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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Court records show Courteney Cox and David Arquette have finalized their divorce.
A Los Angeles judge approved the couple's breakup Tuesday after nearly 14 years of marriage. Details of their divorce settlement are confidential.
Cox and Arquette legally separated on Dec. 31, 2011, about six months before the pair filed for divorce. The couple met while filming "Scream" and announced their split in October 2010.
At the time, they said they were committed to raising their daughter together and remained best friends.
Cox gained widespread fame for her role on the TV comedy "Friends." Arquette was an executive producer of her recent series, "Cougar Town," and has appeared in numerous films, including "Never Been Kissed."
The website for People magazine was first to report Wednesday that the divorce is final.
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Back when Acer unveiled the Iconia A1 tablet, it slipped out an upgrade to its starter Iconia B1 series, the B1-710. That refresh has at last surfaced in the US -- through the FCC, anyway. The 7-inch, WiFi-toting slate has cleared the FCC's approval process with its subtle design tweaks and doubled 1GB of RAM in tow. Unfortunately, Americans aren't much closer to actually buying one. While Canadians may get a turn when we've spotted a (currently unconfirmed) $230 Acer Canada listing, the new B1 is primarily bound for Europe. It should cost £110 / €129 (about $166) for the WiFi model's June release, and £129 / €179 (between $195 and $230) for a 3G-equipped B1-711 edition arriving in July.
Update: The Canadian listing now appears to be an A1, not the B1 we saw earlier.
Via: TabletGuide.nl
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DEEP SEA CHALLENGER: James Cameron hopes the technology that enabled him to dive to the deepest spot on the planet will facilitate further deep-sea exploration. Image: Courtesy of Angela George
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Editor?s Note: This article is the first of a two-part Q&A from a roundtable in which James Cameron discussed deep-ocean science with researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Mass.
In March filmmaker and aquanaut James Cameron, back from his record-setting visit to the Challenger Deep in the Marinas Trench 11 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, announced the donation of his sub, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, to Woods Hole, where scientists plan to use its cutting-edge technology to help further their understanding of life in ocean trenches.
The first order of business when the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER arrives at Woods Hole in a few weeks: Fit its custom-made lights, imaging equipment and high-definition 3-D cameras on to Woods Hole?s Nereus robotic sub in preparation for the latter?s dive to the 10-kilometer-deep Kermadec Trench?off the northeastern tip of New Zealand's North Island?in February or March 2014. The Kermadec Trench is a kilometer shallower than the Challenger Deep site that Cameron explored, but Nereus?s mission is crucial to understanding the peculiar inhabitants, ecosystem and geologic activity that have evolved in ocean trenches?the planet?s most hostile habitat.
The roundtable discussion with Cameron took place in New York City in April and included: Tim Shank, a Woods Hole deep-sea biologist and lead investigator for the institution?s Hadal Ecosystem Studies (HADES) program; Andy Bowen, director of Woods Hole?s National Deep Submergence Facility; Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole; along with a handful of journalists.
In part 1 Cameron and the Woods Hole researchers talk about how the technological advances that enabled the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to take him to the deepest spot on the planet will unlock new possibilities for understanding life at the vastly unexplored hadal depths, those below six kilometers. The discussion also addresses the upcoming Nereus mission and what Woods Hole hopes to find at the bottom of one of the world?s deepest, coldest trenches. Cameron also describes his experiences piloting the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER on his historic voyage to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
In part 2 Cameron discusses how the era of exploration in the 1960s?both into space and to the ocean?s depths?inspired his career as a filmmaker and, later, as an deep-sea pioneer and science advocate.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
Why are you donating the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to Woods Hole?
James Cameron: To me, that?s an infinitely better outcome than it sitting dormant until I?m done with my next two movies, and maybe comes to the tech community five or six years down the line when it?s already obsolete or other solutions have been found in the meantime.
[When the dust settled following the March 2012 piloted expedition to the Challenger Deep] my fantasy goal was that the entire scientific community would want to have access to it. Unfortunately the kind of money that existed in the 1960s and ?70s, the heyday of deep-sea exploration, is harder to come by these days. So we had to look for a way the technology could be beneficial to the oceanographic community. And we came up with something that we?re all happy about.
In terms of [future missions for] DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, I don?t think that any of us want to take that off the table. We?ll look at possibly getting it out to sea again at some point and go out and try to find some funding for that when it makes sense. The more immediate goal is to transition technology from the sub into the mainstream of the oceanographic community.
Short of taking the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER out again, how will it benefit deep-ocean science?
Andy Bowen: That?s underway right now. Some of that technology will be transitioned into our Nereus underwater robotic vehicle, which will undertake a scientific survey project in the [Kermadec Trench] using, in particular, the cameras developed as part of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER program.
Cameron: It?s interesting how those cameras came about. We knew the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER was going to move through the water column rapidly so we would have as much bottom time as possible. But that meant if we wanted to have the camera out on a boom to be able to see the sub and the area around it, that camera was going to be tiny, and I wanted high-definition and 3-D [capabilities]. My previous HD [or high-definition], 3-D submarine camera weighed about 180 pounds, and it went on a 150-pound pan-and-tilt mechanism. Well, all of that was going to have to go out on a boom, and that clearly wasn?t going to happen on a small weight- and space-constrained vehicle.
So I set my engineers with the challenge of coming up with something that was orders of magnitude smaller and had to operate twice as deep as our previous camera system. That puts you off the scale in terms of difficulty, but they built the camera from the sensor level up. [Two of these cameras in a titanium housing weighed about four and a half pounds] We put it on a four-pound pan-and-tilt platform. You could put a couple of these on Nereus.
What else will Woods Hole do with the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER when it arrives in June?
Cameron: My team of engineers that spent seven years building the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER will share their experiences and knowledge with Woods Hole engineers, and vice versa.
I don?t expect a fleet of DEEPSEA CHALLENGERs to be built. That was a very specific vehicle that served a very specific purpose. But if you were able to take the various systems on the sub and abstract them out to a different form factor, you might end up with some of that being integrated into an [autonomous underwater vehicle] for hadal research. Several of those out there going through the trenches starts to give you much better science in return.
I haven?t put any constraints or restrictions on [how the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER?s technology is used]. I think we agreed not to saw up the sub for awhile.
What are the specific scientific goals of the 2014 expedition to the Kermadec Trench?
Tim Shank: We want to take Nereus on a six-week expedition to the Pacific Ocean?s Kermadec Trench to explore part of the ocean?s hadal regions, which are largely unknown. The vast majority of information about these regions comes from two cruises in the 1950s [the Danish Galathea and the Soviet Vitjaz expeditions], which is rather embarrassing. We just have a catalogue with the names of some species that came up in a trawl. In the 2000s there were a couple of cruises that explored hadal depths and brought back some samples, each of which is incredibly valuable. [Sediment samples from the Mariana Trench, for example, have contained highly active bacteria communities even though the environment there is under extreme pressure almost 1,100 times higher than at sea level, according to a March Nature Geoscience report.] The research [also] showed a carbon food supply down in the trenches that we hadn?t known about. [Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.]
There are seven institutions around the world and 10 scientists [involved in the Kermadec expedition as part of the Hadal Ecosystems Studies (HADES) program] who are out to answer six major questions, including what?s there in terms of biodiversity, what they are feeding on and how they?ve evolved in isolation.
Cameron: I think it?s interesting to have an overview of just how little is known about hadal depths in terms of biology and geology. Most of what?s known about the bottom has come from images shot miles up in the water column, and it?s a relatively coarse data set. So you?ve got to get down there and look around and ground-truth it. Very little of that looking around has been done. As Tim said, there?ve been a couple of cruises.
Shank: Foremost, we want to bring back samples and study their use for biotechnology. Based on the hadal samples we?ve seen so far, these animals secrete enzymes that are very beneficial for humans. Some are being used for trials to treat Alzheimer?s disease. Now we?re looking for antibody, anticancer, anti-tumor properties, too. All of this depends on how well you can preserve these animals and bring them up [alive], something we can?t do now. [Living samples have been brought to the surface successfully from no deeper than about 1.4 kilometers.]
Cameron: Their biology just doesn?t work when that pressure is taken away. But the deeper you dive the less equipment you can bring with you. It would take a heavy piece of gear to bring a pressure vessel down to hadal depths [that could keep specimens alive when they are brought to the surface].
To the best of our knowledge right now, what is life like at the bottom of the trenches?
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cameron-deepsea-challenger-exploration-science
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Washington, DC, May 30, 2013 Twitter is a popular source for receiving and sharing new information about vaccines, and also a basically reliable one, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin analyzed 9,510 vaccination-related tweets from one week in January, 2012 to determine the most popular and influential messages. A final sample of 2,580 tweets that had received engagement through re-posting and sharing was then coded for frequency of sharing, tone toward vaccinations, links to sources (e.g., news outlets, advocacy groups, or healthcare providers), and whether the claims being made in each tweet were scientifically substantiated.
Overall, 33 percent of the 2,580 tweets carried a positive tone about vaccines, 54 percent were neutral, and 13 percent were negative. Of the 14 percent of tweets that contained medical information, more than two-thirds offered content substantiated by scientific research.
The most popular messages concerned a potential children's malaria vaccine, development of the NeuVax E-75 vaccine for breast cancer, the effectiveness of a herpes vaccine in women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation of a human papilloma virus vaccination for boys, potential approval for a lung cancer vaccine, and a blog post discrediting vaccine-autism connections.
Frequent information sources shared through tweets included health-specific sites such as WebMD (16 percent of 341 links), national media such as The New York Times (13 percent), medical organizations such as the American Medical Association (12 percent), and digital news aggregators including the Huffington Post (10 percent). The specific outlets mentioned are representative examples, though did dominate their categories.
"News and health organizations received mostly positive attention in comparison with political or advocacy groups, indicating users are favorably viewing established sources in their health-information seeking," state the authors. "In this sample, it appears that Twitter users share mostly reputable information and sources while actively mobilizing others to seek reliable health information. Results of the snapshot can help explain what social media content patients consume and respond to, as well as help determine directions for educational campaigns."
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egarman@apic.org
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Washington, DC, May 30, 2013 Twitter is a popular source for receiving and sharing new information about vaccines, and also a basically reliable one, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin analyzed 9,510 vaccination-related tweets from one week in January, 2012 to determine the most popular and influential messages. A final sample of 2,580 tweets that had received engagement through re-posting and sharing was then coded for frequency of sharing, tone toward vaccinations, links to sources (e.g., news outlets, advocacy groups, or healthcare providers), and whether the claims being made in each tweet were scientifically substantiated.
Overall, 33 percent of the 2,580 tweets carried a positive tone about vaccines, 54 percent were neutral, and 13 percent were negative. Of the 14 percent of tweets that contained medical information, more than two-thirds offered content substantiated by scientific research.
The most popular messages concerned a potential children's malaria vaccine, development of the NeuVax E-75 vaccine for breast cancer, the effectiveness of a herpes vaccine in women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation of a human papilloma virus vaccination for boys, potential approval for a lung cancer vaccine, and a blog post discrediting vaccine-autism connections.
Frequent information sources shared through tweets included health-specific sites such as WebMD (16 percent of 341 links), national media such as The New York Times (13 percent), medical organizations such as the American Medical Association (12 percent), and digital news aggregators including the Huffington Post (10 percent). The specific outlets mentioned are representative examples, though did dominate their categories.
"News and health organizations received mostly positive attention in comparison with political or advocacy groups, indicating users are favorably viewing established sources in their health-information seeking," state the authors. "In this sample, it appears that Twitter users share mostly reputable information and sources while actively mobilizing others to seek reliable health information. Results of the snapshot can help explain what social media content patients consume and respond to, as well as help determine directions for educational campaigns."
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\ '); } })(); Real-life father and son Will and Jaden Smith hit the big screen this weekend as father and son in the futuristic film After Earth. Is the movie worth seeing if you're not a Smith fan or a sci-fi nut? Watch our video review now to find out if you should watch, pass, or rent this release.
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By Denny Thomas and Olivia Oran
HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's Shuanghui International plans to buy Smithfield Foods Inc
The transaction, announced on Wednesday, would rank as the largest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company, with an enterprise value of $7.1 billion, including debt assumption.
As it stands. the deal is the biggest Chinese play for a U.S. company since CNOOC Ltd offered to buy Unocal for about $18 billion in 2005. The state-controlled energy company later withdrew that bid under U.S. political pressure.
Like similar foreign transactions, the Smithfield deal will face the scrutiny of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, a government panel that assesses national security risks.
And at least one member of Congress said the deal raised alarms about food safety, noting Shuanghui was forced to recall tainted pork in the past.
"I have deep doubts about whether this merger best serves American consumers and urge federal regulators to put their concerns first," U.S. Representative Rose DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut, said in a statement.
Shuanghui is already majority shareholder of Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co , China's largest meat processor. It would join forces with a company that has a worldwide herd of 1.09 million sows, according to industry data compiled by Successful Farming magazine.
The CFIUS review process comes at a time of sour relations between the United States and China over cross-border deals. In the latest irritant, a $20.1 billion bid by Japan's SoftBank Corp to control U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp has fanned fears of Chinese cyber-attacks against the United States.
Indeed, the issue may arise next week when U.S. President Barack Obama meets with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in California to talk about cyber-security.
BIG PREMIUM
Shuanghui offered $34 a share for Smithfield, a 31 percent premium to its closing stock price on Tuesday. The Chinese company will assume $2.4 billion of Smithfield's debt.
Shares of Smithfield, founded in 1936 as a single meat-packing plant in Smithfield, Virginia, rose as high as $33.96 on Wednesday.
The premium reflects Wall Street's longtime undervaluing of meat-protein producers, said Steve Meyer, president of Paragon Economics, partly because meat production is a low-margin business. "I think we kind of take it for granted," he said.
It is still possible that counterbids could emerge.
Smithfield was previously in talks with two parties about a potential bid before the takeover by Shaunghui was announced, according to a source familiar with the matter. Bloomberg earlier reported Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods and Brazil's JBS SA had been preparing to bid for Smithfield when Shuanghui struck its deal, Neither CP Foods or JBS could be reached for comment.
Smithfield has 30 days to continue talks with the two parties, but cannot solicit bids from others, the source said. If Smithfield decides to take an offer from either company, it will pay a lower-than-average, break-up fee under the terms of the agreement, the source added.
Aiming to dispel any concern over major displacements, Shuanghui has promised no closures or relocations of Smithfield's operations and to keep current management, including Chief Executive Officer Larry Pope, in place.
The agreement comes after Continental Grain Co, Smithfield's largest shareholder with a 5.8 percent stake, agitated for change, including a call to break up the company. Continental, could not be reached to comment on Shuanghui's proposal.
Pope said in a conference call with analysts that the company had been attempting to strike a deal with Shuanghui since 2009, long before Continental started its campaign.
"The Asian market is huge opportunity for us as a company," Pope said. "We just haven't been able to put something together until today."
Brian Bradshaw, a pig producer with operations in Illinois and Indiana who has sold hogs to Smithfield and its competitors, said the combination would boost U.S. pork exports. Still, he said he was worried about a foreign company owning Smithfield.
"Long term, I think it's not good to have foreign ownership, but that's just the American part of me," he said. "I just think this is a move by China to make sure their population is going to get fed in a cheaper manner."
The agreement highlights China's growing appetite for protein-rich food, particularly pork, the leading animal protein consumed there. As its middle class expands, the country is relying on foreign producers to keep pace with demand.
FOOD SCANDALS
Demand for U.S. meat in China has risen tenfold over the past decade, fueled in part by a series of embarrassing food safety scandals, from rat meat passed off as pork to thousands of pig carcasses floating on a river. Public anxiety over cases of fake or toxic food often spreads quickly.
Shuanghui itself became embroiled in a scandal over tainted meat two years ago, when it was forced to recall its Shineway brand meat products from store shelves on fear that some of it contained a banned feed additive called clenbuterol.
In that respect, the Smithfield deal may help quell Chinese concerns over the use of ractopamine, a similar additive commonly used by U.S. hog producers to bulk up animals with muscle instead of fat, without increasing the amount of feed.
Smithfield has been trying to stop using ractopamine, which has been banned in China and Russia, an effort that could enhance its appeal as an exporter.
Privately owned Shuanghui will finance the transaction through a combination of cash, rollover of existing Smithfield debt and debt financing produced by Morgan Stanley
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(Additional reporting by Jonathan Leff and Gregory Roumeliotis in New York, Doug Palmer in Washington, P.J. Huffstutter in Chicago, Aditi Shrivastava in Bangalore; Writing by Frank McGurty; Editing by Michael Flaherty, Lisa Von Ahn and Leslie Gevirtz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-shuanghui-buy-smithfield-foods-4-7-billion-125452691.html
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A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in White Marsh, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in White Marsh, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
This still taken from video provided by James LeBrun shows an explosion outside Baltimore on Tuesday, May, 28, 2013. Baltimore County fire officials say a train derailed in a Baltimore suburb on Tuesday and an explosion was heard in the area. A fire spokeswoman says the train derailed about 2 p.m. Tuesday in White Marsh, Md. (AP Photo/James LeBrun)
A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in White Marsh, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in White Marsh, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
This image provided by WBAL-TV, shows a train derailment outside Baltimore on Tuesday, May, 28, 2013. A fire spokeswoman says the train derailed about 2 p.m. Tuesday in White Marsh, Md. (AP Photo/WBAL-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT
ROSEDALE, Md. (AP) ? Train operator CSX Transportation on Wednesday pointed to a hazardous chemical in a rail car as the source of an explosion on a derailed train near Baltimore that sparked a fire, rattled homes and damaged buildings. A company spokesman said officials still weren't sure what caused the sodium chlorate to explode in the first place, but it ignited another chemical in a second car.
Authorities are continuing to look into the cause. Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators were examining evidence on the scene and reviewing train video that might show the collision with a garbage truck that set off the incident. But he said they had not reached any conclusions.
CSX spokesman Gary Sease said the sodium chlorate in a derailed car near the front of the train exploded, igniting terephthalic acid in another derailed car. Sodium chlorate is used mainly as a bleaching agent in paper production. Oklahoma State University chemist Nick Materer said it could make for a potentially explosive mixture when combined with an incompatible substance such as spilled fuel.
Another chemist, Darlene Lyudmirskiy, of Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp. in Gardena, Calif., said such a mixture would be unstable and wouldn't need even a spark to cause a reaction.
"If it's not compatible, anything could set it off," she said.
On Wednesday afternoon, workers were using heavy cranes to move the damaged rail cars, and an excavator was picking up broken pieces of track. The mangled truck lay on its side on the side of the railroad tracks, its contents littering the ground. Next to the track, the corrugated metal walls of a warehouse were bent and warped.
Among the buildings that sustained the most damage was a training facility for a plumbers and steamfitters union a few hundred yards away from the explosion site. Only a handful of employees were in the building at the time of the blast, and all but one rushed outside to see what had happened. They heard the crash first, followed by the derailment, then saw a plume of smoke.
Al Clinedinst, the training director for the facility, said he and a colleague drove closer to the derailment scene before the explosion to see if they could help, but they were turned back by the overwhelming heat.
"It was paint-bubbling hot," he said.
Then the explosion shook their truck.
"The blast, the force, it took the wheel out of my hands," Clinedinst said. "It really took a shot."
Sumwalt said late Tuesday that the collision occurred at a private crossing where the only marking was a stop sign. He said it wasn't clear why the truck was crossing the tracks or whether it was authorized to be there.
The truck driver, 50-year-old John J. Alban Jr., remained in serious condition Wednesday at Shock Trauma in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said. Two CSX workers aboard weren't hurt.
In addition to the NTSB, the Federal Railroad Administration is investigating the crash of the 45-car train, which was en route from Selkirk, N.Y., to Waycross, Ga.
Baltimore County spokeswoman Elise Armacost said it wasn't clear whether the truck driver would face charges.
Baltimore County's Public Safety Department said that county, city and CSX hazmat experts did not believe the burning chemicals would produce toxic inhalants. But a National Institutes of Health website says oxidizers such as sodium chlorate may produce irritating, corrosive and/or toxic gases when burned.
Toxic inhalation hazards are a worry when trains carrying hazardous materials derail. They include chemicals such as chlorine, which killed nine people after a derailment of a Norfolk Southern train caused a release of the toxic gas in South Carolina in 2005.
Following a November 2007 derailment involving a freight train carrying hazardous materials near Baltimore's Camden Yards, CSX agreed the following year to provide Maryland officials with real-time information on shipments of toxic inhalation hazards.
The fire was called under control late Tuesday just before midnight, and the fire department remained on scene only in a supporting role.
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David Dishneau reported from Hagerstown.
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It's hoping to recruit groovy candidates that non-New York states apparently "don't have."
The classified ad specifies "proven Dumbo experience preferred" and that "minimum two years mustache and/or bangs experience" is a plus as is "sarcasm and upper-middle-class terminology."
Another requirement is that prospective candidates be "capable of articulating brands in a range of voices as far apart as Zach Braff after bad sushi and Beyonce skydiving."
Wendy Steiner from The Bold Italic, a news site based in San Francisco, first pointed out the listing which prompted her to ask "the sick, sad question ... are?hipsters the new Nespresso machines??That is, you want them in the office to look pretty, but they're overpriced and you never get that much out of them."
Steiner seemed legitimately disturbed by the ad and wondered whether the agency was playing a joke "on the new biz dev guy that everyone thinks is a tool for suggesting hiring more hipsters."?
Pavone Director of Communications, Michael Lane puts her mind to rest explaining that?"This ad is real! One of our senior creative directors wrote the ad feeling that it would be a playful way to share some of the spirit of our agency culture. And, as the ad said: 'sense of sarcasm required.'"
Steiner's misgivings notwithstanding, the earnest ad has been a relative success.
As Lane confides, it has elicited "about 30 applications so far...from as far away as the U.K...[and an]?outpouring of responses just to say they liked the ad."?
See the ad reproduced below:
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/pavones-hipsters-wanted-ad-in-new-york-2013-5
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CARSON, Calif. (AP) ? Robbie Rogers is eligible to make his debut for the Los Angeles Galaxy after Major League Soccer said it had received his international transfer certificate.
The former U.S. national team winger will become the first active openly gay male athlete to compete in a North American professional team sport when he makes his debut for the Galaxy, which could come in Sunday night's game against Seattle.
Rogers signed with the Galaxy on Saturday after being acquired from the Chicago Fire. The Galaxy traded Mike Magee to his hometown Fire in exchange for the rights to Rogers, who will wear No. 14.
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Teen planned attack against an Oregon school with bombs hidden in bedroom, a prosecutor says. But the plot was foiled in the same way many such plots are uncovered.
A 17-year-old student in Albany, Ore., built several bombs and had a detailed plan ? including checklists and diagrams ? as part of a Columbine-style plot to attack West Albany High School, a local prosecutor says.
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No motive has yet been made public, but Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said authorities on Friday found six kinds of explosives ? including napalm bombs, pipe bombs, drain-cleaner bombs, and Molotov cocktails ? in "a secret compartment that had been created in the floorboards" of the teen's bedroom. The teen, Grant Acord, sought make his attack bigger than Columbine, Mr. Haroldson said.
The alleged plot is just the latest example of how the Columbine massacre continues shape school safety 14 years later.
Not only does the plot suggest that would-be attackers continue to draw inspiration from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., before committing suicide on April 20, 1999. But it also points to how such plots have been repeatedly foiled.
Authorities say they received a tip. Albany police became suspicious after they "received information that associated ... Acord with manufacturing a destructive device with the intent of detonating it at a school," Haroldson said, according to a CNN report.?
With students more alert for signs of potential attacks post-Columbine, tips have been crucial to preventing more Columbines.
In the Utah case, the suspect actually went so far as to visit Columbine High School and interview the principal.
?To go as far as to interview the principal and physically go there ? sends a message that they were extremely committed to doing something,? Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services in Cleveland told the Monitor at the time.
In Oregon, Grant will be charged as an adult with aggravated murder, Haroldson said. He will also face charges related to bombmaking.
?This was a very methodical process,? said Haroldson, according to a report in The Oregonian. ?He took time to even get to this point.?
The evidence gathered by police, which includes "diagrams, checklists, a plan to use explosive devices, and firearms to carry out a plan specifically modeled after the Columbine shootings" shows "intent and plans to carry out a deadly assault on a target-rich environment," he said.
Haroldson did not say when Grant planned to carry out the attack, according to ABC, but added: "I can't say enough about how lucky we are that there was an intervention. When I look at the evidence in the case, I shudder to think of what could have happened here."
Grant was arrested at his home Thursday.
Police say they have searched the school and found no devices, though a Reuters report said they are following up the initial search more thoroughly to make sure students can return to school after the Memorial Day vacation.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Tony Kanaan and Marco Andretti swapped the lead in the early laps of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, both of them trying to win at a place that has caused them plenty of heartache.
Kanaan charged to the front from the outside of the fourth row in his bid to finally win at the Brickyard. The Brazilian had led 225 laps coming into the race, more than any other non-winner besides Michael Andretti and Rex Mays, yet has never taken the checkered flag.
He finished second in 2004 and has twice finished third.
Marco Andretti started on the outside of the front row and spent the first 29 laps playing leapfrog with Kanaan as the standard-bearer for his family bids to end the "Andretti Curse." The family hasn't captured the fabled Memorial Day weekend race since his grandfather, Mario, won in 1969. Michael Andretti has been to Victory Lane twice as a team owner with the late Dan Wheldon in 2005 and Dario Franchitti in 2007, but never won the race as a driver.
Marco Andretti was second in 2006 in the second-closest finish in the race's history.
Franchitti, the defending race winner, and Helio Castroneves began the day in pursuit of their fourth Indy 500 victory. Only A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser have won the race four times.
The race began with a chill in the air ? the temperature was 62 degrees at the start, not much warmer than the coldest race in history (58, 1992). Thousands of fans who piled into the historic track were bundled up against a stiff breeze that swirled down the front straightaway and many arrived late, some blaming new security measures put in place after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Several drivers said the colder weather could produce more speed ? and more crashes. And it didn't take long for the first caution flag to come out.
J.R Hildebrand lost control in Turn 1 and slid into the outside wall. His car continued down the short chute before coming to a rest, and he climbed out of it without any injuries. It was Hildebrand who crashed on the final lap while leading two years ago.
"Just got a little loose in the middle of the corner, and I sort of got caught and spun around," Hildebrand said. "We felt like we had a car that could run at the front."
Most of the field had made its first pit stop when the second caution came out for Sebastian Saavedra, the 22-year-old Colombian driver for Dragon Racing.
The race resumed with pole sitter Ed Carpenter back at the front, though he also had a scare under caution. Carpenter was swerving back and forth to keep his tires warm when his car dived to the left, crossed through the grass in the corner and safely back onto the track.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indy-500-under-way-crash-opening-laps-163649266.html
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Montesano pulled away late and topped Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) 11-3 in the State 1A softball consolation final Saturday in?Richland.
The Eagles (23-6) took fourth place ? marking the fifth time in the past nine years Lakeside has finished in the top?five.
Taylor Sheldon hit a line-drive, three-run home run in the sixth to bring the Eagles to within 7-3, but the Bulldogs (17-10) responded with four runs in the bottom of the?inning.
Woodland (25-2) topped Lakeside 5-1 in a semifinal game earlier in the day. The Beavers scored four runs over the fifth and sixth?innings.
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Montesano pulled away late and topped Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) 11-3 in the State 1A softball consolation final Saturday in?Richland.
The Eagles (23-6) took fourth place ? marking the fifth time in the past nine years Lakeside has finished in the top?five.
Taylor Sheldon hit a line-drive, three-run home run in the sixth to bring the Eagles to within 7-3, but the Bulldogs (17-10) responded with four runs in the bottom of the?inning.
Woodland (25-2) topped Lakeside 5-1 in a semifinal game earlier in the day. The Beavers scored four runs over the fifth and sixth?innings.
The Eagles advanced to the consolation final by whipping Elman 15-5. Sheldon and Nikki Tiffany drove in three runs apiece and Madi Naccarato, Kirsten Kyllo and Mary Spencer all had two RBIs?each.
2A: Colville was ousted after falling 11-0 to Othello at Carlon Park in Selah. Colville finished?24-3.
2B: Northwest Christian won two games to advance to the semifinals at Gateway Sports Complex in?Yakima.
The Crusaders (22-5) opened the tournament with a 12-2 win over Liberty Bell and then went on to beat DeSales 5-0 in the?quarterfinals.
Hannah Hustad pitched all seven innings in the first game. She had 12 strikeouts and gave up two runs and two?hits.
She was even better in the next game. Against DeSales, Hustad gave up three hits and no runs while striking out seven. She also had a two-run single in the third and an RBI single in the?fifth.
The Crusaders will play La Conner in the semifinals?today.
Colfax (17-9) won its opener 12-3 against Kittitas, but was sent to the consolation bracket after a 6-0 loss to Morton-White?Pass.
The Bulldogs were stymied by Morton-White Pass starter Taylor Brooks, who gave up two hits and no?runs.
Colfax will play Napavine in an elimination game?today.
1B: Colton (21-6) and Almira/Coulee-Hartline (17-5) won twice at Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima and will play today in the title?game.
Colton opened with a 9-2 win over Klickitat and then walloped Selkirk 18-0 in the?semifinals.
Almira/Coulee-Hartline beat Quilcene 10-6 in the first round and Touchet 11-10 in the?quarterfinals.
W.F. West got its offense going late and cruised past Clarkston 8-2 in the semifinals of the 2A playoffs at County Stadium in?Yakima.
The Bantams will play Archbishop Murphy today for third and fourth?places.
Federal Way?s Mitch Stewart, one of the highest-rated high school players in the country, won his second straight boys 4A singles title, beating Gonzaga Prep?s Alex Marcinkowski 6-2, 6-1 in?Richland.
Marcinkowski, who took fourth place at state last year, advanced to the finals after beating Skyline?s Aman Manji 6-1,?6-1.
Stewart lost only two games in three matches prior to his match against?Marcinkowksi.
In doubles, Lewis and Clark?s Luke Brittan and Jordan Strandness lost both of their matches and took sixth?place.
The duo lost 6-0, 6-4 to Newport?s David An and Alex Namba in the semifinals and were swept by Richland?s Travis Zuroske and Zach Fisher in the third/sixth-place?match.
2A: Pullman?s Joseph Chung and Jamison Simanson settled for seventh place after a 6-4, 6-3 loss to Sehome?s Nick Smith and Brady Anderson at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in?Seattle.
Clarkson?s Ryan Adams fought his way through the consolation bracket and claimed eighth?place.
1B/2B/1A: Riverside?s Jaime Aragon took second place after falling to University Prep?s Bayard Blair in the state title match at the Yakima Tennis?Center.
Blair won 6-4,?6-4.
Aragon advanced to the finals with a 6-3, 6-1 semifinal win over Charles Wright?s Austin?Kelley.
In the doubles consolation finals, St. George?s Nathan Furbeyre and Peter Worrall topped Chewelah?s Collin Kirk-Petterson and Mason Miller 5-7, 6-2,?6-2.
Lind-Ritzville/Sprague?s Tracy Melville took seventh place after falling 6-0, 6-2 to Chelan?s Megan?Robinson.
Source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/may/26/lakeside-takes-fourth-place-in-1a-softball/
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In the mountains of northeastern Mexico, archaeologists have unearthed thousands of ancient paintings on the walls of caves and ravines from a time before Spanish rule.
The rock art offers rare evidence from native cultures living in the area around the Sierra de San Carlos, a mountain range in Mexico's state of Tamaulipas, researchers say.
Almost 5,000 of these paintings were found across 11 different sites in the region, the researchers said. Created with red, yellow, black and white pigments, the images show animals from deer to lizards to centipedes, as well as people. Depictions of tents, hunting, fishing and possibly astronomical charts also offer a glimpse into the life of this mysterious culture.
The findings document the presence of pre-Hispanic groups, "where before it was said that there was nothing, when in fact it was inhabited by one or more cultures," archaeologist Gustavo Ramirez, of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History, said in a statement.
The ancient people who once inhabited the mountains of Tamaulipas left very little behind for modern archaeologists to pore over. There is little known of their languages, rituals and customs, besides references to them by conquistadors and friars who colonized and Christianized the region.
Another archaeologist, Martha Garcia Sanchez, said these people were able to resist Spanish rule by living in the mountains, "where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves."
The rock art was rediscovered in 2006, and archaeologists first started studying the site two years ago. Researchers have not yet been able to precisely date the paintings but further testing on samples of the pigments could reveal the age of the rock art.
"We have not found any ancient objects linked to the context, and because the paintings are on ravine walls and in the rainy season the sediments are washed away, all we have is gravel," said Ramirez.
The findings were presented during the Second Conference of Archaeological History in Mexico City.
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"It's been a good eight years, I guess. Biggest thing I've learned ... when [UFC president] Dana White says retire otherwise you will blow your knee out," Griffin said at the press conference.
Griffin's last fight was a win over UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz in July of 2012. Coincidentally, it was Ortiz's last bout before retirement. He won that fight by decision. His career included 19 wins, 7 losses and stint as the UFC light heavyweight champion.
What Griffin will always be remembered for is being one-half of a fight that catapulted the UFC into fame. He and Stephan Bonnar were finalists on the first season of the UFC's reality show, "The Ultimate Fighter." Their fight was a close, thrilling battle that played on Spike TV on April 9, 2005.
It was responsible for earning the UFC many fans, which helped earn bigger sponsors and television deals. Griffin won the decision, taking the title of the first "Ultimate Fighter," but both fighters were given contracts.
During the media scrum following the press conference, White said that Griffin and Bonnar will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame together.
Griffin went on to be a force in the 205-lb. division, upsetting Pride star Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in 2007, then taking the belt from Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in July of 2008. He lost the belt to Rashad Evans that December.
White said Griffin will continue to have a role with the UFC.
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