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Bass, Magic snap Celtics' 14-game win streak
ORLANDO, Fla. — The remolded Magic are the NBA's new streak busters.
Brandon Bass scored 21 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 15 and the Orlando Magic ended the Boston Celtics' winning streak at 14 games with an 86-78 victory Saturday for back-to-back wins against the NBA's best.
A Magic team that had dropped eight of nine games and orchestrated two blockbuster trades suddenly looks awfully scary in the Eastern Conference after a pair of victories over Boston and San Antonio.
"You see what the possibilities are," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said. "You see that you have a chance to be a really good team. We're not there yet by any means, but you have a chance to be a very good team. And I think that right there, that belief and that confidence that if we will stay with it, we can be very good.
"That's a great thing for our team to get that belief that, yeah, this can work. We can do this."
Jameer Nelson (12 points) and J.J. Redick (10 points) each made a jumper in the final minutes to help Orlando rally from 12 points down in the second half to cap another big come back. The Magic also ended San Antonio's winning streak at 10 games Thursday night.
Kevin Garnett had 22 points, and Paul Pierce added 18, but injuries finally caught up with the Celtics against the team they beat last season in the East finals. Boston hadn't lost since Nov. 21 at Toronto.
"I just thought we went away from executing offensively and we just didn't get any stops down the stretch," Pierce said.
The Celtics had Magic All-Star center Dwight Howard in foul trouble for the first three quarters. He didn't even score his first field goal until a minute into the fourth quarter, a hook shot over Glen Davis to trim Boston's lead to four.
A few plays later, Howard was wrestling with Shaquille O'Neal for position when he drew a sixth foul on O'Neal by easily falling to the ground. And O'Neal, accused by Van Gundy of flopping in a game two years ago that fueled fodder between the two, wasn't happy with the whistle.
"I just wonder why I've never gotten that call in 20 years," O'Neal said. "Don't pick and choose when you're going to make the call. ... That's what happens when you've got control freaks."
Howard disagreed.
"I didn't flop," he said. "I just tripped."
The Magic tied it at 77 on Bass' short jumper with 1:56 remaining. Nelson followed with a 3-pointer, leaving his hand in the air and chest-bumping teammate Jason Richardson in a frantic celebration near the bench. And after Garnett made one of two free throws, Redick rolled in a jumper from about 20 feet to put Orlando ahead 82-78.
Ray Allen and Nate Robinson each had airballs in the final seconds, and Nelson made four free throws to seal another huge victory for a Magic team that was falling apart only days prior. Two trades so far have made all the difference.
The Magic brought Gilbert Arenas from Washington and acquired Richardson, Turkoglu and Earl Clark from Phoenix. They gave up Rashard Lewis, Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus and Marcin Gortat, plus a 2011 first-round draft pick and cash, in the deals.
Boston point guard Rajon Rondo again was out with a sprained ankle and had missed seven of the 14 wins during the streak. Backup Delonte West has missed the last 13. O'Neal sat out four, Jermaine O'Neal played for the first time in 14 games against Orlando and Kendrick Perkins — last season's starting center — hasn't even played this season.
Not that Orlando wasn't enjoying the win any less.
"I had never played on Christmas," Arenas said. "I got nice Christmas present today."
NOTES: The game was actually a home contest for several Celtics. Shaquille O'Neal and coach Doc Rivers have lived in the Orlando area for years and Marquis Daniels is from Orlando. ... Tiger Woods sat courtside. ... The Celtics and Magic don't meet again until Jan. 17 in Boston.


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How Obama Is Winning Debt-Ceiling Politics—and Why It Doesn't Matter
The president holds a press conference to keep the heat on Congress, but Congress may be impervious to public opinion.
Why did President Obama have a press conference Monday? In calling on Congress to raise the debt ceiling, he mostly said the same things he's said before -- that a default or government shutdown would hurt the economy, that deficits must be reduced in a balanced way, and that he won't make deals over something that's fundamentally Congress's responsibility.
But there was a clear goal in Obama's remarks, and it reflected a lesson learned in his first term as he prepares for his second. The president appears newly conscious of the need to seize control of the public narrative and win the political battle with Congress, something he's often failed to do in the past.
"Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize more spending," Obama said. "These are bills that have already been racked up, and we need to pay them .... Republicans in Congress have two choices here. They can act responsibly and pay America's bills, or they can act irresponsibly and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy."
It's important for Obama to make this point, because raising the debt ceiling isn't necessarily a popular thing to do. Voters, hearing the word "debt," tend to think it's about politicians spending more money. That's why politicians in the opposition party -- among them then-Senator Barack Obama in 2006 -- tend to vote against debt-ceiling hikes to score a cheap political point against the president. Obama hopes that by explaining that the money has already been spent -- and pinning the blame for that on a Congress that's all talk when it comes to actually cutting government spending -- he can change that calculus.
But the ephemeral political advantage of demagoguing the debt ceiling disappears as soon as the government actually shuts down and/or defaults, something for which the public appears prepared to blame Congress, and especially Republicans in Congress. Thus you have Obama hammering on the consequences of debt-ceiling inaction: "If congressional Republicans refuse to pay America's bills on time, Social Security checks and veterans benefits will be delayed. ... It would be a self-inflicted wound on the economy. It would slow down our growth, might tip us into recession. And ironically it would probably increase our deficit."
Obama continued to insist he won't negotiate over the debt ceiling, which congressional Republicans see as their most significant point of leverage in the upcoming trio of fiscal deadlines. The White House's thinking is that he can simply continue to say, "Do your job," to Congress when and if they come to him seeking concessions in exchange for it, and refuse to have any further conversation.
That's a bit difficult to believe, as a couple of Obama's questioners in the White House press corps pointed out. First, debt-ceiling hikes have historically been packaged with larger fiscal deals between presidents and Congress. Second, Obama has often drawn supposed lines in the sand before only to negotiate them away -- take the fiscal-cliff deal, less than a month old, in which the president abandoned his supposedly ironclad promise not to preserve Bush-era tax rates for incomes over $250,000. And third, given that the debt-ceiling deadline coincides with the double deadlines for sequestration and budgeting, it will be difficult for Obama to negotiate over one without negotiating over the other.
Nonetheless, in vigorously explaining the debt ceiling and setting out his position, Obama is playing a more aggressive political game than he has in the past. With the formidable power of the bully pulpit on his side, he's trying to ensure that the debate over the debt ceiling stays on his terms -- a conversation about whether Congress can get its act together -- rather than allowing Republicans to turn it into a conversation about government spending.
The problem for Obama is that he can win the political battle until he's blue in the face without necessarily changing minds in Congress. As the fiscal-cliff mess demonstrated, there's an undaunted minority of House Republicans who aren't interested in compromise and aren't susceptible to pleas from Speaker John Boehner to change their tune. That hasn't changed, as Politico reported today. Boehner is contemplating forcing a shutdown -- not because it's a good idea politically or policywise, but to placate the conservatives in his caucus.
Top Republicans know this stuff is making them look bad. They're just powerless to stop it.

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First, to the Home.
Once again, the ICAA knocks it out of the park. This time with a guest lecture (for members only) by McApline Tankersly's own Bobby McAlpine. The location was in a Home of one of his few Atlanta projects. Even though it's tucked away in the heart of Buckhead, I've driven past it many times and always wanted to check it out first hand. Before actually attending the event though, I had in my mind that this was going to be a piece about architecture and style. However, afterwards, I think I'll take it in a little bit of a different direction.
You see, this was an experience. Probably because everybody there knew each other and the setting was real comfortable, but, this was no ordinary lecture. Not in the least. Bobby's approach was very candid and he had everybody absolutely captivated. And that means a lot considering that there were so many talented folks in the room.
He started out by telling of his childhood. Born the son of a mill manager in rural Alabama. Playing in one "dirt lot" after another. Until one day, when he was still quite young, he looked around and recognized that this was "not his world" … and then he sought out to find it.
He then relayed an anecdote about how a turn of the century business tycoon was about to make the speech of his career when he was tapped on the shoulder, only to be notified that his long time office manager had passed away. Afterwards, as the partners tried to come up with a proper eulogy for this lady and everyone was stuck with nothing to say, he announced that "She was born in 1888 in a barn, died in 1932 in a prestigious Manhattan highrise office…She was an astronaut."
I love that!!!
He then began to take us through a stream of projects. Typical of presentations like this. Yet, his was full of color. Kind of the inside story. But, what caught me was that he was both humble and bold. What an amazing combination. Certainly the traits that I would love to develop more of in my own character.
When he wrapped things up, he hung around to greet everyone individually. Spending a considerable amount of time with anyone and everyone. A line formed to meet with him. This to me was the most valuable point of the evening. I found a few of his past students who were not standing in line like the rest, but, who were recalling stories of spending time in his classroom. You see, Bobby went back to Auburn University after he had established his own firm and taught for 9 years. These guys said that he was like no other. They spoke of the field trips they took to his current projects looking at things from a completely different perspective. (None of the other professors at the time had their own firm or projects). They talked about how he would let them try things their own way and then, after they had taken it so far, step in and show them a completely different way of "seeing" things. They spoke of how he would take to the ones who "truly got it" and commit the time to train them and develop them into a superstar of their own right. Absolutely cool. I am such a fan of the whole principle of mentorship and apprenticeship and it appears that he lived it.
Thanks to all for a wonderful evening,
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Jimi Heselden will forever be remembered as the Segway, Inc. chairman who rode his product off a cliff. That's a shame. Because Heselden's life amounted to so much more than that one tragic accident.
Heselden grew up in the depressed Halton Moor suburb of Leeds, UK, the type of place that's more likely to turn out miners than millionaires. In fact, that's exactly how Heselden started out. Dropping school at 15 to work at the Waterloo Colliery, Temple Newsam, and Lofthouse pits, he was on track to spend the rest of his life underground.
And that's where he stayed, until a miner's strike in the early 70s forced him out of a job. It was, in retrospect, the best thing that could have happened to him.
Already in his early 30s, uninterested in returning to the pits, in 1973 Heselden pooled his severance money with some friends to invest in a sandblasting machine. The timing couldn't have been better; as the North Sea oil business boomed, there was money to be made in sandblasting oil storage containers. A significant portion of which went to Heselden and his friends.
That's not the business that made Heselden one of the 400 richest people in the UK—but it's what gave him the inspiration for what did. According to a 2008 interview with the Yorkshire Evening Post:
Jimi explained: "One of [the containers] was so big I had to take a hill out of my yard to get it in. It needed shoring up, so I put mesh around it and filled it with the spent grit and shot."
That mesh box evolved into Heselden's billion dollar idea: the Concertainer. The collapsable mesh box may have started out collecting rubble in Heselden's backyard, but today it's essential for everything from military operations to flood management.
Heselden's company, Hesco Bastion, received its first defense contract in 1991. In the intervening years, Heselden quietly became one of the UK's most generous philanthropists. He donated more than $15 million to support laid-off miners and their families in and around his hometown in 2008, then doubled down on the donation earlier this year. He's also given millions more to provide aid to wounded British soliders.
It wasn't until this past January that Heselden purchased Segway, Inc. with a few business partners. Not much had changed in the business since the acquisition, although clearly they thought they could find a wider audience for the machine that was supposed to change everything.
So while it seems likely Heselden will be remembered for an "ironic" death—that ten months ago we could have just called tragic—let's not to forget the other 61 years of his life, and how he lived them: with determination, intelligence, and generosity.
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text: John Carpenter is a legend. As the director and composer behind dozens of classic movies, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema, as well as one of its most influential musicians. The minimal, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween, Escape From New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images, and their timelessness was evident as Carpenter performed them live in a string of internationally sold-out concert dates in 2016. Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 collects 13 classic themes from Carpenter's illustrious career together on one volume for the first time. Each theme has been newly recorded with the same collaborators that Carpenter worked with on his hit Lost Themes studio albums: his son, Cody Carpenter, and godson, Daniel Davies.


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Therapy for ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease has been transformed with the introduction of anti–tumor necrosis factor treatment, according to University of Miami authors.
Therapy for ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease has been transformed with the introduction of anti–tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) treatment, and combination therapy with an anti-TNF agent and a thiopurine currently is the most effective treatment for patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, according to authors Maria T. Abreu, MD, and Sebastian G. Strobel, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida.
Drs Abreu and Strobel discuss the latest developments for 3 types of idiopathic colitis-ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease, and microscopic colitis-in their article "Update on Idiopathic Colitides" in the latest issue of Current Opinion in Gastroenterology.
Other key points in the authors' review include the following:
• Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis are closely related genetically.
• Colonoscopy remains the gold standard for making a diagnosis. Adding chromoendoscopy can help identify and remove colonic dysplasia.
• Prolonged use of infliximab for ulcerative colitis is effective and well tolerated and early mucosal healing is associated with a decreased risk of colectomy, recent data have shown.
• There is no evidence of a significant increased risk of anti-TNF therapy–induced malignancies.
• Combination therapy with azathioprine and infliximab has been shown to be superior to monotherapy for patients with ulcerative colitis.
• When anti-TNF therapy has not succeeded, natalizumab is effective and patients may be at risk stratified for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy by testing for antibodies to John Cunningham virus.
• Microscopic colitis may be associated with medication use, and symptoms may be worsened by coexisting celiac disease.
• Stem cell therapy for perianal fistulas is a promising new treatment approach for patients with Crohn disease.
Dr Abreu will be presenting at 2012 Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Clinical & Research Conference, to be held December 13-15 in Hollywood, Florida. Her sessions will include advances in understanding the role of the immune system in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), genetics in IBD, and how the microbiota modulates the innate immune system in IBD.
For more information on these conditions, see "Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: A Photo Essay."
1. Strobel S, Abreu MT. Update on idiopathic colitides. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2013;29:60-65.


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The New World Order is coming! Are you ready? Once you understand what this New World Order really is, and how it is being gradually implemented, you will be able to see it progressing in your daily news!!
NEWS BRIEF: "North Korea's Anguish: Isolated Nation Teeters On Brink Of Epic Famine", and "Mind Games of War Include A Dress Code", The Providence Sunday Journal, News II, May 4, 1997, Page D-1, 9.
"Under a bright afternoon sun, a dozen women in red kerchiefs and ragged trousers scoured a field of withered cornstalks for the few yellowing husks that remained edible, a sign of the frightful desperation now gripping North Korea. As famine spreads, a misery of almost unspeakable dimensions is becoming evident from the horror stories now seeping out: of starving babies reduced to skin and bone, of women selling their daughters, of families even resorting to cannibalism to survive." [Page D-1].
Since 1917, when Czarist Russia was overthrown by the Communist army of Lenin, Communist countries have lurched from basis crisis to basic crisis. In other words, Communism has not ever been able to even carry out the basic economic needs of its people, i.e., feeding, clothing, and sheltering them. The Western nations, led by the United States, has had to bail Communist Russia out almost once a decade since the 1930's. Communist China also has never been able to perform these basic economic tasks, either, but their answer was to simply throw a ring of military steel around the country and enforce a eery silence as they rode their crisis out. In the process, the Chinese Communist leadership watched as terrible famine wracked the country. In this article, a Chinese truck driver is quoted as he talks of this famine, comparing it to the current situation in North Korea. " 'It's worse than last year, and that was bad already. People you see on the side of the road are skin and bone. If you stop, men come up to you and ask for liquor, even when their families have no food.' Yang and his fellow drivers compared horror stories, all second-hand and all impossible to confirm, of wandering packs of children who fight each other for a scrap of food, of drunken soldiers shooting farmers for a potato, even of men killing their wives or children to sell the flesh off their bones. 'It's like our three disastrous years,' said Yang, referring to the famine that wiped out 30 million Chinese in the early 1960's. 'Terrible things happen when people get hungry.' " [Page D-9]
Communist China weathered her famine by allowing 30 million Chinese
to starve.
Other examples abound of Communist countries that cannot feed themselves. Cuba is another good example. Communism so discourages work and extra effort that it is a system that cannot, and will not, ever work. This is the reason that the New World Order Plan envisions an Economic system of Fascism rather than Communism or Free Enterprise [See NEWS1005, "Industrial Policy is Fascism" for a complete discussion of this most interesting subject of the three different types of economies].
Therefore, we are not surprised that such a desperate situation exists in North Korea, where famine has aggravated an already weak economy. How bad is the situation facing North Korea? Aside from the human drama described, above, we need to look at a few statistics.
"United Nations' officials estimate that the nation's grain shortage will reach more than 2 million tons this year. Washington recently announced that it would send an additional $15 million worth of food ... China also announced new donations of 70,000 tons of grain." [Page D-9]
The picture painted in these articles is grim, indeed. However, we believe that this scenario may not be entirely accidental. We believe it may also a part of the New World Order Plan to stage the appearance of Antichrist. In the book, The Armageddon Script: Prophecy In Action, author Peter Lemesurier systematically lists all the events which shall occur in order to stage the appearance of Antichrist. We encourage you to get this book, as it is unique in its succinct listing of all the events which the Antichrist will perform to make all the peoples of the world believe his claims.
Before we go further, we want to just share with you one of the instances where Lemesurier's plan has been already followed precisely. Lemesurier's book was written in 1981; on page 222, Lemesurier suddenly begins speaking of the Arabs, when he says, "Yet the Arab confederacy will fall apart in feuds and wars in which desert oil-wells will be set alight." We KNOW when this part of the New World Order Plan was fulfilled, don't we? In 1991, when Saddam Hussein's army was retreating from Kuwait in the face of the Allied -- mostly American -- onslaught, Saddam ordered that Kuwait's oil wells be set on fire. Now we know that Saddam Hussein was acting in accordance with the New World Order Plan!! Think carefully about this for a few moments, for it will tell you volumes about the truth of which we speak. It will tell you that Saddam was a part of the Plan from the beginning, and will tell you why President George Bush spared him from complete destruction. It might even tell you that the entire Gulf War was part of the global New World Order Plan!! The Gulf War was declared to be a war of the New World Order. Do you recall, in August, 1990, when President Bush gave his famous speech about the Kuwait invasion? Bush declared that the New World Order was now a reality!! Remember his words, "This invasion [of Kuwait] will not stand, for it threatens the New World Order." Immediately, Vice President Quayle began speaking of this term, as did Presidents and Prime Ministers the entire world over. Immediately, this arcane term -- New World Order -- which had been used only within occult literature, became a very popular buzz word. Make no mistake about this fact, the Gulf War was planned, as were the lighting of the Arab oil wells, and as are most of the major events about to explode upon the world's scene.
Now, let us return to our subject of North and South Korea. On page 222-3, of his book, Lemesurier makes a very cryptic statement about Korea. "But then war will seldom be absent from the world-scene during the last twenty years of the century. There will be numerous local conflicts in the Far East, the Middle East, and Africa. A hair-raising nuclear confrontation in Korea may, towards the end of the period, threaten man's very survival."
In other words, the New World Order Plan envisions a staged nuclear confrontation in Korea. This statement places at least the North Korean Government inside the New World Order Plan, and probably South Korea, as well. During the first two years of the Clinton Administration, we were all told repeatedly that Korea was "suspected" of having nuclear weapons. President Clinton and former President Carter brokered a deal, whereby North Korea "promised" to eliminate their nuclear weapons and the potential to make them, some time after the year 2000 A.D. This "deal" was, of course, no deal, as it left North Korea in solid control of these weapons during this time period.
Now, let us return to our newspaper story we have quoted, above, a story that undoubtedly broke nationwide. Do these stories speak of the possibility of war? Indeed, they do!
"Hwang Jang Yop, the high-ranking North Korean defector, said when he arrived in Seoul recently that the Pyongyang leaders ... were dangerously close to a military attack ... When ... Hwang Jang Yop warned that his nation's leaders see war as the only way to reverse a downward spiral into chaos and starvation, he made headlines around the world. But North Korea's menace is old news at the DMZ, where both sides have been braced to resume a war that never officially ended. If North Korea's million-man army ever does attack, 37,000 U.S. troops will stand in the way. The carnage would be horrific but the outcome certain, according to U.S. Army spokesman, Jim Coles. 'Our business is wholesale death and destruction and we're the best in the world at it', he told me."
Thus, the outlines of this scenario are all to plain to see:
1) North and South Korea begin a short period of a 'war of words'
2) Both sides begin to move massive numbers of men and material up to the front
3) Led by the U.S. President, the Western world swings in solidly behind South Korea, and the U.S. begins to move additional military units to South Korea.
4) After proper posturing, North Korea attacks. After penetrating some short distance, North Korean troops begin to be destroyed as American troops, equipped with the same lopsided margin of capability as we had against Saddam Hussein, rapidly kill North Koreans by the tens of thousands.
5) In desperation, North Korea then launches a limited number of nuclear weapons or threatens to do so.
6) America rapidly comes to the aid of South Korea, rushing in nuclear capability
7) China, likewise, backs North Korea
8) Now, the confrontation is between China and America, both threatening
each other with nuclear annihilation. The world panics ----------------------------
At the same time, in the Middle East, Israel is annihilating her
Arab protagonists, setting the stage for the planned appearance
of Antichrist. The world panics -------------
At the same time, Arab terrorists strike American and European
cities with wide-spread terrorism, and threatening to use nuclear
devices. The world panics ----------------
At the same time, riots erupt in American cities. America panics
Maybe the Stock Market goes into a free fall, reacting badly to
the out-of-control events. The world panics ----------------------
Possibly, we learn that unidentified craft from outer space are approaching the Earth. Possibly, UFO's and Aliens are seen all over the world. The world panics -------------------
9) China suddenly invades Taiwan, now that U.S. forces are stretched to the breaking point between the conflict in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula. Since America does not have adequate Naval carrier groups to adequately defend Taiwan now that we are fully committed between the Middle East and Korea, China is fully willing to "seize the moment" to attack Taiwan.
Now, this planned war is truly a "World War". The world is going through the final birth pangs to produce Antichrist. [Matthew 24:8 is being fully fulfilled]
Suddenly, amidst all this panic, we learn of a "Man of Peace" who has arisen East of Jerusalem, claiming to be the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, and other world avatars, all in one person. And, to back up his claim, he is dazzling the peoples of the world with displays of supernatural power.
This scenario may be almost ready to spring on an already well-conditioned public. If it is, the beginning of the Tribulation Period may be close at hand.
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but have come to realize His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to accept His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can also do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you accept Him as Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually. If you would like to become Born Again, turn to our Salvation Page now.
Finally, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us by mail or email.
God bless you.
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Last week we hosted another #citytalk tweetchat with the New Cities Foundation on the topic of Future Cities. With the world urbanising, current cities are growing and many new cities are being built. But will the future of the world be led by megacities?
Our dicussion looked at the future of current urban areas, how we are developing new cities, and how this might affect urban citizens.
The discussion was a great success, reaching over 35,000 people and making the Twitter Trending Topics for the first time. Though the pace was fast, we read all your tweets and have selected eight of our favourites for this list (if you missed out and want to see the whole discussion, check it out here).
1. Existing cities will not be forgotten
Though new cities are being built across the globe, existing cities are critical for tackling the global urbanisation trend. Will megacities become more common?
A1. No. Existing cities will be the starting place for redevelopment and densification bc infrastructure already there @thisbigcity #citytalk — abbEy (@alo83) May 9, 2012
2. The themed city
Cities are increasingly turning to branding to establish their identities. Is this a good idea?
A2) Something about themed city does not sit well with me. I do support focused cities.Cape Town, sometimes tries to be everything #CityTalk — futurecapetown.com (@futurecapetown) May 9, 2012
3. Technology may well bring us closer
With technology (theoretically) allowing us to work almost anywhere, why are we choosing to live closer together? Though it might seem illogical, could technology actually be encouraging geographical closeness?
A3 Technological development has introduced new ways to connect with the city and made it a more interesting place as a result #citytalk — Joe Peach (@thisbigcity) May 9, 2012
4. Cities without governments
Cities are being developed with industry in place, but no governments. Might future cities exist without any governmental presence? Is this a good idea? Is this actually any different to how cities have developed in the past?
A4. historically company towns formed around factories. workers either created own gov alongside the comp rules or factory did #citytalk — abbEy (@alo83) May 9, 2012
5. Partnerships for urban success
Collaboration between urban stakeholders will be critical in future cities, just as it is in present cities!
A5 Everybody living in a community should be involved in partnerships for the better of that community, be it urban or rural. #citytalk — Mayra Hartmann (@MayraHart) May 9, 2012
6. Single-purpose cities will continue to exist
Whether it's political ambition or a compromise between bickering cities (Melbourne, Sydney – calm down), capitally cities built specifically for the purpose of governance will continue. Cities built to cater to one goal, be it industry, environmental sustainability, etc. – will also continue to be developed. But will they develop a diverse culture beyond their initial single purpose?
A6 Planned cities, if they work, arguably do so despite the plan: observe that a range of planning paradigms have worked. #citytalk — Rory Williams (@carbonsmart) May 9, 2012
7. Decentralised cities
Don't want to commit to building an entirely new city somewhere? How about a satellite city, located on the edge of an already developed metropolis? This approach has been taken in the past with cities like Milton Keynes in the UK, but is it a good idea to continue with this into the future, and could it end up creating more megacities?
A7) The problem with "decentralized" cities is that eventually it stands a lot of potential to create a breeding ground for sprawl #citytalk — UT Built Environment (@UT_BuiltEnv) May 9, 2012
8. Future citizenship in future cities
Cities will be different in the future, but how might the changes we're anticipating affect urban citizens? Yesterday I hosted a panel discussion at the New Cities Summit on Greener Districts and our panelists largely agreed with your comments from #citytalk – the future citizen will hopefully be engaged, digitally enabled, with access to information and an awareness of their options in the dense urban area they live in.
A8) the future citizen will be a connected citizen – connecting to fellow citizens, gov, issues, community, online and offline #citytalk — Chris B. (@FromBKtoBXL) May 9, 2012


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Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG), announces that the Lysosomal Disease Network (LDN) presented Shire Human Genetic Therapies (HGT) with the first ever Novel Treatment Award for VPRIV on February 14th, at its 9th Annual WORLD Symposium. The LDN have launched this new award, which will be presented annually, to recognize new drugs or therapies that have made a considerable contribution in the area of lysosomal diseases.
"Shire has demonstrated its commitment to developing new therapies for the treatment of rare genetic diseases. We wanted to recognize the contribution of VPRIV for the treatment of type 1 Gaucher disease by awarding Shire the first ever Novel Treatment Award," said Chester Whitley, University of Minnesota and Principal Investigator, LDN. "As new treatments are developed, we want to be sure that these huge efforts and accomplishments are recognized in the hope of inspiring other young investigators and corporate developers. We hope that this award is a way of demonstrating this."
VPRIV is an enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) used for the long-term treatment of patients with type 1 Gaucher disease. The safety and efficacy of VPRIV was assessed in more than 100 patients at 24 sites in 10 countries, representing the largest and most comprehensive clinical data set to support registration for an ERT for type 1 Gaucher disease. VPRIV is manufactured using a human cell line with Shire's proprietary gene activation technology.
"As a leader in rare diseases, Shire is honored to be recognized by LDN with its first Novel Treatment Award," said Dr. Philip J. Vickers, Global Head of Research and Development, Shire HGT. "This award embodies the spirit of our organization – every employee at Shire is dedicated to developing and bringing forward new products, services and support offerings which can make a positive impact on patients' lives. Shire is proud to provide Gaucher patients with an effective treatment option and continues to build upon a solid foundation, established by our lysosomal enzyme replacement therapies, to further support rare disease patients around the world."
As part of its ongoing commitment in type 1 Gaucher disease, Shire continues to invest in further evaluating the safety and efficacy of VPRIV through the generation of long-term clinical trial data, additional pediatric data, as well as the long-term observational data collected through the Gaucher Outcomes Survey.
About VPRIV (velaglucerase alfa)
VPRIV is a hydrolytic lysosomal glucocerebroside-specific enzyme indicated for long-term enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for pediatric and adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease.
VPRIV has the exact human amino acid sequence as that found in the naturally occurring human enzyme.
From September 2009, patients were able to receive VPRIV via expanded access mechanisms. In parallel, Shire worked in cooperation with regulatory agencies to expedite the new drug application submissions and with priority reviews, marketing authorization of VPRIV was granted by the US FDA on 26 February 2010, 18 months ahead of anticipated timelines, and by the European Commission on 20 August 2010.
VPRIV is approved in 40 countries globally, including the US, the European Union member states, and Israel, and is for patients previously treated for type 1 Gaucher disease or those who are treatment-naive.
VPRIV Important Safety Information
The most serious adverse reactions seen with VPRIV were hypersensitivity reactions. Infusion-related reactions were the most commonly observed adverse reactions in patients treated with VPRIV in clinical studies. The most commonly observed symptoms of infusion-related reactions were: headache, dizziness, low or high blood pressure, nausea, tiredness and weakness, and fever. Generally the infusion-related reactions were mild and, in treatment-naïve patients, onset occurred mostly during the first 6 months of treatment and tended to occur less frequently with time.
All adult side effects of VPRIV are considered relevant to children (ages 4 to 17 years). Side effects more commonly seen in children compared with adult patients included: upper respiratory tract infection, rash, aPTT prolonged, and fever. The safety of VPRIV has not been established in patients younger than 4 years of age.
VPRIV is not available in all countries and prescribing information may differ between countries. Please consult your local prescribing information. Full prescribing information for VPRIV in the U.S. can be found at www.VPRIV.com.
For further information please contact:
Jessica Mann (Corporate)
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Shire enables people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.
Through our deep understanding of patients' needs, we develop and provide healthcare in the areas of:
as well as other symptomatic conditions treated by specialist physicians.
We aspire to imagine and lead the future of healthcare, creating value for patients, physicians, policymakers, payors and our shareholders.
Statements included in this announcement that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time. In the event such risks or uncertainties materialize, Shire's results could be materially adversely affected. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, that:
and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in Shire's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Gold Medal Streams
Animas River: From Lightner Creek to Rivera Crossing bridge
Arkansas River: From confluence with the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River, near Leadville, downstream to Parkdale at the U.S. 50 bridge
Blue River: From Dillon Reservoir dam to Green Mountain Reservoir inlet; also from Green Mountain Reservoir dam to Colorado River
Colorado River: From Fraser River to Troublesome Creek
Fryingpan River: From Ruedi Reservoir dam to the Roaring Fork River
Gore Creek: From Red Sandstone Creek to Eagle River
Gunnison River: From 200 yards downstream of Crystal Reservoir dam to the North Fork of the Gunnison
North Platte River: From south boundary of Routt National Forest to Wyoming (Northgate Canyon)
Rio Grande: From Hwy. 149 bridge at South Fork downstream to Rio Grande canal diversion structure
Roaring Fork River: From the Fryingpan River to the Colorado River
South Platte River: From the confluence of the middle and south forks to Spinney
Mountain Reservoir inle. From Spinney Mountain Reservoir outlet to Eleven Mile Reservoir inlet. From Cheesman Reservoir dam to the south boundary of the Wigwam Club property. From the north boundary of Wigwam Club property to Scraggy View picnic ground. Middle fork, from the Hwy. 9 bridge to the south fork confluence.
— Information taken from Colorado Parks and Wildlife
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission announced in a press release Friday that the upper Arkansas River has been added as the newest addition to the statewide list of Gold Medal Trout Waters.
The stretch of water reach is 102 miles long from the confluence with the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River, near Leadville, downstream to Parkdale at the U.S. 50 bridge that cross over the river, the release stated.
"It's a pretty amazing designation for the Arkansas to get 100-plus miles, (which) is pretty unheard of anywhere," Royal Gorge Anglers owner Taylor Edrington told the Daily Record on Friday.
The 102-mile stretch triples the previous longest stretch in Colorado, which was the South Platte River.
In order to receive a Gold Medal listing, the release said, a body of water must consistently support a minimum trout standing stock of 60 pounds per acre, as well as consistently support a minimum average of 12 quality trout — trout larger than 14 inches — per acre. The Arkansas smashed those requirements with an average of 170.3 pounds per acre, and 75 trout larger than 14 inches-per acre, Edrington said.
"The upper Arkansas River fishery is the best it has been in over a century thanks to the efforts and hard work of many agencies and individuals that have recognized its great potential," CPW Aquatic Biologist Greg Policky said in the press release. "I am very pleased that this outstanding river has received the Gold Medal designation and is now ranked among the elite trout fisheries in Colorado."
The total amount of Gold Water in Colorado is now 322 total miles, up 50 percent since the addition of the Arkansas River's 102 miles.
Because of mining done upstream in the 1900s, there were traces of metal deposits in the river as late as the 1990s. Edrington said to have such a high rank for the Arkansas River less than 20 years later is a testament to groups, such as the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Association and the biologists who have put in time to nurse it back to health.
According to the press release, the Arkansas River ranked as the favorite fishing destination for residents of Colorado. An estimated 100,000 anglers fished the river throughout the year between Leadville and Parkdale, which is a significant milestone. More than 65 percent of the river stretch is open to the angling public via federal and state-owned land and numerous state-controlled fishing leases and easements.


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Consumer Reports'
hearing recent media coverage about bagged salad analysis, you may be wondering if your lazy lettuce habit is cause for concern. In their statement on bagged salads, CR says they found bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination. Their advice: "Even if the bag says 'prewashed' or 'triple-washed,' wash the greens yourself. Rinsing won't remove all bacteria but may remove residual soil." Well, if washing won't remove bacteria, what's the point?
In order
to get to the bottom of this, I turned to an expert, Trevor Suslow, PhD,
Extension Research Specialist, Postharvest Quality and Safety at UC Davis.
In addition to assuring me that the bacteria CR found do not necessarily
indicate fecal contamination, and that the numbers found do not relate well to
risk of illness or true and serious pathogens being present, he also shared the
following information.
What are your thoughts on the organisms that CR found and their potential for
harm in the amounts they discovered?
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TS: "Once again this type of activity
has caused a flurry of concern and confusion. I support the notion that there
is always room for improvement in food safety management and that FDA should
increase the specificity of their guidance, and regulations where warranted and
defensible, to include science-based standards for fresh produce. However, I
feel it is grossly unfair to consumers to raise a specter of fear well beyond
what is supported by available science and our everyday shared experiences. What
I rely on for my personal confidence in regularly consuming lettuces, spring
mix, and spinach salads is that there are billions and billions of servings of
these items consumed every year in the U.S. alone and the predominate
experience we have is of safe consumption. No one wishes to dismiss the fact
that such consumption likely results in sporadic cases of illness that aren't
known by the public health system and have caused multiple outbreaks and tragic
consequences for individuals and families. Continued efforts by the industry,
FDA, and consumer advocacy groups to elevate performance standards for
prevention and process management along the whole food chain at a national
level are certainly warranted. Uniform and accepted microbiological standards,
as stated in the report, are not available at this time. I believe the criteria
that were chosen do not provide sufficient information, by themselves, to judge
the sanitation performance or risk to consumers."
What's your best advice for shopping and washing lettuce?
TS: "Purchasing packaged salads or
whole heads is a matter of personal choice. We do both in my family. I always
wash loose leaf lettuces to remove any adhering soil. I never wash packaged
salads. I do not support or believe that re-washing packaged salads should be a
recommendation for the home consumer. A large and diverse panel of experts
published an article in 2007 detailing the scientific evidence for the lack of
benefit and the greater risk of cross-contamination in the home."
Should people resort to buying regular greens and washing them at home or would
you still consider it safe to buy bagged greens and skip the washing?
TS: "If one chooses to take advantage
of the convenience and diversity of greens available in sensible serving portions
or as complete salad meals it is always best to look at the Best if Consumed By
dating and take notice of the display case arrangement. Bags should be vertical
in a row, not laid one on top of the other in stacks. I always make it a habit
to check the display temperature. This isn't perfect or necessarily an
indicator of a safe or unsafe product but at least it's easy to tell if the air
is really cool and the bags are very cool to the touch."


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Top 25 compilation of film actresses performing real blowjobs
Germany goes Crazy for SEXXX!!! - (The Film)
husband films wife visiting a young black guy
Hidden Nangi bhabhi audition video for director
Renate so ne richtige Granate aus der Kneipe Dildo Test Kein Fick Film
Tiny Japanese pussies filmed in super closeup
Our Pee craziness...!!! by sexjustice
German Squiring Edition!!! - (Full HD Film)
Tapping and filming myself
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I cum while watching her masturbate and moan with pleasure!
Friend's girlfriend filmed stroking her vagina and enjoying it
Caught My Innocent Asian Roommate Filming Herself Masturbate On Bed
Vintage Josefine Mutzenbacher 1984 Film Clip
I Hate 20min Clips: Bloopers and Beyond
8mm film 1970 - dinner and sex
so fucking DEEP!!! - Episode #05
Hot brunette's film casting turned into a hardcore session
so fucking DEEP!!! - Episode #01
Milf wife filmed with a younger guy from tinder
Stranger Massages Cuckold Hotwife While Husband Is Filming
Cuckold husband films his wife Sexwife's entertainment.(3)
Wife fucks two guys, hubby is filming
Gerard Depardieu in the movie Mistress 1975
FAKings goes to a dance club to film the party animals fucki
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Hubby Cuckold Filming Wife with another Man in Hotel
Fucking at the disco
filming a friend fuck my girl
Cuck Films and gets Ignored as Wife takes MASSIVE CREAMPIE
Filming The Conception
Friend Filming Young Couple Fucking In the Bathroom
2 COCKS INSIDE ALICE'S PUSSY! She loves this fuck
Slut has threesome while on the phone and getting filmed
Getting caught and filmed doesn't seem to disturb them
I filmed while I fuck my married neighborand and cum in her
Adorable sister's Casting Filmed By Not Her brother, Part 1
Wife takes a creampie from young guy
Cute Japanese ladies filmed pissing with voyeur cam
Yanks Laura Francis Masturbating
Young Japanese girls get filmed backstage before taking a naked photoshoot
Guy Films his Wife Fucking on the Beach with BBC
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The Internet has made the concept of scarcity in pop culture almost unheard of. Where my dad spent years of his life looking through record shops for obscure 45 RPM singles of songs he hadn't heard in 25 years, these days, pretty much any album, film, book, or other media is available at your fingertips through legal or not-so-legal means. But there are still odd obscurities that aren't available at any price here and there. I've been searching record shops, eBay, and Torrent sites for years for copies of albums by '90s Toronto indie band Dig Circus, but have never found them anywhere. Are there any media which are still holy grails to you, that you still haven't found copies of? —KJ
Tasha Robinson
The one that most chaffs me, even as I respect the impulse that keeps it inaccessible, is a 13-minute animated short from 2002: "Mei And The Kitten Bus," directed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, as a spin-off of My Neighbor Totoro. It can only be seen at Studio Ghibli's museum in the Tokyo suburbs—it's never been released online or for home viewing. That's a smart marketing move for Miyazaki and the museum, but it does mean I'd have to travel to Japan to watch the child protagonist of one of my favorite movies go on an adventure with an adorable miniature version of the Catbus from the film. Also, Miracleman #25, written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Mark Buckingham, and then never printed because the publisher collapsed and then the ownership rights got ridiculously murky. Really, I'd love to read Gaiman's entire planned Miracleman arc, supposedly consisting of 18 issues in three books, completing the series. But most of that arc was apparently never even written. #25 is just a particular holy grail given that it was supposedly written, drawn, and colored—it was just never published before Eclipse Comics went down.
Marah Eakin
There are a ton of old Nickelodeon and MTV shows I'd love to see again that aren't available for various reasons—at least in their complete form. While there are VHS copies of Eureeka's Castle episodes, for example, there's no full-series DVD. More than anything, though, I'd like to get a copy of all the episodes of MTV News: UnFiltered, a sort of newsy precursor to reality TV that ran on the network in the mid-'90s. The premise was pretty simple: They sent a camera to someone with a story and had them film some stuff, and MTV cut it into a story. I was actually on the show in 1995, and while my clip is on YouTube (and no, I'm not linking to it here), the segment that aired right after mine isn't. It told the not-so-dramatic tale of a slack-jawed kid from Cincinnati who lived and worked in a cemetery. I can't explain why, but I've been dying to see that again for almost 20 years now.
Sam Adams
I pine for the conclusion of Alan Moore's severely truncated Big Numbers, which got two issues into a planned 12 before going pear-shaped. (The unpublished third issue surfaced almost two decades later on the Internet.) I also pine for another near-impossibility: Ken Russell's Dance Of The Seven Veils. The artistic biographies Russell created for the BBC before turning to theatrical filmmaking comprise some of his best, most overlooked work, and while a recent boxed set made many of them available on DVD, his poison-pen portrait of composer Richard Strauss was an unsurprising exception. Subtitled "A Comic Strip In Seven Episodes," the film was a full-bore attack on Strauss' coexistence with the Nazi regime; in one scene, he urges his orchestra to play louder in order to drown out the screams of a tortured Jew. Not surprisingly, Strauss' estate withdrew the rights to use his music, effectively making the film unreleasable, although clips have apparently been used with music by Strauss' younger brother, Josef, substituted instead. The Internet being what it is, the whole thing is available on YouTube in somewhat shaky quality, but it would be great to see it properly some day.
Will Harris
I'm not saying I wouldn't walk away from the experience saying, "Wow, I can't believe I wasted all these years wanting to see that," but as someone who loves TV obscurities and failed pilots to an occasionally unhealthy degree, I have long wanted to see Oh, No! Not THEM!, David Mirkin's failed attempt to bring The Young Ones to America, with Nigel Planer reprising the role of Neil alongside Jackie Earle Haley as a character named Adrian—possibly in tribute to Adrian Edmundson, thereby making him the Vyvyan of the group?—and Robert Bundy as Mike. I don't actually know who played Rik when all was said and done, but it's been well established that Mirkin wanted Chris Elliott for the role, and even though Fox vetoed that casting choice, their meeting ultimately led them to do Get A Life together when Oh, No! Not THEM! failed to get the green light, so everything worked out for the best. Still, I've developed a real obsession for wanting to see just how bad this Americanized take on The Young Ones was, or if, by some slim chance, it was actually halfway decent. (Apparently, punk legend G.B.H. guest-starred, which certainly seems to imply Mirkin was actually trying to do something as off-the-wall as the original series.) But I've never stumbled across so much as a clip. Frankly, I'd believe the project never got off the drawing board if it wasn't for the fact that I've read reports about how the opening credits were done in Claymation, along with a few other vague plot details, so apparently it really does exist. Would someone dig into the Fox vaults and find it already?
Nathan Rabin
As a bad/failed movie obsessive, I've been able to write about many of my white whales/holy grails like The Star Wars Holiday Special and even the Cavemen television show, but a few treasured obscurities still elude me. If I had to choose one, it would be Moment By Moment, the famously disastrous romance featuring the mismatched pair to beat all mismatched pairs: hunky young John Travolta and Lily Tomlin. The film has never been available on video or DVD, and the moment it is, I will do a delirious Snoopy dance of ultimate triumph.
Joel Keller
There are still shows of relatively recent vintage that cannot be found anywhere, mainly because of obscure legal reasons. That's the case with Ed, the wonderful 2000-2004 NBC comedy-drama starring Tom Cavanagh as Ed, a New York lawyer who escapes to his Ohio hometown and opens a bowling alley after he gets fired from his high-powered job. He then tries to reconnect with Julie Bowen, the girl he had an unrequited crush on in high school. The show had a fun, easygoing vibe, and it introduced a bunch of quirky characters who quickly became endearing—including Justin Long and Michael Ian Black in supporting roles. But as with most shows at the beginning of the era when third-party pop and rock songs were used in abundance on shows, the folks at NBC and Worldwide Pants didn't realize they'd need to secure DVD rights to all the fantastic music used in the show. Cavanagh has told reporters that there will probably never be DVDs of the series because those rights are so expensive. So the best we can do is YouTube clips, which we can watch while cursing Hollywood's shortsightedness in the early years of the DVD era.
John Teti
I was captivated by Wim Wenders' Until The End Of The World when I saw it in college. I was especially struck by the final act, in which ex-lovers William Hurt and Solveig Dommartin end up at a remote scientific installation where a brain scientist has learned to record and play back dreams. It's a profound story (essentially separate from the rest of the film) that stuck with me, especially once I started writing about games—another venue, like dreams, where you're both the subject of the action and the object of your own gaze. I don't expect to play back my own dreams, but I would like to play back Wenders' final cut of the movie. The trouble is, the director's cut has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States. I checked around again while writing this response, and I found a streaming version on Amazon—hooray!—except it's muddy and cropped to the wrong aspect ratio. That's pretty much how it goes with Until The End. I understand that popular demand can't be high. The movie is ridiculously long (Wenders' cut is four and a half hours, a self-contained "trilogy"), it's dull in stretches, and the chemistry between Hurt and Dommartin is nonexistent. It's commonly regarded as a failure. (Killer soundtrack, though.) Still, every time some unappreciated, hard-to-like-but-kind-of-brilliant cult obscurity gets a Criterion Collection release, I wonder when Until The End will get its moment.
Phil Dyess-Nugent
When I first gained access to such delights as home video, cable TV, and college repertory societies, I tore through so many movies I had longingly read about in high school that the few commercial releases of the past 50-odd years that I've never even had a shot at now have an almost mythical tinge to their luster. At this point, I'd sit in a serial killer's flooded basement to watch a deteriorating print of John Korty's Funnyman (1967), an improvisational comedy said to boast an amazing lead performance from Peter Bonerz (from The Bob Newhart Show), or James Blue's 1962 The Olive Trees Of Justice—highly praised relics from what passed for an independent American narrative film scene in the '60s. Both somehow missed the VCR era and now appear to be gone for good. And I'd love to get a look at the rushes of Arrive Alive, the 1989 action comedy, from a script by Michael O'Donoghue and Mitch Glazer, that was shut down in mid-production, after $7 million had been pissed away, because of the consensus that the lead performance by Willem Dafoe (in a role conceived for Bill Murray) was not so much funny and charming as "terrifying"—though my reasons for that choice may not reflect well on me as a child of God.
Steve Heisler
When I was in Montreal a few years ago, I wound up having a really long talk with Reggie Watts about The Peter Serafinowicz Show during a car ride from the airport. He was obsessed with the sketch show, from the genius mind of Peter Serafinowicz, and quoted a few sketches to me verbatim. Normally, that isn't an appealing prospect for humor, but the writing of the sketches was so solid that even this simple retelling was enough to have me laughing, and coupled with the fact that I was a huge fan of his and Robert Popper's Look Around You, I did everything I could to track it down. I found a handful of videos on YouTube, including one of the ones Watts went on about, and laughed my stupid ass off. Serafinowicz took amazingly absurd ideas to their entirely illogical conclusion (like a ridiculously small Mac with only one key and room for only one letter at a time), but never alienated his audience; sketches built step-by-step, leading the audience along until they were laughing at a joke that could be deconstructed five different ways. Sadly, what I did not find was a viable solution for watching the Region 2 DVDs, still the only means to watch this one-season 2007 show. The egregious oversight continues to this day, and rest assured as soon as some ingenious publisher flips the magical DVD-making machine over to Region 1, I'll be first in the e-line to snag the entire series.
Jason Heller
It's pretty selfish of me to lament the death of Bruno Schulz more for the loss of his unpublished work than for the personal horror surrounding his life. In 1942, the artist and writer—a Polish Jew—was killed by a Gestapo officer after having been sheltered from the brunt of the Holocaust by the Nazi butcher Felix Landau, who perversely admired and commissioned Schulz's mural work. But Schulz's fiction—or the lack thereof—strikes me as especially tragic. His small body of published short stories is staggering in its imagistic potency, metaphysical depth, and magic-realist folkiness. It also just plain fucking floors me every time I read it. Collected in volumes such as The Street Of Crocodiles, it's the type of writing that promises greatness to come—but Schulz's sole known novel-in-progress, The Messiah, was lost in the war, along with a number of his early short stories. It's possible that these manuscripts could surface someday. But that possibility, sadly, grows more remote every year, even as Schulz's posthumous stature looms larger.
Erik Adams
From 1955 to 1961, Washington D.C.-based NBC affiliate WRC-TV devoted 10 minutes of its broadcast days to Sam And Friends, the first televised showcase for Jim Henson and The Muppets. From those five years on the air, only a handful of five-minutes episodes survived into the digital age: Some are available for viewing at The Paley Center for Media, while others have made their way to YouTube. Most fascinatingly, the loss of all this content left behind multiple characters whose voices, personalities, and roles within the Sam And Friends universe are a complete mystery to modern-day viewers. This includes the show's nominal star, Sam, whose only remaining onscreen appearance is a lip-synced duet of "That Old Black Magic" with a creature whose fared much better in the ensuing years: Kermit, not yet a frog, but a perfectly spazzy Keely Smith to Sam's Louis Prima. One of the few surviving Sam And Friends sketches with an original script by Henson, "Visual Thinking," betrays a much more abstract and existential sense of humor than The Muppets were eventually known for; unless someone out there is sitting on a pile of Sam And Friends kinescopes, I'm afraid we'll never know how Henson's nascent comedic voice applied to early creations Mushmellon, Henrietta, and Pierre The French Rat.
Noel Murray
Sometime in the mid-'00s, I first heard about the original version of Neil Young's Tonight's The Night, which is reportedly a seamless piece of music with the album's most harrowing songs connected by Young's stoned, melancholy musings on death. Ever since, I haven't been able to hear the released version of Tonight's The Night in the same way. It's always been one of my favorite Neil Young albums, and a riveting example of the "audio verite" approach Young was going for in the '70s, where he recorded life as it happened, with the songs almost secondary to the performance. But as described, the original Tonight's The Night seems even more indicative of Young's vision for what rock 'n' roll could be. Young has recorded and scrapped several albums over the years, and many of those records have leaked out onto the grey market. But the original Tonight's The Night remains in the archives, and I'm hoping it someday emerges, either officially or unofficially.
Todd VanDerWerff
My initial answer to this—the original cut of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons—probably doesn't fit the spirit of the question, since it's unlikely such a thing will ever be found, and it if was, the Criterion Collection would be all over it, and would soon have a copy in the living room of every cinephile in America. And I suppose I could answer with the complete run of my favorite, much-lamented Sons & Daughters on DVD, but I've used that as an answer for far too many of these already. And too many of the TV series I really love that aren't on DVD—Frank's Place, St. Elsewhere, Northern Exposure with the original soundtrack, etc.—are available, if you know where to look and accept that less-than-legal means are necessary sometimes, for things that are never going to see the light of day legally. (It's a compromise I'm okay with.) But there's one show that, in all my years looking for it, I haven't been able to find on DVD. That's Gary David Goldberg's deeply personal Family Ties follow-up, Brooklyn Bridge, a series that was a critical sensation in the early '90s—when I first watched it—then promptly disappeared when CBS realized it would never be a hit. The show has a sort of Wonder Years spin, only it's about a Jewish family in 1950s Brooklyn, two sons who are huge Dodgers fans, and a romantic relationship kicked up between one of the sons and a Catholic girl. (Played by Jenny Lewis!) Marion Ross was terrific—and Emmy-nominated—as the stern but loving grandmother, and Goldberg's scripts made familiar types and situations seem almost novelistic. At least, that's how I remember it. When I watched it, I was 11, and this stuff was all new to me. Would I still appreciate it as an adult? Who knows! But I'd love to find out.
Kyle Ryan
I was going to write about this concept album called De Schmog Fairy Tale, released on tape by Houston band de Schmog when I was in high school. My copy of it is long gone, and I haven't been able to find the album since, but I just learned it's on iTunes. Behold, the glorious new age! The first thing that comes to mind otherwise is the original batch of songs for Sugar's File Under: Easy Listening. The band struggled mightily to write and record a follow-up to the band's masterful Copper Blue (and Beaster EP), and after slogging for two months at Triclops in Atlanta, Bob Mould scrapped everything. And he really did scrap everything: All the work from the Triclops sessions was erased. In the liner notes for the File Under: Easy Listening reissue, engineer Jim Wilson claims, "There wasn't really anything lost, other than a great deal of time and money. No lost masterpiece there." I would've preferred to judge that for myself.
Kevin McFarland
I grew up in the Golden Age of Nickelodeon television, just after it got footholds in original narrative programming, game shows, and most notably in animation. I loved Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, and Legends Of The Hidden Temple, but the show I can still go back to now on Netflix and enjoy with greater understanding is Hey Arnold!, Craig Bartlett's series about the titular football-headed do-gooder and Helga, the girl who bullies him in public but privately pines for his affection. After 100 episodes—a rare landmark for a Nickelodeon cartoon—the hourlong finale (in production order, since Nick frustratingly jumbled the final season and stretched it out over three years) set Arnold and Helga on a journey to find Arnold's long-lost parents. But the box-office failure of Hey Arnold!: The Movie—which was never originally intended for theaters—put the second film, The Jungle Movie, in limbo. Bartlett had wrapped production on all television episodes of the series and was working for rival Cartoon Network, and when he decided against working exclusively for Nickelodeon, that put the project on ice for good. Rumors of an eventual revival still persist, and I would relish the chance to see Arnold, Helga, and the rest of their friends take a trip to San Lorenzo for a rescue mission.
Vadim Rizov
In my limited exposure to Jerry Lewis, self-directed auteur (I admittedly haven't seen much of his work: The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor, and the opening credits of Cracking Up), his combination of tremendous talent, comic discipline, and self-baiting/egoism make for irritatingly hypnotic (and vice versa), exhausting viewing. Like many, I'd love to see 1972's never-released The Day The Clown Cried, with Lewis as a political-prisoner clown, entertaining Jewish concentration-camp kids and eventually laughingly leading them to the gas chambers. In outline, it bears heavy overlap with the actually released Life Is Beautiful. It's hard to see Clown being so clearly, bewilderingly bad as lucky viewer Harry Shearer described it in 1979: "a perfect object […] bewilderingly bad." Watching Lewis try to nobly constrain his egoism during a tonally tricky, totally flubbed Holocaust misfire (in a part he initially thought should be played by Laurence Olivier, no less) is surely a one-of-a-kind experience, but early this year, Lewis once again confirmed (during an appearance at Los Angeles' Cinefamily theater) that he'd watched the movie recently, thought it didn't work, and was still dedicated to making sure it never went public. Some films make their way to the cult market (like the five-hour workprint version of Apocalypse Now that arrived on bootleg VHS), but Clown seems to be securely contained for all time.


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YouTube holds a rich trove of videos that could be used in the classroom, but it's challenging to transform videos into a truly interactive part of a lesson. So the nonprofit group TED has unveiled a new Web site that it hopes will solve this problem—by organizing educational videos and letting professors "flip" them to enhance their lectures.
The new Web site, unveiled today, lets professors turn TED's educational videos—as well as any video on YouTube—into interactive lessons inspired by the "flipped" classroom model. The site's introduction is the second phase of an education-focused effort called TED-Ed, which began last month when the group released a series of highly produced, animated videos on a new YouTube channel.
The TED-Ed site is both a portal for finding education videos and a tool for flipping them. On one page, videos are organized by themes, such as the pursuit of happiness and inventions that shaped history. Instructors who want to use videos that are directly related to the subjects they teach can visit another page, where videos are organized in more traditional categories such as the arts and health.
TED's videos are displayed on lesson pages that include multiple-choice quizzes, open-ended questions, and links to more information about the material. Professors who don't want to rely on the premade content can press a button to flip the videos and customize some of the questions. With each flipped video, professors receive a unique Web link that they can use to distribute the lesson to students and track their answers.
And instructors don't have to rely only on TED's educational videos to make their lessons. A special tool can flip any video on YouTube, adding sections to a lesson page where professors can write free-form questions and create links to other resources.
Logan Smalley, TED-Ed's director, noted that this feature is truly open—instructors could flip viral videos of cats if they wanted to, he said. He said his group wanted to leave the possibilities of flipped videos up to the people building the lessons.
"We didn't want to limit what people might want to use to teach," he said. He added that designers provide a way for users to flag any published lesson that they feel is inappropriate.
Michael S. Garver, a professor of marketing at Central Michigan University, has been testing the site and called it a tool to improve teaching that will bring more voices into the classroom. For the last seven years, Mr. Garver has been making his own videos, and he said the site will allow professors to turn videos created by experts into fresh lessons for class discussions.
"It's kind of a way to showcase the talent around the country," he said.