When I was a young lad I was told not to watch certain movies in my parents’ collection. Apparently, if it wasn’t Disney, it wasn’t appropriate. Little me had a bit of a problem with the lockdown on movies and my parents, bless their souls, couldn’t stay awake forever. After I was sure that mom and dad were sleeping, I’d often sneak down to the living room, put in the movie of choice, and turn the television volume down to where it was just audible enough for me to hear. This is where I acquired my cinematic tastes and built a healthy love for a good movie.
I remember one of my favorite franchises was the Underworld series from Lakeshore Entertainment. These movies created a story and lore that blended all of my favorite things. Dark themes, vampires, werewolves, and some nuance mixed with loads of action.These stories and characters have to be born from somewhere. Some are born in meeting rooms as a group of writers sit around a table tossing around ideas. Sometimes, quite often in fact, these ideas come to people as they stand in the shower trying to wash off the grogginess from last night’s sleep. And then there are some ideas that will come to a creative mind as they walk about, tending to their daily business and interacting with the world. Lakeshore Entertainment, the creators of this wonderful franchise, recently bought some new equipment to make those epiphany sparking changes in perception that much easier. Welcome to the world of sit-stand desks, and the creative flow that comes with the UPLIFT 900.
Their new UPLIFT electric standing desk has the ability to seamlessly change it's height to fit a creative mind's new perspective without interrupting the creative flow. All it takes is the push of a button. And should those creatives at Lakeshore find a perspective that maximizes their creative output, they can save it as a preset on the UPLIFT's easy-to-use keypad console. Congratulations on breaking the constraints of the garden variety sitting desk guys! Now you have a desk that's nearly as versatile as your imagination. Secretly I’m hoping one of you gets inspired to do another Underworld movie.
On Feb. 9, 1933, the Youngstown College basketball team traveled to West Liberty State Teacher’s College in West Virginia. In the freezing cold, the YoCo cagers made the long trip in an unheated bus. Upon arrival, the players entered a frigid locker room and changed into their uniforms.
As they made their way to the court, hopping, jumping and flapping their arms in order to warm up, West Liberty’s coach quipped that the Youngstown players looked like a “bunch of penguins.” The name stuck — and a mascot was born.
It was not long before the sobriquet fell into common use in Youngstown. By the end of 1933, The Jambar was referring to the basketball team as “Penguins,” and continues to do so to the present day. However, as the College made plans to field a football team in 1938, some voiced doubts about the suitability of a penguin mascot.
In his sports column appearing in the Youngstown Vindicator, Frank Ward cites the preference of some fans for a team name that evokes a fighting spirit. In lieu of the Antarctic bird, Ward offers up such team name possibilities as Tigers, Polar Bears, Jaguars, Roosters and (oddly) Rhesus Monkeys. To Ward, the penguin is an unsatisfactory choice for a mascot because it is not native to northeastern Ohio.
He further writes that “penguin” fails to pack a psychological punch — and is difficult to pronounce. With its mascot under attack, The Jambar returned fire. In his February 9, 1938 column, Frank Jaczko shoots down each of Ward’s fatuous points with great aplomb, while also stating that the use of the penguin moniker is unique to Youngstown in terms of collegiate identity. YoCo remained Penguin Country.
The first in a series of live penguins arrived at YoCo in 1939, making its debut at homecoming. He was called Pete. When an egg was discovered in his nest, Pete’s actual gender came into question. It turned out to be a duck’s egg, so Pete remained Pete, but his relationship with the duck is still a mystery. In 1941, Pete drowned after losing his way while diving for a fish in ice-covered water. Three more live penguins served as mascots, with the last dying in 1972 from bird gout.
Today’s official artistic rendering of Pete Penguin was designed in 1979 by Bill Oakley, a member of the YSU varsity soccer team. Soon thereafter, a Pete Penguin mascot costume based upon the Oakley concept was fashioned. In the mid-1980s, Penny Penguin arrived on the scene and eventually married Pete (Zippy, the University of Akron’s kangaroo mascot, officiated). Penny’s printed image was briefly modified in the 1990s; her headscarf was replaced with a red brimmed hat styled after the one worn by Lynn Cochran, the spouse of former YSU President Leslie Cochran. In 2000, Penny once again donned her red scarf.
Alvin Skardon also addresses the mascot issue on page 144-145 of his 1982 book, “Steel Valley University: the Origins of Youngstown State,” available in Maag Library.
The Youngstown State University women’s golf team ended its fall season at the University of Dayton Fall invitational in Kettering, Ohio, with a first-place win.
In its first tournament of the year in September, the team placed first at the Roseann Schwartz Invitational in Boardman. In its most recent finish, the Penguins had three golfers in the top-10 and shot a 580 as a team.
Victoria Grans finished in second-place with a score of 142, a career best. Katlyn Shutt finished in third place and Puthita Khuanrudee tied for ninth with a 148.
“It was nice to see that everyone could play so well,” Grans said. “Even though we’ve had some struggles individually and as a team, coming out with this win made me so happy. I had a good feeling from the start.”
Grans, a freshman majoring in political science, is also an international student from Stockholm, Sweden, and is still adjusting to life in Youngstown.
“I think I’ve handled it the best I could,” Grans said. “I didn’t know what to really expect, so I went with the flow. I can learn to manage my time with school as well. Now that we’re done, I feel I have a lot of school to catch up on.”
The Penguins will have the rest of the fall semester away from the golf course before the spring season and a chance for a conference title. During the break, it’s up to each player to get better and improve off a strong fall showing.
“I think what helped us in the last tournament was actually acting like a team,” junior Shutt said. “All of us putting aside our differences and complaints to come together and get a team win. That’s good to look forward to in the spring. I think we’ve all learned a lot, especially the freshmen. We have to be able to give them some guidance.”
Now that the fall season is in the books, there are a lot of aspects this team will be able to draw back on when the spring season rolls around. Even the offseason, practice and preparation for the spring is something this team is looking forward to.
“I think we’ll be in good standing because we played a lot of conference teams this fall and have proven ourselves,” Shutt said.
In the Dayton Invitational, the Penguins beat Cleveland State University and Oakland University, two Horizon League opponents that YSU will certainly see again, but with higher consequences.
“We’re there to win, especially in the conference,” Shutt added, “It’s a confidence booster, and I think it also shows them we’re here to play and here to win. We’re not a team you can write off.”
For Grans, who is also in her first year academically at YSU, the fall season was a big boost for her going forward.
“It’s been very time consuming, but I feel that I get more comfortable within the team as we go,” Grans said. “I think that’s a good thing for the spring when we actually have our conference, we know what we can expect. I think I’ll feel a lot more confident.”
“I played the best golf of my life in the fall,” she added. “But I won’t sit back and wait for the spring to come, I will work hard because I know the other teams will work hard. I know we have to put in the work too.”
Sapir singing her Channukah Mashup “One for Each Night” for “Layered Sounds”- the acoustic sessions of The Layers Project Magazine. **kol isha**
All are quotes said at the turning point of the typical ‘Chick Flick.’ They also happen to be my thoughts on these generic, overrated, and redundant films.
It’s usually around this time of the year when the ‘Chick Flick’ makes its appearance in mainstream again.
This is the thought of many when another romance movie is produced. Chick flicks are viewed as being too sappy, as many believe once you’ve seen one romantic movie you have seen them all. Storylines are alike, depressing scenes, and then the outcomes always end in happily ever after.
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza grabbed three guns from his home - a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle made by Bushmaster and pistols made by Glock and Sig Sauer - and went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Many politicians have come together to come up with a way to stop mass shootings. But how far do they really get?
Within months after the Sandy Hook shooting, did anyone ever really hear about it? The president stopped addressing it, we stopped reading articles about it online. And the politicians who swore to decrease the amount of any mass shootings came to a quiet halt.
With the Republicans so against restricting our gun laws, and the Democrats wanting something to change, and blaming the actual gun on the event, it’s difficult to even come together as one, even under the heinous circumstances.
Robbie Williams, Johnny Hallyday, Joan Baez and Sting are among the headline stars announced on Tuesday for the 40th Paléo music festival in Nyon in the canton of Vaud.	
British pop singer Williams, whose appearance was leaked earlier, will kick off the week-long festival on July 20th, while Sting is set to perform on July 22nd.
Daniel Rosselat, head of the festival and mayor of Nyon, told a press conference that nostalgia played a role in the selection of artists at this year’s event.
The headliners have all played at Paléo before, including Baez, an “icon of folk music”, who performed at the festival in 1982, as well as at the Woodstock festival in 1969, Rosselat said.
Baez, 74, will appear on July 25th, when Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin fame, is featured with his band the Sensational Space Shifters, along with veteran American punk rocker Patti Smith and her band, Performing Horses.
Other names announced for this year’s event include French disc jockey David Guetta, who will perform on the final night of the festival, Ben Harper and Véronique Sanson.
French singer Sanson is among the 55 percent of performers at the festival who come from francophone countries, although not all may be singing in French, Rosselat said.
Belgian singer Arno, Quebec’s Coeur de Pirate, and French pop star Etienne Daho round out some of the French-language performers joining Hallyday, who is still touring at the age of 71.
The "village du monde", an area set aside for world music, is this year dedicated to artists from the Orient.
Cris Cyborg is only a day away from defending her UFC women’s featherweight title against former Invicta FC…
“I definitely think Cyborg is going to take this pretty easy. It’s not even a close fight. Yana [Kunitskaya] isn’t close to that level or even prepared. She’s just taking it for the money. I heard someone try to compare her to Holly Holm because they train together, but big whoop. It’s not like over the last six months this girl has gotten so amazing that she is going to go in and win the 145-pound belt. That’s ridiculous.”
The EMG 66 is a humbucker for a wide variety of musical styles, with a unique sound thanks EMG's unique use of Alnico V magnets and ceramic pole pieces. The 66 is voiced for the neck position, with lots of pronounced (but not muddy) low end with a smoothed out midrange and a sweet clarity to the treble thanks to the ceramic pole pieces. This humbucker has a black cover.
The New Jersey governor gamed the election process to assure that few voters chose the state's new senator: Cory Booker.
The scheme that the New Jersey governor implemented with regard to Wednesday’s New Jersey special election to fill the US Senate seat that went vacant with the death of veteran US Senator Frank Lautenberg was designed to achieve the a very low level of voter turnout.
And to provide Christie, a potential 2016 Republican presidential contender, with a very high level of political cover.
But it certainly did not work for New Jersey, or for the premise that broad voter participation ought to underpin representative government.
1. He scheduled the Senate election for October 16, twenty days before New Jersey’s regularly scheduled statewide and local elections. That cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in additional expenses and created unnecessary confusion. Why? Christie did not want to have a high-profile Senate contest on the ballot the same day that he would be seeking re-election. He feared that parallel scheduling would have brought more Democrats to the polls—to vote for the expected Democratic Senate nominee, Newark Mayor Cory Booker—and that those Democrats might have then voted for his challenger, state Senator Barbara Buono.
2. He scheduled the election for a Wednesday rather than a Tuesday. It’s bad enough that the United States holds elections on work days, rather than weekends. But it is even worse when elections are scheduled on different work days than is normally the case.
3. When New Jersey legislators sought to address the confusion, with a plan to schedule parallel elections, Christie refused to work with them, vetoed their plan and accused good-government advocates of trying to create “unnecessary voter confusion.”
Christie created the confusion. Indeed, he created so much confusion that the Republican National Committee—Christie’s own party machine—distributed an election-week message urging voters to go to the polls on the wrong day: Tuesday, October 15, rather than Wednesday, October 16.
When the votes were counted Wednesday night, Booker won the seat with relative ease; his margin was a comfortable 55-45 over Republican Steve Lonegan.
Lonegan was a Tea Party favorite and, at a moment of intense division in New Jersey and nationally, he took stances in stark contrast to those of Booker.
Yet, as Politico noted, “turnout was low: About 1.2 million votes had been cast by 10:30 p.m., in a state of almost 5.5 million registered voters.”
That means that Booker will go to the US Senate with the voting-booth endorsement of only a small fraction of the New Jersey electorate.
Booker would, undoubtedly, have won in a higher-turnout election—presumably by an even wider margin.
What Christie’s manipulation of the process guaranteed was that Booker would go to the Senate with the slimmest possible mandate. And the governor engaged in that manipulation with the self-serving purpose of assuring that Booker voters would not threaten Christie’s November re-election run.
New Jersey voters should remember in November—it won’t be hard, the general election is less than three weeks off.
And voters beyond New Jersey, who might encounter Christie as a 2016 presidential candidate, should also remember. A politician who is so willing to disregard democracy in order to advance his own ambition deserves to be greeted with skepticism by Republicans and Democrats.
Barack Obama was the first president to have his birthplace become a national controversy, and now he is the first president to sell merchandise emblazoned with his birth certificate—long form and everything!
The Obama campaign is mocking birthers and raising cash along the way, selling these new "Made in the USA" mugs with a picture of the president and his documentation:
A new campaign email from Julianna Smoot, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, pitches the mugs for a $15 donation. "There’s really no way to make this stuff completely go away," Smoot notes, referring to a new conspiracy book called, Where’s the Birth Certificate? (Couldn’t they have gone with "Dude, Where’s My Birth Certificate.") "The only thing we can do is laugh at it," Smoot tells supporters, "and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke."
The timing feels a bit off, however, since the birther controversy peaked in late April, with Donald Trump’s race-baiting non-campaign and the subsequent release of the birth certificate. Back then, in fact, I argued that Obama’s nascent re-election campaign was missing a chance to seize the birther attacks for political organizing. Instead, on the very day the birth certificate was released, the campaign had sent an unrelated email, without even acknowledging the roiling national controversy. That was an unforced error, I argued:
"From a purely strategic political perspective, the mainlining of the birther attack is a major mobilizing opportunity, and it’s the kind of thing [Obama staff] were adept at during the campaign, but have been reticent to do in the OFA/governing period…. Also, the core activists opening these emails are news consumers, this was the big political story, so choosing to send a message like this on such a big day—a day that was even intense and emotional for many supporters and African Americans—without any reference to it makes it feel like the campaign messages are coming from a different planet, rather than providing special information and a direct line to Obamaland."
Author Micah Sifry, co-founder of TechPresident, wrote at the time that the campaign’s resistance to use or mention the birther issue reflect a posture that "was radically different from the days of the Obama campaign." In 2008, Sifry argued, "the campaign stoked supporters passions. Now, they try to temper them."
The new mugs ridicule the conspiracy nuts and race-baiters who form the birther caucus, which is an entirely appropriate response. Still, as the race gears up, Obama’s aides will have to find ways for supporters and organizers with a role for participation and pushback beyond buying merchandise.
Asia’s first nuclear reactor was Apsara Research Reactor designed and built in India with the technological and material support of Britain. Next research reactor namely CIRUS leading to birth of first Indian nuclear plant, was provided to India by Canada during early sixties.
Provision of CIRUS entailed insignificant strings except one important condition that India to give Canada assurance that it would refrain from using given technology for military purposes. Nevertheless, Canada disregarded to place efficient safeguards against such use of nuclear technology possibly in a state of reliance and self-belief but that was shattered subsequently.
Basing on Canadian nuclear technology of CANDU reactor and materials including free of cost technical and design information by American company ACEL, India built its power plants RAPP-1 and RAPP-2 yet due to misuse of this reactor for military purpose; Canada and American company not only compelled India to close these facilities but also severed nuclear relations with India.
After several decades, India has been able to befool both Canada and America to resume their nuclear relations. India is in the process of acquiring nuclear materials on the excuse of its marginal uranium reserves and country’s dependence on materials and fuel imports for energy production. Previously Russia has remained a major supplier of nuclear fuel to India but in the newly developed strategic arrangement with America, India has been chosen by America and Canada for supply of nuclear materials. India has also been facilitated by Nuclear Supply Group under American pressure, to commence international nuclear trade. Accordingly India has signed bilateral agreements and deals for supply of diverse nuclear materials with France, Australia, UK, USA, Namibia, South Korea and Kazakhstan. According to Indian media large deposits of uranium have already been found in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh and these reserves promise to be among top twenty of the world’s uranium reserves. Despite this state of reserves, Canada has very recently agreed to supply 4,000 tons of high grade uranium to India to boost India’s nuclear prowess under the garb of energy shortage.
According to a latest study based on their authentic database, followed by a report by James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies (CNS), high risks of theft, smuggling and pilferage mostly during transportation, supply and storage are common factors associated with nuclear and radiological materials. Proliferation through such means is at times due to compromise on requisite security measures at all stages including transportation and storage of sensitive CBRN materials. The report compiled by the CNS Global Incidents and Trafficking Database funded by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), is quite thought provoking especially in the current scenario when Canada and other countries have decided to supply significantly large nuclear materials to India from across continents. Naturally these materials already stored will be supplied through different means including ships, trucks, rail and many other supply transition processes and ultimately again stored within India. Since the CNS report is based on logic therefore the chances of nuclear security risks before, during and after supply process seems significantly high.
According to the exhibited misgiving of global powers and their protégés including India, various terrorists groups not only in South Asia but in other continents including Americas, Africa and Europe are looking for acquiring chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials. In this regard Pakistan’s nuclear system is specifically being bullied frequently for possible theft or falling of material into wrong hands. It is fact that terrorists cannot carry out an act of CBRN attack unless they can access the necessary ingredients to attain the requisite capability of making a device. For a terrorist-constructed nuclear weapon, commonly termed an improvised nuclear device (IND), this means acquiring kilogram quantities of fissile materials, namely highly enriched uranium (HEU) or separated plutonium. Thus, securing storage, supply means and thefts of nuclear or other dangerous material globally by suppliers like Canada and buyers like India, is vital to the prevention of CBRN terrorism.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Incident and Trafficking Database (ITDB) is the most well-known archive but no other database of this type is both globally comprehensive and freely available to the public despite several international organizations and research institutions maintain similar products of high risks. CNS report has highlighted the risk associated with unauthorised possession, as well as unintentional acts, such as losses, misrouted deliveries or accidental discovery. Looking seriously at the material supplies to India from Canada and elsewhere to ward off any untoward incident of grave humanitarian nature including falling material into wrong hand is very important because each incident entails huge security implications.
The CNS database that has brought forward certain details about alarming incidents involving the loss of CBRN materials is commendable. According to this well researched report most of the incidents of loss of sensitive materials has taken place in Americas followed by Europe but drum beating of falling such materials into the hands of terrorists by these countries is directed towards Pakistan only. The CNS database has identified 325 incidents occurring in 38 different countries during the past two years. Total of 155 cases in 28 countries and 170 cases in 28 countries were reported in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The majority of incidents occurred in the US (58%), followed by Canada (9%), France (6%t), Russia (3%) and Australia (2%). In January 2013, an army patrol in the northeastern state of Assam, India discovered an improvised explosive device underneath a police station containing 1.5 kg of uranium in an unknown form. This device was reportedly linked to a rebel group known as the UFLA, which had issued a series of threats to carry out bombings prior to the device’s discovery, actually stolen from an India secure storage maintained by Indian strategic forces. In 2014, the database recorded its first credible highly enriched uranium (HEU) incident involving an instrument which went missing at a US nuclear power plant, said to be highly secured and protected. Pakistan has no history of such an incident despite an incessant drum beating by the global powers and their stooges. Rekindled Canada-India nuclear deal needs to be critically observed by global policy makers from the angle as elaborated by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).
After several decades, India has been able to befool both Canada and America to resume their nuclear relations. India is in the process of acquiring nuclear materials on the excuse of its marginal uranium reserves and country’s dependence on materials and fuel imports for energy production. Previously Russia has remained a major supplier of nuclear fuel to India but in the newly developed strategic arrangement with America, India has been chosen by America and Canada for supply of nuclear materials. India has also been facilitated by Nuclear Supply Group under American pressure, to commence international nuclear trade. Accordingly India has signed bilateral agreements and deals for supply of diverse nuclear materials with France, Australia, UK, USA, Namibia, South Korea and Kazakhstan. According to Indian media large deposits of uranium have already been found in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh and these reserves promise to be
among top twenty of the world’s uranium reserves. Despite this state of reserves, Canada has very recently agreed to supply 4,000 tons of high grade uranium to India to boost India’s nuclear prowess under the garb of energy shortage.
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No footwork used conveyed how much liability it took a toll on the rest on the Australian batting order.
But still, his opening spell looked expansive especially when there was one ball gone too wide into the rope.
And the rest didn’t pick up a wicket at all who kept scratching their heads each time a batsman whacks over the rope.
Steyn too is excellent with the new ball where his full-ish deliveries helped him pick up two early wickets.
When both De Kock & Hendricks leave, Aiden Markram did a great job steering the Proteas nearly on the homestretch.
The visitors also lead the three-match Series 1-0 heading into Friday which is the 2nd meeting at Adelaide Oval.
But for now, Head Coach Justin Langer will do everything he can to give his depleted team a chance to return in winning ways.
Even without the suspended pair of David Warner & Steve Smith, JL has a plan to end their losing streak finally.
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