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A Mayan Pterosaur (Tapejara) at Palenque, Genesis of the Mothman?
I find that sometimes people have a narrow view of what Christians might be interested in. I remember a friend of mine resisted becoming a Christian because he liked jazz and thought he's have to throw away his records. He eventually did become a Christian and still plays his jazz. (Maybe he did have to edit his collection).
I say this because we're doing another dinosaur in literature selection and we're again referencing "Mothman". That's because we have a theory that Mothman, Owlman, Batsquatch etc. have sometimes been sightings of the still very much alive pterosaur.
Some Christians have no use for this topic and we understand that. Here at s8int.com, our interest in the various topics we cover and the phenomenal world is not diminished by our Christianity, though our viewpoint on them often is impacted by it.
Mayan Man with pterosaur headress.
Here we present a Mayan artifact featuring a headpiece with the "unmistakeable" head of a pterosaur. The head is recognizable as perhaps a Tapejara, a type of pterosaur found in Brazil with a variety of huge headcrests. The Mayans frequently created pieces showing a man with an elaborate headress featuring an animal or multiple animals. Keep in mind that the pterosaurs we see in current representations are almost entirely from the imaginations of artists who've only seen fragments of bones and skulls. See a prior Mayan pterosaur headress here
This piece at the Palenque Museum in Mexico is between 1200 and 2000 years old. It is reptilian, has an astounding headcrest, an extended prong on the back of the head, and a recognizable pterosaur downturned bill and "horrible" face.
S8int.com will make the case that it is a pterosaur head, graphically, provide articles describing certain pterosaur types in South America and provide a few eyewitness descriptions to show why we believe they could be describing living pterosaurs.
Here we're not trying to convince anyone that this is in fact a tapejara pterosaur, just that it is a type of pterosaur (there is a huge diversity of types. )We believe we've proven in this section that man and dinosaur co-existed, but we understand that some of the "evidence" presented is more convincing than other pieces of "evidence". As usual, you'll have to decide for yourself if we've proven the case.
Tapejara was a type of marine pterosaur, a flying reptile. The first known pterosaurs from the Triassic, such as Peteinosaurus, were already well-developed flying reptiles. Most palaentologists consider that pterosaurs are close cousins of the dinosaurs, but the absence of transitional forms makes this not entirely certain.
Tapejara was typical of later pterosaurs in that it had only a very short tail. The end of its jaw is directed downwards at the front, like a bird's beak. It had a remarkable head crest, up to a metre (over 3 feet) tall.
It is possible it used this for display purposes, as a male peacock would use its tail feathers.
Its name means "The Old Being". This comes from the mythology of the original habitants of Brazil, the Tupi Indians. ....Walking with Dinosaurs
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The Tapejara genus showed wide diversity in size, and each species bore a differntly sized/shaped crest that may have been used to signal and display for other Tapejara, much as toucans use their bright bills to signal to one another.
Tapejara crests usually consisted of a semicircular crest over the snout, and a bony prong whch extended back behind the head (though T. navigans lacked this prong).
s8int.com's ptero takes flight.
The largest species, T. imperator, sported another long, thin prong that extended from the snout crest. Soft tissue impressons show that in T. imperator and T. navigans (and probably T. wellnhoferi as well), these two distinct prongs supported an even larger crest made of a keratinous material.
In T. imperator, the complete crest joined the fore and aft bony prongs. Even in T. navigans, which lacked bony prongs almost entirely, the full crest rose in a sharp, sail-like "dome" high above the rest of the skull.....Source: http://www.dinosauromorpha.de/nondinosaurian_gallery.htm
Fossils Reveal Prehistoric Flying Giants
The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 metres,(approx. 60 feet) a palaeontologist says.
That would be almost the same width as the 19.5 metre fully-extended wingspan of an F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft and roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with the largest wingspans in the modern world.
Photo:Brazilian scientists Alexander Kellner (l) and Diogenes de Almeida Campos examine a pterosaur fossil in Brazil, July 2002. (Reuters)Right. Mayan pterosaur
Dr David Martill of the University of Portsmouth in southern England, says his research on pterosaur wings appeared to solve the problem of how such enormous creatures managed to take to the skies and stay there.
Recent fossil finds in Mexico and Israel added weight to the theory that this prehistoric, flying reptile, which became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, could have been much bigger than many had realised.
"We haven't officially announced this yet but it might have been two times bigger," he told journalists at the British Association for the Advancement of Science's annual festival in the Irish capital.
'Big fragments'
Dr Martill says fellow academic and collaborator Dr. Eberhard "Dino" Frey of the Natural History museum in Karlsruhe in Germany, had recently found distinctive fossilised footprints in Mexico pointing to a creature with a wingspan "in excess of 18 metres" (60 feet).
"Even though they are just fragments they are bloody big fragments," he said of the fossils.
"We also have finger bones with really rather magnificent diameters."
Despite its size, Dr Martill believes his studies of the bone structure and tissue of a pterosaur wing show it could have flown "really rather elegantly".
"The wing membrane is really very, very thin," he said, adding the samples were about 0.5 millimetre thick.
"One of the other things we found out that was excitingly new was a very different shoulder joint."
Wing structure
The elaborate structure of the wing, more like that of a bat than a bird, combined with hollow bones and a body not much bigger than a human torso would have kept weight to a minimum.
"One imagines that the take-off problems were less ... particularly if you add the fact that they were very, very lightly constructed to this enormous wing membrane area," he said.
Dr Martill says he has established the wing was locked into the bottom of the body rather than the top, providing a greater surface area to benefit from the thermal air currents that give lift during flight.
More cumbersome would have been the neck, stretching to three metres in length and attached to a skull that could have added an additional two metres.
Although not very aerodynamic, it might have allowed the pterosaur to pick up prey from the sea without flying dangerously close, Dr Martill says.
As for why they grew so big, it could have been a function of age: "One of the reasons might be that they just kept on growing," rather than reaching an adult size when growth stops.
The Mothman-Pterosaur Connection; A Quick Review
The Story of Mothman
The first sighting came in the early 1960s. A woman was driving along Route 2, near the Ohio River, with her father. As she neared the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds, a large man-shaped figure walked out onto the road. As the woman slowed her car, the figure spread two large wings and took off.
Ironically, the witness did not report the incident - "Who would believe us, anyway?"
The first sighting which received publicity, though, was one in 1965. A woman living near the Ohio River related how her son had told her one day of seeing "an angel" outside. She thought nothing more of it until about a year later.
In the summer of 1966, a doctor's wife in the same general area said that she had seen a six-foot long thing resembling a "giant butterfly".
The weird events connected to the Mothman began on November 12, 1966 near Clendenin, West Virginia. Five men were in the local cemetery that day, preparing a grave for a burial, when something that looked like a brown human being lifted off from some nearby trees and flew over their heads. The men were baffled. It did not appear to be a bird, but more like a man with wings.
Late in the evening of November 15, two young married couples had a very strange encounter as they drove past an abandoned TNT plant near Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The couples spotted two large eyes that were attached to something that was "shaped like a man, but bigger, maybe six or seven feet tall. And it had big wings folded against its back".
When the creature moved toward the plant door, the couples panicked and sped away.
Moments later, they saw the same creature on a hillside near the road. It spread its wings and rose into the air, following with their car, which by now was traveling at over 100 miles per hour. The bird seemd to fly as fast as the car and followed them down Highway 62 and right to the Point Pleasant city limits.
The next night, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Scarberry and Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mallette were driving near the "TNT Area", near the town of Point Pleasant.
A tall figure stood by the side of the road. "It was shaped like a man, but bigger," said Mr. Scarberry. "Maybe six and a half or seven feet tall. And it had big wings folded against its back." His wife commented on its huge red eyes, "like automobile reflectors."
The area is also sparsely populated. One of the families living in the area is that of Ralph Thomas. On the 16th, at about 9:00 pm, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley, Mrs. Marcella Bennett, and Mrs. Bennett's daughter, Tina, were visiting the Thomases. On the way there, they watched a red light which circled the TNT Area. When the car pulled up in front of the Thomas', it disturbed something.
It seemed as if it had been lying down. It rose up slowly from the ground. A big gray thing. Bigger than a man, with terrible glowing red eyes.
Paul Yoder and Ben Enochs, two firemen, said they had seen Mothman in the TNT Area on the 18th. Richard West, of Charleston, called the police on November 21. A winged figure was sitting on the roof of his neighbor's house, he said. The six-foot tall figure had a wingspan of six or eight feet and red eyes. It took off straight up, "like a helicopter."
Tom Ury was driving along Route 62, near the TNT Area, on the morning of November 25. He saw a large, grayish figure standing in a field. Then it spread two large wings, lifted straight into the air, and flew over Ury's car at an altitude "three telephone poles high"--probably about 50 or 60 feet.
The next day, Mrs. Ruth Foster of St. Albans said the creature was standing in her yard near her porch. Her description tallys with West's. The same day, people in Lowell, Ohio, saw several large birds flying over Cat's Creek.
The three witnesses followed the birds in their car and said that they were "...dark brown with some light flecks. Their breasts were gray and they had five- or six-inch bills, straight, not curved like those of hawks or vultures." The birds seemed to have reddish heads. .... - The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings by John Keel
Pterosaurs in Texas
While driving his cruiser through the wee hours one morning 1976, Policeman Arturo Padilla of San Benito, Texas, spotted something unusual in his headlights. It looked like a big bird.
A really big bird. A few minutes later Padilla's fellow officer, Homer Galvan, reported it also. It appeared as a black silhouette that glided through the air. According to Galvan, it never even flapped its wings.
A short time later Alverico Guajardo, a resident of Brownsville, Texas, reported he'd heard a thumping noise outside his mobile home at about nine-thirty at night.
When he looked out the door, he saw a monstrous bird standing in his yard. "It's like a bird, but it's not a bird," he said. "That animal is not from this world."
The sighting of the strange bird didn't end with the reports from Guajardo and the two policemen. Two sisters told of seeing a "big black bird" with "a face like a bat" near a pond outside of Brownsville.
Reports of this creature continued to multiply in the early months of 1976 until finally a radio station offered a reward for the creature's capture. Soon after, a television station broadcast a picture of an alleged bird track measuring some twelve inches in length.
Thermal Ca.
It happened in Thermal, CA, in 1983. Her parents had a farm and their dog, Duke (Doberman Pincher) was tied to a leash, barking violently. They let him go, thinking that it was a coyote or rabbit.
The dog ran around the house, but stopped short and continued to bark. Both my friend and her sister ran toward the dog and in front of them stood a 6-foot winged, featherless creature. The body was very muscular, like a man. But the skin was leathery like an elephant. It had long nails at the end of its toes. The head was the shape of a pterodactyl with red bulging eyes and protruding bone in the front and back of its head.
Giant "Bird" Grabs Deer
Another view of Mayan "Mothman.
Driving through the Algerines, Russ Powers, Jr. and Denny Eckley stopped for deer crossing the road at Bear Run. As they watched, they saw a bird with wings that "spanned the forest road." The deer bolted into the surrounding woods, except the yearling that stood on the road. Out of nowhere the bird attacked, ripping the yearling's vital areas, and turned to look at them. It flew off struggling with its kill before disappearing above the trees.
Powers described the bird as having: "a longer and less hooked beak than an eagle, dark grayish brown plumage, thick legs, talons larger than a man's hand, and grayish legs." The head was flat with "feathers, like on a chick." The bird stood "eye level with us" and had wings as wide as the forest road, approximately 14-16 feet.
"According to her story, Connie, a shy, sensitive eighteen- year-old, was driving home from church at 10:30 A.M. on Sunday, November 27, 1966, when, as she passed the deserted greens of Mason County Golf Course outside New Haven, West Virginia, she suddenly saw a huge gray figure.
It was shaped like a man, she said, but much larger. It was at least SEVEN FEET TALL and very broad. The thing that attracted her attention was not its size but its eyes. IT HAD, SHE SAID, LARGE, ROUND, FIERCELY GLOWING RED EYES THAT FOCUSED ON HER WITH HYPNOTIC EFFECT……… MOTHMEN PROPHECIES'
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Terry Gilliam's last film featured the former Monty Python troupe member as an eccentric, demanding, and difficult director prone to destroying his ambitious projects before a single frame of footage was ever shot. "If it's easy," he says in the movie, "I don't do it." Alas, this was not a work of fanciful fiction made by the beloved (and, by studios bosses, feared and loathed) director of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, but one in which he starred as himself: Lost in La Mancha, the 2003 documentary about the cratering of Gilliam's long-in-the-making, short-in-the-breaking The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. It will go down as perhaps the ultimate Gilliam movie: a heartbreaking tale about a well-meaning man doomed by his delusions, a fantasy that collided with reality and didn't survive the impact. Such is the story of most every entry in his filmography: The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, even Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He coulda been a contender, if only he didn't insist on knocking himself out each time he stepped into the ring.
Already Gilliam is spinning like a top over his first film in seven years, bad-mouthing Dimension Films boss Bob Weinstein for interfering with the making of his long-delayed latest, The Brothers Grimm, which is actually not about Bob and even more infamous sibling Harvey of Miramax. Like a wide receiver with bad hands, Gilliam is already claiming interference before the pass has been thrown. Bob replaced the director's star Samantha Morton with a lesser-known, though perhaps far more marketable pretty face (Lena Headey); Bob kicked off Gilliam's cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, with whom Gilliam made his most recent wild turkey, Fear and Loathing, and his upcoming Tideland; and Bob slashed the budget, apparently from $100 to $50. As if no one could see this coming, this Zippo tossed into an open gas tank; not in a long time has something arrived in theaters so ... doomed.
At least The Brothers Grimm does not disappoint: It gives off quite the pungent smell, especially for something so forgettable. Imagine if someone had remade Ghostbusters, but set it in the same forest where Hansel and Gretel were kidnapped and Little Red Riding Hood was snatched, then cast Matt Damon as a fairy-tale writer with an English accent and spent the catering budget shooting it. Would that sound at all good to you? Of course not -- an obvious fact that somehow eluded the attention of Gilliam and screenwriter Ehren Kruger, whose other new film, The Skeleton Key, shares the essential text of The Brothers Grimm. (It has something to do with the stealing of souls to guarantee immortality for hoodoo priests and evil queens.)
The whole film, set in Napoleon-controlled Germany during the early 19th century, looks as though a fine sheen of muck covers what appears to be a studio-lot forest, in which tree roots flop around like puppet-show tentacles. It's easily the ugliest film Gilliam has ever made, a movie shot with a lens someone forgot to wipe. It's also his loudest: Every scene is amped up to eleven, and every line of dialogue is delivered as though it's a cry for help from the bottom of the well. The movie works hard to entertain, but all you're likely to notice is the flop sweat beading on its upper lip.
At this point, is it even worth it to tell you the story? This, then: Cynical Will (Matt Damon) and true-believing brother Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger) travel the cloudy countryside in search of villages in need of exorcising. They pose as demon-busters and, with their two compadres (The Office's Mackenzie Crook and Richard Ridings), stage a capture with a ghostly prop. One day, French governor Delatombe (Brazil's Jonathan Pryce, reminding Gilliam fans of lost, better days) snatches the lads and forces them to do their hoodoo in a village where kiddies are being taken -- as it turns out, by an ancient evil, imprisoned queen (Monica Bellucci) who needs the souls of the young in order to regain her youth and beauty, though apparently not her acting ability.
Gilliam has always been easy to admire, but his movies have grown harder to adore: They're too manic, too desperate, more out-of-control than inventively wild. This one, especially, feels like an amateur's parody of Gilliam himself. You can hear the sound of self-congratulatory giggles in Damon's half-assed accent and Ledger's half-mad moping and in Peter Stormare's Chico Marx bark, as the bonkers Italian sidekick to Pryce's limp and lisping leader. Even its Fractured Fairy Tale setup is old news by now, having been better covered in the likes of Shrek and its superior sequel. This is grim stuff, indeed; oh brother, is it.
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President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic, last-minute agreement just before a midnight deadline to slash about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first federal government shutdown in 15 years.
Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion, and won an ovation from his rank and file — conservative Tea Party adherents among them.
"Today Americans of different beliefs came together again," Obama said from the White House Blue Room, a setting chosen to offer a clear view of the Washington Monument over his right shoulder.
Obama: US govt. is 'open for business'April 9, 201103:50
Amid the biggest clash yet between Democrats and the resurgent Republicans who control the House, Obama had warned that a shutdown would damage the economy's recovery by putting an estimated 800,000 government employees out of work.
The political stakes of a shutdown were huge ahead of next year's presidential and congressional elections. During the last government shutdown during Bill Clinton's presidency, Republicans got most of the blame in — but there was no assurance that would have happened again.
They announced the agreement less than an hour before government funding was due to run out, instantly turning hundreds of thousands of furlough notices for federal workers into historical relics.
The shutdown would have closed national parks, tax-season help lines and other popular services, though the military would have stayed on duty and other essential efforts such as air traffic control would have continued in effect.
"Tomorrow I'm pleased to announce that the Washington Monument, as well as the entire federal government, will be open for business and that's because today Americans of different beliefs came together again," Obama said late Friday.
On side issues — "riders," the negotiators called them — the Democrats and the White House rebuffed numerous Republican attempts to curtail the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency.
They also sidetracked their demand to deny federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Under the accord, the issue will come to a vote in the Senate under terms guaranteed to end in its defeat.
Boehner: 'Bridge resolution' reached to avert shutdownApril 9, 201101:06
Anti-abortion lawmakers succeeded in winning a provision to ban the use of federal or local government funds to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia.
'Normal operations'
The long-term deal in hand, lawmakers raced to pass an interim measure to prevent a shutdown, however brief, and keep the federal machinery running for the next several days. The Senate acted within minutes; the House followed suit shortly after midnight, sending the measure to Obama. White House Budget Director Jacob Lew issued a directive saying that in view of the agreement, "agencies are instructed to continue their normal operations."
Some lawmakers were not satisfied with the deal.
"I voted against this short-term continuing resolution for the same reason I voted against the last one and the one before that — because it does not set us on a path to fixing the spending and debt problems our country is facing," freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in a statement. "As I have said before, there is not much of a difference between a $1.5 trillion deficit and a $1.6 trillion deficit — both will lead us to a debt crisis that we may not recover from."
The deal came together after six grueling weeks and an outbreak of budget brinksmanship over the past few days as the two sides sought to squeeze every drop of advantage in private talks.
Reid: Short-term budget bridge reachedApril 9, 201105:18
Despite the accomplishment, officials noted it marked only a first step. Republicans intend to pass a 2012 budget through the House next week that calls for sweeping changes in Medicare and Medicaid and would cut domestic programs deeply in an attempt to gain control over soaring deficits.
And the Treasury has told Congress it must vote to raise the debt limit by summer — a request that Republicans hope to use to force Obama to accept long-term deficit-reduction measures.
"We know the whole world is watching us today," Reid said earlier in a day that produced incendiary, campaign style rhetoric as well as intense negotiation.
Reid, Obama and Boehner all agreed a shutdown posed risks to an economy still recovering from the worst recession in decades.
But there were disagreements aplenty among the principal players in an early test of divided government — Obama in the White House, fellow Democrats in control in the Senate and a new, Tea Party-flavored Republican majority in the House.
"Republican leaders in the House have only a few hours left to look in the mirror, snap out of it and realize how positively shameful that would be," Reid said at one point, accusing Republicans of risking a shutdown to pursue a radical social agenda.
Tense standoff
For much of the day, Reid and Boehner disagreed about what the disagreement was about.
Reid said there had been an agreement at a White House meeting Thursday night to cut spending by about $38 billion. He said Republicans also were demanding unspecified cuts in health services for lower income women that were unacceptable to Democrats.
"Republicans want to shut down our nation's government because they want to make it harder to get cancer screenings," he said. "They want to throw women under the bus."
Boehner said repeatedly that wasn't the case — it was spending cuts that divided two sides.
"Most of the policy issues have been dealt with, and the big fight is about spending," he said. "When will the White House and when will Senate Democrats get serious about cutting federal spending?"
By midday Friday, 12 hours before the funding would run out, most federal employees had been told whether they had been deemed essential or would be temporarily laid off in the event of a shutdown.
Obama canceled a Friday trip to Indianapolis — and a weekend family visit to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia — and kept in touch with both Boehner and Reid.
The standoff began several weeks ago, when the new Republican majority in the House passed legislation to cut $61 billion from federal spending and place numerous curbs on the government.
In the weeks since, the two sides have alternately negotiated and taken time out to pass interim measures.
Originally, Republicans wanted to ban federal funds for Planned Parenthood, a health care services provider that is also the nation's largest provider of abortions.
Federal funds may not be used to pay for abortions except in strictly regulated cases, but supporters of the ban said cutting off government funds for the organization — currently about $330 million a year — would make it harder for it to use its own money for the same purpose.
Democrats rejected the proposal in private talks. Officials in both parties said Republicans returned earlier in the week with a proposal to distribute federal funds for family planning and related health services to the states, rather than directly to Planned Parenthood and other organizations.
Democrats said they rejected that proposal, as well, and then refused to agree to allow a separate Senate vote on the issue as part of debate over any compromise bill.
Instead, they launched a sustained campaign at both ends of the Capitol to criticize Republicans.
"We'll not allow them to use women as pawns," said Sen. Patty Murray, a fourth-term lawmaker from Washington who doubles as head of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee.
For Congress and Obama there are even tougher struggles still ahead — over a Republican budget that would remake entire federal programs, and a vote to raise the nation's debt limit.


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May 2014
Talent and Hosts Announced!
NEW YORK — May 28, 2014 — NBC, Donald J. Trump and Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, announced today that Florida Georgia Line, with special guest Nelly, and Marc Broussard will perform during the 63rd annual MISS USA® Competition airing Sunday, June 8 (8-11 p.m. ET) from The Baton Rouge River Center in Baton Rouge, La. Giuliana Rancic and Thomas Roberts team up to host the competition for the first time together as the show expands to three hours.
The sharp contemporary country sounds of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley create Florida Georgia Line and have become the biggest country sensation of the decade. The superstar duo has skyrocketed since releasing four consecutive, multi-week #1 smashes in the US and Canada including the 6X PLATINUM "Cruise" which FGL will perform with music superstar Nelly during the MISS USA® swimsuit competition. "Cruise," became an unstoppable crossover hit in 2013 and, eventually, the biggest selling digital country single of all time. The talented twosome will also perform their latest PLATINUM-certified hit, "This Is How We Roll" (featuring Luke Bryan), from their chart-topping Republic Nashville debut album HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES.
Joining the musical line-up is singer-songwriter and Louisiana native, Marc Broussard. Since his critical breakthrough album 'Carencro', Broussard has been hailed as an old-school Southern soul singer with a rarefied gift and innate stylistic and emotional authenticity. The trademark "Bayou Soul" of Broussard will bring a mix of funk, blues, rock and pop which will match the distinct cultural Louisiana roots the MISS USA® show will feature. Additionally, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Horns will add even more excitement to Broussard's opening set when the group joins him for an ultimate high energy mashup and Mardi Gras party on stage. Broussard will release his new album, "A Life Worth Living" on July 29th.
MISS USA veteran Giuliana Rancic, co-anchor of "E! News," co-host of E!'s popular "Fashion Police," and star of her reality hit series "Giuliana and Bill," returns to host the competition. Fresh from his hosting duties at MISS UNIVERSE®, Thomas Roberts (MSNBC's "Way Too Early" and "Morning Joe" contributor) teams up with Rancic marking the first time the two take the stage together for the annual competition.
MISS USA commentator Jeannie Mai also returns to take viewers behind the scenes to engage with contestants, talent and fans throughout the telecast. Mai is best known as host of Style network's two-time Emmy Award-nominated makeover series "How Do I Look?" and co-host of the upcoming nationally syndicated daytime talk show "The Real." She is also recognized for her fashion segments on NBC's "Today" and The Insider.
This year, viewers will get to know the 2014 Miss USA contestants better through an extended three-hour format. The additional hour will provide a never-before-seen look at the contestants in their home environments, making for a more personal glimpse of the women competing for the Miss USA title.
Fans will also have the opportunity to save their favorite contestant during the evening gown competition through a Twitter save in order to secure a sixth spot in the final question round. Viewers can tweet using #SaveTheQueen along with a keyword that will be provided on the screen during the live telecast. Rules and information can be found on http://www.missusa.com/rules. Fans are encouraged to get excited and show their support leading up to June 8th by using #SaveTheQueen.
The 2014 MISS USA® Competition will feature contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Contestants will be judged in three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview. Erin Brady, Miss USA 2013 will crown her successor at the conclusion of the three-hour telecast. The MISS USA show is the only domestic pageant to be seen internationally. The 2013 MISS USA® Competition was distributed to approximately 70 countries. For more information, visit http://www.missusa.com.
The Miss Universe Organization, a Donald J. Trump and NBCUniversal joint venture, is a global community empowering role models of beauty, health and leadership for young women of today. As part of the Miss Universe Organization, Miss USA is dedicated to partnering with charities around the world, and to increasing awareness of breast and ovarian cancers. For more information, visit: http://www.missusa.com.
May 2014
Miss USA contestants arrive in Baton Rouge this weekend
As contestants for this year's Miss USA pageant make their last outfit choices and read up on current events to prepare for interview questions, officials in the Miss Universe organization are finalizing details for a round of public appearances for the 51 young women who arrive in Baton Rouge this weekend.
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May 2014
10 Of The Most Influential Latinos In The World
Coming in at number 4 is our very own Miss Universe 2013, Gabriela Isler. To start speaking about what Latina women mean around the world, we chose to highlight the most beautiful woman in the world, the Venezuelan Gabriela Isler, Miss Universe 2013. This beauty queen is not limited to showing off her physical attributes as she's committed to what is happening in her country and is aware that she has international influence through her title.
Isler issued a release in which she sends a message of peace to all Venezuelans. "For you… Venezuela." Isler posted a picture on her Instagram account (mollysler) in which, as a "sister of a family of nearly 30 million people," she expressed through her "solidarity with all the families who have suffered the loss of a loved one as a result of the events that have marked our country these past few weeks." Click here to read the full article.
May 2014
Venus, Shamcey, Ariella share financial tips
MANILA, Philippines – Beauty queens Venus Raj, Shamcey Supsup and Ariella Arida have already proven that they possess both beauty and brains, but what many do not know is that they are also smart when it comes to money.
Growing up, both Raj and Arida said they were taught by their parents to be frugal. "I grew up from a financially-challenged family and my parents really taught us at a very young age to save and be frugal with our money," Raj, who was Miss Universe 2010 4th runner-up, told ANC's "On The Money."
Arida, Miss Universe 2013 3rd runner-up, likewise said she didn't come from a wealthy family and had to save up if she wanted to buy something. Supsup, on the other hand, said that as an only child, her parents were able to provide her with her financial needs. But she said that she took it upon herself to save her allowance rather than spend it. "There was a time in school when I would buy a cup of rice and I would just ask for free soup," the Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up said. She said that being an only child prompted her to be more conscious about spending, because she knew there was no one else to help her parents financially.
Supsup's mindset on saving didn't change when she started working as an architect, when she got her first paycheck worth P8,000. "I thought that after everything that I have done, I will be compensated correctly," she said. Now married to businessman Lloyd Lee, Supsup said her spending habits have changed, but only because she knows how to spend money wisely. "I'm not the kuripot-type anymore, I know now how to spend my money and how to invest it," she said. She stressed that saving money involves discipline in balancing money and lifestyle. "If you live simply, you don't really have to look for a job that will give you so much more," she said. The 27-year-old Supsup said she plans to put up her own business, invest in real estate in three years, and then retire at the age of 35.
Raj also swears by having a simple lifestyle and not spending beyond your means. "If you live simply, if you spend just a little of your money, then you'll have enough for yourself. I don't buy stuff that I don't need," she said. Raj, 25, said her financial goal is to be financially free when she reaches 40. She said she has plans to open her own coffee shop and be a teacher. She is also investing in variable life insurance. "This is good because I am insured already and at the same time, part of money is being invested by the company and it's earning," Raj said. "Work hard and spend smart," she added.
Arida, meanwhile, recognizes that fame and fortune in the entertainment industry are temporary, and she needs to find other ways to secure her future. The 25-year-old Arida, also plans to put up her own business and invest her money in insurance programs.


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Garbage, back together in harmony (interview)
After nearly a year of touring, the members of Garbage feel like they've rescued their band from the trash heap.
Back in 2005, the quartet was frustrated, frayed and feuding and ready to part ways for a while -- and possibly forever. Record company support for its fourth album, 2005's "Bleed Like Me," had been feeble. The musicians, who began Garbage's career with a pair of double-platinum triumphs (1995's "Garbage" and 1998's "Version 2.0"), weren't happy with the situation and, as singer Shirley Manson recalls, " began to take it out on one another.
The Scottish-born Manson, 46, was recruited by Grammy Award-winning producer Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker in 1994 to form Garbage, leading to early hits such as "Only Happy When It Rains," "Stupid Girl," "I Think I'm Paranoid" and "Push It."
"When you're constantly surrounded by negativity, which we were, that just ends up eating away at the individuals in the band," she notes. "When that happens," Manson adds, "who are you going to snap at? You're gonna snap at your family, right? Not the outside world. It's who you trust and who you feel safe with that you tend to like to reveal yourself to."
Garbage's present is much brighter these days. The group ended an "indefinite hiatus" with its fifth album, "Not Your Kind of People," which came out last May. Its first single, "Blood For Poppies," was a Top 20 Modern Rock hit, and the band has been playing shows since before the album's release. And while it hasn't necessarily returned the band to its mid- and late-'90s heyday, bygones are now bygones and Garbage is feeling fresh again.
"We're still out playing, having fun, doing gigs," says Vig, 57, the producer of key albums for Nirvana ("Nevermind"), Smashing Pumpkins ("Gish," "Siamese Dream"), AFI ("Sing the Sorrow") and Green Day ("21st Century Breakdown") and was also a key collaborator in Dave Grohl's "Sound City: Real to Reel" documentary.
"When we were making the record, I think we started to gain some confidence in how we felt about the music but I think there was some apprehension about would anybody care about it and want to see us?" Vig said.
"These days people seem to move on to other things so quickly. We didn't now how the album would be received or anything."
Garbage was buoyed, however, when Manson started a Facebook page for the group that snared 250,000 people in its first 48 hours (it's now more than 500,000). "We have a small but mighty, passionate fan base out there, and that's cool," Vig says.
"I think at this point in our career, to be able to do these shows, it's fun. We don't take it for granted, but we don't take ourselves too seriously, either. We don't feel like we have anything to prove anymore. We just want to enjoy ourselves and play music we like and share it with our fans."
The band members, Vig adds, are also in a better place these days. "Everyone's getting along. We go out to dinner, hang out, tell jokes. We look out for each other, too; if someone's down and not feeling very good, we try to pick them up. It's very much like a little, dysfunctional family." And, he says, the Garbage family plans to stay together and make another album sooner rather than later -- perhaps even starting this summer for a 2014 release.
"We're all excited about that," Vig says. "We don't really have any songs started yet, but we all have ideas for songs, little riffs and things floating around in my head.
"We won't be going on hiatus, at least not any time in the near future. We were all pretty excited about this recording process, and I think there are a lot of ideas that are still percolating in our brain space as a band." Manson -- who played Catherine Weaver on the second and final season of TV's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and appeared on Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale's 2008 solo album "WANDERlust" during Garbage's hiatus -- feels the same way.
"I think right now everyone feels in a very good place, creatively," she says. "Everybody is excited about making music, so we'll see. On one hand we have no expectations -- and yet I'd be a liar to say we don't have hopes."


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Describes the establishment of the Miechow ghetto [Interview: 1992]
Emanuel and his family lived in the small town of Miechow, north of Krakow. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, persecution of Jews increased. The Germans established a ghetto in Miechow. Emanuel was forced to live in the ghetto. Emanuel, his mother, and his sister escaped from the ghetto before it was destroyed in 1942. He stayed in a monastery, under an assumed identity, along with members of the Polish underground. Emanuel left the monastery after about a year when a teacher began to suspect he was Jewish. Emanuel then became involved in the smuggling of goods to Krakow and Warsaw. He fled to Hungary in the fall of 1943. After the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, Emanuel again attempted to flee but was caught and imprisoned. He survived the war.
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Tallinn Music Week started back in 2009 (click here for a review from James Skinner) with 65 bands across a variety of venues, along with the business of the business itself, in seminars and industry panels — which return this year, ranging from an interview with the open, sweary and lively manager of The Cardigans, Petri Lunden, through to music management masterclasses and, of course, a listening panel. The festival is officially opened with a speech by the genial president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who speaks in English with an impressive American accent and wears an impressive waistcoat. He not only knows about but likes Arcade Fire, which is a plus point, I guess.
This year Tallinn is a European Capital of Culture and the number of acts – the vast majority of which are from the Baltic states and most of those home-grown — has expanded to 147, up from last year's 100. That itself says a lot, even without reflecting on the overall quality of those bands, with barely over a million people resident in its borders. Achieving such a high number of acts is a success. Of course, it would be patronising to suggest that quantity over quality is the aim of Tallinn Music Week, and also very wrong.
Being in a city you've never visited before, with almost exclusively bands you've never heard before can be bewildering, especially when they number nearly 150. It's also tremendously exciting, especially in a place like Estonia which, it is fair to say, has a culture both musical and overall which has evolved outside of the more prevalent standard Western European traditions. This is balanced by the hope and optimism that there will be genuinely innovative and experimental (to my foreign ears) and fewer indentikit clone bands on the bill.
The old town is a picturesque place, with giant, overbearing churches and quaint doorway entrances, plus the odd cobble or two on the street. It's fairly easy to get distracted by all of this on a walk to Mustpeade Maja Keldrisaal which is no less fantastic on the inside than any of the old town buildings appear on the outside. In fact, it is quite fitting. It's essentially just a massive cellar, now used as a performance space and tonight we camp out from start to finish at the Odessa Pop showcase, which serves up several treats. That is, after seeing a snippet of Oort, who were not dressed quite as extravagantly as they are in this video, but the lead singer does still wear a robe. It is not too hard to describe what they do, being a quite straightforward melding of metal and traditional Estonian folk music, which appears to be quite reliant on vocal drone (a novelty), being on the very deep end of the register.
Anyway, back to the Odessa Pop goings-on. First on is the intriguingly named Multiphonic Rodent. Multiphonic because he plays several instruments, although not at once, placing them through loop pedals, applying effects and all manner of stuff you'd expect with it. Rodent is a misnomer, though, because he does definitely not look like a rat. Plenty of gear is used to this effect but the standout sections are when Hõbe picks up his clarinet and plays fearlessly and boundlessly over the landscapes he created beforehand. Those landscapes are essentially what you would expect from bedroom-composition but are given a much, much greater scope, ranging from the melancholic laments with his singing more under the accompaniment than over it. The guitar may not be entirely in tune with itself or anything else and a tad overpowering in the mix, but the remainder fits perfectly and there is also a sense of mischievousness to the underlying experimentalism. Once finished, the fear written about earlier recedes and is replaced by a broad grin and an inquisitive mind.
Following Errki is Pastacas, who we (collectively) checked out the last time we were in Estonia, and who is of the same ilk as Mr Multiphonic Rodent but a little more polished, a little more serene and a little less haywire. He has a similarly numerous array of instruments, including a six-stringed guitarish instrument which I have yet to fully pin down. I'm still unsure whether playing two recorders at the same time is a novelty musical party trick or the mark of a genius but either way it raises eyebrows. At times his work redolent of the more mellow Squarepusher moments — the ones without the face-melting, eye-ripping bass playing. Vocals are warped beyond recognitions, adding a Fever Ray-like darkness to the flute-playing and textural vastness. Half-confusing, half-bewildering, fully amazing.
There is more. The highlight of the Odessa Pop night — and as it later turns out the entire event – were Kreatiivmootor. The Estonian language utilises an awful lot of double vowels and naturally strikes a great deal of fear into the mind and mouths, should you get that far, of any foreigner trying their hand at being an adaptable and cosmopolitan member of the human race/European Union. Still, the aforementioned vowels really do emphasise the essential, well, for want of a better word, creativity in this jam-troupe (for extreme yearning for a alternative turn of phrase). Listening to them on record, although still retaining a sense and essence of their tangential and avant-garde wonkiness, won't come close to their live presence. Fronted by a man who we are told is a philosophy professor is telling.
All of the philosophy professors I knew of at university were several chapters short of a treatise and Kreatiivmootor's approach does not betray this whatsoever with one extended session of beats, yelps, and bit-by-bit building blowing away the thought of my very existence out of my headspace. It's hard not to move your feet, as I do, even in the lamest manner, but Roomet Jakapi is a distracting man too, weaving in and around his bandmates, whose individual performances are also mesmerising, especially percussively — actions which draw more than the odd wave of arm from an encapsulated audience. Of course there is structure, but like all good improvised music, it seems a distant thought. What isn't a distant thought, though, are any questions about the abundant intensity and quality of Kreatiivmootor. Mind. Blown.
Being the country that spawned Arvo Pärt, something would be amiss not to have at least a few offerings of contemporary classical during Tallinn Music Week, and that is what we get with Estonian Music Days at the Mustepeade Hall. A showcase of performers and composers, we unfortunately only manage to catch just one act of the seven due to perform, but it was not a disappointment in any way. Not only is the minimalistic performance of Resonabilis — bringing to life a composition by Helena Tulve — majestic, but so is their appearance, complete with foot-high blone hair and both extravagant and subtle facial adornments. They are four members, a cello, a voice, a kannel and a bass flute, all of which are used with varying degrees of innovation. What they create is haunting and makes great use of silences and pauses. So much so that nearly half a minute passes after they finish before the warm applause begins. Slightly awkward but definitely welcome.
Upon seeing Finns Cleaning Women in the festival programme, it was wondered whether the "cleaning" was a noun or a verb. It turns out it's very much a verb, it referring to the repurposed ironing boards and clothes maidens they used as instruments. Everything but the kitchen sink, you could say. Their approach is novel, as those appliances are struck and robotic movements made with them, mostly accompanied a menacing keyboard line and staccato mechanical vocals. Their set ebbs and flows, as does interest around half-way through, their distracting gazes ultimately not quite distracting enough.
Moving back to the main hub of the festival, Von Krahl, the freshly-picked Kosmofon are playing out their marginally psyched, spacey, dancey and enjoyable electronic excursions. The lead man carries himself with extreme levels of self-confidence, dressed like someone from another time. About 20 years ago, to be precise. Their being is not boundary breaking but they put a novel-ish slant on the conventionality and at times recall synth-monsters like Zombie Zombie and, during the set-climaxing 'Pulsar', Squarepusher's Just A Souvenir vintage. A few of the moves pulled may be a bit naff, but there's plenty of burgeoning ideas in their young musical brains.
Iiris appears to be very much the great hope for Estonian music, both as an export and in home borders, and is surely the most popular performer of the entire event. The crowd is vast and tightly packed. So tightly packed that it basically prevents us from firstly making any significant inroads into the Von Krahl theatre and secondly from being nudged, budged, crushed and buffeted into submission. A pure shame, for which I curse my hulking frame. There may be mixed reports, but, as with Kosmofon, there's more than enough room and nous for her to grow into something genuinely proper and potentially great.
What follows may be the only disappointment of the entire event. Given what we had heard of Systeam earlier in the day (via the "check my demo" listening panel) we thought we could expect interesting and innovative if not great things. But we were wrong. Very wrong. Their demo track meandered and wound its way through several minutes of diverting themes and motifs which pricked the ear's attention, yet live it was almost entirely unrecognisable. And unfathomably terrible. It was a shame to end on that note but it didn't dampen any spirits of what we saw before, especially on Friday.
It must be an exciting time be an Estonian, culturally at least. Whilst it would be a lie to say that every single act on the Tallinn Music Week bill was chock-full of potential and merit, there is enough to make an earmark some noteworthy, talented names. Perhaps Iiris will break out of the borders – and she is probably deserving of this position, too – but there is enough underneath the top layers of Tallinn's winter snow and frost to prompt current investigation and optimism for what may appear from the country in the near and distant future.
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One of America's Thanksgiving traditions, along with family dinners, Cowboys and Lions football games, and expressing gratitude, is the arrival of treasure chest-sized editions of the daily newspapers, filled with retail flyers. It's now possible to also get these Black Friday flyers online. Still, some old school bargain hunters prefer the hand-to-hand combat of snagging those amazing deals in overcrowded shopping malls. In keeping with the holiday spirit, here are a few Broken Hearted Toy endorsed gift ideas.
Record Store Day's Black Friday: Vinyl collectors are accustomed to the annual Record Store Day coming around April, but this year, there's also a special holiday version. You'll have to get to your favorite independent record store early tomorrow if you want to grab treasures like "Surfin Safari" by The Beach Boys on 10" vinyl; David Bowie's "The Jean Genie" on 7" vinyl, Jellyfish's Stack-A-Tracks CD; Joey Ramone's Ya Know? Limited Edition Deluxe Album on CD; and Joan Jett's Bad Reputation LP with Bonus CD.
Vinyl Beatles LPs: New and improved versions of Please Please Me, Rubber Soul, With The Beatles, Revolver, Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, and others are now available individually ($22.99 - $34.99) or in a deluxe boxed set ($399.99). Chicago Tribune writer Mark Caro did a much better job of describing them than I could ever dream of doing.
Doctor Who Series Seven, Part One DVD: The British sci-fi series is sort of on a mid-term break, with the second half starting up again in early 2013. In the meantime, the first five episodes are now available on DVD. The Doctor's adventures seem less apocalyptic and a bit more silly this year, (particularly in "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" and "The Power Of Three") but I actually prefer the lighthearted approach. Part One does have "The Angels Take Manhattan," which brings the era of companions Amy and Rory to a sad end. They had really grown on me over the past few years, so I cried like a newborn while watching this. Luckily, distraught fans will be able to see that Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darville) are actually okay because one of the Bonus Features on this DVD shows them hanging out with The Doctor (Matt Smith) at this year's Comic Con in San Diego.
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window 1963 -1975 DVD: The Hollies appeared on countless TV shows back in their heyday but only a few of those performances have surfaced in more recent years. The recently released The Hollies: Look Through Any Window 1963 - 1975 offers 22 songs, along with running commentary from original members Graham Nash, Tony Hicks, Allan Clarke, and Bobby Elliott.
Cellophane Flowers Beatles Outfits: Wilmette, IL-based designer Marcia Clark creates Beatles-inspired outfits, and other imaginative duds. She even gets famous models like Brad and Chloe from The Handcuffs to wear them in her ads. You can find Cellophane Flowers on Facebook. or contact Clark at firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to order some hip threads.
Beatles Art by Shannon, Eric Cash, and Georgina Flood: Each of these artists specializes in The Beatles, along with other subject matter. You can purchase their work on original prints, mugs, t-shirts, and calendars. I've met all three at Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago over the years, and they're very charming and talented people.
Live From The Archives Volume 14 CD: The latest in a series of CDs that feature exclusive concert performances that have aired on FM station, WXRT. Once again, sales will help fund the Rock For Kids organization, which helps provide music lessons for public school children; as well as the women's shelter, Sarah's Circle. It's an essential purchase for those of us who have collected the previous 13 volumes, or for any loyal XRT listener. Given the diversity of the station's programming, this year's choices will appeal more to some than others, but there's enough good stuff to please most alt rock fans. The artists include Wilco, Arcade Fire, The Shins, Garbage, The Wallflowers, The Head And The Heart, and Delta Spirit. Live From The Archives Volume 14 will be available at Target stores starting on December 4th.
Various CDs: Music is always a good choice for gifts, so feel free to browse the reviews I've done over the past few years for some worthy options. Also, check out your favorite bands online and see what new stuff they have to offer.
Fest For Beatles Fans Catalog: I just got the 28th Annual Fest For Beatles Fans Holiday Catalog in the mail yesterday, and as usual, it's overflowing with every imaginable Beatles-emblazoned item. In addition to CDs, t-shirts, posters, DVDs, and books, this catalog offers belts, wallets, pajamas, sunglasses, hats, and puzzles, as well as iPad and laptop musicskins and iPhone hard shell cases for all those tech savvy Beatles fans on your list. And you can wrap up all your Beatles gifts in Beatles-themed wrapping paper. The Fest For Beatles Fans online store has even more items for sale. My only complaint is that I'd love to see these manufacturers spread the wealth around. Why not create some items depicting The Animals, The Kinks, Donovan, The Hollies, and other noteworthy contemporaries of the Fab Four?
Rock Art Show: This site sells art and photographs by and of musicians, and plans to unveil a new rare item each Monday of the 2012 holiday season. Each will be available only for that week. This week's special is a limited edition, 20" x 26" framed gold-plated The Who Discography record. It will be interesting to see what other hard-to-find treasures they come up with in the coming weeks. It looks like you have to sign up for the Rock Art Show online newsletter to receive the offers.
Toynk Online Shopping Grownups who still love toys can find loads of TV, movie, and comic related collectibles here. Know anyone who wants a 25" inflatable remote control R2D2? Toynk has it covered. They also have Barbie Collector Dolls, Smurfs, and sports action figures, as well as costumes.
Kickstarter Perks: This website enables musicians, artists, and filmmakers to solicit funds for projects that might not otherwise see the light of day. Most of the participants offer personalized, one-of-a-kind perks in exchange for donations. The larger the amount you pledge, the more cool the gift will be if the project meets its goal. A great way to get involved in the creative process, and get something in return.
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: The online gift store has a variety of colorful and imaginative items, including t-shirts, mugs, shot glasses, and desk accessories.
Genesis Gift Guide 2012: If you've got a lot of money to spend on yourself or that special someone for the holidays, check out the high-classed, hard bound, rock and roll-related books from Genesis. They have special editions covering The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Ron Wood, and others.
Also, check out the websites of your favorite bands for t-shirts, buttons, magnets, holiday songs, or other special items.
Have fun doing whatever form of shopping you prefer, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!


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TRON: Destiny is a fan film based in the real world and borrows elements of TRON and TRON: Legacy. The 4-minute short film tells a story of two students, one of whom had constructed a digitizing laser which in turn had created a light cycle. The pair take the vehicle out for a ride and while they are gone the laser re-engages and creates a new humanoid figure, later revealed to be an updated version of Sark.
The short film is preceded by a disclaimer proclaiming no connection to the works of Steven Lisberger or Disney, and marks the piece as purely for personal enjoyment from fans of TRON.
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The United States will not field a men's soccer team at the London Olympics after this stoppage-time goal by El Salvador's Jaime Enrique Alas forced a 3-3 draw in the CONCACAF U-23 qualifying tournament.
The U.S. needed a win to make the semifinals after blowing this past weekend's match to Canada, and despite falling behind 2-1 by halftime managed to push in two second-half goals from Terrence Boyd and Joe Corona. It was a controversial ending after Boyd was bloodied by an El Salvador player, an act overlooked by the referee and one that drew jeers from the Nashville crowd. [Mun2]
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Marine Sergeant Jeremy Knauff to Islamic State: You Will Learn Soon Enough of the Brotherhood of Marines
In the wake of Thursday's jihad attack on a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee that left four United States Marines dead, one Marine says he has had enough and has gone to social media to inform the Islamic State, "You wanted attention, and yesterday, you got it. Only, you chose the wrong people to seek that attention from." He was talking about the United States Marines.
Marine Sergeant Jeremy L. Knauff, who served honorably in the United States Marine Corps for four years after graduating from high school, took to Facebook to rip the weakness of Barack Obama and how all the jihad attack has done is paint the target even bigger on those tied to the religion of pieces.
"You did not get the attention of our weak President," Knauff wrote. "He tweeted his support for your medieval holiday following your cowardly attack. You did not get the attention of our useless and corrupt Congress. They were too busy lining their pockets."
"When you attacked those four Marines, you got the attention of every one of our 186,800 active duty Marines, along with every Marine who ever served," he continued. "You just stirred up hate, discontent, and malice within a group of people who relish the idea of engaging the enemy."
Knauff, who manages Spartan Media, then wrote:
There is something you obviously don't yet know about Marines...
The brotherhood we share is stronger than the challenges we face, the weapons we master, or the enemies we destroy.
You will learn that soon though.
In pointing out the current Rules of Engagement per the Obama administration, which has gotten many of our military killed, Knauff says that isn't the way it will work when Islamists come to America.
"You see, we won't play by the rules you're accustomed to seeing," he wrote. "When you play in our backyard, we don't have to answer to any chain of command. We will not follow ridiculous ROEs crafted by a spineless bureaucrat to appease some goat herding tribal leader. And we won't be wearing uniforms so that you can easily ambush us. Nope. None of that shit."
"When you think you're walking into a target-rich environment, you're really walking into an ambush," he continued. "That pudgy, middle-aged guy wearing khakis in the mall, who unbeknownst to you, is a former 0311 and armed, will dump your sorry ass before you have a chance to scream 'allah snackbar.' And that soccer mom pushing a stroller, she's got a Glock and will happily leave you gasping in a pool of your own blood before she lets you hurt her children."
"We are here and we still have the training and experience to wage war, whether here or abroad," he added. "And wage war we will. Every one of us are willing to fight and die to protect our Marine Corps brothers and sisters, our families and friends, and our way of life."
"And we will win, because while you fight to destroy what you hate, we fight to protect what we love," he concluded. "Semper Fi!"
Indeed, I love when someone tells it like it is. There is no question that many of us have had it up to here (raises my hand way about my head) with Islamists who think they can engage in jihad without consequences.
Marine veteran Nick Powers has already put out the warning to the Islamic State: "Attack us and there will be no mercy." Knauff is just confirming that same heart and spirit, the spirit of the Marines… the spirit of America.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/07/marine-sergeant-jeremy-knauff-to-islamic-state-you-will-learn-soon-enough-of-the-brotherhood-of-marines/#b6VEROUMjQy1Q697.99


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Yesterday, during Adobe's quarterly earnings call, an analyst asked about Flash support on iPhone 3G. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said that the company is continuing work on an iPhone-compatible version and even has a version of Flash running in the iPhone Simulator.
"With respect to the iPhone, we are working on it," said Narayen. "We have a version that's working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we've made to date."
Creating a version of Flash that technically works on the iPhone might be considered somewhat trivial; OS X iPhone is based on Mac OS X and has most of the same plumbing. But this spring, at the annual shareholder's meeting, Jobs panned Flash, saying the full version was far too slow for the iPhone (if you ask me, it's too slow on the desktop as well) and that Adobe's Flash Lite just isn't the "real" web. Jobs lamented, "There's this missing product in the middle."
In the end, there are two scenarios that seem plausible enough to play out here. Either Adobe can improve the performance of Flash such that it runs well on iPhone hardware and convinces Apple to incorporate it into Mobile Safari, or Apple will continue to push forward with current and proposed open standards and Flash in the mobile space could dry up. Both outcomes have potential wins for users, though: we can expect either better performance from Flash (due to optimization) or greater support for open standards.


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The Avengers's enemy discusses his plans... but the bigger threat might be some leaked script pages. Plus set photos from The Amazing Spider-Man's New York filming, and casting updates for The Hobbit, The Dark Tower, and World War Z.
Plus an unexpected character on Fringe! Spoilers ahead...
Top image from Green Lantern.
The Avengers
Production has reportedly halted after the theft of Samuel L. Jackson's script, and the scenes that were displayed via a single photo of the pages are reportedly being rewritten — although this is still just a rumor, and we don't really know if the allegedly leaked script was real or not. [Film Fan Review]
This was already pretty much known, but now Tom Hiddleston has again confirmed that he will be appearing as Loki, and that he is indeed a main villain:
"I will be [heading to Albuquerque] soon. That is a dead-set certainty. I'm so excited. Loki has big plans... and it's going to take eight superheroes to stop him this time as opposed to just his chunky brother."
The "eight superheroes" line has drawn some attention, as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye only adds up to six superheroes. Possible explanations include Hiddleston counting Nick Fury and Maria Hill as superheroes, or him simply miscounting the number of heroes. (I'd consider the second the most likely possibility.) Of course, this is only going to fuel speculation that Ant Man and Wasp really will show up after all, but yeah...that isn't happening. [ComingSoon.net]
Chris Hemsworth also weighs in:
"We're doing The Avengers in about a week or so. They all come together-Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Thor. It's an attempt to form an alliance, and it's conflict the whole way through."
And some thoughts from Hulk portrayer Mark Ruffalo:
I'm not used to getting a part and having it subjected to that scrutiny and debate. I like to come in the back door and surprise people. There's so much onus on it. I trust Joss [Whedon]. We talked a lot and to Robert [Downey. Jr.] I trust that we are going to make it good. Robert sets the tone."
Jaimie Alexander has no idea if she'll be appearing again as the Asgardian warrior Sif, though she says she would like to:
"I can't talk about that. And the funny thing is, it's because I don't know. A lot of times they don't tell us things until the very end, so I can safely say I have no clue. It would be awesome, though. I'd be totally willing to do it."
The Amazing Spider-Man
The movie has begun doing its actual New York filming, and one of the scenes shot appears to be a funeral. The leading theories are that it's either a funeral for Uncle Ben or Captain George Stacy. We'd guess it's the same funeral that previous set photos revealed - and since Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy was part of that shoot, this might all be for Captain Stacy. [Marketsaw]
And here's a bunch more set photos, revealing Peter and Gwen on the street, a daring bridge stunt, and Oscorp headquarters. Check out more at the links. [Rafael Javier, Daily Blam, and JustJared]
The Dark Knight Rises
The Times of India reports that the film is using the Mehrangar fort in Jodhpur, and they quote the following from a reputed inside source:
"They are coming with a very small unit of around 15 people and will be shooting here for two days. There are no Bollywood actors being cast in the movie. But, local actors and crew members might be roped in. The unit wants to use the beautiful fort as the background for the movie. However, nothing is known yet whether Jodhpur will feature as an Indian city in the movie or not."
Christian Bale is reportedly the only main cast member making the trip, which probably makes it less likely that this turns out to be Talia al Ghul's secret headquarters of something. [The Times of India]
Green Lantern
Here are a couple more new posters. [ComingSoon.net and The HD Room]
Super 8
J.J. Abrams discusses the unique challenges of working with child actors:
I don't think working with actors, young or old, is ever very easy or a given. Everyone's different. There are some actors with whom I feel I have this crazy psychic connection and I don't feel like I have to say anything and they get what it is. When you're casting, the most important thing is casting people who don't necessarily have to be told what to do at every turn but will inspire you by coming up with things you never would have thought of. Working with kids is something I had done only sparingly. In "Star Trek," there was a young Kirk and a young Spock. But never really like this, and frankly I was terrified. I was dealing with two main actors who had never been cast before and never been on a set before. They didn't know the most fundamental things about how a crew works. Everything was an alien experience for them. The fun of working with them, partly, is they weren't professional kids. And then there was Elle Fanning, who's from another planet herself. There's a kind of innate brilliance and sophistication, the likes of which I've never seen in an actor, especially an actor who when I worked with her was 12.
This is about as shaky as sources get, but somebody (Person A) who claims to know somebody (Person B) who works on the movie, and apparently said he/she saw Guy Pearce on the set. As you might guess, this isn't the most reliable of information. That said, it's not impossible that Pearce is involved in some minor way, as he's been known to take bit parts in movies like The Hurt Locker and The Road...but this is pretty far from being convincing evidence. [C.H.U.D.]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Here's a featurette, which includes some snippets of new footage. [/Film]
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Here's a short but official synopsis:
When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us. The movie stars Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.
World War Z
The Hurt Locker and The Adjustment Bureau actor Anthony Mackie has reportedly been offered a role. [Variety]
The Hobbit
Peter Jackson has announced New Zealander actor Dean O'Gorman will be stepping in as Fili, while Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace will play the Elven King Thranduil. That's the part, incidentally, that David Tennant was most often rumored for, so that may be an indication that he is not joining the project after all. Also, Peter Jackson posted a photo of Hugo Weaving visiting the set, which seems like a decent indication that he may be returning as Elrond. However, that isn't even remotely confirmed. [Peter Jackson]
The Dark Tower
Javier Bardem is now officially Roland. [The Independent]
Breaking Dawn
Here are some promo photos. [SpoilerTV]
Doctor Who
For next week's "The Curse of the Black Spot", the BBC has released a short prequel video and two slightly different trailers:
And here are some promo images for the episode. [Life, Doctor Who, and Combom]
Here are some lines of dialogue from the episode:
"There are worse ways to go than having your face knocked off by a dodgy mermaid."
"Space can very lonely."
"I suppose laughing like that is in the job description."
"Humans, second rate, damage too easy. Only a matter of time before you all get bruised."
There's more at the link. [Cult Box]
Executive producer Piers Wenger explains how this new series represents a step forward from Matt Smith's first year in the role:
"This is Matt's second season as The Doctor, and it's the Eleventh Doctor's second outing, and I think this time we were allowed to make the series more complex and darker and more surprising than maybe we were able to last year. This time around, the characters are all in place, the world thankfully did buy into the new characters and into the new people playing them. And now we can take them off and take them to much scarier and darker and more complicated places than we did last time and test those relationships people have invested in."
Christopher Eccleston quite unequivocally rules out a return as the Ninth Doctor for the fiftieth anniversary, rather poetically observing that one should "never bathe in the same river twice." So, those hoping Paul McGann gets the nod for a multi-Doctor special... I think you can assume those odds just improved. [Blogtor Who]
Here's a promo for the season finale, "The Day We Died." [Fringe Television]
Peter does indeed visit the year 2026 in the finale, and that's where/when he meets Emily Meade's young FBI agent... who turns out to be Olivia's now grown-up niece Ella. [TV Line]
Here's a photo of Joshua Jackson shooting some post-apocalyptic scenes. There are four more at the link. [Pop Sugar]
Michael Cerveris offers some cryptic hints about the Observers:
Not too much about us. You get a couple of extra details, or maybe information about things that we suspected. But it doesn't focus too much or doesn't reveal a lot of new information about us. We're more in our kind of observing mode at this point. But it kind of has an implication that we're gonna have a lot to do next year, hopefully.
Here's a synopsis for the season finale:
OPERATION BARTOWSKI RACES TO TAKE DOWN VIVIAN VOLKOFF AS SHE THREATENS CHUCK AND SARAH'S WEDDING – LINDA HAMILTON, LAUREN COHAN, MEKENNA MELVIN, RICHARD BURGI AND TIMOTHY DALTON GUEST STAR – Before he can kiss the bride, Chuck (Zachary Levi) must enlist his wedding party to take down Vivian Volkoff (guest star Lauren Cohan) and stop her from destroying the big day. When he turns to Alexei Volkoff (guest star Timothy Dalton) for help, the CIA sends its toughest agent, Clyde Decker (guest star Richard Burgi), to stop them. Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Adam Baldwin, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Scott Krinsky, Vik Sahay, Mark Christopher Lawrence and Bonita Friedericy also star.
And here are some photos.
Here's a promo for "The Man Who Would Be King."
Falling Skies
Here are descriptions for the first three episodes:
Episode 1.01 - Two-Hour Series Premiere – Part 1: "Live and Learn"
The world is left in tatters after a sudden, unprovoked and unexplained invasion by aliens, leaving the planet's remaining human population to fight for survival against the occupiers. History professor Tom Mason (Noah Wyle- ER) has been named second in command for the 2nd Mass, but his real focus is on his three sons, one of whom has been captured by the aliens for an unknown purpose.
Episode 1.02 - Two-Hour Series Premiere – Part 2: "The Armory"
While scouting for supplies, Tom, Hal and their squad encounter a gang of marauders determined to get their hands on the 2nd Massachusetts' weapons. Leading the gang is an ex-con named John Pope, who decides to use his hostages as bargaining material.
Episode 1.03 - "Prisoner of War"
Dr. Michael Harris (guest star Steven Weber – Happy Town) joins the 2nd Mass with a theory about what might save the teenagers abducted by the aliens. But the plan could be derailed when Tom starts digging for answers to questions that have haunted him since the early days of the invasion. The 2nd Mass comes face-to-face with skitters and mechs when they attempt to rescue Ben.
And here are some photos from episode 1. [multipleverses.com]
Here's a promo for the next episode, "Prophecy."
Additional reporting by Michael Ann Dobbs and Charlie Jane Anders.


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Panel urges openness about abuse
Survivors of child sexual abuse said Sunday night the problem cannot be combated unless people are willing to talk about it openly.
At a two-hour panel discussion at Penn State University, two-time Olympic swimmer Margaret Hoelzer, state Rep. Louise Williams Bishop (D., Phila.), and Christopher Anderson, executive director of MaleSurvivor, shared personal stories of being abused as children with an audience of about 150 people.
It was the opening session of ''Child Sexual Abuse Conference: Traumatic Impact, Prevention and Intervention,'' a three-day gathering that hopes to shed more light on a problem that gained national attention after former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child sex abuse charges last November.
The panelists said more resources and treatment for victims and survivors will become available if the issue gains more attention and awareness.
Williams Bishop said the Sandusky scandal was just a conversation starter because the issue has been going on for years.
Sandusky, 68, was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison earlier this month after being convicted on dozens of criminal counts covering abuse allegations both on and off campus.
''There are Sanduskys in almost every community in the United States,'' Anderson said. ''There are survivors in every community in the United States.''
Hoelzer said Sandusky was able to abuse children because he gained the trust of those within the university and surrounding community. In her case, she said a friend's father — someone she admired — abused her.
''Sex offenders wouldn't be successful if we didn't trust them,'' Hoelzer said. ''They wouldn't be successful if they were creepy, and they looked funny and they all drove the creepy van from `Silence of the Lambs.'''
Most of the time, sex offenders are well-respected and trusted members of a community, which enables them to prey on children, said Dr. Cindy Christian, a nationally recognized expert on child abuse and member of Pennsylvania's Task Force on Child Protection. Christian moderated the panel discussion, which lasted more than two hours.
Retired boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard and former kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart, both abuse survivors, are the featured speakers at the conference on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Despite expecting Hurricane Sandy to rip through the state, conference organizers said the events are expected to proceed as planned.
''The severity of this problem, outweighs the severity of the storm,'' Penn State Vice President Tom Poole said.


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Sister Diane points us to this fantastic and fun short film made by members of DeWanda, a Berlin-based craft community.
This short film was made by 1,620 members of the DaWanda community – a Berlin-based online marketplace for artists and crafters. Each crafter downloaded a single frame of the film, and then styled it according to his or her creative skills
The music is catchy and the visuals are stunning. As you view the video n the DeWanda web site, you can click on a frame to view it and information about its creator.


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The Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, invites applications for a position as full professor within the field of integrative animal physiology. The position is available as soon as possible.
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CBS Number One in Viewers, Number One In Adults 18-49 and Number One
In Adults 25-54
"CSI" Scores the Largest Audience of Any Program This Season
"Close to Home's" Special Friday Broadcast Yields A Time Period Win in Viewers and Key Demos With the Best Ratings in the Time Period Since Last May
"Survivor: Guatemala" Hits Series High Ratings
"Criminal Minds" In Closest Competitive Position to a First-Run "Lost"
"CSI: NY" Delivers Its Best Demo Ratings In a Year
"Cold Case" Has Its Largest Audience in Nearly a Year
"Numb3rs" Has Its Best Numbers Since Its Friday Premiere Last Season
"48 Hours Mystery" Delivers Its Largest Audience Since Its New
Format Debut in 2004
CBS scored an across-the-board victory for the fifth straight week, placing first in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen ratings for the week ending Nov. 13, week eight of the 2005-2006 Season.
CBS has won every week this season in viewers (the first network to accomplish this since the 1988-89 Season), five straight weeks in adults 18-49 and six consecutive weeks in adults 25-54.
CBS's win was fueled by CSI, which had the largest audience of any broadcast on any network this season, season high ratings for SURVIVOR: GUATEMALA, NUMB3RS, COLD CASE, CSI: NY, CLOSE TO HOME and 48 HOURS MYSTERY.
For the week in viewers, CBS (14.54m) beat ABC (11.40m), NBC (8.91m) and FOX (7.52m). Season-to-date in viewers, CBS (13.16m) leads, followed by ABC (10.84m), NBC (9.34m) and FOX (8.74m).
For the week in households, CBS (9.3/15) enjoyed a +27% advantage over ABC (7.3/12), +58% over NBC (5.9/09) and +98% over FOX (4.7/07). Season-to-date, CBS is first in households (8.6/14), outpacing ABC by +23% (7.0/11), NBC by +37% (6.3/10) and FOX by +54% (5.6/09).
In key demographics, CBS was first in adults 25-54 (5.6/13) for the sixth consecutive week and first in adults 18-49 (4.4/12) for the fifth week in a row. This is CBS's best delivery in households, viewers and adults 25-54 since the week ending 5/15/05 (a week that included the finales of "The Amazing Race 7" and "Survivor: Palau") and best delivery in adults 18-49 since the week ending 5/22/05 (a week that included the series finale of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the two-hour "CSI" finale directed by Quentin Tarantino).
Season-to-date, CBS is first in adults 25-54 (5.1/12) and tied for first in adults 18-49 (4.1/11, with ABC).
For the first 11 days of the November 2005 sweep, CBS is first in households (9.2/15), viewers (14.38m), adults 25-54 (5.6/13) and adults 18-49 (4.4/12).
� NCIS was first in households (11.0/17), viewers (17.79m), adults 25-54 (5.8/14) and adults 18-49 (4.2/11) for the 8th consecutive week.
� THE AMAZING RACE 8 (6.7/10, 10.84m) was second in adults 25-54 (5.2/12), adults 18-49 (4.6/11), adults 18-34 (3.5/10). This is THE AMAZING RACE 8's best delivery in adults 18-49 this season, the best adults 18-34 delivery since the season premiere and matches the second best adults 25-54 delivery.
-- Wednesday, CBS was first in households (9.2/14), viewers (14.20m), second in adults 25-54 (5.6/13), adults 18-49 (4.5/12) and tied for second in adults 18-34 (3.4/10, with FOX). This marks CBS's strongest Wednesday so far this season and best performance since 3/23/05 (a night that included a Wednesday "Survivor") in viewers, households, adults 18-34, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
� CRIMINAL MINDS was second in households (9.8/15), viewers (15.09m), adults 25-54 (5.8/13) and adults 18-49 (4.3/11). CRIMINAL MINDS finished in its closest competitive position to a first run episode of "Lost" to date in households, viewers, adults 18-34 (3.3/09), adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
� CSI: NY was first in households (12.3/20), viewers (19.23m), adults 25-54 (7.9/19), adults 18-49 (6.5/17) and adults 18-34 (5.2/15). This is CSI: NY's best households, viewers and adults 25-54 delivery since 9/29/04, best adults 18-34 and adults 18-49 since 11/17/04 (the series high in adults 18-34).
� SURVIVOR: GUATEMALA won its time period in households (11.0/17), viewers (18.98m), adults 25-54 (8.3/20), adults 18-49 (6.9/19) and adults 18-34 (5.0/15). SURVIVOR: GUATEMALA hit series highs in households, viewers, adults 18-34, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
� CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION was first in households (18.2/27), viewers (29.55m), adults 25-54 (12.4/28), adults 18-49 (10.2/25) and adults 18-34 (7.7/22). This broadcast of CSI ranks as the Number One broadcast on any network this season-to-date. The top five broadcasts this season in viewers are all CSI episodes.
� WITHOUT A TRACE won its time period in households (13.8/22), viewers (20.78m) adults 25-54 (7.9/19) and second in adults 18-49 (6.3/17).
-- For the eighth week this season, CBS was first Friday in households (7.7/13), viewers (11.88m), adults 25-54 (4.6/13) and adults 18-49 (3.4/10). This is CBS's best Friday delivery in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since 3/25/05.
� GHOST WHISPERER won its time period in households (7.2/13), viewers (11.41m), adults 25-54 (4.6/13), adults 18-49 (3.3/11) and adults 18-34 (2.1/08). GHOST WHISPERER has won its time slot every week this season in households, viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54.
� CLOSE TO HOME SPECIAL (S) won its time period in households (7.8/13), viewers (11.87m), adults 25-54 (4.5/12), adults 18-49 (3.2/10) and adults 18-34 (2.3/08). This is the time period's best delivery in households, viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since 5/13/05 ("Elvis, by the Presleys"). This episode of CLOSE TO HOME outperformed all Tuesday episodes in households, viewers and adults 25-54 and is the best delivery in adults 18-49 since 10/18/05.
� NUMB3RS was first for the eighth consecutive week in households (8.1/14), viewers (12.36m), adults 25-54 (4.9/13) and first for the 7th time in eight weeks in adults 18-49 (3.6/11). This is NUMB3RS best delivery in households, viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 since 1/28/05, the program's time period premiere.
� 48 HOURS MYSTERY was first in households (7.1/13), viewers (10.11m), adults 25-54 (3.2/09) and adults 18-49 (2.5/08). This is 48 HOURS MYSTERY's best delivery in households and viewers since introducing its current format in September 2004. 48 HOURS MYSTERY nearly beat NBC and ABC combined in viewers (10.11m vs. 10.20m).
� COLD CASE was first in households (11.1/16), viewers (17.42m), second in adults 25-54 (5.5/12). This is COLD CASE's best delivery in households and viewers since 11/28/04.
� CBS SUNDAY MOVIE ("Category 7: The End of the World" part 2 of 2) was second in households (8.7/13), viewers (13.86m), adults 25-54 (5.3/11) and adults 18-49 (4.2/09). Compared to the CBS SUNDAY MOVIE's season-to-date average, "Category 7: The End of the World" was up +34% in households, +39% in both viewers and adults 25-54 and +40% in adults 18-49.
CBS top programs of the week: #1 CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (an average of 29.55m viewers), #4 WITHOUT A TRACE (20.78m), #7 CSI: NY (19.23m), #8 SURVIVOR: GUATEMALA: THE MAYA EMPIRE (18.98m), #9 CSI: MIAMI (18.39m), #10 NCIS (17.79m), #11 COLD CASE (17.42m), #14 TWO AND A HALF MEN (16.19m), #17 CRIMINAL MINDS (15.09m), #19 60 MINUTES (14.46m), #21 CBS SUNDAY MOVIE "Category 7: End of the World" part 2 of 2 (13.86m), #23 NUMB3RS (12.36m), #24 OUT OF PRACTICE (12.17m), #25 CLOSE TO HOME SPECIAL (S) (11.87m) and #29 GHOST WHISPERER (11.41m).