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Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner, Redbull Stratos, space jump

The September issue of the Red Bulletin features a statement from daring Stratos jumper Felix Baumtganger. He talks about the programs setbacks so far, what went wrong on the test flight recently, and more importantly he confirms that all being well the real jump will take place this October.

“The second test jump was textbook, even if the days and nights leading up to it were exhausting and it seemed like an eternity before the capsule door opened at 29,610 metres and I could jump. I had no control over my position for the first 16 seconds I was in freefall – everything was back under control within 6 seconds on the first test jump – but we can rightfully say that we’ve shown twice that we can do it.”

 

 

 

 

Mike Wallace, Steelers WR, is most underpaid in NFL

"Around the League" is taking a look at each team's salary-cap situation heading into training camp. Next up: The Pittsburgh Steelers .

Adjusted cap number : $121.195 million

Cap room remaining : $3.734 million

Best bargain : If Mike Wallace plays the 2012 season under the "first-round" restricted free agent tender, he could be looking at $2.742 million in non-guaranteed base salary. Wallace ranked in the top 25 in terms of receptions last season and was tied for 11th in both receiving yards (1,193) and touchdowns (eight). With Todd Haley replacing Bruce Arians as offensive coordinator, there is no reason to think that the Steelers are going to throw the ball less. Yet Wallace's RFA tender currently ranks 46th among NFL wideouts in terms of cash compensation in 2012.

Potential camp casualty : The great roster purge of 2012 has already happened in Pittsburgh. The Steelers parted ways with Bryant McFadden , Arnaz Battle , James Farrior , Chris Kemoeatu , Aaron Smith and Hines Ward . If the young nose tackles or inside linebackers show progress in camp, veterans in the final years of their contracts, such as Casey Hampton ($2.8 million base salary) and Larry Foote ($3 million in base salary), could be released to free up some cap space for this season or next.

Contract issue looming in 2013 : It's all about Wallace, the only restricted free agent this offseason who has not yet signed his one-year tender. He could be headed for the franchise tag (projected value of $9.692 million if the cap remains flat, as is expected) in 2013. Fellow receiver Antonio Brown, who caught 69 passes for 1,108 yards and went to the Pro Bowl as a return specialist, will be a restricted free agent next offseason, as well.

Niels Bohr: Google doodles the Danish Nobel Laureate in Physics' 127th birthday

Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them". October 7 is his birthday and on the occasion of the Danish physicist's 127th birth anniversary Google has posted a doodle on its home page. Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen on October 7, 1885. His father, Christian Bohr was a Professor of Physiology at Copenhagen University.

During World War II Bohr, fearing arrest by the Germans, escaped to Britain from where he went to the US to work on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. The Manhattan Project lead to the development of the first atom bomb.

The Niels Bohr 127th birthday Google doodle showcases his contributions to science and shows the Bohr atomic model. This model introduced by Bohr in 1913, was a radical departure from earlier descriptions of the atom and showed the atom as one with a small nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits in a structure similar to the solar system, with electrostatic forces providing attraction, not gravity. 

Miguel Cabrera dons well-won Triple Crown

By leading the American League with 44 home runs, a .330 average and 139 RBIs, Miguel Cabrera dons the first Triple Crown since 1967, becoming just the 10th player in modern major league history to do it.

Since Carl Yastrzemski won the last Triple Crown in in 1967, we have seen the mound lowered, amphetamines, expansion, steroids and Coors Field, and yet no one has done it. This just goes to show that the Triple Crown is no easy feat.

OK, that might seem fairly obvious, but think about the three key skills it takes to win a Triple Crown:

Game-breaking power
That’s straightforward enough, but other people might play in bandboxes like Coors Field or the Gap. You’ve got to be as good as or better than the best to win.

Ability to hit for a high average and deliver a lot of hits
Again, not a common skill, and something even harder to possess if you’re a right-handed hitter: From that ’67 season, the AL and NL have had 13 right-handed batters apiece win batting titles, or 26 out of a possible 90.

If you’re right-handed, odds are you’re going to be challenged to win, not because of the other guys like you, but because lefties are an extra step closer to first, which could mean an extra few infield hits over the course of the season. That's enough to swing a batting crown. Miggy is the first right-hander to win back-to-back titles since Nomar Garciaparra in 1999-2000. He also has become the first right-handed Triple Crown winner since Frank Robinson in 1966. The National League hasn’t had a righty do it since Joe Medwick in 1937, a decade before integration.

Good health

Surprise! No, the third skill is not “run-producer” or some other euphemism for clutch hitting. Calling Miggy a run-producer acknowledges the extra benefit of his first two gifts: lots of extra-base hits and lots of hits, period. Racking up runs batted in is a function of those things plus lineup position -- something the manager decides for you -- and having teammates to drive home in droves. So Austin Jackson, Quintin Berry and Omar Infante -- the guys batting first or second ahead of Miggy -- take a bow, you built this, too.

Although RBI totals aren’t a skill, the power to plate people is, and there’s no better way to rack up that total than to be healthy enough to get your name in the lineup card day after day during the season’s six-month slog. And give Miggy his due: The man rarely misses a day of work, having played 160 or more games in four of the past five seasons.

Admittedly, there’s a litany of nouveau smart arguments lined up to chip away at what Miggy’s done, and that’s sort of sad -- sabermetrics really should be enlisted for better purposes than to try and add a Nelson Muntz-like “ha-HA!” to the end of an achievement.

I’ll admit to a bit of mystification about why anyone wants to poke holes in Cabrera’s season. Sure, some of it’s about conflating the AL MVP debate -- Miggy or Mike Trout, who ya got? -- with the historical significance of Cabrera’s Triple Crown, but that’s a different conversation, and one that shouldn’t have to involve tearing Miggy down.

Take a metric like OPS+, which can tell you Cabrera now has the lowest OPS+ ever for a Triple Crown winner. To which I’d still say: So what? If it was so easy, lots of people would be doing it, but they haven’t. OPS+, however well-intentioned as an informational tool, doesn’t perfectly capture the historical problems with evaluating the lower talent levels of baseball prior to integration (when Triple Crowns were more common), or the enormous breadth of talent from across the globe that populates the game today. It doesn’t have anything to say about performance-enhancing drugs, which might have put league-leading home run tallies out of reach for non-users.

So celebrate this, because it’s really sort of cool. They say journalism is the first draft of history, but it isn’t: History is what happens, and we live in it. If you’re Miguel Cabrera, you make it. Let’s plug Miggy’s feat for what it is: Amazing, improbable and fun. The last Triple Crown happened before many of you were born. Hell, it happened before I was born. Enjoy it. Argue about it if you please, but enjoy it -- no, relish it. Because 45 years later, you might very well be telling your grandkids you were around to see the last time it happened.

Little Leaguer has Unassisted Triple Play, Ump Blows Infield Fly Rule

Little Leaguer has Unassisted Triple Play, Ump Blows Infield Fly Rule

Give me a break Payne, no outs and the bases juiced and youre going up there hacking at a pitch above the letters? You aint Vlad Guerrero. Oh and kid playing 3rd base, relax a bit. No need to stand with the glove down for every pitch. Rule #1 for the hot corner, stay agile, never know when a liner is coming at your cheekbones to make you drink applesauce for the rest of summer.
As for the play, pretty nifty, kid had his head in the game and I appreciate that. Helps when the other kids have their heads up their asses, but lets not belittle the accomplishment, theres only been 15 of those in the history of the Majors. Yeah, try that shit Josh Hamilton then get back to this kid.
PS- Time for the Elephant in the room. Uhhh…..Infield Fly rule ump? Are you kidding me Blue? Rule 6.05(L). Wally Backman would’ve torn your ass apart on that.

Mermaids The Body Found

Mermaid a body found My father and I watched the documentary on the discovery channel about the discovery of Mermaids. The documentary is called Mermaids A Body Found. However in this documentary they showed a video that was taken from a boys phone on the beach it shows a live mermaid. Now my father and i would like to know if this video is real i don't like to say we are suckers to everything we hear but i am open to new ideas.. We would like to know about this video and hoped you have some input. Mermaids: The Body Found was a purely fictional work, dealing with a purported military coverup of the discovery of a remnant population of mermaids described as an evolutionary offshoot of the "aquatic ape" hypothesis (a generally discounted idea that early Hominid species went through an aquatic phase in their evolution). The program was not fact but rather speculative science fiction, and it included obvious CGI-produced video sequences like the one displayed above.

Dodd-Frank section 1073 has potential global impact

Dodd-Frank section 1073 generated much comment at both the International Payments Framework Association (IPFA) General Meeting and the NACHA Global Payments Forum (GPF) conferences in Munich this week. A straw poll of the GPF delegates revealed that two thirds of the attendees believed it has the potential to change the business model for consumer-originated payments for the entire global payments industry, with the remainder seeing its consequence as changing the model merely for their bank or business.

The US Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is publishing a final rule to implement section 1073 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, amending Regulation E, which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, and the official interpretation to the regulation, which interprets the requirements of Regulation E.
Overshadowed by new rules around interchange imposed by Dodd-Frank, section 1073 has had little publicity to date. Its consequences – some perhaps unintended - are considerable. It may result in some banks electing to withdraw services and tilt the playing field in favour of non-banks – many of which are US-based.
The rule applies to US consumer-initiated transfers and payments. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that in 2010, $37.1 billion in-cash and in-kind transfers were made from the United States to foreign households by foreign born individuals who had spent one or more years there. Globally, the World Bank estimates that the worldwide volume of certain cash, asset, and in-kind transfers made by migrants to developing countries reached $325 billion in 2010 ($440bn to all countries), and that the United States was the source of the greatest number of such transfers.
The scope of the regulation goes beyond remittances, and includes all consumer-initiated transfers; for example, payments to firms for goods being imported to the US are covered. Whilst the regulation is limited to consumer-initiated, US based corporates may also choose to use services which support it, if they become competitive with traditional cross-border payments services.
The main provisions are:

• Full fee disclosure at the point of, and time of, origination
• Guarantee of amount of final funds delivered, to be delivered at time of origination
• Guarantee on when funds will be received
• Right to cancel a transaction up to 30 minutes after its submission.

There are also stringent requirements regarding resolution of enquiries, complaints, returns, etc.
Delivering against such criteria is particularly challenging for ‘open loop’ service models such as correspondent banking. Such ‘fire and forget’ services rely on others in a chain to effect delivery, where the transaction routing may not be known at the start of the transaction, making end-to-end service levels unpredictable. Those other parties may impose fees, which they may take out of the principal of the transaction. In some cases, FX conversion may occur ‘downstream’, making it impossible to know, when sending a sum of money, how much will arrive at the far end. The advantage of ‘open loop’ is its reach; funds can be delivered to more or less any bank account anywhere.
In contrast ‘closed loop’ models, where the provider of the service to the sender also has control of the delivery to the beneficiary, are far more ‘transparent’. The amount, fees and the delivery date are known beforehand with a very high degree of certainty. Few banks operate closed loop services today.
However, the writing has been on the wall for the current correspondent banking model for some time. Indeed SWIFT says, ‘this model is still too bank product centric, based on inherently inefficient multiple agreements. The world has changed around us’, in its Correspondent Banking 3.0 paper.
Given the very short implementation period, and the usual shortage of internal project resource, collaboration may be the only realistic option for US banks. Services which have the fewest steps in the journey to the maximum number of beneficiaries, via established bank-owned intermediary services such as national ACHs, can provide consistently high and transparent service levels over a wide range of international routes.  Indeed, the IPFA, a global industry initiative, has been working to improve cross-border payments through providing rules, standards, operating procedures, and guidelines to standardise links between ACHs globally. Some IPFA-compliant services have been live for some time.
Payments services providers in Europe may also be an option. There are similarities between Section 1073 and the EC Payment Services Directive (PSD) implemented in 2009. The PSD was intended to support SEPA and required payments services providers to become regulated and thus protect consumer and business users.  Though typically referred to as non-bank providers, some services are white-labelled and are designed to help banks ‘own the customer’ and earn ‘adjacent ’ revenues such as FX. As of January 2012, there were 176 Authorised Payment Institutions in the UK alone; around 90% of such providers in the EC are UK based.
But that may not be enough. The regulation provides for recourse for the sender even in, for example, the event that the sender has input an incorrect, but nonetheless operational account number for the beneficiary. In many jurisdictions, such as the UK, the account number has primacy – once funds have been paid into an account, there is no automatic right of recourse. Consequently the service provider, who may have charged a fee of perhaps $5 for delivery of a $1000 transaction, may be liable for the full $1000. Transactions of that value and above are commonplace; a footnote in the rule states that more than 50% of total worldwide transfers made by one diaspora are in amounts of $1,100 and above, and of that category, 63% exceeded $2,200. The initiating service provider will need strong antifraud measures.
At the Meeting, several IPFA members asked whether the Association can help. Since such a requirement is a change to IPFA’s scope, a working group was tasked to review whether it would be feasible and appropriate to change IPFA scheme rules. According to the straw poll at the GPF conference, which followed the IPFA General Meeting, most of the delegates at GPF had already – or will have by now - begun impact analysis. There is not much time to do so. The regulations come into force in January 2013.

A short time window remains to offer suggestions. Until April 9, 2012, the CFPB is seeking comment on whether to make a few additional adjustments to the final rule. And there may be more to come. As reported in the Economist in Feb 2012, only 93 of the 400 rule-making requirements mandated by Dodd-Frank had been finalised by then.  Use of consumer regulations by EC and US regulators to drive change in the payments industry has no doubt been noted in other jurisdictions. Speakers at the GPF conference commented on significant payments industry governance and regulatory change underway in Canada and Brazil. The trend seems obvious.

 

Meningococcal meningitis – causes, features, symptoms and treatment

Meningococcal meningitis occurs both in epidemics and sporadic forms. The causal organism is meningococcus (Nissseria meningitidis) a kidney shaped gram negative organism which can be classified into eight groups and out of which group A,B and C are the ones responsible for most of the infections. The organisms are commonly found in the nasopharynx of people who act as carriers and often the disease spreads by droplet infection. Carriers often outnumber overt cases, infect other people without themselves developing the disease. Principal causes of spread of the disease are over crowding and catarrhal disorder of the nose and throat. Children and young infants are more susceptible to suffer from it. It is uncommon after the age of 40.

Pathology

It is like in other cases of bacterial meningitis except for that in meningococcal meningitis brain is diffusely involved with resultant congestion, edema, perivascular hemorrhages and suppurative lesions. There may be focal areas of involvement. In fulminant form of meningitis, hemorrhages are found in the adrenals leading to adrenal failure and shock (Water House friederichsen syndrome).

Clinical features

Onset of meningococcal meningitis generally is acute with headache, fever, chills, neck rigidity and signs of meningeal irritation. Commonest age group is young children and adults. Incubation period is 3-5 days and there is history of preceding upper respiratory tract infection.

Onset may be gradual in some cases and fulminant in others. Pulse is slow. Headache and vomiting are rather of severe nature. Delirium may be severe and patient may pass into stupor and coma. Signs of meningeal irritation (photo-phobia: neck rigidity, kernig’s and brudzinski’s signs) are invariably present. Meningococcal meningitis is characterized by purpuric eruption and maculopapular rash in areas subjected to pressure. While purpuric eruption takes the form of petechiae appearing during the first 24 hours of illness, maculopapular rash appears before the fourth day first on the trunk and then on thighs and forearms.

As the disease progresses rise in intracranial pressure occurs. Pupils are dilated and react sluggishly. Diplopia, slight ptosis and divergent squint are common. Papilloedema may be present. Limbs are flaccid. Reflexes are diminished. There is loss of sphincter control. Development of stupor and coma are bad prognostic signs. Cases with fulminating type develop water house Frederich syndrome characterised by cyanosis collapse and shock.

Diagnosis

Meningococcal meningitis is to be differentiated from other forms of bacterial meningitis by its rash (purpuric and maculopapular). Other diseases to be differentiated include encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage, meningitis and general infections (pneumonia, influenza, typhoid) simulating meningitis.

Investigations:

1. Blood count shows leucocytosis with rise in polymorphs.

2. Blood culture for meningococci may be positive in early stages.

3. CSF examination is the most important diagnostic aid. CSF pressure is raised. It is turbid and purulent in appearance. Protein content is raised. There is often a cob web formation. Sometimes CSF may coagulate due to high albuminous content. Glucose content is markedly reduced as well as chlorides (650-680 mg/100 ml). Cell count is increased, the cells being mainly polymorphonuclear. About 1000-2000 cells per cmm are present.

4. Gram’s stain of sedimented CSF does not readily identify meningococci. Meningococcal antigen may be demonstrated by immune electrophoresis (CIE) and ELISA test.

Complications and sequelae. A number of complications may occur in cases of meningococcal meningitis. These may be in the form of internal hydrocephalus, focal neurological damage (hemiplegia), paraplegia, aphasia, deafness and loss of vision. Uncommon complications include fibropurulent pericarditis, endocarditis, arthritis and nephritis. In the fulminant type, patient rapidly goes into stupor and coma. Death may occur in a short time. Cases of water house Frederich syndrome carry poor prognosis.

Cases where treatment has been delayed or inadequate these may be left with a chronic form of basal meningitis characterized by cranial nerve palsies, Hydrocephalus, neck retraction and paralysis.

Treatment of bacterial meningitis

1. Bacterial meningitis is an acute medical emergency and treatment must be instituted immediately. For adult patients with pneumococcal, meningococcal or Listeria meningitis drug of choice is Penicillin G 5- 10 million units intravenously every 6 hourly. Ampicillin in a dose of 300-400 mg/kg body weight daily intravenously is also an effective drug.

The third generation cephalosporins, cefotaxime (2 g I/V 4 hourly) or Ceftriaxone (2 g I/V once a day) are effectivie in pneumococcal, H. influenzae and meningococcal meningitis but not in listeria meningitis where trimethoprim, sulpha methoxazole (160 mg TMP+ 800 mg SMX) intravenously in drip twice a day is used.

2. Patients who are allergic to penicillin they can be treated with chloramphenicol (dosage 1 g I/v 6 hourly) or third generation cephalosporins.

3. Since these drugs (penicillin and ampicillin) enter the blood-brain barrier, intrathecal administration is not recommended.

4. Treatment must be continued for at least 7- 10 days. Progress of the case is observed by CSE Examination which becomes clear and its biochemistry returns to normal.

5. Look for any focus of infection in para nasal sinuses, mastoid or intracranial region. It should be adequately treated.

6. For raised intracranial tension intravenous Mannitol be given. It can be accompanied by high doses of steroids (Injection Dexamethasone 4 mg I/V 6 hourly). Supportive treatment consists of maintaining nutrition, fluid and electrolyte balance. Cases of Waterhouse friederichsen syndrome shall require intravenous fluids saline and high doses of steroids.

Prevention. A 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine is advocated in children with sickle cell disease, nephrotic syndrome asplenia for prevention against pneumococcus meningitis. This vaccine is effective in elder children and not of use in children below two years of age.

Similarly vaccine against serogroup A, C, Y and W-125 is effectively used for immunoprophylaxis against meningococcal meningitis. It is also not effective in children below two years of age. It takes one to two weeks for antibodies to develop after immunization. Since the period of risk is first two weeks after exposure, vaccination is not of much use in sporadic cases. However when there is an on going epidemic it may be used as part of an immun ization programme.

For contacts chemoprophylaxis with rifampicin (600mg daily for five day) is effective for eliminating colonization with the meningococcus and to prevent development of meningococcal infection.

Battle of 'Sesame Street': Political fight over PBS has long history

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The scuffle over Big Bird is only the latest in a long line of political fights over PBS. 

(Matt Sayles / Associated Press / August 30, 2009)

When Mitt Romney vowed to cut government funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting during Wednesday night’s presidential debate, PBS chief Paula Kerger says she “just about fell off the sofa” out of shock.

Romney’s remarks – and in particular his decision to single out the beloved Big Bird -- sparked an immediate uproar on social media. And on Thursday, PBS issued an unusually strongly worded statement in response to the attack. “Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation,” it read.

But Kerger and Big Bird’s millions of fans shouldn’t have been that surprised by Romney’s pledge: The candidate is merely the latest in a long line of politicians and pundits who’ve turned the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes money to both PBS and NPR, into a political punching bag. 

Since at least the mid-1990s, government sudsidization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a perennial front in the culture wars, and PBS' programming, from "Teletubbies" to "NewsHour," has been criticized for its supposed liberal bias.

Adam Greenberg Gets Second Chance at MLB At-Bat

Adam Greenberg has been in the national spotlight since the Miami Marlins announced last week that they would sign the 31-year old to a one-day contract so he could receive one at-bat after getting hit in the head in his 2005 Major League debut. (Oct. 2)

How did Stallone's movie star wife Brigitte Nielsen end up as a drunk in the park?

Fall from grace: Actress Brigitte Nielsen was seen rolling around and drinking in a park in Los Angeles, California.

As the vehicle for an unlikely career resurrection, the  inauspiciously titled movie Skinny Dip is hardly likely to catapult Brigitte Nielsen back into the big league.

The upcoming low-budget film — about a woman who goes on a shotgun spree, killing a group of male tormenters — features the equally unpromising tagline: ‘They took her bikini. They took her virginity. She took her revenge.’

Actress Miss Nielsen, who has a minor role, says she defied the threat of kidnap from drugs gangs while filming in crime-torn Colombia.

Perhaps it goes without saying that a Palme d’Or award at the next Cannes Film Festival is hardly on the cards. But then, Brigitte, 49, is  brutally aware that beggars can’t be choosers.

And for now, the Danish-born actress, the ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone, has more pressing concerns than her once glittering, but long since washed-up, movie career.

Her continuing personal disintegration was starkly — and tragically — illustrated this week in pictures of her drunk and confused in broad daylight in a Los Angeles park.

Apple iPhone 4S 16GB, 8MP, SIRI, 3G, GPS, WIFI Factory Unlocked (Never Lock) World Mobile Smart Phone (White)

Siri. The intelligent assistant
that helps you get things
done. All you have to do is
ask Now you can use your
voice to use your iPhone. Just
talk to Siri as you would to a person: "Do I need an
umbrella?" or "Any great
burgers around here?" or
"Where s the closest ATM?"
Siri not only understands
what you say, it knows what you mean.1 It figures out the
right apps to use to find the
right answer. Then, just like a
personal assistant, it answers
you. Siri makes phone calls,
sends messages, schedules meetings, sets reminders, and
more. How much more? Just
ask, and Siri tells you that,
too. Dual-core A5 chip. The
most powerful iPhone
processor ever. Two cores in the A5 chip deliver up to two
times more power and up to
seven times faster graphics.2
And you ll feel the effects.
Fast. iPhone 4S is quick and
responsive, which makes all the difference when you re
launching apps, browsing the
web, gaming, and doing just
about everything. And no
matter what you re doing,
you can keep on doing it. Because the A5 chip is so
power-efficient, iPhone 4S has
outstanding battery life.
FaceTime. It s even better
face-to-face. FaceTime lets you
hear a voice and see the face that goes with it iPhone to
iPhone, iPad 2, iPod touch, or
Mac over Wi-Fi.5 So no matter
where they are, no matter
where you are, you ll always
be there. Making a FaceTime call is just as easy as making a
phone call. And it s even easier
with Siri. Just tell Siri
"FaceTime with Mom" and you
show up, smile, and wave
hello.

Google's Marissa Mayer named Yahoo CEO

Yahoo Inc. reached inside the
ranks of rival Google Inc. in its
latest changing of the guard,
appointing longtime Web-
search executive Marissa
Mayer as its new chief and returning the struggling
Internet company to a leader
with deep technology
experience. The appointment showed
how Yahoo, a one time
pioneer of Web search and
online advertising, is going
back to its Silicon Valley
Internet roots. Yahoo's board selected Ms.
Mayer because "she stands for
the user," in contrast with a
string of the company's
previous CEOs who had little
experience with consumer websites, said a person with
direct knowledge of the
company's ...

Toy Story 4 Release Date Possibility and Cast of Characters

Toy Story 4 If you think that the toys
have already ended their
adventures, then think again.
That’s because the latest buzz
have revealed that Pixar is
currently working on its fourth Toy Story film.
Will Woody and Buzz be in it?
Yes, probably. But what we
do know is that Tom Hanks
(the voice actor behind
Woody) has already hinted
that the new Toy Story title is currently in the works. Not much has been stated
about the new animated film
but there’s a possibility that
the toys will be having their
new adventures along with
their new kid, Bonnie. Other reports have also stated the
fact that fans have been quite
puzzled about the new sequel
and that most have
anticipated that the film has
already ended in Toy Story 3. But if ever it will be
confirmed, avid Toy Story
fans will once again be seeing
the characters of Mr. Potato
Head, Rex, Hamm, Lotso, Ken,
Barbie and Jessie. Can’t wait to watch the
movie? Well, better be patient
for the cast, and official plot
of Pixar’s Toy Story 4 has not yet been revealed. Sources
have also mentioned that the
animation studio is currently
working on a short Toy Story
film which will be released
later this year.

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Bastille Day

The French national holiday celebrates

the beginning of the French Revolution.
Bastille Day, the French
national holiday,
commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took
place on 14 July 1789 and
marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison and a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis the 16th's Ancient Regime. By capturing this symbol, the people signaled that the king's power was no longer absolute:
power should be based on the Nation and be limited by a separation of powers.

James Holmes court

James Holmes, the man
accused of opening fire at a
Colorado movie theater

,
appeared dazed in court
today, the first time he has
been seen in public since he allegedly killed 12 people and
wounded another 58 during a
showing of the new Batman
movie. Holmes, 24, appeared in court
unshaven with a shock of
dyed reddish-orange hair, and
a prison jumpsuit that
appeared to conceal a
bulletproof vest. He said nothing in the
courtroom and spent much of
the hearing looking down, his
head drooping at times. He
demeanor ranged from a
glassy bug-eyed stare to appearing to be nodding off. Holmes' appearance raised
questions among some
observers about his mental
competency. "He's not in this courtroom
mentally," former FBI profiler
Brad Garrett, an ABC News
analyst, told "World News."
"He's elsewhere. He's in some
alternative reality that he's created. I also think that
there's a combination of the
reality of what has happened
to him has set in, as to what
it's done to himself as well as
to the victims." ABC News legal analyst Dan
Abrams told "World News"
the scene also might set the
stage for an insanity defense. "This is likely how he was
arrested, what he looked like
at the time," Abrams said.
"This is somebody who was
arrested at the scene, dressed
up like the killer with the weapon, so you start to think
his most likely defense is
some mental defect defense.
So why would you suddenly
want to make him seem more
sane? But with that said, I think his lawyers are
probably just getting to
know him now and there
was just no reason to make
any change."

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