How you know a jazz album had some success: when you type its name into Google, the first suggestions are "_____ rar" and "_____ zip." Source: http://twitter.com/accujazzradio/statuses/152841362604171264
lake malawi hines ward warren jeffs phaedra parks oklahoma earthquake new madrid fault current time
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Actor Jeremy Renner scuffed around Hollywood for a decade before his career took off in 2009 when he was nominated for an Oscar in his starring role in the bomb-disposal war drama "The Hurt Locker."
Renner didn't win the award, although the film earned the best movie Oscar. He followed "Hurt Locker" with another Oscar-nominated role in "The Town" and did a cameo in this year's blockbuster "Thor."
Now he's starring opposite Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," the "MI" franchise's fourth film that is No. 1 at box offices over the holidays.
Renner, 40, spoke to Reuters about how he landed the role, working with Cruise, and rumors he may take over the franchise when Cruise, nine years his senior, tires of it.
Q: Is it true you went in to discuss a possible role in "Super 8" when you were offered "MI4" instead?
A: "It's true. I was discussing 'Super 8' with J.J. Abrams, who directed that and produced ("MI4"), and that was a very secretive project too, and within a few hours I'd met Tom Cruise and ("MI4" director) Brad Bird. I went in for one movie and came out with another!"
Q: Does that happen a lot?
A: "Not to me. It's very strange. I called people and said, 'You won't believe what just happened.' It was crazy and I was shocked to suddenly be in 'MI4.' But it was so easy, sitting down with Tom and Brad. It's this fantastic fun franchise ... And there was no script then. They just pitched me the whole story, where my character was at, and it all made sense. It was very easy to say, 'Yes.'"
Q: You play the uptight analyst. Is there much of you in him?
A: "I can get very nervous about stuff, and I have to do something to relieve that nervousness -- it's not something disgusting or pornographic -- and Tom thought it was pretty funny and he put it in the movie. My character is complicated, and I really liked that. He starts off as this very buttoned-up desk-jockey type, and then things happen and there's more than meets the eye to him, which is always interesting."
Q: Any surprises working with Cruise?
A: "Just how dedicated he is. I think he has 48 hours in a day, compared to our 24. He gets so much done and is so focused. He has this childlike outlook, where he's constantly learning and growing all the time. He has this immense amount of energy because he's so excited about what he's doing. He loves what he does, and that's awesome to be around. It's infectious."
Q: There's a rumor that you may take over the franchise.
A: "I heard that. I hear lots of rumors -- that I'm sleeping with half of Hollywood -- and I'm like, 'who has the time?' No, it's not true about 'Mission: Impossible.' There's no taking over. It's not happening.
Q: Next year you do take over the "Bourne" franchise, though.
A: "Yeah, but I'm not playing Jason Bourne and taking over from Matt Damon. It's called "Bourne Legacy," and it's a sort of continuation of the story, but not based on a book like the others. I'm loving doing it, though it's very different from Mission. It feels very small and contained by comparison. It's action-heavy but not stunt-heavy with big spectacle stunts. It's more hands-on and gritty."
Q: Your career is red hot. Ever been down and out?
A: "Of course! Most of my career's been down, not up."
Q: What was your lowest point?
A: "There's loads of those. I had stretches where I couldn't afford the electric bill, but I was still alive and kicking -- and still smiling. That's the most important thing. Even in my darkest hour, I was still happy doing what I do. I never considered ever giving up. Not once."
Q: What do you do when you're not working on movies?
A: "I'm very active. I love skiing, building houses, and music's still a big part of my life. I used to have a garage band, and now I love writing songs. It's a great outlet as it only needs me. I don't need scripts or a whole film crew. It can happen instantaneously."
(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Patricia Reaney)
schweddy balls hedy lamarr bill conlin kendall jenner plane crash plane crash kardashian christmas card
By The Associated Press The Associated Press ? Thu?Dec?29, 11:50?am?ET | The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose slightly to 3.95 percent this week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. Last week's average 3.91 percent rate was the lowest on records dating back to the 1950s. Here's a look at rates for fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgages over the past 52 weeks. |
| Current week's average Last week's average 52-week high 52-week low |
| 30-year fixed 3.95 3.91 5.05 3.91 |
| 15-year fixed 3.24 3.21 4.29 3.21 |
| 5-year adjustable 2.88 2.85 3.92 2.85 |
| 1-year adjustable 2.78 2.77 3.40 2.77 |
| All values are in percentage points. |
| Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. |
Copyright ? 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
bill maher francesca woodman kennedy center honors neil diamond howard hughes danny gokey sonny rollins
Date: Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011 7:29 AM ET
TORONTO ? The Ontario government has been able to stick by its green energy plans amid a looming recession by making the project about jobs, but its biggest challenge may be one of public relations, not finance.
The focus on green energy has come at a political cost, with the Liberals losing their majority mandate after this fall's election. That result ushered in a precarious new term that some worry could lead to an overhaul of the green plans if the Liberal government falls.
Experts don't believe in a doomsday scenario for green energy in Ontario, because despite the ongoing controversy, the Green Energy Act has been tied to jobs -- and it's the only solution that has been put forward to deal with pressures in the electricity system.
But that doesn't mean the government isn't going to have an uphill battle trying to implement the changes.
"It's a very difficult issue, the biggest problem is public opinion, getting the public to accept the fact that essentially our energy supplies are going to have to change," said Henry Jacek, a politics expert at McMaster University in Hamilton.
"People want the energy but they don't want to look at the infrastructure that creates that energy."
There has been ongoing opposition from many rural areas where residents worry about the health effects of having wind turbines placed near their homes, and complain about a lack of local consultation.
"Rural Ontario hasn't had strong local democracy since the Green Energy Act was passed," said John Laforet, former president of Wind Concerns Ontario, and the man who spearheaded the revolt against the Liberals in those parts.
"What caused the political backlash was three years of the government just refusing to listen. It was citizens who had tried everything else to express their concerns and frustrations and watching it fall on deaf ears in Toronto, rise up and stand up for themselves and defeat those MPPs who weren't prepared to do the job."
The Liberals lost some high-profile politicians in that fight, including former Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky and Environment Minister John Wilkinson.
"It's quite clear where rural municipalities stand on this issue," Laforet said.
"If the industry wants to have a future in Ontario -- and if the Liberals want to have a future governing Ontario -- I think it's going to be important for everyone involved, to talk to citizens who are opposing these projects to find out what and what can be done."
Environmentalists have praised some aspects of the act but continue to express concern over the province's commitment to nuclear power, which makes up 50 per cent of its energy source, as well as a lack of focus on conservation efforts.
"The GEA has been an amazing success since it was passed in 2009, but the GEA will effectively expire in 2018 if the government doesn't permit green and clean sources to displace at least some nuclear supply," said Shawn-Patrick Stensil, a nuclear analyst with Greenpeace Canada.
"Otherwise put, if the Liberals don't reduce their commitment to nuclear, the GEA may suffer the same fate under the Liberals as under the Tories."
The harshest criticism for the plan, however, has revolved around costs.
Ontario's auditor general added his voice to the chorus of critics recently by casting doubt on the Liberals' job-creation figures and suggesting that 30,000 of the promised 50,000 jobs that were to be created under the Green Energy Act would likely to be short-term construction gigs.
What's more, he argued, studies in other jurisdictions have shown that for every job created through renewable energy, two to four jobs are often lost in other sectors due to higher electricity prices.
Auditor Jim McCarter also exposed how independent decision-making over renewable energy projects has effectively been quashed by concentrating power in the energy minister's office, and found that the government fast-tracked billions of dollars of wind and solar energy projects with little oversight -- a move that will add about $220 million a year to the cost of electricity in Ontario.
"The auditor general's report put the lid on the Green Energy Act," said Progressive Conservative critic Vic Fedeli.
"How can you continue to hold out any hope at all for any of the policies in there?"
The Tories support hydroelectric, gas and nuclear energy, and would opt to scrap the act if elected.
The New Democrats support parts of the act, but would like to see some aspects, like its feed-in-tariff program, applied to smaller projects, as well as a renewed focus on efficiency and conservation.
Energy Minister Chris Bentley has said he will take a look at the auditor's recommendations, but insisted the focus on green energy was the right move, even if the province ends up finding itself in the midst of another recession.
"We started this in the depths of a world economic recession when we were fighting for jobs, fighting to create opportunities," said Bentley.
"It's been very successful so far, 20,000-plus jobs, billions of dollars worth of investments either here or committed. We're involved in a review right now that will help us address the price issue, improve the approach, and we're going to continue to strengthen it."
That perseverance may give hope to other jurisdictions struggling to get the environment on the agenda when jobs are voters' main concern.
But just like Ontarians cared little about the success of green energy in places like Germany, Jacek said voters in other areas won't be swayed by Ontario's strategy.
"I don't think public opinion is looking at what's going on in other places," Jacek said.
"It's a very local orientation -- it's what can I see and hear from my front porch."
lindsey lohan reed hastings cujo hpv vaccine hurricane tracking hurricane tracking flat tax
#Freelancer #jobs freelancer.com/projects/13608? Virtual Assistant for Squidoo Lense Creations - Long Term #WebsiteDesign #LandingPages $2-$8 
GetAFreelancer Freelancer.com
Source: http://twitter.com/GetAFreelancer/statuses/152311403368284160
canon eos rebel t3 christmas photo cards ar 15 costco kmart urban meyer ohio state traffic report
President Barack Obama holds hands with his daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, right, as they leave Sea Life Park, a marine wildlife park, with family friends, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Waimanalo, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama holds hands with his daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, right, as they leave Sea Life Park, a marine wildlife park, with family friends, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Waimanalo, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Elly's Tea and Coffee in Muscatine, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich makes a stop at the National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Dyersville, Iowa. Gingrich also made stops in Dubuque and Decorah Tuesday afternoon and evening. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Nikole Hanna)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? One presidential campaign claims an impressive effort in Iowa this year: eight offices opened, 350,000 phone calls to potential supporters and 1,280 events to recruit and train volunteers.
It's not Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul. It's Obama for America, the president's re-election campaign, which badly wants to win this battleground state in November, as it did in 2008.
"The Republicans are here today, gone tomorrow," said Obama volunteer Pat Walters, of Johnston, a suburb of Des Moines. "We've been doing this since 2009."
Next Tuesday's Republican caucus has dominated political conversations. Largely overlooked is that Obama is running unopposed in the Democratic caucus the same night.
It's a dramatically different scene from four years ago, when Obama set his course for the White House by beating John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton after months of intense campaigning in Iowa.
Obama can coast as far as this year's nomination is concerned. But Iowa remains a general election swing state, and no one assumes his 9-point win here over John McCain in 2008 will give him a cushion next November.
Obama's campaign never entirely left Iowa or several other competitive states, where he hopes relentless organizing can overcome a weak economy and his mixed record of fulfilling campaign pledges in the face of strong GOP opposition in Congress. If thousands of volunteers flocked to Obama's 2008 campaign, this time he's having to work a bit harder to recruit and energize them.
"People say, 'The mood is different this time, it's not the same,'" said Peggy Whitworth, an Obama volunteer in Cedar Rapids. "Well of course it's not the same. But it's not about mood or feeling. It's about the future of the country."
Whitworth, 69, said she joins other Obama volunteers four hours every Tuesday night, and sometimes on other evenings as well, to telephone potential supporters. Many say they will vote for Obama again, she said, and some volunteer to help the campaign. But some are disappointed or angry that the president fell short on campaign promises such as ending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, and bringing a greater spirit of bipartisanship to Washington.
"Sometimes they simply want to have someone listen to them," Whitworth said. Most say they will stick with Obama after they've had a chance to vent their frustrations, she said.
Obama lacks some key advantages he enjoyed in 2008. They include a deeply unpopular GOP president who was largely blamed for a faltering economy, and a widespread excitement about Obama's precedent-breaking campaign built on "hope and change."
In exchange, of course, he has the power of the presidency and a well-oiled political organization that has been refining its practices for five years. Obama will raise many millions of dollars, although his eventual Republican opponent may do nearly as well.
Nowhere does Obama have a bigger base to build on than in Iowa, where he campaigned for months in 2007. Romney, Gingrich and other GOP contenders have not made comparable efforts, although they say the economy and other issues will make Obama's task much harder next year.
In activities that rarely compete with the hoopla of the GOP nominating contest, Obama's campaign has placed a handful of paid staffers in each of several key states. They try to leverage their clout by recruiting and training scores of volunteers. The volunteers, in turn, knock on doors, organize house parties and, above all, place phone calls to voters in hopes of identifying likely Obama supporters and tracking them through Election Day.
In a tortoise-versus-hare strategy, Obama supporters hope their steady chugging will build support precinct by precinct, town by town, while Republicans spend resources chasing the nomination for a few more weeks or months. The Republican candidates and their broadcast ads are flooding Iowa this week, but they will abruptly shift to New Hampshire on Jan. 4, the day after the caucuses.
Walters, a 60-year-old insurance executive, said he is a "neighborhood team leader" who helps organize house parties, phone banks and other activities. His chief recruiting tools, he said, involve reminding Iowans of Obama's accomplishments that include expanding medical benefits in the hard-won 2010 overhaul of the nation's health care system.
Walters said he hopes the week-by-week, month-by-month effort will build a strong ground operation to turn out Obama's voters next November. The Republican nominee will have to play catch up, he said.
Obama's ground game "is already in place," Walters said. "It's just a matter of growing it."
Iowa Democratic Chairwoman Chair Sue Dvorsky underscored the methodical nature of the efforts in a conference call with reporters Wednesday.
Since April, she said, "this has been a systematic grassroots effort. The same exact way we did it last time. It isn't very glamorous. It's not a very secret plan. It is voter to voter, one-to-one, then a street, then a precinct, then a county."
Dvorsky said Obama will beam "a live address to Iowa Democrats in every caucus site next Tuesday night.
Associated Pressandroid tablet arthur christmas asus transformer nebraska football nebraska football online deals leap pad
| Log In
Access
Need Help?
|     | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| *Have you created IDs and passwords to enter other SPH online sites such as AsiaOne Careers? If so, then checking this box will mean that your BTO ID and password will override those earlier IDs and passwords. You are therefore not advised to use this feature. BTO users who log in from Internet cafes are also advised against using this feature. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
pabst blue ribbon pabst blue ribbon mac miller omarion gabby gabby marcel the shell with shoes on
Please post all "Players Wanted" threads in the Roleplayers Wanted forum!
This topic is an Out Of Character part of the roleplay, ?Wolf Pup Survival?. Anything posted here will also show up there.Topic Tags:
Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.Return to Out of Character
RolePlayGateway is a site built by a couple roleplayers who wanted to give a little something back to the roleplay community. The site has no intention of earning any profit, and is paid for out of their own pockets.
If you appreciate what they do, feel free to donate your spare change to help feed them on the weekends. After selecting the amount you want to donate from the menu, you can continue by clicking on PayPal logo.
Registered users: -V-, Adig01, aipsylon, Aixulram*, AmyGotScared, amyreinreaper*, Andaho*, Aniihya, Animality Opera, Annaky*, aprilmasterson, Artik*, Ashes-6695, Aufeis, austyn101, AvidZombierReader*, awesomeskaterdude, Axel4win, azoicennead*, AzricanRepublic*, badboyej, Beta Type Jakuri, bizarre1, black-as-night_oni, Blackbird26*, BlackButterfly, Bootsie, Boxer, Caelus, Ceoltior, Cerberus1616, ChinaSorrows, Chulance*, Cloasse*, Commander_Caramel*, Conumbra, CrashQueen, CrazyIrish, CriminalMinds*, CrowboyToTheRescue, Cubrick*, Cynique, danm36, DarkRumours, DaughterOfTheNight, dawnfire07*, DemiKara, Demonoid, dig17*, DumbDora, echored, Eleera Cain, Everscale, Exabot [Bot], Ezarael, flying monkey child, Forensic_Anthro, Fredalice, Gack04*, Gamer_Templar, Gasmask*, Gigabot [Bot], Gintoki Sakata, Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, Grimpunker96, Hanagumori*, Hazezon*, HiddenNymph, Hinasil*, Horseygirl*, Hydrall, ichiro [Crawler], iderray, Iggi*, Ikiros*, inara1917*, iowa90, Ironman11, Isra*, jackrules158*, jadenlove, Jaybt9, JayZeroSnake, Kaida, Katana_Wing*, keepitalive, Ken Shiro, Kirinak*, Konstantein*, Koritai*, Kuril, Kurokiku, KuruLesperance, kyhbaram, lexileigh, lime999, lovehatebaby, Loxley, LRmember, LSunday, Lucentfir*, LuckyNumber24, Lzdarkangel, Mat_z6, Megamaw, MilkHoney*, Mirima*, Moomaw, Mr_Doomed, MSNbot Media, Nemo, nibblesnbits, Nightgem, nightscapture, nltniko, Nocte, NotAFlyingToy, Nulix, Organization X, Perilute, Phantom Umbra, poeticjustice8012, Porecomesis, Princess Awinita*, Prose*, qbsuperstar03*, Queenforaday, RainWish, Rarikou*, RavenQueenofShadows*, Rem?us*, Renmiri*, Romaneck, Ropeburn*, RydeDawg, Saken*, Sangranor, Saranghae, Scarlet Bullets*, ShadowWake, Shattered233, Shi-chan, Shpleem*, SilentButterflies, Siren, SkullsandSlippers, SkyRight, Slendyman, Smokescreen, smrtazz13, Sora112112*, Sorella*, Spanner*, sparkleshine, sphear*, Steppin' Razor*, Stilts, stormwolf321, SunshinexDeath, supertoastgirl, Taiyon, Tearen Wover*, The Painkiller, TheFlag*, ThePsycoWarlock, Thorait*, Tiko*, True Grave, VampWiz08, ViceVersus*, VitaminHeart*, Wheatley, Whiskey Go Dark, Wikingr*, Winds Of Fate, Wing06Twilight*, Winterwolf, Wudgeous, Xavirne*, xldExtract*, xXBrownEyesXx, xXChocobeanXx, xXSawsanXx*, xXxCryptic-AngelxXx, Yahoo [Bot], Ylanne, yogitheambrangyl, zolzol, Zombicide93*
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RolePlayGateway/~3/jTcLiqSK6w8/viewtopic.php
boston news matilda new jersey weather halloween movies halloween movies new york snow new york snow
HONOLULU (AP) ? President Barack Obama blended his roles as a father and commander-in-chief this Christmas, exchanging presents and singing carols with his family, then greeting U.S. service members stationed at a Marine base in Hawaii.
The president and his family woke up early Sunday to open gifts, the White House said, then had breakfast and sang Christmas carols at the multimillion-dollar house they rent in Kailua Beach, near Honolulu.
Obama made two trips on Christmas to nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, first to attend church services at the base chapel. The president dressed casually in dark khaki pants and a short-sleeve blue shirt, and his wife and daughters donned sundresses for Christmas services on a bright, breezy day on the island of Oahu.
After spending a few hours at their rental home, the president and Michelle Obama returned to the base to visit with several hundred service members and their families, as they have done in past years.
The Obamas posed for posed for photos, signed autographs and stopped to chat with the military families gathered in the dining hall, where roast beef, salad and apple pie were on the Christmas Day menu.
Eight-month-old Cooper Wall Wagner, son of Capt. Greg Wagner, got up close and personal with the president, grabbing his face, then sticking his fingers in Obama's mouth.
An amused Obama said he thought the baby just liked his "big nose" ? a comment that drew laughter from several of the Marines.
Many of the service members stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii have deployed to Afghanistan, as well as Iraq, where the last American troops were withdrawn earlier this month.
Back in the Washington area, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden spent Christmas visiting wounded service members and their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Obama also called 10 service members stationed around the world ? two from each branch of the military ? on Christmas Eve. The White House said he thanked them for their service and the sacrifice of being away from their families at the holidays.
The Obamas were wrapping up their Christmas festivities with dinner at the rental home with friends and family. Among those joining the first family in Hawaii are the president's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives on Oahu, and several friends Obama has known since high school.
The president has kept a low profile since arriving in Hawaii on Friday evening to start a vacation delayed by the stalemate in Washington over extending payroll tax cuts. He has no public events planned, and his only outings are expected to be to the golf course or to take his daughters for shave ice, a Hawaiian snow cone.
The Obamas are expected to return to Washington shortly after New Year's Day.
___
Associated Press writer Jaymes Song in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, contributed to this report.
brining a turkey who won dancing with the stars 2011 five iron frenzy wild horses lyrics sweet potato recipes green bean casserole recipe karina smirnoff
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
updated 7:27 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2011
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Rex Ryan was brash and confident all week, insisting his Jets were the kings of New York.
Well, the Giants shut him up in a big way ? taking the city bragging rights and setting up an even more important showdown with the Dallas Cowboys next weekend with a 29-14 victory Saturday.
"I hate to use that cliche, but this is a huge one," left tackle David Diehl said. "This is about the city, the city of New York and what team wants to be responsible. They have talked all week and said what they wanted to say. From Day 1, they're our big brother and other stuff. We went out there and played our game and showed whose stadium this is."
Ryan said the Jets were the better team the last two years, based on their consecutive trips to the AFC championship game and the Giants missing the postseason. Tom Coughlin responded by saying, "Talk is cheap. Play the game."
It was the Giants who did.
"They were the better team today, and they're the better team this year," a humbled Ryan said. "Clearly, I was wrong."
The Giants kept their postseason hopes alive, helped by Victor Cruz setting two franchise receiving records and Ahmad Bradshaw running for two touchdowns. While neither team looked much like playoff material, the Giants (8-7) are now in position to win the NFC East with a victory at home next Sunday against Dallas.
"Given everything that was at stake, and all the noise that has been coming out of Florham Park," Giants co-owner John Mara said, "yeah, it means a little more."
Running back Brandon Jacobs said he had an exchange with Ryan after the game in which the coach approached him, used an expletive and said, "Wait till we win the Super Bowl."
Added Jacobs: "And I told him I'll punch him in the face. I told him out of all these Giants players on this team you're talking to the wrong one. And that was that."
Ryan acknowledged that he and Jacobs "had a private conversation. He doesn't like me; I respect him."
The back-and-forth went on even in the hours before the game, when Jacobs and kicker Lawrence Tynes both removed black curtains placed by the Jets over the Giants' Super Bowl logos. The Jets said it was simply their standard practice to cover those logos for every one of the team's home games, regardless of opponent, because it is the players' entrance.
"We knew early what we were going to get no matter what happened as soon as he had the opportunity to run his big fat mouth," Jacobs said of Ryan's boasts throughout the week.
Meanwhile, the Jets' playoff hopes took a devastating hit, and at 8-7 they'll need to win at Miami next week and get major help from several other teams. They have to hope for Cincinnati and Tennessee to lose, and have either Oakland or Denver lose.
"I mean, we don't deserve to control our own destiny," Jets linebacker Bart Scott said. "We haven't played good enough football to do that. We need to try to finish strong, but if you don't make it to the playoffs, you've got nobody to blame but yourself."
Cruz, who had three catches for 164 yards, broke Amani Toomer's single-season mark for yards receiving ? and the team's record for longest touchdown reception, a 99-yarder that gave the Giants the lead for good in the second quarter.
"It's just amazing," Cruz said, "and to beat the Jets in the process is added incentive."
It was a brutal game at times, with both offenses sluggish and prone to mistakes. The Jets were also penalized 10 times, including a late hit call on Aaron Maybin, who plowed into D.J. Ware in the fourth quarter ? a play on which Coughlin was injured out of bounds. The Giants coach needed to be checked out on the bench briefly before limping back to the sideline.
"Never better," a smiling Coughlin said when asked how he was feeling.
Eli Manning finished just 9 of 27 for 225 yards. Mark Sanchez completed 30 passes on a career-high 59 attempts but put up only 258 yards and was intercepted twice. The Jets were also a brutal 4 for 21 on third-down conversions.
"I left a lot of completions out there," Sanchez said.
The sloppiest stretch came midway through the fourth quarter with wild swings of momentum.
The Giants thought they had stopped the Jets on fourth down, but a pass interference call gave them new life. Plaxico Burress ? playing against the Giants in the regular season for the first time since they cut him in 2009 and he served a 20-month prison sentence on a gun charge ? thought he had scored a touchdown, but offensive pass interference called it back. The Giants thought they'd recovered a fumble by Sanchez, but officials reversed the call on a challenge, saying his arm was going forward.
The Giants got their turnover moments later, though, when Sanchez fumbled the snap in the end zone.
The Jets weren't done. David Harris intercepted Manning's pass that tipped off Hakeem Nicks' hands, and the Jets had another apparent fumble by Sanchez reversed on review.
On third-and-12 from the 13, Sanchez scrambled for 11 yards ? and Antrel Rolle was called for holding, putting the ball at the 1. Sanchez dived into the end zone, making it 20-14 with 7:17 left.
But the Jets wouldn't get any closer. Chris Canty sacked Sanchez for a safety, and after an onside free kick by the Jets was recovered by the Giants, Bradshaw had a 19-yard TD run with 2:04 left.
"It's real sad right now," Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "We needed this win. We made some mistakes and they outplayed us."
Cruz's 99-yard catch ? the longest scoring pass in team history ? came with the Giants in dire straits facing third-and-10 from the 1. Manning, standing in the back of the end zone, zipped a pass to Cruz, who dodged tackle attempts by Antonio Cromartie and Kyle Wilson and took off down the right sideline. Eric Smith was the only one with a chance to get him, but Cruz outran him to give the Giants a 10-7 lead with 2:12 left in the opening half.
It was also the longest offensive play against the Jets in team history.
Now the Jets will prepare for the Dolphins ? and keep their fingers crossed.
"If the gates open," wide receiver Santonio Holmes said, "we're going to walk right through them."
Notes: DE Jason Pierre-Paul had two of the Giants' five sacks, giving him 15? this season. ... Jets S Brodney Pool said he experienced migraine symptoms during the game, worsened after a hard hit in the third quarter when Bradshaw slammed into him. He said he was fine. ... Jets LB Garrett McIntyre hurt his knee covering the opening kickoff, and there was no immediate word on the injury.
? 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
advertisement
More newsGetty ImagesPFT: The Jets-Giants trash talk didn?t end after the Giants win on Saturday. According to multiple reports, Brandon Jacobs and Rex Ryan got into a yelling match after the game.
Victor Cruz set two franchise receiving records, and Ahmad Bradshaw ran for two touchdowns as the Giants kept their playoff hopes alive by winning the New York-area bragging rights with a 29-14 victory over the Jets on Saturday.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/45784300/ns/sports-nfl/
nyc marathon coriolis effect coriolis effect giants patriots yolo steelers vs ravens jack dempsey
China's Ties with North Korea Include Economic, Political Influences tf.to/Utfh 
macaunewsnet Macau News
Source: http://twitter.com/macaunewsnet/statuses/150119083290017793
larry the cable guy mark sanchez santa tracker patrice oneal monkey bread letter from santa sweet potato pie
The VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VP ($100 street) sounds like something that should be on the Hogwarts back-to-school recommended purchase list. But in reality (pun unavoidable), it's a portable scanner?one of the most portable available. If you need to scan on the go, and don't want to be weighted down with hardware, that alone makes it worth considering.
At 1.2 by 10.1 by 1.1 inches (HWD) and 0.4 pounds, you could argue that the PDS-ST415-VP is too big to call a magic wand. It certainly doesn't look as much like one as the PlanOn DocuPen Xtreme X05 ($369.99 direct 3.5 stars). However, both work essentially the same way for scanning. The sensor and rollers in both cases define the bottom. To scan, you start at the top of a page and sweep down, or start on the side and sweep across.
One other feature the two scanners share is that they don't need a computer to scan to. Instead they scan to memory and let you move the files to a computer later. Connect the PDS-ST415-VP by the supplied USB cable, and it will look like a USB drive to your computer so you can copy the files.
Setup and Scanning
There is not much to set up with this scanner. Just put in the two supplied AA batteries and insert a microSD or microSDHC card as memory to scan to. The only potential issue is that the scanner doesn't come with a memory card and there's no internal memory, so be sure you have one handy. According to the company, you can use cards with up to 32GB capacity.
Scanning is easy. The scanner offers one button to set it to color or black and white mode and another to set it to 300 or 600 pixels per inch (ppi). Simply choose your settings, and then scan. Just as important, there isn't much of a learning curve. I got acceptable scans starting with my first try, both for recognizing text, and for scanning photos well enough for, say, scanning an article and winding up with recognizable images in the photos.
Recognizing Text
In addition to setting up the hardware, you can optionally install Abbyy Screenshot Reader, which comes with the scanner and offers a limited ability to translate images of text into editable text. However, it's important to understand that Screenshot Reader is an OCR (optical character recognition) utility rather than a full-fledged OCR program.
The PDS-ST415-VP scans to JPG image file format. An OCR program would be able to recognize the text for at least one full file at a time. Screenshot Reader recognizes text showing on screen, and it can recognize only as much text as can fit on the screen.
Depending on your screen resolution, you may need to recognize a letter-size page of text in two or more pieces. In my tests using a 1,280 by 1024 screen resolution, for example, with the image zoomed in Photoshop to 33 percent and the text just fitting within the screen width, I had to recognize each page in three sections.
At smaller zoom sizes I could recognize more of the page, but the recognition accuracy dropped. At 33 percent zoom, the program read our Arial test page at font sizes as small as 8 points without a mistake and our Times New Roman test page at 12 points. At 12.5 percent, which is the largest zoom size that showed the full page at once, it couldn't read any font size without mistakes.
Other Issues
It's worth mention that although not needing a computer for scanning has the advantage of giving you less to carry with you, it has a disadvantage too. You can't see the scan and confirm that it's good enough to be usable until you connect to a computer, at which point you may no longer have the original handy to rescan. Depending on the situation, you may be better off skipping the scanner and taking a photo instead, so you can check the image quality on your camera or cameraphone's screen.
You can't count this too heavily against the PDS-ST415-VP, because it's pretty much standard today for portable scanners that don't need a computer, including, for example, the IRIScan anywhere 2 ($199, 3 stars) from I.R.I.S. and the Pandigital Personal Photo Scanner/Converter PanScn06 ($149.99, 3 stars). One the few exceptions is the Editors' Choice Visioneer Mobility ($199.99 direct, 4 stars), which lets you scan to a smartphone and see the results on the spot.
Despite this limitation, if you want to use a scanner rather than a camera, and you want one that's portable enough to carry with you virtually all the time, the PDS-ST415-VP is definitely in the running. When you compare prices with the alternatives, keep in mind that you'll need to buy a memory card and may want a more capable OCR program or a document management program as well. Even so, the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VP is a more than reasonable choice. It has little to no learning curve, it's easy to use, and its scan quality is up to the task.
More Scanner Reviews:
??? VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VP
??? Pandigital Personal Scanner/Converter-5x7 PanScn04
??? IRISphoto 4
??? Kodak i2600
??? Kodak i2400
?? more
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/gbU6MuwzMKs/0,2817,2397986,00.asp
norad jaws norad santa epic beard man new york jets nfl standings broncos
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul is holding steady atop the Iowa polls this week. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich had a run-in with protesters from "Occupy Des Moines." NBC?s Brian Williams reports.
>>> on the campaign tail today, ron paul is your leader in iowa with 13 days to go before the caucuses. his strong organization could deliver a win and that could rattle the gop establishment. meanwhile newt gingrich had a run-in with protesters from the occupy des moines movement. they exchanged words as the group followed him down a stairwell at the state capitol building . then
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45758416/
angela davis zombie apocalypse matt moore matt moore national grid andrew luck andrew luck
Mother Dolores Hart is interviewed inside the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Mother Dolores Hart is interviewed inside the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Mother Dolores Hart pets a cat at the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Nuns in the Abbey of Regina Laudis participate in two of their seven daily prayers in their monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Mother Dolores Hart, far right through middle window and others in the Abbey of Regina Laudis participate in two of their seven daily prayers in their monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Mother Dolores Hart, right, participates in two of seven daily prayers in the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
BETHLEHEM, Conn. (AP) ? In the little town of Bethlehem, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen movie kiss is praying for a Christmas miracle.
Dolores Hart, who walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun in rural Bethlehem, Conn., now finds herself back in the spotlight. But this time it's all about serving the King of Kings, not smooching the King of Rock and Roll.
The former brass factory that houses Mother Dolores and about 40 other nuns cloistered at the Abbey of Regina Laudis needs millions of dollars in renovations to meet fire and safety codes, add an elevator and make handicap accessibility upgrades.
Like 73-year-old Mother Dolores, the order's nuns have taken a vow of stability with the intent to live, work and die at the complex. The order was established in 1947 in Bethlehem, a small burg in Connecticut's rolling western hills.
Now, the historically self-supporting nuns have launched a fundraiser for the $4 million renovation project dubbed "New Horizons." They don't have much money, but they have Mother Dolores: a starlet-turned-supplicant whose unique story might lure the attention and donations of generations of movie fans, particularly those who adore all things Elvis.
"This work may not be in my lifetime that it's finished, but we're sure trying," Mother Dolores said of the upgrades, which are budgeted to run about $2 million for the fire code and accessibility compliance work and another $2 million for improvements to the housing and other facilities.
They hope to break ground in January.
They're not in imminent danger of needing to move out, but many of the older nuns can no longer navigate the narrow steps to the main building's third floor and must live in another building. And without adequate fire escapes, the monastery has caught the eye of local inspectors, though they've worked closely with the nuns on the improvement plans and haven't ordered them to close the building.
For Mother Dolores, the monastery has been home since she was a 23-year-old actress in 1963 and walked away from Hollywood for a life of contemplation and prayer as a postulant.
The abbey's chapel, workshops, livestock pastures and other features are part of her soul now, and its wood-paneled monastery is the only home she's known for 50 years. Its theater holds a special place in her heart, harkening to the former career that landed her on talk shows, in magazines and twice as Elvis Presley's co-star.
Dolores Hart was a vivacious, quick-witted blond starlet when she charmed Hollywood in the 1950s and early 1960s. She shared a kiss with Presley in the 1957 Paramount film, "Loving You" ? a modest liplock over which Mother Dolores still fields frequent questions about whether the King was a good kisser.
"I don't know why they ask me. It's right there on the screen to see; it's right there for the looking," she said Thursday.
Hart acted in 10 movies alongside stars including Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, Connie Francis and Anthony Quinn.
She said she was engaged to be married before joining God's service and leaving the acting world behind. She broke off her engagement, though her fiance remained a close friend and was a frequent visitor and supporter of the abbey until his recent death.
The nuns also received support and help over the years from Mother Dolores' longtime friend and fellow actress Patricia Neal, who was buried at the abbey after her death in August 2010.
Mother Dolores is still a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, receiving copies of movies to watch in her small room ? or cell, as they're known in the order ? to help select yearly Oscar winners.
Her own movies, including the highly popular "Where the Boys Are," were made before stars routinely could negotiate to collect later royalties, she said, so that's not a potential source of income for the upgrades to the abbey.
The abbey is financially independent from the Archdiocese of Hartford and supports itself through the sale of everything from artisan cheeses and hand-crafted pottery to recordings of its choir. Mother Dolores even recently signed autographs at a New Jersey convention, a rare foray out of cloistered life as a favor for a friend, and one that helped boost the fundraising efforts.
Sister Angele Arbib, a coordinator of the New Horizons renovation and fundraising efforts, said the order is applying for grants and the nuns are trying to spread the word among the abbey's supporters, but are not disclosing publicly how much they've raised so far.
Unlike some orders, the Abbey of Regina Laudis has retained a steady number of nuns and new postulants, including two starting in the next few weeks ? but that can't continue if the housing and other facilities keep eroding with age.
"We have focused on building our community, which has been wonderful, but now it's time that we really have to address our space," said Sister Angele, 63, who left a thriving career of managing opera singers when she was 50 to join the order.
"None of this, not one single thing we're doing, is an extravagance," she said of the upgrades. "It's to make it possible for us to grow, for the elderly among us to live with as much independence as possible and to allow us to live together in surroundings that let us continue our service."
Sister Angele said the nuns are not in any imminent danger of needing to move out, though she acknowledges they'd be in dire straits if they had not anticipated the problems early enough to prepare the upgrade plans and launch the fundraising efforts.
As word has spread of their needs, supporters of the nuns and those who've visited the abbey, prayed in its chapel and picked up items in its gift shop have tried to help in ways of their own.
Liz Carpenter, a Watertown resident who owns the Children's Dance Workshop, said its children have raised $600 to help through a raffle. She's been a grateful supporter since the nuns helped her through a cancer battle about 10 years ago and now volunteers to clean the church once a week.
"I wanted to teach the kids that it's important to give back," she said of their fundraiser, "especially for a place that does as many wonderful things as this one does."
__
Tax-deductible donations to New Horizons may be sent to the Abbey of Regina Laudis, 73 Flanders Road, Bethlehem, Conn., 06751. The order also plans to soon offer online donation services through its website, www.http://www.abbeyofreginalaudis.com.
Associated Pressscumbag steve day of the dead rocksmith blackbeard widespread panic widespread panic richard stallman
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- As the obesity epidemic spreads around the world more people are suffering from acid reflux, likely increasing the number of those who will develop esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.
In Norway, the prevalence of acid reflux, also called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), has risen almost 50 percent in the past 10 years, say researchers led by Dr. Eivind Ness-Jensen, from the HUNT Research Center's Department of Public Health and General Practice at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Levanger.
The increasing number of people who are obese is "the main attributable factor," he said.
Ness-Jensen said the same trend of rising GERD symptoms is happening in the United States and all Western countries.
"The problem is that these symptoms are associated with adenocarcinoma of the lower esophagus," Ness-Jensen said. "What we are afraid of is increasing incidence of this cancer, which is increasing already. It might get worse in the future."
There are few treatments for this cancer and the prognosis is "very poor," Ness-Jensen said. "Luckily, very few people get it, but it is increasing quite rapidly."
It is possible that losing weight could reduce the risk of developing GERD and esophageal cancer, Ness-Jensen added. "That's our next study," he said.
The study appears in the Dec. 21 online edition of the medical journal Gut.
The team collected data on almost 30,000 people who took part in the Norwegian Nord-Trondelag Health Study from 1995 to 2009.
Over that time, the prevalence of those with GERD symptoms increased 30 percent and the number of those with severe symptoms increased 24 percent, the researchers found.
Those who had GERD symptoms at least once a week went up 47 percent, they add.
Both men and women of all ages experienced an increase in GERD. However, the most severe symptoms were mostly among middle-aged people, Ness-Jensen's group found.
Among those with the most severe symptoms, 98 percent took medicine to suppress the symptoms, compared with 31 percent of those with mild symptoms, the researchers noted.
Those least likely to have GERD were women under 40, but women were more likely to develop the condition as they aged. Severe symptoms were seen mostly in those aged 60 to 69.
About 2 percent of those with GERD saw their symptoms spontaneously disappear. This occurred mostly among women younger than 40, the researchers noted.
Dr. Daniel Sussman, an assistant professor of gastroenterology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, commented that "symptoms of reflux are increasing in the United States, partly because patients notice it more and doctors are better at noticing it and treating it."
Most important, lifestyle, diet and obesity are causing the increase in reflux symptoms, he said. "My suspicion is that obesity is the biggest contributor to that," Sussman said.
The biggest side effect of GERD is its effect on the patient's quality of life, Sussman said. He said that of course, it's also a risk factor for esophageal cancer.
Sussman said that there is evidence that losing weight will help improve reflux symptoms and lower the risk for cancer.
More information
For more information on acid reflux, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
s.978 larry ellison go ask alice go ask alice nflx john mccarthy john mccarthy
Microsoft takes the wraps off of So.cl, a search-based social network for students originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink
Yahoo! | 
so.cl | Email this | CommentsSource: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/15/microsoft-takes-the-wraps-off-of-so-cl-a-search-based-social-ne/
james garner veteran aircraft carrier apocalypse now happy veterans day happy veterans day brian eno
