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The premier continues his trip Monday with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Early predictions had Glass tracking for a four-day domestic opening weekend of between $50 million around $75 million.
Ever since Unbreakable hit theaters in 2000, fans of the movie have been hankering for a sequel. Glass completes what turned out to be a trilogy set in that universe but now they have what they wanted, have they embraced it and put their money where their money where their mouths are?
While there’s a disappointingly muted critical reaction to Glass, there’s been a healthy response to the movie at the box office. Despite coming in under expectations, its topped Shyamalan’s 2017 release, Split.
So, now audiences have had a chance to look at Glass and find out if it gleams as much as they’d hoped, how has it faired in its domestic box office debut compared to Shyamalan's previous movies? I take a look.
All figures are domestic and unadjusted for inflation unless stated otherwise.
You’ve probably never heard of this movie. It’s a comedy-drama that starred Denis Leary, Dana Delany, Joseph Cross, and Rosie O'Donnell as well as Julia Stiles in one of her earliest roles. Written seven years, and released three years, before it saw the light of day, Wide Awake was not a success - it cost $6 million t...
Critics did not get on board with this story of a superintendent of a Philadelphia apartment complex who discovers a young woman in the swimming pool. Making $72 million at the worldwide box office, over half of that was domestic take, against a $70 million production budget, it was not a hit. The good news is that Lad...
Heralded as a return to creative form for M. Night Shyamalan, this found footage horror film about to two kids whose stay with their estranged grandparents takes a turn for the strange, generally received positive reviews. It cost $5 million to make and grossed $98.5 million at the worldwide box office. The Visit marke...
The Sixth Sense, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, was the movie that put M. Night Shyamalan on the map. The film, which became a pop culture phenomenon and was nominated for six Oscars, was about a child who claims to be able to see dead people and the child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe who tries to...
Mauled by critics, After Earth was based on an original story idea by Will Smith and starred him as well as his son, Jaden. Set in the 31st century, it was about a high-ranking general and his kid, who, after an incident during a spaceflight, have to fight for survival on a hostile planet - Earth. It grossed $243 milli...
Having had success with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable saw Shyamalan and Bruce Willis reteam for this tale of two men who believe they may be superhuman. It also marked the fourth time Willis and co-star Samuel L. Jackson had appeared in the same movie. This deconstruction of the superhero genre, which got rave reviews f...
M. Night Shyamalan’s first R-rated movie starred Mark Wahlberg as a high school teacher who, along with his wife, his best friend, and his friend's daughter, try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster that is causing people to kill themselves. The Happening received mostly negative reviews from critics, was no...
Split, the second time Shyamalan teamed up with Blumhouse Productions, was about a man with 23 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. James McAvoy, whose performance was lauded by critics, was cast in the lead role after Joaquin Phoenix left the projec...
Made for $150 million, The Last Airbender made $319.7 million at the worldwide box office but was torn apart by critics and audiences alike. Based on the first season of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the film was criticized for everything from inconsistencies between the plot, s...
The final part in the trilogy that, as it turned out, started with Unbreakable and continued through Split, saw Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy to their roles as men who believe they have super-human abilities. While anticipation for Glass was high, critical response was far more lukewarm. Made for $20...
The Village grossed $256.7 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of $60 million. Its stellar cast included Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, and Brendan Gleeson. It was about a village whose inhabitants live in fear of creatures inhabiting the woods beyon...
The story of a former Episcopal priest, played by Mel Gibson, who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield, the science fiction thriller explored many themes such as themes of faith, kinship, and extraterrestrials. Signs got mixed, leaning towards positive, reviews from critics, but audiences got on board, a...
Glass is in theaters now.
UPPER SANDUSKY – On behalf of the Crawford and Wyandot County Sexual Assault Response Team, Helpline will provide Stewards of Children, a presentation that teaches adults how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The presentation includes materials, workbooks and guides for future use.
To register or for details, contact Louanne Hufford at lhufford@helplinedelmor.org or Nancy Radcliffe at nradcliffe@helplinedelmor.org or call 419-946-1350.
So much for winter doldrums. Agencies have been pushing policy, setting goals and moving forward, keeping contractors on their toes.
The year starts with what some are calling the biggest IT transition ever, the Defense Department's Business Management Modernization Program, a new enterprise architecture. Staff Writer Doug Beizer took a close look at the project as it nears an important milestone -- the March release of the architecture's final vers...
For more than 30 years, Alaska Native Corporations and tribally owned companies have received regulatory advantages meant to help impoverished tribal communities. But now these companies are swimming in new business, Government Computer News Senior Writer Patience Wait found. Her story describes the efforts of official...
The Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System to overhaul the nation's air transportation system looks ahead to 2025 and the plan's completion. The first opportunities around this ambitious project, ultimately worth billions of dollars, will come this year. Staff Writer Roseanne Gerin'...
Sophia's story: what's it like to bring up a child in jail?
Mother's Day for Sophia will start with an early wake up with her two-year-old son. Archer will give his mum the present he made at childcare, then "he'll pretend to help me make breakfast", Sophia says. After, he'll maybe watch a bit of telly before heading to the cubby and trucks in the backyard or the playground bey...
So far, so familiar for anyone who's been parent to a toddler - but in other ways, Sophia* and Archer's lives are highly unusual. Sharing their unit with another mum and child, and a third woman, they are among six mothers and kids living together under a long-running program at Tarrengower, Victoria's minimum security...
"Our mother's day wouldn't be much different from being outside," Sophia says. "When you've got another child out there it can be a bit upsetting," she says of her 12 year old daughter, being raised by her grandmother. "But then I'm lucky to wake up with my other child beside me."
Sophia was pregnant when she was locked up on remand. When she began her prison term at Dame Phyllis Frost, she applied to have her unborn child accepted to the program. With the support of the baby's father, prison management and representatives of various justice and welfare agencies, it was decided that growing up w...
Sophia talks with pride about the range of activities her son enjoys inside. He attends weekly music and art sessions, two days of external childcare (so Sophia can study for an IT certificate) and a playgroup with the program's other mums and kids in a donated portable classroom the prisoners renovated. These sorts of...
There are also parental skills programs. Formally, they teach techniques for rearing kids and coping with their demands but prisoners develop skills and confidence informally too - managing a tight weekly food budget is among those Sophia mentions as being reinforced. "Its actually been a good experience, it makes you ...
What about the less savoury side of prison life - what does that mean for mothering in prison? Strip searches are not conducted in front of children, nor is urine testing regime for drug analysis. Children are not strip searched on returning to the prison or after contact visits, prison managers say. And Sophia says pr...
Set on a 364-acre working farm at the base of Mount Tarrengower, the prison is 2.5 kilometres from the quaint town of Maldon in Victoria's goldfields. Admission to the jail is via an administration block, half-housed in a protected historic farmhouse, and partly in a modern extension.
Beyond it are 15 low-rise, pastel-green-clad accommodation units, each home to between two and six women, and connected by winding paths and gardens. There's an outdoor pool and education wing where Bendigo TAFE runs courses, ranging from hospitality to traffic management. In plastic greenhouses, plants are grown for L...
While the Sunday Age toured the facility, one prisoner - identifiable through her navy tracksuit uniform - drove past on a tractor. As far as the eye could see, the only barriers were simple timber and wire farm fences running all the way to the prison perimeter. There are checkpoints, random counts and cameras, O'Conn...
Too good to be true? Prison activist and community lawyer Amanda George says prisons are established to be hierarchical, rigid, run via command and control, but "kids really change the culture".
"They are doted on by the other women - they have lots of aunties basically - and officers find it much harder to be bullies. Kids humanise prison," George says, "because for officers, kids humanise women."
A spokesman for the Department of Justice says there is no research about the long-term effects of the Victorian program, which has operated for about 30 years, although plans for a review are under way. A 2009 US study of "prison nurseries" found they reduced recidivism from 50 per cent among women not in the program ...
The program may also reduce otherwise disastrous social and economic costs. A 2003 review published by the then Department of Family and Community Services said the consequences for children of imprisoning a parent include emotional, social and behavioural problems due to stigma, family breakdown and relocation, declin...
Since 2005, the number of women in Victorian prisons has exploded from 257 to 463, yet the children's program has not expanded, with only about 10 accommodated at a time. Prison management deny there is significant unmet demand. But lawyers and criminologists point out most women inside are young and 80 per cent are on...
What's the outlook for Sophia and her kids? Sophia grew up in Melbourne with an extremely violent father who shot through early on with her mum's best friend. Obliged to answer to her older brother, she rebelled at a young age - first going out, then drinking, trying dope and finally "heavier stuff".
She left school half way through year 11 and became a mother at 21, after which she tried to juggle bringing up a baby with a heroin addiction and having a similarly addicted partner. She has had several stints in jail ("I don't know exactly how many myself to be honest") and got clean inside but relapsed after release...
On the day we meet, Sophia is articulate, vivacious, carefully groomed. This time when she gets out it will be different, she says. "I was just kidding myself them times," she says of previous releases.
"Being here with my son has made me learn how to accept things," she says before pausing, her voice quavering. "This experience, obviously it's going to be hard. Having to do it with your child as well, it's going to be a lot harder. But I wouldn't change having [Archer] here for the world.
"I believe it's made me a better person. I've learned how to take responsibility by having him around and I want to be the best role model I could possibly be," Sophia says. "I'm probably at the best part of my life now."
Names have been changed. The Sunday Age was granted access to Tarrengower Prison on condition the prisoner, child, offence and sentence not be identified.
The Arizona Auditor General’s Office found a well-run agency that coordinates with other government entities and that’s planning for a future in which tobacco tax revenues, the main source of income that funds the more than $100 million in grants for child development programs issued annually by First Things First, are...
Rep. Warren Petersen has defeated Jimmy Lindblom in a race for the conservative heart of the East Valley.
Rep. Sonny Borrelli defeated Republican Ron Gould in the race for the Legislative District 5 Senate seat.
In a bitter rematch, incumbent Sen. Martin Quezada defeated Lydia Hernandez in the Democratic Legislative District 29 Senate race.
Republican Frank Schmuck upset incumbent Sen. Jeff Dial in the Legislative District 18 Senate primary, capitalizing on a campaign mounted almost exclusively on Dial’s questionable status as an Army veteran.
Some voters who cast ballots for his opponent are “ignorant, c---sucking idiots,” according to Rep. Sonny Borrelli.
Planned Parenthood Arizona and the state agreed to end a legal challenge in federal court to a law requiring doctors to tell women medication abortions can be reversed, three months after a new law rendered the lawsuit moot.
To much of the world, the virus behind the devastating Ebola outbreak in Africa seems to have stormed out of nowhere. But Leslie Lobel thinks we should have seen it coming.
In 2012, Lobel and a team of researchers spent six months in Uganda studying the Ebola virus and related viruses. Over the course of their stay, these pathogens caused at least four separate outbreaks of disease in central Africa, affecting more than 100 people. To Lobel, a virologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Ne...
Like Lobel, other scientists have predicted that these viruses would one day cause a major epidemic — and the current outbreak, which has so far killed nearly 5,000 people, has proved them right. There are five species of closely related viruses that scientists refer to as 'ebolaviruses'; the species behind the current...
Research on these once-ignored viruses took off after the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, which prompted officials to sink money into investigating lethal pathogens that might be used in bioterror attacks and to build dedicated laboratories where they can be safely studied. Scientists have learned how these ...
But the advances in knowledge about filoviruses have also exposed the gaps. Scientists suspect that more members of the filovirus family remain to be discovered and in other parts of the world. They are also working to understand which animals naturally harbour filoviruses and why human filovirus outbreaks seem to be r...
In the past few months, research has necessarily taken a back seat to efforts to control the Ebola outbreak — but as the epidemic escalates, science is coming to the fore. Researchers are recognizing that they might be able to stop this Ebola virus only if they understand its biology and how to control it. “We need a l...
Where do filoviruses come from?
In July 2007, a miner who had been prospecting for lead and gold in a Ugandan cave became infected with Marburg virus. Officials closed the cave, and a team of researchers led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) swept in to investigate. They hoped to answer a decades-old question: what animal is the...
The researchers captured some 1,300 bats roosting in the cave and tested their blood for Marburg virus. They finally found what they were looking for: infectious Marburg viruses isolated from five Egyptian fruit bats, none of which showed symptoms of disease. The team also found more infected bats in a nearby cave that...
It is not entirely clear how the virus is transmitted from bats to people, although the most likely route is through contact with bodily fluids. Bats infected with Marburg virus in the lab shed the virus in their mouths, so wild bats might spread it by leaving traces on fruit that is later eaten by other animals. Knowi...
Researchers now strongly suspect that bats are the natural host for ebolaviruses, too. In 1976, during one of the first known Ebola outbreaks, the six people who were initially infected worked in a factory room in Sudan that was home to roosting bats. Researchers have since isolated antibodies to ebolaviruses from bats...
Filoviruses are not just found in bats and primates. That became clear in 2008, when Philippine officials called for help to investigate an outbreak of disease in pigs. When researchers arrived, they found that the pigs were infected with Reston ebolavirus — a species that was first discovered in monkeys imported to th...
In 2011, scientists confirmed that pigs can also become infected with Zaire ebolavirus. The concern now is that pigs could serve as a mixing vessel for filoviruses. Pigs could be simultaneously infected with several filoviruses, which might exchange genetic material to eventually produce new versions that are capable o...
Scientists are probably just beginning to understand the different types of filoviruses and their geographic reach. The list of known filoviruses only recently expanded: the fifth ebolavirus (Bundibugyo ebolavirus) was discovered in Uganda in 2007, and the Lloviu virus was identified from dead bats in Spain in 2011. “W...
Lobel says that these data must be taken with a pinch of salt, and that the assays could actually be detecting immune responses to viruses similar to ebolaviruses. In his studies, people known to have survived definite Ebola virus infections had a different immune response from those who have never been infected. He an...
A pressing question in the present outbreak is how the currently circulating Zaire ebolavirus might be changing. Its rapid spread hints that there could be something different about this strain — possibly that it has become easier to pass from one person to another. “We have to start investigating whether the 2014 stra...
Andersen is careful to note that there are no data to suggest this yet. Although a handful of researchers have raised fears that the virus might mutate into an airborne form, most think it is unlikely that the virus could change so dramatically in such a short time. Genetic analyses have shown that this strain of Zaire...
Are we making Ebola our own worst enemy?
In September, epidemiologists published an analysis in which they mapped the locations of all ebolavirus outbreaks in Africa along with the known ranges of three bat species that are candidate reservoirs for the viruses. They also plotted changes in African populations and mobility — for instance, the proportion of eac...
Before this year, all but one of the human ebolavirus outbreaks could be traced back to central Africa, and the Zaire ebolavirus species had never been seen in West Africa. But “we shouldn't have been massively surprised that it was there”, says epidemiologist Simon Hay of the University of Oxford, UK, who led the anal...
The study also begins to explain why filovirus outbreaks seem to be growing more frequent, widespread and larger in size. Human populations in countries that are likely to harbour filoviruses have nearly tripled since the viruses were first discovered, and flight traffic has increased by one-third since 2005. The virus...
Why is Ebola so lethal?
Ebola virus is one of the most lethal viruses known. In the current outbreak, an estimated 60–70% of those infected have died, and in previous outbreaks the figure has reached almost 90%. (Only rabies, smallpox and a handful of other viruses are as fatal if left untreated.) The reason that Ebola virus and other filovir...
Normally when a virus invades the body, it triggers cells in the 'innate' arm of the immune system, which cause inflammation and other reactions to fight off the infection. The Ebola virus, however, infects and cripples innate immune cells, taking out this first line of defence. These dying cells also trigger a destruc...
Other highly pathogenic viruses also trigger cytokine storms, but filoviruses are thought to be particularly lethal because they affect a wide array of tissues. As well as the immune system, Ebola virus attacks the spleen and kidneys, where it destroys cells that help the body to regulate its fluid and chemical balance...
If scientists can understand how the immune systems of survivors were able to fight off the virus, they might be able to encourage this form of defence through a vaccine. Researchers have found that survivors of previous outbreaks managed to make antibodies to Ebola virus, avoid the cytokine storm and preserve their im...
Can the virus be stopped?
Dozens of previous filovirus outbreaks have been halted using the same basic tools: isolating and treating patients, and tracing and monitoring their contacts. Public-health officials have also used this method to contain the spread of Ebola virus in Nigeria and Senegal. But across West Africa as a whole, the public-he...
If, as some epidemiologists predict, the disease infects tens or even hundreds of thousands of people by January 2015, then it could become nearly impossible for tried-and-tested public containment measures to bring the epidemic under control. For one thing, it could be unfeasible to recruit and train the numbers of me...
Aid agencies and non-profit organizations are already trying new types of control. In Sierra Leone, officials are building isolation centres that can house patients away from their family and community, to prevent the virus from spreading, but that have fewer qualified health-care workers than a standard treatment faci...
Another new approach in this epidemic has been the use of experimental therapies and vaccines developed specifically to target Ebola virus. Much attention has focused on ZMapp — a cocktail of antibodies that was first identified using mice vaccinated with Ebola virus proteins, and which has been given to several people...
But even if these therapies are proven to work, the challenge is hardly over. The products that have progressed furthest in development are all focused on Zaire ebolavirus, the most lethal of the four species that sicken humans, but it is unlikely that they will be as effective against other filoviruses. Saphire leads ...
All this work has taken on new urgency as predictions about the African outbreak have grown more dire. This year, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Wellcome Trust, the European Union and various drug companies have channelled emergency funding into research on potential drugs and vaccine...
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on October 29, 2014.
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The fallout from Mark McGwire’s carefully scripted Monday confession (Ari Fleischer!) serves only to raise more questions and bolster the theory that everybody’s dirty.
Why wouldn’t a guy cheat? Steroids made McGwire rich and famous. The performance-enhancing drugs probably will cost him Cooperstown, but ’roids got McGwire where he wanted to go. Is there a Triple A ballplayer who’d say no to artificial help if it would elevate him to the big leagues? Is there a fringe big leaguer who’...
Woe is the big league ballplayer who never cheated with PEDs. These days, they are all presumed guilty and it’s virtually impossible to prove innocence from the scourge of the Juice Era.
A lot of unfortunate remarks have been spilled since McGwire went public with his sins.
Start with Big Mac. Does anyone believe him when he says he did not do this to gain strength? Does he expect us to nod and agree when he says that he would have been just as good without the stuff? Sorry. The “I just did it to get back on the field’’ defense is the juicer’s version of “the dog ate my homework.’’ Nobody...
If this junk didn’t help McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, why was he compelled to apologize to members of the Maris family Monday?
Please, let’s have no more baseball players telling us that steroids don’t help with hand-eye coordination. That’s not the point. Professional hitters are able to square up the baseball. They don’t need the juice for that. The steroids help with bat speed, power, and confidence. Oh, and they also help a player recover ...
Meanwhile, 120 years of hardball history is officially in the dumper. Take a look at the all-time home run list. In the top 15 we have Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, and Manny. All cheaters. It’s the same with guys on the mound from the “steroid era.’’ Anybody still think Roger Cleme...

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