Friday, October 18, 2013

The Stooges In Winter: Moe, Larry And Curly Drawn Together





The Three Stooges in their younger years.



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The Three Stooges in their younger years.


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When Kurt Vonnegut dedicated his novel Slapstick to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, he pinpointed the way an ideal team can transcend chemistry. Like Vonnegut's Wilbur and Eliza, the twins who became geniuses only in each other's presence, Laurel and Hardy united to become two halves of a single being. They bickered, they kicked each other's backsides, and were always mired in "another fine mess," but there was always the sense that they could not survive apart.


Much the same could be said of the Three Stooges, a comedy team with the flawless internal logic of a fine-tuned clock. There is Moe, the leader (by temperament if not acclamation), a tough-minded bruiser who gets things done and brings some semblance of organization. There is Curly, Moe's polar opposite — cheerful, energetic, optimistic, and totally incapable of seeing what is not in front of him (in A Plumbing We Will Go, he tries to fix a leak by attaching one pipe after another until he is trapped in a cage). And there is Larry, the middleman personified – he has no distinctive personality, but he's essential in the same way as ski poles.


If there were no Moe, the group would collapse into chaos (notice how Curly and Larry almost never talk to each other?). If there were no Larry, their films would be about a mean guy beating up a nice guy (Curly and Larry outnumber Moe, and could overpower him if they wanted to). And if there were no Curly ... well, I guess there would be Shemp, if you're into that sort of thing, but nobody wants to see just Moe and Larry. Why do these men stay together, despite the fact they don't seem to particularly like each other? Because apart, they could not function in the world.





Cartoon Stooges, as seen in the mid-'60s.



Madacy


Cartoon Stooges, as seen in the mid-'60s.


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Curly was long gone by the time of The New Three Stooges, a 1965-66 cartoon show new to DVD from Madacy, but if viewed with generosity, it offers some insight into the Stooges in winter.


The Stooges had enjoyed a career renaissance when their vintage shorts were syndicated to television in 1958, but with most of their audience now children, the team had eliminated malicious violence from their act — no more eye pokes, just light slapping. With portly vaudevillian "Curly Joe" DeRita filling the "third Stooge" slot (which suffered a mortality rate comparable to Spinal Tap drummers), the aging team offered a kindler, gentler brand of slapstick in personal appearances and films.


Each episode opens and closes with a live-action segment with the comedians engaged in some wheezy tomfoolery or other — they're bakers, they're painters, they're digging for treasure, etc. Production values are nonexistent: Each episode is filmed in a public park or no-frills soundstage (warehouse?), and the slapstick plays out in long, punishingly static medium-shots. Like the boys' 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures, these set pieces have little context — no need to know why the Stooges are at an airport or a barbershop, just that they're there.





In a freeze-frame from one of the live-action wraparounds, the Stooges are still at it, sort of.



Madacy


In a freeze-frame from one of the live-action wraparounds, the Stooges are still at it, sort of.


Madacy


Even if the Stooges hadn't downplayed violence, such measures might have been necessary: At 68 and 63, Moe and Larry look a little the worse for wear (Moe's hideous dye-job doesn't help matters). They are slower and saggier, less vicious but still ornery. Moe has evolved into an almost benevolent curmudgeon, and as for "Curly Joe," while surely one of the least-funny men who ever lived, he does offer a credible simulation of Jerome "Curly" Howard as an exhausted 56-year-old. Collectively, they have the same combination of coziness and prickliness as an old married couple.


The 156 cartoons are cheap and forgettable, and the 40 live-action wraparounds that repeat in order to surround them all are not very funny (and the sight of the boys cavorting in skin-tight swimsuits is not for the faint of heart). But for Stooge completists, they offer a strange sort of comfort. In the autumn of their years, the Stooges are still at it, once again starting some new business together, once again throwing pies in their weary faces, and still irretrievably locked in each other's orbit.


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All Blacks lose McCaw, Jane for Wallaby Test


Wellington (AFP) - The All Blacks suffered a double blow on the eve of Saturday's Test against the Wallabies with captain Richie McCaw and wing Cory Jane ruled out after picking up injuries in training.


"Richie McCaw has been ruled out of Test with tight calf. Cory Jane also out w mild hamstring strain," the All Blacks posted on their Twitter account.


A team spokesman would not comment on the posting but said injury updates would be made at the captain's run later Friday. It is understood the injuries flared up during training on Thursday.


Sam Cane replaces McCaw on the openside flank and Charles Piutau will start on the right wing, with Steven Luatua added to the replacements, the All Blacks' official Twitter account said.


In recent weeks McCaw has been troubled by a knee injury suffered against Argentina early in the rugby championship.


Jane had been rushed back after only two appearances in New Zealand's provincial competition since sitting out most of the year with knee ligaments damaged in pre-season training.


All Blacks (15-1)


Israel Dagg; Charles Piutau, Ben Smith, Ma'a Nonu, Julian Savea; Aaron Cruden, Aaron Smith; Kieran Read (captain), Sam Cane, Liam Messam; Sam Whitelock, Jeremy Thrush; Charlie Faumuina, Keven Mealamu, Tony Woodcock.Replacements: Dane Coles, Wyatt Crockett, Ben Franks, Brodie Retallick, Steven Luatua, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Beauden Barrett, Tom Taylor.



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It's Official: Hulu Names Mike Hopkins CEO


Hulu said Thursday that, effective immediately, Mike Hopkins is officially its new chief executive and that acting CEO Andy Forssell will be leaving the company.



A Hulu board member since 2011, Hopkins was most recently president of distribution for Fox Networks Group, a division of 21st Century Fox, which owns Hulu along with Disney and Comcast.


STORY: Hulu's Arrival at TCA: Another Reminder That Times Are Changing


Hopkins beat out not only Forssell for the permanent CEO job but also former NBCUniversal executive Lauren Zalaznick, Intel executive Erik Huggers and ABC executive Albert Cheng, all of whom were reportedly on Hulu's shortlist.


Word leaked last week, though, that Hopkins had been offered the role.


Forssell had been acting CEO since March, when Jason Kilar exited the company with a $40 million payout.


"After an extensive search, Mike was simply the best candidate for the job," said Anne Sweeney, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group. "He has a strong understanding of programming, digital distribution and consumer behavior and a great vision for Hulu's next chapter."


Hopkins takes over Hulu at an interesting time in its six-year history, having recently ended unsuccessful negotiations with a slew of potential acquirers and also having twice scrapped plans for an initial public offering.


Once derided as ClownCo by skeptics who thought the company's business model of streaming shows for free over the Internet was a nonstarter, the company has proved resilient. In 2012 it posted $695 million in revenue, up 65 percent from a year earlier, with revenue coming from advertising and its Hulu Plus subscription service.


Q&A: Hulu CEO Talks New Shows, Netflix and the Big Sale That Wasn't


When Kilar announced in January he was leaving Hulu, he had a history of disagreements with the bosses at Disney and Fox whereby he argued for a larger budget to acquire more content while others wanted to rein in costs and pursue steady profits. A month after leaving Hulu, Kilar joined the board of directors at DreamWorks Animation.


At Fox, Hopkins oversaw distribution, sales and marketing for 45 U.S. channels, and he oversaw a team that developed digital products like BTN2Go, a digital-video college sports offering, and Fox Now, which supplies TV shows on demand over the Internet.


"The team at Hulu has created a beloved user experience that feeds the undeniable need for quality, convenience and ease of use," Hopkins said Thursday. "I am honored to have the opportunity to work with this dynamic, innovative team."


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Thursday, October 17, 2013

'Traffic-light' labeling increases attention to nutritional quality of food choices

'Traffic-light' labeling increases attention to nutritional quality of food choices


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A simple, color-coded system for labeling food items in a hospital cafeteria appears to have increased customer's attention to the healthiness of their food choices, along with encouraging purchases of the most healthy items. In their report in the October issue of Preventive Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe customer responses to surveys taken before and after the 2010 implementation of a system using green, yellow or red "traffic light" labels to reflect the nutritional quality of items.


"Several small, experimental studies have suggested that 'traffic light' labels can be an effective method of promoting healthier choices, but there have been few real-world studies of customers' perceptions and purchasing behaviors in response to this type of labeling," explains Lillian Sonnenberg, DSc, RD, LDN, MGH Nutrition and Food Service, the corresponding author of the current report. "Our results suggest that these labels are an effective method for conveying information about healthy and unhealthy choices and for prompting changes in purchasing behavior."


While many restaurants and other food service locations are now posting the calorie content of their standard items and make detailed information such as fat, cholesterol and sodium content available on request, the researchers note that interpreting this information requires knowledge and skills that many do not possess. To find a simpler way to encourage more healthful purchases at the hospital's food service locations, MGH Nutrition and Food Service put together a plan that started with color-coding each item sold in the main cafeteria green for the healthiest items, such as fruits, vegetables and lean meats; yellow for less healthy items, and red for those with little or no nutritional value. Signage encouraged frequent purchase of green items, less frequent for yellow and discouraged purchase of red items. Cafeteria cash registers were programmed to record each purchased item as green, yellow or red, starting three months before the labeling intervention began.


Previous reports from the MGH team have described how the program a second phase of which included rearranging items in refrigerators to bring healthy choices to eye level increased sales of green items while decreasing purchase of red items. The current paper reports results of a survey taken during the month before and the two months after the labeling intervention began in March 2010. Research coordinators approached customers who had just made purchases and asked them to participate in the brief survey. Participants were asked whether they had noticed any nutritional information in the cafeteria or on food labels, which factors most influenced their purchases, how often they consider nutrition information before making food choices, and how often they "choose food that is healthy." After introduction of the color-coded labels, respondents were also asked whether they had noticed the labels and if the labels had influenced their purchases.


During the baseline period before the labeling intervention, 204 individuals completed the survey, and 243 did so in the weeks following. While 46 percent of respondents indicated that health/nutrition was an important factor in their choices at baseline, 61 percent did so after the intervention. The percentage of those indicating that they looked at available nutritional information before a purchase doubled from 15 to 33 percent, although there was no significant difference in the percentage reporting they usually or always choose healthy foods. Respondents who reported noticing the new labels bought a greater proportion of green items and fewer red items than did those who did not notice, and the influence was even stronger among those who indicated being influenced by the labels.


"While our results can't give concrete information about customers' nutritional knowledge, people were more likely to indicate that health and nutrition were important factors in their decision when the labels were in place, and those who noticed the labels were more likely to purchase healthy items," Sonnenberg says. "Although we haven't directly compared these "traffic light" labels to other systems, we can say that these labels appear to be more effective than the standard nutritional labeling available on packaged products. The strategy is simpler for customers to understand at the point of purchase and, once the appropriate labels for each item are determined, is relatively easy to implement."


The labeling system along with second phase of adjusting the positioning of items, which was not included in the current study as now in place at all MGH food service locations. Co-authors of the Preventive Medicine article are Susan Barraclough, MS, RD, LDN, and Emily Gelsomin, RD, LDN, MGH Nutrition and Food Services; Anne Thorndike, MD, MPH, MGH division of General Medicine; Douglas Levy, PhD, Mongan Institute of Health Policy at MGH; and Jason Riis, PhD, Harvard Business School.


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A simple, color-coded system for labeling food items in a hospital cafeteria appears to have increased customer's attention to the healthiness of their food choices, along with encouraging purchases of the most healthy items. In their report in the October issue of Preventive Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe customer responses to surveys taken before and after the 2010 implementation of a system using green, yellow or red "traffic light" labels to reflect the nutritional quality of items.


"Several small, experimental studies have suggested that 'traffic light' labels can be an effective method of promoting healthier choices, but there have been few real-world studies of customers' perceptions and purchasing behaviors in response to this type of labeling," explains Lillian Sonnenberg, DSc, RD, LDN, MGH Nutrition and Food Service, the corresponding author of the current report. "Our results suggest that these labels are an effective method for conveying information about healthy and unhealthy choices and for prompting changes in purchasing behavior."


While many restaurants and other food service locations are now posting the calorie content of their standard items and make detailed information such as fat, cholesterol and sodium content available on request, the researchers note that interpreting this information requires knowledge and skills that many do not possess. To find a simpler way to encourage more healthful purchases at the hospital's food service locations, MGH Nutrition and Food Service put together a plan that started with color-coding each item sold in the main cafeteria green for the healthiest items, such as fruits, vegetables and lean meats; yellow for less healthy items, and red for those with little or no nutritional value. Signage encouraged frequent purchase of green items, less frequent for yellow and discouraged purchase of red items. Cafeteria cash registers were programmed to record each purchased item as green, yellow or red, starting three months before the labeling intervention began.


Previous reports from the MGH team have described how the program a second phase of which included rearranging items in refrigerators to bring healthy choices to eye level increased sales of green items while decreasing purchase of red items. The current paper reports results of a survey taken during the month before and the two months after the labeling intervention began in March 2010. Research coordinators approached customers who had just made purchases and asked them to participate in the brief survey. Participants were asked whether they had noticed any nutritional information in the cafeteria or on food labels, which factors most influenced their purchases, how often they consider nutrition information before making food choices, and how often they "choose food that is healthy." After introduction of the color-coded labels, respondents were also asked whether they had noticed the labels and if the labels had influenced their purchases.


During the baseline period before the labeling intervention, 204 individuals completed the survey, and 243 did so in the weeks following. While 46 percent of respondents indicated that health/nutrition was an important factor in their choices at baseline, 61 percent did so after the intervention. The percentage of those indicating that they looked at available nutritional information before a purchase doubled from 15 to 33 percent, although there was no significant difference in the percentage reporting they usually or always choose healthy foods. Respondents who reported noticing the new labels bought a greater proportion of green items and fewer red items than did those who did not notice, and the influence was even stronger among those who indicated being influenced by the labels.


"While our results can't give concrete information about customers' nutritional knowledge, people were more likely to indicate that health and nutrition were important factors in their decision when the labels were in place, and those who noticed the labels were more likely to purchase healthy items," Sonnenberg says. "Although we haven't directly compared these "traffic light" labels to other systems, we can say that these labels appear to be more effective than the standard nutritional labeling available on packaged products. The strategy is simpler for customers to understand at the point of purchase and, once the appropriate labels for each item are determined, is relatively easy to implement."


The labeling system along with second phase of adjusting the positioning of items, which was not included in the current study as now in place at all MGH food service locations. Co-authors of the Preventive Medicine article are Susan Barraclough, MS, RD, LDN, and Emily Gelsomin, RD, LDN, MGH Nutrition and Food Services; Anne Thorndike, MD, MPH, MGH division of General Medicine; Douglas Levy, PhD, Mongan Institute of Health Policy at MGH; and Jason Riis, PhD, Harvard Business School.


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Now With 175M+ Users, SoundHound Launches Its iOS 7 App, As Company Struggles To Exit Shazam's Shadow


SoundHound’s music identification app has the unfortunate position of having to live in Shazam’s shadow, but that may not be the case for much longer. Though both apps currently allow users to push a button to identify a song they’re hearing, SoundHound has been steadily nipping at its older competitor’s heels, with a growing user base and innovative feature set which lets you do different things, like view live lyrics synced to the music, identify songs by humming a melody, or search for music by entering snippets of lyrics.


Today the app is finally getting its iOS 7 makeover and is expanding its “Music Map” feature (another that it beat Shazam to launch) to include now not just the songs users are tagging around the world, but a personalized map where you can also view only your own tags filtered by day, week, month or all-time. Nifty? Sure. Practical? Hard to say.


3_SoundHound_MyMusic_LocalThe company envisions this map being a catalog of moments – a way to associate places with the music you heard there. For regular concert goers, that makes sense. But the company’s real business involves tapping into the much larger group of everyday music listeners – you know, those out there who are still turning on the radio during their commutes.


While its competitor Shazam may have a bigger user base, SoundHound hopes to top them through technological innovations. One area where SoundHound has forged ahead recently is in live radio broadcast recognitions – not just songs, but stations and programming.


Explains Katie McMahon, VP of Sales & Marketing, “SoundHound has deployed the ability to recognize radio stations. We’ve done this in partnership with Westwood One…it’s old school, terrestrial radio.” McMahon, who previously spent six years at Shazam before being recruited away by its scrappier competitor SoundHound, points out that radio still has a significant audience. “248 million Americans each week actively listen to radio. It’s almost this forgotten thing since Pandora came out,” she notes.


The SoundHound app is capable of taking a radio stream and making it identifiable – whether that’s a talk show, a sports broadcast or an NPR program. This capability, live for roughly a year, is important because it allows radio marketers to connect to mobile users.


For example, if you were to “tag” an audio program from the radio, those marketers could reach you through mobile ads, even if you switched on the radio after the on-air commercials had ended. The advertisers may have even first missed you through live radio, but could still reach you through your smartphone.


But the app isn’t pushing its users to “tag” the ads themselves – it’s just working to pick up the other audio around the music – DJ chatter, commercials, and other spots – to identify the station and programming, then show the relevant promotions. ”We didn’t want to suddenly pivot and change the entire use case and alienate our users,” says McMahon of the radio identification technology.


That’s different from Shazam which has become very focused on TV, and specifically making television commercials “taggable” through calls to action to users. (You may have seen the Shazam logo on some TV ads in the past.) SoundHound doesn’t want to change its core use case. For now, it’s more immediately focused on “music events” – that is, any live broadcasts, including radio or even TV events like the Grammy awards, for example.


McMahon says that SoundHound already has the technical capabilities to tag TV – or any audio, really – in similar ways to Shazam. ”Can SoundHound do what Shazam is doing on television? The answer is overwhelming ‘yes.’ And moreover, we have done it – last Superbowl we had it live.”


But the question is will Shazam beginning running its app in the background, to pick up the airwaves and sounds around you wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing? That is, listening to radio, watching TV, at a live event, etc.? McMahon couldn’t – or wouldn’t – say. For now, the company isn’t moving into the more general TV/television commercial recognition space. At least not how Shazam is doing it. “SoundHound is doing live broadcast recognition, and we’ve started in the space of radio,” is how McMahon puts it.


SoundHound says it has now grown its user base to 175+ million, up from 100 million just a year ago. This is not the number of downloads, to be clear, but only those that have launched and used the app. Shazam, however, is still larger, citing now over 375 million users worldwide. But those numbers aren’t surprising, given Shazam’s age. The company was founded in 1999 and has been on the iPhone since 2008, while SoundHound was founded in 2005, then launched a year later. That growth is impressive, especially if SoundHound’s claims are true when it says that most of that growth is organic.


Now the challenge for SoundHound is to be seen as something different from Shazam, rather than just a “better” Shazam. McMahon hints that moves toward that larger goal are in the works now.


“In 12 months’ time, the association of Shazam and SoundHound will be much wider apart – they’ll be seen as very different companies,” she says.



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Pre-Viking Age monuments uncovered in Sweden

(AP) — Archaeologists in Sweden said Thursday they have unearthed the remains of unusually large wooden monuments near a pre-Viking Age burial ground.

As archaeologists dug in preparation for a new railway line, they found traces of two rows of wooden pillars in Old Uppsala, an ancient pagan religious center. One stretched about 1,000 yards (1 kilometer) and the other was half as long.

Archaeologist Lena Beronius-Jorpeland said the colonnades were likely from the 5th century but their purpose is unclear. She called it Sweden's largest Iron Age construction and said the geometrical structure is unique.

"It is a completely straight line and they have dug postholes every 20 feet (6 meters)," she said. "They have had an idea of exactly where this line is going and where to build it. It is a fairly modern way of thinking and we don't have many traces of these sorts of constructions from that time."

She said the pillars are believed to have been at least 23 feet (7 meters) high. Bones found in some postholes indicate animals had been sacrificed there.

Old Uppsala is known as a center for Norse religion, where believers gathered to sacrifice animals to gods such as Odin and Thor. The colonnades were found near a famous burial site where the three Iron Age kings Aun, Egil and Adils are believed to be buried.

Beronius-Jorpeland said written testimonies from medieval times describe the city as a place for large pagan "blood ceremonies" and religious feasts.

She said she believes there may be more colonnades in the area and archaeologists will continue to excavate and analyze the findings.

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Major funding boost for the next generation of arts and humanities researchers

Major funding boost for the next generation of arts and humanities researchers


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Today, a consortium led by Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded a grant of 13.5 million to fund approximately 176 postgraduate students, in order to address the national need for highly skilled researchers in disciplines across the arts and humanities.


Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the new Doctoral Training Partnership will bring together seven universities across London and the South-East, allowing students to benefit from diverse training opportunities and expertise from all members. This will include Royal Holloway, the University of Brighton, Kingston University, the University of Roehampton, the Royal College of Art, the University of Surrey and the University of the Arts London.


This unique training opportunity will also be enhanced by placements and partnerships with 13 arts and cultural organisations, including the Barbican, the Natural History Museum, the British Film Institute, the Science Museum and the Museum of London.


"We are very excited about leading this consortium and developing researchers who are at the forefront of their disciplines", said Professor Katie Normington, Dean of Arts and Social Science at Royal Holloway. "Our consortium draws its name, TECHNE, from the art of craft. Underpinning our innovative interdisciplinary student training will be the development of the craft and skill of the researcher."


The consortium was praised by the AHRC's award panel for having robust partnerships with a focus on providing future opportunities for students, as well as tailored training and support in subjects such as music, modern languages and history.


David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, said: "The AHRC is creating more opportunities for the next generation of researchers, both within and beyond academia in the thriving arts and humanities sector. I'm particularly pleased to see an emphasis on student placements and additional skills training among the new arrangements."


Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, said: "This investment by the AHRC will not only support university researchers but also enrich the contexts in which arts and humanities skills and capabilities engage with and contribute to advancement and growth in sectors across the wider UK economy."



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Today, a consortium led by Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded a grant of 13.5 million to fund approximately 176 postgraduate students, in order to address the national need for highly skilled researchers in disciplines across the arts and humanities.


Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the new Doctoral Training Partnership will bring together seven universities across London and the South-East, allowing students to benefit from diverse training opportunities and expertise from all members. This will include Royal Holloway, the University of Brighton, Kingston University, the University of Roehampton, the Royal College of Art, the University of Surrey and the University of the Arts London.


This unique training opportunity will also be enhanced by placements and partnerships with 13 arts and cultural organisations, including the Barbican, the Natural History Museum, the British Film Institute, the Science Museum and the Museum of London.


"We are very excited about leading this consortium and developing researchers who are at the forefront of their disciplines", said Professor Katie Normington, Dean of Arts and Social Science at Royal Holloway. "Our consortium draws its name, TECHNE, from the art of craft. Underpinning our innovative interdisciplinary student training will be the development of the craft and skill of the researcher."


The consortium was praised by the AHRC's award panel for having robust partnerships with a focus on providing future opportunities for students, as well as tailored training and support in subjects such as music, modern languages and history.


David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, said: "The AHRC is creating more opportunities for the next generation of researchers, both within and beyond academia in the thriving arts and humanities sector. I'm particularly pleased to see an emphasis on student placements and additional skills training among the new arrangements."


Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, said: "This investment by the AHRC will not only support university researchers but also enrich the contexts in which arts and humanities skills and capabilities engage with and contribute to advancement and growth in sectors across the wider UK economy."



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US stocks mixed as investors wait on debt news

There's deal talk in Washington. On Wall Street, it's wait-and-see.


The big stock indexes were mixed on Tuesday as Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate reported that a deal over the nation's borrowing limit appears to be getting closer.


Unless the borrowing limit is raised, the U.S. will bump up against a Thursday deadline that could lead to a default on government debt. That possibility has rattled markets all month.


There was reason for Wall Street to be noncommittal on Tuesday. For one, it wasn't clear whether House Republicans will go along with whatever the Senate works out. Also, any deal reached this week might simply set up another showdown a few months down the road.


In late morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down three points at 15,298. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up one point at 1,711. The Nasdaq composite was up nine points at 3,824.


Six of 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose, with the biggest declines in consumer discretionary and utility stocks. Financial and technology stocks had the biggest gains.


The general direction for stocks was down all morning, with indexes about flat as midday neared. It was clear that traders were hanging on every word out of Washington. The losses on the Dow shrank by about 40 points during a short press conference by House Speaker John Boehner.


Uri Landesman, president of Platinum Partners, said he thinks there will be a deal, but that investors are making a mistake to focus on it. The economy has more risks than that. He believes U.S. growth is likely to be more sluggish than anticipated, and conflicts with Iran and Syria could blow up. Investors aren't accounting for the risk of "a short-term spike in energy prices, which would be very deleterious to a shaky economy," he said.


"Oil could go to $140 short-term," Landesman said. "Trust me — this global economy cannot handle $140 oil."


Oil prices spiked that high in 2008. On Tuesday, the price of oil fell 40 cents to $102.


Citigroup rose 11 cents to $49.71, reversing losses from earlier in the morning after it reported a smaller profit because of a drop in its bond business, investment banking and mortgage refinances.


Johnson & Johnson rose $51 cents to $90.30 after reporting a bigger third-quarter profit and raising its earnings forecast for the year.


The yield on the 10-year T-note rose to 2.72 percent, from 2.69 percent on Friday. Bond trading was closed Monday for Columbus Day.


Stocks in Europe rose. Germany's DAX rose 0.7 percent and Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.8 percent.


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Cory Booker Wins New Jersey Senate Race


Cory Booker, Hollywood's political darling this election season, won his senate race Wednesday in New Jersey.



According to the Associate Press, the Newark Democratic mayor beat Republican Steve Lonegan, a tea party conservative and former mayor of Bogota.


The AP called the race with Booker leading Lonegan 55 percent to 44 percent with 41 percent of precincts reporting. Booker beat Lonegan after a four-month race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg in June.


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Booker, who received strong support in Hollywood, will serve out the last 15 months of Lautenberg’s term. He is expected to run again next year to serve a six year term.


The mayor became an early favorite in the entertainment industry, with many of the A-listers lining up to back his senate campaign. Last month Matt Damon and Ron Burkle hosted Booker at Burkle's Green Acres estate, with tickets ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, according to an invite obtained by THR. Co-hosts included Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Jerry Weintraub, J.J. Abrams and wife, Katie McGrath, Troy Carter, WME co-CEO Patrick Whitesell, talent agency head Bob Gersh, Disney exec Sean Bailey, Netflix's Ted Sarandos and former U.S. Ambassador Nicole Avant.


In April, Weintraub hosted a similar fundraiser for Booker at his Beverly Hills home. The list of co-hosts for the gathering took up much of that invite. They included Bob Iger, Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn, Sony CEO Michael Lynton and wife Jamie, Barry Meyer, Kevin Tsujihara, Bruce Rosenblum, Michael Lombardo and partner Sony Ward, Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw; Rob Reiner and wife Michelle, Troy Garity, Bruce Willis, Terry Semel, Kevin Huvane, Bryan Lourd, James Lassiter and wife Mai, Steve Bing and Chris Albrecht.


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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Bibiano Fernandes won’t feel he’s the One FC champion until he beats Soo Chul Kim


Bibiano Fernandes became One FC’s interim bantamweight championship with his win over Koetsu Okazaki last May, but he won’t feel the real champion until he beats Soo Chul Kim.


Kim was sidelined after his TKO victory over Leandro Issa last year when he claimed the 135-pound title, and the bantamweights are set to meet at One FC 11’s main event on Oct. 18 in Singapore.


Fernandes, a former Dream bantamweight and featherweight champion, wants to add another title to his record.


"Soo Chul Kim is the champion and I respect him," Fernandes told MMAFighting.com. "To get where he is today, I need to work. He’s the first, I’m the second until the day I fight him."


A multiple-time jiu-jitsu world champion, Fernandes has worked hard to become a well-rounded fighter, and training with the likes of Matt Hume, Tim Boetsch and UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson is helping him to get there.


"Demetrious and I help each other a lot," he said. "We mix it up, every day he has something to ask and so do I. We learn a lot training together. His stand up game is really good. He’s fast and has a great cardio. This kid’s cardio is impressive, so he’s helping me a lot."


Kim is coming off three consecutive wins, including two knockout stoppages, but the Brazilian doesn’t worry about his opponent’s game.


"I’ve trained a lot and will be ready on fight night," Fernandes said. "I’ve done everything I had to do, now it’s time to make it happen.


"I don’t focus on what the other guy can do," he continued. "Sometimes you can train this thing and other thing happens in the fight. I just watch his tapes to see what he does best, like his right hand, but that’s it. I know what he does, but I’ll be ready to surprise him. I can surprise him in a lot of ways. I know what he does, so I’ll decide what I’ll do against him."


Kim believes he has the one-punch knockout power to finish the fight, but that’s the king of pre-fight talk Fernandes has already heard in the past.


"He can say whatever he wants, but we’ll see what happens inside the cage," he said. "Joachim Hansen had heavy hands, (Kid) Yamamoto had heavy hands, (Hiroyuki) Takaya knocked everybody out. Everybody said they’d knock me out and that they had heavy hands, but they couldn’t do it. I’ll be ready for his hands and for anything else when the time comes."


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Kris Humphires Sells Kim Kardashian’s Bling




By Jack October 16, 2013 @ 1:31 PM




Kris Humphires decided to unload the diamond ring he once gave Kim Kardashian for their fake TV marriage. The 16-karat ring was sold at Christie’s auction house  for $749,000 to a mysterious buyer calling in a phone bid. My guess is that it was Kanye. He’s going to set the diamond in the tip of a big dildo and bang naughty groupies with it while relaying the story about how he stole Kim Kardashian away from her husband


Magazines for women are writing about how the auction closing is helping Kris Humphries to finally close the Kim Kardashian chapter of his life, but  Lee Hutton, Kris’ lawyer, says he got over her long ago:



“I’m not sure if the ring or its sale helps with the process of moving on. I think he moved on long before the ring was even put into the auction. Kris, being an athlete, is getting ready for an upcoming seasons and ready for life’s lessons as they come along. This whole process was humbling but maturing.”



Great point, Lee Hutton. Sometimes it takes a fraudulent marriage to a duplicitous whore to build yourself into a stronger man. It does seem to be a common past of many great athletes, so perhaps there is something to this.




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Avadon 2 old school-style RPG set for Oct. 30 release

Spiderweb Software has announced the official release date for its new role playing game for Mac and Windows, Avadon 2: The Corruption. It's coming on October 30th, and will be available directly from Spiderweb and other online stores.

Spiderweb specializes in making traditional turn-based role playing adventure games in the spirit of classic computer RPG's like Ultima. The games use an isometric (three-quarters) perspective and incorporate dozens and dozens of hours of gameplay as you go on major quests and side missions.

In Avadon 2: The Corruption, you serve the keep of Avadon, exploring the land in one of five five different character classes, each with unique spells and abilities. You uncover the histories of Avadon and the lands of Lynaeus as you explore, and how you comport yourself - the decisions you make, the influence you have over what happens in the game - affects its outcome. While this is the second installment of the Avadon series, you don't need to know what happened in the original game to play this one.

The Mac and Windows versions will be released on October 30, 2013, but an iPad version is also in the works and is expected in early 2014.


    






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Geoscience Workforce Currents #79

Geoscience Workforce Currents #79


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Geoscience students with internships that led to jobs after graduation, spring 2013



Alexandria, VA The majority of bachelor's and doctoral graduates did not participate in an internship experience during their postsecondary career, whereas the majority of master's graduates did have at least one internship experience. Most of those bachelor's, master's and doctoral students that held an internship considered their internship experiences to be "very important". Of these master's candidates, 48% were employed within the geosciences at a company they had previously interned at the time.


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Alexandria, VA The majority of bachelor's and doctoral graduates did not participate in an internship experience during their postsecondary career, whereas the majority of master's graduates did have at least one internship experience. Most of those bachelor's, master's and doctoral students that held an internship considered their internship experiences to be "very important". Of these master's candidates, 48% were employed within the geosciences at a company they had previously interned at the time.


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Mary J. Blige Teams Up With Barbra Streisand For FABOOSH Duet! Listen To The Song HERE!!!



Christmas has come REALLY early!!!


AND WE LOVE IT!!!!!


Mary J. Blige released her Xmas album A Mary Christmas today and the tracks are filled with some FIERCE voices singing with MJ!


Our favorite from the album is her duet, When You Wish Upon A Star, with none other than Miz Barbra Streisand herself!


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It is beautiful, fabulous, and just all around AWESOME!!!


Who cares if it's not even Halloween yet, we can't stop playing this song!!!


Ch-ch-check out the AMAZEballs duet (above)!!!


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High court won't stop California inmate reduction

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not consider Gov. Jerry Brown's appeal of an order to trim the state prison population by another 9,600 inmates, leaving him with just one more chance to persuade a lower court to stop or delay a reduction that he says threatens public safety.


The justices did not comment on their order, which leaves in place the earlier ruling by a panel of three federal judges requiring California to reduce its prison population to improve medical and mental health treatment.


The case now goes back to the three judges, who repeatedly have ruled against Brown and at one point threatened to hold him in contempt if he didn't adhere to their order.


It's the second time Brown has been rebuffed by the nation's highest court. In 2011, Supreme Court justices ruled that the lower court panel had the authority to order California to reduce inmate overcrowding as the key condition for improving conditions.


At the heart of the case is a 2001 lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates who claimed medical treatment in the prisons was so poor it was leading to a death a week through neglect or malpractice. The federal courts agreed, saying conditions violated inmates' constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.


In addition to spending billions of dollars on new medical facilities and staff, the state was ordered to reduce overcrowding, which was seen as a main obstacle to providing better health care. The state has also been forced to take similar steps to improve inmate mental health treatment, the subject of a separate lawsuit


Deborah Hoffman, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, expressed disappointment with the high court and said the state will continue working to improve prison conditions. She noted that in the past two years, the prison population has been reduced by 25,000 inmates.


Brown signed a bill in September allowing the state to spend $315 million this fiscal year to house thousands of inmates in private prisons and county jails if the lower court doesn't postpone its January deadline for reducing the prison population. If the court agrees to a three-year delay called for in the legislation, the state must spend part of the money on rehabilitation programs intended to reduce the inmate count.


Last month, the court ordered the state to negotiate with inmates' attorneys toward a possible compromise. But the attorneys say there have been no face-to-face talks with administration officials, though a court-appointed mediator has been active. The judges ordered the mediator to update them next Monday on the progress of negotiations.


"Now that the court has ruled and the governor's out of legal options, it would be in their interest to try and resolve this in a way that is effective and productive," said Don Specter, director of the Prison Law Office that filed the lawsuit over prison medical care.


While the issue plays out in court, the state has been signing contracts with private prison operators to house inmates.


The Corrections Department and Corrections Corp. of America announced Tuesday that the state had signed a $28.5 million annual contract to lease the private California City Correctional Center, which will hold 2,381 inmates. The lease is for three years, with unlimited two-year renewals, and the annual cost will rise with inflation after the initial three-year contract expires.


Last month, the state signed a five-year, $30 million annual contract with Geo Group to lease two prison facilities in Kern and San Bernardino counties. The two facilities can hold 1,400 inmates.


The steps leave the state about 4,400 inmates above the population cap set by the courts. The state must reduce the population of its major prisons to about 110,000 inmates by the end of January under the current lower court order.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/high-court-wont-stop-california-inmate-reduction-163018964.html
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Rielle Hunter Apologizes For Affair with John Edwards, Book Exposing Relationship


Rielle Hunter, best known for her affair with North Carolina Senator John Edwards that destroyed his marriage and his political career but produced a daughter, is apologizing for her earlier book that revealed intimate details of their relationship.



In Hindsight, What Really Happened: The Revised Edition: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me is an e-book out today that sets the record straight and apologizes for both her behavior and her decision to write about it.


Hunter takes the interesting tack of annotating her previous best-seller, 2012's What Really Happened: John Edward, Our Daughter and Me.


For example the opening sentence of the original book read, "I don't like to think of myself as a stupid person, but I have done a lot of things in my life that were just plain stupid."


In the revised version, Hunters adds this in bold: "<I feel now that one of the stupidest things I have done (lately) is publishing this book when I was still so hurt and publishing it before John Edwards read it.>"


Hunter outlined her reasons for doing the revision and previewed the new book in an essay at the Huffington Post.


Hunter writes: "I behaved badly. That may seem obvious to you but it's taken me a long time to admit that, even to myself. For years I was so viciously attacked by the media and the world that I felt like a victim. I now realize that the attacks are actually beside the point. The point is: I behaved badly. I am very sorry for my wrong, selfish behavior. Back in 2006, I did not think about the scope of my actions, how my falling in love with John Edwards, and acting on that love, could hurt so many people. I hurt Elizabeth and her kids. I hurt her family. I hurt John's family. I hurt people that knew Elizabeth."


She goes on to add, "And then instead of apologizing when I should have, I went on to hurt more people by writing a book. I truly did not realize at that time how damaged I was and because of that, when I wrote my book I made more mistakes, ones I feel horrible about."


Hunter and Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, began an affair in 2006 with videographer Hunter.  


Their daughter, Quinn, was born in February 2008. Hunter first claimed the father was Edwards aide Andrew Young, but news of the affair ended Edwards' political career. 


Finally in 2010, Edwards admitted he was the father of the child. Elizabeth Edwards announced her intention to divorce him but died in December 2010 of cancer before it could be finalized.


In Hindsight, What Really Happened is available now in e-book format from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other digital booksellers.


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House Republicans in apparent disarray over fiscal impasse


By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to reach internal consensus on Tuesday on how to break an impasse on the federal budget that could soon result in an economically damaging default on the country's debt.


House Republican leaders proposed a plan to reopen the government and avoid debt default but it was rejected in a meeting with rank and file lawmakers. The plan differed in a few important details from one in the U.S. Senate.


House Speaker John Boehner said they had not reached any decisions on how to proceed, but were determined not to allow a default.


"There are a lot of opinions about what direction to go. There have been no decisions about exactly what we will do," Boehner told reporters.


Senate leaders said they were close to an agreement on their side that would reopen the government, in partial shutdown for two weeks, and extend the debt ceiling by the deadline on Thursday when the U.S. Treasury says it will reach its borrowing limit.


The confusion complicated 11th-hour talks on the government shutdown and the potential default. Senate Democrats and the White House have rejected the House Republican plan. President Barack Obama will meet with House Democratic leaders at 3:15 p.m. ET to discuss their options.


House Republican aides said the proposal floated on Tuesday would have funded the government through January 15, and raised the debt ceiling by enough to cover the nation's borrowing needs through February 7, similar to the Senate plan.


But unlike the Senate, it would include a two-year suspension of the medical device tax included in Obama's healthcare law, and a requirement that members of Congress and the administration be covered under the law.


The House version also would not allow the Treasury to renew its extraordinary cash management measures to stretch borrowing capacity for months, which had tentatively been allowed under the Senate plan.


The White House said the tentative House plan was not workable and was designed to appease the Tea Party faction in the Republican Party who have demanded that any concessions on the budget be linked to changes in the healthcare law.


"The president has said repeatedly that members of Congress don't get to demand ransom for fulfilling their basic responsibilities to pass a budget and pay the nation's bills," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage.


"Unfortunately, the latest proposal from House Republicans does just that in a partisan attempt to appease a small group of Tea Party Republicans who forced the government shutdown in the first place," she said.


The White House statement praised the "bipartisan, good-faith" Senate effort at compromise between Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.


The two Senate leaders negotiated the tentative Senate plan on Monday, and Reid said he was optimistic about reaching a final deal this week.


"There are productive negotiations going on with the Republican leader. I'm confident that we'll be able to reach a comprehensive agreement this week in time to avert a catastrophic default on the nation's bills," Reid said on the Senate floor.


Reid later called the tentative House plan "a blatant attack on bipartisanship."


The plans in both houses of Congress would have resolved the immediate fiscal crisis, and set up a new round of budget talks that would try to strike a bargain by year's end.


The markets weathered the turmoil with only moderate losses. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 28 points, or 0.18 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 1.5 points, or 0.09 percent.


(Additional reporting by David Lawder, Susan Heavey, Amanda Becker; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Grant McCool)



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Simple dos, don'ts of surviving furlough


ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. (Oct. 9, 2013) -- A furlough can create hardships for families - especially when finances are already stretched.

Here are some tips for surviving furloughs:

1. Cash in vacation time or cancel your vacation. While taking a vacation is recommended to renew the spirit, there are times when refilling the savings account is much more important.

2. Call your creditors and arrange to defer payments on your accounts or have accounts re-aged. If you explain your situation, your credit card companies, student loans, and other revolving credit accounts may give you a temporary break.

3. Start brown bagging on the days that you are working. You can actually save close to $300 a month by brown bagging it for lunch.

4. Start eating leftovers once a week. Get creative with leftovers, so you can stop wasting food and start saving money on groceries.

5. Go on a spending diet. Try this on your monthly budget. Just how much money do you need to get through a month?

6. Learn to prioritize. Prioritize your bills to make decisions about spending money.

7. Use your days off to start vegetable gardening and other money-saving hobbies. Besides growing your own vegetables, you could also do things like: cut and organize coupons, cook food from scratch more often, spend some time comparison shopping.

8. Cut back on your kids' expensive after school programs and spend more time with them instead. If your kids are in multiple after-school programs, have them choose their favorite ones and eliminate the rest. This will save up to $100 a month per child, per activity. The time that you spend with them is much more valuable anyway.

Don't Do This:
Just the same, there are a few things you should not do during a furlough. If you've been furloughed you'll want to be extra cautious during this time.

1. Do not use credit to supplement your income. This will only increase your debt load and make your monthly bills higher, not lower.

2. Do not quit your job. Don't take an all-or-nothing attitude in tough times like this. Instead, you should grin and bear it while keeping an eye open for something better.

3. Do not complain at work. Complaining is akin to quitting your job because a bad attitude can be a reason they could use to terminate you.

4. Do not feel defeated and depressed. Attitude is everything in a tough situation. Keep a positive outlook and you will survive the lay-off with your spirit intact.

The above article is provided as a service by the Financial Readiness Center of Army Community Service. Clients and readers are responsible for making their decisions on actions to take. From time to time, articles with topics of career development, personal finances, or consumer affairs could be of great interest to the extended Rock Island Arsenal community.

The information presented above is neither an endorsement nor any sort of recommendation. This article is not intended to replace the advice of a qualified attorney, tax adviser, financial adviser, or insurance agent. Before making any financial commitment regarding the issues discussed here, consult the appropriate professional adviser. The information is provided only for educating readers in order to broaden their knowledge of options that may be available. For this educational purpose, the previous information is provided.

The Financial Readiness Center of Rock Island Arsenal's Army Community Service is located in Bldg. 110, 1st floor, southeast wing. If additional information or assistance is desired, call (309) 782-0815 or email usarmy.ria.imcom-central.mbx.usag-acs@mail.mil. Military and civilian personnel are reminded to account for their duty time with their supervisors.





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