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A franchise that prides itself on being fast and furious is not going to send one of their own -- in Furious 7’s case, Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner -- gentle into the night. But he does go. And if you didn’t know of how much work the team behind the movie put into salvaging an incomplete film, you’d never know this wasn’t what they were planning all along.
Walker died in a high-speed crash in November 2013. At the time, the seventh installment (Walker’s sixth) was only halfway through production. So when the cast and crew decided to go back to work to complete the movie, the script was overhauled and Walker’s younger brothers, Caleb and Cody, were brought in as stand-ins for Paul, all to craft and execute an emotional “retirement” for Brian.
We won’t spoil it flat-out for you, but the tribute at the end of the movie is emotional: Not overly-sentimental, except in the way the Fast & Furious movies have always been overly sentimental, with tough guys saying things that tough guys think are poetic -- “I don’t have friends. I got family.” -- to each other while piano music wafts in the background; but truly final. And we don’t blame you if you got a little verklempt when “For Paul” appears on the screen as the credits roll.
NEWS: Vin Diesel says ‘Furious 7’ will win Best Picture at the 2016 Oscars!
Because The Fast and the Furious isn’t just the role that defined his career, it was how Walker lived his life. “I’ve always been into cars,” he told ET in 2013 while promoting Fast & Furious 6. “In my family, that’s just the way it was. Car racing, growing up all the different car publications around the house, going to my grandfather’s shop...I think it’s just a part of my DNA."
“I like going fast,” he shrugged.
FLASHBACK: Paul Walker on the set of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ in 2000!
And this installment is faster, furious-er, and more insane than any that have come before it. There’s a so-called “Super Car” that drives 200-plus miles per hour -- which Brian and Dom (Vin Diesel) proceed to “fly” through three skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi. A fleet of murdered-out race cars skydive into a shoot-out on a remote mountainside. A shot-up bus careens off a cliff. Cars are horribly, terribly wrecked -- as they are in every other F&F film. Smashed into bits. Burst into flames.
Is it hard to watch knowing what fate befell the star of the movie? Depends how easily distracted you are. Can you separate art -- in the sense that any movie is art -- from real-life, even when the lines blur and it’s hard to know where one stops and the other starts? If you can, it’s just another testosterone soaked romp with the Toretto “family.” Is there a morbid curiosity in trying to see what scenes have the late actor CGI-ed in? Naturally. Do you wince a little more when two cars smash into each other? Maybe.
But it feels like the movie Paul would have wanted.
By: Shea Gunther on Feb. 8, 2011, 8:26 a.m.
What better way to show your sweetie how much you love her than doing it in a way that's sensitive to the environment? More than 100 million roses are sold in the U.S. in the three days around Valentine's Day, the vast majority of them grown using toxic pesticides and fertilizer. We buy an equally massive amount of chocolates, stuffed animals, and other gifts that are — by and large — made using conventional materials and ingredients. In short, while Valentine's Day may be great for the purveyors of flowers, chocolates and greeting cards, it can be a drag for Mother Earth.
We'd be stupid to suggest that people opt out of Valentine's Day in deference to the Earth. Life just doesn't work that way, and besides, Valentine's Day is fun! So let's all get more thoughtful as we celebrate this Valentine's Day. Here are a few simple steps you can take to celebrate the holiday with a lighter environmental footprint.
Justin Cass and then running one in from 22 yards for the decisive score with just over four minutes to play.
Platte Valley defeated University 13-7, improving its record to 3-3 overall, 1-2 in the Patriot League. The University Bulldogs fell to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the Patriot League.
For the Bulldogs, running back Dominic Hernandez didn’t let the capacity crowd in Kersey deter him from showing how much the University team has improved.
On both sides of the ball, Hernandez did his best to spoil homecoming and senior night for Platte Valley.
After a sluggishly played first half, Hernandez took a reverse handoff and rumbled 71 yards for a score on the second play after the break. That, in addition to his first-half interception in the end zone, seemed like it might hold up for a Bulldog team looking for the upset.
The Bulldogs committed five turnovers, but it was the play of Hernandez who gave them the chance to win. The senior running back carried seven times for 71 yards and was 1-of-1 passing for 29 yards.
I don't know how much I would trust a "study" from a website that allows men to bid money on dates with women, so, you know, let's just start there.
The survey also found the highest concentration of no-good dirty rotten online profile fabricators in Atlanta, New York and Washington, D.C., while people in Houston, Phoenix, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Minneapolis were veritable George Washingtons of Internet dating.
But even the big liars aren't full-on Catfish-ing potential mates, just lacing their profiles with minor deceptions and indulging in the same kinds of white lies that men and women have been telling over watery cocktails at bars since the beginning of time: That they are fitter, better educated, wealthier -- you get the idea.
Now, before you go and delete your Internet dating profile of choice, consider this: Small lies can actually be good for your mental health and dating prospects, some researchers say. In a 2009 study on the issue, researchers found that some untruths -- like exaggerating your college GPA -- can actually lead to improved performance. The fibs, within reason, can become self-fulfilling.
"Exaggerators tend to be more confident and have higher goals for achievement," Richard Gramzow, a psychologist at the University of Southampton in England and one of the study's co-authors, told U.S. News and World Report. "Positive biases about the self can be beneficial."
And lying may be necessary to "compete" in an over-saturated online dating market, but it's incumbent to find a proper balance of honesty and the desire to present oneself in the very best terms, experts say.
Major takeaways? When it comes to lying in your Internet dating profile (which, statistically speaking, you probably will), exercise caution. Want to say you're 5-foot-10 instead of 5-foot-8? Go ahead! Feel like describing yourself as a "natural" blonde? By all means. But you might want to reconsider, say, pretending to be a Stanford University undergraduate with leukemia in an effort to snag the football hunk of your dreams.
Really. That's going to be a hard one to explain.
The Democrats and their media adjunct played the race card over and over in the campaign that concluded with the election of Donald Trump on November 8. They aren’t about to give it a rest now. They have done a superb job of devaluing the charge. One might reasonably infer that the equal treatment of men without regard to race means nothing to them. Rather, they treat the issue of racism as a charge to be invoked purely for instrumental purposes.
Now that Senator Sessions is to be nominated to serve as Attorney General in Trump’s cabinet, Tucker Carlson invited Allen to appear on his new FOX News show to discuss the column. (For “discuss,” read “cross-examine him on.”) Put to the test by Carlson, Allen proved to be firing blanks. At the Weekly Standard, Mark Hemingway introduced evidence somehow overlooked by Allen in his column.
Paul Mirengoff went over the same ground in “Freakout by Elizabeth Warren.” I thought it worth revisiting with a focus on Allen’s column this morning.
There have been plenty of civil cases against architects over the years, for all manner of negligence. But, today, an extremely rare criminal case was decided: An architect was sentenced to a year in LA county jail after pleading no contest to the manslaughter of a firefighter who died while trying to contain a fire in a home the architect had designed for himself.
The case dates back to 2011, when a fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills home of a German architect named Gerhard Becker, who designed the building himself. The fire began in one of four fireplaces that had been manufactured for outdoor use but hidden within the houses itself; this means they were in clear violation of local building codes.
The flames then melted a water pipe, which leaked thousands of gallons of water into a ceiling above the heads of the firefighters battling the fire. When the ceiling collapsed, it crushed 61-year-old Glenn Allen, who died the next day of his injuries.
Becker allegedly had the fireplaces installed after the mansion had cleared its inspection, writing, "I want this to be installed after the final inspection so we don't have any final delays by the inspector."
Becker was interviewed by fire investigators, but two months after they last spoke to him, he broke the lease on his home, sold two vehicles and flew to Switzerland and then Spain, where he began to build another luxury home. There he set up construction companies in the name of his wife, a yoga instructor, investigators said.
It's extremely rare for an architect to be convicted in a criminal case of negligence, although it was much more common in earlier centuries, before the advent of legit standardized building code. These days, it's far more likely for a client to sue for civil damages resulting shoddy construction or a delayed project. For example, Santiago Calatrava is currently being sued for damages by his hometown of Valencia, whose eight-year-old opera house is already crumbling.
One high profile instance that could've, theoretically, turned into a criminal case involved a shooting at a Frank Gehry-designed building at Case Western in 2003. Some wondered whether the complexity of the building's layout played a role in preventing victims from easily escaping. That question, however, like most others, involved too many other factors to place the blame solely on design. But, in the case of Becker, who intentionally misled building inspectors and endangered 80 firefighters, killing one, the blame is clear.
The TSET Board of Directors have approved incentive grants for schools that have passed policies to help students learn healthy habits early and promote health for students, teachers and staff through the TSET Healthy Incentive Program.
TSET funds were awarded to 21 school districts and two school sites. There was one Pottawatomie County district among the recipients — South Rock Creek school, which was awarded $13,500. In Seminole County, Varnum and Sasakwa each will receive $15,000.
In Lincoln County, Carney and White Rock School will each receive $15,000 and the Wellston district will get $17,000.
The awards are part of a comprehensive effort to prevent and reduce the leading causes of death in Oklahoma — heart disease, stroke and cancer by preventing unhealthy behaviors before they take root.
The TSET Healthy Incentive Program for schools works to prevent and reduce the leading causes of death in Oklahoma — heart disease, stroke and cancer by preventing unhealthy behaviors before they take root.
Grants are awarded to districts and schools that have implemented key strategies aimed at creating an environment that encourages students, faculty and staff to eat better, move more and be tobacco free. District and schools choose how grant funds will be used on projects that promote healthy behaviors or physical activity.
All public school districts that meet grant criteria are eligible to apply for a TSET Healthy Incentive Grant. School districts must successfully adopt health promoting policies before individual schools sites are eligible to apply.
Policy requirements for the TSET healthy incentive grants include a comprehensive tobacco-free policy that prohibits smoking, vaping and using smokeless tobacco on school grounds and a wellness policy that improves the nutrition environment, increases physical activity and promotes employee wellness. Research shows that healthy behaviors established during childhood carry through to adulthood.
The Center was founded in 1978 by Adel Kader with the goal of organizing and coordinating knowledge transfer regarding reduction of postharvest losses and improving the the quality and marketability of fresh horticultural products. The research findings disseminated during this era by Kader and a cadre of colleagues is the cornerstone and foundation for our current year-round supply and global sourcing of quality fresh and minimally-processed produce and cut flowers.
Our mission today is to remain a leading source of information on quality, safety and marketability of fresh produce and to sustain the viability of the Center for the next generation of scientists and practitioners. Our immediate goal is to broaden the level of involvement among our basic, applied and extension faculty and use the PTC platform to distill, translate, and disseminate emerging technology advancements to a broader industry and affiliated stakeholder audience.
This workshop is intended for shippers, handlers, and produce managers who are involved in transporting and ripening produce, and focuses on increasing profits by reducing losses and delivering ready-to-eat products to the consumer.
Through topic-related sessions and demonstrations, this workshop provides an intensive overview of fresh-cut production, processing, packaging, distribution and quality assurance.
This combination of online and in-person curriculum covers produce safety, harvesting systems, cooling, packaging, transportation, quality, modified atmospheres, and marketing of fresh produce.
The Postharvest Technology Center is under the Regents of the University of California, a 501(3)(c) organization. Click the link below to make a tax-deductible donation to the Postharvest Program Endowed Fund.
It’s been just a few short months since Inspirefest wowed with its debut, bringing together sci-tech professionals from across the world for a two-day event aiming to #ChangetheRatio of STEM conferences.
Diversity was the watchword, with a conscious effort made to include speakers and panellists of all stripes, and from all backgrounds.
But the bid for diversity was far from the only exciting thing about Inspirefest 2015, with a number of speakers making significant announcements from the Inspirefest stage, and others going on to have huge successes with their initiatives and projects.
Now, a third of a year on, we’re already looking towards Inspirefest 2016. Speakers have been announced, ultra early bird tickets are on sale, and a buzz is building in online communities already.
Ciara Judge and Émer Hickey, along with Sophie Healy-Thow, are former winners of the BT Young Scientist awards and the Google Science Fair.
In the midst of an incredibly busy summer – Judge in particular was country hopping, spending a month at MIT, and a few weeks at Outbox Incubator in London, among many other appearances – Judge and Hickey appeared at Inspirefest (one physically, one virtually) to talk about their company, Germinaid Innovations.
Germinaid, which focuses on agricultural research, has since become operational, and Hickey and Judge will be taking to another stage – Wired2015: Next Generation, in London – this month to talk about the business and its successes.
Judge also launched a second business this summer. PurchaseMate is a barcode scanning app that gives you corporate information on the brands you buy from, and was developed by Judge and a team at MIT Launch Summer.
Sophie Healy-Thow (as mentioned above) won the BT Young Scientist award in 2014 with Emer Hickey and Ciara Judge.
Unfortunately Healy-Thow couldn’t make it to Inspirefest 2015 but that’s not to say she has been forgotten around these pastures.
Back in July she was invited to give a TEDx talk in Dublin’s Science Gallery and only this month she was selected as a global youth leader by the UN for her work in the fight against hunger.
Dr Nina Ansary, a noted Iranian-American historian and author, gave a keynote address at Inspirefest, speaking about Iranian women who have risen above the oppressiveness of the country’s patriarchal society to achieve greatness.
At the time of Inspirefest, Ansary’s Jewels of Allah was available as an e-book. The book aims to uncover the ‘untold story’ of Iranian women.
Jewels of Allah has now been published in print.
Sheree Atcheson appeared on the Inspirefest panel Code: Debugging the Gender Gap.
Atcheson, expansion director at Women Who Code UK, talked about the importance of making sure that women aren’t left behind as the tech industry continues to gather speed.
Women Who Code (WWC) is a US-based non-profit, which aims to help women to excel in technology careers and further the idea that ‘the world of technology is much better with women in it’.
On the Inspirefest stage, Atcheson announced that WWC would be coming to Ireland.
Women Who Code Ireland is launching on Thursday 12 November. The first session will take place that night, and is open to all interested parties.
Dr Sue Black has led an interesting life. As a young, newly-single mother, Black decided to go to college and get a degree.
Inspired by the lack of women in computer science, Black set up BCSWomen – the first UK network for women in tech.
She went on to spearhead a campaign to save Bletchley Park, the World War II code-breaking site where the majority of code-breakers were women.
Black also founded #techmums, which aims to give mothers the confidence, skills and understanding they need to make sure that they and their children can take advantage of the wealth of opportunities technology offers.
Since Inspirefest, Black has released Saving Bletchley Park, a book detailing the campaign to save the park.
#Techmums is making its first foray into Ireland this November. While An Cosán’s Young Women in Technology programme was inspired by #techmums, and Black helped to train the programme’s instructors, this will be the first official #techmums class in the country.
The six-week programme will run at the Digital Hub from 6 November.
Anne-Marie Imafidon took part in the Next Generation panel at Inspirefest.
Imafidon holds the world record as the youngest girl ever to pass A-level computing, an achievement she had under her belt at the tender age of 11.
Founder of Stemettes – a project designed to inspire young girls to pursue education and careers in STEM – Imafidon is a tireless advocate for young women in tech.
Along with Mary Carty, already booked for an Inspirefest 2016 appearance, Imafidon created Outbox Incubator, the world’s first tech incubator for teenage girls.
Outbox ran over the last six weeks of summer, with more than 100 young women passing through the doors of the London house that was its base.
The incubator was a huge success, with many of the young women using the opportunity to hone business plans and make contacts. Most of all, it was a source of inspiration for the young entrepreneurs, showing them all they could achieve.
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell delivered a stirring keynote at Inspirefest, talking about her experiences as a young postgraduate scientist in the 1960s.
Bell Burnell discovered the pulsar in the late ’60s but, despite being named second on the paper detailing the discovery, was not recognised in the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics that was awarded to her team members.
As she detailed in her keynote, that was not the only sexism she faced during that time, with reporters either ignoring her or only asking her about her appearance.
Of course, Bell Burnell went on to receive recognition from many other quarters. Most recently, she was awarded the Royal Society’s Royal Medal for her “pivotal contribution” to the discovery of pulsars, and her subsequent observation, analysis and understanding of them.
Prof Susan McKenna-Lawlor provided Inspirefest with it’s major ‘mic drop’ moment.
After delivering a fascinating keynote about her involvement with the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander, McKenna-Lawlor took part in a panel discussion moderated by famed broadcaster Leo Enright.
Seemingly out of nowhere – though of course it was a plan long in the offing – McKenna-Lawlor announced her intention to launch Ireland’s first space programme.
What may have seemed like pie in the sky to many has proven to be very much within our grasp.
In fact, as August drew to a close, we were several steps closer.
At Astronomy Ireland’s annual fundraising event, Star-B-Q, McKenna-Lawlor not only named the space mission – Cumar – but gave details of the preparations for it.
It is hoped that Cumar will launch in late 2016.
Meningitis causes a characteristic rash on the skin. Learning to spot the signs and distinguish a meningitis rash from similar rashes can help a person receive treatment quickly.
Meningitis is an infectious disease caused by certain viruses, bacteria, or fungi. It causes swelling of the meninges, which are the coverings on the brain and spinal cord.
The disease can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical care.
In this article, we describe how to identify a meningitis rash. We provide a picture guide, explore other meningitis symptoms, and discuss similar conditions.
Meningitis has a variety of symptoms, including a distinctive rash on the skin. This is not a traditional rash, caused by irritation or inflammation. Instead, it results from bleeding under the skin.
The most serious type of meningitis is caused by a bacterium called Meningococcus. The rash that doctors associate with meningococcal meningitis results from bleeding beneath the skin.