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Panasonic's DMP-BDT230 Blu-ray player packs a lot of compelling features into an inexpensive package. It's quick, full of useful features (including built-in Miracast support), and handles video processing with ease, all with a $129.99 (direct) price tag. Its only issue is a menu system that, while completely functional, is a bit sluggish and uninspiring. All considered, if you want a Blu-ray player with 3D, Wi-Fi, and all the trimmings short of the additional HDMI and analog surround output advantages of very high-end Blu-ray players like the Oppo BDP-103 and the Samsung BD-F7500, this is a deck to really consider, and our new Editors' Choice for budget-priced Blu-ray players.
Design
The BDT230 looks like an inverted trapezoid from the front, measuring 1.5 by 16.9 by 7.1 inches (HWD) and weighing 3.1 pounds, with a glossy plastic face with all doors and displays completely flush. Besides the disc tray, the flat face hides a flip-down door that covers an SD card slot and a USB port. An alphanumeric blue LED display sits on the right side of the face, showing information such as disc status and track time. On the top edge of the player, over the display, small buttons for Power, Eject, Play/Pause, and Stop provide basic playback controls. The back of the player holds an HDMI output, an optical audio output, and an Ethernet port if you don't want to use the built-in Wi-Fi.
The 6.6-inch remote is black, plain, and not backlit. The navigation pad is small but circular and easy to find under the thumb, and the large blue playback controls are comfortable to manage. Dedicated Netflix, Internet, and Miracast buttons make accessing the player's various networked features simple.
The interface is functional, intuitive, and slightly unwieldy. The limited menus are laid out in a simple plus-shaped pattern that lets you switch between them by pressing a direction button. But the BDT230 feels sluggish to respond, and the interface isn't nearly as polished or information-rich as Samsung's Blu-ray players or even Panasonic's connected HDTVs. You can access plenty of apps through Panasonic's Viera Connect system, which is buried in the Network menu and lacks a direct access button on the remote. Besides Netflix, you can fire up Hulu Plus, YouTube, Amazon Instant Video, and Vudu, and even access a Web browser (but you'll have to deal with using a remote to browse the Web, like most non-Google TV home entertainment devices with Web browsers). The features are there, but the Home menu makes it seem like the player was designed for little more than playing Blu-ray discs because of the menu's simplicity and how Panasonic hides the Viera Connect menu.
Besides the online features, the BDT230 also supports Miracast, a wireless display standard that lets users of supported mobile devices mirror their screens to a display. I had no problem connecting a Google Nexus 4 to the BDT230 wirelessly and sharing its screen on the connected HDTV.
Performance
We test Blu-ray player video processing with the HQV Benchmark 2.0 Blu-ray disc, and the BDT230 performed very well. It handled every test we threw at it, and showed only slight choppiness when processing lateral motion, the most common video issue we've seen with Blu-ray players.
We evaluate Blu-ray player speed using several Blu-ray discs, loading each multiple times. The BDP230 is fairly fast in our tests, taking an average of 17.3 seconds to load a Blu-ray disc from closing the disc tray to displaying a message on the screen. This is very quick, edging out the Samsung BD-F7500 by four seconds on average.
The Panasonic DMP-BDT230 is a speedy, great-performing Blu-ray player that's only hampered by a slightly awkward and sluggish menu system. More high-end (and much more expensive) Blu-ray players offer more options for complicated home theater systems. But even so, if you just have an HDTV and, perhaps, a soundbar, this $130 deck is really all you need. Its excellent feature set and strong performance earn it our Editors' Choice, replacing last year's LG BP620 by shaving a few dollars off the price and a few seconds off the average disc loading time. With Wi-Fi, multiple apps and online services, and 3D support you'll probably find whatever you're looking for in a Blu-ray player in the BDT230.
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BANGKOK (AP) ? The price of oil rose toward $97 per barrel Tuesday, but gains were checked as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.
Benchmark crude for June delivery was up 16 cents to $96.87 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 69 cents to close at $96.71 on Monday.
On Wednesday, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will appear before Congress and the central bank will release minutes of its most recent policy meeting. Traders will be looking for hints on what the Fed might be preparing to do in light of recent data that has pointed toward a sustained economic recovery.
There is ongoing speculation that the Fed might want to scale back or modify its super-loose monetary policy and its massive, $85 billion-a-month program of bond purchases intended to keep interest rates low and prop up the recovery.
"We hear some testimony from Big Ben Bernanke this week and we can only think that he's going to stick to his mantra. Meaning that he's status quo; the economy is moving along well, we would like to see it move faster, but we're doing all we can," said Carl Larry of Oil Outlooks and Opinions in an email commentary.
Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, rose 21 cents to $105.01 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
? Wholesale gasoline was little changed at $2.893 a gallon.
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? Natural gas gained 1.3 cents to $4.103 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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?Known for providing a vacation experience that is ?180 Degrees from Ordinary,? Windstar Cruises is a market leader when it comes to small ship cruising. And they?re taking that to new levels along with their recent expansion.? Xanterra Parks and Resorts, parent company of Windstar Cruises, recently announced in February they?re acquiring three yachts from Seabourn Cruises for Windstar Cruises ? this will double their fleet.
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Over a two year period starting spring 2014, the three yachts that will become part of Windstar Cruises? fleet include the Seabourn Spirit, Seabourn Pride and Seabourn Legend. The first to undergo renovations is Seabourn Pride. She?ll be renamed Star Pride and will be launched in May 2014. Renovations to Seabourn Legend and Seabourn Spirit will follow. They?ll be renamed and then begin sailing under Windstar Cruises in May 2015.
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When Windstar Cruises begins adding these new ships, they?ll be marketing themselves as ?Global Windstar.? Being able to expand to other regions and areas of the world by expanding their fleet allows Windstar to offer new itineraries and destinations.
?Starting spring 2014, the Star Pride will spend its first season in Europe, with four exclusive European voyages. The new ?Black Sea Tapestry? voyage is one Windstar is offering for the first time, and lets guests enjoy the hidden wonders of Europe?s Black Sea.? ?Pride of the Aegean? lets guests explore the breath of the Aegean Sea from the southernmost tip of Crete to Istanbul. And ?Riviera Enchantment? takes guests to some of the world?s most glamorous ports along the French Riviera. With? ?Venetian Passageways? guests have a chance to uncover the wonders of Venice and then through the Corinth Canal to the ancient oracle of Delphi as well as on to the majestic fjords of Montenegro.
Another new itinerary? In 2014 Windstar will be offering a ?Sicilian Splendors? voyage. This ten day sailing roundtrip from Rome, Italy includes visits to five new ports.Besides some new itineraries, the Star Pride will also be offering many Windstar favorites.
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Unique voyages to some of the world?s best small ports and hidden harbors are what Windstar Cruises has become best known for. And now with the expansion and doubling its fleet, that continues. Windstar Cruises is the market leader when it comes to small ship cruising, combined with ambiance, fine dining and casual elegance.? More details about itineraries for the other two ?power yachts? that will be part of the Windstar Cruises? fleet are coming.?
If your group members enjoy casual elegance, along with a cruise experience that provides some pampering and entertaining, yet allows them to experience some of the smaller harbors that larger ships can?t reach? ?Windstar Cruises does provide another option.
Source: http://leisuregrouptravel.com/windstar-cruises-expansion-and-global-windstar/
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Tienchi Martin-Liao (right) when she was in college at National Taiwan Univerisity in 1968. She is now the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.
Depending upon who you ask about Tienchi Martin-Liao?s expertise, you could get many different answers. Readers and defenders of literature may recognize her as the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre; German intellectual circles would define her as the scholar who has translated Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays into their language. If he could speak freely, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo would refer to her as a friend; the celebrated writer Liao Yiwu might say she was one of the first to promote his writing in the West; and the Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Mo Yan may rebuke her for questioning his lukewarm posture on Government censorship. For her solidarity, many Chinese writers appreciate her when and after they face persecution; some Chinese readers would see her as the writer who wakes them up with provocative headlines in Hong Kong and Taiwanese newspapers. Additionally, Sampsonia Way celebrates her as one of its main writers.
Of course, if you ask the Chinese Government, they could list her as a persona non grata for her work against their Labor Reform, for her promotion of dissident writers, and for her broad recognition in the West. In this interview Tienchi talks about all the roles she has had through her varied career and their personal consequences, including her enemies and hatred.
You studied English and American literature at the National Taiwan University. What was your perspective on the People?s Republic of China (PRC) at that time?
We had a very limited knowledge about the PRC. I was at the university from 1965 to 1969, when the Cultural Revolution had a massive impact. In Taiwan we didn?t really have uncensored news or reports about China, so we read lots of horrible headlines and statements like ?Dead bodies are floating down the river to Hong Kong? or ?There are people from China trying to swim across the sea to reach Hong Kong.? But I didn?t believe all these stories we read in the newspaper, I always thought they were exaggerations.
Now that you are the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, has anybody accused you of having a biased perspective, because you are from Taiwan?
A huge period of time passed between my being a student in Taipei and my being the president of PEN China. All that I have done in between has given me the necessary knowledge and credibility to represent this institution. People focus on my expertise and not on my nationality.
Also, through my work in literature and the university, I have lots of friends inside the PRC. My main Chinese PEN circle consists of people from China, not from Taiwan.
I would like to talk about the period of time in between those two points. There are many job positions listed in your byline but, as with any other byline, it tends to hide your experiences, fights, challenges, and successes. So let?s start with why you moved to Germany in the 1970s?
The only reason I moved to Germany is because I married a German sinologist after I graduated from the university. Otherwise I would be in the US, where most of my college classmates are now.
During that period you worked at the Institute of Asian Affairs in Hamburg. Could you talk about the Chinese-German dictionary you worked on and your research on Mao Zedong?s writing?
For three years I worked with other three colleagues to compile the German-Chinese dictionary Deutsch-Chinesischer Wortschatz, Politik und Wirtschaft. It is a dictionary of political terminologies. It was published for Langenscheidt, one of the biggest dictionary publishing houses. After that I started to compile the works of Mao Zedong with a group of other scholars. We focused on his works after 1949, because there was already too much information from before. We published seven volumes of Mao Zedong?s works. It was a huge project.
At that time I thought that the Cultural Revolution could build a new society with fairness and equality.
What surprised you the most about Mao Zedong when working on that project?
This is a good question because it had an impact on my intellectual orientation and also on my political mindset. I came to Germany 1971, after the student protests of 1968, when there was still enthusiasm for leftist projects. So I had an illusion about what was happening in China. At that time I thought that the Cultural Revolution could build a new society with fairness and equality.
Then we started the dictionary project, and I had to read lots of newspapers and magazines, which is why I started to wake up. When we worked on Mao Zedong?s Collected Work [Hanser Verlag, Munich 1976-1980] I read what Mao had written, his speeches and other information about his government. It was then that I started to understand what really happened in the 50s and 60s in China. I was shocked to discover that you could be arrested, and even killed, if you wrote one wrong sentence.
Can we say that discovering this lack of freedom of speech was a turning point to do what you are doing now: Defending those who dare to speak their minds?
Well, this was just part of it. The next step was in the 80s, when I read the literature from China that emerged in the late 1970s, soon after the death of Mao Zedong. It was called ?Scar literature? or ?literature of the wounded.? It exposed horrible things about all the political campaigns in the 50s and the Cultural Revolution in the 60s and the rule of the Gang of Four in the 70s.
Even though this genre isn?t considered high literature, it?s still great material for understanding that time. It?s really personal. It will describe, for instance, how a young man or woman who got involved in the political campaigns faced the most terrible fate and lost everything, including their faith and illusions. This literature came from the lost generation, which includes millions of young Chinese who believed in the Cultural Revolution?s ideas and then discovered that they were cheated. All this shocked me a lot, much more than Mao?s work.
So it seems you were becoming more and more political through history and literature. Were both disciplines decisive in the role you had after the Tiananmen Square massacre?
Yes. I couldn?t help but to get involved in this democratic movement, and so step by step I got deeply involved with China?s politics too.
In the early 90s you also worked for the Richard-Wilhelm Research Center for Translation and became well known in that field. What exactly did you do during that time?
I started this translation center with the help of my husband, who was a professor. We focused on two things: We created a library of translated work which spans from traditional to contemporary literature from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Then we published a series of 22 volumes of Chinese-German literary translations called Arcus Chinatext. We included poetry, fiction, and essays.
And then you came to Washington, D.C. and became the director of the Laogai Research Foundation. What is the main goal of this organization?
In 1992, the Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) was established to gather information and to educate the public about the Laogai. Lao means labor. Gai means reform. The Laogai, China?s brutal system of labor camps, remains one of the most glaring blemishes on the country?s human rights record. Although the term Laogai (reform through labor) was replaced in official use with jianyu (prison) in 1994, the true nature of the Laogai has not changed. The Laogai slogan ?Reform first, production second,? continues to appear on prison gates and millions of Laogai prisoners continue to endure ?reform? exercises that entail forced labor, political indoctrination, and often, physical and mental abuse.
The Laogai, China?s brutal system of labor camps, remains one of the most glaring blemishes on the country?s human rights record.
You were responsible for the The Laogai Handbook, now in its 10th edition, which covers the most extensive and covert network of forced labor camps in the world. Why is that handbook so important?
It?s important as an academic source, but also because it makes us think of the men and women who are suffering in the Laogai today. Only the attention of the world can bring about an end to that suffering.
We don?t use the word concentration camp, but of course these labor camps in China are a bit similar. We put together material from all these camps, and for each we detailed the location, population, and structure. Some of these camps are also factories, so we describe what kind of factory each prison is and what kind of products they make. We update it every two years.
Being in the Laogai Research Foundation, you have also worked on the Black Series, a collection of autobiographies of political prisoners who have survived the Laogai camps. This series provides a sharp contrast to China?s nationalistic government-sponsored publications. What is the process of publishing this material like?
Ninety percent of these publications are autobiographies. People contact us and send us their manuscripts, I read them and make a decision on whether we?ll publish them or not. After I edit each piece I send it back to the author, and he or she has to approve it and send it back. After we published three or four books, we started getting more and more manuscripts.
Have some of these authors suffered persecution for the publications?
Not all. About half of the authors are still living inside China, and the other half have already left the country. Those who are still living in China have not necessarily been persecuted, but they have been warned by the authorities.
We had troubles with one particular book about the campaign of persecution of intellectuals that started in 1957. Young people were sent to Singhai province, or other very remote places. A group of 3,000 intellectuals was sent to Gangsu province, in the Northwest, and when the great famine struck China, only around 500 survived. The author of this book interviewed the survivors. When we published it, the authorities threatened him and forbade him to have contact with us. They warned us to not send him copies of the book. I tried to smuggle the book into China, but it was very dangerous.
I tried to smuggle the book into China, but it was very dangerous.
These books can?t be distributed in China, right?
No, they can?t. We distributed them through a bookstore in Hong Kong and through the LRF online bookstore. Sometimes people inside China can buy them online.
In terms of credibility, what are the risks of publishing autobiographies?
Well, not everyone is totally honest when writing their own stories, and the authors are not real writers. They just survived and wrote their stories. Still, this is very valuable material for understanding what happens in China.
Who is the most well-known author in the series?
Left: Tienchi Martin-Liao. Right: Liao Yiwu. ? Elke Wetzig/CC-BY-SA
Liao Yiwu. We have published four of his books. Maybe it?s not humble to say, but I was one of the first people who promoted his work. He doesn?t need my promotion anymore.
Another fact that has marked your life is your professional relationship with the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. How did you meet?
I?ve known Liu Xiaobo since 2001, when I started to work in the United States. He was inside China and wrote for two websites I ran at that time. I often spoke with him via Skype or telephone. He?d send me his articles and I?d read them fast?within five minutes?and post them on our website, with him still on the phone.
Sometimes he would give me his article or some information and he wouldn?t hang up, so I could hear him smoking or his wife, Liu Xia, bringing him soup and he?d make slurping sounds. It was very funny, and I really felt like part of their private life. Although we never met in person, we felt that we were close friends. Of course I?m not the only one; he has lots of friends.
In 2005, before he was arrested, he gave you his manuscript for Civil Awakening- The Dawn of a Free China, right?
Yes. It compiles his thoughts and analysis of Chinese politics, society, literature, and cultural life. I edited it and published it in Chinese for the Laogai Research Foundation. It?s a very good book, and Liu Xiaobo himself told me it?s one of his favorites.
You?re still really involved with Liu Xia and Liu Xiaobo even though you don?t have access to them. Can you explain how?
After Liu Xiaobo was arrested, I contacted Liu Xia and tried to give her some connections and show my solidarity, both personally and institutionally. After Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xia asked me to take care of his copyrights. In 2012 I published No Enemies, No Hatred.
Can you describe him as writer and as a person?
He is a wonderful writer, so sharp. He makes such good observations of society, of what is happening and the cause and effect of certain things. He is very courageous. He used to be the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, and you know these kinds of small organizations always have fights and disagreements. That?s why I can say he is a good negotiator too. He is very funny and very fast.
When you were on Skype or on the phone with him, did you ever find yourselves under surveillance?
When Liu Xiaobo was the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, I was on the board, and every other week we had a board meeting. The conference was through Google Talk, and very often the connection was interrupted. During the meeting he would say ?Oh I lost connection,? and he just hung up, so somebody else had to pick up his position and chair the conference.
This is the new tendency from the government. They incarcerate or disappear the men and then persecute and harass the family, especially the wife, to scare their children.
After Liu Xiaobo was arrested, Liu Xia was under house arrest. Persecuting and harassing the families of political prisoners has become a common practice for the Chinese government. In Blind Chess, your column in Sampsonia Way, you recently told the story of Anni, the 10-year-old daughter of an activist, who has been harassed at school. Can you tell me more about this practice?
This is the new tendency from the government. They incarcerate or disappear the men and then persecute and harass the family, especially the wife, to scare their children.
During the Jasmine Revolution, one of our PEN members was kept under custody. The police used to come to his 30-year-old wife?s house and say: ?We have to stay with you.? All day they drank their tea in her kitchen, sat on her sofa, and watched her. They could also take the prisoner?s wife to the police station and keep her there for hours and hours, sometimes days. Or they would freeze her bank account so she had no money.
Anni is one of the extreme examples. People are really furious about it, and I think that?s going to show the government that they cannot deprive a child of her right to education. Hers is a special case.
Now that you are the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, what are the three biggest challenges you face?
PEN International Congress in 2012. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.
The biggest challenge I face is that some our members are always endangered, so I?m constantly worried about it. During the Jasmine Revolution massive amounts of people disappeared, and that worried me a lot.
How you deal with the anguish?
The only thing I can do is contact families and comfort and encourage them. We also speak out and raise international attention and ask for help from other organizations to co-sign appeals.
Which has been the most painful experience related with a PEN member?
It was on December 31, 2010. One of our imprisoned members died; but right before he died they threw him out of prison. He was taken to the emergency room and died there. His case is a typical example of literary inquisition. He was sentenced to six years and suffered until he died just because he had written some articles. Cases like his are real nightmare for us, especially for me, because I?m left with the feeling that we haven?t done enough.
What other challenges do you face as the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre?
The second is that we want to promote more literature in China, and that is difficult. Our members cannot get together or have a panel. When we have our annual conference in Hong Kong, most of our members are not allowed to cross the border. Still, we give them a space on our PEN website where they can publish their work, and we have tried to collect funding to publish more books on the site, but we could only publish a chronicle of victims of the literary inquisition over the past sixty years. It?s a very good book that we are trying to translate into English.
Tienchi Martin-Liao meets with the Dalai Lama in Dharmasala, India. Photo: Courtesy of the author.
The third challenge is to provide our members with international connections. I try to invite our members in China to international conferences or find scholarships for them. I invite them to come to Europe to stay for a couple of months and give them the opportunity to open their eyes and see what the world looks like. Unfortunately I have no influence in the US.
Have you ever censored yourself?
Living in Europe or the United States it?s not necessary. We, who are living abroad, enjoy this freedom, and I think it?s really important to speak out and not be too self-centered. We have to be humble, but we have to be honest. We have to depend on somewhat reliable information and do our analysis and try to understand the real China and write it down and introduce it to Western readers.
Is this need to speak out the reason you were one of the first to write with a sharp pen when Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize?
Yes. We need to see this Nobel Prize from two sides. One side is the literary quality. If you look at those who have been prize winners in the past, you can think that Mo Yan is not that bad. He?s okay. The other side is his position on censorship, which brings up a lot of questions about his views on human rights. As the vice president of the official Chinese PEN, he has done several things to show his loyalty to the party, and this is what I cannot endure. Maybe some people say, ?Who cares?? but I do care!
I don?t have fear, but I do have hatred, I do have enemies. I hate this oppression, and I hate the system, and the system is made by people.
Don?t you fear persecution?
I don?t have fear, but I do have hatred, I do have enemies. I hate this oppression, and I hate the system, and the system is made by people. I hate those who deprive my colleagues and friends their freedom of expression and basic human rights. I not only hate them, I try to fight against them. But as for my person, I really don?t have any fear.
You also don?t have family inside the mainland.
No, not really. I don?t have to worry about anyone in China. So this gives me a lot of freedom. It really is a privilege. Some of my friends still have family in China, so you are right to mention this. However I don?t think these friends censor themselves either. If you?re honest you won?t do any self-censorship.
But isn?t it still dangerous?
No. I?m not especially courageous, I just have a clear mind, and I know how repression works in China. I don?t think they will harm a person like me, living in the West. It isn?t worthwhile.
I will never do something too dangerous, like set fire to the Chinese embassy or cross the border with the wrong passport. I do very reasonable things, and if I get rejected, I accept it, but I always try.
Again, I?m not especially brave; the ones who are really brave are our PEN members living inside China. I learn a lot from them. Every year they come to Hong Kong to participate in our conference, and I am always very moved by their courage because they have to fight against the authorities who want to stop them from attending. They deal with the security police and go to the border, are stopped, and try and try again. Then suddenly they are sitting in front of me in a conference room, and I am moved to tears to see them all. They are courageous, not me.
We tend to be more emotionally vulnerable when the threats or repercussions target the ones we love or admire than when they target us. How do you deal with that vulnerability?
The situation is not always so critical. Liu Xiaobo?s sentence, his Nobel Prize, and the Jasmine Revolution were critical times, and I worried about our people. And if I talked to them I told them, ?Please be patient. This is a very dangerous time. Please don?t get too naughty, don?t annoy the police. Maybe you could stop writing for a month.? I really said that. I asked them not to write because I was afraid they?d get in trouble. But the situation has changed for the better. The people inside don?t agree with me; they say it?s still as bad, but I believe it?s not that awful at the moment.
What will change with the new government?
There are different opinions. One opinion, which I find convincing, is that we have to give the new government a little more time. Even though it?s already been in power for six months, we have to wait until autumn or winter to make a judgment. It will depend on what kind of crises they have to face. If there is a crisis in the summer then they can become very strict in the following months, but if not, they will try small changes. They have the will to make some changes, I believe.
Will we see changes related with censorship?
No, I don?t think they will change that. But sometimes the market controls more than the government. There are some market demands: People want to read certain things so people will write those things. You can already see lots of bloggers, and Facebook and Twitter users, who the government cannot control. All these things are striking at censorship. Maybe they will loosen a little bit?not because they want to, but because they can?t control everything anymore. The only reason they?d change is because the situation is forcing them to do so.
Source: http://www.sampsoniaway.org/interviews/2013/05/20/interview-with-tienchi-martin-liao/
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.
They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny ? a claim that tea party activists had made for years ? is helping pump new energy into the coalition. And they are trying to use that development, along with the ongoing controversy over the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks and the Justice Department's secret seizure of journalists' phone records, to recruit new activists incensed about government overreach.
"This is the defining moment to say 'I told you so,' " said Katrina Pierson, a Dallas-based tea party leader, who traveled to Washington last week as the three political headaches for President Barack Obama unfolded.
Luke Rogonjich, a tea party leader in Phoenix, called the trio of controversies a powerful confluence that bolsters the GOP's case against big government. "Suddenly, there are a lot of things pressing on the dam," said Rogonjich.
It's unclear whether a movement made up of disparate grassroots groups with no central body can take advantage of the moment and leverage it to grow stronger after a sub-par showing in last fall's election had called into question the movement's lasting impact. Republicans and Democrats alike say the tea party runs the risk of going too far in its criticism, which could once again open the door to Democratic efforts to paint it as an extreme arm of the GOP.
"Never underestimate the tea party's ability to overplay its hand," said Democratic strategist Mo Elleithee. "Just because there is universal agreement that the IRS went too far, that should not be misread as acceptance of the tea party's ideology of anger."
At the very least, furor over the IRS in particular is giving the tea party more visibility than it has had in months, and it's providing a new rallying cry for tea party organizers starting to plot how to influence the 2014 congressional elections.
The tax-agency scandal ? it has led to the acting IRS commissioner's ouster, a criminal investigation and Capitol Hill hearings ? seems to validate the tea party's long-held belief among supporters that government was trampling on them specifically, a claim dismissed by ousted commissioner Steven T. Miller. He has called the targeting "a mistake and not an act of partisanship."
Nevertheless, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., elected in 2010 with tea party backing, said the IRS scandal "confirms many of the feelings that led to the tea party movement in the first place."
"What's happened here is a reminder of, this is what happens when you expand government," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "That and the disaster that is Obamacare is going to be a real catalyst in 2014 and beyond."
Tea party activists hope they also can drive support ahead of the elections by stoking widespread suspicions that the Obama administration and State Department are hiding key details about the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The seizure of Associated Press phone records also plays into their argument that government is too intrusive.
Tea party activists have tried to take advantage of the issues that have put some of their central tenets ? limited government and civil liberties ? in the spotlight.
From around the country last week, they headed Washington to hold a news conference on the Capitol steps and meet with members of Congress. Those who stayed home jammed House and Senate phone lines with calls urging congressional action as the IRS saga unfolded. An email from Teaparty.org that was sent to activists proclaimed: "We've worked so hard these past few years and it's paying off! We're witnessing the unraveling of a presidency at an unprecedented rate."
Freedomworks, a national tea party group, spent the week circulating petitions for congressional hearings and encouraging leaders of local groups who believe they have been targeted by the IRS to include their story on a national database to build the case against the agency.
"Perhaps all this attention will break something loose," said Jim Chiodo, an activist from Holland, Mich.
It wasn't long ago that the tea party was the hot new political kid on the block, bursting onto the national scene during the contentious summer debate over health care in 2009. Over the next few years, the loosely affiliated conservatives and civil libertarians would leave their mark on the 2010 elections by helping Republican candidates win Senate races in Florida, Kentucky, Utah and Wisconsin and scores of House races.
Those victories resulted in House and Senate Republican caucuses getting pushed to the right in legislative battles, making life difficult for Obama and his Democrats in an era of divided government.
But the movement's success was muted in 2012 when Republicans nominated the establishment-backed Mitt Romney for president, though he did little to inspire the tea party. He lost, and so did many tea party-backed House and Senate candidates.
Now, tea party activists say they are emboldened and won't be afraid to recruit candidates to run in Republican primaries against incumbents who appear to go easy on the Obama administration, particularly in light of the IRS scandal.
"It's one of those issues we should just raise hell about," said Nashville Tea Party leader Ben Cunningham.
Some say they're now even more suspicious of government than before.
"I personally feel so vindicated," said Mark Falzon, a New Jersey tea party leader. But he added: "What's scaring me now is what's going on below the water line that we're not seeing."
Republicans say that the tea party will have an opportunity come 2014 to make its mark again, particularly with Obama not at the top of the ticket. Also, they say that with Obama's health care law going into effect and with the slew of latest controversies, they now have concrete issues to point to when arguing against government overreach.
"Suddenly, this is a very real demonstration of too much power ceded to government bureaucrats," said Matt Kibbe, president of Freedomworks. "This is no longer theoretical."
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Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in Boston and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tea-party-looks-advantage-moment-131144429.html
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Memorial Day is rapidly approaching; and here in the Northeast, that is the traditional start of summer's season of fun in the sun. For many beach communities in Long Island and New Jersey, it will include an effort to demonstrate a measure of normalcy, and a sense of recovery. In some towns that won't be possible, in some we will see a partial recovery and in still others, reconstruction is complete. Recently, New York Times reporters Jenny Anderson, Lisa W. Foderaro, Tom Giratikanon and Sarah Maslin Nir published a helpful summary of the area's coastline. According to their report:
With the unofficial start of summer looming, the New York Times looked at the state of the region's battered public beaches, in a survey covering three states and hundreds of miles of coastline, from Margate, N.J., to Stonington, Conn., and to the tip of Montauk, on Long Island. Were bathhouses and concession stands damaged? Was the boardwalk torn off its pilings? Would there be any place to park? The good news: a vast majority will be open, though with some changes.
In a related report, Ms. Anderson also examined the cost effectiveness of beach restoration. Many scientists question the wisdom of rebuilding on these fragile and vulnerable coastal areas, and are not shy about voicing their judgments on the foolishness of rebuilding by the shore.
On the other hand, people like me, who own homes by the beach and have no plans to give up on their homes, are equally assertive when voicing their intention to remain. In deciding to rebuild, my family and my neighbors have taken into account the risk of more frequent and more intense storms. But we also factor in the status of our financial investment in our homes and the emotional investment we've made in our community and way of life.
Just as I often urge climate scientists who are not policy or political experts to be cautious when expressing their opinions on climate policy, I also urge experts on coastal engineering and ecosystems to be cautious when expressing their policy prescriptions on land use policy. Scientific expertise is critical in making informed public policy decisions, but it is not the sole input into the policy making process. Scientific experts are not public policy experts and they should not pretend to be. And while mathematical models can help us anticipate the most probable future, they cannot predict the future. No one can.
There is a need to strike a balance. On the one hand, we need scientific information and analysis to inform decision making. On the other hand, we need to avoid policy prescriptions based on only one element of the decision calculus. New York City has over 500 miles of coastline. Abandoning that coastline would have economic costs that are beyond our ability to pay. The expertise of an academic in costal science can help us understand the future of the coastline, but not the economic, social and political factors that must be considered when making land use policy.
Climate change requires that we transition to a fossil fuel free economy: But at what pace? How will we fund this transition? Who will pay the costs? What technologies will be used? If the transition takes place too slowly, we bear the risks of climate change. If it takes place too quickly, we face the risk of economic dislocation and political instability. Climate science cannot help us answer every aspect of those questions. The same is true of coastal science when we are analyzing the costs and benefits of coastal restoration.
Let me be clear. This is not an argument against the use of science in policy making. Quite the contrary: I am arguing that sustainability decision making requires the input of a wide variety of experts. We need ecologists, environmental scientists, lawyers, health experts, economists, political scientists, engineers and a number of other disciplines. We also need a new form of expert capable of coordinating the work of these other experts, and providing policy and management analysis that can be used by decision makers.
Ms. Anderson's piece in the Times concludes with this quote from one scientific expert, Dr. L. Stanton Hales discussing the future of Osborn Island, New Jersey:
When Dr. Hales told the residents of Osborn Island that they should reconsider rebuilding, they countered that they wanted their children and grandchildren to enjoy the place that was so special to them. "It's really hard," he said. But the reality, he added, is "there's no future there."
He is not alone in making these policy pronouncements. I have many other colleagues doing the same. I am completely supportive of their efforts to provide expert analysis to the public. At Columbia's Earth Institute, we work hard to get out those messages. However, I take serious issue with expressions of clairvoyance, coupled with the inadequate, insufficient policy advice. I see it here at Columbia and I see it throughout the media. Dr. Hales may be right, but unforeseen human and technological innovation may prove him wrong.
It is natural to assume that an expert in one field is expert in another. When reporters ask me questions about climate science, I always respond by saying "I will tell you what I know about the issue, but I am a political scientist, not a climate scientist". The question you are asking me is outside my area of expertise. I then try to give them the names of several scientists who can provide an expert response to the question they are asking.
The world is a complicated place, made even more complex by human impact on our planet's natural systems. When we rebuilt our summer home in Long Beach this year, my wife and I were fully aware of the risks we were taking. We also know that the cost of flood insurance will go up, and there may come a time when we will not have the resources to stay. But like the beach folks in the New York Times story, the shore will always have a special place in my heart and in memory. My wife and I were married on a beach a few miles from our home; our daughters played on the beach and boardwalk growing up; and I associate the shore with soft breezes, the scent of the ocean, and total relaxation. How much are those warm and wonderful feelings worth to me, my neighbors, and to the nation? That is a personal and possibly political decision, not a scientific one.
As we make that decision, people who think their homes are safe from natural disasters should think again. A changing climate and a more densely settled planet, puts many more of us at risk. My own view on this, expressed frequently on this website, is that we must develop a new revenue stream, based on a new tax, and new organizational capacity to create and manage a massive fund to pay the costs of increased resilience, emergency response, and rapid reconstruction. Science tells us that threats are increasing. Let's get ready to deal with these threats instead of running away from them. I suspect that there won't be any place to run anyway.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) ? Investigators will look closely at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the commuter train derailment and collision outside New York City that left dozens injured, as the focus begins to shift toward cleanup and rebuilding ahead of challenging times for travelers and commuters along the Northeast Corridor.
A member of the National Transportation and Safety Board said Saturday that a fractured section of rail is of substantial interest to investigators and a portion of the track will be sent to a lab for analysis. Officials also said Saturday the incident was not the result of foul play.
It's not clear if the accident caused the fracture or if the rail was broken before the crash, the NTSB's Earl Weener said. He emphasized the investigation was in its early stages and said he won't speculate on the cause of the derailment. Data recorders on board are expected to provide the speed of the Metro-North trains at the time of the crash and other information, he said.
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven. Most have been discharged.
Officials earlier described devastating damage and said it was fortunate no one was killed.
"I feel that we are fortunate that even more injuries were not the result of this very tragic and unfortunate accident," said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who visited several patients in the hospital.
The crash damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast. The crash also caused Amtrak to suspend service between New York and Boston.
Blumenthal called the damage "absolutely staggering,"
Attention is slowly shifting to the cleanup, restoration ? and the upcoming work week.
Metro-North said train service will remain suspended between South Norwalk and New Haven until further notice. Railroad officials said rebuilding the two tracks and restoring train service "will take well into next week."
NTSB investigators arrived Saturday and are expected to be on site for seven to 10 days. They'll look at the brakes and performance of the trains, the condition of the tracks, crew performance and train signal information, among other things.
When the NTSB concludes the on-site phase of its investigation, Metro-North will begin to remove the damaged rail cars and remaining debris. The process requires specialized, heavy equipment that was expected to be in place Sunday, officials said. Only after the damaged train cars have been removed can Metro-North begin the work of rebuilding the damaged tracks and overhead wires.
"It is a significant undertaking that could take days to complete," MTA said in a statement.
The NTSB has allowed Metro-North to begin removing some of the track and wire from the scene.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said commuters should make plans for alternative travel through the area and urged them to consult the state Department of Transportation website for information.
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said the disruption caused by the crash could cost the region's economy millions of dollars.
About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to New Haven derailed at about 6:10 p.m. just outside Bridgeport, transit and Bridgeport officials said. Passengers described a chaotic, terrifying scene of crunching metal and flying bodies.
A spokeswoman for St. Vincent Medical Center said late Saturday that 46 people from the crash were treated there, with six of them admitted. All were in stable condition, she said.
A Bridgeport Hospital spokesman said 26 people from the crash were treated there, with three of them admitted. One was in critical condition and two were in stable condition, he said. The other 23 were released.
The MTA operates the Metro-North Railroad, the second-largest commuter railroad in the nation. The Metro-North main lines ? the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven ? run northward from New York City's Grand Central Terminal into suburban New York and Connecticut.
The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.Y., when one train empty of passengers rear-ended another, railroad officials said.
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Associated Press writers Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., Susan Haigh in Fairfield, Conn., and Verena Dobnik in New York City contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/probe-conn-train-crash-giving-way-cleanup-065132312.html
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? It's all about the odds.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars ? and that's after taxes.
The problem, of course, is those same odds just about guarantee the lucky person won't be you.
The chances of winning the estimated $600 million prize remain astronomically low: 1 in 175.2 million. That's how many different ways you can combine the numbers when you play. But lottery officials estimate about 80 percent of those possible combinations have been purchased, so now's the time to buy.
"This would be the roll to get in on," said Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich. "Of course there's no guarantee, and that's the randomness of it, and the fun of it."
That hasn't deterred people across Powerball-playing states ? 43 plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands ? from lining up at gas stations and convenience stores Saturday for their chance at striking it filthy rich.
At a mini market in the heart of Los Angeles' Chinatown, employees broke the steady stream of customers into two lines: One for Powerball ticket buyers and one for everybody else. Some people appeared to be looking for a little karma.
"We've had two winners over $10 million here over the years, so people in the neighborhood think this is the lucky store," employee Gordon Chan said as he replenished a stack of lottery tickets on a counter.
Workers at one suburban Columbia, S.C., convenience store were so busy with ticket buyers that they hadn't updated their sign with the current jackpot figure, which was released Friday. Customer Armous Peterson was reluctant to share his system for playing the Powerball. The 56-year-old was well aware of the long odds, but he also knows the mantra of just about every person buying tickets.
"Somebody is going to win," he said. "Lots of people are going to lose, too. But if you buy a ticket, that winner might be you."
The latest jackpot is the world's second largest overall, just behind a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012. The $600 million jackpot, which could grow before the numbers are drawn at 10:59 EDT Saturday, currently includes a $376.9 million cash option.
Charles Hill of Dallas says he buys lottery tickets every day. And he knows exactly what he'd do if he wins.
"What would I do with my money? I'd run and hide," he said. "I wouldn't want none of my kinfolks to find me."
Clyde Barrow, a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, specializes in the gaming industry. He said one of the key factors behind the ticket-buying frenzy is the size of the jackpot ? people are interested in the easy investment.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small," he said. "Two dollars gets you a chance."
That may be why Ed McCuen has a Powerball habit that's as regular as clockwork. The 57-year-old electrical contractor from Savannah, Ga., buys one ticket a week, regardless of the possible loot. It's a habit he didn't alter Saturday.
"You've got one shot in a gazillion or whatever," McCuen said, tucking his ticket in his pocket as he left a local convenience store. "You can't win unless you buy a ticket. But whether you buy one or 10 or 20, it's insignificant."
Seema Sharma doesn't seem to think so. The newsstand employee in Manhattan's Penn Station has purchased $80 worth of tickets for herself. She also was selling tickets all morning at a steady pace, instructing buyers where to stand if they wanted machine-picked tickets or to choose their own numbers.
"I work very hard ? too hard ? and I want to get the money so I can finally relax," she said. "You never know."
Officials will conduct the drawing live Saturday night from Tallahassee, Fla.
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Associated Press writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C., Betsy Blaney in Lubbock, Texas, Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., John Rogers in Los Angeles and Verena Dobnick in New York contributed to this report.
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Follow Barbara Rodriguez at http://twitter.com/bcrodriguez .
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/last-minute-fortune-seekers-buy-powerball-tickets-185535895.html
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The Financial Times?became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that news outlets should be more like?The Onion?and come clean about how they're getting hacked.
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Thankfully, Friday's hack was minor compared to SEA's most game-changing hack to date?declaring that the White House had been attack, which then caused the markets to dive for a few seconds. "Twelve posts entitled ?Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army? appeared on the FT?s?tech blog?between 12.38pm and 12.42pm London Time on Friday, with official Twitter feeds also disrupted," The Financial Times self-reported.?The news outlet has secured its accounts and the posts have been deleted.?
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But what's sort of worrisome is that the FT now joins some of the biggest media players in the world as victims of the Syrian Electronic Army. "The attack against the FT follows dozens of other Syrian Electronic Army attacks on the social media accounts of news outlets including The Guardian, the BBC, NPR, Reuters and The Associated Press," reports The New York Times's Nicole Perlroth.?
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FT spokespeople haven't said how the hackers got in, but the method researchers say the hackers are using is a simple phishing scheme?an email which asks journalists to click on a shady link. ? "Once clicked, the link redirects employees to a fake Google or Microsoft mail site that asks the employee for their user name and password," Perlroth reported.?The Onion?reported as much last week, when it explained exactly how it was hacked and showed off the e-mail one of their own possibly clicked:?
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Again, we're not sure how exactly the FT was hacked, but we could see how someone could get fooled by the @unhcr (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee) address. And it's perhaps time The Onion's advice should be taken seriously.?
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-electronic-army-adds-financial-times-social-media-214312968.html
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By Greg McCune
(Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically.
More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and collided with a westbound passenger train near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield.
Eight people remained hospitalized on Saturday, three in critical condition, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said.
The collision of the Metro North trains forced Amtrak to shut down service indefinitely between New York and Boston.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived at the scene on Saturday to determine the cause. There had been construction and repair work going on in the area and one question was whether debris was on the track.
"They can't rule anything out," said Malloy, adding that he wanted investigators to complete their work as quickly as possible so the busy commuter rail line could be reopened.
The eastbound train was headed to New Haven, Connecticut, when it collided with the train bound for New York's Grand Central Station.
Metro North is a commuter railroad serving the northern suburbs of New York City. It is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a New York State agency. Fairfield is about 50 miles north of New York City.
The rail line serves a major corridor between Boston and New York and thousands of commuters use it every business day.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks and David Bailey; Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-20-hurt-two-trains-collide-connecticut-000707516.html
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Captain Dustin Brown tied it with 1:43 left and Trevor Lewis scored the tiebreaking power-play goal 22 seconds later, propelling the Los Angeles Kings to a stunning 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night and a 2-0 series lead.
Brown scored during a 5-on-3 advantage and Lewis provided the winner on a loose puck with 1:21 left, sending Staples Center into shocked celebration. The defending Stanley Cup champions won their 12th straight home game since March and their sixth straight postseason game.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored his first career playoff goal with 11:04 to play for the Sharks, who were doomed by two late penalties after rallying from an early two-goal deficit.
Jonathan Quick made 28 saves for the Kings, and Antti Niemi stopped 27 shots for the Sharks.
Game 3 is Saturday night at the Shark Tank.
Patrick Marleau and Brad Stuart scored second-period goals for the Sharks, who largely dominated the first two periods with another barrage of superior speed and skill. Los Angeles got rolling in the third period ? and with two late goals, the Kings landed one of the most amazing victories in their relatively thin playoff history.
Jeff Carter scored on the Kings' first shot and added an assist on Brown's goal in front of Niemi. Drew Doughty scored an early power-play goal for Los Angeles.
After Vlasic's score on a rebound, the Sharks seemed to be cruising to a win ? until Stuart was whistled for tripping with 2:41 to play. Just 22 seconds later, Vlasic joined him in the box when he shot the puck over the glass, although Vlasic claimed the puck had deflected off Carter.
The Kings scored a minute later, with Brown pounding home his second goal of the postseason. Lewis got the winner shortly after the ensuing faceoff, finding a loose puck on the back side of a scrum in front of Niemi. Lewis hadn't scored in the postseason, but the depth forward scored two goals in the Kings' Cup-clinching win over New Jersey last June.
The Kings played without veteran center Jarret Stoll, who didn't return to Game 1 after a hit from San Jose's Raffi Torres late in the second period. Torres was suspended for the rest of the series Thursday by the NHL's Department of Player Safety for his illegal check to the head after a hearing in New York.
Brad Richardson contributed a key power-play assist while filling in for Stoll.
Los Angeles has won six straight home playoff games dating to last season's Stanley Cup clincher, but none was more surprising than this victory. The Sharks appeared to be sure Quick couldn't steal another win after the Kings took the opener despite getting outshot 35-20.
Quick's streak of more than 125 minutes of shutout hockey ended in the second period with two quick goals. Vlasic then gave San Jose its first lead with a rebound goal on Stuart's shot off the end boards midway through the period, capping a lengthy scramble near Quick's net. Vlasic didn't score a goal in his first 73 career playoff games.
The Kings were forced to make several changes in the absence of Stoll, the third-line center and faceoff specialist who excels on special teams. Stoll was replaced by Richardson, who played 13 postseason games during the Kings' championship run last summer.
The Sharks replaced Torres by juggling their lineup, promoting Joe Pavelski to the second line and using several new combinations. Tim Kennedy was in uniform for just his second game of the postseason for San Jose, which also played without injured forward Marty Havlat.
NOTES: Sharks F Adam Burish sat out his second straight game after playing in all four games against Vancouver. He was replaced again by Bracken Kearns. Havlat hasn't played since the playoff opener in Vancouver while nursing a lower-body injury. ... Richardson hadn't played since the Kings' playoff opener against St. Louis on April 30. He appeared in just 16 regular-season games. ... Quick hadn't allowed a goal since early in the second period of the Kings' series-clinching win over St. Louis six days earlier.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/la-kings-shock-sharks-2-goals-045619422.html
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Having broken through as a filmmaker with the intriguing and moving The Freebie, actress Katie Aselton suffers the sophomore slump with her second film as a director, Black Rock.
Written by her husband, Mark Duplass, Black Rock is meant to be a Deliverance-style thriller, a girls-vs.-boys tale set on a deserted island off the coast of Maine. The girls have boated out there for a weekend getaway, a chance to reconnect and sort old personal grievances.
They're played by Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth. Then they run into three men who are returned Iraq war veterans, also out for a little r'n'r. One of the women decides to hook up with one of the men -- but when he gets too frisky, well, things go too far -- and suddenly the men are hunting the women, who are just looking for a way off the island.
Oh, and did I mention that the men reveal themselves as having been dishonorably discharged for violence they perpetrated in Iraq?
That set-up seems perfunctory -- and the action goes downhill from there. It feels amateurish, as though it was made up as they went along. Aselton has worked in the past from an outline rather than a script, and it's hard to know just how scripted this film is. But it feels improvised in all the worst ways.
There's not a lot of acting because it's mostly about the action. Action is supposed to define character but, in this case, the characters are not fleshed out enough for us to care about any of them.
The women have their personal issues with each other, but that only feels like filler once the actual plot kicks in. The men are brutish and then mad and dangerous. The violence -- because that's what most of the action consists of -- feels phony.
As does the entire film of Black Rock, which is both formulaic and as inert as the titular geological formation.
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s if the backing of NASA, 18 independent American scientific societies, and an intergovernmental panel established under the United Nations weren't enough to quell the protests popping up in comment sections across the Internet, a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters confirms ? once again ? that climatologists almost unanimously believe that climate change is directly related to human-made carbon emissions.
Researchers pored over nearly 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers from 1991 to 2011. These papers, according to Michael Todd at Pacific Standard, represented the work of 29,083 authors and 1,980 journals. The conclusion could hardly be stronger: 97 percent of scientists agree that anthropogenic, or human-caused, global warming exists.
"That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one," adds Todd.
"The public perception of a scientific consensus on [anthropogenic global warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy," conclude the study's authors. And yet, according to Pew Internet Research (PDF), 57 percent of Americans are unaware that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus.
Why the discrepancy? Big Oil is at least partly to blame. Following the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, Popular Science reports that the American Petroleum Institute organized a task force to spend $5.9 million to "discredit climate scientists and quash growing public support of curbing emissions." The strategy, according to a leaked memo titled the "Global Climate Science Communications Plan," included efforts to "recruit, train, and pay willing scientists to sow doubt about climate science among the media and the public."
Blame politicians, too. When the president of the United States casts doubt on the link between human-made emissions and climate change, people are sure to follow.
Times may be changing, though. Although "conservative white males" are more likely to be skeptics, as Scientific American noted in a controversial study published in 2011, the issue is beginning to divide conservatives, with more Republicans coming out in support of climate science. (When asked if he believed in man-made global warming in April, Mayor Rex Parris of Lancaster, California, responded: "I may be a Republican. I'm not an idiot.")
"There is a divide within the party," Samuel Thernstrom, an environmental policy scholar who served on President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, told National Journal earlier this month. "The position that climate change is a hoax is untenable."
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