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The Bluffer's Guide to Tasmania
Overlooked for years by Australia's tourism industry, and once shackled to its penal past, the so-called 'island at the end of the world' has emerged as one of the world's most fascinating destinations. Tasmania really is on the edge of the inhabited world – Latitude 42S, Longitude 147E. In plain English, this island (about the size of Ireland) is 150 miles south of the Australian mainland, with nothing between it and Antarctica but over 3000 miles of Southern Ocean. They get some rough weather down there, with big seas churned up by the Roaring Forties tearing in from South America.
Is the weather as bad as it sounds?
During their summer season, between late October and April, it's remarkably like home. It's a temperate climate, which bluffers should know means one which doesn't have extremely hot or extremely cold temperatures.
So what's the point of travelling halfway around the world for more of the same?
Did we mention its unspoilt, rugged, natural beauty? When the island applied for UNESCO World Heritage status, it met seven out of ten of the criteria for selection. That's more than any other World Heritage site including the Pyramids, the Serengeti, Machu Picchu, and Venice. Tasmania now has 19 vast national parks, the majority of their landscapes still as Nature designed them. Point out that nearly 40 per cent of the island is protected wilderness.
But what if I'm not an outdoors type?
Say that it doesn't matter. Even if you don't get out of the car, bus, boat or seaplane (there's no rail network), visitors will be beguiled by the sort of scenery which simply beggars belief. In large parts of the island it is possible to believe that this really is what the world would look like without the interference of man. It is, as the World Wildlife Fund described it: "a world beyond human memory." That's the sort of phrase all bluffers should drop into any conversation about Tasmania.
Surely there must be some bright lights?
Don't imagine it's all wilderness. Hobart, its vibrant capital, is home to nearly a quarter of a million people, and was recently voted the third most photogenic city in the world by Lonely Planet guidebook readers. Back in the 1960s and 70s, thankfully, there wasn't the will or the finance to demolish the elegant old waterfront to make way for the sort of towering apartment blocks soaring skywards throughout Australia. So you can state with confidence that Hobart retains a higher proportion of historic buildings (most of them built by convict labour) than any other state capital in the country. The result? Its architectural heritage of sandstone Georgian warehouses is not only safely intact, but now restored and redeveloped as a fashionable creative quarter with studios, galleries, cafés, 'art' hotels, and some of the best restaurants in the country. In the residential areas you're more likely to find pastel-painted Victorian villas dotted up the hillside with their pretty lattice-edged verandahs. If it wasn't for the ubiquitous corrugated iron roofs, you could be mistaken for thinking you were in Lyme Regis or Bridlington-on-Sea.
Any particular cultural highlights?
You will need to know about MONA (the Museum of Old and New Art) one of the world's most innovative (and infamous) private museums, built on three levels underground just outside Hobart, and described as a 'subversive adult Disneyland'. Some of the exhibits have to be seen to be believed. And then you still won't believe them. The Human Defecation Machine anyone?
History in 30 seconds?
Commit as much of the following as possible to memory: It was separated from the mainland 10,000 years ago when sea levels rose, making its aboriginal people completely isolated from the rest of mankind – longer than any other humans in history. It didn't do them much good. They were all but wiped out by disease or the bullet when Europeans arrived in numbers in the 18th century. Tasmania was originally known as Van Diemen's Land, after the governor of the Dutch East Indies who commissioned the first exploration of the Southern Ocean in 1642. James Cook arrived in 1777 and the first British settlement took root shortly afterwards. By popular consent the colony's name was changed to Tasmania in 1856 in recognition of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, the first European to land on its shores over two centuries earlier. Islanders felt that the original name had too many negative connotations as the location of the world's largest penal colony. Now colloquially known as 'Tas' or 'Tassie', the island became a full Australian state in 1901.
Why is Tasmania suddenly on the world tourism map?
The rest of Australia has finally woken up to the fact that it has an abundance of natural beauty on its doorstep, and has at last stopped thinking of Tassie as a peculiar backwater full of knuckle-dragging hicks. It now ranks in the official top 5 of the country's top tourist attractions, up there with Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef. That's a significant step forward when you consider that as recently as the Sydney Olympics in 2000 the island was left off the Australian map in some of the official literature.
What is there to see?
A lot. You'll want to mention Strahan (pr.'Strawn'), a charming fishing village on the far west of the island. Its enormous natural harbour is over six times the size of Sydney's. From here take a cruise down the serene Gordon River, deep into the heart of the rainforest, or a seaplane which will take you on the same journey. Then there's Cradle Mountain National Park which will introduce you to a unique wilderness experience from the comfort of a luxury lodge. You might also want to recommend some of the old railway towns like Queenstown, more Wild West than West Tasmania. And say that Launceston, the island's second city and a showcase of Victorian architecture is certainly worth a detour.
Any famous Tasmanians?
How about legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn? His father was a biology professor at the University of Tasmania, and the famously priapic swordsman was born in Hobart in 1909. 20 years later he emigrated to England and after a brief and unsuccessful career as a tea planter in New Guinea he reinvented himself as an actor first in England and then in the USA. In many ways the ultimate bluffer, he never had an acting lesson.
And don't forget to mention former Aussie cricket captain Ricky Ponting, and that bloke with the mocking smile in The Mentalist.
Any interesting wildlife?
You'll need to know that the island is home to the world's only carnivorous marsupial – the endangered Tasmanian Devil (which is actually quite endearing, except at feeding time.) Proportionate to its size, about that of a small dog, it has more powerful jaws than any other living mammal – exerting a bite force of 1,220lbs.
And then of course you'll need to lament the fate of the Thylacine (otherwise known as the Tasmanian Tiger). The largest known marsupial carnivore, it was hunted to extinction and the last known survivor died in Hobart Zoo in 1935. But in 1982 a wildlife officer claimed to have spotted one. A majority of Tassies believe it is still in existence and hiding deep in the impenetrable rainforest.
You might want to talk knowingly about avoiding Huntsman spiders. They can grow to the size of the human hand and are very hairy (but quite harmless and less common than on the mainland).
And on the subject of avoiding things, not for nothing is Tasmania known as the roadkill capital of the world. Flattened animals are a common sight, mainly because there are an awful lot of indigenous marsupials foraging between dusk and dawn on unlit roads. Nearly 300,000 animals are killed on Tasmanian roads annually.
If I only have time to talk wistfully about just one thing?
Make it 'The Freycinet Experience Walk'. In the visitor's book in the Friendly Beaches Eco Lodge there is an entry from British writer Nicholas Shakespeare stating simply: "This is the most beautiful place on earth". He was describing the Freycinet Peninsula, a 22 mile long peninsula jutting out into the Tasman Sea, with deserted white sand beaches lapped by iridescent turquoise waters. Here you might not see another living soul except albatross, sea eagles, pelicans, black swans, and wallabies which hop up to join your picnic. You might point out that there are very few places left like this anywhere, especially Wineglass Bay – one of the world's most beautiful and unspoilt beaches.
Maximum Bluffing Value
One of the world's most terrifying waves (and therefore very popular with machismo-fuelled surfers) is found south of Hobart. It's called, rather appropriately, Shipstern's Bluff. You'll need to acquaint yourself with the Bluffer's Guide to Surfing to pronounce authoratively on how many times you've 'conquered' it. But for now it's enough to know it's there.
DO SAY They're awfully green down there. Did you know that Tasmania had the first 'Green' party in the world, the first share in a coalition government, and in 2002 it recorded the highest vote for a Green party anywhere.'
DON'T SAY 'Is the penal colony still taking in guests?'
Happy Bluffing!


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I don't know if anyone has it worse than the 33 Chilean men who are trapped underground and aren't sure exactly when they will see daylight again. That's why I was so impressed at their reaction when the drill bit reached them. They were loudly singing the Chilean national anthem and thanking rescuers for not giving up on them.
The news is a funny business.
The more horrible a story is, the more people want to read about it. Sometimes it has to do with prurient interests. Sometimes it helps our psyche to see the rays of hope in the darkest of times.
I can't think of a more terrifying story than that of the mine collapse in Chile. After a disastrous failure in the mine on Aug. 5, the fate of 33 men on the wrong side of the landslide was unknown. When two weeks passed, the assumption that the men were no longer alive would have been very reasonable.
But on Aug. 19, a bore hole reached the safe room almost a half of a mile below the surface.
Shockingly, all of the men were still alive. They were all doing pretty well considering there was limited fresh air, about two days worth of food, no light other than what was available on a few helmets and the temperatures hover around 90 degrees constantly.
They lived on two spoonfuls of tuna, a small glass of milk and a biscuit every other day.
I can't imagine the joy and relief the miners felt when that first drill bit made its way into the safety chamber - a room the size of a small, one-bedroom apartment.
Thankfully, the men have access to a few tunnels that lead away from the room, so they aren't living in a huge port-o-potty with 32 other men.
They were so emaciated and dehydrated that rescuers can't even send them food yet. They get rehydration pills and glucose gel to help their bodies begin to process nutrients on a regular schedule again.
Unfortunately, it will be 30 to 90 more days before they miners are brought back to the surface. The physical and mental effects will be numerous.
That's why I don't understand one of the first pieces of advice given to the miners: Don't get too fat down there.
Of all of the concerns I would have, that one might not be very high on the list. Even if there were some highly hefty hombres down there when the mine shaft gave way, eating seven biscuits and a can of tuna in two weeks probably fixed that problem.
The hole that will soon save the men will be the size of a bicycle tire. A basket will fit inside the hole, and you better fit in the basket or you'll have to dig your own hole to get out.
Once you get in the basket, the ride to the surface will take more than an hour. That means - with no problems - it will take at least a day and a half to free the men from what has to feel like a tomb.
I don't know about you, but if that were me and my co-workers trapped in that mountain, there would be more than a few tense moments between now and the hour when the last person rides up the extemporized elevator.
I know some of them get a little grumpy by 5 o'clock every day even after having a few breaks from each other and all the snacks and sodas they care to consume.
Four months in a hole together would probably result in more than a few letters of resignation when we got back to the surface.
Honestly, if I was trapped in a hole for four months, I don't know if I would even want to come back up. Do you realize how many e-mails I would have to go through by then? Talk about a mountain.
I know these men work every day in a mine. They know how long it might take to save them. They're used to the conditions and they always knew this was possible.
But being down there for a shift and knowing you could get trapped and actually being trapped are very different scenarios.
I feel bad for hurricane and tornado victims and people who endure accidents and house fires. I empathize with people from New Orleans who lost everything to Katrina and the poor people of Pakistan who have huge land masses covered with flood water even now.
But I don't know that any of them have it any worse than these 33 men who are trapped underground and aren't sure exactly when they will see daylight again.
That's why I was so impressed at their reaction when the drill bit reached them.
They were loudly singing the Chilean national anthem and thanking rescuers for not giving up on them.
When asked what they needed, the shift leader told officials, "That you rescue us as quickly as possible, and that you don't abandon us. Don't leave us alone. We hope that all of Chile shows its strength to help us get out of this hell."
That's pretty heroic talk for a man who spent two weeks in a hot, dark hole unsure of whether he would ever be saved.
That kind of spirit is instructional.
It should lift our moods when we struggle with minor problems. It should show us that we don't have it so bad.
Those topside need to start planning now. There better be one big party for these guys when they finally make it out.
Kent Bush is publisher of the Augusta (Kan.) Gazette.


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Miami versus FSU will never be the same.
ESPN is reporting FSU coach Bobby Bowden will announce his retirement from coaching on Tuesday.
The report comes after Bowden and FSU officials met Monday to discuss his future and the future of the football program, which is limping to a sad finish this season. Some reports said Bowden has been given the option to stay on as a figure head coach with a reduced role or walk away.
If Bowden does bow out, he will leave behind shoes that won't likely be filled by any future coach in Tallahassee. His 388 career wins is second all-time to another great old geezer, Penn State's Joe Paterno. And with the rate with which coaches switch jobs or are fired, Bowden's 34 seasons as the face of Florida State football will likely be unmatched.
Bowden, 80, said after his meeting with officials Monday that he still hadn't made up his mind, but it would be more appropriate that he make the decision to retire before someone unceremoniously makes it for him.
As the team struggled through the season, boosters, trustees and school officials have made public comments about Bowden's ineffectiveness in recent seasons and the significant drop in prominence for the school's football program nationally. The team is 6-6 and was just embarrassed by rival No. 1 Florida
Classy as always, Bowden dismissed the criticisms and continued to man the sidelines with the same Southern charm that made him a favorite for media interviews and home visits for college recruits. Maybe that's one thing time couldn't change.
Bowden doesn't need a head coach in waiting lurking over his shoulder anymore. Jimbo Fisher is ready to take the reigns of a program that probably is in need of change.
Bowden probably needs change, too. A change from the constant criticism back to the adoration of a community that can reflect on all he has brought to a program in three decades.
Bowden led FSU to national championships in 1993 and 1999 and built a program that sustained greatness like few before it. From 1997 to 2000, FSU had 14 consecutive top-five finishes in the AP Top 25 poll.
But lately, FSU has been average at best. On Monday, the school said they want better.
Hopefully on Tuesday, Bowden will show that he is the better man and retire.


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A couple of weeks ago we went to Sweden for NärCon 2014 as guests of honour, for some reason. Us? Guests of honour? That's silly! But we'd never turn down an invitation to go to Sweden, because Sweden is awesome and we want to live there forever and ever. So we agreed, and started getting everything ready for the event.
NärCon is a cosplay and anime convention for East Asian pop culture. It was the first cosplay convention I – Simon – have ever been to, and the first time I've ever cosplayed, so I figured it's best to try to not half-ass my costume. I decided to go as Honey Senpai from Ouran Host Club…20 years later. Honey can't seem to graduate because he's so bad at math, so he continues to work for the Host Club, even though he's way past his cuteness prime. Cakey gotdamn cakey!
Martina had her dress custom made by Priscilladawn – a dress shop that she's been shopping at since 2012 – so she could look like one of the girls that attend the Host Clubs. Honey wasn't really that good at being a host anymore, though, so he kinda neglects her. She won't take no for an answer, so she sasaengs all over the place. Yes, we were kinda inspired by Kpop. Ha! Simon's Ouran Host Club uniform patch was made by anruiukimi and was totally perfect! We also got an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D patch and it was flawless too.
Anyhow, we've got a bunch of pics from the event as well, in our pretty galleries that we love putting up whenever we travel. Yay for pictures!
If you went to Narcon and attended our signing event, first of all, thank you for waiting so long in the heat! I'm sorry that it had to be rushed in the end but we went way over the allotted time. If it were up to us we'd stay there with you all day. Secondly, if you want your picture, you can get them here!
Lastly, we're getting back to doing coffee shop stuff. AYEEE!!! The grand opening is less than three days away! We're getting everything in order, but we've still got videos going up tomorrow and Saturday. Click on the pretty subscribe button below so you don't miss out!
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Plymouth Township-based Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. is expected to announce Tuesday that it has received permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin selling its devices for early-stage detection of breast cancer.
The company, housed in the Michigan Life Science and Innovation Center, uses ultrasound to make 3-D images of breast tissue, resulting in fewer false positives than traditional mammography.
The approval comes in what is called a 510(k) clearance under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Delphinus has had its first commercial device in use at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute since December 2012.
Delphinus' technology was developed at Karmanos. The company was spun off in 2009 after 10 years of research. In 2010, it raised a venture capital round of $8 million from Arboretum Ventures LLC and North Coast Technology Investors LP, both of Ann Arbor, and Beringea LLC of Farmington Hills.
Those firms joined in a second investment round of $11 million last September.
Delphinus' device looks like a bed with a hole near the top. Patients lie down, with a breast through the hole. The breast is immersed in water and surrounded by a ring containing 2,048 ultrasound sensors, which generate data that are translated into images.
The device at Karmanos is being used to augment mammography as a follow-up to confirm a diagnosis or to provide better images where a tumor is suspected.
Delphinus officials would like to see the devices, which could cost about $400,000, replace mammography.
Mammography increasingly has come under criticism for generating too many false positives, which cause unnecessary and expensive follow-up procedures, and because of the dangers of radiation.
"We are pleased to receive this clearance from the FDA for our innovative technology," Delphinus CEO Mark Morsfield said in a statement that is expected to be released Tuesday morning.
Eventually, Delphinus plans to seek approval for the larger, more lucrative screening market, where its devices would be used to analyze breast tissue to identify patients at a higher risk for developing cancer before they actually develop tumors.
Delphinus was co-founded by Neb Duric, a professor of oncology at Karmanos, and Dr. Peter Littrup, the director of radiology research at Karmanos.
Before the first VC funding in 2010, the technology had had more than a decade of R&D and more than $19 million in funding, including private donors, the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and large grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Foundation.
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Photographer Jiro Ose met the rare mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi rainforest – his pictures show the animals, people and unique natural scenery of the East African country
Mr. Ose, you got right up close to the mountain gorillas in the Bwindi rainforest to take your photos. How did the animals react to you?
The first time we came upon the gorillas, they kept a very close eye on us for a while before returning to their normal behavior. Looking into their eyes is almost like looking into those of another human; they are very like us. I soon felt a special connection to them, not like with other animals. Then a young animal in the group became curious, just like a human child would, and came to within arm's length of us. He even played with one of the rangers, one he was familiar with, but in the end, his worried mother came over and pushed him away.
Did you ever feel uneasy?
Not at all. Their sheer size was a bit daunting to begin with, yes, but you can tell straight away how intelligent these animals are – and they have no interest in harming humans as long as they don't feel threatened. They live in the wild, but they are used to us visitors. There's often something very human about the way they behave. It felt a bit like spying on a family in its own living room: the father sitting in one corner surveying the whole situation, the mother looking after the children, and the children mainly interested in playing. One young gorilla even snatched up a camera lens that was lying on the floor and starting playing with it. In the end, the father intervened and threw the lens into a bush. Luckily it wasn't harmed.
How long could you stay close to the gorillas?
One hour was the maximum time organized groups were permitted to spend with the gorillas. That is, of course, a sensible and important rule to ensure the animals' protection, but it was far too short a time for me. I found every move they made fascinating. I could have stayed and watched them for far longer.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) still includes mountain gorillas on its red list of threatened species because their population is so small. Is the officially imposed "gentle" tourism actually benefiting the animals?
The situation has definintely improved over the past few years. That is due partly to gorilla tourism, which has become an important source of income in Uganda. Mountain gorillas inhabit two small areas in East Africa, between the Virunga Massif and the Bwindi rainforest. Since special wildlife reserves have been established in Ruanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the population has increased in number from around 620 animals in 1989 to some 880 animals at the most recent count. When the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park were set up in 1991, there was a bitter social downside to them: The Batwa pygmies, an indigenous ethnic group of hunters and gatherers that had always lived in the forests, were driven from their traditional territory; robbed of their livelihood overnight.
How are the Ugandan authorities dealing with that today?
The situation of the Batwa has improved thanks to individual initiatives and private donations – also from foreign visitors – and aid from different NGOs. Today, many Batwa are working in gorilla tourism themselves, as rangers, tour guides and in the lodges.
How was your accommodation on the gorilla trekking tour?
There's a great deal of choice, from luxury lodges to simple tents. We spend one night in a tent in the garden of a private house on a small island in the lake. The house owners were very friendly. They cooked us a traditional meal and we sat around a campfire, made music and sang together. The next few nights, we slept in tents at a campsite, then we stayed in simple accommodation in one of the villages at the entrance to the national park. I spent my last night there in a very comfortable lodge – a nice way to end the trip.
Would you say ecotourism in Uganda is chiefly a means to boost sales or are the organizers serious about ensuring sustainable development?
The tour organizers I came into contact with came across as authentic and credible, I would say. It's true that the concept of ecotourism is still a new one here and only just becoming established, and that the country is still a little behind other African countries when it comes to wildlife tourism in general, but my impression was that everyone was keen to get the different interest groups in the region, in other words, the tour operators, the Batwa, other indigenous ethnic groups, government representatives and nature conservationists to cooperate with each other.
And where, in your opinion, do problems exist?
Safe mobility, tourist transportation – driving on the roads here is really dangerous. The traffic in Uganda, especially outside of the cities, is a real challenge. The roads are not asphalted and you need four-wheel drive. I have witnessed some really hair-raising passing maneuvers as well as an accident right up ahead of me, when I had to give first aid to save a man from bleeding to death. There's not much of a domestic flight network so you are dependent on cars and buses.
What do you aim to tell the observer with your photos?
I want to tell stories with my pictures. I have no specific theme, but one focus of my work is to draw attention to social problems. Photos have the power to do that. For me as a craftsman, the difference between moving pictures and photography is that I can capture a single, special moment in a still. The art of photography consists in finding a situation or scene, positioning yourself in the best possible light and also being able to wait in order to capture that perfect moment. Sometimes you're lucky – and sometimes it doesn't come off. If people can understand and also get a feel for the pictures I've taken, I am happy with my work.
You moved to Uganda only recently. What do you like about living there?
It is a very poor country, but the people are very friendly and easygoing. Politically speaking, the situation is relatively stable compared with that of South Sudan and Congo. That's why Uganda also has quite a few refugee camps. With the express exception of the breakneck traffic, daily life is pretty safe.
I could have stayed and watched them for far longer
I don't need to worry about being mugged. Also, I was overwhelmed by the country's greenness, and how beautiful and diverse the scenery is here. Even in the capital, Kampala, you see trees everywhere and the species diversity is gigantic. The animal population density may not be as high as it is in Kenya or Tanzania, but there are lions and elephants living here, too, as well as the mountain gorillas – and the national parks are much less overrun by tourists.
What's your next project going to be?
I don't know yet. Maybe I'll do something in South Sudan. I recently finished a project in which I spent time with people from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual scene. There was a law in Uganda for a while under which homosexuals could be sentenced to life imprisonment, and originally even to death. It has been abolished now, but for me that was a reason to photograph and record video interviews with those people.
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Cycologic: The power of women for the power of bicycles in Uganda
"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life." - Susan B. Anthony
In America during the 1890s, the bicycle provided women with unprecedented autonomy of mobility and abolished many old fashions, including corsets, bustles, and long voluminous skirts. Bicycles came to epitomize the quintessential "new woman" of the late 19th Century. She was believed to be college educated, active in sports, interested in pursuing a career, and looking for a marriage based on equality. The image of the "new women" was also almost always portrayed on a bicycle! An 1895 article found in the American Wheelman, mentions suffragist leader, Elizabeth Cady Stanton who predicted: "The bicycle will inspire women with more courage, self-respect, self-reliance…."
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On policy, on vision, on temperament and skills, America's voters have rarely faced a clearer choice. With hope and enthusiasm, we endorse BARACK OBAMA for president of the United States.
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This map illustrates the numerous star-forming clouds, called cold cores, that Planck observed throughout our Milky Way galaxy. Planck, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation, detected around 10,000 of these cores, thousands of which had never been seen before. Cold cores are chilly chambers of gas and dust where stellar embryos are just beginning to take shape. Some of the cold cores found by Planck are the coldest ever observed, as cold as just seven degrees above absolute zero, or minus 447 degrees Fahrenheit.
The blue data show the density of the cores, some of which are shaped more like clumps or filaments than spherical cores. Other missions, like the Herschel Space Observatory, can follow-up on the Planck discoveries, and see the structures in more detail.
Planck is an all-sky survey mission, scanning the sky at longer wavelengths of light, ranging from infrared to radio waves. Its ultimate goal is to measure the cosmic microwave background -- ancient radiation from the Big Bang that created our universe 13.7 billion years ago. But in the process of making these precise measurements, Planck is catching objects that lie in front of the cosmic microwave background -- objects like cold cores in our galaxy, in addition to distant galaxies.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review PITTSBURGH - State legislators are considering a law its backers say is intended to protect farmers from unfair attacks, but critics call it a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize people who expose animal abuse.
House Bill 683 would make it a felony to take photos, video or audio without the permission of the owner on land used for agricultural purposes. Rep. Gary Haluska, D-Cambria, the primary sponsor of the bill, said the law would protect farmers from animal-rights activists who trespass or gain entry under false pretenses, take misleading footage, then publish it online without context. "(Activists) sensationalize what goes on," Haluska said. "They take video and say, 'Look, this guy's dragging a cow on a chain with a tractor.' Well, there aren't too many ways of moving a cow. ... If someone just walked into your house and started taking pictures, you'd have a problem with that, too." Opponents of the bill say it would turn whistle-blowers into felons. "Animal welfare groups have exposed egregious animal cruelty through recordings and photos, and the industry's response hasn't been to clean up its act but to merely make it illegal to expose what's happening," said Matthew Dominguez, the Humane Society of the United States' public policy manager for farm animal protection. "They don't have the right to keep people in the dark. This bill would hinder our ability to expose abuses." The bill went to the House Judiciary Committee in February. Haluska said he does not know if or when it will advance. The Pennsylvania bill is the latest in a nationwide series of so-called "Ag-Gag" laws. Some states - including Iowa, Utah and Missouri - have enacted laws. A proposal in Tennessee awaits the governor's signature. Bills in Indiana, Nebraska, Wyoming and New Mexico were killed, Humane Society officials said. ___ A question of protection Pennsylvania's law would differ from others in that it might impact Marcellus shale gas drillers, legal experts said. Ross Pifer, director of the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, said hydraulic fracturing operations could be protected under the bill because gas companies often lease land from farmers. "If you view it expansively, you'd have to view it as: Anything that takes place on that land (is protected)," Pifer said. Melissa Troutman, outreach coordinator at Mountain Watershed Association, which investigates and records fracking activity, said the law would open the door for gas companies to hide activities legally. "If it passes, what's next? No documenting commercial or recreational activity?" Troutman said. "Right now it's legal to photograph industrial operations on public lands. 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Star Jones and Al Reynolds are divorcing! The GMD says Oh Happy Day!
Star released the following statement to Entertainment Tonight: "Several years ago I made an error in judgment by inviting the media into the most intimate area of my life. A month ago I filed for divorce. The dissolution of a marriage is a difficult time in anyone"s life that requires privacy with one"s thoughts. I have committed myself to handling this situation with dignity and grace and look forward to emerging from this period as a stronger and wiser woman."
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Reviews of new recordings by Barbra Streisand and Barbara Cook, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Carrie, Bring It On, Jekyll & Hyde, and 10 more must-haves.
The care that's gone into this new cast album is apparent as soon as it begins playing and an overture, expanded from the music heard in the Imperial Theatre where the show is playing, strikes its first big, brassy, notes. This is an old-fashioned recording – in the best sense – that's chockfull of great Gershwin songs like "Someone to Watch Over Me," "S'wonderful," and "Fascinating Rhythm," each sounding exceptionally crisp and vibrant while also freshly minted thanks to Bill Elliott's orchestrations. And while the music sparkles, so too, do the performances. Both Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, playing, respectively, the oft-married playboy and the gun-toting bootlegger he falls for, give their vocals exceptional shading on the recording, and turns that are hysterical onstage are equally funny on disc, particularly Judy Kaye (whom one can sense swinging back and forth during "Looking for a Boy") and Jennifer Laura Thompson who sends "Delishious" to heights of squealing vanity.
Bring It On (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Back Lot Music)
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A Christmas Story - The Musical (World Premiere Recording) (Masterworks Broadway)
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Carrie: The Musical (Premiere Cast Recording) (Ghostlight Records)
As if owning – at long last – a legitimate recording of the infamous Broadway flop based on Stephen King's teen horror tale Carrie were not enough, this album that preserves the revised version of the show that played off-Broadway features the uncompromisingly dynamic performances of Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson, as mother and daughter Margaret and Carrie White, whose powerhouse voices send songs like "When There's No One," "And Eve Was Weak," and the musical's title number soaring. There's solid supporting work, too, particularly from Christy Altomare as "good girl" Sue, and while not all of the material from composer Michael Gore and lyricist Dean Pitchford is sterling (notably one of the new numbers, "The World According to Chris"), the album has been given a first-class packaging and it's a disc that will be savored and debated for years to come.
Listeners get the chance to reencounter this singing legend at several points in her extraordinary career with this 11-track disc, compiled of previously unreleased tracks that have been taken from her private stash of recordings. From her relatively early career, there's Jimmy Webb's "Didn't We," which was recorded for an unreleased album and from later in her career come tracks like a passionately considered medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" (from Finian's Rainbow) and "Heather on the Hill" (from Brigadoon) that was arranged to perfection by Rupert Holmes. There's even a duet – one that she shares with herself – on the beautifully mixed, deeply moving track "Mother and Child." Fans with turntables will have bought this one on vinyl already – those with only CD equipment will need to wait until October 2 to add this one to their collections. It's an album that's worth the wait.
Barbara Cook - Loverman (DRG)
On the eve of Cook's 85th birthday comes a new album which finds the singing great still in peak form. The recording is a gentle jazz collection, tinged by melancholy blues. And yet, even as the stylings are something of a departure, listeners will find that this 15 track disc also bears the hallmarks of Cook's perfect phrasing and glistening soprano. Among the choicest selections are her delicately exultant and slightly earthy take on "New York State of Mind," a medley of "House of the Rising Sun" and "Bye Bye Blackbird" that sounds almost like a legato spiritual, and an achingly ethereal rendition of the album's title song.
Heather Headley - Only One In the World (In:ciite Media)
Tony Award winner Headley will soon be returning to the stage in the West End production of The Bodyguard — in a role originated on film by the late Whitney Houston — and on this immensely satisfying album, Headley showcases her remarkable ability to deliver a tune with silky, soulful passion, which, eerily, can sometimes echo the late singing star's finest work. The 12 track disc's a a combination of contemporary R&B and gospel songs, and among the attractions are her fierce, yet vulnerable, interpretation of the rueful ballad "Run to You," the shrewd sultriness that she brings to a tune about a woman's bitter feelings about her partner, and, in a nod toward Broadway, a moving rendition of "Home," from The Wiz.
Renee Fleming - The Art of Renee Fleming (Decca)
Opera star Fleming's lustrous soprano glistens on this 18 track disc with arias ranging from "Costa Diva" (from Bellini's Norma) to "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'ammore" (from Puccini's Tosca). With each, listeners will find that the vocals are not only beautiful, but exceptionally dramatic. The genuine treat on this album are a quartet of simply glorious "crossover" tracks, including such standards as "Summertime" (Porgy & Bess) and "Somewhere" (West Side Story), as well as Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' "Wheels of a Dream" (Ragtime), delivered as a rousing duet with baritone Bryn Terfel, which was previously released on the pair's album Under the Stars.
Just months before this Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse tuner returns to Broadway with a cast headlined by Constantine Maroulis in the title roles, comes this concept recording, with not just the new production's star, but also his leading ladies, Deborah Cox and Teal Wicks, along with other notables such as Corey Brunish and Tom Hewitt in cameo appearances. Maroulis often sounds persuasive, but he also sounds as if he might still be finding his way with the dual roles. More successful are the women, who deliver familiar tunes like "Someone Like You" and "Once Upon a Dream" with gusto.
Calvin Berger (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight Records)
Book writer, composer and lyricist Barry Wyner offers up a charming look at the awkwardness of teen romance in this tuner that's a riff on Edmond de Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It'a vest pocket version of the tale about a guy wooing a girl on another's behalf, performed by a winning quartet, Noah Weisberg in the title role, along with Krystal Joy Brown, David Hull and Dana Steingold. Wyner's richly melodic songs have a dissonant edginess to them that perfectly underscores the seesawing emotions of adolescence, and his lyrics are playfully colloquial particularly in "We're the Man!," in which the guys come to realize that they should combine their looks and wits to create the perfect dude.
35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Ghostlight Records)
This recording takes listeners through a gritty urban art gallery of sorts, provocatively dropping them into snapshots of lives, emotions, and ideas. Ryan Scott Oliver's songs, inspired by photographs by Matthew Murphy, are a mix of contemporary rock sounds that are delivered with intensity by the likes of Broadway vets Alex Brightman, Lindsay Mendez, and Betsy Wolfe. Among the albums standouts are "Caralee," a curiously infectious tune that takes its cue from a couple of pictures of a doll; the invective-filled "Make Me Happy," which has its basis in a somewhat surreal photo of a couple brandishing smiley face masks; and the southern-fried "Leave, Luanne," written to match a snapshot of a guy with a deer head on his torso.
Next Thing You Know (Yellow Sound Label)
The aspirations, loves, and disappointments of a quartet of four thirtysomething New Yorkers come poignantly to life in this decidedly hip tuner from the team that also penned I Love You Because. Composer Joshua Salzman's tunes, a mix of pop, country, and Latin sounds, have both a jaunty twang and an air of melancholy to them while Ryan Cunningham's lyrics offer up both keen observations about hitting one's 30s (Lauren Blackman's performance in one song about becoming inured to the city is heartbreaking) and some comic gems, notably in a guy's paean to himself and the way he treats his pickups the morning they've connected, delivered with preening flair by Jay Armstrong Johnson.
After receiving a 2008 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revue, this song cycle welcomely arrives on CD. Composer Christopher Miller's country-infused melodies capture both the highs and lows of living somewhat apart from the world and are outfitted with often pungently observed lyrics by Nathan Tysen. The first-rate ensemble includes Tony Award winner Karen Olivo, and Tony nominees Gavin Creel and Joshua Henry, along with Matt Caplan, Alysha Umphress and Berrett Wilbert Weed. Among the album highlights are Henry's sly delivery of a paean to Washington Heights and Creel and Olivo's heartfelt rendition of "Wildflowers," a cunningly abstract song about a couple's mixed feelings about their relationship.
That's Entertainment - A Celebration of the MGM Film Musical (EMI)
The spirits and talents of artists such as Fred Astaire, Arthur Freed, Gene Kelly, and Judy Garland are evoked and glorified on this aurally opulent album from The John Wilson Orchestra. It doesn't hurt that alongside the 84 piece ensemble are singers such as Kim Criswell, Matthew Ford, Sarah Fox, Seth MacFarlane and Curtis Stigers, who lends their fine voices – as well as their evident love of the material – to tunes such as "The Trolley Song" (from Meet Me in St. Louis) and "Well, Did You Evah?" (from High Society). Among the standouts of the 14 ebullient tracks are McFarlane's "Singin' in the Rain" and Criswell's "I Got Rhythm" (from Girl Crazy).
The Desert Song (Studio Cast Recording) (Masterworks Broadway/ArkivMusic)
Chances are there aren't many people who have been pining for a release of this 1926 operetta in 2012, but this new release of a 1958 studio album, produced by Lehman Engel, and featuring Giorgio Tozzi and Kathy Barr, displays the show's myriad joys so splendidly that it may well become a "must have" for musical theater lovers. Both Tozzi's warm vocals and Barr's pristine trills thrill and when they're used for songs like "The Sabre Song" and the title song (sometimes thought of as "Blue Heaven"), which contemporary listeners will recognize even if they don't "know" them, is simply sublime.
Stacy Sullivan - It's a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee (LML Music)
Sullivan channels the essence of the great singer/song stylist Lee on this stylish recording that never veers into crass imitation. The disc includes both songs that Lee co-penned during her career, such as "It's a Good Day" and "You Was Right Baby," and some of the classics that she covered like Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" and Rodgers and Hart's "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me." Sullivan's arrangements, created with Jon Weber and Steve Doyle, take some terrific flights of fancy as they muse on Lee's legacy, perhaps no more so than in a medley of "I Got Rhythm" "My Romance" and "One Kiss."


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There should be a link to all Beta map's threads from the game page. I know that there is a link from the my my games, if you click on the map thumbnail, but then if you have 50+ games, and you've skipped 4 or 5 to play later, when you come back, you have to skip them again, whereas you could just left click to open in a new window and not worry about that.
It would be for Beta maps only, link would be removed when map goes out of Beta
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Well, this is bloody well what Beta maps are for, now isn't it? =D


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Just want to add my 2 cents in the basket. Had some trouble to run dvblogic server fort iptv on Server2008R2. Server wasn't starting automatically, so the webinterface gave and error (page not found). After troubleshooting i found out that Server2008R2 has no C++ Redist installed out of the box. So when trying to start the server manually, it came back with error 1503.
Some extra info: When you try to run the server directly from the dvblogic directory, you get an 0x0150002 error.
Downloading the redist from: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/de ... n&id=15336 solved the problem. Do not forget to reboot your server 2008R2 device
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Late Professor's Colleagues Urge a Look at the Black Vote
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she really got to know Ronald W. Walters when they worked on Jesse L. Jackson's 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. "Jesse Jackson would have you join hands in prayer" when there was a problem, "but Ron Walters figured it out," she told more than 700 people Sunday at a Howard University memorial service for Walters.
Then Waters mentioned a front-page story by Nia-Malika Henderson in Saturday's Washington Post that reported, "In the past week, party leaders launched a drive to stoke enthusiasm among black voters, dusting off the president's 2008 campaign logo, lingo and grass-roots strategy to get them to the polls in November." It would call upon black elected officials to help whip up black voter enthusiasm for the fall election.
That posed a dilemma, Waters said, because when she raised with party leaders the need to target African Americans' specific problems, "I was told that what was good for white America was good for black America."
And yet African Americans were hit by the economic downturn in ways exponentially harder than was white America.
"I'm looking for Ron's voice," Walters said. "If I don't hear from Ron, I'm not doing anything."
Walters, author, scholar, professor, activist and political scientist, died Sept. 10 at age 72 from lung cancer. In addition to politicians such as Waters, many black journalists wondered who, if anyone, could take Walters' place as the "go-to guy" on black politics.
"There is no replacement," Robert C. Smith, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, told Journal-isms during the repast at Howard's Blackburn Center. But when asked what issue Walters would want journalists to follow, Smith had an answer: He pointed to Waters' remarks.
"Can you mobilize people to do for you when you have done very little for them?" Smith said. The issues are, he repeated, "The effort to mobilize the black vote and a party that has been unwilling to address the concerns of black people."
Smith was one of about 20 people chosen to speak at the Sunday service, where it was announced that Walters, most recently at the University of Maryland, had agreed to return to the Howard campus to teach in the fall semester.
Smith told the gathering that although Walters had produced books on politics from a black perspective, he had declined to write about himself. Therefore, Smith, who had worked closely with Walters and first met him 37 years ago, planned to do so.
"I've been trying to get him to do that for 20 years," Smith said of his friend. "A political biography. Using his biography to trace the last 30 years of black politics. It is the story of post-civil rights-era black politics in America."
One of the traits he most admired about his mentor, Smith told Journal-isms, was that "he knew how to help the reporters shape the story the way he wanted to. He knew how to give the appropriate media quote. Over the years, he developed that. That's a skill."
Walters was on both sides of the media line. He wrote political analyses for the Black Scholar and the old Black World/Negro Digest, and, later, weekly columns for the Washington Informer and the Richmond (Va.) Free Press that eventually were syndicated to other black newspapers through the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. And he wrote "for free," Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Informer, told the crowd. "He believed in the black press."
Barnes added that when she contemplated seeking a doctorate, perhaps in theology or African American studies, Walters advised remaining in her field and studying the media. "This new media is going to need someone like you to reach the new generation," Barnes said Walters told her.
Along with Barnes, Joe Madison, the radio talk show host, represented the media during a three-hour program that featured speakers from various segments of Walters' life. "Ron Walters was everybody's political science professor," Madison said. "TV, radio, print. He was erudite and simplistic. He taught us how to read with a third eye and listen with a third ear."
Few knew Walters had been ill, Madison reminded the audience. Five days before he died, a Washington Post reporter called and those caring for Walters turned the reporter away. "He grabbed the phone and took the call and did the interview," Madison said.
Asked where reporters could find a substitute for Walters on political questions, Mack H. Jones, professor emeritus at Clark Atlanta University, recommended the Web site of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, of which Jones was founding president and Walters a founding member.
Jackson, who delivered Walters' eulogy on Monday, said at the repast that the message of Walters' life for journalists is that "scholarship matters.
"We focus often on results. Results are the continuation," he told Journal-isms. The facts have to be organized and have a framework and a context. The big picture counts, he said.
Walters was "a scholar-activist," Jackson continued. Many people are one or the other. But "when you combine the two, you have a Martin Luther King," he said, "or a Ron Walters."
*Ruben Castaneda, Washington Post: Civil rights activist Ronald W. Walters remembered as 'understated, but an overachiever'
*Ta-Nehisi Coates blog, the Atlantic: Condolences
*George E. Curry, National Newspaper Publishers Association: Ron Walters was a One-Man Civil Rights Movement
*Wayne Dawkins, PoliticsinColor.com: Another warrior with data departs, Ron Walters, 72
*Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe: Ronald Walters — a pioneer on the politics of race
*Julianne Malveaux, Washington Informer: Ron Walters — A Scholar and a Gentleman
*Rep. Bobby Rush, the Hill: Dr. Ronald Walters: The W.E.B. DuBois of our time
*WRC-TV, Washington: Funeral Held for Civil Rights Pioneer Dr. Ronald Walters
Viewers who turned to C-Span Saturday night looking for President Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus didn't find it. The network pool feed did not offer it to C-Span live, a C-Span spokesman said.
"The network pool is run by NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, and CNN," spokesman Howard Mortman told Journal-isms on Monday. "We picked up the speech from the network pool feed, and they didn't offer the speech live."
ABC reportedly did show the speech live, but a spokesman was unable to say why it wasn't offered to C-Span.
Obama's speech to the caucus was one of the opening salvos in the effort to get out the black vote for the midterm elections, in which Democrats are projected to lose seats in the House and Senate.
"I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods, to go back to your workplaces, to go to churches, and go to the barbershops, and go to the beauty shops, and tell them we've got more work to do," Obama told the crowd at the Washington Convention Center, Jackie Calmes reported for the New York Times, noting that the Caucus members are all Democrats.
"It is a measure of the enthusiasm gap between the Democrats' demoralized voters and the Republicans' energized ranks that Mr. Obama, the first black president, feels the need to rally support for the midterm elections from black voters, traditionally the Democratic Party's most loyal constituency. But Mr. Obama is not on the ballot this year to draw voters out."
C-Span did air the speech on Sunday at about 4 p.m. EST. The network announced that the speech is available via C-SPAN's Video Library.
*Askia Muhammad, Washington Informer: What's a 'Bama' to do?
*Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt, theGrio.com: African-Americans hit hard by poverty spike
Bill on Immigrant Students Could Come to a Vote This Week
"Chances for comprehensive immigration reform have dimmed with the approach of midterm elections, prompting Democrats to push a measure that would grant citizenship to illegal immigrant students as a way to energize Hispanic voters," Gary Martin wrote Monday for the San Antonio Express-News.
"President Barack Obama said he is backing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to attach the so-called DREAM Act to a defense authorization bill.
"Reid, who faces a stiff re-election challenge in Nevada, said he will seek a vote on the measure as early as this week.
"Hispanic groups are disappointed with Obama and Democrats for failing to act on a campaign pledge in 2008 to pass sweeping immigration reform in the first two years of a new administration. . . .
"Senate Republicans, including John Cornyn of Texas, accuse the Democrats of playing politics with the defense bill, pandering to a special-interest group in the run-up to the Nov. 2 election."
*Ruben Navarrette Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: Waiting for Next Binge in Arizona
*Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times: Mormon-Owned Paper Stands With Immigrants
*Jorge Rivas, Kai Wright, Color Lines: Colin Powell Tells Moderate GOP to "Come Out," Back DREAM Act
*Richard Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times: The 'Great Wall of America' and the threat from within
*Rubén Rosario, St. Paul Pioneer Press: Natural-born citizen still feels second-class
*Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's effort wakes up DREAM Act
*Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times: Obama vows to fight for DREAM Act at Cong. Hispanic caucus gala.
*Marisa Treviño, Latina Lista blog: Without the DREAM Act, more U.S. jobs will be needlessly foreign outsourced
*Cynthia Tucker blog, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Summer of discontent: Backlash to the browning of America


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|Yes. there is even a Sissy Dog on the front porch!
I hope you enjoy the pictures. Please come time soon for a real tour. I will leave the lights on and Sissy Dog will always meet you with a jump and a kiss. I hope you are having beautiful spring weather like we are. It is something else, first of March and all is coming alive. I only hope that the weather does not turn on us and hurt it all. Happy early spring. Richard and Sissy.
|The attic shabby chic bed room.
|The attic store room. Real wood floors.
|The Blue Master Bed Room.
|Library with real wood floor.
|Dining Room. Notice the ceiling detail.
|Second floor hall landing, notice the ceiling detail.
|Parlor detail


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That Marchesa she wore at the London premiere of Snow White And The Huntsman was horsesh-t. Click here if you need a reminder and want to shudder. But I wondered at the time if she was saving her load for her first splash at Cannes.
Check out Stewart at the On The Road photo call today in Balenciaga pants.
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THIS is what this girl can do with original, inspired clothing. Kristen Stewart has all the physical attributes. THESE are the kinds of pieces that do her justice.
As for On The Road, as noted earlier, though I have some issues with the film itself, the performances were outstanding, all of them. For most of the young actors, On The Road features their best work to date. Tom Sturridge is incredible as Carlo Marx/Allen Ginsberg, at once vulnerable and light, cheeky but unforgiving. He was mesmerising every time he came on. I really wish they'd give him more chances. Because there's a lot of raw talent here that we're missing out on. Sam Riley was strong too, overshadowed perhaps by Garrett Hedlund (we'll get to him later), but more than adequate in his role (although I was too distracted by how much he looks like a cross between Pete Doherty and Chris Noth). And then there's the fearless Stewart in her finest and most aggressive effort, throwing down a very impressive challenge to some of her peers, almost as though she was toying with them before - what Twilight? I just didn't feel like showing you my arsenal before, but now that I have...aren't you afraid?
In On The Road Stewart's MaryLou is angry, sexy, innocent, corrupt, and very tangible all at the same time. Hers is a challenging energy that confronts you during every scene. I've never believed her so much as a character. Recently it's her work in the upcoming Snow White And The Huntsman that's been getting the most attention as a showcase for her abilities beyond Twilight. Stewart was good ok in Snow White. But she is magnificent in On The Road. Wait for it.
Kristen Stewart's great start to Cannes


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Mars and its "rival," the star Antares (whose name means "rival of Mars), are a long way from each other, but the distance is decreasing as Mars moves eastward against the background of stars. Mars has two other bright companions now: the planet Saturn and the star Spica. This view is about one hour after sunset. The trio will remain fairly close together for a few more nights.
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Two legendary "rivals" are sharing the southwestern quadrant of the evening sky. Although they're a good distance apart, they're pretty easy to pick out because they're both bright orange.
The most famous member of the rivalry is the planet Mars. It's low in the west-southwest as night falls, and it forms a triangle with two other bright objects to its right — the planet Saturn and the star Spica.
Mars's rival is far to its upper left: Antares, the brightest star of Scorpius, the scorpion. It's almost exactly the same color and brightness as Mars, so the two really do look like a matched set.
In fact, the "rivalry" comes from that physical resemblance. Mars reminded ancient skywatchers of the color of blood, so they named the planet for the god of war — Mars in Rome, and Ares in Greece. And since the star in Scorpius looked so much like Mars, it was called Ant-Ares — a name that means "rival of Ares" or, in the Roman version, rival of Mars.
It's a one-sided rivalry, though. Mars is quite small — only about half as big as Earth. It shines by reflecting sunlight, and gets its orange color from iron-rich sand and rock at its surface. Antares, on the other hand, is a supergiant star — one of the largest stars in the galaxy — thousands of times wider than Mars.
Mars will move closer to Antares over the next few weeks, making the rivalry even easier to see.
We'll talk about another colorful object — a Blue Moon — tomorrow.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2012
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