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I saw Captain Phillips this weekend, and I thought it was fantastic. For a movie focused on one fairly well-documented incident -- I mean, it's not like you don't know how the story ends -- the film remains thrillingly well-paced throughout, with plenty of legitimately tense moments. Tom Hanks does an amazing job in the role of the captain, elevating what could have been a formulaic role into a nuanced performance that ran the spectrum between heartbreakingly realistic stress reactions to sheer balls-out heroism.
The problem, according to the former crew of the Maersk Alabama, is that the real Capt. Richard Phillips was no hero. In fact, according to the attorney who represents the 11 crew members who have sued Maersk Lines Limited and the Waterman Steamship Corp. for almost $50 million, alleging "willful, wanton and conscious disregard for their safety," seeing Captain Phillips portrayed as a courageous man is too much for the crew to bear:
It is galling for them to see Captain Phillips set up as a hero. It is just horrendous, and they're angry.
The crew's lawsuit is going to trial in Alabama in just a few weeks. In it, they claim they were steered into pirate-infested waters near the Somali coast without any real protection, blaming the shipping company for "outsourcing" the security of the Alabama to the U.S. military instead of providing basic anti-piracy prevention measures.
Several of the crew members allege that the Alabama was allowed to sail directly into pirate-infested waters despite receiving multiple warnings to avoid the area. They say they begged Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast, but he "wouldn't let pirates scare him."
Here are some of the accusations against Phillips made by crew members, who are remaining anonymous for legal reasons:
• Phillips ignored a detailed anti-piracy plan now used by all ships per the International Maritime Organization.
He didn't want anything to do with it, because it wasn't his plan. He was real arrogant.
• Phillips disregarded and did not share at least seven e-mails about increased piracy off Somalia, all requesting ships to move farther offshore by at least 600 miles.
• Phillips blew off a crew member who initially alerted him to the pirates.
I told him, 'Captain, I'm damn sure this is pirate boat.' He laughed at me. He told me it could be a fishing boat. He walked away from me.
• During the first attack, as it became obvious two pirate boats were chasing them, Phillips was putting the crew through a fire drill (not a security drill as shown in the movie).
We said, 'You want us to knock it off and go to our pirate stations?' And he goes, 'Oh, no, no, no — you've got to do the lifeboats drill.' This is how screwed up he is. These are drills we need to do once a year. Two boats with pirates and he doesn't give a shit. That's the kind of guy he is.
• When the pirates took the ship, Phillips didn't provide orders or reassurance.
Phillips didn't say what he wanted to do. His plan [was], when the pirates come aboard, we throw our hands in the air and say, 'Oh, the pirates are here!' The chief engineer said, 'We're going downstairs and locking ourselves in.' One of the mates said, 'Let's go down. We're on our own.'
• In the movie, Phillips gives himself up to the pirates. In real life, the crew says he was already a hostage (Phillips himself says the story of him giving himself up for his crew was a false narrative spread by the media): the pirates just reneged on the deal, grabbing their guy and taking Phillips into the lifeboat.
According to Chief Engineer Mike Perry,
We vowed we were going to take it to our graves, that we weren't going to say anything. Then we hear this p.r. stuff about him giving himself up . . . and the whole crew's like, 'What?'
If events unfolded the way the crew describes, I can absolutely understand their frustration with the way Captain Phillips is depicted in the movie. Particularly when the real Phillips has been swept up in the promotional efforts for the film, appearing with Hanks on the cover of Parade magazine with the headline, ""The Making of an American Hero."
At the same time, anyone who's interested in the full story of the Maersk Alabama hijacking shouldn't regard it as an accurate and complete picture of what happened -- despite the relatively tidy wrap-up in the film, in real life there was a lengthy criminal investigation that followed the incident. Many more than three shots were fired inside that lifeboat, $30,000 went missing, and several Navy SEALs ended up being polygraphed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
As for the allegations that the real Captain Phillips was nothing like the man Tom Hanks brings to life on the screen, director Paul Greengrass says that in the end, he made his own narrative judgments:
Movies are not journalism. Movies are not history.
Honestly, I can see both sides of this. While it's true that Captain Phillips is Hollywood entertainment, pure and simple, plenty of audience members will forget the "based" part in "based on real events." Tom Hanks turns in such a powerful performance (especially at the very end), he's who many people will remember in association with the story … and for that, I can see why crew members are so bitter about this movie's popularity.
The film itself isn't a lie: it's an action thriller, not a documentary. But there is a slippery slope in biopics. When you stretch the truth for entertainment value, you inevitably run the risk of being criticised for deception.
What do you think about the crew's reaction to how Captain Phillips is portrayed in the movie?
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It is not the expectation of many to see a 60-year-old gardening during summer, playing golf in October and hitting the slopes during winter. This, however, is what the life of Peter Russel a retired banker has been like for a couple of years now. He is not the same man who lost his jaw tissues to the benign tumor over 14 years ago.
The jaw bone has regrown by seven centimeters. He considers himself blessed. Peter Russel's story represents that of seven other patients in Canada who have in silence underwent born regeneration. There are prospects that this kind of restoration will turn around the face of reconstructive surgery.
The head of maxillofacial and oral surgery at the University of Toronto came up with a technique that allows the jaw bones to grow just like that of a newborn baby. The procedure has been made possible by directly using proteins to lure the stem cells of an adult human being to become born tissues. Through this process, Cameron Clokie reveals that all patients have regrown a jawbone that is identical to the one they lost.
The procedures are currently available at Toronto General Hospital as well as Mount Sinai Hospital. Researchers have been looking for possible ways of tissue regeneration. The discovery by Cameron Clokie and his team has therefore marked a milestone. The methods that have been used to rebuild body parts in the previous year and to date are painful.
Currently, Cameron Clokie is the chief executive officer of a regenerative medicine company known as Induce Biologics International. The company mainly focuses on the creative solutions for the musculoskeletal reconstruction. For more than 30 years, Cameron Clokie has been taking part in clinical practice and academic dentistry. Learn more about Cameron Clokie: http://www.ideacity.ca/speaker/cameron-clokie/
In the year 1998, he was delighted to be named the head of the maxillofacial surgery at the University of Toronto. A few years later, the same university chose him to be a professor of his area of specialty. He held this position until 2017 when he retired from academics.
Besides being actively involved in researches, Cameron Clokie is a publisher. He has published numerous papers and also presented on bone reconstruction both nationally and internationally.
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Deonte Burton beginning to feel at home with MU
After his freshman year at Milwaukee Vincent, Deonte Burton decided to transfer to Brewster Academy.
Set along a New Hampshire lakeshore with mountains in the background, the bucolic campus has produced authors, actors and more than a few NBA players.
"I felt it would make me a better player, and it was a better school," said Burton, the Marquette freshman forward. "It was the best of both worlds. It was a good year. I didn't play as much as I wanted, but being on the bench taught me how to watch basketball. I took it as a learning experience."
He intended to stay at Brewster for the balance of his high school experience, but then word came from Milwaukee that his mother, Barbara, had been diagnosed with cancer. Burton came back to Vincent to be with her, and soon her cancer went into remission.
"She's doing great," Burton said. "It's a great blessing."
When the time came for him to choose a college, Burton listened to pitches from Memphis and Rutgers, but something told him to stay close to home this time. With the knowledge that few City Conference players had ever played at Marquette, Burton took coach Buzz Williams' scholarship offer with a sense of local pride.
"I'm very proud of it," Burton said. "Marquette is not an easy school to get in at all. It shows people I'm just not a basketball player. Academically, I can do it, too.
"My family can come to every home game. If I ever get homesick I can go home and see them a lot more than other people can."
Family means a lot to Burton. The youngest of seven (five brothers and a sister), he was pushed academically by his parents but overlooked as a potential athlete until someone noticed he could play basketball in the fifth grade. He eventually grew to 6 foot 4 and 230 pounds, big enough to be a tight end or a linebacker, but basketball was his sport.
"I played football here and there," he said. "I have a great size for football, but I just didn't love it."
Last Sunday night at the finals of the Wooden Legacy tournament in Anaheim, Calif., Burton played like a football player in shorts against the very physical San Diego State Aztecs. Going hard to the rim while leading scorer Davante Gardner was on the bench with an illness that caused him to throw up during the game, Burton kept the Golden Eagles in the game by scoring 15 points in 16 minutes.
The performance set Burton apart among the other freshmen and later prompted Williams to say that Burton had the potential to be the best player he's recruited to Marquette.
Still, there is much for Burton to learn.
"I think it's hard, no matter your talent level, in the first month of your college season to be all that everybody expected of you, particularly when you're a hometown guy," Williams said.
"I think he's processed all of that very well. He's smart. He's intelligent. He has wisdom beyond his years. But I would like him to keep coming, because that helps our team."
Other than his natural ability to play the power forward in college, Burton has impressed those around him with his character.
"He has a radiant spirit about him," Williams said. "His spirit is unbelievable. It's how he was raised, the people who raised him and helped raise him, how he has been coached.
"I don't know if he can score 15 points in 16 minutes like he did at San Diego State. I hope that begins to trend in the right direction."
No matter what Burton did in his first college breakout game, he's still figuring things out as he goes.
"The transition (from Vincent) was very tough because I had to learn how to change my pace," he said. "Going from high school to college is a totally different pace. It's a lot faster. You have to be a lot more consistent in college. The hardest thing was being consistent and being able to go faster.
"Physically I thought I was already prepared, but being able to last longer I feel like I've taken leaps. But I still have work to do."
As the Golden Eagles prepare for their rival game Saturday against Wisconsin, the question is whether Burton has done enough to work himself into the rotation even when Gardner is well.
"I could if I stay consistent," he said. "If I do that, who knows what can happen?"
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North Korean Rocket Explodes Minutes Into Launch
Bob O'Brien and Elizabeth Rappaport discuss the launch and crash of a North Korean rocket with Evan Ramstad; and a look at marketing the Titanic disaster. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
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... the the ... good morning North Korea fires a missile but it's more does this guide ... will take a look in China's economy ... is the growth in the nation's fastest growth in the world's fastest growing nation ... slowing down good morning ... and welcome to the New Saab on Bob O'Brien ... delighted to be joined this morning By Liz Rappaport Liz thanks for ... being with this kind of thanks for having terrific and we are going to let ... with no right to Korea to talk about ... his latest missile launch ... Evan Ramstad is there to talk to us about this and ... that it brings up to speed exactly what happened with the North Koreans launched its rocket ... well this time ... I would never ever launched a shot of long-range ... missile or are they to let everyone acknowledged ... that it ... now ... this one until after ... eighty seconds ... in the air in it in water it was only in the midst of the action to see from the first states to the second stage ... the South Korean military reported that on this afternoon ... after all of the ... that the city recently the Chancellor of the report is that ... the first part of the Rockies are slashed and a narrow waters have lasted so long and ... hard trial on another sort of ... sixty two ... hundred miles farther south ... and broken to pieces can it be as ... good or is it too ... and and what does tell us about the progress that North Korea has me ... in its ... efforts to lead to deliver ... some sort of brought the capability ... well it assets that they are not a Arnault and ... of course you know when you look at statistics between ... the United States innocently eating into the fifties was the rocket programs ... you know they were firing dozens of rockets here ... and ... you know course and many carriers set to start ... Korea has fired before or since nineteen eighty eight ... are then headed to an old ... and so are the chances that it is that there are in this type of technology ... I mean you can tell us a little but about the U S reaction announ ... you know what the been saying and and you know what they're there they're stances on this program ... the U S and other countries are ... still ... very uncertain ... she statements condemning the cliff are going through with its ... US top that it had a deal in late February with the North Koreans ... not to take any provocative actions by its ... U S is ready to get us through this is that instead ... of reinventing the ... car and instead ... North Korea said it no we were ... that deal did not include stage plunges thirty will only included missile launches ... and of course everybody knows that ... he's basically saying ... that if you're an artist a stocking ... then there are two particular character and ... so even if we taken at face value that this was a space of March that it was the ... best things in the military ... of course a lot of people don't take the case that you ... use the questions about which the trajectory that the enhanced with adequate to reach base ... and whether that was really is that I that they were showing us everything right that ... but at the end of the day it really matters is that this ... great armed ... with this on long-range technologies ... yes and this is the yet this is the first time that North Korea has basically you can ... admit that it's not one of the rocket test ... was a failure what's the significance of their admission ... well I tell yet this is the thing that everybody in what ... industry you know anything that was then that the entertainment industry ... the National history it's only happened North Korea watching industry ... and this is what everybody was talking about today ... was the fact that North Korea admitted to a steep rise ... in ... the ... three previous long-range launches right one of them they actually said was that military has yet she insisted ... worst any shots and they said that the nanny states in those times that they put satellites into space ... well ... they didn't notice that last forever ... you know that both of those losses when that day and though I know there are few minutes after launch ... and ... this time North Korea admitted to the Senate to your online what does this mean what's the name game ... or is it because they have one yet it contains a public relations thing that is because of the Kindle son anniversary that's happening this weekend ... you know maybe they just realize that ... they couldn't hide it you know the whole world was tracking in English ... and you know you you only have ... to say ... yes we did it with ... the prospect is that South Korea the US other ... people make people pick up some parts of the of the of the ... rocket ... I haven't but for much of the grandstanding Korea bringing us up to speed ... on North Korea's rocket testing ... let's get a look at the markets here with after two days ... of very steep and dances on the part ... I of the major indexes ... we've got a little bit of a pullback here Paul vignette ... from the markets I've joining us this morning all of them all but the futures to about sixty points ... its engine was starting to see the market is ... volatility is all SU seen it all the beginning the first quarter and was all smooth sailing markets are ... nice to see this chop and so on to me yesterday ... down sixty right now will see where we end up ... this is to see in the market is iStock has caused ... all the questions are starting to come and and it's in the mix up too close to one out of contention ... and tells me ... so what are the reason that there ... was ... a need to expand ... or the reasons for that well okay so one of the reasons for yesterday's rally was a rumor that China's GDP was going to come in really hot around nine percent ... late last night we got the number that was the point one percent so much punch actual ... expectations were ... so that was a disappointment to China's ... economy is growing at a rate ... would stay Global caught ... the extra to bring some details right so ... that won't ... be disappointed ... a lot of risk off trade Europe and other concerns in Europe today so ... stocks in Europe are down the euro is down a little bit that Pete over here to meet overseas see little bit of that also so that you things going on overseas than here this morning ... 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JP Morgan's earnings didn't look that great there again a little bit from the year-ago ... charges and there I think it will ... lower their loan loss reserves so ... that it works by might ... but not a great number not stocks are doing very well in a sanitation stiff borne by aam ... namely the movie The and a bit and it's likely I cut the ... nation's attention again the ... reason for ... writing ... an image that CPI dirty discuss regions of what ... we tend to want a little bit above that nations ... will be down from February's that's a good sign ... but you every year it's up about two point seven percent Pfizer and to preserve ... what that does that means that real wages inflation adjusted wages ... down along ... side targets and also a little about what the Fed would consider Circuit scuppered to thrive on the week and has been there for a long time ... it's actually coming down a little bit was ... close to three percent ... still both ... Fed's comfort zone ... and still above ... nominal we each growth which means that in real ... terms ... your cell research coming down ... yeah it sucked ... into the market going crazy about that not a good sign ... all that together ... any get down to sixty points morning ... by all but certain but I kept ... getting a start to the downside You're on Friday ... when we come back with a talk about those Chinese ... GDP numbers of exactly what the implications are for the global economy ... so Joyce after this message ... China's GDP not living up to those rumors we were talking about yesterday I went back ... here to talk to us about this and that Allen ... on exactly where to China's GDP came in and what's this mean for ... global economic growth ... such as GDP came in at ... eight point one percent growth ... which sounds pretty good to us ... here in the U S data is the isthe dollar ... was at eight point nine percent last quarter and ... the whisper number on Wall Street yesterday was that would be close to nine percent growth ... so in love ... had a field trip rumors as part of either the markets are down today ... I think it's nothing to be very alarmed about ... I think China still stuck firmly in ... soft landing territory ... this number ... of but ... it may feel like a hard landing to some sectors like people who sell ... iron ore in raw materials ... and it was just unfair where ... is the slowdown in China the second coming from ... that the isthe is that clearer is the will of his pre clear that ... the property market in particular because ... of ... its huge driver of economic activity in China ... construction of apartments in the big things like the ... ends of the government is basically forced a slowdown in the sector's try to force prices down to be doing it for more than a year now ... and of ... I would say that's the biggest factor driving the soda shop ... and you know that's obviously going dead in conditions for the global commodities market ... ahh and you mention tired or ... the other wall materials that going to ... manufacturing some of the of some construction activity ... about is that going to ... affect global growth I mean are we to feel the implications here in us ... yes I mean I'd be ... the Chinese economy has been one of a crucial supports for the global growth ... the for ... the past few years says government are correct ... I think the hope is that you don't know what's coming back a little bit in the Chinese are hoping they can be no pass that up ... in terms of supporting global growth but ... we did have ... a global impact of they Ardi has no the Australian dollar moved down by activists data came out the string dollars very sensitive ... to demand for raw materials because of course Australians and the ... producer of ... iron ore and the other calmed your exactly so I mean I think the US you know of course runs trade deficit with China out the door to be the most impact ... think people who ... are really hurt ... by slowing Chinese growth in the commodity exporters that are still ... Canada ... this site ... but the housing market problem in China I mean do they ... have control ... the way construction in that market is is can grow in and can boom and bust that mean they obviously thought ... the damage it's done in the U S ten year at ... the end of the market's collapse is so what did I mean they also saw what happened in the U S and Europe raised all maybe we have ... a bubble on our hands we decided to predict basically ... contends ... spree draconian you know there are ... thirty or forty percent downpayment requirements now Subodh apartment there outright limits on buying second and third apartments in some cities can do when you don't have one ... in certain cities ... so those limits were put in place of ... the over the past year or two ... Barron's they're now going to really have an impact on the part of construction ... and things like that ... so the betting in China everyone has got to go with the deal with these controls ... presumably if things get really bad ... well ... Aaron don't ... get when you look at it he yelled we were looking for a number closer to nine percent ... Governor Lachlan seventy percent ... is still talking about some pretty explosive growth ... yes the net it's an objective of the Chinese government ... to slow the rate of growth ... I think that ... this ... slowdown is the result of government policy in the property market and elsewhere ... so I don't think it's anything to relieve you more about ... engineering a soft landing our thanks very much ... bringing us up to speed on what's going on with the Chinese economy ... when we come back we'll talk about those ... pesky proxy statements of Goldman Sachs Liz is going to ... bring us up to speed with the latest there ... so stay tuned will be right back after this ... democracy can be sucked into AG if you're trying to run one of the world's leading investment banks ... Liz Rappaport my co host this morning is here to talk to us ... about exactly what's going on ... in the proxy statements and Goldman Sachs me and Liz I get all ... this has been at an overhang on Goldman Sachs for ... several quarters to ... get the family Goldman no use to was that Goldman and other investment banks were never really a target person activist shareholders to kind of ... the proposals and ... and these are shareholders that may not own large chunks of stock necessarily but they ... they serve agitate for change and that can be ... you know social change my climate controlled but you know making recommendations to make things convenient for various businesses or ... governance issues like independent board its use of or or or you know effective compensation ... where you know shareholders elect CEOs and stuff for me or are paid too much help ... these proposals you know have come to Goldman and basically since the financial crisis ... you know we saw this ... kid in you know in previous weeks when down with good ol' ... activism prompted the the ... the Goldman Sachs ... up four to agree that there were going to have a lead board member write effectively undercutting their Rev Pierce EU position itself as a little that I mean ... in the I insert inside the temple it was a half hour of the day at but I was in negotiation with the shareholder which is the union so so yes I mean they've ... they've spent more time talking to these kind of shareholders that spent more time ... I'm bringing them and doing a lot more like meeting Greek with the executives say ... you know they wanna you know they listen ... as I was told to serve treat them like ... you know they're there they're good clients so you know they want they wanna reach out there very proactive but ... you know the give and take of that is that if you then ... invite those those labs way says that are seeking publicity into that ... into the executive suite and they can they keep coming ... and that and then they served dinner with whatever Goldman does to surpass adjust themselves ... to meet them halfway you know ... their shareholders than circle the top of that Heidi and take that ... take that TGP would take that to JPMorgan and everywhere also Goldman you know it's efforts to be starter pristine and ... and and was an email client focused into the shareholders like clients innovate they've invited and come up ... a little bit of a messy loud ... I'm ... you know ... the attendance letting a drunk living when cuts in the show up to the of ... the wedding when the court ... being an Kallman claim the PBM that you know the best treatment ... we get that depends on which cry and yell really so what to what are some of the proxy initiatives that Goldman is facing right now as or anything it's really going to ... manifestly change the call that the thing otherwise Nenad think Elaine had a lot of our companies these things never get voted yes it's very rare I mean aside the update your couple years ago ... you know can with a mean ... there was that there is a push to split the chairman CEO role there and ... in the end can step down himself as a result of all the pressure that was like the closest something like that have come at a big financial institution in years and ... you know I Kallman these things are voting down like the twenty at most I'm at worst so it's unlikely that anything will really happen but if the publicity around that that kind of makes a difference you know I mean if ... if people talking about these issues so what's coming out is on ... um I think of the end of the something on there about political lobbying ... now I'm shareholders that serve ... pushed companies to kind of move ... executor moves themselves one step at least from certain ... aam political donations and stopped this is kind of going towards lobby in which a I think ... I'm they'll be probably an able to successfully get voted through ... aam you know because banks in what they did not want me ... to come ... I didn't get lonely Dodd Frank that we get ... we going to do that now ... by Liz thanks very much tea at the latest on Goldman Sachs in the proxy initiatives there ... meanwhile Best Buy little bit of a cloud of scandal drew down all year ... with the latest on what's going on with us buy in now ... Andrew that ... at some CGI step down this week ... and now we've got new ... revelations about exactly ... the circumstances under which the present is the right and then they said but it's down to eight or earlier this week in ways that he'd step down in a mutual agreement between the company and the board now they've revealed that the board is looking into whether or not to miss used ... company funds in pursuit of an alleged relationship with a female subordinate to twenty nine year-old worker leadership is that ... to know how much funds are talking that was it like a coffee or was this like somebody running angering a weed out there and they're still looking into it of the day quite know that you know bring a lot of that is either I'm so as a marker type situation I expense reports for something more serious it's hard to tell us all ... yet and really how you know how much of ... making a sedan step aside ... I it's a reflection of ... disappointed with his ... his leadership and how much might be some painted yellow with any of the female employee ... it seems like ... this when it's all the latter although you're right that you know this is a company under a lot of financial strain outcomes in a completely terrible time for them it just reported ... one point seven billion dollars in losses in the last quarter their stocks down twenty five percent in the last years under a lot of pressure from ... of you know from online retailers like Amazon you know consumers are putting all their money into Apple products and Best Buy isn't this true in the top the list of where you would buy those ... and are busily trying to restructure and move away from this big box store format that isn't working anymore into smaller stores ... um but they're hoping will ... be no give more traction ... so ... there's the next six nine months now looking for new CEO instead of ... trying to repair their even of their business model which is clearly broken ... people inside it sounded like he was beloved by ... employees the family ... yet his armies than three decades of the company are up there you know they haven't had that many CEOs and their history ... aam is very much an insider place ... um ... and you know we spoke to the former CEO uses morale is ... is really bad ... I'm you know it was a shock to everybody ... um and it's it's interesting to me but the outside for a new CEO this time to do so ... you know they're really will be a shift in culture at the company after this happens ... yet now this is a guy who ... you know really I mean he literally started on the floor ... as a sales person died and rose through the ... growth of the readings ... are they going to look internally for our upgrade prospective replacement or are they going to happen ... you don't go outside the Best Buy family in bonsai primarily an external search for what we can tell you can tell by the other denied that this is just written Revue um there are few search firm's ... nobody casting call basically an opaque one of the most and six not months looking for one so they had a viable internal candidate they would be to be sure to move more quickly ... um ... so it is an opportunity I guess for them to get some fresh blood and fresh thinking and the company as well ... yell and yell ... very difficult time for them as they ... try to maneuver into sort of of more nimble ... red Bull approaching and you know a ... little bit what Apple ... what Apple is doing ... is they're concerned right now so that ... you know that that that's quite goes away and Circuit City ... yes I mean what you you look of the industry that their Yemen where dimension Circuit City obviously they won a random RadioShack in the business I guess that's nothing to do now ... write home about ... so you know the model on the way people saw like prices changed and also what they're buying this change best Buy was highly sensitive or TV than anyone is assessing intelligence now suffering ... um so yet it's the it's an open question ... whether they can pull off the turnaround in and remain relevant ... through the introduction of the Judeo bringing us up to speed on the latest and best buy ... talk about the latest it's been a hundred years ... since the Titanic went down ... in the season ... 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Brussels Sprouts with Zucchini, Seitan, and Napa Cabbage, served with Tri-Color Quinoa with Kale and Carrot (No Added Fat)
- About a dozen Brussels sprouts, outer leaves and stem end removed
- Zucchini cut into 3/8" cubes
- Half red onion cut into 1/4" cubes (any other onion could also do)
- Cup of water
- Another half red (or other) onion cut into 1/4" cubes
- Cup of shredded (approx. 1/4" x 1" pieces) Napa cabbage
- Approximately 4 ounces of shredded seitan
- (Optional) 1/2 t salt
- I put the zucchini and the first half red onion into the Instant Pot, added the water, then put in the pot's mesh.
- I put the Brussels sprouts on the mesh - there was just enough water that it wasn't touching the sprouts.
- I turned the pot on high pressure for 3 minutes.
- When I was ready to serve, I released any remaining pressure gently and opened the pot carefully.
- I like how Brussels sprouts come out in the pressure cooker, but they are sometimes overcooked. I now sliced each sprout in half - by doing so at the beginning, they would have been even softer.
- In a bowl, I mixed the cooked vegetables, the second half onion, the cabbage, and seitan; I skipped the salt.
I also made a tri-color quinoa with vegetables. I put in a pot about a teaspoon of chopped ginger, 3 kale leaves roughly cut (stems composted) into 1/4" squares, a carrot cut into 1/4" thick quarters, a vegan bouillon cube, and about a half cup of quinoa and twice as much water. After bringing to a boil, I simmered, covered, for 4 or 5 minutes, then let it sit, covered for another 5-10 minutes till ready to serve (the characteristic spiral in the quinoa was evident).
I suspect the main course wasn't spicy enough for my wife's sister-in-law, and my wife felt that the sprouts were too soft. Overall, I think that the main dish was good; I liked the crunch of the cabbage but wish that the vegetables were more firm. The quinoa came out great!
Ideas for the future
I'd like to try cooking Brussels sprouts in 2 minutes under high pressure. A dish like the main course with one or two crunch vegetables like water chestnuts or celery may be interesting.
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Despite declining overall beer shipments in Massachusetts through the first six months of 2013, craft beer sales continued their upward surge according to recent data from the Beer Distributors of Massachusetts, a trade association advocating on behalf of family-owned wholesalers.
Beer sales to Massachusetts distributors totaled 1,651,012 barrels (22,717,925 case equivalents) for the period ending May 31, 2013, down 1.6 percent from the same period in 2012. But shipments of craft beer, which currently makes up nearly 16 percent of all beer sold in the Bay State, are up 14 percent through May.
Brian Murphy, the director of sales and marketing for Massachusetts Beverage Alliance, said he expects sales of craft beer to continue accelerating through the last half of the year.
"I think that a 17 share for craft is a real possibility if these trends continue," he said. "The last three months of the year are very significant for the craft segment because of the popularity of Octoberfest and pumpkin beer offerings. I believe sales of those beers will drive craft's overall share of the beer market to 17 percent for 2013."
Murphy blamed the softness of domestic beer shipments, which were down 4.6 percent through May, on bad weather and poor sales in the first quarter.
"Overall beer sales were down at the beginning of the year," he said. "Everyone was hurting but it has turned around. The summer was great, the Red Sox are in the playoff hunt and that makes a big difference for us in Massachusetts. If beer sales can get back to flat, it won't be a bad year considering how poor Q1 was."


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Cute Kid Eats Hot Pepper and Regrets It
On the internet, there's no shortage of people trying to eat ill-advised things. (Remember the "cinnamon challenge?") This is yet another example of a bad gastronomical decision where a little boy tries to sneak a hot yellow pepper while no one's looking. Needless to say, he immediately regrets it.
At first, the little boy doesn't seem to mind the pepper and chews it thoughtfully. But then, the heats kicks in and he lunges for his soda. When that doesn't cut it, he grabs a nearby glass of water and chugs.
After grabbing his mouth in pain and coughing loudly, the flames eventually subside and the little boy continues taking deep pulls off his drink. His expression says it all, really -- he won't be making that mistake again anytime soon.


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Catching Up With Ryan Duke The Mastermind Behind The Epic Fortis Amor
(TRR) Guitarist/vocalist/composer/producer Ryan Duke is the mastermind behind the progressive metal project Fortis Amor. He recently released the self-titled debut album to rave reviews and has certainly left us hungry for more. We could hardly believe that this album was basically put together by one man! Fortis Amor is comprised of Ryan… Continue reading


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Colorado Springs' proximity to the Front Range means one very important thing for your wedding day: this place has some beautiful scenery to use as a backdrop in your photos.
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A NSW mother wants her daughter's former boyfriend jailed for supplying the ecstasy pills that it's believed killed her.
A tearful Kerry Roberts told a Sydney magistrate she didn't want Jordan Duffy to get "a slap on the wrist" for giving her 21-year-old daughter Janie Panton Roberts several MDMA capsules at a music event last June.
"If he's supposed to love her, why would you give her something like that?" Ms Roberts said during an emotional victim impact statement at Duffy's sentence hearing on Thursday.
"I hope it never happens to somebody else, and I don't want him to get community service, I want him to get jail."
Wiping her eyes with a tissue, the heartbroken mother said she found out about her daughter's death on the news.
Duffy had repeatedly apologised to her at the funeral but she was unable to forgive him.
"He supplied my daughter with drugs that led to her death...he put them in her hand," she said.
"He must have known...did it even cross his mind there is every chance that she might die?"
The Newtown Local Court heard Duffy, 19, arranged the ecstasy several hours before he and Ms Roberts attended an event at the Petersham Inn in Sydney on June 4.
Prosecutor Skye Stromquist said once at the club Duffy bought seven MDMA pills from a man and gave three to Ms Roberts - a "significant amount".
The next morning Ms Roberts fell ill and died before paramedics could arrive.
Duffy has pleaded guilty to one count of supplying a prohibited drug.
In a letter to the court he said he felt "numb" and thought about his dead girlfriend constantly.
"That morning haunts me every day and I wish I could change my actions," he wrote in the letter, quoted in court by his lawyer Arjun Chhabra.
"It feels like a heavy cloud of guilt is always following me."
Mr Chhabra said since the tragedy Duffy has given up drugs, moved back home and wants to retake his HSC next year.
He had suffered enough punishment and should be discharged without a conviction, the lawyer argued.
"He lost his best friend, he lost the love of his life. She died in his presence in their bedroom," Mr Chhabra said.
Magistrate Margaret Quinn is due to sentence Duffy on March 10.


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By James Turnage-
I remained hopeful that the extremists on the right would use intelligence instead of emotion, and make some sort of attempt to heal our country. Yesterday I was forced to admit that the ignorant and ill-informed may actually become the ruling party in our once great country.
My closest friend of 26 years sent me an email. The text placed blame on President Obama for infrastructure jobs in the United States being farmed out to Chinese contractors and workers. The video, an ABC piece anchored by Dianne Sawyer, clearly pointed out that it was the governors of two states who made these decisions. And one, a republican, refused stimulus money, and spent state money awarding the contract to repair a bridge to China. My friend personally attacked me when I told him the premise of the email was a lie. Our friendship has ended.
President Obama has done an incredible job, given what he inherited. Clinton began our economic decline by sending jobs to other countries, and giving those corporations tax credits for doing so. Then "W" wages two wars, costing us trillions of dollars, continuing Clinton's deregulation of the banking industry and Wall Street, allowing the basis for a once solid economy to entirely collapse.
Now, badly informed Americans want to elect "W" junior and his running mate who proposed the most extreme "trickle down" budget ever. And to do so they will lie about Mr. Obama and every other democratic candidate running for office. For three and one half years, the extremists have attempted to destroy everything this president has attempted to accomplish. Worse yet, for the first time in my 66 years, I have witnessed personal attacks waged against our nation's leader. No other president has ever been so disrespected.
I know the overly rich in our country are afraid of him. When the senate minority leader told his constituents that their only goal was to make Mr. Obama a one term president, I was sickened. Have we become so narrow-minded in this country that we cannot look at the effort being made by our President? Have we become thugs who are arrogant enough to think that our way is the only way? Freedom, innovation, and creativity once made our country great. Sadly, arrogance, ignorance, greed, racism, and bigotry are trying to destroy it.


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Cubic Zirconia (that's them to the left) turn Mercury Lounge into a pheromone-stewed playground tonight as heavy electronic beats thud over vocalist Tiombe Lockhart's dirty talk, grunts, and squeals. But for those who can't stomach a sloppy good time, Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents, a '60s-throwback girl group (with a few guys thrown in there), stitch together gutsy vocals, gallant sax, and dense harmonies at Union Hall. Finally, Heavy Birds flood Glasslands Gallery with fuzzed-out drones and gruff vocals that cushion quivering guitars stretched to their final, dying breath. Which can also be a good time.
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UNL Symphony Orchestra presents Student Soloist Night
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LINCOLN, Neb.— The UNL Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Student Soloist Night on Tuesday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The concert features winners of the 2016-17 Undergraduate and Graduate Solo Competitions. Featured on the program are undergraduate winner Alyssa Vrable, soprano, singing "Adieu notre petite table" from Jules Massenet's Manon, graduate winner Jennifer Reeves, clarinet, playing Scott McAllister's X Concerto, and graduate winner Dimitra Kokkinopoulu, piano, playing the first movement of Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor.
Also on the program are Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. The concert is conducted by UNL Director of Orchestras Tyler White and Graduate Associate Conductors David Galant, Aaron Beaver, and Anna-Maria Gkouni.
Members of the Symphony Orchestra include students from throughout the university. The ensemble's objectives are to prepare and present a wide variety of repertoire including chamber, symphonic, and operatic masterworks, and to maintain professional standards of musicianship and etiquette within a collegial and supportive educational atmosphere. The Symphony Orchestra is one of the Glenn Korff School of Music's most active performing organizations, presenting concerts both on and off campus throughout the academic year.
Tickets are General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3 and available the door.


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|Drive, easy lover, drive!
–Sam to Phil Collins
Sam Losco (played by Sam Tarasco) is a former veterinarian and an on-again-off-again resident of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park and is often perceived to be a general nuisance, particularly to Jim Lahey, Julian, Ricky and Bubbles. Sam Losco is widely regarded by a large number of people to be a caveman, much to his chagrin, which often only serves to add onto his caveman perception.
Background Edit
Sam's first appearance in the show was as a veterinarian that Levi referred Ricky and Julian to when Mrs. Peterson's dog ate a plate of weed brownies. He ended up losing his license to practice because of this referral, since he also operated on Ricky to remove bullets from two different gunshot wound incidents. ("Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up", "Jim Lahey Is A Drunk Bastard")
After losing his clinic, he moved into the trailer park with his camper and decided to run for Trailer Park Supervisor in season two, against Jim Lahey, the incumbent. He had a lot of backing and support, since Jim was drunk most of the time and let the park go, but Sam was ultimately thwarted by Ricky and Julian. They both felt that they were better off with Lahey in charge (since he was drunk and they could get away with more things with him in that state) and so they conspired to spike Sam's food with magic mushrooms just before his campaign speech. He flubbed it, started uttering gibberish and was booed off the stage. ("Jim Lahey Is A Drunk Bastard")
Living Arrangements Edit
Sam lives in his camper, which he can move from place to place. According to Jim Lahey, this makes hm inferior, implying that a trailer is better than a camper. ("Jim Lahey Is A Drunk Bastard", "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty") However after the fiasco between him and Cyrus he was left penniless and homeless and was forced to live in a cave in the woods. People who saw him in the forrest mistakenly assumed he was a sasquatch(or "Samsquamptch" as quoted by Bubbles) as he was incredibly hairy and living naked. Bubbles pointed out after finding Sam in a cave that "the metamorphosis is complete: Sam is an actual caveman." At the end of season 9 he is last seen being lured out of his cave by a suspended chicken thigh and tranquilized by park rangers, mistaking him for a bear.
Love Life Edit
In season two, Sam falls in love with Barb Lahey and proposes marriage to her, which she accepts. But when Sam is conned into performing in a porno, J-Roc's "The Bare Pimp Project", by Julian, they sell him out by giving a copy to Barb, and she calls it off immediately. ("The Bare Pimp Project")
That is not the end of the courtship however -- Sam woos her again in season seven, by leaving her special gifts and flowers as a secret admirer, and she mistakenly assumes that it is Randy, and then Julian. Sam reveals his love for her in a public setting later, and invites her to a motel, which she accepts, leaving Jim and Randy behind, and the two were together for a while. ("Jump The Cheeseburger"; "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys") However is Season 8 because Sam is working with Cyrus to buy the park from her it can be assumed that the two broke up for some reason.
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Other than operating on humans outside of his license, Sam has also taken hostages on two occasions. While employed by East Coast Paving, he kidnapped Randy after Ricky called in a fake order to pave the trailer park during the Cheeseburger Picnic. The service call resulted in Sam being liable to his employer for expenses, and he took Randy hostage until a ransom was paid. Ricky eventually stepped forward at the behest of Jim to take responsibility for the prank and trade $200 and a volume of dope to make things right and save Randy.
The second incident was in season seven when he took Phil Collins hostage in the Dirty Burger trailer (which Phil was renting from Sam) because Phil wouldn't pay him the $75 rental. Officer Jim Lahey had to step in at one point when the trailer wouldn't start, but eventually the situation was quelled when Barb entered the area, which is when Sam left the trailer and ran away with her.
Characterization Edit
Sam is often called a caveman by the park residents, due to him having long arms and a bit of a pronounced forehead. Even though he takes offense to this, he refers to himself as a caveman in some episodes.
He wears glasses or shades most of the time, and loud patterned button-up shirts.
He has an unusual affinity for hot dogs, often trying many different brands, cooking them on his barbecue and taste-testing them.
It is worth mentioning that his appearance deteriorates throughout the series; he appears significantly dirtier, smellier and more irritable later in the series, mostly because of his interactions with the residents of Sunnyvale. This culminates in his appearance on Season 9, where he is found literally living in a cave covered in dirt, having become an actual caveman.


text: Pakistani authorities on Monday executed elite commando Mumtaz Qadri for the murder of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer in 2011. Qadri was hanged at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi after an anti-terrorism court convicted and sentenced him to death in October 2011 for shooting Taseer 28 times in Islamabad's Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011. Governor Taseer had reportedly criticized Pakistan's anti-blasphemy laws, prompting Qadri to shoot him in broad daylight, Daily Pakistan reported. He had filed a mercy plea before President Mamnoon Hussain after Supreme Court maintained his conviction in October last year. Religious parties had threatened nationwide protests if Qadri was hanged. In view of a possible backlash, the president's family has been moved from Karachi to Islamabad. Strict security measures were taken within the jail premises and a heavy contingent of Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) personnel were deployed to avoid any untoward incident. All routes leading to the jail were sealed.