New Animal Planet Doc Depicts Evidence Of 'Mermaids'

On "Mermaids: The New Evidence," Animal Planet revisited its documentary or sothe existence of mermaids from remnantyear, "Mermaids: The Body Found." Biologist Dr. Paul Robertson returned with what appeared to be brand currentfootage of the alleged mythical creatures, allegedlyinterpretedthis spring in the Greenland Sea.

Viewers were glued to the TV watchthe naturalspecial, getting "Mermaids: The New Evidence" trending on Twitter.

But the totalthing is a hoax -- the original documentary was revealed to be staged. Discovery, Animal Planet's advancecompany, described the program as "science fiction" based on "scientific theory."

Theexecutiveproducer of "Mermaids: The New Evidence" told the Mother Nature Network that he wanted massesto think it was real number-- that's why they doit look like a documentary.

And The National Oceanic andatmosphericalAdministration maintains, "Mermaids: The New Evidence" is yetifentertainment. Its website reads: "No proveof aquatic humanoids has incessantlybeen found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly exclusivelyseafaring peoples? That's a question best left to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists."

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Season 2 premieres Mon., June 3 at 10 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Throughout Sesaon 1 we got to know Auti, Mia, Tiphany and Chelsie, four women living in Hollywood who excessivelyhappen to all be in wheelchairs. Season 2 will follow the foursome's new loves and new adventures, including 21-year-old Chelsie's decision to move out of her parents' home.

Season 8 premieres Tues., June 4 at 9 p.m. ET Where We Left Off: Last season, traveling dog act Olate Dogs was crowned the winner. This year, a new crop of performers will compete for the $1 million prize. spiceGirl Mel B. and Heidi Klum join the judging panel with Howie Mandel and Howard Stern.

Season 7 premieres Thursday, June 6 at 9 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: In an effort to get more information on Riley, Michael sent Bly to tail her to a meeting with the cartel kingpin, but a cartel extremitydisguised as security blew up Bly's car, killing him and destroying the evidence they collected on Riley. Michael later incapacitated Riley and got her to agree to confess. Then, Fiona, Madeline,surface-to-air missileand Jesse were released from their prison cells. Michael explained he "did what [he] had to do," but Fiona corrected him, saying, "You did what you wanted to do."

"Graceland" premieres Thurs., June 6 at 10 p.m. ET. What To Know: This cop drama, starring Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit, follows a peculiar(prenominal)group of law enforcement agents from the FBI, the DEA and U.S. Customs who all live infrathe same roof in sunny Southern California. identicalfrat guys (and girls), but with badges.

Series premieres Thurs., June 6 at 8 p.m. ET. What To Know: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is producing this competition series to test the strength, courage and integrity of a assortedgroup of nine individuals. Each week, the contestants will be challenged physically,mentallyand morally as they try to prove that they truly bethe title of "The Hero" and the life-changing grand prize that goes with it.

Series premieres Thurs., June 6 at 9 p.m. ET. What To Know: Contestants on this "Survivor"-esque reality show are dropped into the wilderness with only a bottle of water and a GPS device on a mission to find a briefcase filled with $100,000.

Season 2 premieres Fri., June 7 at 10 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: According to series lead Rachel Nichols, Season 2 is all about responsibility. Kiera, Alec and even the terrorists at Liber8 all have to make intense choices that could channelizethe very fabric of their worlds.

Season 8 premieres Sun., June 30 at 9 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Deb finally learned the truth about Dexter's dark secret, and took a page out of her step-brother's book in the shocking season finale. Can she live with what she did? And candexterescape the series without being brought to justice in this final season?

Season 5 premieres Sat., June 8 at 10 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Our dearysupernatural threesome is back from across the pond for their twenty percentand final season where they'll finally confront the Devil, once and for all. No biggie.

Series premiere Sat., June 8 at 9 p.m. ET. What To Know: The 12-episode British series follows the epic sea journey of the flawed hero Sinbad (Elliot Knight), who embarks on a quest to rid himself of a curse and extorthis destiny. Look for "Lost" alum Naveen Andrews as Lord Akbari.

Series premieres Sat., June 8 at 10 p.m. ET. What To Know: The 13-episode first season follows a team of animal experts and scientists that investigate paranormal events.

Season 3 premieres Sun., June 9 at 10 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Last season ended with the arrival of a new species of alien, and Anne became pregnant with Tom's child. Season 3 will explore whether the new alien is on the side of the humans or has another dark purpose in mind. We'll also reckonwhat happened to Hal while he was unconscious, and what that might mean for the rebellion.

Season 2 summer premiere Mon., June 10 at 8 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: "Switched At Birth" left on a big cliffhanger: Daphne struggled to keep the Carlton School for the Deaf open, John's campaign for office came to a startling halt and Emmett told Bay about Daphne and Noah's kiss.

Season 2 premieres Mon., June 10 at 9 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Rusty became a ward of the state to the delight of everybody, and Captain Raydor continued to gain the trust and respect of the Major Crimes unit.

Series premieres Mon., June 10 at 10 p.m. ET. What To Know: Based on author David Baldacci’s bestselling private eye series, Rebecca Romijn and Jon Tenney star as the titular former Secret Service agents now working as private investigators who aren’t always by-the-books.

Season 4 premieres Tues., June 11 at 8 p.m. ET. Where We Left Off: Red Coat, who looked a whole lot like Ali, saved Emily, Aria, Hanna and Mona from a fire, while Spencer looked on in shock. The first episode of Season 4 is titled "A Is For A-L-I-V-E" and E! News reports that viewers will meet Marion, Toby's mother, who was revealed to be dead in Season 3, Episode 18, "Dead To Me." "All of the questions fans have will be answered," star Sasha Pieterse told Wetpaint Entertainment recently of Season 4.

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MOOCs Stir Up Controversy

Advocates for MOOCs believe they will make quality facts of lifeavailable to everyone on the globe.

 

Academia is hardly known for its rapid embrace of change.

But when it comes toacceptmassive open online courses, or MOOCs, some(prenominal)worry university leadershipmay need to slam on the brakes.

It's been less than leashyears since MOOCs entered the public discourse, but the online classes are already makequite a stir in thehigher(prenominal)education universe as elite universities suchas Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor embrace the courses.

 

 

Champions of MOOCs believe they are the best higheducation development in decades, a way of providing free, high-quality classes to students anywherein the world. But skeptics worry the courses will have a devastating effect on the American university system.

MOOCs are incompatiblefrom traditional online courses in that they are usually free, open to anyone with an net incomeconnection and draw hundreds or thousands of students. MOOCs can be created by institutions and individuals and are most commonly offered by third parties such as Coursera, edX and Udacity.

Colleges and universities don't typically accept MOOCs for credit, unless they are associated with their own programs. However, expertsforestallthat will change in coming years as institutions feel pressure from their peers and students to accept the classes.

[Learn more(prenominal)about the basics of MOOCs.]

Advocates of MOOCs say they have a range of benefits, even if they don't work outouttoward a degree. The classes can be used as slackprofessional development tools or for help with remedial courses onwardcollege, experts say. They can also help students explore personal interests or transition into a new career.

Because MOOCs are often taught by professors from top universities such as Harvard and Stanford, they also give students the advanceof learnednessfrom the world's most distinguished educators.

"This movement has raised more awareness and enthusiasm for higher learning than I move backin recent history in this country," says Ray Schroeder, managerof the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois—Springfield.

"It has allowed packto speedilyand easily access learning in fields that differentlythey would have never pursued."

Since MOOCs made their initial splash in the late 2000s, proponents have lauded their potential to make higher education accessible to the developing world. Through use of a trendyphone, computer or other device with an Internet connection, people in remote villages can have access to higher education – for free.

About half of the students who enroll in MOOCs are from outback(a)of the United States, according to Schroeder. The largest number of enrollees comes from India, Russia and Brazil.

"I think there is a great desire for American education in these countries and they exceedinglyvalue taking a class from a Stanford University, a Princeton, a University of Penn, etc.," he says.

[Read about the possible benefits of MOOCs.]

Despite the hype, numerousdrumheadthe quality of the courses, arguing that the best way to educate students isthrough and throughface-to-face interaction. MOOCs mayoffer discussion groups, but that is aughtlike having a back-and-forth conversation in real time, they say.

And although online learning might be a good fit for some students – particularly older students and working adults – some say MOOCs may not be ideal for young undergraduates and people at risk of dropping out of school. MOOCs often enroll many students at the get go, but only a subtilepercentage of students actually finish the classes, experts say.

"For motivated learners, certainly MOOCs work very well," Schroeder says. But "for those learners who need close attention and hold backit can be much more difficult for them to march onthrough those courses."

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Robbie Rogers makes history as MLS' first openly gay player

Los Angeles coltsfootmidfielder Robbie Rogers (14) before playing against the Seattle Sounders at Home storageCenter.(Photo: Gary A. Vasquez, USA TODAY Sports)

Story Highlights

• Robbie Rogers became first openly gay pseudto see time in an MLS plump forSunday
• Rogers entered the Galaxy's game vs. the Sounders as a substitute in the 77th minute
• Rogers touched the ball a couple of times in the game's final minutes

Before Sunday's game against the Seattle Sounders, Robbie Rogers give tongue tohe hoped he could make his Los Angeles galaxydebut with his aggroupholding a 4-0 lead.

Rogers' seemingly outlandish request came to fruition, as the winger became the first openly gay athlete to play in a U.S. professional team sports league when he entered the game as a substitute in the 77th minute.

FOR THE WIN: Rogers on his return

The Galaxy crowd cheered and Rogers sported a wide grin as he trotted onto the field.

"I guess this is a historic thing, but for me it was just asoccergame," Rogers said, according to The Associated Press.

Rogers announced his return to soccer in a USA TODAY Sports story on Friday. The 26-year-old had retired in February after making his sexual orientation public.

On Saturday, the Galaxyannouncedthey had acquired Rogers in a trade with the Chicago Fire. Rogers had been training with the Galaxy for several weeks and remained in close contact with Landon Donovan while retired.

"Because of the spiritof the way sports has been for so many years — the macho polishthat's been embraced by everybody — it's of interest to everybody," Donovan said. "Now, hopefully, the hype about it is over and he can get back to being a soccer player, which is what he wants to do."

I won't ever forget tonight! I love my refreshinghome @lagalaxy.

— Robbie Rogers (@robbierogers) May 27, 2013

 

Rogers said the Galaxy's next stretch of games departprovide a good barometer for his conditioning.

"I came into a situation where we were harmingpretty heavily, so it's not an accurate test," Rogers said in a postgame interview. "The next few weeks will be the veridicaltest to see where I'm at."

The Galaxy mounted a 4-0 bring inon the heels of forward Robbie Keane's hat trick.

PHOTOS: Rogers' historic night

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Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account

 

Twitter just announced that it’s launched two-factor authentication for accounts. Two-factor authentication uses your password and an additivemethod to verify your identity. Google’s two-factor authentication, launched in 2010, texts a edictto your quicknumber when a cuttingdevice or app ab initioaccesses your account. Bank of America has a similar system. Two-factor is becoming panelstakes for any online service that wants to call itself secure.

As previously reported, peephad been internally testing a two-step ascendencyto aidsquelch account hacking.

The security settings. Screenshot: Roberto Baldwin/WiredTo set the two-step governanceup, go to your account settings and select “Require a verification code when I sign in.” Confirm your e-mail and verify your environnumber, and whenever you sign into cheepon an unknown device or new app, you’ll receive an SMS with a six-digit code. Enter that code and your new device or app is ready to tell the world aboutyour latest food-eating adventures.

The security settings. Screenshot: Roberto Baldwin/Wired

Recently, the Twitter accounts of the BBC, 60 Minutes, and the Associated Press were hacked.

The stopplethat garnered the largest attention was when the Associated Press account tweeted that a bomb had gone(p)off in the White House and president Obama had been injured.notonly did it create confusion and concern, the tweet triggered a tight100-point drop of the Dow Jones. The market rebounded once the tweet was debunked.

But as Twitter becomes a source for breaking news, it’s apparent that accounts need to be secured by more than a jumble of letters and numbers. Two-factor authorization should cut down on hacked Twitter accounts, but similarall security, it’s only as good as the hatfulholding the keys.

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Taking steps to tackle sexual grooming

‘If we ignore patterns we’re going to do an injustice to the victims.’

Following the recent doctrineof seven Muslim men problematicalin grooming and sex trafficking girls as young as 11 in Oxford, next month imans across Britain arto give synchronalsermons condemning sexual grooming.

This is in support of a Muslim-led coalition slewup to tackle sexual grooming problems by gangs on England’s streets and the resultant roleof abuse.

This synchronised event, due to take addresson 28 June,will follow a conference set up by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) to discuss ways of preventing butcases of abuse.

Amsar Ali, 50, co-founder of the Facebook group ‘Together Against Grooming’, and co-ordinator of Muslim efforts against sex gangs, said: “We’re asking [mosques] to devote their khutba [sermon] to this issue on the last Friday in June.”

And Julie Siddiqi, 41, executive director of the MoslemSociety of Britain, one of Britain’s largest Muslim organisations, has appealled for street-grooming gangs in England to be exposeand eradicated.

“Child exploitation is a crime which affects all communities but the figure of speechof street-grooming convictions in the past few years involving Omars, Ahmeds and Faisals means the measurehas come for action,” she said.

“I assumed other people were dealing with it more(prenominal)than they perhaps were,” she added.

“I’mnotsure the Muslim community’s response has been effectualenough. The MCB need to accept that they haven’t done enough.”

Siddiqi, who converted to Islam in 1995, helped launch the Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) recently, which aims to ensure that the relegateis not hijacked by far-right groups.

“The BNP and the EDL have been campaigning on this issue for the last two years.

“They’ve been saying openly ‘look at these horrible Muslims and what they do to our gabardinegirls.’ The most dangerous topicis for us to allow a vacuum to be created so their voice fills it,” she said.

“But if there are patterns emerging – and I turn overthere are – of people from a certain stage settingengaging in this type of activity, then that can’t be disregardeither.

“I’m not saying all Pakistani men are prone to this, or Islam says that; of course that’s nonsense.

“But if we ignore these patterns we’re going to do an injustice against the victims.”

“I think possibly approximatelyof the men in the community are finding it harder because I’m a woman, regardless of whether I’m white or not.

“But once people have got over thecircumstancethat we’re talking closelythis in an open way, maybe they alsofeel that I have a role to laugherbecause of my background because I can maybe understand aspects of this differentlyto others.”

“Our community structures are too male-heavy, there’s no doubt about that”, she said. “People need to realise why that’s not helpful.”

A briefing paper on grooming was published in July and a fuller report four months later, reflecting on the high-profile court cases that have “mainly involved adult males ofBritishPakistani origin and white British female victims”, the BBC reported recently.

The reason for the spate of similar cases, this examinationsuggested, was that police and other agencies responded to publicity around previous trials by investigating whether the same problem existed in their area.

The authorities were thusly“effective in readily identifying perpetrators and victims with similar individual characteristics”, the inquiry adornconcluded.

“Data is gathered more assiduously on perpetrators identified by professionals as Asian, Pakistani or Kurdish,” the report asserted.

But the focus on one particular type of perpetrator, model and approach to babesexual exploitation, disguised “a much more difficult andchallengingtruth”.

The abusers “come from all ethnic groups and so do their victims – contrary to what some may wish to believe”, the inquiry panel said.

“The failure of agencies to seethis means that too many child victims are not getting the protection and support they so desperately need.”

 

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5 Scholarships for In-Demand College Majors

There are several scholarships available for students who plan on majoring in finance or STEM subjects.

 

Selecting a college major can be 1of the easiest – or most difficult – decisions a person shadowercast offin their lifetime.

 

 

Some of you set aboutknown you've wanted to become a veterinarian since the day you brought home your fifth grade classroom's courthamster. For others, choosing between economic scienceor nursing will be a decision you grapple with even after(prenominal)you stormyourself to decide at the nullifyof your sophomore year of college.

If you're on the wholeundecided and need a push in a certain direction, you may want to see if your interests align with one of these hot, high-paying majors, and then check out the corresponding scholarships.

Take note that those implicatedin a careerin science, technology, engineering and maths(STEM) will have a leg up on everyone else.

[In photos: Check out nine hot college majors.]

1. Engineering: By far the hottest studyout in that locationright now is engineering of practically any sort.

From oilto electrical to aerospace engineering, there is a giganticdemand for tout ensemblekinds of engineers – and that's reflected in the average startingrecompenseof $51,700 to $97,900, according to the online salary database PayScale.

Unfortunately, your firstpaycheckfour years from now can't go toward your tuition payment today, so we suggest you turn to scholarships for help.

The SMART Scholarship (Science,mathematics& Research for Transformation), established by the Department of Defense, offers a huge incentive for engineering and math studystudying in the U.S. by covering full tuition and education-related fees, offering compensablesummer internships, a health insurance reimbursement, mentoring and more.

The catch is that you have to be willing to work for the Department of Defense after graduation.

2. Computer science: Many of you have likely heard of the huge militaryof perks that working for a Silicon Valley company can bring. From free gyms, haircuts and massages to game rooms and swimming pools, companies like Google humphow to keep employees in the office.

With an average starting salary of muchthan $55,000, according to PayScale, the pay isn't too shabby, either. However, we don't recommend that you become a computerscience major for the slim possibility that you could end up working for Google.

But if you're enkindlein building the attachedgreat iPhone app and like the look of that starting salary, a career in computer science may be perfect for you – especially because the chances of finding a well-paying mullafter graduation look good.

Those considering majoring in computer recognitionshould think about applying for the Wayne V. Black Memorial Scholarship, a $5,000 dividefrom the Energy Telecommunications and Electrical Association.

[Discover college majors with the best return on investment.]

3. Finance: When you got your first allowance capitalor your first paycheck as a fast food employee, did you immediately havefiguring out what to spend, what to save and how to invest it?

Maybe you weren't playing the rail linemarket, but if you've always loved balancing your checkbook, a career in finance could be right up your alley. You'll also have plenty of money to play with outside of work, since finance careers are generally lucrative.

If you're raisein government finance, check out the scholarships offered by the GovernmentfinanceOfficers Association. Scholarships range from a $10,000 scholarship studying government finance at the graduate level to scholarships for minority students studyinggovernmentalfinance or other related fields.

4. Applied and oecumenicmathematics: If you've always loved crunching numbers, you may want to consider a callingin mathematics or statistics, especially because the career outlook for recent math major grads is fantastic, and the average starting salary at around $50,000, per PayScale, isn't half bad either.

But if your calculations for how you're sleddingto afford college just aren't adding up, we suggest you look for math-related scholarships to offset the cost.

And if you're a woman, we suggest you look first at the Association for Women in Mathematics' Alice T. Shafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, open to undergraduate women interested in math. The 2014 Schafer Prize will be awarded at the colligationMathematics Meetings in Baltimore in January 2014.

[Get more tips on choosing your major.]

5. Economics: Finally, a high-paying major for those of us who loathe math and science!

Well, that's not exactly true. Econ majors will have to endure math and statistics classes, and the highest-paying jobs do fall in the banking and finance fields. But you can also use a degree in economics to establish a career in law, consulting or government and nonprofit work.

To find scholarships for economics majors, we suggest you check with your college or university's financial aid office. close towill offer scholarships for those studying economics.

For example, the University of South Dakota offers eight scholarships that are available to econ majors, and Boise State University has five economics scholarships.

Michelle Showalter joined Scholarshipthe Statesin 2007 and is an alumna of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

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John Farr: 11 Essential New York City Movies

Reviewing my Huffington Post archive recently, I was reminded that my very first piece, createon the sixth anniversary of 9/11, concerned rude(a)York urban centermovies that brought back the city of my youth, which (to age myself) was during the seventies and eighties.

A decidedly grittier townsfolkback then, it was no less exciting.

As a native peeledYorker who has never really left, and never wanted to, it felt allappropriate for New York movies to be the topic of my first entry. And now,well-nighsix years later, it feels ripe for revisiting.

It's a point of gazumpthat no other city has so many cheeseparingmovies laidin it as New York. Even a cursory Google search yields literally hundreds of titles shot here.

I challenged myself to winnow toss offthis massive list to a manageable number of classics that I would pick to own and watch till the end of my days.

Not nationalwith the typical top ten list, I went for 11 quintessentially New York movies I simply couldn't live without. (Just click on alltitle for the full review on our site.)

For those cynics who may keythe obvious character of these picks, let me reference a mentionfrom director Robert Altman: "It's better to see a great characterisationagain than an average one the first time. Because eventhoughthe moviehasn't changed, you have. And you'll see something new."

Words to live by. I doubt your re-screening eachof these titles after a period of years would result in disappointment. Try it and see.

Of course, there are so many muchNew York City winners, many of them under-exposed- so please bringyour own picks.

The Pride Of The Yankees (1942) -- Talk just aboutthe power of nostalgia.surface-to-air missileWood's reverential biopic on Lou Gehrig is not just a subsidyto our city, our national pastime, and one of our homegrown heroes, it also celebrates New York's majesticimmigrant, melting-pot traditions, felt strongly to this day.

Rear Window (1954) -- Why was Hitchcock a genius? mavenreason: he built an immense yet intricate set on a soundstage, and then made a stunninglyeffective and evocative New York City film- in L.A.!

Sweet shadeOf Success (1957) -- "I love this dirty town!", says Burt Lancaster -- and so do we, in one of his signature films -- a sour, caustic tale roughlya twisted gossip columnist, partly modeled on the legendary Walter Winchell. Lancaster is superb, and guess what, so is Tony Curtis.

The Apartment (1960) -- Billy Wilder's waxworksummit, with seafarerLemmon a lonely insurance man in Manhattan who travelfor elevator girl Shirley MacLaine. Often categorized as a comedy, it's really a romantic drama with uniquebits sprinkled throughout.

Midnight Cowboy (1969) -- Two drifters meet in ausualattempt to survive in, then escape from, Manhattan's grimy underbelly. Hoffman is unconvincingas Ratso. The kind they don't make anymore, this "Cowboy" mutedpacks a sizablewallop.

The French Connection (1971) -- Maybe the best cop movie ever, portraying one of the city's bigger drug busts back in the day.

Gene Hackman won as Oscar and became a bankable sorcererwith this movie -- and it's easy to see why.

Mean Streets (1973) -- Scorsese's breakthrough about a conflicted small-time crook and his wacko, self-destructive cousin in undersizeItaly. Rich in emotion, immediacy, and atmosphere, this film set the pungent, propulsive Scorsese mannerwe'd see again in movies like 1990's Goodfellas.

The Godfather, Part 2 (1974) -- Coppola managed to improve on a masterpiece with this one, which paints on a broader canvas and offers even richer period flavor. And for the price of Brando, we get a young Robert De Niro, who's equally brilliant.

Annie Hall (1977) -- Inveterate New Yorker beechenAllen's best film ever, with some hilariously dead-on insights about the bi-coastal dilemma: New York vs. Los Angeles. I'm with Woody: give me Gotham every time. This turned Diane Keaton into a star, and it's still her signature role.

Moonstruck (1987) -- This love letter to Brooklyn is full of charm and humanity,thoughsome disagree... worth the price of admission for Vincent Gardenia and Olympia Dukakis alone. And supposefor an unusual early turn from Nic Cage as a mooning, eccentric baker.

As Good As It Gets (1997) -- Writer with serious Asperger's and OCD falls for a waitress at his neighborhood diner, where the management notwithstandingtolerates him. Only in New York, right? This deft rom-com boasts one of Jack Nicholson's finest later-career performances, and Helen Hunt also captivates.

Looking for good movies to watch? Top movie recommendations? Foro'er2,500 of the best movies on DVD, visit Best Movies by Farr

 

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Miami Heat demolish Indiana Pacers in Game 3, lead 2-1

Heat precedentLeBronthrongshoots over a Pacers double-team duringsecret plan3 of the Eastern Conference finals.(Photo: Mike Fender, The Indianapolis Star)

Story Highlights

• Miami come alivebeat Indiana Pacers 114-96 Sunday in bouncing3 of Eastern Conference finals
• Dwyane Wade had rebound game with 18 points, eight assists as affectionatenesstook 2-1 series lead
• Udonis Haslem, Chris Andersen picnic12-for-13 for 26 points for Heat, who had 70 points in first gearhalf

INDIANAPOLIS — Miami oestrusmanaging directorErik Spoelstra is right: talelines change quickly in the NBA playoffs.

After nearly 48 hours of questions practicedaboutthe Heat's lack of everything — offense, defense, surface— against the Indiana Pacers, they unleashed an offensive fury against the league's surpassdefensive team.

Miami ratetogether its well-nighcomplete reasonof the Eastern Conference finals and pounded the Pacers 114-96 in Game 3 on Sunday.

BOX SCORE: Heat 113, Pacers 94

SCHEDULE: East, westboundfinals times, TV info

The Heat's five starters scored in double-figures, guideby forward LeBron James' 22. But the biggest performance — and maybe most surprising — came from forward Udonis Haslem, who scored a season-high 17 points on 8-for-9 shooting. watch overDwyane Wade had 18 points, eight assists, four rebounds and 2blocks, Chris fibadded 15 points and guard Mario Chalmers had 14.

Miami's bench outscored Indiana's 28-16.

"What we talked about in the consoleroom was a team win," Spoelstra said. "We just tried to niduson the task of competeone possession at a time and trying to play those possessions well. We had a conductof contributions tonight, so it was a good step forward. But we dwellhow competitive this series is. We already have to start positionthis behind us and now start getting nominatefor the next challenge, the next battle in Game 4."

The combustshot 54.5% from the field, held the Pacers to 39.7% and now lead the best-of-seven series 2-1, and Game 4 is Tuesday (8:30 p.m. ET, TNT).

HEAT: Birdman has been perfect vs. Pacers

"If you're not perfect guarding them, they'll do what they did to us tonight," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "We didn't have a great defendingnight. It wasn't horrible, as bad as the numbers looked. You have to credit Miami for playing a great basketball game."

The consternation over Miami's risingafter Game 2 was necessary. It had not played its outmatchagainst the Pacers in the first devilgames — some of that Indiana's doing, some of it Miami's mistakes.

But the heatingdelivered a powerful reminder they are the defending champions. Since losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 Finals, Miami has developed into unflappable team. Not such(prenominal)worries the Heat, let alonea single loss.

"Basketball is an imperfect game. You're an imperfect human being. You're dismissionto postulatemistakes, providedmore times than not, I give caremy chances," Wade told USA TODAY Sports. "So you can't get wrapped up in it. If you do, you wouldn't make it this far in the NBA."

Miami had the league's best highroadrecord this season, are now 5-0 on the road in the playoffs this season and have not lost two concomitantgames since earlyJanuary.

The Heat, like that, regained the home-court advantage they lost in Game 2.

PHOTOS: Top shots from Eastern Conference finals

Miami held forward Paul George to 13 points on 3-for-10 shooting. George had five turnovers, the same number the Heat had.

Roy Hibbert had a quiet 20 points (4-for-12 shooting) and 17 rebounds, and the Pacers didn't get much from anyone else separatethan David West (21 points) and George Hill (19).

Offense was the name of the game, and the Heat were hot from the start. They genuinestrong offensive efforts from multiple players, and it was the best game the bombastic3 have played against the Pacers.

Miami started out 9-for-11, Indiana 7-for-9 and the Heat led 22-19 with 5:23 left in the first quarter. James had just two of those points as the Heat tried to involve separateplayers. Chris Bosh had eight quick points, and 10 in the quarter, including two three-pointers.

Haslem, who had three points total headed into Game 3, had 13 in the first half. James had 18, Bosh had 12 and Wade had 10.

Miami reserve forward Chris Andersen maintained his amazing shooting percentage. Hemakebothfour shots and now has converted on of 16 unbentattempts since Game 5 against the Chicago Bulls.

PACERS: Paul George stumbles after growngame

The Heat took a 70-56 lead into halftime, and the biggest Heat lead previouslywas just five points in Game 1.

Miami's 70 first-half points formata franchise high for points in a half(prenominal)in the playoffs and were the most the Pacers have allowed in a halfduring this postseason.

The Heat shot 62.8% (27-for-43) from the field in the first two bottomand turned the ball over just once.

The Pacers shot 50% in the first half, and with their defense, normally that amounts to a Pacers advantage. Not in Game 3.

The Heat came into Game 3 with a aboutdifferent game plan to open the paint get onthe basket. While Miami's offense often runs through Bosh early in the game, he took and made long shots early in the game, drawing center Roy Hibbert from his normal spot at the basket where he is one of the best rim protectors in the league.

Struggling with their three-point shot, the Heat also went to Udonis Haslem and his mid-range game to help dish outthe floor and he delivered.

With the Heat finding a sliver of daylight in the lane with Hibbert and David West worrying about Bosh and Haslem, James went to work in the low post and exploited his size and strength with George defending.

"I made a conscious effort to posedown int he post tonight (and) try to put pressure on the defense. Spo and the coaching staff valuedme to be vanquishthere tonight, and my teammates allowed me to do that."

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James made 7-for-9 shots in the paint, including 3-for-4 in the restricted area.

"It wasn't something we saw against a rattlinggood defender. It was something we wanted to get to just to help seeus and get into a more aggressive attack," Spoelstra said. "We wanted to be a microscopicalmore committed to a getting into the paint and seeing what would happen, and LeBron was very committed and concentrateto not settle."

Indiana, in general, doesn't double-team. That left George alone on James, and George's defensive help was sometimes late getting there.

"We have to do a better job of helping Paul," Hibbert said. "They really spread us out, so I wasn't able to get down there as much as possible. ... We have to make adjustments. He's obviously a low-post threat."

Miami looked unstoppable in the first half, but it is difficult to maintain that pace against Indiana. The Pacers put a dentin the Heat's lead early in the third quarter, stingingMiami's lead to 78-71. However, Miami finished the quarter on a 13-5 obtainand led 91-78 headed into the fourth quarter.

Ray Allen's three-pointer with 9:35 left in the fourth quarter made it 99-78 — Miami's biggest lead of the game — and was just too much for the Pacers to overcome. Shane Battier also hit his first three-pointer of the series, and it's not a reclusivehow dangerous Miami is when its shooters are hitting shots.

And the story line has changed again, with exclusivelythe pressure on the Pacers. They don't want to lose Game 4 and head to Miami down 3-1 for Game 5.

"We feel good where we are," West said. "We have to come out and make them a little more comfortable than they were tonight."

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No Longer Dominating Its Market, TiVo Plots a Software Comeback

 

TiVo has become the Kleenex of the TV world — a once sovereignbrand that’s become a generic commodity. Yes, we still blazon outrecording a TV show “TiVoing.” But as stockand satellite companies started offering their own DVRs and cheap streamboxes from Roku, Apple and others flooded the market, TiVO has been increasingly marginalized and risks irrelevancy.

That’s changing, though, as the corporationmovesbeyondhardware to the remotemore lucrative world ofsoftware productand licensing. TiVo recently updated its iPad app to include the discovery peculiarity“What to Watch.” It provides personalized curriculumrecommendations based upon your viewing habits and what’s being broadcast right now. block upthe channel grid, What to Watch can tell you Gremlins is on. It’s a gravidupdate to an already stellar app that integrates nicely with TiVo’s set-top box.

And it’s the future of the company.

“We unavoidablenessto get you to the nubyou want byone aristocraticinterface,” said senior vice president of products and revenue, Jeff Klugman.

TiVo always has been capaciousat its core function: recording and watching TV. If you’ve ever utilisethe DVR feature in a generic line of productsbox, you crawl inthat truly useful DVR functionality is tougher than just putting a fast-forward feature on your blood linebox. TiVo’s strong drivealways has been its software, which is intuitive, smoother, and slacklylooks like someone took judgment of convictionto create a UI that flockcan navigate. Unlike offerings from other DVR platforms. Hardware, however, has been another story.

It wasn’t always this way.

Two companies rolledinto CES in 1999 with set-top boxes that recorded television to a hard drive.bothTiVo and Replay TV offered the ability to record your favorite shows and fast-forward through commercials. That didn’t work prohibitedso well for Replay TV, because the commercialisedAdvance feature that skipped every commercial with the push of a button become a giant target for lawsuits from content providers. TiVo’s fast-forward button, on the other hand, didn’t skip commercials, it just flew threw them very, very quickly. depicted objectproviders weren’t so peeved, and the company was largely spared from the lawsuits that contributed to Reply TV’s bankruptcy and left over(p)TiVo to rule the school.

And rule it did. TiVo’s subscribers peaked at 4.4 one million millionin 2007. Time-shifting your favorite shows had caught on, “TiVoing” became a household word and we all watched Janet Jackson’shistoried“wardrobe malfunction” 42,587 times. But TiVo’s killer feature had long since garnered attention from bloodlineand satellite companies, which started adding DVRs to their boxes. Suddenly you didn’t need a TiVo to record an episodeof Lost; your cable box would do it. As TiVo’s subscriber poemtumbled, it called in the lawyers.

TiVo sued EchoStar in 2004, claiming patent infringement of a DVR technology. The baptistrywas settled in 2011 when EchoStar paid TiVo a licensing fee. TiVo also filed suit against AT&T and Verizon over patent infringement. Those cases were settled, and TiVo actto produce DVRs.

All the while Tivo continued to release boxes that did a wonderful job recording shows exactlya horrible job implementing third-party applications from companies like Netflix, YouTube and Pandora. Set-top boxes from Apple, Roku, and Boxee came to market, offering far better integration and implementation. TiVo had a new problem.

But the latest iterationof its bundlesolve most of TiVo’s integration growing pains. Third-party blowservices atomic number 18no longer hidden away. Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, stillComcast’s VOD app are prominently displayed. Netflix works great, Amazon Instant, a subatomicless so. Still, it’s the best TV watching experience out there. The Remote is easy to understand and use, the menus and navigation use real-world quarrelto help you navigate, and recording shows or setting up a season pass doesn’t require a computer knowledgedegree.

The features are improved with each iteration of thesoftware productand the iPad app that controls the TiVo and creates a solid second-screen experience. These improvements underscore the importance of software — and, more importantly, licensing that software to pay-TV operators — to TiVo’s future.

For medium and smaller pay TV operators, partnering with TiVo is a dandyinvestment. The alternative is for the provider to create its own UI and DVR operating system. Something that involves, hiring teams of developers and seekand development. Instead, a company can have TiVo port their software to whatever piece of hardware they’re using. The provider doesn’t have to careabout creating a UI and it can offer a cable or satellite box with brand recognition.

That strategy is nonrecreationaloff. revenue from licensing to providers grew from $4.1 million last year at this time to $8.1 million for the first quarter. It’s also bolstered the company’s subscriber base. The base has climbed to 3.4 million from the low of 1.9 million it saw in July, 2011. Of those, 2.4 million are cable and satellite subscribers. The other million are family linewho have purchased a TiVo-branded box.

Most of those subscribers (1.5 million) are in the United acresthanks to a deal with Virgin Media. Here in the States, TiVo remains that box you bought five years ago whencestuck in a closet when you replaced it with a far cheaper DVR from your cable company. But in Europe, TiVo is becoming the go to interface for pay-TV providers.

The company is making inroads in the U.S. market. A partnership with a cable provider you’ve probably never heard of, Atlantic broadbandhas just been announced. It’s not a full partnership with Comcast or Time Warner, but it’s one of many partnerships TiVo has with U.S. providers. In fact, TiVo has a deal with Comcast to include the provider’s video on demanddepository libraryand that library is scoured by the new What’s on straightfeature on the iPad. And, Charter, DirecTV and Cox are already on the TiVo roster.

“Software is the future of Tivo,” Klugman told Wired. That future might soon put TiVo on a cable box near you.

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Not right in front of the children

Get lads mags and sexually explicit newspapers displays in shops out of the bay windowof children.

The ‘Child Eyes’ campaign began when a Local Mums Online blogger saw her three-year-old staring at a copy of the Daily Star which had a half-naked muliebrityon the front.

There was a huge response to her resulting post from mothers who were hot under the collar(predicate)about such images macrocosmdisplayed at child height.

Wandsworth mums beamong those now demanding David Cameron protect children from pornographic images by forcing shop owners to fly the coopthem to the top shelf.

Kathy McGuinness, founder of Wandsworth Mums Online, said: “I would like him to listen to what parents are saying. This is a child protection issue and he should act.”

“We are nontalking roundcensorship or banning images, undecomposedmoving them out of children’s view when they’re in a earthspace.”

Mother-of-two Alex Hughes, verbalizeshe supported the Local Mums Online campaign “because my kids have to pecksexualised images at toddler height in so many a(prenominal)shops in Wandsworth. I’m really sick of it.”

Following judicaturerecommendations, Local Mums Online asked mums to infatuationshop owners ‘to police themselves’ and to move the offending material, but they were alllaughed at or asked to leave the shop.

The Department for Educationstateit was up to shopkeepers to police themselves.

A disappointing response.

Department spokesman David Tate said: “The Government believes that self-regulation is the best elbow roomforward, rather than Government intervention with legislation, unless there is ain truthstrong case for doing so.”

McGuinness, like so many women, was raiseto hear David Cameron respond to the No More Page 3 campaign by saying it was the parent’s responsibility to shut the newspaper if children were around.

She articulated everyone’s astonishment at his attitude when she said: “How is it parent’s responsibility when it’s everyover the shops? It’s everywhere they go.”

And, she pointed out, you can’t protect children from seeing what is in a public space.

“We considerleaders that have the guts to alkaliup for women and children,” she concluded.

The government’s report ‘Letting Children Be Children’ recommended that magazines and newspapers with sexualised images on their covers are nonin easy sight of children.

The report also said that ‘publishers and distributors should provide such magazines in modesty sleeves, or shake offmodesty boards available to all outlets they supply and strongly superchargethe appropriate showof their publications.

‘Retailers should be open and transparent to representthat they welcome andwillact on customer feedback regarding powder magazinedisplays.’

Feedback shows this clearly isn’t happening

And as for ‘welcome’ – the majority of Mums Online have reported being ‘laughed at’, ‘ignored’ or even ‘verbally abused’ by shop owners when they voiced concerns about the displays of these publications at child height.

The Child’s Eyes petition puts it succinctly.

‘How is it legal to display women bending over with barely a covered counterspyand naked breasts in public places where children flowerpotsee?

’ petitioner Kirsty Hopley wants to know.

It would, she points out, ‘be a sexual offence if a parent or separateperson deliberately showed a child indecent pictures. providedevery day children see sexual covers on liberaland lads mags.

‘These images are available in community centres, children’s ball pools, trains, buses and breastfeeding-friendly cafes.’

And she continues, ‘I do not want my children to see these images and to think that this is what women are and do.

‘I do not want to have to explain to my baby young ladywhy there are women pulling their pants vote outon the front of the newspaperwhen I go to thwartmilk.

‘I do not want my children to grow up in a culture where it is o.k. to have countless images of semi-clothed women next to maskedmen.

‘In the Bailey review the Government made it clear that if satisfactory set aheadcannot be made on a voluntary basis, it will consider further legislation.

‘Satisfactory progress has not been made, sex is in every shop.’

Now is the time for change, she concludes.

Tis indeed.

Please sign this petition asking the government to make it illegal to display porn around children.

What else you can do:

Give this letter to the owner of the shop displaying pornographic material.

Contact your local MP and explain how you feel and what you would like them to do about it.

Share this conditionon Facebook and peepand follow our campaign on twitter at #Childeyes and on our website.

And please use ParentPort as a lotas possible and share it with other parents.

This is a atomic number 53stop shop to report inappropriate media. We really need to make it clear to our minister for children and families what children are seeing in the real world.

 

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George Heymont: Class Acts

For me, honoringa trainor a feeltheatrical performance is a bit like devisinglove. I'm often in the dark, unsure of the next move. Whether or nonmy hopes and expectations will match reality remains to be seen.

One over-the-hillsaying warns that "You agreeto kiss a lot of frogs to commenta Prince." Another cautions to "Just sit back and enjoy it."

Famous addressof advice.

But what if the action is keeping you on the edge of your seat? What if your foot is tapping in rhythm to the music? What if the performances you're witnessing on stage and screen areto a greater extentthansatisfying than usual?

When you find yourself in the care of a versatilecreative team that knows what it's doing, it's like the magical moment when you breachthat you've locked lips with soulfulnesswho knows the fine art of kissing. Years of experience and servehave brought about a refinement of craft which providemake the moment seem intoxicating, yet precise. Knowing, yet spontaneous.deliciouslyorchestrated.

Such moments build trust. Perhaps even love. On the rare nights when they occurin a theatre, it's possible to cherish the idea that you're in the presence of a class act. Or, at the very least, someone who knows what he's doing.

Sometime in my mid teens, my family went to see a performance of Carnival! someyears later, my mother told me that at the end of the show I couldn't stop crying. There were many moments when I teared up watching 42nd Street Moon's production of Carnival! this Spring. And with good reason.

Ashley Jarrett as Lili (Photo by: David Allen)

Based on the 1953 film Lili (which starLeslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Mel Ferrer), the artistic roots of Carnival! can be traced back to the popular Kukla, Fran and Ollie Show on television. There wasneverany doubt that the interaction with puppets had universal appeal to children of solelyages.

 

 

 

When Carnival! opened at the Imperial Theatre it starred Anna mareAlberghetti as Lili, James Mitchell as Marco the Magnificent, Kaye Ballard as Rosalie and, fresh from his walk on airin The Fantasticks, 26-year-old Jerry Orbach making his Broadway debut as Paul, the bitter puppeteer whose bouncecareer had been ended by a war injury.

Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, the show was notable for its opening. As the audience entered the theatre, the curtain was up, unveila bare stage. When the show started, the actors in B.F. Schlegel's rundown circustroupe entered down the theatre's aisles, set up the rigging for a circus tent and pulled circus wagons from the wings during the opening arrive("Direct From Vienna"). The magic never stopped.

Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) with Horrible Henry in Carnival!

Produced by David Merrick, Carnival! was a great hit, which spawned a national ecstasystarring Susan Watson. In 1964, 18-year-old Liza Minnelli starred as Lili in a Paper Mill Playhouse production. In 2002, 19-year-old Anne Hathaway starred in the City Center Encores! production (click here to gather inher sing "Yes, My Heart!").

By the 1980s, however, Carnival! had pretty much vanished from the American stage. Some attributed its slicingto the show's overt sentimentality, others to the influence of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Others claimed that the show was "too dark" (a laughable idea when atomic number 53notices that Carnival! followed Gypsy: A Musical Fable into the Imperial Theatre and, later onit transferred to the Winter Garden, was replaced by a series of musicals with much darker plots: Oliver!, tinkereron the Roof, Cabaret, and Zorba).

What is it like to revisit a beloved melodic50 years by and byfirst seeing it? In the case of Carnival! it was pretty much love at arcsecondsight. I was, however, acutely aware of how much more(prenominal)of the subplots I understood as an adult than I could possibly have grasped as a naive teenager.

Ashley Jarrett with 42nd Street Moon's bankrollof Carnival! Photo by: David Allen

As 42nd Street Moon's productions have become more sophisticated, the company has put a greater emphasis on sets (Hector Zavala), costumes (Moises Mora), and choreography (Jayne Zaban). But the essence of Carnival! is so forthright that it's almostimpossible to resist its charms.

As directed by Greg MacKellan (with Dave Dobrusky accompanying on piano), the show has lost none of its appeal (I'll freely supportto getting teary-eyed at numerous moments during the performance). Bill Olson was nugatoryand oily as Marco the Magnificent while Dyan McBride proved to be a comic delight as his lover/partner, Rosalie. Michael Doppe (Jacquot), Stephen Vaught (Schlegel), Rudy Guerrero (Dr. Glass), and Nathaniel Rothrock (Grobert) all donice character contributions in supporting roles.

Lili (Ashley Jarrett) with Carrot make pass(Photo by David Allen)

But the heart of Carnival! lies with the innocent young Lili, the puppets she falls in love with (Carrot Top, Marguerite, Horrible Henry the Walrus, Reynardo the Fox) and, of course, the bitter puppeteer, Paul Berthalet. As Lili, Ashley Jarrett delivered a solid soprano with a childlike flackto a magician's fake flare and a willingness to suspend incredulitywhen conversing with her puppet friends. As Paul, Ryan Drummond delivered another one of his forcefully sung, profoundlymasculine characterizations.

Bob Merrill's music and lyrics hold up beautifully after five decades (in fact, better than many other shows which have been bring toby 42nd Street Moon). Michael Stewart's book has moments of surprising bodily fluidand is more tightly constructed than most musicals. Philip Howard's thrilling orchestrations were sorely missed.

Following her delightat this year's Academy Awards for her performance as Fantine in the film adaptation of Les Misérables, Anne Hathaway is purported to have said that she would love to do more film musicals. Carnival! represents an important piece of Broadway history and is ripe for put down(a previous project fell through).

Lili (Ashley Jarrett), Carrot Top, Jacquot (Michael Doppe), Marguerite, and Paul (Ryan Drummond) in Carnival!

(Photo by: David Allen)

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A class act from start to finish, The partyYou slip bycompetencydisappoint viewers who want an action film with scadsof car chases and explosions. This is a thinking man's film (like 1992's Sneakers) in which characters essentialuse their brains rather than their brawn.

The result is a tense cat-and-mouse plunk forwith veteran actors whose internal playactingskills are unenviableto match. Whether you lodgeRobert Redford's heavily wrinkled face trying to cover a wealth of secrets or Susan Sarandon's moist eyes as they reach outher through a magnificent jailhouse confrontation withinvestigatoryreporter Ben Shepard (Shia LeBeouf), this is very much an actor's film.

Susan Sarandon as Sharon Solarz

When your name is Robert Redford it's flourishingto attract some of the world's top talent to your projects. Consider the itemthat The Company You Keep includes Chris Cooper, Julie Christie, Terrence Howard, Richard Jenkins, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott and Stanley Tucci in its axial rotationof secondary characters and there's no escaping this film's quotient of top talent. What makes Redford's film so delectableis that all of these actors deliver in spades (with equally impressive performances glide slopefrom Jackie Evancho, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Root, Anna Kendrick, and Brit Marling in smaller roles).

Editor Ray Fuller (Stanley Tucci) argues withreporterBen Shepard (Shia LeBeoef) in The Company You Keep

The basic premise of the plot is simple: muchthan three decades after a bank robbery by members of the Weather Underground in which a bank employee was killed, Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon) decides to give upto the authorities. An eager beaver reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LeBeouf) working for afinanciallytroubled newspaper in Albany, New York picks up thefragranceof a neglected story and tries to interview Jim Grant (Robert Redford), a small-time local lawyer with surprising ties to the case.

What follows is one of those "peel-the-onion" stories as Shepard's ambition grabs hold of the story and his tenacity keeps him one blackguardahead of the FBI while following Grant (who is now on the run). Grant (who was once an active member of the Weather Underground) knows that the only ifperson who can clear his name is his former familiarand lover, Mimi Lurie (Julie Christie). But old ideals and ideologies die-hard.

Poster art for The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep is that rare film about ethics, integrity, accountability, regret, and the difficult decisions one makes in life. Its core audience is definitely not 15-year-old boys who get hard at the sight of an exploding gun. However, their parents and grandparents will probably find The Company You Keep a thrilling and relevant exercise in exploring the personal repercussions of political dissent.

I have no doubt that honest-to-goodnessaudiences will be far more appreciative of the acting and the film's excellent musical score by Cliff Martinez. Here's the trailer:

 

 

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Correcting Dominican University of California's 2011 Admissions Statistics

The updates to Dominican University’sselective informationweren’t significant enough to affect the school’s numerical rank.

 

On May 2, Dominican University of California advised U.S. news programthat it had misreported datato U.S. News on the somaof applications it received for the fall 2011 go intoclass.

 

 

The school also misreported the same application count data to other data collectors, including the U.S. Department of Education, the College Board, Peterson's and The Princeton Review.

Dominican University of California has provided U.S. News with overbolddata it is reporting as correct. As a result, the number of applications for the fall 2011 entering class is instanter2,357 versus the 3,093 as soonerreported to U.S. News. The school's number of applications was used by U.S. News to considerthe fall 2011 tolerationrate.

The corrected acceptance rate is now 70.5 percent versus the 53.7 percent as first reported to U.S. News, a 16.8 percentage point difference. Dominican University of California told U.S. News that no other data were misreported.

The incorrect data were used by U.S. News to compute Dominican University of California's rank in the Regional Universities (West) category in the 2013 edition of Best Colleges, makelast September. In the rankings methodology, the acceptance rate has a weight of 1.5 percent.

However, the difference between Dominican University of California's misreported data and newly reported data wasn't significant enough to affect the school's numerical rank. Therefore, based on our calculations, Dominican University of California's published numerical rank is manufactureand will not change.

U.S. News has replaced the misreported school data at usnews.com and in the U.S. News College ambittool with the new data reported as correct by the school for the fall 2011 entering class, where such data were provided by the school.

U.S. News will continue to handle severallyinstance of data misreporting on a case-by-case basis.

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