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Amazingly high recall power

HOMES is a top internet keyword around the globe and clearly defines one of the largest business sectors around the globe.

The exact-match combines trust, credibility and authority and could be utilized as a solid-brand foundation for a huge variety of property models.

As you read this listing, millions of people around the globe are browsing the internet for property listings/advertising their home online.

Each month, there are over 30,000,000 phrase searches for "Homes". We have listed below just a few of many highly-searched terms that could/should be also capitalized upon:

"Rental Homes" - 673,000 phrase searches/month

"Home" - 120,000,000 phrase searches/month

"New Homes" - 673,000 phrase searches/month

"Mobile Homes" - 823,000 phrase searches/month

"Townhomes" - 1,000,000 phrase searches/month

"Homes for rent" - 1,830,000 phrase searches/month

"Homes for sale" - 7,480,000 phrase searches/month

"Houses" - 16,600,000 phrase searches/month

"Rentals" - 16,600,000 phrase searches/month

The "Homes" keyword is so amazingly generic that it englobes a wealth of stand-alone fields, including (but not limited to):

- Appraisals: Professional valuation services

- Brokerages: A mediator who charges a fee to facilitate a real estate transaction between the two parties.

- Development: The business of buying land and building on it, or improving land for use, or replacing buildings

- Net leasing

- Property management: Managing a property for its owner(s)

- Real estate marketing: Managing the sales side of the property business

- Real estate investing: Managing the investment of real estate

- Relocation services: Relocating people or business to a different country

- Corporate Real Estate: Managing the real estate held by a corporation to support its core business

And then there are the construction companies? almost all construction business have a connection to real estate.

Here are just a few major categories that fall under the Homes keyword:

- Apartments

- Multi-family house?

- Terraced house?

- Condominium/Condos

- Cooperative (a.k.a. co-op)

- Semi-detached dwellings

- Duplex?

- Single-family detached home

- Portable dwellings

- Mobile homes

- Houseboats?

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BP Statistical Review Reveals Biggest Annual Increase in US Oil Production, as W

?The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013 - the 62nd annual report - is launched today, revealing that 2012 had the largest single-year increase in US oil production ever recorded, and new evidence of the flexibility of the world?s energy system in meeting rapid global change.

?The US recorded the world?s highest growth in production of both oil and natural gas in 2012, on the back of increasing production of unconventional hydrocarbons such as tight oil, an example of the increasing diversity of energy sources as the global market continues to adapt, innovate and evolve. With rising natural gas output driving prices lower in the US, natural gas displaced coal in power generation, causing the US to experience the largest decline of coal consumption in the world.

Elsewhere, 2012 saw the largest annual decline in world nuclear output. In Japan, where nuclear power generation all but disappeared after 2011?s Fukushima accident, higher imports of fossil fuels including liquefied natural gas (LNG) ?kept the lights on?. In Europe, where gas prices were higher than in the US, power generators took the opposite course from the US, and substituted coal for gas.
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?For those of us in the energy industry, the challenges are about how we respond to the big shifts we are seeing ? a shift in demand towards emerging economies and a shift in supply towards a greater diversity of energy sources, including unconventionals,? said Bob Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive.

?The data show there is ample energy available. Our challenge as an industry is to make the best choices about where to invest. We want to provide energy in ways that enable us to be both safe and competitive ? deploying our strengths while reducing our risks, and managing our costs.?

The Review also revealed a drop in the growth of overall global energy consumption to 1.8% in 2012, down from 2.4% the previous year. This was partly as a result of the economic slowdown, but also because individuals and businesses responded to high prices by becoming more efficient in their use of energy. The emerging economies - the non-OECD countries - firmly established themselves as the source of what demand growth was seen, with China and India alone accounting for nearly 90% of the increase. Just twenty years ago, the emerging economies accounted for only 42% of global consumption; now that figure is 56%.

For a second consecutive year, oil supply disruptions in Africa and the Middle East were offset by growth among other Middle East producers, with record oil production in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Despite these supply increases, average nominal oil prices reached another record high.

Coal remained the fastest-growing fossil fuel, with China now consuming the majority of the world?s coal for the first time?but it was also the fossil fuel that saw the weakest growth relative to its historical average.

Hydroelectric and renewable energy (along with cheap natural gas in North America) competed against coal in power generation. Global biofuels output fell for the first time since 2000 due to weakness in the US, but renewables in power generation grew by 15.2% and accounted for a record 4.7% of global power output.

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy use continued to grow in 2012, but at a slower rate than in 2011. Lower coal use helped the US reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide to 1994 levels, and EU emissions declined despite coal gaining market share from natural gas in power generation.

?2012 was yet another year of adaptation to a changing energy landscape,? said Christof R?hl, BP?s Chief Economist. ?As the non-OECD economies industrialize, they unlock ever more resources. The data tell us that the industrializing part of the world not only outpaces the OECD in terms of proved reserves growth, it also contributes its fair share to energy production.?

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Review highlights ? energy developments

• World primary energy consumption grew by 1.8% in 2012, well below the 10-year average of 2.6%.
• Consumption in OECD countries fell by 1.2%, led by a decline of 2.8% in the US (the world?s largest decline in volumetric terms).
• Non-OECD consumption grew by 4.2%, below the 10-year average of 5.3%.
• Global consumption growth was below average for all fossil fuels and nuclear power; regionally growth was below average everywhere except Africa.
• Oil remains the world?s leading fuel, at 33.1% of global energy consumption, but oil continued to lose market share for the 13th consecutive year and its current market share is the lowest in BP?s data set, which begins in 1965.

Oil

• Dated Brent averaged $111.67 per barrel in 2012, an increase of $0.4 per barrel from the 2011 level.
• Global oil consumption grew by 890,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 0.9%, below the historical average.
• Oil had the weakest global growth rate among fossil fuels for the third consecutive year. OECD consumption declined by 1.3% (530,000 b/d), the sixth decrease in the past seven years; the OECD now accounts for just 50.2% of global consumption, the smallest share on record. Outside the OECD, consumption grew by 1.4 million b/d, or 3.3%.
• China again recorded the largest increment to global consumption growth (+470,000 b/d, +5%) although the growth rate was below the 10-year average. Japanese consumption grew by 250,000 b/d (+6.3%), the strongest growth increment since 1994.
• Global oil production increased by 1.9 million b/d, or 2.2%. OPEC accounted for about three-quarters of the global increase despite a decline in Iranian output (-680,000 b/d) due to international sanctions. Libyan output (+1 million b/d) nearly regained all of the ground lost in 2011.
• For a second consecutive year, output reached record levels in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. Iraq and Kuwait also registered significant increases.
• Non-OPEC output grew by 490,000 b/d, with increases in the US (+1 million b/d), Canada, Russia and China offsetting unexpected outages in Sudan/South Sudan (down 340,000 b/d) and Syria (-160,000 b/d), as well as declines in mature provinces such as the United Kingdom and Norway.
• US net oil imports fell by 930,000 b/d and are now 36% below their 2005 peak. Conversely, China?s net oil imports grew by 610,000 b/d.

Natural gas

• World natural gas consumption grew by 2.2%, below the historical average of 2.7%.
• Consumption growth was above the 10-year average in South & Central America, Africa and North America, where the US (+4.1%) recorded the largest increment in the world. In Asia, China (+9.9%) and Japan (+10.3%) were responsible for the next-largest growth increments. Globally, natural gas accounted for 23.9% of primary energy consumption.
• Global natural gas production grew by 1.9%. The US (+4.7%) once again recorded the largest volumetric increase and remained the world?s largest producer. Norway (+12.6%), Qatar (+7.8%), and Saudi Arabia (+11.1%) also saw significant production increases, while Russia (-2.7%) had the world?s largest decline in volumetric terms.
• Global liquefied natural gas trade declined for the first time on record (-0.9%), while pipeline trade grew weakly (+0.5%). ?

Other fuels

• Coal consumption grew by 2.5% in 2012, well below the 10-year average of 4.4% but still the fastest-growing fossil fuel.
• Global coal production grew by 2%, with growth in China (+3.5%) and Indonesia (+9%) offsetting a decline in the US (-7.5%). Coal reached the highest share of global primary energy consumption (29.9%) since 1970.
• Global nuclear output fell by 6.9%, the largest decline on record for a second consecutive year; Japanese output fell by 89%, accounting for 82% of the global decline. Nuclear output accounted for 4.5% of global energy consumption, the smallest share since 1984. Hydroelectric output rose by an above-average 4.3%, with China accounting for all of the net increase.
• Renewable energy sources saw mixed results in 2012. Global biofuels production recorded the first decline since 2000 (-0.4%), due to a decline in the US (-4.3%). In contrast, renewable energy used in power generation grew by 15.2%, slightly above the historical average.
• Renewable forms of energy accounted for 2.4% of global energy consumption, up from 0.8% in 2002; renewables in power generation accounted for a record 4.7% of global power generation.

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Email:?bppress@bp.com

Source: http://www.rovworld.com/article6598.html

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Weight Loss/Obesity Management Market ? Global Forecas

28 Jun, 2013

DUBLIN, June 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ ?

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xcn6s7/weight) has announced the addition of the ?Weight Loss/Obesity Management Market ? [Meal Replacements, Slimming Centers, Nutrition & Psychological Consultancy, Treadmill, Ellipticals, Strength Training, Gastric Bypass, Intragastric Balloon System, Stomaphyx] ? Global Forecasts to 2017? report to their offering.

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The weight loss/obesity management market is divided into three major segments, namely diets (foods, beverages, & supplements), services, and fitness and surgical equipment; the market is forecast till 2017. The global rise in obesity and chronic diseases is stimulating the growth of the market.

The global weight loss/obesity management market was worth $265 billion in the year 2012. The global increase in obesity, increasing number of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and cardiac problems, increasing personal disposable income, government initiatives to increase awareness about health and fitness, and technological advancements are the key factors driving the global weight loss/obesity management market. Nonetheless, a few critical factors like availability of low-cost alternatives, adoption of deceptive marketing strategies, and high cost of customized services are hindering the growth of the market.

Low calorie beverages (carbonated and non-carbonated), and slimmer waters/natural mineral salt drinks showcase vast opportunities for key players in this market. The herbal/green market is also growing at a very fast pace in Asian countries, especially China. With the introduction of technologically advanced and highly sophisticated fitness equipment, the use of cardiovascular and strength training equipment is on a rise. The total number of health clubs in India increased from 765 in 2008 to 1,175 in 2011, at a CAGR of 15%.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction

2 Executive Summary

3 Market Overview

4 Global Weight Loss Diet Market: Food, Beverages And Supplements

5 Global Weight Loss Fitness & Surgical Equipment Market

6 Weight Loss Services Market

7 Geographic Analysis

8 Competitive Landscape

9 Company Profiles

Companies Mentioned

- Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

- Allergan, Inc.

- Amer Sports Corporation

- Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

- Brunswick Corporation

- Cynosure, Inc.

- Ediets.Com

- Equinox

- Fitness First Group, Ltd.

- Gold?s Gym International, Inc.

- Herbalife, Ltd.

- Icon Health & Fitness, Inc.

- Johnson & Johnson

- Johnson Health Tech. Co., Ltd.

- Life Time Fitness, Inc.

- Lifecore Fitness

- Nestle Sa

- Nutrisystem, Inc.

- Olympus Corporation

- Pepsico, Inc.

- The Coca-Cola Co.

- Weight Watchers International, Inc.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xcn6s7/weight

Research and Markets

Laura Wood, Senior Manager.

press@researchandmarkets.com

U.S. Fax: +1-646-607-1907

Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716

Sector: Healthcare and Medical Devices

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Paramount announces plans for 'Terminator' trilogy

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The "Terminator" is coming back.

Paramount announced Thursday that it is rebooting the "Terminator" franchise and planning for a new trilogy of films, but it's keeping mum on whether Arnold Schwarzenegger would play a role.

Schwarzenegger starred as the title character in the original 1984 movie. It spawned a trilogy that earned more than $1 billion at the box office worldwide.

Paramount says it will release the new "Terminator" in July 2015.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paramount-announces-plans-terminator-trilogy-000841755.html

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Obama heads to South Africa with Mandela on his mind

By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal

DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama heads to South Africa on Friday hoping to see ailing icon Nelson Mandela, after wrapping up a visit to Senegal that focused on improving food security and promoting democratic institutions.

Obama is in the middle of a three-country tour of Africa that the White House hopes will compensate for what some view as years of neglect by the administration of America's first black president.

Before departing Dakar, Obama was scheduled to meet with farmers and local entrepreneurs to discuss new technologies that are helping farmers and their families in West Africa, one of the world's poorest and most drought-prone regions.

But it was Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president who is clinging to life in a Pretoria hospital, who will dominate the president's day even before he arrives in Johannesburg.

Asked on Thursday whether Obama would be able to pay Mandela a visit, the White House said that was up to the family.

"We are going to completely defer to the wishes of the Mandela family and work with the South African government as relates to our visit," deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Senegal.

"Whatever the Mandela family deems appropriate, that's what we're focused on doing in terms of our interaction with them."

Obama sees Mandela, also known as Madiba, as a hero. Whether they are able to meet or not, officials said his trip would serve largely as a tribute to the anti-apartheid leader.

"I've had the privilege of meeting Madiba and speaking to him. And he's a personal hero, but I don't think I'm unique in that regard," Obama said on Thursday. "If and when he passes from this place, one thing I think we'll all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages."

The president arrives in South Africa Friday evening and has no public events scheduled. He could go to the hospital then.

Obama is scheduled to visit Robben Island, where Mandela spent years in prison, later during his trip.

On Friday morning, Obama will take part in a "Feed the Future" event on food security. That issue, along with anti-corruption measures and trade opportunities for U.S. companies, are topics the White House wants to highlight on Obama's tour.

Obama, who has been in office since 2009, has only visited Africa once in his presidential tenure: a short trip to Ghana at the beginning of his first term.

While acknowledging that Obama has not spent as much time in Africa as people hoped, the administration is eager to highlight what it has done, in part to end unflattering comparisons to accomplishments of predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Food security and public aid are two of the issues the Obama team believes are success stories.

"Africa has seen a steady and consistent increase in our overall resource investment each year that we've been in office," said Raj Shah, head of USAID. "And sustaining that in this political climate has required real trade-offs to be made in other areas, but we've done that."

(Editing by Daniel Flynn and Stacey Joyce)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-heads-south-africa-mandela-mind-020643222.html

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98% A Hijacking

All Critics (59) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (1)

To refuse to call A Hijacking a thriller is not to say it isn't thrilling, in a dryly cerebral way.

It's the second feature from the young writer-director Tobias Lindholm, and it showcases his gift for tightly focused stories told without an ounce of fat.

Lindholm doesn't present the film as a procedural for hostage negotiations because he knows too well that there are too many movable parts, too many things that can go wrong.

Methodical and tense ... has the feel of something based on real-life events ... boils down to an arresting portrait of two men, with different backgrounds and abilities, doing everything they can not to break.

We're impatient for action, any kind of action - but preferably the sort that involves a team of Navy SEALs, maybe led by Dwayne Johnson. Instead, we get something like a merger meeting.

Hand-held camerawork, so often a confounded nuisance, here makes the conditions on board the Rozen feel nauseatingly urgent.

When the gut-wrenching conclusion of A Hijacking comes in the form of a single, random act, it's only then you realize how far you've been pulled into its emotional core.

A Hijacking delivers all the thrills the title suggests, but in none of the places you'd expect them.

The danger never reaches the level of chaos, but the subtext and metaphor in the slow-moving humanistic commentary on the motivations and byproducts of capitalism make for an intriguing film.

A smart movie derived out of the small moments that collectively comprise the hostage experience, rather than grandiose gestures.

Lindholm's you-are-there docudrama works as a tense thriller, but themes of negotiation and the ability to empathize provide a rich subtext.

...slow, mostly talk, but tense and realistic...

The level of suspense in this riveting Danish thriller doesn't build in sweeping melodramatic fashion, but rather at a low-key simmer that emphasizes authentic character dynamics.

A Hijacking accomplishes a tricky task, generating tension through talk rather than action.

This absorbing chronicle of a hijacking in the Indian Ocean has the strengths of the best procedural dramas -- it assumes a distanced and objective tone and packs an emotional wallop.

Moment by moment we find ourselves wondering what will happen next...

Auteur Tobias Lindholm does a striking job in grabbing your attention and running with it as he succinctly tells the story of "A Hijacking."

A Hijacking is an absorbing, highly moving film that's lingered heavily on the mind for a couple of days now.

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Low self-control promotes selfless behavior in close relationships

Public release date: 27-Jun-2013
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Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

When faced with the choice of sacrificing time and energy for a loved one or taking the self-centered route, people's first impulse is to think of others, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

"For decades psychologists have assumed that the first impulse is selfish and that it takes self-control to behave in a pro-social manner," says lead researcher Francesca Righetti of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "We did not believe that this was true in every context, and especially not in close relationships."

Righetti and colleagues sought to examine whether impulsivity, in close relationships, might actually benefit others.

They found that participants whose self-control was taxed (and were thus more impulsive) were more willing to sacrifice time and energy for their romantic partner or best friend than participants whose self-control wasn't taxed.

In one study, to find out whether they would sacrifice in actual practice, the researchers told couples they would have to talk to 12 strangers and ask them embarrassing questions. The participants didn't know that they wouldn't actually have to follow through with the task.

Participants with high self-control opted to split the burden right down the middle assigning six strangers to themselves and six strangers to their partner. But participants with low self-control opted to take on more of the burden, sacrificing their own comfort to spare their partners.

A final experiment revealed that married individuals low in trait self-control sacrificed more for their partners, yet were also less forgiving of their transgressions presumably because self-control is required to override the focus on the wrongdoing and think instead about the relationship as a whole.

While sacrificing for a partner may help to build the relationship on a day-to-day basis, Righetti and colleagues note that it could backfire over the long-term, compromising individuals' ability to maintain a balance between personal and relationship-related concerns.

This balance is a perennial issue for anyone in a close relationship:

"Whether it's about which activities to engage in during free time, whose friends to go out with, or which city to live in, relationship partners often face a divergence of interests what is most preferred by one partner is not preferred by the other," notes Righetti.

The field of research is relatively new, so the jury is still out on what effects sacrifice has on relationship well-being, but Righetti is hopeful that research over the next few years will shed more light on the link.

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Co-authors on this research include Catrin Finkenauer, also of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Eli Finkel of Northwestern University.

This research was supported by grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

For more information about this study, please contact: Francesca Righetti at f.righetti@vu.nl.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Low Self-Control Promotes the Willingness to Sacrifice in Close Relationships" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Public release date: 27-Jun-2013
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Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

When faced with the choice of sacrificing time and energy for a loved one or taking the self-centered route, people's first impulse is to think of others, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

"For decades psychologists have assumed that the first impulse is selfish and that it takes self-control to behave in a pro-social manner," says lead researcher Francesca Righetti of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "We did not believe that this was true in every context, and especially not in close relationships."

Righetti and colleagues sought to examine whether impulsivity, in close relationships, might actually benefit others.

They found that participants whose self-control was taxed (and were thus more impulsive) were more willing to sacrifice time and energy for their romantic partner or best friend than participants whose self-control wasn't taxed.

In one study, to find out whether they would sacrifice in actual practice, the researchers told couples they would have to talk to 12 strangers and ask them embarrassing questions. The participants didn't know that they wouldn't actually have to follow through with the task.

Participants with high self-control opted to split the burden right down the middle assigning six strangers to themselves and six strangers to their partner. But participants with low self-control opted to take on more of the burden, sacrificing their own comfort to spare their partners.

A final experiment revealed that married individuals low in trait self-control sacrificed more for their partners, yet were also less forgiving of their transgressions presumably because self-control is required to override the focus on the wrongdoing and think instead about the relationship as a whole.

While sacrificing for a partner may help to build the relationship on a day-to-day basis, Righetti and colleagues note that it could backfire over the long-term, compromising individuals' ability to maintain a balance between personal and relationship-related concerns.

This balance is a perennial issue for anyone in a close relationship:

"Whether it's about which activities to engage in during free time, whose friends to go out with, or which city to live in, relationship partners often face a divergence of interests what is most preferred by one partner is not preferred by the other," notes Righetti.

The field of research is relatively new, so the jury is still out on what effects sacrifice has on relationship well-being, but Righetti is hopeful that research over the next few years will shed more light on the link.

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Co-authors on this research include Catrin Finkenauer, also of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Eli Finkel of Northwestern University.

This research was supported by grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

For more information about this study, please contact: Francesca Righetti at f.righetti@vu.nl.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Low Self-Control Promotes the Willingness to Sacrifice in Close Relationships" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Gay rights supporters erupt in cheers over ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Chanting "DOMA is Dead," supporters of same-sex marriage burst into cheers and some wept openly upon hearing word of the Supreme Court's decision Wednesday striking down a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Some in the crowd hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday when the decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.

Chants of "Thank you" and "USA" came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court's marbled steps

Sarah Prager, 26, cried and was shaking when she heard the news, and she and a stranger hugged. Prager, who married her wife in Massachusetts in 2011, said she was in shock. "Oh that's so good. It's just really good," she said.

"I'm in shock. I didn't expect DOMA to be struck down," she said through tears and shaking. Prager was referring to the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. Gay rights activists had argued that the law effectively denied same-sex married couples the federal benefits that heterosexual couples enjoyed.

Amanda Klinger, 29, and Caroline Hunt, 26, of Washington, DC, were awaiting the ruling anxiously.

Hunt said she cried and jumped up and down when she heard the news from a neighbor in the crowd, said she felt "relieved." Klinger said she no longer feels like "a second class citizen." The two are planning a wedding in Massachusetts in August and planned a civil ceremony in DC before. They said they planned to celebrate Wednesday's decisions by going to the D.C. courthouse and applying for a marriage license.

A large crowd had thronged to the high court's plaza earlier to await not only the decision on DOMA, but also a ruling on whether a constitutional amendment in California prohibiting gay marriage could stand the test of challenge.

In that second case, the justices cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban.

The court's 5-4 ruling in that case left in place the initial trial court declaration that the ban was unconstitutional. California officials probably will rely on that ruling to allow the resumption of same-sex unions in about a month's time.

Most of the people who spilled across the sidewalk in front of the court were gay marriage supporters. One held a rainbow flag and another wore a rainbow shawl, and a number of people carried signs with messages including "2 moms make a right" and "'I Do' Support Marriage Equality." Others wore T-shirts including "Legalize gay" and "It's time for marriage equality." At several points the crowd began a call and response: "What do we want? Equality. When do we want it? Now."

Larry Cirignano, 57, was in the minority with a sign supporting marriage only between a man and a woman. He said he drove four hours from Far Hills, N.J., because he believed all views should be represented. He said he hopes the court follows the lead of 38 states that have defined marriage as between one man and one woman

George Washington University student Philip Anderson, 20, came to the court with a closet door that towered above his head. He had painted it with a message opposing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman and which the court is considering. His door read: "This used to oppress me. Repeal DOMA; Now. No more shut doors."

Thirty-four-year-old Ian Holloway of Los Angeles got to the court around 7 a.m. to try to get a seat inside the courtroom. Holloway said he and his partner had planned to get married in March but when the justices decided to hear the case involving California's ban on gay marriage they pushed back their date.

He said, "We have rings ready. We're ready to go as soon as the decision comes down." Holloway said he was optimistic the justices would strike down Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gay-rights-supporters-erupt-cheers-over-ruling-142802499.html

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Survey: German consumer confidence at 6-year high

BERLIN (AP) ? A survey has found that low unemployment and solid wage increases have helped push German consumer confidence to a nearly six-year high.

The GfK research institute said Wednesday that its forward-looking consumer climate index rose to 6.8 points for July from 6.5 in June. That's the highest level since a reading of 7.3 in September 2007.

Germany's unemployment rate was 6.8 percent in May, a contrast with rates above 20 percent in the European countries worst-hit by the debt crisis. Industrial workers and others in the country, which has Europe's biggest economy, have secured wage raises well above the inflation rate this year.

Earlier this week, a closely watched survey showed a slight increase in business confidence, underlining expectations of stronger economic growth in Germany.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/survey-german-consumer-confidence-6-high-064253416.html

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Video Interviews with Cast & Crew of Monsters University

When we all saw Monsters Inc, it left a lot of questions unanswered as to where the scaring actually began for Mike and Sully. This film answers all of those questions--and the cast continues to answer other questions, like what scared them as children or if they ever had mean teachers.

Click here to watch more video interviews

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Former UFC fighter sentenced to 13 years in prison for drug trafficking

As mentioned previously on Cagewriter, UFC veteran Paul Kelly was convicted for trafficking heroin in the United Kingdom. He got his sentence. Kelly, who last fought in the UFC when he lost to Donald Cerrone at UFC 126, will have to serve 13 years in prison.

The judge in Kelly's case pointed out the fighter's role as a drug trafficker.

"In my judgement you decided to supply Class A drugs when your contract with UFC was terminated," Brown was quoted as saying in the Liverpool Echo. "You obviously enjoyed the high life and saw selling heroin as an easy way to make money."

An extra wrinkle to Kelly's sentence is that he is 28 years old and riding a two-fight winning streak. Assuming Kelly serves out his entire sentence, he will be 41 when he's released. Kelly's actions have not only cost him his freedom, but more than likely, his career. Crime doesn't pay, kids.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/former-ufc-fighter-sentenced-13-years-prison-drug-221919915.html

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Nigeria drops charges against some Russian arms suspects

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities dropped charges on Tuesday against eight Russian sailors suspected of trafficking arms, their lawyer said, but another seven will face trial.

The 15 Russian sailors were charged with illegally bringing weapons into Nigeria last year, after Nigerian authorities intercepted a ship on October 23, saying they had found several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

The court case has raised tensions between Nigeria and Russia, whose Foreign Ministry has spoken out against the charges. Russian media have reported assurances from Nigeria that the sailors would be allowed to return home. Nigeria has not commented on this alleged promise.

Their defense lawyer Abubakar Onegbu told reporters outside the court that the charges had been dropped because they had not been on the ship when it was detained, but had arrived by air to carry out a crew change. The prosecuting counsel was not available for comment.

Justice James Soho adjourned the trial of the others until Friday. They are free on bail.

"In general we regard this development a positive step," Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday evening. "We expect a similar decision to be taken (in regard to seven remaining sailors) at the upcoming court sitting."

Arms smuggling to and through Nigeria is rife. Demand for weapons is high because of an Islamist rebellion in the north, armed robbery and kidnapping by gangs in the south and oil theft and piracy in the southeast.

The country is also sometimes used as a conduit for shipping arms to other conflict-ridden parts of West Africa.

(Reporting Angela Ukomadu, additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow, Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Michael Roddy)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-drops-charges-against-russian-arms-suspects-164440471.html

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Scientist Drinks Billion-Year-Old Water Just to See What It's Like

So remember about a month ago when scientists in Canada found the oldest undisturbed water cache ever? The one that had been stagnant beneath a rock for roughly 1.5 billion years? And that might hold the remains of prehistoric life? Yeah, don't drink that; it tastes like crap. Or so says Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar. And she should know?she's tasted it.

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5 Tips for Improving Your Lifestyle Before It's Too Late

Howdy, you might know me as the guy who wrote such memorable post as From Elegant to Elephant: When Your Woman Gains Weight and the remix When the Woman You Love Gains Weight. When you write post with titles like these, you kinda sorta have to put your money ? or weight, as the case may be ? where your mouth is.

Let me warn the younger readers right now while you still have a chance to save yourselves: thirty is not the new 20. I don?t know who started that vicious rumor, but it is NOT true. I went into my 30s thinking it was the new 20s, and therefore, I wouldn?t have to make any major changes to my normal routine because I would simply be reliving my 20s all over again ? except with more money and wisdom.

WRONG!

There are any number of differences (and horror stories) I could traumatize you with about your 30s, but today I?ll focus on some changes you should make to your eating habits and gym routine if you want your 30s to remotely mirror your 20s. If you?re over 30, hopefully you?re already doing these things, and if you?re under 30, hopefully you?ll learn from my mistakes.

Diets Are for Teenagers

When you?re in your teens and early 20s, you can diet all you want. I personally think diets are pointless and stupid, but I recognize they serve a purpose. Diets are like the Tyler Perry?s of the health & fitness world. I don?t care for them, but I assume ? given their popularity ? that they must do some good for some people. That said, if you?re in your late 20s or older, give up dieting immediately!

In this age group, you can no longer ?diet.? Diets are temporary solutions. When you hit your mid 20s or later you need to make ?lifestyle changes if you want to see any lasting impact on your health or waistline. I don?t care who you are, your metabolism ? if it hasn?t already ? will slow down. I?m a naturally slim guy, so like most idiots, I assumed I would be the exception to the rule and that my fast metabolism would be a personal gift from God that would never abandon me.

FALSE! AND YOU WILL BE NO DIFFERENT MY FRIEND!

Tip: Start making lifestyle changes as soon as possible. Lifestyle changes are sacrifices. Unlike diets, which are temporary solutions to permanent problems, sacrifices entail giving something up for good. For example, I ?gave up? smoking, drinking sodas, fruit juices that aren?t 100%, and fast food. I put ?gave up? in quotes, because this isn?t a punishment; however, whatever you give up should become the rules not the exception. You?re only hurting yourself by continuing to eat and do things you don?t need a doctor to tell you is bad for you. The longer you wait, the more time it has to do damage. Stop making excuses and living on fad diets. Give up your vices today, and your future-self will thank you.

?Skinny Fat? People Are Not Healthier

By the time I came across a health article on Skinny Fat, I was already in the midst of attempting to get back into shape. Skinny fat is defined as, ?excessive belly fat?and relatively little muscle mass? [or] ? ?normal weight obesity,? this type of build is linked to increased risk for diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of Americans.?

Most people assume if they?re slim or skinny, then they must be in shape. This is a hugely inaccurate assumption. The fact is you can be skinny/slim and be out of shape or you can be big/husky and in shape. Although I fell into the earlier category, I was getting more and more out of shape and I wasn?t doing anything about it.

Tips: Like most things, the easiest way to get into shape is to never get out of shape. That?s not realistic for most people. Most of us need a wake-up call before we?ll make the necessary changes. If you?re not in shape or you?re not in the shape you want to be: 1) start SOMEWHERE, anywhere. This couple lost a combined 500lbs in two years?by doing something amazing?WALKING. 2) If you?re already working out, but not getting the results you want, DIVERSIFY YOUR WORKOUT. It sounds simple, but I got amazing results by simply adding to and diversifying the workouts I was already doing.

I was going to the gym 5-days a week but I wasn?t getting a real workout. I was doing the same thing boring workouts I?ve been doing the past 10 years, and I never sweat. Now I ?change up my routines every 4 to 8 weeks, use varying sets to create muscle confusion ?(think P90X and Insanity, both of which I?ve used intermittently), and if I don?t sweat I don?t consider it a real work out.

Click over to the next page for more tips and my own ?before and after? photo.

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Source: http://www.singleblackmale.org/2013/06/17/forever-young-5-tips-for-improving-your-lifestyle-before-its-too-late/

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Marks on Martian dunes may be tracks of dry-ice sleds

June 11, 2013 ? NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.

Researchers deduced this process could explain one enigmatic class of gullies seen on Martian sand dunes by examining images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and performing experiments on sand dunes in Utah and California.

"I have always dreamed of going to Mars," said Serina Diniega, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a report published online by the journal Icarus. "Now I dream of snowboarding down a Martian sand dune on a block of dry ice."

The hillside grooves on Mars, called linear gullies, show relatively constant width -- up to a few yards, or meters, across -- with raised banks or levees along the sides. Unlike gullies caused by water flows on Earth and possibly on Mars, they do not have aprons of debris at the downhill end of the gully. Instead, many have pits at the downhill end.

"In debris flows, you have water carrying sediment downhill, and the material eroded from the top is carried to the bottom and deposited as a fan-shaped apron," said Diniega. "In the linear gullies, you're not transporting material. You're carving out a groove, pushing material to the sides."

Images from MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera show sand dunes with linear gullies covered by carbon-dioxide frost during the Martian winter. The location of the linear gullies is on dunes that spend the Martian winter covered by carbon-dioxide frost. By comparing before-and-after images from different seasons, researchers determined that the grooves are formed during early spring. Some images have even caught bright objects in the gullies.

Scientists theorize the bright objects are pieces of dry ice that have broken away from points higher on the slope. According to the new hypothesis, the pits could result from the blocks of dry ice completely sublimating away into carbon-dioxide gas after they have stopped traveling.

"Linear gullies don't look like gullies on Earth or other gullies on Mars, and this process wouldn't happen on Earth," said Diniega. "You don't get blocks of dry ice on Earth unless you go buy them."

That is exactly what report co-author Candice Hansen, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., did. Hansen has studied other effects of seasonal carbon-dioxide ice on Mars, such as spider-shaped features that result from explosive release of carbon-dioxide gas trapped beneath a sheet of dry ice as the underside of the sheet thaws in spring. She suspected a role for dry ice in forming linear gullies, so she bought some slabs of dry ice at a supermarket and slid them down sand dunes.

That day and in several later experiments, gaseous carbon dioxide from the thawing ice maintained a lubricating layer under the slab and also pushed sand aside into small levees as the slabs glided down even low-angle slopes.

The outdoor tests did not simulate Martian temperature and pressure, but calculations indicate the dry ice would act similarly in early Martian spring where the linear gullies form. Although water ice, too, can sublimate directly to gas under some Martian conditions, it would stay frozen at the temperatures at which these gullies form, the researchers calculate.

"MRO is showing that Mars is a very active planet," Hansen said. "Some of the processes we see on Mars are like processes on Earth, but this one is in the category of uniquely Martian."

Hansen also noted the process could be unique to the linear gullies described on Martian sand dunes.

"There are a variety of different types of features on Mars that sometimes get lumped together as 'gullies,' but they are formed by different processes," she said. "Just because this dry-ice hypothesis looks like a good explanation for one type doesn't mean it applies to others."

The University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory operates the HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages MRO for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the orbiter.

To see images of the linear gullies and obtain more information about MRO, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro .

For more about HiRISE, visit: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu .

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130611145103.htm

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Turkey premier to meet with Istanbul protesters

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey's prime minister will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, the deputy prime minister said Monday, as the government sought a way out of the impasse that has led to hundreds of protests in dozens of cities.

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said, however, the government would no longer tolerate "illegal acts," and implied that the occupation of Taksim and its accompanying Gezi Park would be over by the weekend.

"Illegal acts in Turkey from now won't be allowed and whatever needs to be done according to the law will be done," he said after a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "All necessary actions against illegal acts will have been completed, and we will see this all together, by the weekend."

The protests appeared on the wane, with the smallest number of demonstrators in the past 11 days gathering in Taksim on Monday night. The protesters occupying Gezi Park remain, however.

Smaller protests occurred in Ankara too, with about 5,000 people demonstrating. Police there have used water cannon and tear gas to break up demonstrations almost every night.

Three people have died and more than 5,000 have been treated for injuries or the effects of gas during the protests. The government says 600 police officers have also been injured.

Erdogan will meet Gezi Park protesters Wednesday, following a request by some of the protesters, Arinc said, but not at the square. With no clear leadership organizing the Gezi occupation, it was unclear who the prime minister would be meeting.

The unrest was sparked by a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in by protesters objecting to a project replacing the park with a replica Ottoman-era barracks.

The crackdown, in which protesters were confronted with tear gas and water cannon as they slept, galvanized tens of thousands of Turks. The demonstrations quickly turned into a denunciation of what many see as Erdogan's increasingly autocratic ways and attempts to impose Muslim values on a country with secular laws ? charges the prime minister vehemently rejects.

A law restricting the sale of alcohol and banning its advertising ? one of the things protesters had pointed to as evidence of decreasing social tolerance ? was signed into law by President Abdullah Gul on Monday.

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Associated Press writer Elena Becatoros in Istanbul contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-premier-meet-istanbul-protesters-193323653.html

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Helen Mirren talks royalty and 'Doctor Who'

LONDON (AP) ? Helen Mirren is a star of stage and screen ? and now stage on-screen.

Mirren's award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience" will be beamed this week from London's Gielgud Theatre to hundreds of movie theaters around the world in a live broadcast.

It's the latest step in Mirren's glittering regal procession as the monarch. She won an Academy Award for playing Elizabeth in the 2006 movie "The Queen," and gained an Olivier stage trophy in April for her reprise in box-office hit "The Audience."

But the actress, who has made a career of not being typecast, had to be persuaded to wear the crown a second time.

"I really didn't want to play the role again," Mirren said in an interview before another evening donning tiara and pearls. "I was very resistant."

Mirren was won over by the quality of the creative team, which includes director Stephen Daldry, award-winning stage designer Bob Crowley and playwright Peter Morgan, who wrote both "The Queen" and "The Audience."

"It was just an amazing team, and I thought, 'If you walk away from this, you're an idiot,'" Mirren said.

She also felt there was more to explore about the queen, an intensely private and uniquely public figure.

"She's at the same time completely known and completely unknowable," Mirren said. "So there's this extraordinary dichotomy of a very familiar person who is a complete mystery at the same time."

"The Audience" imagines the private weekly meetings between the monarch and Britain's prime ministers ? 12 in all ? over her six-decade reign. Mirren gives a delicately nuanced performance, both regal and vulnerable, in which the queen grows from a tentative 20-something to wise octogenarian while retaining a core of solitude.

Mirren is not a monarchist, but says she has come to sympathize with Elizabeth and the burden of her position.

"This is a woman who has lived with nonstop admiration and a lot of sycophancy, but at the same time is a very straightforward, pragmatic, down to earth person, I suspect.

"It's a life of incredible luxury in many ways, but I don't think luxury is her default mode. I don't think she likes luxury, actually. I think she'd be far happier on a tractor with muddy boots in the kitchen and lots of dogs running around."

"The Audience" will be broadcast to cinemas across Britain and around the world Thursday. Some movie theaters will show it live, while others will show it at different times throughout the summer.

Live theater broadcasts have become a surprise hit since Britain's National Theatre launched its NT Live program four years ago with ? fittingly enough ? a production of Jean Racine's "Phedre" starring Mirren.

What began as an experiment inspired by the Metropolitan Opera's cinema broadcasts has quickly become a cultural fixture. From an initial 280 theaters, the broadcasts now go out to almost 700 venues in 25 countries.

Eight shows a year get the NT Live treatment. Most are National Theatre productions, but some, like "The Audience," come from other theaters. Next up is Kenneth Branagh's "Macbeth," to be broadcast from the Manchester International Festival on July 20.

"It's been way beyond our wildest dreams," said David Sabel, executive producer of NT Live. "When we launched it, it was very much an experiment. We were quietly confident, but there were a lot of questions about whether it would work.

"In the past when theater has been filmed, they've put the cameras at the back or on the side so as not to disturb the audience," he said. "And that's why you end up with a product that looks like it wasn't meant to be filmed."

NT Live's approach was to treat the plays like live sports broadcasts, using multiple cameras, tracking shots, and close-ups to merge the immediacy of live theater and the intimacy of film.

Mirren knows from experience the challenge of playing to a live audience while cameras, occupying some of the seats, film the action.

"It's very tricky, because there's such a world of difference between theatre acting and film acting, and this absolutely is right in the middle," Mirren said.

"It's not a process that you get to practice a lot, so it's a bit of a crapshoot. You're working in the dark really, and there's no chance of going back and going 'Oh God, can we do it again?' You just have to go for it, in the way that you do in the theater."

"The Audience" ends its West End run on Saturday, but Mirren may not be finished with the queen yet. She says the play may transfer to Broadway ? "but not for a while."

At 67, Mirren is at the top of her game. In a 45-year career, she's gone from the Royal Shakespeare Company to screen notoriety in the racy "Caligula" to movie classics such as "Excalibur" and "The Long Good Friday." Millions know her as steely detective Jane Tennison in the long-running TV series "Prime Suspect," and she can currently be heard as the voice of a sinister creature in the animated movie "Monsters University."

Dame Helen Mirren ? she received the female equivalent of a knighthood in 2003 ? is as much a national treasure as the queen, though a considerably less buttoned-up one.

She has even been suggested as the next star of "Doctor Who," the beloved BBC sci-fi series about a space-hopping, time-traveling alien hero. Eleven actors have played the role since the show began in 1963, and a 12th is to be announced soon.

That has sparked intense speculation among the show's millions of fans, with some wondering whether the role might go to a woman for the first time. One bookmaker is offering 25-1 odds on it being Mirren.

"Oh, please ? I would put much longer odds on it than that," she scoffed.

"But I think it's absolutely time for a female Doctor Who. I'm so sick of that man with his girl sidekick. I could name at least 10 wonderful British actresses who would absolutely kill in that role."

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Online:

The Audience: http://www.theaudienceplay.com/home/

NT Live: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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Bodies, bad parents scare up drama on 'Killing'

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Linden (Mireille Enos) looks out at the bags of bodies.

If you caught last week?s third-season premiere of AMC?s ?The Killing,? then you likely felt a slight sense of d?j? vu at the beginning of this Sunday?s episode, since it started out at precisely the same spot where we left off: with Linden (Mireille Enos) staring out over a sea of bodies. It isn?t long, however, before she?s joined by no less than two of her former partners, with Skinner (Elias Koteas) taking charge of the investigation while a decidedly annoyed Holder (Joel Kinnaman) snorts, ?Looks like you found the Seward file??

Howdy, partner

It never really results in any full-fledged in-your-face moments, but from a character development standpoint, it?s particularly interesting to watch the tension inspired by Linden?s decision to return to duty and deeply immerse herself in this new case. Linden and Holden discovered that they only step on each other?s toes when working independently, but to hear Reddick (Gregg Henry) tell it, everyone in the department ? with the apparent exception of Holder ? knows that Linden and Skinner used to have a thing back in the day. Based on Skinner?s wide-eyed reaction when Linden tells him that his wife knows about their former affair, however, he clearly believed that the whole thing had been successfully kept quiet.

Bullet Blabs

It?s pretty ghastly to see the bruises left on Bullet after Goldie?s attack last episode (and that?s not even touching on the residual psychological damage), but the scrappy young woman gets at least a bit of revenge by telling Holder where to find the limping pimp. Although Bullet?s suspicion that it?s Callie who?s being held hostage in the apartment proves false, the truth is, in its own way, even more disturbing: Reddick estimates that the girl who is in Goldie?s apartment can?t be any older than 12. There are a couple of disconcerting moments amongst teenage girls in this episode, actually, the kind that make you want to hold your daughter close and never let her go. Well, unless you?re Danette Lutz (Amy Seimetz), in which case you just shrug and say, ?Hey, I can?t control her. I never could.? Nice cop-out, Mom.

Slice and dice

After stumbling upon a razor blade lodged inside his bar of soap, Ray Seward (Peter Sarsgaard) spent the entire episode ramping up the suspense, coming disconcertingly close to whipping it out and using it on prison guard Francis Becker (Hugh Dillon). Unless it turns out to be some sort of ruse, however, it appears that Becker?s repeated taunts about Seward?s son and his damaged relationship with the boy caused him to turn the blade on himself. It?s a grotesque moment under the best of circumstances, but coming as it does in the wake of Becker?s comments, one can?t help but wonder further about what?s gone on with this father/son relationship that?s yet to be revealed.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/bad-parents-bags-bodies-scare-drama-killing-6C10261384

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