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  1. article Happenings -- Week of June 16

    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:00 am

    Top 10 Movies

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  2. article ‘Man of Steel’ is an exciting reboot

    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:00 am

    There’s no denying that Richard Donner set the bar for the Superman franchise with his 1978 film. The icy landscapes of Planet Krypton, John Williams’ vigorous musical score, Christopher Reeve’s iconic performance - every aspect of Donner’s movie remains definitive.

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  3. article Readers will laugh, cry and remember a deep love for reading in the book

    Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:00 am

    I am a little late coming to the party with the “Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”. It was a sensation when it was released in July 2008, receiving both critical acclaim and fantastic mainstream success. Now I see why.

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  4. article Connect with Your Grandchildren Outdoors

    Sunday, June 16, 2013 7:27 pm

    Do you have treasured childhood memories of spending time outdoors with your parents or grandparents? Take the time to share this experience with your own grandchildren. Pack a lunch, put on some sunscreen and take them on your own hiking or fishing adventure.

  5. article Review: This is the End – of puberty?

    Friday, June 14, 2013 9:13 am

    The latest cinematic satirical look at the apocalypse, This is the End, comes from the narcissistic angle of Hollywood stars playing themselves, or at least caricatures of themselves, as they deal with the end of the world by getting high and exuding childish humor as if it were just another day on the playground. Some of this is funny, but it’s mostly just pretentious and inane.

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  6. article 'Field Of Dreams' at Fox Theatre

    Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:06 am

    35mm Print 

    USA, 1989, 107min
    ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST MUSIC, BEST PICTURE, AND BEST WRITING Written and Directed by Phil Alden Robinson Starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, and Ray Liotta Based on the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella 

    IF YOU BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE, THE INCREDIBLE CAN COME TRUE.

    Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his cornfield tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field. ~ Scott Renshaw

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  7. youtube This is the End -- Red Band Trailer

    Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:43 am

    The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.Director: Seth Rogen/Evan GoldbergRelease: 6/12/2013Studio: Columbia PicturesStarring: James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Michael Cera, Emma WatsonWebsite: http://thisistheend.com/Sign up to receive updates, offers, and information from Machinima.http://bit.ly/MachinimaNewsletterFOR MACHINIMA'S BEST HIGH QUALITY SERIES, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimaprimeFOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimaFOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimarespawnFOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimasportsFOR MORE MMO & RPG GAMEPLAY, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimarealmFOR MORE COMPETITIVE GAMING, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimavsFOR MORE ANIMATIONS & SHORTS, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=happyhourFOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=machinimatrailerWANT TO JOIN THE MACHINIMA AFFILIATE PROGRAM? FILL OUT AN APPLICATION HERE:http://bit.ly/13ACBHg
  8. article Racers Show Their Undies in Support of Colon Cancer Awareness

    Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:03 am

    (NewsUSA) - Seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty has seen his fair share of races throughout his career. Yet, little could prepare him for the sight he'd see as nearly hundreds of people turned out for the Undy 5000 Track Walk benefitting the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA).

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  9. article Connect with Your Grandchildren Outdoors

    Saturday, June 8, 2013 4:00 am

    (StatePoint) Do you have treasured childhood memories of spending time outdoors with your parents or grandparents? Take the time to share this experience with your own grandchildren. Pack a lunch, put on some sunscreen and take them on your own hiking or fishing adventure.

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  10. article What's Up UA? - Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets

    Friday, June 7, 2013 12:05 pm

    If one looks only for the shiniest pennies in the fountain, chances are one misses most of the coins because they shimmer less brightly. This, in a nutshell, is the conundrum astronomers face when searching for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
     
    Astronomers at the University of Arizona are part of an international team of exoplanets hunters developing new technology that would dramatically improve the odds of discovering planets with conditions suitable for life – such as having liquid water on the surface.
     
    The team presented its results at a scientific conference sponsored by the International Astronomical Union in Victoria, British Columbia.
     
    Terrestrial planets orbiting nearby stars often are concealed by vast clouds of dust enveloping the star and its system of planets. Our solar system, too, has a dust cloud, which consists mostly of debris left behind by clashing asteroids and exhaust spewing out of comets when they pass by the sun.
     
    "Current technology allows us to detect only the brightest clouds, those that are a few thousand times brighter than the one in our solar system," said Denis Defrère, a postdoctoral fellow in the UA'sdepartment of astronomy and instrument scientist of the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI.
     
    He explained that while the brighter clouds are easier to see, their intense glare makes detecting putative Earth-like planets difficult, if not impossible. "We want to be able to detect fainter dust clouds, which would dramatically increase our chances of finding more of these planets."
     
    "If you see a dust cloud around a star, that's an indication of rocky debris, and it increases the likelihood of there being something Earth-like around that star," said Phil Hinz, an associate professor of astronomy at the UA's Steward Observatory. 
     
    "From previous observations, we know that these planets are fairly common," he added. "We can expect that if a space telescope dedicated to that mission were to look around a certain area of sky, we'd expect to find quite a few."
     
    Hinz and Defrère are working on an instrument that will allow astronomers to detect fainter clouds that are only about 10 times – instead of several thousand times – brighter than the one in our solar system. 
     
    "It's like being here in Victoria and trying to image a firefly circling a lighthouse in San Francisco that is shrouded in fog," Defrère said about the technological challenge. 
     
    "That level of sensitivity is the minimum we need for future space telescope missions that are to characterize Earth-like planets that can sustain liquid water on the surface," he explained. "Our goal is to eliminate the dust clouds that are too bright from the catalog of candidates because they are not promising targets to detect planets suitable for life."
     
    "With a bright dust cloud, which is 1,000 times brighter than the one in our solar system, its light becomes comparable to that of its star, which makes it easier to detect," explained Hinz. 
     
    Fainter clouds, on the other hand, can be about 10,000 times less bright than their star, so it becomes difficult or impossible for observers to make out their faint glow in the star's overpowering glare. 
     
    Funded by NASA, the team is in the middle of carrying out tests to demonstrate the feasibility of these observations using both apertures of the Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, in Arizona. The project aims at determining how difficult it would be to achieve the desired results before committing to a billion-dollar space telescope mission. 
     
    According to Hinz, NASA's goal is to be able take a direct picture of Earth-like, rocky planets and record their spectrum of light to analyze their composition and characteristics such as temperature, presence of water and other parameters.
     
    "To do that, one would need a space telescope specifically designed for this type of imaging," he said. "Our goal is to do a feasibility study of whether it would be possible to distinguish the light emission of the planet from the background emission of the dust cloud through direct observation."
     
    The researchers take advantage of a technique known as nulling interferometry and the unique configuration of the LBT, which resembles a giant pair of binoculars. 
     
    "We combine the light from two apertures, cancel out the light from the central star, and with that it becomes easier to see the light from the dust cloud," Hinz explained. "To achieve this, we have to cause the two light paths to interfere with each other, which requires lining them up with very high precision. We'll always have some starlight left because of imperfections in the system, but our goal is to cancel it out to a level of 10,000 to get down to where we can at least detect the faint glow of the dust cloud."
     
    The work presented at the conference used the same technique with the two large telescopes of theKeck Observatory in Hawaii in order to detect the dust cloud around the star Fomalhaut located 25 light years from our sun. 
     
    "Based on our observations at the European Very Large Telescope Interferometer, we knew that Fomalhaut was surrounded by a bright dust cloud located very close to the star," said Jérémy Lebreton, principal investigator of the study, who is at the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique in Grenoble, France. 
     
    "Using the Keck Interferometer, we found out that Fomalhaut has a less bright, more diffuse cloud orbiting close to the habitable zone that resembles the Main Asteroid Belt in our solar system. This belt is likely in dynamical interaction with yet undetected planets."
     
    The study presented here is one in a series of three publications and was conducted in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam; the University of Liège in Belgium; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, Pasadena, Calif.; the University of Paris; and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. 
     
    Approximately 250 scientists from around the world convened at the scientific conference, Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, held June 3-7 in Victoria to discuss the latest observations and theories about exoplanetary systems.
     

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  11. article SAACA's top ten summer arts and culture events

    Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:06 am

    SPLASH!

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  12. article Happenings

    Wednesday, June 5, 2013 4:00 am

    THEATER

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  13. article ‘Now You See Me’ is a strong summer hit

    Wednesday, June 5, 2013 4:00 am

    While Will Smith’s “After Earth” seemed to attract many of the headlines going into the weekend’s movie Box Office openings, it was “Now You See Me” that came in second behind the summer hit “Fast and Furious 6”.

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  14. article Tuscany travel: For curious travelers, an Italian feast for all the senses

    Sunday, June 2, 2013 5:00 pm

    Some say that travel is about the journey more than the destination. And for a growing number of travelers, it’s all about the experience - both on the journey and within the destination. Travelers focus on getting a deeper, more authentic look at well-loved destinations. Tuscany travel experiences figure on the vacation wish lists of many, but travelers can find ways to make each visit to the region one that is beyond the ordinary.

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  15. article Tucson–Joe Bourne Returns to local church

    Friday, May 31, 2013 10:45 am

    Back by popular demand, popular local jazz artist has appeared with The Stylistics, Natalie Cole, The Pointer Sisters, and Dionne Warwick, and will present a free jazz concert in NW Tucson on Saturday, June 15, 7-9 pm.

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  16. article Share Your Passion for Baseball With Your Kids

    Friday, May 31, 2013 9:50 am

    (StatePoint) As kids, many had the same dream of hitting a walk-off home run to win the World Series. Now baseball season is finally underway, and there is no shortage of opportunities to share your passion of the game with your children.

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  17. article ‘Star Wars Galaxy’ plans begin to take flight

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:00 am

    For most males born after the year 1970, entire chapters of childhood are in someway intertwined with the Star Wars universe. We have all levitated objects across the room with our make believe force capabilities, attempted to utilize jedi mind tricks to persuade our mothers that ice cream before bed was a good idea, and had heroic battles with vibrant buzzing lightsabers (that in reality, were made of gift wrap rolls).

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  18. article Sports Perspective: Naming the best basketball team

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:00 am

    We are getting increasingly closer to finding out who is the best basketball team in the world. Down to the conference finals, two teams remain in the East, the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers, and two teams are left in the West, the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies. In these best of seven series’, home court advantage could make all the difference. 

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  19. article Three top tips for summer travel

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 9:46 am

    As families nationwide are packing their gear and heading out by car, plane and boat, recent data suggests that this summer travel season could be substantially busier than in years past.

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  20. article The Guide -- Week of May 22

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:00 am

    Century Theatres

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  21. article Iconic U.S. Baseball Parks

    Monday, May 20, 2013 5:00 pm

    While baseball may be America’s favorite pastime, there’s no need to have swung a bat in your life to recognize iconic baseball parks across the U.S. Baseball became a national sport in the 1850s but the turn of the 20th century brought construction to what many Americans deem the most important baseball stadiums in history – including the Red Sox stomping grounds and the most expensive stadium ever built: Yankee Stadium. Whether you opt for the peanuts or Cracker Jack, there’s no doubt you will enjoy the game at one of these famous baseball parks in America.

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  22. article 3 Best-Loved U.S. Baseball Parks Worthy of Your Bucket List

    Monday, May 20, 2013 5:00 pm

    While baseball may be America’s favorite pastime, there’s no need to have swung a bat in your life to recognize iconic baseball parks across the U.S. Baseball became a national sport in the 1850s but the turn of the 20th century brought construction to what many Americans deem the most important baseball stadiums in history – including the Red Sox stomping grounds and the most expensive stadium ever built: Yankee Stadium. Whether you opt for the peanuts or Cracker Jack, there’s no doubt you will enjoy the game at one of these famous baseball parks in America.

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  23. article The Guide -- Week of May 15

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:00 am

    Century Theatres

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  24. article Three Top Tips for Summer Travel

    Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:00 pm

    (StatePoint) As families nationwide are packing their gear and heading out by car, plane and boat, recent data suggests that this summer travel season could be substantially busier than in years past.  

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  25. article Anthony Bourdain talks last meal on earth, advice for restaurateurs; old-school cocktails

    Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:00 pm

    (BPT) - TV’s best-fed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain, is keeping busy these days with his hit travel series “Parts Unknown,” his publishing career and an upcoming appearance at this year’s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago. Love him or hate him, Bourdain is the biggest, baddest food dude on the planet. The self-proclaimed “chef slacker” shares his advice for restaurateurs and new chefs, and talks about his desired last meal on Earth and love of old-school cocktails.

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