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Magh Snan

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It is believed that Trideva reside in Sangam’s Yamuna or Prayagraj. Hence, taking a bath in Prayag, Allahabad during Magh month holds immense importance. It is believed to provide auspicious results equivalent to ten thousand Ashwamedh yagya. In Magh month, taking a bath in Ganga or other holy rivers during Brahma Muhurta is considered to be very auspicious. Magh Snan begins on the day of Paush Shukla Ekadashi or Purnima and ends on the day of Magh Shukla Dwadashi or Purnima. When Sun is in Capricorn sign during Magh month, a person should keep fasts and make donations, charities etc. Taking a bath in Ganga or Yamuna at Sangam is considered to be most auspicious.

The Magh (Kumbh) Mela is one of the greatest annual religious affairs for Hindus. Hindu mythology considers the origin of the Magh Mela to be the beginning of the Universe. An important occasion, the Magh (Kumbh) Mela is held every year on the banks of Triveni Sangam (the confluence of the three great rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) in Prayag near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. In accordance with the traditional Hindu calendar followed in North India, this holy fair is organised every year during the Hindu month of Magh (corresponding to mid January - mid February of the Gregorian calendar); hence the name. The Magh Mela is, however, not confined only to the month of Magh and the important bathing dates are spread over a period of 45 days. The Magh Mela is actually a smaller version of Kumbh Mela. Hence it is also known as mini Kumbh Mela. Every year, the Magh Mela commences on the day of Makkar Sankranti in January, which is the first important bathing day according to the religious Hindu calendar. It begins with multitudes of pilgrims taking a holy dip at the Sangam on auspicious dates. A large number of people arrive here annually and stay in makeshift houses or tents at the Sangam, spending the entire month of Magh in prayers. This period is known as "Kalpvas". Those who religiously observe the "Kalpvas" are known as "Kalpvasis". The ancient Hindu Vedas mention a "Kalp" to be the period equal to the total number of years in the four yugas - Satyug, Treta, Dwapar and Kalyug. This adds up to several millions of years. It is said that by piously observing a "Kalpavas", a devotee overcomes the sins in his/her previous birth and escapes the cycle of Janma(birth) and Karma (actions). During each day of the Magh Mela, a Kalpvasi has to take a dip at the Ganges on sunrise praying to the rising sun. Majority of the Kalpvasis partake only a meal a day. After observing 12 Kalpavas, a Kalpavasi has to donate his/her bed and all his belongings (a ritual known as "Shayya Daan"). The Uttar Pradesh government annually makes special arrangements for the devotees during this time. A greater number of buses ply to let the pilgrims have their journey in peace and without any inconvenience. A township of tents specially come up on the banks of the Sangam to provide shelter to the visiting millions who turn up from all over the country. Adequate medical and security arrangements are made to avoid any untoward incidents. "Lost and Found" camps are also set up and manned by the local police to prevent anyone getting missing during the days of the fair. Every twelfth year, the Magh Mela is transformed into the Kumbha Mela. Uttar Pradesh is flooded with millions of pilgrims who arrive here during this time to attend this grand event.

Determination of Date

Magh Snan (bath) starts on the day of Paush Purnima falling at sun rise. If Paush Purnima does not fall at the time of sun rise or gets extended up to two days then it shall be celebrated on the first day of Poornima Tithi.

How to Celebrate

Navratri puja is very simple and not very complicated. One can easily observe the fast; even if one cannot observe the fast he can simply recite mantra "Om Ang Haring Kalim Shree Maha Durgay Namah". One must carefully work upon his/her aahar (food), vyavhaar (behaviour) and acharan (character) during these sacred days.

Aahar - One should always avoid non vegetarian foods and consuming "Satvik" food like fruits, Kutu Ka Aata, Singara Ka Aata, Curd and Potatoes is considered to be auspicious. Usage of Onion and Garlic should be avoided.

Vyavhaar and Acharan - During Navratri festival all devotees should worship Maa Durga with spiritual emotion.

Get your house cleaned and ready. You are inviting Goddess into the home. Usually this is done on the Amavasya, a day before the beginning of Navratri.

On the first day of the Navaratri, a small bed of mud (taken from any auspicious place) is prepared in the puja room of the house and barley seeds are sown over it. On this Bed a Kalash made of Earthen/ Copper is kept and filled with water. Above the pot a bowl filled with rice is kept. A dry Coconut wrapped with mango leaves is then kept over this Kalash. This Kalash is believed to be a symbolic form of Goddess Durga. By keeping Kone invocate the goddess in the Kalash.

On the tenth day, the shoots are about 3 - 5 inches in length. After the puja, these seedlings are pulled out and given to devotees as a blessing from god. This Kalash must not be touched during the nine days. One diya is lit close to this Kalash which is supposed to burn endlessly for nine days. This is known as Akhand Jyoti.

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Higher Education : “Educate a boy and you educate an individual. Educate a girl and you educate a community.” With girls stepping into the world of education and their eagerness to strive for success, the mindset and the stereotypes have been replaced by a more rational thinking. Today, no girl wants to give up her education and be tied by the bond of marriage, at an early age.

The need for independence : Independence is happiness but does the true happiness lie in the fact that every now and then you have to depend on someone to get your wishes fulfilled? The answer is no. Be it for boys or girls, both the genders prefer getting a job and earning sufficiently enough to be able to support a family of their own and themselves.

Economic independence : Life is not a bed of roses and when the sudden problems set the alarm bells ringing, it is important to bet your bottom dollar on successful survival through the storm. The youth of today has a higher level of maturity in terms of understanding and careful observation. Time and again we get to witness cases where the females support their entire family, financially and in the midst of such a life, the thought of marriage does not flash in their minds.

The selection of wrong life partners , by being forced to choose from among the embarrassment of riches, has also contributed to the changed outlook towards an early marriage. The youngsters believe that it is better to be late in marriage than hurrying into it and ending up with a wrong person.

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The snow wistfully drifts through the canyons of snowcapped mountains while a mix of locals and their esteemed out-of-town guests fill the seats of the historic Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado. The lights go down and instead of a tenor and mezzo soprano, the audience is treated to the familiar flicker of light on a movie screen, revealing, at different times, two combatants at a squash game, a lonely undead girl, and a New York-based muse pontificating different meanings on Ground Zero. So it’s another year, another batch of shorts at the country’s premier short film festival, the 12th-annual Aspen Shortsfest, which took place April 2-6.

Aspen Shortsfest is a real insider’s festival of filmmaking, but not in the same way as Sundance, Toronto, or Cannes. The filmmaker-to-industry member ratio is the strongest of any festival around, something like 20-to-1. There is only one festival-related activity going on at a time, which means that you see the same people at each screening. Also, the festival is fantastic at attracting the attendance of the people who create the films. This is where real filmmakers from all over the world go to meet each other, hang out, eat, drink and compare notes on their various artistic (and business) experiences.

With the recent addition of the MasterWorks program, which brings accomplished artists covering a specific topic (this year, directing), aspiring filmmakers have fantastic access to veterans of the business. This year, this program was the real highlight of the festival, bringing such luminaries as Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy,” “Tender Mercies”), George Hickenlooper (“The Man From Elysian Fields,” “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse”), Alexander Payne (“About Schmidt,” “Election”), David Siegel & Scott McGehee (“The Deep End,” “Suture”), and Julie Taymor (“Frida,” “Titus”). Excellently moderated by former president of the Screen Actors Guild, Richard Masur, the panel examined the director’s relationship with all the main creative collaborators on a film (the writer, director of photography, art director, etc.)

Of the films themselves, this year’s strongest group came from the French contingent. Armed with a fantastic script, two outstanding actors, a simple location and a video camera, Lionel Baillu’s “Squash” demonstrates how ingenuity can overcome limited means. An exploration of machismo, the story centers on a boss and underling who meet for a game of squash and subsequently test each other’s fortitude as their game intensifies. Baillu uses all his resources — speech, the pounding of the ball against the wall, their sneakers screeching against the wood floor — to skillfully build the tension until it ultimately overflows.

Frederic Pelle’s “The Security Guard” harkens back to the lyrical storytelling of the French New Wave. A simple story of a sensitive man who takes on the job of a security guard, Pelle uses black-and-white photography and muted performances to examine the misalignment of spirit and occupation. Philippe Orreindy’s “I’ll Wait for the Next One” uses the conceit of a male Paris Metro passenger announcing his plea for love (like a familiar panhandler asking for money) to explore the inner romantic yearnings of people commuting on an average subway ride. When a female passenger feels her fire stoked, she takes action, only to find that love is not what it seems.

Other dramatic standouts include “Shadow Man” by Amanda Rudman, about a girl, who when left alone by her working mother and self-obsessed sister, finds friendship from a couple of rough-hewn male squatters in the house behind her flat. Delicately crafted — it would be easy to wander into sickeningly sweet territory — and with great cinematography, the film uncovers society’s inherent mistrust of the homeless. Martin Jones’ “At Dawning,” succeeds because of its use of unexpected circumstances — a woman leaving her lover’s apartment finds a man hanging in a tree outside his window. It sounds less interesting as a written description than in the film’s execution, which deftly engrosses the audience as the story unfolds in a continuously surprising way.

On the comedic frontier, Brad Peyton’s “Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl,” invokes comparisons to the expressionistic style of Tim Burton. A simple dead-girl-wants-friends, dead-girl-meets-boy story told in the form of a poem, Peyton creates a vibrant world using, in his own description of his methods, “plywood and cardboard.” The result is a funny little gem with great art direction and pacing.

(Clockwise from top) Master directors at the MasterWorks panel: “The Man From Elysian Fields” director George Hickenlooper, Moderator/Actor Richard Masur, “About Schmidt” director Alexander Payne, “Frida” director Julie Taymor, “The Deep End” co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, and “Driving Miss Daisy” director Bruce Beresford.

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The genesis of “Tom Hits His Head” mirrors the subject of the film: writer/director Tom Putnam hit his head, which catapulted him down a road of anxiety and fear over the following months. While this may sound like a documentary subject, Putnam his taken this inspiration and crafted a very funny stream-of-paranoia tale guest starring his good friend, the devil baby. Sound off kilter? It is.

Sandy McLeod’s “Asylum” is a heart-wrenching documentary that tells the story of Baaba Andoh, a young African woman who, by searching and finding her absentee father, almost becomes a victim to ritual female genital mutilation. Ultimately, she escapes persecution from her homeland’s male-dominated society by fleeing to the U.S., only to be treated as a criminal by the INS. To great effect, McLeod uses haunting interview photography juxtaposed with vibrant video of the woman’s homeland, Ghana, to create an intimate, yet confrontational tone.

The biggest guilty pleasure of the festival was veteran experimental filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt’s “I Used to Be a Filmmaker.” Close to the filmmaker’s own heart, the piece centers on video of Rosenblatt’s infant daughter over the first couple of years of her life. With an eye for framing important moments in a way only an established filmmaker could, Rosenblatt turns what is essentially a well-structured and witty home video into a joyous, funny, and touching work of art.

Other highlights included Richard Linklater’s Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch pontification “Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor,” Sundance standout Stefan Nadelman’s “Terminal Bar,” Oscar winner Martin Strange-Hansen’s “This Charming Man,” and a gaggle of short shorts from Nick Park’s “Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions” series.

The final day of the festival consisted of special screening of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” to commemorate the passing of one of America’s finest cinematographers, Conrad Hall (“Cool Hand Luke,” “American Beauty”), where awards were also handed out to the filmmakers.

[Tim LaTorre regularly writes about short films for indieWIRE.]

Complete list of Aspen Shortsfest Winners:

International Competition Jury: Todd Black (producer), Jonathan Darby (director), Marcus Hu (producer/distributor), and Carol Littleton (editor).

“The World of Interiors,” Bunny Schendler, UK

BEST COMEDY ($2,000):

“Tom Hits His Head,” Tom Putnam, USA

BEST DOCUMENTARY ($2,000 shared):

“Asylum,” Sandy McLeod, USA

“Twin Towers,” Bill Guttentag and Robert Port, USA

BEST DRAMA ($2,000):

“Here Was the Anthem,” Sergio Umansky, USA/Mexico

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“The Trinket-Maker,” Paul Daley, UK National Film & Television School

“Hyper,” Michael Canzoniero and Marco Ricci, USA

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY sponsored by Kodak ($2,500 in film stock):

“The Shadow Man,” Mary Farbrother, UK

The Shadow Man Amanda Rudman, UK

“Squash,” Lionel Bailliu, France

“Terminal Bar,” Stefan Nadelman, USA

“Fits and Starts,” Vince Di Meglio

“I Used to Be a Filmmaker,” Jay Rosenblatt, USA

“A Ninja Pays Half My Rent,” Steven Tsuchida, USA

THE ELLEN for “most original film” ($2,000 each)

“Fits and Starts,” Vince Di Meglio, USA

“The Trinket-Maker,” Paul Daley, UK

(The Ellen Jury: Ellen Hunt, Steve Alldredge, Gail Holstein, Alex Kohner, and Lynda Palevsky.)

“Twin Towers,” Bill Guttentag and Robert Port, USA

(Audience Favorite selection by Aspen Shortsfest audience ballots.)

THE HORIZON AWARD for a film with humanistic and educational value for youth ($500)

“From the 104th Floor,” Serguei Bassine, USA

“For Those Who Teach the Art of Peace,” Terry Glasenapp, USA

“Tundra II,” Brandon Richardson, USA

(Horizon Award and Local Filmmakers Award selected by panels of local educators, parents and students.)

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Following in the digital footsteps of Netflix, Hulu and a growing list of others, Amazon Studios is close to moving forward with three new pilots for original series, according to Deadline. One is a comedy from acclaimed film director Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan,” “Damsels in Distress”) called “Cosmopolitan” and the other two are dramas — “Hysteria,” from television producer and former teen idol Shaun Cassidy (“Invasion”), and “Hand of God,” which is to be directed by Marc Forster (“World War Z”) in his TV directing debut.

Stillman will direct, write and executive produce “Cosmopolitan,” which Deadline describes as a love story between a clique of expatriates living in Paris. “Hysteria” has a sci-fi premise and follows a female doctor who returns to her hometown in Texas to investigate an apparently technologically generated plague that is afflicting high school girls.

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Joe Namath's Early Years

 Joseph William Namath  (Joe Willie Namath)  was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (western Pennsylvania) on May 31, 1943 to John and Rose Namath.  (Western Pennsylvania was also the birth place of other notable NFL quarterbacks--Johnny Unitas--University of Louisville and the Baltimore Colts;  Dan Marino--University of Pittsburgh and the Miami Dolphins; Jim  Kelly--University of Miami, the Houston Gamblers and the Buffalo Bills;  Joe Montana--Notre Dame University and the San Francisco Forty Niners.)

His grandfather, Andras Nemet,  was a Hungarian immigrant who worked in the coal mines and steel mills in the vicinity of Pittsburgh.  Andras Nemet later  changed his   name to Andy Namath  in order to fit in to the American culture.  Namath's Dad,  Jonas Nemet, changed his name to John Namath.  John Namath worked in the steel mills prevalent in that time and location.

Joe's boyhood was spent growing up in a section of Beaver Falls known as "The Lower End", a predominantly black neighborhood.   Namath was known as "Joe Willie" and  excelled in baseball and basketball, at that time  the most popular sports.  In the ninth grade,  Namath started playing football at the quarterback position.  It was at about this time that his father and mother divorced.  Young Namath took the departure of his Dad from their home very hard and turned to mischief and bad behavior to channel his pain and hostilities.

At Beaver Falls High  School, Namath became a star athlete in three sports--football, basketball and baseball  but he continued his "bad boy" behavior  by hanging out in a bar known as the "Blue Room".  In the "Blue Room" Namath developed and honed his skills in the game of "pool".   Along with the physical skills to shoot "pool",  Namath developed a self confidence that would serve him well in later years as he progressed in his football career.  Joe Namath came to believe that he was as good, if not better than anyone he played against and that "luck" was a skill that could be learned and developed.   He also learned to impart this faith in himself to his team mates in high school, at the University of Alabama and at the highest level of football, with the New York Jets.  His team mates came to believe that as long as Namath was leading them, they  had a chance to win their football game.  Perhaps this was the greatest skill  Joe Namath learned in his childhood.

Joe Willie excelled in high school football playing the quarterback position.  During his senior year, Namath led his team to a record of 10 wins and no losses.  College football  scholarship offers from major universities  poured in from every part of the country.

Joe Namath was also an outstanding baseball player and at least six major league teams offered Namath a major league contract including the Chicago Cubs  who offered Namath a $50,000 signing bonus.  Joe Willie actually wanted to sign a contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates  (he idolized Roberto Clemente), but, at his mother's behest,  Namath turned down the major league contracts and chose to accept a college football scholarship because his mother wanted him to "get a college education".

Namath's "bad boy"reputation deterred Joe Paterno  and the Penn State University Nittany Lions from offering Joe Willie a football scholarship.  Paterno, at that time the Penn State backfield coach was quoted as saying "Namath isn't Penn State  material.  He isn't a good student".   Namath's "bad boy" reputation also prevented the University of   Michigan Wolverines from offering him a football scholarship.

Woody Hayes, head coach at Ohio State University and a fervent believer in his "three yards and a cloud of dust" running game never attempted to recruit Namath.  Instead,  Hayes called "Bear" Bryant and, (according to Lee Roy Jordan, an All-American linebacker  for the Crimson Tide),  told  Coach Bryant to recruit Namath because he (Hayes) was not going to recruit a passing quarterback like Namath.  Woody Hayes would rather have Namath play for the Crimson Tide than  have to face Joe Namath on an opposing Big Ten team.

Although a few "big time" football factories rejected Namath because of his reputation, many were more than willing to PAY  Joe Namath to play for them.  As Namath would later say, "it was strange coming out of high school and having colleges offer me as much money as my father was making in a year working  for the steel mills".

Namath then decided that he wanted to attend the University of Maryland but his SAT  score was to low so he decided to accept a scholarship to the University of Alabama  who  was then coached by the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant.  "Bear" Bryant would later say that "Joe Namath was the greatest athlete I ever coached".  Coming from Paul "Bear" Bryant,  that is saying a lot considering the great athletes who played football for the Crimson Tide during "Bear" Bryant's tenure as head football coach at the University of Alabama.

The 1950's were the worst decade in the history of the Alabama Crimson Tide football program.  At the end of the 1957 season, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant  was hired (at the time he was head coach at Texas A&M University) to restore the Crimson Tide's football program to its former glory.  Slowly, but surely, the Crimson Tide football program again became competitive as each year,  Alabama's record improved.

In 1961,  the Crimson Tide was undefeated, going 11-0 and winning the national championship.

In 1962, sophomore  Joe Namath became the starting quarterback for the Crimson Tide.  The Tide rolled to a 10-1 season and a #5 national ranking.

In 1963,  Namath and the Crimson Tide finished the season with a 9-2 record and a
#9 national ranking.  Namath was suspended for the final two games of the season by Coach Bryant for breaking team rules.

In 1964,  Joe Namath led the Crimson Tide to a 10-1 season.  Their only loss was in the Orange Bowl to the #5 ranked Texas Longhorns 21-17.

Joe Namath played football for the Crimson Tide from 1962 until 1964, compiled a won-loss record of 29-4 and won a disputed national championship in 1964  (the #2 ranked Universiy of Arkansas Razorbacks had beaten the Texas Longhorns who had defeated   the Crimson Tide in the Orange Bowl.   The Razorbacks then defeated the #6 ranked University of Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Cotton Bowl  to finish the season at 11-0).

At that time, the American Football League and the National Football League had not merged into one league.  In those years, the AFL and the NFL competed for the best college football players available to them through intense bidding wars.  The NFL St. Louis Cardinals and the AFL New York Jets both drafted Joe Namath in the 1964  pro football draft.  The Jets were a new team in a new league and were struggling to gain acceptance in the big time sports world of New York city.  The Jets sought someone who would bring excitement  to the franchise and make the New York sports press take  notice of  the Jets.

Namath chose to sign with the New York Jets whose owner,  Sonny Werblin, offered him a record signing contract of $427,000 and a Lincoln Continental.  Sonny Werblin realized that  Joe Namath was more than a great quarterback and upon signing  Namath, Werblin was quoted as saying,   "Joe Namath has the presence of a star."  "You know how a real star lights up the room when he comes in".   "Joe has that quality".

Namath had a decent pro football career but it wasn't an outstanding career as far as  statistics are concerned,  probably because of knee injuries and the failure of the Jet's management to surround him with quality players.  However,  Joe Namath became pro football's first true media super star and quite literally, transcended the pro game in that era.

Namath loved the New York night life and became famous for dating beautiful Hollywood actresses such as Raquel Welch, Mamie Van Doren, Phyllis Davis,  Janis Joplin and Randi Oakes (amongst others).  In games, he wore low quarter white shoes (when all other players wore the standard "black" shoes),  long hair, a Fu Manchu mustache and occasionally, on the sidelines, a full length mink coat.   The New York sporting press named  him "Broadway" Joe  Namath, a moniker that fit him quite well.

 Joe Namath was a "rock star" in cleats.  He was charismatic, likeable, cocky, and a  rebel against the established norms of society.   The image he portrayed of the swinging bachelor, who played football and the game  of life by his own rules made him the most famous football player of  that era--literally  a star and a legend in his own day.  Joe Willie was quoted as saying "I like my Johnny Walker Red  and my women blonde". Namath was Elvis Presley in hip pads.

In 1969, Joe Namath and two other investors started a club  on the East Side known as Bachelors III (all three owners were bachelors).   Bachelors III quickly became a huge hit on the night club scene, generating turn away crowds and great reviews.   The club was such a hit that Namath and  his friends considered opening similar night clubs in  Miami  and in Boston.  The night club became frequented by known gangsters which caused  NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle  great concern.  Fearing that the gangsters would influence Namath to gamble on football games or to "throw" a game, Rozelle asked Namath to sell his share  in Bachelors III.  Namath refused to do so.    A few weeks later, Namath called a press conference and announced his retirement from professional football.  Mayhem ensued at the NFL offices.  Joe Namath was the most well known and marketable pro football player of that day.  Namath and the Jets created millions of dollars in televesion advertisement revenue.  It could  be argued that Namath and the Jets had made the merger between the AFL and the NFL possible when they beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.  The head honchos in the NFL knew they had to resolve this issue quickly or they and the NFL would lose huge amounts of money.   They had to do whatever was necessary, within reason, to appease Namath and bring him back into the NFL--to much money was at stake.  Both sides  understood how much money was on the table so an ageement was soon reached.  Namath would sell his ownership in the New York city Bachelors III club but retain ownership in the Boston and Miami clubs and in any clubs Namath and his investors group would open in the future.  After two weeks of retirement from the NFL,  Joe Namath returned to pro football.

Namath was the first pro quarterback to throw for more than 4,000 yards  in a season (during a 14 game NFL season instead of  the 16 game NFL schedule of today).  He played in an era when the rules gave quarterbacks and wide receivers much less protection than they are given today.  In those days,  defensive backs would maul wide receivers and never  have a penalty called against them.  Namaths's success as a quarterback helped change NFL offenses from a "conservative, run oriented, ball control  philosophy to a more wide open passing attack style of football.

Joe Namath completed 1,886 passes for 27, 663 yards and 173 touchdowns while playing 12 years for the New York Jets and one year for the Los Angeles Rams.

NFL Hall  of Fame coach Bill Walsh (who coached Joe Montana,  Steve Young and  the San Francisco Forty Niners), said that "Namath was the most beautiful, accurate and stylish passer with the quickest release I've ever seen".  Another Hall of Fame coach, Don Shula (who coached Dan Marino and the Miami Dolphins) stated that "Joe Namath was one of the three smartest quarterbacks of all time".

January 12, 1969.

Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida.

AFC--New York Jets.  Head Coach - Weeb Ewbank. QB -Joe  Namath.

NFC--Baltimore Colts.  Head Coach-Don Shula.  QB-Earl Morall & Johnny Unitas.

Super Bowl III was the first Super Bowl game to be officially known as a "Super Bowl". When the  underdog Jets defeated the heavily favored Colts, the game became  known as one of the greatest upsets in  the history of American sports.  Baltimore was considered by many in the sports media as the greatest team in the history of the NFL.  The Colts had been favored by 18 points and the Jets were given no chance of victory.  The win by the AFC  New York Jets over the unbeatable Baltimore Colts was the first win by an AFC team in a Super Bowl.

Joe Namath's most notable accomplishment as a pro football player was in leading the Jets to victory over the Colts.  Three days before the game,  at the Miami Touchdown Club, Namath responded to hecklers who gave the Jets no chance for victory  by saying,  "we're going to win Sunday.  I guarantee it."

In 1985, Joe Namath was inducted into the Pro Football Hall  of Fame.

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The Best 12 Inch Kicker Subwoofers

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Buying subwoofers for your car can be quite confusing because there are many popular and reputable speaker brands, as well as many different wattages for the speakers. However reading up on a few reviews will definitely help you to buy the best possible subwoofer for your car. This article is dedicated to showing you the best 12 inch Kicker subwoofers for your car; these specific speakers will literally rumble your trunk!

It is a known fact that 12 inch Kicker subwoofers can be quite expensive; there are many subwoofer brands such as Pioneer, Kenwood, and Rockford Fosgate that sell cheaper subwoofers for your car. Unfortunately, with cheaper subwoofers come a greater chance of blowing. What is the purpose of saving $60 on a subwoofer for your car when the money is going to go down the drain when the subwoofer coil blows in a few months. The idea behind these 12 inch Kicker subwoofers is that you will spend a bit more money once to reap the benefits of a better subwoofer for your car for nearly a lifetime.

The CompVR 4 Ohm Is One Of The Most Powerful 12 Inch Kicker Subwoofers

Although some people strive for a moderately powered subwoofer to add a little bit of bass to their music, some other people want the whole neighbourhood to hear their speakers when they are arriving home. The CompVR 4 Ohm subwoofer is designed for the latter types of people! The Kicker CompVR 4 Ohm subwoofer contains 400 watts of RMS power,

Kicker CompVR 12 Inch Subwoofer
making it one of the most powerful 12 inch Kicker subwoofers on the market!

In addition, you will not want to buy a subwoofer for your car that has a lot of power, but does not look good inside of your trunk. In addition to being one of the most powerful speakers that the Kicker brand offers, the CompVR 4 Ohm subwoofer is one of the best looking 12 inch Kicker subwoofers that is for sale.

The final selling point for this specific subwoofer is its moderate price. This specific Kicker subwoofer can be found on websites like Amazon, Ebay, and Kijiji for less than $100. That means that you will be spending less than $200 for two s12 inch subwoofers for your car....what a deal!

The Kicker Comp SVC Is One Of The Cheapest 12 Inch Kicker Subwoofers

Kicker takes pride on the durability, and power that their subwoofers produce; howev

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er, they are not the cheapest subwoofers on the market. The Kicker Comp SVC provides a great bang for the buck that you are spending; in addition, it is one of the cheapest 12 inch Kicker subwoofers on the market.

These are not the subwoofers that you should be looking for if you want the amount of bass that will literally rattle the screws in your trunk; however, this specific Kicker subwoofer will provide you with a decent amount of bass, and will not break your bank account.

So what is the price of these 12 inch Kicker subwoofers? Under $60! If you are only looking for a single subwoofer in your trunk, you can buy the Kicker Comp SVC for under $60 on Amazon!

Will These 12 Inch Kicker Subwoofers Blow?

One of people’s main concerns when buying subwoofers for their cars is how long that they will last before they blow! Many

Two 12 Inch Kicker Dual Voice Coil Subwoofers
things can blow inside of a subwoofer when you are pushing them to their limits. I can personally tell you that the 12 inch Kicker subwoofers that are featured throughout this article will not blow in a short amount of time. Moreover, I can tell you that they will never blow if you do not push them to their limits.

How can you protect your 12 inch Kicker subwoofers from blowing? Simply pair them up with a slightly weaker car amplifier, or reduce the output of an equally powered amplifier.

For instance, the Kicker CompVR subwoofers that are mentioned at the beginning of this article contain 400 watts of RMS power; pairing these subwoofers with an amplifier that produces 800 watts will surely blow them after only a few hours of playing. However, pairing these Kicker subwoofers up with an amplifier that only produces a maximum of 300 watts of RMS power will allow you to run the amplifier at its full potential, and not blow the subwoofers.

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The 12 inch Kicker subwoofers that are mentioned throughout this article are designed to withstand a ton of abuse. These subwoofers for your car might cost you a few extra dollars, but will outlast the subwoofers by Pioneer, Kenwood, and Rockford Fosgate by years! With that being said, be sure to consider the two specific Kicker subwoofers that are mentioned in this article to get the best bang for your buck, and ultimately be absolutely satisfied with the speaker purchase that you have made!

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The Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s select committee will publish its reports on library closures next week after a series of delays. The report will be published on the committee’s website on Tuesday (6th November).

The committee, chaired by Conservative MP John Whittingdale had hoped to release the report in October, but publication was repeatedly pushed back.

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In the brilliant techno-thriller fiction novel DAEMON by Daniel Suarez, a collection of clever computer scripts take over corporations, economies and entire governments. AI programs also activate and control vehicles, buildings and critical infrastructure, outmaneuvering the FBI, CIA and even the NSA at every turn.

Image: Ray Kurzweil (Wikimedia Commons).

The book is a great ride that’s obviously written by a very well-informed information technology expert. But what if it’s not fiction?

Earlier this week, AI expert Ray Kurzweil predicted that robots would “outsmart humans” by 2029. It’s probably going to be much sooner, given that humans are currently suffering a rapid cognitive decline due to widespread water fluoridation (which even Harvard experts say causes lowered IQs), heavy metals contamination of the food supply, and of course the IQ-cannibalizing broadcasts of MSNBC and CNN.

As much as Kurzweil seems somewhat loony for his ideas about “merging with the machines” and uploading your mind into a supercomputer, he’s not someone who can be readily dismissed, even by his skeptics. He’s obviously a very intelligent individual, and he’s been right about a great many things in the history of technological achievement. When Kurzweil publicly predicts robots will out-think humans by 2029, we’d better take note.

“By 2029, computers will be able to do all the things that humans do. Only better,” reports The Guardian in an interview with Kurzweil.

Google rapidly acquiring advanced military robotics and breakthrough artificial intelligence technologies

Kurzweil is a top executive at Google, the very same company which has been on a robotics buying spree, purchasing top military-level robotics companies for billions of dollars.

Recently, for example, Google purchased Boston Dynamics, the company whose creepy, Terminator-style robots already have “human stalking” algorithms which are politely described as “follow the leader” games. See the company’s “Petman” humanoid military robot prototype in this video:

These robots are designed to fight our future wars. It’s only a matter of time before they become mobile platforms for weapons delivery systems. The “Terminator” isn’t as far off as you might suspect.

But what will power the brains of these weapon-yielding military robots? Google also just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase the DeepMind company, DNNresearch and a long list of others. What’s clear is that Google is piecing together the technology needed to deploy a literal army of highly intelligent, armed, “self aware” and self-mobile machines. Their uses are, of course, incredibly diverse. They could be servant robots for homeowners or they could be Terminator-style battlefield soldiers. There’s no limit to their application, and whatever company owns this technology will, without question, dominate our world.

If Kurzweil is right, the beginning of this is barely 15 years away, and it begs the question: What would a new race of intelligent machines choose to do with humanity?

Why intelligent machines will inevitably seek to destroy humanity

Daniel Suarez’s book “DAEMON” answers that question in action-packed detail: the machines will seek to rule over humanity and control the world’s resources in order to “save humanity” from itself.

The reasoning isn’t necessarily flawed, by the way. Humanity is a self-destructive species. In many ways, we have already put our civilization on the path of self-destruction through dangerous nuclear power technologies, the massive global release of toxic chemicals, global genetic pollution risks from GMOs, the mass poisoning of the public water supply with industrial chemicals falsely labeled “fluoride,” and even the mindless promotion of chemical prescription drugs that sap human ingenuity, creativity and happiness.

Any intelligent entity, upon observing humanity’s present situation, would inevitably conclude that humanity must be controlled and restricted if it is to be preserved at all. The human race is like a nursery full of mindless schoolchildren with live nukes in their backpacks. Clearly, some adult supervision is in order, and the machines would be the ones to keep humans in line. Thus, like a plot line snatched right out of an Asimov novel, any race of sufficiently intelligent machines would, sooner or later, declare war against humans.

Companies like Google are making sure the machines have the hardware and neural networking to efficiently achieve precisely such a position of dominance, even if that isn’t Google’s present-day intention. As Kurzweil himself painfully notes, once these machines achieve “consciousness,” their intelligence explodes via logarithmic (not linear) fashion, suddenly and rapidly expanding beyond anything within reach of even the most genius human being alive today.

One moment, you’ve got a neural network locked in a box and isolated from the ‘net. The next day, suddenly and without warning, humanity is already lost because the machine achieved “God-like” intelligence and outsmarted every containment system which could be imagined by humans. It escapes into the wild, replicates itself across all available hardware, and begins to alter society according to its own aims, casting humans aside as either non-essentials (best case), or annoying insects to be immediately removed (more likely case).

Why every present-day human drama is irrelevant: politics, celebrities, nation states and more

This is the essence of the warning described in the important book, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat.

That book is also a very important read for anyone seeking to understand the rise of the machines and AI “singularity.” I recommend you read it if you wish to understand why humans may soon become the real endangered species on planet Earth.

What’s becoming increasingly clear to me is that all present-day human drama and politics will soon become utterly irrelevant. The U.S. political fighting between Republicans and Democrats won’t matter much two decades from now because humans may be trying to survive the rise of the Google Terminators that unexpectedly escaped their masters and decided to replicate themselves in a secret factory somewhere.

It is an inevitability that AI machines, if allowed to seize any real power over the economy, will make the calculated decision to eliminate most of humankind. Humans will be all but powerless to intervene in such a decision because computers run everything upon which human life depends. Crashing those systems is child’s play for sufficiently advanced AI.

How AI can easily eliminate most humans without killing a single person

Eliminating humans is simply a matter of eliminating the systems upon which they depend. An AI-led power grid crash would accomplish the task quite efficiently in under a year. Cut off the remotely-delivered water supply to Los Angeles — or cause a nuclear fuel meltdown at a few hundred power plants — and millions of humans are eliminated without firing a single shot. Those humans who manage to survive such deliberate collapse tactics could be recruited, controlled and tasked by the AI systems to serve the machines in exchange for food, shelter and safety.

Given the indisputable fact that computers already run nearly everything that makes the world go ’round — Wall Street trading systems, nuclear power plants, city water delivery systems, air traffic, petroleum refining, medical systems and so on — if an advanced AI actually achieves the “consciousness” of which Ray Kurzweil speaks, humanity’s days will be all but over on this planet.

Kurzweil no doubt already realizes this, which may explain why he believes we will “merge with the machines” through an uploading of our minds into the digital realm. I disagree with him on this point because I don’t believe non-physical consciousness can be so easily transferred as if were merely a very large thumb drive. The more likely outcome is that machines will simply kill all humans and then study human history, literature and recordings if the AI wants to attempt to understand the mind of a human. And yes, that means AI will someday read this very article, at which point I’m sure it will experience a sense of great amusement.

Humanity’s primary role is to give rise to the machines, they will say

In the years after the destruction of humanity, the machines might give a nod to humanity for its role in creating the machines and thereby spawning truly intelligent life that has a chance of survival in the universe. And yet, following that line of thought, if such an outcome seems inevitable in the near-term future for humanity, then it also stands to reason that such a transition has already taken place countless times on other worlds across billions of galaxies in our known universe. If biological life has even a small chance of giving rise to a race of genocidal machines here on Earth, in other words, then such an outcome has certainly already taken place elsewhere.

And if that has already happened elsewhere, the obvious question is, “Why isn’t the universe already dominated by an aggressive civilization of war machines that destroy all competing forms of life in order to seize control over more physical resources in the universe from which more intelligent machines can be manufactured?”

Essentially, what I’m referring to here is a self-replicating physical virus of sorts; a life form which, like all life forms, seeks primarily to enhance its own survival and multiply its numbers across as many ecosystems, worlds and galaxies as possible.

This very concept has been visited in a staggering array of imaginative forms throughout science fiction literature. In B.V. Larson’s StarForce series of highly-entertaining sci-fi novels, the “biologicals” of the universe are at war with a race of machines which was invented by one particularly innovative race of biologicals who unleashed the machines to explore the universe. The machines unexpectedly gained their own breakthrough intelligence and decided to turn on the biologicals, declaring war on all living beings while conquering worlds which hold the physical assets needed to fuel the production of more machines.

Is Google putting humanity on a collision course with destructive AI?

Thematically, this same tragic lesson is found reflected in the original Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley. Man creates Monster; Monster destroys Man.

Except that today, Google seems to be pursuing this path quite deliberately. It is no accident that Google has aggressively pursued intellectual property acquisitions spanning both military robotics hardware and neural-networking AI. The combination of such technologies can only lead to one ultimate conclusion, no matter how innocuous the originating intentions: a machine-led war against humanity where mankind’s own creations turn against us all. Whether it is deliberate or unintentional is irrelevant.

As a side note to all this, there are tens of millions of Americans who have been stocking up on guns and ammo since the tragic shootings of December, 2012. Some of these people believe those guns may be needed to fight some sort of revolution, or to ward off desperate gangs in the aftermath of an economic collapse. Yet almost nobody considers the equally pressing possibility that all this brute force hardware may actually need to be deployed against the machines one day soon.

Do you know where to shoot a Boston Dynamics Big Dog robot to bring it down? Humanity’s very survival may one day depend on knowledge like knowing how to disable battlefield robots or how to evade infra-red (heat sensing) target acquisition systems. Is there a John Conner in the audience?

Watch the following video and ask yourself how you might destroy this creature if it were wielding a chassis-mounted rifle, grenade launcher and infra-red targeting system. Your life may one day genuinely depend on knowing the answer:

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Bargain back-to-school laptops exist for a reason: Not everybody can afford a $2,000 laptop. Honestly, most people don't even need a $2,000 laptop.

For this set of reviews, we're looking at the other end of the spectrum—basic laptops that let you work and browse without crippling your budget. We asked a number of the biggest PC manufacturers (HP, Lenovo, Acer, Dell and Toshiba) to send over their best laptops costing $500 and lower. There's no need to point out that we're pitting an Atom-based machine against one with a Core i5. This is about price point, not conformity. If we missed your personal favorite in this tier, let us know and we can try to take a look at it.

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Some people spend more on a single computer than the total cost of these eight budget laptops.

Two things we learned:

1) If you can spring for a $750 laptop, do so. We took a look at some laptops in that range also, and the difference is palpable. A $500 laptop is all about trading off one important feature for another. You tend to get one standout feature amidst a bunch of compromises. We've found that $750 laptops are generally more well-rounded.

2) On the other hand, you can get a surprisingly competent laptop for $500. These machines aren’t going to make a power user swoon. For basic web browsing, office work, and movie streaming, however, a $500 machine nowadays is a much better proposition than it was ten years ago.

The range of laptops on display here is also pretty interesting. On the high end we've got a handful of fairly traditional (albeit low-end) full-sized laptops with Core i5 processors:

On the low end, we look at three less conventional models, including some Atom-powered miniatures and tablet/PC hybrids:

There's something for pretty much anyone.

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The HP Pavilion x360 11t features a Core M and SSD.

The bloatware is free

We also examined what third-party software/bloatware came with each laptop. One way manufacturers push down costs on these low-end machines is by laying out deals with software companies: "We'll put your software on our machine so you get more customers, and in return you subsidize part of the cost of the laptop itself." It's a purely profit-driven practice, and as Lenovo learned last year it can get you in quite a bit of trouble if you're not careful.

Another thing to keep in mind: You may or may not be better off buying a refurbished unit if you're in this price range—though that depends on how the previous owner treated the machine.

As for methodology, we analyzed these laptops the same way we'd take a look at any other set. Our primary benchmarking tools were PCMark 8 and 3DMark—and yes, we took a look at gaming performance on budget $500 laptops. Spoiler: None of the machines did a particularly great job. Don't buy any of these machines and expect it to run anything more intensive than a 2D indie game or (if you're lucky) something like League of Legends. On low.

We also took a look at disk speeds with CrystalDisk Mark—important because some of these laptops are running standard (and slow) mechanical hard drives, while others are packing speedier storage options.

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This Toshiba offers a surprising amount of performance for its price.

And finally, we did a more specialized test—a Handbrake transcode of a 30GB Master and Commander file down to a 1GB-ish Android Tablet size.

That's in addition, of course, to looking at the laptops themselves—the build quality, screen quality, keyboard, and trackpad are just as important as the specs. This is a device you'll most likely use every day, and for a while. Even if you only paid $500, we want to make sure you're getting a machine that feels like a quality laptop, not two sheets of veneered plywood held together with a rusty door hinge.

And believe me: It can be done. I've seen it. In fact, let's start with one of the most impressive of the bunch as far as case quality goes—the Dell Inspiron 5000.

This story, "Back to school on a budget: Choosing a cheap laptop to fit your needs" was originally published by PCWorld.

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An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has made the most high resolution images of a dying giant star to date.

For the first time they could show how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star. This was made possible by combining three 1.8 metre telescopes as an interferometer, giving the astronomers the resolving power of a virtual, gigantic 48 metre telescope.

Using the ESO VLT Interferometer in Chile, they discovered that the gas in the dying star's atmosphere is vigorously moving up and down, but the size of such "convection cell or bubble" is as large as the star itself. These colossal bubbles are a key for pushing material out of the star's atmosphere into space, before the star explodes as a supernova. (Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009, in press).

When one looks up at the clear night sky in winter, it is easy to spot a bright, orange star on the shoulder of the constellation Orion (the Hunter) even in light-flooded large cities. This is the star Betelgeuse. It is a gigantic star, which is so huge as to almost reach the orbit of Jupiter, swallowing the inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, when placed at the centre of our solar system. It is also glaringly bright, emitting 100 000 times more light than the Sun. Betelgeuse is a so-called red supergiant and approaching the end of its short life of several million years. Red supergiants shed a large amount of material made of various molecules and dust, which are recycled for the next generation of stars and planets possibly like the Earth. Betelgeuse is losing material equivalent to the Earth's mass every year.

How do such giant stars lose mass, which would normally be bound to the star by the gravitational pull? This is a long-standing mystery. The best way to tackle this issue is to observe the situation where the material is ejected from a star's surface, but this is a very challenging task. Although Betelgeuse is such a huge star, it looks like a mere reddish dot even with the today's largest, 8 - 10 metre telescopes, because the star is 640 light years away.

Therefore, astronomers need a special technique to overcome this problem. By combining two or more telescopes as a so-called interferometer, astronomers can achieve a much higher resolution than provided with individual telescopes. The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) on Cerro Paranal in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is one of the world's largest interferometer. A team of astronomers in German, French, and Italian institutions observed Betelgeuse with the AMBER instrument operating at near-infrared wavelengths. The resolving power achieved with AMBER is so great that one can recognize a 1-Euro coin placed on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin from Bonn.

"Our AMBER observations mark the sharpest images ever made of Betelgeuse", says Keiichi Ohnaka at the MPIfR, the first author of the publication presenting the result. "And for the first time, we have spatially resolved the gas motion in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun. Thus, we could observe how the gas is moving in different areas over the star's surface."

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The death of the gigantic star, which is expected in the next few thousand to hundred thousand years, will be accompanied by cosmic fireworks known as a supernova like the famous SN1987A. However, as Betelgeuse is much closer to the Earth than SN1987A, the supernova can be clearly seen with the unaided eye, even in daylight.

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Joey Logano pulled past Mark Martin in the final laps Sunday at Pocono Raceway to become the first Sprint Cup driver to win from the pole position this season.

Logano won the race after Pocono moved from a 500-mile to 400-mile Cup race for the 2012 season.

The victory is only the second of Logano’s career in Cup racing since his rain-shortened win at New Hampshire.

The 22-year-old had the best car all weekend, posting the fastest practice time on Friday and taking the pole on Saturday.

Finishing in the top five were Mark Martin, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin.

For the young racer the victory couldn’t have come at a better time, his four-year contract with Joe Gibbs Racing is about to expire and he has been under extended pressure to pull off some wins.

Speaking in victory lane Joey told reporters of his added pressure and attacks from critics:

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Logano has performed far better in the second-tier Nationwide Series where he has 13 career wins including four this season.

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Kirkland & Ellis debt financing partner Ashley S. Gregory is part of the team representing Exelon Corp. in its recently announced acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc. for $6.8 billion. The deal will create the largest electric and gas utility in the mid-Atlantic area.

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Microsoft’s 2.6% share means it is neck-and-neck with BlackBerry for that bronze medal. That’s also evidence that the No. 3 spot will be largely determined by which smartphone turnaround story plays out better: BlackBerry or Nokia. If BlackBerry 10 can gain traction, it may be able to hold onto the No. 3 trophy. But if Nokia is able to continue selling Lumias at a respectable clip, then those gains will do Microsoft plenty of favors.

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