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Central Connecticut head men's golf coach Kevin Giancola has announced the team's 2013 fall schedule on Friday. The Blue Devils will play in six tournaments this fall, one more than last fall season. All but one tournament will be held on the road as Central will host the CCSU Fall Invitational. Four of the six tournaments will be played in Connecticut.
Central kicks off the fall at the Missouri Tiger Intercollegiate on September 1st to the 2nd. Last season the team finished fourth out of 13 competitors at Missouri. Central will then return home on September 8th through the 9th to host the 2013 CCSU Fall Invitational. The Blue Devils were the event's runner up last season and look to finish atop the leader board again in 2013.
The team will then travel south to Hermitage CC in Manakin-Sabot, VA to compete in the VCU Shootout on September 23rd through the 24th. They then return back to Connecticut and will compete in the Yale Macdonald Cup on October 5th and 6th, an event where the team placed sixth last fall.
Central will conclude their fall slate at the UCONN Connecticut Cup followed by the Sacred Heart Invitational. The team will travel to UCONN on October 14th and 15th and then to Sacred Heart on October 21st and 22nd. Last season, the Blue Devils placed 10th at UCONN.


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Athens, Ga. - Making history Wednesday by playing in Santa Clara's first-ever NCAA Women's Singles Championship match, Bronco sophomore Katie Le pushed it to a third set in singles with a thrilling second-set victory, but couldn't hold on and lost 6-7(4), 7-5 and 0-6 to No. 37 Abigail Tere-Apisah of Georgia State.
The 2012 West Coast Conference Player of the Year, Le battled tough for almost three hours in bright sun and 80-degree weather with 60 percent humidity. "Katie handled the conditions as well as possible. If your body isn't use to the weather and the conditions (high heat and humidity), you don't adapt in just a day. It's tough, but she did a great job with it. Katie played really well," said Bronco head coach Ben Cabell.
"I told myself before I played this morning I would have to find a balance between blessed to be here and also the results," said Le. "Obviously a couple hours later I am still a little disappointed because I could have won the match. She was very good, but there were a lot of opportunities to win and I am upset about it. I let a lot of winners go. I have been screaming in my head over it."
"But regardless of my disappointment, I want to thank my coaches for all their help. They were great and so were my teammates," added Le. "I got a lot of Facebook messages and Tweets. It's great to see all the support from my teammates, friends and family. It's such a special feeling to know everyone has my back and that were so many people watching. It made me feel really good."
Le went up 3-1 in the first set when she broke Tere-Apisah's serve. Tere-Apisah won her serve and then Le won her serve again to take a 4-2 lead. Tere-Apisah won her serve and broke Le again to tie it up 4-4. Le won her serve again to take a 5-4 lead and then Tere-Apisah won her serve to tie it up again at 5-5. The two won their serves again to tie it up 6-6. Tere-Apisah went up 5-3 in the tiebreaker before Le won a point, but Tere-Apisah won the set 7-4 by winning the last two points.
"There were obviously so many close points in the first set," said Cabell. "The first set was Katie's opportunity to get control and maybe in hindsight she needed to. Every big point that Katie had a chance to put away in the first set, Abigail came up big. Abigail had a knack for making big shots when the point really counted. Abigail played really well on those important points."
In the second set the two battled again neck-in-neck with Le taking a 5-4 lead serving. She served set point three times before Tere-Apisah won to tie it up 5-5. Le broke Tere-Apisah's serve and then won her own again to win the second set 7-5.
"After Katie lost the first set in the tiebreaker, we made a couple little adjustments," said Cabell. "We talked about being a little more aggressive and trying to control more points, rather than playing defense. She did that well in the second set. We also talked about her getting off well in the second set and she did that as well. I was really proud of how she worked hard in every point."
"In the second set I was being more aggressive. In the first set I was waiting for her to make mistakes. In the second set I wanted to be more aggressive and hit more winners and not make a lot of mistakes," said Le. "Today it was key that I didn't get frustrated because there were so many opportunities for me to close out the first set, but the points didn't go my way. Mainly I had to focus on each point and not worry about not being able to close it out in the last few games of the first set."
Tere-Apisah came out on fire in the third set and won 6-0.
"I don't think Katie ran out of gas in the third set, Abigail just played better," said Cabell.
"The conditions caused Katie to lose maybe a half step in the third set. That is huge in a match like this and it favored Abigail. They both played so well in all three sets."
Le, ranked No. 60, finishes the year at 18-6. In just her second season as a Bronco, Le continued to raise the bar by collecting the WCC Player of the Year and All-WCC First Team honors for both her singles and doubles play. It's the first time in school history a player has been named the WCC Player of the Year and received First Team Honors in both singles and doubles.
Le ended the 2012 regular season with an 18-5 record, playing every match at the No. 1 singles spot for the Broncos. Le was also named WCC Player of the Month in March after stringing together a 10-match winning streak. Le has been nationally ranked by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association throughout the 2011-12 season and currently stands as the No. 60 singles player in the country, as of April 24. In her highest ranking this season, she reached the No. 38 singles spot. Le was the 2011 WCC Freshman of the Year.
"Overall, I am just so proud of Katie," said Cabell. "She has done so well for herself and the program. In the big picture, we couldn't be more proud of what she has been able to accomplish in her first two years at Santa Clara. She does it all with an extremely high GPA in an incredibly tough major, Computer Engineering. She has two more years to get even better. I expect she will be back at the NCAA tournament again. She has the game, the motivation and she knows how to do it now. Of course some of it is luck. People you beat during the year have to do well, so that's luck. But the best players in the country are here and she has beaten some of them. Playing here today will make her want to come back next year and do even better."
"This season, making the NCAAs was my goal," said Le. "Once I made it and played, I want more, but i am glad to be here. This gives me a lot of motivation for next season. After playing all these really good players it shows me what to work on. I will use the sumer to brush up on those areas. I will also prepare for All-Americans in the fall. Playing well at All-Americans will help me raise my ranking and play a bunch of really good players as well."

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|Managing User Accounts and User Environments in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
1. Managing User Accounts and User Environments (Overview)
What's New or Changed in Managing User Accounts and User Environments?
Security Changes That Impact User Account Management
Introducing the User Manager GUI
Administrative Editor (pfedit)
Failed Login Count Notification
What Are User Accounts and Groups?
Using Large User IDs and Group IDs
Guidelines for Assigning User Names, User IDs, and Group IDs
Where User Account and Group Information Is Stored
Commands for Obtaining User Account Information
Commands That Are Used for Managing Users, Roles, and Groups
Customizing a User's Work Environment
Using Site Initialization Files
Avoiding Local System References
Bash and ksh93 Shell Environment Variables
Default File Permissions (umask)
2. Managing User Accounts by Using the Command-Line Interface (Tasks)
3. Managing User Accounts by Using the User Manager GUI (Tasks)
The following information is described in this section:
Part of setting up a user's home directory is providing user initialization files for the user's login shell. A user initialization file is a shell script that sets up a work environment for a user after the user logs in to a system. Basically, you can perform any task in a user initialization file that you can do in a shell script. However, a user initialization file's primary job is to define the characteristics of a user's work environment, such as a user's search path, environment variables, and windowing environment. Each login shell has its own user initialization file, or files, which are listed in the following table. Note that the default user initialization file for both the bash and ksh93 shells is /etc/skel/local.profile.
Table 1-7 Bash and ksh93 User Initialization Files
You can use these files as a starting point and then modify them to create a standard set of files that provide the work environment common to all users. You can also modify these files to provide the working environment for different types of users.
For step-by-step instructions on how to create sets of user initialization files for different types of users, see How to Customize User Initialization Files.
The user initialization files can be customized by both the administrator and the user. This important task can be accomplished with centrally located and globally distributed user initialization files that are called, site initialization files. Site initialization files enable you to continually introduce new functionality to the user's work environment, while enabling the user to customize the user's initialization file.
When you reference a site initialization file in a user initialization file, all updates to the site initialization file are automatically reflected when the user logs in to the system or when a user starts a new shell. Site initialization files are designed for you to distribute site-wide changes to users' work environments that you did not anticipate when you added the users.
You can customize a site initialization file the same way that you customize a user initialization file. These files typically reside on a server, or set of servers, and appear as the first statement in a user initialization file. Also, each site initialization file must be the same type of shell script as the user initialization file that references it.
To reference a site initialization file in a bash or ksh93 user initialization file, place a line at the beginning of the user initialization file similar to the following line:
. /net/machine-name/export/site-files/site-init-file
Do not add specific references to the local system in the user initialization file. The instructions in a user initialization file should be valid, regardless of which system the user logs into.
For example:
To make a user's home directory available anywhere on the network, always refer to the home directory with the variable $HOME. For example, use $HOME/bin instead of /export/home/username/bin. The $HOME variable works when the user logs in to another system, and the home directories are auto-mounted.
To access files on a local disk, use global path names, such as /net/system-name/directory-name. Any directory referenced by /net/system-name can be mounted automatically on any system on which the user logs in, assuming the system is running AutoFS.
This Oracle Solaris release supports the following shell features and behavior:
The user account that is created when you install the Oracle Solaris release is assigned the GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash) by default.
The standard system shell (bin/sh) is now the Korn Shell 93 (ksh93).
The default interactive shell is the Bourne-again (bash) shell (/usr/bin/bash).
Both the bash and ksh93 shells feature command-line editing, which means you can edit commands before executing them.
There are a few ways in which you can display default shell and path information:
Use the echo $SHELL and which commands:
$ grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:Super-User:/root:/usr/bin/bash $ echo $SHELL /usr/bin/bash $ which ksh93 /usr/bin/ksh93
Use the pargs command:
~$ pargs -l $$ /usr/bin/i86/ksh93
The ksh93 shell also has a built-in variable called .sh.version, which can be displayed as follows:
~$ echo ${.sh.version} Version jM 93u 2011-02-08
To change to a different shell, type the path of the shell that you want to use.
To exit a shell, type exit.
The following table describes the shell options that are supported in Oracle Solaris.
Table 1-8 Basic Shell Features in the Oracle Solaris Release
Note - The Z Shell (zsh) and the enhanced C Shell (tsch) are not installed on your system by default. To use either of these shells, you must first install the required software packages.
Both the bash and ksh93 shells record a history of all of the commands that you run. This history is kept on a per-user basis, which means the history is persistent between login sessions, as well as representative of all your login sessions.
For example, if you are in a bash shell, you can display the complete history of the commands that you have run, as follows:
$ history 1 ls 2 ls -a 3 pwd 4 whoami . . .
To display a number of previous commands, include an integer in the command:
$ history 2 12 date 13 history
For more information, see the history(1) man page.
The bash and ksh93 shells store special variable information that is known to the shell as anenvironment variable. To view a complete list of the current environment variables for the bash shell, use the declare command:
$ declare BASH=/usr/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_LINEND=() BASH_SOuRCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]=''3'' [1]=''2'' [2]=''25'' [3]=''1'' [4]=''release'' [5]'' . . .
For the ksh93 shell, use the set command, which is the bash shell's declare command equivalent:
$ set COLUMNS=80 ENV='$HOME/.kshrc' FCEDIT=/bin/ed HISTCMD=3 HZ='' IFS=$' \t\n' KSH_VERSION=.sh.version LANG=C LINENO=1 . . .
To print environment variables for either shell, use the echo or printf command. For example:
$ echo $SHELL /usr/bin/bash $ printf ''$PATH\n'' /usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Note - Environment variables do not persist between sessions. To set up environment variables that remain consistent between logins, you must make the changes in the .bashrc file.
A shell can have two types of variables:
Specifies variables that are exported to all processes that are spawned by the shell. The export command is used to export a variable. For example:
export VARIABLE=value
These settings can be displayed by using the env command. A subset of environment variables, such as PATH, affects the behavior of the shell itself.
Specifies variables that affect only the current shell.
In a user initialization file, you can customize a user's shell environment by changing the values of the predefined variables or by specifying additional variables.
The following table provides more details about the shell and environment variables that are available in the Oracle Solaris release.
Table 1-9 Shell and Environment Variable Descriptions
To customize your bash shell, add the information to the .bashrc file that is located in your home directory. The initial user that is created when you install Oracle Solaris has a .bashrc file that sets the PATH, MANPATH, and command prompt. For more information, see the bash(1) man page.
The MANPATH environment variable specifies where the man command looks for reference manual (man) pages. The MANPATH is set automatically based on a user's PATH value, but it generally includes /usr/share/man and usr/gnu/share/man.
Note that a user's MANPATH environment variable can be modified independent of the PATH environment variable. A one to one equivalent of the associated man page locations, with directories in the user's $PATH, is not required.
When the user executes a command by using the full path, the shell uses that path to find the command. However, when users specify only a command name, the shell searches the directories for the command in the order specified by the PATH variable. If the command is found in one of the directories, the shell executes the command.
A default path is set by the system. However, most users modify it to add other command directories. Many user problems related to setting up the environment and accessing the correct version of a command or a tool can be traced to incorrectly defined paths.
Here are some guidelines for setting up efficient PATH variables:
If you must include the current directory (.) in your path, it should be placed last. Including the current directory in your path is a security risk because some malicious person could hide a compromised script or executable in the current directory. Consider using absolute path names instead.
Keep the search path as short as possible. The shell searches each directory in the path. If a command is not found, long searches can slow down system performance.
The search path is read from left to right, so you should put directories for commonly used commands at the beginning of the path.
Make sure that directories are not duplicated in the path.
Avoid searching large directories, if possible. Put large directories at the end of the path.
Put local directories before NFS mounted directories to lessen the chance of "hanging" when the NFS server does not respond. This strategy also reduces unnecessary network traffic.
The LANG and LC environment variables specify the locale-specific conversions and conventions for the shell. These conversions and conventions include time zones, collation orders, and formats of dates, time, currency, and numbers. In addition, you can use the stty command in a user initialization file to indicate whether the terminal session will support multibyte characters.
The LANG variable sets all possible conversions and conventions for the given locale. You can set various aspects of localization separately through these LC variables: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_NUMERIC, LC_MONETARY, and LC_TIME.
Note - By default, Oracle Solaris 11 installs UTF-8 based locales only.
The following table describes the environment variable values for the core Oracle Solaris 11 locales.
Table 1-10 Values for LANG and LC Variables
Example 1-1 Setting the Locale Using the LANG Variables
In a Bourne or Korn shell user initialization file, you would add the following:
LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1; export LANG
LANG-de_DE.UTF-8; export LANG
When you create a file or directory, the default file permissions assigned to the file or directory are controlled by the user mask. The user mask is set by the umask command in a user initialization file. You can display the current value of the user mask by typing umask and pressing Return.
The user mask contains the following octal values:
The first digit sets permissions for the user
The second digit sets permissions for group
The third digit sets permissions for other, also referred to as world
Note that if the first digit is zero, it is not displayed. For example, if the user mask is set to 022, 22 is displayed.
To determine the umask value that you want to set, subtract the value of the permissions you want from 666 (for a file) or 777 (for a directory). The remainder is the value to use with the umask command. For example, suppose you want to change the default mode for files to 644 (rw-r--r--). The difference between 666 and 644 is 022, which is the value you would use as an argument to the umask command.
You can also determine the umask value you want to set by using the following table. This table shows the file and directory permissions that are created for each of the octal values of umask.
Table 1-11 Permissions for umask Values
The following line in a user initialization file sets the default file permissions to rw-rw-rw-.
umask 000
The following is an example of the .profile user initialization file. You can use this file to customize your own user initialization files. This example uses system names and paths that you will need to modify for your particular site.
Example 1-2 The .profile File
(Line 1) PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:. (Line 2) MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME (Line 3) NNTPSERVER=server1 (Line 4) MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man (Line 5) PRINTER=printer1 (Line 6) umask 022 (Line 7) export PATH MAIL NNTPSERVER MANPATH PRINTER
Defines the user's shell search path.
Defines the path to the user's mail file.
Defines the user's time/clock server.
Defines the user's search path for man pages.
Defines the user's default printer.
Sets the user's default file creation permissions.
Sets the listed environment variables.


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Randall G. Holcombe
Randall G. Holcombe is Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, past President of the Public Choice Society, and past President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech, and has taught at Texas A&M University and Auburn University. Dr. Holcombe is also Senior Fellow at the James Madison Institute and was a member of the Florida Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.


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'Atlas Shrugged' Film Banks on Election Fever
After audiences ignored 'Part I,' a second chance
To a strict bottom-line capitalist, the new movie "Atlas Shrugged Part II" might not look like a model enterprise. "Atlas Shrugged Part I," released last year, cost businessman John Aglialoro about $25 million (and 19 years) to bring to the screen. Its domestic box-office take was a tepid $4.6 million. Critics' reviews, arguably, were worse.
Few flops earn sequels. But Mr. Aglialoro, chief executive of exercise-equipment maker Cybex International and a longtime disciple of "Atlas Shrugged" author Ayn Rand, thinks the timing is right. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he and fellow producer Harmon Kaslow, whose horror credits include "Cemetery Gates" and "Boo," have built their own studio, hopeful that a nation embroiled in debate over the distribution of wealth will put "Part II" in the black. The urgency quickened when Mitt Romney named as his running mate another Rand acolyte, Rep. Paul Ryan (though he has soft-pedaled his enthusiasm for her in the campaign). The movie hits theaters Oct. 12.
"Atlas Shrugged," published in 1957, was the last novel by the Russian-born Ms. Rand, who at age 12 saw her father's business confiscated in the Bolshevik Revolution. The 1,100-page book, written in three parts, is a futuristic fable about the dangers of collectivist government. Call it poli-sci-fi. It's set in an America with a faltering economy, misled by bureaucrats who keep devising ways to take money from successful innovators in the name of public good.
Business leaders, meanwhile, are mysteriously vanishing. It turns out they're going on strike, fed up with supporting the world—hence the title. They decamp to a hidden gulch and pledge to "never live for the sake of another man." The heroine, Dagny Taggart, is desperately trying to save her family's railroad company and discovers possible salvation in a motor that could generate limitless energy by capturing static electricity from the air. But its inventor, John Galt, already has taken his leave.
The polarizing book has been labeled the Bible of Selfishness. It also has inspired millions. Mr. Aglialoro says he was "zapped" when he read "Atlas" in his 20s.
"I thought, 'Wow, gee, you're entitled without guilt to your own life,' " he says. "Benevolence and charity are wonderful things, when they're voluntary and on your terms. But what arrogance to have an entitlement society that expects it. Or to feel that you've got to 'give back.' I don't know what the hell you took in the first place that you feel you have to give back."
The film adaptation became its own saga. The mercurial Ms. Rand adapted her novel "The Fountainhead" for a King Vidor film starring Gary Cooper in 1949 and hated much of the movie, according to a 2004 biography by Jeffrey Britting. After her death in 1982, repeated efforts to turn her "Atlas" into cinema fizzled. Angelina Jolie was attached; Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider optioned the rights; Randall Wallace ("Braveheart," "Pearl Harbor") wrote a script that covered the opus in a single film. In 1992, Mr. Aglialoro paid $1 million for a 15-year lease on the film rights, a duration he had to extend.
"I thought it would be a short period of time for investors to come in," he says. "But all these entities couldn't get it done. Ultimately, it's not a movie Hollywood wants to embrace."
Finally made on a modest budget (after huge start-up expenses, production was around $5.5 million), "Part I" was pounded by critics, who rated it at 11% "fresh," lower than "Showgirls" and "Ishtar," according to RottenTomatoes.com. Viewers, however, scored it at 74%.
"Part II" faced a new setback when Cybex lost a liability lawsuit in 2010 alleging that one of its weight machines had tipped over on a woman, leaving her paralyzed.
"I feel so sorry for her," Mr. Aglialoro says. "She jumped up on there and pulled the machine back on herself while she was stretching." The parties settled for $19.5 million in February. Cybex stock dropped so low the company faced delisting.
"The lawsuit was crippling," Mr. Aglialoro says. He put just $5 million into "Part II" but recruited additional investors, allowing Atlas Productions to spend $10 million on production and $10 million more on marketing. The new film will open on three times as many screens as the first installment. It's slicker and faster-paced, with a train crash and a jet-plane chase. The lead roles have all been filled by different actors, with Samantha Mathis replacing Taylor Schilling as Taggart. Cameos include Sean Hannity, Grover Norquist and Teller of Penn & Teller (Teller speaks). And in inspired casting, the two top government officials are played by Ray Wise and Paul McCrane, who were murderous hoods together in "RoboCop" and have spent careers portraying creepy villains with oversize foreheads.
The producers showed snippets to supporters of presidential candidate and fervent libertarian Ron Paul at the Republican convention and held screenings at the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute in Washington.
"I'm making this as a warning," says Mr. Aglialoro. "It's about what happens when heroic producers disappear, and they leave the job of creating prosperity to the moochers and, God forbid, the politicians."
Mr. Kaslow admits that after all their effort, one hurdle remains: "The challenge is that our audience doesn't go to the movies that often."
Revenge of the Sequel
Movie sequels that outperform their predecessors tend to spring from quirky, low-profile originals that develop cult followings, then explode. Here's a list that 'Atlas Shrugged Part II' hopes to join:
'The Road Warrior' (1982, $23.7 million)
Calling the sequel "Mad Max II" would have meant nothing to American audiences. The Aussie original was raw, poorly dubbed and barely seen.The third installment, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985), outgrossed the first two put together.
'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' (1991, $204.8 million)
James Cameron directed, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was still a B-movie curiosity when he first played the time-traveling cyborg hit man. By 1991, he was a superstar in the exploding action-movie genre. I'll be back, indeed.
'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me' (1999, $206 million)
Mike Myers's wild first turn as the frozen-in-the-'60s British superspy flew under the radar for many ($53.9 million), but it added so many memes to popular culture that a broader second helping was inevitable, baby.
'Rambo: First Blood Part II' (1985, $150.5 million U.S. gross)
The moodier "First Blood" got better reviews than its sequel, which amped up the clichés and the violence, giving Sylvester Stallone another franchise. Also spawned the memorably-titled spoof sequel: "Hot Shots! Part Deux."
'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991, $130.7 million)
"Manhunter," the first cinematic look at serial killer Hannibal Lecter, didn't leave much of a bite mark. But with Anthony Hopkins in the Lecter role, playing intense mind games with Jodie Foster, Jonathan Demme's "Silence" achieved Hall of Fame creepiness.
—Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com


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Wednesday October 14, 2009
Award-winning soap actress Maggie Jones is said to be "improving" in hospital after having a "major operation" this week.
The 75-year-old, who plays battleaxe Blanche Hunt in the series, was taken "seriously ill" with an undisclosed condition.
"She seems to have turned a corner. There has been an improvement in Maggie's condition and we are all encouraged by this news," a Granada TV spokesperson says.
And although she has been temporarily written out of the soap, Maggie's co-stars are willing her to get back to work.
"Maggie is a delight. We sit and laugh together," says actor Bill Tarmey, the show's Jack Duckworth.
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8:30 am
Rough Cut - Woodworking with Tommy Mac "Drop-Leaf Table" NULL
9:00 am
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Entry with Impact" Allen leads a tour of Daffodil Hill at his home place, talking about color and daffodils, plus clustering containers for a bold effect. He also provides information on houseplants and a cheap way to light a path.G
9:30 am
Katie Brown Workshop "Mother's Day" The lifestyle expert and her crew present ideas for creative cooking, gardening and decorating. For Mother's Day, they offer a stylish fabric necklace, ideas for growing a vegetable garden and a menu of orzo salad, marinated chicken and Clementine drink.G
10:00 am
Pati's Mexican Table "Mexican Brunch" A Mexican brunch is the perfect way to ease into the weekend. This episode will look at what a late breakfast/early lunch in Mexico might look like and what recipes you can prepare in your own home. Those will include: Rabo de Mestiza: Poached Eggs in a Tomato and Poblano Rajas Sauce; Refried Beans and Cheese Chimichangas; Garibaldis: Vanilla Pound Cakes with Lime-Apricot Glaze and Sprinkles. D
10:30 am
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Breakfast Breads" NULL
11:00 am
Christina Cooks "The Breakfast Makeover" Christina creates healthy breakfast foods that offer interest and energy.G
11:30 am
Art of Food with Wendy Brodie "Breakfast" Brodie presents new twists on basic egg dishes, including frittatas, benedicts, stuffed French toast, fruit pancakes - and even has ideas for breakfast in bed. D
12:00 pm
Habitable Planet, The "Oceans" Ocean systems operate on a range of scales, from massive systems such as El Ni�o that affects weather across the globe to tiny photosynthetic organisms near the ocean surface that take in large amounts of carbon dioxide. This program looks at how ocean systems regulate themselves and thus help maintain the planet's habitability.G
12:30 pm
Habitable Planet, The "Ecosystems" Scientists from the Smithsonian Center for Tropical Research document the astounding abundance of diversity in tropical rainforests to discover why so many species coexist that are competing for the same resources. In North America, the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction project explores why removing just one species dramatically changed the distribution of plants and animals up and down the food web. D
1:00 pm
Life Is Cool!...Pass It On! LIFE IS COOL!.PASS IT ON! is designed to teach upper elementary students about organs and tissues in the human body, and about how transplants work. Life is Cool also shares important nutrition tips and lifestyle choices to help keep those organs healthy!. D
1:30 pm
Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives "Session 11. Biology of Sex and Gender" Several genes help determine what makes a human embryo develop female or male sexual anatomies. This session examines recent findings which have challenged previous beliefs about the roles of anatomy, environment, and genetics in the determination of gender, and the evolution of sexual determination. D
2:00 pm
Other Holy Land This documentary explores the earliest history and growth of Christianity in Asia Minor, now the country of Turkey. Top scholars of archeology and history guide us through three geographical areas - Cappadocia, Ephesus, and Constantinople (Istanbul) - that played a major role in the transformation of a "cult" called Christianity into a world wide religion. Turkey today is a very modern country, where visitors can still discover secret churches carved out of rock, visit markets and landscapes that seem unchanged over two millennia, gaze on ancient icons, stand amid historic ruins, and walk in the footsteps of St. D
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Churchill "The Lion's Roar" Winston Churchill rises to meet history in 1939 to lead Britain as Prime Minister throughout World War II. Part 2 of 3G
4:00 pm
Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop In American Literature "Workshop 2. Political History" Speeches, protest posters, and cartoons capture the political views of various groups. Pairing the study of literature with close readings of appropriate political artifacts, this session demonstrates how to comprehend the place and time of a text. D
5:00 pm
Hands On Crafts for Kids "Japan" Japan Is an island country located east of Asia, made up of hundreds of smaller islands but four main islands. The country has a rich history with great ties to the past. Many of their cultural traditions have been handed down for generations. D
5:30 pm
Hey Kids, Let's Cook "Tailgate Gourmet" Are you ready for some high-powered foods that will get you around the track to that final lap? We're cooking up some hot recipes at NASCAR today right on the edge of turn 11, the most exciting turn at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. We're taking the show on the road today, literally. We're preparing an exciting tailgate menu of sliders and fixins, spicy corn salad, and fruit kabobs. D
6:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Egg-Ceptional" Mollet Eggs Florentine; Eggs In Ramekins; Eggs En Cocotte; Scrambled Eggs In Bread Cases With Candied Oyster Mushrooms; Fines Herbs Omelet; Mushroom Omelet; Flat Potato Omelet. D
6:30 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Pork Chops and Lentil Salad" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to perfect Red Wine-Braised Pork Chops. Next, host Christopher Kimball reveals the test kitchen's best tips for storing, chopping and handling fresh herbs. Then, science expert Guy Crosby explains the science of braising. D
7:00 pm
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Shrimp Creole, Stuffed Shrimp, and Soft Shell Shrimp with Sweet Chile Sauce. D
7:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Spiced Up" First, Joanne turns fresh plums into a cheese-worthy chutney with ginger and then Joan returns for an encore. They use a combination of Indian spices to prepare Roasted Chicken Thighs with Indian Rub with Pan Roasted Potatoes with Black and Yellow Mustard seeds. Recipes: Plum and Ginger Chutney with Italian Cheeses, Roasted Chicken Thighs with Indian Rub, Pan-Roasted Potatoes with Black and Yellow Mustard Seeds. D
8:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Special New York Episode" In a special episode, the guys visit New York. Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey tours a scale model of the entire city in Queens. Host Kevin O'Connor works with a local electrician to add task lighting to a dark kitchen in Brooklyn. D
8:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Edinburgh" Edinburgh is the historical and cultural heart of Scotland. We'll explore the castle, peek at the new parliament, dabble in the local literature, sip a little Scotch, get wrapped up in a kilt, and then stowaway on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia.G
9:00 pm
Rudy Maxa's World "Montreal & Quebec City" Two of the most unique and appealing cities in the world are just north of New England. You'll find brie, pate, jewel box-patisseries, and "s'il vous plait" right along with bagels, maple syrup, hockey, delis, and bocce ball. A modern skyscraper might be cheek-by-jowl with a 17th century, stone nunnery. D
9:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Egg-Ceptional" Mollet Eggs Florentine; Eggs In Ramekins; Eggs En Cocotte; Scrambled Eggs In Bread Cases With Candied Oyster Mushrooms; Fines Herbs Omelet; Mushroom Omelet; Flat Potato Omelet. D
10:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Pork Chops and Lentil Salad" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to perfect Red Wine-Braised Pork Chops. Next, host Christopher Kimball reveals the test kitchen's best tips for storing, chopping and handling fresh herbs. Then, science expert Guy Crosby explains the science of braising. D
10:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Asparagus Salad with Tangy Relish & Rolled Pork with Figs" Joanne's watchful instruction and encouragement gives her student Yasu the confidence to try more challenging recipes. Recipes: (1) GRILLED ASPARAGUS SALAD WITH LEMON SHALLOT RELISH, (2) PORK TENDERLOIN WITH ONION, ORANGE AND FIG MARMALADE. Student: Yasu Maskay - Public Relations Consultant. D
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Taste This! "Pub Comfort Food" Chef Joe stays in the kitchen preparing some of his favorite comfort foods. One the menu for today Chef Joe prepares a Beef and Pork Chile, Sauteed Pork with onions and Asian pears, as well as Breaded Pork Chops. For this menu Chef Joe uses some great products you'll want to try! Take notes!. D
11:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Edinburgh" Edinburgh is the historical and cultural heart of Scotland. We'll explore the castle, peek at the new parliament, dabble in the local literature, sip a little Scotch, get wrapped up in a kilt, and then stowaway on Her Majesty's yacht Britannia.G


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Online retailer Overstockoutlet. has recalled some of its bicycles and withdrawn them from sale following a notice by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that they contravened product safety standards.
The company has recalled its Freestyle 51cm steel frame bicycles and offered court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC.
Independent testing commissioned by the ACCC revealed the bicycles failed to stop in the required distance and did not have the required safety warnings.
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I can't find the current sales number, but S;G has sold at least 400k copies (all systems combined), which is a feat with adventure-novel type of games.
As for anime sales, S:G BD Vol 1 had 12k sales on the first week. R;N on the other hand, only 1.2k.
I wouldn't say R;N game sales was a flop, but it definitely was riding on the popularity of S;G, and I don't imagine the numbers to stretch much after the initial week. You can see the hype was set, as the anime was planned before the game was released, with airing times confirmed.
Originally, Chiyomaru twitted that S;G was considered a huge success if the game sold more than 50k.
|2013-02-03, 20:01
|Link #943
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
2. so-so to this point.
|2013-02-05, 23:26
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Wow, that was pretty cool. They used the actual night sky and not just random dots for stars (around the 17 min 53 sec mark). The stars were colored properly too. I can make out the constellations. It's unusual when an anime production takes the time to show real stars like that. It's a lot easier to make it all up which is why you just about never see it done.
|2013-02-07, 15:34
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Beyond the Horizon
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About the Bishie from last week (Kimijima), now that we saw him, something in his look bother me. he look too much like Makishima from Psycho-Pass and in anime this is almost always the look of a bad guy.
Well I also dislike bishies so my judgment is clouded.
Spoiler for Episode 16:
|2013-02-08, 00:10
|Link #950
Mystery Otaku
Join Date: Dec 2008
OH DEAR GOD this season is really having stuff happen. DEAR lord she just, he just
Spoiler for :
it all seems to be linked.
|2013-02-08, 02:52
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
I think the main problem is that the story drags and doesn't get to its point until very late in the series. You have this giant build up that lasts for about 3/4 of the game, all because of the way the series been structured.
Take S;G for example. Story really picks up when Rounders showed up (about 1/4 of the story), and stays that way all the way until the end (ok, maybe Feyris and Ruka route/end was more like a side tracking event). The story was clear, and stayed around the main event for most of the time.
However, the story for R;N doesn't pick up until much later. After all this time, what are they trying to do and solve? Solve the problems of the robot so they can take it to the expo? That can't be it, the series is not about that. Solve the mystery of the conspiracy? Haven't seen Kaito do a lot about it, except collecting the reports and dismissing it as crazy talk. Closest thing so far is the robot riot event, but as you can see that months has passed since Frau ending. Mizuha falling does take us back to the conspiracy talk, but you'll see that we still haven't gotten something similar to the "Rounders appearing" event in S;G.
I remember reading comments when the demo first came out - that it was too long and didn't really get anywhere. I remember spending like 2 hours just reading the first chapter, not too impressed, but I already pre-ordered the game already. I don't see myself reading R;N again anytime soon, but I easily can start reading S;G again, even after reading it 3 times already.
|2013-02-08, 04:49
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Black Steel Knight
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Indonesia
Hmm...is bipedal mechanical feet really that strong and can move that freely and balancing itself while carrying the weight of an adult female? IIRC, at some point, the kids were concerned about how to balance a giant bipedal robot, while Mizuka's artificial legs just threw that concern outta the window in this eps . I know it's a little nit-pick. Just like when I was wondering why the cops didn't just shoot the rioting robots to stop them before they can even approach the Diet building and do more damage. Is there any additional VN info regarding these issues? I'm kinda curious .
|2013-02-08, 06:59
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Beyond the Horizon
Age: 28
Those exoskeleton are much stronger than what I first Imagined.
It's almost illogical how much trouble they had with the gunprod when you see something that small proving it can throw someone so easily.
While re-watching a bit of the last 2 episodes I think I put some puzzle piece together in my mind.
Like: Misaki must be brainwashed to some extend. Her personality just changed too much. If she isn't then she is a double agent and that would rise the question of who could she work for.
|2013-02-08, 07:19
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Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Orange Road
Age: 28
I think it was very very VERY stupid for Subaru to run besides such a gigantic unstable robot in the middle of huge windy weather like that...on top of that, he didn't even try to run when the robot start stumbling...
other than that, it was a pretty solid and dramatic episodes.
love the sounds of bones breaking here and there, shit really just got real
|2013-02-08, 09:52
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Awakened One
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Italy
THIS. Also Kai was too slow to react when Mizuka's robotic legs started going berserk. He stood there like an idiot for a whole minute.
Her death felt a bit contrived too. I don't understand why he didn't try again the suplex move that worked the first time. Then he could just "princess carry" her to safety. If the legs don't touch the ground, they can't move, right? And sooner or later the battery would die.
This episode was intense but I hate when the drama comes from the characters' stupidity.
I wish they had shown more of GunPro2's building. A couple of episodes ago they had completed only the legs and now suddenly the robot is ready for activation? Also the rain of monopoles was a bit too convenient, even for an anime.
Mizuka should have told Kai the reason she didn't want him to pursue the Kimijima's reports. He clearly wasn't going to listen to her warnings without an explanation. Sadly she brought her secrets to the tomb.
|2013-02-08, 10:19
|Link #960
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To me, martial arts is really a way of life. Training in the martial arts is a never ending quest for improvement. If you can commit yourself to the time and effort it takes to really learn the martial arts, training can be by far the most wonderful, life changing, activity that you could ever hope to do. If you master the skills required of a true martial arts style, you will in essence have mastered yourself. My life has been transformed by martial arts classes, and I hope that it can do something similar for you.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Confession Tuesday - Blue Skies Edition
Dear Reader,
It is sunny.
Honestly, when you live in the Northwest, that should be all I have to write because we know what comes next. . .nothing.
When it's sunny here, we leave our homes, our jobs, escape outside.
We do not take sunshine for granted.
That is one of the lovely things about Northwest folks, we appreciate good weather.
We spend so much time inside and under grey skies (SO MUCH TIME! ALL FALL AND WINTER), we get a little blue sky and we lose our minds. In a good way.
So I write this to you after a day of being out in the world, under the sun, Vitamin D filled, I wander into the confessional while planning tomorrow's activities outside--
I confess now that summer is coming, I will be here much less.
The blog is a wonderful thing in the winter, but in the summer, it's an unmet chore.
Sometimes when I'm being my best self, I write posts in advance, "schedule" them as they say. But on my worst (best) days, I just disappear into a tent, up a hill on a mountain bike, into the world of orcas on a paddleboard.
I spend two to three seasons eating Vitamin D, so when the sun comes, I run to it. Like a hooked junkie waiting for her fix.
I confess sometimes in the sunshine I can't remember my writer self.
I am anyone but a writer.
Though sometimes I have a line in my head while I garden. Repeated again and again. But I tell myself I am not a writer. But I am. Ultimately. Especially when fall arrives.
I confess as a 40-something person, I much easier on everyone else.
My twenty-something self judged everyone. And if they were different than me, then they must be wrong. My thirty-something self, so underwater, so over-my-head, I judged mothers because if I was right, they must be wrong.
My forty-something self says: get the tattoo. Drink wildly. Overeat and enjoy.
My forty-something self doesn't care if your kids stay up past midnight, even if they are four. Doesn't care how you potty train or don't. If you're attachment or not. If you read to your kids at night or not. Do you love your kids? Good enough.
Are you having a good life? Good enough.
My forty-something self doesn't want perfection just good enough. It's wonderful being happy with less. It is, it is, it is.
I confess I want less for myself these days.
Less work. Less things. Less responsibility. Less care and more time to write, to do whatever I want to do.
I am lowering my standards (a la William Stafford) except in everything.
My To Do list has shrunk. If you are not bleeding or on fire, then it's not my responsibility.
I love simplicity these days.
I love sitting out on the deck with already cooked shrimp, arugula from the garden and a glass of red wine. Good red wine I bought on sale.
And time.
We live our lives as if it's some sort of hectic competition. It's not. It's about loving each other, living, enjoying, and taking in moments.
It's good when we can slow down. Sunshine reminds me of that. I dream I live in Key West even though I am an Northwest girl. And it's okay. All of it.
Step outside and appreciate the blue skies. It's all good.
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This sounds very wise to me. I stress out so much about things that don't matter, and don't appreciate the good things around me enough.ReplyDelete
Stress is the worst thing for our systems. As humans we tend to stress over things that don't matter, but the good news if you realize it, you can change it!ReplyDelete
Good energy to you! Maybe start a nightly gratitude list? Thanks for your comment, J9! See you Sunday! xo
"My To Do list has shrunk. If you are not bleeding or on fire, then it's not my responsibility."ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your trip to the confessional with us. I needed to read it. Every word of it.
Now, get back to that shrimp, arugula, and good red wine!
xo Marty
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(Woah, that dead body is, like, a metaphor. *brain asplodes*)
Did you guys know that Court McGee overdosed on heroin once? Because Court McGee totally overdosed on heroin once.
Those of you who just started following MMA last month should know that Court McGee, the TUF 11 winner and six fight UFC veteran fighting on tonight's 'Condit vs. Kampmann' main card, used to do heroin. Like, a lot of it. And for some reason, whenever he's scheduled to fight, we, the mighty MMA media, feel obligated to remind you of this fact.
I shit you not, every. single. time. McGee fights, some dude holding a clipboard and wearing a headpiece knocks on each of our doors and tells us to run the McGee-heroin story again. We don't know who he is, but he looks like he doesn't have time for our backsass, so we put our heads down and run with a story that has been regurgitated verbatim since at least 2010. McGee's wife was recently quoted as saying that her husband, "Understands how miserable these people are that are stuck in this cycle of addiction." We know the feeling; it's like we've been stuck in a time loop for three years now.
Just so you know, McGee hasn't hadn't a drop of alcohol since 2006, or four years before we first began running with this story. He hasn't applied rubbing alcohol to a cut, he hasn't pumped his own gas, he hasn't even had a scoop of his beloved Rum Raisin. The man is more sober than you could ever dream of being.
He has a couple of kids now, though, kids who will soon wonder whether their father was ever really a professional fighter like he claims or a motivational speaker. Based on the content of 90% of the articles they find via a simple Google search, they will assume the latter.
To summarize: Court McGee used to do a lot of heroin, but isn't doing
nearly as much any anymore. He also fights fellow TUF winner Robert Whittaker on the FOX Sports 1 main card tonight. Oh, you didn't know he was a professional fighter? Well he is, and not only that, he's a professional fighter who once overdosed on heroin!
Oh God…the loop is starting again…QUICK, SOMEONE POWER DOWN THE SOURCE CODE!!


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For a few short hours Saturday, aliens, dragons, cyborgs and one Giant Hairy Sandwich Beast convened, battling for supremacy in a universe created by a handful of kids.
"Oh my gosh, I can tell this game is going to be awesome," said 12-year-old Mechai Meadows as he and his fellow No Name Random Awesomeness team members bent over a table littered with sticky notes, markers, cookie wrappers and slips of paper.
Mechai and 11 other middle and high schoolers were participating in the Oregon Game Project Challenge jam, introducing them to the possibilities of video game design with the help of industry mentors and Deschutes County 4-H, which sponsored the event at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center.
"Not many of these kids are on the track or football team," said Laura Cuthbert, a 4-H after-school program coordinator who leads a Game Project Challenge team in Bend. "But they think about these kind of innovative things all the time, and this gives them a chance to work with other kids to understand the value working together as a team."
During the game jam, kids brainstorm and work out their concepts on paper; it's a day-long introduction to the program. Kids who join an Oregon Game Project Challenge team then learn basic computer programming skills and can ultimately compete in May against teams from across the state, taking their paper concepts and turning them into computer games.
Oregon Game Project Challenge is sponsored by TechStart, a nonprofit with a focus on increasing technology education for grades K-12.
At the Deschutes County Fairgrounds 4-H building on Saturday, the Random Awesomeness team was having trouble corralling all of its ideas.
Thirteen-year-old Katie Slough tried to ride herd.
"OK, guys — what's the point of this game going to be?"
A long pause followed.
"To fight each other until one side loses," said Jason Cuthbert, 13, with a shrug. The dragons, elves, robots and mice populating their game were providing challenges.
"I'm concerned we're making it too complicated," Katie said.
"At least we're going to be here a long time," offered Mechai.
"Not that long," Katie countered with a frown of concentration.
Cuthbert walked from table to table, offering occasional suggestions to help teams progress. Initially, they resisted focusing, instead throwing out ideas: What if the dragon was afraid of the mice? What if the weapons could change their properties? What if you had to collect points to win?
Twelve-year-old George Cutter was a bit overwhelmed. Experienced in LEGO robotics, where kids are given a specific mission to accomplish, George didn't know what to do with all the ideas and possibilities.
"We all have so many ideas, it's so hard to bring it down to one," he said. Eventually, his team voted, choosing the game concept of its youngest member, 11-year-old Jack Sorlie.
Random Awesomeness decided the fantasy creatures wouldn't just be fighting the robots and cyborgs, but the mice too, which would be a common enemy.
"Imagine if during the Cold War the U.S. and Russia had to team up to fight aliens?" Jason Cuthbert asked. "How well would that go over? They have to fight together for a greater cause."
The goal of the program, according to Jason's mother Laura, is to help the kids learn basics of team communication and the translation of abstract ideas into concrete plans. The teams even give short presentations, "elevator pitches," to convince the others why the game is worth playing.
Despite the frustration of combining so many varied ideas, most of the kids seemed to enjoy working together.
"I'd much rather be on a team than work alone, because you get interesting perspectives," Jason said. "With me, when I latch onto an idea, I tend to ignore other possibilities. But when my team challenges, it gives me pause and makes me reconsider."
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Drop boxes can be found in seven bookshops and art supply stores of San Francisco, together with a selection of notebooks collected in previous stops of the myDetour creative relay.
All Moleskine enthusiasts are invited to participate. The collection will close on october 1st. The author of the most amazing notebook will be invited to the next leg of the creative relay in 2010.
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In 2012 NBC, ABC, and CBS casting voted Ryan the best performer in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. Ryan was also voted Boston's Best Young Comic by AOL.com and has opened up for Dana Carvey from Saturday Night Live. Touring at over 100 colleges per year, Ryan's comedy has been featured on NESN, FunnyOrDie.com, and the Bonnaroo Comedy College Tour.
As a dating coach, Ryan has worked with thousands of men and women from around the world both in person and through live shows, teaching the secrets to finding love based on his best selling book, "The Nine Rules of Attraction."
Nicknamed a "Health Champion" because of his obsession with living a healthy life and his love for talking about health issues, Ryan effectively cured himself from the complications of type-1 diabetes by following a specific health regimen. Ryan is also a former professional hockey player and still plays currently in LA.
Ryan's high energy act combines the topics of dating and health to create a show which Northeastern University called "The best live show we have ever seen!"
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Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) actively test and provide feedback on Windows Vista SP1 to help us prepare for its release in the second half of CY07". Microsoft hasn't released details of exactly what changes will be wrought in Vista SP1, which has been assigned the codename 'Fiji' but some OS components which missed the RTM cut-off will almost certainly be rolled into the update. One of the candidates for this better-late-than-never brigade would be the Windows PowerShell, previously Microsoft Shell - a .NET-based command line shell with its own scripting language.


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Toyota City, Japan, Jan 23, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and contact lens manufacturer Menicon Co., Ltd. (Menicon) have jointly developed a livestock manure composting product that will join the "resQ45" series of TMC-Menicon developed manure composting systems. The new product, "New-Tokubetsu-Kyuko" (new special express enzyme), will be manufactured and sold by Toyota Roof Garden Co., Ltd., a TMC subsidiary, starting today, and distributed through the livestock feed sales channels of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho).
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Amelia Earhart was an amazing woman. She planned to go on a trip all the way across the Atlantic Ocean with three people; two navigators, and a stunt man. She would be the first woman flyer. Her first stop was in Hawaii, but when she tried to land she crashed on the runway. She couldn't fly with a broken plane, so she had to get it fixed. But getting it fixed took time, and she lost a navigator and her stuntman, so once she got it fixed, she had one navigator, who was usually drunk. To make matters worse, when she was in the air, she remembered that she left the Morse code key behind, and the navigator didn't know how to either; nor did they know how to use the two way radio.
Amelia Earhart usually got sick from the exhaust of the plane, but that didn't stop her determination to fly over the Atlantic.
Amelia went missing on July 5th 1937. Many people think she ran out of gas. Others think she crashed on to a Japanese island and they captured and killed her. Some even think she was sucked into the Bermuda Triangle. I think she ran out of gas fell into the ocean, but no one can find her down in the dark ocean.
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This article is about Clu from TRON. For Clu from TRON: Legacy, see Clu 2
|Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk.
|Biographical information
|Kevin Flynn
|Compile Date
|Derezzed Date
|Physical description
|Circuitry Color
|Other information
|Hacker program
|Tank Arrow
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|Jeff Bridges
Clu, which stands for Codified Likeness Utility, was a hacker program written by Kevin Flynn and played by Jeff Bridges. Clu looked just like his user, Flynn, but talked in a very different voice than his human counterpart. Not much is really known about Clu, except for the fact that Flynn used Clu a lot for hacking and for fixing Flynn's banking statements and phone bill problems. Even Flynn himself said that Clu was his best program.
He is one of the few characters in the TRON Universe to have yellow circuitry. The reason for this is the design of programs in TRON. Free and usually benevolent programs were blue while those under the control of the MCP were orange/red. Clu 1 (like Clu 2) was created outside of the system by the coding and technology of Kevin Flynn and therefore not a free program in the Game Grid or under the MCP, and is differentiated in the movie by the color yellow.
They used this as the basis of Clu 2 as a specialized program design by Flynn, for these reasons as well they both have his appearance as according to TRON philosophy; all programs contain the spirit of the user, and this is demonstrated by their appearance.
On the early evening of September 22, 1981, arcade owner Kevin Flynn gave Clu commands to hack the ENCOM computer system. Clu began searching—along with Bit—in his modified Tank for code that would prove that an ENCOM programmer named Ed Dillinger stole Flynn's video games and presented them to the ENCOM executives as his own. The games soon became fantastic sellers and Dillinger was promoted to Executive V.P.; Flynn had been fired by Dillinger shortly after.
While Clu was searching for the evidence, the system's security found him and began hot pursuit via Recognizers. Clu tried to destroy them with his tank projectiles, but there were too many of them. As Clu attempted to get away, he was ambushed by a Recognizer. Clu fired at it and successfully destroyed it, but its remains rained down on Clu's tank. The vehicle went out of control as the blast radius lifted the tank to its side and crashed into one of the many walls in the maze of the memory sector.
Clu quickly escaped the tank and tried to run away, but the recognizer caught him with its legs and "detached" him from the system. Flynn had failed again in trying to get the evidence he needed.
A little while later, Clu was sent to the heart of ENCOM system, where the Master Control Program was located. The MCP briefly interrogated him:
- Guard: "Got a pirate program here... says his name's Clu."
- MCP: "What did he pull?"
- Guard: "He came into the system with a stolen password, and we caught him trying to raid a high-clearance memory."
- Clu: "No! I must've gotten in there by mistake, I was-!"
- MCP: "Who programmed you?"
- Clu: "I was simply-!"
Clu was thrown through the air and landed on a device that was slowly derezzing him.
- MCP: "You're in trouble, program. Make it easy on yourself. Who's your user?"
- Clu: "Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk."
- MCP: "Suit yourself. Get me Dillinger!"
Clu screamed as the device on the wall derezzed him, with the MCP absorbing all of his functions so he could enhance and expand his own. Right after Clu was derezzed, the MCP found out that Clu's user was Kevin Flynn.
Clu was loyal to Kevin Flynn. He refused to give the name of his user to the MCP, despite the fact that he was in a near-death situation. As a result, he was deleted by the MCP.
Clu's place would later be taken by his user himself Kevin Flynn, who was later digitized into the Game Grid and would finish what Clu had started.
Clu 2
Clu 2 is a completely new version of Clu. Because the original Clu was derezzed by the MCP in 1982, Flynn rewrote the program from scratch. The only relationship between Clu 1 and Clu 2 is that they have the same name and user: Flynn. The distinction between them is that Clu was a hacker tool designed to find the proof that Dillinger stole Flynn's intellectual property while Clu 2 was created to perfect the TRON system, but ultimately went rogue after believing Flynn had betrayed it.
- Clu is a nod to the CLU programming language, developed by Barbara Liskov and her students at MIT between 1974 and 1975. CLU was a key step in the direction of object-oriented programming, and influenced certain elements of languages used today, such as C++, Java, Python and Ruby.
- The TV Tropes website notes that a "stealth pun" was used with Clu in TRON: when his Light Tank crashes into a maze wall, his user Flynn also reacts realizing that his program had "crashed".


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Although it was 28-years between the original and the recently released Tron: Legacy, the next Tron movie should be out after a much shorter delay. Assuming there is one at all.
Without going into heavy spoilers, Tron: Legacy left multiple directions for the franchise to continue, with little moments, like a blink-and-you'll-miss him cameo by Cillian Murphy as the son of one of the original movie's antagonist, Ed Dillnger (played by David Warner). The end of the movie also leaves enough directions for the franchise to easily continue, and there is no doubt that Disney and the filmmakers would love to see Tron continue as a blockbuster franchise.
But sources have told the website What Is Playing that Disney execs are not thrilled with the lower than expected opening weekend results, which they had predicted would at least top $50 million. Restless executives do not greenlight $200 million sequels.
Tron: Legacy cost around $170 million to make, and Disney is said to have spent close to $120 million on the promotion alone. This weekend the filmed opened well, with $43.6 million and $66 million global, but it was nowhere near the blockbuster opening that studios typically like to see when the budget is over the $150 million mark. So the true test with Tron: Legacy will be to see if it has staying power and legs to carry it through the holiday season.
Tron: Legacy will need to convince audiences to go see the movie more than once, and to bring new friends with them—not an easy task with the majority of the reviews being decidedly so-so (including our own review). At its current pace, analysts are suggesting that Tron: Legacy will manage to recoup its budget with around $50 million gross. While that might sound like a solid return, and for most films it would be, but Disney had hoped that Tron: Legacy would be a giant blockbuster, and could potentially have been the top grossing film of the year.
So for now a Tron sequel will be dependent on what happens next. If the film does manage to turn out big numbers over the next few weeks, things will look good for a sequel. If not, then we will have to wait and see how the movies DVD and blu-ray sales are before a decision is made.
But the movie is still on track to make money, and so the people behind Tron have begun to work under the assumption that a sequel will be greenlit. And if it is, here is what we might see in a third Tron film.
The What is Playing source also said that there are at least five or six different potential storylines floating around, and the writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz are currently gearing up to begin scripting the sequel if Disney decides to go ahead with the another Tron. So everything could change, but here are a few theories.
Tron: Legacy ended in such a way that suggests Jeff Bridges might not return to the franchise. There is every chance that he still might appear in either a starring role, or perhaps just a cameo, but with Bridges' demand in Hollywood and the character's fate, it seems unlikely. So the franchise would then shift onto the shoulders of Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde as the primary stars. If that is the case, the producers would likely attempt to make a connection to the original movie through the remaining cast members.
That could mean a bigger part for Alan Bradley/Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), who was featured in a cameo in Tron: Legacy. The fate of Tron is debatable, but no matter what, it is a sci-fi film, so characters could always find a way to return. Another character that might also return, is Laura/Yori (played by Cindy Morgan). Morgan appeared in a brief promotional clip that showed Alan giving a speech at Encom (about a second of that clip can be seen in the movie, although Morgan is not seen), and the character of Yori might also return. If Laura does return, it appears that she would be Alan's wife, which would make her something of a surrogate mother to Sam.
As mentioned, Cillian Murphy appeared in a cameo as a programmer working for Encom, that seemed to have a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the board. The character's father was the creator of the Master Control Program, and was represented in the digital world as the enemy leader Sark, so the son may follow in the father's footsteps and become an enemy to Sam. According to the source that spoke to What is Playing, Murphy is already on board for the next film (assuming it happens), and he will be playing two characters.
The producers and writers claimed that Tron: Legacy was "Flynn's story", and that certain characters were not used so they could be "saved for a later film where they'd potentially have something to do." So it sounds possible that the next film could feature Morgan and Boxleitner, along with Murphy. With Murphy returning as Dillinger's son, that could also open the door for a return of David Warner as the elder Dillinger, although that is just guess work.
So for now everything about Tron 3 is wait and see, and the next few weeks will be important. If the film does well, expect a sequel to be greenlit. If not, it will come down to the DVD and blu-ray sales.
[Update: Disney execs appear to be very close to green lighting a third Tron film! So please sound off below on your guesses on what the next installment may contain.]


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The Versus coverage team for Stage 5 of the Tour de France set out to describe the effects of the headwinds on lead riders in the peloton today. Explains tipster Jim:
The graphic is generic but can be taken to show how a team will line up to protect the yellow jersey when forced by the rest of the peloton to lead from the front and absorb the brunt of the headwinds
However generic it may have been, in doing so, they created a long blue dong. À votre santé!
Live Coverage of Tour de France - Stage 5 [Cycling News]