Monday, February 25, 2013

Reports: U.S. Radar to Boost Missile Defense in Japan

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by Naharnet Newsdesk 24 February 2013, 05:20 W460

Tokyo and Washington plan to install a U.S. early-warning radar system at a coastal base near Kyoto to bolster defenses against the North Korean missile threat, reports said Sunday.

The X-band radar, capable of precisely tracking the trajectory of a ballistic missile, allows U.S. forces to launch intercept missiles from the ground and sea once a ballistic missile has been detected.

It will be the second X-band radar system to be installed in Japan after another was set up in northern Aomori prefecture.

The X-band radar system will be built in an Air Self-Defense Force base in Kyotango, northwest of Kyoto, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, or East Sea, Kyodo News and Jiji Press agencies reported, citing unnamed sources.

The location was picked as it was likely that a North Korean missile targeting Guam or Hawaii would fly over western or central parts of Japan, Kyodo said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed in their meeting Friday in Washington that the two countries would work together on the radar installation, the reports said.

Source: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/73141-reports-u-s-radar-to-boost-missile-defense-in-japan

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Oscars 2013 Backstage: Private Meet-Ups Revealed

MTV News' eyes on the inside share best behind-the-scenes moments.
By Brett White


Bradley Cooper at the 2013 Oscars
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1702534/backstage-oscars-academy-awards-2013.jhtml

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

13.02.24 00:00 , A Month Long MLK In Motion - Sunday February 24, 2013 @ DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY

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Redford stumps for oil sands, Keystone XL pipeline in Washington

Alberta Premier Alison Redford says she?s open to tougher environmental regulations, but only if current policies fall short of her goals, and not as a trade-off to win U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

?Our regulations are pretty tough,? Ms. Redford said Saturday in an interview, responding to a question about whether she would tighten scrutiny of the oil sands to appease skeptics in President Barack Obama?s administration.

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?I?m not going to start down that path. Part of the quid pro quo is we want people to understand what our record,? on environmental protection, the premier said. ?We think it?s important to be leaders and demonstrate some leadership and we?ve done that.?

Dozens of U.S. power brokers are receiving a version of that message this weekend in Washington. Ms. Redford and her environment minister, Diana McQueen, are in the American capital to hang around the margins of the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, which attracts the leaders of the 50 states and a countless number of officials, staffers and lobbyists with influence in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

Ms. Redford called her trip ?organic,? and said she wasn?t in Washington to advocate for any particular project. Ms. Redford said she met Saturday with Maine Governor Paul LePage to discuss her efforts ? with New Brunswick Premier David Alward ? to clear the way for a pipeline that would stretch east from the oil sands.

Yet the Alberta premier made no attempt to suggest that Keystone XL wasn?t the primary topic of conversation.

TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.?s proposal to ship Canadian heavy crude from northern Alberta to refineries in Texas must win the approval of the Obama administration. The president?s supporters in the environmental movement want the project blocked, arguing the energy-intensive transaction process used in the oil sands emits too much carbon. Mr. Obama temporarily stalled the pipeline last year, and is expected to make a final decision in the spring.

The fervent opposition to Alberta oil caught Canadian officials off guard.

Ms. Redford visited Washington within a few weeks of first becoming premier in October 2011. She says she soon learned that the old arguments in favour of Canadian oil ? a safe, friendly supplier; jobs, jobs and more jobs ? were no longer enough.

?We heard very quickly that they don?t want to hear anymore the security argument or the jobs argument. We get that,? Ms. Redford said, remarking on the response she got to Alberta?s traditional pitch. ?Really, this is about environmental stewardship and sustainable development of the oil sands. We were quite happy to talk about that, (but) that was a shift in the kinds of conversations that Alberta was having.?

The two Alberta politicians arrived in Washington a week after thousands of environmentalists rallied against the Keystone pipeline on the National Mall, a show of force that poses a political dilemma for Mr. Obama, who used his State of the Union speech to pledge a fresh assault on climate change. Tens of thousands of the people who helped elect him say he should start by refusing TransCanada?s request to build a pipeline across the border, and strike a blow against ?dirty oil.?

Ms. Redford is countering that message by insisting her government is as committed to fighting climate change as any in North America.

Following a separate meeting with the Washington Post?s environment reporter, Alberta?s premier and environment minister insisted their province gets too little credit for its green agenda. The province plans to set aside millions of hectares for conservation, including 1.2-million hectares that already has been put off-limits for exploitation in the oil-sands region. It has put limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and is one of the few jurisdictions in the world that has put a price ? $15 a tonne ? on carbon emissions that exceed provincial limits. Receipts from that penalty are used to stock a new technology fund.

?It?s a strong record,? Ms. Redford said. ?We?re ahead of a lot of places in the world, and people tend not to know that.?

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Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/redford-stumps-for-oil-sands-keystone-xl-pipeline-in-washington/article9007811/?cmpid=rss1

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Aviani two goals, Kichton three assists as the Chiefs down the Oil Kings

SPOKANE, Wash. - Mike Aviani scored twice and Brenden Kichton had three assists as the Spokane Chiefs downed the Edmonton Oil Kings 6-4 on Friday in Western Hockey League action.

Dylan Walchuk and Todd Fiddler had a goal and an assist each for the Chiefs (35-24-2), who won for the first time in three outings, while Liam Stewart and Mitch Holmberg had a goal apiece.

Cole Benson scored three times for the Oil Kings (43-14-5) and Martin Gernat had two assists.

Keegan Lowe also scored to round out Edmonton's offence.

Garret Hughson made 33 saves for the victory as Tristan Jarry took the loss after allowing two goals on 11 shots in 25 minutes of relief. Jarry replaced starter Laurent Brossoit after Brossoit gave up four goals on 18 shots.

Spokane went 3 for 5 on the power play while Edmonton scored once on six chances with the man advantage.

Source: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=657055

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

89% Django Unchained

All Critics (228) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (202) | Rotten (26)

Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.

Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.

Genre-movie-mad writer-director Quentin Tarantino's foray into Western World is a pretty grave disappointment.

Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.

The players are in fine form. But the movie he's embroiled them all in is a hit-and-miss affair, at times an amusing reimagining of history, more often a blood-spattered bore.

Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.

Tarantino is, in essence, a classicist who invests the bulk of his drama and tension in lengthy dialogue exchanges that are infinitely more compelling that his elongated sequences of cathartic violence.

Still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare.

This bloody, hilarious, shocking, and righteously angry film is the kind of great art and great trash [Tarantino] aspires to make.

...compulsively watchable for the majority of its (admittedly overlong) running time...

I had a good enough time to wish that it had been better.

Part-blaxploitation film, part-spaghetti Western and all-Tarantino, 'Django Unchained' comes charging at its audiences with guns a-blazin'. It's not quite up to par with 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,' but it's still Tarantino - enough said.

Overlong, overblown and overly self-indulgent. But excess is what Tarantino does. And just as he won't put one word in his characters' mouths when he can have them utter 10; he won't dispatch a bad guy with one bullet when he can discharge a dozen.

It would seem that this film's irreverence isn't a case of didn't-try-can't-fail dismissiveness, but rather something more innocuous: it's simply the world interpreted through Tarantino's boisterous perspective.

The funniest western since Blazing Saddles, the bloodiest since The Wild Bunch and the most visually stylish since The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

Guilty of almost every indulgence [Tarantino] has ever been accused of...but it's hard to hold it against him, when the results are this bloody good

Ultimately enjoyable, if a little underwhelming, if nothing else we can be grateful to Django Unchained for allowing the phrase "that's the worst thing since Quentin Tarantino's Australian accent".

Impolitic though it might be to suggest it, there's something extremely satisfying about the violence here-though, for my money, it resides less in seeing these racist thugs get their comeuppance, than in the director's staging of it.

it's fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche - only to set loose a bad motherf*cker to set it right.

Thrilling, stylish, funny, brutal, superbly-acted, sharply written and wonderfully offensive.

Django Unchained is a joy. It's fun and foolish, unhinged and unapologetic.

Possibly Tarantino's most thoughtful and even political film to date.

Tarantino is starting to look more and more like an angry teenager in his bedroom going, "Wouldn't it be good if..."

Whereas there was savage beauty and irony in the '60-'70s violence of Penn, Peckinpah, and Leone, the coda of 'Django Unchained' is mere benumbing splatter.

It's a big, crazy, hugely entertaining, multilayered piece of filmmaking - a fierce but fiercely intelligent testament to Tarantino's frequently questioned filmmaking proclivities and certainly among the best films he's made.

Trazendo alguns dos melhores momentos da filmografia de Tarantino, ainda culmina em um cl?max longo e violento que certamente levar? os f?s do diretor a orgasmos de sangue.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/django_unchained_2012/

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Vevo Quietly Redesigns Its Homepage To Streamline Search, Navigation, And Playlist Creation

vevologoOver the past few years, Vevo has been working hard to simplify the process by which users search for and discover new music videos on its site. With that in mind, the company released a small update to its homepage today, aimed at making it easier for users to check out new music videos and to search for those they know and love.

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