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October 31. 2013 10:13PM
Allen Lessels' UNH Notebook: UNH gridders hope to keep moving up
By ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
--- In its seventh game of the season last Saturday at Stony Brook, the University of New Hampshire football team finally went over the .500 mark for the year.
The Wildcats beat Stony Brook, 31-13, for their third straight win and are now 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the Colonial Athletic Association.
They're at No. 16 in The Sports Network this week and will try to keep moving up in the national polls — and in the CAA standings — in games against teams from Virginia in the next two weeks.
It won't be easy.
The Wildcats are on the road to Williamsburg, Va., today and take on always-tough William & Mary in Zable Stadium on Saturday at 1:30.
Next Saturday, James Madison comes to Durham and Cowell Stadium. William & Mary and James Madison own matching records of 5-3 overall and 2-2 in the CAA and both are fighting, along with UNH, to stay alive in the race for berths in the FCS playoffs.
The Wildcats, thanks in part to their offensive and defensive lines, have worked their way back into the playoff picture. But they need at least three more wins — and four to take any risk out of the equation — to lock up a spot in the tournament.
UNH coach
Sean McDonnell
is 0-4 as a head coach in games at William & Mary. He had lost all nine games he had coached against the Tribe until
Nico Steriti
scored on a 19-yard run with less than five minutes left to play to provide the winning margin in last year's game, 28-25, in Durham.
The Wildcats are averaging 228.4 yards rushing on the ground and will try, as usual, to get a ground game going against a very good William & Mary defensive line and defense overall.
"We're seeing some real good defensive lines," McDonnell said.
The offensive line played without junior center
Mike Coccia
for the first time in three years last week. A starter since his first game of his redshirt freshman, Coccia is done for the year after having rotator cuff surgery early last week.
Alexander Morrill
, a 6-foot-2 and 299-pound redshirt freshman out of Lebanon, has helped solidify the line has played well against those tough defensive lines.
"He keeps getting better, inch by inch," McDonnell. "He's a big, strong kid and he can handle that stuff."
Tad McNeely
, another redshirt freshman, moved over from guard to take Coccia's spot at center. Morrill will start his fourth straight game at left guard against William & Mary. The first two starts came when Morrill took over for McNeely, who was out for a couple of games.
Left tackle
Seamus O'Neill
, the senior and co-captain out of Manchester Central, senior left guard
Ricky Archer
and junior right tackle
Rob Bowman
have each started all seven games at their positions.
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The men's hockey team has dug itself a bit of a hole to open the season when it comes to its overall record.
The Wildcats will try to get off to a better start in Hockey East play.
They play their first league game tonight at 7:15 at the Tsongas Center in Lowell against UMass-Lowell. The two teams meet again on Saturday night at 7 at the Whittemore Center at UNH.
The River Hawks ended UNH's season last year when freshman goalie
Connor Hellebuyck
made 28 saves for a 2-0 win in the Northeast Regional final at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester.
Hockey East teams only play each other two times this season, for a total of 20 league games compared to 27 in years past, putting added importance on each contest.
"You've got to make them count," said UNH coach
Dick Umile
The Wildcats fell to 1-3-1 with a 4-2 loss at Rensselaer on Saturday and dropped out of the USCHO Top 20 rankings this week.
"We know that we have the right pieces in there," said sophomore forward
Dan Correale
. "We've just got to put it together a bit better.
We know we can do that, so I don't think our confidence has taken a hit at all."
Lowell started the season ranked No. 1, but went 1-3-0 in its first four games. The River Hawks came up with a pair of wins last weekend, 4-1 on Friday at Michigan State and 2-1 at Michigan on Saturday, and is ranked No. 15.
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UNH director of athletics
Marty Scarano
will take part in a Town Hall-style discussion of
Ed O'Bannon
's class action civil lawsuit against the NCAA and the future of college athletics on Tuesday at the UNH School of Law in Concord.
O'Bannon argues that current and former Division I men's basketball and football players should be paid for their images and likenesses used in broadcasts, video games, trading cards and other commercial ventures.The discussion is in conjunction with Sports Illustrated and
B.J. Schechter
, executive editor at Sports Illustrated and SI.com, will be the moderator. Panelists also include
Michael McCann
Alexandra Roberts
of the UNH School of Law.
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The Bugaboo Footmuff keeps your child warm, protected and adds a dash of color to your stroller. Water repellent material and bamboo charcoal fibre wicks away moisture to keep your child dry and comfortable. The cover of the footmuff can be partly opened, or completely removed when it gets too warm.
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Now on Amazon, you can view the cover illustration I created for Scared Stiff: 50 Phobias That Freak Us Out as well as my name with the credit "illustrator." In addition to the cover, I created 50 interior illustrations — one for each phobia. So I hope this book will be a real treat for my fans and followers.
Scared Stiff will be released February 4th, 2014, but you can already pre-order via Amazon! Plus, as we near February, I plan on sharing some behind-the-scenes "Phobias" sketches, so keep your peepers peeled!!!
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Steve Jobs re-invents the portable telly
And at exactly the right moment
Analysis If you don't understand what Apple's iPad is all about, think of it this way: it's a portable TV.
You think we jest? Consider. What we call a TV has long become divorced from its original function: to receive and display broadcast pictures. The process of separation began in the 1980s when we started watching pre-recorded tapes on our VCRs, but is now reaching its peak.
Today, we display content from games consoles, disc players, media extenders that pull content off network-attached storage, videos from the likes of YouTube, photos stored on memory cards, and, increasingly, general internet sites. BBC iPlayer and its like show that even the programmes themselves no longer need by explicitly associated with the process of broadcast by transmission.
In short, the TV in your living room is no longer a television - it's a general-purpose display system. And that's what the iPad is, only portable.
There's nothing inherent in the nature of today's flat-panel TVs that prevent them doing anything the iPad can do. E-books, for instance, are no more than just another form of digital content. All the iPad lacks is a remote control, but then, since it's a handheld device, it doesn't need one. Likewise the TV doesn't need a touch UI - both have the control mechanisms appropriate to them.
But the underlying application - multi-format content display system - is exactly the same.
In other words, the iPad is a portable telly. Not the kind Sir Clive Sinclair envisaged - or, at least, produced - in the late 1970s, but a handheld TV nonetheless.
It's also arguably the first true information appliance. Analysts talked a lot about these devices during the late 1990s, punting them as set-top alternatives to the personal computer that would bring about the so-called 'post-PC age'.
They never did. At that point, the internet hadn't yet become an important everyday tool for the majority of the population, and no one understood then the desire for mobility. And the UIs were generally awful.
One of the few companies that might have made a difference back then was Apple, but it preferred - understandably - to focus its UI talents on its computing line, in particularly the newly introduced iMac.
The iPod took it beyond that market segment into the broader consumer electronics arena, and the iPod Touch and iPhone eventually showed us what a true mobile internet device might be like.
However, both were designed for a specific, pocket-friendly form-factor. The iPad, on the other hand, is the true mobile internet appliance.
Some people will bemoan the iPad's lack of a real keyboard - they can go and buy a netbook or lug a laptop around. Or use Apple's keyboard dock. Others will complain about the lack of a general-purpose file-focused operating system - they can go and use a Windows Tablet PC. Yet more will decide their smartphone is sufficient - this reporter has - and will happily continue to use it for mobile internet and media consumption.
But a lot of folk - and not just the usual suspects - will take a shine to this handy, personal, internet-connected portable telly. A telly that's not restricted to the room it's placed in. A telly you can easily take on holiday with you, or just out to the park.
The TV isn't going away anytime soon. And neither is the iPad. ®


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DeWitt 1.5oz Supreme Frost Blanket, N-Sulate (60ft x 500ft)
DeWitt 1.5 oz, Supreme, N-Sulate Frost blankets extend your growing season and keep temperatures beneath it 6 to 8 degrees warmer than outside. Extend your harvest season of vegetable plants and protect ornamentals and nursery stock.
DeWitt 1.5oz Supreme Frost Blanket, N-Sulate (60' x 500')
This item due to its size must ship via motor freight and charges calculated seperately.
- 1.5 oz non-woven frost protection blanket.
- Keeps temperatures underneath 6˚ to 8˚ warmer than outside temperatures.
- UV treated to resist breakdown from the sun.
- Lasts for many years, especially when stored out of the sun.
- Extends your growing season and can protect your investments against unexpected frost.
- Simple and easy installation.
- Use with DeWitt Clip-Its to anchor.
DeWitt's 1.5 oz. fabric is ideal for protecting flowering annuals, bedding plants and vegetables from severe cold and freezing. Temperatures underneath the fabric are 6˚ to 8˚ warmer than outside conditions allowing you to lengthen your harvest time and extend your flowering season.
This medium weight frost blanket is great for freeze protection especially in spring and fall. Acts as a season extender and is great for protecting delicate plants like ornamentals and nursery stock. This blanket will also extend the harvest season for vegetable crops.
This blanket gives 50% light transmittance so you are still getting the light and warming qualities of the sun while keeping out the cooler air. These blankets extend the life of your plants and pay for themselves by saving your investments while others will freeze.
DeWitt's 1.5 oz N-Sulate / Supreme frost protection fabric is a medium weight, permeable, UV treated fabric that installs installs easily and is reusable.
DeWitt is one of the US leaders in agricultural fabric. They pioneered the field of permeable weed control fabrics and with over 30 years of product development they now sell the highest quality selection of agricultural fabrics on the market.
- Weight - 1.5 ounces per square yard
- Thickness - 11.5 mil
- Temperature underneath fabric is up to 6-8 degrees F. warmer than outside conditions
- Tensile Strength (lbs) - MD 35.9 / CD 27.1
- Elongation (%) - MD 120 / CD 135
- Trapezoid Tear - MD 10.8 / CD 7.6
- Air Permeability - 420 cubic sft/min
- Burst Strength - 61 psi
- Color - White
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Sun readers share their views on the Gainesville Police Department, first responders and history.
We're proud of GPD and the work they do
As concerned residents of Gainesville, we support of Chief Tony Jones and the Gainesville Police Department.
We understand that police officers are not perfect and that there may be some flaws in the system, which needs to be addressed. However, GPD employees work with citizens daily to identify problems and work on finding solutions.
Sure, there are arrests made. But, there are just as many prevention and intervention activities being implemented, such as neighborhood watches, citizens on patrol, youth programs and a host of other activities designed to reduce crime.
We are proud of the GPD and their staff and proud to be residents of Gainesville.
Rosa B. Williams,
Chair, Black on Black Crime Task Force
Doris Edwards,
Chair, Lincoln Estates Neighborhood Watch
Marie Small,
Chair, Azalea Trail Neighborhood Watch
Andrew Lovette,
Chair, North Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Watch
Beatrice Ellis,
Chair, Eagle Eye Neighborhood Watch
First responders deserve our respect
In the wake of the tragic event of Newtown, Conn., I would like to acknowledge those first responders. Unfortunately it appears to necessitate such tragedy to praise those individuals serving as public safety personnel.
As a resident of the city of Alachua we are fortunate to have such an outstanding public safety force. Police Chief Joel DeCoursey Jr. exemplifies a community spirit which translates to the protection and safety of its residents. Thank you to Joel and those committed to public service.
Paul F. Smith,
Know your history and read about it
I was glad to see the Friday 12/14 commentary from Lewis Diuguid titled "If you don't know history, you don't know yourself." As I have gotten older, I realize that the events I have lived through and been shaped by are not part of some collective conscience, but are either slightly known or unknown to my younger friends
I'm proud to be a founding member of the Civic Media Center, which is entering its 20th year in 2013. On the front of the building are the words "Know your history, know your rights," and within our library's collection are thousands of books dedicated to providing a historical understanding of our current times; how we got to where we are, and the struggles it took to get there.
We are a great resource and a compliment to our fine library system. You can check us out at www.civicmediacenter.org
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16-Year-Old Starlet Sullies Nubile Young Lungs with Cigarette
Who gave Taylor Momsen the grown-up lollipop? A Jersey Shore guido plans his future at Harvard Law. Brittany Murphy's husband sues Warner Brothers for killing her. Charlie Sheen's ex checks into rehab—but why? Thursday's gossip round-up raises questions.
- 16-year-old Taylor Momsen was photographed smoking a big fat cigarette (as in, pretty sure it's a Camel Wide) on Gossip Girl's set, and it doesn't seem like it was for the show. So who broke the law and gave her a grown-up lollipop? Does Taylor have a fake I.D.? At first I thought it was a candy cig because none of the pictures show smoke, but maybe she just hasn't learned to inhale yet, because the look on her face [fig.1] is that patented teenage "I'm so badass CRAP do you think my mom saw?" look caused only by nicotine, Mike's Hard Lemon, and skipping class to kiss your boyfriend. Conclusion: Young lady, go to your room. [Celebitchy]
- Whereas Brad's new bachelor pad was once the Brangelina break-up smoking-gun, it's now "the newest piece of Brad's master plan to expand the sprawling compound he shares with Angelina." TMZ has pictures, but since I lack the frame of fabulous wealth necessary to evaluate whether this is a one-man pad, a family domicile, or a shed for storing the Pitt-Jolie lawn mower. [TMZ]
- Figuring, perhaps, that Brittany Murphy's death was too quiet and dignified, widower Simon Monjack says he's suing Warner Bros. The stress of being fired from Happy Feet II killed her, he says. Also, check out these pictures I took of her, you can buy them from me if you want. [Beast]
- Elton John and Lady Gaga are teaming up for a Grammy performance, says the rumor mill. I'm thinking diamond-encrusted Steinways, a herd of Shetland ponies, and nude belly dancers. [P6]
- Pauly D's deejay fee: Up to $25,000. Before Jersey Shore,it was $1000. [TMZ]
- Vinny has a different get-rich plan: Law school. He took the LSAT and "my score was decent." He wanted to go to "Yale or Harvard." What if he's actually a genius and it's all an act? [NYDN]
- Alleged Tiger Woods call girl Loredana Jolie weighs in on his sex addiction: "He would engage in sex from 9PM until the sun came up the next morning. But he wasn't a healthy guy. He couldn't sleep and would stay up all night." She says rehab will fail him, and though sex is admittedly Loredana's area of expertise, I find this pronouncement irritating, and may migrate to Team Tiger just to spite everyone betting against him. [P6]
- Speaking of rehab: Charlie Sheen wife/victim Brooke Mueller's stepdad says she's in a treatment center, but he won't say what she's rehabilitating from, just that it's not drugs. Maybe it's Charlie? Addicted to dangerous love? [Radar]
- Susan Boyle came back from recording a charity single for Haiti and there was an unidentified male in her home, which must have been ridiculously terrifying. Police responded, the man was retained, and then he was released. Stalker? Lover? Confused senile person? [Gatecrasher]
- John Edwards confirmed he and Elizabeth have separated. All he has to do now is confirm that he's a selfish jerk, and he'll be on the level, again. [TMZ]
- Will Ferrell's wife Viveca Paulin gave birth to a boy last week. His name is Axel, and he is the youngest of three. [NYDN]
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Ambient light levels influence visual system size in birds and primates. Here, we argue that the same is true for humans. Light levels, in terms of both the amount of light hitting the Earth's surface and day length, decrease with increasing latitude. We demonstrate a significant positive relationship between absolute latitude and human orbital volume, an index of eyeball size. Owing to tight scaling between visual system components, this will translate into enlarged visual cortices at higher latitudes. We also show that visual acuity measured under full-daylight conditions is constant across latitudes, indicating that selection for larger visual systems has mitigated the effect of reduced ambient light levels. This provides, to our knowledge, the first support that light levels drive intraspecific variation in visual system size in the human population.
1. Introduction
The association between ambient light levels and visual system size is well established in birds [1,2] and primates [3–10]. Lower light conditions during dawn singing in birds [2] or nocturnal activity in primates (e.g. [7]) necessitate larger eyes. These allow larger corneas and pupils and more numerous high-summation (many photoreceptors per retinal ganglion cell) rods, enhancing sensitivity. This is traded against decreased acuity (the distance between points that can be distinguished), which in contrast requires denser cones with low summation, but is nonetheless also positively associated with eye size [11,12].
Enlarged eyes enable parallel increases in sensitivity and acuity, in that they both enhance light-gathering capacity through larger corneas and increase retinal image size, functionally reducing summation because each receptor field corresponds to a smaller proportion of an image [13]. Along these lines, it has been suggested that increasing eyeball size allowed derived nocturnal Tarsius and Aotus haplorrhines to increase visual sensitivity while simultaneously maintaining relatively high acuity [13], probably for nocturnal predation [7].
Both illuminance (the amount of light incident on the Earth's surface) and minimum day length decrease with increasing absolute latitude [14], and seasonally shorter day lengths create time pressures that require activity during the mesopic (intermediate light levels between rod saturation and the minimum threshold for cone function) and scotopic (when only rods are active) conditions of dawn and dusk [14]. Lower illuminance means that, even during fully photopic (daylight) conditions, high latitude humans may require larger eyes to attain the same level of acuity as those living at lower latitudes. By contrast, under dawn/dusk light levels, higher latitude larger eyed humans may well demonstrate markedly higher acuity than lower latitude individuals, owing to greater light capture through an enlarged cornea in combination with larger retinal images.
Visual system component size, from eyeball to both primary visual (V1) and extrastriate cortical areas, are highly correlated in mammals independently of overall cortex size, allometry and phylogeny [3,6], as are eye and brain size in birds [15]. Within humans, there is a point-to-point representation between retina and V1 [16], associated with isometric scaling of the optic tract and lateral geniculate nucleus [17], which, owing to the hierarchical organization of the primate visual system [18,19], translates into tight scaling with upstream visual areas V2 and V3 [20,21].
This close association between retina and V1 [16,22] means that changing retina size directly influences V1 volume. For instance, human disorders such as albinism or those associated with defects in the PAX6 gene cause malformed or absence of fovea and are associated with reduced grey matter volume in the occipital pole (the V1 region representing the fovea) [23]. A similar effect associated with domestication has been noted in cats: reduction in cone density has resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in visual path volume, and hence overall brain volume [24]. In humans, V1 cortical volume is positively associated with visual acuity, indicating that anatomical differences translate into significant functional effects [25].
Decreasing ambient light levels should select for increasing eye and visual cortex size in order to increase sensitivity and maintain acuity. We thus predict a latitudinal increase in human orbital volume (which is proportional to eyeball size [26,27]). Since enlarged visual systems should be selected to counteract the potential negative impacts on visual processing of decreasing light levels, we also predict that visual acuity measured under ambient photopic conditions should be maintained at a constant level across latitudes regardless of the decrease in light levels.
2. Material and methods
We measured cranial capacity (CC), orbital volume and foramen magnum (FM) dimensions for 73 healthy adult crania from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Duckworth Collection, University of Cambridge (see the electronic supplementary material). We then set a minimum criterion of three skulls per population to minimize outlier-effects in calculating population means, yielding 55 skulls from 12 populations (electronic supplementary material, table S1). Analyses were carried out on full (n = 73) and subset (n = 55) samples, as well as on population means (n = 12). The results were consistent, so we present only the population mean analyses, controlling for possible dependence between individuals within populations. We controlled for phylogeny using phylogenetic general linear model (see the electronic supplementary material).
To measure orbital volume with 1 mm diameter glass spheres, we lined the orbits with laboratory film. To measure CC, apertures were blocked with white tack, and the cranial cavity filled with wax beads (approx. 5 mm diameter and 2 mm thick). We measured volumes using graduated cylinders. Precautions were taken to maximize reliability (see the electronic supplementary material). We calculated FM cross-sectional area from length and inter-condyle width as a proxy for body mass [28] (see the electronic supplementary material).
All find-site or central country latitudes and longitudes were found using Google latitude [29]. We calculated altitude of the Sun at noon for each latitude/longitude coordinate using [30,31] and log illuminance (lux) following the study of Seidelmann ([32]: 492, table 9.34.1). Minimum illuminances were identified and transformed into raw form for linear regression. We used Google maps [33] to find the nearest town/city to the latitude/longitude coordinates and obtained mean minimum temperatures (converted to °C) from Weatherbase [34]. These data were not available for Uganda and Micronesia, so the lowest mean monthly temperatures were substituted.
We obtained visual acuity data for native adults measured under ambient photopic conditions from Myers [35] and Rivers [36] (electronic supplementary material, table S2).
None of the variables deviated significantly from a normal distribution (Kolmogorov–Smirnov one-sample tests).
3. Results
A significant positive relationship was found between absolute latitude and orbital volume (figure 1a: t10 = 6.686, p < 0.001, r2 = 0.817), controlling for phylogeny (see electronic supplementary material, figure S1; for all equations, see electronic supplementary material).
To account for scaling relationships between eyeball and brain size, we included the interaction between standardized CC and absolute latitude in a two-block multiple linear regression. The model without the interaction term gives a significant partial correlation between absolute latitude and orbital volume (t9 = 4.422, p = 0.002, ) independently of CC, which itself was not significantly correlated with orbital volume once latitude was partialled out (t9 = −0.212, p = 0.837). Adding a cranial capacity × absolute latitude interaction term does not change this result (t8 = 5.933, p < 0.001, ; partial cranial t8 = −7.98, p = 0.448), even though the interaction term itself is significant (t8 = −2.401, p = 0.043). As the data are in standardized units, the negative interaction term implies that orbit volume increases faster with absolute latitude than does CC (figure 1b). This indicates that the latitudinal increase in human orbital volume is greater than that predicted by positive allometry with total brain size per se. The significant interaction suggests that any relationship between eyeball and brain volume is mediated by the positive association between human brain size and latitude [37].
Backwards stepwise regression removed FM area (indexing body size) without significant reduction in r2, producing a best model showing a main effect of absolute latitude independent of interaction effects between absolute latitude and/or FM area and CC (electronic supplementary material, table S3). Phylogeny made no difference (electronic supplementary material, table S5).
An alternative explanation for latitudinal increases in orbital volume is that eyes require progressively more insulative fat in colder climates. However, orbital volume remained significantly associated with minimum illuminance (t9 = −3.394, p = 0.008, ) when mean minimum temperature (p = 0.734) was partialled out.
If ambient light levels select for eyeball enlargement to maintain constant photopic visual acuity, then acuity measured under natural daylight conditions should not vary systematically with absolute latitude; instead, enlarged eyes should compensate for associated decreases in illuminance, thus causing the acuity curve to flat line. As predicted, acuity and latitude are not correlated (figure 2), either when controlling for phylogeny (electronic supplementary material) or when the sample is restricted to populations measured using a standard method (n = 10).
4. Discussion
We have shown that human orbital volume significantly increases with absolute latitude independently of phylogeny, brain size and body mass, suggesting that there has been selection for larger eyeballs under progressively lower light conditions. This holds true even when controlling for minimum temperature, indicating that selection is on eyeball size rather than on insulating packing. In addition, our finding that human visual acuity under latitude-specific photopic conditions remains constant across latitudes implies selection for enlarged eyeballs to allow decreases in light levels to be tracked as humans occupied successively higher latitudes. If this is so, then we predict that measurement under standardized (i.e. optimal) light conditions should yield increasing acuity with absolute latitude, particularly at meso/scotopic light levels. Finally, owing to tight scaling between visual system components, larger eyeballs will necessitate proportionately enlarged visual cortices, and hence, a parallel positive latitudinal trend in these brain regions.
We thank the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Duckworth Collection, University of Cambridge; we also thank Quentin Atkinson for advice on phylogenetic analysis, our ICEA colleagues, particularly Susanne Shultz, and two anonymous referees for invaluable comments on earlier drafts. This research is funded by the British Academy Centenary Research Project, 'Lucy to Language: the Archaeology of the Social Brain' and the Boise Fund, University of Oxford.
- Received June 5, 2011.
- Accepted July 5, 2011.
- This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society


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Obviously, Carlos Reygadas hasn't flown all this way from Madrid just to talk about oral sex.
But lately it's been a tough subject for him to avoid. Ever since last summer, when the young Mexican writer-director's second feature film, "Batalla en el Cielo" (Battle in Heaven), played at Cannes, there's been some predictable squawking over what might be called the film's highly original opening scene.
In the sequence, which is repeated as the movie ends, the camera zeroes in on a man's broad, expressionless visage, scans the length of his pudgy torso and eventually comes to rest on the face and head of a beautiful young woman. She is clearly performing fellatio, but because the man's genitalia are obscured by a blur of light, it's uncertain whether we are meant to be witnessing an actual sex act or some sort of rapturous fantasy or otherworldly hallucination. As the sequence builds, a tear streaks down the woman's lovely, pre-Raphaelite features.
That singular moment was enough to get "Batalla" pulled from a scheduled screening last week at the Sundance Festival, at Park City, Utah's Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, which is part of a complex shared with a local high school. Though the screening wasn't a school event and no students would have attended, school officials objected to the movie's being shown there, a film publicist said.
The screening was moved to another venue, and "Batalla" was shown at other screenings last week as part of the festival. "Batalla" is scheduled to open Feb. 24 in Los Angeles.
During a brief stopover in his hometown last week en route to Park City, Reygadas was characteristically philosophical about the incident. "It doesn't surprise me," says the 34-year-old filmmaker, ensconced in a hotel room with a panoramic view of the teeming Mexican capital. "And no, I don't get tired [talking] about it, because I know that ... many people feel something [for the film] that goes beyond that."
It's true: What first meets the eye in Reygadas' films, which he wrote and directed, may be only an intriguing tease, while deeper metaphysical revelations are reserved for later. In his breakthrough film, "Japon" (2002) -- which won the Camera d'Or "special mention of the jury" award at Cannes and inspired a few normally hard-bitten critics to use words like "stunning" and "sublime" -- an unnamed man ventures into rugged rural Mexico, where he hopes to work up the will to commit suicide. Its memorable opening frames contain the image of a decapitated bird's twitching head, a symbol that resonates louder as the film progresses.
In "Batalla," the utterly ordinary, working-class protagonist Marcos -- the recipient of that previously mentioned erotic favor -- earns his keep as a Mexico City chauffeur. The twist is that one of his clients is a spoiled rich girl who turns tricks for kicks. Yet despite its profane beginning, the movie reaches its dramatic climax in the country's holiest of holy sites, the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and is bracketed by images of the ceremonial lowering of a giant Mexican flag.
Raised in a cultured upper-middle-class home and partly educated in Europe, where he later practiced international law for a time, Reygadas is an earthy cosmopolitan. Like his cinematic predecessors, the Russian Sergei Eisenstein and the Spaniard Luis Bunuel, he has a way of viewing Mexico as if through foreign eyes. Though he now makes his home in Madrid, he retains strongly mixed feelings for his gritty hometown and the culturally rich, politically troubled society it so thoroughly personifies. Though Reygadas' films haven't been widely seen in Mexico, where they've played mainly to art-house audiences, critics have praised their lyricism and ambition.
"Actually, it's a very strange feeling" being back in Mexico, Reygadas says, "because I like it very, very much. And at the same time, well, this morning I went out for breakfast and I bought this newspaper, La Jornada. And you read and you see everything. It's a really weird place because it's so depressing in a way, and so miserable."
Built around minimal dialogue, gorgeous, enigmatic imagery and sparely drawn yet strangely alluring characters, his movies reject Hollywood visual and narrative conventions and have been compared with the mature work of such avant-garde giants as Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky.
That's a flattering way of saying that his future oeuvre is likely to have a select but limited following. Reygadas would be the first to agree. Though he sometimes gets lazily lumped in as part of the Mexican cinematic "new wave" that includes other young directors such as Alfonso Cuaron ("Y Tu Mama Tambien") and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Amores Perros"), his works are aggressively noncommercial. He's simply not interested in packaging his ideas into neat little McMovies that can be quickly dispatched to the global cineplexes, popcorn on the side.
Instead, he prefers to keep his expenses low and his aspirations high. The budget for "Japon" was a mere $150,000, but Reygadas gave the film's wide-angled landscapes an extraordinarily rich, multi-textured feel by shooting on 16-millimeter CinemaScope.
"I'm not an entertainer, at all," he says. "It's like a painting ... I think when Van Gogh painted he just was thinking of the best way he could paint that and his own feeling. And of course this was to make pleasure for others, but he wasn't thinking like, 'What's the trend now, what do people want to see? Is it green or yellow that is the preferred color nowadays?' "
Reygadas believes that over time, cinema has strayed from its roots as an essentially visual medium into narrative banality. In his own films, images often speak much louder than words. His human characters tend to express themselves through actions and subtle facial movements. A major plot shift may be marked by nothing more than a character's haunted glance.
"He makes a film the way a photographer would," compliments John Cooper, director of programming for the Sundance Festival. And audiences trust Reygadas' sometimes playful way with images, Cooper says, "because you feel you're in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing."
Whether they dwell in the vast, arid landscapes of the rural Mexican state of Hidalgo ("Japon") or the shrill chaos of Mexico City ("Batalla"), Reygadas' characters often are dwarfed and overwhelmed by their surroundings. The sense of man's relative puniness in the cosmos, and his constant labors to find meaning within it, looms large in Reygadas' elegiac artistry. Their existential struggles may lead these characters either to rediscover their sense of purpose ("Japon") or to commit unspeakable crimes ("Batalla"). Either way, they exist in worlds that are as much metaphysical or mental states as actual places.
A minimalist approach
AT heart, Reygadas is a disciple of Romanticism, that sublimely elevated intellectual-artistic movement that arose in Western Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The ongoing dialogue in his films between stressed-out city life and meditative country life could have been lifted straight out of Wordsworth. And he acknowledges that one particular image from "Batalla," when the dejected Marcos seeks solace in a mountaintop overlooking Mexico City, is a direct allusion to the German painter Caspar David Friedrich's quintessential Romantic opus "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" (1818).
Yet despite the occasional reference plucked from the art-historical stratosphere, his films are stripped to the most minimal components of story, dialogue and characterization. They also keep their feet firmly planted in the soil he knows best: Mexico.
"After all, I have to talk about what I know," Reygadas reasons. "I don't know if you've seen 'Match Point' by Woody Allen. I've been in that kind of world and I know it well as to relate to it. But I wouldn't be good enough to do a film with it. I would certainly do mistakes and would go for prototypes and generalizations."
Even as he speaks, his mental wheels are churning. Within a few minutes, he changes his mind. "I think I was all mistaken," he blurts out, "about only being able to do a film about what I know very well." For example, he says, the rural, peasant community depicted in "Japon" isn't one he knows firsthand. The upper-class milieu shown in "Batalla" is more familiar to him than the movie's other environs, of humble, working-class houses and hectic subway stations. "If you are calm and you observe and you let things flow, then you will capture truth," he says.
To achieve this effect, Reygadas prefers to work with untrained, nonprofessional actors, because he believes their un-self-conscious ability to be in the moment may have greater verisimilitude than a professional actor's calculated "performance." Alejandro Ferretis, the protagonist of "Japon," was an old family friend. Marcos Hernandez, who plays the main character in "Batalla," used to work for Reygadas' father. As for the woman who plays Marcos' wife, Reygadas says he bumped into her one day in the Zocalo, Mexico City's giant central plaza.
Some critics have murmured darkly that these casting coups come dangerously close to exploitation. But Reygadas believes that he earns his actors' trust. "I think it's all a matter of being really, really honest with them," he says.
In a similar vein, he doesn't tell his actors how to dress or even necessarily how to speak on film. "I let them provide me with all those things, rather than the other way around," he says.
Able to converse easily in nearly flawless English as well as French, Reygadas radiates intellectual confidence. His current bedtime reading includes Kierkegaard, the Mexican Revolutionary war general Francisco Urquizo and Joseph Conrad.
He also tries to watch a movie a day; not long ago he worked his way through the Ingmar Bergman repertoire again, for the umpteenth time.
Before taking up film, he earned a law degree at the University of London, where he also played rugby. (His brother played for the Mexican national team.) His interests turned toward international law, and he became a specialist in the area of armed conflict, working for the European Union in Brussels and for the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York.
Seeking solutions, or dramatic resolutions, to complex ethical questions still preoccupies Reygadas in his new vocation. While he doesn't consider his movies to be moralistic, he believes they're concerned with ethical choices in a classic Aristotelian sense.
But in an age when many people of widely different faiths speak of good and evil as tangible forces, it's perhaps paradoxical that as serious a filmmaker as Reygadas shuns the terms. "I just think there are acts that harm and acts that help, or heal. And that's all that it comes down to."
For that reason, he says, his films are not about redemption, "because to be redeemed, first you have to be condemned. You have to be evil. And for me Marcos is never evil. He's just rotten, if you want, but something rotten is not evil, it's just rotten."
As for the borderline-suicidal character in "Japon," Reygadas says, he simply realizes that he prefers life to death. Maybe, Reygadas suggests, the character is saved "just by just the curiosity of seeing every new day the sun rise again."
"Maybe that's a reason enough, just to keep on living."


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The U.K., defeated in a campaign to derail European Union curbs on banker bonuses, goes to the bloc's top court tomorrow in a bid to overturn the powers of an EU agency to ban short selling.
Britain will argue at the Luxembourg-based EU Court of Justice that the European Securities and Markets Authority's decision-making ability comes at the expense of national supervisors, in the latest skirmish against the EU's growing powers over financial services.
"The Brits have a tradition of objecting to more power being given to the European Commission or EU agencies," said Karel Lannoo, chief executive officer of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. If ESMA has been handed the powers to "avoid a bad functioning of the single market, then there's nothing against this" in the bloc's rules, he said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to seek a new settlement with the EU, amid a rising tide of opposition that saw the U.K. Independence Party, which advocates a divorce from the bloc, gains seats in local elections last month. While Cameron has said he plans a referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017, this has failed to quell calls from members of his Conservative Party for Britain's European destiny to be put to the people sooner.
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The U.K. has often found itself on the defensive in EU discussions on financial regulation. The nation, which lacks a veto on financial laws, was the sole dissenting voice in March opposing a deal to ban bonuses more than twice fixed pay.
Britain is suing the European Central Bank over policies that it says push clearing of some derivatives away from London and into the euro area. It's also grappled with other nations over the regulation of hedge funds, and how much power the Brussels-based commission should have to police bank capital.
ESMA, which brings together markets regulators from the 27- nation EU, was handed an upgraded mandate to police short selling last year as part of a bid by EU lawmakers to make markets less volatile and tame speculation by traders blamed for driving up governments' borrowing costs.
Short sellers seek to profit on declining markets by selling borrowed shares or bonds, on the belief their price will fall, then replacing them with securities bought at a lower price.
Britain contests provisions of the law allowing Paris-based ESMA to introduce short-selling bans to protect "the orderly functioning and integrity of financial markets." It can only act if the crisis has "cross-border implications" and if national regulators are unwilling or unable to deal with it.
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ESMA is one of three EU-level agencies set up to better coordinate oversight of securities markets, banks and insurers in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
The U.K.'s case "could have wider ramifications," said Alexandria Carr, a lawyer in the London office of Mayer Brown, which isn't involved in the case. It could affect the powers of the EU's three supervisory authorities "to take what are arguably wide discretionary decisions."
ESMA has "a large measure of discretion" in the law about when it takes action, is "given a wide range of choices as to what measure or measures to impose" and "is empowered to renew its measures without any limit on their overall duration," the U.K. said, according to a court filing.
The U.K. Treasury declined to comment on the court case.
ESMA has seen its powers boosted several times since it started work in 2011. EU lawmakers put it in charge of overseeing credit-ratings companies and trade repositories, while the commission is set to propose that it should take over supervision of Libor and other critical benchmark rates.
Chantal Hughes, a spokeswoman for Financial Services Commissioner Michel Barnier, the architect of the proposal to give ESMA the short-selling powers, declined to immediately comment on the hearing.
The case is: C-270/12, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Council of the European Union, European Parliament.
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Artfully constructed but hollow at its core, "Nobody Walks" makes it impossible to stop watching while simultaneously making it impossible to care about what's happening.
It's a frustrating little paradox. This languid slice of Los Angeles life features an appealing cast of actors playing characters who are all surface and impulse — someone is constantly coming onto someone else — but their actions seem to carry low stakes. It's a sensory experience, featuring an intriguing use of sound design, but any tension that arises ultimately feels like it's in the service of nothing.
This is especially true of its central character, who is also its biggest weakness. Olivia Thirlby stars as Martine, a 23-year-old experimental filmmaker visiting from New York to finish a project for a gallery installation. That the young woman who's the catalyst for the movie's domestic upheaval is such an enigma is baffling, given that "Nobody Walks" comes from two young women who've established voices of their own: director Ry Russo-Young and her co-writer, the acclaimed "Girls" creator Lena Dunham.
From the second Martine steps off the plane in L.A., guys are hitting on her for reasons that are difficult to fathom; she has a certain urban cool about her, but what defines and drives her remains elusive, even as she fine-tunes the film that brought her across the country.
Martine is staying at the stylish, spacious, mid-century modern home of Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt), a therapist who's a friend of a friend, and her husband, Peter (John Krasinski), the sound designer who's helping her with her short: a stark, black-and-white meditation on insects. (If nothing else, the visuals from cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt are always striking.)
Also living there are Kolt (India Ennenga), Julie's intellectual, 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, and the couple's young son. A couple of other men traipse in and out: Peter's blonde, muscular assistant (Rhys Wakefield) and Kolt's skeevy Italian tutor (Emanuele Secci). Kolt also has a sweetly nerdy, sorta-boyfriend at school.
Every interaction is sexually charged to some extent, which provides some intrigue but not a consistent amount. Some of the best scenes involve the one character who really does assert himself: a no-nonsense, quick-witted screenwriter (Justin Kirk) who's one of Julie's patients and, increasingly and insistently, her admirer.
Martine's arrival, ostensibly, stirs all the curiosities and spurs the shenanigans that play out over the film's brief running time — which would make sense if there were more to her. The fact that Martine doesn't register is no fault of Thirlby, who once again reveals a versatility and an eclectic taste in film choices (her last role was in the action spectacle "Dredd 3D"). The character is a collection of quirks, from her preferred style of jeans to her inability to drive, being a proud, true New Yorker. The title refers only partly to the fact that nobody walks in L.A., as the old Missing Persons song goes.
Maybe she's drawn in intentionally vague fashion to suggest the illusory nature of attraction, but it doesn't give us much to hold onto. There's ambiguity, and then there's just flat-out emptiness. No more so is this evident than at the very end, where it's difficult to determine whether Martine grasps the impact of her actions, or even cares.
"Nobody Walks," a Magnolia Pictures release, is rated R for sexuality, language and some drug use. Running time: 82 minutes. Two stars out of four.
Motion Picture Association of America rating definition for R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.


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PHOENIX -- A Valley resident got a surprise, out of state visitor Saturday evening. He opened the door to find a two foot long American alligator.
The alligator is with the Phoenix Herpetological Society right now. An expert with PHS said it was probably someone's pet, and when it got too big the person just released it into a lake or canal.
The two or three year old alligator made chirping noises while being handled at PHS on Sunday. The sound is an instinctual call for the baby's mother. But while its mom is probably a couple thousand miles away, the little alligator can certainly take care of itself.
"Their teeth are like little box cutters or blades. So they'll just cut skin like nothing," said Daniel Marchand, a PHS curator.
Marchand said the alligator was likely abaondoned by someone who didn't want to take care of it anymore and thought it would die in the desert.
Alligators are natives of Florida and the Gulf Coast states.
Even though alligator ownership is illegal in Arizona, PHS finds two or three alligators in Valley homes every month.
"Any animal that you consider a pet, that can grow one day big enough to eat you for lunch, that's not a pet," said Marchand.
Most people think alligators can't survive in Arizona and in the desert. Marchand said just the opposite is true. In fact, he said gators can thrive in our climate and ecosystem.
"Over 80 million years, you're looking at a dinosaur right here," said Marchand, referring to how long alligators have been on Earth. "These things have learned to survive and adapt in conditions that are just unheard of."
The largest alligator ever found in Arizona is also at PHS. He's a nearly 500 pound monster named Clem, pulled out of a pond near the Grand Canyon when he was 20 years old.
"He was turned lose when he was this size," said Marchand, holding up the two foot long gator found in Phoenix. "[He was] left in the desert to die and again, they don't die. They survive just fine."
While the little gator found this weekend was nowhere near full grown, he was a year away from becoming pretty dangerous. Marchand said he would have started being predatory toward cats, dogs and children in a fairly short amount of time.
"As an adult this thing bites with over 3,000 pounds per square inch of bite force. It removes limbs at that point when it gets a little bit larger."
Marchand said alligators are incredibly destructive to Arizona's ecosystem because native animals are not equipped to compete with such a dominate predator.


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Seaworthy Burgers
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A palate pleasing burger made of tuna and scallops, seasoned with an Asian twist. The wasabi mayonnaise adds kick to the traditional plating on a bun with lettuce and tomato.
1 lb. tuna steak, chopped fine
1⁄2 lb. scallops, chopped fine
2 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 tbsp. finely grated gingerroot
2 tsp. soy sauce
Salt and pepper
1 1⁄2 tbsp. oil
4 brioche buns, toasted
4 slices onion
4 slices tomato
Asian greens or lettuce leaves
1⁄4 cup mayonnaise
Wasabi paste or powder
1. In bowl, combine tuna, scallops, mustard, ginger, soy sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Add a little water, if necessary, to lighten mixture. Form into patties.
2. Heat oil in nonstick skillet or lightly oil grill. Cook patties until lightly browned on both sides, 3-4 min. per side.
3. Serve on toasted buns, with greens, onion, and tomato. Blend wasabi to taste into
mayonnaise. Add a dollop to each burger.


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Note: To play Phalanx, you need a copy of Great Battles of Alexander Deluxe Edition.
Phalanx covers two of the major battles in the waning days of the Successor Wars, in which the Greek city-states and leagues and the descendants of the original Diadochoi were still fighting for Hellenic supremacy, and in which the phalanx -- the massive, heavy infantry formation brought to peak efficiency by Alexander -- was still in its heyday. The armies in these battles are very Macedonian in style, with a lot of mixing of unit types and capabilities, with the exception that, because of the terrain, reliance on cavalry is almost non-existent. The phalanx itself was still the army's anchor, although it was only a generation away from its initial comeuppance at the hands of a Roman army at Cynoscephalae.


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DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's justice minister declared Wednesday that the country must end the "great cruelty" that requires women by law to give birth to infants who are the products of rape or have fatal genetic defects, as the head of state mulled whether to sign the predominantly Catholic country's first-ever bill on abortion.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter predicted that legislators — fresh from months of grueling debate over the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill — would be forced to face the question again, because the Irish public wants wider access to abortion for the most difficult cases.
The bill, overwhelmingly passed by both houses of the Irish parliament this month, permits abortions but only in cases where doctors deem the woman's life at risk from continued pregnancy.
The government took action after a 31-year-old Indian woman died last year in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion during a protracted miscarriage that ended in toxic shock and massive organ failure.
President Michael D. Higgins received the bill Wednesday and has one week to decide whether to sign it into law or refer it to the Supreme Court, the ultimate arbiter of the constitutionality of Ireland's laws.
Shatter said he sided with those liberal lawmakers who would have liked the bill to legalize abortion also in cases where the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest, or when DNA tests or scans confirm that the fetus cannot survive following birth because of missing organs or other deadly defects.
Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion means that women in those circumstances either must bear the child to full term or travel to another European nation, chiefly neighboring Britain, for a termination.
"Clearly many women who find themselves in these circumstances address this issue by taking the plane or the boat to England," Shatter said, calling this "a British solution to an Irish problem."
"I believe it is a great cruelty that our law creates a barrier to a woman in circumstances where she has a fatal fetal abnormality being able to have a pregnancy terminated ... knowing it has no real prospect of survival following birth," he said.
Shatter was speaking at Ireland's Rape Crisis Center, where he also called for a future referendum to amend the law to permit abortion to end unwanted pregnancies caused by sexual assaults and incest. He said requiring women to carry these fetuses to full term also involved "unacceptable cruelty."
A series of Irish opinion polls this year have registered strong public support for Shatter's view, with more than 80 percent favoring the legalization of abortion in cases of rape, incest and fatal fetal defects.
Ireland is one of only two European Union members, alongside Malta, that outlaws abortion except in life-threatening cases.
The bill principally would close a decades-old confusion in Ireland's law dating to 1992, when the Supreme Court ruled that abortions deemed necessary to save a woman's life must be legal, given her own constitutional right to life.
Six straight Irish governments refused to pass supporting legislation, principally because Ireland's highest court cited a woman's threat to commit suicide as one legally acceptable ground for permitting an abortion.
The bill would allow abortions for suicidal women only if a panel of three doctors, including two psychiatrists, unanimously agrees that the woman's threat is serious and can be alleviated only by granting her demand for a termination.
Anti-abortion activists warn that this rule will be exploited by suicide-fakers and biased doctors. Those seeking wider abortion rights in Ireland counter that pregnant women in mental-health crises will remain far more likely to travel to England — where abortion was legalized in 1967 and around 4,000 Irish residents receive abortions annually — rather than subject themselves to awkward, uncertain psychiatric scrutiny on home soil.


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For the past several weeks, estimates of the nation's second-quarter gross domestic product had come steadily down, with some of the more bearish prognosticators even estimating that growth, encumbered by higher taxes and the imposition of budget austerity measures, might even fall below 1%.
Such a dour result, therefore, would be far worse than the then-estimated 1.8% first-quarter GDP gain. Surprisingly, though, the Commerce Department earlier this morning estimated that GDP had increased by a more significant 1.7%. As noted, that gain was nearly twice the average bearish forecast, and nearly four times the most pessimistic expectation.
At the same time, the first-quarter growth rate was pared back from the revised estimate of 1.8%, to just 1.1%. This interesting, to say the least, transposition of the two opening half performances, would seem to be setting the country up for a better showing during the concluding six months when we would expect growth to average 2%, or even a tad better.
Interestingly, this better second-quarter result and more optimistic leanings for the third quarter, at least, could well influence the Federal Reserve, which is now meeting in Washington, to more quickly end its historic monetary easing efforts a little sooner than many have been expecting. We shall see on that score a little later today.
As to this report, rebounds in business spending and export demand, and surprisingly, a sharp moderation in the pace of decline in U.S. government outlays, helped than nation's economic performance during the April-to-June period. That said, the second quarter marked the third successive period in which growth had fallen shy of 2%, which is hardly a confidence builder going forward. This may be why the Fed may opt to go slowly on the monetary brakes, when its concludes its meeting today.
In addition to the influences cited above, the second quarter also was helped by positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures, nonresidential fixed investment, and an upturn in state and local government spending. Hurting GDP in the latest period were increases in imports and a falloff in inventory accumulation.
Taking all of this into account, especially the materially weaker expectations, this latest showing must be viewed as at least modestly reassuring, with the lone disconcerting note being that the lead bank may now be a bit more receptive to ending its asset-purchase program sooner rather than later, although our sense is that nothing of note will be decided upon today, especially with the monthly payroll report still some 48 hours away.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Top 5 Funniest Stories Of April 2014
April 2014 Top Story Roundup: Here are Not Always Friendly's top-rated stories last month!
- Their Thieving Days Are Numbered (1,455 thumbs up)
- A Time For Giving Only (1,343 thumbs up)
- First Class Has No Class (1,138 thumbs up)
- Playing Devil's Advocate (993 thumbs up)
- Should Keep Gossip On A Knee-d To Know Basis (976 thumbs up)
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The Vintner Group Announces Acquisition of Prestige Wine Wholesale
The Vintner Group of Ashland, Virginia, an importer of fine wines and distributor of fine wines and craft spirits, has acquired Prestige Wine Wholesale, of Atlanta, Georgia. The acquisition adds Georgia to TVG's wholesale footprint of Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina (trading as The Country Vintner) and Florida (as Stacole Fine Wines.)
"We spent a great deal of time researching the exciting Georgia market and found that Prestige is a perfect fit for our culture. Jon and Jim built a foundation on quality wines, great people and stellar service and we are investing in the extension and growth of their concept," said David Townsend, president and CEO of The Vintner Group.
Dating from 1980, The Vintner Group is the premiere dedicated fine wine and craft spirit wholesaler in the U.S. TVG's knowledge-based sales culture and customer-centric approach have allowed the company to grow organically and independently. In addition to the distribution businesses, a national import arm, Craft + Estate, now services 44 states and The American Still Life Collection, a craft spirit portfolio, was launched in 2011 and is also sold nationally.
Founded in 1990, Prestige Wine Wholesale was acquired by Jon George and Jim Sculley in 2001. Prestige is a statewide distributor serving on- and off-premise accounts with a thoughtful book comprised of both domestic and imported fine wines. George and Sculley will join The Vintner Group executive team and will continue to manage the daily operations in Georgia.


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James Decker needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We are looking for a logo for a new marketing campaign for "Mid-States Concierge Service" for print ads and our website.
Mid-States Concierge Service
Mid-States Recycling& Refining is one of the nations largest and most respected gold refinersin the country. We are starting a new service to convey our personalizedand professional customer service titled "Mid-States Concierge Service".
This service willinclude the following benefits to our customer-
1. Hassle freeinsured FedEx pickups from their store.
2. Email confirmations of every step of the refining process.
3. Online access to their account information.
Basically thisservice is meant to show the level of customer service that we canprovide. We will keep make the refiningprocess as easy as possible for our customer and keep them informed of everystep of the process along the way.
One idea we had was abutler holding a tray with gold bars on it. We're open to any ideasyou may have.
The logo will be used in print advertising and ourwebsite. All final designs should be in illustrator format.
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- We are not looking to redesign our company logo. We need a logo for our "Concierge Service".
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Canada's longtime finance minister resigns
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a fixture on the world financial stage, announced his resignation Tuesday.
Flaherty, who has had the job since 2006, is the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies. He said he is returning to the private sector.
The 64-year-old has battled a rare skin disease over the last year, but he said his decision to leave politics is not related.
Flaherty has been Prime Minister Stephen Harper's only finance minister since Harper took power eight years ago. Harper's Conservative government plans on entering an election next year with a budget surplus, and the prime minister praised Flaherty, who said his goal was always to get Canada back on track to a balanced budget after pumping stimulus money into the economy following the 2008 financial crisis.
"I am proud of the work I have done to help manage the deepest economic challenge to face Canada since the depression of the 1930s and ensure Canada emerged stronger and as a recognized economic leader on the international stage," Flaherty said in a statement.
Canada's commodity-rich economy avoided the worst of the crisis and has fared better than other nations. There was no mortgage meltdown or subprime crisis in Canada, and Canada's banks are rated among the soundest in the world.
The prime minister will announce Flaherty's replacement Wednesday. The Canadian Broadcast Corp. and CTV Television, both citing unnamed sources, reported late Tuesday that Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver will replace Flaherty. A spokeswoman for Oliver could not confirm the reports but said that Oliver had cancelled a planned announcement in Vancouver on Wednesday and is flying back to Ottawa.
Oliver has been Canada's point man on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which Canada is urging the Obama administration to approve. Oliver had a career in investment banking before entering politics in 2011.
Harper may prefer the 73-year-old Oliver because is not a considered a potential candidate to one day replace the prime minister, unlike some other high profile cabinet ministers.
Harper said he had accepted Flaherty's decision "with great reluctance." Flaherty is the third-longest serving finance minister in the country's history.
"Since 2006, he has been a steady hand, ably guiding Canada through the most challenging economic times since the Great Depression and gaining the country a solid global reputation for economic management," Harper said.
World leaders have noticed Canada's economic record in recent years. President Barack Obama once said the U.S. should take note of Canada's banking system, and Britain's Treasury chief said Britain looked to emulate the Ottawa way on cutting deficits.
The Conservative Party government of Harper that took over from former Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals in 2006 broadly stuck to his predecessor's approach, though Flaherty cut taxes and, when recession struck, pumped stimulus money into the economy.
"His biggest decision was to a launch a significant fiscal stimulus at the height of the recession and then to carefully unwind it so as to not to dent growth too much during the recovery," CIBC World Markets economist Avery Shenfeld said. "He's been quite effective when things really counted."
Shenfeld said Flaherty is leaving the country in good fiscal shape. He said he didn't think there would be any market reaction.
Flaherty was also an outspoken critic of European countries for their handling of the debt crisis and urged them to get their debt problems under control.
Speculation about Flaherty's future had risen over the last year after he acknowledged suffering from the skin condition, requiring him to take medication that led to weight gain and apparent fatigue in public appearances.
Flaherty has spent almost 20 years in politics, including stints as minister of finance, attorney general and deputy premier at the provincial level in Ontario. In 2006, after two unsuccessful bids to lead the Ontario Conservatives, Flaherty entered federal politics. His wife, Christine, is also a politician. They have triplet sons.


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Despite a light rap on the knuckles of the UPF initiative at Y-12 in its introduction, a fiscal year 2015 energy & water bill OK'd by the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday strongly supports several of the high-profile federal missions underway in Oak Ridge.
Despite a light rap on the knuckles of the UPF initiative at Y-12 in its introduction, a fiscal year 2015 energy & water bill OK'd by the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday strongly supports several of the high-profile federal missions underway in Oak Ridge.
The Program & Project Management section of the introduction to the House's Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bill 2015 expresses Committee concerns "about the Department of Energy's oversight and management of its programs and projects, despite several policy, process and organizational improvements that have been implemented over the past few years."
"While the Department has demonstrated noted progress in its ability to deliver small projects on schedule and within budget, the Department continues to struggle to keep its major construction projects on track.
"The Department has no baseline against which it can monitor progress on the full scope of its major environmental cleanup projects — the Waste Treatment & Immobilization Plant and the Salt Waste Processing Facility. As a result, the Department is unable to provide to the Committee the anticipated cost and schedule for completing these projects.
"Of the ongoing major construction projects of the NNSA, the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and the Uranium Processing Facility are both facing serious challenges, and it has become clear that the Department may not have sufficient funds to complete these facilities in a timely manner.
"Even as the Department analyzes potential alternatives, the Committee is concerned that it may be repeating the mistakes of the past by relying on poor cost estimates and rushing to commence construction activities before planning activities are sufficiently mature."
That being said, the $34 billion appropriations bill — a $50 million reduction from the fiscal year 2014 enacted level and an increase of $327 million above the president's request — nevertheless not only provides full funding to the UPF project itself but also funds technologies related to the Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge.
Specifically, the Committee recommends $335 million to the UPF project at the Y-12 National Security Complex or "$26,000,000 above fiscal year 2014 and the same as the budget request," according to the House bill.
"No funding shall be available for site preparation or facility construction until the NNSA achieves 90 percent design completion for the entire project," the bill states. "The Committee supports the Department's decision to move forward with a more affordable alternative for the project that would expedite the NNSA's plans to move out of Building 9212."
Fourth-year funding totaling $25 million for the Critical Materials Energy Innovation Hub, as well as $10 million for the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and the Carbon Fiber Test Facility is additional good news for Oak Ridge — as is a Committee recommendation of $158 million in uranium enrichment D&D funding for the East Tennessee Technology Park in Oak Ridge.
Those local decontamination & decommissioning dollars are $38 million below FY 2014 (primarily due to the successful completion of the demolition of the K-25 Building in West Oak Ridge), but $20 million ABOVE the budget request, according to the bill report, which states that the Committee "commends the Department for its high level of performance in completing demolition of the K-25 building."
The bill provides funding above the budget request, according to the report, "to preserve momentum on completing cleanup work at the [K-25] site."
Support for a long-term Exascale Computing initiative, which seeks to develop the next generation of computing systems "three orders of magnitude faster than today's fastest computers," as well as the Committee's support for the continued upgrade and operation of the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories and of the High Performance Production Computing capabilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also bodes well for Oak Ridge's efforts.
"These systems' capabilities are a critical component of science and industrial research and development across the nation, and they should be maintained as world-leading facilities," the bill report states.
The recommendation includes the requested levels of $80.3 million for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility; $104.3 million for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility; and $69 million for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, who has long been a particularly vocal proponent of the UPF project and other Oak Ridge-related initiatives, was personally lauded Wednesday for an amendment he made that "adds report language clarifying a provision in the bill to protect pension plan contributions by the National Nuclear Security Administration."
The amendment was adopted on a voice vote.
Darrell Richardson can be contacted at (865) 220-5510.


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If all continues to go well for righthander Chad Durbin, the Phillies could soon have the full complement of relievers they anticipated being in their bullpen when they opened spring training.
With closer Brad Lidge and left-handed setup man J.C. Romero on the disabled list at the start of the season, the Phillies have not had their bullpen entirely intact all season.
Durbin, on the disabled list since June 24 with a strained right hamstring, pitched a perfect inning and struck out two for Clearwater Saturday night and is scheduled to pitch again Monday for Clearwater.
Whenever Durbin is ready to come off the disabled list, the Phillies have a difficult roster decision.
Do they designate righthander Nelson Figueroa for assignment for the second time this season or do they offer Rule 5 draft pick David Herndon back to the Angels?
Some might argue that the Phillies should release veteran reliever Danys Baez, who struggled through the first half of the season, but he signed a two-year contract worth $5.25 million before the start of the season, so that's not happening.
Herndon, a rookie, is 0-2 with a 3.86 ERA and in his last eight appearances he has a 2.35 ERA.
Figueroa is 2-1 with a 3.46 ERA. Since rejoining the team from triple-A Lehigh Valley he has allowed one hit and no runs spanning four appearances and 7 1/3 innings. If you include the three starts he made for the IronPigs, he has allowed just 11 hits, two runs and struck out 25 batters in his last 26 1/3 innings. He has a 0.68 ERA during that stretch.