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Brett Ratner is a very busy guy at the moment. He's currently preparing for the release of his latest directorial effort Tower Heist, which features an all-star cast that includes Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, and Alan Alda, and he's also gearing up to produce the Academy Awards. In addition, Ratner is juggling a number of other projects. Steve recently got the chance to talk to Ratner and the conversation covered a wide range of topics. In addition to talking about his plan for the Oscars and getting Eddie Murphy as a host, Ratner also spoke about Tarsem Singh's Untitled Snow White Project which he's producing, a comprehensive documentary about Woody Allen (which sounds awesome) that he's also producing, a miniseries on Sidney Korshak, and much more including updates on Beverly Hills Cop 4 and Hong Kong Phooey. Hit the jump to check out the full conversation.
Here are the highlights gleaned from the conversation:
- When Ratner agreed to produce the Oscars, he knew that he needed a comedian so his top choice was Eddie Murphy.
- He says many of the ideas for the Oscar ceremony are dictated by what's nominated, but he's also coming up with a lot of ideas beforehand.
- His short that he directed for Movie 43 is completely out of his comfort zone and "plainly beyond R-rated".
- The short for Movie 43 stars Gerard Butler, Seann William Scott, and Johnny Knoxville.
- The decision of what Tarsem Singh's Untitled Snow White Project will be titled is up to the studio, but he says it will have a title soon.
- He's developing some things for network television, but we won't hear about it until next season.
- He's producing a miniseries for HBO about Sidney Korshak, a wildly powerful lawyer who acted as the go-between for the mafia and Hollywood.
- He's also producing a documentary about Woody Allen that Bob Weide is directing. Allen gave Weide permission to make the doc, and it features not only interviews with Allen but they were able to film him working on set, in the edit room, and they even filmed where he writes his scripts. The documentary airs on PBS this November.
- Ratner says there probably won't ever be another Rush Hour.
- There's no script for Beverly Hills Cop 4, but he says that they will probably make it in the next few years.
Here's part of Steve's interview with Ratner. Look for the full conversation (which includes a lot on the making of Tower Heist) very soon.
Collider: You're producing the Academy Awards. You've done a lot of stuff in your career; is this possibly the one that makes you a bit nervous?
Brett Ratner: Not when I have Eddie Murphy as the host. If I didn't have Eddie Murphy as the host, I might be nervous. But when Eddie agreed to be the host…I didn't know I would be producing the Oscars when I got the job for Tower Heist, so it wasn't part of my plan. I just knew that I needed a comedian, because of the fact that Billy Crystal and Johnny Carson and Bob Hope were the three best hosts ever, because it was comedic. They were great. So I said, "Well, if I can get Eddie Murphy, then I'm a home run." That's what I did and I got him, which I guess I had some good will because he loved the movie.
Are you planning on reinventing the wheel?
Ratner: You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture, you know what I mean? There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.
So are you going to flesh out your ideas once you find out what's been nominated?
Ratner: A lot of the ideas are dictated by what's nominated, obviously. A lot of them I'm coming up with beforehand. It's not an easy job, that's for sure.
I've seen your name attached to a number of things: 39 Clues, Hercules. What do you envision being the next thing that gets you behind the camera?
Ratner: I don't really know. All these different projects are developing in various stages of development. So, the one that comes together first…some have an actor attached, some have a script that still needs work, some have a budget that's not there yet. You see how hard it is to get these big movies made even with big movie stars.
You've been in the business for a while now. How has it changed for you in the past few years with "DVD sales going down?"
Ratner: I think it's much more difficult, especially in the movies that I'm making which are very expensive movies, meaning high budget. I don't think it's easy anymore.
I know you did a segment in Movie 43. What can you tell people about it and how much fun did you have making it?
Ratner: When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element. So I did New York, I Love You which is a very personal film for me. My most personal film, but it's not like a film I've ever made. I would never do that film as a feature, for instance, because it's not very commercial of an idea. So that's what I did for Movie 43. I did a film that was completely insane and would definitely not work as a feature. But it's something that's out of my comfort zone and that's what I do when I'm asked to do one of these shorts within a feature.
Is it an R-rated short?
Ratner: Oh yeah. It's plainly beyond R, it's insane!
Who did you cast in your short?
Ratner: Mine is with Gerard Butler, I have Sean William Scott and Johnny Knoxville in my film.
When is this thing actually coming out?
Ratner: I don't know because I've only done one segment. There are twelve other segments and they're working on the interstitials. I'm sure they're going to put it out…I don't know when. I think the Farrelly Brothers got distracted with The Three Stooges, so they need to finish it, because they were overseeing the production.
What's going on with Hong Kong Phooey?
Ratner: That is getting made! Eddie Murphy attached himself, which is great. We're getting that made, I'm producing Snow White, I have a documentary coming out November 20th and 21st on Woody Allen that I produced.
About working with Tarsem Singh and producing the Snow White movie, are you guys close to a title?
Ratner: It will be titled but I don't know when. That's a studio decision. We will, soon. [Tarsem's] amazing. I actually didn't see his other movie and I'm a big fan of his work. So I was excited to be producing a film that he directed. It's really exciting.
Can you talk about the challenges of producing vs. directing?
Ratner: Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director, you kinda do all the work. I'm actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere's tomorrow night. So I'll be working til 4, til the sun comes up, probably. Then I gotta go do The Today Show. That's what the director does, just kinda has to oversee every detail.
The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."
Is there anything that's bubbling up for you right now in television?
Ratner: I do have a lot of exciting stuff coming up in the TV world, but you won't be hearing about it until next season. Stuff that I've been developing that I'm really, really excited about.
Is it stuff for the networks or stuff for HBO, FX, etc?
Ratner: Networks. I'm also developing something for HBO, a miniseries on Sidney Korshak that Robert Evans is producing and Brad Gray, believe it or not. It's the Sidney Korshak story, who was kind of the link between the movie business and the mafia. That's a miniseries I've been developing over at HBO. I have a deal at FOX Television, so I've been developing a lot of TV stuff.
I'm curious about the Woody Allen documentary. Can you tell us about it?
Ratner: Bob Weide is the director. I produce the film, executive produce it actually, because in TV it's better to be the executive producer, right? It's going to go on my friggin' gravestone; it's like the best thing I've ever been involved with. Bob Weide came to me and said, "I want to do a movie about Woody Allen. I've been writing him letters for twenty years. And he's going to say 'no.' The only movie he let get made about him is Barbara Kopple's film (Wild Man Blues), which is about his jazz music. He's never let anybody make a film about his personal life or his movies or anything. He finally said, 'yes.' I asked if you could produce it and he said, 'yes.'" So that was the end of it. I just went out and raised some money. We made the film and it's premiering on PBS on November 20th and 21st. I'm just so proud. I'm proud of all the documentaries I've done. I did the documentary on John Cazale. And I did a documentary on Helmut Newton.
So the Woody Allen one actually has interviews with him and people talking about Woody?
Ratner: 100%. Not only interviews. We filmed him on set, we filmed him in the edit room, we filmed his entire process. We showed where he types his scripts, where he handwrites his scripts, where he gets his ideas from. All of it. It is incredible.
I didn't realize it was so comprehensive.
Ratner: It's a two-part, four hour documentary about Woody Allen's life. It's the definitive life of Woody Allen and it's for American Masters and there will be a theatrical two-and-a-half-hour version for international.
What kind of decisions did you have to make going from the four-hour version on PBS to the theatrical cut?
Ratner: It's not easy, but it's a theatrical version. You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really. So we cut it down to two-and-a-half hours for the theatrical version, which is as good. I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
Do you go through his entire resume or do you pick and choose along the way?
Ratner: It's probably the definitive film. I don't think it covers every single film, but it's his life for sure and it's totally approved by him. It's a great film. You should somehow get together with the director because he made it. I just helped make it. I'm the behind-the-scenes producer who kind of just helps push things along and gets things done. It's Bob's movie and he made, really, one of the greatest films I've ever seen on a portrait of a filmmaker. I'm very, very proud to have my name on it and my company, because my company produced it.
There's always been a lot of talk about another Beverly Hills Cop and Rush Hour…
Ratner: I don't think there will ever be another Rush Hour unless it's Grumpy Old Rush Hour or get the children of Jackie and Chris to make a Rush Hour. I think there will probably be another Beverly Hills Cop but I think more so now than before because Eddie and I now have a rapport and I think it's a film that…he was very precious about Axel Foley, less than a movie like Tower Heist, which is an original. But everywhere in the world he goes, someone's like, "Yo, Axel!" So I think it's easier because now I know him so well that I can really get him to come around on some of the ideas that have been pitched out.
How close are you as far as a script for Beverly Hills Cop 4?
Ratner: We're not close, but I'm hoping in the next few years there will be one. Eddie and I are even setting up some more of his ideas. I'm hoping that we have a long, fruitful relationship. We're both still very young, believe it or not. Eddie's only 50 years old, so I think we have a little bit of time to come up with a great Beverly Hills Cop.
Is there a chance that you guys could ever pair for an R-rated movie?
Ratner: It would be Beverly Hills Cop. Or it would have to be a movie that was a big piece of business, like a Beverly Hills Cop, or an original idea that was like an independent kind of film.


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Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county's Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.
Vested in a green chasuble-style garment made from recycled curtains, and in a booth constructed of recycled doors, he will hear the sins of of those who have not recycled the things they ought to have done and who have consumed the things they ought not to have done.

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It's no easy thing to keep a band together and vital for roughly four decades, nor is it a simple thing to craft that kind of career where the artist or group never falls out of favor, or loses the worldwide audience that was so hard to win in the first place.
But Saturday night's two hour, 20-song concert by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Fenway Park in Boston was ample proof that--excuse the baseball analogy--Petty has never lost his fastball, and the Heartbreakers are as finely polished and professional a group of rockers as have ever graced a stage. Petty has the voice we hear in the lead vocals, and he writes most of the songs, but it's a marvelous combination of talents that produces the final result, a true band in the best sense.
Petty seemed to realize that more than anyone last night, saluting his mates at every chance, and referring to them warmly as his real family. Drummer Steve Ferrone, a powerhouse by any measure, is still dubbed 'the new guy' and he's been in the sextet 20-odd years, after original drummer Stan Lynch abruptly retired around 1990. Bassist Ron Blair was with the first Heartbreakers lineup--Petty recalled they'd met while dating girls who were pals--stepped away in 1982 for several years, and returned after replacement Howie Epstein's substance abuse problems led to his being fired (Epstein eventually died of an OD). Multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston came on board soon after the band hit the charts, while lead guitar ace Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench were there from the start.
So it is a group that has been together through thick and thin, without ever losing their affinity for each other, or changing their style in any appreciable way. There's a lot of Byrds-ian folk-rock, some California singer-songwriter groove, and plenty of garage-rock, punk-before-it-was-cool grit. Mainly it's also a stunning ability to craft words, melodies and arrangements that are instantly memorable, rousing, and down-to-earth. Gainesville, Florida's Petty, now 63, and his band are the kind of guys every rock fan knows they'd like to hang out with, because there's no pretension and no poses.
Beyond all that, Saturday night's concert was like hearing a mighty engine roar, a band at the peak of its powers, with a massive songbook to draw from, and musicians with palpable enthusiasm for the mission of rocking the near-sellout crowd of about 40,000.
Petty & the Heartbreakers released "Hypnotic Eye," their 13th studio album on July 28, and last night's 20-song setlist included four songs from that album. Not only did they fit in well with the past hits, they may have been among the hardest edged tunes. It was an eclectic set, full of nuggets from various periods, including three tunes from Petty's 1989 solo album "Full Moon Fever," and the lovely acoustic interlude "Angel Dream (No. 2)," which comes from the soundtrack to the movie "She's the One."
Petty and the boys looked like a vagabond troupe of gypsy cowboys, with the leader in a maroon coat over purple shirt and black scarf, jeans and suede boots. Campbell wore a funky black fedora, while Blair resembled a card shark, and Thurston and Tench looked like refugees from the Wild Bunch. In a plain white shirt, the shaven-headed Ferrone could've been the principal trying to corral these unruly lads (even if these days their reckless abandon occurs only onstage).
The Petty set opened with a terrifically chiming run through The Byrds' "So You Wanna be a Rock and Roll Star?" The surreal "Mary Jane's Last Dance" was memorable for the way Petty dragged the tempo on his vocals to add to the sardonic effect of the lyrics.
Proclaiming Boston was the band's favorite city, Petty introduced one of the new songs, "American Dream Plan B," where a heavy bass line and raw-edged guitar lines gave it added punch, and the lyrics balanced a jaundiced view of contemporary life with hope for better things. 1991's "Into the Great Wide Open" was a feast of effects, slowly surging guitars, subtle keyboards, and the woozy fable in the lyric lines all combining. The new "Forgotten Man" was a fast-paced rocker featuring Petty and Campbell trading power chords in a thrilling mix.
The whole ballpark was rocking during the invigorating singalong of "I Won't Back Down," enhanced by Campball's slide guitar. But if that was an inspiring communal moment, the giddy mass singalong to "Freefallin'" even surpassed it. A couple of the most thrilling rock concert instances in recent memory, and Petty and company were barely a third of the way into their show.
The arrangement for "A Woman In Love (And It's Not Me)" was superb, from its soft piano opening to the squealing guitars that really launched its roaring choruses. The latest single, "U Get Me High" came squarely out of the garage-rock foundation, while the slow-to-midtempo "Rebel" had Petty on acoustic guitar again for a heartfelt rendition.
That treatment of "Angel Dream (No.2)" made as close to a folk ballad as you could get in a venue this big. But then Petty, on acoutsic guitar, and Tench on piano made "Learning to Fly" a truly beautiful moment, the gentle melody wafting into the night, as the throng of 40,000 sang the chorus back to the musicians.
Matters got rough-edged for the new "Shadow People," as Campbell on flying-vee guitar and Petty traded incendiary solos, with Petty uncorking a blistering solo as he walked to the far edges of the stage during the coda. "I Should Have Known It" evoked AC/DC with its garage-meets-metal thunder.
The self-empowerment anthem "Refugee" probably had the entire neighborhood rocking as everyone seemed to be lustily singing along, and Campbell delivered one of his best solos, cohesive and related wonderfully to both the melody and the thematic content of the song. A pulsating "Running Down a Dream," with Petty on 12-string guitar, ended the regular set in a brisk gallop.
The harpsichord-like tones of "Don't Come Around Here No More" framed that loose-limbed gem, which built up into a frenetic finish for the first encore. The latter-period rocker "You Wreck Me" kept the joyous energy going.
Then Petty noted that in 1976, their first album, and its lead single had seemed to go unnoticed, until one day someone ran into the studio and announced "they're playing it in Boston!" For that reason, he noted, Boston had held a special place in the band's affections ever since, and so the pulverizing sprint through "American Girl" that ended the night was especially meaningful, and Beantown certainly returned that affection.
Earlier Steve Winwood and his quintet provided an hour-long opening set, and if there's a more consummate musician in rock, we haven't heard them. The sound mix was exquisite for Winwood, so kudos to the whole Petty tour because openers don't always get that consideration. But Winwood's nine-song set was a greatest hits survey of his lengthy career, from rock and r&b to jazz, to some of his Traffic material that presaged modern jam-bands. Winwood's organ, contrasted with saxophone, gave the Traffic nugget "Empty Pages" a real propulsive drive. "Higher Love" was, as always a throbbing rush of emotional power.
Winwood was on guitar for a show-stopping romp through "Dear Mr. Fantasy," where his guitar solo was simply transcendent, a panoply of astral effects and soulful howling. Winwood, 66, has been singing his first hit (with the Spencer Davis Group) "Gimme Some Lovin'" for something like four-and-a-half decades, yet he still sings it with all his youthful power, and it still made for a tremendously galvanizing finale.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers best team at Fenway this summer
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Article: Looking at "Real World" Windows Azure Scenarios – Migrating a Classic 3-Tier Application to Windows Azure with Don Noonan from Skylera
By Blain Barton
I wrote this article about Don Noonan, a Cloud Architect from Skylera and his overview of "Infrastructure as a Service" platform. Don and I met at TechEd in Orlando 2012 last year and I interviewed him on the newest technologies around Windows Azure. Don has experience working at Microsoft, Boeing and has been working with storage technologies, virtual machines, workloads and desktop client deployment using cloud services - instead of the usual on-premise infrastructure services.
We start by discussing the working components or parts of cloud deployment in a real customer scenario. His current customer had a future mobile application on .Net but wanted to sell more of their current classic products. The customer had many servers to manage, with their IT staff on call to manage their on-premise infrastructure. Given the new technology, Don's customer decided to look at Windows Azure to scale their applications and workloads on Microsoft's Infrastructure cloud services.
So they started with a collection or set of functional groups within IaaS. They separated their virtual machines by roles such as Active Directory and other core services. This was a basic implementation of Windows Azure availability sets, which means at the datacenter level there is a promise that at least one member of a group of virtual machines will remain available while updates are being made to the Windows Azure platform.
You should use a combination of availability sets and load-balancing endpoints to make sure that your application is always available and running efficiently. For more information about using load-balanced endpoints, see Load Balancing Virtual Machines.
This task includes the following steps from the Windows Azure website below:
· Step 1: Create a virtual machine and an availability set
· Step 2: Add a virtual machine to the cloud service and assign it to the availability set during the creation process
· Step 3: (Optional) Create an availability set for previously created virtual machines
· Step 4: (Optional) Add a previously created virtual machine to an availability set
Don wanted to make sure that the cloud services and hypervisor have the appropriate virtual machines and that the compute resources will remain there. In this project, they had availability sets around there SQL virtual machines and the goal was that the system understands that one of the SQL instances is always highly available. Even though they have availability sets, you still have to implement failover at the database level, either using a witness, or the new Always On capability in SQL Server 2012.. They also have a custom management service specific to their mobile solution so their customers can look at logs and activities as well as their custom C++ sync service application used to sync data between the mobile phone application and backend database. Don explains that from a Windows Azure Mobile Services context, he likes to group the virtual machines, define what roles they will be playing and how the networking might be specifically laid out like load balancers and endpoints. Don shows in the IT Time Radio interview the Windows Azure portal and shows the interface with virtual machines within an availability set with 2 Domain Controllers paired up running. Don configures the DC availability set that has Active Directory running and AD Domain Services itself has built-in replication giving it high availability capabilities. The demo in the video shows setting up affinity groups and we explain how they are used in the Windows Azure datacenter which keeps your resources closely together like a high-level container that has compute and storage can be close together for provisioning. So for instance, since we're here on the East Coast we would pick EAST US and build out Affinity Groups close to where we are physically located. Datacenters are large so you would first set up an Affinity Group and then within the Affinity Group you can build out your storage and virtual networks. For security reasons, within virtual networking you may want to divide out or subnet out the virtual networks so that the services are segregated and only certain ports can talk to each other which in common within public clouds services. You could say that you only want to have Windows firewall rules that say I only want external servers to talk to me on port 443, or only have SQL traffic go from the middle-tier to the database-tier.
So the nice part about IaaS is that each customer can have their own management network with an instance of their own virtual machines so you can segregate customers and services. I had a chance to explain the overview picture with segregating the workloads with first discussing Directory Services, Database Services, Management Services, Sync Services, and then wrapping around the whole thing with an Affinity Group and around that the virtual networking. We took a look at building this out in the video and Don shows how to use Powershell scripts and the Windows Azure IaaS cmdlets that makes the actual application work. What he likes to do is break them out into chucks like core infrastructure and back-end management servers like Active Directory Domain Controller, the middleware tier in the front-end like in this case SharePoint Server. So similar to how he segmented the network out and Don shows the scripts he uses to provision objects using Windows Azure and Powershell. He shows how to script out an Affinity Group so that the resources are not a football field away from each other for performance reasons. XML is used to do many of the functions within the portal that you can create from scratch or you can also find pre-canned management scripts up on http://www.windowsazure.com and Don has been working with the Windows Azure team to get more scripts up after they have had time to test these "real world" proof of concepts.
Don shows the foundation including the networking, affinity groups and storage he then shows how to create a virtual machine. He creates the management service layer which contains two Domain Controllers, with the same header information he then tells the default storage account to put new objects in the same storage account like for instance, 5 virtual machines within that storage account. Don explains what cmdlets do what functions like setting up instance variables for his two domain controllers to be in the same availability set. When the DC's are being configured he explains the beauty of Windows Azure in that it has an existing gallery or catalogue of pre-built virtual machines so he builds it off the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 install and then he tells it what subnet and then he shows the cmdlet New-AzureVMConfig command and create the first and second virtual machine and added them to the same availability set name. If we did not include them they would be independent and therefore might be serviced at the same time which would not give you high availability. The last thing he configures is the cloud service for the management network. He explains that this is where you would open ports and configure the connection to the virtual machines to service them via RDP. He finishes the overview of the real world Windows Azure application covering computing power, administrative privileges and adding a set of disks to the database tier like adding a 100GB LUN for data and a 50GB LUN for log files, and you can add lots of disks. Up to 16 data disks at 1TB a piece so that give you room for expansion. There are over 2400 cmdlets for Powershell in Windows Server 2012 and you can get the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets from the Windows Azure manage area on http://www.windowsazure.com . The last piece is the web-tier on the newly created subnet that is public facing and two web front-ends and he explains the setup at the end of (Part 1 of 5) Real World Azure - Migrating a Classic 3-Tier Application to Windows Azure IT Time Radio – TechNet Episode .
Catch the previous episodes of "IT Time Radio" below -
TechNet Radio: IT Time – (Part 2 of 5) Real World Azure - Deploying a Custom SharePoint Application to Windows Azure
TechNet Radio: IT Time – (Part 3 of 5) Real World Azure – Moving an All-In-One Server from Co-location to Windows Azure
TechNet Radio: IT Time – (Part 4 of 5) Real World Azure – Implementing RemoteApp for Client / Server Applications on Windows Azure
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Pro Tony Dovolani Dances With Former DWTS Partner Leah Remini In The Exes (Pictures)
Hey, just a shortie! Did any of you see Dancing With The Stars Tony Dovolani on "The Exes" last night? If so, how was he? If you head to Zap2It, you can view some stills from the show of he and former Dancing With The Stars partner Leah Remini. I'm loving some of their poses….well, and her shoes especially!!! 😀


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For decades, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have heroically withstood attacks from homosexual activists. Now, officials from the organization have indicated that this may be about to change. The BSA says that it is "discussing potentially removing the national membership restriction regarding sexual orientation."
"Be prepared." The motto of the venerable organization that has helped develop countless boys into men, preparedness is not only an aspiration, but a descriptor. Thus far they've been prepared to withstand the constant bullying by those who work to bring down all that the millions of dedicated Scouts and Scout leaders stand for.
A departure from their long-held policies would be devastating to an organization that has prided itself on the development of character in boys. In fact, according to a recent Gallup survey, only 42 percent of Americans support changing the policy to allow homosexual scout leaders.
As the BSA board meets next week, it is crucial that they hear from those who stand with them and their current policy regarding homosexuality. Please call the Boy Scouts of America at 972-580-2000 and tell them that you want to see the organization stand firm in its moral values and respect the right of parents to discuss these sexual topics with their children.
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All companies are encouraged to pursue opportunities with Rockingham County. Vendors and sales representatives are invited to call on Purchasing Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. An appointment prior to arrival is strongly encouraged.
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Gulf Breeze Firearms was started in 1986 by Duke McCaa and is now run by Duke and his son, Duke "L.D." McCaa II.
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The Hospital Workers: "The Best Contract Anywhere"?
Unions exist to negotiate contracts, to set out the terms under which workers will supply their services until the next negotiations. They are not designed to free Joan Bird, de-pollute the environment, elect John Lindsay, or end the war. Gestures made in these directions are peripheral, undertaken by the leadership of Local 1199, Drug and Hospital Union in New York—as well as by other unions—because the leaders can see as well as anyone else the connection between the security of their members and the state of the world, and because they feel responsible for directing leftover energies and resources to useful ends.
The heart of the union, however, is contract negotiations. The contract justifies the very existence of the union, justifies the building of buildings, the payment of salaries; it justifies the officers and is the excuse for, if not the source of, their power; it also justifies the dues the workers pay to support the structure. A good contract is what holds the union together, giving the blacks and whites, the Puerto Rican porters and the Jewish technicians a common interest. Most important, the contract is the spring of all real gain: it is the source of additional money, of dental insurance, of pensions, of vacations. You have only to be around a union at contract expiration time to feel what an emotional, as well as a political and practical, watershed it is.
During contract negotiation time all the chickens in a union's barnyard come home to roost. The union's history and character come together and are revealed as having a functional, not an arbitrary, source. This was certainly true of 1199. Patterns that seemed abstractly "authoritarian," rooted in power hunger, egotism, or sectarian conceptions of structure, seemed, while the contract was at stake, to make perfect sense. Factionalism or opposition to the leadership, however idealistically inspired, seems when it occurs at this stage to border on treachery: Will not disruption risk the unity needed to face down the bosses? As a result the settlement might be unfavorable, a matter not just of loss of credibility for the leadership and the union, but of overwhelming practical consequence to the members: the workers won't get what in fact they desperately need. They won't get it this time, and the power of the union will be compromised in the future. Immediate interests are at stake.
These things are so because of the adversary nature of collective bargaining in America. Capitalism rewards workers not according to need but according to the power of their organizations to threaten or disrupt. There are lights, cameras, smoke-filled rooms, clustering reporters, political machinations, all-night waits, exhaustion. The leaders need endurance, oratorical skill, and technical understanding. They must be equally at home in the bureaucratic regions of the managers and in the field commanding their own troops. During 1199's talks with the hospitals the problems of negotiation were very much exaggerated because of the way hospital services are financed: the dependence of hospitals on state…
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Wellness Complete Small Breed Adult Dry Dog Food
Wellness Complete (formerly Super5Mix) Small Breed Adult Dry Dog Food contains the goodness of turkey, chicken, and salmon ensuring great taste. These meals make for a great protein source and help in muscle development and management which is essential in small dogs. The formula also contains Omega 3 and Omega 6 mix that helps give your dog a shiny coat and great skin.
· Optimal caloric intake to support healthy body weight
· Four animal protein sources for high energy needs and lean/strong muscles
· Omega 3 and 6 mix to support healthy skin and coat
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Turkey, Chicken and Salmon
Deboned Turkey, Chicken Meal, Salmon Meal, Oatmeal, Ground Brown Rice, Ground Barley, Rye Flour, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a natural source of Vitamin E), Menhaden Fish Meal, Tomato Pomace, Natural Chicken Flavor, Pea Fiber, Tomatoes, Salmon Oil, Ground Flaxseed, Carrots, Spinach, Sweet Potatoes, Apples, Blueberries, Potassium Chloride, Minerals [Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite], Vitamins [Beta-Carotene, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement], Choline Chloride, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols (a natural preservative), Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Dried Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation products.
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Protein (min) 28.0%
Fat (min) 15.0%
Fiber (max) 4.00%
Moisture (max) 11.0%
Calcium (min) 1.20%
Phosphorus (min) 0.90%
Vitamin E (min) 150 IU/kg
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (min) 100 mg/kg
Omega 6 Fatty Acids* (min) 3.00%
Omega 3 Fatty Acids* (min) 0.50%
Beta-Carotene* (min) 5 mg/kg
Lycopene* (min) 0.25 mg/kg
Taurine* (min) 0.09%
Total Micro-organisms* (min) 20,000,000 CFU/lb
(L. plantarum, E. faecium, L. casei, L. acidophilus in equal amounts)
Calories Analysis
This food contains 3,740 kcal/kg or 420 kcal/cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated)
Feeding Guide
Transitioning to Wellness: It is important to slowly transition your dog from his/her current diet, as it takes a few days for the body to adapt to the new nutrient levels. To transition, gradually mix in the new food over a 5-7 day period, increasing the amount of Wellness each day, so that you are feeding 100% Wellness by day 7.
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Pain in the Knee? Helpful Points for Your Joints
Dr. David Lee of Southeastern Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, an LMC physician practice, was a guest on WLTX to talk about knee problems. In the video below, he explains the anatomy of the knee and what factors lead to a patient needing knee replacement.
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President Obama's nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel for defense secretary has been earning criticism, with Hagel under fire for past statements on Iran and Israel. Obama, however, said Hagel's "willingness to speak his mind" is "exactly the spirit I want on my national security team." NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Hagel rollout went as well as planned, but still not an easy fight … Obama puts HIS team in place and is trying to make his mark on foreign policy … Poll shows better marks for Obama than Boehner in fiscal-cliff fight … the White House's gun push takes shape and could be coming soon … Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly announce formation of group to counter the NRA … Bloomberg tries to assert mayoral influence, but how much does/should he have? … Christie 'State of the State' today to focus on Sandy … R.I.P. Richard Ben Cramer -- he had what it takes.
*** No margin for error in Hagel nomination: Yesterday's official rollout of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary went about as well as it could have for the Obama White House. Statements of praise for Hagel by folks like Colin Powell and Robert Gates? Check. A statement of past praise from John McCain (who said in 2006 Hagel would make a "great secretary of state"), even though McCain is now taking a skeptical look at the nominee? Check. And getting Chuck Schumer, perhaps the Democratic senator with the most reservations about Hagel, to issue a non-committal statement? Check. So the White House feels pretty good about where things stand, although this won't be an easy fight. Yet what Team Obama can't afford is any new negative information, any other shoe to drop. Bottom line: There is no margin for error from this point onward. Hagel's support, at best, in the Senate is an inch deep and that "inch" would get him the votes he needs. But it wouldn't take much for the bottom to, well, fall out. This is going to be a precarious few weeks. Very few senators are in D.C. right now, so the interest groups will be front and center. Hagel needs his confirmation hearing sooner, rather than later, but right now, it's unclear when those hearings will be scheduled. Hagel also needs FACE time with senators, and he won't have that opportunity for a good week or so.
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President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., in the East Room on Jan. 7, 2013.
*** Obama's confidence -- 2009 vs. 2013: As we wrote yesterday, Obama is clearly projecting a level of confidence at the start of this second term than he did four years ago, in particular, on foreign policy. Just look at the initial comfort level with his picks for his second-term national security team (Hagel, John Kerry, John Brennan) vs. the first-term team (Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates, Leon Panetta, Jim Jones). At the start of his first term, the president was no less confident about his foreign policy judgment but he made the calculation that he needed to placate the Washington establishment so he stuck with the Republican Gates at Defense, brought in Hillary to State, brought in a former general, Jim Jones, as his National Security Adviser. Gates and Clinton worked out, but Jones didn't.
Top Talkers: The Morning Joe panel – including Time's Mark Halperin, New York Magazine's John Heilemann, former DLC Chair Harold Ford Jr. – discusses President Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to defense secretary and why several top GOP lawmakers are having a tough time with the nomination.
*** Amplifying his views, using political capital: Now? The president is using his national security choices to amplify his views in a way that was missing four years ago. Kerry, Hagel, Brennan and keeping Tom Donilon as NSA (even potentially elevating Deputy NSA Denis McDonough to White House chief of staff) indicates the president is not just interested in running foreign policy out of the White House, but he wants to leave an Obama imprint on Defense, CIA, State etc. But it may be more than that -- Obama is displaying a confidence that he didn't necessarily show after 2008. Much of this is what you get with a second-term president who got more than 51% of the popular vote (for the second-straight time). He may NOT be saying it the same way Bush did in 2004-05 after winning a second term, but he's, so far, displaying the following notion: Obama believes he's earned political capital, and he's going to use it.
*** Polling the concluded fiscal-cliff debate: Our first initial look at some polling post-Fiscal Cliff offers few surprises. According to a new Washington Post/ABC poll, American voters approve more of President Obama's handling of the just-concluded debate over the fiscal cliff. "In the new survey, conducted after the House followed up a Senate vote by passing the measure, 53 percent of voters say they approve of the way Obama handled the matter, while 40 percent disapprove. The overall tally is clearly negative for Boehner's performance: 30 percent approval and 56 percent disapproval." For Boehner, that includes 52% of Republican voters who disapproved how he handled the negotiations. Meanwhile, a new Pew poll finds that 57% of adults "say that Obama got more of what he wanted from the tax legislation, while just 20% say Republican leaders got more of what they wanted. And while 48% approve of the way Obama handled the fiscal cliff negotiations only 19% approve of the way GOP leaders handled the negotiations."
*** The White House and guns: Mark Glaze, the executive director of the Michael Bloomberg-backed Mayors Against Illegal Guns, chatted with First Read and NBC yesterday, saying that there were three proposals the White House could announce as part of its comprehensive package dealing with the aftermath of Newtown, CT. One, require background checks for ALL gun buys. (This actually has support from gun dealers and manufacturers, Glaze said, because it's the private sale of guns that's the big problem here.) Two, ban assault weapons and magazines. (If background checks are the easiest proposal to pass, then this might be the hardest.) Three, pass a federal anti-trafficking statute, making it a crime to be trafficking in guns. Glaze also said there were things the White House could do administratively -- like put an actual director at the ATF (either through Senate confirmation or recess appointment) and prosecute prohibited sellers (which he said the administration currently isn't doing). By the way, don't be surprised if the White House moves to unveil its proposals by as early as next week. In other gun-related news, Vice President Biden today will meet "with gun violence victims' groups and gun safety organizations," the AP reports. And Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly announce the formation of Americans for Responsible Solutions to counter the National Rifle Association in an op-ed on gun control in USA Today.
*** Bloomberg's wandering (mayoral) eye: Speaking of Bloomberg, the New York Times runs yet another story suggesting that the outgoing New York mayor isn't happy with the slate of candidates running to succeed him. "Mr. Bloomberg has mused about a Mayor Charles E. Schumer with the Democratic senator from New York, and teased Mortimer B. Zuckerman, a fellow billionaire media mogul, about a possible bid. The mayor's advisers raised the idea of a run with Edward G. Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and mayor of Philadelphia, and with Edward Skyler, Mr. Bloomberg's former top deputy in City Hall, according to several people. The mayor's most formal overture was delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, perhaps Mr. Bloomberg's most quixotic choice for the job." More: "The flirtations are unwelcome news for [apparent front-runner Christine] Quinn, who has been Mr. Bloomberg's reliable partner in city government for years." How much sway does Bloomberg really have though? Yes, he changed the rules to win a third term, but voters didn't overwhelmingly send him back. He spent millions to win a race that should never been as close as it was. Candidates who decide to fall under Bloomberg's spell about running ought to take a look at the 2009 results: Bloomberg didn't crack 51%.
Must-Read Op-Eds: Before Mika Brzezinski reads a David Brooks NYT column on why President Obama chose Chuck Hagel for the defense secretary position, the Morning Joe panel discusses NJ Gov. Chris Christie's rising popularity in his home state.
*** Chris Christie to deliver State of the State address: The Philly Inquirer reports: "Gov. Christie will focus Tuesday's State of the State speech on rebuilding towns damaged by Hurricane Sandy, a storm that pushed the well-exposed Republican governor further into the national spotlight and brought him bipartisan praise. But New Jersey Democrats were clear Monday that they hold him responsible for the economic doldrums the state had fallen into before Sandy: a 9.6 percent unemployment rate and the country's second-highest foreclosure rate."
*** RIP, Richard Ben Cramer. The obituary from the New York Times: "Richard Ben Cramer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of "What It Takes," a superbly detailed account of the 1988 presidential election considered among the finest books about American politics ever written, died in Baltimore on Monday night. He was 62." On Twitter last night, it was striking to see so many political operatives and political journalists (your authors here included) note how inspirational "What It Takes" was to their careers. There are plenty of other folks offering great tributes to Cramer today. Ours is simple though: we believe there's just one book every aspiring political journalist and operative ought to read if they want to know whether or not they are serious about this profession: it is "What It Takes." It's basically the unofficial textbook of Washington. If you haven't read it, then you don't get it.
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Envisat and the European Space Operations Centre
Once Envisat separates from the Ariane 5 launcher it will pass to the control of engineers at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
They will direct the unfurling of the solar array that provides power for the instruments and signal the deployment of the antenna of the synthetic aperture radar. Over the succeeding weeks, they will switch each instrument on and check that it is working.
Already the team has controlled the satellite remotely, first while Envisat was at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Holland and then during the early stages of the launch campaign once the satellite had been shipped to Kourou.
Once the satellite is in orbit, each member of the team will play his or her part just as they have practiced many times during simulations before the satellite was launched. And, as always happens with space mission, the team has done its best to envisage all the things that can go wrong with a complex satellite in orbit, and has developed well-honed recovery techniques.


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Tom Cruise always gives 100 percent.
That was certainly evident when he agreed to have a lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon on NBC's "The Tonight Show" Monday. Like John Krasinski and Emma Stone before him, the 53-year-old "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" star proved he's more than capable of challenging the late-night host's skills. In fact, the comedian himself admitted, "I'm facing off against one of the biggest movie stars of all time."
Before it even began, Cruise said, "This is going to be ridiculous."
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As was the case with previous lip sync battles, neither the host nor the guest knew which songs their opponent picked to perform. Fallon and Cruise selected two songs each, and Cruise went first. "My first song has been at the top of the charts all summer long. It's the song of the summer. Right, Jim?" he said. "Remember that? It is by the enormously talented The Weeknd and it's entitled 'Can't Feel My Face.'" Cruise was so committed to his performance that even Fallon was seen dancing on the side of the stage. "Come on!" Fallon yelled. "Why am I even trying?"
Fallon admitted Cruise would be "hard to beat," but he still gave it his best shot. "My first song is one of my favorite bands, The Rolling Stones. This song is called 'Undercover of the Night,'" he said. Mick Jagger would be proud of Fallon's moves.
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Before Cruise performed his second song, he asked, "What can I do now?"
That's when The Roots played the opening bars to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll." Cruise slid over to the microphone, "Risky Business" style, as Fallon stared at the actor in disbelief. "That wouldn't be fair, would it?" Cruise asked. The comedian pleaded, "Please do not do that! That would not be fair! Please!"
Cruise removed his suit jacket, but alas, he did not strip down to his briefs.
"No, that wouldn't be fair," he conceded. "So look, instead I'm gonna do something that takes me back to high school, the parking lot, on Friday night. Those Jersey girls would sing all the lyrics. Do you mind holding my coat for me? And the guys would just sit there and sweat, hearts pounding. This is for all those Jersey girls on the hot summer nights. It's by Meatloaf. It's called 'Paradise by the Dashboard.'"
Needless to say, it was a killer rendition. "Wow, that was awesome!" Fallon told Cruise. "You did a one-man duet! I've never seen that before!"
For his final song, Fallon asked Cruise for some help in lip syncing The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling." The actor happily obliged, and together, the two even serenaded one lucky audience member.
"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is in theaters Friday.
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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - April 2006
April has not been one of the best months for me with an unfortunate illness sidelining me for the best part of three weeks but life in the jungle has definitely carried on as normal and the advances made over the last four weeks have been tremendous. The rains that seemed so distant finally fell with a vengeance and the swamps started to fill up to their levels of previous years. Still the reparation of the bridges has meant we have avoided the worst of the swamps and with the last one nearing completion we are all set again to cope with the tropical deluges!
It is hard to know where to start with so much going on but I am personally very excited by our latest resident in the animal release program. It has been a couple of years since the tragic loss of our first young Brazilian tapir, Rosita, (Tapirus terrestris) and so I was very glad to welcome another youngster to Taricaya a few weeks ago. Winifred, as she is affectionately known, was not in great shape when we received her as she was very thin and limping badly as her hind leg had been tethered to a stake. Now she is walking comfortably and is polishing off huge amounts of milk and papaya on a daily basis. The prognostic is very encouraging and I will definitely keep you updated on her progress over the coming months.
It is always with a heavy heart that I have to report losses in our release program and this month I regret to inform you of the loss of our first squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus boliviensis). One morning whilst being fed the young monkey appeared to have a seizure and passed away very quickly. These types of attacks and seizures can be the result of various factors such as cold, malnutrition and internal injuries. When we receive new animals we can never be sure how they have been treated previously and whilst malnutrition is less of a risk with adults and juveniles with the young babies it can be a serious problem. Over the years we have learned to recognise upon arrival in what sort of condition the animals are but the squirrel monkey did not show the usual symptoms of malnutrition and had no apparent injuries. Losses like this are unfortunate but I always try to put things in perspective when considering the number of sick and unwanted animals we have nursed back to health and successfully released back into the wild. We will undoubtedly have further losses in the coming years but innumerable successes also.
Work has begun on the new enclosures for the residents at Taricaya and the first one to be re-modelled was the enclosure for the razor-billed curassows. Our three curassows are recovering well with the new diet at the centre and their feathers now have a healthy lustre although they have to regenerate many new feathers before being able to fly properly again. However the best indicator of recovery with this species is their tendency to lose their "crow's feet". When a curassow is malnourished its feet tend to turn inwards and it walks very unstably (a common phenomenon with large terrestrial species) and we have noticed a continued improvement in this aspect and the birds appear to be much more comfortable and their feet less disfigured. The new spacious enclosure, with room for practice flights, will serve to encourage the healing process and speed it up also.
Elsewhere at the centre the mist netting is nearing the completion of the second and final stage. With four of the six transects repeated we are close to finalising the fieldwork and Mauricio and I are keen to start interpreting the data collected over the last twelve months. There is definitely a trend appearing as there are noticeably fewer captures in the wet season compared to the dry season. These results are very conclusive if a bit unexpected but that will give us plenty to investigate and finding feasible explanations will be a challenge. Any well-conducted investigation that produces improbable yet definitive results generally causes more of a stir in the scientific community so the attention will be well received.
The recent data has also enabled us to augment our species list with some great new captures. These include the ochre-bellied flycatcher (Mionectes oleagineus), rusty-fronted tody flycatcher (Todirostrum latirostre), spot-throated woodcreeper (Deconychura stictolaema), white-lined antbird (Perconstola lophotes) and yellow-margined flycatcher (Tolomyias assimilis). However, the most exciting incident was the unexpected capture of six brown-mandibled aracaris (Pteroglossus mariae) in just one net. The colourful aracaris are members of the toucan family and have the characteristic large bill designed for crushing fruits and nuts. This is the second member of the toucan family to be captured after the spectacular yellow-ridged toucan (Ramphastos culminatus) last November.
The pilot farm continues to flourish and the heliconia plants are producing beautiful flowers at a very quick turnover. The blooms are already causing a stir in Puerto Maldonado and so the prospects look good for finding buyers and establishing a fixed market for the locals to sell their product. Elsewhere the donkeys are recovering well from a parasitic infection and are rapidly regaining weight. Volunteers are riding and training them on a daily basis and we hope to start work with the tailor-made trailers in May. I am also very pleased to report that we are finally completing our work with Pedro from the San Pablo community across the river. He asked us towards the end last year to help him with the management of his animals, in this case sheep. They were destroying his crops and limiting the activities he could undertake on his farm. We immediately agreed to help and volunteers have been helping him plant posts around a freshly planted hectare of grass. Next week the netting will be arriving from Cusco and volunteers will help nail the new fencing so that within ten days Pedro will finally have his animals well catered for with lush grass and no longer a nuisance for his crops.
It is always satisfying when people come to us asking for aid as it indicates a willingness on their behalf to accept our help and advice. Little by little the locals are realising that we only have their best interests at heart and that there are no ulterior motives in what we do. As the reaches of our work at the farm extend further and further we can only hope that more and more lives will benefit from the help we can provide at Taricaya. The knowledge we have gathered over the years and the willingness of volunteers to get stuck in mean that we can truly make a difference to the average farmer struggling to survive.
Stuart Timson
Conservation Manager
Taricaya Research Centre
04th May 2006


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Nothing like Alternator that I have found. After applying pomade and styling, I spray this on my hair to add a bit of extra hold. It keeps me looking great all day, even in wind. It's a staple in my hair routine and I haven't been able to find it anywhere but Birchbox.5
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"Dinosaurs Along The Silk Road" -- Sinofossa 2009 4: Zhoukoudian (Peking Man)
After the Beijing Zoo, we went to the Peking Man site called Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing. This is the site of the first discoveries of Homo erectus in Asia, and the place is beautiful! The museum is very well done, too.Read More


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COMSOL Assisted Simulation of Laser Engraving
The main purpose of this paper is to develop a proof of concept software that can simulate the geometry of engraved surfaces and can estimate the depth and width of engraved groove and associated laser parameters.
For this purpose, COMSOL has been used to simulate the moving laser beam as a source of heat over physical domain made of different materials. Through interaction modeling of selected materials with laser beam in TEM01 mode, the temperature distribution has been determined. An effective technique is used to model the geometry of an engraved groove mainly based on the temperature changes. As the laser heats up the material and the temperature passes the vaporization point at high power intensity, the moving mesh mode of COMSOL is used to simulate material removal. The simulation results are validated by experiments.
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Ghost elf is featured in Dragon Magazine nr 313 so I don´t know if they are considered official. Pretty pictures at least ^.^And heh, I wasn´t quite thinking the charm side of it... *coughs* I mean, even angels have to get caught and conquered some times.But I shall have a look at Nephilim
No reason there can't be two drow.
Oh this is going to be so much fun, two drow and my elf. Got to love the team spirit.
Heh. I can "pick up" some extra muscle along the way, never you fear. *evil grin* Especially if Glab lets me start with something already Thralled.
Oh, and for my friend, no Paragon creature, but what about the half dragon paragon class? All that would benefit him is 3/day breathe weapon and +1 natural armor. But I wanted to get it okayed while he finishes the character, so we can make any needed changes
So, currently, we're sitting on:(Mindhazingsquid) human warlock/soulknife/assassin, (War dragon) Drow Bard/Sublime Chord/Mindbender, (idachan) drow cleric/necromancer, (LordAnubis) Elf Wzard, Archmage, loremaster(Hunter) Troll RangerThose I know for certain, I miss anyone's characters?
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Canucks staff, security reaction have Whitecaps' Southsiders singing the blues
Standing, chanting during Tuesday's NHL game doesn't go over well with other fans, as two people ejected
Vancouver Southsiders, the main supporters group of Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps, on their feet during Tuesday night's Vancouver Canucks-Minnesota Wild National Hockey League game at Rogers Arena. Things didn't turn out so well in the end.
Photograph by: Duncan Nicol, @VanCityVilla , Twitter photo
VANCOUVER — The Southsiders are going to stick to soccer.
Unhappy with the reception they received Tuesday night from Canucks staff and security personnel at Rogers Arena, the group of boisterous Vancouver Whitecaps supporters don't plan a return visit any time soon.
About 75 of the Southsiders attended the game between the Canucks and Minnesota Wild and sat in the back rows of Section 301 in the upper bowl of Rogers Arena. They stood, chanted and sang for much of the first period, but during the first intermission were visited by several security officers and Canucks staff.
"We did a version of what we do at Whitecaps games," Southsiders president Brett Graham said Wednesday. "We were standing and singing and chanting and clapping. It seemed to go great for the first period and then during intermission a whole bunch of security and Canucks staff came up and told us we weren't allowed to stand.
"And at that point I think two, possibly three, of our members got ejected. And from then on only the back row was allowed to stand."
Canucks chief operating officer Victor de Bonis acknowledged that the Southsiders' appearance caught the team by surprise. But he was satisfied with the way the organization handled the matter.
"Overall, I think it was a very good experience to have gone through," de Bonis said. "We had our most senior (security) people go up there just to make sure everything would be okay. For the most part I thought it was really good.
"There were couple of people in seats who blocked the view of others and that is where it got a little complicated. We are really sensitive to making sure everyone can see the game … there were two Southsiders that ended up having to be evicted."
Graham said the Southsiders were taken aback by the response they received from the Canucks. But he also acknowledged that it might have helped matters had the group notified the Canucks in advance that it was coming.
"I just felt like when you go do something and pay money and you spend half the time with security telling you what you can and can not do," Graham said. "Like, really was it hurting anyone? I really don't think so. Most people seemed genuinely happy with what we were doing. I'm sure some people didn't like what we were doing, but none of those people expressed themselves to us. I think we are very polite about things so when you go to do something and are given a bad time for it you are very unlikely to do it again."
The Southsiders, who boast more than 700 members, came to Tuesday night's game armed with a special selection of Canucks songs.
"We have a long song sheet of things we do at Whitecaps games," Graham said. "We carried over the ones that were Vancouver-oriented and then there are other ones that very easily translated to the Sedins and we did a tribute to Rick Rypien, that kind of thing. It was kind of a watered-down version of what we do at Whitecaps games."
De Bonis said the Canucks would be open to creating a special section for fans who wish to stand during games. But the logistics of creating such a space, given the large number of season-ticket holders, make it difficult.
"We have been trying to figure out a way to accommodate something like that because I think it would be really good," he said. "But people would have to relocate … there are for sure fans at the game who want to be in a more fan-centric section. It's just that people have had their seats for a long time and they like sitting there. It's one of those things where you have to make it a win-win for everybody and we haven't been able to do that yet."
Graham said the Southsiders will now focus their passion on their true love: the Whitecaps.
"I don't think it's something we'll do again," he said. "Our main thing is the Whitecaps and supporting them and that season starts in two weeks. I don't know if there would be much interest in us to organize anything else with the Canucks this year."


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There are scenes shown in the movie
Pi which have ants and goo in the protagonist's apartment which also houses his computer
Euclid. Is there any significance of these ants/goo?
Really lame pun makes me think it could denote bugs in a computer program but from what I hear about New York City's cleanliness, it could denote the commonly found dirt.
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I am a subscriber to the LifeSiteNews mailing list and have been for a number of years. The list and associated website is dedicated to reporting news about events and issues that impact the sanctity of human life. The site is run by Roman Catholic believers who take a strong stand supporting the pro-life cause. In general, it is a great website and I highly recommend subscribing to their list.
LifeSiteNews's Article
However, there is one recent article, in particular, that is extremely deceptive and promotes a view that can only be described as evil. The article, entitled, "Genetically modified 3-parent children hitting their teens," is designed to get people in an uproar about the creation of these "genetically-modified children." What the article does not tell you is why these children have "three parents." In reality, these children are neither genetically-modified nor does their nuclear DNA come from three parents.
First, we need some background as to why these children are different from every other child. It turns out that there are rare genetic disorders that are caused by mutation of the DNA found in the sub-cellular organelle known as the mitochondrion. Although most of the proteins found in mitochondria are encoded by the nuclear DNA, there is a small amount of DNA found in the mitochondrion itself, known as mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This mtDNA codes for 13 peptides that are crucial to the functioning of each mitochondrion. Since mutations of these protein interfere with the function of the mitochondria, which are required for cellular metabolism, individuals with these mutations suffer a range of devastating diseases, usually beginning in childhood. The other important consideration is that these mutations are passed from one generation to the next only through the mother. This is because all mitochondria of the embryo come from the mother's egg (the sperm supply only DNA). This means that a woman with a mtDNA mutation will pass that mutation on to 100% of her normally conceived children. For this reason, most women with these diseases choose not to produce biological children.
Fixing Mitochondrial Diseases
However, there is a technique that will allow these mothers to produce biological children who lack the disease. It is a modified form of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which the nucleus from the woman's egg is extracted and placed into an enucleated donor egg (donor's genetic material removed). This way, the egg will have normal mitochondria along with the mother's nuclear genetic material. The repaired egg was then fertilized with the husband's sperm and implanted into the mother's womb to produce normal biological children for the couple.
The LifeSiteNews article claims that these IVF-conceived children were genetically-modified. Although many species of plants have been genetically modified by adding non-natural genes to the genome of the plants in order to make them resistant to diseases, no such alternation of genes was done to these children. In fact, the nuclear DNA of the mother was not modified at all. The LifeSiteNews claim is bogus.
3-Parent Children?
The other claim of the LifeSiteNews article is that these children have "3 parents." Since all the nuclear DNA comes from both the biological mother and biological father, the egg donor contributes no DNA to the appearance of the children. The only contribution of the "third parent" are normal mitochondria. So, a genetic test of parentage would confirm that the biological mother and father were the only two parents. The claim that these children would have three parents is also bogus.
What is Really Evil
Roman Catholic dogma says that couples should not use any artificial form of birth control. However, when the mother has a mtDNA mutation, any natural conception would automatically condemn the child to inheriting the debilitating disease of the mother. Therefore, genetic counselors suggest that these couples use multiple forms of birth control to prevent natural conception. Although couples could adopt, many would prefer to have their own biological children. The Roman Catholic "solution" to mitochondrial diseases is to require couples to not use birth control and virtually guarantees that they produce children condemned to a life of suffering. LifeSiteNews had the audacity to claim that the IVF solution to the heartache of these couples was inferior to the Roman Catholic "solution." LifeSiteNews would not allow my comments to be published on their website, but those comments can be viewed here. My guess is that the editors of LifeSiteNews did not understand the reality of what the author of the article had written. I would prefer to think that ignorance, rather than coverup was behind their biased and deceptive article. They are free to comment here…


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Here we will briefly analyze every line of the basic two-column template (see code or view page). The two-column layout are for pages such as the present one that have their main content in the larger left-hand div, while the right-hand div contains the side-column menu with links to other pages in that part of the site. The banner, the navigational links in the top bar, and the side-column links are all often shared by pages in the same section or "portal" on THL. This is done through a series of PHP includes.
The header of the THL page is the section of the HTML which is included within the  element. In order to maintain the THL look and feel throughout the site, this code is standardized and shared among all THL pages with the use of a PHP include. The included code contains links to the standard THL CSS stylesheets and script tags calling THL scripts for standard functionality of the pages. The standard include call in all THL pages looks like this:
<? $droot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>
 <? include_once "$droot/global/php/header.php" ; ?>
The first line here set a variable, $droot, to the location on the server where the THL files are located. This is necessary for locating the included files in the rest of the template. The second line is a PHP include that includes the code of the global header.php file at this point in the page. This file contains the opening HTML of all THL pages including the doctype definition, the page title, the css, and the javascript references. These are all standard for all THL pages.
However, in some situations, a developer may want to add particular CSS or JS files only to specific pages on the site. There is a way to do this by using the $add_header variable. This variable must be declared before the last line above that includes the header. A developer can put the text for all code s/he wants included in the header in this variable. An example is found in the literary encyclopedia:
<? $add_header = '
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/encyclopedias/literary/css/literary.css" media="all" />

  '; ?>
Notice that the value of the variable $add_header is set between single quotes because the value itself contains code that has double quotes in it. Also, as the line-return is another string character, multiple lines can be included within the value for $add_header.
This code then gets inserted before the close of the HTML head tag of the resulting code.

When you are making a new page, you replace the "NAME-OF-THDL-DOMAIN-HERE" with the name of the THL "domain" for which the page is being made, for example, if you are making a "Reference" page, you would change the above to:

Doing so will make the navbar link for Reference appear in red on a white background, indicating the domain in which this new page exists. That mechanism is controlled in the /global/css/nav_thdl.css, and will be explained in "How to Make a Portal" section of the Manual.
The css that controls the usual body tag elements is in /global/css/thdl_layout.css.

 <? include_once "$droot/global/php/masthead.php" ; ?>

The masthead.php file displays the logo and banner. It also includes the masthead-utility.php file, which displays the menu and options links in the very top of the page; the masthead-navbar.php file, which displays the main horizontal nav links; and the masthead-search.php file, which is empty pending decision on where to put the Search box.
The masthead.php file is frequently overridden, mainly in order to also override the masthead-navbar.php, so you can create non-standard navigation for large Portals and etc. The overriding mastheads are found in the root director of the portal or section of the site that uses them and are called masthead-{portal name}.php. For the the home page and and most of the 2nd-level pages it's just the /global/php/masthead.php file, but custom ones are found in {sub-site dir}/masthead-{dir name}.php. For instance, the Canon catalogs use /encyclopedias/literary/canons/masthead-canons-cats.php
These small files contain the markup for the logo and the banner, plus includes for the nav bar just under the banner and the side column. The side-column include generally points to a file in /global/php/masthead-utility.php and this file has code that looks for the side-column.php file either in the directory in question or its parent directory. This code for determining which side-column.php file to use is:

   <?    $dir = explode( "/" , $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] ) ;    array_pop( $dir ) ;    $dir = implode ( "/" , $dir ) ;    $f = "$droot$dir/side-column.php" ;    if ( file_exists( $f ) ) {    include_once "$droot$dir/side-column.php" ;    } else {    $f = "$droot$dir/../side-column.php";    if ( file_exists( $f ) ) {    include_once "$droot$dir/../side-column.php" ;    }    }   ?>

(PAGE TITLE HERE)

 (PRIMARY CONTENT HERE)

 <? include_once "$droot/template/side-column.php" ?>

The side-column.php file controls the accordion menus on the right side of most pages. It is virtually always overridden, but more on that elsewhere.

 <? include_once "$droot/global/php/footer.php" ; ?>

Also overridden for non-standard Portal pages, if you are making a standard THL web page you should leave the footer alone.

 <? include_once "$droot/global/php/footer-utility.php" ; ?>

And finally, the end of the page, body and html tags close; the footer-utility.php file is for some pretty messy business that you don't need to worry about for general page development purposes.
Ok, now you can go back to the Creating A New Page - Global Vs Template Files Explained and head to the bottom of the page for the very last step.


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The color bands you see in the recent screenshots of rtorrent are not screen artifacts, they're intentional.
Just as an experiment I tinkered with the rtorrent-extended package in AUR, which applies a lot of patches to the 0.8.6 versions of libtorrent and rtorrent — including colored title lines. This allows you to paint both the foreground and background in any standard console color variation, with highlighting applied when the torrent is actively uploading or downloading.
On the whole there's not a lot I would add to or subtract from rtorrent, which isn't to say it's the perfect program, only that it does what I need it to do without being scant. On the other hand, those colored bars really do make things much easier to read when you're sifting up and down through pages of torrents.
The rtorrent-extended package also includes the ability to snub peers, ban slow peers, magnet links, ipv6, tracker info and a bunch of other things. Whether or not these tweaks eventually become part of the rtorrent mainline is something to be seen. There are a lot of variations on rtorrent that are worth investigating — desktop frontends, web interfaces, and so forth. But this one I can endorse simply on the grounds of visibility. 😉


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Matthew Deiters has extensive software engineering and application delivery experience. He has worked for various industry leaders to build complex enterprise systems including those he created as a consultant with ThoughtWorks. He now enjoys enabling companies and development teams adopt agile development practices and leverage lightweight platforms.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Dancin' Queen
We weren't allowed to tape the actual performance, so this is the dress rehearsal. But you get the idea. Most of the time, Anna is the fourth from the left.
12 comments:
- Jeni said...
Now that is what having a little girl is all about! Anna looks gorgeous!
- June 8, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- BeckyRuss said...
Could she be any cuter!?! What a great dancer--I love the tu tu. I hope I have a daughter one day that looks and acts just like Anna. Love you little girl!
- June 8, 2009 at 6:54 PM
- Kathleen said...
such a cute little dancer! love the costume too!
- June 8, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- Cherie said...
So cute!! Aren't girls the best!
- June 9, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- Cammy Aller said...
GO Anna! she is good up there! Love the costume by the way! :)
- June 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- Heather said...
I can't believe how grown up she looks! What a sweetie!
- June 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Jenni said...
Hi Amber~
She is so sweet in her little outfit! So darling! It is so fun having a little girl, huh? :)
I wanted to let you know also that I had to change my blog address because it wasn't working properly. My new address is at nesttokeep.blogspot.com/ I hope you have a great rest of your week! :)
- June 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- zakkalife said...
How cute is that! And I agree with the other commenters, adorable costumes. Makes me wish I had a videos of my dance recitals from when I was a child. It's so good that you're documenting it.
- June 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Our Complete Family said...
Your little Princess Anna truly fits the bill and looks like a princess, too!
So glad it went well and fingers crossed you find a great dance instructor when you move.
That is one of the hard parts of being military, isn't it? I'm dreading finding soccer stuff for Bryce when we move since that is his #1 love.
Happy day hugs hun~ Les
- June 14, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- Rosanne said...
Not only is she so adorable, but looks like she's quite the leader too. What a great dancer! Thanks for sharing!
- June 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Shawna B. said...
You are having a ball with your little girl, aren't you? :) She's delightful! And a great dancer, too!
- June 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Lighting said...
That is the cutest thing ever!
- June 20, 2009 at 5:34 PM


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Orioles suffer crucial loss to Yankees
Jim Johnson blows another save
Vernon Wells singled in the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, helping a marvelous Ivan Nova and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 Friday night for their season high-tying fifth straight win.
Nova (3-2) gave up a two-run homer to Matt Wieters in the second inning then stifled the Orioles the rest of the way in a spot start for Hiroki Kuroda. He allowed three hits in his first career complete game and struck out 11 and walked one.
Baltimore closer Jim Johnson (2-7) took over the ninth with a 2-1 lead and gave up a leadoff single to David Adams. Brett Gardner reached when Johnson failed to field his bunt for an error in front of the mound. Robinson Cano was walked intentionally to load the bases and Johnson promptly walked Travis Hafner to tie it.
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A school bus driver taking children to a public elementary school on Chicago's North Side was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol this week after being stopped for erratic driving, officials said Wednesday.
A police officer writing tickets Tuesday morning in the 4100 block of North Lawndale Avenue was waved down by a driver who complained that a nearby school bus had nearly rear-ended his vehicle three times, Chicago police said.
The officer, who was on foot, signaled for the bus to stop but the driver ignored him, forcing the officer to get into his car to pull over the bus, according to Chicago police Officer Mike Sullivan.
The officer smelled alcohol on the driver's breath and noticed his eyes were bloodshot, Sullivan said.
Kenny Sellers, 41, of the 7500 block of South Green Street, failed a field sobriety test but refused to take a breath test, Sullivan said. Taken to the 17th District police station, Sellers tried to escape and fought with a police officer, he said. Sellers received seven citations, including a felony count of aggravated DUI for a bus driver and aggravated battery against a police officer.
The four children aboard the bus were taken to Hawthorne elementary school in the Lakeview neighborhood by another driver.
Officials at Chicago Public Schools said Wednesday they intend to levy a fine of $3,000 against Jewel's Bus Co., which employed the driver. Two years ago, Jewel's was criticized by parents after one of its drivers continued to drive even though he was suspected of sexually assaulting a special education student while on the job. A year later, that driver was charged with kidnapping a teenager, which led to sexual assault charges in the earlier incident.
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CPS spokeswoman Marielle Sainvilus said Sellers has been banned from driving a bus for the district. Jewel's is one of the district's largest bus contractors and was paid $9 million to transport students in the 2011-12 school year.
"All families have been notified. We are taking steps to address the situation with the bus company to ensure appropriate action," Sainvilus said.
Officials with Jewel's did not return calls for comment.


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