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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
'Iron Man 3' Extended Scene To Power Up MTV Movie Awards!
Before watching the full clip at Sunday's show, team up with fans to unlock an early look at the footage.
By Todd Gilchrist
Robert Downey Jr. in "Iron Man 3"
Photo: Marvel/Disney
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1705320/iron-man-3-preview-scene-mtv-movie-awards.jhtml
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Officer arrested after 'extremely dangerous' prisoner escapes
By Daniel Arkin, Mark Stevenson and John Newland, NBC News
A Denver sheriff?s deputy has been arrested in connection with the escape of a prisoner who walked out of the county jail Sunday night wearing a deputy?s uniform and possibly carrying a gun, according to local reports.
Police have identified the deputy as Matthew Andrews, a two-year veteran of the sheriff?s department, NBC affiliate 9News reported. Andrews, who was arrested late Sunday, stands accused of helping Felix Dino Trujillo, 24, escape Denver County Jail at about 7 p.m. MT that evening, according to the station.
Trujillo remained at large Monday afternoon.
?Felix Trujillo may be armed and should be considered extremely dangerous,? the sheriff?s office said in a statement.
Trujillo had been jailed on charges of aggravated robbery and a parole violation, according to information obtained from the jail?s inmate database.
He was being held on $75,000 bond and was slated to appear in Denver District Court on May 13, according to court records.
This story was originally published on Mon Apr 8, 2013 1:50 AM EDT
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Warm weather helps wheat crop but soil still dry
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska's winter wheat crop has started to turn green with the warm weather, but the soil remains exceptionally dry because of the drought.
The U.S. Agriculture Department said Monday that the state's pastures haven't started growing much this spring because of the dry conditions.
About 64 percent of the state's hay and forage supplies rated short or very short.
Roughly 77 percent of the state's topsoil moisture rated short or very short. And 95 percent of the subsoil rates short or very short.
About 11 percent of Nebraska's wheat crop rated in good or excellent condition.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/warm-weather-helps-wheat-crop-091616770.html
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Sculptor of Rosa Parks statue says she 'made a stand by sitting'
The last time Congress commissioned a statue for the U.S. Capitol, Ulysses S. Grant was president, the first cable cars were making their way up San Francisco streets, and Levi Strauss patented blue jeans.
When President Barack Obama unveiled the sculpture of Rosa Parks this past February, it not only was the first commissioned statue for the site in 140 years, but Parks became the first African-American woman to have her likeness in Statuary Hall. It appears alongside such notables as Andrew Jackson, Brigham Young and Helen Keller.
On Dec. 1, 1955, a bus conductor in Montgomery, Ala., ordered Parks to give up her seat on a public bus so white passengers could be seated. Parks refused to stand up and remained in her seat. She was quickly arrested.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called her action ?the spark that ignited the modern civil rights movement.?
Parks? bronze-and-granite statue is close to 9 feet tall. In a departure from others in Statuary Hall, it features a seated figure.
?She made a stand by sitting,? said Los Angeles-based sculptor Eugene Daub, 70. ?This was more about a quiet, heroic [act] that was performed and a solid, rooted pose.?
Daub and co-designer Rob Firmin entered a 2008 competition managed by the National Endowment for the Arts and were selected from among more than 100 entries. The entry was a maquette, a 24-inch model in clay created after historical research.
?If somebody that you?re sculpting isn?t around anymore, you need every angle that you can find,? said Daub. ?Profiles are especially hard to find because who ever saves profiles of themselves. I just had to go through hundreds of images, even of her in a courtroom, trying to find her turning around, to get a good profile.?
Daub has been a sculptor for more than 30 years. His previous commissions include Harvey Milk, young Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. For the Rosa Parks figure, Daub worked out composition issues in the two-foot model and refined the details in clay for the final figure. He pointed out that the sculpture is missing a key element of Parks? story.
?People might not recognize immediately that there is no bus seat,? said Daub. ?There?s just a form that she?s emerging from. We thought that a rail or cushions would be seen as a distraction.?
To capture the essence of a 42-year-old, mid-century, African-American woman, Daub said he did what actors often do.
?It?s a little like method acting,? he said. ?How would I sit if I want to invoke determination, steadfastness and vision? You just have to develop it and keep moving it around until it begins to happen.
?In some way, sitting poses are very un-heroic poses,? Daub added. ?We are used to hero poses being open stances and prideful. She?s sitting holding her purse on her lap and just determined not to be moved, not to give up this seat to yield to injustice.?
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Egyptian wedding certificate key to authenticating controversial biblical text
Apr. 8, 2013 ? A scientist who helped verify authenticity of the fabled Gospel of Judas today revealed how an ancient Egyptian marriage certificate played a pivotal role in confirming the veracity of inks used in the controversial text. The disclosure, which sheds new light on the intensive scientific efforts to validate the gospel, was made in New Orleans on April 8 at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
"If we hadn't found a Louvre study of Egyptian wedding and land contracts, which were from the same time period and had ink similar to that used to record the Gospel of Judas, we would have had a much more difficult time discerning whether the gospel was authentic," said Joseph G. Barabe. A senior research microscopist at McCrone Associates, he led an analytical team of five scientists who worked on the project at McCrone, a consulting laboratory in microscopy and microanalysis in Westmont, Ill. "That study was the key piece of evidence that convinced us that the gospel ink was probably okay."
Barabe's team was part of a multidisciplinary effort organized in 2006 by the National Geographic Society to authenticate the Gospel of Judas, which was discovered in the late 1970s after having been hidden for nearly 1,700 years. The text, written in Egyptian Coptic, is compelling because -- unlike other Biblical accounts that portray Judas Iscariot as a reviled traitor -- it suggests that Jesus requested that his friend, Judas, betray him to authorities.
Barabe's presentation was part of an ACS symposium on archeological chemistry.
After analyzing a sample, Barabe and his colleagues concluded that the gospel was likely penned with an early form of iron gall ink that also included black carbon soot bound with a gum binder. While this finding suggested that the text may have been written in the third or fourth century A.D., the researchers were perplexed by one thing: The iron gall ink used in the gospel was different than anything they'd ever seen before. Typically, iron gall inks -- at least those from the Middle Ages -- were made from a concoction of iron sulfate and tannin acids, such as those extracted from oak gall nuts. But the iron gall ink used to produce the Gospel of Judas didn't contain any sulfur. And that, Barabe said, was troubling.
"We didn't understand it. It just didn't fit in with anything that we had ever encountered," he said. "It was one of the most anxiety-producing projects I've ever had. I would lie awake at night trying to figure it out. I was frantically searching for answers."
Ultimately, Barabe found a reference to a small French study conducted by scientists at the Louvre who analyzed Egyptian marriage and land records written in Coptic and Greek and dating from the first to third centuries A.D. Much to Barabe's relief, those researchers had determined that a wedding certificate and other documents were written in ink made with copper, but little or no sulfur.
"Finding that study, and realizing its implications, tilted my opinion a little in the direction of it being appropriate for the era," Barabe said. "My memory of that experience remains quite vivid. I had a sudden feeling of peace that things were okay, and that I could submit my data without qualms."
Barabe now suspects that the ink used in the Gospel of Judas was probably transitional, a "missing link" between the ancient world's carbon-based inks and the iron gall inks (made with iron sulfate) that became popular in medieval times.
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