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Arkbrik wrote:So much win, so much carnage, so much BrikWarsiness. This report needs to be on the front page!
Skyian Leader wrote:I need to know what I need to do to appease the masses! Next time I get together with my friends, what kind of fighting should happen? What type of arena, what size of force, what terrain, what teams (or no teams), what objectives, and more or less pictures? (and certainly better ones as well!)
I need to know from people with experience on these sort of things. What combination of these questions will make a great battlereport. I know people will come up and just say 'it's brikwars, do whatever' but all the asses that get the most views have a set theme to the battle, and you find yourself rooting for one side or the other. I want feedback to this. And don't worry, last time the pictures was more of an afterthought, next time they will be telling a story. And just call my friend with all the starwars stuff and the ship 'Darth'. I do not think he has a account, or have his real name up on the Internets with out his permission. just being a conscientious friend here.
Anyways, enough of that. I am a minor party in this conflict between Darth and Mr. Duckie, they both have more stuff than me. you saw 75% of darth's stuff, he still has more aircraft and armored units, and a shit ton of infantry (like his bear Calvary). I also believe he has another AT-AT. Mr. Duckie brought just his castle set, and what he could fit into a bucket. As you saw last time they battled, he have around 1-2 dozen vehicles. He must have almost 100 minifigs, and maybe even more. They both play horde, as in they use the Entire collection of stuff, I just us my Skyians, because I'm trying to use the themed army.
We all have large lego collections, and could probably make anything you guys tell us to do if we don't have it. (like a big ship battle would mean that lots of assault craft and fighters would be made, but not necessary large ships. It would be a squadron of fighters (I alone have 3, Darth has double that number (as well as support craft), duckie has 3+, but intelligence is unreliable) and a few cutters (like the one I made darth out of his lego collection, and my bomber would probably count) and then a main ship. (darths converted star destroyer, mr duckie might pull a Bespin and make his castle floating, and add battleship cannons (it needs firepower mr duckie) I don't have one yet.)
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HARVARD – Leaders of the Harvard Economic Development Corp. are hoping their new hire gets to lead a resurgence in development as the economy strengthens.
The public-private partnership announced this week that it has brought on Charles Eldredge to serve as the executive director, a position left unfilled since the last director stepped down more than six months ago, Harvard EDC Chairman Roger Lehmann said.
"We thought it best to leave it open the way the economy was," Lehmann said. "There are signs of the economy improving, so we thought this was the time for us to have an executive director working for us."
Created in 2001, the Harvard EDC works with existing and potential area employers and produces marketing materials to facilitate growth in the community.
It's funded predominately by a board of eight area employers, seven of which give $5,000 a year.
The city of Harvard kicks in $25,000 a year, and the EDC brings in an additional $6,000 to $8,000 a year from other members.
In all, the EDC brings in between $66,000 and $68,000 a year from about 40 members.
Eldredge, who has experience serving on several public agencies including the McHenry County Economic Development Corp., will work in a part-time capacity. His workload depends on the amount of prospective growth in the community, Lehmann said.
Eldredge is optimistic that he will be kept busy.
"A development director can't affect the business cycle," he said. "But what he can do is when there are opportunities, make them most effective for the people that would like to locate there, and for the community."
He added that areas where development was strong before the recession have rebounded the strongest.
"In farther-out areas, it's going to take a little longer," Eldredge said. "But I think the progression is clear. The economy, particularly the development economy, is starting to rebound."


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Squeaky Wheel documentaries explore segregation, local economy, mental illness
For the past five years, Squeaky Wheel has been sending documentary filmmakers out into the community to help grass-roots organizations tell their stories.
"Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier," a project designed to merge the creative energy of filmmakers and community groups into a unified voice, will screen its latest crop of documentaries at 7 tonight in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre.
The films in this year's program explore the importance of growing the local economy, the history of racial segregation in Buffalo housing and society's treatment of the mentally ill.
Goda Trakumaite, Squeaky Wheel's director of programming and outreach, who coordinated this year's program, characterized "Channels" as a way to broaden the public's understanding of underexposed issues.
"The idea is to produce films about topics that are not often covered in the news and kind of focus on underreported stories and things happening in the city that deserve more attention," Trakumaite said. "I think in general in documentaries, the trend has been to really include 'subject' into the actual storytelling role. [To] make sure we're not talking about somebody, but it's people talking about themselves."
In its five years, the impact of "Channels" has spread far beyond Western New York. Trakumaite said previous "Channels" documentaries – including films about the abuse of Native Americans in state-run schools, the effect of the proposed Peace Bridge expansion on neighborhood residents and the fight for a living wage – have been screened at conferences and other venues throughout the United States.
Here's a look at this year's documentaries:
• "Rooted," a collaboration among filmmakers Kyle Toth and Ryan Delmar and the local economic advocacy organization Buffalo First, looks at local businesses striving to keep money circulating within the local economy. The film includes interviews with business owners like Block Club's Patrick Finan, Kevin Gardner of Five Points Bakery, Justin Booth of Go Bike Buffalo and Tim Herzog of Flying Bison.
• "This Doesn't Happen Here," produced by the Erie County Fair Housing Partnership and local filmmaker Brian Milbrand, takes a historical look at the persistent racial segregation that has long plagued Buffalo. The film, according to a release, "argues that segregation was created and sustained by human decisions and hard work and can be unmade in the same way."
• "Not Without Us," by the Mental Health Peer Connection and filmmaker Sam Avery, strives to correct the way the mentally ill are stigmatized and treated by a society that is often indifferent or overly prescriptive when it comes to the treatment of this misunderstood population. The subjects of this film, according to a release, band together "to stand up for their rights by redefining the nature of the problem and reclaiming their states as integral members of society."
What: "Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier"
When: 7 tonight
Where: Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, 639 Main St.
Tickets: $1 to $10
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…and now we have video proof. Our favorite parts?
1) "You ripped it up lookin' for guns, well, I got 'em. And I'm gonna beat you with 'em."
2) The theme song (0:45-1:13), which makes "Jesus Didn't Tap" sound like The Low End Theory. "The grudge is some guy, who just wouldn't quit / A heated argument, over some buullll / such."
3) Officer Carter's compulsive finger-counting.
4) "They have a gruuzh, they wanna settle."
In related news, it was announced last week that Tito Ortiz's grudge-settling show, Anytown Beatdown, will be produced for the G4 cable network.
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Do you guys think its fair to hold the Pac-12 Title Game at the home teams venue rather than a neutral site? All the other major conferences hold it at neutral sites. SEC = Georgia Dome (Falcons). Big 10 = Lucas Oil Stadium (Colts). ACC = Bank Of America Stadium (Panthers). I just think Qualcomm (Chargers) would be the best venue for a neutral site for the Pac-12. Weather would be good, grass field, its closer to more campuses then the CLink, its a larger city than Seattle, and a better area to visit this time of year.
I just don't think its fair that a team gets home field advantage like its set up right now. Stanford getting to host UCLA at home is ridiculous. If my team had to travel to Death Valley, the Swamp, Bryant-Denny, or Sanford Stadium I would feel like thats a total disadvantage.


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Gov. Maggie Hassan gives her State of the State address at the State House in Concord on Thursday. (/Union Leader)
CONCORD — Gov. Maggie Hassan used a "State of the State'' speech Thursday afternoon to call for increased highway spending, endorse controversial Common Core education standards, and support a just-announced state Senate plan to expand Medicaid.
Her Medicaid remarks drew strong applause from the combined House and Senate session; but her lack of funding specifics drew criticism and the Republican Party quickly denounced what it saw as a move to hike the gasoline tax to pay for roads and bridges.
Hassan touted a proposal from New England governors to bring more natural gas into the region. Energy experts said the plan would require higher consumer prices.
"The great Robert Frost once wrote 'the best way out is always through.' We are out from under the greatest burdens of the recession," Hassan said. "Now, we must keep our state and our economy moving forward, and for New Hampshire, the best way forward is always through."
Lawmakers showed support for her call to increase the minimum wage.
"Truly accelerating our economic growth will only be possible,'' she said, "when working families and individuals are confident in their own financial circumstances and able to purchase more goods and services."
"It was a good tone," said Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, of the speech, "and I appreciate the areas of bipartisan agreement," but he and House Minority Leader Gene Chandler, R-Bartlett, cautioned about new programs and how they would be paid for.
"I don't mind hearing about solutions, but I would like to hear solutions," Chandler said. "I would have liked to have heard something more specific."
Republican state Chair Jennifer Horn of Nashua was more critical.
"Governor Maggie Hassan offered no new ideas or real proposals to move New Hampshire forward,'' Horn said. "She missed an important opportunity to lay out a bold vision for the future of our state and instead used this speech to lay the groundwork for her support of a disastrous gas tax increase,'' Horn said.
"A gas tax hike during tough economic times will punish working families, hurt small businesses and kill jobs. Granite Staters shouldn't be forced to pay more at the pump simply because Gov. Hassan is unwilling to do her job and look for ways to control spending and eliminate government waste and inefficiency.''
House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth said she liked Hassan's vision for the state.
The Speaker liked Hassan's call for pay equity, so-called "Paycheck Fairness,'' and her call to increase the minimum wage and "address the needs of our ailing infrastructure including our roads and bridges.''
Senate Minority Leader Sylvia Larsen, D-Concord, said Hassan's "bipartisan leadership has been vital to the many successes of the last legislative session. It was her leadership in efforts to develop and pass a bipartisan, fiscally responsible budget which restored key New Hampshire priorities," Larsen said.
The loudest applause came when she said she supported a Medicaid expansion plan proposed by Senate leaders to add 50,000 low-income working adults to the state's Medicaid system. (See story, Page A??
"They are real people and families who we all agree deserve the security of health insurance," Hassan said. "People who struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table while earning less than $16,000."
She noted expansion is supported by hospitals, providers, businesses and the state's citizens.
"It's clear that we can work through this together and help working people access critical health coverage," Hassan said, and provides $2.4 billon in federal money for providers over the next three years.
Hassan urged lawmakers to fund additional mental health services required under a recent settlement that will help address the strains on the system.
"People with mental illness are our friends, our family members, our neighbors who are simply in need of appropriate care, and they must be able to access that care before they reach the point of crisis," Hassan said. "This is a challenge facing our health care providers, police officers, and communities across the state and the solutions must be pursued at the community level."
She said she wants to reform the workers compensation system, to help small businesses better access capital, and to establish a new program to ease regulatory hurdles.
More needs to be done to create opportunities for the state's young people and keep them here, Hassan said. She said increased state aid to the University System of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Community College System will help retain the young.
She also urged lawmakers to support a high-end, destination casino to combat those proposed in Massachusetts that she said could cost the state $75 million in revenue.
"Developing New Hampshire's own plan for one high-end destination casino will create jobs, boost our economy, and generate revenue to invest in critical priorities," Hassan said. "I encourage all legislators to fully consider the Authority's carefully developed, bipartisan recommendations, recognize that we can do this in a way that works for our state, and vote in favor of authorizing a casino. Instead of funding Massachusetts' needs, let's take this opportunity to invest in New Hampshire's priorities and help grow New Hampshire's economy."
She acknowledged the need for additional money for the state's highway system but did not support a specific proposal, saying instead she would work with both parties on a solution.
"We know that a solid, modern transportation infrastructure is the foundation for long-term economic growth, and I appreciate that there is broad agreement in the legislature about the need to strengthen investment in our roads and bridges," Hassan said. "We can reach a consensus solution to renew our investment in safe and modern roads and bridges."
She opposed legalization of marijuana, but said she would support a review of the criminal codes and sentences that focuses on treatment first not saddling young people with a criminal record.
Hassan said making progress will require difficult debate and tough choices.
"What matters – to our economy, to our businesses, to the people of our state – is what we do after we argue," Hassan told lawmakers. "Unlike Washington, we have shown time and again that we are capable of engaging with each other, putting arguments aside and coming together to solve problems, leading to progress for our businesses and families. We must continue to prove the strength of our democracy by working through our challenges together."


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MOSCOW (AP) — A retired Russian military intelligence colonel has been found guilty of leading a bizarre plot that envisioned a group of elderly people taking over the government.
Prosecutors say Vladimir Kvachkov, 64, organized a group who planned to seize power by training crossbow-wielding men to seize military depots and then descend upon Moscow with tanks.
Moscow City Court on Friday sentenced him to 13 years in prison for attempting to organize an armed uprising. A retired police captain, 62-year-old Alexey Kiselev, was sentenced to 11 years as a co-conspirator.
Kvachkov, who denied the charges, became a nationalist folk hero after twice being acquitted for a 2005 assassination attempt on former deputy prime minister Anatoly Chubais, the mastermind of Russia's 1990s privatization drive.


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This was the first low cost international calls company which contacted me some days after my move from Europe to NYC. I made a single call to Germany using their service. Meanwhile I received more interesting offers and stopped using Startec Global Communications. However, they do not forget my credit card number and charge me regularly with invoices for non-provided service. Is there a chance to stop this kind of frauds?


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Our former colleague Paul Mirengoff provides his impressions of today's oral argument in Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida:
When all was said and done, it seemed to me that we are where most people outside of the wishful thinking liberal commentariat thought we'd be – with the fate of Obamacare riding on a conflicted Justice Kennedy. To be sure, Chief Justice Roberts did not fully tip his hand. Indeed, he seemed to find force in the government's argument that everyone already is in the affected market here, and that this distinguishes the individual mandate from, say, legislation that would force everyone to purchase cars.
But while the Chief Justice thought the challengers' lawyers were at times overstating their case, he seemed more fundamentally troubled by the government's argument. So if there is a fifth vote to uphold the mandate, it will probably be Justice Kennedy's.
What should we expect from Justice Kennedy? Because the mandate expands the federal government's power at the expense of the individual, this case falls more in Kennedy's conservative wheelhouse than in his liberal one. But will he really pull the trigger and finish off the Obamacare mandate? To me, that seems slightly less than an even money proposition.
I want to conclude by praising Paul Clement's argument on behalf of Florida and the other states. I've long been a Clement fan, but I thought he surpassed himself today, delivering a near perfect argument.
I may be biased, though, so I was happy to read that top-notch Supreme Court advocate Tom Goldstein of Scotusblog, who does not share my biases, called Clement's argument the best he'd ever heard.


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It boiled down to a debate over broccoli. And bread. And burial plots. If government can tell people to buy health insurance, Supreme Court justices wanted to know, what else could it make them buy?
It boiled down to a debate over broccoli. And bread. And burial plots. If government can tell people to buy health insurance, Supreme Court justices wanted to know, what else could it make them buy?
Throughout Tuesday's hearing on the health care law, the justices and lawyers argued about the perfect product to illustrate the limits of the federal government's power over interstate markets.
"Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market; therefore, you can make people buy broccoli," offered Justice Antonin Scalia, obviously resistant to expanding government's reach.
"That's quite different," responded Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, arguing for the health insurance mandate. Unlike grocery shopping, medical care is a market "in which your participation is often unpredictable and often involuntary." And the care of patients who don't pay gets passed on to everyone else as higher taxes and insurance premiums.
Verrilli preferred his own examples: the law is like regulation of telephone rates or price supports for milk.
And so it went.
— How about mandatory burial insurance, ventured conservative Justice Samuel Alito. "Everybody is going to be buried or cremated at some point. What's the difference?"
— Chief Justice John Roberts wanted to know if people could be forced to buy cellphones for 911 calls.
— Attorney Paul Clement, representing 26 states challenging the law, tried wheat. When Congress wants to help farmers, he said, it doesn't "just make everybody in America buy 10 loaves of bread."
But Roberts, seeming to tire of the parade of products, cut him off by saying that doesn't address the government's argument — that everybody needs health care "and all they're regulating is how you pay for it."


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1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Place the Steak & Cheese Chimichanga on baking sheet in center of oven.
3. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until crispy.
4. Let stand 1 minute.
1. Place the Steak & Cheese Chimichanga on a plate.
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*Microwave ovens vary. Heating time may require adjustment. Based on 1000 watt microwave oven.
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Universal Soldier: Special Edition (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits one of Dolph Lundgren's best roles, co-starring some Belgian...
Add Robocop to The Terminator, divide by Van Damme, multiply by Dolph Lundgren, subtract one studio on the road to bankruptcy, add the square root of Platoon, and divide again by a young German director on his way to superstardom, and you get Universal Soldier, probably the closest thing to a 'good' movie on Jean-Claude Van Damme's IMDb.com page.
Before he was making half good movies (usually the first half, where cities are being destroyed) Roland Emmerick was expertly filming JC's naked butt in loving close-up. Universal Soldier shares quite a bit in common with Paul Verhoven's RoboCop, beyond the whole 'recycled soldier' plot. Both films represent the Hollywood débuts of their European directors, and both directors would go onto Sci-Fi/Action super-stardom. Both films were made as studies of American action cinema, and both films were relatively popular. The difference is that one film ( RoboCop) was an ironic comedy in disguise and was a true screen original, where the other film, ( Universal Soldier), was a retread, not very good, and wears its sense of humour on its blazing red sleeve.
I coulda sworn I'd seen the movie before, but I must've only caught it in bits and pieces on TV because I know I'd remember seeing Dolph Lundgren chopped to shreds in a hay bailer (and the next person that tells me my favourite Italian horror film is sick better not have this in his or her collection). The film is perfectly entertaining, if not entirely (purposefully?) stupid. It contains plenty of violence, but not enough nudity (at least not of the feminine persuasion, though that may be Emmerich's point). I'm impressed with its vulgarity, but not amazed. Besides spectacular action set pieces (which the movie has plenty of), late '80s/early '90s vulgarity is really the only reason to watch such a film.
My favourite thing about Universal Soldier, though, is Dolph Lundgren. I made fun of Dolph with the rest of them back in the day, but when I re-watched The Punisher and saw I Come in Peace for the first time in a row I had a change of heart. You know what? For an action guy with precious few lines Dolphy is pretty damn good in my book. He's defiantly better than Van Damme, and probably deserved Van Damme's career more than Van Damme did. Not to mention the fact that he's got a Masters in Molecular Biology, had a Fullbright scholarship to M.I.T., he's a real life Karate champion, and he speaks Swedish, English, German, Japanese and some French. And he gets hay bailed to death in this movie! What else could you want?
At the top of the public's introduction to high definition Lionsgate quickly aligned themselves with Blu-ray, and whipped out a few of their Carolco catalogue favourites, only to muck it all up by not putting any effort into the hi-def video. Following the studio's surprisingly clean First Blood release, and their relatively colourful Doors release, I assumed the studio had gotten a hold on their video problems. For all intents and purposes Universal Soldier looks good, losing the heavy grain and less than impressive blacks of the DVD release. The print is not without issue, but it's nothing compared to the studio's crap Total Recall disc. The biggest issues are with varying detail levels, some noise in warmer colours, and a general flatness compared to the best hi-def discs.
There's pretty much zero comparison between the old DVD's Dolby Digital 5.1 track and this new, improved, and super goddamned loud DTS-HD Master Audio track. Most of the new improvements occur in the rear and LFE channels, which have been officially worked to their nth degree, especially the LFE track, with throbs with a rather ridiculous abandon. The spatial representation of the track is impressive during the more immersive moments. Considering the film's age (even though it was made around the time of 5.1's inception) the illusion of audio movement is effective. Problems with the track begin and end in the centre channel, which suffers some bleeding (mostly in the music track) into the back channels, a little bit of overdone sound reduction during some of the dialogue, and is generally short on volume compared to the rest of the track. I'm also a little disappointed in the music track, which has been mixed a little too far into the rear channels.
Universal Soldier comes retrofitted with all the same extras as the original special edition DVD, with the exception of a very noisy Blu-ray trivia track. The trivia mirrors the commentary track pretty directly, but doesn't act as the best alternative simply because of the volume of the sound effects that accompany the pop-ups. The commentary track features director Roland Emmerich, co-writer Dean Devlin, Dolph, and JC himself all edited together. Only Emmerich and Devlin share a microphone, and they pretty much rule the track, Dolph and JC interject every once and a while. The track is entertaining, as the filmmakers seem to kind of think the film is crap and take the piss out of it over and over, but even with three tracks edited together there's still a lot of empty space.
The making-of featurette, 'Guns, Genes and Fighting Machines' is a nice companion piece to the commentary, but again covers much of the same ground. Those that don't want to sit through an entire commentary track (or the new trivia track) will end up almost exactly as knowledgeable about the making of the film just watching the brief (less than twenty minutes) mini-doc. A second featurette is called 'Tale of Two Titans', gives us a brief history of stars Van Damme and Lundgren. It's really a lot more entertaining than it has any right to be.
The disc is finished with an alternate ending and trailers. The alternate ending is pretty much the same as the used ending, but slightly less spectacular, and much bleaker. The alternate ending is the only extra not presented in hi-def.
I can't imagine spending money on a hi-def release of Universal Soldier myself, considering my opinion of the film's quality, and the fact that it seems to be on cable every weekend, but if you're a die-hard JCVD fan (or better yet, a die-hard Dolph fan), you'll probably be in severed ear, zombie soldier heaven. Actually, this review is belated enough that you die-hards probably already own the disc. Sorry I wasn't able to help out.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
stu123 Member Join Date: March 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 11
van damme ruins this film with his cardboard acting which would of been a classic action fest.Dolph is really good in it.If it had been anyone else but van damme id of bought this.
leigh1975 Contributor Join Date: October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 318
It has to be said, Dolph really got the shaft in the 80s and 90s, and he really should have had a bigger career. I'm a fan, and not in an ironic 'he's c**p, and thats why I like him' way, and I don't care who knows.
"It's kick ass or kiss ass! And I'm bustin' heads!" Genius!
"It's kick ass or kiss ass! And I'm bustin' heads!" Genius!
Dragonrage Member Join Date: July 2008 Location: Croatia Posts: 64
"...and you get Universal Soldier, probably the closest thing to a 'good' movie on Jean-Claude Van Damme's IMDb.com page."
So...It seams that you didn't see JCVD jet...
So...It seams that you didn't see JCVD jet...
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Hmmm... a family friendly site with boobs in the first picture???
j-rush Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 20
LOL those boobs belong to none other that Tiny Lister aka ZEUS... When does the 3 disc digital copy of No Holds Barred with the Hulk Hogan commentary and bad photoshop cover art hit shelves??
pitdeadite Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 662
Vandamme is awesome. No wonder Seagal runs away from him.
yankeemike81 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 190
i wonder who would win in a bad action actor duel 3 way match vandamme Steven segal and Chuck Noris
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
yankeemike81 wrote: i wonder who would win in a bad action actor duel 3 way match vandamme Steven segal and Chuck Noris
Steven Segal of course. Van Damme and Chuck Norris have such better quality films. Plus Van Damme recently made a movie making fun of himself. I really need to see called JCVD. So he gets bonus points. Chuck has always been cool except he sold his soul to politics. But his films have always been quality stuff.
Van Damme is doing a Universal Soldiers sequal that is coming out this year. Hopefully it's DTV.
If I had a Blu-Ray player I would pretend this disk does not exist.
Steven Segal of course. Van Damme and Chuck Norris have such better quality films. Plus Van Damme recently made a movie making fun of himself. I really need to see called JCVD. So he gets bonus points. Chuck has always been cool except he sold his soul to politics. But his films have always been quality stuff.
Van Damme is doing a Universal Soldiers sequal that is coming out this year. Hopefully it's DTV.
If I had a Blu-Ray player I would pretend this disk does not exist.
Chaos Engine Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: Anguilla Posts: 625
I love this movie, it's good fun. Van Damme as wooden as he is, is funny as f**k. Dolph is just the coolest, meanest b*****d villain in a long time!
Shame about the official & 2 unofficial sequels though.
Shame about the official & 2 unofficial sequels though.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,719
yankeemike81 wrote: i wonder who would win in a bad action actor duel 3 way match vandamme Steven segal and Chuck Noris
Dolph Lundgren.
Dolph Lundgren.
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th November 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director/Producer/Actor Commentary, 'Guns, Genes and Fighting Machines', 'Tale of Two Titans', Alternate Ending, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Roland Emmerick
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren
Length: 102 minutes
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