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This soup is very tasty. I would use about 1/2 cup less liquid the next time though. I used low fat buttermilk in place of the 1% milk and sautéed 8oz. large shrimp cut in halves of which I placed equal portions in each bowl before adding the soup and topping with pepitas. I served this with warmed pita bread and hummus.
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Curry powder, cumin, and coriander give this creamy squash soup a warm exotic flavor that's characteristic of Moroccan dishes.
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- Fat: 2.4g
- Saturated fat: 1.3g
- Protein: 4.7g
- Carbohydrate: 21.3g
- Cholesterol: 7mg
- Iron: 1.3mg
- Sodium: 430mg
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- Fiber: 3.3g
- Calcium: 131mg
- 1 (2-pound) butternut squash
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper
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- 1/2 cup 1% low-fat milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- . While squash bakes, place curry powder and next 3 ingredients in a small nonstick skillet over medium heat; toast 1 minute or until fragrant. Set aside.
- . Peel cooked squash, and place in a food processor or blender. Remove and discard skins from garlic; add garlic to food processor. Add 1 1/2 cups chicken broth, and process until smooth.
- . Transfer squash mixture to a large saucepan. Stir in remaining 1 cup broth, milk, salt, and toasted spices. Cook over low heat 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring frequently.
- . Ladle soup into bowls. Top with sour cream and, if desired, cilantro.
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United 93
Film review of the 9/11 thriller
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Written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Khalid Abdalla, Lewis Alsamari, David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson, Gregg Henry, Cheyenne Jackson, Maj. James Fox, Ben Sliney.
Paul Greengrass has accomplished something quite extraordinary with United 93; as I watched the film, my heart was beating, my pulse was rising, and I thought to myself, 'I didn´t know a movie could stir so much emotion´. Not emotion of gung-ho bravado or jingoistic 'let´s go America, beat those terrorists´ ideals, but of pure, unadulterated dread, terror, and horror, of watching planes crash into the World Trade Center and - regardless of your personal beliefs - realizing now the true gravity of that day, reliving it with a new perspective, your stomach turning, your temperature rising. This is the most terrifying movie I have ever seen.
The story needs no description. The film starts off with the mundane: passengers wait for their plane in an airport lounge, FAA officials gather for a meeting, air traffic controllers track flights, military personnel prepare for an exercise. We come into these scenes with a sense of dread; we know what is going to happen. Soon, a plane goes missing. A possible hijacking. The dread starts to build. An 'explosion´ at the WTC - or a 'small plane´ has flown into it. Confusion, horror. We watch the second plane fly into the WTC. There are still planes missing.
The bulk of the film is comprised of scenes of the air traffic controllers, military officials, technicians, and others (many of which are played by the actual people involved) reacting with confusion to the events that are unfolding. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times writes: "When the controllers in the LaGuardia tower see the second airplane crash into the World Trade Center, they recoil with shock and horror, and that moment in the film seems as real as it seemed to me on Sept. 11, 2001." To me, that moment (and much of the rest of the film) seemed even more real than it did on 9/11/01; Greengrass´ documentary style and five years of retrospection add a sense of gravity to witnessing the events that the news reports could never convey. The characters´ sense of confusion reminds me of my own when first learning of the attacks. Watching them meticulously reenacted five years later lends a whole new perspective.
Greengrass wisely stays away from name actors or recognizable faces. Ben Sliney, who arguably has the largest role in the film, was (I thought) incredibly convincing as the head of the FAA; I can´t say I was too surprised to learn that he actually was the FAA Director of Operations on 9/11. The rest of the cast is just as convincing; the only other actors I can be sure didn´t play themselves are the ones portraying people who were killed. But on board United 93 we are given no backstory or insight into the lives of its passengers - we know as little about them as we would if we were sitting next to them on the plane. For all intents and purposes I accepted it as reality - not as an exact document of what happened, as a note at the end of the film reminds us that much of the story aboard the plane had to be extrapolated - but as the reality of the moment; I felt as if I were there. The only thing that didn´t ring true was the borderline-cliché European-accented character who wants to negotiate with the hijackers.
The third act of the film follows the flight of United 93 after the plane is hijacked by terrorists, one of which carrying an apparent bomb. The passengers slowly learn of the attacks on the WTC and the pentagon - as do the terrorists; I´ll never forget the look of joy on the face of Ziad Jarrah (played by Khalid Abdalla) when he learns of the attacks from air traffic control - "The brothers have reached their targets!" he exclaims with a cheerful humanity that is absent throughout the rest of the film. The passengers start to devise a plan; the terrorists suspect an uprising. Throughout all of this the sense of dread and urgency becomes almost unbearable - we know where this is going and are given no hope, nothing to do but remain witnesses. Whether or not what unfolds is accurate is irrelevant; this is what we are experiencing now, and this is what we must endure. It´s difficult to watch, but impossible to look away.
Greengrass uses a handheld camera and an abundance of close-ups to create an ultra-documentary style that almost seems more real than most documentaries. He used the same technique with success in his breakthrough film, 'Bloody Sunday´, as well as the Hollywood thriller 'The Bourne Supremacy´; here he uses it to recreate the events of one of the most significant days in all of our lives.
I recommend the film without reservation, even though I know some will not be able to sit through it. Few will want to relive the events of 9/11, and that´s exactly what this film is. But the experience is also a window into ourselves, and a companion to our memories - a horrific reenactment of the event that has in one way or another affected our lives. Yes, it´s the most terrifying movie I´ve seen. It´s also one of the best.
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Britain's defence industry held its annual public relations exercise on Tuesday at London's swanky Atrium Restaurant in Westminster.
The "charm" offensive –- held under the auspices of trade body the Defence Industries Council (DIC) –- began with executives from BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and QinetiQ, among others, telling assorted media that the defence industry needs more investment (not less) even during a recession.
The head of Rolls-Royce's defence and aerospace business went so far as to say that Britain's armaments sector could "lead us out of recession", thanks to the jobs it creates and the exports it fuels.
The industry may well employ 300,000 people in Britain and generate an annual turnover of £35 billion but to say it needs more investments -- it gets around £38 billion a year from the government -- at a time when unemployment is at its highest level for 13 years smacks of greed.
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LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) – The Treasury is the UK government's finance ministry. There are many other government departments, but in the years since 1997, all have been turned into subsidiaries of the Treasury, the power base of Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he was chancellor.
His ambition was to micro-manage in every one of them. Today we saw the true cost of this disastrous experiment. All major countries have serious problems with their government deficits, but the most entrenched of Britain's are home-made.
Britain's public finances, which had been deteriorating for years, are wrecked. Even on his successor's rose-tinted projections, they will not return to a balanced Budget for at least the next nine years.
Given that no Treasury projection for more than three or four years out bears any resemblance to reality, and given the there will have been at least two elections between now and then, this is a post-dated cheque drawn on the Bank of Fantasy.
Alistair Darling has learned at the feet of the master of obfuscation, double counting and footling detail. So we heard all about the green recovery, from a government that sees no contradiction between raising the cost of fuel and granting tax concessions to North Sea explorers. There may be more oil there, but for the state, this is now a dry well.
The Chancellor did not dare say what he and his advisers really think about the green-tinted scheme wished on them by Peter Mandelson, the Trade Secretary, to scrap your old banger for 2,000 pounds towards a new one.
At least they managed to limit the damage to a single year. If your car is not 10 years old by next March, it will be junked in the ordinary way.
Junk is what the last Treasury forecast has now become. It's barely five months since Darling's last emergency package. It looked like a work of fiction then, and now there's no doubt. In his Budget a year ago, he was expecting to borrow 43 billion pounds in 2008/09, crowing that the previous peak was much higher, at 7.8 percent of gross national product. The sum would come down after that.
By November, there was no crowing. The projected borrowing requirement was 78 billion pounds, and was going up, to 118 billion in the following year, not down. Even those horrible figures have now been left far behind. Last year he needed 90 billion pounds, and in 2009/10, he says, it will be 175 billion pounds, or 12.4 percent of GNP.
The forecast is then for a fall, although not by much. In 2010/11 he – or his successor – will still be 173 billion pounds short of balancing the books.
So in three years the government will have borrowed 5,600 pounds for every man, woman and child in the country. That's over 20,000 pounds for what the prime minister routinely calls the average hard-working family.
In any business, from a corner shop to a multi-national, this arithmetic would be immediately fatal to those who had put it forward. Their credit would be ruined, and the business's credit could not be restored while they were still in charge.
Britain's credit is ultimately expressed in the external value of sterling, as Brown himself has said. The pound has already been devalued informally by a greater amount than the two previous formal devaluations in 1967 and 1992.
The short-term effects have been mostly benign, but the possibility of a flight from the currency is always there. This Budget makes it a little more likely.
In this context, everything else is detail. The biggest detail is the attack on what Darling describes as "those who gained the most". This is a sop to his fractious party in parliament.
From next April anyone earning over 150,000 pounds a year will be paying 51.5 percent on every extra pound earned, the highest rate in Britain for 21 years. They will also lose their tax-free allowances and half the tax relief on their pension contributions.
The small print betrays that the government is relying on these measures to bring in 7 billion a year, sometime in the middle distance. This looks as unconvincing a forecast as any in Darling's portfolio. Well-paid labour is highly mobile nowadays, and will go where the prospects are high and the taxes low.
Nothing else in the 250 pages of the Budget Report is worth a row of green beans. Even the Treasury can't put a price on the measure to reduce VAT on children's car seat bases.
Despite its name, "enhanced capital allowances" will actually raise more money — 10 million pounds, or enough to run the government machine for about eight minutes.
Thrashing around for something cheerful to say, Darling kept telling us how much worse off other people were. To assert that "we and other countries have been battling against a succession of shocks which have hit the world economy" suggests that our luckless planet had crossed orbits with a large economic meteorite.
The former chancellor, now prime minister, assumed the sun would shine forever, and that he had somehow managed to suspend the usual rules of economics — or as he himself put it, "no more boom and bust." In recent years, he produced growth by borrowing, pouring the money into the public services for ever-decreasing returns.
Each time he borrowed more than he had forecast. Now the bill has arrived, and it's plain that neither he nor his successor has the slightest idea of what to do. Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities summed it up within minutes: "a Budget of tinkering with the public sector financial sector meltdown, with no substance or obvious strategy whatsoever."
One day the Treasury will remember how to mind its own business, under a chancellor who grasps that until the public finances are put in order, nothing else will go right. The longer the wait, the worse will be the reckoning.
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Trillion-dollar deficits are not the answer
– Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. —
On Tuesday, President Obama suggested that his new proposed spending, if adopted by Congress, would be an investment that will pay for itself.


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We would like to stop being prompted for the cms login/password for the home page - does someone know how to do this? silverstripe version 2.0.1 php5 ubuntu 7 mysql
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18/06/07 We have just resolved this problem - we took out the Http://test out of the name and changed to http://two.websitename.co.nz and this worked for some reason it did not like the test.* and would ask for a password - now this is resolved
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When you experience a sudden fright, it triggers your body's fight-or-flight response (pardon the rhyme). This is an instinctive, immediate reaction to danger that prepares your body to help defend itself by fighting or escaping. Your body pumps adrenaline to your muscles, boosting them to respond powerfully, and your breathing and heart rates increase to pump more blood throughout your body.
The brain's hypothalamus initiates the body's fight-or-flight response by simultaneously activating both the sympathetic nervous system (which triggers the nerves) and the adrenal-cortical system (which dumps hormones into the bloodstream). The action of the sympathetic nervous system causes the body to become tense and very alert. Meanwhile, the hypothalamus alerts the pituitary gland to activate the adrenal-cortical system, which releases about 30 different hormones to prepare the body to handle the threat.
The hormones released into the body during a fear response cause the following physical reactions:
- Increase in heart rate and blood pressure
- Dilated pupils
- Constriction of veins in the skin, which causes the chilly sensation often associated with fear
- Increased blood glucose
- Tensing of muscles and goose bumps
- Relaxation of smooth muscles
- Shutting down of nonessential systems such as digestion and the immune system
- Difficulty concentrating on small tasks
Once the threat diminishes, the body releases the hormone cortisol to calm itself back down to normal. The entire fight-or-flight cycle is part of a defense mechanism that has developed over thousands of years. Without it, one of your direct ancestors may not have been able to defend themselves or escape from predators or enemies.
While it can save your life, there is a downside to the fight-or-flight mechanism. Sufferers of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which was formerly known as shell shock, will often have elevated levels of the hormones associated with fight or flight, they may experience some of the symptoms when the situation does not warrant it, or their bodies may react as though the threat is real when they are simply reminded of a traumatic event [source: WebMD]. PTSD can be caused from a single traumatic event, or it may be caused by prolonged periods of elevated fight-or-flight hormones -- the body loses its ability to shut the process off when it's not needed. That is why PTSD is so common among soldiers. The Pentagon estimates that one in six soldiers returning home from war suffer PTSD [source: CNN]. Researchers are looking into ways of helping them bring the disorder back under control, and the solution may exist in learning to regulate the sympathetic nervous system [source: Wired]
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Whether it's the aftermath of a stroke, surgery, or a bad accident, retraining the muscles to move again is a long and frustrating process.
But now, new therapies are helping three women jumpstart their brains and their lives.
Five years ago, surgeons removed a tumor from Linda Beougher's brain.
She was left with severe nerve damage and lost part of herself.
"You want to smile, but your face doesn't always do what you want to do," Linda explains.
Therapists are using patterned electrical neuromuscular stimulation -- or PENS -- on Linda's neck. The quick pulses remind her facial muscles how to work.
"Once you kind of kick into it, and say, 'Okay, remember, this is the way we need to work,' then it will start doing it more and more and more," explains Jodi S. Barth, PT, a physical therapist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Rockville, Maryland.
"One day soon, I'll see my smile again," Linda says confidently.
The same technology is also helping 18-year-old Margo Serarols learn how to walk again.
"Everything about me just kind of sort of changed," she admits.
Margo had a stroke during her sleep. She spent weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital.
With the pads on her legs, the electrical currents simulate the way her leg muscles typically interact with each other.
"I see myself walking more normally," she reveals.
Normal is something Lousea Foster strives for in every session. A stroke paralyzed her right side.
Now she is using a robotic brace to get her arm function back.
"The robot that's embedded in that brace helps the patient move the arm," explains Stephen Page, PhD, an associate professor of rehabilitation at the University of Cincinnati.
Progress is slow, but these women see potential.
They are hoping that a combination of technology and determination will get them moving again.
The PENS therapies are used to help people with muscle tears, osteoarthritis, back and joint pain, neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, and pinched nerves.
Facial palsy, or Bell's palsy, is a paralysis of the facial nerve, resulting in the inability to control facial muscles.
Several conditions can cause facial paralysis, including brain tumors, stroke and even Lyme disease. Doctors believe an inflammatory condition leads to swelling of the facial nerve. The nerve travels through the skull in a narrow bone canal beneath the ear. Nerve swelling and compression in the bone canal can lead to nerve inhibition, damage or death.
One of the pitfalls of having facial paralysis is losing the ability to control your face and sleep normally at night with both of your eyes closed. Facial palsy patients often have abnormal looking features, and sometimes, they can't smile at all. That can be damaging to a patient's self-image.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are diagnosed with facial palsy each year.
The Patterned Electrical Neuromuscular Stimulation (PENS) device is helping patients with facial paralysis, muscle tears, osteoarthritis, back and joint pain, neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome and pinched nerves.
The PENS device is used in combination with other therapies to help patients regain their normal function. The device is placed on the back of the neck or anywhere where an abnormal muscle has electrical activity running through it. In an abnormal muscle, the balance is disturbed.
The PENS device helps the muscle regain that balance. A therapist hooks up wires from the PENS device box directly to the facial muscles or the muscles in the body requiring electrical stimulation.
"For a person who has facial palsy, the muscle balance is returned. Facial palsy wasn't something that we thought about using the device with at first, but since we've been using it, some of our patients have been very pleased with their progress," Jodi Barth, a physical therapist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital's Olney and Montrose Outpatient Centers, told Ivanhoe.
The device is now playing a role in therapy sessions for many different conditions. PENS replicates the normal nerve and muscle firing order that a person had before being injured or diseased. It reminds the muscles and nerves how they're supposed to work together, while managing pain and strengthening muscles.
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He pulled back and licked the wound closed even as her blood saturated his body. He felt magical, he felt like a God. The sex had been fast, too fast, but satisfying, but the blood was beyond words.
He rolled her to her back and pulled out, removing the mess from their bodies as her eyes looked at him, bright but dimming.
"Ilona, you must take some of my blood, or you will die. This will not make you vampire, I swear that."
She nodded, unable to speak. He ripped open the artery on his arm and pressed it to her mouth. It pumped in of its own volition then she sucked. The sensation of it was her hands and mouth everywhere, stroking his cock to rapid hardness. With a cry he reached the pinnacle once more, and his dizzied mind could only revel in the sensation, spilling his seed across her thighs.
He yanked it away quickly and licked the wound closed. As a vampire his artery could remain open longer than a humans, but she had still taken a large amount of blood. As he watched the magic of vampire took over, making her hair softer and shinier, her eyes tawnier, her body more lush and glowing. With great satisfaction he noted she smelled like him, he had left a mark in her deeper than any human could. Impossibly his cock hardened again.
She looked at him and laughed. "The colors are amazing."
He was breathless as she pushed him to his back and took his cock into her hands. With one firm grip she began to stroke him slowly, her other strong hand cupped his balls gently and pulled slightly away from his body as the other hand stroked down. The sensation made his toes curl.
"Yessss," he hissed out between clenched teeth and she laughed. He heard her mind then, a steady stream of her hunger for his body, her pleasure from the bite, how different he was from the local farm boys.
Durand tried to block it out but her very nature as a Binder and his blood inside her made the connection maddeningly strong.
He didn't want her thinking of local farm boys, and so he pushed back and slid down to her sex. He'd taken his fluids from her but she still smelled of him. The scent, combined with her own juices, whirled into his mind.
He didn't want to lick her cunt, he wanted to devour her. He placed his mouth over as much as he could and sucked sharply, drawing a jerk in her hips as she felt him with vampire senses. A strangled moan rose as he began to lick her sex slowly, reveling in the texture against his tongue. Durand reached up to cup her breasts, forcing her legs onto his shoulders, and pressed his face deeper. With a smile, he thought there was one great advantage to not having to breathe.
He licked until she was on the edge, then he suckled her clitoris until she writhed, and then he began to fuck her with his tongue. Holding back on his magic he made her come half a dozen times until his ego was satisfied, then he climbed up to share her taste with Ilona.
She kissed him like a wild animal, clinging to him, fevered and hungry. When he slid inside she was dripping wet and more than ready for him. He held there for a moment, enjoying the feeling, the pure sensation of her snug wet sex around his cock, her fevered skin against his, the plushness of her breasts against his chest.
Her eyes were closed, her head tilted back in a very feminine look of surrender, and he surged into her rapidly. Again and again and again he speared her, drawing out her moans, and he had to restrain himself from biting her.
They found the peak together and tumbled over, her mind clear to him. Even as she was coming down from the pleasure she was wondering if being Turned would be so bad, if vampires could marry.
He rolled to the side. "You must forget me, I cannot Turn you, it is too dangerous."
She turned towards him and snuggled onto his shoulder. "I would make a good vampire."
He thought of her promiscuous nature and somewhat agreed, but as a Binder she needed a strength he did not sense. He opened his eyes and caught her gaze. "Leave here and forget me."
She laughed and he could only frown. His powers always worked, they even worked on her own father. "I live here, if anyone must leave it is you."
He stood, unnerved, and dressed with magic making her pout. "Your life depends on forgetting me. Should you ever meet another like me do not tell them you see colors around people. You must carry that to your grave or you will be tortured and live a short life in anguish. Forget me now." With that, he teleported from the barn.
Assembled in the dark, damp hallway were four vampiric Binders in fine clothes, three werewolves with weary, glowing eyes, and two armed regular vampires aside from Malaya and Durand.
"Glad you could join us, Durand," Malaya purred. "Here is the plan; the Binders join portals, remove Layla's soul, then the wolves will tear her apart and drag her body outside. Binders, release Layla's soul to possess Durand while you discover how to contain her power. Durand, you must let her share your body but fight for control until a Binder can remove her, is that understood?"
He almost barked with laughter. "Yes, sure."
Malaya nodded and signaled. The binders powered up, calling small portals that crashed together with blue sparks as the wolves knocked the wall open.
Inside a beautiful woman with her own portal cackled.
It happened so fast Durand could barely track it, even with his unnatural speed and sight.
The disheveled woman in the simple, stained gown thrust her portal forward but the large once combined of four from the other vampire Binders sucked in her portal. The woman's body fell and the wolves descended, turning to true beasts in the fall. Immediately they were ripping her like a straw doll, spitting out chunks of flesh and bloody bone.
Then something slammed into him and he fell to the ground, darkness clouding.
He came to in a limbo of no color but a frost of all colors mixed together and muted. The laugh was familiar, teasing, and all around him.
Her laugh drew closer. He felt naked; there was no sword here, no way to protect himself.
She materialized in front of him, just as he remembered her. "My sweet little Templar...the centuries have been kind to you."
"Not you. What is this madness? What is going on?"
"I heard the story you were told. It's not true, my knight. I came upon Countess Bathory after they discovered her crimes."
"A village girl said..."
"She said there was a vampire with the Countess. Yes, there was, and it was Malaya. She did not make Bathory commit her crimes, but she knew it would draw me. She had heard I learned the secret to possessing another's body., and she knew I sought a powerful, untouched Binder."
"Why would you say such things? What does Malaya have to gain from killing you?"
Layla laughed then, his dark eyed gypsy demon. "You fool. They want my secret, the king does. I planted the idea that possessing Bathory was an accident done before she Turned, that to possess a vampire I needed one of my line. I could have anyone I wanted!"
"Why me?"
"They want you to learn my secret and tell them, you fool! The king knows how to steal souls and magic, but only I know how to steal bodies!"
"And so you're going to just tell me?" He asked this filmy apparition.
She laughed deeply. "I have already planted the seed of knowledge in your mind. No, Durand, I am going to take your body. They plan to have the Binders separate our souls, but I am going to merge them so they are one in the same. Take me," she peeled off her costume revealing her slim, lush body.
"No. No, Layla, this is not the way. You made me and abandoned me to fate. I have a prophecy to fulfill, and I will do it alone, no other soul but mine in place."
"I know about your prophecy, and you cannot complete it without me."
He reached out to grab her but she turned to mist and shifted. "Nothing is real, we are inside your mind. Only what you believe is real here."
"Why all this?"
"Why what?" she returned with that laugh.
"Let's start with why did you leave me? You made me and ran."
"I had to. I come from a people now dead, there is no name even for them. Like those in my family I too could see the future...but the more I looked the more the madness came. I saw you, saw your path, and I had to leave."
"And what is my path?"
"You will be great someday, and you must indeed meet a very important woman to achieve this fate. But it shall only be your body, Durand, it will be my soul that achieves glory!"
He lunged for her but again she was mist, echoing laughter.
"You had to come, this is all part of the plan. That girl, Ilona Antal, you tasted...her blood, it is the blood in her veins that you will someday taste again. That girl will be the key. She will also be the most powerful Binder ever known, and you will need me to handle her!"
Now she lunged for him and impossibly her strength was superior. He found himself on his back in the mist, struggling against his maker. Ropes appeared and bound him, burning like silver, and he cried out.
"Now, we must become one again, Durand. Kiss me, kiss me and grant me dominion over your body."
"No," he struggled, jerking his head aside. "No! You took my life, you took my sanity, you've had my body, but I won't let you have my soul!"
She laughed. "You need me along for the ride. In four hundred years you will meet her and she will set off a chain of events. You will need me then and if you are without me, you shall regret it! the secret I have planted in your blood alone cannot help you!"
"What are you saying?" He struggled.
Suddenly the mist began to turn blue and shine. Layla looked up and her dark eyes widened.
"No! They come. Help me Durand, I cannot die!"
He struggled against the ropes which were loosening, even as she clutched at him. "Why in heaven's name would I want to help you possess my body?"
"You will need me, when the time comes you will need me!"
"Why on earth would I need you?"
"Because I learned the secret, the secret that killed all the ancients."
He ripped the ropes off and she slipped against the sucking blue wind clearing the mist. She gripped his arms now and he held her for a moment, searching for the truth behind her panic. "The king killed them; I watched it happen."
"It's why he killed them. Once you learn the secret to possessing a body you learn the secret to the true Turn. The king wants me dead because I learned what they knew."
The wind was getting louder, approaching a roar and he had to shout to be heard. "What is it!?!"
"I know how to Turn a vampire back to human!"
In shock he let go and she screamed, her body raised now, legs behind her as the great blue wind pulled. She clutched at the sleeves of his fancy coat, scrambling to climb higher.
"It's impossible!"
"No!" she shook her head. "Think of it! The Binders would leave! A human Binder is more powerful than a vampiric Binder! They would leave in droves!"
Now they both had to scream over the thunderous vacuum. "Immortality is more valuable, the king would not fear losing them!"
"How easily the king could be killed if he was human. Think of it, Durand; you are older than him but not as a powerful. Can you do it? When you meet the girl that is your fate. Kill the king. Can you do it?"
He stared into the twisted gaze of his maker. Perhaps she did see the future. She certainly was mad.
He ripped her hands from him and cast her into the light. She disappeared into it, her body shrinking to a mere point and then a blinding white light took him.
Durand came to with everyone staring at him, the wolves absent, leaving a trail of gore.
"Are you all right?" Malaya asked. "We have a sheep standing by-"
"No!" He stood. "I am fine, it was just hard fighting one so...old. What took you so long?"
Malaya exchanged glances with the others. "It was merely a second. What happened?"
"She was raving mad, talking endlessly about the power she felt possessing a Binder. She kept trying to kiss me, then the blue light came and sucked her away."
Malaya looked at him, sniffing slightly. "Your blood seems different."
He teleported as quickly as possible, the only place that came to mind at first was the barn. It was almost dawn and he appeared where he'd last been, in the hay. No Ilona.
Shaking, he took a deep breath. If Layla was not completely mad there was a secret to the Turn that could be reversed. The first step was learning to possess a body, and the secret of this was planted in his blood.
Ilona's blood! That's what Layla had meant!
Without thinking he ran to the house and knocked. He could not enter without permission so when the door swung open he could nothing. It was empty of goods, only furniture remained. No fire, no smell of recently cooked food, no sounds of snoring from the bedroom.
He called her name over and over, loud enough to wake the dead, and nothing came. Instead there came the sound of a horse down the narrow private lane to the house and he turned, eyes darting to the horizon.
It was a small old man on a cart pulled by a goat. "I heard you calling for Ilona from the road, you must be one her young men," he said in friendly Hungarian.
"I'm sorry to say but they left, driven out. Ilona and her father were bitten you see, vampire. The villagers, an ignorant bunch, drove them out last night. They're long gone."
He caught on the wind the scent of werewolves approaching. Durand made no response, ran back into the barn, and thought of the longest distance he could teleport and imagined his hotel room in London.
He popped in and drew the curtains against the morning light, crying out as it singed him.
He had four hundred years to figure out what it meant to possess a body, Turn a vampire back to human, and divine how to use that against the king. All this had to do with a golden haired woman he now assumed would be of the Antal line. Considering Binding passed from mother to daughter, only very rarely from mother to son, in three generations the Antal tie would disappear. In four hundred years she'd be a needle in a haystack.
Of course as Hagos had said, fate was fate. Perhaps he could relax and let it all happen.
He fell asleep and slid into a familiar dream of the golden haired woman who waited for him. Now she smiled at him and raised a portal, and Durand felt his heart lurch. Somehow the fate of all vampires hinged on this dream woman.
Life, or whatever it was he lived, was certainly interesting, Durand thought as the dream began to take an erotic turn. It was always the possibilities that excited him most.
Author's Note:
This is the 3rd installment of Durand's Story, one of the prequels for a planned novel series.
To read in order:
Durand's Story 1-3
The Forever Ghosts 1-3
Swimming the Dusty River 1-3
The first novel "The Longest Midnight" will be released October 2011 on Amazon Kindle. The short stories will be released as 1 novella with more to them as well in that venue. Look for the link in my profile when they comes out!
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Before opting for a quieter existence in Maine, Kitchens, now 40, worked in the film industry in New York and Los Angeles. In 2008, she moved to a funky factory-turned-loft in Somerville's Davis Square, where she joined a community-supported agriculture farm-share and a local fish-share and grew vegetables with neighbors on the roof. Finding herself drawn more and more to the idea of sustainable living, Kitchens decided it was time to commit. In 2011, she purchased an 1830s farmhouse with an attached barn and chicken coop on about 2 acres of land in Raymond, Maine, some 20 miles northwest of Portland.


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DVD Drop: The mouse that shared
Disney releases a slew of classics including The Aristocats
A scene from The Aristocats (Walt Disney)
For decades, Walt Disney Pictures operated on a strict seven-year rotation. A given animated classic would be pulled out of the vault for a limited release -- a summertime run, maybe, or a Christmas reissue -- and then pulled out of circulation so another title could enjoy its time in the sun.
The advent of videotape let the studio apply the same strategy, releasing Pinocchio or Dumbo or Snow White on VHS and Beta around Christmastime, selling a few million copies and then declaring a moratorium on new product. If you missed the window of availability (or your kids wore the tape out, which was far more likely), you were screwed.
And then came DVD, which changed two things: Discs lasted a lot longer than videocassettes -- unless a child got at yours with a fork -- and sold in far greater numbers than tapes ever did. Disney shifted gears, invoking moratoriums only on its biggest titles... the better to reissue them in souped-up remastered editions further down the road.
With Blu-ray came the higher price tag of 3D editions, and the opportunity of selling existing titles all over again. But still, the pace was slow... until this year, when Disney announced it'd be stepping up its animated and live-action catalogue releases in a big way. That's why you've been seeing beloved Touchstone titles like Adventures in Babysitting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion popping up in new Blu-ray editions, and why this week, Disney's releasing more animated titles on Blu-ray in a single day than it has all year.
We're not talking about the top tier of classics, mind you. Most of the titles in this week's wave -- The Aristocats, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under -- are definitely mid-level Disney, films produced in that murky period after the studio's golden age but before its renaissance with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. And then there's Pocahontas, the post-renaissance epic that felt like a stumble after The Lion King; The Tigger Movie, a 2000 attempt to restart the Winnie the Pooh franchise that didn't quite recapture the magic, and Lady & the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, one of those regrettable direct-to-video franchise extension dealies.
No, none of these films rates the Diamond Edition banner that graces the most beloved of Disney discs. But I don't believe that matters to the millions of kids who grew up loving them, and will want to revisit them as adults or even share them with their own children. (Well, maybe not Scamp's Adventure, but you know what I mean.) And rather than just dumping these titles onto the market, Disney's taken the time to craft loving special editions. And they're not being jerks about double-dipping; the two Rescuers films are being released in a single package, as are Pocahontas and the straight-to-video Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.
Now, in the case of Pocahontas films, that's just smart marketing; I doubt there's much demand for the sequel. But as far as the two Rescuers films go, it's a bargain; the sequel is actually better than the original, though you might not have known it from the way Disney marketed it back in the day.
As with most animated films that come to Blu-ray, the enhanced presentation of a 1080p/24 transfer allows a new level of appreciation for the craft of the image; I don't think I've ever seen The Aristocats or The Rescuers look as good as they do on these discs, and I saw both of those films on their original runs. (Admittedly, I wasn't the most discerning viewer, but these transfers seem much cleaner and brighter than the 35mm prints of those long-ago Saturday matinees.)
And The Rescuers Down Under finally looks good at home, thanks to BD's ability to show film at its native speed of 24 frames per second. The early CG effects used in the film didn't translate to NTSC's 30-frames-per-second rate as well as Disney's animators would have liked; seen at their properly rendered speed, they mesh with the hand-drawn characters and backgrounds far more smoothly.
Those are all technical points, of course, and the real appeal of these films is that they're a great deal of fun. Again, maybe not Scamp's Adventure, but The Aristocats is still a joy, and The Tigger Movie lets you spend an hour and a half with those beloved A.A. Milne characters, and even Pocahontas has some glorious moments, though it's obvious directors Eric Goldberg (who co-directed The Rescuers Down Under) and Mike Gabriel never properly figured out the story before the film went into production. And now they're available in the best possible presentation, in editions meant to last you to the next generation.
Personally, I'm a little freaked out. Maybe the proponents of online streaming and direct downloads are right, and the end really is near for physical media. But if Disney's rushing to get everything out before the market collapses, they're doing a hell of a job. Let's encourage them.
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SuperDuper scripts in Mountain Lion
January 28th, 2013 at 9:25 pm by Dr. Drang
When I got my new iMac and began working with Mountain Lion for the first time, I found that one of the scripts I use in conjunction with my SuperDuper backups was generating an error and preventing my nightly backup from proceeding. I soon got things working again, and didn't think any more of it until this tweet arrived yesterday.
@drdrang Using your SuperDuper (un)mount scripts - leancrew.com/all-this/2009/… - but getting dl.dropbox.com/u/1371905/Scre… - do they still work in ML?
— jfield (@jfield) Mon Jan 28 2013 12:06 AM CST
Those scripts are so old, I didn't think anyone else used them. Let me explain how I got my backups working again.
First, you should understand that I prefer having my backup disk unmounted except when the backing up is in progress. This keeps the backup safe from my inadvertent drags, drops, and double-clicks. SuperDuper needs the disk mounted to do its job, so I wrote a short shell script, called
mount_backup to be called just before SuperDuper starts its work. And I wrote a similar script,
unmount_backup, to tuck the backup disk away when SuperDuper is done. These scripts are called by SuperDuper itself, as specified in the Advanced options:
When I first wrote these scripts, Apple's
diskutil command wasn't as smart as it is now (or maybe it was and I just wasn't smart enough to realize it), and I had to go through a few manipulations to get the right argument to give it. Now, both
1: #!/bin/bash
3: # BDISK=`/usr/sbin/diskutil list | awk '$3=="Backup" {print $6}'`
4: # /usr/sbin/diskutil mount $BDISK > /dev/null
6: /usr/sbin/diskutil mount Backup > /dev/null
1: #!/bin/bash
3: # BDISK=`/usr/sbin/diskutil list | awk '$3=="Backup" {print $6}'`
4: # /usr/sbin/diskutil unmount $BDISK > /dev/null
6: /usr/sbin/diskutil unmount Backup > /dev/null
are much simpler. "Backup" is the clever name I've given to my backup disk. I've kept the old code in there, commented out, in case
diskutil stops being able to accept the name of the backup disk and I have to specify something like
disk1s1 again.
When I started using Mountain Lion, SuperDuper would fail with an error message saying that the backup disk wasn't mounted. I could see that SuperDuper was running
mount_backup and I knew from testing at the command line that
mount_backup worked, so this was a puzzler. One thing I did notice, though, was that sometimes
mount_backup took a very long time to finish. If SuperDuper was running it asynchronously—starting its own process before
mount_backup was done—that might explain the failure and the error message.
So I decided to set up a LaunchAgent that runs
mount_backup a few minutes before SuperDuper is scheduled. The plist file, called
com.leancrew.mount_backup.plist, looks like this:
1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2: <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
3: <plist version="1.0">
4: <dict>
5: <key>Label</key>
6: <string>com.leancrew.mount_backup</string>
7: <key>ProgramArguments</key>
8: <array>
9: <string>/Users/drdrang/bin/mount_backup</string>
10: </array>
11: <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
12: <array>
13: <dict>
14: <key>Hour</key>
15: <integer>21</integer>
16: <key>Minute</key>
17: <integer>25</integer>
18: <key>Weekday</key>
19: <integer>1</integer>
20: </dict>
21: <dict>
22: <key>Hour</key>
23: <integer>21</integer>
24: <key>Minute</key>
25: <integer>25</integer>
26: <key>Weekday</key>
27: <integer>2</integer>
28: </dict>
29: <dict>
30: <key>Hour</key>
31: <integer>21</integer>
32: <key>Minute</key>
33: <integer>25</integer>
34: <key>Weekday</key>
35: <integer>3</integer>
36: </dict>
37: <dict>
38: <key>Hour</key>
39: <integer>21</integer>
40: <key>Minute</key>
41: <integer>25</integer>
42: <key>Weekday</key>
43: <integer>4</integer>
44: </dict>
45: <dict>
46: <key>Hour</key>
47: <integer>21</integer>
48: <key>Minute</key>
49: <integer>25</integer>
50: <key>Weekday</key>
51: <integer>5</integer>
52: </dict>
53: </array>
54: </dict>
55: </plist>
57: <!-- @@@@LingonWhatStart:/Users/drdrang/bin/mount_backup@@@@LingonWhatEnd -->
As you can probably make out if XML doesn't make your head swim with all the angled brackets, this causes the
mount_backup script to run Monday through Friday at 9:25 pm. That's five minutes before SuperDuper is scheduled to do its thing.
I'd like to say I wrote that plist file from scratch, but of course I didn't. I used Lingon to both make it and load it.
Unfortunately, Lingon doesn't have options for scheduling scripts to run on Mondays through Fridays, so I started out by scheduling it for Monday only and then found the plist file in
~/Library/LaunchAgents and added the other
<dict>s for Tuesday through Friday. And I'm pretty sure I had to add the
<array> tags that wrap all the days together.
If you're used to the
crontab format for scheduling, the plist above will make you either laugh or cry. It's incredibly verbose considering how little it does. But Apple wants us to use this instead of
cron, and bucking Apple on things like this is never a good idea.
mount_backup to run five minutes before SuperDuper did the trick. I haven't seen any error messages since.
18 Responses to "SuperDuper scripts in Mountain Lion"
Tj Luoma says:
I always want my SuperDuper drive unmounted for the same reason. Spotlight always seems to find the wrong whatever when it's attached.
I solved this problem a bit differently: I have a Keyboard Maestro script which mounts the drive and then launches SuperDuper, and then presses the appropriate buttons to start the clone. I have that scheduled to run via KM's scheduler rather than using SD's scheduler.
Also, instead of using SuperDuper to run a script after the clone is finished, I just have SD quit when it's done. Then I have another KM macro which unmounts my SD drive whenever SD quits.
Just thought I'd throw that out there as another alternative, especially for people who don't want to write plists :-)
Dr. Drang says:
Makes sense if you're a Keyboard Maestro user. I still think using SuperDuper to mount and unmount its drive is the cleanest solution and wish I didn't have to do this LaunchAgent stuff.
David Avraamides says:
Thank you, good doctor, for figuring this out. I've also experienced intermittent SD failures due to my backup drive not being mounted and did not consider that it was a timing issue. My unsatisfactory workaround had been to disable the scripts and just leave the backup drive mounted all the time.
Now I can fix it properly.
One question: while you point out that Apple recommends
cron, SuperDuper still schedules its backups using
cron. Have you replaced those jobs with plist files, too?
Dr. Drang says:
I didn't know SuperDuper used
cron, David, but as soon as I read your comment I did a
crontab -e
and sure enough, there was the entry for my 9:30 backups.
I hesitate to change what SuperDuper is doing; you never know what can break. I assume that if Apple officially deprecates
cron—rather than just saying
launchdis preferable—Dave Nanian at Shirt Pocket will do a SuperDuper update that switches to
launchd. Until then, I'm leaving well enough along.
NaOH says:
I keep my backup drive connected but not mounted. With no special scripts or anything, just a scheduled backup in SuperDuper, the software handles mounting the volume and then ejects the volume when it auto-quits afterward. Which is to say, there doesn't appear to be any need for scripts or Keyboard Maestro (I used to use it for this) mounting/unmounting volumes.
Dr. Drang says:
You're the first person I've heard from who does it this way, Sodium. How do you specify the backup disk to SuperDuper? I do it by name, and if a disk of that name isn't mounted, SD stops and puts up an error message.
Matthew McVickar says:
I've been meaning to set up something like this for months; I'm glad it resurfaced on your blog. My needs are slightly different, though. I have a single laptop that I work on from home and then bring with me if I'm working remotely or have a gig, so my external hard drives are not always plugged in and ready to be mounted and unmounted via diskutil. I plug the USB hub with my two backup drives on it when I come home, and run an Applescript with a keyboard shortcut to unmount them before unplugging it. This means I have to unmount the drives once their hub has been plugged in so they can later be mounted.
I haven't come up with a way to automate this, so at the moment I've set up another keyboard shortcut (⌘⌥⌃U) to run the
unmount_backupshell script and try to remember to run it when I plug in the drives. (Lingon has a 'run whenever a drive' is mounted, but that is logically flawed: it would unmount the backup drive every time it were mounted, even at the time I actually want it to be mounted.)
Michael says:
Is there a specific reason why you do not use SD's option "On successful completion: Eject [Backupdisk]"? Otherwise, what NaOH said is very interesting.
Dr. Drang says:
All the reasons for the choices I made are lost in the mists of time, Michael, but I think the reason I didn't choose Eject Backup is because I very much wanted SuperDuper to quit, and I wasn't sure it would if Eject Backup were the choice. Does it quit after ejecting?
Matthew McVickar says:
SuperDuper does not quit when the 'Eject [Volume]' option is selected. In the progress window, it says 'Eject [Volume] when SuperDuper! quits', but that doesn't mean it will quit when it's finished. It will sit there, finished, and when the user quits SuperDuper, it ejects the volume.
I also can confirm that SuperDuper will mount a connected but unmounted volume.
My workflow is now to simply plug in my external hard drives and then eject the newly connected backup volumes with a keystroke. I have SuperDuper set up to eject the backup drive when the copy is finished, and also to run a shell script to quit itself upon completion:
#!/bin/sh osascript <<EOF tell application "SuperDuper" quit end tell EOF
Matthew McVickar says:
So, since SuperDuper can handle mounting and unmounting of connected volumes itself, there should just be a new option: 'Eject [Volume] and Quit SuperDuper!' I have put in a support request asking for as much.
[Edit to the script above: It should be
"SuperDuper!", not
Dr. Drang says:
Thanks, Matthew. I turned off the mounting/unmounting scripts today to see what will happen to my nightly backup. Presumably, the backup will go ahead.
What bothers me the most about this is that I know I've gotten error messages from SuperDuper when the backup drive was connected but not mounted. Is it possible SD used to behave that way but that an update made it smarter? I guess I should email Dave Nanian and ask.
John says:
Dr. Drang: SuperDuper added the ability to mount a drive as required for a scheduled copy in Version 2.1.1(78) of May 17, 2006. But, any scheduled copies had to be deleted and re-created for this new functionality to take effect.
John says:
Matthew McVickar: It is currently possible to get SuperDuper to eject the destination volume and then quit by including the commands in a shell script to be run from the Advanced Option "Run shell script after copy completes". This will however only run after a successful copy.
Matthew McVickar says:
OK, based on the advice above and my own testing, this is how I have things set up and running smoothly:
- As explained before, unmount backup volume with a key combination when it is plugged in for the first time (when my laptop has been away from my desk). I leave the drive unmounted—but physically connected to my computer—and SuperDuper! mounts it when it needs it.
- Backup script set up in SuperDuper! with standard settings, except for a shell script that runs at the end (screenshot) called
#!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/diskutil unmount 'Backup' > /dev/null osascript -e 'tell application "SuperDuper!.app" to quit'
- I also have the General settings set to 'Do Nothing' under the 'On successful completion' heading. Since the end-of-copy shell script is handling both unmounting the drive and quitting SuperDuper!, I don't need SuperDuper! to do anything more.
Took some trial and error, but I have this working successfully several times in a row when being run manually. I expect it to go smoothly tonight as well, but will report back if it doesn't.
Dr. Drang says:
Thanks for the info, John. As it happens, my scheduled backup just started running. I'm looking at my office computer through Screen Sharing, and the dreaded "SuperDuper! cannot find target volume" error message is up. I would swear that I've deleted and recreated that scheduled task at least once since 2006, but maybe not. I'll delete it now and see what happens.
Nope. I deleted the scheduled task and made another one. Still got the "cannot find target" error. Then I deleted SuperDuper itself, and its Preferences plist and its folder in Application Support, and reinstalled it from scratch. Still got the "cannot find target" error. Why does SuperDuper hate me?
Dr. Drang says:
Via Twitter, Matthew McVickar has told me that SuperDuper's automatic mounting for scheduled backups doesn't work in Mountain Lion. That's mentioned in this old post on the Shirt Pocket blog, and he's gotten confirmation from Dave Nanian that that hasn't been fixed yet.
So in summary:
- If you're running Lion or earlier, there's a good chance that a connected but unmounted backup disk will get mounted by SuperDuper just before copying. My
mount_backupscript won't be necessary.
- If you're running Mountain Lion, a connected but unmounted backup disk will not get mounted by the current version of SuperDuper (2.7.1), and you will need a script like
I suppose if I'd bothered to find out that Shirt Pocket had a blog, I would've known all this a while ago.
- If you're running Lion or earlier, there's a good chance that a connected but unmounted backup disk will get mounted by SuperDuper just before copying. My
Des Dougan says:
Thanks for posting this - I've the same issue on ML, so have taken your plist and customized it for my own requirement. I also duplicated it to unmount 3 hours later, as I also prefer having SuperSuper! quit on completion. It will run overnight - I'll post if there were any further issues.


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