Sunday, March 31, 2013

90% Caesar Must Die

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (4)

There's barely a wasted moment in the film, which runs a brisk 76 minutes and contains no female roles.

There's an intensity and emotional accuracy to the performances that's just stunning, particularly Striano's Brutus, as he longs for death and release.

It's an arresting, playful and moving film ...

Prison theatricals are nothing new in the movies, but Caesar Must Die, a quasi-documentary featuring hardened convicts acting out Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, is in a class by itself.

Ranks among the most involving adaptations of Shakespeare ever put on screen ...

What works best is what's readily accessible, the startling power of performers who understand the drama all too well.

As they find issues and themes they can relate to, the action is never remotely static despite the frequent nature of the close-ups and the plastic sword.

The problem with the film, which somewhat inexplicably won the Golden Bear at Berlin last year, is that it scarcely transcends the basic novelty of its premise.

The juxtaposition of Shakespearean text and prison cell life is a particularly poignant one.

It is difficult to understand exactly where documentary ends and fiction begins, but the finale, again in colour, of the triumphant first night of the production can't fail to move.

It's never anything less than interesting, though I felt it didn't quite fulfil its potential, and the repetition of material at the beginning and end is disconcerting.

It is uncanny how Italy's film-makers keep failing to nail, or effectively to satirise, their country's strident political shortcomings.

Deeply felt melancholy lingers long after the credits roll.

Delivers a compelling and considered take on immemorial themes.

[It] has plenty of wit and punch, although compared to the best of the medium - Man On Wire, for instance - it sometimes comes off as guileless and clunky.

[An] inventive, urgent and humane prison drama, in which real-life Mafia and Camorra prisoners act in a version of Julius Caesar.

If you're looking for an adventurous thought-provoking film, "Caesar Must Die" more than fits the bill.

In just 76 minutes, the Taviani brothers treat us to a deeply affecting adaptation of this ancient play, embedded with even deeper meaning on account of its unconventional stars.

Here's an extraordinary melding of the actualities of modern man with his ancient past. Sadly, humankind hasn't made much progress when it comes to controlling its ambitious and testosterone-tinged impulses. Happily, human frailties make great art.

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UConn women run past Maryland 76-50

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) ? Connecticut's youngest players have the Huskies back in an old and familiar spot.

Freshmen Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck combined for 35 points as UConn (32-4) advanced to their eighth straight regional final with a 76-50 blowout over Maryland on Saturday.

"I think we were 16 for 28 from the floor, our freshmen," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "One turnover between the three of them. I thought they were the key to the game today for sure."

Stewart and sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis each had 17 points to lead the Huskies. Stewart also had eight rebounds and four blocked shots.

Jefferson made several key defensive stops and her two fast-break layups capped a 9-0 run to start the second half, giving UConn a 44-26 lead and control of the game.

"We got in a nice offensive flow," she said. "Once the transition game came, then the offensive flow was right there."

Her layup midway through the half stretched the lead to 60-38. She finished with 10 points and Tuck had eight as the Huskies bench outscored Maryland's 25-0.

"They didn't play like freshmen at all," center Stefanie Dolson said. "They came out confident and ready to play. They knew what they needed to do for our team and what they can do."

Two-time ACC player of the year Alyssa Thomas, who had scored 29 and 28 points in the team's first two tournament games, was held to 13 for Maryland, which finished its season at 26-8. Tianna Hawkins and Chloe Pavlech each had 11 points for the Terps.

Maryland trailed 35-26 at the half and went scoreless for the first 3 minutes after intermission allowing UConn to blow the game open.

"I thought we'd come out of the locker room with a lot more energy," Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. "They came with a knockout punch in the second half."

The Huskies will play Kentucky on Monday night in a rematch of last year's regional final, which was played just over 100 miles away in Kingston, R.I. UConn won that game 80-65.

The Wildcats beat Delaware 69-62 earlier Saturday.

Connecticut will be playing in a regional final for the 19th time. The Huskies have made five consecutive trips to the Final Four and are seeking their eighth national title.

It was the second win over Maryland this season for UConn. The Huskies won by 15 points in the Jimmy V Classic in December. Thomas had just six points in that game, and the Huskies held the Terps to just 48 points, their lowest output this season. They also were outrebounded 39-35, one of just five times that happened this season.

Maryland came into the game ranked second in the nation in rebounding margin, grabbing more than 14 more boards per game than its opponents. The Terps had outrebounded opponents in 32 of their first 33 games.

But UConn won that battle this time around 41-36.

"We were really looking forward to getting back on the court," Stewart said. "We knew Maryland was very physical and we just wanted to come out and disrupt them defensively."

Maryland hit just seven of its first 23 shots, but was 4 of 7 from 3-point range during that span, and trailed just 23-20 midway through the first half.

But 3-pointers from Bria Hartley and Kelly Faris pushed the lead to nine, and started a 12-1 run.

The Huskies looked as if they were about to extend that further, when Faris drove to the basket and appeared to take a hard foul. But there was no whistle, infuriating coach Geno Auriemma, who received a technical foul.

Thomas made one of two foul shots, then hit a jump shot that cut the lead to nine 35-26 at halftime.

UConn is 44-4 in NCAA tournament games played in the state and 8-1 in Bridgeport.

UConn's lone blemish came against Duke in 2006 in the regional final.

Maryland was in its 10th regional semifinal and looking to make back-to-back trips to the regional final despite losing three players this season to ACL injuries, including the expected starting backcourt, guards Brene Moseley and Laurin Mincy.

"Next year we'll have plenty of numbers, a full roster," Thomas said. "Not to take away from this season, but looking forward to next season, we're going to be a tough team to stop next year."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uconn-women-run-past-maryland-76-50-203942886--spt.html

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Michigan To Final Four: Nik Stauskas Leads Wolverines In 79-59 Rout Of Florida

  • John Beilein, Jon Horford

    Michigan head coach John Beilein and players including Jon Horford (15) react against Florida during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. Michigan won 79-59. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Casey Prather, Scottie Wilbekin, Will Yeguete

    From left, Florida's Casey Prather, Scottie Wilbekin and Will Yeguete, watch action against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Billy Donovan

    Florida head coach Billy Donovan watches action against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Michael Frazier II, Spike Albrecht

    Florida's Michael Frazier II (20) and Michigan's Spike Albrecht (2) go after a loose ball during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Spike Albrecht

    Michigan's Spike Albrecht (2) reacts against Florida during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Casey Prather, Michael Frazier II, Glenn Robinson III, Will Yeguete

    Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) dunks as Florida's Michael Frazier II (20), Casey Prather (24) and Will Yeguete (15) look on during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Will Yeguete

    Florida's Will Yeguete pauses between plays against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Mike Rosario, Kenny Boynton

    Florida guard Mike Rosario (3) and Kenny Boynton (1) pause between plays against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Tim Hardaway Jr., Casey Prather, Trey Burke

    Michigan's Trey Burke (3) passes the ball to Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) in front of Florida's Casey Prather (24) during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Tim Hardaway Jr., Casey Prather, Trey Burke

    Michigan's Trey Burke (3) passes the ball to Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) as Casey Prather (24) defends during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Casey Prather, Trey Burke

    Michigan's Trey Burke (3) grabs a rebound as Florida's Casey Prather (24) defends during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Casey Prather, Nik Stauskas

    Michigan's Nik Stauskas (11) misses the pass as, Florida's Casey Prather defends during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Nik Stauskas, Scottie Wilbekin, Glenn Robinson III

    Florida's Scottie Wilbekin, right, shoots as Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) and Nik Stauskas (11) defend during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • John Beilein

    Michigan head coach John Beilein reacts on the sideline against Florida during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Billy Donovan

    Florida head coach Billy Donovan reacts on the sideline against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Mitch McGary, Nik Stauskas

    Michigan's Nik Stauskas (11) celebrates his three-point basket as Mitch McGary (4) joins in against Florida during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Mike Rosario

    Florida's Mike Rosario (3) shoots against Michigan during the second half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Michael Frazier II, Casey Prather, Scottie Wilbekin

    Florida players Michael Frazier II (20), Casey Prather (24) and Scottie Wilbekin (5) watch the big screen during the first half of a regional final game against Michigan in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • John Beilein

    Michigan head coach John Beilein reacts against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Mike Rosario, Erik Murphy, Scottie Wilbekin

    Michigan's Trey Burke (3) drives against Florida's Mike Rosario (3), Erik Murphy, second from left, and Scottie Wilbekin during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Nik Stauskas, Scottie Wilbekin

    Florida's Scottie Wilbekin (5) passes around Michigan's Nik Stauskas (11) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Erik Murph, Mitch McGary

    Michigan's Mitch McGary (4) knocks the ball away from Florida's Erik Murphy (33) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Jordan Morgan, Will Yeguete, Tim Hardaway Jr.

    Florida forward Will Yeguete (15) shoots between Michigan's Jordan Morgan (52) and Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. (10)during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Nik Stauskas

    Michigan guard Nik Stauskas reacts after making a 3-point shot against Florida during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Nik Stauskas

    Michigan guard Nik Stauskas reacts after making a 3-point shot against Florida during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Glenn Robinson III, Casey Prather

    Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) shoots as Florida's Casey Prather (24) defends during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Florida and Michigan compete during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tim Donnelly)

  • Patric Young, Mitch McGary

    Florida's Patric Young (4) and Michigan's Mitch McGary (4) fight for possession of the ball during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • John Beilein

    Michigan head coach John Beilein makes a call from the sideline during the first half of a regional final game against Florida in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Jordan Morgan, Patric Young

    Michigan's Jordan Morgan (52) and Florida's Patric Young (4) fight for possession of the ball during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • John Beilein

    Michigan head coach John Beilein makes a call from the sideline during the first half of a regional final game against Florida in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Mike Rosario

    Florida's Mike Rosario (3) grabs a loose ball against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Billy Donovan

    Florida head coach Billy Donovan works the sideline against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Billy Donovan

    Florida head coach Billy Donovan watches action against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Scottie Wilbekin, Glenn Robinson III

    Florida's Scottie Wilbekin (5) shoots as Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) defends during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Nik Stauskas, Scottie Wilbekin, Glenn Robinson III

    Florida's Scottie Wilbekin (5) shoots as Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) and Nik Stauskas (11) defend during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Kenny Boynton, Jon Horford

    Florida's Kenny Boynton (1) shoots as Michigan's Jon Horford (15) defends during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Caris LeVert, Scottie Wilbekin

    Michigan guard Caris LeVert (23) blocks a shot by Florida guard Scottie Wilbekin (5)during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Casey Prather, Tim Hardaway Jr.

    Florida's Casey Prather (24) shoots as Michigan guard Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) defends during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Casey Prather, Kenny Boynton, Tim Hardaway Jr., Trey Burke

    Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) shoots past Florida's Kenny Boynton (1) and Mike Rosario (3) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. Florida's Casey Prather (24) looks on. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Casey Prather, Kenny Boynton, Tim Hardaway Jr., Trey Burke

    Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. (10) shoots past Florida's Kenny Boynton (1) and Mike Rosario (3) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. Florida's Casey Prather (24) looks on. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Florida head coach Billy Donovan watches action against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Billy Donovan

    Florida head coach Billy Donovan reacts to action against Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Nik Stauskas

    Michigan's Nik Stauskas reacts after making a three-point shot during the first half of a regional final game against Florida in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Erik Murphy, Glenn Robinson III

    Florida's Erik Murphy (33) shoots past Michigan's Glenn Robinson III (1) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Mitch McGary, Scottie Wilbekin, Patric Young

    Michigan's Mitch McGary (4) shoots past Florida's Scottie Wilbekin (5) and Patric Young (4) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Mitch McGary, Scottie Wilbekin, Patric Young

    Michigan's Mitch McGary (4) shoots past Florida's Scottie Wilbekin (5) and Patric Young (4) during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • The opening jump ball is tossed between Florida and Michigan during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Fans cheer before a regional final game between Florida and Michigan in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

  • Michigan senior Kayla MacLennan cheers before a regional final game against Florida in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

  • Wichita State players celebrate their 70-66 win over Ohio State in the West Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

  • Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/31/michigan-final-four-florida-ncaa-elite-eight_n_2989574.html

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    7 Secrets for Ageless | World Health

    Almost all people wants to have a long life. Lifestyle and health habits can extend our age. Here are longevity tips are easily practiced everyday:


    1. Stay active

    Managing the body regularly not only keep the flexibility and balance of the body, but also maintain the mind keep alert and healthy circulatory system. Walking, yoga and tai chi is very nice for maintaining muscle fitness. Taichi besides to managing the body also managing the soul which heals. The benefits to health already felt by many people.


    2. Positive thinking

    Ever there was a study of women who reach the age of 100 years. They were found it is have a positive attitude than ordinary people. Expert health of the elderly, reported that psychical health apparently also important to maintain physical health in old age.


    3. Eating patterns

    In eating habits is also an important factor in longevity. Food people long life consists of many vegetables and fruits in addition to sources of complex carbohydrates such as red rice. Source of protein obtained from fish and nuts. Red meat consumed only occasionally.


    4. Married

    A study published in the British Medical Journal, tracking of 918 men aged 45 to 59 years during ten years. The study it found, those who ejaculated less than once a month turned out to be two times the risk of death during the study period than men who get orgasms twice a week.

    High sexual activity it does not mean making single people more fortunate than a person married. The study found married man live longer than single people. It may be because better nutrition, there are cared in times of pain and quiet life which tends to be less stressful.


    5. Sleep

    The latest survey found that study participants who sleep an average of seven hours a day have a lower mortality rate. But too much sleep it turns out not good. Sleeping nine hours a day more risky than those who slept four hours a day. David Phillips, associate director of the Asia Pacific Institute of Aging Studies points out, too much sleep can cause depression, lazy and mentally not active. Everything this is not beneficial for long life.


    6. Combing the hair

    Combing the hair means massaging the scalp and sweeping dirt and dead skin cells on the head. combing the also helps the sebaceous glands to secrete his oil.?Use good comb of natural materials such as wood. Comb from plastic will probably create static electricity from hair. Comb that gently could become massage tool which good for the head.?On the head also there are many acupuncture points. Massaging the points it help blood circulation and relieve skin that tension.


    7. Foot massage

    Feet are often overlooked in everyday life. Whereas in Traditional Chinese Medicine, foot health is important for body health and must be kept his health.?Foot have a lot acupuncture points that are connected with all parts of the body. Of course it affects the health of the entire body.?

    Foot massage can stimulate the body's vital functions, removes toxins, improve blood circulation and reduce tension. In short, a foot massage improve the balance of yin and yang, at once improve the health of the entire body.

    Hopefully useful to you for your life...
    Thank you..

    Source: http://worldhealthme.blogspot.com/2013/03/7-secrets-for-ageless.html

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    ABC'S "Wife Swap" Mocks Tea Party, Promotes Polyamory - The ...

    RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites, shall we?? Take you back to me on this program March 26, which just three days ago.

    RUSH ARCHIVE: There is a movement in this country that you don't hear much about called polyamory. Our caller Art said, "Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no. That's where I draw the line." You can't have more than two people get married. Well, there's a movement for that, and the proponents are being urged to shut up about it and just do it.

    RUSH:? There is a movement, polyamory, multiple spouses, and we had the story about the movement as an official trade organization, lobbying group. The members are being urged to shut up about it so that nobody knows, so that there won't be any push-back.? DOMA was push-back, by the way.? DOMA was push-back against gay marriage.? Bill and Hillary Clinton and all the Democrats that supported DOMA back in 1997 didn't have the guts to say they were opposed to same-sex marriage because of the campaign donations that come in from the gay community, Hollywood particularly, but all over.

    They didn't have the guts to say they were opposed to same-sex marriage, so they came up with DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage for federal purposes as that between a man and a woman. Because back then if you're Clinton that's how you kept your approval rating at 60% or you got reelected.? But DOMA, in one sense, was push-back.? Minor push-back, but nevertheless it was.? So now we got polyamory.? Let's go to the sound bites from last night.

    You know, ABC has a show in primetime called Wife Swap.? They do.? They have a program called Wife Swap, and last night they swap a Tea Party activist with a polyamorous family.? I'm not kidding you. The Tea Partiers are painted as the Bible-thumping freaks, and the polyamorous family portrayed as the open-minded, full of love, and sympathetic bunch.? The wives are Gina Loudon, a San Diego Tea Party activist and a New York polyamorous wife, Angela Envy, and here is how the program opened.

    ANNOUNCER: (dramatic music) Tonight on Wife Swap.? Two very different wives. (gunshot) A gun-toting Tea Party activist.

    GINA LOUDON:? You can't defend your rights, then you don't have any rights.

    ANNOUNCER:? And a polyamorous wife who lives with her husband and their girlfriend.

    ANGELA ENVY:? I can't imagine it without her!

    ASHLEY:? It's crazy, but I love it.

    ANNOUNCER:? Swap lives for two weeks.

    RUSH:? You shouldn't doubt me.? Primetime, ABC last night, Wife Swap. (interruption) The Official Program Observer has raised his hand for question.? Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what is it? (interruption)? I don't know, Snerdley. I don't know. I happened to stumble across this last night.? I don't even know how, but the bottom line is... (interruption) "How far does the Wife Swap thing go?"? Why, do you want to play?? (interruption) I assume they do.? It's like Home Makeover.? I assume they literally swap.? That's what the program is.? (interruption)

    Do they totally...? (interruption)? Yeah, I "know what you mean."? I know what swapping wives means. (interruption)? That we see, Dawn.? Dawn said, "There's no kissing or anything." That we see.? We don't know what goes on when the cameras aren't rolling.? Strip poker? Who knows what's going on in there.? Anyway, my point here is that they've got a Tea Party activist that they swap with a woman in a polyamorous relationship. The Tea Party activist is a fuddy-duddy, Bible-thumping, closed-minded bigot. The wife that's in the polyamorous relationship is loooooving, open-miiiiinded (giggles), and loves both of her partners.?

    Here, listen to the setup again. Grab sound bite number eight again.? The setup is the intro to the ABC show Wife Swap.

    ANNOUNCER: (dramatic music) Tonight on Wife Swap.? Two very different wives. (gunshot) A gun-toting Tea Party activist.

    GINA LOUDON:? You can't defend your rights, then you don't have any rights.

    ANNOUNCER:? And a polyamorous wife who lives with her husband and their girlfriend.

    ANGELA ENVY:? I can't imagine it without her!

    ASHLEY:? It's crazy, but I love it.

    ANNOUNCER:? Swap lives for two weeks.

    RUSH:? Okay. The Tea Party wife is Gina Loudon and the polyamorous wife is Angela Envy, and she lives with her husband and "their girlfriend." Not his or her girlfriend, their girlfriend.? Now, here's another bite on the Tea Party side.? This is another portion of the announcer describing the scene in the program Wife Swap.

    ANNOUNCER:? Meet Gina Loudon from San Diego, California.

    GINA LOUDON:? You take Hitler. You take Mussolini. You take Pol Pot. They were all liberals.? Let's not forget that.

    ANNOUNCER:? Gina is a journalist, author, political pundit, and staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement.

    GINA LOUDON:? Faith is the cornerstone of the Loudon family.

    MR. LOUDON:? "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord."

    GINA LOUDON:? My family is grounded in God.? We are Christians.? We believe in Jesus Christ. (gunshot) I don't think the government should regulate how many guns I own.? People are afraid of the guns, so they just want to throw 'em all away.

    RUSH:? Did you hear that??

    They have her say, "My family is grounded in God.? We are Christians.? We believe in Jesus Christ," and then the gunshot. ABC puts a gunshot in there.? Did you catch that?? All right. One more bite. Here's how they describe the polyamorous couple. You just heard it. This woman may as well be Sarah Palin, right?? Bible thumping. "Everybody on the left is Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot. They were liberals! Let's grab our gun and kill everybody!" That's how the Tea Party wife is portrayed.? Now, let's go to the polyamorous wife and listen to the announcer talk about this trio.

    ANNOUNCER:? In New York is the nonpolitical and polyamorous Envy family.

    ANGELA ENVY:? Me and Chris have been married eight years now, and Ashley is our girlfriend.

    ASHLEY:? Chris, Angela, and I have, like, a very passionate, loving relationship.? I've just become part of the whole family.

    CHRIS ENVY:? I had no idea that it was gonna develop into an actual relationship, but I'm happy it did.

    ANGELA ENVY:? Ashley fits into the family perfectly.

    ASHLEY:? I was hanging out with them more as friends in the beginning and just turned into more.? I went from being a college girl to living in a house with four children.

    ENVY:? The trio all live together with Chris and Angela's children.

    RUSH:? Oh, how loving! Oh, man, how wonderful are these people?? Now that you've heard it, I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna play those two things back-to-back for you -- and I just want to tell you that it's an hour-long show.? We could have done endless sound bites. But the way it turns out, the way the show turns out, is about three-quarters of the way through the show, the Tea Party wife gets thrown out of the polyamorous house. The Tea Party family drops out of the show.

    They are painted as intolerant, Bible-thumping prudes.?

    The polyamorous family are the normal, loving, sympathetic characters whose worst trait is eating a lot of junk food.? If you watch the whole show, that's how it unfolded.? Now, this is not insignificant, folks.? This is primetime television.? This is the kind of thing that has been going on and taking place that slowly but surely chips away at what used to be normal, and now what justifies all these things. "It's perfectly fine. It's cool.? Three people in a relationship? Four people?

    "Cool! I love it!? Fine, man! Let's all get married."? This is how young people get softened up to accept all this, having no clue what they're doing, because they haven't been raised with any moral foundation. The Tea Party family is thrown off the show because they're a bunch of closed-minded, intolerant, Bible-thumping prudes.? We'll play those two things back-to-back so that you can once again hear the different ways the two families are portrayed.?

    BREAK TRANSCRIPT

    RUSH:? And we're back.? Okay, we're gonna play these sound bites back to back.? Snerdley just said, "When did this start, the network deciding to... well, publicize, promote, what have you, the whole notion of polyamory?"? I don't know, but it's Disney.? Hee-hee-hee.? Disney owns ABC.? That's not the point here.? There's another question: Why would this Loudon family do this??

    This is why, folks, we need an academy for conservatives to tell them, "I don't care how much you want fame, do not rely on the mainstream media or networks to give it to you.? They're just gonna impugn you, laugh at you, make fun of you, and so forth," which is what's happening.? Okay.? Here's the announcer introducing the Loudon family, the Tea Partiers...?

    ANNOUNCER:? Meet Gina Loudon from San Diego, California.

    GINA LOUDON:? You take Hitler. You take Mussolini. You take Pol Pot. They were all liberals.? Let's not forget that.

    ANNOUNCER:? Gina is a journalist, author, political pundit, and staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement.

    GINA LOUDON:? Faith is the cornerstone of the Loudon family.

    MR. LOUDON:? "He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord."

    GINA LOUDON:? My family is grounded in God.? We are Christians.? We believe in Jesus Christ. (gunshot) I don't think the government should regulate how many guns I own.? People are afraid of the guns, so they just want to throw 'em all away.

    RUSH: Okay, they believe in Jesus. Now the polyamorous family...

    ANNOUNCER:? In New York is the nonpolitical and polyamorous Envy family.

    ANGELA ENVY:? Me and Chris have been married eight years now, and Ashley is our girlfriend.

    ASHLEY:? Chris, Angela, and I have, like, a very passionate, loving relationship.? I've just become part of the whole family.

    CHRIS ENVY:? I had no idea that it was gonna develop into an actual relationship, but I'm happy it did.

    ANGELA ENVY:? Ashley fits into the family perfectly.

    ASHLEY:? I was hanging out with them more as friends in the beginning and just turned into more.? I went from being a college girl to living in a house with four children.

    ENVY:? The trio all live together with Chris and Angela's children.

    RUSH: So. (sigh) The Loudon family, "We believe in Jesus Christ."? Gunshot!? Bang!? This other ones? The polyamorous family? Oh, they're loving, they're sensitive, they just love the kids! The other bunch? "Hitler! Mussolini! Give us our guns. We want to shoot people right after we praise Christ. Bang!"? (laughing)

    Anyway, I gotta take a break. I don't know, folks.?

    BREAK TRANSCRIPT

    RUSH:? Now, that Wife Swap show. Folks, if you go to any online discussion forum (I checked this) where they are talking about this episode, and you will see that the Tea Party family is being excoriated and ridiculed for being a bunch of bigoted hicks.? That show is a microcosm of how we've lost the low-information voters, or who the low-information voters are.? That episode right there.?

    Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/03/29/abc_s_wife_swap_mocks_tea_party_promotes_polyamory

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    LA police ID suspect in girl's abduction case

    This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday March 30, 2013 shows Tobias Dustin Summers who was identified as a "child-kidnapping suspect," Los Angeles police said. Summers is a suspect in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl who vanished from her San Fernando Valley home last week and was abandoned hours later in front of a hospital. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department)

    This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday March 30, 2013 shows Tobias Dustin Summers who was identified as a "child-kidnapping suspect," Los Angeles police said. Summers is a suspect in connection with the abduction of a 10-year-old girl who vanished from her San Fernando Valley home last week and was abandoned hours later in front of a hospital. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department)

    Lieutenant Walter Teague of the Los Angeles Police Department walks away from a poster board at the Police Administration Building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, March 30, 2013. The police (and the poster board) are asking for the public's help in locating 30 year old Tobias Dustin Summers who is being sought by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Robbery Homicide Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl from the Northridge area. He is described as a white male, 160 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. Summers is a transient with a lengthy criminal history. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Gary Friedman) MANDATORY CREDIT

    A vehicle is dusted for prints in the driveway of a home on the 8800 block of Oakdale Avenue near Nordhoff Street Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in Northridge, Calif., where 10-year-old Nicole Ryan disappeared during the night. Los Angeles police say the girl has been located. Sgt. Rudy Lopez says Ryan was apparently spotted by someone who recognized her from information that had been publicized and contacted the Police Department. She was found at midafternoon outside a Starbucks store about six miles from her home. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Mel Melcon)

    The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) released this mug shot of Tobias Dustin Summers at the Police Administration Building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, March 30, 2013. Summers is being sought by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Robbery Homicide Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl from the Northridge area. He is described as a white male, 160 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. Summers is a transient with a lengthy criminal history.(AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Gary Friedman) MANDATORY CREDIT

    (AP) ? Investigators are seeking a transient who has a long criminal record in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital, police said.

    Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, was identified by police Saturday as a suspect in the case but they couldn't elaborate on the motive or what led them to him. Police don't know if the girl was targeted but said they don't believe Summers had a connection to her family.

    "We have no information that the family knew this individual or that the individual knew any members of the family," Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said.

    About 40 detectives have been working around the clock looking for clues since the girl was abducted from her home Wednesday. She was found hours later, wandering near a Starbucks several miles away.

    The girl was barefoot, had bruises and scratches, and wasn't wearing the same clothes she had on when she vanished. She told the police two men she didn't recognize had taken her from her home.

    Police initially said they were looking for two suspects, but now are focusing their efforts on locating Summers.

    "This is the only person we are looking for right now," Albanese said Saturday.

    Investigators have said they believe the girl was driven around the San Fernando Valley in a couple of cars and taken to at least two locations, including a storage facility, before she was released.

    A passer-by who recognized her picture from media reports saw her outside the Starbucks and called police. The girl had wandered there from the hospital where she had been dropped.

    Summers, who has a distinctive tattoo of a ghoulish face on his right arm, has arrests dating back to 2002, police said. Among them are robbery, grand theft auto, possession of explosives and kidnapping, authorities said.

    Police said they had no details on the prior kidnapping case.

    Summers was released from prison in July on a petty theft conviction as part of a California law designed to ease crowding in state prisons. He also spent six days behind bars in January on a probation violation.

    Summers last checked in with his probation officer at some point earlier this month and had been complying with his release terms, police said. He is known to frequent the area where the kidnapping took place.

    The Los Angeles Times reported that law enforcement sources said the girl was sexually assaulted. The Associated Press does not identify victims of sexual assault. Summers isn't a registered sex offender, police said.

    Albanese said Summers had been arrested four years ago for investigation of battery that involved child annoyance. Court records show Summers was convicted of battery in September 2009 but the child annoyance charge was either dismissed or not prosecuted.

    Summers has family in Southern California, according to police, and the FBI said it will obtain a warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, if the agency determines he has fled the state.

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    Analysis: NKorea threat may be more bark than bite

    University students punch the air as they march through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. Placards read: ?Let?s crush the puppet traitor group? and ?Let?s rip the puppet traitors to death!? (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

    University students punch the air as they march through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. Placards read: ?Let?s crush the puppet traitor group? and ?Let?s rip the puppet traitors to death!? (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

    North Koreans punch the air during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 28, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. The placard reads: "U.S. forces, get out!" (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

    North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 28, 2013. Thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

    North Koreans gather during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 28, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

    (AP) ? Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for "death to the U.S. imperialists" and urge the people to fight with "arms, not words."

    But even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is issuing midnight battle cries to his generals to ready their rockets, he and his million-man army know full well that a successful missile strike on U.S. targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime.

    Despite the hastening drumbeat of warfare ? seemingly bringing the region to the very brink of conflict with threats and provocations ? Pyongyang aims to force Washington to the negotiating table, pressure the new president in Seoul to change policy on North Korea, and build unity inside the communist country without triggering a full-blown war.

    North Korea wants to draw attention to the tenuousness of the armistice designed to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, a truce Pyongyang recently announced it would no longer honor as it warned that war could break out at any time.

    In July, it will be 60 years since North Korea and China signed an armistice with the U.S. and the United Nations to bring an end to three years of fighting that cost millions of lives. The designated Demilitarized Zone has evolved into the most heavily guarded border in the world.

    It was never intended to be a permanent border. But six decades later, North and South remain divided, with Pyongyang feeling abandoned by the South Koreans in the quest for reunification and threatened by the Americans.

    In that time, South Korea has blossomed from a poor, agrarian nation of peasants into the world's 15th largest economy while North Korea is struggling to find a way out of a Cold War chasm that has left it with a per capita income on par with sub-Saharan Africa.

    The Chinese troops who fought alongside the North Koreans have long since left. But 28,500 American troops are still stationed in South Korea and 50,000 more are in nearby Japan. For weeks, the U.S. and South Korea have been showing off their military might with a series of joint exercises that Pyongyang sees a rehearsal for invasion.

    On Thursday, the U.S. military confirmed that those drills included two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers that can unload the U.S. Air Force's largest conventional bomb ? a 30,000-pound super bunker buster ? powerful enough to destroy North Korea's web of underground military tunnels.

    It was a flexing of military muscle by Washington, perhaps aimed not only at Pyongyang but at Beijing as well.

    In Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un reacted swiftly, calling an emergency meeting of army generals and ordering them to be prepared to strike if the U.S. actions continue. A photo distributed by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency showed Kim in a military operations room with maps detailing a "strike plan" behind him in a very public show of supposedly sensitive military strategy.

    North Korea cites the U.S. military threat as a key reason behind its need to build nuclear weapons, and has poured a huge chunk of its small national budget into defense, science and technology. In December, scientists launched a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket using technology that could easily be converted for missiles; in February, they tested an underground nuclear device as part of a mission to build a bomb they can load on a missile capable of reaching the U.S.

    However, what North Korea really wants is legitimacy in the eyes of the U.S. ? and a peace treaty. Pyongyang wants U.S. troops off Korean soil, and the bombs and rockets are more of an expensive, dangerous safety blanket than real firepower. They are the only real playing card North Korea has left, and the bait they hope will bring the Americans to the negotiating table.

    White House spokesman Josh Earnest said North Korea's "bellicose rhetoric" would only deepen its international isolation, and that the U.S. has both the capability and willingness to defend its interests in the region.

    Narushige Michishita, director of the Security and International Studies Program at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, isn't convinced North Korea is capable of attacking Guam, Hawaii or the U.S. mainland. He says Pyongyang hasn't successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.

    But its medium-range Rodong missiles, with a range of about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers), are "operational and credible" and could reach U.S. bases in Japan, he says.

    More likely than such a strike, however, is a smaller-scale incident, perhaps off the Koreas' western coast, that would not provoke the Americans to unleash their considerable firepower. For years, the waters off the west coast have been a battleground for naval skirmishes between the two Koreas because the North has never recognized the maritime border drawn unilaterally by the U.N.

    As threatening as Kim's call to arms may sound, its main target audience may be the masses at home in North Korea.

    For months, the masterminds of North Korean propaganda have pinpointed this year's milestone Korean War anniversary as a prime time to play up Kim's military credibility as well as to push for a peace treaty. By creating the impression that a U.S. attack is imminent, the regime can foster a sense of national unity and encourage the people to rally around their new leader.

    Inside Pyongyang, much of the military rhetoric feels like theatrics. It's not unusual to see people toting rifles in North Korea, where soldiers and checkpoints are a fixture in the heavily militarized society. But more often than not in downtown Pyongyang, the rifle stashed in a rucksack is a prop and the "soldier" is a dancer, one of the many performers rehearsing for a Korean War-themed extravaganza set to debut later this year.

    More than 100,000 soldiers, students and ordinary workers were summoned Friday to Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang to pump their fists in support of North Korea's commander in chief. But elsewhere, it was business as usual at restaurants and shops, and farms and factories, where the workers have heard it all before.

    "Tensions rise almost every year around the time the U.S.-South Korean drills take place, but as soon as those drills end, things go back to normal and people put those tensions behind them quite quickly," said Sung Hyun-sang, the South Korean president of a clothing maker operating in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. "I think and hope that this time won't be different."

    And in a telling sign that even the North Koreans don't expect war, the national airline, Air Koryo, is adding flights to its spring lineup and preparing to host the scores of tourists they expect to flock to Pyongyang despite the threats issuing forth from the Supreme Command.

    War or no war, it seems Pyongyang remains open for business.

    ___

    Lee is chief of AP's bureaus in Pyongyang, North Korea, and Seoul, South Korea. She can be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/newsjean. Eric Talmadge in Tokyo contributed to this report.

    Associated Press

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    EPA proposes tighter fuel, emissions standards; could push price of gas higher

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    By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

    The Obama administration on Friday frustrated the oil industry by proposing tighter restrictions on sulfur in gasoline and pollution from cars and trucks ? rules that the government said would be equivalent to taking 33 million tailpipes off American roads but that angered the oil industry.

    The?Environmental Protection Agency estimates the regulations would have almost no effect on the price of gas, but the industry, citing its own research, said the price could be driven higher by as much as 9 cents per gallon.

    The proposed rules were reportedly delayed until after the election because of concern over their tricky politics.

    Environmental groups called the restrictions a strong step to protect public health. The administration said the standards would prevent as many as 2,400 deaths a year and save $8 billion to $23 billion a year in health costs by 2030.

    Car companies also support the restrictions in part because they create a nationwide standard for sulfur, cutting production costs.

    ?The only ones against these standards are the oil companies,? said Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club.

    The main trade group for the refiners, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, said the standards were ?completely without merit? and too burdensome for the industry.

    The American Petroleum Institute, which represents oil companies, said the rules were part of a ?tsunami of federal regulations,? and would ultimately raise greenhouse-gas emissions because of the energy-eating equipment it will take to bring refineries in line.

    ?We urge the administration to bring common sense back into the regulatory process,? said Bob Greco, director of the API?s Downstream Group. ?Unnecessary regulations just mean higher costs and lost jobs.?

    The Obama administration has already required the auto industry to double fuel efficiency by 2025.

    In every state but California, gas can contain sulfur at a measurement of up to 30 parts per million. The proposed rule would reduce the nationwide limit to 10, bringing the other 49 states in line with California.

    Sulfur in gas makes catalytic converters less effective, and when catalytic converters are less effective, cars produce more of the gases and fine particles that cause harmful smog and soot.

    In addition, the EPA wants to reduce tailpipe emissions beginning in 2017 ? cutting certain smog-forming chemical compounds by 80 percent and harmful particulates by 70 percent.

    Car prices could be driven higher by $130, the EPA estimated.

    House Republicans lined up against the idea and vowed to review it. Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky, chair of the House subcommittee on energy and power, said the administration ?cannot be more out of touch.?

    Citing EPA research, deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One that the impact on the price of gas would probably be a penny or less.

    Trading that ?for tens of thousands fewer cases of respiratory ailments like asthma in children and thousands of lives saved is an indication that they?ve done a lot of work on this and a lot of analysis,? he said. ?But again, we?re in the proposal stage, not in the final rulemaking stage.?

    The precise impact on the price of gas from the restrictions proposed Friday is impossible to predict, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service and GasBuddy.com, which tracks gas prices around the country.

    Since the beginning of last year, refiners in North America have had it pretty good: They have enjoyed the cheapest natural gas in the world and, from Canada, cheap shale oil. That has meant fatter profit margins.

    Several years ago, though, when prices were higher, refinery closures were common. And if refineries are under pressure as they are asked to convert to the new sulfur standards in five years, more could close.

    That would leave the price of gas more vulnerable to price spikes.

    ?We?ve got plenty of time to prepare,? Kloza told NBC News. ?In truth, there are many, many moving parts in the oil business right now.?

    Lately, the price of gas has been falling. Since rising almost 50 cents to an average of almost $3.75 a gallon, it has fallen steadily this month and is almost back to $3.60.

    A senior administration official told The Associated Press that only 16 of the 111 refineries in the United States would need to invest in major equipment to meet the restrictions.

    Of the remaining 95 refineries, 29 already meet the standards because they sell cleaner fuel in California or elsewhere in the world, and 66 would need to make more minor modifications, the AP reported.

    ?It?s been very prosperous,? Kloza said of the refineries. ?But history tells us it can turn very challenging very, very quickly.?

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    Researchers show stem cell fate depends on 'grip'

    Friday, March 29, 2013

    The field of regenerative medicine holds great promise, propelled by greater understanding of how stem cells differentiate themselves into many of the body's different cell types. But clinical applications in the field have been slow to materialize, partially owing to difficulties in replicating the conditions these cells naturally experience.

    A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has generated new insight on how a stem cell's environment influences what type of cell a stem cell will become. They have shown that whether human mesenchymal stem cells turn into fat or bone cells depends partially on how well they can "grip" the material they are growing in.

    The research was conducted by graduate student Sudhir Khetan and associate professor Jason Burdick, along with professor Christopher Chen, all of the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Bioengineering. Others involved in the study include Murat Guvendiren, Wesley Legant and Daniel Cohen.

    Their study was published in the journal Nature Materials.

    Much research has been done on how stem cells grow on two-dimensional substrates, but comparatively little work has been done in three dimensions. Three-dimensional environments, or matrices, for stems cells have mostly been treated as simple scaffolding, rather than as a signal that influences the cells' development.

    Burdick and his colleagues were interested in how these three-dimensional matrices impact mechanotransduction, which is how the cell takes information about its physical environment and translates that to chemical signaling.

    "We're trying to understand how material signals can dictate stem cell response," Burdick said. "Rather than considering the material as an inert structure, it's really guiding stem cell fate and differentiation ? what kind of cells they will turn into."

    The mesenchymal stem cells the researchers studied are found in bone marrow and can develop into several cell types: osteoblasts, which are found in bone; chondrocytes, which are found in cartilage; and adipocytes, which are found in fat.

    The researchers cultured them in water-swollen polymer networks known as hydrogels, which share some similarities with the environments stem cells naturally grow in. These materials are generally soft and flexible ? contact lenses, for example, are a type of hydrogel ? but can vary in density and stiffness depending on the type and quantity of the bonds between the polymers. In this case, the researchers used covalently cross-linked gels, which contain irreversible chemical bonds.

    When seeded on top of two-dimensional covalently cross-linked gels, mesenchymal stem cells spread and pulled on the material differently depending on how stiff it was. Critically, the mechanics guide cell fate, or the type of cells they differentiate it into. A softer environment would produce more fat-like cells and a stiffer environment, where the cells can pull on the gel harder, would produce more bone-like cells.

    However, when the researchers put mesenchymal stem cells inside three-dimensional hydrogels of varying stiffness, they didn't see these kinds of changes.

    "In most covalently cross-linked gels, the cells can't spread into the matrix because they can't degrade the bonds ? they all become fat cells," Burdick said. "That tells us that in 3D covalent gels the cells don't translate the mechanical information the same way they do in a 2D system."

    To test this, the researchers changed the chemistry of their hydrogels so that the polymer chains were connected by a peptide that the cells could naturally degrade. They hypothesized that, as the cells spread, they would be able to get a better grip on their surrounding environment and thus be more likely to turn into bone-like cells.

    In order to determine how well the cells were pulling on their environment, the researchers used a technique developed by Chen's lab called 3D traction force microscopy. This technique involves seeding the gel with microscopic beads, then tracking their location before and after a cell is removed.

    "Because the gel is elastic and will relax back into its original position when you remove the cells," Chen said, "you can quantify how much the cells are pulling on the gel based on how much and which way it springs back after the cell is removed."

    The results showed that the stem cells' differentiation into bone-like cells was aided by their ability to better anchor themselves into the growth environment.

    "With our original experiment, we observed that the cells essentially didn't pull on the gel. They adhered to it and were viable, but we did not see bead displacement. They couldn't get a grip," Burdick said. "When we put the cells into a gel where they could degrade the bonds, we saw them spread into the matrix and deform it, displacing the beads."

    As an additional test, the researchers synthesized another hydrogel. This one had the same covalent bonds that the stem cells could naturally degrade and spread through but also another type of bond that could form when exposed to light. They let the stem cells spread as before, but at the point the cells would begin to differentiate ? about a week after they were first encapsulated ? the researchers further "set" the gel by exposing it to light, forming new bonds the cells couldn't degrade.

    "When we introduced these cross-links so they could no longer degrade the matrix, we saw an increase toward fat-like cells, even after letting them spread," Burdick said. "This further supports the idea that continuous degradation is needed for the cells to sense the material properties of their environment and transduce that into differentiation signals."

    Burdick and his colleagues see these results as helping develop a better fundamental understanding of how to engineer tissues using stem cells.

    "This is a model system for showing how the microenvironment can influence the fate of the cells," Burdick said.

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    Colo. massacre suspect's plea offer rejected

    DENVER (AP) ? Prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case have rejected an offer from suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, saying the proposal can't be considered genuine because the defense has repeatedly refused to give them information needed to evaluate it.

    No plea agreement exists, prosecutors said in a scathing court document Thursday, and one "is extremely unlikely based on the present information available to the prosecution."

    They also said anyone reading news stories about the offer would inevitably conclude "the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know that he is guilty, and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane."

    Neither the defense nor the prosecution immediately returned phone calls Thursday.

    Holmes is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the July 20 shootings in a packed theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Twelve people were killed and 70 were injured.

    Holmes' attorneys disclosed in a court filing Wednesday that their client has offered to plead guilty, but only if he wouldn't be executed.

    Prosecutors criticized defense attorneys for publicizing the offer, calling it a ploy meant to draw the public and the judge into what should be private plea negotiations.

    Prosecutors did not say what information the defense refused to give them, but the two sides have argued in court previously about access to information about Holmes' mental health.

    Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor who is now an adjunct professor at the University of Denver's law school, said prosecutors clearly do not want to agree to a plea deal without knowing whether Holmes' attorneys could mount a strong mental health defense.

    "One of the issues the prosecution needs to look at is, is there a likelihood that doctors, and then a jury, could find that James Holmes was insane at the time of the crime?" she said.

    Prosecutors also criticized comments to The Associated Press by Doug Wilson, who heads the state public defenders' office.

    Wilson told the AP Wednesday that prosecutors had not responded to the offer and said he didn't know whether prosecutors had relayed the offer to any victims as required by state law.

    Prosecutors said that violated the gag order.

    They also said they have repeatedly contacted "every known victim and family member of a victim ? numbering over one thousand" about possible resolutions of the case, including the death penalty and life in prison without parole.

    George Brauchler, the Arapahoe County district attorney, is scheduled to announce Monday whether he will seek the death penalty for Holmes. He has refused repeatedly to comment on the case, citing the gag order.

    Pierce O'Farrill, who was shot three times, said he would welcome an agreement that would imprison Holmes for life. The years of court struggles ahead would likely be an emotional ordeal for victims, he said.

    "I don't see his death bringing me peace," O'Farrill said. "To me, my prayer for him was that he would spend the rest of his life in prison and hopefully, in all those years he has left, he could find God and ask for forgiveness himself."

    A plea bargain would bring finality to the case fairly early so victims and their families can avoid the prolonged trauma of not knowing what will happen, said Dan Recht, a past president of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar.

    "The defense, by making this public pleading, is reaching out to the victims' families," he said.

    ___

    Associated Press writer Nicholas Riccardi contributed to this report.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colo-massacre-suspects-plea-offer-rejected-082005643.html

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    UPS pays $40M to end online pharmacies probe

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Shipping company UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to end a federal criminal probe connected to its work for online pharmacies.

    The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that the Atlanta-based company would also "take steps" to block illicit online drug dealers from using their delivery service.

    The DOJ says the fine amount is the money UPS collected from suspect online pharmacies.

    UPS won't be charged with any crimes. Its biggest rival, FedEx Corp., has also been a target of the federal investigation.

    The investigation of the two companies stems from a global campaign to shutter illicit online pharmacies launched in 2005. Since then, dozens of arrests have been made and thousands of websites closed worldwide as investigators continue to broaden the probe beyond the operators.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ups-pays-40m-end-online-pharmacies-probe-173535406--finance.html

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    Rotary International awards education grant

    Education Center

    The Education Center addition at the Palomas Library will receive a grant from Rotary International.

    Through the efforts of the Silver City (NM) Rotary Club, Border Partners will receive a major grant from the Rotary International. ?The full monetary award of $16,250 will outfit the new Education Center recently build by Border Partners in Palomas.

    This funding will pay for computer technology, software and a wireless printer. ?We?re now able to obtain desktop computers, laptops and tablets as well as a server to network them.

    In addition, thanks to this grant, the Education Center will be equipped with the latest in electronic audiovisual equipment: a projector, a white board and interactive stylus, and a large television suitable for viewing by a class. The Rotary funding will also provide security equipment and the resources needed to set up all the new equipment.

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    Rotary International logo as it is displayed on a memorial at El Paso?s Archaeology Museum

    In order to apply for the Rotary International grant, the Silver City Rotary Club secured the support of their District here in the U.S. and also searched out a Rotary Club in Saltillo, Coahuila,?Mexico to co-sponsor the project, since there is not a local Rotary Club in Palomas. ?Each of the two local Rotary Clubs pledged money to the project.

    We want to express our heartfelt thanks to the SC Rotary Club, especially Kathy Eaton, Sunny Yates and Elizabeth Silva who were the committee members responsible. With their valuable assistance, the Education Center will be fully equipped with equipment designed to deliver educational materials to the border community in Palomas.

    With the assistance of the Rotary International, the people of Palomas will see their dream of accessing educational advancement ?opportunities fulfilled?right in their own town.

    Source: http://borderpartners.org/programs/edu/rotary-international-awards-education-grant-to-border-partners/

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