Regalia leads second practice

Facundo Regalia set the pace in Auto GP's second free practice session at Valencia on Friday afternoon. The Argentinean, competing on his Campos Racing team's home ground, recorded a fastest time of 1m24.586s. Joint championship leader Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (Super Nova) ended the afternoon just 0.023s shy of Regalia in second.

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Newsham confident he can win

Dave Newsham believes he can win the opening round of the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch on Sunday after taking his first series pole position. Former Renault Clio Cup champion Newsham stepped up to the BTCC last season. He joined the Team ES Racing squad for 2012 and put its turbocharged Vauxhall Vectra on pole earlier this afternoon with a time of 48.483s

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NFL Draft?s Potential Patriots: Georgia CB Brandon Boykin

WEEI.com will continue to offer daily insight and analysis regarding options that may be available to the Patriots when it comes to the 2012 NFL draft. Here is one is a series of profiles of players who could be on the board when it?s time for the Patriots to make a selection. BRANDON BOYKIN Position: [...]

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NHL: More bad news for Maple Leaf fans just around the corner

In a season-ending slide of biblical proportions, one that has them eliminated from playoff contention and now includes 11 straight home losses, more bad news awaits the Toronto Maple Leafs, and their fans. It will come courtesy of the Florida Panthers.

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Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan

Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years. Meanwhile Linux kernel insider Greg Kroah-Hartman has left Red Hat rival SUSE to join the Linux Foundation as a new fellow, where he joins a select group that includes Linux creator Linus Torvalds....

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"Mean Girl" Syndrome In The Workplace

"I want to be respected!!"I often hear that from women at work, yet women often don't respect each other or even themselves.

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'Star Trek's' Ben Cross Joins Alan Ball's Cinemax Drama 'Banshee'

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He'll play Mr. Rabbit, a ruthless Ukrainian gangster who has been hunting down two of his former top thieves for 15 years.

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Offer Customers A Good Shopping Experience With Custom Shopping Bags

Shopping is a plain act based on simple human needs. It is an activity in which a person visits different stores with the intent to purchase products needed to satisfy their daily needs.

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How to Handle the Difficult Issue of Criminal Checks

The candidate is perfect, well presented, well-spoken and they already have an outstanding grasp on what the position entails - they will be an asset to any company, especially yours because you want to hire them. Yet due to the nature of the job, there is a fear that should this person have a criminal record what should be done and how should it be handled. Further questions revolve around:- at what point is it justified to conduct that criminal record check? When can a recruiter or employer deny a position to a candidate because he or she has a criminal record?

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SwitchEasy Colors case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 only $9.95 [Daily deal]

For today only the iMore iPhone accessory store has the SwitchEasy Colors case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 for only $9.95! That's a steep 34% off! Get them before they're gone!

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George H.W. Bush: The reason evangelicals don't trust Romney

Romney’s struggles with Christian conservatives — he’s yet to win in a state where white evangelicals make up more than 50 percent of the electorate — suggests their long-term involvement in politics may be making them more cynical and less willing to …

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Parlez Vous Francais? It Might Boost Brain Power

Ever wish you had studied a little harder in your high school French or Spanish class? According to a recent New York Times article, being bilingual has benefits that extend well beyond language skills. Guest host Jacki Lyden explores this issue with Ellen Bialystock, professor of psychology at York University.

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5 Ways to Save on Your Business Utility Expenses

If you're a typical business owner, you have operating expenses and one of the largest is utility costs. You need natural gas and electricity in order to operate your business-without them, you'd have to shut your doors! Each month most entrepreneurs have an overwhelming feeling to find a quiet space and vent out a scream or two about their energy rates and monthly payments.

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HTC announces fix for Android Wi-Fi security flaw

HTC announced a fix for a vulnerability that lets hackers view and access Wi-Fi security information on nine of its Android phones. The fix is available via an automatic software upgrade, though some users will have to update manually....

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Is Danielle Smith Canada's next big political juggernaut?

Danielle Smith, leader of the Wildrose Party, is looking to defeat Alison Redford's Progressive Conservatives and form a government on Apr. 23. If she succeeds, will Smith become a force to reckon with in the future?

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Ou Spins and Wins

The 2012 Season 1 IZOD IndyCar season came to Phoenix International Raceway for Week 8, two thirds of the way through the schedule.� Thirty sim racers made the haul to the Valley of the Sun, making the top split online race a 15 car field.� With the top seven positions less than 90 points apart coming into PIR, points were at a premium for those involved. In qualifying, it was Yang Ou grabbing his fourth pole position with a 20.560s lap.� Just behind in second place was Chris Cahoe, turning a 20.571s lap.� Third went to Tim Doyle (20.597s) with Chris Manifold fourth (20.626s) and Michael Peters (20.668s) rounding-out the top five. At the drop of the green flag, Ou rocketed to the lead with Doyle able to follow along [...]

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The new iPad (2012) community report card

By now you've read our highly detailed iMore new iPad review, and the reality-checking Mobile Nations new iPad round-table, so there's only one part of our trifecta left -- your take. That's right, the most important thing at the end of the day is what you, the iMore community thinks of the new iPad. How does Apple's latest tablet meet your expectations and serve your needs. To find out and to give you your say, we ran several polls and you started several forum threads. Here are the results to date.

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AMD reaches for the cloud with new server chips

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday is expected to announce new Opteron 3200 series chips for low-end servers, which the company hopes will give it a competitive edge over Intel in the cloud server market.

The three Opteron 3200 chips are for use in single-socket servers for Web hosting and cloud applications, according to a company presentation. The chips have up to eight processor cores, clock speeds of up to 3GHz, and draw between 45 watts and 65 watts of power.

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Cannibal serial killer arrested in Russia

A serial killer who wrote a list of his intended 11 victims worked his way through killing and eating nine of them prior to his arrest in Penza region of Russia. Another man was convicted last year of the murders, suggesting a miscarriage of justice.

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UK Chancellor Osborne: Lukewarm food will be spared extra tax

Since Chancellor George Osborne announced in the budget that hot take-away foods will be levied with a 20 percent tax , �30 million has been wiped from the share price of the U.K.'s popular bakery chain Greggs. Luckily, Osborne doesn't eat there.

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Judge: Asus Transformer Isn?t Infringing On Hasbro?s Trademark ? And Asus Reveals Embarrassing Sales Stats

A federal judge has ruled that Asus' Transformer Prime tablet does not infringe on Hasbro's Transformers trademark, in spite of the suit actually making sense. Just "Transformer", or just "Prime", might have flown right by Hasbro's lawyers without a second look ? those are words, after all ? but putting the two together seemed like tempting fate. As expected, Hasbro took Asus to task in December. But the judge has initially sided with Asus, saying that people were unlikely to confuse the tablet with Hasbro properties, noting they had also waited too long to file the suit. As a little kicker on the story, court filings have revealed that the device has produced pre-order numbers that are, shall we say, less than legendary.

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Marussia asks FIA to look at IP case

Marussia has asked the FIA to investigate whether or not the former Team Lotus outfit breached the Concorde Agreement by using parts that rival outfit Force India owned the copyright to. In the wake of a British Court ruling that Lotus - now competing as Caterham - had misused a small number of parts in its 2010 car , Marussia has notified the FIA that it would like the governing body to look into the matter.

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Travel photo of the day: A toucan up close

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Bobby Brown Busted For DUI

Bobby Brown, the ex-husband of the late Whitney Houston and all around trainwreck in his own right, was *just* arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence … of something. Bobby was pulled over by police in Van Nuys, CA just about an hour or so ago and was taken into custody. The police will [...]

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Ride the Rip Current to a Trusting Financial Relationship

SMM is only one spoke in the wheel, albeit a valuable spoke. The fastest most effective way to get new clients is through marketing alliances. Here's a story I sent to my email list that illustrates the point: I thought I was soooo smart.

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Reasons To Use Commercial Laundry Equipment

If you have to provide uniforms for your staff and operate a customer facing business then you will know how important it is for uniforms to look smart and presentable, as often how an employee looks forms the first impression of how people perceive your business to be. It could be that you start off with just a small business and only have a few items to wash and iron each week and do this easily using your own domestic washing machine and iron, but then your business may expand and you find yourself with more and more to...

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Whitmarsh defends FOTA teams

Martin Whitmarsh has defended the decision of FOTA members to agree unilaterally to commercial terms offered by Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, even though he originally pushed hard for teams to stick together on the subject. Before Ferrari and Red Bull quit the organisation at the end of last year, FOTA was determined that its members remained united to give themselves a better bargaining position against Ecclestone. In an email that Whitmarsh sent to FOTA members at the end of 2010, a copy of which has been seen by AUTOSPORT, he wrote: "If the teams are able to reach an agreement on distribution we will undoubtedly, collectively be able to secure a more favourable overall total for the teams

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Donald Duck Propaganda for Taxes and War

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Symantec details mobile device management plans

Symantec this week put the focus on its mobile security strategy with its announcement that it's acquiring Nukona, the software provider for mobile application management.

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MSNBC Commentator Mocks Geraldo Rivera?s Hoodie Comments, Advises Black Men to Dress Like Steve Urkel (Video)

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Melissa Harris-Perry unveiled her ?Dress Code for Black Safety,? saying it would protect black men from being attacked by strangers.

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Texas Christians Raise Money To Pay Medical Bills For Atheist Protestor Patrick Greene

A Texas atheist who earlier this year fought to ban religious symbols on government property in his town is reportedly "flabbergasted" that Christians have offered to help him pay his bills.
The Tyler Morning Telegraph is reporting that Christians in Henderson County have rais …

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How the Right Printer Can Help You Save on Your Office Printing Costs

If you have recently bought a printer for the office at a reasonable price then you may be feeling very happy with yourself; but you probably haven't factored in the cost of printing. Ink for example can be really expensive and if you have not bought an effective printer, then you could be facing high costs. If you want to save money on your printing costs then you need to choose the right printer for starters and also learn how to cut down on the amount you spend on printing. The following information should help.

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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times business news - March 23

March 23 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in
the New York Times business pages on Friday. Reuters has not
verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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Vettel: RB8 just needs more track time

Sebastian Vettel believes Red Bull Racing needs more track time in order to extract the full potential from its car, which he reckons has no fundamental issues. Red Bull, the dominant force last season, was unable to challenge McLaren for pole or victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

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Super Nova retains Monza line-up

Super Nova International has confirmed that Adrian Quaife-Hobbs and Victor Guerin will remain with the Norfolk team for the remainder of the Auto GP World Series.

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Storage Auctions - How to Profit From Them

If you've been keeping up with the hit reality TV show "Storage Wars" you have seen how much money some of these storage auctions can bring. However you may have also seen how sometimes they are worthless and it is usually a beginner that finds themselves on the winning bid of these loser units. Taking the time to learn what you need to do is paramount to having a successful career in storage unit auctions.

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Bad Trip to Edgewood

This classic A&E Investigative Reports documentary with Bill Kurtis analyzes how between 1955 and 1975, the U.S. Army used 7,000 enlisted soldiers as human guinea pigs for experiments involving a wide array of biological and chemical warfare agents. These tests were conducted jointly by the U.S. Army Intelligence Board and the Chemical Warfare Laboratories at [...]

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McLaren trusts FIA on Mercedes wing

McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale says his team will trust the FIA to take a definitive judgement on the wing system that Mercedes is operating in Formula 1 this year.

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Commercial GPS Systems Solve Problems

Using commercial GPS systems can help to solve a number of problems you may face or encounter. Use them to help to keep your fleet in check.

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Exclusive: Johnny Depp and Ashley Olsen's Hot Hookup

Johnny Depp publicly claims to still be happily coupled up with Vanessa Paradis ? his longtime partner and the mother of his two children.

However, In Touch can exclusively reveal that on February 27, Johnny was spotted making a hasty exit from an office building connected to Ashley?s apartment building ?looking like he didn?t want to be seen,? a witness tells In Touch. In fact, an office worker confirms, ?An e-mail went around to the employees saying Johnny Depp was using our building to try to avoid paparazzi.?

It turns out the star, 48, was secretly leaving 23-years younger Ashley?s loft after a sneak slumber party. Arriving in the afternoon of February 26, Johnny hunkered down in Ashley?s Tribeca digs until noon the next day ? nearly 24 hours later. ?It was quiet in her apartment, like it was just the two of them in there,? an insider recalls, and though no one outside can know what happened, ?It didn?t seem like it was just a visit between friends.?

Whatever the twosome were up to during their overnighter, it certainly left Johnny exhausted. When the star finally left the next day, ?he looked like he was out of it,? an onlooker said.

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Selecting Valet Podiums - Important Things to Consider

Are you confused because of the many different types of valet podiums available in the market today? Selecting one for your business can be quite a pain unless you know what you are looking for. The following tips will help you select the best possible podium so that your employees can do their work efficiently, thereby ensuring that your customers have no reason to complain.

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Erika Van Pelt Sent Home On 'American Idol'

DeAndre Brackensick and Heejun Han join Van Pelt in bottom three.
By Adam Graham

Erika Van Pelt and Ryan Seacrest on "American Idol"
Photo: Fox

Erika Van Pelt debuted a dramatic new look on Wednesday's episode of "American Idol," but it wasn't enough to save her in the competition as the 26-year-old Rhode Islander was sent packing on Thursday's (March 22) "Idol."

Van Pelt made it into the finals as a wild-card choice and consistently found herself facing elimination. This week she chopped off her blond locks and revealed a sleek, short black 'do and received strong marks for her version of Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." But it wasn't enough for viewers, apparently, as she landed at the bottom of America's votes. She sang "I Believe in You and Me" for the judges to try to get them to use their save on her, but they let her go with a swift "no," delivered by Randy Jackson. (As if the pain of elimination isn't tough enough, Van Pelt now has to go back and explain to her New England friends what she was doing singing "New York State of Mind." Good luck with that one.)

Van Pelt found herself in the bottom three alongside DeAndre Brackensick and Heejun Han. Brackensick was released to safety first and was followed by Han.

Han was on the receiving end of some stinging criticism from mentor Jimmy Iovine following his goofball performance Wednesday night of Billy Joel's "My Life." "He came out and disrespected the entire process. His performance was more like four minutes of a bad Adam Sandler movie that goes straight to DVD," Iovine said of Han's campy take on the song, calling it a "stunt gone wrong." "At the end of the day, Interscope has to spend a lot of money on somebody who wins this show, and that's not it."

Han defended himself by saying, "I'm not trying to be a star; I'm just really happy where I am."

Elsewhere on the show, in a surprise birthday tribute to Steven Tyler, his Aerosmith cohort Joe Perry came out and played "Happy Birthday" for him, backed by the Idols. Tyler turns 64 on Monday.

Also, controversy magnet Lana Del Rey performed her hit single "Video Games," complete with a closing confetti shower, and season 10 third-place finisher Haley Reinhart returned to the "Idol" stage to perform her new single "Free."

What did you think about "Idol" on Thursday? Was it time for Van Pelt to go? Let us know in the comments!

Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady restructures contract

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has restructured his contract. Brady, who signed a four-year, $72 million extension in September 2010, was initially scheduled to make $5.75 million in base salary with a $6 million roster bonus and $250,000 workout bonus this season. Under the new agreement (first reported by Brian McIntyre of Mac’s Football Blog), Brady’s [...]

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How Can Telemarketing Services Help In Prospecting?

Sales prospecting is a pretty difficult task, especially when done in house. That is why it is good to use telemarketing services. Now, how can that help your team?

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Linux multiseat solution advances to Ethernet with HP thin client

Userful Corp. announced a new version of its multiseat Linux PC sharing software, now Ethernet-ready and bundled with a $99 HP t200 thin client. The & Userful MultiSeat with HP t200 thin client& solution turns one Edubuntu-based Linux PC into up to 15 computer stations, enabling faster networking than the previous USB-only release, says the company....

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Tilera ships 36- and 16-core RISC processors

Tilera announced the general availability of its RISC-based 36-core Tile-Gx36 and 16-core Tile-Gx16 system on chips (SoCs), clocked up to 1.5GHz. The Tile-Gx36 delivers more than 40Gbps of L2/L3 packet forwarding performance while using 25 Watts, and both it and the Tile-Gx16 are supported with Linux-ready PCI Express evaluation systems, the company says....

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PRESS DIGEST - Russia - March 22

MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) - The following are some of the
leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has
not verified these stories and does not vouch for their
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No BS Grassroots Marketing Inconvenient Truth 6 - If You Can't Track It, It Don't Hack It

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It's time to pay your monthly operating expenses and once again, the natural gas bill is sky high! Did you know in the U.K. there are 18 energy companies providing utility service to the business sector?

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Obama Doesn't Care About Debt

David Harsanyi, Washington Examiner
As you may have heard, Senate Democrats haven't bothered to present a budget in more than 1,000 days and counting -- which, unlike many pundits, I don't find particularly upsetting, considering we've been free of a new Democratic budget for 1,000-plus days and counting.This week, though, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., offered up the House's budget outline, which -- whether misguided, genius, flawed or whatever you might think of it -- is a pretty earnest reflection of the concerns of about half the country. The primitive half. So the White House -- where rational, enlightened...

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Best Of TTR Slopestyle Champions Sebastien Toutant and Jamie Anderson

After an exciting day of slopestyle finals at the 6Star Burton US Open, Sebastien Toutant (CAN) and Jamie Anderson (USA) have been officially crowned the 2012 TTR Slopestyle World Tour Champions. The 2011/2012 season was packed full of amazing slopestyle competitions around the globe and after today's finals at Stratton Mountain in Vermont, USA, Sebastien and Jamie were awarded with the TTR Slopestyle Tour Champion trophies. Sebastien clinched the title with his win in today's slopestyle competition and Jamie set her title in stone with her first place finish, as well.The slopestyle finals at the 30th Anniversary of the Burton US Open featured a high level of competition today in both the men's and women's events. The women's finals kicked off in the morning on the slopestyle course where Jamie Anderson displayed her buttery smooth style on the jumps and rails. Jamie's second run was her best of the day and earned her the victory with a frontboard to fakie, Cab 720 nose grab, switch backside 540 mute, tailslide to 270 out and finished with a 50-50 to backside 180 out. Kjersti Buaas (NOR) had a solid run to take second place and Enni Rukajarvi (FIN) ended up in third.This is Jamie's third TTR Champion title of her career and was very happy with her season saying, "It has been another great season and I am very stoked to pick up another TTR World Tour title. It's my favorite discipline and I was happy to seal it off with a first place today!"The men dropped into the slopestyle course in the afternoon and it was a tight battle to the end. After falling on his first two runs, Sebastien Toutant put it all together on his third and final with a Cab hardway to 270 on, Cab double cork 1260 melon, frontside double cork 1080 mute, frontside wallride to 270 out and ended with a 50-50 to backside rodeo out. Ulrik Badertscher (NOR) came in second place and Seppe Smitts (BEL) completed the podium in third.

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Trayvon Martin--Victim Of Bias & Vigilantism

Al Sharpton, Huff Post
I wait for an era when young Black men will no longer have to live in fear. Decades after the abolishment of slavery, we were haunted by the reality of being hunted down, beaten and lynched by both everyday citizens and law enforcement. Young boys like Emmett Till were openly and viciously murdered because of the sentiments of bigoted individuals who believed they had the right to carry out their own brand of injustice.Today, Black (and Latino) youth are routinely targeted, profiled and 'mistakenly' shot by those sworn to serve and protect us (i.e. Sean Bell).

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Sauber: Recovery shows car?s potential

Sauber's fightback in the Australian Grand Prix, and its ability to score points with both cars despite a litany of troubles, proves the underlying pace of the C31, according to both its team principal and its two drivers. Sergio Perez gave perhaps the best demonstration, coming through from the back of the grid to finish eighth - and that after losing positions in a hectic final lap at Albert Park. Kamui Kobayashi, meanwhile, emerged in sixth following a late battle with Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus

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The Many Elements of the Work Place

The bosses have a huge effect on the people working and their attitudes. Some bosses are rough and loud. They think that they are accomplishing a lot by instilling fear into the work force. The usual result (you didn't hear this from me although I have been a factory worker) is that the workers do exactly as much as is necessary or a little less.

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SXSW Film Fest Full Of Chills, Thrills And Tears Of Laughter

MTV News wraps up the highlights of the Austin, Texas, festival including our favorite celebrity interviews.
By Kara Warner

Matthew McConaughey in "Killer Joe"
Photo: Voltage Pictures

AUSTIN, Texas — Although the South by Southwest Music Festival is just getting started, the film portion of the annual music, arts and interactive gathering in Austin, Texas, is coming to an end. It was too short a trip for our tastes, but we were able to cram in an awful lot of film coverage during our time within the city limits. Before we get to the highlights from SXSW Film Fest '12, here's a compilation of our interviewees' humorous commentary regarding the best and worst things about SXSW.

"The great thing about SXSW is the proliferation of beautiful young men all over the city," deadpanned Nick Offerman. "Now that the sun's out we're going to be seeing some shirts come off. This is a modern film we've made," he said of his film, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," trying to tie it to his answer. "Nature is beautiful."

"#1: It's in Austin, that's the best," said Johnny Knoxville. "The Fest feels like it's picking up steam every year."

"There was one day where from around 11 a.m. 'til whenever I went to bed I think I had — I counted — 28 beers," "21 Jump Street" star Jonah Hill recalled of his first boozy experience at the festival a few years back. "I was never drunk, it was such a long period of time, there was a good old buzz thing going on for 20 hours."

"My favorite thing so far is waiting in line with other people," admitted "Jump Street" co-director Chris Miller. "At first it was driving me crazy, but ... you're there for an hour with people who all like the same stuff and have a much cooler conversation there than you would in a bar."

"The cons of SXSW are all the beautiful young women getting in the way of looking at all the beautiful young men," Offerman continued. "Prancing about, tossing their hair like they're all that. They're not."

With those pros and cons in mind, let's get back to our film-focused journey in Austin, which we began with the Joss Whedon-scripted, Drew Goddard-directed festival opener, "The Cabin in the Woods." Although it is a traditional horror film with "thrilling deaths," it's a crowd-pleaser nonetheless.

Then came the twisted thriller "Killer Joe," which features many an opportunity for awkward laughter and smooth-talkin' Matthew McConaughey as a killer-for-hire, followed by a surprise appearance from Mark Wahlberg during Seth MacFarlane's "A Conversation With" panel, which led to a very casual interview about Wahlberg's acting skills and falling in love with a teddy bear. After that, we walked down a dark childhood memory lane with "Nature Calls" director Todd Rohal and stars Johnny Knoxville and Rob Riggle.

We spent time with skateboarding legend Danny Way during his surprise visit to a local skate park, and tried not to laugh ourselves to tears during chats with "Small Apartments" scene-stealer Matt Lucas and deadpan comedy ace Nick Offerman when he told us the best thing about his buzzworthy film, "Somebody Up There Likes Me" is the fact that he gets naked onscreen. We're still not sure he was telling the truth, but it was hilarious nonetheless.

Our final day of film-related action involved a visit to "21 Jump Street" with stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, who revealed the project's special ties to SXSW, as well as their reactions to finally seeing the finished film with an audience.

We chatted up Fabianne Therese, the star of the recently picked-up home invasion thriller "The Aggression Scale," who accidentally put her hand through a glass window during filming and resulted in the filmmakers writing it into the script. And then we caught up with the men of "Extracted," an intriguing film about a man who invents a way to watch people's memories from inside their minds and then gets trapped within a criminal's mind.

"I think [the movie] means something to everybody," director Nir Paniry said. "To me, it's a film about regret and how one memory means something to somebody else and one memory means something to another person. Memories are not finite records, they're organic, they can be manipulated, but they're specific to the person. Your memory of something is not my memory of something."

"It's life. All these things that are universal and timeless," added star Sasha Roiz. "Trying to confront your past or changing your course of life, redemption. These two men are basically sitting in their own purgatory, one is stuck in a cell, one is stuck in the mind of another man. There all these wonderful themes that bubble to the surface.

And although it's not technically film-related, we spent some time with Lena Dunham, the star/creator/executive producer of HBO's heavily hyped new series "Girls," which she promises is grounded in reality and deals with the drama of modern romantic relationships.

All in all, our experience was fun-filled, if a tad bit exhausting. For those of you hankering to see the films in our lineup, the good news is that several of them are headed to theaters or small screens near you.

"21 Jump Street" opened everywhere Friday (March 16); "Cabin in the Woods" hits theaters April 13; "Girls" premieres on HBO April 15, followed by the DVD/Blu-Ray release of "The Aggression Scale" on May 29. Seth MacFarlane's live-action debut "Ted" hits theaters July 13.

Stick with MTV News for news about the fest's other buzzworthy entries, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," "Killer Joe" and "Extracted."

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Disney's Happyland Worldclass Theme Park in Vietnam Takes Off

This article discusses a new Disney theme park that is being built in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the second Disney theme park in the Asia Pacific Region (Hong Kong was the first). The theme park is being designed to world-class standards, similar to a Disney or Universal Studio destination park and will call for about 40 hectares (98.8 acres) of project development.

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In an economic downturn, consumers are more conscious of their spending habits than ever before so it is crucial that we don't frivolously spend money on advertising and marketing that probably isn't working anyway. Check these 10 free marketing strategies.

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NFL Draft?s Potential Patriots: USC DT DaJohn Harris

WEEI.com will continue to offer daily insight and analysis regarding options that may be available to the Patriots when it comes to the 2012 NFL draft. Here is one is a series of profiles of players who could be on the board when it?s time for the Patriots to make a selection. DaJOHN HARRIS Position: [...]

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Once: Theater Review

David Rooney
A Sundance discovery and a breakout hit for Fox Searchlight in 2007, the Irish indie movie has become a captivating Broadway musical, with a superb cast of actor-musicians led by Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.

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Incorrect court order means Kim Dotcom's assets may be returned

In the ongoing case of Kim Dotcom, owner of megaupload.com, an error had been made in the paperwork and the court order is now "null and void". The New Zealand government may now be required to return Kim Dotcom's belongings.

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Top 3 Uses of Asset Tags

Have you ever struggled to come up with a convenient, reliable way to manage your business equipment? Whether you manage a fleet of trucks or a fleet of laptops, having a well-established inventory system for your equipment is vital for maintaining low overhead and reducing loss. Asset tags or labels are the best way to manage and compile information about your assets.

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Mario Wirnsberg has a nice Euro tech part executed with style and speed.

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